Arf, I’ve catched a rather annoying cold. Sore throat and my nose is fubared. Good old Bauri treats us with some unreleased carefully crafted, elegant electroish tracks on his blog - really recommended that you pick these up (
D-styles & Dj flare - Carcass of mutilated humanoid [Slit Wrist, 2000]Fifteen minutes of insane scratching techniques over a frantic electro beat grinding away while the cuts are layered ontop. Dope and menacing from back in the days of 1999, from the record ‘Pharaohs of funk’. Mad scratch session, aah yeah f-f-freshh.
Lindstrom - I Feel Space (Freeform Reform Parts 1&2) [Playhouse, 2006] (buy)A side of the I feel space remix 12″, the B side is also great (even better in some ways). The space continues to haunt us, bitter sweetly so.
Breakestra - Stand up! [Ubiquity, 2005] (buy)Funk is rare around here, but I love these guys. [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates, I’m totally uninspired.
Alex Smoke - Snider [Soma, 2006] (buy)Glasgow producer Alex Smoke’s newest LP, ‘Paradolia’ contains many interesting tracks. This is one of them.
Vice is sometimes funny and I quote (from Vol2, Nr 6, “The food issue”, page 22):
Apples should be illegal. What a terrible food. They never satisfy your hunger and they make way too much noise. Have you ever heard someone bite into an apple? It’s disgusting. It sounds like a tree is falling inside someone’s [...]
I get very easily excited about music, but there’s just so much good stuff out there. Here’s some more things you shouldn’t miss out on.
Florent - G Net [K2, 2005] (buy)Thick, pounding warm and handsome techno on Kompakt’s off shoot K2 sub-label. Worthwhile your time, for sure.
Dole & Kom - Flight 815 (A1)Dole & Kom [...]
Oh dear, today’s tracks are high quality shit. Best post in a while I reckon, if I may say so myself (and I certainly may!). I hope you enjoy, and remember: have fun, and buy the releases you like.
Yapacc - Floating [Neuton, 2006] (buy)From the freshly released Floating 12″ comes this wonderful easy-listening, light house [...]
Sixtoo - A to Zero [Vertical form, 2003]I remember instantly loving sixtoo’s production here but the vocals took another few listens before I appreciated. Hiphop of the non standard variety.
Duplex - Autosug [Clone, 2006] (buy)Could first be heard on the ‘Late night driving’ LP, which was released in november 2005. It has now gotten the [...]
Keeping it brief today.
Alexander Robotnick - The Dark Side Of The Spoon (Bangkok Impact Rmx) [Creme organization, 2006] (buy)Remix of this fella’s old (1982!) song. Funky and groovy. There’s a Lindstrom and Prince Thomas remix of the same track on the release, but I think Bangkok impact takes the prize here.
The Gasman - Freezer [Planet [...]
I don’t think I will have time for a post tomorrow so here’s an extra friday treat.
Dynarec - Yellow trigger [Southern outpost, 2006] (buy)Title track of his new EP. Brilliant, this guy isn’t following the standard electro template that’s for sure (if there even is such a thing, heh).
Dark vektor - Net adikted [Drivecom, 2006] [...]
Hoo haa it is friday, thank god, and to get you all warmed up for the weekend madness ahead take this!
Various - Blech, side b [1995, Warp]Yes, that’s right. This is the B-side of the tape-only warp mixtape from 1995, starts with some jump up, get down, funky electro boogie then moves into some more [...]
I haven’t exactly been flooding ya’ll with hiphop, so here are some solid pieces of instrumental goodness from 2005.
Blockhead - The art of walking [Ninja tune, 2005] (buy)It’s catchy. “Let the hummers hum, and the clappers clap, and the singers they just sing ‘yeah, yeah, yeaaahh’!“. From the album “Downtown science”.
Omega one - Memento [Nature [...]
Time to take a break from all the house and techno for a wee bit and have a peep at some more headphone, home listening electronics.
Bibio - Quantock [Mush, 2006] (buy)Stephen Wilkinson alias Bibio makes cozy and lush guitar based quirky, beatless electronic music. Think something like BoC’s the campfire headphase - only he did [...]
Buying course litterature is a major turn off for me with those insane prices. Don’t have much choice though since the authors love to introduce ‘new’ editions every year where they restructure the whole book and add, remove random parts. Got my hands full with school, a webpage gig and I gotta get a new [...]
Bauri has been up to some good stuff, check his mix “hey it’s friday and i got folköl“, 70 minutes of different styles. He also recommended the Mirau label, which I had missed - thanks for the heads-up.
Arp aubert - Actress (feat. jan gazzara) [Mirau, 2005] (buy)Arp Aubert is Stephan Lorenz and Marco Niemerski. Actress [...]