Pikaya are Berlin based duo Daniel Ramm & Frank Greiner who you may know from their releases on Cadenza. Their sound is something i like to tag as “minimal funk”, luscious melodies, warm rhythmic beats and lots of groove.
This Techno documentary is quite essential to any real electronic music fan.Featuring great interviews and good footage of Juan Atkins,Derrick May,Kevin Saunderson,Jeff Mills,Ken Ishii,Autechre,Mad Mike & more.This is the best look into Detroit techno & electronic music as a whole your likely to find as its coming from the people who invented it and have been there since the beginning.
Once again it’s time to go back & this time were delving back to 1996 and to a track from one of Germany’s oldest techno exports DJ Tonka.
Fader presents us with a really good mix from Kieran Hebden Aka Four Tet this is to help promote his latest release, “Ringer”, which is available now on Domino Records.
Dinky’s name belies her expansive banging sound. The drum sounds hint at her South American roots in Chile, and the vocal samples alternately shout, murmur, gasp, and whoop like half-heard come-ons on the dance floor; these awesome ingredients are then looped to infinity in a swinging minimal-style, very funky. It’s all held together with a [...]
Shit, Robot? No, Shit Robot.
Some carefully placed punctuation might’ve improved the moniker, but since Shit Robot is on DFA he’s automatically hip, so what does it matter?
This track is some massive Lindstrom-esque arpeggiated space disco with a deeper bent, not as groovy but just as far out–think Phaedra or Giorgio Moroder.
Shit Robot - Chasm
I have [...]
Deep and dubby like Villalobos, but pounding, furious, restrained like only Radio Slave is. This track is not unlike getting sucked into a black hole, it just gets deeper.
Len Faki - My Black Sheep (Radio Slave Remix)
Here’s a sweet minimal house track on M_nus by Gaiser with a clever 2001: Space Odyssey reference:
Gaiser - Withdrawal
And Shawn just posted about Basteroid, but I just wanted to add this track, I think its my favorite on the album.
Basteroid - Jacktales
Satie’s first Gymnopédie
It moves so slowly, yet reminds me of riding a bicycle in the sun, the feeling of part of you moving faster than the rest, your body gliding lazily through the air as the spokes flutter quickly with light glinting off the chrome in every direction.
And here’s something more uplifting to make sure [...]
If Studio is anything to go by, Sweden is just too awesome, and you should probably pack your bags and go live there. Unfortunately, ridiculous generalizations about a place based solely on great music tend to fall apart under close scrutiny, so I’ll just conveniently pretend it’s a utopian snow-paradise-winter-wonderland kind of thing where quality [...]
Omar-S is a bonafide badass/house god who gets ignored in his hometown of Detroit but draws enormous crowds over in Europe. I’m not gonna post any MP3s just cause I really respect the guy and he doesn’t sell enough records (though it’s arguable whether that would hurt or help, but I’m not gonna get into [...]
True Story
Cop: Alright, who rented the truck? Everyone get out of here, just drive slow and go home.
[helicopter flies overhead, spotlight passes through forest]
Cop: This is the sweetest party I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe you pulled this off. I guess you’re not arrested!
Zach: Your badge is swirling.
Cop: Lemme give you a ride to [...]
