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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
onewheelwizzard:
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This is fucking ILL, thanks!
I've grabbed a fair amount of stuff from the past few weeks of this thread, time to contribute again!
DJ Cash Money Presents Head Bangin' Funk 45's
This is exactly what it sounds like. DJ Cash Money is a legend. Head bangin' funk 45's are what he is spinning in this compilation. It is fucking tight. No more needs be said.
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Pulshar - Inside
As far as genre goes, this is probably best filed under "downtempo electronic music," but that's just because "fucking sweet" isn't a genre. This album is a masterpiece of thick, deep, groove. Personally I tend towards the dub side of things, so this is the sample track that would grab me first, but this is another example of how fucking sick this album is. Get it.
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MF didn't accept the third thing I wanted to put up, so sad face on that.
barista.babe:
Just kidding, I'm not dead!
So, 2 very different things happening right now. The first was found in an email from 2 years ago. I told myself to download it and never got around to it. Middle of the Road was a band from the 70s. Sounds like ABBA, but totally isn't. The video for Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep is enough to make me want to get a job at Urban Outfitters.
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The second has become the soundtrack to 2011, Mindy Gledhill's debut album Anchor. Fall in love already.
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valley_parade:
--- Quote from: KvP on 24 Jan 2011, 11:39 ---IIRC I think Hanggai might use a different type of throat singing. There are several styles, apparently.
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Maybe. The description given makes it sound pretty similar though.
edit: No, this was exactly what I wanted to hear. Awesome!
KvP:
Diggggtal
dBridge / Instra:Mental - From the Start / Detuned Heart
dBridge and Instra:Mental continue their slow trickle of official tracks previously heard in edited form on their Fabriclive 50 mix, "From the Start" being the third such single in the series (after Riya's opening "Feels Like" and Distance's "Sky Alight") and the second song in the masterful beginning 8 minutes of the mix. It's what you've come to expect from dBridge, all blue-toned pads and tight, slo-mo DnB drum programming, but it's the interplay between the bass and the chord progression that really sets this as perhaps the best thing dBridge has ever done. For whatever reason I was reminded of the Phonogram, a comic about magical music (it's better than that sounds) and a particular storyline in which a clubgoer is so enraptured by a song that she literally becomes an embodiment of the joy of dancing. I imagined that this was the song she was dancing to. Is that overwrought? Yeah, probably. But it's that good of a song. The B finds Instra:Mental continuing their curious expedition into IDM territories, complete with a lead synth straight out of the Skam / early Warp playbook. Amazing single.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Instra:mental and dBridge share a beautiful fourth installment on Autonomic.. In sci-fi romantic, Bladerunner-mode, 'From The Start' is built from swooning synth chords and tenderly lightweight drums, cross-pollinating Detroit elegance with limb-synced London knowledge. dBridge articulates this vibe with the arrestingly Autechre-like 'Detuned Heart', one of those sublimely weepy dancefloor moments that's become their stock in trade.
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Silent Servant - Violencia
I just recently started getting into the more industrial corners of techno (the better to have a platform from which to survey the rest of the sprawling genre) and Sandwell District looks to be my label of choice. Dark, punchy, deep techno full of rough textures and stabbing, hollow bass. Love it.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Sandwell district continue to rule our techno box with an iron fist on this sick platter from Silent Servant, backed with killer remixes from Kalon and Function. The original version of Silent Servant's 'Violencia' is another of his brittle rhythm specials, with undulating bass twists anchoring industrialised dub techno chords, but it's the Kalon remix that has just struck us down with one of the heaviest dub techno variants we've heard in ages. Stepping aside from the brutally stripped minimalism of their awesome 'Born-against' EP to produce a similarly dedicated club wounder, but adding thick and amorphous layers of dub tech science that simply places them in the upper echelons of the game. Function's remix is no less brilliant too, offering a utilitarian stomper at a slightly reduced tempo with tonnes of potential. Totally f**king killer.
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Pixelord - Fish Touch
Extra-fidgety, bleeping, off-kilter bass music of the sort you're probably familiar with by now if you've any interest in recent electronic music. A particularly deft example of the form, with some heavyweight remixes in tow. KidKanevil's warped take on Rick Ross is pretty funny.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Err, when did Gultskra Artikler start making electronic HipHop?! Well, last year by the looks of it, but it totally flew under my radar. Anyway, 'Fish Touch' is really good, flowing from dubbed-out wonk on the title track to the nastier bass growls and forced neck-snap of 'Kiss Your TV', through to Dubstep/Skweee like jest on 'Cybernator' and 'Flower Cannon'. On the remixes, heRobust ives 'Fish Touch' a holographic remake while Om Unit gives 'Cybernator' a Juan Atkins-alike overhaul and KidKanevil reviews 'Fish Touch' from a more staggered crunk angle.
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Ghost Mutt - Sasquatch (Slugabed Remix)
Ghost Mutt and Slugabed team up for more blown-out Skweee antics, this time on Lowriders Recordings. Unlike the Donky Stomp EP, this is pretty much a Ghost Mutt show with Slugabed providing a remix, but it's still pretty worth it, I'd say. There's also a Coco Bryce mix that sounds like the bass was set to Creaky Wooden Boards mode.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Squelchy, manic and rather unhinged psyk-hop from Ghost Mutt, prepared with a Slugabed remix on the flip. The two original tracks are two sarnies short of a mentallists picnic, losing any semblance of conventional melodic arrangement and only just held together with the crookedest head nodders beats... but definitely having fun doing it! Slugabed joins in the madness on the flipside, reorganising the chaos with his heavy dynamics to make it breathe like an asthmatic robot on crack.
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Jozif - Sunrise EP
Choice disco-house, more analog than digital, in keeping with the InFine aesthetic. Background music for a high-class party.
--- Quote from: Bleep ---Elegant deep house, disco mechanics from Jozif on excellent Parisian label InFine. Four tracks that are surely designed to soundtrack long summer nights on Ibizan terraces, cutting through the warm air perfectly. With previous for Wolf + Lamb you get the idea where it's heading.
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Follakzoid - Föllakzoid EP
Unerringly faithful krautrock revivalism. If that's for you, you already know it.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Alternately motorik and mellow psych grooves from another Chilean band on Sacred Bones. Föllakzoid is the other group of The Holydrug Couple's Ives, pushing away from that groups psychedelic rock jams into more intensely focused and ritualistic rock grooves. 'IV, III, II, I' is essentially like a killer Neu or Can tribute with wickedly spaced-out guitar noise, while 'Arabic Hash' blooms from swirling, FX laden guitars and synths to be reborn as a streamlined instrumental psych trip.
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Duffstep - Backseat / Your Touch (Duff Disco Remixes)
After a whalloping, Joy Orbison-esque single under the Duffstep moniker, here are two tracks on the other end of the spectrum - languid, heady disco-house. Really impeccably produced - you wouldn't guess this was the sideline of a major ravestep-y talent, though there are telltale hints, especially on the B. If you don't know how to dance to dubstep, well, you'll know how to dance to this.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Jeremy Duffy reworks two of his Duffstep tracks as solid 100bpm Duff Disco chuggers ahead of his 'Return To Saigon' debut LP. The drag-disco of 'Backseat' builds with an expert dancefloor touch akin to the like-minded Cottam productions, while 'Your Touch' wraps warm, fluid chords around a hulking electro bassline to brilliant effect. A must check for fans of Kassem Mosse's slow stuff, Mark E, or Toby Tobias.
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Bloodman - Remote Viewing / Deep Fish
I don't usually trust Deca Rhythm, but these are some full-throttle acid-electro dancefloor cuts. Yet more evidence that I will buy anything referenced to as "IDM" in some way. Groovy stuff, reminiscent of Brackles, Cosmic Revenge, et al. The B is especially good.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Two electro-driven and breaksy sounding Dubstep variants from Bristol's Bloodman. As a close associate of Appleblim and Gatekeeper he shares some of their taste for darker IDM-inspired melodies, while striking his own style of electroid rollidge with 'Remote Viewing', and augmented breakstep in 'Deep Fish'. One for followers of Applepips, Elemental or the techier Bristol heads.
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nsi. - Sync
A whole lot of exercises in techno minimalism - not remotely dancefloor oriented, though. Like a less fundamental take on Mark Fell, or a less glitchy Quaristice-era Autechre. Meaning, these are pretty academic headphone songs. For people who really love analog synthesis.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Typically reserved yet engrossing album of 24 pieces for drum machine and sequencer from Max Loderbauer and Tobias Freund's acclaimed nsi. project. 'Sync' is their first full length since 2007s suite of piano and synth exercises '...Plays Non Standards', and is more concerned with rhythmically driven arrangements ranging from dry, unadorned beat tracks to hugely endearing, intuitively melodic electronica. The tracks are delineated by the devices used in their creation, with symbolic codes denoting each instrument, pretty much as follows: a Doepfer modular system (+), and EML 400/401 synth (#), an Eventide Time Factor delay pedal (*), a Korg Mini Pops 7 (=), a Korg MS 20 (•), a Makenoise Maths module (<), an MFB Dual LFO module (ø) and a Roland CR 78 drum machine (>). The tracks feel like highly polished improvisations/ They rarely last longer than three minutes and showcase a diverse mastery of their setup, loosening the drum machine's rigid personality with dextrous manipulations and really toying with its full spectrum of timbres in a collection of unique patterns and rhythmelodic syncopations.
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Cex - Megamuse EP
I tend to hold my nose whenever I dive into Tigerbeat6 stuff because, well, you never know, but this surprised me. Bombastic IDM in the latter-day Skam mold (think VHS Head, Nuearz, etc.) with a bevy of remixes exploring Slugabed-style maximalist Squee (Baconhead), glitchier IDM melodicism (Fulgeance), and nu-rave electro (Raoul Sinier). Something for everybody here.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Cex commendably sticks to his metallic-finished, obtuse IDM style on 'Megamuse', backed with diverse remixes from Baconhead, Fulgeance, Scrubber Fox, Raoul Sinier and KingBastard. After more than 10 years making this stuf, Ryan Kidwell aka Cex probably can't tell the difference between his music and tinnitus, with is intended as a compliment considering his trademark taste for caustic, glistening hi-end timbres. Both the title track and the more melancholy downbeat 'Princent Vice' are defined by those unremittingly sharp tones, kinda like a cat-scratching wake-up call in that alert, visceral sense. The remixes range from wonky hiphop courtesy of hotly tipped Baconhead and a moodier Fulgeance, while Scrubber Fox pulls off a Meat Beat Manifesto-esque beat cut-up and Raoul Sinier remakes '12 Exalt' with strange tunings.
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Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP
Yeah, I know, spoonerism. Dro Carey was bad enough. But if you like 80's styled machine-tooled R&B classicism (sometimes known as "Chillwave"), you can't do much better than this EP. I was really surprised by how much I liked this. Contains a few glitch elements, for good measure. Like a more restrained, more lo-fi Letherette.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Originally released on AMDISCS, Com Truise's debut release, the 'Cyanide Sisters EP' was just so good Ghostly International had to give it a reissue. The blend of "mid-fi synth-wave" and "slow motion funk" is Com's signature appeal, cross pollinating fragments of classic wave-pop learned from Joy Divison/New Order, Cocteau Twins etc with a palette of crisp IDM/HipHop drums and smeared ambient sounds worked to a melodic '80s machine funk agenda. The result is one lush listen for fans of Tropics, BoC or Gold Panda.
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edwinalink:
This is me apologizing for posting in this thread only to have an alert when someone posts in it.
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