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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
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BE is down. That was quick.
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Brokenchord - A Girl of 13 Summers / Orion
Along with Ital Tek, the foremost name in bringing IDM styles to dubstep. A relatively fresh face, too - This is, far as I can tell, only his second release.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---2nd drop from Brokenchord for the Black Acre family of labels. 'A Girl Of 13 Summers' is full of compacted and compressed synthline euphoria just bursting with melodic electronica positivity and arranged with enough neck-snapping style to grip the dancefloor. On the flip 'Orion' is brilliantly unstable, like some gaseous bulb bulging with lop-sided synths and hiphop/dubstep rhythms folding in themselves double time under the pressure of a quasi-speed Reese bass.
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DMX Krew - That Was Harder Than I Expected
Vintage electro-acid from the prolific longtime Rephlex associate. The title track is too smooth. Def for you if you liked Space Dimension Controller's funkier early work, or EOD's more romantic moments.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Fine four-tracker from the uncompromising DMX Krew aka Ed DMX for his home-brewed Breakin' imprint. Highlights are easily the lead cut 'That Was Harder Than I Expected' with its curiously dissonant melodies, which kinda sounds like two Bochum Welt tracks playing at once, and equally the pastoral arcade glow of 'Space Invaders Meets Darth Vader' with its zonked, zappy synth pads and padded bass pulses.
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Sepalcure - Fleur
Love Pressure really snuck up on me but the greatness of this EP is out in the open from the start. Impeccable production and plenty of NYC-bred House Diva samplage. Up there with Mount Kimbie or FaltyDL.
--- Quote from: Juno ---Another hotly tipped act to appear on Scuba’s Hotflush imprint, Sepalcure blend ambient soundscapes with lush melodies, hushed vocals and a deep, experimental post-dubstep sound that’s quite frankly, really rather wonderful. You may recognise them from their former constituent parts – Machinedrum (Travis Stewart) and Praveen (Praveen Sharma) – but the Brooklyn based duo, who recently marked their debut in Europe with their gig at Plan B in Brixton, have really come into their own as Sepalcure. They first emerged from the undergrowth using the new moniker late last summer with their Love Pressure EP, which stunned audiences across the globe and now they return with the highly anticipated follow up Fleur.
Kicking off with the EP’s title track, Sepalcure send us into a sublime headspace which is somewhere between contemporary hot shots like Mount Kimbie, Pariah and fellow yanks Vondelpark and Ninja Stalwarts like Cinematic Orchestra. Chiming instrumentals are paired with shimmying, faded out vocals and clipped woodblock beats. Next, “Your Love” takes things even more downbeat with echoing, reverbed atmospheric crackles and a warm, murmuring b-line yet there is a sense in which this track won’t settle – constantly fidgeting and looking towards the horizon until entering a contemplative passage towards the end. It leads us neatly into “No Think” – which could well be the defining track of the EP, what “Work Them” was to Ramadanman last summer. Here lurching 2-step rhythms hit home with great effect, the same shimmering, barely there vocals which saw before return and there’s an overwhelming sense of brooding darkness before a soulful element rounds it off. Divine. Finally, “Inside” closes the EP with a synth-soaked intro and short two-minute Flying Lotus style finale, incorporating string flourishes, muttering lyrics and warm ambient watercolour washes.
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Tilman Ehrhorn - Past Utopia
Lush, cinematic glitch / IDM in a sort of early Plaid vein, not too overbearing, often quite subtly pretty. Right up my alley, maybe yours too?
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Slightly surreal glitchtronica compositions from Tilman Ehrhorn. 'Past Utopia' is his third album proper, some eight years post his 2003 'Task' debut for Mille Plateaux. His music is as concerned with mood and space as it is sharply contoured rhythms, but what he does in between is a little harder to define. The clipped rhythms of 'Green And Yellow' nod to vintage SND, while 'The Crown' almost has some of Actress's lo-fi sleight of hand to it, and 'Radio Petrol' is an unpredictably hiccuping and spluttering micro-house production. It's the blend of these skittering micro rhythms and his wide palette of samples that really define this album. Fans of Farben, SND or Matthew Herbert should have a sniff.
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14 Tracks From Planet Mu
A great primer unless you've missed the last year and a half or so of (non-Footwork / Juke) Planet Mu releases. Features 4 unreleased tracks from Solar Bears, Oriol, Boxcutter and Rudi Zygadlo.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---'14 Tracks From Planet Mu' gives a succinct taste of what the exploratory imprint has been up to for the last few years, and where they intend to go with it. The comp is roughly divided between now-established label classics and new material from recent signings, and some veritable veterans. Repping for the last two years the comp touches on Floating Points' breathtaking debut release 'K&G Beat', Jamie Vex'd's downbeat metamorphosis into Kuedo mode on 'Starfox', Rossi B & Luca's soca-grime ruckus 'E10 Riddim', Swindle's ecstatic 'Airmiles' and forward thinking progpop & dance from Ikonika, Rudi Zygadlo, Slugabed and the inimitable Falty DL. On a brand new and exclusive swing, Oriol delivers the frisky bubbler 'Solar' next to Irish duo Solar Bears' pop ambient heartwarmer 'To Be With Her' and 'Parasol' taken from The Internal Tulips debut album 'Mislead Into A Field By A Deformed Deer', and Boxcutter gives the exclusive 'Ufonik' feat. Brian Greene, a brilliant excerpt from his forthcoming album, due later this year. Bargain.
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Gravious - Junction City EP
Saigon Recordings seems to have the market cornered on glossy, exuberant rave dubstep monstrosities in the Starkey vein (that Duffstep single from a few months back was their doing) and here they extract a great clutch of echoing, garage-y techno-indebted cuts from (relatively) old hat Gravious. I had some dealings with the guy who used to run Highpoint Lowlife and that this act was on his roster speaks to the quality of his product. Infectious stuff.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Saigon follow that terrific Duffstep 12" with three techno-inspired Dubstep rollers from Hot Flush and Highpoint Lowlife contributor, Gravious. 'Junction City' has one foot firmly in Detroit and the other planted in a Glasgow bassbin, fusing the two styles at its apex. 'Lodestone' mellows out with a canny digidub influence in the bass balanced by an effervescent lead melody next to the sci-fi strokes of 'Lunar Module' and its sticky, 808-powered stargaze vibes.
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Heinali - 67 Breaths
Really loving this one - it sort of feels like that awesome Nest album from last year crossed with some of Julian Fane's older instrumental pieces. To wit, dramatic and cinematic instrumental cuts with big emotions and swooping strings and warbling guitar. Highly accessible for a "modern classical" album.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---The first release on eclectic new label Arlen comes from minimalist composer Heinali, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Kiev, Ukraine. While his music is reminiscent of the likes of Goldmund and Dustin O'Halloran, both in terms of content and atmosphere, his wide range of influences - from jazz to post-rock via classical - is evident, making '67 Breaths' a bold and startling debut that's more than just another contemporary classical release. Simple in composition but affecting on record, Heinali's background as a writer for films, art performances and installations is apparent in his material, and this album heralds the arrival of a potent new talent on the scene.
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God, there's so much more where this came from, but I have to sleep before I can continue. More on the morrow.
KaosPilot:
Gospel, the code for the Rural Alberta Advantage album isn't working, for me anyway.
gospel:
Hmm. Works for me. Try this?
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