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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
KvP:
Daniel Savio - Nekropolis
With Eero Johannes in some sort of suspended animation somewhere in Planet Mu's basement, Daniel Savio is currently the most compelling producer to crawl out the Skweee scene. Not too 8-bit-y, plenty of melodic sense, plenty of swagger.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Bijou Skwee offering from Daniel Savio, dropping a cool debut album. Savio has been a core member of the Skwee brigade since it's inception, and 'Nekropolis' reinforces the style, while attempting to advance it into the next decade. Over nine tracks he tweaks gurgling 8-bit synths and bottom-heavy yet brittle machine rhythms into cheekily cute and crafty formations, from the moody mooch of 'Lordoftheflies' through the endearingly electro of 'Pearly Gates' and finding a particular highlight in the warm machine soul of 'Sqoui Sweet Sqoui'.
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Peaking Lights - 936
Easiest thing to compare it to would be Forest Swords, with a healthy dose of psychedelia thrown in for good measure. Hazy, somewhat lo-fi but not half-assed in any way.
--- Quote from: boomkat ---Properly immersive album of lambent kraut-dub groovers and fuggy psyche from the Madison, WI duo of Peaking Lights - sounding something like the bastard child of Forest Swords, Zola Jesus, Tom Tom Club and Nite Jewel. Their hauntingly melodic '936' is made of the stuff we could happily hear on loop all day. Like Pocahaunted or Sun Araw minus the noisiest elements, their trance mantras lasso the flightiest psyche essence and lets it guide them through ethereal other-zones, Indra Dunis' vox streaming echoic comtrails across dusted desert dub landscapes on 'Amazing And Wonderful' or like a distant cousin to Dadawah on the twinkly telepathic skank of 'Birds of Paradise Dub version'. 'Hey Sparrow' is more pastoral, with an effusive melodic nature warranting comparisons with Harmonia, while 'Tiger Eyes' bridges the gap between Forest Swords' loping dub repetitions and hand-built synth-pop. However, highlights have to be 'Marshmellow Yellow' and 'All The Sun That Shines', both using slinky House and minimalist disco rhythms to utterly sublime effect, kinda-like more dosed-up post-dancefloor versions of the 100% Silk releases. Very highly recommended - one of the albums of the year fo' sure.
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Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
Yaaaay modern classical. Somewhere between Nest and Julia Kent. Gorgeous, and with a sterling pedigree. Great for some melancholy soundtrack somewhere. Get it.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Berlin-based American composer Dustin O’Halloran has proven himself to be something of a survivor in the disparate modern/post classical scene. His first solo record appeared way back in 2004, and instantly set him alongside Max Richter, Johann Johannsson and Goldmund as a purveyor of fine, melancholy piano compositions. Here however, O’Halloran has wisely filled out his sound, and with the assistance of Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie, Johann Johannsson and the ACME orchestra, ‘Lumiere’ reaches places I never thought his music could go. Firstly the compositions on show here are perfectly formed – even from the initial granulated notes of opener ‘A Great Divide’ it seems instantly obvious that the album is going to be something special. Slowly and patiently the piece (and album) builds into a flurry of piano notes, tempered drones and gorgeously recorded orchestral sweeps, and O’Halloran keeps everything masterfully restrained. Like Max Richter’s career-high ‘The Blue Notebooks’ there is the sense that the music could accompany some kind of cinema or other, and there is an audible narrative that changes with every listen. In fact adding images might defeat the point of ‘Lumiere’ (itself a reference to cinema) – these songs bring to mind fragments from our memory and fuse them with Kieslowski, Bergman, Tarkofsky and even Lynch. The resulting haze is the record’s deepest power – the ability to wake up the subconscious and bring it right up to the surface. ‘Lumiere’ is a beautiful, moving piece of music and one that is a clear high point in O’Halloran’s catalogue – don’t miss it.
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Beatloafe - Citizens' Rights
I can't quit you, L2S. This one is a bit of a departure - the shiny dancefloor feel is still there but where the blurb says "future garage" my mind keeps turning back to an old one-off 12" on Planet Mu from one "Hawerchuk". The beat sensibility is particularly uncanny. Infectious!
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Debut drop for Beatloafe on L2S, rolling off two tracks of clipped and minimal future garage. 'Citizen's Rights' is breakbeat-infused, dubby and effervescent, one to get the crowd twitching nicely. 'Smudge' is techier, full of fake-out syncopation, sparingly-used stabs and and a writhing bassline sweetly knitting it together.
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Butterz March Sampler
Got an email from the Butterz camp saying "feel free to spread the music" (seems like I got added to the list around the time I shared "Orangeade" :S), so I am. Prolly the label for instrumental grime, currently on a roll with Royal-T. The download contains a hodgepodge of WAV and mp3 files of unreleased remixes and the like. Worth it!
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Rips galore, later.
clockwatcher:
--- Quote from: KvP on 23 Feb 2011, 15:05 ---In addition to two boatloads of new music, I'll have a (partial) Swans discog up later.
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YAY SWANS!
Scandanavian War Machine:
I really like about half of that Tyondai Braxton album
which is more than I was expecting, since he was my least favorite part of Battles
TheClickOfALight:
The Tallest Man On Earth – Shallow Grave (2008)
My University newspaper (which I’m banned from writing for, long story) recently described TTMOE as an ‘up & comer’ for 2011, proving that their knowledge of music is…well, they have no knowledge of music. I mean, this guy has been around for years, and not in the underground either. This is his debut album and it’s great, uplifting Swedish folk - what more can you want?
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the_pied_piper:
Man, you should go in there and slap them right across the face for such bald-faced idiocy. 2 acclaimed albums and an EP does not make someone an "up & comer." The EP is somewhere in this thread (or the old one) already and so is the 2nd album The Wild Hunt which I may have uploaded myself.
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