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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
JD:
The Outs - We Are The Outs
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This is the demo of a really rad hardcore band. Angry grrrrrl music.
XBRAINIAX - Deprogrammed
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Ignore the stupid name and download this. This is fast and vicious hardcore at it's finest.
Cire27:
Fuck yeah! Rebel Girl cover!
yop:
Bibio - Mind Bokeh
--- Quote ---Bibio is to strike again in 2011, Mind Bokeh sounds like the night-time counterpart to Ambivalence Avenue's more pastoral, sunflecked tones.
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KvP:
Good catch, didn't think it would leak this early.
Ripsin' time.
Cult of Youth - Cult of Youth
This one, don't blame me, the mastering is pretty weird. Like, I turned my gain all the way down and it was still clipping most of the time. So it is an incredibly loud record. Anyway, with so many Witch House bros revering (or looting) the corpse of early 80's industrial, looks like Cult of Youth is jumping ahead of the curve and exploring the neo-folk sounds of the 90's. At least, that's what they say they're doing. What they actually make turns out to sound quite a bit like something out of Scott Walker 2, which, I don't have to tell you, is pretty fascinating in its own way. The vinyl came with pictures of the band and mm they are gothyyyyyy.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---"Born out of a love for the post-industrial music and culture that had inspired him ever since he had first discovered music as a teenager, Cult Of Youth began as a series of home recordings by founder Sean Ragon. Ragon's solo Cult Of Youth project released a 7-inch and then one full-length on then fledgling Dais Records (also responsible for introducing the world to Cold Cave and releasing Genesis P-Orridge's pre-Throbbing Gristle recordings for the first time). The early recordings seemed to strike a chord with many people who felt alienated by the cultural irony and lo-fi slacker mentality that was ever present in independent music at the time. Adding three permanent members to the line-up: performance artist/director/painter/occult scholar Micki Pellerano on bass, machinist drummer Glenn Maryanski, and the violin virtuoso/goddess Christiana Key. (Key's brilliant string arrangements were recently featured on new Zola Jesus single "Poor Animal.") This is their first album as a proper band, produced by Chris Coady and mixed by Swans producer Kevin McMahon; it's an ideal realization of the amazing potential this new full band line-up. It is a neo-folk masterpiece, perhaps the first of its kind from an American band. Although still rooted in the acoustic guitar driven Teutonic chants of the early material, the focus has changed and the scope is broader. Cult Of Youth shifts from delicate pagan folk music reminiscent of Paul Giovanni's landmark soundtrack to The Wicker Man, to hazy Turkish psychedelic passages, and even to the rugged Americana of traditional country music. This debut is an unapologetic an unabashed search for a spiritual identity in an increasingly homogenized world. It serves as a clear and thorough introduction for all the burgeoning dark punks out there who wanna go a bit deeper but haven't yet figured out where to start."
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Rauelsson / Peter Broderick - Replica
Really gorgeous folk arrangements, with vocals in Spanish. Each side of the LP is a full track, so either get to know where you want to skip or set aside 20-minute periods to listen.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Sumptuous suite of introspective folk and strong but quiet string arrangements from Spanish-born, Portland OR-based Raśl Pastor Medall and Peter Broderick. After initially exchanging songs ideas via email for some time, the pair finally embarked on summer recording sessions at Raśl's home in SE Portland, resulting in two long works of a fragile, plaintive but arresting nature. Their quietly engaged dialogue features Raśl's eloquent Latin whispers hushed melodic lyricism layered around Peter's solitary string arrangements, meandering piano lines, embellished with occasional backing vocals and flute from Heather Woods Broderick. The track's delicate structuring feels like we're hearing a series of smaller vignettes breezing by in a refreshing wind. The pair feel enough at ease to conduct moments of near silence, elegiac interludes preparing the space for a new idea or phrasing. The exquisite mastering finish from Nils Frahm at his studio in Berlin only emphasizes the album's poignant nature.
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Kowton - She Don't Jack / Drunk On Sunday
Expert future House sounds from Kowton, with some classic drum machine programming on the A and a deep warehouse roller on the B.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Kowton aka Joe Narcossist runs the fourth pair of riddims for the Punch Drunk-afilliated Idle Hands. This guy's standing in the post dubstep world is inversely proportionate to his number of releases, four in four years, roughly speaking, with drops rumoured for very exciting new imprints. On this one 'She Don't Jack' sticks with the sub-120bpm pace, furnishing his Bristol House with Terminator synth gazes, needly hi-hats and a beautifully restrained, offset bassline keeping his dark funk tucked firmly in the pocket. Staying minimal and menacing but with an acute dose of rudeness 'Drunk On A Sunday' sounds like Sleeparchive just got horny and decided to swing his hips for a change, inflating a fat-assed subbass under clinically crisp percussion and lights-out synth wipes. Just deadly UK House ruffige, well recommended!!!
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Padang Food Tigers - Born Music
Split between field recordings and understated folk and electric guitar - almost post-rock at times, 'specially on "Chime Down the Lonely Monarch". Really good mood music, containing hidden depths.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---An introspective and enigmatic mesh of field recordings and sparse instrumentation marks out this excellent album from Padang Food Tigers, now reissued on vinyl by Blackest Rainbow. The work of Spencer Grady and Steven Lewis from drone-folk heroes Ramses III, Padang is a project that finds the pair reducing the elements of their music right down to sparse guitar and banjo arrangements with piano, found sounds and drones etched into the mix. The guitar elements are especially effective, ringing in a beautifully mournful way like the finest work of Loren Connors. The use of field recordings is also notable, perfectly placed as a barely audiable whisper at the end of 'Chime Down the Lonely Monarch' or via the bed of traffic, birdsong and other found sounds running continously throughout. This is a highly structured record, reserved and meditative in its instrumentation, and all the better for it.
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Factory Floor - Lying (Chris Carter Mix) / A Wooden Box
Industrial / darkwave, of the sort you don't hear very often anymore, with, of course, a great EBM-flavored mix from the legendary Chris Carter. The B is not as visceral but good for synth-punk kids.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Emerging in the wake of their brilliant Blast First Petite 10", Factory Floor have wrangled a remix from none other than industrial legend Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle/Chris&Cosey) backed with a heavier pressing of 'Wooden Box' for the DJs. Carter takes the sparse source material and picks away at the surface to subtly illuminate Nikki Colk's vocals over black lit strobing synths while retaining the stoic but pacy drive of the original. 'A Wooden Box' on the flip is a sharp thrust of minimal industrial techno with despondant female vox. A tip for fans of Cold Cave, TG, Silk Flowers, Minimal Wave Tapes etc! - Essential twelve.
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Function - Variance 1-3
Sandwell District is quickly becoming my favorite techno-oriented label, specializing in dark, industrial-tinged UK variants. This one's from Function, who I follow pretty closely. The A-side feels like its elements are all moving at different speeds, creating a remarkable sense of movement, while B1 is more frantic and nervous, and B2 builds out of low-key percussive sounds. Good, cold techno.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---No rest for the wicked as Sandwell follow the 'Feed Forward' LP with three prime numbers from Function. If we're not mistaken, a couple of these tracks have appeared in remix form on previous SD vinyls (and it even shares a catalogue number with the single-sided blue 12" from early '09), but this is the first time any of these original tracks have been pressed to wax. The A-side is a colossal Function special, propulsive 4/4 bass hits arranged within a dazzlingly cold and spacious 3D dub environment, while the flipside cuts alternately aim for warmer, wide-eyed Berlin techno atmospheres like the recent SD LP and a slab of sub-heavy, acidic, Plastikman-style techno. Ace.
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Distal & Hxdb / Mayhem & Distal
Distal and friends provide a great sub-bass heavy take blend of classic dubstep and Joy O-style rave dynamics. The B is closer to House, with a shuffling snare rhythm and a lot of pitch-shifted synths. Pretty great stuff.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Following an inclusion on Soul Jazz's 'Future Bass' comp, Distal links with HXDB and Mayhem for two post-Dubstep poses. 'Typewriter Tune VIP' slots neatly into the slipstream of Night Slugs or Hessle Audio with an electroid Funky skip at 130bpm, whereas 'Frozen Barnacles' is a thick swinger revolving around quaking half-timed subs and jazz-techy synth flourishes.
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Naturally I have much more for tomorrow. For now, sleep!
valley_parade:
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