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yop:
Holy balls!! Niggas With Guitars - Ethnic Frenzy This record is amazing! Thank you :)

Tunnidge - Dark Skies/Tribe




--- Quote ---Tunnidge steps onto his 2nd plate for Deep Medi with the dread sci-fi killah 'Dark Skies' and the intriguing outernational vibes of 'Tribe'. The ascending synthlines and Rutger Hauer samples lend a brilliant tension to 'Dark Skies', only exacerbated by droning, eyeball quivering subbass. We can't pinpoint the source of the samples on 'Tribe' but it's surely one of the most esoteric tracks Deep Medi's catalogue, ripe for set-starting dramas. Mad tings.
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Orphan101 - Into You EP




--- Quote ---Odder Dub-Tech from Bristol's Orphan101, following an acclaimed drop for Apple Pips. With relentless intentions 'Into You' jacks Electro-House elements into a charging 140bpm framework, whereas 'Barraca' is proggy-tinged Techno riding quasi-speed subs and we're not sure what the feck 'Typical' is, perhaps some kinda spliced creature formed from sped-up Rhythm & Sound records and woozy ambient? Grab this if you were into the last Illum Sphere 12" on Tectonic.

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James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream




--- Quote ---Arriving shortly after his extraordinary, eponymous debut LP, James Blake drops one its many highlights, 'The Wilhelm Scream' backed with two new and exclusive songs 'What Was It You Said About Luck' and 'Half Heat Full (Old Circular)'. If anything, the pristine electro-acoustic dynamism of 'The Wilhelm Scream' sounds even more dazzling given it's own side and pressed to 45rpm, his intentions coming through super crisp and clear. His new song, 'What Was It You Said About Luck' is perhaps more minimal and nuanced, slyly harmonised vocals moving around the artificial space with vivid, depth perception-realigning effect, before 'Half Heat Full (Old Circular)' displays him at his most tortured, bruised with distortion and seemingly singing from inside his grandad's shed. Tip!
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nufan:
Here are two EP's by my new favourite thing, Sepalcure. They fit right alongside my other favourite things, James Blake and Mount Kimbie, and are routinely described with the same "post-everything" or "post-dubstep" tag which, although are horrible genre names, do indicate how hard they are to pin down. Apparantly they are the project of Machinedrum and Praveen, who admittedly I've never heard of. The Fleur EP and in particular the song No Think are incredible.

Sepalcure - Fleur EP


--- Quote from: boomkat ---Spellbinding release from Sepalcure, aka electronica veterans Machinedrum and Praveen. They unveiled a sumptuous new sound with the 'Love Pressure' EP back in the summer of 2010 but if anything this delivers an even greater emotive impact. Maybe it's because they're American, but there's definitely an instinctive feel for R&B elegance and graceful suspension at play here, something alluded to by reams of UK producers, but rarely achieved with this kind of tingling sensibility. The standout track is easily 'No Think', a near side-long swinger built from ethereal, yearning vocals, viscous 2-step patterns and droning subbass looming from their densely lush atmospheres. Complementing the vibe, the enchanting 'Inside' closes the side with a shorter, beatless piece of electronic ambience worthy of Tim Hecker. Meanwhile on the A-side we're in thrall to the crisp drums, smudged chords and sun-heated strings of 'Fleur' and another surefire spine-tingler, 'Your Love'. Full colour picture sleeve + four stunning productions = Well recommended.
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Sepalcure - Love Pressure EP


--- Quote from: boomkat ---Deeper soul burning dubstep and dreamy broken beats from Sepalcure aka Machine Drum and Praveen. It's a massive diversion from both operators previous styles, using their combined wealth of production knowledge to create four tracks of effervescent, kinetic and slightly unstable grooves marked with convective chord progressions and classic vocal lifts. 'The Warning' previously appeared on Scuba's Resident Advisor face off with himself, conducting a submerged ambient skipper with nods to Mount Kimbie. Their 'Love Pressure' cut is certainly the highlight though, sweeping us up in a heart-in-mouth swell of wide-open atmospheres driven by a Joy Orbison-tuned rhythm motor. Nearly as effective is the synths-driven thrust and vocal streaks of 'Down' while the pace of 'Everyday Of My Life' takes some getting used to if you're familiar with the original pitch of the sample, but once you're in, it's lush. Recommended sweetnuss for fans of Blue Daisy, Joy Orbison, Ramadanman or James Blake.
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TheClickOfALight:
GZA – Liquid Swords (1995)



I’d go so far as to say that this is my favourite album out of the ENTIRE Wu-Tang back catologue, Clan or solo. It’s seriously that good.


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yop:
Various Artists - SMM: Context 2011




--- Quote ---SMM: Context is the first release in Ghostly International’s new yearly compilation series of evocative, exploratory music.

In 2003, Ghostly International introduced SMM, an unknown acronym used to evaporate the already-unspooling musical boundaries between classical minimalism, electronic and drone composition, film soundtracks, and fragile imaginary landscapes.

SMM: Context features a hand-picked selection of some of the world’s finest musicians from Poland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, North America and the UK who traffic in SMM’s slow-moving, texture-focused compositions, simple in instrumentation, but infinitely complex in execution.
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01. Goldmund - Motion
02. Leyland Kirby - Polaroid
03. Svarte Greiner - Halves
04. Christina Vantzou - 11 Generations Of My Fathers
05. Jacaszek - Elegia
06. The Fun Years - Cornelia Amygdaloid
07. Manual - Three Parts
08. Aidan Baker - Substantiated
09. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Moments Descend On My Windowpane
10. Kyle Bobby Dunn - Runge's Last Stand
11. Peter Broderick - Pause


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KvP:

Drums Off Chaos & Jens-Uwe Beyer

The latest from Magazine, who are sort of a little krautrock / kosmische revival in themselves. Long, winding texture'n'drums workouts. "4 of 7" would make an excellent piece of level music for Diablo 2. Rhythmic!

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Sterling new release from Cologne's Magazine label, presenting the first substantial recordings from Jaki Liebezeit's Drums Off Chaos percussion ensemble. For their debut album they're also joined by Köln lynchpin Jens-Uwe Beyer, who's best known for his Popnoname productions on Kompakt's Pop Ambient series and as a member of future kosmiche group, Cologne Tape. Despite being in operation for nearly 30 years, the group have only committed their sound to tape on a handful of rare instances including a mail-order CD from 1985, preferring to keep their tribal anarchist sound in the live domain. So the addition of Beyer has more than revitalised them, it's actually got the trio in the studio to record their music! Together they've consolidated the inter-generational gap between the classic Can sound and the updated techno romance of Wolfgang Voigt's Gas project, resulting in a plush and expansive, yet lean and focussed linear style propelled by interlocking tribal polyrhythms and surrounded by sumptuous synthetic scenery of drifting melodies and radiant symphonic flushes. The accent of their precise, dynamic rhythmic codes is enhanced by self-constructed drums and carefully selected sounds from Beyer who innately understands their cadence, placing this album close to recent efforts from the MvO Trio and Mark Ernestus, but firmly grounded with a regional Ruhr dialect of their own. Entrancing stuff.
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Fxbip - TAL Acid

Some guy doing a very, very convincing AFX acid impression (The Analogue Quadrant specializes in this sort of thing). Nearly as good as the real thing!

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Rephlexian acid manoeuvres from FXBip on his debut for The Analogue Quadrant. Five track very much int he vein of Ceephax Acid Crew, AFX or Ovuca, from the midnight acid burn of 'TAL Acid' to the rushin' patterns of 'Reaper 3' or the haunted pads and squirming 303 squiggles of 'Chimera'.
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Siriusmo - Mosaik

Sprawling, goofy post-Justice electro with twisty IDM arrangements. Plus, someone trying out an actually-pretty-decent Tom Waits impression. Mental. From the Monkeytown camp (Modeselektor, et al).

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---'Mosaik' is Siriusmo's much anticipated 2nd album, and the first artist LP release on Modeselektor's Monkeytown label. The pair of acts have a longstanding relationship, with Modeselektor effectively setting up the Monkeytown label in order to release their mate's like-minded hi-tech party music. And like his brethren, there's no clear parameters for Siriusmo's sound, which twitches between IDM electronics, lounging jazz musicality, Techno propulsion and dadaist sample structuring. Aside from the previous single tracks, the jagged Electro thump of 'Feromonikon' and the twinkle-toed cartoon techno of 'Signal', the highlights have to be the Dubstep-aping, Jahcoozi-like 'Bad Idea', the harmonious disco of 'Nights Off' or the fractal Techno-Pop of 'Goldene Kugel' and 'Einmal In Der Woche Schreien'. Wickedly scatter-brained but forcefully fun. Check!
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Kahn - Like We Used To

From Peverelist's Punch Drunk imprint comes some expansive, Joy O-style rave techno complete with pitch-bent synth chords and bass. Thrilling and uplifting the way the best rave stuff is.

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Dazzling debut from Kahn, a new talent discovered by exceptional minds at Punch Drunk. 'Like We Used To' is a powerfully built 130bpm swinger, stroking fragrant female vocal into orgiastic glossolalia over clipped 2-step and seasick subs copulating like Zomby and SBTRKT. 'Helter Skelter' is more exothermic, radiating stereo spirals of cascading lazer synths on a halfstep bump and grind akin to the recent Objekt 12". Huge, frankly.
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Pangaea - Inna Daze

An old hand in the dubstep / techno scene comes back with some classic rhythmic style. Loving the warped strings on "Won't Hurt".

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Pangaea, lad, what are you doing to us?!?! Over a year after his eponymous Hessle EP, Kevin McAuley augments his sound to a 130bpm (or thereabouts) style of deep Technoid ruffige compatible with label brethren Elgato or more recent 2562 beats. Squaring up to 'Inna Daze' we're faced with a rugged rollers figure, broad, shoulder swinging bass with a Monolake-esque finish synched to hip-tucking, fake-out drum programming pecked with feverish diva yelps and siren stabs. On the flip, 'Won't Hurt' starts out pensive but soon enough brings the bass weight like some 2005 DMZ classic, only at 130bpm and with hair-raising Detroit techno strings delivered like a true badman. Don't f**k about. This is essential!
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Bunny On Acid - Oxygen

Like the bastard child of Planes and Slugabed. Laid back, shuffling hip hop beats and overstuffed, swooping synth chords. The title track is like vintage Ital Tek.


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Various Artists - Super Vol. 1

Rave iconoclast Raffertie's homebrewed imprint releases a (prospective, given the few releases on the label so far) compilation featuring some old and new favorites. Raffertie starts off with a roaring warehouse-filler,  Morris Cowan comes out of nowhere with an stunning early 90's Warp epic, Subeena contributes a club jam in line with her more recent output, Photomachine brings out the handclaps on a nervous techno track, and Throwing Snow pushes his bass into the red to clinch it. Looks like we've got a baby Planet Mu on our hands.


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Wagawaga - Hyper Typewriter

A good week for Warp-indebted IDM, as Wagawaga (who I have never heard of, plus their name is kind of dumb) releases a full album of really, really excellent hip hop / acid techno hybrids, in classic 90's style. Like a marriage of Luke Vibert, Plaid and The Tuss, without all the overt goofiness that would entail. This comes with my highest recommendation.

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Move D - Workshop 02

Warm, cosmopolitan house from the amazingly consistent Move D, probably my favorite House DJ. I can imagine rolling around Miami in the 80's blasting "Computer Flop". Incredible.

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Following on from his killer set for Modern Love, Move D returns again this week for the elusive Hardwax-affiliated Workshop imprint with a crushing twelve of tracks lifted straight off the Moodymann/Theo Parrish school of thought. Quite unlike any of his other recent material, this limited twelve revolves around a muted jazz-funk pallette that sounds like a classic Theo production ripped-apart and re-assembled with that distinctive Moufang edge. The squashed percussion and shimmering Rhodes work a treat and the production here is so tight that it needs to be heard loud to be believed. Move D really seems to be operating at his peak right now - this twelve is sure to disappear in double-time. KILLER!!!
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Move D - Drøne

One-side single from Move D for Modern Love, a house / techno label that gained notoriety recently for releasing all of Demdike Stare's goth-dub-ambient albums. This one's a more atmospheric track, with a greater focus on the light, skittering rhythm.

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Move D returns with the latest limited one-sided 12" on the Modern Love label - and it's an absolute KILLER!. Based around one long, forever mutating drone, the track comes from David Moufang's hallowed KM20 vaults, the place were he keeps his most devastating, vintage analogue material. Spiritually linked with his masterful "Sweet Heini" cut for the Philpot imprint, this is precisely the kind of tackle that finds Moufang at his most immersive, producing supremely smart and layered Techno that works on more levels than it's possible to elucidate verbally. What starts out as a rugged, heaving wheeze of machinery slowly develops into a scattered chug of fearless percussion and frayed engineering of the highest calibre. After astonishing work for the likes of the Workshop, Uzuri and Smallville imprints, Move D's stock is at the highest its ever been - and that's saying something for an artist who has been releasing music since 1994, and who has never lost form. Strictly limited pressing - ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!
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Sunken Foal - Mother of God

How did I miss this?!?!?! Fuck. This came out in January and I only just came across it researching that Wagawaga LP. Sunken Foal returns, scaling back the folk aspect of his electro-folk a bit, but his music is just as charmingly shamblotic as ever. "Colloidal Glass" and "A Row of Gods" are more like his older stuff, but "Platforms" and "Gift Knee Pads" show off the more beat-centric side of Sunken Foal. PICK THIS SHIT UP.

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Two years after their well-received Planet Mu album, Sunken Foal return with six tracks for Acroplane. 'Mother Of God' finds their sound at a juncture of Alex Smoke-like, Autechre-referencing electronica in 'Low Mountain Light Socket' and the mercury fuming synths and quickstep syncopations of 'Gift Knee Pads', while 'Colloidal Glass' is a glassy IDM configuration and 'Platforms' like some swaggering Gescom beat. Ace.
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Ana Caravelle - Basic Climb Re-Imagined

The run-of-the-mill-if-not-for-the-beautiful-production indie harpstress Ana Caravelle turns to LA's Low End Theory scene for an expansive collection of remixes. If you like the LA Beats scene (Flylo, etc.) you'll love these. But I got it for the Julia Holter remix, which is odd and fuzzy and somber and perfect.

--- Quote from: Boomkat ---‘Basic Climb Re-Imagined’ sees harpist and singer Ana Caravelle’s gorgeous ‘Basic Climb’ record stretched, moulded and somehow re-invigorated by a whole host of hand picked artists. Remix compilations always run the risk of being simply a hodge-podge of ideas, but somehow LA label Non Projects have managed to keep things reigned in well without losing that important sense of experimentation. The tracks go from the beat-driven (Shigeto, Dibiase and DNTEL) to the delightfully strange (Dakim, A.D.L.R) but the high point comes from local LA artist Julia Holter. Holter takes Caravelle’s delicate vocal and process it to sound like a voice from another world, adding a host of unusual elements to the mix creating a veritable symphony of ideas and unexpected harmony. Very good stuff indeed.
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