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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
fireproofpants:
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Oscillate Wisely (2011)
An album that deserves way more recognition than it's receiving. A breath of fresh air for indie music.
This is actually Mike's side-project. He's also in a band called husband&wife (whom together run their own record label) check them out here: http://husbandandwife.bandcamp.com/album/proud-flesh
http://youtu.be/GU6W5Ay1me4
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yop:
Sleep ∞ Over - Casual Diamond
--- Quote ---Utterly enchanting pop music from Austin TX's Sleep ∞ Over, readied with a remix from ethereal electronic auteur, Laurel Halo. That suggestively evocative name belongs to Stefanie Franciotta who formed the group only a year ago. Her first rough demos, made on a handheld recorder with former band members Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown, caught the attentions of Night People who released their eponymous debut, with a few of those tracks landing on a 7" for Light Lodge and a new batch for Forest Family (get hunting!). Since then, Stefanie has shed her bandmates and the gently giddy 'Casual Diamond' is her most recent material. Her knowingly Pot-pourried pop recalls the essence of late '80s/early '90s pop, but safely steered with an acknowledgement of 4AD classics, giving her guilty pleasures a poignant innocence which is so much more distinctive than the polyester-saturated soup of lo-fi pop she emerged from. Laurel Halo is the perfect candidate to rework material of this calibre, expanding an already articulate electronic vocabulary with something crossing spatialized 2-step, shoegaze and mid '90s UK electronica like a threadbare quilt sheltering her dreamspace behind the sofa. ANother impressive drop from Hippos in Tanks - Highly recommended!
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Micachu & The Shapes And The London Sinfonietta
--- Quote ---Classical crunk, who'd a thunk it? Michachu, that's who. Her and The Shapes collaborated with London Sinfonietta to create 'Chopped & Screwed' live in front of an audience at Kings Place, London in May 2010, providing Rough Trade with their first ever classical release. The concept itself is pretty far flung, merging the disciplines of codeine-laced cough syrup-drankin' early '90s Houston HipHop legend, DJ Screw, with the rarified sound of one of the world's leading contemporary orchestras. But, considering Michachu's background studying at Purcell, Britain's oldest specialist music school, and her idealistic debut album 'Jewellery', produced with the UKs pre-eminent experimentalist, Matthew Herbert, it's not actually all that contrived. While the Sinfonietta ably handled their own instruments, Michachu took the innovative approach of hand making her own instruments to be played by herself and the Shapes, as she explains "Our own instruments sound a bit percussive, a bit like samples, a bit different. When I write songs on a guitar I find my hands falling into the same bar chords all the time, but if you have something new in front of you there are no rules. No one else has ever played one before so you can approach music differently just make it up as you go along". The end product is truly outstanding, and probably total anathema to orthodox classicists, but in all its bewitching dissonance and crooked articulation, a total pleasure to more adventurous ears. Trust us, you've never heard owt quite like it. Highly recommended!
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scarred:
--- Quote from: yop on 07 Apr 2011, 06:16 ---Sleep ∞ Over - Casual Diamond
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yayyy
yop:
Instra:mental - Resolution 653
--- Quote ---'Resolution 653' is probably one of the most anticipated album's from the UK electronic underground in the last 12 months. It's the culmination of two musical lifetimes spent immersed in Electro, D&B, Techno, House and Bass music, and sounds very much like it. For the past decade the duo of Kid Drama and Al Bleek have released a catalogue of clinically executed dancefloor tricks from their studio (presumably a hermetically sealed bunker in the bowels of London) on labels such as Source Direct's Demonic, and more recently for the Autonomic family of imprints which includes their own Nonplus+ Records, besides Rico DRKSTR's Darkestral Recordings and dBridge's Exit stable. But it's really the last three years which have witnessed a growth spurt in their sound, manifested on this album. Located between 110-140 bpm, these thirteen tracks optimise and intensify a set of memes observed from the darkest corners of the 'floor and the DJ booth. From the galvanized 303 squirms of 'Aggro Acid' to the peerless space of 'Arc', through the twirling melody and stereo-imaged dynamism of 'Love Arp' or the Radiophonic funk of 'Plok', each sound has the signature of master studio craftsmen. In effect they've isolated and honed the digital twitch of OG electro which courses through the veins of so many dance music continuums since the early '80s, and augmented it with a British moodiness which simply can't be faked. Hence, it's highly recommended.
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Algernon:
Times New Viking - Dancer Equired (2011)
Ever Falling In Love
Fuck Her Tears
--- Quote from: Spin ---Taking to a proper studio for the first time in five albums, this notoriously hissy Ohio garage gang create their most accessible work yet: 14 melody-thick doses of rock candy crammed into just 30 lightly fuzzed minutes. Without their trademark willful tinniness, it’s all easy to embrace, from the pretty and poppy (“No Room to Live”) to the arty and odd (“Try Harder”) to the upbeat and thrashing (“Fuck Her Tears”). Among those still cranking out shambolic odes to the suburban bored, these reformed shitgazers rule.
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Much less dirty and fuzzy sounding, but/and still does good stuff to your ears.
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