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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
amok:
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(2010 / 320)
review
KvP:
It's too bad, I was going to have a rip posted as soon as it got here. Boomkat's been really slow lately.
KvP:
This is the new shit.
Zerkalo - Stoi Storoni Zerkala Pt. 1
Pretty excellent synthwave throwback. Kind of like Serafina Steer if she played synths instead of the harp, sorta. Seedy cocaine goth music.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Clone initiate another sub-label, this time dedicated to an offshoot project of the Heinrich Mueller / Dopplereffekt spectrum. On these two Zerkalo EPs Mueller works with Victoria Lucas, whose arid vocals appeared on the shadowy Black Replica tracks available through their myspace. In Part I of 'Stoi Storoni Zerkala' the pair craft a sound in thrall to the richness of pure synthesizer tones and stark machine rhythms, unadorned by unnecessary FX and conjuring imagery of Chris & Cosey producing the soundtrack to some unknown 80s Russian film noir. It's not as conceptually high brow as the recent Dopplereffekt material but should satisfy your darker cravings. Aces.
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Tevo Howard - What Is Noise?
--- Quote from: Bleep ---Following a killer 2010 (that featured a pair of sublime drops on Rush Hour) Chicago House classicist Tevo Howard launches an EP for the always-on-it Permanent Vacation. Expect only the finest hypnotic-melancholic, strictly analogue, deep house/techno grooves, wrapped up in silken pads, winding bass worms and cosmic hooks. If you were into the Virgo reissue last year, this is definitely the one.
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030303 Label Compilation
Modern acid techno (they released that incredible EOD EP I posted a few weeks back) with a strong IDM undercurrent, as befitting such things. Great turns from EOD and Vibert.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Purveyors of the finest modern acid, the 030303 label gets its game together with ten tracks from James T Cotton, Ceephax, Ardisson, Luke Vibert and the rest. JTC's 'Nothings The Same' gets out the gates with a groovy Chi-town jacker using some dope Green Velvet style vocals. Ardisson are in the mood for it with the deadly uptempo '5 Minutes To Get Straight' and true to form, Luke Vibert gives one of the maddest offerings on the rushing machine breaks of 'Acid pHorce'. We're not sure who DB is but he's obviously got a thing for the techier end of the Rephlex catalogue i.e. The Wisp or The Tuss on 'Orisphee'. Ceephax's 'Acid Schmichael' hurtles out a dose of fast acid for the ravers dem and there's also a rare cut from the brilliant D'Arcangelo on 'No Strings Attached But A Volcom Belt'. Belter!
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Cursor Miner - Requires Attention
Eclectic pop, more than anything, but generally all-over-the-place. Hooky, with pretty great production. Closest thing I can compare it to is a more hi-fi version of Pictureplane.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Electronica maverick Cursor Miner deploys his fourth album, a journey into the lawless frontiers of pop music where just about anything can happen. Oddball opener 'Reject' is what you'd imagine Depeche Mode jamming around a campfire might sound like, while the more circuit-centric 'The Golem Of Bognor Regis' lurches more conscientiously in the direction of an electro influence, whilst also sounding a little like one of Atom TM's many guises in its absorption of chintzy exotica. One of the album's highlights, 'The Man With The Transparent Face' marks a turn towards a post-dubstep sound, embracing throbbing, pressurised basslines and aggressive beats whilst keeping it quintessentially Cursor Miner with a weird lyrical contingent. Following suit, 'Mad Cow (Intensively Farmed Version)' maintains the dark and distorted urban edge, while such diverse treats as the Rephlex-ish 'Full English Fastbreak' and the star-gazing cold-wave missive (and former single) 'Luna' keep the top quality content flowing.
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Wil Bolton - Time Lapse
Boomkat says it better than I can. Flirts with Campfire Headphase-era Boards of Canada, generally very idyllic.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Hibernate records continues to dominate the pastoral ambient wasteland with this latest missive from Boltfish co-owner Wil Bolton. Better known as glitchy IDM feller Cheju, on ‘Time Lapse’ Wil strips down his sound to come up with something far more measured and beautiful than anything in his back catalogue. Beginning with the reverberating electronics of ‘Falling Away’ this sets the tone for the album, with distant field recordings sitting beneath echoing melodies. Somewhere in-between the electrified shoegaze of Manual and the melancholy electronics of Vangelis, Wil navigates his sound into more acoustic territory on ‘Corrosion’ and into deep, haunting drone on ‘Slate’, but the rich melodic sense is the glue that holds the record together. Bolton might not be breaking any new ground on ‘Time Lapse’, but his production skill and ear for melody make this a thoroughly enjoyable cinematic listening experience.
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The Gulf Stream - Native's Mantra EP
Somehow I ended up with another release from the same label that gave us the bro-y bass album I posted a week or so ago. Overall a lower-key affair, but still punchy!
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By Proxy - Sixty Eight
I know nothing about these guys other than that they're from NYC / San Fran / Seattle and they're releasing stuff on Car Crash Set, who I trust. The title track is a blue-toned club R&B track in the dBridge / Riya mold. It's pretty awesome. Contains a remix by Aussie DnB dude Vaccine.
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Julio Bashmore - Everybody Needs A Theme Tune
I wish Julio would write my theme tune He branches out a bit from his UK Funky roots (he might be the best in that business, Night Slugs be damned) with techier songs here. I love it to bits.
I feel like maybe he got his cover switched with a Oneohtrix Point Never album by accident.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Killer and diverse four-tracker from Señor Bashmore, the first for new London label, PMR Records. Most notably Julio diverts his energies into two new areas with the cannily dubbed-out disco triplets of 'Everyone Needs A Theme Tune' and even a slouchy future boogie cruise on 'The Horn That Time Forgot'. Back in more familiar terrain, 'Battle For Middle You' infuses a DirtyBird style deep burner with a sweetly filtered Detroit drop and 'Ask Yourself' floats off on a bed of 808 bass hits and breezy tropical synth pads. Very nice indeed.
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Jamie Grind - Footwork EP
The wiley, grizzled dubstep vets at Fortified Audio (who have released a few pretty choice twelves in the last year that you can find in the old thread) break into the faux-Chicago game, with this EP from Jamie Grind exploring... Footwork. If you like Ramadanman / Andrea / Addison Groove, this is more of that same great taste. I like the way Europe is refining and streamlining the rough'n'tough sensibility of the original Chicago sound.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---After making a solid first impression with his Infrasonics debut, Leeds-based Jamie Grind reduces Chicago footwork to a shimmering flicker of neatened swing rhythms on Fortified Audio. The lead track deploys many of the same elements as your average footwork cut but arranged for House'd-up UK 'floors. Linking with Hackman the pair sketch out a skittering Broken-Beat raver on 'Saw The Light' while 'Without You' runs with percolating 808s, tidy rhodes stabs and sweet garage vibes, saving the killer 2-step blush of 'Now You Know' for dessert. fans of everyone from Hyetal to Andy Stott should give this some attention! Recommended.
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Last one!
Bvdub - Tribes at the Temple of Silence
Beautiful loop compositions from the dub techno stalwart Bvdub, like a less minimalistic Basinski in its better moments. Patient listeners are rewarded with the eventual emergence of gentle, loping techno on a few cuts. Brilliant stuff, great to veg out over.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---The consistently good Home Normal label presents what must be the most engaging and lushly complex album to date from Brock Van Wey aka BVDub. Drifting slightly away from the vast dub scapes he's reputed for, 'Tribes At The Temple Of Silence' is a sumptuous suite of drone/loop-based ambient electronics with a keener sense of pop sweetness and taste for tempered beats. A first sign of things to come occurs on 'A Quiet Doorway Opens', setting the four walls of his sound to a more intimate environment. 'The Past Disappears' gives the first convective flush of emotion with a slow blur of symphonic strings and 13.5 tog ambient tones opened out with richly padded but deeply discrete basses. The keys and crystalline melody of 'Sanctuary' are more New Age positive, recalling some later Roedelius wanderings, but 'These Walls Will Always Remember' succumbs to that comforting loneliness that defines the best of his work, with chilly synths condensed into heaving, harmonious sighs. 'Morning Rituals' introduces even rarer elements to his work with what sounds like Native American ululations woven into waves of static and gently buoyant, icily clear electronic soul rhythms, whereas 'We Move As One' smudges fluttering dub house patterns into the background, foregrounding his powdered snow-crunching synth textures. 'Towers Rise To The Sky' renders his gauzy veils of ambient shimmer with breathtaking delicacy. Highly recommended.
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JESU - HEARTACHE DETHRONED (2010)
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reissue of out of print first EP and some old unfinished stuff......
--- Quote ---The Heart Ache EP consists of two 20-minute songs. The first six minutes of “Heart Ache” is a familiar Godflesh grind. Six minutes in, however, a Mellotron-triggered sampled choir starts up, and a clear guitar line begins to ring out, introducing a new guitar tone that will characterize Jesu throughout the albums and EPs to come, followed by Broadrick’s clear, yearning vocal and a slowly evolving composition including chiming acoustic guitars and keyboards, all played by Broadrick. The song succeeds in taking the listener on a complex journey without the pummeling loud-quiet-loud dynamics of the archetypal post-rock song. “Ruined” is even more cohesive, with a gorgeously downcast, ringing motif. The previously unreleased Dethroned EP is less impressive: unfinished songs still very much in a Godflesh mode. The title song is muscular, but marred by anonymous processed vocals, and “Aurated Skin” is beautiful but airless, falling a bit too close to formulaic dreampop.
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ellis:
--- Quote from: butmyrobotloves on 06 Jan 2011, 14:09 ---Barefoot Surrender--Barefoot Surrender
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www.myspace.com/never-say-surrender
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Wanted to thank you for this - gotta admit I have a weakness for anything bluegrassy. Even putting that aside though, the album's fun.
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