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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
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Mount Kimbie - Carbonated
--- Quote ---After releasing their debut album ‘Crooks and Lovers’ last summer to huge critical acclaim and racking up numerous end of year lists including the shortlist for Guardian’s First Album Award, plus sell out tours in North America, Australia and Europe, London duo Mount Kimbie announce the news of their next EP ‘Carbonated’.Set for release on 27th June on their label Hot Flush, the EP follows the release of the ‘Blind Night Errand’ EP and will be the final release from the album. ‘Carbonated’, the lead track on the EP is joined by two previously unreleased tracks, the buoyant, effervescence of ‘Flux’ and ‘Bave’s Chords’, which showcase the lush, elegant percussive sound Mount Kimbie have become known for. ‘Bave’s Chords’ was recorded around their early EP ‘Maybes’ and ‘Flux’ was created during the album recordings. Airhead, who’s shortly releasing his own album on Brainmath and is member of James Blakes' live band, subtly twists ‘Carbonated’ with his remix, while Belgian producer & DJ Peter Van Hoesen creates a six minute dark techno rework for the dancefloor. ‘Adriatic’, also from ‘Crooks and Lovers’ is transformed completely by Klaus with his style of detailed production hitting the mark once more.
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Anstam - Baldwin / Carmichael
--- Quote ---The enigmatic Anstam duo follow up the killer 'Albert' and a wicked Fact mix with their first full solo 12" in three years. At the risk of repeating ourselves, these guys make some of the most crushingly dynamic, dead ON-IT beats around. This time they're investigating a more squashed and cryptically moody style with 'Baldwin', stamping sub-loaded breakbeats with a brooding, twisted synth torque leading to an unmistakably Teutonic conclusion. On 'Carmichael' they swipe away the breakbeats and engage with pneumatically compressed steppers patterns, oily, squirming acid bass and intoxicatingly dystopian synth pads. It's the sort of gear we dream about and should be massively recommended to fans of T++, Ben Frost, Kangding Ray, or Shackleton.
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Outstanding techy jungle-esque & avant electronics infected, stepping killer tunes.
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Ossie - Set the Tone / Tarantula
--- Quote ---Ossie makes his long-awaited Hyperdub debut with three highly infectious House wrigglers for the connoisseurs. For the last year or so his 'Tarantula' anthem, released relatively recently on Lightworks, has been a staple among the London House set, from the Circle types through to Marcus Nasty and players like Kode 9. This 12" reconfigures the ever-evolving Hyperdub schematic to encompass a more sexy, sophisticated sound with 'Set The Tone'. But this ain't no blandbag House music, those drums are made for movers with something to show and the vibes are just masterfully controlled with a dextrous yet restrained intricacy. Flip it and 'Power Of Love' has a slinkier, late night Afro-beat appeal, while 'Moves' is a heat-seeking fusion of super-criss percussion and juiciest R&B synths.
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Dark Sky - High Rise
--- Quote ---Dark Sky come to Blunted Robots on their best release to date, following well received early entries for Black Acre and Pictures Music, and remixes of The XX and Nelly Furtado. As those records showed, Dark Sky are bang into their drums. On A-side, 'Highrise', crisp and clinical patterns are mirrored by percussive melodies, all minimal and slinky like some Eski-boy special. 'Armour' is darker, more hardcore spirited and grazing, built from walloping bass hits and speaker rattling machine rhythms akin to recent Boddika moves. Tipped for fans of Mickey Pearce, Instra:mental, Untold etc.
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John Heckle - The 4th Dimension EP
--- Quote ---John Heckle follows his very well received 'Life On Titan' 12" with four tributes to the deep and cosmic House sounds of the Windy City. There's two jazzier, smoother numbers on 'The 4th Dimension' and 'What Once Was', and two sturdier, psycho-activating jackers 'Forgotten Lights' and 'Ahead Of Time', each crafted with an authentic lo-fi bite.
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Mind blowing, well constructed house tracks!
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Virgo Four - It's A Crime (Caribou / Hunee Mixes)
--- Quote ---Taken from their recently released collection of archival material, Virgo's 'It's A Crime' is nicely overhauled here with remixes from Caribou and Hunee. After years in the cult margins, Caribou is virtually a popstar these days, and one of the reasons the sudden surge popularity is his increased propensity for making punchy, accessible house jams. Here he strips Virgo's groove down to its techy, box-banging essence, massaging its bassline into a sinewy electro riff and adding his own plaintive vocals to the broth; the results are gratifyingly raw and lo-fi, but also resoundingly pert and club-ready. Hunee's version is a more conventional deep house update, while Virgo's original take is, almost needless to say, sheer class - full of their customary lazer-guided chords, crisp claps and hissing hi-hats, a true house classic brought back from the brink of extinction by the heads at Rush Hour. Big 12".
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Foating Points - Marilyn / Sais Dub
--- Quote ---Floating Points touches down aboard two sumptuous arrangements on Eglo. First side, orchestral strings hover into view and sweep us through twirling synthlines and broken-down beats reminding of the Cinematic Orchestra, only that bassline is liable to shatter your coffee table. The other side reveals his none-too-hidden obsession with Theo Parrish, gliding on a ruff-but-smooth 110bpm beat adorned with the silkiest keys, singing synths and a cone-gripping subbass that's all latent sexual tension. Grade A bump material. Ultra-heavyweight burner from Floating Points - finally available on download formats. 'Sais Dub' was originally released for Record Store day but in our virtual world every day is record store day and we've got some bonus copies for the connected cats. Your boy is in outstanding form here, deploying the bass to dangerously low depths while the drums seem to skip and pop in their own artificial air pockets. It's like Theo Parrish gone 3DX2-step. Seriously stimulating.
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Redinho - Edge Off EP
--- Quote ---Redinho serves a supremely robust follow-up to the raw-as-f*nk futurism of his Numbers debut. On the 'Edge Off' EP your man is helplessly torn between styles but evidently capable of pulling each one off with finesse. The eponymous feature figures squidgy '80s synth bass and proper neon talkbox for the ballers, before 'Slap' flips that received cool on its head, tackling Hyper-dazzlin' Footwork styles like Squarepusher on an IV skittles infusion. Again, 'Power Look' morphs his rhythmic prism to ultra-current Robo-tropical House with added Ed Rush-style synth drops, and 'Whips' comes off like Anstam snake-stylin' in 3D cyber-space.
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Spectr (Scuba) - Dance 4 Me
--- Quote ---Spectr is more usually known as Scuba, head of the Hotflush label.
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Quality release as always.
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Joe Drive - RD-2452
--- Quote ---Another new recruit joins the Mathematics academy for aspiring space cadets, delivering a debut portfolio of six burning Chicago House trax. There's four beat-driven tracks with tough rhythms offset by fluid, alien-melodic keys and harmonies, plus two beatless efforts.
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Strong Chicago house tracks.
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Nick Hoppner - A Peck And A Pawn EP
--- Quote ---Unmissable modern House groove from half of MyMy, aka Ostgut Ton's co-founder Nick Höppner. With credentials like those, and after probably spending more time in Panorama Bar and Berghain than the bar staff, this guy quite obviously knows what makes a body move. 'A Peck And A Pawn' is pure groove science, augmenting the crisp and spacious aesthetic of Berlin-style Tech-House with a subtly accentuated Funky swing to exceptional effect. Flipside, 'She Parked Herself' is Detroit-influenced, with classic-sounding and sweeping melody guided by shook square bass and drums nodding to Shake and Kevin Saunderson. 'Swivel Flick' is slower, more intimate and involved with sensuous atmosphere and supple, kinky flow. Recommended.
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Excellent house EP! Enjoy!
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amok:
hell yes new Dark Sky & Floating Points
might've already been posted but here's some chilled Finnish dubstep for Burial fans :)
Late "Sine, Saw, Square / Voices From The Night"
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Late "Phantom Papers EP"
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yop:
Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells
--- Quote ---What's this - Brian Eno making dubstep and techno?!! OK, it's only a clutch of tracks hat could possibly be described as such, but believe us when we say that Drums Between Bells, Eno's new album on Warp Records, is a significant departure from last year's Small Craft On A Milk Sea. The project has its origins back in the 90s, when Eno first collaborated with Rick Holland. Back then the collab came to nothing in terms of released material, but the duo resolved to work together again, and Drums Between Bells is the result of their renewed partnership. It's a tribute to the hustle and bustle of city life, particularly London and Sao Paulo, and it positively teems with life, foregrounding the spoken word: not just from Eno and Holland, but also Grazyna Goworek, Caroline Wildi, Laura Spagnuolo, Elisha Muly Aulie Cooke, Nick Robertson and Anastasia Afonina. After the unlikely dancefloor (well, sort of) dread of the first two tracks, the central passage of the album relaxes into the kind of lush, luminous ambient which Eno does best, ranging from the breezy pastoral sway of 'Pour It Out' to more aching, ominous pieces like 'The Airman' and 'The Real', which hark back to the earthen drones of Eno's On Land and the bright, aquatic piano cycles of his work with Harold Budd. We're back to ethno-futurist paranoia for 'Sounds Alien' and 'Dow', but if truth be told these numbers are rather unconvincing. We go out on a high with 'Cloud 4', a serene, sleepily sung number which wouldn't have sounded massively out of place on Taking Tiger Mountain.
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Finally :-D
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StaedlerMars:
I just stumbled across this, but now that I think about it it may have been posted in previous incarnations of this thread. Oh well.
Kind of Bloop - an 8 bit tribute to Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue'
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download and pay here: http://kindofbloop.com/
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