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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
pwhodges:
So my choir sang another concert on Sunday. Not our typical churchy stuff; we found it hard to find a title that made sense, so I've invented another, but the theme was basically folksong. Try it, you might enjoy some of it!
Cherwell Singers - Aspects of Folksong, or something
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We start in Bavaria; Elgar went on holiday there in the 1890s, and his wife Alice wrote some poems in imitation of Bavarian folksongs which he set to considerably better music. We omitted the two whose words we couldn't bear to sing! Then naturally, to England, with arrangements of Early one morning and Blow the wind southerly, and a piano piece by Grainger evocative of Morris dancing.
Continuing the westward movement - Ireland gave us The Kerry Dance (composed at a time that such customs were forbidden by the English), the Londonderry Air (which never existed until a collector wrote down a completely different tune incorrectly!), and The Minstrel Boy (which got popular in the US when Irish immigrants sang it during the civil war). Now we've reached America, we go on to Shenandoah, and a group of Old American Songs set by Copland, then a bit jazzy with songs by Jerome Kern and Cole Porter.
Finally, home to a short finale from a show by Rutter (the Wind in the Willows). There were some folksong settings for piano by Grieg as well, but they didn't fit the scheme I just described. Program with full notes in the file.
yop:
Doshy - Suspiria
--- Quote ---Doshy drops a SynCrunk banger for Rwina! 'Suspiria' alloys cracking 808 rolls to a sample from the original goblin theme to Dario Argento's titular flick, while 'Milky Way' runs out on some wicked Rustie tip and 'Redworm' squashes a fat acid bass under wonky HipHop drum programming.
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Eprom - Pipe Dream
--- Quote ---Eprom fuses w*onky HipOp and Dubstep 'tronics for his electrified 1st drop of 2011. Some crafty moves abound inside, from the uranium-enriched synthlines and lop-sided lean of 'Pipe Dreams' on the A-side to an unconventional arrangement of warped, double-timed bass bursts and subsiding hiphop on 'Chromium Decay', or the detuned bop of 'The Symbiote', especially for those who like their electronics to taste like battery acid and their beats to buckle knees.
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Swindle - Playground
--- Quote ---Rwina follow a string of rude grime platters from Terror Danjah, SRC and Starkey with four ultra-funked-up instrumentals from the hotly tipped Swindle. Landing just ahead of his massive 'Mood Swings' EP for Butterz, he coems with typically lurid street funk romp on 'Playground' for the Joker fans, while the flipside contains his riffin' remix of SRC's 'Goin' Out' and the hghlight of the EP, a rugged but fruity jam named 'Who's Quicker', a must for the DJs!
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Rachet - Hyper Dimention
--- Quote ---New producer Rachet on the Rwina label, definitely deserves some more attention.Don't be misled by the wrong spelling of Dimention, this release is positively on point with some heavy
dancefloor smashers in the typically forward-thinking Rwina fashion. Lead track "Hyper Dimention" combines R&B and dubstep to a result for a track that explores and spans numerous strains of music that haven't even been invented yet. The vicious "Electrical Bass-Sweep" pits hard-hitting drums against a fierce, dark bassline and a ravey but dripping bleepy melody. Closing the EP, 'Sega Megadrive' is a bubbling beast that imports a dramatic feeling to home-listeners but an energetic one to dancers, thoughtful peak time stuff in this one!
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Terror Danjah - Reinforced
--- Quote ---Terror Danjah & D.O.K serve three bangers for Amsterdam's Rwina records. It's been a busy year for terror Danjah but thankfully his quality levels haven't suffered, evidenced in the epic build of 'Reinforced' and its array of mesmerizing synth drops. 'Peanut Punch' on the flip links with D.O.K for a hard skanking riddim layered with bling-shiny synths and twinkling melodies, while the indomitable 'Stomp Test' goes on a heads down 4/4 vibe with a flood of P-Funk riffage for the dance. Wicked and bad.
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Taz buckfaster - Half Man Half Trout / 20 Red
--- Quote ---Neon coloured party-starting dubstep from Glasgow's Taz Buckfaster. 'Half Man Half Trout' really cuts loose with the stonk-on boogie riffage, unleashing a torrent of finger flailing keywork attached to hard dubstep rhythms, while '20 Red' on the flip cools out a little (but not much) with Glasgow Gangsta synths and a rolling halfstep chassis. For fans of Slugabed, Borgore, Bar 9, or Raffertie.
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Eprom - Humanoid
--- Quote ---Off the back of his Warp release Eprom gives three slick dubstep ravers for Rwina. 'Humankind' is built for peak-time wonk-off effect with daft samples and a sea-sick lead synthline threatening to derail and lick off your eyebrows. With 'The Slaughter' he lurches with an advanced crunk motion, organised with a similar spatial detailing to James Blake, only with a harder intent. 'Lick Out' finishes the 12" by melting the whole thing into a puddle of dripping percussion and fluid synthlines mixing with the texture of oils and cornflower syrup. Very crafty stuff for fans of Eskmo, James Blake or 16Bit.
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pinkpiche:
Thanks so much for Human Eye, they are excellent. And yop, you are killing me!
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 05 Jul 2011, 19:16 ---Here are three albums by Seaworthy, originally posted on me blag
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YES!!!!!!!
I've only got 1897 right now, but it's outstanding. Thanks for the others.
yop:
Various - Laid Compilation
--- Quote ---When Dial launched Laid back in 2008, we couldn't quite see how it was going to distinguish itself from its parent label. But over the last three years it has: whereas Dial is about a very European, at times almost gothic romanticism, Laid offers a more grooving deep house sound with an explicit debt to the US - the presence of Michigan super-hero Rick Wade on the roster is telling. Yep, slick, sensuous deep house doesn't come much better than Laid product, and this compilation takes on a journey through the highlights in the catalogue to date. Lowtec's 'Use Me' sets the tone, all dreamy synth progressions, discreetly jazzy keys, squelched chords and pucked 4/4 rhythm. 'Precious Hall' is the kind of mellow midnight jam that Lawrence can make in his sleep, and yet it's still vastly more stylish and engaging than anything his legion imitators can muster, while in 'Blame' John Roberts offloads the kind of deceptively simple, funked-up club cruiser that made his Glass Eights LP so essential. Jamal Moss-approved Macello Napoletano lays down the gospel with 'Electronic Atmosphere', smoked-out keys riding rough-hewn drums, but the biggest killers come from Kassem Mosse and Black Jazz Consortium. BJC's 'Applied Vibes' ain't nothing new, sure, but it's a track that's steeped in secret knowledge and when the creeping melody is stripped away to reveal the square-jawed bassline beneath it, we challenge you not to lose your sh*t. Mosse's 'Untitled' is a 10-minute epic and every bit as electrifying as we've come to expect from one of contemporary dance music's most consistent and inspired producers. The groove is just so sticky and irresistible, charging forward on a rolling, tom-heavy rhythm inspired by the Chicago masters but invested with a rugged bass-thump that tells you why Mosse is so revered by the likes of Joy O and Instra:mental, and a melodic architecture as dizzingly psychedelic as it is beguilingly pretty. With further contributions from Rick Wade, Rndm, Smallpeople and Christopher Rau, Laid Compilation is a really, really strong set.
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Definitely one of the best label compilation of the year so far!
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Moomin - Spare Time
--- Quote ---Moomin made his debut on one of last year’s finest records, collaborating with Oskar Offermann on Hardmood/Joe McDaddy for the Aim label. For Spare Time, his first solo effort, he returns to Aim with two deep, low-key originals that are paired with a churning, spaced-out edit by Marvin Dash. Moomin works with a limited palette, exhausting his tracks’ elements via repetition. This is not a hugely unique characteristic, but his understanding of space is noteworthy. That repetition occurs in a palpable void rather than as tense loops, and so his closest analogues may be Christopher Rau or Omar-S in deep mode. “Watermelon” is lazing, summertime material, stripped down to a Chicagoan rhythm and a faintly twinkling synth pattern. Midway through, the bass line evolves into a charming but weighty motif, clearly influenced by classic soul records. The similarly unhurried “Morning Mist” is largely based around a recurring chords-and-subs arrangement. Its rhythm is a gently old-school and surefooted undercurrent to the track’s dominant synthesizer cushion. Finally, Marvin Dash turns in a stunner of an edit, somehow finding an excess of dark trippiness in “Watermelon,” though some of its elements are not present in the original. He slows the tempo, moving taut, crackling atmospherics around minute bits of vocal, subtly altering the arrangement along the way. Think of the first two tracks on Actress’s Splazsh or a housier rendition of Andy Stott’s Passed Me By and you’re not far off. The heady, astral result makes Spare Time a considerably more valuable package, catering to the home listener and DJ alike.
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Hypnotic deep house ep.. Gil Scott-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit, Sample on "Watermelon" ACE!
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Bernard Badie - Time Reveals / Smiley & Overjoyed
--- Quote ---BACK IN STOCK - REISSUE OF ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER HOUSE TWELVES EVER, ORIGINALLY RELEASED BACK IN 1994. PEOPLE HAVE SPENT YEARS HUNTING A COPY DOWN - HERE IT IS FINALLY AVAILABLE AGAIN ON THIS LIMITED MOJUBA PRESSING* The infallible Mojuba records celebrate their 10th release this week with a reissue of a highly sought after house muzic gem from Bernard Badie. 'Time reveals' was originally released in 1994 on Chicago's aptly named Night Club Records and Time reveals found it's way into the boxes of all the best house DJs at the time, and was probably best known for it's inclusion on DJ Hell's X-Mix-5 set. The title track comes in a slightly updated Club and Original versions and also includes the two cool breezin' B-side cuts from the original 12", sounding like prime studio offcuts from Larry Heard. Deadly effective house - get one of these bad boys while you can - they just ain't gonna last!
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:-)
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