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Wink Wink 2011 - A bit of a change this year
spoon_of_grimbo:
Please enjoy the two most recent recorded musics by Cave In. This year they released "White Silence," the followup to 2009's comeback E.P. "Planets of Old," both of which can be found in this here download.
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Warning: Your mind will be blown.
yop:
James Blake - Order / Pan
--- Quote ---**James Blake returns to the label that helped make his name with two dark, killer new productions**. Given the hype surrounding his debut album, you could be forgiven for forgetting what a uniquely talented proposition James Blake is, and how powerful his work can be when aimed at the 'floor of DMZ rather than the housewives of Middle England. This 12" is just superb, bringing two instrumental, back-to-first-principals but still hugely inventive dubstep reductions with real balls to them 'Order' is a bruising, purist minimal half-stepper, off-kilter 808 hits nudging it forward and no doubt straight into the box of Mala and anyone else who still remembers how devastating a producer Blake can be. It's 'Pan', though, that's the real prize here: stalking, sub-heavy business for the the paranoiacs and occultists, tortured vocal textures that wouldn't sound out of place on a Raime or Haxan Cloak record peeling off a ruthlessly stripped groove that's reminiscent of early Shackleton and Mystikz productions but nonetheless possessed of its own unique presence.
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No vocals just bass/beats :-D
Digital release.
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Clouds - Lot Of Calls From No One Part2 / Rest Of The Cycle
--- Quote ---Clouds are the most consistently intriguing characters on the estimable Deep Medi roster. Their first 12" for the label in two years is split between smudged and dusty midnight jazz styles and more swinging, but melancholy electronica. 'Lots Of Calls From No One Pt. 2' hits the jazz mark with wisps of sampled instrumentation aquatically tumbled with blunted, Fly Lo-style bass and mournfully screwed beats, proper end-of-the-bar, end-of-the-night business. Flip over for 'Rest Of The Cycle', with flickering, insectoid 2-step scuttles embedded against phat, warm analogue subs and tender chords that could have come from a Fonal release, a fact aided by the deliciously fuzzy tape recording. Full colour sleeve, choice.
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Smooth atmospheric electronica/dubstep hybrids
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Jam City - Waterworx EP
--- Quote ---**Seriously tasty new EP on Night Slugs from the boy wonder, Jam City.** The clue to the sound of opening bomb 'Aqua Box' is in the title: imagine a pumping Chicago box jam torpedoed down to the ocean floor and souped up with some South London subs and you're in business. 'Countess' is the kind of grime-influenced house at which JC so excels; militant, broken drum syncopations buttressing spiky, stop-start electro arpeggios to bone-crushing effect. 'Island' has been knocking around on dubplate for the best part of two years; it's lost none of its lustre in the interim, butch 808 drums jolting and jabbing around airy, melancholy synth sounds - an out-and-out masterpiece, just killer. 'Barely A Trak' takes the tried and tested formula of combining UKF syncopations and bending Moomin synths, but caresses it into something properly unique with the help of some nifty edits and an 'ardkore-style vocal loop. 'Waterfalls' gestures towards Chicago again, with its Virgo-esque tom hits and starlit synths, but breaks down into something altogether more mutant and LDN-flavoured. Banging, breathlessly imaginative stuff from start to finish.
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Web release. with 5 tracks!
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Nguzunguzu - Timesup EP
--- Quote ---Big release from Kingdom's new American wing of Night Slugs, the Fade To Mind imprint. Nguzunguzu make the first incision with three lean and agile, synth-drippin' bangers, backed by nexx-level Kingdom and Total Freedom remixes. Hailing from LA, Nguzunguzu have built a very solid reputation over the last 12 months or so with remixes for Lazer Sword and Rainbow Arabia, plus nuff spins from players like Bok Bok and Kingdom. Their style here is efficient and shark-eyed, dippin' between the deceptively light and skippy 'Timesup' to the whirlpool synthlines and hydraulic sub pressure of 'Water Bass Power' and the abstract mystery of 'Wake Sleep'. Remixing, Kingdom adds a signature lick of R&B gloss and sunken subs, whilst the awesome Total Freedom version almost reminds of Raime's approach to ultra-sparse rhythm architecture. Really feeling this.
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Nightwave - The Feel EP
--- Quote ---New five-track EP from the artist formerly known as 8Bitch. The title track and opener is prime steppers' techno, accented with blissed-out vocal blurts, sparkling synth arpeggios and underscored with a nicely oily bassline: think 2562 with a feminine touch. ‘Night Bird’ ups the level of vocal manipulation, compressing breathy syllables into airtight computer funk, all pushed along by an unrelenting snare syncopation, whooshing FX and moody, morning-after keys. 'Bit Pony' teams a spry half-step beat with nuff squelches and gurgles, coming over like Anthony Manning if he'd hit his stride in Croydon circa 2004, and 'You Are My Height' aspires to the art-trance pomp of an Apparat or Pantha Du Prince, but with a refreshing amount of dirt under its fingernails. Well-practised party-smasher Unknown To The Unknown (Hot City) impresses with a remix of 'Night Bird', pitching down the vocals into sub-low malevolence, and re-ordering the groove into a B-more and 'ardkore-infected house splacker - well good!
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Really enjoying these to listen to. Dope ep!
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Seiji - Seiji 4
--- Quote ---Seiji stays at the forefront of the Funky sound with vol.4 of his vital series. 'No Other' keeps the vibe bubbing with layered marimbas and simmering synthlines riding shuffled drums for the shifty gallop. 'Easy' rolls with a Deep House tint, packing infectious square bass line under swinging drums with a string hint of mid-'90s House vibes. Fans of Slackk and Joy Orbison need to check these
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Great to hear some new Seiji material.
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Erra - Stax / Jookup
--- Quote ---Erra follows up his well-received 'Cake' drop on L2S with two kinetic tropical bangs for Berkane Sol. The label's 20th release opens with balmy chords before heat-seeking stabs fuse with restless Garage drums to intense, jackin' effect. Flipside 'Jookup' sounds like a primal DVA production, rolling to descending drum cadences and warped garage bass with skittering FX and nutty but cute vocal infections. Slightly bonkers, but good fun.
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Lovely, funky uptempo tracks. Cool release again!
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Synkro - Look At Yourself / Girl / It's
--- Quote ---Indigo's Mindset label reappears after a lengthy hiatus with three sophisticated and minimalist Synkro productions. With nods to the likes of James Blake and Mount Kimbie, Synkro pares back his sound to a considered blend of fractured R&B vocals, slinkily skeletal rhythms and deliciously spacious atmospheres. From the effervescent tenderness of 'Look At Yourself', through the woozy soul of 'Girl' and the deftly applied Aaliyah samples on 'It's', this is a refined and very welcome return from the Manchester-based imprint.
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Photek - Closer (Pinch Mix)
--- Quote ---Eagerly awaited Tectonic 12" from the resurgent Photek! When old legends fall off the map for a few years and then return, eager to be down with the kids, it can be a bit of nightmare, but Photek - always an unusually multi-faceted producer - has really handled his own rearrival with aplomb, and that he now finds himself releasing on Tectonic is testament to the poise and power of his present-day work. 'Closer' is a strong brew, a mid-paced stepper with d'n'b accents, but firmly anchored in dubstep 2.0; his ninja-like studio nous is on proud display, in the crisply edited drums, viscous vocal snippets and absolutely devastating, Reese-ish sub line reminiscent of the classic 'Mine To Give'. What's more, and despite its abundant grit, the strength of the melody and confidence of the composition make this the arguably the most poppy/accessible thing Tectonic have ever released this side of Pursuit Grooves! But check the flip for an even more relevatory offering: Pinch discards his usual halfstep framework for his remix, and instead creates an industrial-strength garage roller with crushing darkside bass straight outta the jungle, for us easily the best thing he's done since 'Croydon House'.
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Xxxy - You Gotta Do You
--- Quote ---Steppin' away from his House and Garage sounds on Pollen, Infrasonics and Ten Thousand Yen, XXXY tucks into 'ardcore rollidge mode. 'You Gotta Do You' sounds kinda like Andy Stott doing a Swamp 81 sound; all crushed 808 spluttering hardcore drums over squashed subs inna 2011 style. 'Open Your Eyes' is a full-on Jungle assault though, splicing amen breaks into a nervously up-for-it mangled-dubstep rhythm.
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yop:
Various - Jess & Crabbe present Bazzerk: African Digital Dance
--- Quote ---KILLER compilation of up-to-the-time Kuduro from a Bass diaspora of Angolan, Portuguese, French and South American artists. 'Bazzerk' was compiled by two French DJ/Producers, Jess & Crabbe after missions to Angola and further afield to dig out the very best bits you'll find here. For our money it's one of the best collections of this sound that we've encountered. Most of the tracks are widely compatible with the whole UKF, Post-Dubstep and Bubblin sound, and in many instances more colourful, potent and immediately danceable. To get started we'd point you towards the arcing trance riffs and whistling melody of DJ Ketchup's 'Um Ano de Namoro', the darker Electro bounce of Cabo Snoop's Kwaito-compatible 'Windek', and to Captain Bubbles' strafing 'Nerima Funk', the floatin' old-skool 'ardcore vibes of DJ Rick & DJ Wilson's 'Na Paz', DJ PM's rampant 'O Último Grito', or the intricacies of Diamond Bass' 'Stereotype'. Clear some room in front of the speakers... Recommended!
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nippletwister:
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Clouds - Lot Of Calls From No One Part2 / Rest Of The Cycle
--- Quote ---Clouds are the most consistently intriguing characters on the estimable Deep Medi roster. Their first 12" for the label in two years is split between smudged and dusty midnight jazz styles and more swinging, but melancholy electronica. 'Lots Of Calls From No One Pt. 2' hits the jazz mark with wisps of sampled instrumentation aquatically tumbled with blunted, Fly Lo-style bass and mournfully screwed beats, proper end-of-the-bar, end-of-the-night business. Flip over for 'Rest Of The Cycle', with flickering, insectoid 2-step scuttles embedded against phat, warm analogue subs and tender chords that could have come from a Fonal release, a fact aided by the deliciously fuzzy tape recording. Full colour sleeve, choice.
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Smooth atmospheric electronica/dubstep hybrids
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I can't be the only one who wishes this were the "Clouds" with Adam McGrath from Cave In.
minus_the_david:
that's the Clouds i was hoping it was too, until i read the description and almost vomited in my mouth... :(
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