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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
KvP:
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Lone - Once In Awhile / Raptured
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Lone drops the anthemic 'Once In A While' (the opener from Kode 9's DJ-Kicks mix), backed with a new cut and remixes from Midland and Sinden! With 'Once In A While' and his recent 'Pineapple Crush' 10" Lone aka Matt Cutler has really found his niche, melding the exuberant flush of late 80's Chicago House and early '90s UK Rave in a saffron-infused fever dream for a fully lushed-up dancefloor vibe. 'Rapture' follows in the same anachronistic style, imagining flared boogie synths and gauzy machine drums like a 3rd gen tape copy of something Grooverider might have played on Kiss back in 1991. On the remix tip Sinden brings 'Once In A While' up to date with a mesh of Funky syncopation and pitching Bassline synths with a lairy swinging junglist flava, followed by a proggier tech-house mix from Midland, suitable for the bigger rooms. No doubt, the original is one of the most definitive anthems of 2010, have a dab!
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Erik K. Skodvin - Flare
aka Svarte Greiner. For the people who like Caul and all that.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---It's always a treat to hear new work from Erik Skodvin, and this latest release from the Deaf Center / Svarte Greiner man is certainly no let down. Flare is an eerily cinematic long-player that presents the listener with a markedly more spacious and airy soundscape than some of his most recent output; compared with the unforgiving blackness of Svarte Greiner's Penpals Forever, for instance, Flare has a more wistful and classical-influenced temperament. With the rusty string scraping and aloof piano phrasings of 'Etching An Entrance', the album gets off to an immersive and gently creepy beginning, building strongly on a sense of foreboding with the superb 'Matine', which could have been lifted from the score to some sort of Nordic existential Western. Similarly, the strange, arid vistas of 'Neither Dust' are punctuated by an evocative gallop that implicitly carries a Morricone-ish feel to it, even if it's tone is ultimately far darker than any such comparison might intimate. The album is partitioned into a series of relatively brief tracks, each one establishing its own particular minor-key mood, at times flirting with guitar-led bleakness ('Failing Eyes'), while at others latching onto more menacing, rhythmic elements ('Graves') but in all cases the productions are astoundingly full and uncannily visual - a factor that only conspires to further emphasise the soundtrack-like qualities of the album. Stunning material from the Miasmah boss, Flare might well be up there with his best work to date.
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Girl Unit - Wut
Night Slugs is unstoppable. Second EP from Girl Unit this year, better than the last one, even.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Solid gold anthem business from Girl Unit on the follow-up to the killer 'I.R.L' 12" for Night Slugs. It would appear from his form this year that Girl Unit specialises only in BIG tunes, which is no bad thing when you've got a rave to rub up the right way. At the pinnacle of this particular monolith is 'Wut', his scorching fusion of Araab Muzik-style martial 808's and purest R&B synthline saturation that's become a staple in the sets of Jackmaster, Ikonika and Oneman since the summer. There's no avoiding it's lazered brilliance, beaming rapturous organ and that earworming vocal snippet like the light of the second coming. OK, maybe that's a bit strong, but we've definitely seen nerds prostrating at the speakers when this is dropped. Still following the crunk money trail, 'Every Time' jams out spindly triplets and boom-quaking bass hits with properly epic synth arrangements, leaving 'Showstoppa' to go out in a blaze of glory driven by huge black Bentley bass wamps and future lurching synth moves. Right here, right now, they don't come any bigger than this 12". Massively recommended!
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Lazer Sword - Lazer Sword
--- Quote from: Innovative Leisure ---Lazer Sword is Bryant Rutledge (Low Limit) and Antaeus Roy (Lando Kal) who wrote and recorded the album in their former San Francisco stomping grounds before Rutledge moved to Los Angeles and Roy to Berlin. While the pair have dabbled in mixes, remixes and singles (including The Golden Handshake EP for the hotly tipped Numbers label), never until now have they realized a cohesive body of work.
It also finds them in the midst of a few friends guesting on the album including Antipop Consortium’s M. Sayyid, Freestyle Fellowship MC Myka 9, bizarro funk crooner Zackey Force Funk and Bay area hyphy don Turf Talk. But it’s the Lazer Sword boys who truly shine here, whether it’s the ghostly samples, skittering percussion and vocoder funk of first single “Batman” or the hip-hop stomp and swirling synths of album opener “Tar.” Detailed and intricate, Lazer Sword is certainly suitable for headphones, but with beats that slap this hard, these songs were made to rattle speakers and rumble dancefloors.
The double vinyl LP & CD both come packaged as an opening gatefold with a futuristic art layout by Swedish illustrator Kilian Eng.
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Qman1 - From Here to There
Shimmering synth-based IDM stuff. No quotes anywhere that I can find, but it's a little slower-tempo than most of the dance stuff I put up. Pretty good!
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Matt Whitehead - Beat the Heat / Tuff City
Nothing on the net about this one either, but suffice to say that it is pure, uncut "tru-skool" electro. Pop'n'lockin 80's shit. It's glorious.
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Blind Prophet - Blind Prophet
Second EP by Blind Prophet on Car Crash Set after a single for the seminal future garage label L2S. Lithe, melody-heavy garage / dubstep.
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Lego - Hand Made
As per the title, this is eclectic electronica with a pretty heavy acoustic bent, especially in the percussion.
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More just around the corner...
KvP:
Orson Bramley - Inverted Snobbery
Classically informed hip-hop / acid techno crossovers, which is to say, IDM. If you like old U-Ziq, this is pretty well up your alley.
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Transparent Sound - Emotional Amputation
On Bramley's label, this is similarly left-field but skews a bit more towards the 'steppers end of things.
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Klic - Dachshund Skank EP
Klic first came to my attention as a remixer for an artist that contacted me through my old blog. Expect a heavy techno influence without the strict rigidity of that particular wheelhouse. Pretty ace.
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And last but not least
Fulgeance - Glamoure EP
Fulgeance has been hyped some as a French answer to the West Coast Beats scene, but overall I think his sound skews more towards Ireland's Luckyme collective, or even old Skam stuff. Forget Boomkat's bloviating, this is pretty fucking excellent.
--- Quote from: Boomkat ---Heavyweight MPC choppage from Fulgeance, four tracks of original freshnuss backed with remixes from Kelpe, GablÉ, and Huess. We're all over this one like rainclouds on Manchester, from the temporal Drag-Boogie of Glamoure', sounding like Games got trapped in a glitching feedback loop, through the choppy BoC-hop of 'Analove' and into the self-explanatory 'Chopped & Screwed', applying his special sleight-of-hand to a woozy electrosoul nugget. Kelpe's remix of 'Bien Rond' feat Rustie collaborator 215TFK meanwhile sounds like some APC offcut, while GablÉ spins 'Rubiscube' to sound like Bibio on rocks, and Huess remakes 'I Luv U' as a bleepy, bobbling hiphop number with shades of vintage Dabrye tracks. Goood sh*t!
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Yet more later on tonight!
Wasteroo:
Mr. KvP, you are so good to me
JD:
Crookers - Tons Of Friends[2010]
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--- Quote from: BBC ---Dance music culture moves faster than cat years. Over the last three or so years it became so restless that it lost its attention span altogether, as a mutant strain of music emerged that the blogosphere called crack- or fidget-house.
Which lands us in the back yard of Crookers: two Milanese hip hop heads who preferred to make wonky club tracks with delirious build-ups and insane bass-riddled breaks. Their sound is one that went viral across clubland.
Debut album Tons of Friends is, in true hip hop style, 12 months late and towers over us as a daunting and dense work. Their biggest hit, a remix of Kid Cudi's Day ‘n’ Nite (which peaked at number two in the UK) only makes an a cappella appearance, despite its dominance as the party tune of two consecutive summers: a rare feat in fast-moving festival circles.
But it’s to Crookers’ credit that they don't chase ghosts here, instead opening up space to feature 25 collaborators across 20 tracks. The roll call of rappers includes Kelis, Pitbull, will.i.am, Cudi, Spank Rock and Rye Rye, and all apply their lyrical licks with vigour.
More unconventional guests include Soulwax, Sepultura's Mixhell, Major Lazer, Poirier and Drop the Lime – who hurl in their studio knowledge – whilst vocal contributions from Roisin Murphy, Miike Snow and, rather incongruously, Tim Burgess are all effectively consumed and assimilated into monstrous club bangers. Such an amount of guests means nearly every track sounds like a lead single, destroying conventional album architecture in favour of full-throttled bounce.
Hold Up Your Hand, featuring a turn from Murphy, shines through with its sleazy German schaffel-beat whilst Cooler Couler sees Yelle enjoy a menacing and boisterous jaunt though pop. One of the absolute highlights is Miike Snow's Remedy: an oscillating piano stomper layered with an old-school rave breakbeat which is a glitchy call-to-arms certain to rip up most dancefloors with filthy aplomb.
Tons of Friends is 100% party focused. If you want four-to-the-floor ghetto bass, sleazy RnB and the balls-out bravado of hip hop slammed onto perverted techno then you are in the right place. It's just a shame it wasn't around 12 months ago to bathe in the laser limelight of its true historical moment..
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TheClickOfALight:
Baxter Dury – Floorshow (2005)
Reasons to get this album:
1) There's a naked woman on the cover.
2) Baxter is Ian Dury's son.
3) The track 'Cocaine Man' is an absolute stormer. Rest of the album's good as well.
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