What up your rips for the next few days.
Awanto 3 - For Five EPVoyage Direct is turning out to be an impeccably curated Disco / House imprint. I've loved both of their releases so far, and I'm not really a house guy in general.
Tom Trago's 'Voyage Direct' series presents two mid-tempo heaters from Rednose Distrikt aka Steven De Peven. 'Get That BeeDeeBee' is discofied-house music is the stringest Rush Hour tradition, elegant yet dirty, sensuous and hypnotic 'Dam-style beatdown. 'I Am Cumming' pushes up the tempo on the flip, teasing up warmest filtered disco vibes and Detroit-debted soul chords. A must for fans of Trus'me, Rick Wilhite or Recloose.
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?7yra6x9h17d77q2
Cubic Zirkonia / Bok Bok - Hoes Come Out At Night (Ikonika Mix)Night Slugs continues its hot streak. I guess maybe I am becoming a House guy.
Ruthless ravers from the Night Slugs camp; new family member, Cubic Zirconia in conjunction with Bok Bok and remixed by Ikonika. Commednably setting any possible feminist agenda aside, Ikonika rerubs 'Hoes Come Out At Night', turning it into a Soca-tek romper with swooping subs, narcotic R&B vox and a ruffneck Chicago flavour. On the flip Bok Bok and Cubic Zirconia drop the pace slightly for 'Reclash (Give It To Me)' referencing the more warped and haughty ends of Green Velvet's ouevre with restless martial snares, while keeping it UK with droning bass and Bok Bok's cartoonish detailing. Freakin' badness!
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?4grd7fwd6r6m70z
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Live Generators 1.5I absolutely must have everything KFW puts out. Edition of 100, ordered from the man himself.
Fresh in from Rene Hell's Agents Of Chaos tape label, a continuation of the incredible 'Generator' session released on Root Strata earlier this year, featuring Keith Fullerton Whitman manning his Doepfer hybrid Analogue/Digital synthesizer. Again Fullerton Whitman investigates "the unpredictable entropies & slight signal degradation inherent to Analog instrument design", and the findings are truly riveting. With only the slightest input, he sets off sequences of unpredictably morphing shapes and sounds, eliciting the very chaos of a synthesizer's internal life with almost limitless configurations of electro-acoustic patterning. This is so far removed from anything conventional in the truest sense, pissing from a great height on so much banal and predictable "psychedelic" music. For a tape, the clarity is brilliant while still keeping that natural cassette noise, and the sleeves are professionally printed. Incredible.
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?74r4f6iq6799q4q
Morgan Caney & Kamal Joory - Magic RadiosHaven't heard of Caney, but Joory is more commonly known under his alias Geiom. He's been around for a long time and has was one of the vanguards of the "Future Garage" scene. This could more accurately be described as Broken Beat, but in general it skews towards warm, Sunken Foal-esque electro-folk.
We greet the release of this fabulous record with a big sigh of relief here at CCO, having been in the making for a good two years and worked on with a ruthless attention to detail and insistance on perfection, it is quite easily the longest in-the making project we have crossed paths with since our inception, and the label's most ambitious album release to date. Kamal Joory (aka Geiom) distracted himself momentarily from his work for Skam, Nature, Neo Ouija and friends way back in early 2000 and hooked up with multi-instrumentalist and all-round sound doctor Morgan Caney, an initial flurry of vision and catharsis giving birth to one of our most beloved 7" releases - 'Blanket'. With its almost whispered blend of deep deep double basslines and twinkling high frequencies, we were hooked on first listen and the collaboration seemed destined to continue. And so, two years on and opening with the same effervescent track, 'Magic Radios' presents itself to the world as a shimmering, groundbreaking, life affirming, glowing, pulsating organism. Transporting us from one mood and tone to another, we flick through the airwaves and jump from the flutes, horns and microbeats of '3000 Miles' to the vocal-fuelled campfire accoustic balladeering of 'Take my Light' and the sambafied electro/accoustic sizzle of 'flyaway' to the simply huge strings, guitars and waves following waves of melody and crunchy beats that is 'Crispy Leaves Underfoot' - a meeting point between Boards of Canada and Ennio Morricone, a track too big to contain within words. Dear to our hearts and improving with every single, multiple, involved listen, 'Magic Radios' is a deeply optimistic record, sunkissed and groomed in anticipation for its inevitable status - Classic. Essential Purchase.
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Om Unit - The CorridorYet more House-y post-Dubstep stuff. Maybe my favorite acquisition this week. Includes 45 RPM mistake rips, which make the songs a lot more club-friendly.
Following a crushing Maniac 12", Om Unit delivers the latest on Plastician's Terrorhythm label. From the screwed, Proggy riffs and pulse of 'The Corridor', to the heavy flow of 'Ether' and over to an atmospheric blend of slow Latin syncopation and padded ambience on 'Cradle' it's another recommended twelve from Om Unit.
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?acd538mc4vk95pr
LCD Soundsytem - Yeah Single ErrataNot really an official release... Well it sort of is. Picked up the "Yeah" single from an LCD live show last week. Unfortunately my beloved Pretentious Mix has a flaw on its surface, causing unavoidable looping, so I've left it out. This only consists of a somewhat humorous 45 RPM rip of the Crass Version and the second B-side, a "Clappapella" of the same.
http://www.mediaf!re.com/?pnynnm40ye2v6w2
And last but not least
Riya - Seems Like / The Cycle (Vinyl)Got a vinyl version of the single and ripped it. Includes "screwed" 33 RPM fuckup rips!
Riya aka Laura Pacheko heads up the 2nd Autonomic transmission, lending vocals to productions from DBridge, and Mr O. Jones (Skream), with assistance from Mr D. Kirkham (half of Instra:mental). Most notably, the DBridge-produced 'Seems Like' opened the Autonomic FabricLive. 50 mix with its melancholy sci-fi steppers vibe, but the intense 4/4 throb of the 'The Cycle' on the flipside is exclusive to this plate. It sets a deadly momentum with relentless 140bpm kicks syncopated with pointillist snares and leavened with Riya's vox and efficiently deployed wisps of synth in the closing stages. As with the 1st Autonomic 12", the packaging is impeccable and the pressing primed for optimal output.
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