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[TheFuriousWombat]

Very welcome, I'll think on that and let you know if anything comes to mind. Maybe looking back on some other stuff you've shared will jog my memory.
In the meantime:

Yellow Swans with John Wiese

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http://www.mediafire.com/?vt09x2r1yzaez9d
Yellow Swans/Devillock split

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http://www.mediafire.com/?wmeh68vfw81jble
Yellow Swans - Mort Aux Vaches

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http://www.mediafire.com/?vt09x2r1yzaez9d


aaand one of my favorite albums of the year so far, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Stream (with vinyl edition only bonus disc Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Dream

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http://www.mediafire.com/?53u9bw1ioza3hi6

The second "official" album from San Francisco's Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is here and it's really not to be missed! For the first time, Cantu-Ledesma makes a foray into the world of blissed-out shoegaze, leaving the haunting, glacial drone of his earlier work aside almost entirely. "Love is a Stream" is another home run release on Type Records and another one wholly unexpected considering the artist involved. It could almost in some ways be seen as pop music in an even more washed out version than the latest Altar Eagle album "Mechanical Gardens" (check out a few posts below for thoughts on that). This is gorgeous, elating music, a torrent of immense, blissful noise, textures blown out with dreamy haze, shimmering walls of sound with buried harmonies humming beneath. It's often summery and hopeful but also incredibly loud, in some ways akin to both My Bloody Valentine and Tim Hecker's "Harmony in Ultraviolet" (fans of both will be very happy with what they hear in any case) but more abstracted, a stunning sort of synthesis of the two which manages to make these references while maintaining a distinctly original sound. There's still a hell of a lot of grit and mountains of harsh white noise static, and droning guitars and synthesizers and washed out, buried vocals all of which come together to make this something all its own. Somehow Cantu-Ledesma managed to do all this and still fill the album with what can almost be described as pop hooks albeit ones nearly lost altogether in the noise. There's melodies here for sure even if it does take a whole lot of digging beneath the gauze of glowing sound to find them. Hugely listenable yet layered and complex, this is a unique, amazing piece and one of my favorite albums of this year packed with great stuff. Note that the vinyl copy comes with a 46 minute bonus disc. Called "Love is a Dream," it is billed as a collaboration between Xela and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. I believe it is songs by the latter reworked by the former and not a literal collaboration between the two but it's terrific in any case. A must buy.

[KvP]

Tomorrow - a metric ton of digital downloads, plus more rips from Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lazer Sword, Hype Williams, et al

[the_pied_piper]

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[scarred]

Vortex Rikers - Untitled EP

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?6x8mtkrzkg46kss
Dark, atmospheric electronics with grooving beats.

[cujo]

Animal Collective - Animal Crack Box

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http://www.mediafire.com/?cy6nsr8mk3kl91m

[Harun]

this band are never disappoint



65daysofstatic - Heavy Sky EP

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http://www.mediafire.com/?28blgix9eyn0ixg

[KvP]

First, the rips.


Hype Williams - Do Roids and Kill E'rything

I guess it's sort of like British (American expat?) witch house? It's surprisingly light on bullshit. I'm not sure if I tagged the files correctly, but the track durations match up with what Discogs told me.

Awesome new three-track 7" from the fascinating Hype Williams, a girl/boy flopped & screwed-as-f*ck unit operating out of London/Berlin. 'Do Roids And Kill E'rything' is their fourth single ahead of a hotly touted release for Hippos In Tanks sometime in the future. On the A-side 'Ooovrrr' dissolves Drake's vocals into a crack-throated gloop over gunky, lo-fi screw beats while warbling, palid synths hover in the background. 'Rescue Dawn' follows, a sludgy scrape of boxed vocals, disgustingly slow bassline and murkily optimistic synth chords. The flipside is a cover of Sade's 'The Sweetest Taboo', as you've never heard it before, refracted through a misty maze of ferric chaff with humming subbass pressure and a deliciously vague and smacked out nonchalance. Like the Salem album, also out this week, this is a disturbing take on pop culture with an uncanny awareness of lo-fi aesthetics and techniques that's just blowing our crooked boxes right now. Highly limited (500 copies only), and hugely recommended to fans of James Ferraro, Nite Jewel, DJ Screw or Games.

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Lazer Sword - Batman

Features remixes by Nguzunguzu, Rustie, et al

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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?gxvhz3fzfrinw8o


Any Given Sunday (Keith Fullerton Whitman / Geoff Mullen) - Take Me To Your Dealer

This is another one of those releases that doesn't seem to jibe with the samples the site put up. It's possible that there was some sort of mix-up or perhaps my tape player is dying, but what was ripped is some dark, dark synth music is the same vein as everything else I've gotten from KFW's tape excursions. Same as before, edition of 100, numbered and sent by the man himself.

It's a double whammy for the Agents Of Chaos label, following KFW's second 'Generator' installment with his 'Take Me To Your Dealer' tape, made with his close ally, Geoff Mullen, under the Any Given Sunday alias. This is still freeform and noisy territory, but there's a richness to the tone of their sounds and an over-riding sense of instinctive arrangement which keeps it from falling into outright noise. On the A-side their creation spits cautiously sluggish and fractured rhythms amidst mentally warped and often horrific sounds, deftly maintaining the illusion of traveling through nightmarish and outlandish territory without actually moving at all, touching the cavernous depths of frigid bass tones and out to the perimeters of cold hard electric surfaces while skeletal synth figures rattle and howl in the darkness. On the other side they seem to congeal their sound into a more fluid body before spurting breathtaking alien melodies and harmonics with a distinct Radiophonic feel, only Delia, Daphne and John have all licked some of Hoffman's special sauce and gone 3D. This cassette has just swallowed me whole, and if I wasn't in the office right now, i'd be lying down, eyes tightly shut and exploring the nether zones behind my eyelids with this tape playing as loud as possible. Highly recommended for lovers of properly alien psychedelic sounds!

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?w1sjm6qin8xx424


Happenstance - Mobeer:010

Ltd ed 3" CDR. Weird, but pretty and accessible in a way that, say, KFW isn't.

*The very last Mobeer release ever, handed numbered to an edition of just 300 copies for the world in beautiful bespoke packaging* And so we arrive at Mobeer 010, the very last installment of the Moteer label's "micro brewery" project.  This release comes from the duo Happenstance, comprising Karl Eden and Chris Stewart (also known for his work under the Need More Sources guise).  Once again the 3" CD arrives mounted on a bespoke beermat and ferreted away in a slipcase and brown paper envelope that's been stamped and hand-numbered. Across six tracks and around nineteen minutes Eden and Stewart fashion a real standout contribution to the sub-label's small yet perfectly formed catalogue.  Marrying programmed electronics and tumbledown, folk-ish instrumentation, nestled away in here you'll find the gauzy strings and heated bass pulses of 'Knackered Tabernacle' and the late night Hawaiian guitar melancholy of 'The One Eyed King', with fourth track, 'Even My Goosebumps Shivered', possibly serving up the disc's finest moment when in its later stages it assumes the character of a spy movie theme put together by Joe Meek.  In other tracks Happenstance evoke the spirit of their spiritual godfathers The Remote Viewer, particularly during the fluttering slow-mo post-rock of 'Go Tell It On The Molehills', while elegiac, brass-like synth tones and spluttering ukulele sonics are put to good use on the lulling parting shot, 'All Fish And No Chips'. And so, we bid a fond adieu to this lovely little label....

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[KvP]

Still more where all that came from!


Spatial - INFRA004

The 10" came with a card with a geometric shape on it and a url. I visited the url and it prompted me to position the shape in front of my webcam, at which point a fairly awesome interactive "visualization" animation not unlike the cover art started up, along with a song that I didn't recognize. At the bottom of the screen was a link to a Soundcloud page with the song and a download. I've included it as an unofficial third track. Wicked cool goodie for the physical media consumers, probably the best I've been faced with. Great music, too!

While his Infrasonics label has been busy turning out solid goodies from Ike Release, Hot City and XXXY, Spatial's own productions have been scarce in 2010. His fourth release on the label adds some lean but juicy flesh to the bones of his future garage blueprints while factoring in a more feminine pressure by way of dainty 2-step melodies and diced vocals. The title might not give much away, but get '100402' on the floor and it's got some serious chops, flaunting super-slick percussive cadences and the cutest melodic wiggle. If that sounds too nice for you, '100319' tightens up with a finely crafted garridge swagger riddim full of tendon-twitching percussion and a hypnotic, heads-down-and-raving lead riff with a flourish of moody synthline energy in the final sections. Very smart trax!

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Mark Ernestus / Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - 5 7

Truly mesmerizing outernational rhythm trips from Mark Ernestus (Rhythm & Sound) and Burnt Friedman, reinterpreting secret rhythms from Freidman and Jaki Liebezeit. The Ernestus mix of '5' is a stealthily paced and loose groove, tucking Liebezeit's drumming into ornate swirls with a tumbling cadence, gradually adding of kilter stabs low in the mix until a final flourish of arabesque washes seals the cut with a sombre mood. Burnt Friedman's own mix of '7' has a more defined Afro-lilt with evolving rhythms finding a stumbling groove together with Daniel Schroter's Bass guitar and the distant sounds of Marimba (maybe?) placed deep in the lush scenery. Fans of Shackleton, Chronomad, Muslimgauze and, of course, Rhythm & Sound make sure to check this!

Kingthing - Mad Hatter EP

From the same camp that brought a pretty sterling Cosmic Revenge EP a few months ago. Great stuff.

Strong Garage futurism from KingThing, following in the footsteps of XXXY, VVV and Loops Haunt on the excellent Fortified Audio imprint. The vibe is restless and rugged throughout the 'Mad Hatter EP' from warped 4/4 swing of 'La-Di-Da', spiked with spectral diva vox and peppered with twysting mentasms, through the fruity flex of 'Bump' and the canny balance of brittle woodblocks, almost baroque R'n'B melody and bristling syncopations in the title track. Craftiest of the lot has to be 'Neglect Me' swiftly switching between 4/4 speed Garage signatures and offbeat 3/4 swing with a deadly and effortless flow, nodding to the advanced calculations of Zomby and SBTRKT with a proper Urban flex. TIP dat!

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?n8b4la3zsn5bxs0
Right now all of that is about half of what I have. The rest is digital, and I'm too lazy to hammer all of it out until tomorrow.

[TheClickOfALight]

Eluvium - Copia (2007)



I think it's his best album. If you've not heard him before he makes perfect ambient music.

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[Orcusmars]

hey everyone, my friend's band just put out a pretty sweet track that all you old school metal lovers will probably like. all free via soundcloud.


Savage Sword - Space Pirates

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http://soundcloud.com/savage-sword/space-pirates
Let me know what you guys think.

[KvP]

Dgtl Dnlds


Lone - Once In Awhile / Raptured

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.

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.

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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?kccqfvwggw7ku1v


Lazer Sword - Lazer Sword

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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?b0qbabueckdqhhc


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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?4cbll7oa66oslbb


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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?a8nvm8dwd7ooujy


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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?r6stt9kttejj19h


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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?k72jyeuakvi89v1
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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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?6cnn9rk4p4bn0z0


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.

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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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..

[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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[David_Dovey]

Whoever posts the next album better make sure there is tittays+punani on the cover or they'll be ruining a beautiful thing we got goin' here

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Don't worry, I've got this

Satan's Almighty Penis - Into the Cunt of Chaos (2004)

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This is actually much, much better than you'd expect a band named Satan's Almighty Penis to be

[ThePianoMan]

Geez, that Girl Unit release is unfuckingbelievable!

[De_El]

OH MY GOD YES
That song "Wut" is the fucking tits. I have a mixtape by Girl Unit and sometimes I skip to the middle just to hear "Wut." Now I don't have to. yeeeeeeeaaah

[youthcant]

Trick or Treat:


Just Kidding - "Keeping the Theme Edit"

 

Jónsi - KCRW Radio Session 4/19/2010

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If you were not a fan of his solo release, this is probably what you were wishing for. Excellent material. I am going to the Halloween show, I cannot wait to see this material live.
Expect Chill bumps: Icicle Sleeve http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/2738-jonsi/1

GIRLS - Live in France

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5LFM9S1RIncludes a typical cover of "True Love Will Find You In the End." Great quality, great setlist. Includes several songs to be hosted on its upcoming release.

[scarred]

Matt & Kim - Sidewalks (2010) [320kbps]

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[JD]

You broke it you sick bastard.

[scarred]

yes i broke a stream of bad albums with a good one

whoops

[JD]

Hurr

[gospel]

Sun Kil Moon - I'll Be There (covers)

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone cover... I'll take it. 

[StaedlerMars]

Matt & Kim - Sidewalks (2010) [320kbps]

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fuck yes. truly excited for this.

[scarred]

i think it's their best so far.

also

Pomegranates - One of Us (2010) (256kbps)

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[StaedlerMars]

Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

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[JD]

Any better than the first?

[StaedlerMars]

There's some really good songs, but a lot of it sounds like filler as well. First few listens I don't think I like it as much as MOTM1

[E. Spaceman]

Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Song Books

The Duke Ellington Song Book

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Oh man, Duke Ellington, this guy was awesome.

[JD]

Die Antwoord - $O$[2010](320kb/s)

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Yes it is the revised version. I feel it flows better than the self released version.

[KvP]

Ripzzz


Space Dimension Controller - Temporary Thrillz

Does for space travel what Daft Punk did for robots, essentially. As ridiculous as it is invigorating, which is very. Includes 2-4 minute recordings of the locked grooves, for good measure.

**Purple Marbled Vinyl** Returned from the core of the sphere of the unknown, Space Dimension Controller delivers a luscious double pack for R&S, and on marbled vinyl to boot. There are few in modern techno/house/electro quarters who haven't been charmed by his 12"s on Royal Oak and Kinnego, and that number is set to increase with these seven tracks. The epithet adorning both plates "Created aboard the Electropod of a time-trapped futurist" neatly encapsulates 'Temporary Thrillz', from the silvery electrosoul shimmer of 'Mercurial Attraction', to the Anti-G slide of '2EZ (Autopilot's Lament)' and the sci-fi Boogie sophistication of 'Transatlantic Landing Bay'. Our two favourite tracks are coincidentally the slowest, with the lubricated 'lectrosex of closer 'Simmering Emotion (Stay With Me)' and the sensuous drag of 'Kaleidoscopic Ecstacy' sounding like slow jamz for android porn. Big tip!

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Rockwell - Reverse Engineering

Rockwell sorta comes from the same line as dBridge and Instra:Mental, spanning the gap between DnB and dubstep while not really being techstep as it's commonly understood. It's basically screwed DnB, which is pretty great. They really did go all-out with the backwards theme - all the lettering is backwards, you play the vinyl from the inside moving out and the A-side is actually the B-side (looks like someone used a fine cutting instrument on the smooth inner portion of the vinyl to indicate that the B-side was in fact the A).

Stone cold blinder from Rockwell, dropping the hugely sought-after 'Reverse Engineering' on Darkestral's limited series. We've not got much to add to the 100k posts on DOA or the ecstatic reactions elsewhere, this really is one of the year's deadliest D&B tracks. For those who are unfamiliar with it or just not checked the samples yet, 'Reverse Engineering' is built entirely from backwards samples in a feat of mind-boggling rhythm architecture that must be heard to be believed. On the flip 'Everything (& U)' settles into a more serene mode, crafting a melancholy Garage-Tek roller with lucid shades of Burial or Pangaea. As always, the label have paid extra attention to detail on the artwork with reverse board sleeve, bronze Pantone logo and even reverse text to match the inside-out, lathe-cut vinyl. Hugely recommended!

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http://www.mediafire.com/?x5g9oma16zcztly

And also, a few more dgtl dnlds.


Ilyas Ahmed - Between Two Skies / Towards the Night

Spooky neo-folk acoustic guitar / synth drone music, with a cover to match. Pretty soothing, if that's your thing. I had to split it up into two files, something I haven't done in a long time.

This Digitalis release reissues a pair of releases by Pakistan-born Portlander Ilyas Ahmed, who originally released the albums Between Two Skies and Towards The Night in runs of just 50 copies each. Pete Swanson takes on remastering duties, while David Keenan dishes out extensive liner notes, introducing you to Ahmed's work, which only recently saw a first, proper release thanks to Time Lag's issuing of The Vertigo Of Dawn. These primitive recordings house some remarkably beautiful sounds, largely focussed on Ahmed's solo guitar playing and mournfully howling voice. Between Two Skies opener 'Black Midas' recalls moments of Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 soundtrack, combining lonesome piano chords and sporadic bell chimes with that distinctive guitar and voice combination. There's a drifting, improvisational bent to Ahmed's music, meaning a looseness and shambolic quality interacts with the hypnotic, somnolent flow of fingerpicking and quiet falsetto. Towards The Night follows an even less direct path, dabbling in extended durations and bluesy guitar improvs lasting up to quarter of an hour each. There's less in the way of additional instrumentation and vocals, which only lends a heightened sense of solitude and meditation to the pieces. Given how hard it can be to track down this man's work, these Digitalis reissues seem all the more relevant and all the more precious. You'd be advised to invest before this release itself disappears. Highly recommended.

Pt. 1

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http://www.mediafire.com/?u8q33grnt88337bPt. 2

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Point B - Fictionary EP

No quotes on this one. It's basically fast, acid-influenced dubstep with a fairly clean production aesthetic. Feels quite a bit like Drukqs-era Aphex at times.

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Nuearz - Face Lift

A great capper on a week that was pretty overstuffed with great music. This is the newest from the Skam imprint, which I didn't even know was still around (it's mainly famous for releasing a lot of stuff from Autechre's aliases in the 90's and most all of Boards of Canada's music before they jumped to Warp). Like the Point B EP, this feels a lot like Aphex Twin, but more in the Windowlicker vein than Drukqs, which is to say, a lot of pretty awesome hip-hop drum programming and a willingness to stretch and bend their synth sounds to very weird and often uncomfortable places. It contains a lot of really disarming moments. If you haven't gotten anything else I've put up this week, go get the Girl Unit / Om Unit EPs and then get this!

One year after his 'Saturation Point' debut, Kazuhiro Okuda aka Nuearz drops the followup 'Face Lift' for Skam. His sound is comfortably at home among the label's roster, sharing certain traits with VHS Head and Mr 76IX in his complex, ever-morphing arrangements and taste for more caustic electronic textures than you're average IDM head. Most brilliantly, it's incredibly hard to tag Nuearz's sound as anything other than his own, able to scope everything from naughty rock chop-ups like 'Neu, neu, neu', to Meat Beat Manifesto-style beat-breaking on 'Hedonism' or restlessly complex and kinetic compositions such as 'Termination'. In keeping with Skam's deeply rooted B-Boy heritage, Nuearz carries this all off with a distinctly unique and indelible style of his own perhaps comparable to others, but defiantly his own. Check!!

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http://www.mediafire.com/?fktcar183bt6bu1

One more and then I'm done until at tomorrow at the earliest.


Kingthing - Frequent Lover / Bad Times

Following the 12" I ripped a few days back, this is a lot more Garage-y. Still pretty great. Car Crash Set has pretty good taste, all around.

2nd full release from KingThing, following a wicked Fortified Audio 12" with two tracks of equally crafty contemporary Garage/Funky fusions. 'Frequent Lover' neatly works into the smarter party slot occupied by the Night Slugs crew, carrying hazy late night melodies over a shifty shuffling techno pattern in unique style and fashion. On a crooked Funky tip 'Bad Times' rolls with punchy, soca-infected percussion and proper old skool rave vibes for a sweet sound reminding of Sully's style.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?gnup06p6apk2p35

[TheFuriousWombat]

That Ilyas Ahmed release is actually two separate albums, one called Between Two Skies and one called Towards the Night. They originally came out on cdrs but were rereleased together. For accuracies sake, they should be separate anyway. Both are worth downloading however. Really love Ilyas (as my 1,024 last.fm scrobbles indicate). If there's any interest I can put up Goner (his latest and easily best album)

[Wasteroo]

please do, this is really interesting stuff

[the_pied_piper]

Fuck yes, Space Dimension Controller. 

[KvP]

That Ilyas Ahmed release is actually two separate albums, one called Between Two Skies and one called Towards the Night. They originally came out on cdrs but were rereleased together. For accuracies sake, they should be separate anyway. Both are worth downloading however. Really love Ilyas (as my 1,024 last.fm scrobbles indicate). If there's any interest I can put up Goner (his latest and easily best album)

This is a rerelease on a different label.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Yeah I know but it's still two different albums

[medicatesleep]

i think it's their best so far.

also

Pomegranates - One of Us (2010) (256kbps)

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my gaydar is in the red and it's not moving

[Vuk]

I've never liked Rainer Maria's other material as much as this demo, though they are generally a good band. This tape has the raw, oldschool feel that they obviously abandoned - it kind of makes me wish they preserved that sound. Anyway, download this if you haven't heard it.

Rainer Maria - Demo Tape

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[StaedlerMars]

I was going to post the new Electric Wizard but mediafire is being really annoying. Dang.

[JD]

Dang

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Wooooo

Electric Wizard - Black Masses (2010, 320 kbps)

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[StaedlerMars]

d'aw man I had just gotten it to work.

[De_El]

oh my gahhhhhhd yesssss

[scarred]

my gaydar is in the red and it's not moving

Do you ever say anything worthwhile or interesting?

[TheFuriousWombat]

Newest blog post (aka the free jazz mayhem post):

End of the Trail

A live one-off collaboration between Weasel Walter (drums, clarinet mouthpiece), Forbes Graham (trumpet), Greg Kelley (trumpet), and Paul Flaherty (saxophone) recorded in Boston in 2008 and called End of the Trail. This was released in an edition of 100 cdrs following the set on the ugExplode imprint. It's absolutely insane as one might expect looking at the lineup of amazing musicians and unusual instrument pairings. Two longer pieces, nearly overwhelmingly intense and noisy excursions into the outer realms of free jazz, serve as set bookends. Three shorter pieces make up the middle of this album and each is far more self contained. The second track for example is solo saxophone until the final note. The fourth begins with screeching, scrapped percussion and distant, whistling trumpet manipulations and ends in a whooshing tornado of malleted ride cymbals. Throughout the set, Walter's fantastic scattershot drumming is a constant driving force behind the relentless brass trio's chaotic, manic improvisations. An almost violent sounding album, this is intense, abstract, brilliant stuff.

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Drive the Pieces Together

another one-off performance by a group calling itself Drive the Pieces Together, a single 27 minute long set titled Ethnography and featuring a mighty lineup: Dave Gross (alto sax and clarinet), Vic Rawlings (amplified cello and analog electronics), Erik Carlsen (tuba), Howard Stelzer (tapes), Steve Norton (turntable), and Peter Warren (recorded sounds). The piece was recorded live in Cambridge, MA in 1999 and was finally released last year by Carbon Records as part of their great 15YR.Series. Peter Warren prepared an improvised minimalist piece for electronic guitar with a good deal of silence. A pre-recorded version was played and the five musicians improvised over it. The result is a menacing slab of minimalist siren drone with undulating brass skronk and dark ambiance and static-filled radio samples thanks to cassette and turntable manipulations. Sound emerge from all directions, their source often unidentifiable. Mechanical clicks weave in and out of haunted house creaks and crumbling reverb. All the while the brass moans and buzzs, a chaotic whine that spikes and jabs from the underlying aural mess. A very spooky, Halloween-y piece of free jazz experimentalism here. So cool!

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[aflowerchild]

Jeez guys, I'm away a few days and all this good stuff comes up.
On another note, I get to see Matt and Kim on the 2nd and I'm pretty stoked to get the new album. Thanks.

[Orcusmars]

Electric Wizard - Black Masses (2010, 320 kbps)

You are literally my single favorite human being right now.

[David_Dovey]

UN-DANG