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[debaser]

wow, nice surprise

Childish Gambino - Freaks and Geeks EP

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This is actor/writer Donald Glover's latest EP as his hip-hop moniker. This is seriously good shit and far beyond novelty like I was partly expecting. Some amazing word play with really nice singing and a bunch of sick synth breakdowns, it's got it all. Give it a shot and be surprised.

[Koremora]

YEAH WELL I LITERALLY WAITED UNTIL 1AM WHEN THE MONTHLY UPDATE EMAIL WENT OUT TO PREORDER IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE I am the worst person

In other news, this is a really great album.

[TheFuriousWombat]

hah, people always flip out over TRL colored vinyl for some reason, as if it's going to sell out in a matter of hours. 500-1000 copies is a lot for most bands out there. The new Grails vinyl which came out weeks ago is still around in color, for example.

[Koremora]

yeah, I have noticed that the colored versions of most of their new stuff sticks around for at least a month or two if not more. I was just already up when they posted it. lol

Let Me Back In is a SONG you guys. It is a serious jam.

[KvP]

Point B - Off The Beaten Track / Three Colour Vision

New Point B from the oddly named Frijsfo Beats imprint, which seems to be a meeting ground on the IDM / garage borderland and home to singles from PB, Sully, and (most recently) Geiom. PB keeps it pretty close to the classic dubstep sound, all sewer-dwelling bass and harsh, snappy percussion with a niftily understated eastern IDM melodicism. The A is really brilliant.

Minimal dread steppers and electro carvings from adopted Londoner, Point B. 'Off The Beaten Track' is a dread derivé into subterranean Reese bass and suspended, Raime-like rhythmic programming. 'Three Colour Vision' is an icy slab of body-grappling future electro funk.

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Sorrow - Existence EP

L2S was one of the first labels to win my continued support and their strain of garage futurism has always been a lighter pleasure for me. Sorrow makes busy and lush grage, like FaltyDL in his prime with little bits of vintage Future Sound of London sewn in. Bewitching stuff, in the running for the best the label has ever provided...

L2S present the debut single from Birmingham's Sorrow. The four tracks of his 'Existence EP' are defined by intricate, scissoring 2-step syncopations and a taste for richly jazzy melodic textures, augmenting the aesthetics of Burial or old skool MJ Cole to his own melancholy agenda.

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Boxcutter - Allele

Boxcutter was making jazz-leaning dubstep back when the scene was dominated by greyscale urban minimalism, and he continues to follow his passions well past the point at which his style became fashionable. The production on these tracks are just insane, really deft dubby programming (BC's always had a way with reverb but he outdoes himself here). These are definitive statements.

Preceding his killer new LP (trust us, it's ace!), Boxcutter drops album highlight 'Allele' backed with the exclusive 'Other People'. The title of the lead track is a reference to gene mutation and that's exactly what he's doing inside, splicing and morphing strands of bobbling Footwork toms with dubbed out techno stabs and jagged hardcore jungle breaks in classic Boxcutter style, only this time he's removed the polished veneer to reveal a rugged, sinuous mass of dancing muscle and bone. 'Other People' is also shy of any overworked post-production adornments, but it's a mellower affair, an archetypal BassJazz fusion freed to do elegant swan dives and move around the sound sphere with a spectral elegance. Ace!

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Angel Eyes - Dire Dish

Australian lo-fi dub guitar work that immediately brings to mind Forest Swords, but distinguishes itself over time with distinctly desert-hued texture.

Magical transmission from Melbourne's Angel Eyes aka Andrew Cowie. Sourced by the relentlessly fascinating NNF label, 'Dire Dish' originally appeared on cassette sometime in 2010 loaded with 36 minutes of slow-droning, bluesy synth and twanging desert guitars, occasionally with vocals like a more solemn Forest Swords, Sun Araw, or Ian Curtis on too much codeine, and always with heavily evocative loner vibes. Funnily enough for someone from somewhere so hot, he's really got the drizzly, northern hemisphere ambience of Forest Swords (but then again, he's got the southern desert guitar thing going), and the warbly, tape-degraded synth fluctuations of BJ Nilsen, all bathed in an eternal twilight vibe regardless of geography. Because eventually it turns to night everywhere. There should be some more of this stuff coming out on Totem Tapes by now. You'd do very well to keep an ear out for that - this is very very good.

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Jon Lemmon & Coco Bryce - Furrr

Noted skweee operator backs up some guy named Jon Lemmon for some pulse-pounding motorik IDM surprisingly light on skweee quirk. Like Nathan Fake at his poppiest, or Alias at his least florid.

New Zealand's Jon Lemmon links with Dutch producer, Coco Bryce for a melodically charged indie IDM-meets-electronic HipHop session. Lemmon's original 'Furrr' is a curious thing of indie ecstasies spun with some cooler groove control on the Coco Bryce remix, while Bryce's own 'Lights' is like some spiraling downbeat Kraut-hop cut and 'Turquoise' consolidates their two worlds with equal doses melodic energy and woozily compressed Hip Hop drums.

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Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing

Gorgeous electro-acoustic symphonic compositions, akin in tone to Nest or Eluvium. "Leaving the Nowhere" is the Town music to a new Diablo game, "Dorian's Mirror" is like slow-motion Lexaunculpt (which is to say, very slow, somewhat glitchy melodic IDM). Incredibly deep and sonically varied. Absolutely beautiful. So, so good.

Italian musician Emanuele Errante’s debut album ‘Migrations’ was something of a revelation, taking the shadowy template thrown down by Deaf Center and Marsen Jules and giving it a blissful, almost-hopeful focus. It’s been four years since that debut, and in the interim Errante has been busy collaborating with Dakota Suite and crafting this, his sophomore solo work ‘Time Elapsing Handheld’. Those of you enamoured with his earlier work will likely be pleased that he hasn’t switched things up much, but rather he has focused and honed his talents to create a work of pastoral, cinematic beauty. Fellow member of the drone elite Simon Scott also pops up for album highlight ‘Made To Give’, which adds a viscous low-end to Errante’s light string-laced textures. Scott’s involvement fills out the song and gives it a weightiness that provides a welcome counterpoint to the album’s fluttering acoustics. Elsewhere ‘Memoirs’ brings echoes of Steve Reich and Harold Budd with it’s delicate repeating phrases and haunted piano sounds. Gorgeous.

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Indigo - Zero Point EP

At the intersection of dub techno and dubstep goes Indigo, reminding me a lot of Distance in his prime, minus the mightily bro-ful guitars. Harsh percussion, bottomless reverb, the perfect soundtrack for a night out in your major city's deserted industrial district, lit up by cold, yellow lights. Approaches Tri Repetae-era Autechre machine beauty on "Connections".

Indigo returns to the fray in fine style with a double pack of robust new material including two Synkro remixes. 2010 was a quiet year, release wise, for Indigo, but in the last few months alone he's appeared on Exit's excellent 'Mosaic' compilation and remixed Illum Sphere for Tectonic, both building anticipation for the 'Zero Point EP'. Inside, you'll be glad to know, he's as versatile as ever, stepping between tempos and vibes with a beautifully overarching and deeply soulful agenda. The first plate scans uttural, clinically arranged halfstep on 'Creep' and dextrous, darting Dubtech on 'Connections', before launching into dBridge mode for 'Zero Point' featuring the ethereal holler of Poppy Roberts and the turbulent Tech-Funk of 'Event B'. On the 2nd platter he brings the real TECH-House on 'Fallen', and deepest Northern cyber-soul on 'Tears VIP', both backed with Synkro's agile 2-Step remakes. Ultimately, in a scene sometimes stifled by homogeneity, Indigo's non-standardised and passionate music stands out a mile. TIP!

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Millie & Andrea - Temper Tantrum / Vigilance

Irresistible (for some, anyway) jungle-y garage, neatly foretelling Andrea's foray into Footwork and Juke later on. Great, hard rhythmic dance tracks. Great use of iconic tubular bass sound in both.

Third limited edition transmission from the Daphne label, once again finding covert operators Millie and Andrea nudging the controls further into the red with two squashed and deadly killers primed for the dance. Andrea takes charge of the A-side with a raved-up low-end wrecker complete with big f*ck-off sunset strings and a tumbling break that's one half junglist hardcore and one half peak-time dubside anthem. Millie, meanwhile, delivers a spacious woodblock destroyer on the flip, channelling Martyn and T++ with radiant blue chords and murderous stabs before a frenzied analogue bassline lets itself loose nudging towards the end. Pure dancefloor ruffage with a funked up heart - Massive twelve!

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Baobinga / Hyetal - Anything For Now / Trouble

Curious and exciting collaboration between old Breaks hand / current UK Funky devotee and Hyetal, aka the best thing Bristol's short-lived "Purple Wave" ever produced. "Anything For Now" gets the best of both worlds here, with infectious island drum patterns married to crayon-bright synth oscillations and 8-bit arpeggios, with plenty of rave-ready bass to go around. "Trouble" is a heady garage rush, with a ramping call-and-response synthline and bulbous, staccato bass. Just as awesome as everything else Hyetal touches.

After sterling drops with Shortstuff and Peverelist respectively, Hyetal goes in hard with Baobinga for Build records. Both tracks bear his signature light show of lazered synth excesses, alloyed with heads-down charging tribalism on 'Anything For Now' and coating the Beat mechanisms of 'Trouble' with technicoloured electro-static funk. Fierce tunes - big twelve.

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[KvP]

Wagon Christ - Toomorrow

New Vibert aaaaaaaa! Most of the time it's a little too similar to the stuff Vibert releases under his own name and tends toward too-cuteness and Avalanches-esque sampling, but the best tracks here (particularly the "proper" album closer "Mr. Mukatsuku") really capture that strange bittersweetness of classic Wagon Christ. Worth a listen in any case!

Like a good cup of tea or a Crunchie, you always know what you’re in for when you’re lucky enough to get your hands on a brand new Wagon Christ album. This is Luke Vibert’s umpteenth record under the moniker, and since the classic ‘Throbbing Pouch’ all those years ago he’s had a certain section of the listening public literally weeing themselves for fresh material. It’s no slouch either, within seconds the avalanche-like tumble of samples sets ‘Toomorrow’ up to be everything you want from a Vibert record and more. Vocal snippets and familiar boom-bap references form the album’s rusty anchor, but Vibert manages to shoehorn in so many genre nods it’s hard to keep up at times. I can here Drexciyan tones in the creepy acid standout ‘Manalyze This!’, the kind of disco goodness last heard on Vibert’s Kerrier District records on ‘My Lonely Scene’ and Isaac Hayes-influenced Blaxploitation groove on ‘Respectrum’. It’s almost hard to keep up with Vibert’s ADD, but with his keen attention to detail, and most importantly his attention to solid grooves ‘Toomorrow’ proves to be a consistently rewarding sesh.

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Pearson Sound - Fabriclive 56

I generally prefer to have Fabriclives cut up into their tracklistings, but even as a solid block of music, the Pearson Sound (aka Ramadanman aka Maurice Donovan) Fabriclive session is pretty incredible. Dude's been at the forefront of leftfield juke / house / bass / whatever electronica for a year or two now and he brings his considerable talent to the fore here. Most of the work is divided up between Pearson Sound's many aliases, cutting edge UK House (Julio Bashmore, Joy Orbison, Girl Unit) and a sprinkling of classic dubstep. Get it.

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[JD]

Boris - New Album[2011]

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[David_Dovey]

aw yiss

[scarred]

Cool art

[Vuk]

This new Boris album is like...j-pop, Minus the Bear sounding shit, shoegaze, and dream pop. All at once. I love it.

[valley_parade]

HEE-YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Oh yeah hey, more Boris:

Boris w/ Merzbow - Klatter

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[De_El]

There's a new version of 'Naki Kyoku' on this? oh. oh. shit. this is big.

[KvP]

FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain

After some time in the wilderness, releasing a few albums' worth of same-y singles and EPs and dozens of remixes that seemed to indicate a certain level of creative stagnation, FaltyDL takes a great leap forward with his second LP for Planet Mu. It's as if the last two years never happened - Drew Lustman is really at the top of his game here, bringing back the jazz and IDM influences of Love Is A Liability / Bravery and even letting his secret love for jungle shine through a little bit (on the great "Lucky Luciano"). An absolutely thrilling and deeply varied comeback if there ever was one.

From beginning to end, Drew Lustman’s second album as FaltyDL draws you in and swallows you whole, submerging you into a world full of emotions, hidden meanings, flashbacks to times gone by and possible futures. In a recent interview with Martin Clark, Lustman discussed at length the emotional process behind this album, and evidence of this is clear from the first listen.

You Stand Uncertain is many things: a coherent album of dancefloor-minded electronic music (no mean feat in this day and age), a statement about the past, present and future of rave and its continuum and an insight into the mind of one of the most interesting producers to have emerged from dubstep’s worldwide rise to popularity. By this last statement I don’t mean that FaltyDL is a dubstep artist per se; rather that his music, for me, seemed to originally owe much to dubstep’s rekindling of its 2step roots and still does. The ghostly swing of classic 2step is still present on You Stand Uncertain, albeit in a more mitigated way than on his debut, Love is a Liability – this time round, the swing co-exists with more percussive, at times harsh, drum programming and break chopping as well as mellower, soothing 4×4 house vibes. Also present is another ghost of dubstep’s past, its often overlooked roots in jungles. Maybe the uncertainty hinted at in the title refers to the album’s shifting influences and hints of classic hardcore, rave and junglistic moments. It’s the kind of uncertainty modern music needs more of.

A particularly fascinating aspect of You Stand Uncertain lies in its use of classic samples, and the references these create in the listeners mind, willingly or not. Martin Clark  called it a “Russian nesting doll of samples and signifiers”, in the interview aforementioned. Let’s (jokingly) call it post-post-modern; after all, there was always going to be a time by which the academically discussed post-modern element of sampling would itself become prime material for a new generation of producers to pillage. If sampling helped create feelings of euphoria and post-modern significance in the first generation of sample-based music, then what about the feelings evoked by the output of a new generation of producers who grew up with sample-based music and feel comfortable pillaging it for their own needs? How do you explain the feelings that Falty’s recontextualisation of old hardcore records, the Apache break, classic rave stabs and the Reese bassline, among others, evoke? Rave has come and gone, yet its impacts are still far reaching. It’s probably more than the average listener might think of, but it bears considering when evaluating Uncertain against the myriad of other music out there today, churned out faster than you can Google it.

‘Open Space’ is a prime example of what I mention above, a track that crams in a large amount of references while remaining perfectly enjoyable as a piece of music, with no need to further analyse it. At first I thought Falty had relifted Massive Attack’s flip of the Mahavishnu Orchestra vocal sample, yet after some research, it turns out to have been from a hardcore record called ‘Hold Me’. In some ways, this mistake speaks volume about the potential of sampling in post-rave dance music, and how effectively Falty exploits it on this album.

‘Lucky Luciano’ might well be the record’s finest moment, a percussive love letter to the halcyon days of rave and early jungle which Lustman admits to still being fascinated by. With more than a hint of the Reinforced aesthetic to it, if some post-jungle tag were to emerge, then it could do a lot worse than to take this track as its template. The reality, of course, is that there is no need for further post-anything to emerge, rather a need for education and understanding of the roots that producers like Lustman find inspiration in, and how these can be transposed to today and used to create beautifully enjoyable moments such as ‘Lucky Luciano’. And then you have ‘Voyager’, a haunting slow-mo house jam that wouldn’t be out of place in a Theo Parrish set.

Despite its title, You Stand Uncertain holds many certainties; the main one being that producers like Lustman are needed more than ever today to help map out electronic music as it emancipates itself from its late ’80s and early ’90s roots and continues to connect with a generation of listeners’ whose points of reference are often wildly different to those of the people making the music. There’s a potential for timelessness in this album, but that will only be ascertained by those making this judgement 20 or 30 years from now. What’s more important is the emotional potential this record holds thanks to its author’s attempt to place himself within the shifting sands of modern electronic music, looking at the past for inspiration and comfort while at the same time hinting at possibilities that make me shiver with anticipation.

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Joy O - Wade In / Gels

Joy Orbison exploded the UK dance scene with the delirious Hyph Mngo and proved to be immediately willing to leave that sound to the many imitators and admirers that followed in his wake, instead focusing on mining the resurgence of UK House music. This 12" is no exception. "Wade In" is a hard-hitting 4/4 stunner that jolts into a horror/cowbell breakdown before coming back with O's signature surging melody. "Jels" is a more atmospheric, handclap-driven affair, with a sumptuous early 90's house synth arpeggio and a gargantuan, vibrating kick drum. The best House from this guy yet.

The artist previously known as Joy Orbison ushers in an abbreviated name change on this killer 12" for HotFlush. Following the House-charged lead of his 'Ladywell/BB' disc earlier this year, 'Jels/Wade In' augments classic Chi-town and Detroit templates with a spunky fresh bin load of bass in hard-bodied style. Face up, 'Jels' drives nut-crushing kicks, industro-Funky cowbells and 'floor quaking infrabass under sprightly keys and persistent shuffles for that perfectly poised balance of pout and snarl, or sweet and light. Face down, 'Wade In' comes off like Kassem Mosse meets Green Velvet, downtown Chicago styles, where thunderous kicks entwine with pupil-dilating synthline in a teasing, gripping arrangement adept at rocking the biggest main rooms and sweatboxes alike. Oh, no doubt it's recommended!!!

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[valley_parade]

There's a new version of 'Naki Kyoku' on this? oh. oh. shit. this is big.

It's just with Merzbow noising over them...but god that song is amazing.

[TheClickOfALight]

Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror (2011)



The Holy Trinity.

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[nippletwister]

Boris yes.

[Mr. Tool]

Alex Winston - Sister Wife (EP)



Listen to Locomotive right here, read a review right here

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Tennis - Cape Dory



Listen to Marathon here, read a review here

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[medicatesleep]

Boris - New Album[2011]

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Does anyone else think this sounds like 30 Seconds to Mars?

[orangeyouglad]

The Fags - E.P. (2002)

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This is such a guilty pleasure. 5 songs. Set aside your music snobbery. It's absolutely worth it. You will not be able to help liking these songs, at least that's been my experience - even if there is a part of me that wants to resist their pull. They all have incredibly infectious melodies, and Ms. Take in particular has this ridiculously large chorus that you can't resist shouting along to.

Thank you for this fantastic EP.

[Cire27]

Do 30 Seconds to Mars sound like "...j-pop, Minus the Bear sounding shit, shoegaze, and dream pop?"

[Vuk]

Absolutely not!

[valley_parade]

Does anyone else think this sounds like 30 Seconds to Mars?

You make that comparison again and I'll rip your nipples off.

[Katherine]

Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die

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I know this has been posted before, but I uploaded it for a friend tonight so I thought I'd throw it up here in case anyone didn't have it.  Great album!

[KurtMcAllister]

Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (Mute, 2004)

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In my opinion, this is Liars' best album. If you were turned off by it on its initial release, give it another chance. I would post a review, but the response was overwhelmingly negative, and the only positive review I could find was terribly written. So instead read this piece on Stereogum about why the album should be reconsidered.

[TheClickOfALight]

Breton - Counter Balance EP (2010)



There's internetz rumours that Tom Vek is involved somehow with this project, just listen to the vocals...

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[yop]

Burial / Four Tet / Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror

*One per customer only.* Here it is, the one you've all been waiting for since, errrr, it was announced on tuesday! Thom Yorke, Four Tet and Burial have collaborated on two tracks, 'Ego' and 'Mirror' for Kieran Hebden's Text label. It's the second time Hebden aka Four Tet has appeared with Burial, again on a black-on-black vinyl/centre label/sleeve combo, and actually the 2nd time Burial has appeared with Mr Yorke, following his remix of 'It Rained All Night' a few years back. At a guess we'd say Mr Hebden had a larger hand in 'Ego', judging from the tinkled marimbas and purring beat, while Burial's influence is clearly apparent on the defined 2-step pivot and emotive impact of 'Mirror'.

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Addison Groove - Work It

Addison Groove (aka Headhunter - as if you didn't know) drops his 2nd 12" of Juke, Dubstep and Electro hybrids for Loefah's Swamp 81 label. 'Work It' deploys straight-up 808s in a straight-up Electro framework, shelltoes and Adidas ziptop almost included. Flip it and 'Sexual' rolls on a Jukin' vibe with plumper subs, flickers of hi-hat rhythms and an altogether more senuous vibe than the turbonator bounce of the flip. 180g vinyl comes housed in a head-turning sleeve of typical Swamp 81 quality.

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TRP - CS E.P

L2S drop yet another debut release this time from 4 piece group TRP.
TRP have exploded from the ether with a sound that will simply blow you away! Smoothly fusing Detroit Techno with Garage in such a way as to create an entirely new approach to Future Garage! Truly a collective to make your speaker smile!
“Tear Gas” has been gaining support from Whistla and Blackmass to name just a couple of high profile backers, with its smooth build and intense bassline this is a dancefloor smasher! Followed by “D’roaming” a more chilled and funky affair perfect for late night sets for the stamina clubbers. Third is “Outlaw” skirting as close to house and techno as possible whilst still retaining a “garage swing” this is a track you will hear all year in clubs the world over! Finally is “Squiggle”, a fusion of intense funky beats and bass with distinctive TRP overlays of outrageous melodies and soundscapes.
This release will break boundaries right across the “Bass Music” world, TRP have arrived!

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Instra:mental - Resolution 653 LP Sampler

Nonplus maintain a relentless streak of form with this stunning sampler 12" for Instra:Mental's forthcoming debut album 'Resolution 653'. The duo's production values have never been in doubt but this time executed to a fierce degree. Face up, 'Thomp' operates like some Cyborg funk ritual, deploying Untold-style, cone-folding kicks and grazing percussion with earth-moving subs and minimalist splashes of airlock pressure synths. Face down, 'When I Dip' is a certified future rudeboy anthem (by the international association of future rudeboys, don't u know), a double 'ard electro rocker intensifying original New York, Miami and Detroit memes with a 2012 production palette. Check the samples - just so good. Highly recommended!!!

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Four Tet / Caribou - Pinnacles / Ye Ye

Finally here, the highly anticipated split from Four Tet and Caribou's Dan Snaith under his new Daphni alias! It lands on Four Tet's Text imprint, the label he reserves for specials such as this and his acclaimed Burial collab. In typical multi-tiered style, Hebden's 'Pinnacles' finds its groove in a shark-eyed spy funk intro before lurching into a swung 4/4 with multiple layers of bristling polyrhythms all rubbing against eachother in frictional harmony with an overarching, dextrous jazz looseness. Working as Daphni on the flip, Dan Snaith seduces us with a stomach-fluttering intro of tentative, padded bass and zither, kinda like Michael Mayer jamming with Larri G, before the bass takes control and your body is given to the darkly tinted jack. Basically, everyone is going to want a copy of this so act fast.

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Lowtec - Wonderkidd - Looser

Workshop's Lowtec licks up two deeply dipped grooves to follow recent Nonplus heat from Actress, Boddika, and Kassem Mosse. He's an unexpected name to crop up on this label for sure, but the clip of his grooves makes total sense considering the label's current agenda. A-side features burnished, beatdown-vibing chords and samples alloyed to a crumpled 4/4 with a proper Berlin backroom meets smoky Detroit basement feel. Flip it for the killer, grumbling groove of 'Looser', maintaining a deadly tension with hovering, Shake-style string edits and a welting 4/4 jack guaranteed to shake the walls wherever it's deployed. So baaad! TIP

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[est]

grabbing eits, Alex Winston and Boris + Merzbow right now.  Pretty great page!

[flaschenpfand]

that Joy O 12" is the bomb! electronic music is happening in england at the moment!

[nufan]

Yes, yes it is.

edit: Bonus upload as well as snarky comment! Here's Ramadanman's EP.

Ramadanman's self titled doublepack is his first of 2010 and only his second for his Hessle Audio imprint. Coming in quick succession after Pangaea's tremendous double EP and the smoking James Blake record it marks a maturity in the label, a confirmation of their status beyond purveyors of strictly dancefloor anthems. Ram's offers six tracks showing the breadth of his tastes and abilities, ranging from hardcore/jungle twisters - the emotive rush of 'Don't Change For Me' and the rugged 'A Couple More Years' - to craftily concatenated experimentalism on 'Bleeper' and a pair of fluidly futuristic riddims in the style of Untold on 'No Swing' and 'Tumble'. The jungle cuts are stylishly classic, lifting elements of Foul Play or Omni Trio and updating them with the Hessle polish, while those Untold-style tracks are just supreme, nailing that dynamic flex between maleable subs and cheeky blocks of percussion. There's a very good reason why everyone from Villalobos to Francois K and Oneman play Ramadanaman records, click the samples and realise!

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[IrrationalPie]

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971) - 320kbps Vinyl Rip

Maggot Brain is the peak of the Funkadelic experience. The songs jam harder, the way out stuff is way fucking out there. Seriously, how many dimensions is Hazel traveling through on the instrumental title cut? His 10-minute guitar soliloquy is a spiraling model of the blues filtered through a psychedelic lens, and almost single-handedly places him in a realm with Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton as one of the great classic rock guitarists. But it got better: "Super Stupid" was the tale of a dumbass junkie set to a tune Black Sabbath would have been proud of; "Hit It And Quit It" is a funk anthem where keyboardist Worrell gets his licks in and the beat turns around a dozen times before we hit the chorus; "Can You Get to That" is honest-to-whoever pop that showed Funkadelic could be serious from time to time, especially when it came to social commentary (and also featured Isaac Hayes' female background singers, giving it a classic soul sheen), and "Wars of Armageddon" (recently, wisely used by Optimo on the Psyche Out mix) is a knock-out-drag-down fight to the death between the world's best rhythm section and paranoid, psychedelic sound effects and crowd sounds. Maggot Brain was an explosive record, bursting at the seams with exactly the kind of larger than life sound a band called Funkadelic should have made.

According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Eddie Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead but the rumor wasn't true.  
The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans.
Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel's solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar.
Critics have described the solo as "lengthy, mind-melting" and the ending as "an emotional apocalypse of sound."  
The entire track was recorded in one take.

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[valley_parade]

J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (2011)

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It's his first solo album of all original material and it's almost entirely acoustic. Here, the grey-haired 45 year old's weathered husk of a voice is close-mic'd, as if he's drawling mere inches away from your head at all times. And while he was rightfully dubbed "the first American indie rock guitar hero" by Michael Azerrad in Our Band Could Be Your Life-- and has backed that claim up with countless memorable solos-- the songs on Several Shades of Why are marked by background strums and finger-picking rather than spotlit wails. By using his own name and going with such bare sonics, it's reasonable to suggest that this album could be Mascis' most knowingly personal yet.

[yop]

Fabric - A Sort Of Radiance

*First release on this hugely exciting new label from Emeralds' John Elliott and Editions Mego.* Chicago-based, Ohio-bred multi-instrumentalist, Matthew Mullane inaugurates the Spectrum Spools label with the spellbinding voyage of 'A Sort Of Radiance'. This is his debut album, and first release on vinyl but he's previously released cassettes in small runs on Fairchild Tapes and Stunned Records. The fact that he's skipped much of the ferric initiation/screening process should tell you that his music is of a more distinguished character than many trapped in the tape dream. He's capable of initiating vast astral dialogue between his machines of choice (we're not quite sure what he uses here - guitar and computer, possibly?), inviting us in to a "multi dimensional organism of sound that has perplexing depth and astounding detail" according to the label, and sublimely immersive if you ask us. Its structured around five longer compositions and slightly fewer vignettes, or palette cleansers for the epic sections. Those epic sections rove from dense, skin-tingling ultraviolet fog and cascading arpeggios of 'Leaving The House' to the HD synaesthetic phenomena of 'Light Float' and stereo-spiralling columns of synth movement on 'Soft Disconnect', all vividly rendered and deeply detailed while the shorter pieces allow for more condensed, dynamic ideas like with the woozy stereo swirl of 'Control' and the abrasive space-grit textures of 'Left'. Cut by Rashad Becker at Berlin's D&M, January 2011. RIYL Emeralds, OPN, or Rene Hell - don't miss!

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Sven Laux - Homesickness or Nostalgia

You can always rely on Ezekiel Honig’s Microcosm imprint for some high-grade 4/4-based sounds. That said, the pulsing beats that form the backbone of many Microcosm releases are only part of the story, as these artists merely use techno as the starting point for their compositions. ‘Homesickness or Nostalgia’, the debut album from Sven Laux is no exception to this rule, and while the beats are prominent and pronounced throughout, the melodic content is more comparable with Shuttle 358 or even Tim Hecker (under his Jetone moniker). Just flip over to ‘Jackson’s Modern Bakery Coffee Shop’ and you’ll hear what I mean, while the pulse and urgency of minimal techno is present there is an emotional core that defies the initial sound and buzz. ‘Homesickness or Nostalgia’ is a complex, deep record that sounds almost obsessively composed and pieced together. Beats rarely repeat themselves and melodies are gloriously refined – needless to say fans of Ezekiel Honig’s productions or other Microcosm releases should buy on sight but I can also see this appealing to Kompakt heads, especially those of you who had your senses tickled by The Field’s debut. Highly recommended.

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Bee Mask - Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico

Bee Mask's mind-melting 'Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico' was released in 2010 on a c30 cassette through Gift Tapes. Editions Mego's John Elliott-helmed Spectrum Spools label has given it a vital vinyl reissue, faithfully remastered by Rashad Becker at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering. To say we're excited by the potential of this label is a given, but let's deal with the incredible album in question first. Chris Madak aka Bee Mask's music exists in a continuum of musique concrète and tape experiments stretching back to the earliest emissions of Pierre Henry through more recent sounds captured on The Lovely Music label and the present day hypnagogic/synth noise of Emeralds, Rene Hell or Oneohtrix Point Never. However, unlike the improvised, "one-take" stream-of-consciousness approach preferred by many today, 'Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico' has been meticulously sculpted from a range of sounds (listed here as Synthesizers, percussion, piano, tape, and voice) recorded, mixed, and edited between 2006-2010 in Cleveland and Philadelphia. The result is a highly structured and often breathtaking confluence of contrasting sounds arranged with a magnetic mystery and a cryptic logic which will reveal itself in due course. Bee Mask already counts the likes of Autre Ne Veut (who included a large chunk of this LP in his Altered Zones mix) and Will Bankhead (who released 'Frozen Versioning (Hyperborean Return)' on his The Trilogy Tapes label) as big fans, and no doubt your good selves, soon enough. Frankly, this release is unmissable for anyone on the hunt for exceptional new electronic music - Essential Purchase.

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[medicatesleep]

Does anyone else think this sounds like 30 Seconds to Mars?

You make that comparison again and I'll rip your nipples off.

COME AT ME BRO

[medicatesleep]

dl for free
http://liquidskulls.bandcamp.com/

2 guys making some ambient shoegaze. sounds like boards of canada meets beef terminal. great for nursing the st paddy's hang over. i'm getting old.

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

That Fabric mix by Pearson Sound is the cat's tits

[youthcant]

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Hardcore/Noise
tell me if you hate it b/c i don't like good reviews.

9 Songs in 18 Minutes.
Cassette Tape - Tapes of a Neon God #2
Songs about being a depressed antisocial scumbag.
(That's a first in music!)
Recorded at DankWave Studios - Montgomery Alabama

[yop]

Pearson Sound - NSWL007

Super-limited white-label waist winders from Pearson Sound! Two remixes built for the club from one of the dancefloor's hottest properties. Nuff said. They're gonna fly so act fast...

Two hot refixes by Pearson Sound on the Night Slugs White Label series.

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[KvP]

Vampillia - Alchemic Heart

Japanese post-rock / -metal / -whatever. Two looooong tracks, the first of which, "Sea", features prominent contribution from Jarboe (!), and is essentially a Soundtracks for the Blind cut with more modern production techniques. The B-side is something like a lost Jonny Greenwood soundtrack cut, all pastoral violins and end-of-the-century piano and skittering digital noise (I'm assuming that's courtesy of Merzbow). Great home listening stuff.

At times sacred, elsewhere profane, it’d be cliché to call Alchemic Heart a study in contrasts. But then again, that’s pretty much precisely what it is. For starters, the disc is split right at the midpoint. The first track, “Sea,” clocks in at 24 minutes and some change. Likewise, so is the second (and last) cut, “Land.” It’s a tidy demarcation, to be sure, as so much is happening at any given grain that more macro notions like form and gestalt would inevitably be lost without multiple listens and some studious note-taking. Save for duration and single syllable titles though, that’s about it with regard to samesies. Like any good high school contrast prompt, it’s all in the dichotomy: “one if by land, and two if by sea,” Longfellow once wrote.

Based in Osaka, Japan, this self-professed “brutalist orchestra” was already, itself, a weirdly bifurcated entity before Jarboe, Merzbow and some Boredoms showed up to help record the new one. Fussy opus Sppears made that abundantly clear in 2009 to anyone who took a chance on an über-modern Japanese pit orchestra with an admittedly campy name. But if alchemy is all about transforming and heart is just another word for determination, then this Vampillia disc has to be considered a modest success — gold or not, win or lose.

Again, it’s all about the partition. In “Sea,” classically beautiful string and piano sonorities turn into sinister swathes of distortion almost on a dime. Similarly, Jarboe’s chesty alto recitations (“I breathe in the darkness / I breathe in the fear”), quickly acquiesce to her trademark coloratura jabberwocky. To wit, it’s some of her finest work since that 2008 collaboration with Justin K. Broadrick — heady, a bit sexy and square on the fucking nose.

“Land” is perhaps slightly less stratified in texture, but it too pays little mind to subtly and gradient. Yet, because it starts bigger, “Land” runs out of real estate faster than “Sea.” Thresholds being what they are, we’re thus left holding a louder total sound for a longer composite time. And while that’s not necessarily an inherently bad thing, it’s not exactly sound business practice for Alchemic Heart. Too many lace-meets-leather records skimp on the frilly stuff, much to the detriment of the leather itself. After all, all-leather, all-the-time can quickly become a fetish. And as far as this critic can tell at least, Vampillia is much too pretty for that.

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a little bit grimier than i usually like my hardcore, but good shit all the same.  you should re-post this up in the hardcore thread, there's motherfuckers in there who'd dig the hell outta this.

[StaedlerMars]

That Fabric mix is really good.

The J Mascis album is really kind of beautiful.

Have a new Metronomy album:

Metronomy - The English Riviera

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Basically kinda relaxed chilled out but still poppy electronic music, a bit in the same vein as the XX, but less boring.

[TheClickOfALight]

Pusha T - Fear Of God (2011)



BOOM! Proper swag mixtape from half of Clipse, production from Yeezy & Neptunes among others.

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[Vuk]

Dude, you're a saint. Totally forgot about this record.

[Algernon]

I don't think anyone has uploaded this yet, so...

Baths - Pop Music / False B-sides (2011)



Seaside Town
The Vapors

For this tour I have something called Pop Music/False B-sides which is a 13 song digital download. I have download codes for that I’ll be selling on tour for $5. It’s original songs that happened after Cerulean. It’s sort of like an umbrella release for all those different things.

So not quite a real album per se, but it's got some good stuff on it.  If you liked Cerulean, give it a download.

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[ptownblazer]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

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[scarred]

"heart in your heartbreak" and "my terrible friend" are fucking amazing.

[chester1canus]

RE: TPOBPAH's Belong: seems to have a sameness sound to me. Flood just amped up their sound making the same song over and over. and now i realize what i disliked about their first disc--the whiny singer's androgynous voice gets REAL annoying

[Catacombs]

Rules:

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Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

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Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

Also, that new EitS album is excellent.  I particularly like the last track.

[JimmyJazz]

Tan Bajo - Davila 666 (In the Red, 2011)



Wild Black Lips-ish garage rock from Puerto Rico. It's their newest record and utterly fantastic

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The Last Pale Light In The West - Ben Nichols (Rebel Group, 2009)



This stark alt-country debut is a concept album about Blood Meridian and it's badass. Think Springsteen's Nebraska written by Cormac McCarthy

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Live Chevy Chase Community Center (1985) - The Rites Of Spring (Bootleg, 1985)



Live Rites of Spring bootleg with awesome sound quality

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The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths (Rough Trade, 1986)



It's one of the best Smiths records, what else can I say

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Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin (Warp, 1996)



If you don't have this album what is wrong with you my God download it immediately

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[beatkinda]

yes, i love your posts

[StaedlerMars]

I've been meaning to give that Davila album a listen. Should really get to it.