20 March 2009
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12 March 2009
pic: Mike BorscheWithout doubt Kolombo's best track to date, out on Turbo and available here along with the equally intense Pique Nique. Turbo are also set to release a two CD compilation in the next couple of months, filled with a selection of their best dancefloor hits from the last 10 years.Next up, the third release for Philippo Ransullo and Community Service Records. Three varying tracks, from upbeat funk to a heavy synth chugger, then an edit of INXS' Just Keep Walking, great stuff. Vinyl here.
10 March 2009
Taken from the absolutely gorgeous debut on Agoria's
Infine label by
Rone. As an accomplished soundtrack artist
Rone here with
Spanish Breakfast may well have achieved what very few seem to, producing a luscious and endearing full-length techno album that delivers throughout. It's melodic tones will no doubt sit right with fans of the Border Community staple.
It always upsets me to know that i'm overlooking a criminal amount of music, and that due to the impossibility of the task there forever will be great tunes going unheard by me. I do try though, these two are from 2007 that have only recently come to my attention.
5 March 2009
pic:
Bldg BlogPortuguese men of future dance,
Photonz have a new one out on the ever impressive
Dissident delivering some evocative house tones. Also recently out on Dissident is the blinding vocoder full, slow synth chugger '
Pretty Face' by
Spacelex, it's essential. And '
The Hots' by
The Niallist, described as killer sleaze, slow and dirty morning music that sounds equally at home on the modern cosmic dancefloor.
Sticking with the Portuguese, dirty disco prodigy
Rui Maia serves up the goods with the
Cantonese Man EP out on Untracked. The rework by Danny Berman aka
Hot Coins is pure dynamite.
To finish, a sample of
Pocketknife & Cousin Cole's
Canyon Dancing, hailing from Brooklyn they attracted a lot of attention with their
Tambourine Dream album, editing Panda Bear and Joanna Newsom amongst others. The track here is Patti Smith's Ghost Dance.
3 March 2009
pic: Lee Jang SubI'm gonna get a bit carried away here and bundle the goodness into one post as like a favourites for the month kinda thing.
From the full on, in your face approach of
Danzca on the Speicher series to the mysterious, dark and wonderful
Variance track there's some great sounds here.
Spektre is also consistently hammering out quality, i've been loving the Christian Fischer and Luomo remixes of late. Then we've got the playful, upbeat chimes of Giuseppe on the newly formed
Astor Bell netlabel which is offering high-quality downloads on their
swish site. And i'm really loving the second half of that Charles Gudagafva remix. : )
Sorry for lack of update, i'll make it up today. First up, here's a couple of mid '80s new wave/synth-pop gems. Nebraskan
Tom Ware had an LP in 1985 entitled
The Fourth Circle from which the brilliant Chinatown is taken. I've seen it described as Rother meets Kraftwerk and is a favourite of Beppe Loda. Then there is
Iron Curtain, a five-piece new wave act who had a few 7" and 12" in the mid '80s and
a recent re-lease of tracks on Pylon US.
