29 July 2009
Cannot get enough of this from
John Roberts, taken from the superb release
Mirror, a single that has seen his work put on a par with that of DJ Koze, Lawrence and Efdemin. Yep, it's that good.
Favourite producer of the moment,
Nicolas Stefan. His split with
Matzak for
Speicher 65 left completely blew me away with its undulating rhythm... definitely one of my faves of the year. Then taken from a release on
K2 last year is the track Time Is Over, one that will certainly appeal to fans of Gui Boratto.
Taken from
Kids Of Hula out on
Leena this
Rodriguez Jr really track caught me. Melodic summery techno with spacey synths giving it a unique sound.
I said I wouldn't go again, but the lure cherry beer and a ridiculous line up was enough to see us book for Pukkelpop again. Kind of intrigued to see how Luciano and co pull off the
Aether thing, from what i've seen it looks a bit like the
Fifteen To One set but with fancy visual effects and enough tribal samples to make your average Peruvian street pan-piper feel really quite envious. Excited nonetheless!
24 July 2009
Arguably it's
Get Physical's most path deviating release to date, but it's certainly a good deviation from the usual sounds of the German electronic superlabel.
Bronnt Industries Kapital is the work of Guy Bartell, and on this his third album he shys away from the sounds of his work on
Static Caravan and instead draws influence from Krautrock and Italian horror movie soundtracks, the result is most pleasing.
Hard For Justice is available here.
Lugnet Records is a newish label based out of Malmo, their two releases so far are of very highest quality. Psychedelic edits and obscurities in the vein of Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve... but they're not just about the old and the rare, they've also indicated a desire to put out the work of new producers with the aim of bringing forward a more progressive and psychedelic approach to todays obvious. There's a interview with
Lugnet over
here at Cosmic Disco.
22 July 2009
San Soda offers up deep house music that is both rooted in the past and firmly aimed towards the future. Out on
We Play House Recordings San Soda gives us three killer tracks from his vaults. On the A-side is ‘Doorsnee’, a track that already had people requesting a release when it was but in its infant days on his
Myspace. Describing it is quite the task, because it kinda leaves the 4/4 path and still stays on it, it kinda floats but it still gets you screaming on the dance floor. Sensational.
To finish, a super piece of rolling dub techno from
Mikkel Metal, out on Echochord, comes with a more punchy mix from Marcel Dettmann.
16 July 2009
Not so much music listening going on this week, kind of got addicted to the game Braid. A beautiful, brilliant and totally captivating puzzle platformer. see the trailer here. Musically though, this is a brief round-up of what has successfully pleased my ears just now. I heartily endorse listening to the following. Droney synth accompanied by occasional beat and other noises, interesting to hear on a dancefloor in a sort of make or break Patrice Baumel 'Roar' kind of way.
Jammy disco joint full of seedy low end synth.
Peak time tech house.
Super interesting. Deep forward thinking house tracks by Canson in the vein of DJ Koze and Pepe Bradock... sort of.
7 July 2009
pic: Marin Van UhmThe full length from cosmic duo
Subway really is essential. So refreshing.
A slick lounge turned disco chugger from the ever pleasing
Toby Tobias, taken from the
Apres 2 release by Australian label
Future Classic it also features a track by
Bonar Bradberry and a full on pop music track by Touch Sensitive, really, sounds like it should be on the radio.
Actor Tim Curry also had a couple of LP's and a string of 12"s back in the 1970s. This track has got some killer drums on it.
A track i've not listened to for a number of years, Tesco Bombers had this in 1982. The definitive post punk tango song. I dug out a few oldies at the same time as Tesco Bombers, but was really disappointed to have lost my copy of
The Gymslips - Rocking With The Renees, if anyone has an mp3 copy of it i'd be most pleased to hear it again... but y'know, not the end of the world.
2 July 2009
Can't stress how good this 12" on
Echoism is from
Peter Horrevorts. Title track Labyrinth is an eerie minimal tech masterpiece, and frankly the b-side is just as good. Indeed,
Echoism's a hot labe, below is some
Roel H taken from his Dancing Bears EP. Roel H's work certainly has a Border Community feel to it.
To finish, a dancefloor burner from Delsin mainstay, Quince. So so good.
1 July 2009
pic: Anna PeakerLooking through some
Ost & Kjex music and came across this beauty, taking the quirky edge off the original
Maurice Fulton turns this into a shimmering gem.
Continuity factor, Hot Coins' track Norway Man.Really enjoyable deep Chicago house grooves from
Tim Toh.