27 September 2009
Sumptuous work from Dutch producer
Nuno Dos Santos. Really dreamy.
Desire Lines was released earlier this year on
Smalltown Supersound, perhaps a little more slept on than I was expecting given that it's a collaboration between the Idjut Boys and
Rune Lindbaek.
Haito Gopfrich's debut album Fiat Lux is just out on
Boxer. Superb tech-house.
Greek tech-house. It's all fairly straight forward until that acid breakdown every now and then,
teasing stuff.
This actually blew up speakers when
Heil played this out, no joke. Mental bass.
I've watched a few films lately too. Here's a couple I totally recommend.
Time Crimes: Superb Spanish thriller that works on causality and stuff, certainly gets you thinking without being perplexed like say
Primer does, although that too is excellent if you dig that sort of thing.
Un Prophete: I'm not usually big on crime drama's but this epic is just utterly captivating from start to finish.
20 September 2009
Mysterious edits on the
Stilove4music label. The original track by Roy Ayers here becomes a delicious deep house chugger.
This is a beautiful remix from Permanent Vacation signed duo
Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt, unsurprisingly it won the remix competition put together for
Coma's Choices single earlier this summer.
Coma have since put out the incredible
Crystal EP through Kompakt. Really recommended, you can grab a listen
here.
Found footage gold to finish. Ghanaian pop singer Ata Kak with some seriously catchy rhymes.
14 September 2009
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Siri HolHere's a little assortment of space disco jams and the like that i've been digging for a while and saving them up for a big post like this. I hope you enjoy.
From 1979, this was the work of Celso Valli, better known for his work as Azoto. Fun time disco.
From 1984, killer synth-disco track about supermarkets needing to be open on Sundays, or something.
Produced in 1978 by half brothers Jean-Pierre Massiera and Bernard Torelli this track has it all, fake string arrangements, abundant energy, double entendre filled vocals and most of all it is insanely catchy.
Upping the funk with this from 1978, taken from the Tom Moulton mixed
Cosmic Wind LP. Space disco funk supreme.
A more minimal take on space disco from this 1980 LP by Disco Dream and the Androids which you can get on a
re-release here.
And a couple of super obscure cuts taken from the fantastic
Les Edits Du Golem series.
11 September 2009
Loud E takes on the 1980s theme tune to Tomorrow's World, slows it down, drags it out, turns into a darned good track. The other side of this Loud E release is a megamix of I Feel Love, so good too!
A trip over to Japan for this, out on
Mule last year this is a top notch piece of work by
Foog. Cosmic tinged Italo/Krautrock influenced techno. Progressive and repetitive yet always interesting!
Taken from the Cluster Dreams EP,
Lone follows up the super Sunset Teens with some exquisite electronica reminiscent of Flying Lotus or output on Ramp, highly recommended, also features a remix from the much loved Bibio.
The Butcher is a single taken from
Battant's No Head LP. Female fronted post punk, new wave and experimental electronic trio on
Kill The DJ Records.
6 September 2009
More anonymous beats from the Seldom Felt series, offering number 5 is without doubt the most danceable. Ripping vocals out of the classic disco tune '
You Make Me Feel' it chops everything up and delivers some multi layered techno brilliance. For fans of Soundstream etc.
Super inventive techno from
Blind Minded, sampling the London transport system. A favourite of Ivan Smagghe this.
Get it here.
Originally out on
Weplayminimal at the beginning of the year, the absurdly good Capetown River Boating.
Tiefschwarz have been hammering it all summer and will shortly be releasing it on their own
Souvenir Music label along with some remixes by
Kreon and
Sante. Sante also has a remix up on his myspace of the following track by
&Me. Released on the super hot
Keinemusik label,
F.I.R. is about as good as it gets, I am totally in love with this track, the vocals work so well, it's flawless. Thank you Grindin'.
1 September 2009
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RecyclismIt's been a while coming, but it's certainly been worth the wait.
Harlyn Bay is the debut LP from downtempo disco duo
Coyote. It's precisely what this summer hasn't been... Warm, psychedelic and splendid. Go hunt down that sunset and chill-out to this.
Coyote also run the
Is It Balaeric? label and have just put out something well worth checking out by
The Deadstock 33's aka Justin Robertson, who also has another
amazing sounding release due out in a couple of weeks on legendary Manchester label
Paper Recordings.
Smith & Mudd's second LP like Coyote's offers blissfully deep and downtempo grooves. As you drift off towards the end of this album you realise Smith & Mudd have pulled off something very special here.
With
Cabana Disco Volume 3 on the horizon I thought i'd share this slice of funk from Pat Les Stache, who also runs
American Athlete. There's a load more of his superb edits to be had over there.
This is a track from 1986 by Man Friday, a sleazy dub disco affair from a trio that included the late Larry Levan.
Hi-NRG stuff from
Brian E, reminds me a lot of Black Devils "H"-Friend.
Be sure to check out the
Corrupt project on the Recyclism site too, is cool. And, also
Download Finished for some more really interesting corrupted file video editing, love it!