30 December 2009
Kitkaliitto are a Finnish trio making some really lush deep and experimental, sample laden house music. Swamp actually reminds me a little of Isolee.
I could use one of a number of records to highlight the prevailing sound in Techno in 2009. This edges it. So good.
Eddie C with some slow funk on
7 Inches Of Love, the superb disco edits label started up by
The Mole. For The Lost by The Mole also ranks right up near the top in my favourite tracks of 2009, for sure.
Oto Gelb aka
Daniel Wang with an edit of
Symphonic 2000's wonderful take on Bach's Air.
I've also been raiding the archives and uncovered a few gems mainly from the
New Wave Complex mixes. Enjoy
22 December 2009
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TuhruLate to the game as ever. I've got myself a
Soundcloud account and have uploaded a newly made mix for all to hear. Stream, download, enjoy... perhaps.
18 December 2009
Acid Pauli, perhaps known better as
Console or part of The Notwist makes the best of electronic music, and ever on the cutting edge he has been making use of this wicked new tool,
RJDJ. What is
RJDJ? It's described as an iPhone music app that transforms ambient noises into ear-bending soundscapes. The clattering of keyboards, the rumble of buses, even the ins and outs of your breath are multiplied, pitch-shifted, looped, and twisted on the fly into an aural mosaic. It’s like taking a leisurely walk inside Brian Eno’s brain.
Nymbiotic by Acid Pauli is gorgeous minimal techno in it's own right, but using the
Symbiotic RJDJ scene you could turn it into something totally different time and time again... int' technology great.
Totally slept on the
NGTVNRG EP from
Pirahnahead. Upbeat house killers, both these tracks highlight his ability to mix it up and still be amazing.
Had been a while since last hearing anything by
Roland Appel before checking his
Snow In Spring Time EP on AUS music. What a corking release, the title track is mega camp but in a good way and even sees a remix by the most excellent
Runaway who strip it back and lay it low.
And, if this was the last track I post this year (it might not be)......then it'd be a pretty epic way to end it....
9 December 2009
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Pole Of InaccessibilityTwo of Kompakt's time served Pop Ambient contributors have just come up with new LP's. Beautiful they are.
Klimek's Movies Is Magic is the film score to a film that will never exist. While
Markus Guentner's Doppelgaenger tackles ambient drone in the most inspiring of ways. Both essential ambient pieces.
Increasing the intensity just a little, and adding a cheeky dose of dream pop we come to the new single from
Faux Pas. Otherworldly, captivating, gorgeous. You can get the single complete with remixes from
over here.
At 3mins 45 this becomes far and away the best
Guillame & The Coutu Dumonts track i've heard.
4 December 2009
Don't Stop is an exciting new label recently started up in Germany. The first release is a sensational 12" featuring two totally contrasting yet equally brilliant tracks.
Johannes Volk sends us on a mesmeric journey with Heat Haze and Mirko Hecktor releases a funk laden house jam. Sure to be well received everywhere. 300 vinyls and digital.
Somehow missed this beauty from last summer. Directly from the Slovenian crime scene here come
Ichisan & Nakova with guns, bodies of evidence, badges and .... lot of funk! Anthemic nu-disco out on
Pizzico Records. Cracking!
This is an anonymous party track that has apparently been around for about 3 years before getting a white label release this summer. The a-side is a killer rework of a Fela Kuti track, not to be missed!