Friday, November 29, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Lo-Fang - Look Away
Lo-Fang is the musical moniker of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Hemerlein. His classical training in violin, cello, bass piano and guitar bring complexity and depth to an electro-pop, R&B influenced sound. Hemerlein’s lyrics are matched by the strength of his falsetto voice and folk inspired harmonies. Buzzbands LA said of Lo-Fang’s sound, “Can music be intimate and expansive at the same time? Washington, D.C., ex-pat Matthew Hemerlein, now doing business as Lo-Fang, seems to have arrived at the formula.”
Blue Film was written and recorded in a farmhouse in Maryland, hotels and studios in Cambodia, London, Nashville, and completed in the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. Hemerlein collaborated with GRAMMY Award winning producer Francois Tetaz (Gotye), who he calls a “mirror” that illuminated and reflected his work throughout the process.
Kenneth James Gibson "Something In The Way (Extended Mix In 3 Passages)"...
Kenneth James Gibson (born 8 October 1973), better known as apendics.shuffle is an experimental, electronic, and dance music artist who has been releasing records since 1994. He founded the minimal techno record label Adjunct Records in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records. Gibson also releases music under the aliases Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, The Premature Wig, Men In Slippers, Cascabel Gentz, KJ Gibbs, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Electronic Music Composer, and Hiss & Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto). Gibson also founded the 1990s noise pop band Furry Things, who released most of its material onKing Coffey's (of The Butthole Surfers) label Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.
apendics.shuffle ("[a]pendics.shuffle") is Gibson's main electronic music alias. Under this alias he creates a mix of minimal house and techno, micro house, and experimentalelectronic dance music. Apendics.shuffle has released music on many labels such as Orac, Adjunct Records, Mo's Ferry Prod., Lick My Deck, We Are, Leftroom, Sunset Diskos and more.
DubLoner is a dub project from Gibson. Dubloner's output ranges from deep and spacious dub techno and house to more rootsy dirty dub experiments. He has, as Dubloner, remixed and collaborated artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers (a duo of dubLoner and Jack Dangers called Hiss & Buzz), Isaac Haile Selassie and Markus Nikolai.
Eight Frozen Modules (also known as 8FM) is another of Gibson's experimental electronic music projects. Eight Frozen Modules' recorded material is a mix of IDM, techno, dub,electro, breakcore, dancehall, and noise. The project started as a side project to the now defunct noise-pop band Furry Things which Gibson started with Cathy Shive in 1992 and was released on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label (who also released the first 8FM material). As 8FM, he has released music on labels such as Phthalo, Planet Mu, Orthlorng Musork, Tigerbeat 6, City Slang, Shockout, Mutant Sniper, Mille Plateaux, Warp, In Vitro Records, Lo Recordings and Tino Corp to name a few.
Gibson is also known for musical outings under the aliases Cascabel Gentz, Furry Things, KJ Gibbs, Men In Slippers, The Premature Wig, Kenneth James G., Electronic Music Composer, and Reverse Commuter.
James Blake - Live at Electronic Beats Festival 2013 (Full Set)
http://jamesblakemusic.com/
Overgrown is the second studio album by English electronic musician James Blake. It was released on 5 April 2013 by Blake's ATLAS Records, along with A&M Records and Polydor Records. It was supported by lead single "Retrograde" and a series of concert appearances including one at Coachella. It is being promoted as Blake's most expansive piece of work to date, with guest features from electronic producer Brian Eno and Grammy Award-winning rapper and producer RZA.[2] Overgrown débuted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart and at number one of the US Dance/Electronic chart, becoming Blake's highest-charting album to date.
On October 30th 2013, Overgrown won the Mercury Prize in a surprise victory, beating out favourites to win Laura Mvula, Disclosure, and David Bowie.
Following both the critical and commercial success of Blake's self-titled début album, Blake released both the Enough Thunder andLove What Happened Here EPs. These EPs, noticeably more structured than his previous releases, featured more R&B tinged work as opposed to the experimental electronica found on CMYK. Many reviewers speculated in the year between releases that Blake was headed in the wrong direction, with Pitchfork's Larry Fitzmaurice saying that "James Blake's reliance on piano-based singer/songwriter electro-soul perhaps played it a bit too safe, prompting comparisons to the once-outré, now-gear spinning career of fellow avant-crooner Jamie Lidell".[3]
Blake admitted to Hot Press in an interview about Overgrown that his relationship affected the album. He said, "I can't deny it. There's no point in trying to come up with some other explanation for what I've been writing about... When it happened, I was really struck. Y'know—Suddenly I'm hit!".[4]
Earlier in 2012, Blake spent time with American rapper Kanye West and singer Justin Vernon. Their time spent together is alleged to have affected his album as many of the soul and electronic influences of West and Vernon can be seen in the first single released from Overgrown: "Retrograde". In 2012, after months of speculation, Blake announced a new collaborative non-single release under the moniker Harmonimix. This release featured British rapper Trim and the single "Confidence Boost/Saying" was released on 24 September 2012. It was a return to form for Blake and featured the distinct characteristics present in his previous efforts (Though "Confidence Boost" has been floating around on the internet for three or four years).[5]
During the final weeks of 2012, Blake performed three intimate shows where he débuted five of his new songs, the five being "Our Love Comes Back", "Overgrown", "Retrograde", "To the Last" and "Every Day I Ran."[6][7]
Blake announced via Facebook on 7 February 2013 that his second album, Overgrown, would be released on 8 April.[8] The first single from the album, "Retrograde", was débuted the same day on BBC Radio 1, and was released on 11 February.
In an interview with Oregon Music News on 23 September, Blake described his music as "melodic bass music" and also said that his dub influences extend both to the traditional dub music and garage music.
On 7 March, Blake and his labelmates at 1-800 Dinosaur released both the dub version of "Voyeur" and the album cut of "Digital Lion" featuring Brian Eno.[9]
Demdike Stare - Ishmael's Intent / (Video)
Demdike Stare is the occult project of Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Miles is also known as Modern Love’s DJ MLZ or as one half of Pendle Coven. Sean Canty is the dedicated digger behind the Haxan events and a member of the respected Finders Keepers crew of vinyl vultures.
The duo’s collaborative project tracks the sonic ley lines of cult soundtracks, Arabesque dubs and psychotomimetic ephemera with a proper Lancastrian twist.
Their releases, notable for their beautiful cover design by Andy Votel, have included Symbiosis,Liberation Through Hearing, Voices of Dust and Forest of Evil. In 2011 the latter three were compiled as Tryptych.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Rustie - 30 Minute Summer Mix (HD)
Rustie, born Russell Whyte in Glasgow, Scotland, is an electronic musician signed to Warp Records. He has also released recordings on Stuff Records, Hyperdub, Wireblock and various other labels. He released the EP Bad Science on Wireblock Records.
Belbury Poly and Spacedog - Find Me
The concluding single of Ghost Box's Study Series is due for release on 16th October. Belbury Poly collaborate with Brighton based cabaret electronics trio, Spacedog on two tracks that explore their overlapping areas of interest. The results are haunted by Jenny Angliss's mannered vocals, Sarah Angliss's elegant theremin and electronics and Jim Jupp's dusty analogue synths.
It has the usual luxurious Julian House designed packaging and comes in heavyweight vinyl. Available on 7" or download, PRE-ORDER NOW from the Ghost Box shop. (Ghost Box shop customers ordering the 7" will be entitled to a free download version on the release date.)
Fort Romeau - Desire
Fort Romeau continues to roll out thoughtfully detailed productions for Ghostly in 2013. In March, the London-based producer released the Chicago house influenced "SW9" single on Ghostly's sub-label Spectral Sound, and showed his versatile house rhythms in July with its follow-up, the Jetée / Desire single. 2014 will see his debut album for Ghostly — it's his second full-length record, with his debut album Kingdoms being released last year on LA outsider dance institution 100% Silk.
In the meantime, he continues to forge masterful house on this four-track EP, entitled Stay / True. The title track is perhaps the producer's most memorable track yet, a languorous seven-minute slow-burner that moves away from classic house territory in a more experimental direction, cruising along on a leisurely arpeggiated synth figure and a simple but effective kick/clap pattern. The more classically house-influenced "Your Light" is all tight kicks and vocoder-laden vocals, while the "Together" starts with the sound of field recordings and then drops a heavy 4/4 kick and even heavier bassline. The 12" version comes with an exclusive track ("Trust Me"), as does the digital version (the dancefloor-focused house belter "And Now").
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