Flying Lotus - Caravan of Delight

FlyLo makes a contribution to Busy P and DJ Medhi's Let The Children Techno, out today off the Frenchmen's Ed Banger label.

Soft and soothing, it has a unique place in the compilation.




Tracklist:
01 Mr. Oizo: "Let the Children Techno"
02 Busy P: "Procrastinator"
03 Duke Dumont: "Hipgnosis"
04 Siriusmo: "Idiot"
05 Para One & Tacteel "Infinity Riser (Remix of Bernard Fevre's Dali)"
06 Breakbot: "Shades of Black"
07 Sebastian: "Enio"
08 Mattie Safer: "Is That Your Girl?" [ft. Telli from Ninjasonik]
09 Gesaffelstein: "The Voice"
10 Cassius: "Shark Simple (L-VIS 1990 & the Neon Dreams Remix)"
11 Djedjotronic: "The Invisible Landscape"
12 Discodeine: "Grace"
13 Feadz: "Far From Home" [ft. Claude Violante]
14 Brodinski & Tony Senghore: "Anagogue"
15 Bobmo: "Control"
16 Zombie Nation: "Relax"
17 Riton: "One Night Stand"
18 Skream: "Boat Party"
19 DJ Medhi: "TragicoMehdi"
20 Flying Lotus: "Caravan of Delight"


Buy it on iTunes or Beatport.

2562

Producer Dave Huismans, hailing from The Hague and based in Berlin, will see a successful year in 2011 with the release of 'Fever' by his dubstep/tech-leaning 2562 (twenty-five sixty-two) project, off his new When In Doubt label this April. Huisman's fourth LP, and third as 2562 (occasionally he produces under his A Made Up Sound or Dogdaze projects), this one's bound to raise plenty of interested eyebrows--and this is what sets him apart from the heaping mass of bassmongers with touch and go production. Huismans is onnavolgbaar--inimitable.     









The Fever LP sampler was released last week on the 10th, and was limited to 300 copies of blue 10" pressings with screenprinted sleeves, and the lead singles, 'Aquatic Family Affair' and 'This is Hardcore', are made completely of samples from late 70s and early 80s vinyl disco releases, as is the rest of the aptly named Fever--an exacting exhibition of future-thinking sound. 


"[It's] a thorough reinterpretation of underground disco music from the mid-seventies to the early eighties, with his own birth year 1979 as the gravitational point.” (via FACT)
  
2562 - Aquatic Family Affair (doubt000 A) by 2562 / A Made Up Sound


2562 - This Is Hardcore (doubt000 AA) by 2562 / A Made Up Sound

Tracklist:

1. Winamp Melodrama
2. Cheater
3. Juxtapose
4. Aquatic Family Affair
5. Intermission
6. Flavour Park Jam
7. This Is Hardcore
8. Brasil Deadwalker
9. Final Frenzy
10. Wasteland
11. Fever

UDPATE: Stream Fever in full over at FACT!

Previous releases on Tectonic Recordings and 3024 (as well as Clone and Delsin a.o.) saw an orientation more house/techno-bound, but of course his style has no inherent formula, just a hint of Basic Channel and that slowly emerging fusion of techno proper, UK garage, and soulful dubstep (maybe previously oxymoronic in terminology) that names colleagues like Peverelist, T++, Shackleton, and fellow Netherlander, Martyn. Huisman's sound caught the ear of Rob Ellis at Bristol’s Tectonic label, and his debut album Aerial (2008) was quite galvanizing for his career. It was something fresh in a volley of what was becoming a hackneyed genre already; Aerial was an introduction to the Dutch dubstep scene. 

While his 2009 release Unbalance gives Aerial a run for its money, it is further proof of his attention to design and texture. Much more than the sum of addends, it created a space for like-minded music to thrive, and fleshed out a meaning for "experimental" dubstep.








Check out his recent podcast for XLR8R and mix for Wax Treatment.

Twat him on twitter.

Follow him on SoundCloud.


2562 North American Tour Dates 
16-Feb - Boston, MA (Bassic) - Goodlife
18-Feb - Atlanta, GA - The Sound Table
19-Feb - San Juan, PR - Red Shield
25-Feb - Los Angeles, CA (Muse vs Smog) - Medusa Lounge
27-Feb - San Francisco, CA (Bionic) - Club 222
01-Mar - Santa Cruz, CA - Cafe Mare
02-Mar - Seattle, WA (Decibel Presents) - Baltic Room
04-Mar - Brooklyn, NY (Blkmkt Membership) - Underground Event
06-Mar - Montreal, QC - Salon Daome

New Single From Kode9 and the Spaceape

As you may have inevitably read everywhere, Scottish producer and Hyperdub label head (and philosophy doctorate holder) Steve Goodman aka Kode9, along with frequently collaborating MC the Spaceape, are putting out a follow-up to their 2006 release, Memories of the Future, this April. Our bladders are weak with excitement, yes.

Black Sun is expected to be an exhibition of the unfettered stylistic range the brothers-in-collaboration are known for, often leg-dangling on a fence between genres--but always proving ambilateral mastery.

The lead single 'Otherman' is a precursive number: Spaceape's streamlined dub-minded rhyming through interference behind vacillating synth drone-built broken cords. Massive.

The b-side, 'Love is the Drug', features Shanghai vocalist Cha Cha, who appears on 4 tracks on the LP.





Black Sun drops April 4th (UK) and April 5th (US). Pre-order it on cargorecords.

Tracklist:

01 Black Smoke [ft. Cha Cha]
02 Promises
03 Am I
04 Love Is the Drug [ft. Cha Cha]
05 Neon Red Sign [ft. Cha Cha]
06 The Cure [ft. Cha Cha]
07 Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Mix)
08 Hole in the Sky
09 Otherman
10 Green Sun
11 Bullet Against Bone
12 Kryon [ft. Flying Lotus]

And because producers in academia should always be applauded, check Dr. Goodman's book on psychoacoustics and his idea of "politics of frequency", Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, published in 2009 by MIT Press. 

We're New Here

New year, new blog--we're all new here. Now for new music ::

Jamie xx's full-length remix album of soul God/ spoken word legend/ poet Gil Scott-Heron's last February release, I'm New Here, is available to stream in its entirety. A singular voice reinterpreted by a singular producer. 



Ahem. Someone should check that faucet (hint hint)!


The album drops February 22 in the U.S. and February 21 in the UK on the XL/Young Turks label. 

Interview with Jamie here via Pitchfork.


Tracklist ::

1. I’m New Here
2. Home
3. I’ve Been Me (Interlude)
4. Running
5. My Cloud
6. Certain Things (Interlude)
7. The Crutch
8. Ur Soul and Mine
9. Parents (Interlude)
10. Piano Player
11. NY Is Killing Me
12. Jazz (Interlude)
13. I’ll Take Care Of U


Here's my fave track which doubles as a take on Scott-Heron's "Your Soul and Mine" and Rui Da Silva's classic "Touch Me" ::



NY is Killing Me and I'll Take Care of U, for virgin ears (should there be any left) ::







Listen to a new track by Jamie xx, Far Nearer ::

jamie xx - far nearer by Artschoolvets

Sidenote ::

Those that know me personally will be happy to see I found a (somewhat trite) way to marry my two passions in life: music and linguistics; I put out my first mix under a new handle--Semiotics. By "put out" I mean that I hope more than 4 people will listen to it! If you've heard earlier versions of the mix, you'll find I've made many edits--this is the final version! I'm still learning how to use Ableton and tried to let my taste speak louder than my execution ::

Semiotics - For AM Mix by GammaRay (Semiotics)

Tracklist ::

Amon Tobin // Lost & Found (Ninja Tune) 

Amon Tobin // Horsefish (Ninja Tune) 

Amon Tobin // Horsefish (Semiotics' Minerals revamp)
Scuba // Seeing Birds (Moon) (Semiotics' Bluez revamp) 

2562 // Who Are You Fooling (Tectonic)
Koreless // M.T.I. (Semiotics' Yes No revamp)
Mumdance // Sacrifice (Mad Decent) 

Mumdance // Don't Forget Me Now (Mad Decent)
Damu // Skinnydipper (Silverback) 

Solar Bears // Twin Stars (Lone rmx) (Planet Mu)
Floating Points // J&W Beat (Eglo) 

Nicki Minaj Interlude 

2562 // Kameleon (Tectonic)
jj // Ecstasy (Semiotics' Kameleon revamp) 

Nosaj Thing // Fog (Jamie xx rmx) (Semiotics' Kameleon revamp) 

Digital Mystikz // Anti War Dub (DMZ) 

Blawan // Fram (Hessle Audio)
Gucci Mane // Missing (Melé remix) (Grizzly) 

Gucci Mane // Brand New (Rustie remix) (Grizzly)
Nicki Minaj // Did It On Em (Semiotics' Trickstep/Say Stupid Things revamp)
SBTRKT // Ready, Set, Loop (SBTRKT 001)

I predict favorites will be my remixes of Koreless' M.T.I. and Nicki Minaj's Did It On Em.

Listen to it, favorite it, comment on it, dl it--it's good music and it's free. I'm an amateur, but one with good taste.

"The amateur, a role defined much more by a style than by a technical imperfection, is no longer anywhere to be found; the professionals, pure specialists whose training remains entirely esoteric for the public...never offer that style of the perfect amateur...touching off in us not satisfaction but desire, the desire to make that music." 

- Roland Barthes, "Musica Practica", Image, Music, Text