Scuba - Eclipse [2010, vinyl, abucs]

may 2010

lbl: Abucs

#: ABUCS007

electronic

dubstep

320kbps

A. Eclipse

B. Tense (Ramadanman Remix)

note: nieźle, ale wiecznie na tych samych samplach. poza tym, cholera, muzyczne deja vu pierwszego stopnia, może ktoś już wcześniej do miksa wrzucał, nie wiem. remiks ramadanmana spodoba się nie do końca pozamykanym, ale pogrążonym w depresji rastamanom.
[7.3]

same samples? triple demon of addiction, depression & routine.

[ograniczam self-uploady, za dużo zgłoszeń do usunięcia, za słabe łącze, pozdrawiam]

& buy it here.

[Piccadilly Records, £ 5.99]

Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers [2010, PROMO, hotflush recordings]

19 july 2010

lbl: Hotflush Recordings

electronic

dubstep, downtempo, uk-garage, techno, acoustic

320kbps

01. Tunnelvision

02. Would Know

03. Before I Move Off

04. Blind Night Errand

05. Adriatic

06. Ruby

07. Carbonated

08. Ode to Bear

09. Field

10. Mayor

Dominic Maker & Kai Campos 

note: Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos – are set to release their highly anticipated debut album ‘Crooks & Lovers’ on Scuba’s Hotflush label in July.

Mount Kimbie’s first two EPs – ‘Maybes’ and ‘Sketch On Glass’ – seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind – albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds.

Difficult to categorise, the lush EPs caused a commotion when released last year with ‘Sketch On Glass’ recently undergoing reworks from the likes of Falty DL, SCB (Scuba’s darker techno alias) and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes (Foals and The xx) becoming hot property, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing scene in London often associated with labels like Hyperdub and Hessle Audio.

Dom and Kai met whilst at Southbank University, pushed together in a student halls that was previously a mental asylum – where the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: “a cold, joyless, concrete building – the sort of building where you’d drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo.”

Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London’s ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain – the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper’s sad-eyed glow, D’Angelo’s pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum’s Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti’s swollen ‘Twin Peaks’ atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib’s lax lope.

The band’s sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, ‘Crooks & Lovers’ floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect." - ST Holdings.

[7.3]

DOWNLOAD
[22 november 2016]

& buy it here.

[Sound Of The Universe, £ 8.99]

Ramadanman - Glut / Tempest [2010, vinyl, hemlock recordings]

april 2010

lbl: Hemlock Recordings

#: HEK008

electronic

dubstep [hypnagogic dubstep? hehe]

320kbps

A. Glut

B. Tempest

note: "Hey, look, it’s Ramadanman and he’s releasing more really good music.

‘Tempest’ first appeared on Scuba’s Sub:stance mix for Ostgut-Ton label earlier this year, and filters Ramadanman’s trademark, woodblock-heavy production through a kind of subterranean after party aesthetic, drum hits being pulled in weird, different ways. Ikonika, Gemmy and more talk about making synths sing, but on ‘Tempest’, it’s the drums that add variation to the straight-forward main pulse and ambient flutters. They’re almost virtuoso.

If ‘Tempest’ draws comparisons with Ramadanman’s 2009 single under his Pearson Sound name, ‘Wad’, then ‘Glut’ finds kinship in his future 12” for Swamp 81, ‘Work Them’, not to mention ghetto-house with its stripped down drum machine beat and R’n’B samples that are almost jarring when they first come in. Of course, this is Ramadanman, and the track doesn’t take long to become mournful with a nostalgic synthline. Which is followed by some serious sub hits and an old school breakdown, in case I’m making this sound like it’s anything other than a dancefloor killer." - Tom Lea, FACT Mag.

atmosferyczny, gęsty step, taki fragmencik przesłodkiego 'selected ambient works' po dubstepowemu.

[7.3]


yt preview:

space glut

& buy it here or maybe...

[Rush Hour Store NL, €9.50 ; Rubadub,  £5.99]

Ramadanman & Midland - Your Words Matter [2010, vinyl, aus music]

may 2010

lbl: Aus Music

#: AUS1027

electronic

house, uk garage

320kbps

A. Your Words Matter

B. More Than You Know

note: "Although London producer Ramadanman has made a name for himself as one of the founders of the excellent Hessle Audio imprint, today he is releasing a single on another label, the similarly high-quality Aus Music. Made in tandem with his old friend Midland, "Your Words Matter/More Than You Know" finds Ramadanman exploring dancier territory than usual and delving into some classic garage sounds, not that we're complaining." - xlr8r news.

7.3

yt preview:

dubstep goes around the corner

[HF, fixed / 5 may 2010]

buy it here.

[Boomkat, £8.99]

Kowton - Basic Music Knowledge [2010, vinyl, idle03]

may 2010

lbl: Idle Hands

#: IDLE003

electronic

house, uk garage

320kbps

A.  Basic Music Knowledge

B.  Hunger

note: "For some time now, Bristol has been a torchbearer for the deeper, more cultured side of UK bass music, with a gaggle of top-notch labels—Tectonic, Punch Drunk, Apple Pips and Immerse, primarily—spewing out quality releases with alarming regularity. Idle Hands, which runs out of the town's much-loved Rooted Records, looks to be no exception, having already graced us with two excellent 12-inches, and now this: young Joe Cowton's second release under his Kowton moniker, and most likely the darkest slab of slow house-meets-UKG you'll hear all year.

A-side "Basic Music Knowledge" sounds like something the Pink Panther would come up with after a heavy night out with the Workshop crew, its plodding bass and slinky hats establishing a suavely sinister groove. Chugging away at a sleazy 115 BPM, a muffled 4/4 kick—submerged deep in the mix—keeps it all locked together, while a chirpy, chipmunky female vocal evokes garage's champagne-swilling glory days (albeit minus the champagne, or the glory). B-side "Hunger" plunges fathoms deeper, losing a couple of BPM and ramping up the bass, which, aside from clickety hats and sparse, menacing FX, is all the track really consists of. It's amazing what 2-step sounds like at this tempo—tense, sweaty, claustrophobic—and that it works so well is just reward for Kowton's dark, daring approach." - Max Bacharach, RA.

7.3

aqueous haze

[HF]

buy it here.

[Honest Jon's, £5.99]

Take - Only Mountain [2010, file, alpha pup]

april 2010

lbl: Alpha Pup

#: APR-028

electronic

wonky, dubstep, hip-hop

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

1. Before You Think

2. Neon Beams

3. Horizontal Figuration

4. Crystallia

5. Don't Look Now

6. Quartz for Amber

7. If We Don't All Go Insane

8. Begin End Begin

9. Incredibright

10. Creosote (feat. As Is)

11. Paper Garden

12. Implosions

13. Juniper

note: "LA's Alpha Pup label continues to dominate the leftfield beat world with a top class LP from Take. His style has become established alongside figures like Ras G, Onra or Nosaj Thing of late with a blend of electro-leaning synthlines and lop-sided beats nudged with that sun-drenched LA flavour. You know the sort of stuff that makes you dance like a spaceman in slow motion? 'Only Mountain' collects 13 variations on this theme, keeping the vibes pressure-crushed and smudgy for psychedelic effect, at times like 'Horizontal Figuration' or the remake of Bullion's 'Payroll' remix flicking the anti-gravity button for a gorgeously heady effect or on 'Quartz For Amber' dropping more terrestrial sub bumps and android dream-sequences to keep us anchored. This is really delicious album for fans of Illum Sphere, the whole Beat Dimensions lot and that plugged-in electro-soul dream arena. "

payroll consulting

[ORON]

buy it here. [file, Boomkat]

Gene Hunt - Cancemnini EP [2010, vinyl, hour house is your rush records]

9 april 2010

lbl: Hour House Is Your Rush Records

#: HHYR 9

electronic

house, detroit

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

A1. Gyro Jazz  

A2. I Know You Care  

B1. Xylo Maze  

B2. Misty Falls

_
total time: 25:03


note: "We welcome Chicago house veteran Gene Hunt to HHYR. With this great 4 track EP Gene shows us he still has the touch. This EP includes three deep, yet raw tracks somewhere between jacking Chicago and classic Detroit. It reminds us of tracks by Boo Williams, Glenn Underground etc. Special mention goes out to ‘I Know You Care’, which is a lush disco track." - distributor.

d-shaped box

[HF]

buy it here. 

[official, Rush Hour Store, €7.99]

Douglas Greed - St. Eisbein EP [2010, vinyl, freude am tanzen]

16 march 2010

lbl: Freude Am Tanzen

#: FAT046

electronic

tech-house, minimal techno

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

a. Marcel

b1. Lick Of Authority

b2. Oh My!

_
total time: 19:34




note: "The Swinging-Tech-Emo of the Fat-lings beats again. Black streaks and Kajal give it the highest order of beats, this side of the scene. The flag rocking the banner of melancholy can be danced to! This time only on the B2 part is the piece fully formed. The other two gold nuggets twinkle with that special doughy touch, which also infect the live sets. A clear depth swings with Greedís production constantly, dwarfed only by the sun. The streaks jump out with courageous bass, snippets of melancholy, voices, and bounce for the clubs."

sunshine drama

[HF]

buy it here. [KOMPAKT.FM, 7,80 €]

RxRy - RxRy [2010, file]

2010

electronic

ambient, techno

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

note: "RxRy is a recording project of some kind, and that’s all I can say, unburdened as I am by direct association with him/her/them/it(?). He/she/they/it(?) produce ambient-dub-pop (in order of generic significance) par excellence and in a satisfying variety. On his/her/their/its(?) self-titled LP some songs are underpinned by a ringing cascade of drone, progressing relatively slowly through distinctive stages. Others are more urgent, characterized by a heavier and more consistent beat. For the most part though, each song is itself quite internally varied, becoming individual microcosms of the album itself."

awake but still asleep

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T++ - Wireless [2010, 2 x vinyl, honest jon's records]

april 2010

lbl: Honest Jon's Records

#: HJP49

electronic

dubstep, experimental

~128kbps [only version] & .flac

tourmaline [7.3]

1.Cropped

2. Anyi

3. Voices No Bodies

4. Dig

_
total time: 29:00

producer: Torsten Profrock

note: "Since its 2005 debut, Torsten Profrock's T++ project has grown in stature and scope to the point where it's admired by fans of techno, dubstep, d'n'b and experimental electronics alike, and annexed by none. Anchored in the kind of scuffed, sub-heavy atmospherics Profrock developed in his 90s recordings for Chain Reaction, and naturally influenced by his work with Robert Henke as Monolake, the sound of T++ is singular, always evolving, difficult to fix. 

But now we come to the end. Wireless will be the last work the Berliner produces under that name. Appropriately enough, it's his most expressive, energetic and fully-realised work, affirming the enduring fundamentals of the T++ aesthetic even as it steers it into uncharted climes. 

Long ago snagged by the rhythmic innovations of the post-jungle underground, here Profrock makes explicit his debt to the radical fringe of UK garage. Snapping 2-step rhythms are at the heart of all four tracks; for all the distress, deconstruction and detournement they undergo at his hands, the spirit and swing of the British soundsystem tradition is unmistakable. 

Further, Wireless is a kind of remix, a commission, shot through with the contorted samples of voice and ndingidi from a handful of old East African 78s (collected on a forthcoming Honest Jon's compilation). 

The result is a record that sounds at once ancient and modern, possessing a unique tonal language, and with it a curious, almost occult power. " - distributor.

african garage
[update: 27 march 2016]

buy it here. 

[official, £7.99]

The Black Dog - Music For Real Airports [2010, 3 x vinyl, soma quality recordings]

10 may 2010

lbl: Soma Quality Recordings

#: somatbd003

electronic

dark ambient, idm, ambient

320kbps

tourmaline [7.3]

A1. M1

A2. Terminal EMA

B3. DISinformation Desk

B4. Passport Control

B5. Wait Behind This Line

C6. Empty Seat Calculations

C7. Strip Light Hate

D8. Future Delay Thinking

D9. Lounge

D10. Delay 9

E11.   Sleep Deprivation 1

E12. Sleep Deprivation 2

F13. He Knows

F14. Business Car Park 9

note: "Don’t call it a come-back. After The Black Dog’s Music For Adverts (And Short Films) in 1996, Ken Downie took a well-deserved break from the music industry. Nowadays, he collaborates with Martin and Richard Dust. These ambient tracks, already out on limited-edition vinyl and scheduled for CD release next month, are part of a multimedia project with Human, but they stand well on their own.

While the album’s title obviously refers to Brian Eno’s 1978 album, The Black Dog take a different approach. This is music about a space rather than for it. Many of the compositions were created while waiting in airports, which makes for some uneasy listening. Field recordings guide listeners on a journey from roadway to curb-side to terminal.

On “M1,” traffic noise mixes with long, cool drones. “Terminal EMA” is tense. Minor lower-register chords shift and voices babble. “DISinformation Desk” introduces beats. They are quick and distorted—a rising tide of dread in a traveler’s head. “Passport Control,” on the other hand, is an exercise in breath control with a sigh of relief at the end.

“Wait Behind This Line” provides a welcome respite, with a slow bass heartbeat and beautiful strings. “Empty Seat Calculations” and “Strip Light Hate” both bring beats and heavy bass. Clattering vibrations on the former evoke excitement more than loathing. “Delay 9” is a calming presence. Piano and strings play a delicate melody. The beginning and end are studies in background noise—the echoes of countless people.

Fittingly, “Sleep Deprivation,” divided into two parts, is the album’s deepest section. Part one is brooding dub techno that seems to stretch longer than its five minutes. Part two is beatless with a bass drone and treble repetition. It evokes late night well (even if I listen to it at noon).

The final track, “Business Car Park 9,” guides us back to the real world. Synths sing over a slow beat. Mid-morning feels like dawn as our eyes adjust to the light. For a concept album, this music has wonderful depth. Maybe air travel isn’t so bad, with The Black Dog’s accompaniment." - Gridface.

dark fog

[fixed / 13 april 2010, 4shared]

buy it here. [official]