Daniel Stefanik - Starless [2006, vinyl, statik entertainment]

26 april 2006
lbl: Statik Entertainment
#: Statik 21
electronic
techno, dub, minimal
320kbps


tracklist:

A.		Starless
B.		Growth

note: deep, pulsating dub-mantra inspired by dc's spheric manipulations.

stardust
[fixed / 17 march 2010]


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DJ Krush - Kakusei [1998, cd, SMEJ Associated Records]

Indian grocery by Sylvain Jézéquel


9 september 1998
lbl: SMEJ Associated Records
#: AICT 25
electronic, hip-hop
instrumental, abstract, downtempo
256kbps


tracklist:

1.		Intro
2.		Escapee
3.		Parallel Distortion
4.		Inorganizm
5.		Deltaforest
6.		Crimson
7.		The Dawn
8.		Interlude
9.		85 Loop
10.		Rust
11.		1200
12.		Krushed Wall
13.		The Kinetics
14.		Final Home
15.		No More
16.		Outro

note: hh classic.
"The beats are just schizophrenic enough to hold your attention, but not crazy enough to make it unlistenable. Just when the mood starts to slip into typically gloomy trip-hop, he injects some of his infamous tongue-in-cheek samples.

He also includes some excellent tracks which showcase his innovative scratching, something he hasn't done on the last couple of albums.

Hip-hop, just like every other genre, has been riding a downwards spiral towards mainstream mundanity since it's underground roots. But every once in a while, an album like this comes along that convinces me that the true spirit of innovation and fun is still around." - theunderbob.

to the beat

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Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah [2005, cd, burial mix]

march 2005
lbl: Burial Mix
#: BMD-4
electronic, reggae
dub
.FLAC


tracklist:

1.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Willi Williams	See Mi Yah
2.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Cotton	Dem Never Know
3.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Koki	Rise And Praise
4.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Freddy Mellow	Truly
5.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Rod Of Iron	Lightning Storm
6.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Sugar Minott	Let Jah Love Come
7.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Walda Gabriel	Boss Man
8.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Bobbo Shanti	Poor People Must Work
9.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Ras Donovan & Ras Perez	Let We Go
10.	Rhythm & Sound w/ Paul St. Hilaire	Free For All
11.	Rhythm & Sound	See Mi Version

note: flakiem rzucam w snobów, ale i dzielę się dziedzictwem natury. fresh rip-off.

almighty, jah, jah!

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Opto - 2nd [2004, cd, hobby industries]

august 2004
lbl: Hobby Industries
#: HI 016
electronic
abstract, experimental, minimal
256kbps


tracklist:

1.		04.34 a.m.
2.		10.45 a.m.
3.		02.12 p.m.
4.		06.18 p.m.
5.		10.11 p.m.
6.		05.10 a.m.
7.		11.33 a.m.
8.		04.24 p.m.
9.		08.07 p.m.
10.		11.45 p.m.

note: '‘2nd’ is a follow up to ‘Optofiles’, released by the raster-noton label back in 2001. Back in early 2003 Nicolai found an old battered cassette in a forest, north east of Berlin. The tape contained almost inaudible lo-fi recordings of someone playing small guitar pieces intermingled with an unusual forest ambience - noises that would become the template for ‘2nd’. Nicolai got help from assistants to restore the recordings of the found magnetic audiotape and passed the guitar files to thomas who started working on beat structures, eventually adding recordings of a nearby forest to further widen the scope of the project. these recordings were made at different hours during two days, hence the tracktitles - guiding you through 48 hours in about 40 minutes. The result is a haunting, mesmerising siesta, dense and intense static crumbling into a crisp grain of acoustic sounds, traces of piano and loose limbed guitar. If you can imagine a cross between Snd and Max Richter, or maybe Ryoji Ikeda and Sylvain Chauveau, you'll have an idea of what to expect.'

knak, knock

[fixed link, 19 sept. 09]

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Quantec / Sven Weisemann / Remote_ - Simplicity Is The Key [2008, cdr, smallfish records]

Von Borkus The Spice Trader by Ismael "Izzy" Medrano


7 april 2008
lbl: Smallfish Records
#: fish8cm-18
electronic
dub, techno, minimal
320kbps


tracklist:

1	Quantec	Gloaming
2	Sven Weisemann	Floatation Verb
3	Remote_	Tracing Lines

note: rewelacyjna kolaboracja trzech wyjadaczy nowoczesnego dubu, każdy z nich tchnie do produkcji unikalne dla siebie flow: quantec rozpuszcza chłodne przestrzenie, eksploatowane między innymi na świetnym unusual signals, weisemann urządza szczytowy popływ swojego vibe, z finezją konstruując specyficzny, techdubowy lounge, a remote spina minialbum piękną, chmurzastą klamrą. dopieszczona nuta, srogi czil i zajebiste dopełnienie wieczoru!

fluffy vibe in the clouds
[fixed once again]

[extremely hard to get, edition of 100 copies]

Millie & Andrea - Black Hammer / Gunshot [2008, vinyl, daphne]

2008
lbl: Daphne
#: Daphne 001
electronic
dubstep, techno, dub
vbr ~200kbps


tracklist:

A.		Black Hammer
B.		Gunshot (Stripped)

note: ‘Black Hammer’ has a Martyn-ish style with a sawing synthline that together with a vocal sample makes this track essential. The fast paced unexpected use of the samples keeps you hooked as the track progresses – weirdness in a really good sense.

‘Gunshot’ is much darker production that resembles a bit of Shackleton and a bit of some nice dark techno, the synths sounds like raindrops over a deep, deep bassline with a kick that just drowns in all the sounds that are falling in from everywhere.'

it's heavy!

[fixed link]

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Hallucinator - Frontier [2000, vinyl, chain reaction]

november 2000
lbl: Chain Reaction
#: CR-33
electronic
dub, techno, ambient, experimental
256kbps


tracklist:

A1.		Frontier
A2.		Rainmaker (Sudan II)
B.		Kilimanjaro

note: experimental, spheric sound from berlin. classic.

kilimanjaro ensemble

[fixed link, 19 sep. 2009]

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Nicolas Repac - Swing - Swing [2004, cd, no format]

2004
lbl: No Format
#: NOF2
electronic, jazz
swing, jazz
vbr ~256kbps


tracklist:

1.		Revue Noire
2.		Swinging In The Rain
3.		La Pègre
4.		The End Of A Love Affair (Billie In The Sky
5.		Drum Rain
6.		Les Années Folles
7.		Swing Swing
8.		The Drummer
9.		Black Musette
10.		Tambours Battants
11.		Négro Digital
12.		La Nuit Mène Une Existence Obscure
13.		Be Bop Vaudoo
14.		The Dancer
15.		Harlem Jungle
16.		Tant Qu'il Y Aura Des Étoiles
17.		Soul Computer

note: 'Swing Swing is a record as magnificent as it is difficult to place, with electro ramblings around jazz (its subjects and virtues, its spirit and memory), wanderings that are playful, light, fluid in gesture and crammed with ideas, discoveries and intuition; they are at once naïve and instinctive (Repac is an erudite amateur, the Ferdinand Cheval of the already-established world of electronic music), and extremely elaborate in their crushed samples, hallucinatory, rhythmic whirls and sensual, dreamlike atmospheres. There is nothing solemn or sluggish in this evocation of love; it is, rather, an unique way (though you wouldn't think so to see him at work, with that special manner he has of "settling" himself in his times with an unstable balance) of questioning what they call swing - and of offering it, in all humility, a whole range of possible futures.'

let's swing, yea

[fixed, 23 sep. 2009]

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Super Minerals - The Pelagics [2008, cd, stunned records]

27 may 2008
lbl: Stunned Records
#: no. 07
electronic
ambient, drone, experimental
vbr ~200kbps


tracklist:

1.		Photic
2.		Mesopelagic
3.		Bathyal
4.		Abyssal
5.		Hadal

note: from killed in cars blogspot: 'I think that this cover is very fitting, because while this is a nominally ambient record, there is quite a lot of activity to be had here. Indeed, the sounds evolve throughout, you'll hear themes expanded upon, often until they dominate the scene, only to be subsumed by tiny sounds that were developing off-stage for part of the time. Each point of the pieces is different from the previous one, yet there seems to be a seamless transition from moment to moment. This is quickly becoming my favorite ambientrecord of the last few years.'

draw a wave
[fixed link]

extremely hard to get [limited to 50 copies].

Lump - LumpDub [2006, cd, future dub]

24 march 2006
lbl: Future Dub
#: FD 05-CD
electronic
dub, techno, minimal
vbr ~224kbps


tracklist:

1.		Dub Lonely Man
2.		Dub Don't Bite
3.		Dub Wire
4.		Dub Unity
5.		Dub Under
6.		Dub Below Zero
7.		Dub Save Me
8.		Dub Other Side
9.		Dub Pure Love
10.		Dub Intuition
11.		Kohina#3

note: ''LumpDub' is a throaty trip through the wires that balances a fragile breed of minimalism with dubby-goodness, resulting in a dark and syrupy treat.'

O/I

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Demdike Stare - Symbiosis [2009, cd, modern love]

by Kris Kuksi

september 2009
lbl: Modern Love
Electronic
dub, techno, experimental, dark ambient, drone, movie effects
320kbps


tracklist:

1. Suspicious Drone

2. Haxan Dub

3. Regressor

4. All Hallows Eve feat. Danny Norbary

5. Jannisary

6. Haxan

7. Extwistle Hall

8. Trapped Dervish

9. Nothing But The Night

10. Conjoined

11. Ghostly Hardware

note: przed premierą zapowiadałam:

Pod aliasem Demdike Stare ukaże się najnowszy album Milesa Whittaker'a, artysty kojarzonego ze świetnymi projektami nurtu dub-techno: Pendle Coven oraz MLZ, muzyk współpracuje ze znanym na wyspach kolekcjonerem płyt - Sean'em Cantym.

Projekt nosi nazwę najpopularniejszej wiedźmy Pendle Hill: Elizabeth Southerns, aka Demdike, artyści wskazują również na bogate odniesienia do literatury Williama Burroughsa, a muzycznie - nawet do Miki Vainio.

Brzmienie krążka zatytułowanego 'Symbiosis' będzie ściśle spokrewnione z tym, do czego przyzwyczaił nas Pendle Coven, zainspirowane kulturą industrialu, wyważone soczystymi, organicznymi teksturami, pełne misternie zbudowanych przestrzeni zatopionych w gęstej, ezoterycznej duchocie.

Na płycie usłyszymy bogato obsypany samplami wyciętymi ze ścieżek dźwiękowych filmów tureckich, indyjskich, irańskich, afrykańskich i karaibskich - egzotyczny konglomerat potężnych skandynawskich dronów, klasycznego house'u, chłodnego noise'u oraz masywnego dub-techno.

po premierze napisałam:


zupełnie tak jak zapowiadali! są sample wycięte ze ścieżek dźwiękowych filmów azjatyckich, jest drone, occult house i nuta noise'u, jest również massive sound, wszystko na swoim miejscu, hehe!

mamy do czynienia z koncept albumem, lub tworem bardzo swobodnie zahaczającym o konceptualizm, album świetnie oddaje atmosferę okolic płodnej w artystów dub techno [mlz, aquatec, demdike stare, pendle coven] góry pendle hill, zabiera w podróż w dotychczas nieznane klimaty angielskiego okultyzmu, przenosi w centrum akcji podczas nietypowego - bo z gościnnym udziałem miki vainio [grzyby&telepatia?] wraz z żoną elektroniką - szabatu czarownic. całość okrasza dość nietypowe jak na realia dubu brzmienie wyrwane żywcem z orientalnych filmów.

be my witch!
11 11 2014

Autechre - Quaristice [Versions] [2008, cd, warp records]

3 march 2008
lbl: Warp Records
#: WarpCD333X
Electronic
glitch, experimental, idm, ambient, abstract
.FLAC


tracklist:

1. Altichyre (1:43) 2. The PlclCpC (9:18) 3. IO (mons) (7:52) 4. Phylopn (2:40) 5. Perlence range 3 (7:37) 6. SonDEre-ix (3:27) 7. Tankraken (5:28) 8. fol4 (11:41) 9. 90101-61-01 (5:10) 10. chenc9-x (8:28) 11. nofour (4:24)

note: pamiętacie quaristice? q versions to zupełnie inna jakość, niedopowiedziane utwory z quaristice rozwijają się pięknie, zostały sprowadzone na właściwe tory, tkwił w nich ukryty potencjał!

I O (Mons), IO podobał mi się już na Quaristice, jako łamigłówka autystycznego dziecka, coś jak wcześniej Melve, błaha dysharmonia, dziwaczny klimat, na Versions mamy do czynienia z inną szkołą jazdy - zapnijcie pasy, nadciąga prawdziwy acid.

quaristice once again in correct version

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Fluxion - Inductance EP [2009, vinyl, echocord]

august 2009
lbl: Echocord
#: echocord 039
Electronic
dub, tech-house
320kbps


tracklist:

A.		Inductance
B.		Elation

note: kontynuacja słonecznej epopei.

elation, revelation

[fixed, 23 sep. 2009]

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Unknown Artist - Mandragora EP [2009, vinyl]

Released: August 2009
Label: Not On Label
Cat #: 1XA 001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Techno
Bitrate: VBR ~192kbps


Tracklist:

A.		Mandragora 1
B.		Mandragora 2

note: enigmatic alias of Quantec.

take that mandragora root & ginseng

[fixed, 23 sep. 2009]

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Deuce - Deuce EP [2009, vinyl, ostgut tonträger]

Released: May 2009
Label: Ostgut Tonträger
Cat #: o-ton 25
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Bitrate: 320kbps

Tracklist:

A.		Twerp Wiz
B1.		Guttering
B2.		Cue Ed

note: As Deuce, Shed and Dettmann indulge their purist impulses more than ever before, creating what is probably the most brutal record in either producer's catalogue.

holy fire.

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