Quick & Smart [myspace] has been busy lately! I've dug out two remixes that are out right now and require us all to play them often and play them loud! This one in particular stands out. It needs to be heard as there's no way I could describe what he's done.
Philip Ryan is one of those guys whose taste I enjoy quite thoroughly. It can go off into territory a little deep for my tastes from time to time, but when you get right down to it he seems to love the old Detroit Bleep and Chicago Jack just as much as I do.
Some of you may even remember way back when he cooked up a Bleep show.
The haul back up into the saddle has begun.
I've got my heart set on keeping it loud and abrasive for the next month or so at least. I've finally weened myself off of my less distorted shelves of music. Of course the bevy of new releases in the last month or two have helped swing back over. In a span of only 2 months just about every Label or Artist that I enjoy has put something new out. Those releases have led to some marathon jams here at home and it's only going to get better.
Check the A1 track by Ottosiderspunk! Those vocals rock. This may be the first track since 'Sadened' on Ghettofuck 01 that I just leave in my bag no matter what due it's versatility and quality. A definite thumbs up vote from the FitM camp on this one.
After months (indeed years) of planning, Veto finally unleashes it's new flagship electro/breaks label ‘Fleeced' upon the world, and is rightly proud to have reclusive electro genius Letroset on board for this stunning first release. After his much sought after ‘New Plastic EP' , released in 2003 on Atak records (watch this space for a re-release!), and then teaser-tracks on Kracktronik and Point.One Recordings , Mark Warren (aka Letroset) finally presents us with a whole new EP of tracks. Soak up his unique 8-bit funk ! Marvel in his stupendous feats of editing ! And glory in 4 whole new tracks …because it may well be 4 years before you get to hear more (well, actually I believe that Point.One may have an EP lined up as well, and of course there is the upcoming re-release of the ‘New Plastic EP' on Fleeced, but that's another story…)
For those of you who dig the [K]rack-troni[k] releases that are more Bleep heavy than Bass heavy than this EP --or most of it at least-- is for you. The A1 track 'Edit Flash' takes the cake in my books.
It's a rare day when you find a Jamie Lidell live-set!
I think at this stage, having heard only the poo-poo little samples I'm siding with A1 being the boat rocker. Mustard Gunn has himself a tidy little operation going on here. keep at 'er boy-o!
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Scratch that. The samples are arriving in my inbox now...
Update: Now Available!
Breakin' is 50. Well, if you include all the MPC Trax releases, we've actually done over 60 releases, but anyway, 50 is a nice round number so we're celebrating by releasing five of DMX Krew's best ever tracks pulled from the vaults and pressed up on a limited edition slab of clear vinyl. Ed DMX dips his toes into many musical streams, this time around the vibe is to take classic beatboxes and a room full of analogue synths and make a different kind of techno. Listen and you will hear echoes of classic house and techno mixed up with warm melodies and experimental edits...
SH101 triggers MS10 - Raw analogue house/funk music. The synths are just barely under control, cables and sparks flying everywhere.
Loch Ness monster - Warped techno monster from the deep. Early Rephlex vibes for more daring dancefloors.
Drums & trumpets - More raw modular synth vibes. Melody and counterpoint over a heavily stomping Roland 707 beat.
New Star broadcasting station - Something strange and melancholy coming in over the airwaves. More ideas and funkiness in 98 seconds than most techno artists manage on a whole EP.
Molten analogue - A couple of summers ago it was so hot you could burn your hand on the drum machine. The studio was like a sauna and the synths wouldn't stay in tune but we recorded them anyway.
I would have preferred it if more tracks in the same vein as 'Loch Ness Monster' were grabbed for this EP, but that wouldn't have been very representative of them would it? Maybe it's a good thing I'm not in charge. As usual from the Krew, some right tough beats that fool the ears at home and make you believe it's some sissy weepy trackage. until you hear it nice and loud of course. That's when the revelation occurs..
It seems to us that ‘hard techno' is getting a bit of a bad name recently…and it's not hard to see why. A genre that has traditionally been one of the more forward looking in terms of sound design and inventiveness has increasingly been hijacked by the super-high bpm schranz & hard-house brigade, and it's now very difficult to find decent hard techno producers that haven't moved over to the more lucrative minimal/electro-house market. Well look no further. Iron Oxide continues to push the envelope with both new and well-established producers that aren't afraid to nudge the meters well into the red, and the first part of ‘Rude and awake' features highly creative (but also slamming) contributions from relative newcomer Spewis, long-time noisemaker Bjorn Svin, and one of the very few female hard techno producers, Esther Ofei. Together they make a glorious noise, from Spewis's energetically edited bleep-a-thon to Esther's kick-heavy arcade-zapping thumper, via Svin's typically gnarly drum workout. All on a rather spiffing slab of orange & black vinyl. Essential gear for dark techno warehouses…
I generally agree with what's said here. It IS difficult to find good harder Techno these days. There are spats of releases, but nothing solid for long. I blame the years of boring Techno that got played out. The 'Techno Top 40' from old distributors like Prime. Techno is almost a swear word in these parts it feels like. Every time you use it it has to be followed by some justification it seems.
People who represent and/or tour around playing records need to maintain solid integrity. As mentioned in the write-up above, switching over to a new sound because that's where the market has moved to is not maintaining solid integrity. Either you encompass it all from the beginning because you fully enjoy it all or stick to your crappy little cubby hole.
Steph of Errorism and Null Recordings has assumed an alias and used it to concoct this here mix. Best suited for odd-jobs around the house and long car rides to indefinite locations. Notice the Donk Boys in there? Everything Donk is good.
For starters I'm a little pissed off that I missed this re-release when it first came out. I had to go hunting for it and could not get it at my usual haunt.
For those of you who don't know this classic cut. Buy it, listen to it and prosper. It's deadly on the dance floors. It's deadly at home. It's responsible for so much of what we (the FitM reading and I type crew) seem to enjoy listening to.
There is one (ahem) landmark producer who I believe was strongly influenced by this record. I've never asked to confirm, but maybe now would be a good time to do so...The first person to send me an email with this person's name gets a free copy of the last Volsoc on Spacebar Sentiments. If the answer doesn't jump out at you maybe it's not as obvious as I think, but I'm throwing this out there anyway.
Filmed in the Batterieraum, Mr. Vogel presented his new album in a wicked live set – and now captured by director Jörg Fritzsche for fans of the legendary UK artist…
Fresh on the heels of his superlative video of Octave One last summer, director Jörg Fritzsche has now delivered an awesome glimpse of Cristian Vogel during his live set in Tresor last September 21, 2007. Promoting his new album on Tresor Records “The Never Engine” (Tresor.231), Vogel was in best form during his outstanding and penetrating set that sent the fans home aghast and breathless.
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Another Bill Youngman live-set and it's a very recent one from Leipzig. Now that he's back in action I guess we'll start seeing more and more filter their way to the net (and the here!).
The B Side with the original and Q&V mixes are what I'm buying this EP for. The Q& V mix is going to surprise you. It's totally not what I've come to expect from them and it's still a great track.
For those of you who don't know already, Luke's Anger has started up his own record label. He's calling it 'Bonus Round Records' and it's first release is due out in November via Veto distribution in the UK. Of course Luke will be using the new label as a vehicle to bring his own stuff to the masses more easily, but he's also mentioned it'll be used to show-off some of the stuff his friends can do. With three bouncing and tweaked out tracks by Luke and a remix by 3d!t on the first EP alone it looks like Bonus Round is looking to overhaul.
Heads up: this sucker is just about due!
When I started playing this time around I didn't expect to use it as a Bleep show. I was just playing some records that arrived in the mail that day. Hence the multiple tracks on the two Borft records being played. The Electro near the end is explained by Sylvia,my girlfriend, coming into the room. She comes in the ol' music room so rarely I always try to play a few tunes she likes to keep her there. It sorta worked...
Oddly enough I was just on Tobias Schmidt's Myspace page yesterday checking out some of the tracks he has up. I was thinking that it'd be nice to get something new from him on wax soon. Then of course I come home from work today to see that Cynthia Stern of Input-Output has got himself a Various EP ready to roll with a Toby track on it.
This is one of those fun and bouncy EPs that will lure in the House folk I think. Give em a couple tracks like what's on here and then you can sneak in some Electro or *gasp* Techno and they'll fall for it!
This Ep is a great example of why I buy on sight whatever Seth does. His output has slowed down, but it's also improved greatly. Not that it needed to.
The last few years has seen a very healthy number of shows going on in Malta. The various Maltese promoters have snapped up and booked everyone from Neil Landstrumm to the Miditonal gang to the Jerome Hill and 3d!t sort. Now I see that they have been laying low for a reason.
The Technologic crew are starting their own record label. This is good news, good news indeed.
Just yesterday I was lamenting the state of the New Release situation right now. If you weren;t aware there's a situation I'm telling you now there is. There is not nearly enough new, good music being released (but really when is there ever 'enough'!). This will be partially remedied by a new label run by a crew of guys (and gals...?) who really do like their heavy wonk core mash.
I believe, because of an earlier conversation with one of them, that it'll follow the various artists EP model which seems to be all the rage right now. While some may not like that (let's hear your reasons why you sad-sacks) I quite enjoy it. There's too much filler and fodder out there already so the various artist EP usually means that there is a good assortment of good tracks. The various EP kinda reminds me of the old acid house records with an original cut and 2-3 remixes in different styles from different artists. It's a good model to follow and it should be done more often in other genres.
For previews of the first EP you can visit the Technologic Records Myspace. there are two tracks up so far:
Queaver & Versis "Too Many Fish"
Esther Ofei "Woop"
with 2-3 more to follow to guess from my early information.
www.myspace.com/technologicrecords
www.technologicrecords.com/
I don't know exactly how this one splits up, but apparently it's both of them in there to some degree at least. I never thought about it before, but these two really did have styles that would work together well. More so Stewart's live than studio stuff, but still....well.
Another live-Set score this week. What I find strange is that I don't have this Youngman yet. Shame on me for missing it the first time around.
A bit of a Donk spazz-out today. I can't help it. The stuff is fun.
It seems the 'Sound Chasers' are the cats in charge of this project, but really it's the Supreme.ja remix that makes this EP worth grabbing in my eyes (and ears!).
I almost didn't bother mentioning this EP. But Unlimited Touch's song 'I Hear Music' is one of my favorite Disco tracks. Scratch that, it is my favorite. I can't think of another I like as much or more. Unfortunately this isn't the original cut, it's just one of those loopy stringers that someone probably did with their shiny new copy of Ableton Live, but the song has so much going for it it's hard to kill it. Even looping the heck out of it doesn't take form it's charm too much.
If you dig this version I highly recommend grabbing the full, original cut of 'I hear music in the streets'. It's bad -ass!
This fellow by the name of '____' who I know by the alias 'Nez' posted this mix up on the Little Detroit forums yesterday. Most of what's posted up there is full of British Murder boy type stuff or old school Detroit mixes. Which were fine...5-10 years ago. They're not doing much for me these days, however that's neither here nor there.
This mix was done by Nez for a new Northern Irish Dance Music Blog which is what you should being reading while listening to this mix.
Here's a great mix that was the product of some discog's forum trolling. I've never stumbled across any other mixes from Brian, but from what I see on the web-page he posted up there are several more like this one available for us.
If anyone knows how difficult it can be to keep up with all your favorite artists, labels, jocks and cocks (it rhymes...ignore it) it's me. So today I'm going to remind those of you who have forgotten all about the Daftwerk school of tom-foolery.
I think it's been more than a year since I last spoke of Daftwerk and since then there have been some site over hauls and more gewgaws added.
Oliver Rosemann has passed me another of his live-sets. I've just now uploaded it. You're just now grabbing it and giving it a listen!
This was an unexpected shopping cart addition. It's been a few years now since I heard anything by Marco Carola that I enjoyed. I believe the last EP of his I bought as from his Question series. Somewhere in the middle maybe...?
I find most of his stuff has that chuggy, marching band feel to it with the same stabs and whatnots placed in totally expected places. This EP however, has a more jackin' feel to it (score!) and it's got --well one track-- some fun little bleeps that definitely caught my ear. Yes...that's all it takes for me to latch onto something. Jack & Bleep. Apparently.
There's bound to be more to it than that, but I make it a point not to delve too deeply. Lest I muck it up for myself.
At a recent jam at Atmosphere Cafe in Guelph I had some fun with the host of the night (Kaelin!) and his excessive level checking (ha! inside jokes rock!!). I also happened to enjoy what I played there, so the next day I opened up the bag and recorded the first hour of the set record for record. This isn't the live set, but I'm enjoying it anyhow.
Once again...sorry it's not a corker. I keep getting asked to do more hard sets and I really do mean too. It's been so long since I played some of it in public (for some reason I'm asked to play stuff like tonight's show more) that it's hard to get back into the swing. I'm getting the itch to delve into the Electro shelves again too though. Especially with the newest Spacebar Sentiments having just arrived on my door-step.
I finally got around to uploading a bunch of the sets i've nabbed over the last week. Here's the first of many...
For some pre-Bleep shenanigans head on over to illfm.net and check out the live stream at 3pm EST (-5 GMT). for the next round of 3d!t Presents....
Luke’s Anger [live] (Bonus Round / Don’t)
Uberdog (Toxic Dancehall)
The Whispering Minority
Having just pressed the first of his new label ‘Bonus Round’, Luke’s Anger will be attending the studio to put a few things straight, curved, wobbly etc. We’re also joined by a recently returned Ali Uberdog who’ll be showering us with his canine goodness, I’ve been assured. Also, undercover sonic illusionist The Whispering Minority will be talking us through some of his choicest licks.
Ill behaviour.
According to Veto...
Dirty Hospital was truly born in summer 2000 during some Bis (band/day job) down time, with Steven and John keen to lay down some straight down the line electro. The sound was a Detroit/Berlin/Rave mega-mash. Since 1996, the sounds of UR , Direct Beat and Gigolo inspired the guys into DJing electro and techno, and further embrace the sound of the drum machine and the synth bass in their music. A chance meeting with Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man, 2 Lone Swordsmen) in Glasgow in 2002 led to a CD of the 3 tracks being sent down to his Control Tower label. Keith gave them a good listen and wasted no time in asking Dirty Hospital to give him the tracks for a 12" on Control Tower. December 2002 saw the release of 'Rottenrow' to high acclaim in the dance music press. With 2003 quiet on the release front Dirty Hospital took matters in to their own hands and in March 2004 set up Rottenrow Records to release a new EP, 'The Quickness Of Dirty Hospital'. It featured four new tracks including 'Dirty Doctor' which quickly became a live favourite with it's incessant cry, "This hospital is dirty!". A string of energetic, tremendously well received gigs has quickly given DH a reputation as a live force to be reckoned with. 'The Sickness..' (2004) and 'The Death...' (2005) of were released to further underground acclaim, with tracks featuring in countless techno and electro DJ sets around europe, and the renowned DH live sets from Glasgow's Monox and Pressure club nights. The DH continue to abuse their electrical equipment, and produce their unique brand of mind-fumbling future music.
In my opinion, Dirty Hospital --this release at any rate-- is a bit of a more socially accepted form of what Michael Forshaw usually does. It's got all the same elements, but comes off cleaner and more friendly. It's borderline dirty-scuzzy-pretty-pop churned up a bit in the distort-o-matic. Some of it I don't like and some of it I do. The vocals I could personally do with out. They just seem kinda heaped on to me. They don't really accomplish anything more than what that annoying MC in the back-ground who you wish would zip-it does.
Top notch art-work again though.
As pointed out yesterday by Mark, there's a new EP out with a Neil Landstrumm track on it. What I didn't know until yesterday is that it was a Various Artists acid themed work-out.
For those that remember the mid 90's mid-west acid scene. You'll know full well that Richard Devine used to make some pretty bad ass acid tracks. ''Tape" recordings is the label it was released on if my memory serves me correct. Anyway, this EP and all the tracks on it are worth grabbing. It's definitely not an EP to shy away from. Old schoolish acid bleep funk yeah!
In recent weeks and months I've mentioned that Mark has found inspiration of a sorts. I passed on and pointed out that he's been using his old Crime Productions domain to create an archive of his career thus far.Which is awesome.
Now...
He's apparently found a bit of that urge to disseminate. He's now started posting up tips on records that are out, that he finds to be up his alley. He's even scooped me on the newest Landstrumm. I mentioned it when I posted Neil's latest live-set, but hadn't yet found the info for it. There's a ton of EP's being mentioned by Mark here. It looks like he did about 20 today alone. That's not exactly a quantity you could keep up everyday (unless you started digging in the ol' record shelves Mark...hint hint!), but I now look forward to seeing what Mark mentions on his site now. It's always interesting to see the depth of what someone enjoys. And you never know when and where that next EP you've got to have is discovered.
Mark Hawkins / Crime Productions | Doomsday Clock Micro-Site
The Kievbass gang had a bit of a dream night recently ('after many years dreams come true').
They threw a party with Neil Landstrumm playing live as the headliner. I don't know about it being a dream come true, but I can tell you one thing: I would have been there with bells on if I had the chance.
Coincidentally I was on Hand on the Plow's web-site just recently looking to see if I had missed anything I should know about. It must have been right before they posted the latest news or their latest release because just yesterday on No Future it was mentioned that HotP #7 is due out in January 2008.
It'll feature 2 sparkly new tunes from the duo whose name graces the EP plus two remixes from Cristian Vogel. Cris used the 'Never Engine' to do the two remixes so expect a sound not entirely unlike his newest LP.
Here's the official writery:
Beckett & Taylor are currently putting the final touches to their next single World of Me.
HOTP007 will be released on 12″ and digital formats in early January 2008. This four track release features two new songs and two remixes from the prolific Cristian Vogel.
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Beckett & Taylor, Tuesday
Cristian’s remixes were composed using a prototype version of his bespoke techno tracking system The Never Engine, which is also the title of his jacking new solo album on Tresor Berlin. Also highly recommended is the recent rocking album from Cristian’s band Night of the Brain and a CD of experimental music which Cristian composed in collaboration with the choreographer Gilles Jobin. If only Beckett & Taylor were so industrious…
The other news is that our US fans can now buy Plow music on the new Amazon.com mp3 download service. Amazon is completely DRM free so a much better alternative to iTunes… although frankly we and other small labels see a much better return if you buy MP3’s from Bleep, Boomkat or Beatport. All the B’s please, all the B’s.
Notice too, the additional digital purchase option if that is something you would use.
If you'd like to catch an earful of the tunes you can hit up HotP's new Myspace page and listen to 1 of the tracks in their music player.
Bleep Radio #83 is a 'Re-Live' show. Re-Lives are shows that consist of the audio recorded at an event and then broadcast at a later date. The audio from this particular re-live was originally played by Spewis and Luke's Anger at a 'Coin Operated' night at Club Neurotica in Hackney on Sept. 22nd, 2007. As you should know by now 'Coin Operated' is the moniker that Mustard Gunn uses for both his events and label. The Coin Operated nights are currently the place to be!
Mustard Gunn has now bought himself a recording device so in the future there should be many more Coin Op sets available, including more from this same night. How pleasant!
