Music highlights of 2007
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Bettysnake
twisted pony ******
getting together with the love of my life at the dubstepsquatparty in March while Kode9 played some monster track or other (its our very own Simon Bates Our Tune moment)..
otherwise its Brighter Day off Underwater Dancehall
yeah and Flying Lotus 'Unexpected Delight' is exactly dat.... jus lovely.
otherwise its Brighter Day off Underwater Dancehall
yeah and Flying Lotus 'Unexpected Delight' is exactly dat.... jus lovely.
mixed_biscuits
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Factotum - The Nugget
The Johnnies - Time to Serve
Zoetrope - By Dwindling Light
Arlon - Twelve Tales Tall
Sarah Vartu - Felt Tipped EP
How to make Stephan Bodzin tunes: 1) make a standard trance track 2) remove most of the instrumentation 3) apply vaguely adventurous fx in an attempt to hide the cheese.
The Johnnies - Time to Serve
Zoetrope - By Dwindling Light
Arlon - Twelve Tales Tall
Sarah Vartu - Felt Tipped EP
How to make Stephan Bodzin tunes: 1) make a standard trance track 2) remove most of the instrumentation 3) apply vaguely adventurous fx in an attempt to hide the cheese.
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andysays
not andy
Firstly, Hello to everyone 
Favourite Albums:
Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Burial - Untrue
Favourite EPs:
Rustie - Jagz the Smack
Flying Lotus - Reset
The Tuss - Confederation Trough
J Dilla - Jay Loves Japan
Best Remixes:
Bloc Party - Where is Home (Burial Mix)
Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie Mix)
Best New Artist:
Rustie
Best Pop Songs:
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
Rihanna - Umbrella
Best Pop Album:
The-Dream - Love Hate (anyone else heard this? only came out yesterday)
Most Overrated Pop Song:
Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
Most Disappointing Albums:
Timbaland - Shock Value (He has gone way downhill. Should have stuck to just doing production)
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Most Anticipated Comeback:
Spice Girls
My Bloody Valentine
Honorable Mentions:
Radiohead, Luke Vibert, Gosub, Liars
Favourite Albums:
Oh No - Dr. No's Oxperiment
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Burial - Untrue
Favourite EPs:
Rustie - Jagz the Smack
Flying Lotus - Reset
The Tuss - Confederation Trough
J Dilla - Jay Loves Japan
Best Remixes:
Bloc Party - Where is Home (Burial Mix)
Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie Mix)
Best New Artist:
Rustie
Best Pop Songs:
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
Rihanna - Umbrella
Best Pop Album:
The-Dream - Love Hate (anyone else heard this? only came out yesterday
)Most Overrated Pop Song:
Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
Most Disappointing Albums:
Timbaland - Shock Value (He has gone way downhill. Should have stuck to just doing production)
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Most Anticipated Comeback:
Spice Girls
My Bloody Valentine
Honorable Mentions:
Radiohead, Luke Vibert, Gosub, Liars
- Grime totally proving every journalist wrong by going right ahead and having one of its most productive years to date
- The rise of the grime youngers; the beginnings of grime's 2nd generation
- Organizing the Game Over rave in Toronto, and having Joe Nice play one of the best sets I've ever heard from him there
- Going to Dirty Canvas for the first time in my life
- Meeting D Double E
- Watching Kode 9 absolutely annihilate DMZ
- Acquiring Sub FM show
- The Ghetto/Skepta clash
- Re-discovering the music I used to listen to in High School
- Mavado's album
- Notting Hill Carnival
- The rise of the grime youngers; the beginnings of grime's 2nd generation
- Organizing the Game Over rave in Toronto, and having Joe Nice play one of the best sets I've ever heard from him there
- Going to Dirty Canvas for the first time in my life
- Meeting D Double E
- Watching Kode 9 absolutely annihilate DMZ
- Acquiring Sub FM show
- The Ghetto/Skepta clash
- Re-discovering the music I used to listen to in High School
- Mavado's album
- Notting Hill Carnival
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nomadologist
Guest
no one has mentioned this song yet and i really love it
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mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
lol it says video not available. art statement!
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nomadologist
Guest
heh i can see it embedded on this comp.
lupe fiasco "superstar"
lupe fiasco "superstar"
fokse vektaire xeven
Arab Nazi
Ron Hardy "Muzic Box Classics 3"
DJ sets by Kode9, Scientist, DJ Rekless, Steve Bicknell, Dj Jus Ed, Omar-s.
DJ sets by Kode9, Scientist, DJ Rekless, Steve Bicknell, Dj Jus Ed, Omar-s.
i was pleasantly surprised by it. i had pan-pot pegged as being good and predictable but there was some inventive stuff on the album. very clever and refined, which is what bores me about minimal in general, i guess...
Guybrush
Dittohead
2006 Roundup — One Year On
Still Great
Christian Falk & Pauline – Shine
Fred Falke – Omega Man/Wait for Love (12")
Justin Timberlake & Timbaland – SexyBack
Lindstrøm – Another Station
Lupe Fiasco – Sunshine
Mahala Rai Banda – Mahalageasca (Bucovina Dub)
Peter, Björn and John with Victoria Bergsman – Young Folks (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Mix)
The Field – Sun and Ice (12")
The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Radio Slave Mix)
Veronica Maggio – Dumpa mig (Erik Hp Mix)
Probably Would Not Make It Today
Ada – Living It Up
Bob Sinclar & Steve Edwards – World, Hold On
Burial – Burial (Album)
Busta Rhymes – Touch It (Diplo Mix)
Cascada – Everytime We Touch
Diamond & Princess – Georgia Girl
Linus Loves – VH1
Mungolian Jet Set – When You’re in Need (Is a Constant Thing in Change)
Outkast, Scar & Sleepy Brown – Morris Brown
PNC – Just Roll
* * *
2007 Roundup
The Top Tier
1. Plaid – White’s Dream (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
2. Black Kids – Hurricane Jane
3. Kat DeLuna – Whine Up (Ranny’s Sunrise Mix)
4. MC Perlla – Eu vou
5. Cut Copy – So Haunted
The Rest
Alex Gaudino & Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria
Arno Cost & Arias vs Robin S – Show Me Magenta (Axwell Re-Edit)
Boat Club – Spanish Castles
Cornelius – Wataridori
D.I.M. – Airbus Baby
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Kleerup & Robyn – With Every Heartbeat (Voodoo & Serano Remix)
Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
Mika – Grace Kelly
Mingus & Sexfemman – Kär i en kickers (sommarremix)
Nicole Scherzinger – Super Villain
Rihanna – Push Up on Me (Moto Blanco Mix)
Rune Lindbæk – Til Lippo Lippa
Soulja Boy – Crank That (Soulja Boy)
UGK & Outkast – International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)
* * *
Still Great
Christian Falk & Pauline – Shine
Fred Falke – Omega Man/Wait for Love (12")
Justin Timberlake & Timbaland – SexyBack
Lindstrøm – Another Station
Lupe Fiasco – Sunshine
Mahala Rai Banda – Mahalageasca (Bucovina Dub)
Peter, Björn and John with Victoria Bergsman – Young Folks (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Mix)
The Field – Sun and Ice (12")
The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Radio Slave Mix)
Veronica Maggio – Dumpa mig (Erik Hp Mix)
Probably Would Not Make It Today
Ada – Living It Up
Bob Sinclar & Steve Edwards – World, Hold On
Burial – Burial (Album)
Busta Rhymes – Touch It (Diplo Mix)
Cascada – Everytime We Touch
Diamond & Princess – Georgia Girl
Linus Loves – VH1
Mungolian Jet Set – When You’re in Need (Is a Constant Thing in Change)
Outkast, Scar & Sleepy Brown – Morris Brown
PNC – Just Roll
* * *
2007 Roundup
The Top Tier
1. Plaid – White’s Dream (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
2. Black Kids – Hurricane Jane
3. Kat DeLuna – Whine Up (Ranny’s Sunrise Mix)
4. MC Perlla – Eu vou
5. Cut Copy – So Haunted
The Rest
Alex Gaudino & Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria
Arno Cost & Arias vs Robin S – Show Me Magenta (Axwell Re-Edit)
Boat Club – Spanish Castles
Cornelius – Wataridori
D.I.M. – Airbus Baby
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Kleerup & Robyn – With Every Heartbeat (Voodoo & Serano Remix)
Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
Mika – Grace Kelly
Mingus & Sexfemman – Kär i en kickers (sommarremix)
Nicole Scherzinger – Super Villain
Rihanna – Push Up on Me (Moto Blanco Mix)
Rune Lindbæk – Til Lippo Lippa
Soulja Boy – Crank That (Soulja Boy)
UGK & Outkast – International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You)
* * *
childrentalking
Well-known member
i've had a great year, musically. there's a lot of stuff i'm omitting here simply because it didn't reach my stereo enough (dial records stuff, guillemont + the contu dumonts, etc) rather than any feelings about its quality.
as opposed to last year, where i went clubbing quite a lot and had many 'live' musical epiphanies, this year has been much more home listening orientated, which is probably reflected in all of this. anyway... sorry, this is going to go on and on and on and on and on.
non-'electronic' albums:
Grouper - Cover the Windows and the Walls (Root Strata)
reverb coated blown-out solo female dream-pop. amazing atmosphere, great songs. a perfect release for me, leagues above her earlier releases and i loved those too. very excited for her new album on type next year, which apparently is set to be much less effects heavy.
Meg Baird - Dear Companion (Drag City)
lead singer of espers. mainly covers. very understated, just guitar/banjo and her vocals (often double tracked). touches me in a way so little modern folk does. heart rendingly beautiful (especially her version of 'do what you gotta do', and love the 70s style cover.
Cherry Blossoms LP (Apostasy, a bunch of others)
the most joyful record of the year. a bunch of 50 somethings from tennessee who make slightly unhinged 'americana'. they have an enviable 'new weird america' contact book, built up entirely through the strength of their songs and joy of their performance. not prententious in the slightest. totally charming.
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies (Gods of Tundra)
Cloaks - A Crystal Skull In Peru (Atheists Are Gods)
two fine ambient records by new american faces. the emeralds is a cs 120 (!) channelling popol vuh and fripp/eno, it's much better than you'd except. the cloaks is incredible... extended (30 mins) pieces for bells and piano. floods any room with colour. reminds me of hototogisu's peerless floating japanese oof! gardens of the 21st century, and alice coltrane (c. journey in...)
Sapat - Mortoise and Tenon (Siltbreeze)
southern-fried krautrock.
Ed Yazijian - Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye (Gladtree)
sometime sun city girl violinist. but not like tony conrad. he's a turkish academic. think angus maclaise. a heavily percussive bent here.
Hala Strana - Heave the Gambrel Roof (Music Fellowship)
Family Elan LP (Locust)
two nice eastern european folk influenced records from basically solo musicians. insturmentation as diverse as you'd expect. the hala strana first edition (which i'm lucky enough to own a copy of) has the best packaging of the year: the beautiful cover art etched on an album cover sized wooden block plus a 12 page chapbook/accompanying short story. wonderful.
Loren Connors - The Hymn of the North Star (Family Vineyard)
Stars of the Lid - And their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield (Faraway Press)
Meursault - Sleeping Debris (Students Of Decay)
no comment necessary on the top three. more of the same, and in these guys' case, the same is fucking excellent. i've thrown in the mersault because fans of the others would be well advised to check it out. a 22 year old guy from Glasgow who's vaguely involved in the CD-R scene, but completely avoids trends. timeless ambience, and a name to watch for sure.
Blues Control - Puff (Woodsist)
where do you go after harmonia? side B of this lp. very unique. cheap toyshop sounding synth bliss. i'm greatly looking forward to their 'new age' incarnation watersports' lp next year.
Son Of Earth - Pet (Apostasy)
finally released. low volume level, barely there, drones. shares a toyshop type quality w/ the blues control above.
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
natch.
DUBSTEP:
Mala - Alicia (no label) / Forgive (Deep Medi) / Bury Da Bwoy / Learn (both DMZ)
Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
Simian Mobile Disco Club - Hustler [Shackleton remix] (Wichita) / Shackleton - You Bring Me Down (Skull Disco) / Pole - Achterbahn [Shackleton remix] (~scape)
the heavy hitters keep on hitting...
Peverelist - The Grind / Roll with the Punches / Die Brucke (all Punch Drunk) / Pole -
Winkelstreben [Peverelist remix] (~scape)
Martyn - Velvet / Twenty Four (3024)
Appleblim - Vansan (Skull Disco)
2562 - Channel Two (Tectonic)
loving this techno 'crossover' vein. especially the peverelist and martyn releases, which don't seem forced at all. but are barely dubstep... rather some kind of blissed, bassy trancestep...
'DUB TECHNO':
Tony Allen - Ole [Moritz Von Oswald remix] (Honest Jons)
Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
cv313 - Dimensional Space (Echospace [detroit])
Luke Hess - Real To Real (FXHE)
Substance and Vainqueur - Reverberate / Libration (both Scion Versions)
T++ - Allied / Worn Down (no label)
Jichael Mackson - The Grass is Always Greener (Musique Risquee)
real glut of this stuff this year, most of it instantly forgettable. this whole genre is quite silly when you think about it, almost strictly for nerdy fanboys (sigh). an extended love letter to forefathers who did it better. speaking of which, von oswald's remix of tony allen TOWERS over everything else on this list. my favourite single track of the year. sublime organic house (so not really dub techno at all, but whatever).
i'm very suspicious of echospace's intentions and quality control. the album is good but it's all you need by them. (and it's not as good as modell's tribal ambient funk releases with spectral network last year, in my opinion). the cv313 is classic deepchord, and by far the best on their own label (again the only thing you need in my opinion).
t++ and jichael mackson both point a way out of the dub techno rut. t++'s stuff sounds like nothing else around; some kind of bizarre breakbeat techno fusion. real epics, especially the worn down 12" with its ambient intros and outtros. the JM isn't my favourite by him, but come on, it's a fucking reversioning of M5 with 'Wicked Game' stuck over the top, what's not to like?
CLASSICISM RETURNS:
Sven Weisemann - Cabana Fever (Mojuba) / Spheric Wave (Meanwhile) / Revoltec (Styrax Leaves)
Oracy - Mind Dance (Mojuba)
Nick Solé - World Dubbing (Mojuba)
Mike Huckaby - My Life With The Wave (Synth)
Bovill - Differential (Meanwhile)
Microworld - This Is My Friend (Styrax Leaves)
ERP - Alorsan (Frantic Flowers)
Arne Weinberg - Leviathan (AW Recordings)
another big trend the past couple of years, revivalism of classic detroit album techno (think deep space, metaphor) and dub tinged house (main street, prescription, woebot's 'mauve house'). these guys/labels all love their history, and they've provided some quality reissues this year too (Mojuba's rereleasing of Rene and Gaston is especially key...)
DETROIT HOUSE:
Marcellus Pittman - There's Somebody Out There (Unirhythm)
Theo Parrish - Soul Control (Sound Signature)
Omar-S + Theo Parrish - The Grand Son of Detroit Techno! (FXHE)
Moodymann - Technologystolemyvinyl (KDJ)
still the weirdest guys around: the omar-s and marcellus pittman tracks are particularly whacked. the theo is my favourite of his lp and is just a great song... so maybe not that weird.
... AND ITS SPAWN:
Various - Unity Kollabo (Underground Quality)
DJ Qu & David S - To Eaches Own EP / DJ Qu - Passing States EP (both Strength Music)
Kai Alce - Hi Lee Teched Off (Real Soon)
Scott Ferguson - A Walk In The Park [Sascha Dive's Walk In The Park remix] (Deep Vibes)
Move D - Workshop 02 EP (Workshop)
Lerosa - Seeker (Enclave) / Much Later (Uzuri)
Ra.H - Fall Of Justice (Morphine Doser)
Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears (NWAQ)
i can't get enough of this stuff. nothing original to see here... but all fucking great.
'NEW' HOUSE:
STL - Homework / Night Grooves (both Something)
Cassy - Somelightuntothenight (Beatstreet)
two totally lovable outcasts. stl makes bent slightly cheap sounding US style house; think theo parrish meets ark. cassy is a goddess, this is possibly her best track yet, definitely her best for the dancefloor: an extended, warped piano house workout.
Melchior Productions - No Disco Future / Don Juan (both Perlon)
Soul Capsule - Waiting 4 A Way (Perlon)
2007 seems to have been melchior's year. i'm happy he's getting the recognition.
Half Hawaii - Out Of You (Perlon) / Mir Nichts (Hello? Repeat)
Audio Werner - Before (Hello? Repeat)
Bruno Pronsato - At Home I'm A Tourist / There's Galaxies Better [Melchior Productions remix] (both Hello? Repeat)
hello? repeat is the new perlon. such a good label. very excited for bruno's album next year.
David Labeij - Alpine Scenic (Sushitech Purple)
Luciano - Fourges Et Sabres (Perlon)
these two are of a piece for me. beautifully extended endlessly refracting melodies.
RICARDO:
Ricardo Villalobos - Sei Es Drum (Sei Es Drum) / Enfants (Cadenza, upcoming)
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands [Ricardo Apocalypso Now mix] (Skull Disco)
Beck - Cell Phone's Dead [Ricardo Villalobos Entlebuch remix] (Bpitch Control)
Chica and the Folder - Angelus Novus [Ricardo Villalobos Ritus mix] (Monika)
continuing and perfecting his post-achso move to more simplicity/linearity in production and an emphasis on dancefloor halting ideas. basically, everything he's released in the past year has been a DJ tool for his own sets. if you've seen him DJ in the past couple of years in a proper setting (where he's got 4+ hours to do his stuff), at least 1/4 of what you've heard will have been his own tracks. still leagues above, in my mind.
phew.
as opposed to last year, where i went clubbing quite a lot and had many 'live' musical epiphanies, this year has been much more home listening orientated, which is probably reflected in all of this. anyway... sorry, this is going to go on and on and on and on and on.
non-'electronic' albums:
Grouper - Cover the Windows and the Walls (Root Strata)
reverb coated blown-out solo female dream-pop. amazing atmosphere, great songs. a perfect release for me, leagues above her earlier releases and i loved those too. very excited for her new album on type next year, which apparently is set to be much less effects heavy.
Meg Baird - Dear Companion (Drag City)
lead singer of espers. mainly covers. very understated, just guitar/banjo and her vocals (often double tracked). touches me in a way so little modern folk does. heart rendingly beautiful (especially her version of 'do what you gotta do', and love the 70s style cover.
Cherry Blossoms LP (Apostasy, a bunch of others)
the most joyful record of the year. a bunch of 50 somethings from tennessee who make slightly unhinged 'americana'. they have an enviable 'new weird america' contact book, built up entirely through the strength of their songs and joy of their performance. not prententious in the slightest. totally charming.
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies (Gods of Tundra)
Cloaks - A Crystal Skull In Peru (Atheists Are Gods)
two fine ambient records by new american faces. the emeralds is a cs 120 (!) channelling popol vuh and fripp/eno, it's much better than you'd except. the cloaks is incredible... extended (30 mins) pieces for bells and piano. floods any room with colour. reminds me of hototogisu's peerless floating japanese oof! gardens of the 21st century, and alice coltrane (c. journey in...)
Sapat - Mortoise and Tenon (Siltbreeze)
southern-fried krautrock.
Ed Yazijian - Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye (Gladtree)
sometime sun city girl violinist. but not like tony conrad. he's a turkish academic. think angus maclaise. a heavily percussive bent here.
Hala Strana - Heave the Gambrel Roof (Music Fellowship)
Family Elan LP (Locust)
two nice eastern european folk influenced records from basically solo musicians. insturmentation as diverse as you'd expect. the hala strana first edition (which i'm lucky enough to own a copy of) has the best packaging of the year: the beautiful cover art etched on an album cover sized wooden block plus a 12 page chapbook/accompanying short story. wonderful.
Loren Connors - The Hymn of the North Star (Family Vineyard)
Stars of the Lid - And their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky)
Andrew Chalk - Time of Hayfield (Faraway Press)
Meursault - Sleeping Debris (Students Of Decay)
no comment necessary on the top three. more of the same, and in these guys' case, the same is fucking excellent. i've thrown in the mersault because fans of the others would be well advised to check it out. a 22 year old guy from Glasgow who's vaguely involved in the CD-R scene, but completely avoids trends. timeless ambience, and a name to watch for sure.
Blues Control - Puff (Woodsist)
where do you go after harmonia? side B of this lp. very unique. cheap toyshop sounding synth bliss. i'm greatly looking forward to their 'new age' incarnation watersports' lp next year.
Son Of Earth - Pet (Apostasy)
finally released. low volume level, barely there, drones. shares a toyshop type quality w/ the blues control above.
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
natch.
DUBSTEP:
Mala - Alicia (no label) / Forgive (Deep Medi) / Bury Da Bwoy / Learn (both DMZ)
Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
Simian Mobile Disco Club - Hustler [Shackleton remix] (Wichita) / Shackleton - You Bring Me Down (Skull Disco) / Pole - Achterbahn [Shackleton remix] (~scape)
the heavy hitters keep on hitting...
Peverelist - The Grind / Roll with the Punches / Die Brucke (all Punch Drunk) / Pole -
Winkelstreben [Peverelist remix] (~scape)
Martyn - Velvet / Twenty Four (3024)
Appleblim - Vansan (Skull Disco)
2562 - Channel Two (Tectonic)
loving this techno 'crossover' vein. especially the peverelist and martyn releases, which don't seem forced at all. but are barely dubstep... rather some kind of blissed, bassy trancestep...
'DUB TECHNO':
Tony Allen - Ole [Moritz Von Oswald remix] (Honest Jons)
Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
cv313 - Dimensional Space (Echospace [detroit])
Luke Hess - Real To Real (FXHE)
Substance and Vainqueur - Reverberate / Libration (both Scion Versions)
T++ - Allied / Worn Down (no label)
Jichael Mackson - The Grass is Always Greener (Musique Risquee)
real glut of this stuff this year, most of it instantly forgettable. this whole genre is quite silly when you think about it, almost strictly for nerdy fanboys (sigh). an extended love letter to forefathers who did it better. speaking of which, von oswald's remix of tony allen TOWERS over everything else on this list. my favourite single track of the year. sublime organic house (so not really dub techno at all, but whatever).
i'm very suspicious of echospace's intentions and quality control. the album is good but it's all you need by them. (and it's not as good as modell's tribal ambient funk releases with spectral network last year, in my opinion). the cv313 is classic deepchord, and by far the best on their own label (again the only thing you need in my opinion).
t++ and jichael mackson both point a way out of the dub techno rut. t++'s stuff sounds like nothing else around; some kind of bizarre breakbeat techno fusion. real epics, especially the worn down 12" with its ambient intros and outtros. the JM isn't my favourite by him, but come on, it's a fucking reversioning of M5 with 'Wicked Game' stuck over the top, what's not to like?
CLASSICISM RETURNS:
Sven Weisemann - Cabana Fever (Mojuba) / Spheric Wave (Meanwhile) / Revoltec (Styrax Leaves)
Oracy - Mind Dance (Mojuba)
Nick Solé - World Dubbing (Mojuba)
Mike Huckaby - My Life With The Wave (Synth)
Bovill - Differential (Meanwhile)
Microworld - This Is My Friend (Styrax Leaves)
ERP - Alorsan (Frantic Flowers)
Arne Weinberg - Leviathan (AW Recordings)
another big trend the past couple of years, revivalism of classic detroit album techno (think deep space, metaphor) and dub tinged house (main street, prescription, woebot's 'mauve house'). these guys/labels all love their history, and they've provided some quality reissues this year too (Mojuba's rereleasing of Rene and Gaston is especially key...)
DETROIT HOUSE:
Marcellus Pittman - There's Somebody Out There (Unirhythm)
Theo Parrish - Soul Control (Sound Signature)
Omar-S + Theo Parrish - The Grand Son of Detroit Techno! (FXHE)
Moodymann - Technologystolemyvinyl (KDJ)
still the weirdest guys around: the omar-s and marcellus pittman tracks are particularly whacked. the theo is my favourite of his lp and is just a great song... so maybe not that weird.
... AND ITS SPAWN:
Various - Unity Kollabo (Underground Quality)
DJ Qu & David S - To Eaches Own EP / DJ Qu - Passing States EP (both Strength Music)
Kai Alce - Hi Lee Teched Off (Real Soon)
Scott Ferguson - A Walk In The Park [Sascha Dive's Walk In The Park remix] (Deep Vibes)
Move D - Workshop 02 EP (Workshop)
Lerosa - Seeker (Enclave) / Much Later (Uzuri)
Ra.H - Fall Of Justice (Morphine Doser)
Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears (NWAQ)
i can't get enough of this stuff. nothing original to see here... but all fucking great.
'NEW' HOUSE:
STL - Homework / Night Grooves (both Something)
Cassy - Somelightuntothenight (Beatstreet)
two totally lovable outcasts. stl makes bent slightly cheap sounding US style house; think theo parrish meets ark. cassy is a goddess, this is possibly her best track yet, definitely her best for the dancefloor: an extended, warped piano house workout.
Melchior Productions - No Disco Future / Don Juan (both Perlon)
Soul Capsule - Waiting 4 A Way (Perlon)
2007 seems to have been melchior's year. i'm happy he's getting the recognition.
Half Hawaii - Out Of You (Perlon) / Mir Nichts (Hello? Repeat)
Audio Werner - Before (Hello? Repeat)
Bruno Pronsato - At Home I'm A Tourist / There's Galaxies Better [Melchior Productions remix] (both Hello? Repeat)
hello? repeat is the new perlon. such a good label. very excited for bruno's album next year.
David Labeij - Alpine Scenic (Sushitech Purple)
Luciano - Fourges Et Sabres (Perlon)
these two are of a piece for me. beautifully extended endlessly refracting melodies.
RICARDO:
Ricardo Villalobos - Sei Es Drum (Sei Es Drum) / Enfants (Cadenza, upcoming)
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands [Ricardo Apocalypso Now mix] (Skull Disco)
Beck - Cell Phone's Dead [Ricardo Villalobos Entlebuch remix] (Bpitch Control)
Chica and the Folder - Angelus Novus [Ricardo Villalobos Ritus mix] (Monika)
continuing and perfecting his post-achso move to more simplicity/linearity in production and an emphasis on dancefloor halting ideas. basically, everything he's released in the past year has been a DJ tool for his own sets. if you've seen him DJ in the past couple of years in a proper setting (where he's got 4+ hours to do his stuff), at least 1/4 of what you've heard will have been his own tracks. still leagues above, in my mind.
phew.
I've heard really good things about the Meursault, very cool to see you mention it here. A close friend of mine who is deeply involved in the noise/weird folk/underground CD-R culture (as label owner & recording artist) absolutely raves about this record, for many of the reasons you mention. Nice post, by the way, wow.
fokse vektaire xeven
Arab Nazi
smashes the dance up!
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
myspace is here
http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701
and link to that cd is here
http://deletedscenesforgottendreams.blogspot.com/2007/09/meursault-sleeping-debris.html
the tracks on the myspace are fucking heartbreaking.
and a thoughtful review here, while we're at it:
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2796
childrentalking
Well-known member
just so ya know, that myspace link is a different meursault. confusing i know, i'm not sure he has a myspace.
Yes, great album, totally in love with it. I try to get everything coming out on Root Strata and somehow Tarentel related. Looking forward to her Type album, apparently there's also a planned album collaboration with Inca Ore.
