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ROEDELIUS SCHNEIDER - Tiden

2013-06-20T09:00:00+01:00

ROEDELIUS SCHNEIDER
Tiden
Bureau B
ELECTRONIC
LP

LUKE HESS - Analog Passion

2013-06-20T08:00:00+01:00

LUKE HESS
Analog Passion
Echocord Colour
TECHNO / HOUSE
12"

Deep, proggy and dubby Detroit house rollers. 'Pashko' deals in a fine line of electro-flecked rhythms and cruising midnight chords ready for the interstate or your nearest autobahn, whilst 'Pashko 2' is more dubbed out, steppin' to silvery hi-hats in smoked out 313 styles.

RYAN ELLIOTT - Stepmode EP

2013-06-20T07:00:00+01:00

RYAN ELLIOTT
Stepmode EP
OSTGUT TON
TECHNO / HOUSE
12"

Sleek, driving pair of techno tools by the Berghain/Panorama Bar resident. The shaking, up-stepping hi-hats, rude Reese bass and hypnotic tuning of 'Stepmode' possibly belies some influence from his colleague, Fiedel, or at least from more outernational sources and London's funky sound, whilst his 'Stillsteppin' offer more pensive drones and darkly dubbed out dynamics primed for cavernous rave spaces.

TRICKY - False Idols

2013-06-20T07:00:00+01:00

TRICKY
False Idols
!K7 Records
BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / BOOGIE
2LP + CD

Tricky appears to have found his muse again with a lean and instinctive new album. Regaining control of his sound, from the studio to the label process, has resulted in a far truer representation of the still enigmatic artist on 'False Idols' - his warning shot to the masses on the perils of living vicariously. Accompanied by a brace of singers newly signed to his False Idols label, he presents 15 stripped down and richly atmospheric arrangements. At best he sounds revitalised, as with the hard-steppin' Bristol styles in 'Passion Of The Christ', with the virile gothic swagger of his HTRK-esque 'Does It', or in his strangely surreal 'Valentine', but at worst he's retreading tired, old trip hop ground with the 'Unfinished Sympathy' vibes of 'Nothing's Changed', but you get the sense that he's aware and comfortable with the fact, and ultimately the good far outweighs the bad here.

VARIOUS / FANTASTIC VOYAGE - Youths Boogie / Jamaican R&B and the Birth of Ska

2013-06-20T06:00:00+01:00

VARIOUS / FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Youths Boogie / Jamaican R&B and the Birth of Ska
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
WORLD
2LP

*Compiled by reggae authority Mike Atherton, Youths Boogie features 50 prime early ska tracks by artists including Owen Gray, Hortense Ellis, Laurel Aitken, Wilfred “Jackie” Edwards, Derrick Morgan, Keith & Enid, and Roy & Millie. Disc One is devoted to major players on the Jamaican production scene, Duke Reid and Chris Blackwell, while Disc Two investigates the work of other producers vying to make their name* "It took years for ska music to become an overnight success. When tunes like ‘My Boy Lollipop’ hit the airwaves in Britain in the sixties, most listeners assumed that the odd and addictive back-to-front beat was something dreamed up in the studio the month before. Some realised that the music had connections with Jamaica, but few people knew that the genre had been gestating for some years. The music owed some debt to Jamaica’s indigenous folk music, mento, but the strongest, most obvious ingredient of ska was American r&b. By the close of the 1950s the advent of record pressing facilities on the island had enabled records to be manufactured, without sending tapes to Britain and waiting for records to be shipped back. A number of enterprising Jamaicans began to supervise recording session and released the results on their own labels. Compiled by reggae authority and writer Mike Atherton (Record Collector, Echoes), Youths Boogie portrays the popular music of Jamaica in the period 1959 to 1962, before it became formerly known as ska, but by which time most of the characteristics of ska were present and correct, alongside the influences of American r&b. Disc One showcases the productions of Chris Blackwell, a white Jamaican who ran the local R&B and Island labels, before moving his operation to Britain, and Duke Reid, who ran the Trojan sound system, and issued many of his productions on the Duke Reid’s label, before founding the famous Treasure Isle label in the sixties. Disc Two looks at the productions of other individuals like Simeon Smith, Charlie Moo, Dada Tewari, Byron Lee, Roy Robinson, Vincent Chin and the London-based Sonny Roberts, who were all vying to make names for themselves. Taking its name from a Rico instrumental, Youths Boogie features the work of male solo artists like Laurel Aitken, Owen Gray, Derrick Morgan, Wilfred “Jackie” Edwards, groups such as Derrick Harriott’s Jiving Juniors and the Blues Busters, male/female duos Derrick & Patsy, Roy & Millie, and Keith & End, as well as a rare (for this era) solo female outing by Hortense Ellis. Tracks by Charlie Babcock, Al T Joe and Lloyd Williams are making their debut on CD. As well as Mike’s notes, the 20pp booklet features a wealth of Jamaican and British label shots."

ALEJANDRO PAZ - Inside Job

2013-06-20T06:00:00+01:00

ALEJANDRO PAZ
Inside Job
Cómeme
MINIMAL / DANCEFLOOR
12"

Tough, jacking house and leather-chapped EBM collide on this oily, addictive new EP from the Comeme crew's Aljandro Paz. 'Lavapis' is a scene-stealer, Paz's give-a-f***k, DAF-ish vocal riding a ripped 'n toned, minimalist arrangement of drums and synths that will properly rough up the more decadent nightspots. 'The Bubble' is raw Chicago acid armed with extra Latin flair and a nostril full of amyl; 'Different But The Same' takes us back to the new wave for some darkling synth-pop moves, but keeps it seedy, bass-heavy and murderously sparse; the title track 'Inside Job' is a time-dilating, vamp-heavy aerobic workout for the dancefloor, mixed and mastered so that each clap and snare smacks you clean around the chops, and 'El Raver' is a more hectic, hooliganish extension of the theme. Proper dionysian dance thrills to be had here.

FOALS - Late Night (w/Koreless Remix)

2013-06-20T04:00:00+01:00

FOALS
Late Night (w/Koreless Remix)
TRANSGRESSIVE
INDIE / ROCK / ALTERNATIVE
7"

Lissom, rousing indie-disco taken from Foals' 'Holy Fire' LP, backed with a tender electronic reduction by Koreless. 'Late Night' captures Foals' at their most mature, melancholic on a tentative arrangement building to a radio friendly bridge and euphoric climax. Koreless' Purple Cowboy remix slightly down pitches Yannis Philippakis' vocal to sweetly contrast with a music box melody and white-noise sculpted percussions as a sort of grown-up indie lullaby.

MICHAEL MAYER - Mantasy (Remixe 3)

2013-06-20T04:00:00+01:00

MICHAEL MAYER
Mantasy (Remixe 3)
Kompakt
MINIMAL / DANCEFLOOR
12"

The Kompakt court remix the empire's overseer: Jürgen Paape revises 'Mantasy' as a warm and sensual roller with cooing sirens; Matias Aguayo hears 'Lamusetwa' as a mystic Balearic sway bristling with martian melodies and curious cumbia riffs; 'Roses' is reduced to lustin' German house fundamentals by Terranova; Jörg Burger gives 'Baumhaus' a skanking sorta bossa-dub lope.

YOUNG FATHERS - Tape Two

2013-06-20T04:00:00+01:00

YOUNG FATHERS
Tape Two
Anticon
BEATS / DOWNTEMPO / BOOGIE
LP

**Dope, diverse mix of soul, indie-pop, hip hop and electronics from a Scottish rap trio on Anticon** "The range these young men span from song to song is heroic. They are masters of emotion (“I Heard”), experts with texture (“Mr. Martyr”), incredible with rhythms (“Ebony Sky”), and fierce wielders of noise (“Queen Is Dead”). But they are also capable of being all of these things at once and coming out the other end with an odd masterpiece like “Way Down in the Hole,” which begins like a warm Miguel demo before inhabiting a bombed-out horror score apparently performed by the ghostly inhabitants of the crumpled space between two terraced houses shortly after an air raid. Young Fathers can do this because they have been making music (and art and videos) together since they were 14 years old, and are telepathic besides. YF are vocalists and perfectionists all three: Alloysious born in Liberia, Kayus raised by Nigerian immigrants, and G who also provides the score. Together, they croon like a left-field rock band or a ‘90s R&B squad, or rhyme like scions sent either from the D.A.I.S.Y. age or escaped from some distant dystopia in Sun Ra’s mothership, and do so over production that pulls as much from African tradition as it does electronic futurism. If their sound or words sometimes seem bleak, it’s only because the world outside is, and they are a mirror reflecting our truths back. But Young Fathers are also our imaginations running weird, finding color in dark corners and dancing in light nobody else sees."

ROB - Maniac (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2013-06-19T13:00:00+01:00

ROB
Maniac (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
DEATH WALTZ
SOUNDTRACKS / LIBRARY / EARLY ELECTRONIC
LP

**Strictly limited edition picture disc housed in heavyweight tip on (casebound) gatefold sleeve with anti scratch lamination, packed to black polylined inner sleeves and featuring a 12 x 12 artprint of the cover** Death Waltz give the deluxe treatment for Rob's future-classic soundtrack to a 2013 remake of 'Maniac' starring Elijah Wood. The mono-monikered French composer, Rob closely follows the film's psychopathic themes by turns with a terrifying, mournful and poignant score heavily reminiscent of Cliff Martinez's synth-heavy 'Drive' soundtrack and almost certainly inspired by total classics from Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter or Wendy Carlos. It's a real peach, quite unmissable for fan of synthesised horror soundtracks and, obviously, exquisite packaging.