D.S. Building Contractors – One For The Burglar Epoch 90 – Last Night Of The World Lynx – Call 214 – Drift Divin’ Joe Seven – Restionaire Optic Nerve – The Gateway The Oliverwho Factory – Rhythm tobias. – Leaning Over Backwards Beautyon – Dome Ever Vivid – Lost Love Microthol – Supergravity Solutions Seidensticker – Verdichtung E.R.P. – Tuga Ken Lewis – Cosmic Cars
Some new and old for the Bleep43 blog. I was still not subscribing to minimal. You know, when Harry Moseby was telling in Night Moves, that watching an Eric Rohmer movie was like watching paint dry. I laughed very loudly.
Farben – As Long As There’s Love Around Sensorama – Mode Wolfgang Voigt – Geduld (DJ Koze Mix) Raudive – Total Pure Phuture Past – Jam Packed Ex.or.zis.mus – Ex.or.zis.mus One Rob Mello – Scared Of Losing U (No Ears Dub) The Oliverwho Factory – Night Lights DJ Dozia – Drum Attack (w/ Ryuichi Sakamoto – Rain) 3 Tha Hardway – Hot Temptation (Drums 4 Ever Mix) Perbec Feat. Soulman – Come On With Me (Main Mix) The Track Stars – Computer Glenn Underground – Madzone Anthony Shakir – Sermon Herman Orphrey – Tabu Mount Kimbie – William (Tama Sumo & Prosumer Mix) The Soft Pink Truth – Gender Studies
Rydims – Rydim#2 (Version) (Nu Groove) Mike Shannon Feat. Fadila – Under The Radar (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) (Cynosure) Soylent Green – Low Pt. 1 (Playhouse) The Prince Of Dance Music – E-3, E-6, Roll On (City Limits) Badawi – Dstry<All>Prfts (Shackleton Remix) (Cargo Records) Hertsi – Oodi Sähkölle (Sähkö) Da Sampla – The Rider (Moods & Grooves) Wax – 30003 B (Wax) DJ Duke – Escape From New York B2 (Power Music) Never On Sunday – Urban Rains (430 West) Laurent X – Drowning In A Sea Of House (House Nation) Keith Tucker – It’s A Mood (Seventh Sign) Dettmann – Vertigo (Vincent Kunth Remix) (Ostgut Ton) Nature Boy – The Major Enemy (Black Label) 4th Measure Men – The Need (Henry Street Dreams Mix) (Multiply) Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal? (Instrumental Version) (Not On Label) Buzzin Cuzzins Feat. Romanthony – Let Me Show You Love (Approach To Temple) (Azuli) Raudive – Sienna (Macro) Instra:mental – Let’s Talk (Naked Lunch)
FCL – Let’s Go Seven (We Play House) Ramadanman – Glut (Hemlock) Scuba – You Got Me (Hotflush) To Rococco Rot – Fridays (Shackleton’s West Green Rd Remix) (Domino) Monolake – Alaska (Substance Remix II) (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music) Low Res – Amuck (Sublime) Oni Ayhun – OAR004A (Oni Ayhun) Julia Decay – Untoward (Scandinavia) Rhythim Is Rhythim – Kaos (Juice Bar Mix) (Transmat) DJ Bone – No Sleep (True To Da Roots) (Sect) Mr. G – Life (One Dark Late Saturday) (Moods & Grooves) The Oliverwho Factory – Rain 5th Wave (Madd Chaise Inc.) Moodymann – Analog:Live (KDJ) Grand High Priest – Mary Mary (We-Ze Records) Shake – Psychotic Tango (Frictional) Spencer Kincy – Don’t Stop (Cajual) The Closer – Strong Meets The Weak (KMS) Bim Marx – Stronger (Stilove4music)
The Oliverwho Factory “Past, Present & Future” Madd Chaise Inc
Ever since I came across their releases a while ago, I’m a fan of this elusive couple from Detroit. Were their previous tracks often weird and wild, heaping ideas on top of each other that could supply other current house (and techno) producers with a year’s worth of material, this EP is rather smooth, even if some of their earlier tracks already showed their skills in that area. Subjective as it may be, on these tracks they manage to utilize elements that usually put me off house records right away: nujazzy offbeat rhythms, afro percussion, synth noodlings, this harmony singing that Blaze once brought into the scene (but it certainly wasn’t their fault, bless). In short, I have a whole range of unpleasant associations I normally connect to this certain kind of “spiritual” house that was predominantly championed in the New York scene of former years. That kind of house that wants to lift you up with its soulfulness, when it actually drags you down with weak songs, stereotypical arrangements and deepness by numbers. It speaks a lot for Oliverwho Factory that they take exactly these ingredients and make them shine in a different light, whilst maintaining their own way of establishing their signature rough moods and original details. Judging from the variety between house, techno and beyond they have covered so far, they are definitely on the surprising side of club music, and I trust them to stay there.
Anthony Shakir “Frictionalisms 1994 – 2009” Rush Hour
Where other Detroit originators struggled to keep up their standards for whatever reason as time passed by, Anthony Shakir never failed to deliver releases full of stunning ideas and sounds, rhythmic complexities and style-bending adventurousness. Nevertheless a lot of his output seemed to fly underneath the radar and so a bigger spotlight was long overdue. And like with Daniel Wang before, Rush Hour did a spectacular job in switching it on. There are many more gems to explore in Shakir’s back catalogue, but I can’t imagine a better place to start from than this retrospective (even if admittedly there is no other available anyway). I bet a lot of people will discover blueprints for other success stories in house and techno while hearing this, and it sure does no harm to point in the direction they’re coming from, and lick the funky emotions in the process.
nsi. “eitherway” non standard productions
Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer surely have enough talent and vision to get away with borrowing from Haruomi Hosono for their brand name. With this EP they pick up where “Squelch” left, again eliciting an interesting plethora of sounds and rhythms from their presumably vast supply of machines, and arranging them like only those can do who invest a lot of thought and experience in what they do. Preset-free experimentalism with production values that shame most laptops into implosion, and truly in a league of its own. I really wouldn’t mind more current electronic music daring to take chances the way this music does, but I also absolutely don’t mind listening further into their space while waiting for that to happen. Non standard productions indeed.
This mix was inspired by a very memorable Macro label night we did in Paris. Peter Kruder, Stefan Goldmann and me were invited by Hardrock Striker. Of course drinks in Paris clubs were expensive and it was Halloween, so everybody with a costume had reduced admission. Which led to a whole crowd in costumes. I messed up a few mixes because I laughed so much about the guys dressed as teletubbies in the front row. See photos below.
Odd Machine – Phase Out Instra:mental – Leave It All Behind Zomby – Tarantula Stress – Down In The Dungeon Shake – Indagoo Dread & Fred – Warriors Advance Posthuman – Callisto Paul Du Lac- Blow Back Ricardo Jefferson – The Egg (Part One) Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Memory Fails Me (Oni Ayhun Remix) Mark Grusane & Mike Cole Feat. Deanna – Time & Space (Vocal) Marcello Napoletano – Space Voodoo B.D.I. – City & Industry Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Arise The Oliverwho Factory – Disco Nights Rennie Foster – Good Time Charlie Octave One – A World Divided (Jupiter II Mix) Gesloten Cirkel – When It’s Late Iamthatiam – Inri Moderat – Seamonkey (Surgeon Remix) Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Soon (KiNK Remix) Ben Klock – Ok (Kenny Larkin Remix) Optic Nerve – Origins Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B San Proper – December 10th Dan Curtin – Other Tama Sumo & Prosumer – Alien Mutts Kirk Degiorgio – Isidora Roska – Sheppard Lowtec – Angstrom Peter Kruder – After The Dawn As One – Freefall Newworldaquarium – The Force (Âme Remix) dBridge – Wonder Where Kinf Midas Sound – One Ting (Dabrye Rmx)
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