Pretty good backdrop music for a long afternoon working session. The mixed version is four and a half hour long roll of uncut house.
John Digweed – Last Night at Output
Red Axes – Sound Test
The tune in Shabak Shalom gets me hooked like when I couldn’t listen to anything but Forget the Timing on repeat. Fantastic tech house.
KOMPROMAT – Traum Und Existenz
KOMPROMAT is Vitalic and Rebeka Warrior. I don’t really know what this is in terms of genre or style, and it uses the two languages that are pretty remote to me. But listening this on repeat made me start to like German as a language. Wonderful music, moods, colors (of grey). Once it’s an electronic thing, then I have a cognitive hyperlink to Heilung. They themselves say dark and neopunk, Discogs writes electroclash and industrial. Hard to say. But it’s a mandatory listen at the moment.
Kincaid feat. Blancmange – Big Fat Head
“You’re going through events from last night in your big fat head.”
Funny house should be a subgenre. Also, the record label is Disco Halal. *smirk
Daniel Thorne – Lines of Sight
Modern composition melting acoustic and electronic. The saxophonist background comes through at certain points. Has the vibe of some power noise but it is still atmospheric ambient.
Vaal – Nosferatu
I have the same feeling like when I listened to the latest record by FJAAK: these guys are rummaging in the bottom of their pockets and pull out stuff from the past, dust them off, and create something that I find fascinating. Vaal has these breakbeats that are like echoing the Matrix all over it, so much ’90s, blast from the past, but she still builds something atop that feels current. I love it.
The Cinematic Orchestra – To Believe
Intimate, slow, cinematic, orchestral. The favorite track is the one with Roots Manuva, there’s a powerful arch in this one.
Yotto - Hyperfall
Funny thing this is so much Scandinavian, even without looking up just after two tracks the origin was obvious. If Knife is the archetypical nordic electronic act, this is the uptempo Knife.
Adriatique – Nude
It’s like IDM techno. Deep, melodic, atmospheric.
Throwing Snow – Mosaic
After last year’s Loma I am traveling backwards in the Throwing Snow discography, and it’s a great trip. At this album I’m stuck for a while now, I keep re-listening it and it just doesn’t clear from my Listen Next playlist. It gives me the goosebumps at certain points, has magical moods, it’s like electronic music with a soul. It’s like Apparat with a more firm grip on the beats, little more weight on sounds, doesn’t take so much care to take all steps with a soft feet. I imagine a creature sliding on ice; it runs to gain impetus, starts off with a quick and light slide, then jumps to feet ending in metal hoofs and slams it on the ice, carving a streak but still moving forward like it was unstoppable.