So soft, so caring, embracing, music to be hold by.
Flako – Twelve O’Clock Shadow
Andrea Parker – Kiss My Arp
The other day Rdio was slow on the stream and nowadays these are the moments when I dig up some old favorite records to listen to. So this is how I revisited Parker’s debut long player on Mo Wax. I so much love everything about it and has this deep personal touch that I feel with a select few of albums, like Grooverider’s Mysteries Of Funk for example.
Kiss My Arp is also a stunningly melodic experience. I have Andrea Parker in my mind as the queen of this dry, lean, cold break electro, and probably that’s adequate for many of her compositions. But Kiss My Arp is definitely something much better filled with life and perfectly matches the late-90′s line-up of Mo Wax with its trip-hop sounds and moods.
Martin L. Gore – MG
It’s hard to say wether this album is something or not, either concerning genre or quality. There is a hint of DM meets Twin Peaks ambient mood, tense beat with synth, soundtrack atmosphere, deep pumping, and all else. This is rather like a personal collection of stuff laying around and being collected for some time I guess.
Crisopa – A Lucid Dream Kit
Beautiful ambient soundscapes, triphopish tempo and grain, IDM electronics.
Braids – Deep In The Iris
Slow to mid tempo music, glitchy electronic, girl sings, melancholic. I rarely listen to music like this nowadays but Khoiba just reoccured to me right now.
Squarepusher – Damogen Furies
This is quite fucked up. I wasn’t expecting this surprising level of experimentation.
Akkord – HTH035
All different kinds of electronic underground explorations from breaks to techno. What is exceptionally exciting is the HTH020 remix called ‘The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud of Witness’, which starts off a bit intimidating but builds up into some kind of elemental orchestrated rhythmic noise masterpiece in a manner of Fuck-Buttons-meets-post-rock-with-electronics.
Terence Fixmer – Depth Charged
Föld alatti, sötét, minimál, ipari, de mégis szikár techno.
Ambient, IDM, koszos breakek. Földalatti hangulatok, nagyvárások alatti katakombarendszerek, neon fény. Chillezéshez, munkához, autózáshoz, futáshoz, főleg éjszaka.
Korrupt Data: jó kis robotos elektro, régi iskolás, analóg, pittyeg, minimál, néha űrlézer, máskor éjszaka suhanó bitek, persze hogy a Kraftwerk jut eszedbe.
Update: második nekifutásra jobb fülessel hallgattam, és számít. Érdemes jó hangcuccon végighallgatni, sok benne az apró finomság, és nagyon kimunkált a hangzás.