Blowing Up The Workshop

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2014 MIXES

2014 July 28

my favorite sounds in a playlist..with no special order..newest additions at the end.
a new volume every 101 songs. this is the second volume.

cloud.selector

cloud.selector v.02

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/alex-cobb/

'All tracks excerpted from forthcoming Students of Decay vinyl releases with the exception of "Rain at the Fete," which is taken from "Marigold & Cable" (LP to be released on Shelter Press in early 2014).'

MAXWELL AUGUST CROY & SEAN MCCANN - ALEXANDRIA
ALEX COBB - RAIN AT THE FETE
FURNITURE - IV
VANESSA ROSSETTO - DOGS IN ENGLISH PORCELAIN
DAVID ANDREE - UNTITLED
SECRET PYRAMID - HER SPIRITS
RHBAND - NO GUITAR RULE
MARBLE SKY - A SHINING JUNIPER
EN - SECRET SAMBA

18 ◆ Alex Cobb



Nic TVG avoids the Drum & Bass clichés and unearths a barrage of unheard breaks for the rhythmic template on this, his debut album. He demonstrates a delicate touch in his manipulations of this material on the intro track “A Mouse Among Monsters” and also a maniacal tendency in the insanely chopped nature of “Friday Nights With Heather” at the death of proceedings. In between, there are many facets of Nic's repertoire to explore.

There is an unmistakable free-jazz theme running throughout this album and so, it is no surprise to see Nic pay tribute to the great Charles Gayle and his on-stage alter ego “Streets” on “The Clown”. The track encapsulates the sad nature of Gayle's existence as a homeless person in New York in the 70's and 80's but also his devious musical nature, evident in the way the rhythm steps in and out of its regular meter and switches between a number of different percussive palettes at a moments notice.

The free-jazz influence is to the fore again on “Playing Drums As Pads” where the most unlikely and unwieldy drum-kit patterns are pushed together and somehow made coherent and compelling. “Lose The World On An Excuse” promises to remain a little more regular initially but the pulsing kicks of the intro soon give way to a whirlwind of drums, pitching bass notes and off-key violins for maybe the zaniest tune on the album!

“I'm Sorry I Puked On Your Dress” sounds like Jazz and Drum & Bass meeting Tchaikovsky's “Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy”. You could be listening to the future of ballet right here.

Moving on, the title track “Then I Disappear” is all intense drums, flitting bass plucks and looping horns. The reversed keys introduced as the track progresses develop a more reflective air which leads nicely into “Out Of No More” - probably the most introspective track on the album.

Perking things up is “Sitting In The Crosswalk” which forsakes the jazz overtones to flex a more recognisable Drum & Bass influence amid an uplifting autumnal ambience. The D&B strains are also much in evidence on “Let Yourself Be Unknown”. Crunchy amens cart-wheel among stark, sustained atmospherics but eventually gave way to a wistful synth riff before the beats and bass broodily return.

“She Looks Like Marisa Tomei” is interesting for its title but also for the way the rhythms are occasionally ratcheted up a notch from the steady kick and hi-hat interchanges by the injection of some rowdy funk drums. The low-end bass and stretched wind instruments work particularly well together in this beautiful blend of breakbeat and blues.

“My Life As A Hairless Aardvark” might just beat the stiff competition for best track title on the album. It also might just feature the most obtuse rhythm, which is saying something!

And so to the maniacal chopping of “Friday Nights With Heather”... talk about going out with a bang ! ... and then, I disappear.

...

Nic TVG, “Then I Disappear” :: SUBTLE005CD - Tracklisting

1. A Mouse Among Monsters
2. The Clown
3. Playing Drums As Pads
4. Lose The World On An Excuse
5. I'm Sorry I Puked On Your Dress (Album Version)
6. Then I Disappear
7. Out Of No More
8. Sitting In The Crosswalk
9. Let Yourself Be Unknown (Alternate Mix)
10. She Looks Like Marisa Tomei
11. My Life As A Hairless Aardvark
12. Friday Nights With Heather


Buy from Subtle Audio

Nic TVG - Out Of No More :: SUBTLE005CD

The Sunken Hum Broadcast 253 - The Soulful Chicken Singers - 10 September 2013

Boiler Room w/ Lone, Blue Hawaii, Clouds & Fort Romeau.

[Broadcasted on 29th August 2013]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Fort Romeau 45 min Boiler Room mix

I like the way you talk

Recorded live at GGHQ / SW2.

**MINIMUM EFFORT / MAXIMUM VIBE**



GGHQ Mix #2 : Brian Not Brian

Dope Body- "Hired Gun"

anjou 'sighting'

False Entities

Isobaric 3

Falling Apart

A Kiss Goodbye (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sampha & Devonté Hynes)

THIS IS Retro - Volume 1 
THISISR01 

Release: May 7 (Beatport) / May 21 (iTunes & all other digital platforms) 

Keeping true to the label's decision to go for sophisticated, retro disco / funk flavour, This Is Recordings presents an album with a twist - This Is Retro. The LP is choc full of deeper sounds, but ones which will still work on the dancefloor as well as being perfect for home listening. 
The album is an introspective, thoughtful and predominantly heartfelt collection of hand-picked cuts.   

THIS IS RETRO 

The music on This Is Retro has been compiled with dedication and genuine consideration. It has an unquestionably retrospective sounding streak running through the selection, but also a fresh approach to today’s music – it’s retro, but it’s firmly relevant in today’s market. 
Tracks feature from the likes of THIS IS label owner Sander Kleinenberg and many others. Sander contributes to the album with tracks such as Chemically, Remember When, Follow Me and The Healer.  
Quality contributions have been hand-picked by the label, artists such as Kraak & Smaak, diskJokke, Djuma Soundsystem,NSFW, Ante Perry, Kolombo and Downtown Party Network. This really is a retrospective voyage into the old to come up with something new, combining some tracks incorporating that 'classic sounding' vibe with a fresh 2012 flavour. 
The LP is truly essential listening, compiled with love and care by Sander as we approach summer 2012.

THE ALBUM: 

This Is Retro comes to us as a strong package of dancefloor as well as easy listening gems. This Is Retro genuinely covers the whole spectrum. 
The album kicks off with Sander Kleinenberg vs Kraak & Smaak´s 'The Journey' feat Ursula Rucker. This version is the Kolombo remix, dropping the BPMs and taking us back to the 80s with a series of stabbed synth sounds and probably the funkiest bassline this side of James Brown. Young and upcoming Dutch talent NSFW furthers his growing reputation with a track entitled 'Coconut’. Unbelievably simple, but impressingly infectious, this is a track which is full, round, warm and uplifting. When the female vocal slides in, as well as the piano line, you know this track is where it’s at. Kolombo offer their second offering on the track with 'Passin’ Me By'. The track also makes use of subtle vocal snippets, up and down key changes, complemented with those crisp 80s drum pads. 
Sander takes up the reigns with the impressive The Healer track, offering a more mellow, dreamy experience, with NSFW storming back with his remix of Kolombo & Oliver Klein’s 'Espionnage'. 
Djuma Soundsystem & diskJokke’s 'Maneter' slows the BPMs even more before Ante Perry & Kolombo’s 'Completely Positive' also does the business in a laid-back vibe. 
Main man Sander rounds off the album with his sublime vocal workout with UK singer/songwriter Jamie Cullum. The track is the seminal 'Remember When', featuring Jamie’s heartfelt vocals, with Downtown Party Network on the remix. 


10. Ante Perry & Kolombo - Completely Positive (Original Mix)

Fiasco 3

Nachtwache 19.Oktober

Boiler Room Los Angeles w/ Blood Diamonds, Knxwledge, Earnest Blount & Toro Y Moi

[Broadcast on 27th November 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Toro y Moi 55 Min Boiler Room Los Angeles Mix

Open

Open (SOHN Remix)

Es knistert und groovt, dröhnt und säuselt in allen Ecken, wenn das KlangDrangOrchester auf eine seiner intensiven Klangreisen ins Gefühlsleben der Musiker und des Publikums geht. 

Das Frühjahr 2013 steht für das improvisierende KlangDrangOrchester ganz im Zeichen der Erforschung musikalischer Spielräume durch Reduktion. In der 3-teiligen Konzertreihe "Basics to go" untersucht Peter Wolf mit kompositorischen Rahmenkonzepten das Spektrum klangmalerischer Möglichkeiten für das Dirigat. Der Fokus richtet sich mithilfe reduzierter Zeichengruppen auf die verstärkte Wahrnehmung für Strukturen und Phänomene in gruppenimprovisatorischen Prozessen.

Der von Wolf verwendete Basiszeichensatz geht von den über 20-jährigen Erfahrungen des London Improvisers Orchestra aus. Dessen Zeichenrepertoire, das inzwischen weite Verbreitung gefunden hat, umfasst ca. 20 Gesten, die Aspekte wie Gruppen, Rhythmus, Funktionen, Feeling sowie dynamische und tonale Parameter steuern. Dazu kommen bei Wolf individuelle Zeichen und Absprachen sowie intuitiv zu erfassende, performative Zeichen, die über Körpersprache vermittelt werden.


130418 Audio 03

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/rene-audiard/

'Vinyl only, no edits. Thanks to Kamal for a few records.'

CORRADO IZZO - OFFENE WEITEN
CORRADO IZZO - OFFENE WEITEN (GADGETS REMIX)
UNBROKEN DUB - UNTITLED DUBS A1
LUKE HESS - RENEWAL PART 2
MARK ERNESTUS MEETS BBC
GEOFF WHITE - WUBUB
G.R.I.T. - SAFER RETREAT
VUALITRON - BLAGODUB A2
RENÉ AUDIARD - DOCTRINE
STEWART WALKER - CIRCULAR VALLEY (G. WHITE REMIX)
RHYTHM & SOUND - SEE MI YAH (BASIC RESHAPE)
TRAUMPRINZ - BIG BABY JESUS
MIKE DEHNERT - TREIBHOLZ
MOTOR - GOK
JICHAEL MACKSON - PIEPE
RENÉ AUDIARD - PECHORIN
SUTEKH - FIRE WEATHER

1 ◆ René Audiard

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/2--prostitutes/

USED ILLUSIONS PT. I & II

'raw, live and unsuitable for laptop speakers'

2 ◆ PROSTITUTES

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/3--ukkonen/

KENKEY SPECIAL

'Kenkey Special is different in many ways from my other material. Whereas the tracks on the album (and the EPs) were often tightly harmonically and rhythmically integrated, these tracks are often more atonal and the rhythms more chaotic. There are hints of almost bebop-like phrases. Chord sequences move aimlessly to uncertain destinations...
There is a sense of disintegration and disconnection.

There is one major technical change that I've used for the first time here - phasing rhythms that aren't locked into the tempo (You can hear one example around the 33 minute mark in the high synth plinks).

The tone is distorted and uglier than before. The title came from a sign I saw in an African market (it wasn't in Africa). I didn't know what it meant at the time, but I found the words evocative, and that combined with some negative events started to shape this new material and the feel of the mix.'

3 ◆ Ukkonen

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/4--helm/

'A mix to commemorate the passing of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Comprised of excerpts from some of my favourite records of the past twelve months, new releases on Alter for 2013 and two unreleased Helm pieces.'

RAIME - PASSED OVER TRAIL
LIBEREZ - A WARNING
BLACK SUN ROOF - SHIT SLAUGHTER
AGE COIN - PERCEPTIONS 
KEVIN DRUMM - RELIEF
HELM - SILENCER
DAMIEN DUBROVNIK - PACHA COUNTERFEIT
NICK EDWARDS - NO ESCAPE FROM '79
BEN VIDA - ZIZZLERS
THE BOMBER JACKETS - DEMO
ELG - BLAU LUNGE
GARETH WILLIAMS & MARIE CURRIE - BEGUILING THE HOURS
THE TOBACCONISTS - SUMMER RIDING SCHOOL
VANESSA ROSSETTO - DE TROP
BEE MASK - RAIN IN COFFEE
HELM - UNTITLED WIP

4 ◆ Helm

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/5--siobhan/

DOG'S BLOOD

'it's a medley of some prehistoric Siobhan material and 2 brand new jams exclusive for the mix.'

ART BY TRAVIS GALLOWAY