classic! brings back memories of better times

(coffeee and cigs Dark & Demented harmony Quarterfest revision: b

Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

Faith In Strangers

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Projeto inicialmente com Lucas Sampaio e Eder Alex, de gravação de 1 musica por dia durante o ano de 2k25, feita de forma ead, cada um gravando sua parte e enviando para o outro complementar

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030 - DMX Krew - You Can't Hide Your Love ( Aphex Twin mix )

Taken from Betonkust & Palmbomen II - "Center Parcs EP", out on cassette and digitally 26 February 2016.

Buy Tape: http://bit.ly/20EqiK1

Betonkust & Palmbomen II - 24x33

Taken from "Reflections 2012-2016", a 30 track mixtape of unreleased music excerpts from 2012—2016 by ¬ b (fka Lee Bannon).

The physical version is available for pre-order through 1080p in double cassette form (limited to 100 copies), and ships June 1.

Buy Tape: bit.ly/1WDB8gY
Digital: bit.ly/1WEJB2Z

Lee Bannon - 3m12 Disc 2-sideD

Boards of Canada Sleep Mix Vol. 2

Premiered by @resident-advisor 
https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/893826

"I made this track from samples of a piano board I recorded in EMS Stockholm with LAIR while we were working on our project. And some microphone hiss for the beats. I have been making purely percussive tracks recently for my upcoming album, so for this track I wanted to have an emotive melodic element as well. The title refers to the difficulty it seems as a human to live as you truly want, as opposed to how you think you should." - @eomac

Eomac - Don't Fear Your Own Heart

DMX Krew - You Can't Hide Your Love (Aphex Twin remix)

Taken from 'It Should Be Us', Andy Stott’s first release since 2016 and first EP since 2011 - a doublepack of slow and raw productions for the club, recorded this year and following a series of releases that started with ‘Passed Me By’ and ‘We Stay Together’ early this decade. 

There’ll be a new Andy Stott album in 2020, but in the meantime... this one’s for dancing..

It Should Be Us

Andy Stott - Versi

https://dollarstorekeyboard.bandcamp.com/album/discgarden

Discgarden

Dollarstore Keyboard - Low Hanging Flute (Mause Remix)

*** Historical background ***
In 1991 RePhleX records introduced the concept of 'Braindance' to label the music they release.
Often people equate Braindance and IDM. That is completely wrong. Braindance is More than IDM.
IDM is a style of electronic music, and Braindance isn't one.
Braindance is NOT a limp and lifeless set of sounds like 97% of everything that industry produces. It is the Music! A sound that contains feelings, emotions and inspiration!

Here is the text posted on the Rephlex website in the 90's:
"braindance is the genre that encompasses the best elements of all genres, e.g traditional, classical, electronic music, popular, modern, industrial, ambient, hip hop, electro, house, techno, breakbeat, hardcore, ragga, garage, drum and bass, etc.

BRAINDANCE is...
extraordinary!
fulfilling!
entertaining!
open-minded!
original!
creative!
unpredictable!
sincere!
influential!
highly-acclaimed!
BRAINDANCE is...
unique : )"

And here is the later version:
"braindance is... incredible!
braindance is... boundless; eclectic; entertaining; rephreshing; fulfilling; wholehearted; sensual;
stimulating; bold; unconventional; real; imaginary; visionary; essential; debonair...
braindance is unique!"

The presented artists:
AFX
Aphex Twin
Astrobotnia
Bitstream
Bogdan Raczynski
Bochum Welt
Ceephax Acid Crew
Cylob
Dave Monolith
DMX Krew
Dwaallicht
EOD
Global Goon
Humanoid
Jodey Kendrick
Kettel
Knifehandchop
Lowfish
Loyolla Biaffra'
Luke Vibert
Mesu Kasumai
Monowolfe
Plaid
Rolando Simmons
Squarepusher
The Flashbulb
The Kosmik Kommando
The String Quartet
Waswhite
Wisp
µ-Ziq

030 - DMX Krew - You Can't Hide Your Love ( Aphex Twin mix )

Braindance Treasury

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