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The 405: Best Tracks/Remixes of the Year 2012

My tracks of 2012

http://helloemptyroom.com/2012/12/28/tracks-of-2012/

Tracks of 2012 // by Timothy

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Nighty Night

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Four Tet - Pinnacles
Daphni - Ye Ye



Pinnacles

Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #6

All songs written by Dan Snaith.
Luke Lalonde sings 'Jamelia'.
Kyle Brenders plays soprano saxophone and bass clarinet on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal'.
Colin Fisher plays tenor saxophone on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal'.
Rob Piilonen plays flute on 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal', 'Jamelia'.
Steve Ward plays trombone on 'Sun', 'Kaili', 'Leave House', 'Hannibal', ' Jamelia'.
'Odessa', 'Kaili', 'Leave House', ' Lalibela', 'Jamelia' mixed by David Wrench at Bryn Derwen Studio.
'Found Out' and 'Hannibal' mixed by Jeremy Greenspan at Pistacho Studio.
'Bowls' mixed by Jeremy Greenspan and Dan Snaith.
Mastered by George Graves at Lacquer Channel Mastering.
Photography and art direction by Jason Evans. www.thedailynice.com
Design by Matthew Cooper and Jason Evans.

Odessa

Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/6HYyeW4R4oZbUvkjG7t3qH

Join me on Patreon! www.patreon.com/owsey

Painting used: Wlodzimierz Kuklinski's "Cold."

Owsey: 
http://www.facebook.com/owsey 
http://www.owsey.bandcamp.com 
http://www.twitter.com/owseymusic 
http://www.youtube.com/owseymusic 
http://www.last.fm/music/Owsey 
http://www.soundcloud.com/owsey

Birdy's original track available here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shelter-single/id441559253

Essay's remix: http://soundcloud.com/essayessay/birdy-shelter-essays-tearful

Spotify

Birdy - Shelter (Owsey Remix)

This is the 2nd track of my album ƒin. 
It was half produced half in Barcelona and half in Pional's studio in Madrid. We made three sessions of recordings during 2011 and in fact it's the track that took most time to finish in the album. Pional played some keys too and some percussions, he's the best :)  


Destiny feat. Pional

From the album Celebration Rock. Purchase CD / LP / MP3 here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/celebrationrock

Buy on iTunes

Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

Out now in Digital / Vinyl formats worldwide:

Lapalux
When You’re Gone
BF027

1. 102 Hours of Introductions
2. Moments (Feat. PY)
3. Gone
4. Yellow 90′s
5. Construction Deconstruction
6. Gutter Glitter
7. Face Down, Eyes Shut

Stuart Howard aka Lapalux has come up with something special for his first release with Cali’s finest, Brainfeeder. Having made his name with his cassette-only “Many Faces Out Of Focus” and acclaimed bootlegs and remixes he returns with a seven track EP of such poise and beauty, one listen is enough to know you’re onto something special.

Lapalux bathes your brain in lush textures, surprising and explosive atmospheres set in unencountered, unearthly spaces, all somehow perfectly set against catchy rolling choruses informed by pop and commercial R&B. On the “When You’re Gone” EP he channels and refines his sound and shapes it into hazy, woozy emotion. Whether working with a singer like Py (on “Moments”), or deconstructing found samples and his own voice, Howard stretches, bends and warps sound to make soul – not plastic posturing but real emotion made of synthetic sound.

Lapalux on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lapalux

Py on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/pymusic

Lapalux - Moments (featuring Py)

Mister Lies - I Walk

Birdy's "Skinny Love" from her self titled debut album "Birdy" out in North America on March 20th! Pre Order Here: http://bit.ly/BirdyAlbum


Birdy

Skinny Love

Written and Produced by Jai Paul. Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Synthesisers, Programming and FX by Jai Paul. Bass Guitar by Anup Paul. Sound Design by Anup Paul. Engineered and Mixed by Jai Paul. Mastered by Anup Paul. Recorded at home in London, England.

Sticker Design by Jai Paul. 'Alpha Kufi' Type by Agung Yuwanda.
 
iTunes http://smarturl.it/jasmineitunes
Amazon http://smarturl.it/jasmineamazon


Jasmine (Demo)

The first single from the Liars new album WIXIW released June 2012.

Liars - No.1 Against The Rush

DOWNLOAD LINK http://www.mediafire.com/?wa7gm6r49h79bfn

Erykah Badu - Love Of My Life (Kaytranada Remix)

Download "Howl" from FACT Magazine: http://bit.ly/Ixmkq0

Brainfeeder presents the album TOTEM by new signée RYAT, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer of avant-garde electronic music. A serious oeuvre, TOTEM blends classical elements and cinematic sounds with experimental time changes. Twisting through the gritty, disheveled beats like an elegant ribbon, RYAT’s gracefully processed vocals merge with electronic surprises to create a work of intense abstract art.

Trading the urban jungle of Philadelphia for the concrete badlands of Los Angeles, RYAT’s transformation was juxtapositioned with a new awareness of her natural surroundings and unexpected visits from animals, whose dream partners give the album its name. Every track of TOTEM represents a different spirit animal, each with a message translated through RYAT’s experimentation with unusual sound signatures.

The track “Howl” moves from a thatched start right into a swollen groove, with beats collected into random tide pools, full of unforeseen sounds. “Footless” builds tension into a celestial knock with an off-kilter gallop that flies skyward, while the loose drums of jazz-influenced “Object Mob” generate an unexpected emotion of freedom.

Giving us just a glimpse of her journey through fire-filled vocals and captivating sonic twists, poetess RYAT lays an emotional path into a dream where animals speak in music and the beats have come alive.


RYAT - HOWL

ABOUT U

In May 2011 Mala (Digital Mystikz) travelled to Havana, Cuba with Gilles Peterson to record and collaborate with local musicians. The results are documented on his album ‘Mala in Cuba’ – scheduled for release on Brownswood Recordings on 10th September 2012. The album is preceded by a 12” featuring two tracks - ‘Cuba Electronic’ and ‘Calle F’ - out now.

BUY VIA...

BROWNSWOOD ONLINE STORE
http://brownswoodrecordings.greedbag.com/buy/cuba-electroniccalle-f/

BROKEN DUB HOUSE
http://www.surus.co.uk/Broken-Dub-House/Cuba-Electronic-/-Calle-F-18485.aspx

BLEEP
https://bleep.com/release/37895

BOOMKAT
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/558059-mala-cuba-electronic-calle-f

JUNO
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/463887-01.htm

http://www.malaincuba.com
http://www.brownswoodrecordings.com

Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/mala-in-cuba/id554979646

Greedbag: http://brownswoodrecordings.greedbag.com/buy/cuba-electroniccalle-f/

Bandcamp: http://brownswoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mala-in-cuba

Amazon: http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B0091SADK4/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1369843905&sr=1-1

Mala - Cuba Electronic

'Nocturne' will be out August 28th in North America on Captured Tracks.

Wild Nothing // Paradise

Debut album Body Music is OUT NOW ::

http://po.st/BodyMusiciTunes - iTunes Standard album
http://po.st/BodyMusiciTunesDeluxe - iTunes Deluxe Album
http://po.st/BodyMusicAmazon - Standard CD
http://po.st/BodyMusicAmazonDeluxe - Deluxe CD
http://po.st/BodyMusic  – Signed Copies
http://po.st/BodyMusicLP - 12" Vinyl

www.alunageorge.com
www.facebook.com/alunageorge
www.twitter.com/alunageorge

Your Drums, Your Love

iTunes

Second track from the EP "IV" - Released on City By Night Records

Free Download

Soular Order - Before You Leave



<a href="https://theartistunion.com/tracks/a02ce9?soundcloud_ref=description" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

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Luststruck

VINYL HERE - http://mynunorthernsoul.bandcamp.com
Available on Beatport - http://bit.ly/NNS_Beatport
Available on iTunes - http://bit.ly/NUNS002_iTunes
Official release date 28th Jan 2013

Licensing / Label info - info@nunorthernsoul.co.uk

Take 2 classic soulful Hip Hop cuts and add some folk flavours and allow to simmer and this is what you get...

Mos Def's 'Umi Says' and The Pharcyde's 'Runnin' get a loving reinterpretation from Ben Smith of Smith and Mudd fame...

Support from Gilles Peterson, Rob Da Bank, Craig Charles...

Gilles Peterson BBC6 play - Saturday 15th Dec 2012 'The soundtrack of sunrises around the World for years to come...'

Rainer Truby (Germany) - Sublime 10 out of 10

Rob Luis / Tru Thoughts (UK) - A great cover... Supported on Unfold radio show 13th Jan 2013

Ross Allen (UK) - Nice versions, will support.

Kon (USA) - Well done.. almost as if the group America had done covers.

Qool DJ Marv (USA) - Played Runnin' at the World famous Apollo Theatre last weekend and Umi Says is the opener for my debut radio show in Philadelphia!

Frank Booker, Hit it and Quit It (NZ) - Really love these. The weather in NZ is stunning at the moment, and these fit the bill perfectly! Will be supporting in full on radio and around the traps. Great stuff


B.J. Smith 'Dedications to the Greats' [NUNS002] Sampler

 Buy on iTunes 

Carousel - Let's Go Home (Sound Remedy Remix)

FKJ - Lying Together

“I think it’s safe to say Jeremiah Jae is one of my favorite artists of his generation. For years now I’ve been a witness to the incredible progression of his craft. This album has a complex dedication and honesty that I search for in myself with my own art. Underrated and understated, Jae is ready to show these muhfuckers what’s really good. Believe in Jeremiah Jae” – Flying Lotus

It’s truly apt that Raw Money Raps opens with Jeremiah Jae hazily reminiscing about awakening from an especially chimerical journey. After a kaleidoscopic grip of beat tapes, EPs and mixtapes that have sent wi-fi connections rumbling, as well as a move from windswept Chi-city to the home of his Brainfeeder crew in LA, Jae unveils his sprawling debut full-length release. More than just an album, this is an all-encompassing Pynchonian, Tumblr-feeding, social networked art-rap fever dream. A seismic collision of the analog and digital worlds makes for deceptively hooky beats that double as sonic rabbit-holes, all of which cradles Jae’s flow – which is a versatile instrument all it’s own, skipping from rapid, focused deliveries to surprising melodic sing-a-longs then chopped-and-screwed slump and stream of consciousness brainfloods.

To be a young producer and MC in 2012 is no easy task, however with style and substance in short order and internet democratization run-rampant, there’s arguably never been a better time for one to make their mark. Rather than jump headlong into the cresting 1990’s throwback revival, Jae develops tracks and lyrics that link technology and metaphysics in a defiantly contemporary way, flipping swag rap tropes on their head and reveals a penchant for affecting introspection. This singular approach to music is almost certainly a by-product of Jae’s split personality as a visual artist. Working in the context of fine art with paintings and collages as well as spreading into fashion design, Jae’s output aligns him with multi-media luminaries like the late, great Rammellzee.

Raw Money Raps’ first single, Money, is a where-did-my-cash-go-mid-afternoon summer jam for hot cloudy days ahead, accompanied by a suitably tweaked video directed by fellow renaissance man Flying Lotus. “Money” comes paired with another album standout in “Money and Food”, which takes trap rap’s unhinged synths and 808 kicks and filters them through Jae’s prism. Across it’s span, the album touches on fractured, cautionary headbangers (“Rover”), string-laden classicism (“Cat Fight”) and deeply psychedelic futurism (“Hercules Versus the Commune”) and in the process, ignites the brightest rising star of 2012. Prepare yourself for Jeremiah Jae’s journey.

Jeremiah Jae - Money

Stereo Typing is the sum of the parts of a journey. Giovanni Civitenga, aka My Dry Wet Mess, composed his forthcoming album for Brainfeeder over a 15 month period (November ‘10 through January ‘12), between Barcelona and Berlin, in four different houses. And out of the many changes and different chapters, comes a densely layered body of work that - despite being a product of transition - stands as his most grounded and resolved work yet.

The title derived, My Dry Wet Mess explains, “from the concept of typing for the stereo field, as in writing narration through sounds. Writing a story as a writer would do, but using sounds instead of words.” The 14 album tracks use live instrumentation, tweaked samples, slap-bass riffs, slanted beats and winding melodies to form playful narratives and plot shifts, leading the listener to places completely unexpected, and unknown. Twists and turns abound, each track is a journey in itself, at times traversing through intertwining synth lines in a buoyant underwater bassbin, other points diverting into R&B-sampled scifi wonderlands, filled with otherworldly sounds conversing. The album ends on sensory bliss, with the sublime "Prismas" and the daydream-inducing "Youth Reboot".

Though his living situation changed throughout the album’s formation, there’s a inherent sense of family and home in the LP. His father plays guitar, Gianluca Pellegrino (an old friend and regular collaborator) plays various electric guitar parts, and his good friend in New York, Maryam Modarressi, sings on two songs, and her sampled voice makes an appearance throughout the album. The artwork was also created by his close conspirator, Berlin based illustrator Elliot Beaumont, a homage to one of MDWM’s favorite painters, De Chirico. “It's got this hard to define quality to it, a sense of "future nostalgia" that I love and that I find extremely appropriate for my music and the ideas behind it.”

Release Date: 11/12/12


My Dry Wet Mess - Austere Coincidences

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix RA 329 (September 2012)

Original Mix / Feature here: http://bit.ly/UccLEA

Raw sounds from an LA b-boy.

You don't get a word like "motherfucker" attached to your name for no good reason. William Bensussen, AKA The Gaslamp Killer, has been in peoples' faces right from the start. Coming up in the rock town of San Diego, Bensussen would continually clear dance floors in the city's Gaslamp district—hence the name—by playing Mobb Deep and Dilla.

Things didn't stay this way forever. In LA he became a resident DJ at Daddy Kev's Low End Theory, the mythologised weekly party and producer hangout that has seen the likes of Daedelus, Nosaj Thing and Flying Lotus rise from its ranks. It was on the latter's Brainfeeder that GLK met a global audience as a producer. 2009's My Troubled Mind and the following year's Death Gate threw up his love of grizzly beats and obscure samples. Seeing GLK behind a pair of turntables is, however, when the MF tag makes most sense. His shows are the epitome of unhinged energy. Rock, jazz, bass music and funk are just as likely to be aired as hip-hop, as he wigs out with his now trademark dance moves.

GLK's "Resident Killer mix" is 45-minute slice of what we're talking about—plus you get the added bonus of a coda comprised solely of music from Breakthrough, his madcap debut album which was released today through Brainfeeder.

What have you been up to recently?

Touring (as usual), working on new music with Jungle By Night from Amsterdam, not to mention enjoying this amazing summer of love!

How and where was the mix recorded?

In my room at my house in Los Angeles on ProTools with my Dr. Sample 303.

Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?

It's one of my best mixes yet. The first part is all about the heavy newer beat music with a bunch of unreleased stuff from my worldwide crew of beat making friends. The second part is a little more hip-hop turntablist influenced and the third part is all brand new GLK Breakthrough material!

Tell us about the writing of Breakthrough.

I worked on it tirelessly between touring and touring—trying to work with some of my favourite LA musicians to make it all come to life a little more than my previous records. Also, had to reach out to Dimlite (CH) all the way out in Zurich cause he is one of my favourite producers of all time and I am working on a whole record with him soon!

Outside of your LA base, where do you see as being other key strongholds for your sound?

London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Athens, Tokyo, Johannesburg and New York fuckin City are some of my most favourite places to play. They always get what I'm bringing to the table and always have amazing openers playing with me that make me want to run for the hills! Some of these cities even have Low End Theory-related events that stemmed from our little Wednesday night club in LA. Pretty fuckin cool.

What are you up to next?

Release parties all over the world plus a new Low End Theory podcast with a VERY special guest! Even planning a trip to India with Gonjasufi to try and record some new material there. But it's all in the works so I can't promise anything just yet! 

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix ★ September 2012

:: http://www.fb.com/origamisound :: http://store.origamisound.com/album/takeover ::

They say catchiness is recipe-based and dance music industry producers make a living trying to find and apply the perfect balance and chemistry between particular elements, however once in a blue moon some guy comes out of nowhere and touches on a bunch of soft spots with a witty seamlessness - what one might call a prodigy. 

ViLLΛGE has been in charge of our visual side, the go-to guy for anything from video trailers to VJing during our club nights. He couldn't avoid making some music of his own and it just so happens that it's not only up to par with everything that Origami Sound stands for but also a testament of his seemingly infinite potential and fantastic sense of quality and appeal. 

"Takeover" is the first in a series of EPs that will focus on our core crew of artists from both the local (Romanian) and international scene.

ViLLΛGE - Dive

if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take

produced by the homie Wino Willy

The Prayer (prod. by Wino Willy)

We teamed up with buzzing indie pop band, Carousel to take their radical new single "Stay Awake" into fuzzed out dreamland. While the original is grounded in crisp electronic bounce, all we could hear was the glorious lyrics saturating themselves in a bed of lush and warm synths. Download it for free and make sure you comment!   

Carousel - Stay Awake (The Soundmen Remix)

Just for a laugh, although did get Radio 1 play on Rob da Banks show...

Lapalux - Moments (featuring Py)

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