2017 resident advisor best album

DKMNTL-SLCTRS002 // Selectors 002 - Young Marco

a1. Danny Boy - Diskomix (Disko Version)
a2. Gerrit Hoekema - Televisiewereld
a3. Ghostwriters - Swizzle
b1. Larry Heard - Dolphin Dream
b2. Wolf Müller - Pfad Des Windes
c1. The Force Dimension - 200 FA (Extended Mix)
c2. Frank Youngwerth - Whirr (Original Mix)
c3. Green Baize - Spick And Span
d1. Ray Tracing - Mariopaint
d2. Personal FX - Objects In Mirrors

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5604/young-marco
Digital: https://dekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/young-marco-selectors-002

The Selectors project—an ongoing celebration of DJs with a particular devotion to their craft— successfully launched in 2016 with its first compilation (with Motor City Drum Ensemble at the helm) and a limited-capacity festival in Croatia. Dekmantel has already announced the festival’s return next summer, and now the compilation series is set to continue with a new edition curated by Young Marco.

Born Marco Sterk, he certainly doesn’t come from a standard DJ background. A former skate rat who grew up loving American post-hardcore and ’90s hip-hop as much as early Warp Records, he’s been affiliated over the years with Amsterdam institutions such as Rush Hour, Red Light Records and, of course, Dekmantel itself. Still, there’s no question that he’s always followed his own path, even during the years that playing his favorite records meant that he was occasionally clearing dancefloors.

Things are different these days, of course, as Sterk now regularly plays around the globe and has been widely hailed not just for his DJ talents, but also for his digging prowess and uncanny ability to pluck jams out of genres, eras and geographies that even veteran DJs will often ignore. In his mind, “the joy of getting home and finding out something is awesome is way more exciting than going through a big stack of curated records in some boring boutique record shop.” Still, Marco’s entry in the Selectors series isn’t some soulless collection of “Holy Grail” rarities. “Where’s the fun in that?” he explains. “Anybody with an internet connection can check what flavor-of-the-month records are in demand.”

Just like the first Selectors compilation, this is not a mix CD, but a collection of hand-picked, unmixed tracks that Sterk has personally chosen from his own vinyl archives. Moreover, Marco has put together a collection of tracks that represent not only how he plays music, but also how he makes music himself. The songs here are melodic, electronic and bound together by a refreshing sense of naiveté. Nothing sounds overly calculated; the tunes here span several decades and include dollar-bin records, avant-garde records, club records and yes, a few things that collector types have likely been looking to get their hands on. It's not meant to be a grand statement, as Marco would rather provide an honest snapshot of his musical tastes and share a few of his favorite tracks and artists in the process.

DKMNTL-SLCTRS002 // Selectors 002 - Young Marco

Artist: Sublee
Title: IDEEPSUM LP (2x12 INCH, 180 GR / VINYL ONLY)
Label: Metereze / MTRZ007

2x12 inch, 180gr

Tracklist:	
a1: yet again
b1: entre
b2: rumbletrouble
c1: road to frequensea
d1: space dive
d2: mimistake

Ideepsum, Sublee’s debut album, finds its home under the Metereze name. The 6 tracks are spread across 2 records like seeds sharing the same fertile ground embodied in Sublee’s creativity.

The album opens up with Yet Again, with its synthetic voices morphing back and forth into the track’s melodic line. Side B hosts 2 cuts meant to drain all the energy off the dancefloor: Entre’s obsessive spoken words, echoing deep into the techy structure, and Rumbletrouble elusive acid references that matches its pure techno roots like magic. After we let ourselves led by the riveting bassline through Road To Frequensea’s playfully deep melodic lines, we hit the final chapter of this LP: Space Dive, a deep interlude into some cosmic electro future, and Mimistake, rolling full throttle into a chopped soundscape filled with heavy techno patterns.

Indeepsum stays in line with the previous Metereze releases, following the road of innovations in the vast realm of electronic music.

Ideepsum LP

Ideepsum Lp

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Sublee - Ideepsum Lp (Metereze007)

Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City
2xLP & Digital download

Artwork by Cali Thornhill DeWitt
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Northern Electronics 39

Varg - Champagne Ceremonies

LIES-092
Tzusing-東方不敗 lp
to be released Feb 28th 2017

東方不敗

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Tzusing-東方不敗 lp Snippets (LIES-092)

Anoche

Planet Mu are very excited to announce Jlin's long awaited second album “Black Origami”. A percussion-led tour de force, it's a creation that seals her reputation as a unique producer with an exceptional ability to make riveting rhythmic music.

“Black Origami” is driven by a deep creative thirst which she describes as “this driving feeling that I wanted to do something different, something that challenged me to my core. Black Origami for me, comes from letting go creatively, creating with no boundaries. The simple definition of origami is the art of folding and constructing paper into a beautiful, yet complex design. Composing music for me is like origami, only I'm replacing paper with sound. I chose to title the album "Black Origami" because like "Dark Energy" I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness. The willingness to go into the hardest places within myself to create for me means that I can touch the Infinity.” 

Spirituality and movement are both at the core of “Black Origami”, inspired largely by her ongoing collaborations with Indian dancer/movement artist Avril Stormy Unger whom she met and collaborated with at her debut performance for the Unsound festival – ”There is a fine line between me entertaining a person and my spirituality. Avril, who collaborates with me by means of dance, feels the exact same way. Movement played a great role in Black Origami. The track "Carbon 7" is very inspired by the way Avril moves and dances. Our rhythms are so in sync at times it kind of scares us. When there is something I can't quite figure out when it comes to my production, it’s like she senses it. Her response to me is always "You'll figure it out". Once I figure it out it's like time and space no longer exist.” 

Similar time shifting/folding/disrupting effects can be heard throughout the record – especially on “Holy Child” an unlikely collaboration with minimalist legend William Basinski. She also collaborates again with Holly Herndon on “1%”, while Halcyon Veil producer Fawkes' voice is on “Calcination“ and Cape Town rapper Dope Saint Jude provides vocals for “Never Created, Never Destroyed“.

Jlin will be touring extensively this year and is currently lining up appearances including Sonar festival. She also has plans to collaborate with acclaimed UK choreographer Wayne McGregor who played her music recently on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and described her music as “quite rare and so exciting”.

Black Origami

Jlin - Nandi (from 'Black Origami' - out 19th May)

Whacked out from the whisky soaked bristles of Firecracker HQ, the Danish DonDaDa DJ Sports (he of Regelbau and Help Recordings fame) offers up a maiden LP of vast and varied sonic states. Get set for solid rave aesthetics aplenty - the double pack’s journey trudges over a musical milieu of broke-beaten, ambient driven house and techno, melancholy junglist and dubwise downtempo. One foot in the past, one foot in the future and killing the present - a perfect and timely addition to the Firecracker canon.

Worldwide distribution exclusively, as ever by Rubadub, Scotland.

FIREC023 DJ Sports - Modern Species (320k Clips)

The SW. album is being given a full release on Apollo/SUED on 14/07.
Pre-order here - http://smarturl.it/sw-the-album

Vinyl LP also due later this summer.

Untitled (SUE015-AMB1706)

SW. - Untitled A2

Listen to the new single 'Apricots'
New album "Isles", out 22 January on Ninja Tune: https://bicep.lnk.to/islesYo

'Aura' Out Now -
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://bicep.lnk.to/aura

Taken from the debut album 'Bicep' released 1st September 2017 via Ninja Tune.
Pre-Order: https://bicep.lnk.to/bicep

Album Pre-Order And Tour Pre-Sale: http://bicepmusic.com/store 

Follow Bicep -
Spotify: http://found.ee/bicep-sp
Apple Music: http://found.ee/bicep-am
Facebook: http://found.ee/bicep-fb
Twitter: http://found.ee/bicep-tw
Instagram: http://found.ee/bicep-ig
Youtube: http://found.ee/bicep-ty
Soundcloud: http://found.ee/bicep-sc

Bicep

BICEP | AURA // CLIP

JASSS
"Every Fish In The Pond"
Taken from the upcoming 2xLP debut album "Weightless" (iDEAL160) to be released on September 18th 2017.

Cover photo by Pan Daijing. Cover design by Philip Marshall. 

Dedicated to Fernando Jimenez and Blanca Alvarez.

JASSS is playing Berghain Säule in Berlin on June 29th!

www.idealrecordings.com

JASSS - Every Single Fish In The Pond ("Weightless" iDEAL160 2xLP Preview)

Lee Gamble - Istian, taken from his forthcoming Hyperdub album Mnestic Pressure, which is released on 15th September
You can pre-order from the Mnestic Pressure website which is randomly generating endless collisions of audio from the album with banks of imagery and video. http://mnesticpressure.leegamble.net

Lee Gamble - Istian - taken from Mnestic Pressure (HDBCD037)

"Reissued after being unavailable for nearly 20 years, inside a quiet mind remains a cultural taonga, a musical time capsule that sends the listener hurtling straight back to the earliest flowerings of the New Zealand rave scene." - Sunday Star Times

order the limited edition double LP / digital from bandcamp:
micronism.bandcamp.com/album/inside-a-quiet-mind

"it's amazing what you can find with a quiet mind..."

Album out July 21, 2017

inside a quiet mind

stream / buy

micronism - contemplating a quiet mind

From the creator of Deep Reggaeton and the hit record ​"​¡Estéreo Bomba! Vol. 1​"​, DJ Python, returns with the first masterful full length album "Dulce Compañia". Comprised of eight ethe-real, banging hits of the most unique and thought provoking calibre - mixing Deep House, Shoegaze, Trance, and of course, Reggaeton - these songs-not-tracks slide over the Dembow in the unique way only Python can dream up. Rated E for Everyone.

DJ Python's "Dulce Compañia" LP is out now

Vinyl: https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/dj-python-dulce-compania

Digital: https://djpythonnyc.bandcamp.com/album/dulce-compa-ia

DJ Python - Yo Ran(Do) [INC-001]

World Of The Waking State is Steffi's third solo album for Ostgut Ton and a musical departure for both her and the label. It's also a serious statement of intent. Over ten tracks she embarks on entirely new electronic terrain for her productions, marking industrial spaces with superlunary warmth while exercising a refined knowledge of polyphony and arrangement. Subdued melodies interact with each other over implied harmonies and microcosmic drum patterns, luring us into a world that is introverted, bewildering and gratifying all at once.

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Steffi - World Of The Waking State

Juju & Jordash - Sis-boom-bah! - Dekmantel (DKMNTL052) 

a1.	Juju & Jordash - Herkie
a2.	Juju & Jordash - Rah-Rah
b1.	Juju & Jordash - Back Tuck Basket Toss
b2.	Juju & Jordash - Deadman
c1.	Juju & Jordash - Paper Dolls
c2.	Juju & Jordash - Hanging Pyramid
c3.	Juju & Jordash - L-Motion
d1.	Juju & Jordash - Attack The Crowd
d2.	Juju & Jordash - One Armed Liberty

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5775/

Gal (Juju) and Jordan (Jordash) return home to the Dekmantel stable for their fourth LP. It’s their most complete record to date. A series of purpose-written compositions, that highlight their maturity as musicians, and adept dexterity in the studio.

Without the pairing of Juju & Jordash, there would be no Dekmantel. The duo are an integral part of the label’s history, dating back to 2009 when they where they were the first act to release on the imprint. The two vagabonds can often be found performing live at various outdoor festivals and renowned clubs around the globe, jamming away behind a tabletop of buttons, knobs, synths, and drum machines - like a retro, control-station from Star Trek - albeit one that hums along with the jazz-centric, discordant house, and techno whirrings played by the musicians.

Nowadays Juju & Jordash have evolved far beyond their ’oddball house’ moniker. Their freestyle approach to performance, and immaculate refined sounds have became somewhat more defined, in a style that’s unique, yet elaborate, with a sense of otherworldliness, not only befit for the dancefloor, but otherwise transcendental moments. Following on from their previous LP, 2014’s Clean-Cut, a record of primal, forward thinking, variations from the studio, Sis-boom-bah is an album steeped in studio traditionalism, with a direction towards composition. “We wanted the focus of this album to be the music and not necessarily the process, so we made sure to perfect the performances before shifting the focus on to the production,” states Jordash about the record. Recorded over the space of a few, intense weeks, and built upon years of improvised live shows in front of thousands of listeners, Sis-boom-bah was written around grooves written by Juju on the guitar, and Jordash on the Rhodes. It was the first album the duo have written using such an approach, and solely produced and mixed by Jordash in Amsterdam over the course of a year, making it their most authentic record to date. 

Sis-boom-bah’s diverse, spiritual nature is built around Juju & Jordash's use of polyrhythms. The percussive sequenced grooves, and rhythmic backbone was generated using the Yamaha DX7, along with the Roland TR606 drum machine. This approach to rhythm can be heard from the outset within the very first track ‘Herkie’, an ephemeral, yet tribal approach to minimalist funk. The spirituality flows throughout the record, where it sounds like the duo have brought along the nature with them from the foresty raves. In actually fact, the background noise comes courtesy of “noise generators from two separate synthesizers, each with its own filter slowly opening and closing so it kinda sounds like waves or wind.” There are also nods towards their acid influences, with some surefire slices of house music too. Sis-boom-bah is still very much a Juju & Jordash record, yet it's one with a greater depth, musically and stylistically. As electronic music albums go, you'll be hard pushed to find one more complete. "People should listen to this on a loud and clear sound-system," explains Jordash, "high on life, in their own special safe place."

2017 resident advisor best album

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