OCTOBER 2015

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October 2015

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Ambient

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Juno Download

Trashbat & Vaun - Ardent (OUT NOW Mindstep Music)

Free tune to say thank you to anyone supporting, big up!

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Witness (Free Download)

Out now on the Groove Booty Vol. II compilation.

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Congi, Geode, B9 - She [Out Now]

Went back to Slow Havoc with the help of Ill Chill..
Did some badman tings.
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Feonix x Ill Chill - FTF (A.K.A. Slow Havoc)

It’s rare to find such a diverse producer with years of untapped potential ahead of them; but R.O.M is just that and so much more. The multi-instrumentalist from Dudley, UK, plays a range of guitars, drums and keyboard. Despite his age, R.O.M’s core influences stem from early 90s R&B and smooth jazz.

Unlike most children, R.O.M started producing at the age of twelve to put his thoughts and experiences into sonic explanations of his emotions. After studying the technical side of music theory at college and currently studying a degree in the field; R.O.M is expanding his fortitude with Novation Launchpad, Launch Control XL and Serato to add a new dimension to his studio and live performances. 

The majority of his music is derived from the smooth vibes of Planet Ex; where he focuses on relationships, ex-girlfriends and past loves. Interestingly the feelings in his music are only exceeded by his love of R&B songstress Tori Kelly; who is a self-proclaimed fan of his remixes. 


R.O.M - G R A V I T Y

Instalment IV of the ever-inventive Air Texture compilation series drops soon, and this is one of the finest moments. Handpicked by BNJMN, hitherto unknown producer Brighton comes through with a richly textured slice of synth-led mood music.

Brighton "Sendme" - Boiler Room Debuts

Shine Grooves - Smoke

Shine Grooves - Old Radio

I'm Drunk 2

I'm Drunk

ZOMBI - "Shadow Hand" from 'Shape Shift' out now via Relapse Records

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Zombi - Shadow Hand

http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/20/kuedo-assertion-of-a-surrounding-presence-knives-stream/

Kuedo - Vertical Stack

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Archangel --- The Bedroom Slant Versions

01. Blue Eyes Blind---This Romance
02. Half-Man Half-Lisa (Peter Gordon Version)
03. Julia (Dean Blunt "On Wine, Hashish & Molly" Version)
04. L.A. Teen (Oliver Coates Version "X")

Released November 6th 2015 on Foom.

Bruno Pronsato’s debut album as Archangel, The Bedroom Slant, released in 2014, saw the producer update the style he has developed over the last decade on labels such as Hello?Repeat, Perlon, DFA and TheSongSays, and in the process, manifesting his love of pop, rock and post-punk in his music for the first time. On this EP, selected tracks from the album are reworked by Dean Blunt, Peter Gordon & Oliver Coates.

The EP opens with “Blue Eyes Blind/This Romance,” an early, unreleased track from 2012. A perfect blend of the percussive dancefloor Bruno Pronsato sound and his darkly melodic and lyrical Archangel aesthetic, the overlap between the projects at this early stage is captured in the recording.

Dean Blunt, using an extracted loop of Pronsato’s percussion as foundation for his euphoric strings, creates a unique 23-minute automated spoken-word rework of “Julia.” (9.5-minutes for the vinyl edit). It details the first narcotic experiences of the narrator (with numerous appearances by Dean Blunt, himself, as a character in the narrative). A 90-second instrumental snippet of this piece was extracted for use as the intro for Dean Blunt’s temporarily available Babyfather download-only album, continuing the enigmatic producer’s hall-of-mirrors style approach that often manifests itself in his own work, as it also did in Hype Williams.

New York Downtown-scene figurehead and Love Of Life Orchestra bandleader, Peter Gordon, having made a guest appearance on The Bedroom Slant on the album track “Steal The Groom,” now strips back the album opener “Half-Man Half-Lisa.” On what is his first ever remix, Gordon draws out the original’s track‘s obscured undertones while enriching Pronsato’s intricate percussive patterns further by adding his own playful rhythms and restless melodies.
Cellist & producer Oliver Coates brings the EP to a close with his reworking of the album’s only instrumental, “L.A. Teen (Live).” Recorded in an apartment in Hong Kong during the protests at the end of 2014, the Jonny Greenwood & Micachu collaborator rearranges the original track’s synthesized melody for cello, adding his own electronics and reconstructing the original track’s percussive elements to fit his vision. 



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Bruno Pronsato presents Archangel — Half-Man Half-Lisa (Peter Gordon Version)

Luke Vibert is back on Planet Mu with a new album called ‘Bizarster'. It's his seventh full-length under his own name with others having been released on Mo Wax, Warp and most recently Hypercolour. Luke first came to prominence in 1994 with his debut Wagon Christ album 'Phat Lab Nightmare' on Rising High records which was quickly followed by the evergreen classic 'Throbbing Pouch' with which he cemented both his sound and reputation. He has released on Rephlex and Ninja Tune as well as major label Virgin too.

What makes Luke's music so essential is his rare ability to blur the boundaries between genres by combining his irresistibly wonky dayglo funk with a British sensibility. Put another way, Luke's music is informed by UK dance's history. But 'Bizarster' is no empty eulogy, it’s a hall of mirrors with a happy bounce, re-tooled with skill, and always with a sense of fun.

It's these things that make the hip-hop speed bleep 'n' bass of opener 'Knockout' seems completely natural, or 'Officer's Club' with it's funky disco samples, reggae vocals and joyous synths sounding like the kind of delirious idea no one else could come up with. A track like 'I Can Phil It' is a piece of sampladelic hip hop with a punning title, but that's not to say he can't play it serious. 'Manalog' for instance, which is sharp spiralling low-slung synth funk, a gloriously deep track, while something like 'L-Tronic' is top draw spaced-out electro. The title track's cut and paste space-age samples remind one of his Jean-Jacques Perrey collaboration and 'War' is the type of groovy instrumental hip-hop reminiscent of DJ Shadow at his peak. The album finishes on the fun-filled vortex of ‘Don’t Fuck Around’, a cut-up jungle masterpiece with heart in throat chords. Enjoy the ride.

Bizarster

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Luke Vibert - Bizarster

Powder is a young producer raised in rural Japan, now living in Tokyo. She wakes daily at 6AM, squeezes onto a packed subway and commutes to a bland office building where her day is consumed by the electronics industry — a banal world of blank stares, uniforms, data entry and soliciting phone calls. She cherishes her lunch break, a solitary hour of astral projection where her daydreams cull inspiration for another life, her nocturnal routine. At 9PM the day closes, as her co-workers flock to the Izakaya for beers, Powder rushes to her micro home-studio to exorcize her daily demons, constructing a tropical temple to house her immaculate vision. She slaves away, unabashed until sunrise, when her routine begins again, however, today's lunch break is an escape into her headphones where she will revisit her soundtrack inspired by lights, colors, hometown memories, and the imaginary worlds where the fruits of her labor will live.

B1 - Humid Wind

Eeccuuaaddoorr

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Wide Open

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Wide Open

Prismatic

Recently, Moog had the honor of sitting down with Nine Inch Nails’  Trent Reznor, the genre-defining music innovator, master synthesist and Academy Award winning composer. In the interview, Reznor recounts his intimate relationship with the Minimoog Voyager, which he feels “is the archetype of what a synthesizer is and should be.” Through personal stories, Reznor reveals his decades long history with the instrument and how it has shaped the way he views and creates music. 

The video is set to an original score by British electronic music producer, The Haxan Cloak, co-producer of Bjork’s Vulnicura.. Befitting the occasion, the artist used a Minimoog Voyager and a prototype Mother-32, Moog’s newest synthesizer, to create the score. 

"I made the track in a unique way that I never have before.

I have had modular synths for a long time, and consistently produced music with them, but purposefully never had a ‘keyboard-based’ setup because of not wanting to treat them in such a ‘traditional’ manner (purely for reasons of self-limitation).

Having the Voyager allowed me to utilize a more responsive approach of seeing the picture and essentially ‘playing’ along to it. I then took those results and used them to modulate other parameters and processed them further. The Mother 32 was used extensively as a sound source alongside also.

The Voyager is a synth I have always been fascinated by, but unfortunately never had the opportunity to own. I knew people that had them, but my first physical encounter was actually on the recent Bjork tour.  I used it for a lot for recreating basslines from her back catalogue, which it did effortlessly.
It’s such an incredibly versatile synth and has already become a uniquely indispensable backbone of my studio." - The Haxan Cloak

Archetype Of A Synthesizer - The Haxan Cloak

Inhalants - Side Opener (Jahiliyya Fields + Patricia)

Mio Mio - Floral (Nude Mix)

Pre-Order 10" http://store.houndstoothlabel.com/obelisk.html
Bandcamp:  https://akkord.bandcamp.com/album/obelisk
Akkord on Spotify: http://found.ee/AkkordSPO 

Akkord return with their first original music since June 2014’s ‘HTH020’ EP. ‘Obelisk’ is a study in rhythm and frequencies, suspended in space. 

On the minimalistic ‘Monolith’, a single element is moulded into a 3-dimensional sound sculpture, an aural illusion of a lead weight that floats away into the ether. 

In contrast, ‘Megalith’ has a pulsing gravity, drawing in laser-guided blasts of bass, broadsides of pitched-down jungle, and echoes of distant birdsong and telecommunications as it journeys through the static of space.

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.

Obelisk

Monolith

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Akkord - Monolith

u know what i need

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Temptation ft. Erik Hassle

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'The Man Waits’, originally released as part of Mr. Mitch’s ’The Room Where I Belong’ EP in early 2014, was the first record to exhibit Mitch as a master of emotion - a producer with an ambition to make you feel.

The pre-cursor to debut Planet Mu album ‘Parallel Memories’, it was a track that took complex, introverted emotion and laid it bare for all to digest, in turn freeing Mitch from producing more aggressive strands of grime music that - by his own admission - never fully connected. Reissued for 2015, ‘The Man Waits’ - a hazy, melancholy, dream-like record by way of its composition - has now been reimagined by three of producers each riding on a wave of their own in 2015; Logos, Iglew and Gage.

Logos, himself a fellow founding member of influential club-night Boxed alongside Mr Mitch, rewrites the script completely, distilling the original’s core components down to a more sinister, dystopian-like beatless hush. Gage’s flip on the other hand, is defined by short bursts of frenetic drum work offset by lengthy periods of gothic white noise and nightmarish melody, before Iglew offers lighter, melody-intense calm on his beautifully balanced, weightless mix. - Tomas Fraser

Tracklist
A1. The Main Waits
A2. Logos Remix
B1. Gage Remix
B2. Iglew Remix

Artwork and design by Rachel Noble

Mr. Mitch - The Man Waits (Iglew Remix)

in loving memory of anemal
may you rest in peace

surreal consequences

Taken from the upcoming album 'Communion'.
Released October 30th via Tri Angle Records.
LP (300 rose coloured Ltd Ed.), CD & Digital.

Available to buy or as an instant grat with any pre-order of the album on iTunes; https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/communion/id1034540512



Rabit - Snow Leopard

Turf Wars (feat. Deadmanners)

Re-produced and arranged by Robert Del Naja and Tim Goldsworthy
Engineered by Euan Dickinson
mixed by Bruno Ellingham



Nas vs Massive Attack

Daddy G - BBC 6 Music Session

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Akkord - Monolith

Houndstooth