"Authentication" is a cinematic surprise.

Beautiful! Awesome. Drum sound is amazing.

Perfect soundtrack for my Monday morning train to China!

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THE FIRST SINGLE TO BE TAKEN FROM HOWIE B'S FORTHCOMING STUDIO ALBUM...

A SIDE - Frankies City 
B SIDE - Authentication

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Howie B - Down With The Dawn 

The New Album From Howie B Featuring Gavin Friday, Joe Hirst & Gianni Maroccolo 

‘FRANKIES CITY’ SINGLE – DEC 9TH 
‘DOWN WITH THE DAWN’ ALBUM – MAR 24TH 2014 

RELEASED ON HB RECORDINGS / P.I.A.S

He’s one of the creators of trip hop. He collaborated with Soul II Soul on their epochal Club Classics Vol 1. He’s written songs with Björk. He’s produced U2. He’s played bonkers sets of boshing techno. He’s remixed everyone from Placebo to Annie Lennox. 
And now, Howie B is back with his first studio album in over 5 years and the first on his new label, HB Recordings.

Howie B is one of the true polymaths of modern music. From working with Soul II Soul on their seminal Club Classics Vol. 1 to being a lynchpin of the trip-hop scene in the 1990s, to writing songs for Björk, to producing for U2, to remixing Placebo and Annie Lennox, his musical oeuvre is rarely paralleled in its diversity and significance. Through his label Pussyfoot, his series of artist albums with Polydor under his own name (plus others as Skylab and various aliases) he built up his own reputation as a formidable artist in tandem with his growing prowess as a production genius across the ‘90s and 2000s.

His output has grown ever more diverse in scope in recent years, with projects including creating a score for a show at the Milan Planetarium, working as creative director for Italian fashion house Fornarina, writing a soundtrack for a Chinese feature film, fronting an alt-rock group called Beautiful and working with fabric musical director and resident (and long-time friend) Craig Richards on an artist album. Never the one to rest on his laurels or allow creative juices to fester inside, his mesmerising seventh artist album, Down With The Dawn, is finally here – some 25 years after he first started working in the music industry.

This warped ride through the mind of the Scottish talent veers from the often conceptual approach of his other albums to instead create an assemblage of the multifarious musical trajectories that he frequents. Free from any shackles of working with and molding another artist’s sounds, Howie allows himself total musical freedom on this record - and the results are wildly varied and captivating. “It’s basically me using all the experience I’ve got and all the different things that have happened to me and expressing all of that” he explains. “It’s an extended diary. Normally, my records have been one style, but this is more schizophrenic than that. I’ve done that because that’s where I’m at.” This album is also his most collaborative effort to date, with the likes of Gavin Friday (Virgin Prunes) and Joe Hirst (producer of everyone from Bloc Party to Roll Deep) working alongside him.

The futuristic bombast of Frankie’s City kicks the album into life, the lolloping ambient acid of Run Always harking back to some of his most slumberous past works thereafter. There’s the self-explanatory quirk of Kazoo, the mellifluous warmth of the title track, and the hypnotic introspection of Can I Close My Eyes. The whirling synths and lo-fi glitch of Ganzi are clinically juxtaposed by the hushed chimes and barely-there beat of Heaven, the yearning synth-strings of Authentication an unexpected piece of intense emotion following in their wake. Master Inch Mile Haunch comes laden with brooding, dark tones, Night Nice brings some hazy electronic dub to the table, and Summers Flower brings the album to a close with the album’s only vocal performance – a fittingly haunting one to fit with the track’s ghost-of-trip-hop aesthetic.

Down With The Dawn is a quietly thrilling album, providing a refreshing antidote to the overly-processed and predictable sounds of today – and one that will speak volumes to both lovers of Howie’s back catalogue and curious new audiences alike.

TRACKLISTING 
01 - Frankies City ft. Joe Hirst 
02 - Run Always 
03 - Kazoo 
04 - Down WIth The Dawn ft. Gianni Maroccolo 
05 - Can I Close My Eyes 
06 - Ganzi 
07 - Heaven Part 1 
08 - Authentication 
09 - Master Inch Mile Haunch 
10 - Night Nice 
11 - Summers Flower ft. Gavin Friday

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Howie B - Frankies City / Authentication (HB Recordings) - SNIPPETS

Artwork by Todd Lockwood

01. the Exaltics - Landing Process [Clone]
02. Morphology - Needleleaf [Kontakt]
03. Conforce - Charlatan [Delsin]
04. Gilbert - Fractals [Emotions Electric]
05. Deimos Defender - Dead Macro [Copenhagen Electro Alliance]
06. Silicon Scally - Wave Dynamics [Cultivated Electronics]
07. Kwasir- Parallel Universe [Ferma]
08. Helena Hauff - Spur [Werkdiscs]
09. Dark Vektor - Mil Imperios Mil Destinos [Distrito 91]
10. PRZ - Digital Mind [Clone]
11. Luke Eargoggle - Information Points [Abstract Forms]
12. Alberta Balsam - Saccharine Shine [Clone]
13. Cygnus - Get Your Feet On The Floor [Science Cult]
14. Versalife - Oculus [20/20 Vision]
15. Mount Kimbie - Quartz (Client_03 remix) [Warp]
16. Detroit's Filthiest - Deep Penetration [Deep & Roll]
17. Raw Takes - J.M.S [Zement]
18. L.F.T. - I Want To Be A Witch [Mannequin]
19. CM3340 - 5504 Error [Curtis Electronix]
20. MANASYt - Surgical Truth [Bunker]
21. the Exaltics - We Never Had a Chance [Clone]
22. Sumerian Fleet - Jenseitsflugmaschine [Clone West Coast Series]
23. Lloyd Stellar - I Am The New World Order [Tiger Weeds]
24. Malicious Mike - Help Me Now [Monnotone]
25. Aircut  - Visual Attack (Gucci Bass Remix) [TBA]
26. Druum & Melatron - Behind The Black Curtain [Super Computer]
27. Umwelt - Mind War Acid [NewFlesh]
28. Bass Junkie - Liquid Engineering [Bass Agenda]
29. LectrO cOd_E - Morphology [Tensor Norm]
30. Ben Pest - Bad B [Love Love Records]
31. Fleck E.S.C. - Prosthesist [Woodwork]
32. Aphex Twin - 2nd neotek test trac omc [soundcloud.com/user18081971]

E-L-E-C-T-R-O mix August 2023

Early 2000-era minimal bits, from the heavyweight Sutekh, that last half of the mix is interesting…

Sutekh
• 2000 Underground Music: https://2000undergroundmusic.com/sutekh/
• Bandcamp: https://sutekh.bandcamp.com
• Resident Advisor: https://ra.co/dj/sutekh
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutekh
• Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/548111-Seth-Horvitz
• Mutek: https://mutek.org/en/artists/sutekh

Sutekh (Seth Joshua Horvitz, Context Free Media, Rrose), Minimal tech house mix, 2001

0 hour–1 hour
01. Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto (Sehr langsam) – Gewandhausorchester & Václav Neumann
02. Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix) by Phantom Ghost. Ladomat 2000, Germany 2000.
03. C & T Experience (Mixed by Ricardo Villalobos & Tobi Neumann) – Gucci
04 The Morning After - Steve Bug
05 Glamourama – Photek
06. Panpot Spliff – Ricardo Villalobos
07. Windowshopping – Baby Ford & Zip
08. ?
09. Tendency (Maxi Version) – Jan Jelinek
10. The Unexpected Guest – Akufen
11. ?

If you know any of the tracks, send me a message through SoundCloud and I will add them to the list, thanks.

Sutekh (Seth Joshua Horvitz, Context Free Media, Rrose), Minimal tech house mix, 2001

Another spring has sprung as we are back for the 62nd entry in our podcast series, this time with @Nemsb, a DJ and producer from Marseille. Deep and soft at first, this one gradually gives way to more intense, punchy and percussive rhythms. As everything around starts to flourish, dive into Nems-B's forest of sounds.

Born and raised in the south of France, Nahim Bendjilali or Nems-B has well over 20 years of experience in the electronic music scene. Whether it's DJing, music production, podcast curation or event promotion – he has seen the dance scene all around. With performances at @parallelfestival, @vurtkr, @tresorberlin, Gare Porto and others up his sleeve, Nems-B also has released music on @Oslated, Geometrika FM, and @on-board-music, to count a few. 
Don't miss his next radio show on @refugeworldwide or a new mix on the @phonons-net podcast series curated by Nahim.

Check our other podcasts: bit.ly/Black-Wave-podcasts
follow Black Wave: www.facebook.com/blackwave.lt/
follow @blackwavelt
follow @nemsb

Design by Daivaras Kažukauskas aka @adeph

Black Wave 062: Nems-B

romaal kultan - turnin’
suncream - laguna azur (jalousies acid dub)
tribal ice cream - nida
‘blue’ gene tyranny - for david k
the carmels - flying woman
eryl - vice city
larry june - meet me in napa
malev da shinobi x mr. käfermany  - moons
nightjaR - glove department (feat. pan amsterdam)
bodikhuu - off for the horizon
fai baba - veränderet
hardkandy - yonder
laure briard - morena na janela
nino ferrer - the garden
odair jose - nunca mais
retromigration - mundo
rukus  -renegade
ghost dubs - hot wired
massive attack - better things
mystery tiime - thank you deeply
jeffrey silverstein - cowboy grass
lowly - baglaens
dawn chorus and the infallible sea - vale (awakened souls mix)
michel banabila - viva voce
insyt - truth serum
smoke DZA - zaza
shanae - shadae freeshtyle
tom carruthers - out the door
space ghost - east of the lake

Left Side Clouded 001

B1 Ancestral Technologies (clip)

B2 The Edge of Time (clip)

I'll be playing my usual wildstyle mix starting with electro and on to bass and experimental. My special guest for this show is the awesome DJ Nano from Mexico City who also runs the brilliant Waveform podcast series and he will be playing a deep, dark and dirty techno set for the second hour of the show.

Links:

linktr.ee/kimcosmik

linkfly.to/nanoTR

Kim Cosmik Tracklist:

131bpm - Polish My Chrome
Dj Astrobee - Forgotten dimensions
soft grunge - pop that
Amy Kisnorbo & Ron Mercy - Amy Kisnorbo & Ron Mercy - Bendy
Radioactive Man & Ben Pest - Our Survey Says
Nikki Nair - Trunk
Arcane & Jon1st - Energy Drink Sponsorship Application
aya - badman vip VIP
Ben Versluis - Treatment
Second Storey - V-Runner
Sun People - Runaway
Slick Shoota - Joy O x Boddika - Mercy VIP (Slick Shoota VIP)
Arcane & jon1st - Arpe Diem
Ziyiz - Asemia
Xen Chron - A Fireside Chat
Rhyw - Kirkhusa
Zero Tep - Inkareen
lynyn - vnar rush
Samuel Kerridge - Actuality Repeats

Kim Cosmik Aaja Radio Show With Nano 24.8.24

sahara_1_rudeboy in space version

Art Bei Ton Podcast 015: Eyvind Blix
( @eyvind-blix )

We are really happy to host a Deep Techno set from the talented Eyvind Blix, for the 15th episode of this podcast series.

He was supposed to play at our event 'Art Bei Ton meets Oslated' (21.03.20 at Ipse). After closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, this legendary Berlin club recently burned down due to arson. We send them all our support <3

Support Ipse: https://www.startnext.com/save-ipse

More info about Eyvind Blix:

Eyvind Blix, a techno artist and producer originally from Sweden, is a musical phenomenon. He is blessed with the rare ability to utilize the entire sonic spectrum in his musical explorations, fusing hypnotic sonic texture with elements of darkness; he creates illusions, distorts perceptions, shakes realities. 

He invokes feelings of contradiction, first luring the listener into a place of dreamlike bliss, then forcing them into a surreal darkness where all notions of space and time are lost. These two contradictory strands of his weave together to form a dramatic, transcendent whole.

SC: @eyvind-blix
FB: https://www.facebook.com/eyvindblixmusic/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/eyvind.blix/
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/eyvindblix

Art Bei Ton Podcast 015: Eyvind Blix

He’s one of the creators of trip hop. He collaborated with Soul II Soul on their epochal Club Classics Vol 1. He’s written songs with Björk. He’s produced U2. He’s played bonkers sets of boshing techno. He’s remixed everyone from Placebo to Annie Lennox. Howie B is all these things: a musical polymath in a sea of pop inebriates...

Howie B - Frankies City / Authentication (HB Recordings) - SNIPPETS

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