The mixing/recording on this album is phenomenal.  It's softer than silk but still punchy and present - beautiful balance.

Would you explode in a flash of recursiveness if you ever did a Song Exploder episode on your own music?

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A song is a product of design. It's difficult to create an original melody, but that's only the blueprint. Every element of a piece of music could be produced any number of ways,  depending on which instrument plays at what time, for how long,  and with what what kind of effect. The architecture behind a piece of music can be much more involved than meets the ear, and this is what inspired Hrishikesh Hirway  to start a podcast called Song Exploder, where musicians "take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made."

99% Invisible-118- Song Exploder

Taken from Lusine's "Arterial" EP out August 5, 2014. 

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Lusine - Arterial

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 'ATOMOS'
Double-Vinyl/CD/Digital out on Erased Tapes/Kranky on October 6, 2014

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After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the ‘Atomos VII’ EP earlier this year, A Winged Victory For The Sullen finally reveal their second full-length album entitled ‘Atomos’, which besides familiar piano, string and drone sounds also sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesisers.  

Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, chose to play the album repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam and Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. The duo were given complete artistic freedom and they treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut album. They recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period during the summer of 2013 across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik, with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. During the recording process they realised, that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique record.  

“As a wise man once said, one who procrastinates their own choosing will inevitably have their choice served to them by circumstance. We had virtually no time for second guessing ourselves. That being said, we tried to balance the discordance between being creative, and fulfilling our duties for a commissioned soundtrack with a very strict deadline, and all the while staying true to our collective melancholy.‘’ – Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie  

“We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us two years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating.” – Dustin O’Halloran

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Atomos VI

grouper 'call across rooms'

La la la, dum di di dum, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bom bom - why are songs riddled with non-words masquerading as words? Hrishikesh Hirway from Song Exploder and songwriter Tony Hazzard explain.

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Allusionist 22: Vocables

On May 17th, Moby will release 'Wait For Me. Remixes!', an album consisting of reworked versions of tracks from the critically acclaimed 'Wait For Me', released through Moby’s label 'Little Idiot' last year. Moby has enlisted some of dance music's biggest names for the project including Tiesto, Laidback Luke, Gui Boratto, and Carl Cox.

Wait For Me (Laidback Luke remix)

I rarely eulogize. Not eloquent enough to say words that could honor, or encompass. I feel it best done with music, theirs or mine. Today we lost a great artist I never knew personally, and his output too immense for me to properly speak on. But in this song I felt like we collaborated, that is part of the power in sampling, for the final track of "Exquisite Corpse" from 2005. Hrishikesh Hirway provides the other vocals (beautiful words I believe) and even some of the drums that ebb up.

Goodnight Al Jarreau, you've left us so much to muse on.

Exquisite Corpse

Thanatopsis (feat. Hrishikesh Hirway)

Pachanga Boys - Time

gretchen jude - koto, samplers
subnaught - pitch pipe, samplers

recorded 2/19/2012 in oakland, ca

music for koto, pitch pipe, and samplers (with gretchen jude)

Here is my 5 minutes minimix for Annie Mac's show on Radio 1, enjoy !


Tracklist :

Most of these tracks are sampled in really small ways, sometime under a second. The purpose wasn't to reference all these songs clearly but to use samples as an instrument. Tracks are listed chronologically, but elements that are reused several times are only listed once.

Madeon - Shuriken
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
M83 - Intro
Surkin - Ultra Light
Groove Armada - Look Me In The Eye Sister
Madeon - Icarus (Minimix Edit)
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
The M Machine - Immigrants
Daft Punk - Outlands
Julian Perreta - Wonder Why (DatA Remix)
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Russ Chimes Remix)
Phonat - Set Me Free
Justice - New Lands (A-Trak Remix)
Skrillex ft. The Doors - Breaking A Sweat (Zedd Remix)
Yuksek - Extraball
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix)
Oliver - Dirty Talk
Sebastian - Greel
Anoraak - Nightdrive With You (Grum Remix)
Martin Solveig - C'est La Vie
BWO - Sunshine In The Rain
Knife Party - Tourniquet
Para One - Wake Me Up
Feed Me ft. Gemini - Whiskers
Michael Gray - The Weekend
ABC - The Look Of Love
Woodkid - Iron
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Chic - Stage Fright
La Roux - In For The Kill (Danger Ocean Remix)
Dirtyloud - Needle
Black Kids - Boyfriend (The Twelves Remix)
Kanye West - All Of The Lights ft. Rihanna, Kid Cudi
Justice - Let There Be Light
Sub Focus - Rock It
Kill The Noise - Talk To Me
Capsule - More More More
Justice - Helix
Kavinsky - Nightcall
Madeon - For You
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Porter Robinson - Say My Name
Muse - Hysteria
Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso - Calling (R3hab & Swanky Tunes Mix)
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Zedd - Slam The Door
Volta Bureau - Alley Cat
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro
Wolfgang Gartner - Flexx
The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
Justice & Simian - Never Be Alone
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Rihanna - Russian Roulette
Clock Opera - Once And For All
The Paradise - In Love With You
Clock Opera - Belongings
Madeon - Finale
Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis
Deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix)
Queen - We Will Rock You
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Miike Snow - The Wave (Thomas Gold Remix)
Martin Solveig - The Night Out (A-Trak Remix)
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Yelle - La Musique
Metronomy - The Look (Camo & Krooked Remix)
Danger - 3h11
Nari & Milani - Atom
Unicorn Kid - Lion Hat
Daft Punk - Short Circuit
Yuksek - On A Train
Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (Penguin Prison Remix)
Martin Solveig - The Night Out (Madeon Remix)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
The Killers - Bones
Russ Chimes - Back 2 You
Madeon - Icarus (Original Mix)
Chic - You Are Beautiful
Perfume - Take Off
Earth Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner - Animal Rights
Frankmusik - Confusion Girl (Russ Chimes Remix)
Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica
Daft Punk - Revolution 909
Calvin Harris - The Rain
Mylo - In My Arms
Kanye West - Power
The Killers - This Is Your Life
Kanye West ft. Jay Z - H.A.M
Green Day - Are We The Waiting
The Killers - A Dustland Fairytale
Green Day - 21 Guns
The Clash - London Calling
Alphabeat - What Is Happening

Madeon - Minimix (Annie Mac Radio 1)

The One AM Radio - An Old Photo of Your New Lover

Bootleg remix I did for Toolroom Knights this summer at Space Ibiza. No it isn't going to be available for DL... xx

The xx - Fiction [Funkagenda Bootleg Re-Edit]

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Imany - You Will Never Know (Miguel Campbell & Matt Hughes Remix)

Material originally penned for a recent tour of Japan with fellow LA artist Matthewdavid, 'Sunsets and Clocks' is a brand new EP from Anenon.
 
Consider how personal an experience it is to wait. When caught in the space of time before a thing happens, we unconsciously reveal ourselves through our ticks - physical manifestations of where we let our thoughts drift in this non-space. While waiting, each foot tapped, itch scratched and phone checked reflects the places we allow ourselves to explore before we have to jump back into formal time and space to perform.
 
Anenon recorded 'Sunsets and Clocks' in the weeks directly preceding a whirlwind tour of Japan, where expectations and preconceptions (both false and true), collided over and over again in anticipation of the trip to come. In this collection of songs, Brian Allen Simon shares that intimate space, where he was both highly conscious of the relentless march of time and simultaneously removing himself from it, delving into an inner space where the lack of time smeared memories, fantasies, and fears into one another.
 
From the title, we can start to understand his headspace during this period, where the abstract concerns and artistic preparations for an international tour to a new country constantly collided with the pragmatic, binary problems of itineraries, exchange rates, and language barriers. These conflicting drives mirror the sharp contrast of the way the smudged shades of a fading sun mark the end of the day at the same time that the precision crafted gears of a timepiece click into place. 
 
We hear this theme reflected in how these pieces are unified by their maximal approaches to contrasts in the perception of time and meter, voice and tone. Anenon plays with this contrast through the shadowy textures of rhythm in the live improvisation of "We Yearn" and the meticulously interlocking beats driving "Ghost Light" and the title track. Boldly eschewing the use of the Rhodes and piano of his previous releases, these songs instead rely on the tenor sax and synthesizer. This new pairing fully realizes the theme in the marriage of the ethereal vibrations of the lungs and haunting accuracy of the keys.
 
1. We Yearn
2. Ghost Light
3. Dreamer (for Mary Jane)
4. Sunsets and Clocks
 
Music, cover photo and design by Brian Allen Simon.

Anenon - "Sunsets and Clocks"

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