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Brynjolfur
Brynjolfur - The Save EP

Faroese DJ and producer Brynjolfur is one of the leading lights of the Danish club scene, with energetic performances and a charmingly personal musical style. Having dropped the sun-drenched Chain Glass EP for Hamburg’s hafendisko at the height of the summer, he returns to the label fold once again with the shimmering disco delights of The Save EP.

"The Save" is an instant mash-up hit, combining disco cowbells and shakers, vintage house piano chords and rhythms, with the finely-tuned wispy vocals of synth pop. It hits the ground running, and build towards a big bright house breakdown that combines skilled songwriting with Brynjolfur's clubbier roots. 

"Time" takes an entirely different tack, emerging with a slow, brooding electro stomp at sultry tempo; it blossoms into instrumental track of cinematic proportions and suspense, that shifts into a cosmic-influenced beauty by the track's end.

Two sterling remixes round out the EP package, starting with a Dub Mix of "The Save" that gets it rough and ready for the dancefloor: the distinctive melody takes on a deeper unified tone, and new acid house elements get pushed to the fore; then a Kasper Bjørke remix of "Time" reworks it in the distinctive style of the deep nu-disco master, adding bright, uplifting melodies, but retaining the original track's slow, sultry tempo.

The Save (Original Mix)SNIPPET

Beams

Get The Rhyme Right

Fighting Is Futile

everything is out of place

For this track I wanted to combine simplicity and complexity, so I went for a simple broken beat structure and bassline, and then used lots of Max for Live shenanigans to modulate the drums and hats and vocals in an interesting way, playing with psychoacoustics and detail as much as I could. It's a bit of a weird one, but I've been playing it out a lot and it seems to work!

Max Cooper - Simplexity (preview)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/11/pagoda

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Maribou State "Pagoda"

Suzan- Pantha du Prince

Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He was the founding artist on both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. He’s had remixes commissioned by The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers; he’s made mixes for the Fabric mix series and Get Physical’s Body Language. He maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity. He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none—and he’s just hitting his stride.

Sound design:
www.matthewdearsounds.com

Label: 
www.ghostly.com

- @audion -

Fighting Is Futile

Matthew Dear

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