The Sound of Minimal Techno - part 2

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London-based DJ and producer Jay Duncan collaborates with saxophonist Ben Vince on her debut release for Phantasy, introducing two wildly imaginative compositions alongside a simmering remix from Ricardo Villalobos.

From the first notes of brass, quickly melting into a lucid shuffle, it’s clear that ‘In Limbo’ exists on it’s own terms. Vince's virtuoso playing, a feature of former collaborations with the likes of Joy Orbison and Mica Levi, is here gradually manipulated by Duncan into a hugely ambitious trip. This meditative and mysterious approach draws listeners deeper into a liminal, minimal space somewhere between the Fourth World as imagined by Jon Hassell and four AM on a dancefloor in South London.

Duncan deftly raises the tension for the title track’s more percussive and arguably club-ready sibling ‘Anti-Purgatorio’, drawing out almost impossibly taut and inventive rhythms constructed around wormholes from which spill Vince’s instrumentation, washed downstream amid slippery modulations and a distinctive analogue atmosphere.

Ricardo Villalobos adds to his own superlative history of remixes with a characteristically trippy take on ‘In Limbo’. Spanning nearly fifteen-minutes, the legendary Chilean-German innovator subtly reimaginines this ambitious record in form true to both his own musical heritage as well as Duncan’s futurism.

In Limbo

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In Limbo (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Ricardo Villalobos - Arild (Original Mix)

Ricardo Villalobos - Minimoonstar (Full Session)

Something In The Distance (Original Mix)

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Liuos - Ponded Water [Superordinate Dub Waves]

"Sexspurt (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)" by Luke Vibert's Kerrier District project and @ricardo-villalobos & Max Loderbauer will be released in late January on @hypercolour. More info: bit.ly/KDRVMLSx

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Kerrier District - Sexspurt (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)

Dubmission

DJ Koze & Terrence Dixon Versions

America (Terrence Dixon Minimal Detroit Mix)

Get the full album here: https://chipmusicheroes.bandcamp.com/

More 165bpm stuff for livesets n thangs.  My live catalog is embarassingly light - working on fixing that for some things on the horizon this year. :)

More soon!  And maybe even a quiet confirmation of murmirings that another full length album might be coming down the pipe... Or the pike.  Choose your P-word.  My album is coming down that.

Chipmusic Heroes VI - Swerdmurd - Tunnel Vision

tobias. | Girts (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)

I Go, I Go

When thse two heavy weights, friends and legends of electronic club music finally and after all the years team up the result can only be something fresh, unheard and inspiring.

Gui Boratto from Sao Paulo and Robert Babicz from Cologne have produced this hooky house tune with that certain melodic something you can´t get out of your ears anymore.

The flip side comes along with that special Babicz Italo beats which beam you back to Rimini in 1983.

Human EP

Human

Gui Boratto & Robert Babicz - Human (Arcade Mix)

Bored with both rock and roll and his own name, ex-drummer Steven Ford released his debut 12", a techno single titled Read Me/Silver City, under the pseudonym Bruno Pronsato in 2003. The response to that release, though overwhelmingly positive, was dwarfed by the critical praise heaped on its follow-ups: 2007's Why Can't We Be Like Us, which effectively established Pronsato as one of the most innovative and vital producers in dance music, and 2009's groundbreaking The Make Up The Break Up, which further cemented his credentials as a visionary. NDF combines Pronsato's talents with those of Sergio Giorgini – one half of Benoit & Sergio, whose rose-lensed debut EP, What I've Lost, was released through Pronsato's thesongsays label. On their auspicious first outing, Since We Last Met, NDF offer music almost perfectly summed up in their own words as "dance music twilit by…melancholy."

The A-Side track, which begins nearly fully formed – with handclaps, keys and a sparse, bassy percussive loop – is a roomy, wide-open construction of electronic pop. Sergio's languid vocals echo outward into whispered descriptions of familiar post-romance scenarios: "One day I'll see her on the street/And we'll greet with casualness/And discuss the flow beneath the bridges/Since we last met/And that'll be all..." There are ghostly voices that hang ephemerally in the background, and a rippling percussive build through the song's middle, but not a lot more. Instead of filling the track to its brim, NDF's minimal, but studied, arrangements leave plenty of room for every element to breathe – and listeners to swoon.

Side-B, notably, is a remix of the title track from superstar Ricardo Villalobos. The famed producer elongates the single to nearly three times its original length. Villalobos's rebuilt track starts as a nearly naked beat, with Sergio's vocals layered into a haunting procession of blank-eyed repeated mantras. Villalobos adds here and there – carefully and slowly – a steady, unerring hand keeping things just so. Perfection through precision and subtlety. 

- Kali Holloway

NDF - Since We Last Met (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Ricardo Villalobos & Jay Haze - Mellow Dee

It's Getting Late (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)  - Los Updates

Ricardo Villalobos & Jay Haze - Mellow Dee

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