Absolutely captivated by this one---truly exudes great joy. Beautiful, beautiful roll!

After its initial string of records, Spring Theory is back with its third release of the year: The record is Let Me Love & Steal, the latest EP from Avalon Emerson. In the past few months, Emerson has moved from San Francisco to Berlin and has taken in her new environment's vibrant club culture, and it shows. But this four-tracker is a far cry from the dark industrial clichés that typify foreign expectations of the German capital. Instead, her cuts here carry an undertone of playful sampling that balance out the sheer power and energetic intensity of her rhythmic drive — aka it's a full EP's worth of hard-hitting house music with even more of her idiosyncratic flair.
 
The A1 is the EP's namesake, "Let Me Love & Steal," and it's her heaviest cut to date, picking up with a similar sample-driven heft as her past two releases. Though it's tempting, don't try to spot the sample, instead just ease in and immerse yourself in the euphorically freaky collision of its razor-sharp hi-hats, laser beams, booming kick drums, and mind-warpingly ambiguous vocals. Slip the needle over to A2 and you'll find "Let Me Love & Steal (Triple Scorpio Mix)," a stripped down retooling of the original that rounds the vocal sample into a wash of contorting sonic colors that lets the percussion come forward and take center stage. Incorporating a little more techno propulsion, it transforms itself halfway through into a hard shot of energy, with swung snares and chunky stabs that crash through the mix. Both versions are energetic bombs designed for dancefloors in the throes of a sweaty and full-throttle towel-on-the-shoulders workout.
 
 Flip the record over and you get "Honest Gangster," a crunchy and jacking follow-up to "Quoi!" that features a surreal spoken word vocal delivery from Spring Theory label head Guillaume Galuz...though he didn't know it until after the track was made (as it turns out, voicemails can be great sample sources). His presence brings the track a degree of absurdity, but it's Avalon's thrashing bassline and spaced-out synthesizer arpeggios that drives the point home. Here too it's all about intensity, albeit with a softer and dreamier vibe that's good for cooling off a little when you still want to keep the energy high. Finally, switch to the B2 for "Honest Gangster (Arpapella)," which rips out the rhythm and samples and lets the arp float freely through a healthy amount of spaced-out and trippy delay. If you're looking for a break (or something to start or end your set with) it's exactly what you're looking for. Add it all up, and you have an extremely versatile dancefloor focused EP that's ready for prime time, no matter what time that is.


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Annette Peacock (born 1941) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.

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In Focus: Annette Peacock 041117

Avalon Emerson - Let Me Love & Steal

Avalon Emerson - Let Me Love & Steal (Triple Scorpio Mix)

SPRING THEORY @ The Lot Radio 07-11-2023

Guillaume @ The Lot Radio 10-03-2024

Irregular extra special shows from the world of Melbourne reissue label Efficient Space.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/efficient-space/episodes/efficient-space-4th-october-2024

Efficient Space w/ Bridget Small 041024

To The Beat of The Drum is Konrad Black, Natalia Escobar and Jeremy Shaw – longtime partners-in-crime who have decided to return to basics and throw an intimate party of timeless dance music. This mix represents a condensed version of what you may hear at the third instalment of the TTB/OTD party, taking place at OHM, Berlin on April 16, 2015.

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Natalia Escobar 
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Konrad Black
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Jeremy Shaw 
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LN-CC Store Mix 061 - TTB/OTD

Written, produced & recorded by Moisture
Additional production by Emanuel Sundin
"Orgone" contains samples of "Say Something" by Fra Lippo Lippi 
licensed via Rune Grammofon

Mastered by Darren Ziesing.
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz
In stores 7th of March 2020.

This double A-sider is the fruit of a long gestating collaboration with fellow Malmö-based record collector/selector & producer Simon alias Rizzolo DJ (alias Moisture). Closely intertwined with the label in various ways since the start, his path to producing started with re-edits and a more wild-haired approach to deejaying, finally landing into his own groove with the 2018 album A Freak Is Born. Released as a privately pressed cassette, the album featured two tracks co-produced with Fasaan founder Prins Emanuel. 

On that first album, the palette was a lo-fi reverie of minimal waves crashing into depths of goth and heights of camp. Here for the 12” format, we instead get the full onslaught of power tools gleaming in the blast of strobe lights. The weight of GAMMUT unfolds and delivers exactly what the title suggests: a complete scope of percussive barrage unleashed in tight locked grooves and smattering reverberations. In addition to that, we are treated with a spine-tingling re-imagining of the concept of a bass drop. 

For ORGONE, a 1984 track by Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi serves as the backbone of the composition. Championed by cosmic DJ Daniele Baldelli and here pitched down to wrongspeeder tempo, Moisture uses the original song to bridge the gap between his roots in the re-edit scene as well as in the cosmic tradition. Thedry  mechanical bassline is flanked by hollow percussion that eventually propels into a crystal-chimmering microcosm of orgone energy.

Moisture - Gammut

Isle Of You

Specifically music from label ECM Records.

ECM Mix

Broadcast on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City on May 19th, 2020.
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1. Benoit B - A Night In Gobi Desert - Peur Bleue
2. 100Hz - LFO - Cease & Desist
3. Central - Body Issue - Dekmantel
4. Peter Lüdemann & Pit Troja - Southerly - Be With
5. River Yarra - Aorsum Wislhs - Antinote
6. Capablanca - Lap Dance [Lipelis Dub] - Discos Capablanca
7. Reel Houze - No Difference [Dub] - Optimo
8. Toyin Agbetu presents Nemesis - Let's Make Luv 2nite - Frame of Mind
9. Garies - Don Bongo - Future Times
10. Masarima - Freak Like U - Clone
11. Black Devil - “H” Friend - Anthology
12. Steve Pepe - Mileversi - Hivern Discs
13. A-Team - Trouble [Dub] - Seance Centre
14. Wolfram - Automatic Dub [Cable Toy Remix] - Public Possession
15. Alva C - MSL - Bakk
16. Mu - Destory Human Creation - Tigersushi
17. Stingray313 - NKKK4_2 - Naked Lunch
18. RD² - Sharing Angels - WPH
19. Antoine Kogut - Sphere Of Existence (I-Cube Unexpected Dub) - Versatile
20. Konx-om-Pax - Paris 5am - Planet Mu
21. Aleksi Perälä - NLL561606933 - Clone

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