Funky Strange Sounds

"Those of us who would claim to be keepers of the flame, ‘living to music’ here and now, have a big responsibility – we can’t allow ourselves, amidst the sensory saturation that accompanies our contemporary existence, to forget how to listen." (Greg Wilson)

https://twitter.com/badpandarecords
https://facebook.com/badpandarecords



2012 in Sound(cloud)s

experimental

experiments

Picture a sandy beach on a sunny day. Good, now repeat with the Chillout mix looming in the background. You have just felt chill on the next level. 
http://www.stereomood.com/mood/chillout

chillout

Artistas confirmados para el L.E.V. de 2013 (Gijón, Asturias, Spain)

VII Festival de Creación Audiovisual de Gijón. Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura.

Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual (L.E.V.) www.levfestival.com - GIJÓN

L.E.V. 13 (set de artistas confirmados)

focus

Favorites

Mbox

Tech

From 'Music & Migration III' (SL025) out now on Second Language Music.  
Illustration by Frances Castle.  
Info/buy : www.secondlanguagemusic.com

ISAN - Kirkeskov

Tortoise - TNT

Shunsuke Oshio,Guitar/Sitar/Electronics

Recorded by Shunsuke Oshio 
Mixed&Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/matt-flores at 123 Studio Düsseldorf

Transmigration

xtredan... arte sonoro experimental.. sello independiente Chipmusik Records... Lima Underground.  año 3000 - CD Original en mejor calidad de audio disponible en www.myspace.com/chipmusikrecoreds

XTREDAN - 09 LSD

Track 1 from the Hologram EP, available now via iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify!  For a limited time, I am giving it away for FREE at http://vogelmusic.bandcamp.com!

Download

Night City

Faixa título do nosso primeiro trabalho oficial, produzido e mixado por Diogo Guedes e masterizado por Don Grossinger. A arte ficou a cargo de Ianah Maia. 

Kalouv - Sky Swimmer

9th March 2011 was the start of a bad time for Japan. An earthquake, followed by another 2 days later, set the stone rolling for a series of actions that affected the country in a more intense manner than anything else since World War II. The people behind “Hope for Japan” don’t want to initiate a debate on nuclear power, global warming, or other individual aspects of what caused Japans’ pain, the classic media and news channels have covered that from every possible perspective, we want to help. 
We are not calling out people to start sending their hard earned money to Japan, although of course you’re more than welcome to do so, we want to make an offer. Across the world, people participate in hobbies and activities because they want to. You’ll often hear people talk about their passion. Everyone behind “Hope for Japan” and the pending “More Hope for Japan” has a passion for music – from musicians, to labels, to artists and even a pressing company. It’s disasters like Japan’s that make us think, that force us in to introspection. As such, a group of people decided to help with what they do best: 
Music. And that’s what we offer.

Labirinto - Cairo

Música Experimental - Mixta: Guitarra, Bajo, Saxo Alto, Clarinete Bb y Procesos en tiempo real
Experimental Music - Mixed: Guitarra, Bajo, Saxo Alto, Clarinete Bb and Realtime process 

Piezein

Innovativeleisure.net

12" Available Early 2012.

Woman

Open

New Clark album 'Iradelphic' coming 2nd/3rd April 2012 on Warp Records.
More information - http://warp.net/records/clark/

Preorder - http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=34461

http://facebook.com/throttleclark
http://twitter.com/throttleclark

Iradelphic

Clark - The Pining pt2 (taken from Iradelphic)

New Clark album 'Iradelphic' coming 2nd/3rd April 2012 on Warp Records. 
More information - http://warp.net/records/clark/

Preorder - http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=34461

http://facebook.com/throttleclark 
http://twitter.com/throttleclark

Clark - Secret (taken from Iradelphic)

Picture by Cat Marshall http://catjmarshall.tumblr.com/

Free Download

Roobios

Testarossa Nightdrive

Wayfarer

Testarossa (SebastiAn Remix)

Just found this very early mix of Voodoo Rainbow ha ha ha.

Friday Marmite

Hellicopter (Remixe Pack)

Diafrix - Helicopter (Star Slinger Remix)

Buy the EP here:

iTunes: http://glnk.it/1qp
Amazon: http://glnk.it/1qq

For their third EP Featurette, shadowy Wolverhampton duo Letherette come to Ninja Tune ahead of a debut album in 2013.

Drawing on Bangalter-inflected house but giving it a rumble and wing, Letherette make infectious, beat-driven music which is as fun and un-self-conscious as it is clever and technically cutting edge. From the exuberant cut-up boogie of “Warstones”, through moments of ethereal beauty on the four-to-the-floor stomper “Ettewards”, on into delicate, poised “Surface”, (featuring vocals from Jed + Lucia) and finally the spaced hip hop of “Wecko”, the childhood friends use the Featurette EP to show their range and diversity as well as their technical nous. 

Download from here  - http://ninjatune.net/letherette

Letherette

Warstones

01-Areia do mar

Friendly Fires Remix

http://bacardi.com/uk/Beginnings/Artists/Friendly-AlunaGeorge
http://alunageorge.com



Body Music

Your Drums, Your Love (Friendly Fires Remix)

El Camino feat. akane del mar

El Contraste feat. akane del mar

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/572440-andy-stott-luxury-problems

Andy Stott - Sleepless

https://badpandarecords.bandcamp.com/album/dumbo-gets-mad-quantum-leap


http://www.dumbogetsmad.com

--- 
http://www.facebook.com/badpandarecords 
http://twitter.com/#!/badpandarecords

12'' Vinyl

Dumbo Gets Mad - Radical Leap

Herbert - You Saw It All (DJ Koze Mix)

From Flume's debut album. You can download the Deluxe Version on iTunes here:
http://smarturl.it/flume_deluxe

www.facebook.com/flumemusic
www.flumemusic.com 
www.facebook.com/futureclassic
www.futureclassic.com.au
www.facebook.com/transgressiverecords
www.transgressive.co.uk

What You Need

For more information visit: http://www.klassikakzente.de/recomposed/home 

Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.” Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.”Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist, Daniel Hope. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. Daniel is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge. I think he did a wonderful job. He brought to it a deep engagement with the original, but he was fully prepared to cut this new swathe through the text.”


Spring One - Vivaldi Recomposed - The Four Seasons

Spring 1 (2012)

Violent Acid (Rough Mix)

As if Coyu hasn't given Skint enough with his 2011 floor filler remix of “X-Press 2 - Muzik Xpress”, he's back again to pay homage to one of the greatest and most celebrated Skint releases of all time. Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now. 

Coyu takes the iconic string / sitar loop, laces it with a shimmering hi-hat rhythm over a pounding kick drum and punctuates it with choral stabs, to create a funked up club banger that manages to retain all the drama of the original. Take that dance floor; see if you can better this. Hands will be lifted, feet will be stomped and parties will peak. 

Can anyone contain the possibilities of this track? We don't think so. It's stamped its place in dance music history and who better to reaffirm its position than Suara boss man, Coyu.

Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now (Coyu Radio Edit)

New track from my upcoming EP.  Un-mastered demo.

Retro-future, cinematic, robot romance.

Dreamwave

https://soundcloud.com/secretdiaries | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secret-Diaries/122482171159814

Free download at http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/badpanda174/

- - -
http://www.facebook.com/badpandarecords
http://twitter.com/#!/badpandarecords

Secret Diaries - Prayers

From the new beat tape 'For What It's Worth', comprising outtakes and loose instrumentals that needed a home.

Follow up to Soft Focus coming soon as well as lots of other stuff.

Available to download at:

http://vanillabeats.bandcamp.com/album/for-what-its-worth

Rashida

25 Nights For Nujabes.

A beat a night for 25 nights in dedication to Seba Jun.

Night 1. A simple lullaby.

Enjoy.

Night 1

Networking

From the feature in Magnetic Magazine
http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/04/sounds-spaces-001-max-cooper-the-british-museum/

Sounds & Spaces 001
Max Cooper - Synesthetes Museum
A mix based on the British Museum
 
Featuring a mix of 12th century Tibetan monks song, one of the first ever recordings of music, made by Thomas Edison on a wax cylinder in 1888, poetic spoken word, 9th century Gregorian Chant, A call to the lama from afar, some unreleased exclusives, 9/8 techno, traditional Chinese music mixed with rude glitch, and a binaural museum.
______________________________________



The brief for this mix was to make something inspired by an architectural space. When I was doing my Post-Doc at UCL I used to go the British Museum to relax, and work in the beautiful library there, so I chose the space for the mix. I wanted to capture the ambient atmosphere in the central courtyard, so I did some binaural recording to include in the mix. I also wanted to make the mix something of an exploration through history and ideas in line with the contents of the museum, so I brought in lots of disparate music spanning the centuries and continents. I also mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit. Hence the name of the mix, in that, each piece of music almost has a visual content.

For the full track list + more information see the feature:
http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/04/sounds-spaces-001-max-cooper-the-british-museum/

For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
https://soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list on my site if you like:
http://maxcooper.net/

DOWNLOAD

Max Cooper - Synesthetes Museum (free download)

This is a piece for several droning sine waves.
I wrote it in 2002 using reason.
Its best played on nice speakers, in a quite room, at a loud volume while the listener(s) walk around the space, hearing how the sine waves react/sound difference depending on where they stand and the direction of their ears. shaking your head from left to right also changes how you hear the sound. if its loud, different overtones will come out the closer you stand to a wall.

A Green Cobra Is Awesome Vs. The Sun

'Suns of Temper (Bear Paw Kicks Version)' appears on Feast/Beast released September 2013 via @warp-records

The 4x LP, 2x CD and digital download are available from,

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/ctau58
Bleep - http://smarturl.it/fbqiua
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/mmt36r

http://throttleclark.com/feast-beast-nathan-fake/
https://www.facebook.com/throttleclark
https://twitter.com/throttleclark

Feast / Beast

Suns Of Temper (Bear Paw Kicks Version)

Buy at Bleep.com

Suns Of Temper (Bear Paw Kicks Version) - Taken from new album 'Feast/Beast'

http://throttleclark.com

Management | greg@thefullspectrum.org
UK & Europe Bookings | debbie@lb-agency.net
North & South America Bookings | twalker@outermostagency.com  
Press | duncan@9pr.co.uk