August 2010
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A HESSLE HISTORY
Tonight Bristol’s most on point, club-destroying collective is playing host to one of UK bass music’s most beguiling labels: a ship-sinking Hessle Audio hook up on the Thekla courtesy of Crazylegs. The combination of Untold, James Blake, Ramadanman, Ben UFO and Pangaea probably make this the party of the summer, if not the year thus far (well, until Crazylegs unveil details of their...
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12"S YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
7. To Rococo Rot / Badawi (Shackleton Remixes)
Domino
>Buy To Rococo Rot Remix // Buy Badawi Remix<
Sam Shackleton hasn’t put a foot wrong. Even a cursory glance back at his release history over the last five or so years – Mordant Music, Skull Disco, Hotflush, remixes for Geiom, Harmonia & Eno and Moderat, now Perlon – shows an impressive absence of anything even approaching a dud....
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER // RETURNAL 7"
Editions Mego
>Stream/Buy from Boomkat<
It’s easy to forget how lovely 7” vinyl is until it’s actually in your hand and finding its way out of its sleeve. It’s an entirely different experience to putting on a 12”, small size somehow lending a sense of limited space filled and an urgency that accompanies that. And this 7” of reimaginings of Daniel Lopatin’s spectrally beautiful...
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FORTHCOMING // NEW OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE HAUL
Our absolute favourite record label this year has five dope releases dropping at the end of the month: 7”s from Ducktails, Pigeons & Greatest Hits, plus full lengths courtesy of the awesome Autre Ne Veut and Big Troubles. If you haven’t already been inducted into the temple of OESB, get thee to the Rangers, Forest Swords, Julian Lynch and James Ferraro records released this year,...
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YUK. // A D W A
Leaving Records
>Listen/Buy from Boomkat<
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Los Angeles beats scene is the sheer diversity on offer. Far from a Brainfeeder-plus-biters scenario, there are innumerable pockets of producers furrowing unique paths that are theirs, and theirs alone. Whether its the abstract, afro-futurism of Ras G, the space age funk of Take or the madcap...
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12"S YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
6. Lowtec/Kassem Mosse – Workshop EP [Laid]
>Audio/Buy<
Okay, so perhaps the confusingly named Workshop EP doesn’t qualify as something you might have missed per se, as it’s only just emerged on Dial’s offshoot label Laid, but it certainly could be one you end up missing – it’s come out with minimal fanfare, which is a real shame. Lowtec’s ‘Use Me (Laid Mix)’ is absorbing in an...
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MIX // SHED RESIDENT ADVISOR PODCAST
>Download Shed RA Podcast<
Low Density Matter - Blue Steel [Keysound] Becoming Real - Fast Motion (DVA’s Hi Emotions Remix) [Ramp] Cosmin TRG - See Other People (Falty DL Remix) [Rushhour] Delphic - Doubt (Kyle Hall Remix) Duncan Powell - Pushin’ (Falty DL Remix) [2nd Drop] Andrea - Got To Forget [Daphne] T++ - Cropped [Honest Jon’s] Cosmin TRG - Béton Brut [Hemlock]...
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ALWAYS EVERYTHING ON DROWNED IN SOUND PT 2: MIXES
As well as contributing a lot of writing (albeit moreso Rory than me), we lay out some hype mixes: cos let’s face it, who reads anything anymore? Reading’s rubbish.
25 Tracks: A Dubstep Chronology by Eighteen on Mixcloud
First up, an exquisite mix from Rory charting the progression of dark proto-dubstep via Horsepower/Groove Chronicles, the DMZ/Tempa/Skull Disco glory period...
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ALWAYS EVERYTHING ON DROWNED IN SOUND PT 1:...
Over the last week Always Everything scribe Rory Gibb curated a great week of bass-themed content over at DiS: a pretty big coup considering the usual content over there is generally quite “indie”-minded. Bass music making headways into foreign terrain? Indie websites bandwagon jumping? Take it to a message board, chump.
The full week’s content can be found >here<, but...
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MIX // CIO D'OR RA PODCAST
Download
Tracklist:
Cio D’Or - Autumnwinds [RA podcast exclusive] Murcof - Rostro [The Leaf Label] Xhin - Seed [Stroboscopic Artefacts] Milton Bradley - Somewhere Beyond My Illusion [Prologue] Heartthrob - Valentine [M-nus] Monolake - Zero Gravity [Monolake] C-Olvrin - Walk at Night in the Misty Woods Monolake - Infinitive Snow [Imbalance] Margaret Dygas - 37 Min To 7 [Non Standard...
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FORTHCOMING // MOSCA // TILT SHIFT
Tilt Shift by DeejayMosca
Forthcoming on Fat City
The latest in a great run of releases from the increasingly unplaceable Mosca. If anybody remained unconvinced by his scene stealing showing on Fabric’s Elevator Music compilation, or the amazing Night-Slugs-launching Square One (and if this is you, I don’t know what to say buddy), an astounding house remix of Fourtet’s Sing...
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MIX // PARIAH FABRICLIVE PROMO MIX
Stream/Download
Tracklisting:
Redshape - Mucky Bones (Present) Office Gossip - Var II (Unreleased) Untold & Roska - Myth (Forthcoming Numbers) Breach - Fatherless (Forthcoming PTN) Steve Poindexter - Work That Motherfucker (Muzique Records) Model 500 - Huesca (Forthcoming R&S) Braiden - The Alps (Unreleased) Pariah - The Slump (Forthcoming R&S) Four Tet - Sing (Mosca Remix)...
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FORTHCOMING // AUTRE NE VEUT // OMG
(semi NSFW!)
AUTRE NV “OMG” from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.
Forthcoming on Olde English Spelling Bee/Upstairs
Following a show stealing appearence on Tri Angle Records’ Lindsay Lohan themed mixtape (reviewed here), the enigmatic Autre Ne Veut comes good with his debut LP, an effort that arrives courtesy of Olde English Spelling Bee and Upstairs, a label run by...
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12"S YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
5. Altocamet - Contrasentido (Shed Remix)
Buy 12” // Stream
Casa Del Peunte Discos
It’d be a massive understatement to say René Pawlowitz’s career thus far has been illustrious. Whether its the amazing run of Shed 12”s culminating in the excellent “Shedding The Past” album on Ostgut Ton, or the dancefloor-ready immediacy of white label Wax and Equalized...
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FORTHCOMING // HYETAL // PHOENIX
Hyetal - Phoenix - 002 by william orca
Forthcoming on Orca Recordings
More from the 80s electro x 00s dubstep interface, Hyetal channels Harold Faltermeyer’s retro-futuristic synthesiser vision and marries it to moody Bristol soundsystem bassweight. Evocative night driving music and epic end of set fodder sure to (quite rightly) propel Hyetal into the stratosphere.
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12"S YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
4. Bok Bok - Dance Report
Enchufada
Buy MP3
Ok, so strictly speaking this isn’t actually on a 12”. “Songs You Might Have Missed” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it though, and doesn’t exactly convey the sense in which the damn things might get lost to time. Ignore that minor technicality, cos this is definitely a track I think too many people slept...
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FORTHCOMING // DISTAL - BOSS OF THE SOUTH
DISTAL - Boss of the South by Distal
Forthcoming on Grizzly
Juke tinged rhythm work with some hot drum patterns! And uh.. hoovers..
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MIX // PEVERELIST RESIDENT ADVISOR PODCAST
Download “Peverelist - Resident Advisor Podcast 218”
Undoubtably one of the centralmost figures in the Bristol dance music scene, Peverelist (né Tom Ford) has played a pivotal role in continuing the city’s astounding musical legacy. Whether this is through is own painstakingly crafted, technoid productions (mindbogglingly revealed to be built in Fruity Loops!), the output of...