Its been a good first month for electronic music in 2008 heres some of my favorite tracks.
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Also its been a massive month for albums heres some you need to check out
Hello Random Circuits readers, my name is Matt, a couple of you might remember me from Trainspotter, which is now basically defunct. I'm happy to be joining the RC crew, and I'll try not to ruin their awesome blog.
In the interest of carrying on Shawn's newly established tradition of introducing yourself with a mix, here is one I made for Random Circuits last night, hope everyone enjoys:
Matt's Four to the Floor RC Mix
Scsi-9 - Elegia
Serafin & Roman Bruder - Dream Sequence
Len Faki - Odyssey I
Donnacha Costello - Grape B
Jerome Sydenham & Tiger Stripes - Elevation (Radio Slave's One More Kiss Remix)
Dennis Ferrer - Son of Raw (Loco Dice Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Donnacha Costello - Grape A
Luciano - Bomberos
Dandy Jack and the Junction SM - Chuleta For You
Naughty - World of Woman
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Barem - So serial [M_NUS, 2007]
It's funny how the two best tracks of this EP (Never better than late) isn't even on the vinyl, but rather released as mp3 only. Ears and So serial here beats the other three tracks by a large margin. My opinion of course. So Serial builds up steadily with a lot of echoes and wet percussive sounds, all the while you're waiting for the release to come. After 3 minutes the bass kicks in properly and lends, by now much needed, momentum to the track. Pure goodness from the M_NUS camp.
So the Beeb have got the Chilean wonder Luciano in the hot seat for the http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/ on Friday night 3 -5am GMT.
Heres a quick interview to get inside the mans head and a short insight of what to expect.
Moonbeam - Slow heart [Traum, 2008] (d/l)
Our favorite russian techno makers are back once again. Traum is the label, Spring Story is the release. Three tracks of minimal and crunchy techno, a la Traum & Moonbeam. No weaknesses can be heard on any of the songs. Chunky, ever evolving sounds on a very solid outing. Beam me up, Scotty!
Plasmik -(Interswap The Remixes Volume One) -"Subertubos" (Matt O'Brien Remix) [Connaisseur Recordings]
Four new remixes from last years biggest EP for Connaisseur , Are ready and raring to go.
Interswap by Plasmik was easily there biggest release last year, so now its time for the remixes and they come in the shape of Matt O'Brien (Which we have here) Afrilounge, Claude VonStroke & Minz.
As its in two parts we will just be reviewing the first part for today.
Matt O'Brien does great things for supertubos it sounds like its a late 90's techno record with its shattering synths and deep bass.
He gives it a really good make over adding a few special touches the background riff sounds like a continuous flock of chickens squawking, but its all about the deep pads and synths for me, expect alot of techno DJ's to be dropping this bomb on a dance floor near you.
Next up is Afrilounge they take on Mindpattern still on a deep vibe but on more of a house tip its a very cool slow burner that opens out and will suprise you with deep strings and a trance like melody.
Quality first part im looking forward to the next.
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MD III - The pressure cooker [Underground, 1993]
After Theevanhood posted a youtube clip of this track, it stuck to my head. A friend (yo Hansa!) finally dug it up and it's mezmerising. What an old(ish) hit.
Edit: This friday I shall visit The Eye again. It was a while ago, since I've sort of boycotted them after they stopped booking nice acts and just went on with the routinely and steady declining in quality resident nights. This friday is different though, after cancelling in december The UK man and producer Radio Slave is finally going to bless Gothenburg with his presence. It will be intense.
Jerome Sydenham & Tiger Stripes - Elevation (Radio Slave's One More Kiss Remix) [Ibadan, 2008] (d/l, d/l)
Three big producers collide in a sweaty techno excursion. Sydenham and Tiger Stripes' Elevation anthem is pierced by the man who never sleep, Radio Slave's functionalists ideas. The result is a floor whooping, big, sick and most definetly dancable massacre. Detroit vibes all over this superb remaking. Like a true master, Radio slave fulfills all expectations. The rest of this intense remix package is of equal standards; Ink & needle, Argy, Kobayashi and the original creators all lend their magic fingers to stir F12 and Elevation into something different.
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Here is a mix I made about a month ago that contains some tracks that have been posted on Random Circuits and my previous blog Trainspotter. After a terrible heartbreak and moving to a totally new country, I am still trying to figure out where I belong in this world. Random Circuits seems like it will be a nice fit for me. I am very grateful to have joined the Random Circuits team. The mix came out sort of bleepy and I hope you all enjoy it.
Tell Me I Belong Mix
1. Efdemin - Lohn & Brot
2. Minilogue - Elephant's Parade
3. Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion Remix)
4. Justus Kohncke - Advance
5. Alejandro Vivanco - Madre Tierra
6. Anja Schneider - Belize
7. Gummihz - Hypnotize
8. Melchior Productions - Don Juan
9. Johannes Heil - All For One (Tobi Neumann's Swinging Remix)
10. Avus - Fancy Arse (James Holden's Sunday Night Extension)
11. Burial - Archangel
Model 500 - The flow [R&S, 1995]
It's that time again, people. Time to dust off some real classic tracks and reminiscing. Not one of Model 500's earliest, but still a proper legendary track which first appeared on the Deep Space LP. Juan Atkins for president!
I did, indeed attend Aril Brikha playing at Jeriko in Malmö this saturday. It was quite good, he played a lot from his album (Ex Machina) of course (which isn't his best work imo). The audience was feeling it and the atmosphere was great. Nice evening all in all. The projected visuals were quite boring and not synched at all though.
Off to Malmö for the weekend. Aril Brikha plays there on saturday, and I will most likely go. So yeah, finally a decent booking. Have a good one folks.
Kirk Degiorgio - I do not exist (original mix) [B12, 2007] (d/l)
Wonky, fast paced, techno. There is also a B12 remix on this record, which turns the track into something weirder but which is also very much tasty.
TeslaSonic - Lunatic asylum [MinimalRome, 2008] (d/l)
Electro!
Surgeon - This is for you shits! [Warp, 2007] (buy)
Great mixtape from Surgeon. This is a wonderful one hour showcase of techno's more experimental sides. Dabbling with the very fringes of the dance sound, as one would suspect when it's released on Warp. Brutal waves of murderous textures blended with occassional glimpses of artful melodies. The first half of this is really quite something, I recognize most of the tracks but they all got a new costume courtesy of Surgeon and his blending techniques. Quality all they way through. Tracklisting on discogs.
Elec Pt. 1 - By the stars [Bunker, 2007] (d/l)
Bunker Records, aah, what a sure sign of quality for black as death electro. Released in December this five track EP, The Inner Circle, is filled to the brim with dangerously corroding acid elektro songs. Never leaving the unpleasant sphere of vibes, fine dystopian works crafted by dark minds.
Alright. After about one million recordings of me VJing with VDMX to this track, I'm dead tired of it. The ridiculous amount of takes needed was because I was clueless as to what codec and settings to record with. I ended up just importing one of the earliest takes into iMovie and re-encoding it. Thus the half-assed quality. Next one will be better, promise.
Some details for the interested. The effects are made in Quartz Composer, I just fooled around some since I'm not very experienced with it yet. Then I hooked my composition up with some lovely VDMX controls and basically just went at it. Recorded with iShowU.
Music: Daft punk - Harder better faster stronger (around the world), from their Alive'07 tour.
Quartz, VDMX session from Roobik on Vimeo.
Partial Arts - Telescope (Radioslave's Prenzlauer Blur Remix) [Kompakt, 2008] (d/l)
The REKIDS boss strikes again. As usual he doesn't hold back when unleashing his tasty remix proddings on a track. 12 minutes this time, Ewan Pearson's alias Partial Arts' track "Telescope" gets the treatment. Have a listen and judge this one by yourself. I didn't like it at first, but it needs some attention and a few listens before settling into my brain.
1hr mix of underground house and techno.
Instead of studying for my algorithms exam tomorrow I've been procrastinating, pro style, like a real slacker. Fiddling around with various small projects and basically doing anything but cramming.
Stars Of The Lid vs Red Robin & Jakob Hilden - Humectez La Mouture vs Lazy Jack (skypher's edit) [N/a, 2007]
This is me trying to combine Stars of the lid's absolutely stunning song into some sort of "emotech" (haha) thing by using Red Robin & Jakob Hilden's Lazy Jack track for drums. It isn't really that well made, but I certainly dig the final product anyway. Have a listen will ya, and tell me what you think. I'm having serious Ableton Live cravings, was too long since I produced now...
While we're at it, I might as well post something small I put together from some of my processing code accompanied with a track I did. The outcome wasn't expected though; my computer couldn't handle the (real-time) calculation of each frame while simultaneously playing the music and recording to the disk, thus the sound got heavily distorted. I still like the result though: Attractoria.
Johannes Heil - Meta [Metatron, 2007] (d/l)
Three track December EP from Mr Heil, The Coming, which marks the first release on the new label Metatron (Heil's own? Anyone know?). A1, the title track, smoothly launches the EP with some atmospherics and build ups with processed vocal samples. It leads us into A2 which got my attention properly, Meta is a smattering story with a steady beat and bass. The familiar sounds from A1 dips in and out of the track to further thicken the song. The last offering on this outing is Tronic which feels a bit more fast paced and frantic.
ASC - The pursuit [Nerve, 2008] (d/l)
I rarely post drum n bass, mostly because I don't know much about it and I don't listen to it that often. Here's an exception. The pursuit is something that sounds original and well thought out, still with pretty standard dnb samples and structures. This track goes from normal to calm to aggressive. My cup of d&b. Anyone well versed in the genre and want to recommend something? I'm all ears in the comments section.
Letroset - Hertz aus glas EP [Point one, 2008]
No, sorry. No mp3s of this. I just want to acknowledge this awesome release. Listen to the snippets at juno, phonica or boomkat, then promptly pick up a copy. This is some of the best dance music I've heard in a while. Very recommended.
Ben Klock - October [BPitch, 2008] (d/l)
Allien's imprint launches the brand new year known as 2008 with Ben Klock's October twelve. Massive stomping brute of a release. The a-side is all blocky and chunky drums, not too heavy, but nicely crude sounding. The groove soon settles and it is hard not to nod your head or move your legs to this one as it continues to shake itself into a feverishly tight rhythm. When the quiet melody fades in, it all makes sense and this fresh track comes full circle. On the other side we have another grim tune, slightly more on the evil side. Stripped down, percussion style, Similarity foresees a dark future. Impressive, Klock! I am sorry to say I haven't followed this producer much, seems I have to pick up the slack. BPitch Control off on a great '08 start, keep em coming.
Jupiter black - We like moroder (starcluster mix) [Clone, 2007] (d/l)
Italo cheese! From the remix package of the lovely original. The flip has a Divider rework. Ch-check it for your vox dose.
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) [?, ?] (d/l)
And now onto something unelectronic for a change. I recently saw Wes Anderson's latest film; The Darjeeling Limited at the cinemas. What a great movie! As I've come to expect from Anderson's work it was accompanied with a perfectly fitting soundtrack. This track in particular caught my ears, and I've been humming along to it since. Beautifully crafted, old pop gem. Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Élysée from the end credits is another masterful tune from the soundtrack I wholeheartedly recommend.
This is madness! No, this is draamaaaaa!
Dunno what to say about the previous post except that it doesn't make any sense to me.
Aphex twin - On
Here, enjoy some old afx.
Underground resistance - Footwars (detroit vs. chicago 12" edit) [Underground resistance, 2007] (d/l)
Ghetto, ghetto detroit electro.
Hot chip - Shake a fist [DFA/Astralwerks, 2008] (d/l)
This will be released the fifth of february. Hot chip's third full lengther, called "Made In The Dark". Here's the second song, promo soiled, and it's a weird blend atleast compared to their previous sound. Almost a bit grimey in some parts, this is a nugget with vocals. Looking forward to the album - a safe buy when it's available.
A new year has dawned upon us and it is time for some change. We feel it is about time we extend Random circuit's staff! With a stunning 568 posts last year, we haven't come to this conclusion because we lack updates. It is content we seek, and yes while more music is always nice, the one thing RC needs to improve the most upon is the writing. To get to the point; we are looking for someone with excellent english skills, a passion for all electronic music and the will to write here with us. Sounds interesting? Hit us up with a comment or mail (rcircuits@gmail.com).
Internullo - Sentimente (Nea Marin Remix) [Desolat, 2007] (d/l)
Swell shit from the Desolat camp. Enchanting and faaaankie with plenty of layered voice samples.
