AFK

Have moved to a new place. Don't have a internet connection yet. Will try to be back very soon. Cheers.

Moon park

Petter - Some Polyphony [Border community, 2006] (buy)
"Petter is a 20 year old DJ and producer from Stockholm in Sweden who is fast forging his own unique niche in the musical spectrum." -- discogs.com
This is a great track, housy stuff. A1, kay kay?

Owl

Imatran Voima - In/Out [Tellektro, 2002]
Ha ha ha ha ha. TECHNO SLUT!

Code ten

":D"

Eedl - Too Few Arguments (No Arguments At All Lacklustermx) [Psychonavigation, 2004]
This is the IDM sound of 2004, enjoy it while you still can gimp! So much better than much of the crap being released now.. but at the same time so much worse than some of the good things being released nowadays. Hippy.

Edit: Managed to catch up on some of my old blog favourites (OMG, LAT, GSG, etc). Big up and much <3

Perf

Hmm. Just testing the Perfomancing add-on for firefox. Seems neat, but the font will probably be all wrong.
It's hot outside by the way.

Knaster & feet 4

Probably the last part in this mini series :)

Monolake - Alaska (f-forge link) [Monolake / Imbalance, 2006] (buy)
Again a coin flip of which track to choose on this fine release "Alaska melting", this is A1, B1 is Melting (duh) and of equal proportions of minimal dubby techno. Heavy shit, listen to it.

Ebb - Life is on TV (f-forge link) [Gaymonkey, 2006] (buy)
Guitar + electronics + vocals = commonly used formula hehe. This is cool downtempo stuff though. The track is from swedish artist Ebb's debut album "Loona".

My usual uploading places were giving me troubles so I had to resort to some other sites, hoope they're not too annoying.

Edit: Added f-forge links, the other sites are very annoying to be honest.

Knaster & feet 3

Another middle of the night serving from the trenches known as Random Circuits. Take care.

Infinite Scale - Fade [Toytronic, 2005]
I used to be really into toytronic, it's good stuff. Here's some really sweet, calm triphopish IDM from Infinite scale. Light up a joint, lay down in a hammock and enjoy with a glass of lemonade under a star sprinkled summer night sky.

Booka Shade - In White Rooms (Elektrochemie Remix) [Get physical, 2006] (buy)
The huge tech house track gets reworked by Schumacher and co. Go big, or go home.

Knaster & feet 2

It's early in the morning and i'm slightly drunk. Part two, here we go.

Shane Berry - Freed [Trapez, 2006] (buy)
Another trapezer, Berry the shane with some pure minimal. Flip side of "Losttime". Deep pounding for the win.

Plat - Trainers [Unschooled, 2005]
Jazzy, fragile, ambient. Like BoC but not at all. Like it. The album is called "Compulsion".

Knaster & feet 1

Been away for two days.
Thought I'd start a series of posts containing 2 tracks, one more of the headphone/livingroom type and one more to the dancy/devil side.

Seven Ark - Glass Shattering Under Water [Neo ouija, 2005]
Great album that I sometimes forget about. When I remember it and put it in my stereo everything seems surreal and a bit sad.

Luke Le Mans - The Docks [Trapez, 2006] (buy)
Minimal wohoo clubby stuff from Luke Le Mans on Trapez no less. A1 and the release is called "Jerry, spring her!" - but my money is on this b side acid stomper. Check, check.

First aid

Arpanet - Event horizon [Record makers, 2006] (buy)
New EP ("Reference Frame") from the mysterious arpanet. Electro with that doppler-drexcyan-'werk touch. This track is a 'electro ballad' (tee hee), cyberpunk sadness ahoy. Go go!

Xom

Just woke up so bare with me.

Dr. Octagon - Ants (feat. Dj dexter) [OCD International, 2006] (buy)
Doc Ock is back! Kool keith's third album this year and dr octagon's second ever. It's called 'The return of doctor octagon' - it bears little resemblance to the original album. This is electronic, modern, fresh and way out there hiphop. Buy it, don't listen to pitchforkmedia - they are wrong about this one.


Literon - Machine 1 [Fortek, 2006] (buy)
Techno. Literon, the release is 'Machines'. This is A1 and it's fucking ace. The other side is not to take light upon either.

Big television

Absu - Feis Mor Tir Na N'Og (Across The North Sea To Visnech) [Osmose, 1995]
Some metal again, from 1995. The group hails from USA and the album is called 'The Sun Of Tiphareth'. Not quite as dark and fast as I would like it but nevermind it's still fine black metal. Yes, I'm a metal n00b :)

LocoDice - Seeing through shadows [Minus, 2006] (buy)
A swift turn from the guitars and shit back into the world of synths, drum machines and computers. LocoDice provides a minimal hymn for us to enjoy. Muffled beats, nice melodies, and some sweet bass later on. Gets big words from both phonica and boomkat.

Blow torch horse

Watching the world cup football final. Good game so far. A bit of a late post I guess, but here we go.

Fuckpony - Cell phone hit [Get Physical, 2006] (buy)
Fuckpony released a 12" in april this year, 'Ride the pony' which is also on the newly released 'Children of love' album. The LP is cool, very groovy. Most of the tracks are high quality stuff, in fact I (once again) had troubles picking a stand out song since all of 'em are so nice in their own way (Silence, Freaky stories of earth, etcetera). Whateva, cop the record and you're home safe.

Common factor - Through (Phonique remix) [Moodmusic, 2006] (buy)
Nice piece of cover art for this twelver. It's italo influenced, it is a floor knocker, it's very good and well made. Bass, drums, strings - yummie!

Waffle giraffe

Not that Adrey Tautou (in the pic) has anything to do with this but, I watched Manderlay two days ago. I loved Dogville so I had some pretty high expectations which Manderlay actually managed to live up to. Maybe not quite as spot on as Dogville but not far from it. Good job Mr Trier.
Yesterday I spent the day drinking coffee and walking around town. After some drink & cocktail freestyling at a friends house it was time to head out to local summer time favourite place M2 - great atmosphere and very nice music. Which means my funds are quickly collapsing near the zero mark.


Alter Ego - Transphormer (Johannes Heil Remix) [Klang, 2006] (buy)
Metallic treatment from Mr Johannes Heil, suitable for a busy dance floor. I dig the cover art for this 12", 'Transphormer (remixes)' which on the b side features a mix from My My.

Martin Landsky - 1000 Miles [Poker flat, 2006] (buy)
Monotonous, steady and long mood heightening phase. Head nodding, quality tech house. Loved his FM Safari, but this is even better. There's a remix by Loco dice on the B side, which adds some warmth and soul into it.

Perpetual equinox

Couple of nice tunes in this post for ya, all in the electronic dance music sphere and all very good.

Smash TV - Yellow Asteroids (original) [Bpitch, 2006] (buy)
Electro house from Smash TV (Holger Zilske and Michael Schmidt). The flip side has softer beats and is more to the left side, but retains the core of the track and has a slightly better build up.

Gui Boratto - Sozinho [K2, 2006] (buy)
Not very new (released in March), but non the less a smashing tune. Minimal techno crafted with a murderous touch for melody and percussion.

A friend in the pic, with some drinks.. at the Loft ftw.

Uncontrollable sense discrepencies

I finally got around to upload two very short clips I recorded during my stay in Barcelona in June. Here's one from The Loft, 'This is HARDCORE'; recorded on the 14th of June. Here's another from the 17th, it's the MFA live at Sonar by Night. Kinda crappy quality and all, but I think it gets the atmosphere message delivered.

Dominik Eulberg - Der Buchdrucker [Traum, 2006] (buy)
This is the title track from Eulberg's latest outing on Traum, released three days ago. The song starts out pretty rough and vicious, gets some love and beautifullness into it around the 4 minute mark. The b side is all plinkity-plonk and snappy minimal beats, grinding away. Two awesome tracks, and I just picked one of them kinda randomly. A definitive keeper 12" in my book!

Sigh, I should get more Traum releases.. the quality is just astounding. Gimmie some mo' money ok thanks bye.

PS. The picture is from another Sonar clip I recorded, pretty neat dontcha think?

Death

Alright, continuing with the black theme a bit in this post.

Gorgoroth - Under the Pagan Megalith [Embassy, 1994]
Oh yeah! From Gorgoroth's first full length album, 'Pentagram'. Black metal Norway style - old school.

And now for something completely different..

Jake the rapper - Death [Combination, 2006] (buy)
Probably my favourite track off of Jake's debut album which is called simply 'The rapper'. Yeah I know I've been raving about this guy ever since I got back from Sonar.. but his live show was just sooo good.

In other news; I watched Nacho Libre a couple of days ago.. pretty good but not up there with Napoleon dynamite. Bought two 12" for my last dough (DOH!). My hard disk is filled to the max, so gotta delete some music or movies I guess :-(

Darkness

Here's something you won't expect from Random circuits: Norweigan Black Metal!

Ljå - Svart [Aftermath, 2006] (buy)
Edit: Ljå - Tilgi dem aldri *
From their debut album, 'Til avsky for livet' - translates to something like 'Loathe of life'. It's dark classic ~'94 styled black metal. Very good, it has been done before but it's executed well enough to warrant a purchase for any black metal fan. I think Ljå means scythe btw. Ulver and Gorgoroth are apparent references.
* Added a track with some vocals, hehe.

Sonar music

Here's some tracks from artists I had the pleasure to see and hear live this weekend.

The MFA - Disco 2 break [Bpitch, 2005]
Wonderful electro techouse tune. These guys were proper heavy live. Jesus.

Isolée - Face B [Playhouse, 2005] (buy)
Hadn't listened that much to this dude before, just a few tracks and remixes here and there. Saw the wicked concert and I'm hooked. Here's a great track with the trademark isolée feeling which he performed a heavy mix of. The same album, 'We are monster', contains additional sweet tunes like 'My hi-matic'. (Probably old news to most, but hey).
His latest outing 'Western store' is killer as well (buy).

I really wanted to expose a Jake track right about here, sadly my copy of the album 'The rapper' hasn't arrived yet and no luck getting any of it from soulseek (yet). But check out the clips on his label's site and pick up a cd while you're at it. It's unorthodox (in a very good way heh) hiphop with divine rap, both lyric and voice wise. Throw in some more harsh dancey tunes and you got the Jake.
Edit:
Miki mikron feat. Jake the rapper - Eingeborene! [Collosseum Schallplatten GmbH, 2005]

Hot chip - Colours [Emi, 2006] (buy)
'New' album from the hyped up chipsters. Excellent in every way. Synth electro pop disco hello music! Ps. They were fucking their synths live, and I found that it was better live than on album.

Back from Sonar '06

Here's a report of my 2006 Sonar festival experience.

Day 1 (June 14th) - The beginning
Me and Carl meet up at around 10 to grab the bus out to the airport. We arrive on time, check in our bags and go straight for the bar. Two pints later we are ready to board our flight to Münich. Another airport, another bar, two more beers and off we go to Barcelona. We fumble around for a while before we find the right terminal to pick up our bags, then we hop on the first bus to the city core. The hotel was not very difficult to find, and I was pleasantly surprised of the high standard and the awesome location.

We unpack a bit, buy ourselves a few beers and decide to check out the nearest surroundings and the Sonar by Day facilities. No stress, we find Sonar by Day after very little research (it's really close to our hotel) - and we're ready to check out the night life of Barca!

After just kind of randomly walking in the direction of the Sonar By Night area and popping in for a few beers and shots at some places, we end up in a biker bar for more drinks. We chat with some of the locals to try and find info about any POUNDING TECHNO MUSIC. Sure thing, one of the guys tip us off about something called Razzmatazz which he knew was the bomb 10 years ago, haha. What the hell we figure and catch ourselves a cab to the damn place. It turns out it's closed. Heh. Whatever, we get out of the cab and start to scan the area for like minded peeps. After some more walking (not that much really), we do find ourselves some sweet devil's audio - The Loft. Here's the flyer:


You see the text clear enough? Yes it says The Hacker, Oxia and Vitalic are playing on the 14th. We had no clue about this when we entered though, we just heard the good ol' bass and decided to check it out. 15 Euros poorer, two big ass jack&coke later we are in the groove. We stay at this place the whole night basically. One hundred percent awesomeness.

Day 2 (June 15th) - The "go bananas"-day
I wake up and immediately open a beer. We have big plans today. Gotta pick up our Sonar tickets, check out as much as possible on the first day of Sonar (by day) and then as a finisher go see the Insen performance by Alva Noto and Sakamoto. Guess what? Our master plan crash lands somewhere in the middle of Kansas.

We pick up our tickets just fine, after like one hour of queueing in the massively hot sun and downing several beers to quench our undying thirst. Now what? I think we went back to the hotel for some more drinking (red wine+coke ftw!). Then back again to the Sonar (by day) area to look at some of the acts. We cruise around for a while just taking the whole spectacle in. After reading the programme more closely we see that The Knife is playing at 17:00, tough luck though, it's completely packed and full. Off to The Dôme and Jake (The rapper). Killer showman, killer show, super music and I will try to get my hands on the album asap.

At around this hour I'm quickly becoming real proper wasted and my memory fails me. Me and Carl hung out and just chatted and got drunker, after a while we went to a bar and drank tons of Fernet Branca shots.

Day 3 (June 16th) - The "oh noes i feel ill"-day
Woke up with a smashing hangover. Decided to go out and have some coffee and cruise around town. Ate lunch at a place that seemed proper but was really feeding me germs to make me vomit over and over and over again the nearest 24 hours. Drank some sangria, chilled at the hotel room until the hangover was almost gone.. and that's about the time my food posioning kicked in massive style. Cheers. Couldn't move out of the hotel room so I missed basically all day 2 acts (Liars, Pole, Senior Coconut, etc) + all the first Sonar by Night artists (Jeff Mills, DJ Shadow, Jimmy Edgar, Nightmares on wax, Krush, Otto, Tiga, Laurent Garnier, etc). A real shame.

Day 4 (June 17th) - The end
Fuck! Still felt the death touch of the illness gripping me as I woke up. Managed to check out some random day acts anyway (Schneider.tm, Takemura, Kimmo & Samuli, Retina.it), and then a miracle happened. After having a well made vegetarian meal at a restaurant near our hotel I was able to slowly recover from my puking-marathon. We prepared for Sonar by Night.

Strolled down to the Sonar busses at around 23(?), got on, got out, got in. First reaction: OMFG! A complete airport complex was at Sonar by Night's disposition. Like 3 hangars and one outdoors area - all in the mega-shit-this-is-so-big scales. We ordered some beer, and indulged ourselves in the music; Hot chip, Isolée, The MFA, Audion got our full attention and then some glimpses of Goldfrapp and Miss Kittin. After the kittin we had to leave cause we had a plane to catch sadly.

I will upload some movie clips I recorded during the festival and hopefully a few tracks of the albums related to this text. Stay tuned!