Kites

Eugene Francis Jnr - Kites (buy)
Now for something quite rare here at Random Circuits, indie/folktronica. Eugene Francis Jnr (myspace) was brought up on country, blues, folk music, 80’synth-pop and ambient, now influenced by Air, Beck, Bright Eyes, Postal Service, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Evan Dando and Sufjan Stevens. This man gives us some sweet melodies and singing for our tender ears to endulge in. Kites together with Poor me released a week ago as a limited single stakes out what is to come with the upcoming debut full-length. FYI: The buy-link points to the limited 7" vinyl in the iTunes store.
Video available at YouTube.

Go for blue

Pepe Deluxé - Go For Blue (Viva Voce Remix) [Catskills, 2007] (buy)
Four years since eclectic Pepe Deluxé's (out of Finland) last album ("Beatitude"). That's a pretty long time, but the wait is over - a new album, "Spare Time Machine" dropped on Catskills Records a few weeks back. Here's the fresh new third single from the album, dubbed "Go For Blue". It's a funky story, sure to be stuck in your mind for a long time after hearing it. Viva Voce provides the remix, improving the track further in my opinion. Clap your hands!

All stars 2007-07-30

My preciousss...

• Luke Vibert - Mate tron [EP, Planet mu]
• Tomas Andersson - Upwardly mobile [12, BPitch] (the B-side, "Ofullständiga rättigheter" is excellent as well!)
  
• Manasyt - Filthdonor [LP, Terminal dusk]
• Aux 88 - Global darkness [EP, Creme organization]
• John Dahlbäck - Years behind [12, Pickadoll]
• Cru - The ebonic plague [Track, Def Jam]
• Skoozbot - Next To Monchhichi [12, Plus 8]
• Ambivalent - R U OK Remixes [12, M_nus]
• Gabriel Ananda - Stream of conciousness [12, Karmarouge]
• Love supreme - Elsewhere [EP, Tirk]
• Ryan Davis - Up 1 [Track, ?] (blogged by 24:hours, gogo check it!)
  

Another post containing some brand new music, coming up soon.

Edit: Added Ryan Davis - Up 1. Love!

Years missing

John Dahlbäck - Years behind [Pickadoll, 2007] (buy)
John can still crank out releases like nobodies business. Here he's at it again with smooth and hyperthick progressive house vibe production morphed into tech-house, or something. Very easy to get into, although I'm not a fan of the, quite frankly, cheesy female vocals. Club powerhouse anyways. On the flip we have a track called "Years from now".

Manasyt - Everyone missing [Terminal dusk, 2007] (buy)
After a bit of flashy tech-house, I bet you're all aching to get into freaky, dirty, sci-fi electro mood. Yeah? Manasyt producer of mindwobbling neuro-illektro comes straight at you, cheap shotting you with this LP (so aptly titled "Filthdonor"), bursting with chaotic energy. It's all about the saws and the squares, baby.

Mate tron

Since it's friday afternoon and all, I figured we need some more music. That and a wall of text for ya. Can you count the number of times the word "acid" occurs?

Luke Vibert - Mate tron [Planet mu, 2007] (buy)
Oh yessss. You all know how weak I am for the acid and the analogue goodness. Here's one of the masters twiddling my/the knobs with 4 tracks of heavenly, warm squeakiness. This time Vibert draws inspiration from Last Step, Analord, Ceephax, but is focusing even more on melody and of course adding his own, less spastic, midas touch to things. Meatabix (third track) is all freaky acid play after its introduction, locking in the genius 303 grooves. The title track, Mate tron, my favorite even though not by far (all tracks are love), switches things up a bit with some different modes - always with a clear red thread marking the melodic and quite laidback path though. Carefully placed voice samples complements, like a glove. Asheed is the second track and continues in line with Mate tron along the more mellow side of things, but still the bubbling acid makes its presence clear. Closing the EP is Salacid, lowering the tempo further and lets Luke's precious melody workings hit us with full force - absolutely beautiful, acid sex.
This EP gets 5 random circuits out of 5 possible! [ RC RC RC RC RC ]

Soon off from work! Ughhn.

Upwardly mobile

Time for the obligatory friday banger. Have a good weekend.

Tomas Andersson - Upwardly mobile [BPitch, 2007] (buy)
Tomas takes his dirty, primitive and shaking minimal techhouse onto the next level. Adding some echoes and more depth to his already pounding sound that could be heard on "Mot matsalen". This is El Retardo Dance Musico - in good ways only. Brute force wins when one of Sweden's finest brings the sledgehammer.

By the way, I think Random Circuits has hit the 500 post mark. Ain't that special! Many thanks to our readers and especially to those who drop comments, we love to get feedback. Here's to another 500.

The big plague

No, sorry. No techno from me today. Was browsing my hiphop library before the weekend as I was going to burn a CD for a friend's birthday party, and I know he digs hiphop more than electronic stuff. Found a couple of sweet, forgotten tracks. With that said, enjoy your thursday lunch.

Goretex - The big sleep
Here's one of the songs I ended up using. It's not old school or anything. From Necro's mixtape Brutality part 1.

Cru - The ebonic plague [Def Jam, 1997]
Mid nineties hiphop is the shit! This perfect track is nicked from the excellent funk/hiphop/soul blog Ear Fuzz (this post specifically). Be sure to check it out. If you only download one hiphop track this week or month even - this should be it!

Wake up

Jesse Rose And Oliver $ - Wake Up [Made To Play, 2007]
June release consisting of pure concentrated and relentless house essence from the label boss Jesse and Oliver $.

Random Tracks

Im really busy at the moment il be away for the next week. Heres some tracks i like be sure to look them up. Normal service will resume when i get back.

Pheek - "Magda Had A Little Troll" - (Mark Henning Remix) - [Roman,Photo]
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2832620d08dcf3/

Skoozbot - "Next To Monchhichi" - (Adam Beyer Remix) - [Plus 8 Records Ltd.]
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2832297a6371c1/

H.O.S.H -"Themes Rhythms & Harmonies" - [Diynamic]
http://www.zshare.net/audio/28325001361c8b/

Pete Doyle Presents The Rock Solid Allstars -"What God Has Chosen" - (Jimpster Main Mix) - [Defected Eivissa 07]
http://www.zshare.net/audio/28327327cc9faf/

Floorwave

Patrick Pulsinger & Dj Glow - Floorwave [TRUST, 2007]
Off the EP "Radio Earth".

At Les

Carl Craig - "At Les Paris live" - [Planet E]

Detroit legend Carl Craig ships in masters of the field to play his classic From 97. "At Les" this time live from paris in 2006 giving it a re -lick adding more keyboards sax etc in my honest opinion it sounds better than the original, a outstanding piece which sounds fresh and exciting this is a piece every electronic music fan should own il let the music do the talking.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/28162169e689c5/

Volante

Artist(s): Ida Engberg
Track title: Disco Volante (Sébastien Léger Remix)
On release: Disco Volante
On label: Pickadoll
Release date: June, 2007
Download link: zshare.net/download/2762223b17c3d2/
Buy link: juno.co.uk/products/258741-01.htm
Comment: Happy, happy and catchy, catchy debut release with electro-tech-house making even the most technophobic friends get busy on the floor. This is great! We're talking class A dance music here with an unmistakable symphonic melody. Ida Engberg - a producer out of Stockholm to watch.

Ruokay

Ambivalent - R U OK (Troy's Like It Or Not Remix) [M_nus, 2007]
Giant rework done by Troy Pierce! Check this out, minimal techno meets bad drug experience. Scary good.

Do It Right

Matthias Heilbronn - "Do it Right" - (Mattys pfr mix) - [Poker flat White]

So its friday any weekend plans ? none for me. Im working nights at the moment till september its more money and i get to chill well sleep mostly during the day. So here we have a nice techy track for the weekend by Matthias Heilbronn titled "Do it right" taken from his new 'ep' the (Jungle Dub) ep on [Poker Flat White] which sounds alot like (Solomons) latest track "Jungle river cruise" on [Liebe detail] Sounds like your in the jungle going through the trees past the animals and the natives on a sort of journey people calling out in the misty shadows of the murky & mysterous jungle a nice sneaky acid like baseline, and wildlife calls as your getting to the end of your journey a nice tech track that will fit in well to a set.

Enjoy the weekend everybody!

Link removed by request!

Free rush

Artist(s): Ilar & Hedvall
Track title: Rush hour rumble
On release: SONICULTURE 005
On label: SONICULTURE
Release date: March, 2007
Download link: zshare.net/download/2761806ca23a8f/
Buy link: juno.co.uk/products/260334-01.htm
Comment: Sustained damage dealing piece of audio, coming your way from Swedes Anders Ilar and his partner in crime Fredrik Hedvall. A song that keeps on evolving.

Artist(s): DJ T
Track title: Freemind (Dexter remix)
On release: 5 Years Get Physical
On label: Get Physical Music
Release date: June, 2007
Download link: zshare.net/download/2761868c7e0376/
Buy link: phonicarecords.co.uk/detail.aspx?ID=22946
Comment: This has been out for a while now and most people have probably listened a good bit to it, but i's a very nice compilation. Deserves some more attention. Here's an excellent blend of T's and Dexter's different sounds. The end result is uplifting and smooth.

Just trying out a new format to post tracks in, this is obviously way more informative with tons of links. The downside is of course that it takes much longer to compose a post. So we'll see if I have the patience for this in the future or if it's a one-time thing only.

Next To Nothing

Shackleton Feat Jackson Del Ray - "Next to nothing" - (Guillame & the coutu dumonts mix) - [Crosstown Rebels]

Lancashire boy & experimental dubstep don Sam Shackleton steps back into the driving seat once again, this time on [Crosstown Rebels] its no surprise that label boss (Damian lazarus) had him over to play "Stink" at the (T Bar) in shoreditch last bank holiday, i had my sneaky suspicions that he might be next up to the hot seat when i saw him play. Which was very (Villalobos) like full of drums, rhythm, bass & asian beats those of you who know shackleton's style will be pleased to know he's maintained the same style drums and a almost ethnic asian style, check out "Hamas rules" for more of the ethnic sounds. Its the remix which caught my attention most, and the dark vocals from ( jackson del ray) which on the original barely feature, so i went with the (Guillame & the Coutou Dumonts) mix which i found the best theres also a nice remix from [Mobilee's] (Exercise one) who take it on a spacey like journey, the original seems more darker and actually more minimal with less drums and beats.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2763515fd7661a/

Malena

Argy - "Malena" - (The unreleable virgin ep) - [Cocoon]

Nice new 'ep' from the greek man Argy hitting us up with a summer ep these tracks were made to be played out in the open air at the many festivals that are occuring over the summer. "Malena" what we have here is written about a girl that Argy knows or so i figure as he has a friend in his top spaces over on myspace called Malena the track is full of rhythmic grooves and layers of melodies making it a very pleasent track on the ears, with a big spacey atmospheric hook that eventually comes in making the track come alive. In the sense of for the dancefloor the a side is "unreleable virgin" which is more of a house track with funky /moody keys depends in which way you see it, all in all a nice two sided ep.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/27568190374943/

Honeymoon = over

Snax - Honeymoon's over (konrad black mix) [Terranova, 2007]
Oh yeah baby, it's over all right. Here's tech-house-funkster Snax' track all reworked by slugger Konrad Black. Inflicting and teasing, great material for any set.

Loop De Mer

First things first, must say on what a excellent job skypher has done on the new look Random Circuits i know how annoying & tiresome it is battling with html codes theres been alot of hard work put into making it, now we can begin as we mean to continue.More of that later, in the meantime let the show continue! on with the music.

Anja Schneider - "Loop de mer" - (Original) - [Mobilee]

Deep sub bass suddenly hits your ears like a thunderstorm about to blow in the distance shortly followed by violent claps, faint rumbling and sharp consistant beeps theres a eerie whistling in the background causing tension, In comes a deep riff which sounds like your in a submarine 50,000 metres below sea level and going deeper. Bringing the track together, and all this just as the song builds. Getting more deeper and bass heavy as this 7 minute mind expansion takes its course its a real tool on the dancefloor a proper BOMB! i've heard it been played out twice now and each time it turned the dancefloor blue into a spacey trippy place like there was no gravity, everyone floating of the bass. Dim the lights shut the curtains hit the volume and go deep.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/27396352ff5121/

Blooe

My fears about IE not playing along nicely with my layout was, of course (according to Murphy's law), all too true. Been messing about with it for the last hour and it seems difficult to get the page to look exactly the same in both Internet Explorer and Firefox (damn margins). As I'm using Firefox myself, I've decided to make it look best in that browser. So if you haven't made the switch yet, it's about time ;-)

Will continue to improve and polish, and eventually add the rounded corners, the upcoming days.
About time we had some music on here now...

Carl Finlow - Blue [Green light, 2007]
Carl A. Finlow - Silicon Scally, a producer I have the utmost respect for. Tight electro, always with new takes on the genre. Either with mood and atmosphere or with some new jacking drum pattern techniques. Blue is the third and last track on the Swoon EP, a track boiling with some dense alien liquid, bubbling over its container. Letting forth funky saws and dripping synth washes. Albeit no surprise, Finlow is in magnificient form.