Ghostly International Presents Moodgadget: The Nocturnal Suite

Ghostly affiliate Moodgadget Records exclusively releases music by up-and-coming artists; with the Nocturnal Suite, Moodgadget not only “exposes the diversity in electronic music” (the label’s mission statement), it unites dazzlingly talented, like-minded artists working in wildly divergent stylistic fields into a grand, unified whole. Like its predecessors, the Moodgadget-curated Rorschach Suite and Synchronicity Suite, the Nocturnal Suite plays like a lovingly assembled mixtape, compiling brief, catchy, electronic-minded pop songs built for obsessive repeat listening.

The Nocturnal Suite is eclectic, but even among its stylistic diversity (the liquid space-disco of Faux Pas’ “Rose’s Lament (Gadget Edit),” for instance, sits right next to Wild Yaks’ caveman-like “Crazy but Not Afraid,” which flanks 800Beloved’s Psychedelic Furs-esque anthem “Galaxies”), there’s a distinctly nighttime-y mood, folding acoustic guitars and sleepy vocals in with its distressed beats and synths. Daedelus’ remix of Praveen & Benoit’s “Chiaroscuro” clothes a distant clattering beat in ambient reverb swells and wisps of orchestral flutes; Bluejay’s “Blurry” wraps its bedroom electro-pop around a deliciously melancholy hook; City Center’s “Summer School” is an exercise in pastoral dream-beat, a psychedelic fog of a track that drifts like a late-afternoon beachside nap.

The Nocturnal Suite encompasses dance music, indie rock, synth-pop, experimental instrumentals—and, yes, electronic music—but its emotional core is its biggest asset. Even in the closing track, Daniel Johnson’s deadly serious cover of Sophie B. Hawkins’ 1991 classic “Damn (Wish I Was Your Lover),” the pea soup-thick production turns the jaunty original into a much more resonant affair; it’s a fitting end to a compilation that turns every genre it touches into perfect late-night listening.

Tracklisting

Disc 1

1 NEW VILLAGER - Rich Doors

2 MUX MOOL - Ballad of Gloria Featherbottom

3 CITY CENTER - Summer School

4 BLUEJAY - Blurry

5 SHIGETO - Is This All For Real

6 CHRISTINE - Good Ideas

7 BODY LANGUAGE - Work This City

8 WISP - Arpeggiating Edgar

9 MACHINEDRUM - FRESHKIDS (FRESH EDIT)

10 MOGI GRUMBLES - Supreme

11 FAUX PAS - Rose Lament [Gadget Edit]

12 WILD YAKS - Crazy But Not Afraid

13 800BELOVED - Galaxies

14 THE LANDAU ORCHESTRA - Wheel of Fortune

15 CHARLES TREES - Col Ak Ill

16 ADDLED - Heartbreachno [Radio Edit]

17 JDSY - Lighter

18 PRAVEEN & BENOIT PIOULARD - Chiaroscuro (Daedelus Remix)

19 DANIEL JOHNSON - Damn (I Wish I Was Your Lover)

Disc 2

1 WORST FRIENDS - I Wish I Don't Drop Dead

2 MUX MOOL - 10

3 D. GOOKIN - Glad I Met You

4 THE REFLECTING SKIN - Cavedweller [instrumental Version]

5 SCOTT BRANDON - Voyage Into The Dark

6 ANDRE OBIN - Angel Dust

7 TONIGHT - When Galaxies Form

8 MATTERS & DUNAWAY - Memorial

9 BENOIT PIOULARD - Sparrowfield

10 ELM FROM ARM - Pretty Take

11 PRAVEEN - Slip Slop

12 SHIGETO - And We Gonna

13 OUTLIER - Visible Light Eater

14 WISP - Across The Pale Sea

15 TOUCH BASE - Gloveblocks

16 TRIDACT - Light Minute

17 PRAVEEN & BENOIT PIOULARD - Death as a Man

18 GREY ELECTRIC - 696 Bandit

19 PRAVEEN - Buddy

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Came for the Wisp, stayed for the rest, was not disappointed.

I want to buy the other suites now - which mp3 store gives you folks the fattest cut?

Oh shit , son...fresh fish .

I just listened to Mux Mool's ''Ballad Of Gloria Featherbottom''...wow...quite a beast .

You got my money, Moodgadget : The Nocturnal Suite .

  On 10/21/2009 at 6:38 AM, Valued Customer said:

 

Ghostly affiliate Moodgadget Records exclusively releases music by up-and-coming artists; with the Nocturnal Suite, Moodgadget not only “exposes the diversity in electronic music” (the label’s mission statement), it unites dazzlingly talented, like-minded artists working in wildly divergent stylistic fields into a grand, unified whole. Like its predecessors, the Moodgadget-curated Rorschach Suite and Synchronicity Suite, the Nocturnal Suite plays like a lovingly assembled mixtape, compiling brief, catchy, electronic-minded pop songs built for obsessive repeat listening.

 

The Nocturnal Suite is eclectic, but even among its stylistic diversity (the liquid space-disco of Faux Pas’ “Rose’s Lament (Gadget Edit),” for instance, sits right next to Wild Yaks’ caveman-like “Crazy but Not Afraid,” which flanks 800Beloved’s Psychedelic Furs-esque anthem “Galaxies”), there’s a distinctly nighttime-y mood, folding acoustic guitars and sleepy vocals in with its distressed beats and synths. Daedelus’ remix of Praveen & Benoit’s “Chiaroscuro” clothes a distant clattering beat in ambient reverb swells and wisps of orchestral flutes; Bluejay’s “Blurry” wraps its bedroom electro-pop around a deliciously melancholy hook; City Center’s “Summer School” is an exercise in pastoral dream-beat, a psychedelic fog of a track that drifts like a late-afternoon beachside nap.

 

The Nocturnal Suite encompasses dance music, indie rock, synth-pop, experimental instrumentals—and, yes, electronic music—but its emotional core is its biggest asset. Even in the closing track, Daniel Johnson’s deadly serious cover of Sophie B. Hawkins’ 1991 classic “Damn (Wish I Was Your Lover),” the pea soup-thick production turns the jaunty original into a much more resonant affair; it’s a fitting end to a compilation that turns every genre it touches into perfect late-night listening.

 

Tracklisting

Disc 1

1 NEW VILLAGER - Rich Doors

2 MUX MOOL - Ballad of Gloria Featherbottom

3 CITY CENTER - Summer School

4 BLUEJAY - Blurry

5 SHIGETO - Is This All For Real

6 CHRISTINE - Good Ideas

7 BODY LANGUAGE - Work This City

8 WISP - Arpeggiating Edgar

9 MACHINEDRUM - FRESHKIDS (FRESH EDIT)

10 MOGI GRUMBLES - Supreme

11 FAUX PAS - Rose Lament [Gadget Edit]

12 WILD YAKS - Crazy But Not Afraid

13 800BELOVED - Galaxies

14 THE LANDAU ORCHESTRA - Wheel of Fortune

15 CHARLES TREES - Col Ak Ill

16 ADDLED - Heartbreachno [Radio Edit]

17 JDSY - Lighter

18 PRAVEEN & BENOIT PIOULARD - Chiaroscuro (Daedelus Remix)

19 DANIEL JOHNSON - Damn (I Wish I Was Your Lover)

Disc 2

1 WORST FRIENDS - I Wish I Don't Drop Dead

2 MUX MOOL - 10

3 D. GOOKIN - Glad I Met You

4 THE REFLECTING SKIN - Cavedweller [instrumental Version]

5 SCOTT BRANDON - Voyage Into The Dark

6 ANDRE OBIN - Angel Dust

7 TONIGHT - When Galaxies Form

8 MATTERS & DUNAWAY - Memorial

9 BENOIT PIOULARD - Sparrowfield

10 ELM FROM ARM - Pretty Take

11 PRAVEEN - Slip Slop

12 SHIGETO - And We Gonna

13 OUTLIER - Visible Light Eater

14 WISP - Across The Pale Sea

15 TOUCH BASE - Gloveblocks

16 TRIDACT - Light Minute

17 PRAVEEN & BENOIT PIOULARD - Death as a Man

18 GREY ELECTRIC - 696 Bandit

19 PRAVEEN - Buddy

 

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Where's the Khonnor track? After his Softbo EP, I want to hear if he can top the greatness of "Calico Dong Veil"