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SR Mix #78: Lapalux [Pictures Music]

Decay is, in its most primitive form, a destructive element; but eroding away clean edges and oxidizing major surfaces adds a wanton kind of texture to sound. It’s a characteristic that, given the nature of ‘in-the-box,’ or software heavy production, is often lost or never even considered. What decay does, or can do, for an artist’s depth of field is open up an endless well of possibility. For us, producers that utilize this method are a welcome thing, there’s something about grainy sound quality and slow, time-shifted samples that exposes new sounds or inflections that weren’t necessarily audible in the first place.

Lapalux is probably one of the finest producers out there at the moment that epitomizes this approach. On an early EP, Forest, he explored the realms of savaging cassette tape and splicing, willfully experimenting with speeds, fibres and techniques; making beats out of anything and everything. It’s a process that has always enamored and stupefied us in equal measure, and on his latest release, Many Faces Out Of Focus, for the Pictures Music label, he seems to have fully captured the wide eyed innocence of his early enterprises, teaming it with a learned and brave palette of samples and stuttering, low end heavy drum patterns.

Six songs deep the Many Faces… EP focuses around its two bookending tracks, ‘Time Spike Jamz’ and ‘Time, Patience, Everything,’ with the rest of the EP playing out like the kind of 2 minute long beat sketches that you wish you had the talent to commit to tape (pun intended). The opener is overtly spacious – strong sine wave sinews provide the spine around which Lapalux’s rippling shards of reverbed decay swell, before his whistful swirl of string samples drops at the 3 minute mark – and ‘Time, Patience, Everything’ is like the one true song construction on the EP; a bastardized voice harmonizes with itself before it slowly melts over 2 minutes, through feedback and reverb, into nothing.

From the first time we heard Lapalux’s music we admired the mix, the way he’s crippled any hint of a clean sample with his tape loops whilst still providing that obvious bass weight punch, but it was more the thought of his processes and, ultimately, the music’s overall impact the made us chase him down to provide a mix for our ongoing series. We caught up with Lapalux during the week his Many Faces… EP was released on cassette tape – the since forgotten format has now completely sold out at Bleep.com – quizzing him hard for the sake of our piqued interest more than anything…

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/04/sr-mix-78-lapalux-pictures-music/

1. Lapalux – Intro

2. Culp – Agnes

3. Chocolate girl – Sakura

4. Lapalux – How it feels (I want you to know)

5. InfinitiRock – NunTaken

6. SeePM – De Caca PuPulu

7. S.Mahabra – Nice to meet you

8. Lapalux – Lost consonants

9. Quetzal – Give something

10. Mount Kimbie – 50 Mile View

11. Lapalux – Operate

12. Abel – Free birds

13. LDFD – Outtacontrol

14. Aphex Twin – Xtal

15. Lapalux – Kecksys Farm

16. Dorine Muraille – Muraille 3

Yo, I always lurk on Drowned in Sound and enjoy your posts. Been following SR for a while now, going from strength to strength!

  On 4/15/2011 at 1:17 PM, Solo Strike said:

Yo, I always lurk on Drowned in Sound and enjoy your posts. Been following SR for a while now, going from strength to strength!

Nice one, glad you're feeling it. I'm well happy at how SR is going at the moment. We've got some quality stuff in the works too. I'll have to join in more around here it looks pretty good.

We posted this a little while back but I thought you guys would dig it so here you go...

Free Mini LP: Golau Glau’s ‘Somato’

Having been beautifully re-tooled by previous SR mixer, Blue Daisy, the mysterious ‘silverpop’ duo of Golau Glau have since collaborated with Ghost Box affiliates, The Advisory Circle and remixed artists from all across the spectrum of sound – though the two extremes of Frankie & The Heartstrings and Worriedaboutsatan spring to mind. Fond of anonymity we don’t know their names, we’ve no clue what they look like or if tabloid journalists will one day pull out all the stops to learn their Christian name, but we do know their music, described by the Guardian as “a mix of electronica and psychedelia, which recalls the ghostly indie of Broadcast and Stereolab.” And to employ a widely spread cliché, their sonic and visual experiments really do speak for themselves.

Piecing together material from shards of field recordings, synthetic explorations, electronic dabbling and radiophonics, they’re rightly hard to pin down, hence the self proclaimed ‘silverpop’ tag being floated with abandon. They flow from haunted, bewildering dream pop, in and out of densely layered sound collages to more beat led electronic productions, always sounding at ease with each new avenue.

As part of the Sonic Router re-launch, we managed to coax them out of the shadows not only talk about their texture heavy sound, inspirations and the processes they go through in its construction but also to premiere an exclusive EP. Somato is a seven track release that catches them in their most ‘electronic’ voice to date. Playing with found sounds, recordings of imposing medical equipment and their burgeoning hazy library archives it’s all shaped with layer upon layer of glinting haze.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/04/premiere-golau-glaus-somato/

SR Mix #79: Monky [Robox Neotech]

A few weeks ago I got a zip of tunes that greatly excited me, with each tune I listened to outdoing the last. It was the day of our Hivemind radio show, a day that I usually spend trying to rigorously plan the course of a two hour session, and on the strength of the tracks in the zip I ended up completely switching the show’s ending at the eleventh hour, giving a big highlight strewn shout to the work of Cardiff based producer, Monky.

It’s the way he manages to fuse hip hop with 140bpm in a completely unique way that’s the exciting thing. Whereas someone like Illum Sphere (a man soon to be releasing some of Monky’s work on his Hoya Hoya label) industrially cloaks his beats in static shards and mechanic textures, Monky struts through samples and processed synthesizers creating music that bubbles and purs. Tracks like the aforementioned ‘Hipster’ epitomize that, it’s clipped and spacious garage drum pattern standing back from the melting synthesizers that interweave.

Having released an EP and single on Doshy’s Robox Neotech imprint, a label fast becoming one of the go to spots for adrenaline soaked 140 bpm music that doesn’t suck the galvanized teet of wobble bass, Monky has work forthcoming on a plethora of labels. Heavy Artillery, Davey Jones and Hoya Hoya will all be carrying Monky releases this summer, a fact that Brownswood’s A&R Alex Stevenson isn’t ignoring, giving his ‘Drunkerds’ tune an inclusion on the imminent Brownswood Electr*c Vol. 2 compilation, the second installment in the series that compiles the best of the breadth in bass music. With all this and more, in mind we caught up with Monky earlier this week, grabbing our 79th Sonic Router mix in the process.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/04/sr-mix-79-monky-robox-neotech/

John Barry – James Bond Theme

Debruit – Turkish ish (Forthcoming on Civil Music)

Instra:mental – When I Dip (Nonplus+)

Ramadanman – Glut (Hemlock)

Dorian Concept – Her Tears Taste Like Pears (Forthcoming on Ninja Tune)

Monky – Burn Summin’ (Forthcoming on Heavy Artillery)

SBTRKT ft Sampha – Living Like I Do (Young Turks)

Coki – Animal (DMZ)

Landslide – World Keeps Spinning (monky remix) (Dub)

Addison Groove – Sexual (Swamp 81)

Doshy – Suspiria (Rwina Records)

Monky – IOM2 (Forthcoming on Davey Jones)

CRST – Cat Fight (Dub)

Illy Santana – Transborder (Letherette remix) (Dub)

Debruit – Medze U (Forthcoming on Civil Music)

Salva – Wake Ups (Frite Night)

Stagga ft Skamma and Joe Blow – Genik Riddim (Slit Jockey)

Monky – Hipster (Forthcoming on Hoya Hoya)

Ilum Sphere – The Aftermath (Fat City)

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RADIO: SR x Hivemind.fm – Xpldr Session 24.04.2011

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FaltyDL – Mean Streets Pt.1 [swamp 81]

Cottam – Sunrise Sunset [use of Weapons]

October – That Placid Track [Caravan]

October – Shalmirane, Destroyer of Moons [Misericord]

Luv Jam – Mature Oak (Cottam Remix) [Phonica]

Man Parish – Hip-hop, Be bop (Don’t Stop) [unidisc]

Pavan – Afrika [Harmonia]

James Blake – I Mind [Atlas]

Kevin McPhee – Bridges [[Nakedlunch]]

Kowton – Hunger [idle Hands]

Tin Man – Acid Test (Donato Dozzy Remix) [Absurd]

Outboxx – Kate Libby‘s [immerse]

Marcellus Pittman – You Want Me Never [7th Sign]

Jus-Ed – Deeply I Feel (Marcos Nega’s J’s Luv Dub) [underground Quality]

Virgo – Ride [Rush Hour]

Ron Hardy – Love Liquid (Instrumental Mix) [Rdy]

SCB – Future Unknown [Aus]

Cosmin TRG – Sirop [Rush Hour]

Julio Bashmore – Batty Knee Dance [3024]

Maurice Donovan – Babeh [sssssss]

Marcellus Pittman – The Mad Underdog [7th Sign]

Kyle Hall – Dance With A Sun Goddess [Wild Oats]

Prostitune – Justfixit [Just A Beat]

Roque Hernandez – Izalco (Raiz Remix) [Historia Y Violencia]

J.O. – Ladywell [Doldrums]

Lowtec – Use Me (Laid Mix) [Laid]

Skudge – Mirage [skudge]

DJ Qu – Babyluv [strength Music]

Jacques Greene – The Look (Mark Flash U.R. Remix) [LuckyMe]

Boddika – Breezin [Non Plus+]

Peverelist – Dance Til The Police Come [Hessle Audio]

Sound Stream – Love Jam [sound Stream]

Lone – Coreshine Voodoo [R&S]

Zero B – Lock Up [ignition Records]

SR Mix #80: Kahn [Punch Drunk/Sure Skank]

Whilst it might be nestled in the mouth of the river Avon, set amongst scenic views that rival any in the world, Bristol is a vibrant and dense a place. Just last week the population rebelled against police treatment of squatters and big chain supermarkets wading in to the city’s cultural quarter, Stokes Croft. As a port town Bristol was built on slavery, and as a result it’s always been something of a cultural mish mash stoked by many races and walks of life, a fact that has always been evident in music that has stemmed from the city – a lot of which has been documented on these pages in the past.

Peverelist’s Punch Drunk label is as good a tide mark as any when it comes to Bristolian music, the imprint is dedicated to bringing fresh music made by people with a BS postcode, so when it uncovered a 12” from a hitherto unknown producer, Kahn, last month a lot of expectant eyes were cast in his direction. ‘Helter Skelter’ and ‘Like We Used To’ displayed a degree of measure fusing heavy, penetrative bass with a rolling 3rd beat of the bar snare and the kind of careering top end synthesizers that Shortstuff and Hyetal harnessed on their collaborative Punch Drunk 12”.

As a member of the Sure Skank collective, alongside players like Gemmy, Superisk and newcomer Vessel, Kahn’s roots go a little deeper in to the history of Bristol club nights. With an upcoming date at fabric under the guise of the Pinch curated ‘Bristol All Stars’ on the 6th May and a slew of new productions we asked him to contribute the 80th mix in our ongoing series so we could get a better grasp on his background and on his dancefloor outlook.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/04/sr-mix-80-kahn-punch-drunksure-skank/

1. Kahn – Azalea

2. Kahn feat. Naomi Jeremy – Close

3. Kahn – Polar

4. Peverelist – Bluez

5. Zhou – I Remain

6. Kahn – Tehran Uprising

7. Superisk – Find Your Way (Kahn Remix)

8. Kahn – Fierce

9. Kahn – Rorschach Riddim

10. M.I.K – Do It (Kahn Remix)

11. Maddslinky feat. Tawiah – Further Away (Kahn Remix)

12. Sorrow – Escapades of Kami and Dyna

this is fantastic stuff, just picked up the "Many Faces Out of Focus" EP.

SR Mix #81: Vessel [Left_Blank]

At the moment, there’s a rising energy within the Bristol music scene that’s gathering steady momentum (something we delved into in our recent feature on the Idle Hands shop and label). Even with the city’s history playing host to some of the most major evolutionary shifts in UK dance music, its current musical output is among its healthiest for quite some time. A shift towards house tempos among producers has precipitated a noticeable upwelling in creativity and an associated spike in nightlife, with longer-running collectives like Immerse and Caravan joining relative newcomers like Dirtytalk and Headrush in putting on increasingly varied and daring club line-ups.

On the production side, well-established lynchpins like Peverelist, Pinch and Addison Grove (nee Headhunter) are completely detaching their sounds from the structural limitations of dubstep, resulting in new, heavily stylised strains of bass music. And a new generation of producers are crafting tracks that feel less in thrall to any particular genre, instead choosing to exist within the blurred boundary regions where easy definitions break down: Kowton’s slowed-down, stumbling house variations; Kahn, whose Sonic Router mix last week showed off an impressively broad vision; broken house and broken beat from Hodge, Outboxx and Artifact.

Vessel is another producer to add to that list. His music is full of carefully constructed spaces, moments of almost-chaos where rhythm is allowed to fall apart slightly before reforming. The tracks that have emerged so far show off the same disregard for convention that’s always been one of Bristol’s defining traits, approaching from different angles but sharing that slightly anxious edge. His upcoming 12” for Left_Blank flits seamlessly between Hessle-esque percussive reductions and darkened, moody house, featuring a heavily swung, deliciously slow remix from Peverelist. It’s impressively fully formed for a debut release, atmospheric, thoughtful and retaining an ear for the dancefloor without allowing itself to be dictated by mere functionality. With the rumour of more releases to come and his name starting to appear on line-ups, it felt like the right time to find out more.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/sr-mix-81-vessel-left_blank/

1 Delia Derbyshire – Sea / John Baker – Tempo Counter

2 Vessel – My Child, My Chain- Feat. Lily Fannon

3 JABU- Seaweed (Dub)

4 El Kid – Hiphop 89 ft Crook Bones

5 Trickski- Pill Collins

6 Vessel – Marvin’s Joint

7 Ron Deacon – Untitled B2

8 Vessel – Baby In The White

9 Panda Bear – Surfer’s Hymn (Actress Primitive Patterns Remix)

10 Missing Linkx – Canâ.?t U Get A Grip?!

11 The Oliverwho Factory – Galactic Transit (Recall Mix)

12 Guy Andrews – 4030

13 Space Dimension Controller – Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere

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Downloading Lapalux right now.

Glad people are feeling the Lapalux mix is one of my favs too. We've got loads going on so have a look around ;) You'll prob be into the last mix from Vessel and one a little bit back from Konx-om-pax to name but a few.

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RADIO: SR x Hivemind.fm: Editor’s Choice 10.05.2011

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01. Lando Kal – Further [forthcoming Hotflush]

02. Hodge – Boy + Girl [unreleased]

03. Buck UK – Aphrodite [forthcoming Car Crash Set]

04. Distal – Africa to Mars [forthcoming Fortified Audio]

05. Photek – UFO (Addison Grooves Almost Headhunter Remix) [White]

05. Jack Dixon & Robin Card – Alone [forthcoming TAKE]

06. Brawther – Spaceman Funk (George Fitzgerald Remix) [forthcoming secretsundaze]

07. Funkystepz – Piano Storm [forthcoming F.L.Y]

08. Roska – Abrupt [forthcoming Hotflush]

09. Deadboy – Here 4 U [Numbers]

10. Geeneus – ALB 15 [FREE DL]

11. Funkystepz – Shocker [forthomcing F.L.Y]

12. Midland – Through Motion [forthcoming Aus Music]

13. Jon Convex – Convexations [forthcoming 3024]

14. Artifact – Rain Come [unreleased]

15. Mr Beatnick – Don’t Walk Away From My Love [unreleased]

16. Dizzee Rascal – Stand Up Tall (Kid Simpl Remix) [unreleased]

17. Neon Jung – Just Cant Leave It Alone [forthcoming Magic Wire]

18. Wiley – Numbers In Action [big Dada]

19. Gang Colours – Dance Around the Subject [forthcoming Brownswood]

Bonus: SR Mix #81: Vessel made Mix of the Day on the RA Feed

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feed-item.aspx?id=26881

116 & Rising: The Genesis of Hessle Audio w/ Exclusive Hessle Audio Back Catalogue Mix

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/116-rising-the-genesis-of-hessle-audio/

SR Mix #82: EPROM [Rwina]

Swag is a funny thing. Whilst it’s become something of a buzz word thanks to the rise in popularity of the Californian skate crew cum rappers Odd Future, they even had Mos Def repeadtedly (and rather cringeworthingly if we’re honest) screaming it down the camera lens on a prime time US chat show after a rousing performance of lead voice Tyler ,The Creator’s ‘Sandwitches,’ the phrase’s essence still rings true. To present yourself as being ‘swag’ or to have something that can be referred to in the same breath is a good thing – although there are underhanded connotations with burgulars stealing someone else’s possessions and cramming them in a bag with the letters SWAG stamp all over it – and no matter who you are, what you do, or how you do it there are ways you can present yourself that will maximise your swag factor.

Someone like EPROM, a US producer currently residing in San Francisco has been quietly honing his own swag quota for a number of years now. His relentless quest for big drums and attnetion destroying synthesizers has seen him release work on labels like Surefire Sound, Rwina and even a split 12” with Eskmo on the globally renowned Warp label – at the same time he’s been putting out super hectic beats like ‘Rubber Sheets’ on self released EPs like last year’s Bay Area EP. In the same vein as producers like Nasty Nasty, or to make a closer to home comparison, Slugabed, EPROM’s music hits low, rooting itself to the floor with big, quaking low end whilst he propels laser guidde synth lines in an array of pretty patterns over the top . Tracks like the Rwina released ‘Lick Out’ are personal anthems; dirty, low slung, seedy digitzed hip hop anthems.

His latest work on Rwina, which was out last month, Pipe dream is a three track EP that in part explores the outer realms of that mid range bass tone that makes you recoil in horror when its deployed badly. The eponymous track is basically a scything bass riff that gets clouded with bubbles and rising chords set over a lollop of a drum beat, one that packs a punch but is at the same time hesitant and a little lazy. ‘Chromium Decay’ is everything all at once, manic distortion clouds, thudding kick drums and clean chords set over the kind of feedback you get when you hold you thumb on top of a live guitar jack and closer ‘The Symbiote’ is an awesome exploration of almost cinematic melody exclusively played on the lower octaves.

With European appearances coming (from 21st May till 11th June – UK readers can catch him in London when he opens the tour and at Glade Festival when he finishes it) and a deep sense of respect oozing out of our speakers everytime we’ve linked EPROM’s music we caught up with the producer, shot him some ‘getting to know you’ type questions and asked him to put together our 82nd Sonic Router Mix.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/sr-mix-82-eprom-rwina/

Buju Banton – Murderer

Unknown Shapes – Used to Give a FK

The Bug feat. Killa P & Flowdan – Skeng (Autechre Remix)

Eprom – Aliased

Nicoluminous – Love Sets You Free

Eprom – Gonk

Luke Vibert – Ataride

Darqwan – Said the Spider

DJ Rob 3 – Let’s Go Ravers

Eprom – Psycho

Machinedrum – She Died There

Unknown Shapes – Sounds & Shapes Pt. 2

Eprom – Feldspar

M.A.N.I.C. – I’m Comin’ Hardcore

The Weeknd – High For This (NastyNasty 808 Edit)

Dom & Roland – Can’t Punish Me (Dials Remix)

The Game – Big Dreams

East Flatbush Project – Tried By Twelve (Autechre Remix)

Eprom – Pipe Dream

PODCAST: Sonic Router x Bleep.com 007

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/podcast-sonic-router-x-bleep-com-007/

1. Mono/poly – Glow [Ninja Tune]

2. ELOS – Shroot [Alpha Pup]

3. Exile – Distopian Utopia [All City]

4. Lapalux – Quick Kiss [Pictures Music]

5. Sleeps In Oysters – Suite, Winter NW9, Prologue (Days Getting Shorter) [seed]

6. MF DOOM – Vomit (3:33 AM Mix) [Parrallel Thought]

7. Bibio – Anything New [Warp]

8. Samoyed – Fuck. [Flask]

9. Prefuse 73 – The Only Lillies And Lilacs [Warp]

10. Debruit – Lil Zurna [Civil Music]

11. SBTRKT – Living Like I Do [Young Turks]

12. Peverelist – Dance Till The Police Come [Hessle Audio]

13. Om Unit – Prawn Cocktail [Civil Music]

14. My Panda Shall Fly – Yoyo [Growing]

15. Boxcutter – Moon Pupils [Planet Mu]

16. Deadboy – Here 4 U [Numbers]

17. J Bevin – Zulu [Deep Teknologi]

18. NKC – The Pyramids [Awkward Movements]

19. CosminTRG – Sirop [Rush Hour]

20. Julio Bashmore – Batty Knee Dance [3024]

21. Conforce – Vulcan [Clone Basement Series]

22. Kevin Mcphee – Bridges [nakedlunch]

23. Burial – Stolen Dog [Hyperdub]

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SR Mix #83: Dropping Gems

Perhaps it’s the sometimes constant mist in the Pacific Northwest of America or possibly its the large amount of forests and mountains, but whatever it is that surrounds them, the Dropping Gems crew all seem to share a love for hazy atmospherics and crinkling drums producing the kind of music that can border on ambience and g funk simultaneously. The collective of Brownbear, Citymouth, Digifid, DJAO, Ghost Feet, Gumar and His Magical Midi Band, Bone Rock, and Rap Class have banded together for the past couple years to present their shared musicial vision through live shows, releases, and podcasts.

This like-minded affinity for sounds was recently demonstrated beautifully on the stellar Gem Drops compilation, released to benefit the American Cancer Society. A startling and cohesive compilation, featuring Dropping Gems artists as well as friends like Devonwho, Shigeto, and Anenon, presented with a pastel loaded abstract cover by Robert Pellicer, the compilation is 21 tracks deep and presents a textural beat heavy collection of some of the best names in underground US electronic production right now. Equal parts hip-hop, jazz, ambient, electronic, classic downtempo and funk; the breadth is astonishing.

In the wake of Gem Drops, a compilation that creeps up on your listening habits, Dropping Gems have stayed busy, hosting friends such as Groundislava and yuk for shows in Seattle and Portland, as well as releasing the new Holodecker EP by crew member Citymouth. With all this activity going on, we knew it was a good time to talk to the crew and find out just where all this creativity comes from. The collective’s General Manager and curator of Gem Drops Aaron Meola graciously provided the low down…

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/sr-mix-83-dropping-gems-dropping-gems/

1. Citymouth – Singlecycles

2. Brownbear – Pretty Mouth

3. Bone Rock – Chalmers

4. DJAO – Towards The Sun w/ Gumar

5. Brownbear – Empty Jars

6. Brownbear – Wings

7. Bone Rock – First Light

8. Gumar and His Magical Midi Band – Sliding Down Rainbows (Sumsun Remix)

9. DJAO – Pacific City

10. Ghost Feet – Top Papez

11. The Great Mundane – Mustache

12. DJAO – Underbrush

13. Citymouth – Neighborhoodcults

14. Ghost Feet – Bog

15. Hobbes – Telepathic Grasshopper Twins ft. Citymouth

16. Matthewdavid – Dropping Gems

17. Gumar and His Magical Midi Band – Through The Clouds

God Don't Like It Promo Mix

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Kevin McPhee – Get in With You (LV remix) [nakedlunch]

Mau’lin – Deeper Than the Sun [Ho Tep]

Boddika – Soul What [swamp 81]

FaltyDL – Hip Love [Ramp]

Unknown Artist – Unknown [Analogue Solutions]

Head High – It’s A Love Thing (Piano Invasion) [Power House]

Thomas Bangalter – I Don’t Know Why [Roulé]

Maurice Donovan – Satisfied [ssssssss]

Funkystepz – Fuller [Hyperdub]

Champion – Loose Control [Hardrive]

Ossie – Tarantula [Lightworks]

Elgato – Music (Body Mix) [Hessle Audio]

DJ Qu – Babyluv [strength Music]

Addison Groove – Minutes of Funk [3024]

Dark Sky – High Rise [blunted Robots]

Desto – Glass Clouds [Ramp]

Silkie – Float [Deep Medi]

Alex Zen – Pimp Shoes [berkane Sol]

S-X – Woooo (DJ Q Remix) [butterz]

Teeth – Shawty [502]

SR Mix #84: Cupp Cave [surf Kill/Vlek]

Hands up who remembers the six degrees of separation approach to wasting your work day in the name of music research on myspace? Now, keep your hand raised if when doing this, you found something really fucking special. Put your hands down if you’ve since deleted your own myspace account, either because you got sick of the spam, or bored of the fact that every time you looked at it, it crashed Google Chrome…

Ok, we’re now on a level playing field.

Cupp Cave is a producer whose intrinsic link to his label buddy Dynooo alerted us to his talent. Before the conversations, mp3 attachments and 2nd hand conversations there were a selection of beats borne to his myspace page that really captured a lot of things… a groove, a homespun warmth and a heavy handed knock that overworked the neck muscles when you listened to them. Since then we’ve been intrigued to learn of his involvement in Surf Kill, the blossoming DIY label we’ve profiled before (which is run by him and the aforementioned Dynooo), and his releases as a part of Bretzel Zoo and those he’s put out under different monikers like Kingfisherg and Ssaliva, who we’ve described before as sounding like Bibio being “choked by his recording equipment.”

His latest EP, Dice Pool, will be released on a limited edition 10” on the 13th June through a new boutique label, Vlek Recordings. Set in superbly screen printed artwork (check the photostream of the EP’s intricate cover being screenprinted here) it’s an exploration of a quicker pace for Cupp Cave, a beatmaker who made something of a name for himself with his Garbage Pail Beats album, a body of work that explored that Beat Dimensions vein of forward thinking skewed instrumental hip hop. Here he follows up that LP and an earlier split release on the Vlek label, a 7” with Dem Hunger, with 4 tracks that really delve into his hedonistic dancefloor interpretation.

Tagged with the phrase ‘beautifully renovated throwback music’ the EP does explore the hands high 90s rave euphoria hinted at in a similar way to the recent work of Lone – all be it overlayed atop boogie basslines on ‘Thoughtograph’ and bastardized in a soaking of vinyl crackle on ‘Hypersport’ – but from following the guy, for just a year or so, it’s evident that this EP is simply one arm of his work; one listen at a particular style that he’s so perfectly nailed – the guy’s got another release, Throat Meat, imminent in June on Thin Consoloation that will surely deviate from this rough template even further.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/sr-mix-84-cupp-cave-surf-killvlek/

Joel Vandroogenbroeck – High Computer Tension

808 State – Techno Bell

Mr. Oizo – The End

Jam City – Let Me Bang (Refix)

The Advent – Untitled (Heinrich Mueller Remix)

Ceephax Acid Crew – City Collars

CJ Bolland – Camargue

Matthewdavid – Floor Music (feat. Niki Randa)

Cupp Cave – Airlining

Dem Hunger – Squint Fucker

Mr. Oizo – Half A Scissor

Ssaliva – Die Gem

Dynooo Boy Tell Em – Turn My Swagg On

SR Mix #85: Niño [Donky Pitch]

Having supported the Brighton based Donky Pitch record label over our tenure as a website we’ve been privy to a few things ahead of time. You can call it a reward, but it’s always nice to see some level of reciprocation for our tedium; wether it’s physical, digital or just spoken – it all makes a difference when you’re dealing with good people. When we heard that the Spanish producer Niño, was to be the second producer to release on the imprint we already knew the name – as a producer he’s released on labels like Dodpop and MYOR, skweee centric imprints that highlight their own particular curve in sound beautifully – but we weren’t overtly familiar with his work.

What we found after extend research is that Niño warps his tracks with a high pitched materialism and the kind of weird and awkward chops prevalent on early Prefuse 73 material. Painting Clase de 1984 EP, his Donky Pitch release, with the same sort of hypercolour as Hudson Mohawke, he creates tracks like the title track that splurge and ripple through borderline cheese pan pipe melodies and then he peppers his jittered guitar lines with stuttered drum beats and melodies that are just as unquantizable on ‘Innsmouth.’ ‘Buio Omega’ is possibly the slow brooding anthem among the 4 original tracks, it’s swelling trumpets, heavy drum drops and high pitched crescendos set it apart from the rest of the material, elevating just like the lead line that leads up into the ether – something Big Dada’s Offshore harnesses to the hilt on his remix.

With a forthcoming slot at this year’s Sonar Festival and the hard body release of the aforementioned single this week, we made our Brighton based buddies swear to give us dibs on a feature and thankfully, with the 85th Sonic Router mix to date, Niño does not disappoint.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/sr-mix-85-nino-donky-pitch/

01 – Tokimonsta – Breath My Contacts

02 – Krampfhaft – Take Me Under

03 – Daz Dillinger – On Some Real Shit (Drums Remix)

04 – Sprutbass – Romatropo (Ben Butler & Mousepad Mix)

05 – DjCode – Respirator

06 – Beem – Manka (Kinema Vocal Edit)

07 – Daniel Savio – Bone Us Skw3

08 – Talbot – Amo El Funk (Luke Vibert – I love Acid Cover)

09 – Q-Tip feat D’Angelo – I believe (Simbad Remix)

10 – Coco Bryce feat. Kelpe – Corrado

11 – Eliot Lipp – The Meaning (Kelpe Remix)

12 – Debilos – Turn My Clock (BFlecha Remix)

13 – Kinema – 3Wolf Moon

14 – Karmasound – Dance With Me

15 – Guillamino – Half-a-Romeo

16 – Niño – Te he estado viendo en el cielo

17 – Kelpe – Same New Era (Niño Remix)

18 – Nightwave – Night Bird

19 – Xander Harris – First Body

FABRICLIVE w/ Hessle Audio, Tectonic & Sonic Router.

Full lineup:

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ROOM ONE:

HESSLE AUDIO…

Pearson Sound/Ramadanman, Jackmaster B2B Cinnaman, Ben UFO B2B Oneman, Pangaea, Wbeeza (LIVE), Blawan

MCs: Trim, Chunky

ROOM TWO:

TECTONIC…

Pinch B2B Distance, Youngsta, Loefah, Dubkasm, Shed (LIVE), Jack Sparrow

MCs: Dread MC, SP:MC

ROOM THREE:

SONIC ROUTER…

Mosca, Braiden, Redinho (LIVE), Randomer, mlr

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DOWNLOAD: Dynooo – I Feel Like Playing Sim City Straight From The Floppy And Run A Tornado All Over My Perfectly Functioning Town After I Put The Fire Department Way Too Far So They Wont Be Able To Help My Sim City People

The oddest, most out there things can make the most interesting albums… or features… or mid-morning conversation topics. Dynooo, the other half of the Surf Kill duo to Cupp Cave who mixed SR #84 last week, is clearly a dude who shares at least a little bit of that sentiment. Hell bent on wigging out with his label material or creating weird radiophonic type, repetitive beat textures on his latest album, I Feel Like Playing Sim City Straight From The Floppy And Run A Tornado All Over My Perfectly Functioning Town After I Put The Fire Department Way Too Far So They Wont Be Able To Help My Sim City People, his work is something that speaks volumes about quickly capturing musical processes.

All swamped, fragmented and noisy, on first listen I Feel Like Playing Sim City… made an anxious man pique with its rough chops and skuzzy layers and it’s since been described by remixer Dem Hunger (who interprets the track ‘Boothbay) as the sound of ‘a projector spinning around inside a cat while she sleeps,’ it’s that much of a succinct and gravelly ambience.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/05/download-dynooo-i-feel-like-playing-sim-city%E2%80%A6/

SR Mix #86: Rigas Den Andre [Flora & Fauna]

Skweee has fast become a personal passion. It’s something I’ve tried to share with close friends and associates, but a lot of the time you get the same screwed up kind of expression made at you before that quick barrage of nervous laughter comes as the listener’s head cocks at that weird angle that means they’re trying to listen differently and understand what you’re playing them. At its heart though, skweee has a funk, a groove and yes, some of those squalling high pitched synthesizers that sound like the producers arms aren’t long enough to reach the lower octaves.

Born in Scandinavia to a select group of producers looking to release their own brand of synthetic funk, the sound has grown in breadth and style, but good skweee music always seems to retain a smirk and a sense of fun. It can be rooted as much in the drums or in the layers of hyper vibrant synthesizers but for me at least, there’s a perfect synergy between skweee and a smile. Plus the fact that a track like Eero Johannes’ ‘We Could Be Skweeeroes’ can sound like an on form funkafied Timbaland is often a resounding bonus.

Hiding on the tracklist of some of the scene’s defining compilations, the International Skweee and Museum of Future Sound series in particular, you’ll find the work of Henrik Von Euler, a Swede who’s productions have pushed boundaries of the primitive production techniques that the lo-fi style is renowned for. Having released music under an array of monikers, Rigas Den Andre stands proud as Von Euler’s out and out skweee alias. Over his debut album, Guilty Feet, No Rhythm he explored a netherworld of near broken bass tones, whilst he irked out his stuttered melodies over the top, producing classic tracks like ‘New Plastic Bastard,’ a track that tumbles into evolutions that contradict the ‘minimal’ and ‘primitive’ tags the music comes with.

With the vinyl release of his new album Speed Run imminent, we jumped at the chance to present a mix from Rigas, one of the most exciting and demented producers we’ve had the pleasure to come across. Whilst some skweee producers choose to get lost in the top end, conducting multiple channels of aural fluorescence, Von Euler harnesses the low end properly and he does so with vigour on new tracks like ‘December & Death’ and ‘Kid Rigarus;’ so it’s with great pleasure that we present Sonic Router’s 86th mix from Rigas Den Andre…

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/sr-mix-86-rigas-den-andre-flora-fauna/

1. Elias Krantz – Tody MotMot (Rigas Remix)

2. 118Sthlm – På G

3. Rigas den Andre – Success Sucks Ass (feat. Spartan Lover)

4. Mother North – Butter Blues

5. Whodini – Haunted House Of Rock

6. Rigas den Andre – Aga Ago

7. Slow Hand Motem – Magik Grrrl

8. Limonious – 7 Synths

9. Easy & The Center Of Universe – Halloumi

10. Markis Sage – Kissing Cousins & Hustling

11. Daniel Savio – Sucky Salsiccia

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SRQ020/SR Mix #87: Lando Kal Takes Things Further

This site’s editor’s column on respected musical portal theQuietus just when live, featuring an extensive chat with one half of Lazer Sword, Lando Kal. Following his emphatic debut release on Scuba’s Hotflush label he talks about production processes, how bouncing around cities has affected him musically and future projects. Plus he provides a sterling turn for SR Mix #87.

“Over the past couple years I’ve really been going back and embracing music I listened to in high school, which was a mixture of loved up R&B and dark jungle, and I think a lot of qualities in those styles of music, mixed with a newfound influence from early house and techno, have been definitely rubbing off on my approach to making music lately.” – Lando Kal

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/srq020sr-mix-87-lando-kal-takes-things-further/

01. Jeff Mills “Alpha Centauri”

02. Cajmere “Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix)”

03. RüBA KPØ “Kiss My Back (Simbad Motown Remix)”

04 Darling Farah “Twin”

05. Cooly G “Last Night”

06. Lone “Golden Girls Remix”

07. Becoming Real “Closer (Jam City Remix)”

08. Bad Autopsy “Call Back”

09. Lando Kal “Pegleg (demo)”

10. Doctor Jeep “Yr Mnd”

11. Lando Kal “I Can Give You Better (demo)”

12. eLan “Bleep Bloop Brrrrmmp (Lazer Sword Remix)”

13. Addison Groove “It’s Got Me”

14. Corona “Rhythm Of The Night (Lando Kal Remix)”

15. DJ Deeon “Time To Work”

Meet Ghosting Season

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/introducing-ghosting-season/

w/ free remix by Spatial.