Past Lessons, Future Theories
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Swoon 235 - May 26, 2008
The Beta-Resercyclic Acid - Was a night full of drugs (Electronic eel)
Mattress - Don't Forget (Reluctant Recordings)
Deadmau5 - X Y and A
Matmos - Exciter lamp and the variable band (Matador)
Crystal Castles - Air War (Last gang)
Ronin e-ville - The Bell Grinder
Mannequin Depressives - Sweet Disease (Klankboom)
Ian Dury and the Seven Seas Players - Spasticus Autisticus (Strut)
Deadmau5 - The almond questions
Sally Shapiro - Sleep in my arms (between interval mix) (Paper Bag)
Quivver - Surin
Ripperton - Leonor's Lanugo (Anders Ilar mix) (Perspectiv)
Pelle Buys - Come Into My World (Chaim remix)
Fairmont - Down The Rabbit Hole (traum)
Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Leuchttoorn (Connaisseur)
Booka Shade - Unhealthy Pleasures (Get Physical)
Le Noir - Eleny (Radio Slave's Panorama Garage mix)
Casamassa - Espinoza (Forensic)
Reynold - Bumper
Add Noise - Handwerk 3 A (Handwerk)
Minilogue - Carnival (Traum)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Big Dipper (Wagon Repair)
Marc Houle - Black jack 13 (M_nus)
Radioactive Man - Double Dealing
Lowfish - The Freezing (Satamile)
Mattress - Don't Forget (Reluctant Recordings)
Deadmau5 - X Y and A
Matmos - Exciter lamp and the variable band (Matador)
Crystal Castles - Air War (Last gang)
Ronin e-ville - The Bell Grinder
Mannequin Depressives - Sweet Disease (Klankboom)
Ian Dury and the Seven Seas Players - Spasticus Autisticus (Strut)
Deadmau5 - The almond questions
Sally Shapiro - Sleep in my arms (between interval mix) (Paper Bag)
Quivver - Surin
Ripperton - Leonor's Lanugo (Anders Ilar mix) (Perspectiv)
Pelle Buys - Come Into My World (Chaim remix)
Fairmont - Down The Rabbit Hole (traum)
Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Leuchttoorn (Connaisseur)
Booka Shade - Unhealthy Pleasures (Get Physical)
Le Noir - Eleny (Radio Slave's Panorama Garage mix)
Casamassa - Espinoza (Forensic)
Reynold - Bumper
Add Noise - Handwerk 3 A (Handwerk)
Minilogue - Carnival (Traum)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Big Dipper (Wagon Repair)
Marc Houle - Black jack 13 (M_nus)
Radioactive Man - Double Dealing
Lowfish - The Freezing (Satamile)
Labels: dance, dj, Music, Swoon, Tech-house, Techno, Tracklist, Traum
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Swoon 234 - May 19, 2008
Tycho - Cascade (Ghostly International)
Apparat - Like Porcelain (Shitkatapult)
Fairmont - Calm Before the Storm (Border Community)
Koss - Silent Stars (Mule)
Deadmau5 - One
IMPS - Lost in Rostanga (Mule)
The Black Dog - DOG Style (Hydrogen Jukebox)
Lee Jones - As You Like It (Simple)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Wagon Repair)
Ananda Project - Let Love Fly (Joe Claussell's Sacred Rhythm Version)
Italoboyz - Zinga (Get Physical)
James Zabiela - Perseverance (Renaissance)
The Mole - Smiling and Running (Wagon Repair)
Junior Boys - No Kinda Man (Chloe remix) (Get Physical)
Broker/Dealer - Midnight (Traum)
Tensnake - Keep Believin (Endless Flight)
The Mole - Still In My Corner (Wagon Repair)
Francesco Tristano - The Melody (Balil remix) (Infine)
Kalabrese - Makelovedisco
John Tejada - Raindrops (Palette)
Ane Brun - Headphone Silence (Henrik Schwarz remix) (Objektivity)
Deadmau5 - Sellular
Cobblestone Jazz - The Creator (Do Right)
Legion of Green Men - Tuggathanug (Post Contemporary)
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl (Mute)
Apparat - Like Porcelain (Shitkatapult)
Fairmont - Calm Before the Storm (Border Community)
Koss - Silent Stars (Mule)
Deadmau5 - One
IMPS - Lost in Rostanga (Mule)
The Black Dog - DOG Style (Hydrogen Jukebox)
Lee Jones - As You Like It (Simple)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Wagon Repair)
Ananda Project - Let Love Fly (Joe Claussell's Sacred Rhythm Version)
Italoboyz - Zinga (Get Physical)
James Zabiela - Perseverance (Renaissance)
The Mole - Smiling and Running (Wagon Repair)
Junior Boys - No Kinda Man (Chloe remix) (Get Physical)
Broker/Dealer - Midnight (Traum)
Tensnake - Keep Believin (Endless Flight)
The Mole - Still In My Corner (Wagon Repair)
Francesco Tristano - The Melody (Balil remix) (Infine)
Kalabrese - Makelovedisco
John Tejada - Raindrops (Palette)
Ane Brun - Headphone Silence (Henrik Schwarz remix) (Objektivity)
Deadmau5 - Sellular
Cobblestone Jazz - The Creator (Do Right)
Legion of Green Men - Tuggathanug (Post Contemporary)
Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl (Mute)
Labels: ambient, breaks, dance, dj, House, Music, Tech-house, Techno, Tracklist
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Swoon 233 - May 12, 2008
Murcof - Utopia Track 5 (Leaf)
Richard Devine - Helix Stair Helve (Sublight Records)
Lowfish - Krak (Satamile)
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 4 Track 1 (Rephlex)
Deadmau5 - Conscious Operator
Slap - First Choice, Second Guess (Architecture of Sound)
Scala - Torn (Touch)
Ronin E-ville - Barbie Beats
Boys Noize - Let's Buy Happiness (Proxy remix) (Last Gang)
Quiet Village - Too High To Move (K7)
Hot chip - We're looking for a lot of love (EMI)
Mannequin Depressives - Too Long til Morning (Klankboom)
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix) (Skull Disco)
October - Say Again (Perspectiv)
Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel (M-nus)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Marionette (Adam Beyer mix) (Wagon Repair)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Tiefschwarz remix) (Different)
The Mole - Like The way You Move (Wagon Repair)
Minilogue and KAB - That's A Nice way To Give Me Feedback (Wighnomy Bros remix) (Great Stuff)
Exercise One vs. Lee Burridge - Treat Em Mean, Keep Em Keen (Exone)
Jesse Somfay - The Days of My Youth Ended With Broken Bottles (Dominik Eulberg and Riley Reinhold remix) (Traum)
part 1
part 2
Richard Devine - Helix Stair Helve (Sublight Records)
Lowfish - Krak (Satamile)
AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 4 Track 1 (Rephlex)
Deadmau5 - Conscious Operator
Slap - First Choice, Second Guess (Architecture of Sound)
Scala - Torn (Touch)
Ronin E-ville - Barbie Beats
Boys Noize - Let's Buy Happiness (Proxy remix) (Last Gang)
Quiet Village - Too High To Move (K7)
Hot chip - We're looking for a lot of love (EMI)
Mannequin Depressives - Too Long til Morning (Klankboom)
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix) (Skull Disco)
October - Say Again (Perspectiv)
Richie Hawtin - The Tunnel (M-nus)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Marionette (Adam Beyer mix) (Wagon Repair)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Tiefschwarz remix) (Different)
The Mole - Like The way You Move (Wagon Repair)
Minilogue and KAB - That's A Nice way To Give Me Feedback (Wighnomy Bros remix) (Great Stuff)
Exercise One vs. Lee Burridge - Treat Em Mean, Keep Em Keen (Exone)
Jesse Somfay - The Days of My Youth Ended With Broken Bottles (Dominik Eulberg and Riley Reinhold remix) (Traum)
part 1
part 2
Labels: breaks, minimal, Music, Swoon, Tech-house, Techno
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
The Mole - As High As The Sky
As High As The Sky is The Mole's debut album. The Mole is Colin Le Plant, a Montreal-based producer. Most of his singles are long, heavily-looped house music. This made me a little leery of a full length album. I was wrong, since the tracks have plenty of variety and aren't long enough to wear out their welcome.
Things get started with "Still In My Corner", a lazy house track with a blippy melody. The soul gets injected right after that, as a male voice introduces "Ain't The Way It's Supposed To Be", with a sampled bassline, and looped strings. It takes a while to get going, but once it does, it's pretty funky.
"Alice You Need Him" takes things into a breakbeat-oriented, electronic groove. Its complicated melody makes it one of the better tracks on the album.
"Hey Girl (You're The One)" begins what I would call the big room tracks, which are more upbeat and designed to stoke the dancefloor. The distorted bass and the funky percussion signal it's one for the floor. It's followed by "Baby You're The One", which has been shortened from its single length for the album. Don't worry, you're not missing much. This seven-minute version is all you need for mixing or enjoyment, and is still one of the most energetic on this album.
"Gracias a los Ninos" takes things down a notch, with a more techno, slower sound. "Like The Way" comes next, which more percussion, than anything else. "Smiling and Running" follows it, and takes things down a notch with a looped synth melody calming things down. "Knock Twice" is even more laidback, and brings back the breakbeats and some housier soul music.
Finally, "When It Tastes So Good" finishes this enjoyable album with a gentle, jazzy house track.
It will be released May 26, on Wagon Repair.
Things get started with "Still In My Corner", a lazy house track with a blippy melody. The soul gets injected right after that, as a male voice introduces "Ain't The Way It's Supposed To Be", with a sampled bassline, and looped strings. It takes a while to get going, but once it does, it's pretty funky.
"Alice You Need Him" takes things into a breakbeat-oriented, electronic groove. Its complicated melody makes it one of the better tracks on the album.
"Hey Girl (You're The One)" begins what I would call the big room tracks, which are more upbeat and designed to stoke the dancefloor. The distorted bass and the funky percussion signal it's one for the floor. It's followed by "Baby You're The One", which has been shortened from its single length for the album. Don't worry, you're not missing much. This seven-minute version is all you need for mixing or enjoyment, and is still one of the most energetic on this album.
"Gracias a los Ninos" takes things down a notch, with a more techno, slower sound. "Like The Way" comes next, which more percussion, than anything else. "Smiling and Running" follows it, and takes things down a notch with a looped synth melody calming things down. "Knock Twice" is even more laidback, and brings back the breakbeats and some housier soul music.
Finally, "When It Tastes So Good" finishes this enjoyable album with a gentle, jazzy house track.
It will be released May 26, on Wagon Repair.
Labels: dance, dj, House, Music, Tech-house
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Grand Cru 2008
Connaisseur is a German record label, with a solid, if brief history of releasing melodic techno. Grand Cru 2008 is their second label compilation. The first disc is 11 individual tracks, while the second is a 10-track mix by label owner Alex Flitsch.
The first cd features, um, melodic techno. It's easier to point out the non-melodic tracks, which are Patrick Chardronnet's "Percussiontrack" and Sebastian Roya's "Contracorrient", which are more percussive than melodic. The rest are all melodic, modern and groovy. The tracks by Estroe, Federleicht and Kollektiv Turmstrasse are my favourites.
The second cd is a mix of Connaisseur tracks. Stylistically, it sounds much like the unmixed tracks of cd one. My favourites are Estroe's "Driven", Rekleiner's "Dos Caminos", and the long, drawn-out finale, Daniel Stefanik's remix of Ripperton's "Zugunruhe". It's smooth and surprisingly laidback. I doubt it even approaches 130 bpm.
These are high quality tracks, which makes both discs very easy to like.
It will be released on May 28.
Connaisseur is a German record label, with a solid, if brief history of releasing melodic techno. Grand Cru 2008 is their second label compilation. The first disc is 11 individual tracks, while the second is a 10-track mix by label owner Alex Flitsch.
The first cd features, um, melodic techno. It's easier to point out the non-melodic tracks, which are Patrick Chardronnet's "Percussiontrack" and Sebastian Roya's "Contracorrient", which are more percussive than melodic. The rest are all melodic, modern and groovy. The tracks by Estroe, Federleicht and Kollektiv Turmstrasse are my favourites.
The second cd is a mix of Connaisseur tracks. Stylistically, it sounds much like the unmixed tracks of cd one. My favourites are Estroe's "Driven", Rekleiner's "Dos Caminos", and the long, drawn-out finale, Daniel Stefanik's remix of Ripperton's "Zugunruhe". It's smooth and surprisingly laidback. I doubt it even approaches 130 bpm.
These are high quality tracks, which makes both discs very easy to like.
It will be released on May 28.
Labels: dance, dj, minimal, Music, Tech-house, Techno
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Swoon 232 - May 5, 2008
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Big Dipper (Wagon Repair)
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (M-nus)
Foat and Boddy - Droidnosh (Mule)
Radioslave - Tantakatan (Rekids)
Hrdvision - Playing For Keeps (Mole remix) (Wagon Repair)
One + One - No Pressure (Renaissance)
Paperclip People - Clear & Present (K7)
Beaumont Hannant - Mind Colours (GPR)
Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade (Ohm)
Cristian Vogel - Sxsx (Station 55)
Deadmau5 - Equal
James Bernard - Odyssey (Rising High)
Squarepusher - Vacuum Garden (Warp)
Junior Boys - FM (Marsen Jules mix) (Domino)
Kammerflimmer Kollektiv - That's How The Light Gets In (Innervisions)
Deadmau5 - I Hate Campers
Fennesz - Instrument 2 (Touch)
Pantha du Prince - Butterfly G (Kompakt)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts 1 6 (NIN)
Andrew Thomas - M and K
Federleicht - On The Streets (Connaisseur)
part 1
part 2
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (M-nus)
Foat and Boddy - Droidnosh (Mule)
Radioslave - Tantakatan (Rekids)
Hrdvision - Playing For Keeps (Mole remix) (Wagon Repair)
One + One - No Pressure (Renaissance)
Paperclip People - Clear & Present (K7)
Beaumont Hannant - Mind Colours (GPR)
Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade (Ohm)
Cristian Vogel - Sxsx (Station 55)
Deadmau5 - Equal
James Bernard - Odyssey (Rising High)
Squarepusher - Vacuum Garden (Warp)
Junior Boys - FM (Marsen Jules mix) (Domino)
Kammerflimmer Kollektiv - That's How The Light Gets In (Innervisions)
Deadmau5 - I Hate Campers
Fennesz - Instrument 2 (Touch)
Pantha du Prince - Butterfly G (Kompakt)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts 1 6 (NIN)
Andrew Thomas - M and K
Federleicht - On The Streets (Connaisseur)
part 1
part 2
Labels: ambient, dance, dj, Music, Swoon, Techno, Tracklist
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