Swoon 245 - August 4, 2008

Phonem - Bliphop (Jetlag)

Luke Vibert - Cash n Carry Acid (Planet mu)

Air Liquide - Uludag Part 3 (Blue Planet)

Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel (Warp)

Two Fingers - Have It Like That (Ninja Tune)

Akufen - Quebec shuffle rmx (Perlon)

Tiger Stripes, Jerome Sydenham - Elevation (Radio Slave's One More Kiss Remix)

Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (M_nus)

Analogik - Hov (Ink and Needle remix) (Tartelet)

Lexy - The Return of the Skakavac (Areal)

Hrdvision - Melting Fire (Inkwell remix) (Wagon Repair)

Chromeo - Outta Sight (Last Gang)

Goldfrapp - Ride On A White Horse (Ewan Pearson Disco Odyssey mix) (!K7)

Pub - Film (Springing Daisy's mix) (Ampoule)

Dj Brace - NH Six (Balanced)

Influx - Untitled (Isophlux)

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Swoon 244 - July 28, 2008

Motorcitysoul - Change You
Chez Damier - (Carl Craig remix) (K7)
Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip remix) (domino)
Booka Shade - Planetary (Get Physical)
Tiga - Pleasure from the Bass (Turbo)
Los Updates - 4 Wheel Drive (Cadenza)
The Viewers - Streethorn (Audiomatique)
Lee Jones - Safari (Aus)
Stimming - Kleinenachtmuzik (Buzzin Fly)
Sackrai - Hundred Feet (Archipel) (free download)
Radio Slave - K-maze (Rekids)
Stefan Goldmann - Aurora (Macro)
Simon Baker - U
Jacopo Carreras - Anarko-F (LAN)
Shed - Flat Axe (Ostgut Ton)
coldcut - Atomic Moog 2000 (Qemistry remix) (Ninja tune)
MSTRKRFT -Easy Love (Last Gang)
Justice - (Ed Banger)
Mr. Quibble - Windseeker
Ronin E-ville - Heavy Hand Dub
Mantrakid - Letting People Down (But Never Her) (Neferiu)
The Femme Generation - Sharon Stone's Wolf
Tagaq - Sinialuk (Jericho Beach)
Slap - Unmodified (Architecture of Sound)

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Prins Thomas - Full Pupp The Greatest Tits Volume One

This is out. It’s great. Everybody else loved Prins Thomas’ mix from last year, Cosmo Galactic Prism, but I wasn’t thrilled by it, and like this better. It’s funky electronic space disco. (They call it retro futurism.) Very melodic, and somewhat slower than most mixes out today. Disc one is mixed, disc two isn’t. The best tracks are by Mental Overdrive, Diskjokke, Todd Terje, and the many re-edits and remixes by Prins Thomas himself.

Quivver - Dirty Nails And Vapour Trails

Breaking new ground? No. Inventing new genres? No. Quality stuff from an established producer? Definitely. It's the new Quivver album from John Graham.

Graham has been producing music for over ten years, notably as a member of Tilt, and also on his own as Space Manoeuvres and Stoneproof.

The album gets off to a progressive house start with "Surin", a melodic, synth driven track. It's followed by "Chasin' a Feelin", which was notably caned by Sasha this spring at the WMC and his and John Digweed's subsequent USA Tour. It's a fast breakbeat track that recalls the simple, early jungle and drum and bass tracks of the 90s. It's enjoyable and uplifting, and not hard at all to see why it's been popular with Sasha. Graham's also the singer on this and the other album tracks.

He slows down the breaks for the next track, "What's Not Goin On". Again, it features his vocals. "Tick Tick" follows it, again with break beats, but without vocals, and with a much deeper vibe.

Then comes another of the big hits from Sasha and Digweed's tour, "2 Notes 'n' A Beat", which is probably the deepest track on the album. It's pure progressive house and a simple but effective weapon for the dancefloor.

A similar track comes next, "Dancing in Darkrooms", which was one of his singles from 2007. It's a great track and certainly worth including.

It's followed by "Fallin'", a short interlude that one can take or leave. "Ghosts" is next, with Graham singing over brisk breakbeats, deep bass and strings. It's a good track. Maybe not strictly for the dancefloor, but it's something that works well in the context of a complete album.

The album ends with an ambient version of "These Are The Days", a single from 2004. Throughout, I keep having the feeling that beats are going to come crashing in, but they never do. It's a tease that leaves me wanting more.

It will be out next week (July 29) on Graham's own Boz Boz record label.

Swoon 243 - July 21, 2008

Noze - L'inconnu du Placard (Get Physical)
Chelonis R. Jones and Marc Romboy - Helen Cornell (2000 & One dub) (Systematic)
junior Boys - No Kinda Man (Chloe remix) (Get Physical)
Quivver - Ghosts (Boz Boz)
The Thrillers - Speedball (Persona)
Jackmaster Dahle - Vesuvio
Red Dragon Band - Let Me Be Your Radio (Strut)
Tensnake - Congolai (Endless Flight)
Sally Shapiro - Time To Let Go (Lindstrom mix) (Paper bag)
Matthew Dear - Sound & Vision (Rapster)
Beefdonut - Afraid To Let Go
Tagaq - Force (Jerico Beach)
Oldfolks Home - Power of the Sun
Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season (Modular)
Lowfish - Torsion (Satamile)
Crystal Castles - Through the Hosiery (Last Gang)
Nick Muir - G Platz (Pig & Dan remix) (Audiotherapy)
Chris Lake & Rowan Blades - Filth (Alternative Route)
Hrdvision - Love's Duel (Wagon Repair)
Pryda - Aftermath (Pryda)
Skatebard - Pagans (Supersoul)
Two Fingers - Have It Like That (Ninja Tune)
Legion of green Men - Baqup (Post Contemporary)
Clark - New Year Storm (Warp)

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How I use Ableton Live LE

Here's a picture I submitted to flickr for create digital music's "how do you use ableton" post.

It's a picture of my may 2008 promo mix, which you can download.

Swoon 241 - July 7, 2008

Fairmont - Pavilion (Bpitchcontrol)
Beefdonut - Migraine
Akufen - Deck the house (Force tracks)
Deadbeat vs stephen beaupre - Who says (Onitor)
Kid koala - Slew test 2 (Ninja Tune)
Gnarls barkley - Open book (Atlantic)
Ratatat - Mirando (XL)
Tullio de piscopo - E fatto e sorde (Money Money) (Strut)
Booka shade - Control me (Get Physical)
Italoboyz - Zinga (Get Physical)
Lee Burridge vs. Ex One - Treat em Mean Keep 'em Keen (Lan)
The Mole - Alice You Need Him (Wagon Repair)
Extrawelt - Yeahbutnobutyeah (Kompass musik)
Ane Brun - Headphone silence (Hendrik schwarz dixon edit) (Objektivity)
Deadmau5 - Duo Cad Sordid (Mau5trap)
Spencer Parker - (Buzzin fly)
Paranoid Jack - Last Daze (Stickmen)
Cobblestone jazz - Lime in da coconut (Wagon Repair)
Robert Babicz - Dark Flower (Joris Voorn mix) (Audiomatique)
Slam - Azure (Soma)
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Jet (Bpitchcontrol)

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Swoon 240 - June 30, 2008

Off the International Radar - Deploy The Plot Ending Device (OTIR)
Minilogue - Space (Traum)
Holger Zilske - Wrecker 06 (Undo remix) (Factory City)
Tiger Stripes, Jerome Sydenham - Elevation (Radio Slave's One More Kiss Remix)
Cobblestone Jazz - Slap the Back (Wagon Repair)
Andrea Sartori - Phonosutura (Persona)
Sixtoo - Jackals And Vipers In Envy of Man part 9 (Ninja Tune)
The Orb - Codes (Six degrees)
Global Communications - 8:07 (Dedicated)
Crystal Castles - Tell Me What To Swallow (Last gang)
Lowfish - Wahawa (Satamile)
Jim Rivers - Mirage (Simple)
Barbq - Music From the Great Plains (Buzzin Fly)
Fairmont - Down the Rabbit Hole (Traum)
Force of Nature - I-ight (Mule)
Danny Tenaglia - The Space Dance (Terrace Vocalism mix) (Tommy Boy)
Masaya - Like a Fish In Water (Meerestief)
Deadbeat - Boil (Wagon Repair)
Martin Buttrich - Cruise Control (Planet E)
Quivver - 2 Notes and a beat (Baroque)
Long Distance Runner - Los Nihongoristas (Existential sounds)
Booka shade - Charlotte (Get Physical)
Clark - Mercy Sines (Warp)

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Swoon 239 - June 23, 2008

Burial - U Hurt Me (Hyperdub)
Deadmau5 - Uvivial
Ital Tek - Cyclical (Planet mu)
Deadmau5 - 80 something
Appleblim and Peverelist - Circling (Skull disco)
Deadmau5 - Automau5er
Jahcoozi - Flatline (Aaron Hedges mix) (Districut of Corruption)
The Mole - Gracias a los Ninos (wagon repair)
Marc Ashken - Root Rot (Shonky remix)
deadmau5 - duo cad sordid (mau5trap)
King Unique -Hinode (Fergie remix) (Curfew)
Radio Slave - My Bleep (Roman Fluegel mix) (Rekids)
Sebastian Roya - Contracorriente (Connaisseur)
Hrdvision - Playing for Keeps (Mole rmx) (wagon repair)
Lee Burridge vs. Exercise One - Treat em Mean, Keep em Keen (LAN)
Lucy - Downstairs (Meerestief limited)
Tensnake - Congolai (Endless Flight)
Guillaume and the Coutu dumonts - God Damn the Whole Shebang
Diskjokke - Cearadactylus (Full Pupp)
Loco Dice - Pimp Jackson Is Talking Now!!! (Desolat)
Deadbeat - Boil (wagon repair)
Noze - You Have to Dance (Get Physical)
Wiley - No Qualms (Ninja Tune)
Pinch - Gangstaz (Tectonic)
Deadmau5 - Maybe sometimes
Ghostface killah - Charlie brown (Dj mehdi mix)
Azeda Booth - Numberguts (Absolutely Kosher)

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May 2008 promo mix - dubstep, electro, techno and house

My May 2008 mix is now available for download. It begins with dubstep, then there's a little electro, followed by some techno, and it all wraps up with some housier grooves. Defying convention, it starts at a fast tempo and slows down throughout.

Tracklist:

Pole - Achterbahn (Shackleton remix) (~scape)
Pinch - Qawwali (Planet mu)
Burial - Archangel (Hyperdub)
Lowfish - Burn The Lights Out (Satamile)
The Thrillers - Mamba (Persona)
Ricardo Villalobos - Andruic and Japan (Fabric)
Akiko Kiyama - Hakobi (District of Corruption)
Marek Bois - Whopair (Rrygular)
Ripperton - Leonor's Lanugo (Leonid mix) (Perspectiv)
Add Noise - Handwerk3A (Handwerk)
Radio Slave - Tantakatan (Rekids)
Estroe - Driven (Connaissuer)
Gabriel Ananda - Lila Pause (Traum)
Internullo - Sentimente (Nea Marin remix) (Desolat)
Francesco Tristano - The Melody (C2 remix) (Infine)
Byetone - Plastic Star (Sleeparchive mix) (Raster Noton)
Toby Tobias - Breakdown (Rekids)
Force of Nature - Sequencer (Stefan Goldmann mix) (Mule Electronic)
Federleicht - In The Streets (Connaisseur)

Swoon 237 - June 9, 2008

Autechre - Piezo (Warp)
Pinch - Lazarus (Tectonic)
2652 - Kameleon (Tectonic)
Martyn - Twenty Four (3024)
Burial - Distant Lights (Hyperdub)
The Thrillers - (Persona)
Lowfish - 8_0p (Satamile)
Mathew Jonson - Symphony For the Apocalypse (Wagon Repair)
Masaya - Like a Fish In Water (Meerestief)
Deadmau5 - Duo Cad Sordid (Mau5trap)
Fergie - Anon (Excentric)
Robert Babicz - Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Magnolia mix)
Tobias. - I can't Fight The Feeling (Wagon Repair)
King Unique - Hinode (Curfew)
John Daly - Solitaire (Irregular)
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Reef Caribbean mix) (Border Community)
Radio Slave - K-Maze (Rekids)
The Mole - Ain't The Way It Supposed To Be (Wagon Repair)
Lucy - Downstairs (HOSH remix) (Meerestief)
Rabbit Season - Unnatural
Ronin E-ville - Adrianna's groove
The National Parcs - Whispers from the grave
Mannequin depressives - Last day (Klankboom)
Azeda booth - Ben

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Swoon 236 - June 2, 2008

FSOL - Just a Fuckin Idiot (Virgin)
Autechre - Garbagemx36 (Warp)
LFO - Unafriad to linger (Warp)
Crystal Castles - Reckless (Last gang)
Deadmau5 - American Slushie
John Tejada - Feel It (Palette)
Dapayk Solo - Shiver (Unfoundsound) (free download)
Booka Shade - Duke (Get physical)
Dietsch vs abdominal snowman - Eternity (Pop echo)
Deadmau5 - Catcalls
Clark - Hot May Slides (Warp)
Riley Reinhold - Lights In Your Eyes (My Best Friend)
Jim Rivers - Mirage (Tobias. Remix) (Simple)
Ananda Project - Moments Before Dreaming (Djut Boys remix)
Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia - Dead Souls (Radio Slave Long Distance Kiss mix) (Buzzin Fly)
Deadbeat - Evaporate (Wagon Repair)
Junior Boys - No Kinda Man (Chloe remix) (Get Physical)
Sebbo - Watamu Beach (Moritz von Oswald rework) (Desolat)
Tensnake - Tavira (Endless Flight)
Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet remix) (Merge)
The Orb - Codes (Six degrees)

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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)

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.

Swoon 230 - April 21, 2008

Ambivalent - Nugget (M_nus)
FALSE - Face the Rain (M_nus)
Audion - Hot Air (Spectral)
Matthew Dear - Don and Sherri (Ghostly)
Deadmau5 - I Forget
Plaid - Coat (Warp)
Ace of Clubs - Classid (Firstcask)
Slap - Auto-repeat version 2 (Architecture of Sound)
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating (Last Gang)
Andre Lodermann - Wanna Feel (Simple)
Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia - Always You (Ewan Pearson remix) (Buzzin Fly)
Beanfield - Tides (Carl Craig mix) (K7)
Zoexenia - Forever (Perspectiv)
The Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Les Gans (Audio Werner mix) (Musique Risquee)
The Mole - Hey Girl (I Feel So Good) (Wagon Repair)
Diskjokke - Flok L Farta (Kindische)
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemoller mix) (Get Physical)
Estroe - Driven (perspectiv)
Audiofly X - Below the Surface (Get Physical)
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Herve AK - Sorry But No (Octopus)
Tranzhop - Take That! (Splendid Imaginings)
Ronin E-ville - Phoxy Horns
Kerosene Daydream - Lure (Velum)

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Swoon 229 - April 14, 2008

Caribou - Melody Day (Merge)
Hot Chip - Out at the pictures (EMI)
Crystal Castles - Vanished (Last Gang)
Maximum Joy - Silent Street / Silent Dub (Strut)
i:cube - Nuees ardentes (Mule)
Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Quiet Village mix) (Parlophone)
Fairmont - All Good Things (Border Community)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Cocoon)
Marcelo Giordano - Respect Yourself
Hrdvision - Playing For Keeps (Wagon Repair)
The Mole - Gracias a Los Ninos (Wagon Repair)
Francesco Tristano - The Melody (Carl Craig mix) (K7)
Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights (Great Stuff)
Mike Monday - Bhalobashi (Simple)
Cobblestone Jazz - W (Wagon Repair)
Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch (David Holmes mix) (Sabres of Paradise)
The Beta-Resercyclic Acid - Live Fast (Electronic Eel)
Lowfish - Burn the Lights Out (Satamile)
Keravel - Drifter (Kassure)
Sally Shapiro - Jackie Junior (Junior Boys mix) (Paper Bag)
Goldfrapp - Little Bird (Mute)

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Swoon 228 - April 7, 2008

Henrik Schwartz - Arthur (Mule)
The Mole - Alice You Need Him (Wagon Repair)
Ananda Project - Where The Music Takes You (Pastaboys Dub) (King Street)
Falko Brocksieper - Emotional Support
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Reef Carrier mix) (Border Community)
Lopazz - The Old Days (Get Physical)
Lee Jones - As You Like It (Recloose remix) (Aus)
Lowfish - 8_0p (Satamile)
Crystal Castles - Untrust Us (Last Gang)
Lazersnake - Money (Independent)
Hot Chip - Hold On (EMI)
Artist of the Year - It is time for le party (Universal)
Mannequin Depressives - Victim of Circumstance (Klankboom)
Kazino - Binary (Strut)
Italoboyz - Zinga (Dramadub) (Get Physical)
Audision - Red Sky (Roland Appel mix)
Sasha - Who Killed Sparky (EmFire)
Partial Arts - Telescope (Radioslave's Prenlauer Blur Remix) (Kompakt)
Akiko Kiyama - Hakobi (District of Corruption)
Marek Bois - Whopair (Rrygular)
Metazoo - Circus (Suspiria)
Faze Action - In The Trees (Carl Craig remix) (K7)
John Digweed - Gridlock (Thrive)
Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize remix) (Turbo)

Swoon 223 - March 3, 2008

Junior Boys - The Equalizer (Morgan Geist mix) (Domino)
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (Astralwerks)
Mannequin Depressives - Erase It (Klankboom)
Vivien Goldman - Launderette (Strut)
Evangelista - Winds of St. Anne (Constellation)
Caribou - She's The One (Kelley Polar mix) (Domino)
Booka Shade - Darko (Radio Slave remix) (Get Physical)
Punto - 3 Tempo 3 (Get Physical)
Sasha - Who Killed Sparky? (Emfire)
Vector Lovers - Babette (Simple)
NAW - Mid Winter Sailboat Rescue (Noise Factory)
Pryda - Armed (Pryda)
Deadmau5 - Not Exactly (Mau5trap)
Fairmont - Mobula (Border Community)
Nosak - Rotate (Next Dimension)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkonnen mix) (Last Gang)
The Mole - Baby You're The One (Wagon Repair)
Samim - Setupone (Get Physical)
Miguel Migs - Shake It Up (J-Boogie remix) (Salted)
Hot Chip - Ready for the Dancefloor (Jesse Rose mix) (Astralwerks)
Ananda Project - Moments Before Dreaming (Idjut Boys dub) (King Street)
Frank Martiniq - My Bloody Clementine (Boxer)

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Larry Tee's 'I Love U' video.

Pushing cute and catchy to the extreme:




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Mobilee - Back to Back 2

Mobilee has released its second compilation. Like the first, it's two discs, the first unmixed, the second mixed. GummiHz is in charge of the compilation and mixing.

This compilation showcases how Mobilee has evolved since the first Back to Back. Where the first compilation was mostly tech-house, this compilation features much more variety. On the unmixed disc there are different genres, ranging from Pan Pot's laid back housy "Faces", to the unusual minimalism of Sleeper Thief's "Cenotes". In between, there are quality tracks from label owner Anja Schneider, with "Belize", the omnipresent Sebo K's "Too Hot", and two exclusives from GummiHz, (real name Alexander Tsotsos).

On the first disc, I like "Faces", Marc Antona's heavily-looped "One More Sugar" and "Cenotes" best.

On the mix, GummiHz pulls together 27 tracks from Mobilee's back catalog. As you'd expect from so many tracks, they go by pretty quickly, and there's often three playing at the same time. But GummiHz is a skilled mixer/editor, and there are plenty of fine moments in the mix, if you are a fan of German minimal, tech-house and techno. I am, so I enjoyed it a lot.

Swoon 219 - January 28, 2008

Skwerl - All Woman (Defected)
Son of Raw - A Black Man in Space (Sax Mix) (Objectivity)
Pan Pot - Faces (Mobilee)
Riton - To The Gum (Get Physical)
Marcello Giordani - Respect Yourself (DJ Naughty remix) (Mule)
Minilogue - Orglar A (Minilogue)
Fairmont - Flight of Albatross (Metope Mix) (Border Community)
Exercise One - Wandering (LAN)
Sasha - Mongoose (Emfire)
Jackmate - Interspherical Tension (Resopal)
Guy J - Night Loss (Bedrock)
Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig mix) (Domino)
Jesse Somfay - Grasping Stars (Meerestief)
Pole - Achterbahn (Shackleton mix) (Scape)
Venetian Snares - Point Blank
Burial - Ghost Hardware (Hyperdub)
Mathew Jonson - Twin Cobras (Wagon Repair)
Pinch - Qawwali (Tectonic)
Femme Generation - Orlando Boom (RAC mix) (Independent)
Rabbit Season - Brink (Independent)
Theatre ov Idiots - Light (Inter)
Artist of the Year - It Is Time For Le Party (Universal)
Daft Punk - Touch It (Virgin/EMI)
DVAS - Joust (Pop Echo)

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Swoon 218 - January 21, 2008

Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Quiet Village mix) (Parlophone)
Jennifer Cardini - August in Paris (Mobilee)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Tiefschwarz remix) (Different)
Fairmont - Darling's Waltz (Border Community)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Dub) (Wagon Repair)
Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha du Prince mix)
Minilogue - Star Command (Traum)
Mathew Jonson - Symphony for the Apocolypse (Wagon Repair)
Perc und Fractal - Up (Kompakt)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - To The Top (Guy J mix)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkonnen remix) (Last Gang)
Pelle Buys - Come Into My World (Chaim remix)
Stefan Goldmann - Lunatic Fringe
Marc Houle - Porch (M-nus)
Butane - Hallucinate (Alphahouse)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Cocoon)
Amon Tobin - Kitchen Sink (Boxcutter remix) (Ninja Tune)
Burial - Archangel (Hyperdub)
Feist - My moon my man (Boys noize remix)
Ghislian Poirier - Diaspora (Ninja Tune)
Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia - Mon Ange (Buzzin Fly)

Swoon 217 - January 14, 2008 Best of 2007

Disk Jokke - Flok L Farta (Kindische)
Chymera - Murmur
Partial Arts - Trauermusik (Kompakt)
Canvas - The Cat (Rebelone)
Justin Martin - The Sad Piano (Jimpster mix) (Buzzin Fly)
Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip mix) (Domino)
Riton - Hammer of Thor (Connaisseur)
Inkfish - Prescreen (Nick Muir mix)
Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe (Dial)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Altes Kamuffel (Bpitchcontrol)
Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights (Great Stuff)
Danuel Tate - Pushcard (Wagon Repair)
Le Noir - Eleny (Radio slave panorama garage mix)
H.O.S.H. - Steppenwolf
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso Now mix) (Skull Disco)
Pheek - De Begg Degg
Claude von Stroke - The Whistler (Audiofly mix) (Go Deeva)
Alex Smoke - Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Dusty Kid - The Cat (Southern Fried)
Spooky - New Light (Spooky's Strobelight mix) (spooky.uk.com)
Ame - Enoi (Innervisions)
Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (Autechre mix) (Dynamic Tension)
James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli - No Pressure (Renaissance)
Minilogue, KAB - That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback (Great Stuff)
From Karaoke To Stardom - Stompin Nation (Rrygular)
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Reynold - Bumper
Sasha - Coma (Emfire)
Cobblestone Jazz - W (Wagon Repair)
Lopazz - We Are (Get Physical)
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (Virgin)
Motiivi Tuntematon - Mankind Failed (Kompakt)
Digitalism - Pogo (Virgin)

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Best music of 2007

I guess I'm a little late, compared to a lot of other blogs and websites, but here's (nearly) all the music I liked in 2007. I'm sure there's track and other bits and pieces I forgot, but it's mostly there.

Best of 2007

albums:

Pantha du Prince: This Bliss (Dial)
Apparat: Walls (Shitkatapult)
Cobblestone Jazz: 23 Seconds (Wagon Repair)
Digitalism: Idealism (Kitsune)
Boys Noize: Oi Oi Oi (Boys Noize)
From Karaoke To Stardom: Undo Redo Weirdo mix
Luciano: No Model, No Tool
Cristian Vogel: Double Deux/Delicado (station 55)
Gui Boratto: Chromophobia (Kompakt)
The Field: From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
Chemical Brothers: We Are The Night
Bola: Kroungrine (Skam)
The Black Dog: Book of Dogma

compilations:

Ewan Pearson: Piece Work (K7)
Shut Up and Dance! (Ostgut Ton)
Rekids One
5 Year of Get Physical

mixes:

John Digweed: Transitions Vol. 3 (Renaissance)
Lee Burridge: Balance 012

eps:

James Zabiela: Perseverance
Ame – Enoi/Balandine
Minilogue – Inca/Urubamba
Minilogue – Space/Star Command
Danuel Tate – Pushcard
Tom Middleton – Excursions 1
Motiivi Tuntematon – Speicher 48
Aril Brikkha – Winter/Berghain (Kompakt)
Maxime Dangles – Agujas/Love Water
Surgeon – Whose Bad Hands Are These?


tracks:

Alex Smoke: Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Ame – Enoi
Ame – Fiori
Anja Schneider – Loop de Mer (Mobilee)
Apparat – Fractals (Shitkatapult)
Audion – Noiser (Spectral)
Canvas – The Cat
Chymera – Murmur
Claude von Stroke – The Whistler (Audiofly mix)
Cobblestone Jazz - W
Disk Jokke – Flok L Farta
Dusty Kid – The Cat
Fort Dax – C Conceit, Knot Point, Hanging
Gregor Tresher – A Thousand Nights
H.O.S.H. - Steppenwolf
Inkfish – Prescreen (Nick Muir mix)
James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli – No Pressure
Junior Boys – Like A Child (Hot chip mix)
Justin Martin – The Sad Piano (Jimpster mix)
Kabale und Liebe – Mumbling Yeah
Krak Street Boyz – Street Power
Le Noir – Eleny (Radioslave panorama garage mix)
Len Faki – My Black Sheep (Radioslave remix)
Lopazz – We Are
Matthew Dear – Deserter
Minilogue, KAB – That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback
Pantha du Prince – Saturn Strobe
Partial Arts – Trauermusik
Pierce & Twirdy – Cuaba (Babicz in full efx mix)
Popnoname – No Doubt
Popnoname – Kapital
Pryda – Armed
Reynold - Bumper
Riley Reinhold – Lights In My Eyes
Riton – Hammer of Thor
RQM & Filewile – Damn (Jahcoozi mix)
Samim – Heater
Samim – Zleep
Sasha – Coma
SCSI-9 – Another Day Acid
Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix)
Sian – Apple Tree
Silicone Soul – Bad Machines
Simon Baker – Plastik
Skwerl – All Woman
Slam – Azure (Radioslave remix)
Solieb – We Are Moving
Soylent Green – La Forza del Destino (Radioslave mix)
Spooky – New Light (Spooky's strobelight mix)
SuperMayer – Two Of Us
Thomas Fehlmann – With Oil
Tiger Stripes – Hooked
Tiger Stripes – Mad At Me
Tigerskin – as we are
Trentemoller, Buda – Gamma (Minilogue remix)

crazy long tracks that were still good:

Ame – Fiori, 18 minutes
NSI – Bridge and Tunnel People, 15
7th Plain – Symphony For the Surrealists, 13 minutes
John Digweed – Gridlock, 25 minutes
Pheek – De Begg Degg, 22 minutes
Luciano – Somewhere Near This Heat, 15 minutes
Cristian Vogel – DD Engine, 16 minutes
Minilogue – Inca, 13 minutes
minilogue, KAB – That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback, 12 minutes
Tolga Fidan – Tanbulistan
Alex Neri and Luca Bacchetti – La Fogographia, 12 minutes
Dusty Kid, Psika, 14 minutes
Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix) 18 minutes

Swoon 216 - January 7, 2008

Will Saul - Cubrika (Simple)
Ripperton - Farra (Connaisseur)
Disk Jokke - Flok L Farta (Kindisch)
IMPS - Almost Live But Definitely Plugged (Mule)
Artist of the Year - You Gave me a stroke on the dancefloor (EMI)
Theatre Ov Idiots - Mind (Interdimensional)
The Cansecos - Juices (Upper class)
Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Hot Chip mix) (Parlophone)
Lessound - Flysdontmind (Independent)
Onur Ozer - Eclipse (Vakant)
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Butterfly (Ostgut Ton)
Tom Middleton - Sense Is Real (Big Chill)
Deadbeat - Mecca drum jack (Wagon Repair)
Danuel Tate - Pushcard (Wagon Repair)
Efdemin - Just a Track (Dial)
Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion remix)
Nosak - Abstract Collection (Rotate)
Jackmate - Interspherical Tension
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)
Kabale und Liebe - Mumbling Yeah
Navid Tahernia - ...I Like (Kompakt)
Sian - Wear Your Scars Like Medals (Roland Appel mix) (Aus)
Joy Division - Atmoshere (Factory)

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Merry Christmix

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John Digweed – Gridlock (Renaissance)
Uncle Schmoocoo – Killbot Destroy (Alert remix) (Meerestief)
Navid Tahernia – Mylikestyle (Kompakt Extra)
Reshuffle – Hedonism (Supplements)
Tigerskin – As We Are (Dirt Crew)
Pierce & Twirdy – Cuaba (Babicz Style In Full Efx) (Yellow Tail)
Anja Schneider – Loop De Mer (Mobilee)
Exercise One – Wandering (LAN)
Sasha – Park It In The Shade (emFire)
Luka & Lazo – Dust No. 4 (Barem remix) (Mo's Ferry)
Lopazz – We Are (Get Physical)
Fort Dax – C Conceit, Knot Point, Hanging... (Meerestief)
Pan Pot feat. Vincenzo – Faces (Mobilee)
Son of Raw – A Black Man In Space (Sax mix) (Objectivity)
Samim – Ukaka (Get Physical)
Len Faki – My Black Sheep (Radio Slave remix)
Sian – Wear Your Scars Like Medals (AUS)
SCSI-9 – Another Day Acid (Kompakt Extra)
Miss Kittin and the Hacker – Dimanche (Goodlife)
Sasha – Coma (emFire)
Punto – 3 Tempo 3 (Orange Groove)
DJ Yellow – To The Top (Intermission)
Cobblestone Jazz – W (Wagon Repair)

Swoon 215 - December 17, 2007

Bola - Urenforpuren (Skam)
Ace of Clubs - Benefist (Firstcask)
Ellen Allien - Washing Machine Is Speaking (Bpitch Control)
Ada - Barren Space (Areal)
James Zabiela - No Other Way But Down (Renaissance)
Deadbeat - Mecca Dub (Wagon Repair)
Fairmont - Fade To Saturate (Border Community)
IMPS - Unkle Limps (Mule)
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Makes Me Wanna Dance (Ostgut Ton)
Slam - We're Not Here (Copy Was There mix) (Soma)
Masaya - El Choquero (Meerestief)
Max Cavallera - Luck n Love
Lawrence - Lady Grey (Mule)
Terre Thaemlitz - Yann Live (Max Mohr mix) (Mule)
Audiofly X - Blink (Get Physical)
Jeremy P Caulfield - Nude Beach (Dumb Unit)
Kabale und Liebe and Daniel Sanchez - Mumbling Yeah
Digitalism - Pogo (Kitsune)
Artist of the Year - You Gave Me a Stroke on the Dancefloor (Universal)
Boys Noize - & Down (Last Gang)

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Part 2

Swoon 209 - October 22, 2007

Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker mix)
DVAS - Relif (Pop Echo)
Lopazz - 2 Fast 4 U (Get Physical)
Boys Noize - The Battery (Last gang)
Paul Hartnoll - Patchwork Quilt (Acp)
Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet remix) (Merge)
Citywide Vacuum - Carbon Valence (Eleven37)
Einmusik - 69 (Italic)
Lopazz - We Are (Get Physical)
Danuel Tate - Slim Jim Boko (Wagon Repair)
Swayzak - Distress And Calling (K7)
Snax - Honeymoon's Over
Caribou - Niobe (Merge)
Tom Middleton - Starq (Big Chill)
Irob - Breeze (Luca Bacchetti mix) (Tenax)
Marc Houle - Techno Vocals (M_nus)
Easy Changes - Caviar (Foundsound)
Silver City - Shiver (K7)
Patrick Chardonnet - Eve By Day (Connaisseur)
Burger/Voigt - Bring Trance Back To Reality (Kompakt)
Le Noir - Eleny (Radio Slave mix) (Fling)
Jesse Somfay - Grasping Stars (Meerestief)
Bitrate - Hauntingly Silent (Db)

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Swoon 207 - October 8, 2007

Minilogue – Urubamba (WIR)
Intus – Agujas (K2)
Xhin – Recall (Meerestief)
Raudive – Needles (Steve Bug mix) (Poker Flat)
Pantha du Prince – Asha (Dial)
James Priestley, Dan Berkson – Chariots (Simple)
Plastikman – Passage (in) (M_nus)
Cobblestone Jazz – Hired Touch (Wagon Repair)
Robin Judge – (Noise Factory)
Plastikman – convulsed (M_nus)
Venetian Snares – Like Tooth Decay
Squarepusher – Modern Bass Guitar (Warp)
Aphex Twin – Meltphace 6 (Warp)
HRSTA – Entre La Mer Et L’eau Douce (Constellation)
Samim – Setupone (Get Physical)
James Zabiela – Human (Renaissance)
Junior Boys – In the Morning (Hot Chip mix) (Domino)
Paranoid Jack – Addy’s vs. Ardalan mix (Stickman)
Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life (Gui Boratto mix) (Kompakt)
Riton – Hammer of Thor (Connaisseur)
DVAS – Relief (I Can’t Get No) (Pop Echo)
Gregory Tresher – A Thousand Nights (Great Stuff)
Cobblestone Jazz – W (Wagon Repair)

House is now HouseMD

In accordance with several suggestions, tags for the television show House, M.D., are now tagged as HouseMD. House music is retaining house.

Swoon 202 - September 3, 2007 Labour Day Party

Toni Rios - Psycho Circus (Kompakt)
D. Ramirez - Colombian Soul (Toolroom)
Chris Lake - Carry Me Away (Sebastien Leger mix) (Rising)
Armand van Helden - This Ain't Hollywood (Radioslave mix) (Southern Fried)
DJ Remy - Scrap (Armed)
Spooky - New Light (Strobelight mix) (spooky.uk.com)
Cobblestone Jazz - W (Wagon Repair)
Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life (Sascha Funke remix) (Kompakt)
Lee van Dowski - The Strike Pandemonium (Soma)
Trentemoller - Always Something Better (Trentemoller mix) (Poker Flat)
Perc und Fractal - Up (Kompakt)
Audion - Noiser (Spectral)
Cagedbaby - Hello There (Radioslave mix) (Southern Fried)
Ace of Clubs - Acidream (First Cask)
Philip Sherburne - Lumberjacking (Exercise One mix) (LAN)
Fairmont - Pavilion (bpitchcontrol)
Seelenluft - Manila (Ewan Pearson mix) (K7)
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (Astralwerks)
Digitalism - Pogo (EMI)
Elektrochemie - Mucky Star (Get Physical)
Noze - Remember Love (My Best Friend)
Reinhard Voigt - Follow the DJ (Kompakt)
One+One - Rover (Renaissance)
Pryda - Ironman (Pryda)

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Swoon 200 - August 20, 2007 Anniversary show!

For my 200th radio show on cfbu, I decided to celebrate the past 99 episodes by playing the tracks I've hummed the most in my head since then. It turned into quite a gigamix (I am way beyond mega.). Not every mix totally worked, but it was fun for me.

Artists who appear more than once:

Extrawelt 2
Minilogue 2
Claude von Stroke 2
Ricardo Villalobos 2
Robag Wruhme 2

Labels that appear more than once:

Kompakt 3
Traum 2
Get Physical 3
Soma 2
Musik Krause 2
Rekids 2

The tracklist

Margot – Torch (Extrawelt remix) (Great Stuff)
Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Trentemoller mix) (Get Physical)
Switch – A Bit Patchy (Eric Prydz mix)
Dom, Kole – Flight 815
Kupon – Zoom In (Curfew)
Mr. G – E.C.G.'ed (Rekids remix) (Rekids)
Claude von Stroke – Who's Afraid of Detroit? (Dirtybird)
Martin Landsky – 1000 Miles (Poker Flat)
Thomas Schumacher – RedPurple
Robag Wruhme – Papp-Tonikk (Musik Krause)
Antena – Camino del Sol (Joakim remix)
Efdemin – Acid Bells (Italic)
Ricardo Villalobos – Ichso (Cadenza)
Alex Smoke – Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Minilogue, KAB – That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback (WIR)
Solieb – Isotropy (Lazy Fat People's Spaced Invaders mix) (Maschine)
Booka Shade – Darko (Radioslave mix) (Get Physical)
Booka Shade – In White Rooms (Get Physical)
Lazy Fat People – Big City (Border Community)
Trentemoller – Chameleon (Poker Flat)
Pantha du Prince – Saturn Strobe (Italic)
Quenum and Lee van Dowski – The Torque Machine (Defrag)
Ellen Allien & Apparat – Jet (bpitchcontrol)
Cobblestone Jazz – India In Me (Wagon Repair)
One + One – No Pressure (Renaissance)
Exercise One – 12 Years (LAN)
Rabbit in the Moon – Decade (Contagious)
Robag Wruhme – Hamburg 03.07.06 (Musik Krause)
Popnoname – No Doubt (Italic)
Troy Pierce, Heartthrob – Horse Nation Amended (M_nus)
Shiloh – Café del Mariachi (Hope)
Gabriel Ananda – Doppelwhipper (Platzhirsch)
Sasha and Charlie May – Seal Clubbing (James Zabiela's Seal Squeal mix) (Renaissance)
Audiojack – Robot (20:20 Vision)
Artificial Latvamaki – It Is Not Now Either (Mezzo-tinto)
Silicone Soul – 3 a.m. (Soma)
Orb – Godless/America (Kompakt Extra)
SCSI-9 – Morskaya (Kompakt)
Minilogue – The Leopard (Traum)
Depeche Mode – Sinner In Me (Ricardo Villalobos Conclave mix) (Mute)
Riton – Hammer of Thor (Connaisseur)
Ame – Rej (Sonar Kollektiv)
James Holden – Come To Me (Last Version) (Loaded)
Madonna – Ray of Light (Derek Howell mix)
Darkmountaingroup – Lose Control (Reprise mix) (Buzzin' Fly)
Inkfish – Airtight (Nick Muir mix)
Extrawelt – 8000 (Traum)
From Karaoke To Stardom – Maguliadura (Rrygular)
Radioslave – My Bleep (Roman Fluegel mix) (Rekids)
Claude von Stroke – The Whistler (Audiofly mix) (Go Deeva)
Stephan Bodzin – Tron (Herzblud)
Motiivi Tuntematon – Mankind Failed (Kompakt Extra)

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Super Sexy Summer Fun

My summer 2007 mix is ready for downloading. I tried to keep it light and uplifting, since it is summer. So there's nothing dark or minimal. It should go great with any summer party.

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Swoon 197 - July 30, 2007

Bola - Zoft Boiled Ed (Skam)
Ace of Clubs - Patriotic Acid (Firstcask)
Mark Ronson - Amy
Matthew Herbert - Closing Theme (K7)
LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down (Astralwerks)
Rabbit in the Moon – Let’s Dance (Contagious)
NAW – 5 am West Bound (Noise Factory)
Cobblestone Jazz - DMT (Wagon Repair)
Each - Sunrise (Minilogue remix)
Misstress Barbara - Jamais Moi Sans Toi (Border Community)
Wisp – Sounding (Ghostly)
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Ghostly)
Apparat - Fractales (Shitkatapult)
James Zabiela - Human (Renaissance)
Junior Boys - In the Morning (Hot Chip remix) (Domino)

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