Swoon 247 - August 18, 2008

Motorcitysoul - xyz (Simple)
Sasha - Who Killed Sparky? (Radio Slave Brooklyn Dub) (emfire)
Trentemoller - Sunstroke (Poker flat)
Quiet Village - Gold Rush (K7)
Tim Hecker - The Star Compass (Alien8)
Amute - Sea House
Junior Boys - FM (Marsen Jules remix) (Domino)
Mike Shannon - Devotional (Cynosure)
Stefan Goldmann - Ptolemaic Drift (Macro)
Benjamin Fehr - My Favourite Shop Is Me (Catennacio)
Paul Frick - Steal My Heart (Kalk Pets)
Mathew Leutwyler - Peyotes On Risa (Apparillo)
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling (Wagon Repair)
Robert Babicz - Enjoy (defrag)
Cobblestone Jazz - PDB (Wagon Repair)
Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar (Nalin and Kane mix) (Hooj Choons)
Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar (Three n One mix) (Hooj Choons)
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Opportunity (Montag's I Love Her remix) (Paper Bag)
DJ Brace - Nh 12 (Balanced)
Mantrakid - Palmflowerblack (Neferiu)
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor remix) (Ninja Tune)

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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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Onur Ozer - Watergate 01

Onur Ozer made a name for himself last year with his jazzy take on the minimal scene, which resulted in a well-regarded album for Vakant records. Now, he has a mix album coming out on July 21, called Watergate 01. Unsurprisingly, this mix is minimal, with tracks drawing influences from other genres, such as jazz and deep house.

On the ultraminimal side, we have Cabanne and Sammy Dee, best known for their Perlon work, and on the stranger side are Cassy, Jens Zimmermann and taking the cake with a really weird throbbing breakdown, Patrice Baumel.

The funkiest tracks are Dewalta's "Salgaro", which opens the album, Cassy's "April" (if you can handle the repetition), and Mimosa's "Sensitiva" (a collaboration between Ozer and Tobi Neumann).

Overall, it's a funky, minimal ride. There aren't any clicky tracks, these all have bass lines,
and there is some kind of melody to most of them, but they certainly aren't the kind of tunes you're going to be humming along with.

The mix has its ups and downs, in the sense that there seem to be different sections with varying energy levels, which is good. It's not a mindless plod through a bunch of new tracks. I like it, but it may not have too much appeal outside the techno and minimal scenes.

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 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 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)

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)

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)

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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.

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.

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 226 - March 24, 2008

Toby Tobias - (Breakdown) (Rekids)
Lasik - Karma (Suspriria)
The Thrillers - Tin Drums (Persona)
Social Material - Class (Loco Dice remix) (Mule)
Nine Inch Nails - Ghost I 6 (NIN)
Fairmont - Pomegranate (Border Community)
Deadmau5 - Tricky
Byetone - Plastic Star (Sleeparchive mix) (Raster Noton)
Lee Jones - Aria (Aus)
Francesco Tristano - The Melody (Balil remix) (Infine)
Pole - Achterbahn (Shackleton mix) (Scape)
Pinch - Qawwali (Planet mu)
Burial - Near Dark (Hyperdub)
Martyn - Velvet (3024)
Deadmau5 - Bored
Luciano - Inner Sirens (Cadenza)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Pig & Dan mix) (Different)
Tony Lionni - (The Presence)
Internal Sync - Song For Dementia (Stefan Tretau mix)
The Regisford-Harris Project - Astral (Main Mix) (Objektivity)
Bjoern Stoplmann - The Space Between
Rabbit Season - Some Ships We're Landing
Oldfolks Home - I hate Dell
Slap - (Architecture of Sound)
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Swoon 224 - March 10, 2008

Solieb - Isotropy (Lazy Fat People remix) (Maschine)
The Mole - Crackbeat (Wagon Repair)
Paranoid Jack - Last Daze (Thrust)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkonnen mix) (Last Gang)
Mathew Jonson - Symphony for the Apocalypse (Wagon Repair)
NAW - Elbow Landlock (Noise Factory)
Crackhaus - Soggy Bottom (Mutek)
Jeremy P. Caulfield - Lacewing Puff (Dumb Unit)
Pheek - De Begg Degg (Kalimari Musique)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Wagon Repair)
Moby - New York New York (Radio Slave's Not Long Remix) (Mute)
The Thrillers - Mamba (Persona)
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Christ Mix) (Border Community)
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Four Tet remix) (Ghostly)
Oliver Klein and Martin Eyerer - Babylon (Patrick Zigon remix) (Kling Klong)
Force of Nature - Sequencer (Stefan Goldmann mix) (Mule)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Cocoon)
Richie Hawtin - Snark edit (M_nus)
Len Faki - Rainbow Delta (Extended Version) (Ostgut Ton)

Swoon 222 - February 25, 2008

James Zabiela - Phaser Fire (Renaissance)
Fairmont - Flight of the Albatross (Reef Caribbean mix) (Border Community)
Andreas Henneberg - Waters (Pierce remix)
Nemesi - Jurassico (Prins Thomas mix)
Partial Arts - Telescope (Kompakt)
Rabbit Season - Some Ships We're Landing
Fidgital - In A Strange City (Fidgital)
Nick Muir - G Platz (Pig and Dan mix) (Audio Therapy)
Navid Tahernia - Mylikestyle (Kompakt)
Exercise One - Diversion (LAN)
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (m_nus)
Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)
Pigon - Promises (Dial)
Lee Jones - Aria (Tiger Stripes) (Aus)
Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Astralwerks)
Mystery Jets - The Boy Who Ran Away (Riton rerub)
Iblamerobot - We Get Eyes
Holy Fuck - Echo Sam (Young turks)
Junior Boys - The Equalizer (Domino)
Shriekback - My Spine Is The Basslien (K7)
Larry Tee - I Love U
Tzadeka - Round Robin (Little Whore)
Barnyard Drama - The Blues

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Swoon 221 - February 11, 2008

Fairmont - All Good Things (Border Community)
Apparat - Over and Over (Shitkatapult)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - It's You (Project)
Mathew Jonson - Real Dreams (Wagon Repair)
Samim - Heater (Robidog mix) (Get Physical)
Legion of Green Men - (Post Contemporary)
M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language (Senor Coconut mix) (Get Physical)
Vector Lovers - Lateshift (Simple)
Ben Klock and Marcel Dettman - Dawning (Revisited) (Bpitchcontrol)
Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha du Prince remix) (Fat Cat)
Force of Nature - Still Going (Transmute remix) (Mule)
Peter Grummich - Therapy (Franklin de Costa rmx) (DoC)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Different)
Mandy vs Booka Shade - O Superman (Get Physical)
Tiger Stripes - Mad At Me
Maxime Dangles - Agujas (Kompakt)
The Mole - Crackbeat (Wagon Repair)
Deadmau5 - Not Exactly (Mau5trap)
Long Distance Runner - Los Nihongoristas (Existential Sounds)
Azeda Booth - Aislinn Bos, Y (Azeda Booth)
Tzedeka - Boogie Man (Little Whore)
Rabbit in the Moon - Dubassex (Contagious)

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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 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

Just in time for the holidays, it's my latest promo mix:

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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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Swoon 214 - December 10, 2007

From Within - Snake Charmer (Fax)
Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet remix) (Merge)
Dvas - Joust (Pop Echo)
Boys Noize - Frau (Turbo)
Artist of the Year - Fun Factor (Universal)
Digitalism - Echoes (Kitsune)
El waxo and the band - Dancing under the sun (Acidsoxx)
Legion of Green Men - Kiqbaq (Post Contemporary)
Bogdan Irkuk - The Distant Message (Get Physical)
Lopazz - 2 Fast 4 U (Get Physical)
Booka Shade - Numbers (K7)
Cobblestone Jazz - Hired Touch (Wagon Repair)
Pheek - De Begg Degg
Gui Boratto - Hera (The Field remix) (Kompakt)
Gavin Herlihy - Praia Brava (Jesse's Made To Play Dub)
Guy J - Amsterdam (Dogtown)
Eightcubed - Frankenstein Yah Yah
Plastikman - Kricket (Rapster)
Acid Jesus - Radium (Rapster)
Robert Hood - Minus (Rapster)
Soundwarp - Dk 85 (So called)
Samim - Setupone (Get Physical)
Bitrate - Entre les deux (Db)

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Swoon 212 - November 26, 2007

Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Radioslave remix) (Parlophone)
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Turn Around (Cassy Smooth mix) (Ostgut Ton)
Shinedoe - Phunk (Ricardo Villalobos mix)
Lopazz - Share My Rhythm (Get Physical)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - Alone
Tom Middleton - Shinkansen (Big Chill)
Danuel Tate - Bloss (Wagon Repair)
Ghislain Poirier - Hit & Red (Ninja Tune)
Hospitals - Poppycock
DJ Vadim - Saskatoon (Bbe)
Caribou - Niobe (Merge)
Feu Therese - (Nada)
Artist of the Year - If It Ain't Dirty It Ain't Fun (Universal)
Boys Noize - Arcade Robot (Last gang)
Navid Tahernia - Mylikestyle (Kompakt)
Donnacha Costello - Opal
Tiger Stripes - Mad at me (Get Physical)
Reshuffle - Hedonism (Liebe Detail)
Cobblestone Jazz - Slap the Back (Wagon Repair)
Burial - Near Dark (Hyperdub)
Luisito Quintero - Quintero's Jam (Bbe)
Chromeo - Call Me Up (Last gang)
Citywide Vacuum - Souvenirs (Eleven37)

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Swoon 211 - November 19, 2007

Bitrate - Hauntingly silent (Db)
Legion of Green Men - Slowbaq (Post Contemporary)
Hrsta - Entre La Mer et L'Eau Douce (Constellation)
Dante and Dhula - Why Do The Wicked Ones Rule (Do Right!)
Akiko Kiyama - Untitled (District of Corruption)
Dusty Kid - Milk (Systematic)
Pierce and Twirdy - Cuaba (Babicz in Full efx)
Raudive - Needles (Steve Bug mix) (Poker Flat)
Pheek - De Begg Degg
Terre Thaemlitz - Yann Live at acropolis (Max Mohr remix) (Mule)
Louderbach - Season 6 (Ellen Alien away remix) (M_nus)
Mike Shannon - Devotional (Cynosure)
Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds (Wagon Repair)
Chymera - A Question
Dj Remy - Scrap (Armed)
HOSH - Steppenwolf
Samim - Zleep (Get Physical)
SCSI-9 - Another Day Acid (Kompakt)
Sasha - Coma (Emfire)
Aril Brikkha - Berghain (Kompakt)

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Swoon 208 - October 15, 2007

Tom Middleton – Larynx (Big Chill)
Supermayer – Two Of Us (Kompakt)
Lee van Dowski – The Strike Pandemonium (Soma)
Cobblestone Jazz – Saturday Night (Wagon Repair)
Junior Boys – Like A Child (Carl Craig mix) (Domino)
Diagoro – Etch (Touchin Bass)
Boards of Canada – Satellite Anthem Icarus (Warp)
Sabres of Paradise – Ano Electro (Warp)
Legion of Green Men – Kiqbaq (Post Contemporary)
Feist – My Moon My Man (Boyz Noize mix) (Last Gang)
DVAS – Le Tino (Xxxtended mix) (Pop Echo)
Mathew Jonson – Real Dreams (Wagon Repair)
Chromeo – My Girl Is Calling Me (A Liar) (Last Gang)
Robin Judge – Track 7 (Noise Factory)
Mike Shannon – Ghost Writer Blues (Cynosure)
Kabale und Liebe – Simpossible (Pheek mix) (Meerestief)
Troy Pierce, Heartthrob – Horse Nation Amended (M_nus)
Minilogue – The Leopard (Extrawelt remix) (Traum)
Burger/Voigt – Bring Trance Back To Life (Kompakt)
Samim – Heater (Get Physical)
DJ Gregory – Elle (Ame piano mix) (Yellow)

Swoon 206 - October 1, 2007

DiskJokke - Flok L Farta (Kindisch)
Jeremy P. Caulfield - Lacewing Puff (Dumb Unit)
Greenbeam and Leon - Fisher (Unfoundsound) <--- free download, click on unreleases
Will Saul and Tam Cooper - Sequential Circuits (Gui Boratto mix) (Simple)
Cobblestone Jazz - PDB (Wagon repair)
Small Fish With Spine - High Fibre (Oxide)
Aphex Twin - Ziggomatic 17 (Warp)
Squarepusher - Planetarium (Warp)
Orbital - Meltdown (Ffrr)
Lawrence - Friday's child (Mule electroniq)
Five Green Circle - Ronan's BBQ (Xhim remix) (Meerestief)
Wighnomy Bros. - My Gloomy Head (Musik Krause)
Quenum - Acalanto (Orac)
Pan-pot - Charly (Anja Schneider mix) (Mobilee)
Slam - No One Left To Follow (Soma)
Marc Houle - Techno Vocals (M-nus)
Alex Tsiridis - Oshhh (Hedges and Beaner mix) (DoC)
Schaeben and Voss - Blaze (Kompakt)
Dusty Kid - The Cat (Southern Fried)
Pryda - Ironman (Pryda)
Philip Sherburne - Lumberjacking (LAN)

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Swoon 205 - September 24, 2007

Acid Eiffel - Choice
Minilogue - Space (Traum)
Canvas - The Cat (RebelOne)
Cristian Vogel - DD Engine (Station 55)
Bola - Diamortem (Skam)
Pheek - De Begg Degg
Citywide Vacuum - Interlude (Eleven37)
Trentemoller - Klodsmajor
Trentemoller - Snowflake
Trentemoller - Dangerous Global Warming
HRSTA - Tomorrow Winter Comes (Constellation)
Cobblestone Jazz - Change Your Apesuit (Wagon Repair)
Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Ewan Pearson's Disco Odyssey)

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Swoon 204 - September 17, 2007

Terre Thaemlitz – She’s Hard (Archive of Silence 2007) (Mule)
Jochem Paap – mbnt-plng (Fax)
Paul Kalkbrenner – Altes Kamueffel (Bpitchcontrol)
Peace Division – Voodoo (It’s In The Walls)
Shinedoe and Innersphere – Phunk (Ricardo Villalobos mix)
Gurtz – Sum
RQM & Filewile – Damn (Jahcoozi remix)
Deadmau5 – Not Exactly (Mau5trap)
Cobblestone Jazz – Hired Touch (Wagon Repair)
Maxime Dangles – Love Water (K2)
Daniel Briegert – Belten Wummler (Oscar remix)
Luka and Lazo – Dust no. 4 (Barem remix)
Einmusik – (Italic)
DJ Remy – Wink (Armed)
Crowdpleaser and St. Plomb – 18 Years (One Day in Boston mix) (Mental Groove)
Tiefschwarz – Blow (Radio Slave mix)
Robag Wruhme – Dopamin (Musik Krause)
X-press2 – Kill 100 (Carl Craig mix) (Skint)
Trentemoller, Buda – Gamma (Minilogue remix)

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Swoon 203 - September 10, 2007

Cristian Vogel - FloPo (Station 55)
Luciano - Afghan Birds (Cadenza)
NAW - 3 (Noise Factory)
Plastikman - In Side (M-nus)
Wechsel Garland - Swim (Kosi edit) (Kalk pets)
Lazy Fat People - Big City (Mirko's Tool) (Border Community)
The Black Dog - Mr. Burroughs To the Curiosity Phone (Dust Science)
Intus - Absolut (K2)
Extrawelt - Soopertrack (Sooperfool Tool) (Border Community)
Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds (Wagon Repair)
Patrice Baumel - Fantomas (Trapez)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Der Senat (bpitchcontrol)
Easy Changes - Caviar (Foundsound)
Deetron - Life Soundtrack (rejected interpretation)
Kollektiv Turnstrasse - Tristesse (Connaisseur)
Supermayer - Two Of Us (Kompakt)
DJ Yellow - No More Enemie
Pete Heller - Simpler (New Mix) (Phela)
Maxime Dangles - Agujas (K2)
Max Cavallera - Luck n Love
Paranoid Jack - Last Daze (Stickman)
Lawrence - Rabbit Tube (Mule Electroniq)

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