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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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.

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 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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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 238 - June 16, 2008

Ellen Allien - Bim (Bpitchcontrol)
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Tambours) (Perlon)
Plastikman - Snark (M_nus)
Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts - God Damn the whole shebang
Process - City-zen (Traum)
Opopo - Dktrdktr (Urbnet)
Tigerrr beat - Hold my hand
Artist of the year - Haha (Universal)
Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor mix) (Ninja tune)
Sinequanon - Lenine rock (Sulpont)
Lazersnake - Omnibox
The orb - Lost and found (Six degrees)
Fidgital - H1b
Extrawelt - Dist Theme (Kompass Musik)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Big Dipper (Wagon Repair)
69 - Rushed (K7)
Handwerk - 3Aa (Handwerk)
Super Flu - Sunset handjob (traum)
Tom Wax and Boris Alexander - Daybreak
Hrdvision - Playing Daddy's Girl (Wagon Repair)
Samuli Kemppl - Vangel (Ostgut ton)
Lucy - Aleinda (Meerestief lImited)
Philip Sherburne - The Claim (Lan)
Booka Shade - Solo City (Get Physical)

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Swoon 231 - April 28, 2008

IMPS - Get a grip (Mule)
Falko Brocksieper - (Face It)
Junior Boys - Caught in a wave (Domino)
Off the international radar - For Mary (Off the international radar)
Martyn - Velvet (3024)
Laurent Garnier - Greed (Mute)
Deadmau5 56 - Monday
Nathan Fake - You Are Here (Border Community)
Gui Boratto - Tales from the lab (Sian remix) (Defrag)
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Marionette (Adam Beyer mix) (Wagon Repair)
Norman Nodge - Native Rhythm Electric (Ostgut Ton)
Italoboyz - At de Stella (Get Physical)
Internullo - Sentimente (Nea Marin remix) (Desolat)
Lowfish - 999 (Satamile)
Lazersnake - New Years Eve
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating (Last Gang)
Oldfolks Home - Power of the Sun
Black Dog Productions - ¾ Heart (Warp)
Sintemu - A Photo (Electronic Eel)
Federleicht - On the Streets (Connaisseur)

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Swoon 225 - March 17, 2008

Gus Gus - Moss (Tim Deluxe mix)
Lazy Fat People - Pixel Girl (Carl Craig mix) (Planet E)
Minilogue - Orglar B (Minilogue)
Andre Vivanco - Madre Tierra (Cadenza)
Misstress Barbara - Barcelona (Border Community)
Fairmont - (Border Community)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Wagon Repair)
Francois K - Wave of Life (Radio Slave Dub) (Wave)
James Zabiela - Perseverance (Renaissance)
Ada - Fizzmann (Areal)
Lowfish - Krak (Satamile)
Boyz Noize - Shine Shine (Apparat remix) (Last Gang)
Tigerrr beat - Cherry Stems
Liaisons Dangereuses - Los Ninos del Parque (Strut)
Crystal Castles - Through the Hosiery (Last Gang)
Simon Beeston - Krankenwagen (District of Corruption)
Herve AK - Sorry But No (Ripperton's D3 remix)
Kaliber - 15A (Kaliber)
Tiger Stripes - Hooked (Liebe Detail)
Guy J - Save Me (Bedrock)
Sinequanon - Lenine Rock
Junior Boys - The Equalizer (Domino)
Goldfrapp - Happiness (Mute)

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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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Larry Tee's 'I Love U' video.

Pushing cute and catchy to the extreme:




From Missingtoof.

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 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 213 - December 3, 2007

Cobblestone Jazz - Intro (Wagon Repair)
Marc Houle - Techno Vocals (M_nus)
Sasha - Park it in the shade (Emfire)
Samim - Blackdeath (Get Physical)
Tiga - Hot In Here (Radioslave remix) (Turbo)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - To the top
Dom, Kole - Monster Eats The Pilot
Donnacha Costello - Grape A
Jeremy Caulfield - Nude Beach (Dumb Unit)
Dubfire - Ribcage
Exercise One - Wandering (LAN)
Fairmont - Gazebo Tool (Border Community)
ZTT - Lower State of Consciousness (Justice remix) (Turbo)
Wacker & Zittrich - Rough Collies (Meerestief)
Someone Else - Play It Kershaw (Easy Changes mozgity remix) (Foundsound)
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Cathedral (Ostgut Ton)
Slam - Azure (Radioslave remix) (Soma)
John Digweed - Gridlock (Renaissance)
Mathew Jonson - Real Dreams (Wagon Repair)
Boys Noize - Let's Buy Happiness (Turbo)
Artist of the Year - Track 11
Eightcubed - Sexxy Time
DVAS -

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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)

Bleep.com sale of all Warp albums

Bleep.com is having a sale. Every album from Warp is $6.99 US during September. This is quite a deal. So, here's ten Warp classics to get you started.

LFO - Frequencies (1991) It's why the site's called bleep.
Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves (1993) excellent early Aphex Twin.
Autechre - Amber (1994) Melodic, quirky, and deeply moving. It's their best album.
The Black Dog - Spanners (1995) Huge variety of tracks, and it all fits together.
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (1995) Of all the Aphex Twin albums, this one fits together best as an album.
Various: Blech II Blechsdottir (1996) Megamix of Warp tracks.
Vincent Gallo: Recordings of Music For Film (2002) A collection of short, often beautiful tracks.
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher (2002) A very mature album. Though short, it's great.
Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase (2005) It all comes together for BoC.
Jamie Lidell: Multiply (2005) Soul, from an unexpected source.

Swoon 190 - June 11, 2007

Future Loop Foundation - 1976
Depeche Mode - Sinner in Me (Ricardo Villalobos Conclave mix) (Mute)
Riley Reinhold - Lights In Your Eyes (MBF)
Junior Boys - In the Morning (Hot Chip remix) (Domino)
Misstress Barbara - Jamais Moi Sans Toi (Border Community)
Andrea Parker and David Morley - Uninvited (Touchin Bass)
Depeche Mode - Martyr (Alex Smoke Gravel mix) (Mute)
Zander VT - Offroad Camping (Bpitchcontrol)
Claude von Stroke - The Whistler (Audiofly remix) (Go deeva)
Motorcitysoul - Kazan (My My mix) (Aus)
Phenonyma - Got the Urge (Stasis mix) (New Electronica)
My My - Southern Comfort (Playhouse)
Stephan Bodzin - Mondfahrt (Herzblut)
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Ghostly International)
Apparat - Fractales (Ibiza mix) (Shitkatapult)
Underworld - Rez (Exp)