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 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 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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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.

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Muting the Noise

Ambient music has been largely underground since its heyday in the early and mid 90s. Yes, there's been occasional releases that were good or excellent, but most producers have been innovating elsewhere. So, it's a pleasant surprise to hear so many good tracks on a new ambient compilation, Muting the Noise, on Innervisions.

The tracks all sound very modern, only a few are imitating the 90s. Like the ambient music of the 90s, they keep it very chilled.

The three best tracks are in the middle of the disc and are all quite different from each other. Ame begins the trio with "Doldrums", which combines a french horn, xylophones and other instruments for soothing, relaxing experience. Henrik Schwarz follows with "Arthur", a wonderful track with only piano, bells and a bit of bass. The melody repeats and subtly shifts throughout the track. I wonder if it was played live or programmed. Either way, it's a standout. i:cube follows with "Nuees Ardentes", a bubbly synth driven piece that sounds somewhat like Global Communications or Tangerine Dream.

Among the remaining seven tracks, Stefan Goldmann provides one of the better ones. "Life After Death" is a gently processed cello slowly examining a melody. A couple of bells complete the track. Kammerflimmer Kollektiv has the only track with vocals, "That's How The Lights Gets In". Koss presents "Negai", which sounds like a tribute to Tetsu Inoue. It's slow, delicate and spacy.

Finally, Klaus Schulz appears with the 18-minute "Invisible Musik". It was probably a coup to get him on this compilation, but it's not one of the best tracks here.

People still want like this kind of music, especially in clubs. See this mnml ssgs post, or this interview with Pole. Or read the press release for this cd:

At the beginning of the 90s it was normal to have an ambient floor on every bigger techno or house party. This culture got lost in the new millenium though - it became a niche and went more into cultural activities.

It will be released May 19.

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 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)
Fidgital -

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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)

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 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 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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Shut Up and Dance

Five long tracks here, on a compilation that is not designed to be danced to by the average punter, but rather by professional dancers and ballet troupes.

First up is NSI, with "Bridge and Tunnel People". It's a 14-minute ambient piece, with no beats until three minutes in. At the point the beats kick and pop with irregular beats, and stabby, chopped melodies. It's very bass heavy. In the middle it breaks up into random, abstract sounds before returning to a jazz-influenced section, with plenty of work on the ride cymbal and cowbell. It's pretty intense.

Next is Sleeparchive, with a buzzy, slower minimal techno track. There's a lot of acidic noises. Not bad if you like that style.

Ame centres the compilation with "Fiori", which has been creating a huge buzz. The 17-minute track begins with a long, beatless opening, before the beats kick in around 8 minutes. From there, it's a long, epic progressive house track. Is it like Rej, which destroyed dancefloors everywhere last year? Yes, it's big and it's quality, but it's not quite as catchy.

Luciano follows Ame with the most club-friendly track, the techno "Drunken Ballet". It's fairly straightforward, and not as complex as some of his recent productions and collaborations. But the vocal and melody samples are chopped up in an interesting, cute way that will bring a smile to your face.

Luke Slater, working under his The 7th Plain pseudonym, ends the album with a long ambient piece, "Symphony for the Surrealists". It's pretty much a symphony, with different movements. At the beginning, the strings are quite lush, and are underpinned by breathy choir sounds and gentle synths. Then it breaks up and goes a little crazy, with bleeps, reversed blips, clicks and other sounds. Then comes a piano interlude, before it goes into icy ambience, and finishes with some experimental beats. It's a very good piece.

Overall, it's great a selection of modern dance music. I like it a lot and think the best tracks are from Ame, NSI and Luke Slater.

The plan is for the Staatsballet Berlin to perform live to these tracks on June 29, in Berlin at th Berghain club. Sounds like a very interesting show.

It will be out as an album on May 29, 2007, on the Ostgut record label.

Tobias Thomas - Please Please Please

Tobias Thomas' Please Please Please is one of the least melodic mix cds I have ever heard. That's not a bad thing, I just wanted to get it out of the way up front. It's minimal, and not melodic.

The first 13 minutes are beatless and almost shapeless, with two abstract tracks from Pantha du Prince and Adolf Noise intermingled. Things pick up as Thomas eases us into some beats with Krause Duo's "Kingpult", before sliding into Johannes Heil's "Aquarius", a suitably submarine track. Then some scratchy noises bring us into Vulva String Quartett's "Wild Wild Berry".

It's followed by various techno tracks from Ricardo Villalobos, The Kooky Scientist (fun acid blippiness), and others from the minimal and techno scenes. Most of the tracks are slower, and as I mentioned before, have no melody to speak of, at least not one that is hummable.

After this section, the speed picks up abruptly, with tracks from Thomas Burger, Reinhard Voigt, and less well known minimal and techno artists. It's a bubbly and fairly funky section.

As a finale, Thomas changes gears again, and goes into a slower, poppy ending anchored by two tracks. The first is by International Pony, with a very out of tune melody. But it's oddly catchy. The second is Thomas Geiger's "Stella Dreams", a house ending with strong female vocals.

It's a very interesting, idiosyncratic mix that certainly stands out from the crowd. There are no commercial hits or anthems to make you rock out. Still, it's a good listen. If you can handle the lack of melody, go for it.

It will be out on Kompakt on April 30.

Swoon 172 - January 22, 2007

Two Lone Swordsmen - Spin Desire (Rotters Golf Club)
Robag Wruhme - Ikkes Schlozze (Musik Krause)
Superpitcher - Lick the Pipe (Kompakt)
The Mole - Consumer (Shitkatapult)
Electromenager – Wet (Shitkatapult)
Neon Tetra - Hidden Secret (Noise Factory)
Kinder Atom – Bubble (nice and smooth)
Shout out out out out - Procrastinator's Fight Song (Normals Welcome)
Minilogue - Elephant's Parade (Wagon Repair)
[a]pendics.shuffle and Mikael Stavostrand —Stanislav (Adjunct)
Mike Shannon - Ghost Writer Blues (Cynosure)
Lee Jones - There Comes a Time (Aus)
Matzak - Algol Star (Boxer)
Pantha du Prince - Steiner Im Flug (Dial)
Ripperton - 10a (Liebe Detail)
Mark Henning – Pokerbot (Trapez)
Jeremy Caulfield - Nude Beach (Dumb Unit)
Trentemoller – Always Something Better (Trentemoller mix) (Poker Flat)
Dick Acidsoxx and Waxen W. Wane – Neck Tar (Acidsoxx)
Maisie – Universal (Acidsoxx)
Enigma – Hello and Welcome (EMI)

Richie Hawtin's 2006

Richie Hawtin has an interesting diary of 2006. You can learn what the year of a top tier DJ is like.

From Karaoke to Stardom - Mon Dieu Moi Aussi

This release from From Karaoke To Stardom has been out a while, but sometimes I need to let things stew a while before I can realize what they're really like. In short, this is a really cool minimal release.

On the A side is Beat Zen Square Zen Zen. As I said, it's minimal with an up and down bassline and looped bleeps as accompaniment.

B1 is Elastic Time Bubble, which I think is the best track. This time the bassline throbs and oozes, the kick drum is punchier, and the melody is twinkly but haunting.

B2 is Maguliadura. It's more like the B1 track, with another haunting melody, which is accompanied by looped strings. It's a bit more uplifting. It's not as fast as the other tracks and is a nice way to end a fine ep.

It's out now on Rrygular.