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v/a: 50 Weapons Of Choice #30-39 (50 Weapons, 2013)

June 9, 2013 at 5:39 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

v/a: 50 Weapons Of Choice #30-39

Latest comp of tracks from the limited 12″s on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label, which started in 2006 but didn’t really pick up steam until a few years ago. Dark Sky starts the comp off with some slow, heavy bass eruptions and shuddering claps, then picks up a 4/4 beat which skips a beat every other bar, and ticking hi-hats, and some light pads, not too much of a melody. Phon.o’s “Schn33” starts with a classy disco-house beat, then builds to a dramatic progressive house melody. Addison Groove’s “I Go Boom” continues his melding of Chicago juke/footwork with UK bass, looping the titular phrase over mellow synths and detailed, slightly aggressive percussion. Bambounou’s “Deepstaria” has burbling, Drexciyan synths (think “Bubble Metropolis”) and a kicking beat, but doesn’t add too many other elements over its 9 minute running time. Thom Yorke’s Atoms For Peace project appears in remixed form, with the “Stuck Together” mix of “Other Side”. It starts with quiet, clicky beats and bass, and some hard-panning synths bubble up into the beat pattern, and gradually Thom Yorke’s voice sneaks its way into the mix, albeit mangled and looped. The track stays minimal, but it keeps growing and changing, and ends with some vocodered vocals and a pretty synth melody. Really an impressive track, definitely more interesting than anything else I’ve heard fromt his project. After this is a typically mindblowing track by Anstam, who is easily the secret weapon of 50 Weapons. It starts out with a huge blast of almost breakcore-intense beats, then turns into a slower, glitch-heavy tempo, with dialog samples, and sung vocals saying “hey boy, don’t you wanna dance?”, tabla-sounding percussion, and some ecstatic synthwork. Really not sure why people don’t talk about Anstam more, everything I’ve heard by him has been fantastic. Next up is a track by 2562’s alias A Made Up Sound, a clunky, disjointed techno track called “Malfunction (Despair)”, which starts off with a flickering synth pattern which makes you wonder which direction the track is going to go, but then it completely changes direction once the beat comes in, although the flickering sound does reappear underneath the beat, along with some synths providing a hint of light. Cosmin TRG’s “Sommer” is typical of his recent output, steadily building techno with lots of snare rushes and some dubby echoes. Marcel Dettmann’s “Linux” keeps it minimal with a loud thumping beat, but a solitary synth sequence repeating throughout the entire track. Benjamin Damage’s “Swarm” is another minimal techno track with synths that do swarm a little bit, but not as overwhelming as you might expect a track called “Swarm”. Newcomer Datei42’s “They Explore Themselves” is one of the comp’s exclusive bonus tracks, and is slightly dubby minimal techno with an emphasis on sweeping, static-y percussion sounds. Truncate ends the comp with another exclusive track, “Switch”, a big thumping minimal track with a clipped voice repeating something that sounds like “gather”, or maybe “gabber”. So basically, the comp starts out a little moresong-based and varied, and gets more minimal and track-y during its second half. But I guess these are relative terms. Anyway, interesting stuff as always from 50 Weapons.

Show #194 – 6/8/13

June 8, 2013 at 6:48 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Mic break music = Boyle: 2013Disc2

Hour 1
3:01 AM Doug Hream Blunt ~ Gentle Persuasion ~ Under The Influence Volume Three ~ Z Records
3:11 AM Jon Hopkins ~ We Disappear ~ Immunity ~ Domino
3:16 AM Ruxpin ~ As We Exhale, We Enter ~ This Time We Go Together ~ n5MD
3:19 AM Anstam ~ Feed The Pigs ~ 50 Weapons Of Choice #30-39 ~ 50 Weapons
3:23 AM Planet Soap ~ Feeling (Clap! Clap! Remix) ~ mp3 ~ Car Crash Set
3:28 AM Evil Robot Ted ~ Trigger Warning (Super Kawaii Bass Terror 1994 Remix) ~ Brokecore Forever ~ Brokecore
3:31 AM Sergeant Sawtooth ~ Heavens Gate (Qixoni Mix) ~ wav ~ UNRELEASED
3:40 AM DJ Clap ~ 3-25-13 Shorty Mix ~ mp3
3:54 AM Saturday Looks Good To Me ~ Sunglasses Screwed ~ Forever/Inside ~ Life Like
Hour 2
4:00 AM Neuropol ~ Dusky Brights ~ mp3
4:03 AM Oktaf O ~ Space Burial ~ mp3 ~ Deathbomb Arc
4:06 AM Signal Hill ~ Corners ~ Chase The Ghost ~ Sun Sea Sky Productions
4:12 AM Dim Past ~ Winter For The Machine ~ Black Dolphin ~ Other Electricities/Roofless Records
4:20 AM Slava ~ Hold On ~ Raw Solutions ~ Software
4:23 AM [PHYSICS] ~ Cardinal Perplexogram ~ Spectramorphic Iridescence ~ Digitalis
4:26 AM Date Palms ~ Exodus Due West ~ The Dusted Sessions ~ Thrill Jockey
4:41 AM The Ex & Brass Unbound ~ Belomi Benna ~ Enormous Door ~ Ex Records
4:45 AM S.O.S. ~ The Mountain Road ~ Looking For The Next One ~ Cuneiform
4:50 AM Justin Walter ~ Dream Weaving ~ Lullabies & Nightmares ~ Kranky
4:55 AM David Grubbs ~ The Plain Where The Palace Stood ~ The Plain Where The Palace Stood ~ Drag City
Hour 3
5:03 AM Pairs ~ Cosplay Girls ~ Metal Postcard Records Radio Sampler ~ Metal Postcard Records
5:08 AM Ariel Pink ~ Foul Play ~ Thrash & Burn ~ Human Ear Music
5:10 AM Q4U ~ Skemmtistadur ~ Q1 Deluxe Edition 1980-1983 ~ Dark Entries
5:13 AM Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons ~ Blatta ~ Screams To God ~ Dark Entries
5:15 AM Belaboris ~ Odotus ~ Once Upon a Time ~ Dark Entries
5:19 AM Black Bug ~ Onskestenen ~ Reflecting The Light ~ HoZaC
5:22 AM Man Or Astro-Man? ~ Defcon 1 ~ Defcon 5…4…3…2…1 ~ Communicating Vessels
5:25 AM Adventure ~ Happiness ~ Weird Work ~ Carpark
5:39 AM Peals ~ Believers ~ Walking Field ~ Thrill Jockey
5:45 AM Joshua Abrams ~ Moon Hunger ~ Represencing ~ Eremite Records
5:49 AM Quicksails ~ Night Bats ~ Mayville Dream ~ Spectrum Spools
5:53 AM Julian Lynch ~ Gloves ~ Lines ~ Underwater Peoples
5:56 AM Glenn Jones ~ Bergen County Farewell ~ My Garden State ~ Thrill Jockey

Crush Collision 6/6/13

June 7, 2013 at 9:44 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Crush Collision 6/6/13
11:02 PM Goblin ~ Tenebre Remix
11:06 PM Floating Points ~ Vacuum Boogie
11:10 PM Gerry Read ~ Liver
11:13 PM Policy ~ Underpass
11:16 PM Ultrademon ~ Rare
11:20 PM Bobby Browser ~ Airplane Mode
11:26 PM Octo Octa ~ Please Don’t Leave
11:32 PM Moodymann ~ I can’t kick this feelin’ when it hits
11:36 PM Coyote Clean Up ~ Fall Layers Focused
11:41 PM Prostitutes ~ Holy Blessed Sacrament
11:43 PM Aphasiacs ~ It’s Cool
11:48 PM Violetshaped ~ The lord won’t forget
11:54 PM Jon Hopkins ~ Open Eye Signal (Luke Abbott Remix)
11:58 PM Cosmin TRG ~ Vertigo

Show #193 – 6/1/13

June 1, 2013 at 5:18 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Mic break music = Yellow Swans: Psychic Secession
Hour 1
3:01 AM Justin Walter ~ Plastic People ~ Lullabies & Nightmares ~ Kranky
3:06 AM Hectic Zeniths ~ I Might Drown ~ Hectic Zeniths ~ Self-Released
3:10 AM Majical Cloudz ~ Childhood’s End ~ Impersonator ~ Matador
3:13 AM Tricky ~ Is That Your Life ~ False Idols ~ !K7
3:16 AM We Are Loud Whispers ~ Starcrossed ~ Suchness ~ Hardly Art
3:19 AM Wild Nothing ~ On Guyot ~ Empty Estate ~ Captured Tracks
3:28 AM Saturday Looks Good To Me ~ The Ever-Present New Times Condition ~ One Kiss Ends It All ~ Polyvinyl
3:33 AM Saltland ~ Unholy ~ I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us ~ Constellation
3:37 AM The Smiths ~ There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [by request] ~ The Queen Is Dead ~ Sire
3:41 AM Lorna ~ Mina And Marco ~ Heart Of Wire ~ Words On Music
3:45 AM Survival ~ Our Way ~ Survival ~ Thrill Jockey
3:51 AM Blue Cranes ~ Polarnatt ~ Swim ~ Cuneiform
Hour 2
4:00 AM Diego Barber & Hugo Cipres ~ New York Citric ~ 411 ~ Origin
4:03 AM Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor ~ Sul Volo ~ Transfer ~ Unsounds
4:06 AM Beti ~ Khooneh Khaleh ~ Tisheh O Risheh ~ Pharaway Sounds
4:10 AM Yupin Kanfung ~ Sao Isan Lam Khaen ~ Theppabutr Productions: The Man Behind The Molam Sound 1972-1975 ~ ZudRangMa Records/Light In The Attic Records
4:14 AM Sun City Girls ~ Gum Arabic ~ Eye Mohini: Sun City Girls Singles Vol. 3 ~ Abduction
4:15 AM Sao Paulo Underground ~ A Arvore De Cereja E Ausente ~ Beija Flors Velho E Sujo ~ Cuneiform
4:18 AM Peals ~ Lonestar ~ Walking Field ~ Thrill Jockey
4:23 AM David Grubbs ~ Super-Adequate ~ The Plain Where The Palace Stood ~ Drag City
4:34 AM Man Or Astro-Man? ~ Defcon 2 ~ Defcon 5…4…3…2…1 ~ Communicating Vessels
4:36 AM Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons ~ Psch ~ Screams To God ~ Dark Entries
4:42 AM Q4U ~ Plastic Vision ~ Q1 Deluxe Edition 1980-1983 ~ Dark Entries
4:44 AM Belaboris ~ Monsteribaari ~ Once Upon a Time ~ Dark Entries
4:48 AM Black Bug ~ Slay Them ~ Reflecting The Light ~ HoZaC
4:50 AM Jenny Hval ~ I Called ~ Innocence Is Kinky ~ Rune Grammofon
4:53 AM Blanche Blanche Blanche ~ I Circle Near ~ Wooden Ball ~ NNA Tapes
4:55 AM Slava ~ I Know ~ Raw Solutions ~ Software
Hour 3
5:01 AM Taylor Deupree ~ Shutter ~ Faint ~ 12k
5:10 AM 303 Committee ~ Junta ~ 303 Committee ~ Inam Records
5:14 AM Chris Abrahams ~ Stablize Ruined ~ Memory Night ~ Room40
5:21 AM Mike Cooper ~ The Ordeal ~ White Shadows In The South Seas ~ Room40
5:25 AM Bibio ~ You Won’t Remember ~ Silver Wilkinson ~ Warp
5:34 AM Julian Lynch ~ Lines ~ Lines ~ Underwater Peoples
5:39 AM Implodes ~ Melted Candle ~ Recurring Dream ~ Kranky
5:43 AM [PHYSICS] ~ Emerald Forest ~ Spectramorphic Iridescence ~ Digitalis
5:46 AM Marisa Anderson ~ Furnace Creek ~ Mercury ~ Mississippi Records
5:50 AM Daft Punk ~ Giorgio By Moroder ~ Random Access Memories ~ Columbia