July | 2015 | The Answer Is In The Beat

Art of Ballistics: REX 84 (Lowatt, 2015)

July 9, 2015 at 7:20 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Art of Ballistics: REX 84

This EP kind of came out of nowhere, but basically it sounds like the type of instrumental hip-hop Ninja Tune and Shadow used to crank out loads of in the ’90s. As in, BREAKBEATS, not trap beats or glitchy samples. Hard, crunchy beats tapped out on a dusty old sampler. There’s smooth keyboards and enough progression to make these feel like songs rather than just sample collages, but it still sounds like something your favorite ’90s underground MC could flow over. It’s been done before, but it doesn’t sound like what most producers are doing today, so it’s refreshing. Streaming on Bandcamp.

Portopia ’81: Jet Stream tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2015)

July 5, 2015 at 6:13 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Portopia ’81: Jet Stream tape

Portopia ’81 is one of many aliases of Japanese electronic music veteran Shin Buchikama, who runs a prolific tape label called Ginjoha. This tape is filled with bright, melodic synth-pop with vocoderized vocals and starry, cosmic synths. It’s way closer to YMO than most stuff you’d expect an ambient/new age tape label to release these days. It’s just refreshing to hear something like this from someone who’s been in the music business for decades, yet it still sounds fresh and exciting. Available on CTatsu’s Bandcamp.

Show #296 – 7/4/15

July 4, 2015 at 4:06 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

mic break music = Yan Jun and Jonathan Chen: With No Audience
3:00 AM Oneohtrix Point Never ~ Bullet Hell Abstraction III ~ Commissions II ~ Warp
3:05 AM Helm ~ Outerzone 2015 ~ Olympic Mess ~ Pan
3:17 AM Somec ~ Skan ~ Source of Uncertainty ~ Haunter Records
3:20 AM Sparkling Wide Pressure ~ Resonate Energy Balloon ~ Undedicated Demos 2015 ~ Bandcamp
3:30 AM Piper Spray ~ Krolorog Vs Benzaldehyde Monster ~ Krolorog ~ Hausu Mountain
3:35 AM Oscar Mulero ~ Muscle and Mind ~ Muscle and Mind ~ Pole Recordings
3:42 AM Drexciya ~ Polymono Plexusgel ~ Hydro Doorways ~ Tresor
3:46 AM Drexciya ~ Lost Vessel ~ Hydro Doorways ~ Tresor
3:51 AM Drexciya ~ Draining of the Tanks ~ Neptune’s Lair ~ Tresor
3:54 AM Gossamer ~ Okuma ~ Automaton ~ Innovative Leisure
4:00 AM Venetian Snares ~ Flashforward ~ Detrimentalist ~ Planet Mu
4:06 AM Frank Zappa ~ RDNZL ~ Läther ~ Ryko
4:15 AM Scharpling & Wurster ~ Bryce #3 ~ The Best Of The Best Show ~ Numero Group
4:34 AM Scharpling & Wurster ~ Sleepy Man Explodes ~ The Best Of The Best Show ~ Numero Group
4:35 AM Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza ~ Fata Morgana ~ Deutsche Elektronische Musik 2 ~ Soul Jazz
4:40 AM Dieter Moebius ~ Hasenheide ~ Deutsche Elektronische Musik ~ Soul Jazz
4:43 AM Asmus Tietchens ~ Zeebrugge ~ Deutsche Elektronische Musik ~ Soul Jazz
4:50 AM Benoit Hutin ~ Jan De La Griula ~ Occitania ~ 31
4:53 AM Perrey & Kingsley ~ Unidentified Flying Object ~ The In Sound From Way Out ~ Vanguard
4:55 AM Michael Perkins ~ Esteban ~ MR 666 ~ Ghost Arcade
4:58 AM Esteban ~ track 4 ~ Cuban Pride ~ cdr
5:01 AM A.P. Mike ~ Michael Perry ~ mp3 ~ Bandcamp
5:04 AM Hieroglyphic Being ~ The Strenuous Life ~ Machines For Lovers ~ Spectral Sound
5:12 AM Kyle Hall ~ Kaychunk ~ 12″ ~ Hyperdub
5:17 AM Drexciya ~ Aquarazorda ~ Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller I ~ Clone
5:23 AM Holy Noise ~ The Nightmare (The Dream) ~ The Nightmare (The Final Remixes) ~ Rotterdam Records
5:34 AM Container ~ Absorb ~ LP [2015] ~ Spectrum Spools
5:37 AM Nozinja ~ N’wanga I Jesu ~ Nozinja Lodge ~ Warp
5:41 AM BOAN ~ Mentiras ~ Mentiras ~ Holodeck
5:46 AM The Orb ~ Moonbuilding 2703 AD ~ Moonbuilding 2703 AD ~ Kompakt

Crush Collision 7/2/15

July 4, 2015 at 3:07 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

The second hour was a set from returning special guest The Silent Ech0!
Hour 1
10:01 PM Ryan Huber ~ Degenerates
10:06 PM Michael Mayer ~ The Stickler
10:11 PM Luigi Tozzi ~ Nostos
10:14 PM Progression ~ The Coriolis Effect
10:18 PM Sinfol ~ Unstable (Francois X Remix)
10:22 PM Sleeparchive ~ Window – 092 (Oscar Mulero Remix)
10:27 PM Psyk ~ Powder
10:30 PM Gaja ~ Appear
10:34 PM Eomac ~ Frozen Souls
10:42 PM Ø [Phase] ~ Tunnel Vision
10:46 PM Stanislav Tolkachev ~ White Blood Cell
10:51 PM Somatic Responses ~ Conspiracy Signals
10:53 PM Obscure Formats ~ Format Two
10:57 PM Surgeon ~ Krautrock
Hour 2
11:02 PM The Silent Ech0 ~ LIVE DJ SET!!!!