Marek Hemmann: Moments (Freude Am Tanzen Recordings, 2016)

December 4, 2016 at 9:05 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Marek Hemmann: Moments

Marek Hemmann: Moments

Third album from a German techno dude. He doesn’t stick to typical 4/4 beat patterns, sometimes there’s a slumped-down garage beat, as on the first track, and other times there’s light breakbeats or other details to the rhythms. Also, this dude loves melodies. The melodies are bright and sparkly, and they progress nicely. These are dance tracks, and they’re instrumental, but they’re still songs. It gets kind of bright and dramatic without sounding like trance or progressive house. It’s bright and cheerful, but there’s a hint of melancholy to it. “Ginger” is the one most likely to get stuck in your head. “Comonia” is a little more uptempo than the rest. All of it is pretty good.

STAR: Devastator (Lovely Rebel Records, 2007/reissued by Saint Marie Records, 2016)

December 4, 2016 at 9:03 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

STAR: Devastator

STAR: Devastator

Reissue of a one-off album by a shoegaze group featuring Scott Cortez of Lovesliescrushing. It’s definitely not as weird or experimental as that band. The songs here are mostly around 2 minutes each, and they have heavy, noisy, trippy guitar effects and ethereal vocals and distorted beats. Not a major lost classic, but if you’re into shoegaze, it’s pretty damn good.

Sankt Otten + N: Männerfreundschaften Und Metaphysik (Denovali Records, 2016)

December 4, 2016 at 9:01 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Sankt Otten + N: Männerfreundschaften Und Metaphysik

Sankt Otten + N: Männerfreundschaften Und Metaphysik

Sankt Otten have released over a dozen albums/EPs since 1999, but that’s nothing compared to N, who has about four dozen, apparently. Both artists are pretty hard to keep up with (especially N, my god). I’ve heard Sankt Otten described as trip-hop, but that must apply to their earlier stuff, because this is far from that league. This is a series of eight lengthy improvisations, which tend to be dark and noisy. “Massiere die Maschine” is a lengthy Krautrock thriller, which heads straight into the heart of despair with its motorik rhythm and rustling guitars and pianos. “Manchmal Schmeckt Nichtmal Der Kaffee” is more of a slow, weary crawl through an endless dark tunnel with no indication of an exit. “Auf Drei Lassen Wir Los”… so bleak and doomy, but not at all doom metal. Creeping nightmare soundtrack. “Milchmädchen Und Herrenschokolade” seems like it might be looking upward, somewhat. Then “Diese Bessere Welt Ist Auch Nicht Besser” is just cold and unforgiving. Magnificent album.

Morlox: Alien Death Strike/Public cassingle + Remixes cdr (Backwards Records, 2016)

December 4, 2016 at 8:30 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Morlox: Alien Death Strike/Public Remixes cdr

Morlox: Alien Death Strike/Public Remixes cdr

So Denver-based Pat Urn (Syphilis Sauna) is now going by the name Morlox. He released an album called Join The… earlier this year, and two of the songs are on a cassingle (!) and a ton of remixes are available. “Alien Death Strike” is a fast, blippy breakcore/chiptune-ish song, and “Public” is a sly, creepy tune with alien-sounding vocals about wanting to do perverted things in public, and it’s surrounded by rapidly shuffling hyper-breaks. The synth chords drift slowly but the beats are fast and skittery. From these two songs, there’s over a dozen remixes. The first 2 mixes crush the songs to bits, but D/SIR’s mix heads to the goth club. Church Fire’s mix has quick, hammering beats, but also a more relaxed droney middle part. Kristachuwan’s version has some pumping beats, but it’s way more abstract and spaced out, with distant, echoing voices and smudgy synths. Technicolor Yawn focuses on the dilapidated, obliterated beat shards, while Jared Pfalmer turns “Public” into an industrial metal rager. Also, some guy named Qixoni is on here too. Do the Bandcamp thing.

Show #370 – 12/3/16

December 3, 2016 at 3:05 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

R.I.P. Mark Goodings of Hidden Agenda
Hour 1
2:01 am Hidden Agenda ~ “Dispatches #2” ~ 12″ ~ Metalheadz ~ 1996
2:08 am Hidden Agenda ~ “The Flute Tune” ~ Platinum Breakz ~ Metalheadz ~ 1996
2:15 am Burial ~ “Young Death” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2016
2:21 am Burial ~ “Nightmarket” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2016
2:30 am Outer Space ~ “Gemini Suite Side B” ~ Gemini Suite (new) ~ Amethyst Sunset ~ 2016
2:47 am Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani ~ “Closed Circuit” ~ Sunergy (new) ~ Rvng Intl ~ 2016
Hour 2
3:00 am Telefon Tel Aviv ~ “Eight Track Project (Archive 99)” ~ Fahrenheit Far Enough (reissue) ~ Ghostly International ~ 1999
3:03 am Erast ~ “save_game: HET” ~ Cyberpunk ~ Laboratory Instinct ~ 2006
3:07 am die Reihe ~ “side A” ~ Housed (new) ~ NNA Tapes ~ 2016
3:17 am Jessy Lanza ~ “Could B U (DJ Taye x Spinn Remix)” ~ Oh No No No (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2016
3:21 am Space Art ~ “Onyx” ~ Space Art ~ Because Music ~ 1977
3:25 am Sandoz ~ “Chocolate Machine #1” ~ #9294 ~ Mute ~ 1993
3:34 am Richard H. Kirk ~ “Chasing Shadows” ~ #7489 ~ Mute ~ 1982
3:43 am Steve Moore ~ “Kurt and Travis Arrive” ~ The Mind’s Eye soundtrack (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2016
3:45 am Mica Levi ~ “Lee Harvey Oswald” ~ Jackie soundtrack (new) ~ Milan ~ 2016
3:47 am HEXA ~ “Vertical Horizons” ~ Factory Photographs (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016
3:52 am Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle ~ “Elementals” ~ Candida Cosmica ~ Dark Entries ~ 1974
Hour 3
4:01 am Tears Run Rings ~ “Broken” ~ In Surges (new) ~ Deep Space Records ~ 2016
4:04 am Monogamy (local) ~ “Finally Happy” ~ Semifloral 7″ (new) ~ Almost Halloween Time/Citizen of the World/Side Wound Worship ~ 2016
4:07 am Star ~ “Champion of Love” ~ Devastator ~ Saint Marie Records ~ 2007
4:10 am Phern ~ “Hospital Garden” ~ cool coma (new) ~ Fixture Records ~ 2016
4:12 am Arab Strap ~ “The Shy Retirer” ~ Monday At The Hug and Pint ~ Chemikal Underground ~ 2003
4:16 am Valerie Dore ~ “It’s So Easy (A Version)” ~ Greatest Hits & Remixes ~ ZYX ~ 1985
4:20 am Sally Shapiro ~ “I’ll Be By Your Side (Extended Mix)” ~ Disco Romance [North American version] ~ Paper Bag ~ 2007
4:29 am Darsombra ~ “Underworld” ~ Polyvision (new) ~ Translation Loss ~ 2016
4:39 am Vangelis ~ “Spiral” ~ Spiral ~ RCA ~ 1977
4:45 am Seabat ~ “Resonant Orbit” ~ Scattered Disc ~ Seabat Worldwide/Goldtimers ~ 2013
4:56 am Lucky Dragons ~ “A Piano” ~ Peter Burr’s Special Effect ~ Vestibule ~ 2015
Hour 4
5:03 am Steve Hauschildt ~ “Vegas Mode” ~ Sequitur ~ Kranky ~ 2012
5:07 am Asuna ~ “Midnight Snow, Street Lights, Window of Empty Building” ~ Tide Ripples (new) ~ Home Normal ~ 2016
5:31 am Sherwood & Pinch ~ “Retribution” ~ Man Vs Sofa (new) ~ On-U Sound/Tectonic ~ 2017
5:35 am Marek Hemmann ~ “Bob” ~ Moments (new) ~ Freude Am Tanzen ~ 2016
5:40 am Whetzel ~ “The Challenge” ~ Beatology Volume I (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
5:43 am Kadhja Bonet ~ “Portrait of Tracy” ~ The Visitor (new) ~ Fat Possum ~ 2016
5:45 am Faust ~ “Läuft… Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald… Läuft” ~ Faust IV ~ Virgin ~ 1973
5:52 am Tycho ~ “Division” ~ Epoch (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2016
5:56 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “I Heard You Say” ~ Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2016

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