Inhalt: Part Time Punks Sessions (Cleopatra, 2017)

May 5, 2017 at 10:44 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Inhalt: Part Time Punks Sessions

San Francisco’s Inhalt released two EPs on Dark Entries a few years back, as well as some remix 12″s. This is their first album, and it basically contains all of the same songs as the EPs (B-side of the first EP, as far as I could tell, sounded like instrumentals of the A-side). Most of the tracks were actually recorded live (in studio) directly to 24 track tape, for an L.A. radio show called Part Time Punks, and they sound remarkably crisp, clear, and polished. More than most minimal wave acts these days, this sounds a lot like German new wave acts like D.A.F. At some points, maybe, just maybe, it sounds like a bleaker Kraftwerk. No guitars, all synths and vocals, which are mostly in German (although “Programming” is in French, and also has some vocoders, and there’s some English vocals elsewhere). Tracks range from urgent synth-pop songs (“Black Sun”, “Vehicle”) to atmospheric spoken word (“Noise”) to a droning, buzzing intro (“Aphonia”). Even if most of the songs have been released before, they all fit together as a coherent album, and it’s a handy summation of the group for anyone who hasn’t heard them before. Available on their Bandcamp page.

Crush Collision 5/4/17

May 5, 2017 at 6:14 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

I’m not going to post the audio for this set because my Serato kept glitching (and sometimes the audio just stopped) and it sounded terrible. I’m not sure if I just need to upgrade something or get a new laptop, or if Serato DJ is just a horrible piece of shit and I should just give up, or only spin vinyl.

10:04 pm Tony More D.J. ~ “Tonight (Dub Version)”
10:09 pm Joe Garrasco & M.M. ~ “Action (Instrumental Version)”
10:14 pm DSC ~ “Too Hard”
10:21 pm FYI Chris ~ “HTRTWr”
10:24 pm Brainwaltzera ~ “Ghaint [Berl] with Detro[id]”
10:26 pm Clap! Clap! ~ “Ar-Raqis”
10:28 pm Earthboogie ~ “Mr Mystery”
10:33 pm Holy Balm ~ “Hot Cold (Andras Dub Mix)”
10:37 pm Bileebob ~ “Funkyoself”
10:40 pm Carlo ~ “Fly the W”
10:43 pm Max Cooper ~ “Cyclic (John Tejada Remix)”
10:49 pm Alex Medina ~ “Lost in the Echo”
10:55 pm Marshall Applewhite ~ “Go Home”
10:57 pm Glowing Palms ~ “Kiki”
11:02 pm Skipson ~ “Thike”
11:06 pm Lake People ~ “Brooklyn”
11:11 pm Gerome Sportelli ~ “Hybrids”
11:17 pm Jared Wilson ~ “Tracking”
11:25 pm Carl Craig/Francesco Tristano ~ “The Melody”
11:30 pm Dachshund ~ “Log Out”
11:36 pm DJ Club 1235 ~ “Flaw”
11:39 pm Abstraxion & Kasper Bjorke ~ “Ivre”
11:45 pm Ellery Cowles ~ “Dolphin”
11:50 pm Dark Sky ~ “Badd”
11:54 pm Dana Ruh ~ “This Journey”

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