Show #681 – 8/13/23

August 13, 2023 at 2:34 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

will be away next week, in London seeing Aphex Twin at Field Day! i recorded a show to be broadcast by the robot, maybe i’ll post it here

12:00 AM Rupununi Safari (Mad Professor with Douggie Digital and Juggler) ~ Beat Of the Wild Beast ~ Steaming Jungle ~ Ariwa Sounds Ltd. ~ 1995
12:04 AM Hollie Cook ~ Unkind Dub ~ Happy Hour in Dub ~ Merge Records ~ 2023
12:08 AM Hoodie x James K ~ Scorpio ~ 065 (Scorpio) ~ AD 93 ~ 2023
12:16 AM Infinite River ~ Summer Session #1 ~ Space Mirror ~ Birdman ~ 2023
12:22 AM Rahill ~ Gone Astray ~ Flowers At Your Feet ~ Big Dada ~ 2023
12:25 AM Julie Byrne ~ Hope’s Return ~ The Greater Wings ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
12:29 AM hackedepicciotto ~ Aichach ~ Keepsakes ~ Mute ~ 2023
12:34 AM Notsensibles ~ I Thought You Were Dead ~ Burning Britain: A Story of Independent UK Punk 1980-1983 ~ Cherry Red ~ 1980
12:37 AM Holy Wave ~ Path of Least Resistance ~ Five of Cups ~ Suicide Squeeze Records ~ 2023
12:41 AM Sonny Rollins with Heikki Sarmanto Trio ~ St. Thomas ~ Live at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki 1972 ~ Svart ~ 1972
12:57 AM A Produce ~ Jimbe ~ Land of a Thousand Trances reissue Independent Project Records ~ 1994
1:04 AM Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O ~ We’re Not Buying It (feat. Grandmaster CAP) ~ Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War ~ Red Hot Organization ~ 2023
1:16 AM Soft Machine ~ Improvisation ~ The Dutch Lesson ~ Cuneiform Records ~ 1973
1:21 AM Euglossine ~ Salt ~ Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:23 AM Blipvert ~ Viridian Riot Cubes ~ The Sound Tower of Dr. Jitters ~ D-Trash ~ 2023
1:28 AM NO EYES ~ Lovelostbutnotforgotten ~ Idk ~ Kitty On Fire Records ~ 2023
1:35 AM DJ K ~ Ela Quer Pop Pirulito (feat. MC AG) ~ Panico No Submundo ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2023
1:38 AM Ziúr ~ Pique ~ Eyeroll ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2023
1:42 AM ODESZA & Yellow House ~ Waiting Forever (feat. Preston.) ~ Flaws in Our Design EP ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
1:45 AM Georgia ~ Some Things You’ll Never Know ~ Euphoric ~ Domino Recording Co ~ 2023
1:48 AM Rafael Anton Irisarri (feat. Rachika Nayar, Dear Laika, James Heather) ~ Encore (Life at Cafe OTO) ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023

NO EYES: idk (Kitty On Fire, 2023)

August 6, 2023 at 3:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

NO EYES: idk

Just months after releasing a devastating album with a lengthy emotional title, Atlanta’s NO EYES surfaces on Kitty On Fire with another one with a name that suggests a careless shrug, but clearly has a lot more on its consciousness. Opener “i succ at life” starts out as a vaporwave smudge, then develops pulled-apart glitch-breaks and dovetails into harsh furious breakcore. Then later on there’s an extended monologue about reacting to racist violence by being violent against racists. “ucantsilencemii” contains a lesson about not believing predictions that don’t empower you. “lovelostbutnotforgotten” extends past 7 minutes and burns in a shoegaze fire in the most glorious way. x.nte and Elevation help add some combusting juke-core rhythms to “shitIamstillhere”, surrounding a National Weather Service announcement with monsoons of distorted breaks. “333” with Deantoni Parks piles up the data from a billion bursting screens, broadcasting the dystopian future in the present. “no home 2 go 2″… just another torrent of internal emptiness translated into a firestorm of noisy breakbeats and a rapid bitstream of decimated pop culture samples. How often are you this? Every moment of my life.

Show #680 – 8/6/23

August 6, 2023 at 2:31 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Dub Specialist ~ Barb Wire Version ~ Studio One Space-Age Dub Special ~ Soul Jazz Records ~ ’70s
12:03 AM Bambii ~ One Touch ~ Infinity Club ~ Innovative Leisure ~ 2023
12:06 AM Aphex Twin ~ In a Room7 F760 ~ Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760 EP ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:09 AM x.nte ~ International ~ Reimagining DB ~ Kitty on Fire Records ~ 2023
12:13 AM Goldie vs SB81 ~ Rockstar 81 ~ 25 Years of Metalheadz – Part 7 ~ Metalheadz ~ 2023
12:20 AM Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS ~ International Sound System ~ Man From Mantis EP ~ Love Love Records ~ 2023
12:24 AM Minor Science ~ Casheine ~ 064 ~ AD 93 ~ 2023
12:29 AM DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man ~ Now U Do ~ single ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:35 AM Isolée ~ Pardon My French ~ Resort Island ~ resort island ~ 2023
12:41 AM African Head Charge ~ Accra Electronica ~ A Trip to Bolgatanga ~ On-U Sound ~ 2023
12:44 AM Dustin Wong ~ Pegasi ~ Perpetual Morphosis ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:49 AM Hakushi Hasegawa ~ Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi) ~ single ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2023
12:53 AM nondi_ ~ echo technician ~ shadow ~ HRR ~ 2023
12:56 AM Emil Amos ~ Interloper #1 ~ Zone Black ~ Drag City ~ 2023
12:57 AM Faust ~ Arrampicarsi Sul Vesuvio ~ Momentaufnahme II ~ Bureau B ~ early ’70s
1:01 AM Michael J. Blood ~ ISM ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
1:04 AM Shake ~ Frayed ~ 12″ ~ FIT SOUND ~ 2010
1:12 AM Laf-O ~ Jerky Fader Octopus ~ Gettin Down 2 Bizness ~ Here’s My Card Records ~2006
1:17 AM Kassel Jaeger ~ Exposure Scales: Sunlight ~ Toxic Cosmopolitanism ~ Editions Mego ~ 2014
1:22 AM Schneider TM ~ Ost-Spirale ~ Ereignishorizont ~ Karlrecords ~ 2023
1:27 AM Golden Feelings ~ Better Weather I ~ Better Weather ~ Golden Feelings ~ 2023
1:36 AM Knife Edge ~ Favourite Girl ~ Where Were You? Independent Music from Leeds 1978-1989 ~ Cherry Red ~ 1980
1:40 AM Divide And Dissolve ~ Reproach ~ Systemic ~ Invada Records ~ 2023
1:43 AM Boris & Uniform ~ Angels in the Abyss (Abaddon) ~ Bright New Disease ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2023
1:46 AM Candy Claws ~ New Forest (Five Heads of the Sun) ~ Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time ~ Twosyllable Records ~ 2013
1:49 AM Five Pebbles ~ We Know the Devil ~ Forgetmenot EP ~ Porcelain Music ~ 2021
1:53 AM Troller ~ Into Dust ~ Drain ~ Relapse Records ~ 2023
1:57 AM Penguin Cafe ~ Second Variety ~ Rain Before Seven… ~ Erased Tapes ~ 2023

x.nte: Reimagining DB (Kitty On Fire, 2023)

August 5, 2023 at 1:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

x.nte: Reimagining DB

Atlanta’s x.nte continues making breakcore as a form of self-therapy, purging inner demons through glitched-out tracks that mutilate samples from numerous genres. There’s menacing horrorcore vocals in tracks like “mischief & mayhem”, but there’s also jazzy pianos that provide a bit of balance, because plenty of other tracks on here just rip breakbeats apart. “international” sort of comes close to atmospheric ragga-breakcore, but even more deconstructed than that description sounds. A remix of Elevation’s “Fuzakeruna” forges a destructive groove, with harsh breaks forming a fairly steady pattern. A few tracks get into screamy metalcore territory, and “Qualm” has some impressive time changes and incorporations of guitars and drums along with acid and breaks. Some of the melodramatic vocal samples on this album are a little uncomfortable, they go into a brutal self-loathing direction I’d prefer not to go down, but there’s enough tracks that aren’t like that to make it worthwhile. Also, a few tracks by other artists are curiously included at the end, including RENEGADE ANDROID, Laxenanchaos, and nohighs.

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