The Answer Is In The Beat

Crush Collision 6/8/23

June 9, 2023 at 10:05 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:00 PM The Orb ~ the beginning of the end ~ Prism ~ Cooking Vinyl Limited ~ 2023
10:06 PM Everything But the Girl ~ Caution To The Wind (Fka Mash remix) ~ single ~ Buzzin’ Fly Records ~ 2023
10:12 PM Metropolitan Soul Museum ~ Spring Crown ~ Les Mondes Des Images ~ Step Rec. ~ 2021
10:17 PM Wrangler ~ Mess ~ A Situation ~ Bella Union ~ 2020
10:23 PM Chris Lowell ~ Detroit 1999 (Diffuszed Remix featuring Sharron Brooks) ~ single ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2023
10:26 PM X-101 ~ Sonic Destroyer ~ X-101 ~ Underground Resistance ~ 1991
10:30 PM DJ Skothan ~ Salut to DJ Lag ~ Nevegation ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2022
10:34 PM Mandy, Indiana ~ Peach Fuzz ~ I’ve Seen a Way ~ Fire Talk ~ 2023
10:38 PM Etch ~ Wine Teeth ~ Snakes & Ladders ~ BangersOnly ~ 2023
10:42 PM Moy ~ Bad Gateway ~ Error 502 ~ Batrachian ~ 2020
10:47 PM Techno Excursion ~ Come With Me ~ Bleeps, Breaks + Bass ~Musique Pour La Danse ~ 1991
10:51 PM Julio Bashmore ~ Bubblin ~ single ~ Local Action ~ 2023
10:54 PM Aroent ~ Smomber ~ Eleese EP ~ Awkwardly Social ~ 2020
10:58 PM Kesswa ~ Contemplate (2Lanes Live Mind Print Remix) ~ Soften (Deluxe Edition) ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2023
11:04 PM Long Island Sound ~ Nowhere But Here ~ Nowhere But Here EP ~ Signs of Space ~ 2020
11:08 PM Mark Verbos ~ Control ~ Simple Answers ~ X-Sight Records ~ 1998
11:12 PM Lyric ~ 11:44 (PM Version) ~ Woman-Hood Chapter 2 ~ M-Plant ~ 2023
11:16 PM Abstrakt ~ Cristalli Ionici (Marcel Fengler Remix) ~ Cristalli Ionici EP ~ Just This ~ 2019
11:21 PM Dircsen ~ No Sign of Life ~ Beyond Collapsing Silence ~ BEEF records ~ 2018
11:28 PM Doc Sleep ~ Flooding Meadow ~ Birds (In My Mind Anyway) ~ Tartelet Records ~ 2023
11:31 PM Makaton ~ In Pursuit ~ Asgårdsreia ~ Rodz-Konez ~ 2020
11:35 PM Bandulu ~ Pacekeeper ~ Guidance ~ Infonet ~ 1993
11:40 PM James Ruskin ~ Dilemma ~ Into Submission ~ Tresor Records ~ 2001
11:44 PM Marco Bailey ~ Spiderweb ~ Rudeboy ~ MB Elektronics ~ 2004
11:48 PM 0010X0010 ~ HVMVNØID 7 plus plus ~ Live from BH 90210 ~ MODULAR FREQ ~ 2020
11:53 PM Adam X ~ Unreleased Acid From 1994 ~ Acid Archives 92-94 ~ L.I.E.S. ~ 1994

DJ 0.000001: Recombinant Shangaan Mixtape (Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2023)

June 6, 2023 at 8:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

DJ 0.000001: Recombinant Shangaan Mixtape

I miss Shangaan Electro. The compilation Honest Jon’s put out years ago and the Nozinja album on Warp were such remarkable, refreshing, creative releases and I was hoping we’d hear more from that particular scene, but there haven’t been any other releases of that magnitude of this type of music. Thankfully people are still making these sounds and pushing it further, even if it isn’t getting much outside exposure. This mixtape features tracks made between 2015 and 2022, and it’s generally glitchier and less vocal-heavy than the earlier Shangaan Electro releases. There’s touches of the playful, sweet melodies from the older tracks, but it’s generally more frantic, with loops that stutter and clatter before racing into the next section. Yet it also feels pretty fluid for a mix of such frenetic music. A sample of Tshetsha Boys’ “Nwa Pfundla” (my favorite track from the 2010 comp) is chewed up and spit out near the beginning of the second side, seemingly as a point of comparison for how the style has evolved since then. The second side in general has a greater presence of harder moments and more intense edits, but still ends up bouncy and playful.

NO EYES: Some days i’m completely vulnerable I can feel everything. (DEATHBYSHEEP RECORDS, 2023)

June 4, 2023 at 2:56 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

NO EYES: Some days i’m completely vulnerable I can feel everything.

For over a decade, Atlanta’s NO EYES has been making remarkable music that points to what breakcore could evolve into. His music is far away from the melancholy atmospheric jungle or watered-down digital hardcore that most people associate with breakcore these days, it’s much more like x.nte’s abrasive, overwhelming data-mashing. This new album starts out with frustrated footwork jungle that slips and falls on a heavy syrup stream, with guest production by Teklifer DJ Manny. “da wut good” is the overloaded centerpiece, somehow concealing orchestral arrangements/samples inside a glitch tornado. “blay” has this moment where a James Brown drum sample is being bitcrunched, and then it bursts into this sonic boom mindfuzz out of nowhere. Then “going fast” is disorienting panic rap played at 500BPM. NO EYES maxes out all the emotions until everything’s a massive chaotic blur of numbness, and just keeps drilling away because there’s no way to slow down or turn off, only blast into other directions. I love his music so much.

Show #672 – 6/4/23

June 4, 2023 at 2:28 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Arlo Parks ~ Purple Phase ~ My Soft Machine ~ Transgressive ~ 2023
12:05 AM Hannah Jadagu ~ Lose ~ Aperture ~ Sub Pop Records ~ 2023
12:08 AM Madison McFerrin ~ Run ~ I Hope You Can Forgive Me ~ MADMCFERRIN MUSIC ~ 2023
12:12 AM OCB ~ Translate ~ The Sequel ~ Metroplex ~ 2023
12:17 AM Kesswa ~ WAV ~ Soften (Deluxe Edition) ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2023
12:21 AM Suburban Knight ~ Magnetic Timetable ~ Nocturbulous Behavior ~ Underground Resistance ~ 1993
12:24 AM Andy Garcia ~ Mosquito ~ The Pepper EP ~ Docile Recordings ~ 2020
12:28 AM Underground Resistance [Perception & Mad Mike] ~ Windchime ~ 12″ ~ Underground Resistance ~ 2004
12:35 AM Ford Inc [Paul Woolford] ~ Satire ~ 12″ ~ Throne of Blood ~ 2011
12:44 AM Suburban Knight ~ The Warning ~ By Night EP ~ Underground Resistance ~ 1996
12:49 AM The Creative Technology Consortium ~ The Descent ~ Panoramic Colorsound ~ Dark Entries ~ 2023
12:54 AM Octave One ~ Metal Forest ~ Never On Sunday ~ 430 West ~ 2023
12:59 AM Pursuit Grooves ~ Garner ~ 100 Seams ~ What Rules ~ 2023
1:02 AM Overmono ~ Sugarrushhh ~ Good Lies ~ XL ~ 2023
1:06 AM Jo Johnson ~ The Wave Ahead of the Wave Ahead ~ The Wave Ahead ~ Mysteries of the Deep ~ 2023
1:12 AM Nabihah Iqbal ~ Lilac Twilight ~ DREAMER ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
1:16 AM motifs ~ lovelost ~ remember a stranger ~ Shelflife ~ 2022
1:21 AM Beach House ~ Black Magic ~ Become EP ~ Sub Pop ~ 2023
1:26 AM Swallow ~ Cherry Stars Collide ~ Blow ~ 4AD ~ 1992
1:30 AM Bang Bang Machine ~ Geek Love (Original 12″ Version) ~ Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze ~ Cherry Red ~ 1991
1:39 AM Laraaji & Kramer ~ Ascension ~ Baptismal ~ Shimmy Disc ~ 2023
1:43 AM Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw ~ Sporty Nights (Uber Eats) ~ Keith & Outlaw – Single ~ FCBRV ~ 2023
1:46 AM Sun Ra ~ The Mathematics of the Altered Destiny ~ Space Is the Place (Music from the Original Soundtrack) (new reissue) ~ Modern Harmonic ~ ’70s

Jo Johnson: The Wave Ahead LP (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)

June 3, 2023 at 10:00 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Jo Johnson: The Wave Ahead LP

The title to the new Jo Johnson LP evokes aquatic imagery as well as sound waves. The electronics flow in ripples, sometimes in a more stately manner, and in more of a curious rush on “Orbit”. “The impossible in the impossible” smooths it out into a more serene wash, but becomes more defined with the upturn of bass synths and smaller, quicker movements which seem like fish swimming underneath. The digital version has a bonus track, “Vigil”, which sounds like a mass of night creatures mourning one who has ascended to the spirit realm.

OCB: The Sequel 12″ EP (Metroplex, 2023)

June 2, 2023 at 7:07 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

OCB: The Sequel 12″ EP

One of the newest Metroplex releases is this five-track EP from Moroccan DJ Driss Bennis, aka OCB. I picked this up straight from the Metroplex booth at Movement this year. Even though it’s totally unrelated, to me it brings to mind the Mano de Fuego EP on UR last year, in that it has the unmistakably Detroit techno-electro feel but comes from some place totally different. The first track on here is a continuation of the title track to OCB’s previous release, last year’s Transhuman X-Press, and it continues on a Kraftwerk-but-Detroit path. “Global Warning” is lush and rainforest-like but also alien, with bird calls and vibraphone-like patterns along with fluidly morphing synth notes. “Syntax Error” is nothing but a locked-in electro groove and glitchy Spean-N-Spell voices, and it needs nothing else. “Translate” channels the bleepier side of Detroit circa Transmat’s early catalog. “But in Time” is a more reflective, midtempo electro track with piano melodies, breakbeats, and scratches.

Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw: Keith & Outlaw 7″ single (FCBRV, 2023)

May 31, 2023 at 7:53 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw: Keith & Outlaw 7″ single

Preceding an album with Real Bad Man as well as the forthcoming Black Elvis 2, Kool Keith started off the year with this single produced by Chicago’s Haji Outlaw. “Kool Kriminal” is a brief single-verse rhyme with typically sleazy lyrics and cinematic production filled with gunshots and movie dialogue samples, almost feeling more like a skit than a song. “Sporty Nights (Uber Eats)” is the highlight, with a Griselda-ish beat made of choppy soul samples and little else, while Keith comes at you from several different angles with as much energy as he can muster these days. He’s been hit or miss for a long time, even if the hits are astoundingly great, but this is pretty decent. The B-side is just the instrumentals (with the dialogue samples intact), and they function well on their own, but of course they’re best heard with Keith rhyming over them.

Movement 2023, Memorial Day Weekend, Detroit

May 30, 2023 at 10:05 pm | Posted in Movement (DEMF), Photos | Leave a comment

Submerge

I signed the wall at Submerge a decade ago and K-Hand (RIP) signed right above it

Underground Music Academy

Niks

Detroit Techno City

Injured? Call Alieana

Shaun J. Wright

Stacey Hotwaxx Hale

Milan Ariel

Sillygirlcarmen

Akua

TSHA

Moodymann

2Lanes

jugglers

DJ Holographic

Uniiqu3

Mark Broom

Sheefy McFly

Welcome to Techno City

Octave One

Surgeon

hula dancer

Carl Craig & Jon Dixon

Mathew Jonson

Ash Lauryn

Ben UFO

Santonio Echols

Special Request

Cybotron

Scan 7

Suburban Knight

Caribou

Dantiez & Kevin Saunderson

Henry Brooks

Lauren Flax

DJ Seinfeld

Sinistarr

Soundmurderer

Underworld

Multiples (Speedy J & Surgeon)

Pursuit Grooves: 100 Seams (What Rules, 2023)

May 22, 2023 at 9:30 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Pursuit Grooves: 100 Seams

Vanese Smith’s newest release is a tribute to her grandmother, a seamstress, who would have been 100 years old at the time of the album’s production. It thematically resembles Smith’s earlier 91 Fellows release, which, to my ears, completely redefined the concept of dub, to this day I cannot think of any other music that sounds like or captures the same feelings as that record. While that release only sporadically used voices, 100 Seams focuses on spoken poetry, calling back to Smith’s first form of writing before she started emceeing and producing. Lyrics about crafting, creating, and vivid descriptions of materials are scratched turntable-style, making them feel like sonic embroidery. The last PG album, Mo:Delic Island, was accompanied by visual art presenting strange hybrid fantasy creatures, and this one has a more down-to-earth, nostalgic setting for its verbal illustrations. Some tracks have a house thump, but in PG’s own offbeat way, with the kicks bumping up against thumb pianos and slow claps on “Kitty’s Curtain Panels” and “Woven Memories” being more broken and rattling. “Garner” is more on the hypnotic downtempo tip, and “Seams Together” has some dubby echo causing the delicately ticking beats to vibrate.

Reynols: Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve LP (Calar Music, 2023)

May 21, 2023 at 1:42 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Reynols: Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve LP

This is the first-time vinyl issue of material originally released on a 1999 cassette. The two 15-minute main tracks are vast, careening, metallic disruptions and vibrations that seem edited down from an endless spell in an echo chamber. “Lavio Peve” is different, more of an early SY drone-disco thing. “Ambres Macia” is an unexpected buzzsaw garage punk blitz that combusts at the end. But the first track especially is just a sprawling, astral travelling wash of sound and it’s worth the journey for this experience.

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