Crush Collision 5/18/23

May 19, 2023 at 9:42 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:00 PM Unique 3 ~ Weight For the Bass (Original Dubplate) ~ 33/45 ~ Originator Sound ~ 1990
10:08 PM Afrika Bambaataa ~ Frantic Situation (feat. Shango) [Vocal Version] ~ Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980 – 1985 ~ Tommy Boy Music, LLC ~ 1984
10:12 PM ADULT. ~ Why Always Why ~ Perception Is/as/of Deception ~ Dais Records ~ 2020
10:16 PM AceMo ~ Matrix Acid ~ Ace’s Acid – EP ~ AceMo ~ 2019
10:20 PM Solomon Fesshaye ~ Awake ~ Invisible Hand / Awake – Single ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
10:23 PM Leon Duncan ~ Ching ~ Fuck a Rosetta Stone For My Brainwaves ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2021
10:26 PM The Black Dog ~ Harder Times ~ The Grey Album ~ Dust Science ~ 2023
10:29 PM Jean-Michel Jarre ~ ZEITGEIST ~ OXYMORE ~ Columbia ~ 2022
10:31 PM Clark ~ Roller the Wick ~ 05-10 ~ Warp Records ~ 2005-2010
10:36 PM Scan 7 ~ The Resistance ~ The Resistance – Single ~ Tresor Records ~ 2012
10:39 PM Mike Ellison ~ Covalence (Tech Edit) ~ 12″ ~ Underground Resistance ~2022
10:42 PM 95Bones ~ Reign of Terror (’94 NY Dub) ~ BAM003 – EP ~ Body Action Music ~ 2020
10:48 PM Rezzett ~ Spicy Pipes ~ Meant Like This ~ The Trilogy Tapes ~ 2023
10:52 PM De-Bons-en-Pierre ~ Accidental Surgeries ~ Card Short of a Full Deck – EP ~ Dark Entries ~ 2023
10:56 PM Wavejumpers ~ Decoding the Map ~ Sunken Treasure ~ Underground Resistance ~ 2022
10:59 PM Jon Dixon ~ Porto Mornings ~ Musicality – EP ~ 4EVR 4WRD ~ 2023
11:03 PM Willis Anne ~ Bardo Beat ~ LAN ~ Comfort Zone ~ 2023
11:06 PM Noroi ~ Stay ~ Adrastea – EP ~ SPHERES ~ 2023
11:12 PM Cristian Vogel ~ Fase Montuno ~ Fase Montuno ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 2023
11:17 PM Mano de Fuego ~ Descenso ~ 12″ ~ Underground Resistance ~ 2022
11:21 PM 214 ~ Nocturnal Hikes ~ Si View – EP ~ Cultivated Electronics ~ 2020
11:26 PM salute & Sammy Virji ~ Peach ~ Shield – EP ~ Technicolour ~ 2023
11:30 PM Abrax ~ Intervention ~ Abrax001 – EP ~ ABRAX ~ 2020
11:36 PM DJ TOBZY IMOLE GIWA ~ Gegeta Remix ~ Cruise Beat Album ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2022
11:39 PM Suburban Knight ~ Winds of Fear ~ 10″ ~ EPM ~ 2023
11:41 PM Aahan ~ Body Shop ~ Unholy Empire – EP ~ Monnom Black ~ 2021
11:47 PM Black Phuture ~ Communication ~ Unfriendly – EP ~ Motech Records ~ 2002
11:52 PM Addison Groove ~ TeknoJuke ~ Fred Neutron ~ Gutterfunk ~ 2020
11:55 PM Lyra Valenza ~ Joy Divided ~ Low Gear No Pressure ~ Petrola 80 ~ 2023
11:57 PM DJ Travella ~ FL Beat ~ Mr Mixondo ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2022

Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly: Multiple Park LP (Gilgongo, 2023)

May 17, 2023 at 5:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | 1 Comment

Cheryl E. Leonard & Wobbly: Multiple Park LP

This electroacoustic collaboration demonstrates how the natural world and technology respond to each other. Cheryl E. Leonard’s instruments use bones, shells, sticks, and other found materials, and Wobbly has extensively explored machine listening generated music on his Monitress releases. Most of these pieces were recorded live on Over the Edge, Negativland’s long-running radio show currently hosted by Wobbly. “Bowed Spine” seems to be constructed from the instruments on the album’s cover, with lots of extended scraping and bowing noises enhanced by far-out electronic treatments. “Icicle Tracking” is a lot easier on the ears, with dripping icicles and flowing water put through an electronic filter so that they seem like they could be generated by synths, but also clearly sound like their source material. “Ostrasidian” uses, rocks, shells, fish vertebrae, chopsticks, and marbles, beginning with a lot of thick, rolling motions and eventually lifting into surreal sound-spaces when the electronics kick in. “Multiple Park” is a half-real, half-imagined flock of birds and swarm of bees flying through a constantly morphing environment, sonically traveling through fields, forests, industrial landscapes, and high tides alike. Somehow a trace of a dub bassline echoes before the record draws to a close.

Shalom: Sublimation (Saddle Creek, 2023)

May 10, 2023 at 7:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Shalom: Sublimation

So this album grabbed my attention because the artist went to Rutgers, I’m guessing far after I left New Brunswick. She even samples an NJ Transit train announcement at one point during the album, right before a song called “Train Station”, so for that reason the album connected with me in a similar way that the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao did. Musically, it’s hook-heavy alternative pop and indie rock with contemporary production (by Ryan Hemsworth) and direct lyrics about anxiety, pressure, and existential crisis. A lot of these songs seem to express the desire to be someone else, yet also seek validation at the same time (on the deceptively upbeat “Happenstance”). The middle of the album seems to concentrate on songs about missing someone, loss, heartache. “Bodies” contains the line “send me to the broken person repair shop”, and in “Lighter”, the album’s standout, she pleads “take off this weight please make me lighter”.

The Creative Technology Consortium: Panoramic Coloursound (Dark Entries, 2023)

May 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

The Creative Technology Consortium: Panoramic Colorsound

The 300th release on Dark Entries is by a Chicago trio closely related to the supergroup Mutant Beat Dance, sharing 2 of its members (Melvin Oliphant aka Traxx and Jason Letkiewicz aka Steve Summers; Beau Wanzer is absent, Andrew Bisenius is present). Much like the Mutant Beat Dance albums, this is a gigantic sprawling beast that takes up multiple pieces of vinyl and runs through ideas pulling from multiple genres. The first track, “A Retro Vice”, has bouncing beats and Italo basslines, as well as police sirens in the background, the type that make you assume they’re actually coming from outside your window in the distance. There’s other tracks halfway between club jams and ’80s cop show soundtracks, but then there’s the Fripp-like guitars and slowly rolling landscape of “Beautifully Polluted Sunset”. “Complicity in the City” is like “Ghost Rider” sprinting sideways, and “Catastrophe” has buzzing electro-industrial vibes, but a lot of this is darker, prowling down the alley music. “High Altitude Meditation” is a trippy new age reflection that seems perfectly placed right around the middle of the album. “Nyte Sequence” has an upbeat rhythm that seems like it could launch into any number of ’80s synth pop hits, yet it just seems to race right past all of those shop fronts and follow its own intuition. “The Descent” is far from a typical, formulaic club cut, but it has an addictive synth sequence holding it in place along with electronic hand percussion beats, giving it a sense of propulsion and elevation without the need of a kick drum.

Show #671 – 5/7/23

May 7, 2023 at 2:28 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Purelink ~ Earth To ~ To / Deep ~ NAFF ~ 2023
12:06 AM Robert Fripp ~ 1984 (Single Edit) ~ Let the Power Fall (remastered) ~ Discipline Global Media ~ 1981
12:10 AM The Chameleons ~ Up the Down Escalator ~ 12″ ~ Statik ~ 1983
12:14 AM Cardiacs ~ R.E.S. ~ A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window ~ The Alphabet Business Concern ~ 1988
12:20 AM Desire Marea ~ Mfula ~ On the Romance of Being ~ Mute ~ 2023
12:24 AM Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad ~ Gratitude ~ Lonnie Liston Smith JID017 ~ Jazz Is Dead ~ 2023
12:27 AM Beverly Glenn-Copeland ~ Ghost House ~ Beverly Glenn-Copeland ~ Transgressive ~ 1971
12:35 AM Sverre Knut Johansen ~ METAHUMAN (feat. Ståle Storløkken) ~ Metahuman ~ Spotted Peccary ~ 2022
12:39 AM Nabihah Iqbal ~ A Tender Victory ~ DREAMER ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:43 AM Melati ESP ~ DI ATAS ~ hipernatural ~ Carpark Records ~ 2023
12:47 AM Braids ~ Evolution ~ Euphoric Recall ~ Secret City Records ~ 2023
12:50 AM Arlo Parks ~ Blades ~ My Soft Machine ~ Transgressive ~ 2023
12:54 AM Yaeji ~ Done (Let’s Get It) ~ With A Hammer ~ XL Recordings ~ 2023
12:56 AM Fire-Toolz ~ Soaked: Another Name for Everything ~ I am upset because I see something that is not there. ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:00 AM Astrobrite ~ Orange Creamsickle ~ Still In A Dream: A Story Of Shoegaze 1988-1995 ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 2016
1:05 AM Airiel ~ In Your Room ~ Winks & Kisses: Melted EP ~ Clairecords ~ 2004
1:15 AM Everything But the Girl ~ On My Mind ~ Pillows And Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984 (40th Anniversary Edition) ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1982
1:18 AM Me:You ~ Sun Zsu ~ Field Tapes in Der Trash ~ American Dreams Records ~ 2023
1:20 AM upsammy ~ Asphalt Flows ~ Germ in a Population of Buildings ~ PAN ~ 2023
1:24 AM Fashion Flesh ~ Rubber Mountain ~ Rubber Mountain ~ Black Lodge ~ 2023
1:32 AM V/Vm ~ Symmetric ~ AuralOffalWaffleTenPintsOfBitterAndABagOfPorkScratchings ~ V/Vm Test Records ~ 1999
1:36 AM Troikastra ~ Brief Sojourn Into a Side Alley ~ It’s the Door with the Little Stairs ~ Castor & Pollux ~ 2023
1:42 AM Kid Koala ~ Rise Of The Tardigrades ~ Creatures of the Late Afternoon ~ Envision Records ~ 2023
1:47 AM Kristina Warren ~ Slip Jigs ~ New Suns ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
1:54 AM Deutsche Wertarbeit ~ Deutscher Wald ~ Deutsche Wertarbeit ~ Bureau B ~ 1981

Kristina Warren: New Suns (self-released, 2023)

May 6, 2023 at 4:17 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Kristina Warren: New Suns

Kristina Warren’s latest is a short album of Octavia Butler-inspired ARP 2500 synth pieces. “Simple Oankali Greeting” is about communication via direct sensation, and its slowly unfolding layers feel like a divine initiation. “Cipher Braid” has crunchier, more industrial textures and feels both like a procession and a slow diffusion. “Unakite Pool” is a slow but steady sequence of immersive bass frequencies, eventually crawling upward until it’s beaming from a mountaintop. “Slip Jigs” is a surprisingly playful robo-waltz which makes a crooked ascent to an unspeakable level of beauty.

Troikastra: It’s the Door with the Little Stairs (Castor and Pollux, 2023)

May 5, 2023 at 7:49 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Troikastra: It’s the Door with the Little Stairs

Troikestra, the trio of Curtis Glatter, DJ Tenshun, and Nathan Hubbard, battle it out on turntables, synths, samples, and drum machines, resulting in messy collages somewhere in between ’90s plunderphonic turntablism and freeform circuit-bent noise jams. The trio’s performances often have a much more cartoonish edge than most experimental improvisation, particularly with the presence of things like the chunky metal guitars and toy piano-sounding scattered notes of “Brief Sojourn Into a Side Alley”. “Two Types” splices different instructional records together to form Frankenstein sentences, evolving from rhythmic tutoring to spiritual advice. “Expectations Are Nigh” is 17 minutes long and somewhat less dense than some of the other pieces, but it also has some of the most aggressive scratching and overt hip-hop sampling. “Sonic Starcases” is frantic noise-jazz with dubby effects and almost modem-like squealing sounds. Lastly, “Blame It On the Casionova” is sort of a drunken stumble home under dark, flanged-out clouds.

Crush Collision 5/4/23

May 5, 2023 at 2:40 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Next week Detroit Bureau of Sound will be returning for a guest DJ set!!!
10:01 PM James Holden ~ You Can Never Go Back ~ Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities ~ Border Community ~ 2023
10:06 PM Avalon Emerson ~ A Vision ~ & The Charm ~ Another Dove ~ 2023
10:10 PM Andy Loebs ~ I Am Smiling at My Friend ~ Hyperlink Anamorphosis ~ Jolt Music ~ 2023
10:13 PM Afrorack ~ bassPlus ~ Afrorack ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2022
10:17 PM Biga Yut ~ Kampala ~ Vamparina EP ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2021
10:19 PM Najib Alhoush & The Free Music ~ Law Yom Saalak Had ~ Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk 021) ~ HABIBI Funk Records ~ ’70s/’80s?
10:24 PM Phelimuncasi ~ Wazini Ngo Qoh (feat. DJ MP3) ~ Ama Gogela ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2022
10:28 PM Everything But the Girl ~ Nothing Left To Lose (Four Tet Remix) ~ Nothing Left To Lose (Remixes) ~ Buzzin’ Fly ~2023
10:32 PM Rave Child ~ The Calling (.VRIL Remix) ~ The Calling EP ~ Kokölò ~ 2023
10:36 PM DJPT ~ I Told You I Didn’t Dance For A Reason (Tape Version) ~ 20 Years Creme Organization ~ Crème Organization ~ 2020
10:42 PM The Electric Chairs ~ So Many Ways ~ single ~ Safari Records ~ 1979
10:46 PM Workshop ~ Eskapade ~ Talent ~ L’Age D’Or ~ 1995
10:48 PM GoGo Penguin ~ Open [Nathan Fake Remix] ~ GGP/RMX ~ Universal Music Division Decca Records France ~ 2021
10:52 PM Authentically Plastic ~ Aesthetic Terrorism ~ Raw Space ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2022
10:55 PM E-Saggila ~ Pr1nt ~ Yet ~ Tresor ~ 2023
10:58 PM Zenker Brothers ~ Intense Incense ~ Cosmic Transmission ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2020
11:02 PM Warwick ~ Luchini Forever ~ Do My Thing EP ~ Lobster Theremin ~ 2020
11:06 PM SPD ~ A49 ~ single ~ Roska Kicks & Snares ~ 2021
11:11 PM DJ Wiggle ~ Deepin It ~ The Spirit single ~ Hot Haus Recs ~ 2022
11:15 PM Mall Grab ~ Long Season Intro Edit ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
11:19 PM Kanyon ~ Number One ~ Kanyon ~ Towhead Recordings ~ 2020
11:23 PM impLOG ~ Holland Tunnel Dive ~ single ~ Dark Entries ~ 1980
11:29 PM T5UMUT5UMU ~ Fireball ~ Sea of Trees EP ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2022
11:31 PM Disco Vumbi ~ Disco Boutiq ~ Boutiq Electroniq EP ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2017
11:34 PM Sykors ~ KCT KRL ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
11:36 PM DJ Girl ~ Limits (Spirit Mix) ~ single ~ Eat Dis ~ 2020
11:40 PM Ryan James Ford ~ EQ 10MG Base ~ We Are Not Alone Pt. 3 ~ BPitch Control ~ 2021
11:44 PM Yorobi ~ Rhode to Nowhere ~ Eden EP ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2023
11:48 PM Estella Boersma ~ Dispatch ~ Move EP ~ Unknown To The Unknown ~ 2023
11:52 PM nickname & Tim Shiel ~ Druidz ~ single ~ Spirit Level ~ 2023
11:55 PM Walton ~ Quasar ~ Rush EP ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2022

upsammy: Germ in a Population of Buildings (PAN, 2023)

May 3, 2023 at 1:49 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

upsammy: Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy delivered a standout set at the beginning of Dekmantel last year, backed by fluid and forest-like visuals from Sjoerd Martens. Her new album on PAN is a set of electronic ecosystems teeming with beats that scurry like insects, and playfully abstract melodies. Her disguised voice adds a childlike human touch, but it already feels the product of a busy mind; even though the sounds are all electronic, this isn’t something that could’ve been randomly spit out by a machine. It feels both carefully thought out and shaped by nature. It’s glitchy and micro, but it’s also informed by dance and pop production without conforming to those types of structures. Her club tracks were great but this album is where she demonstrates her true artistry.

Octave One: Never On Sunday (430 West, 2023)

May 2, 2023 at 11:58 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Octave One: Never On Sunday

Octave One are always a must-see live act whenever they take the stage at Movement, and they’ve continued putting out an exceptional amount of music on their 430 West label (and others like UR and Tresor) since 1990. Previewed by a 12″ last year, their newest album is named after their longstanding Never On Sunday alias. Not quite a typical Detroit techno record, it’s somewhere in between a futuristic pop album, an industrial soundscape, and an international club showcase. “Enterstella” is a detached sci-fi intro, and then “Contemplate” and “Price We Pay” (both with vocalist Karina Mia) apply complex sonics to electropop songs. “Soon After” is sort of like dark gothic cathedral electro, and “A Moment of Truth” could easily be a Depeche Mode instrumental (but not anything like “The Policy of Truth”). “Metal Forest” evokes a magical environment, and “Mona” is a more beat-driven downtempo extension of the same vibe. The second half of the album is all instrumentals, edits, and remixes of tracks from the first half, and they’re often way more club-friendly (“Tiers” is really the only straightforward dance track at the beginning). Orbital’s “Price We Pay” is swell but Giorgia Angiuli arguably does more with the song, stretches it out and takes it in a headier direction. Skream turns “The Bearer” into a tunneling pounder, while P41 and Octave One themselves leave much of the suspense in.

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