Crush Collision 4/27/23

April 28, 2023 at 12:41 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:01 PM Everything But the Girl ~ Forever ~ Fuse ~ Buzzin’ Fly Records ~ 2023
10:06 PM Palm Skin Productions ~ Back to Detroit ~ Trickle Up ~ Tru Thoughts ~ 2023
10:11 PM Brijean ~ Angelo (Space Ghost Remix) ~ Angelo (Deluxe) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
10:16 PM DJ Panthr ~ Pressure Float ~ Jade District ~ 100% Silk ~ 2023
10:20 PM Pursuit Grooves ~ Woven Memories ~ 100 Seams ~ What Rules ~ 2023
10:24 PM Yaeji ~ Happy (feat. Nourished by Time) ~ With A Hammer ~ XL Recordings ~ 2023
10:27 PM Melati ESP ~ E.M.Z. ~ hipernatural ~ Carpark ~ 2023
10:31 PM The Paradise ~ In Love with You ~ The Upper Cuts (2023 Edition) ~ Smugglers Way ~ 2003
10:35 PM Octave One ~ Price We Play (Orbital Remix) ~ Never On Sunday (Deluxe Album) ~ 430 West ~ 2023
10:38 PM Void Complet ~ Step Out ~ Remap ~ Natural Frequency ~ 2019
10:44 PM Nathan Fake ~ Boss Core ~ Crystal Vision ~ Cambria Instruments ~ 2023
10:51 PM Naked Flames ~ Waterslug2 (Kinoteki Remix) ~ Waterslugs ~ No Agreements ~ 2021
10:56 PM Overmono ~ Good Lies ~ Good Lies ~ XL Recordings ~ 2023
10:58 PM Roska & Lu.Re ~ Lay Low ~ Charge ~ Roska Kicks & Snares ~ 2023
11:01 PM Anunaku ~ Celeste ~ 063 ~ AD 93 ~ 2023
11:07 PM Black Forces ~ Back 2 Black ~ Back 2 Black ~ 2MR ~ 2023
11:10 PM Terra Incognita ~ Alien Element (UK Mix) ~ Bleeps, Breaks + Bass ~ Mental Groove Records ~ 1991
11:14 PM Chris Lowell ~ Detroit 1999 (Himadri Remix) ~ single ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2023
11:18 PM Detroit’s Filthiest ~ Pyramid Scheme ~ Pyramid Scheme ~ Motor City Electro Company ~ 2023
11:20 PM Hyphen ~ Winter Sky ~ In Order To Dance 4.0 ~ R&S Records ~ 2023
11:25 PM Dany Rodriguez ~ Secret 888 ~ Electric Frequencies ~ LINK Audio ~ 2023
11:30 PM Surgeon ~ Leadership Contest ~ Crash Recoil ~ Tresor Records ~ 2023
11:35 PM Indopan ~ Bogville ~ Yupana ~ 100% Silk ~ 2023
11:38 PM Seanni B ~ Dream a lil’ Dream 4 Me☆ ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
11:42 PM D3U5E ~ Quasar ~ Odyssey ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2023
11:46 PM Anti Patriot ~ Doublethink ~ Hypocrisy ~ Sonic Mind ~ 2023
11:51 PM Ebi Soda ~ Please Don’t (Instrumental) ~ single ~ Tru Thoughts ~ 2023
11:53 PM Shygirl ~ Firefly (Kingdom Edit) ~ Nymph_O ~ Because ~ 2023
11:56 PM DEBBY FRIDAY ~ HOT LOVE ~ GOOD LUCK ~ Sub Pop Records ~ 2023

Yorobi: Eden EP (Sneaker Social Club, 2023)

April 27, 2023 at 7:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Yorobi: Eden EP

Amsterdam’s Yorobi previously played at Rupture and released a record with Tim Reaper, and now she’s on Sneaker Social Club with her first EP. Her tracks tend to have tight, snappy breaks, occasionally with unexpected sounds poking through, like whatever those sharp paddle-thwacks during “Stabs” are. Unlike the first side, the B-side isn’t jungle at all. “Model Patient” is glitchy electro with a garage swing to it, and “Rhode to Nowhere” is a cavernous journey with busy polyrhythmic percussion and smooth, reverby melodies. Then finally “Eden” sounds like a coded transmission from an invisible realm beyond the pale. A hugely inventive release from a producer clearly interested in reading between the lines of what’s considered club music.

Purelink: To/Deep 12″ EP (NAFF, 2023)

April 26, 2023 at 6:43 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Purelink: To/Deep 12″ EP

Chicago’s Purelink have been making waves with a distinctive blend of ambient, dub, and liquid drum’n’bass somewhere in the vicinity of releases on labels like xpq? and West Mineral Ltd. — music to swim inside rather than dance to. Their newest EP contains two of their most refreshing tracks yet, as well as two in-demand classics now on vinyl for the first time. “Earth To” tiptoes around ambient jungle but doesn’t plunge right in, yet it’s awash in luscious, soothing textures. “Not That Deep” similarly feels like dub techno without the beats, but there’s no need for them as the rippling echoes carry enough weight to move you. “Maintain the Bliss”, the first of the two tracks that appeared digitally in 2021, is another gentle whirlpool of sound, living up to its title by not “going anywhere” but cozying into an ecstatic state and holding onto it. “Head on a Swivel” is maybe my favorite track of the EP, with more forceful jungle breaks and clicks’n’cuts suspended in a sort of aquamarine gas, steered by deep bass pulsations.

Sharkiface: Climax In A Process (No Part Of It, 2023)

April 23, 2023 at 4:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Sharkiface: Climax In A Process

Angela Edwards has crossed paths with several experimental/underground music luminaries since the ’90s, including Daniel Johnston, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Leslie Keffer, Tomeka Reid, and so many others. She’s released music as Sharkiface since the 2000s, but this is her first full solo album, containing older as well as newer material, but it’s not specified when the pieces were recorded. Anyway, her music is often vocal-based, especially the opener, “Melancholeta”, which starts by building up a flurry of breathy moans before continuing with cryptic low-pitched whispering. Other tracks fold the vocals within the acoustic strokes and tape manipulation. “Pan & Echo” uses both of those effects, stretching strings and shivering voices into glassy audio sculptures. “Hour of the Wolf” is more upfront, with poetic dialogue, but “Mystery” hides wisps of voices behind creaking and wind. After the brief, clanging “Garden Party”, the rest of the album is taken up by the six-movement “Climax In A Process”. This suite has more obvious tape manipulations than the other pieces, and seems more electronic, especially with moments like the repetitive synth tones and feedback wash of the second movement. The fourth movement plays around with tape micro-loops which vary in speed, from slow murmurations yanked up to rapid yip-yip-yips, then fragmented into tough, acidic static. The 15-minute fifth movement is a hypnotic collage of ticking and striking clocks, and it gets deeper and more intricate as it evolves. Genuinely haunting.

Show #670 – 4/22/23

April 22, 2023 at 2:30 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

I’m doing Crush Collision next week but no TAIITB because I’ll be at Marble Bar for Tim Reaper & Dwarde!!!

12:02 AM Altin Gün ~ Su Sızıyor ~ Aşk ~ ATO Records ~ 2023
12:06 AM WITCH ~ Message From WITCH ~ Zango ~ Partisan ~ 2023
12:08 AM Bruce Licher ~ SF Cima Song ~ Tape Excavation (Special Expanded Edition) ~ Independent Project Records ~ late ’90s home recording
12:14 AM GoGo Penguin ~ You’re Stronger Than You Think (Revisit) ~ Everything Is Going to Be OK ~ XXIM Records ~ 2023
12:16 AM Everything But the Girl ~ Lost ~ Fuse ~ Buzzin’ Fly Records ~ 2023
12:19 AM Shizuka ~ 水晶の翼 (Crystal Wings) ~ 天界のペルソナ (Heavenly Persona) ~ P.S.F. ~ 1994
12:23 AM Alison’s Halo ~ Sunshy ~ Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze and Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 ~ Cherry Red ~ ’90s
12:29 AM Gina Birch ~ Digging Down ~ I Play My Bass Loud ~ Third Man ~ 2023
12:35 AM Fashion Flesh ~ Crushed Ice ~ Rubber Mountain ~ Black Lodge ~ 2023
12:39 AM William Basinski ~ The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) (excerpt) ~ The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) ~ Line ~ 1979
12:45 AM Dave Okumu & the 7 Generations ~ Amnesia (feat. ESKA) ~ I Came From Love ~ Transgressive ~ 2023
12:48 AM Eddie Chacon ~ Holy Hell ~ Sundown ~ Stones Throw Records ~ 2023
12:51 AM Sudan Archives ~ Selfish Soul (ODESZA Remix) ~ single ~ Stones Throw ~ 2023
12:55 AM Seekersinternational presents Ragga Preservation Society ~ No Parasites (Lickshot!) ~ No Parasites EP ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2023
1:01 AM Tim Reaper & Dwarde ~ Mendoza ~ The Planets: Uranus ~ RuptureLDN ~ 2023
1:06 AM Nathan Fake ~ Amen 96 ~ Crystal Vision ~ Cambria Instruments ~ 2023
1:11 AM MC Yallah ~ Mbakebere ~ Yallah Beibe ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2023
1:14 AM Pampidoo ~ Synthesizer Voice (Legowelt Remix) ~ single ~ Rhythm Discs! ~ 2023
1:21 AM Slikback ~ Leviathan ~ K E S S E K I ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
1:24 AM Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ Non-person ~ Poverty ~ Bandcamp ~ 2023
1:26 AM Rian Treanor & Ocen James ~ Tiyo Ki ~ Saccades ~ Nyege Nyege Tapes ~ 2022
1:30 AM XV ~ Fruit ~ On the Creekbeds on the Thrones ~ Ginkgo ~ 2023
1:34 AM Ital Tek ~ The Mirror ~ Timeproof ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
1:39 AM Maxo ~ onedayatatime (feat. keiyaA) ~ Even God Has A Sense Of Humor ~ Def Jam Recordings ~ 2023
1:43 AM Charlatan ~ Immortelle ~ Suncast Renditions ~ The Jewel Garden ~ 2023

Seekersinternational presents Ragga Preservation Society: No Parasites EP (Sneaker Social Club, 2023)

April 16, 2023 at 12:52 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Seekersinternational presents Ragga Preservation Society: No Parasites EP

Canadian abstract dub crew Seekersinternational sometimes dip into jungle as Ragga Preservation Society, and their latest EP arrives on the always reliable modernist hardcore imprint Sneaker Social Club. Four six-minute tracks, all mini-soundclash sessions rather than structured DJ tools. “No Parasites (Lickshot!)” has a long ambient midsection before it gets pulled back in with breakbeats. “Caught Up (Heart Breaks)” adds a familiar diva house sample to jazzy shuffling drums, then elevates the energy with ragga chatting, sirens, and thick ravey synths whooshing past in a Hooverian blur, to borrow a phrase from one of the group’s labelmates. “2 Gold Chain (Drive U Crazy)” doesn’t go for high speed, instead rushing memories of ’80s R&B into a sweet haze. “Original of the Original” is more repetitive than the others, looping the title phrase along with a busted break in a slow, dubby crawl. Not quite an all-directions-at-once free-for-all like other SKRS releases, nor a straightforward record of any genre, No Parasites is an intense bunch of overlapping memories which fires up when it has to, but otherwise keeps it boiling and bubbling.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Poverty (Disfold, 2023)

April 15, 2023 at 2:05 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Poverty

Have to be honest, I wasn’t really feeling the last few Jefre Cantu-Ledesma releases I heard, but I am totally back on board with his newest one. Another total shift from anything else he’s done, this one is closer to deconstructed club or IDM with his signature noise wash smeared all over it. Some real aquatic journeying here, especially on “Circles”, but at the same time it feels like swift currents of liquid metal, or possibly even magma at some points. He has an amazing way of making music that grinds up harshness and light while it’s moving fluidly, whether or not it contains anything resembling beats. “Non-person” just completely decimates beats into mulch and can’t be followed by any logical time signature, but I’m following down its path wherever it’s heading. I’m hoping he does more stuff in this sort of fragmented electronic direction because this has the power to be another game changer.

Show #669 – 4/15/23

April 15, 2023 at 2:34 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Desire Marea ~ Ezulwini ~ On the Romance of Being ~ Mute ~ 2023
12:05 AM Rennie Foster ~ I Haven’t Forgotten ~ Empress Enigma EP ~ Soiree Records International ~ 2023
12:11 AM Everything But the Girl ~ Walking Wounded (Spring Heel Jack Dub) ~ Everything But the Girl vs. Drum ‘N’ Bass ~ Atlantic ~ 1996
12:17 AM Fashion Flesh ~ Free Air ~ Rubber Mountain ~ Black Lodge ~ 2023
12:20 AM Nondi_ ~ 01-25-2022 ~ Flood City Trax ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:22 AM Yaeji ~ Passed Me By ~ With A Hammer ~ XL Recordings ~ 2023
12:26 AM Shygirl ~ Heaven (feat. Tinashe) ~ Nymph_O ~ Because ~ 2023
12:29 AM Yaya Bey ~ when saturn returns ~ Exodus the North Star EP ~ Big Dada ~ 2023
12:31 AM GemValleyMusiq ~ Zatunes ~ Music Wama Colourd ~ PSSNGR ~ 2023
12:39 AM Ecko Bazz ~ Mugulu E’yo ~ Mmaso ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2022
12:41 AM London Brew ~ Raven Flies Low ~ London Brew ~ Concord Jazz ~ 2023
12:54 AM Bruce Licher ~ Birthdaysong (7X7 Is) ~ Tape Excavation ~Independent Project Records ~ 2007
1:00 AM Surgeon ~ Metal Pig ~ Crash Recoil ~ Tresor Records ~ 2023
1:07 AM The MFA ~ Bear Likes To Rave ~ Lights Out ~ Traum Schallplatten ~ 2023
1:10 AM Tzusing ~ Exascale ~ 绿帽 Green Hat ~ PAN ~ 2023
1:14 AM Skins ~ Frostbite ~ Sauce Direct, Vol. 1 EP ~ Sauce Direct ~ 2023
1:21 AM Mantra ~ Murda ~ Damaged EP ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2023
1:26 AM Settle Down ~ London Jungle ~ 12″ ~ Settle Down ~ 2023
1:31 AM A Produce ~ The Raw Silk, the Uncarved Block ~ The Clearing ~ Trance Port ~ 1988
1:40 AM XV ~ Cards ~ On the Creekbeds on the Thrones ~ Ginkgo ~ 2023
1:42 AM Shalom ~ Train Station ~ Sublimation ~ Saddle Creek ~ 2023
1:46 AM The Petticoats ~ Normal ~ Make More Noise! Women In Independent Music UK 1977-1987 ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1980
1:48 AM Blues Lawyer ~ Late Bloomer ~ All In Good Time ~ Dark Entries Records ~ 2023
1:50 AM Von Hayes ~ Circle of Pete ~ single ~ Bandcamp ~ 2022
1:53 AM An April March ~ All The Flowery ~ Cherry Stars Collide: Dream Pop, Shoegaze and Ethereal Rock 1986-1995 ~ Cherry Red ~ 1993

Charlatan: Suncast Renditions (The Jewel Garden, 2023)

April 14, 2023 at 6:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Charlatan: Suncast Renditions

This exquisite offering came out back in January and I want to make sure it gets a bit of attention. The two lengthy tracks build from tanpura drones. Ecstatic synth layers do somersaults in a vast, open field flooded with sunlight on the sublime opening piece, “Immortelle”. “Overgrown Solar Array” is more nocturnal, with a dark cosmic glow yet an almost aquatic way of pushing currents in multiple directions. Both tracks are just stellar, I am truly enjoying where this music is taking my mind.

Doormouse: Breakcore (PRSPCT, 2023)

April 13, 2023 at 7:23 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Doormouse: Broken

On one of Doormouse’s highly active, meme-heavy social media accounts, he pointed out that the term breakcore had more Google searches last year than it had since the 2000s. Yet the newer generation seems to confuse breakcore with anything that has fast Amen breaks, a lot of which sounds more like atmospheric drum’n’bass. So here’s Doormouse to once again bring back the gung gung and ridiculous samples. “Sax Me Hard” mangles Lisa Simpson samples and free jazz solos, as well as a Kenny G interview and a chiptune version of “Careless Whisper”. And lots of people shouting, and a Helter Stupid sample. It’s also kind of a trick birthday candle, it keeps flaring back when you think it’s over and it lasts for 8 minutes. “Old Detestable Tripping Bastards” is two and half minutes of terrorcore beats slicing “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” apart. “Acid Americano” is what happens when a Godzilla-like monster takes a giant radioactive shit all over electroswing. “Cowboy Love” and “(Making Love To The Sound Of) The Gabber Kick Drum” share samples, so they seem like two parts of the same song. The first has whip cracks, the second has a bit of acid breaks, and they’re both hard crushers. I’ve posted before that I’m optimistic about the new breed of breakcore, I think it’s regressive for older scenesters to complain about what younger people are doing because the youth are supposed to be doing something different and distinct from what’s happened before. But there’s still nothing like a certified master doing it his way, and this is just loads of fun.

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