Walls are a band from London made up of members Sam Willis (Allez-Allez) and Alessio Natalizia (from Banjo or Freakout) which signed to Kompakt in December 2009 and immediately released their debut album a couple of weeks ago. The album fits easily in your ambient collection next to The KLF, Neu!, Spiritualized and The Field. ‘Hang Four’ is for me the stand-out track, mixing cosmic sounds with a deep, warm bass and a lush melody. Great.
I went through my collection of Calibre vinyls. It’s been two or three years since I bought any drum’n'bass, let alone something from Calibre. Hearing all his tunes back, I think ‘Bullets’ really sticks out (and the guy has made tens of true gems). The sadness, the melancholy, the atmosphere, the melody, the pace, everything is so perfect. What a f*cking classic tune!
A perfect remix by CC from 2005 that he still plays now and again in his sets. For me, techno doesn’t come much better than this. Tune in, embrace and enjoy!
yeah, this has long been a favourite. nice blog, I’m enjoying
Thanks Toby, and keep up the good work yourself 
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This sounds good. Very good actually. B-pitch labelboss Ellen Allien released her 5th album yesterday and ‘Our Utopie’ is the hypnotic opening track. Definitely sounds warmer and less clinical than the slightly disappointing “Sool”.
This is only a snippet by the way – full track is 4.10 minutes, but not available yet on youtube.
Elwood: It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it.
Have you read ‘On the Road’ by Kerouac (I did)? Or did you saw ‘The Blues Brothers’ movie (I didn’t)? Well, I first thought the quote in this track came from Dean Moriarty (crazy main character from Kerouac’s famous novel). However, the quote comes from ‘The Blues Brothers’. Anyway, the quote gives ‘Day Of The Dead’ a rough edge, and turns the insane zooming bassline into a perfect soundtrack for a rush drive by night. Wicked tune, and very exclusively made for 2562!
Also in the Resident Advisor mix by 2562.
Erykah Badu is back with a new album. I’ve been a big fan of Erykah ever since Mama’s Gun dropped in 2000 and have been following her throughout the years. Of course Erykah delivers on this album again. I’m particularly fond of the two tracks where Madlib provided the beats for (Incense and this horribly titled ‘Umm Hmm’ – reminds me of that awful neverending Crash Test Dummies Song ‘Mmm mmm mmm’). Other beats are provided by James Poyser, Dilla, 9th Wonder and Sa-Ra Creative Partners. The bass in this song screams ‘make love to me right now’, no?
Manix and Dego worked under the disguise of Cold Mission (which is one one of their monikers, 4Hero, Jacob’s Optical Stairway and Tek9 sound maybe more familiar) somewhere between 1994 and 1996. Reinforced (god, what a legendary label!) made a compilation from the few Cold Mission 12″s that were floating around in that time. Expect rattling amen-breaks and washing atmospheric synthlines. Ruff!
Album ‘Blow The Circuit’ is now for sale at boomkat!
Love love love. Yes, actually we are all hippies over here at the blog. Peace Love and Unity is our motto ladies and gents! Although we have pumped our fists in the air to Kemal’s ‘Fuckin Hostile’ as well in the past, but that’s another story. This lovely song was released by Eskimo Recordings in 2008. It’s a piece of ‘nu’-disco at its finest. I like the original a lot, but when i was looking for this song on youtube I saw that they only have the Aeroplane remix available, which is actually even better! I’m sure you all will be wanting to wave your arms in the air when the song hits the 3.40 mark. Let me know in the comments section. I’m particularly looking at you Kevin.
Anyway, the reason I’m posting this because Amnesty International is doing another music-related fundraising attempt. This time you can get 180 songs for 5 dollars. There’s an interesting line-up of bands participating (4Hero, Jori Hulkkonen, Fennesz, Low Motion Disco, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mujava and many many more) so go and contribute to the good cause by listening to some fine music. That’s a no-brainer, no?
big fan of aeroplane. this has their mark all over it!
Instra:mental can do no wrong. Their new single was featured already on this blog (check this November post). ‘Let’s Talk’ is a slow house track, the flow is calm and the atmosphere gloomy. Intriguing!
The new Crystal Castles album is awesome. This unofficial video for melancholic melodic electro monster ‘Empathy’ is even totally awesome. You can see dancers doing some proto-breakdance moves called ‘Voguing” in the 70s or 80s. Madonna popularized it and brought it to the mainstream world with her hit song “Vogue”.
the album is unbelievable. I thought CC was winding down, little did I know they we’re coming back in full force! Best work I’ve heard from CC so far (the entire album), really feels like their “coming of age”.
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jean 21:15 on May 29, 2010 Permalink
really diggin this album!