Worlds below 100Hz

EQD – #003 A-side

Kevin de Caluwé — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:44 +0000

New release on Berlin’s mysterious EQD label. Dirty and funky tech-house banger, that keeps on going. And it’s therefore at non-stop replay at Worlds Below HQ. Killer!

Vinyl for sale at boomkat.

Ricardo Villalobos – Dexter

Kevin de Caluwé — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:45:59 +0000

Playhouse reprints the ‘number one’ album of the last decade (according to Resident Advisor): ‘Alcachofa’ by Ricardo Villalobos. ‘Dexter’ was one of the tracks that brought me more into the slower bpm spectrum of electronic music (I was quite an adept of 165+ bpm music). A well deserved winner of that poll, what an album.

Von D – Nouvelle Histoire

Kevin de Caluwé — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:50:08 +0000

‘Nouvelle Histoire’ by Von-D, check it out. It sounds like if Ramadanman would do a ‘Logical Progression’ session back to back with Martyn. Pure bliss!

For sale at boomkat.

Scuba – Before

Kevin de Caluwé — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:23:28 +0000

Fact magazine premiers the first video for Scuba’s new album Triangulation (watch another track from this album here). ‘Before’ shows how diversified we can expect ‘Triangulation’ to be. Forget dubtechno, this will be pure Scuba. We can’t wait to get our hands on that album!

Catch him @ Vooruit alongside 2562 and Untold this Friday, and say hi to the Worlds Below crew

Autechre – Yulquen

Kevin de Caluwé — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:06:20 +0000

Put on your headphones for this one. The details in this track are so lovely you need to hear them fully concentrated. ‘Yulquen’ featured on Autechre’s album ‘Amber’ from 1994, and is my favourite track of that album. Again, melancholy is the main emotion here, like in most of my favourite music.

Somebody should make a nice video for this track, it’s made for some visuals!

Distance – Fallen (Vex’d remix)

Kevin de Caluwé — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:55 +0000

Distance’s classic track ‘Fallen’ (listen here) got the remix from Vex’d on Planet Mu. Those triggered vocals and the reverb on the snare give the track a haunting atmosphere, but near the end fresh pads announce a moodchange. Before the moodchange comes into full effect the track finishes. Twisted and brilliant stuff.

Released last month, available at boomkat of course!

José James – Code

Kevin de Caluwé — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:19:34 +0000

José James and Flying Lotus team up for this new lovely single from James’s new album ‘Blackmagic‘, released earlier this month. The production by FlyLo is not that experimental as on his album ‘Los Angeles’, but backs James’s sweet soft sould voice&lyrics. Perfect for a Sunday.

Download this song for free at XLR8R!

T.Power vs. MK-Ultra – Mutant Jazz

Kevin de Caluwé — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:16 +0000

No introduction needed for drum’n'bass classic ‘Mutant Jazz’. Sax, panflutes, pads and snare-melodies are the perfect setting for late summer evenings.

And yes, this featured as well on the brilliant compilation Freezone 2 by DJ Morpheus from Brussels (check his bio, Morpheus has a serious musical history!).

Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Breakage’s Tight Rope Remix)

Kevin de Caluwé — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:08:55 +0000

Breakage remixes ‘Paradise Circus’, the first single of Massive Attack’s new album ‘Heligoland’. What already was a beautiful song, has been edited by the bass-meister. The track has been stripped down till only the vocal remains. The piano returns in the break, and a suprising extra layer of drums adds speed to the second part of the track after the break.

But which remix to choose if you also have a fantastic Gui Boratto remix!?

Tight Rope Remix

Mikkel Metal – Kenton

Jan Waeben — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:18:25 +0000

Copenhagen’s Mikkel Meldgaard started off his musical journey as a guitar player in various bands. By the mid-ninetees, he got into electronic music and started experimenting with beats and samplers. Towards the end of the century he found his sound in techno, heavily laden with dub influences. Nowadays we find him on Berlin’s Kompakt label where he continues his slow and driving 4/4 dubtechno sound.

Kenton EP was released in July 2009 on Echocord Colour and features a remix by Marcel Detterman on the flipside, which featured in Modeselektor’s Resident Advisor mix last September. (I prefer the original though. I just love the driving sound. It seems like this track never ends).

Kenton EP on Boomkat

Mikkel Metal’s website

Mikkel Metal on Myspace

Marcel Detterman’s remix of Kenton over on Youtube