tutti: April 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

Rogue Traders. One Of My Kind

http://www.discogs.com/Rogue-Traders-Here-Come-The-Drums/master/67213

The Mighty Boosh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_Boosh
Vince Noir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Mighty_Boosh#Vince_Noir

Vince Noir http://mightyboosh.wikia.com/wiki/Vince_Noir

Rogue Traders - Fashion / Vince Noir - Fashion Star

Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child

Rogue Traders Vs Inxs One Of My Kind

AEON. Shadows procession

Formed in the early 90s by an italo-french duet (the two sound researchers and classically trained musicians Stephane Rapetti and Alessandro Gadoni), Aeon presented their first opus back in 1999 (signed on the highly acclaimed noise records).

review:
Formed in the early 90s by an italo-french duet (the two sound researchers and classically trained musicians Stephane Rapetti and Alessandro Gadoni), Aeon presented their first opus back in 1999 (signed on the highly acclaimed noise records). The conceptual background ecompasses the allegorical fiction of time in its endlessly forms, also examinating the labyrinth metaphor as a continuous source of questioning, enigmas, struggles, liberty and necessity. Consequently, the musical landscapes delivered on this debut album emphasizes multidirectional perspectives, delivering a "postmodern" synthesis, hybridation of various textures, sounds, moods and colors that oscillate between fictional-neurotic abstract ambiences, electro-acoustic sound industrialism, atonalism experiments, breaking electro-kinetic rhythms. The first theme introduces the listener into a majestic-hypnodelica journey of sounds, abrupt and sensual at the time. It carries on very soundtracky-punchy cinematic ambiences, always with a constant attraction to vertiginous neurotropic mindscapes. Just imagine an ecstatic sophistication of film scores written by Per Raben. The second half of the album carries on this interlocking voyage through deep isolationist atmospheres, admitting groovy orientations and schizoid pop-tronic attempts.This one will ravish fans of early experiments and challenging musical productions from Zoviet France, Beequeen, the glitch-esque dubstep efforts from Aphex Twin, cinematic interludes, the French postructural contemporary masters such as Michel Redolfi, Francis Dhomont (…) A real polymorphic musical identity, revealing consistent dynamic qualities and innovative sound treatments. Warmly recommended and a nice introduction to Aeon's very peculiar musical signature. A meaningful musical trip before to discover the upcoming Shadows procession (announced currently 2011).
@ Philippe Blache, special collaborator (progarchives.com), 2011
click to listen or buy: aeon3.bandcamp.com

Joakim – Labyrinth (Lone and Junior Boys remixes)

Rolando. Junie

The 7th Plain "To be Surreal"

discogs.com/7th-Plain-To-Be-Surreal

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Rolando "Junie"

discogs.com/Rolando-5-To-9-EP

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Kleeer "Tonight"

discogs.com/Kleeer-Intimate-Connection-Tonight

Shlomo "Ghosts"

Shlohmo - Ghosts Pt. 2 (Thrupence Remix)

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St Germain (Ludovic Navarre AKA Deepside) "Préclusion"

discogs.com/Ludovic-Navarre-AKA-St-Germain-From-Detroit-To-St-Germain

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Benjamin Paulin "L'Homme Moderne"

‘Everyone is a modern man, including you’

http://www.discogs.com/Benjamin-Paulin-LHomme-Moderne/release/2567806

'The Moden Man’: Benjamin Paulin latest album cover | ‘Everyone is a modern man, including you’

‘Dites-le avec des flingues’ | Flowers versus gun

Benjamin Paulin: don’t call him franco-français

Benjamin Paulin - branded son of the 'generation X' by the French media
(Image: © Paul Kemler/ myspace.com/benjaminpaulin)

On his website he presents himself as ‘truly French’. His first album, released on 16 October, is called The Modern Man (‘L’Homme moderne’). Is Benjamin Paulin the new French prototype? We speak to the singer about stereotypes, contradictions and pessimism

It’s a Friday afternoon in the corner of a Parisian bistro. Despite being suited up, Benjamin Paulin has made himself comfortable; he does not compromise on style. With the view of the street blurred by the rain, he orders a coffee which arrives with a chocolate on the side - he looks for someone to give it to: ‘Chocolate?’

What a Frenchman sings about today

The singer, born in Paris in 1978, has an air of confidence about him. He has just finished recording his single Dites-le avec des flingues (‘Tell her with bullets’), mixing elements of French crooning legend Serge Gainsbourg and Swiss American musician Dorian Gray. Amongst the other singles on the album is the equally positive sounding Notre futur n’a pas d’avenir (‘Our future is hopeless’). Is Benjamin Paulin a pessimist? He sips his coffee, runs a hand through his hair and leans forward to answer. ’I am more of a realist than a pessimist. Living in the time that we do, there isn’t a lot that is positive. It’s quite bleak. You just have to look at the return of extremists. However, through my music I aim to strike a balance between happiness and sadness. But I also use a lot of irony and my lyrics do have a certain light heartedness.’ He looks for inspiration in everything, including the present. Nevertheless, society’s problems and current affairs are not his style. ’I prefer to talk about things that time doesn’t change, that are constant in history and humanity.’

Paulin has a background as a writer. He left school at sixteen to dedicate himself to literature. ’I was part of a hip hop group,’ he confides. I am baffled: the bling and bimbos typical of the music videos of this genre seem worlds away from the refined looking man I have opposite me. But Benjamin Paulin is not joking. ’In rap it is possible to say so much: things which you can break into pieces and put back together much better.’ The artist does not conform to genre boundaries. ’My music is a sort of hybrid of different styles: rock, pop, ballads, rap… I mix in a bit of each. But I try to create something new. My music and my lyrics combine established points of reference with a modern interpretation.’

The Modern Man

Why is the album called The Modern Man? ’Essentially, everyone is a modern man, including you,’ he says, leaning over and observing my scepticism before laughing and continuing. ’The modern man is the postmodern man. He lives with his contradictions, accepts them and wants to express himself.’ These conflicts are presented explicitly on the album’s cover, which has Benjamin closing one eye to aim a gun, a bunch of roses in his other hand. In another photo in the album sleeve, he seems to be trying to decide between the gun and the flowers. The impression is that his image is important to him; is he trying to convey a specific public persona? ‘Unfortunately, currently we have this need to put people into categories. We look to caricatures in order to place people,’ he replies.

‘I consider myself more as a human than a European’

’I don’t see myself from the quintessentially ‘franco-français’ point of view and I consider myself more as a human than a European. These days, lines blur, whether in terms of communication or political borders. I don’t feel attached to any one place.’ This said, he is very European. ’My mother is Polish and my father was half Italian, half German.’ The latter was the seminal designer Pierre Paulin who was known for his eccentric furniture and who died in 2009. Perhaps this is where Benjamin gets his aesthetic tastes and love for the unconventional. ’I travelled a lot with my father. I went to America, Japan, Korea - but never Germany,’ he politely adds, saying that my ‘charming accent’ has not escaped his notice. We go back to his new album which has just been released, but Paulin does not want to talk about success. ‘I have completed one stage. A career is full of them. To suceed is to die before you throw it all away.’ Really, there are times when Benjamin Paulin is more of a pessimist than a realist.

Images: © Paul Kemler/ myspace.com/benjaminpaulin; Video: (cc) clipetzik/ Youtube

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Spring Private Top Albums

Bersarin Quartett – Bersarin Quartett
Murcof – The Versailles Sessions
Howie B. & Húbert Nói – Music For Astronauts And Cosmonauts
Aidan Baker / Arc – The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands
Move D / Namlook – Move D / Namlook IX - Wagons-Lits
Lusine Icl – Condensed
Woob – Woob 1194
Secede – Tryshasla
Maurizio – Maurizio
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason – Sólaris
Overcast Sound – Beneath The Grain
Nicola Ratti – 220 Tones
Laurent Garnier – Unreasonable Behaviour
Robert Hood – Technatural EP
Vladislav Delay – Multila
Plastikman - Consumed Plastikman – Consumed
Hallucinogen – The Lone Deranger
Boris Vian – Le Déserteur
Rita Mitsouko – Rita Mitsouko
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg
Jeff Mills – Kat Moda EP
Namlook – Seasons Greetings - Autumn
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart / Power Of Love

G.R.R.L. (Terre Thaemlitz). mlat46 podcast | March 2011

Tracklist:
1. Terre Thaemlitz - There Was a Girl / There Was a Boy Declaramation [Mille Plateaux]
2. Terre Thaemlitz - Taking Stock in Our Pride [Mille Plateaux]
3. Terre Thaemlitz - G.R.R.L. : Face (Extended Dub Edit) [Comatonse]
4. Terre Thaemlitz - Double Secret [Comatonse]
5. Terre Thaemlitz - Chugga : Theme From Buck Rogers Light Rope Dance (500 Year Orbit Mix) [Comatonse]
6. Zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz - Down Town Kami-Sakunobe [Zeitkratzer Records]
7. Terre Thaemlitz - Commodité Sexuelle [Mille Plateaux]
8. DJ Sprinkles - Brenda's $20 Dilemma [Mule Musiq]
9. DJ Sprinkles - Ball'r (Madonna Free Zone) [Mule Musiq]
10. Terre Thaemlitz - Chugga : Theme From Buck Rogers Light Rope Dance (Deep Space Probe Mix) [Comatonse]
11. Terre Thaemlitz - Systole.009 [Mille Plateaux]
12. Terre Thaemlitz - Residual Expectation [Caipirinha Productions]
13. Terre Thaemlitz - Resistance to Change - 4. Transformative Nostaligia [Mille Plateaux]
14. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues [Mule Musiq]
15. DJ Sprinkles - Grand Cental Station. Pt. II (72hrs. By Rail From Missouri) [Mule Musiq]

madelikeatree.com:
[Kawasaki, Japan. March 12th, 2011] Terre Thaemlitz (who is behind G.R.R.L.) has had no shortage of guest appearance around the world's music blogs. She has had multiple appearances in prior interviews, reviews, academies, side-bar commentaries, symposiums, dissents, explorations, and even other podcast submissions. Those of us who have had a chance to chat with him are quite fond of Terre. This podcast/interview is simply taking a look at one of her projects that doesn't get as much attention as say, "DJ Sprinkles." The G.R.R.L. project does two primary things: by nature of its very name, it challenges the meaning of gender and the culture of gender roles ("what is a 'g.r.r.l' and what does it stand for?"), and it makes a stand against the economics and processes of the music industry. The tracks made under the G.R.R.L. guise are deliberately varied and are collectively unclassifiable (they're incapable of being pigeon-holed). Amongst the many genres available on G.R.R.L.'s self titled CD are "Techxotica & Electrocynicism," "Improvisational Lounge," and "Abstract Drum & Bass." In an industry that perpetually seeks to "define, package, and sell," G.R.R.L. refuses to join in - G.R.R.L. would not be that controllable desire you can own. The following is pretty straight-forward; a quality few words from Terre Thaemlitz in regards to elements surrounding the ideology of G.R.R.L., and a selection of some of her best tracks compiled into a podcast. Be sure to also check out the segment when Terrre spoke on NPR as well as when we interviewed her previously back in the early days of MLAT. The podcast included here was curated and mixed by MLAT. (read more)

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Py & iO. Whispers

boilerroom.tv:

We’re big fans of vocalist Py over here at Boiler Room HQ – and to convince you to become fans too, her’s a track off her forthcoming mixtape produced by iO.

Pretty spot on if you ask me!

Boiler Room put us on to this new collaboration between vocalist Py and producer iO. It’s the third thing from the vocalist we’ve checked out this year (she’s also collaborated with Brainfeeder’s Lapalux and Manchester producer Damu) and also our favourite; we love the hook of “I always wanted you”. Py’s forthcoming mix tape (also produced by iO) is out soon.
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Dwig. Feige Dattel [Giegling 09]

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http://hardwax.com/65404/ Video by the29nov Films

About

Jessie Ware. Running

Brixton based vocalist Jessie Ware spent two weeks at the Red Bull Studios London in November 2011 recording her debut album with The Invisible’s Dave Okumu. The studio was filled with hats, novelty pencils and home made brownies care of Jessie’s mum. We have warm fuzzy memories from the two week session and you can read all about it in Miss Ware’s studio diary. You can also be one of the first people to listen exclusively to Jessie’s second album single Running made with Bristol producer Julio Bashmore and Dave Okumu.

Escape Art (Air Texture) - Visualize Patterns Mix for Leo Villareal

Escape Art (Air Texture) - Visualize Patterns Mix for Leo Villareal's Animating Light Opening at the Nevada Museum of Art March 5th, 2011
http://soundcloud.com/james-healy/escape-art-air-texture
Tracklist:

Time for Trees "Who Can Know Such Things" (Archipel Musique)
John Barry "Gifts of Nature" (Decca)
Antonio Trinchera "Just to See You Tomorrow" (Psychonavigation)
The Green Kingdom "Kalimba Sketch" (Air Texture)
Monolake "Void" (Imbalance Computer Music)
Gustavo Lamas "Mas" (Greener Records)
Markus Guentner "Crystal Castle" (Affin)
Stephan Panev "The Longest Fall" (Hole)
Wolfgang Voigt "Ruckverzauberung" (Kompakt)
OPN.daniel L."Sand Partina" (Air Texture)
Triola "Schildergasse" (Kompakt)
Aquadorsa "Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence" (Psychonavigation)
Leyland Kirby "Polaroid" (Ghostly International)
Shed "Waved Mind Archived Document" (Ostgut Ton)
Kuba "Tangerine World" (Chillcode Music)

Air Texture: www.airtexture.com

Escape Art – Air Texture I Mix

Escape Art - Air Texture I Mix by Headphone Commute on Mixcloud

Headphone Commute review:
a short but very sweet mix from Escape Art, the man behind the label and the latest compilation series, Air Texture. Profiled in our Sound Byte entry, Air Texture pays tribute to the ambient series that have introduced us to many amazing artists in the past, and continues to carry on the tradition of innovative sounds with one of the most fantastic rosters around! This exclusive mix is a sample of tracks featured on the compilation, exploring a particular theme:

Repetitive musical structures reached high levels of sophistication in a number of world cultures (Javanese Gamelan, Ghanaese drumming, Indian tabla, Pygmy songs). Some early medieval European music also employed repetition as a basic formal element, but at some point in the middle ages, music in Europe began developing into a different direction. The great works of classical music were complex harmonic structures but still needed rhythm and repetition primarily as a means to give them form. Rhythmic, repetitive, modal music as practiced elsewhere on the planet was not considered primitive – rather essential to the cultural and expressive fabric.

The compilation is available on iTunes, Beatport, Boomkat, and Kompakt.
About:
airtexture.com
Tracklisting:
1. The Green Kingdom “Kalimba Sketch” (Air Texture Vol. I)
2. Rafael Anton Irisarri “Flowstone” (Air Texture Vol. I)
3. Andrew Thomas “Black Sky, Bright Sun” (Air Texture Vol. I)
4. loscil “Hyphae” (Air Texture Vol. I)
5. Dario Marianelli “Wandering Jane” (Jane Eyre Soundtrack, Sony)
6. Brian McBride “At A Loss” (unreleased, Air Texture Vol. II)
7. bvdub “Tried So Hard” (Air Texture Vol. I)
S T R E A M :: D O W N L O A D :: P O D C A S T :: i T U N E S
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36. Lithea | Reunion / Deluge

"Lithea" is the third and final part of the 36 triptych album series, which includes "Hypersona" and "Hollow"
released 14 March 2012
All tracks written and produced by Dennis Huddleston.
Artwork and design by 36

36 (pronounced three-six) is the ambient/experimental project of Dennis Huddleston from the United Kingdom.

36 (pronounced three-six) is the ambient/experimental project of Dennis Huddleston from the United Kingdom.

www.3six.net
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credits

released 28 June 2011
Photography by Elena Kalis
www.elenakalisphoto.com

An April March

If Suede can be forgiven for ripping off Bowie, and Elastica excused for stealing Wire's riffs and sound, then, like San Francisco's Orange, An April March's lifting of the Cocteau Twins' unique style and singing is only mildly unsettling. Harder edged and tighter wound than their forbears, this Toronto foursome has spent the '90s mining the sinister edges of the swirl-guitar sound to support Danella Hocevar's impressionistic vocals and lyrics, so well evoked by the songs and titles of "Of Leaves and Sweetness," "Scarlett Bliss," and "Wishing for Rain." Lovely stuff like this can transcend obvious influences, and Hocevar and friends are a beguiling treat with your eyes closed.
discogs.com/artist/An April March
last.fm/music/An April March

An April March - Impatiens (1992)

An April March - Adagio (1996)

Thrupence. Voyages

Voyages EP out now - Download from http://thrupence.bandcamp.com/album/voyages-ep by Thrupence

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Jack Vanzet is a 21 year old creative director, illustrator, designer and producer of Thrupence. Jack approaches the creative industry holistically by working in multiple disciplines and not restricting himself stylistically. Jack recently graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Design and was awarded the 'Best Illustrator' prize. Visit Thrupence on Soundcloud or Bandcamp.

Plinth. Collected Machine Music

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