ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS | 306 - Various Production

[rob_booth]

That looks f-ing serious! D/L soon come... please!!

yo, download was available from 11pm last night mate

[jam1]

That looks f-ing serious! D/L soon come... please!!

yo, download was available from 11pm last night mate

Ah, sweet!

[rob_booth]

Downliners Sekt – Music For Those in a Captured Audience. (Electronic Explorations mix)


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“After the critically acclaimed release of ‘Hello Lonely, Hold the Nation’ last May and done with the production of ‘We Make Hits Not The Public’ which is ready to be released by the end of October, this proposition from Rob Booth gave us the opportunity to rearrange some of this material and also start working on new ideas.
This mix is a true reflection of what we are developing now for the final chapter of the trilogy of 12″ EPs started this year with disboot records.

What you’re about to hear is all original downliners sekt music coming from two weeks of hardcore live jamming with our own material although here and then you may found some very obvious references from the likes of Boards of Canada, Rhythm and Sound, Kemal & Rob Data, My Bloody Valentine, Massive Attack, Murcof, Biosphere, Jamie Lidell and Preston Parker.

This will give you some hints on what to expect both on new releases to come and also on live performances.”


For more information: http://www.dsekt.com






[01] – LV & Okmalumkoolkat – ZHARP – [Forthcoming 'Hyperdub']
[02] – FaltyDL – Because You – [Planet Mu]
[03] – Model 500 – OFI – [R&S Records]
[04] – Tessela – Thames Child – [unsigned]
[05] – Tessela – Acid Test – [unsigned]
[06] – Two Fingers – Fools Rhythm – [Ninja Tune 'XX' 20th b'day]
[07] – Synthamesk – Refuge – [exclusive to EE]
[08] – Karsten Pflum – Nemo Loon part III – [Ad Noiseam]
[09] – Access To Arasaka – setvector – [Tympanik Audio]
[10] – Commix – Be True (Burial Remix) – [Metalheadz]
[11] – Deformer – Diabolical – [Mindtrick Records]
[12] – Eats Tapes – Run Generator – [Tigerbeat]
[13] – The Gaslamp Killer – Carpool Dummy ft. Mophono – [Forthcoming 'Brainfeeder']
[14] – Ghost Mutt – Sasquatch (CocoBryce Remix) – [Lowriders]
[15] – DJ Rashad – Teknitianz – [Planet Mu]
[16] – Slugabed – DonkyStomp – [Forthcoming 'Donky Pitch']
[17] – Bracket – Unrequited – RIP – [Brackout]
[18] – Broken Note – Aporia – [Forthcoming 'Ad Noiseam']
[19] – Piece of Shh.. – Diablo Riddim (Hektagon’s Shuffle) – [Svetlana Industries]
[20] – Elgato -Tonight – [Hessle Audio]
[21] – ASC – The Glow – [Pushing Red - Dub]
[22] – Dam Mantle – Broken Slumber – [Growing records]
[23] – ASC – Advent – [Pushing Red - Dub]
[24] – Indigo – Zero Point ft Poppy Roberts -[Forthcoming 'On The Edge']

Mix ….. Downliners Sekt – (Sorry, no tracklist)

Final Track ….
[25] – James Blake – I Only Know (What I Know Now) – [R&S]








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Boomkat product review for:
downliners sekt – Hello Lonely, Hold The Nation


Four immense groove deconstructions from the shadowy cast of Downliners Sekt landing somewhere between Autechre, Rhythm & Sound and T++. It’s fair to say we’re a little intrigued with this record, not least because of the willfull lack of information attached to it, but also because the production is so shockingly precise and complex.

First up ‘U Gumbu’ starts out sounding like Autechre’s ‘Pro Radii’ mixed with the sort of funk and soul displacment of James Blake’s ‘Air & Lack Therof’ before lapsing into a crackling dub groove almost worthy of Rhythm & Sound’s ‘Distance’. Next ‘Dirty Meinz’ calls for the T++ comparison with mechanically shifted post-garage techno styles swamped in psyche-tumbled static while acousmatic voices croon from the ether.

Meanwhile ‘Inside Maverick’s’ takes a different route with distant bomb-drop bass implosions and shivering organic jazz percussion sinking slowly into a tense and ominous K-hole. Applying the finishing touch, ‘Negative Green’ finds a graceful tension between ultra compressed bass weight and wide-open dub space threaded with ethereal jazz signatures reminding of Biosphere’s ‘Dropsonde’ set mutated to the nth degree and spliced with vocal glossolalia worthy of Burial.

We’re really, really into this 12″ and any fans of hi-calibre, beats-driven electronica should pay it their full attention without fail. Highest recommendation.



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Latest Release:

Downliners sekt – We make hits, not the public EP

‘We make hits not the public’ will be available worldwide from independent record stores and online retailers on 12″ vinyl in October 2010. Digital version to be downloaded directly from the band’s website dsektdot]com.

dboot[013] 12″ vinyl / mp3 release
‘We make hits, not the public’ is the second episode of Downliners sekt’s trilogy with barcelonan bass music label Disboot Records in co-production with the band’s own label dsekt[dot]com.

The deeply mysterious bass-tronauts continues their subsonic adventures, taking their craft to a new level of refinement. Haunting pads swell into lo-fi chopped melodies, crashing against persistent rhythms and coherent structures to create a near sonic shipwreck. Emotionally engaging and at calculated times claustrophobically dense, “wmhntp” is the middle ground between two extremes, one of excess and the other of minimal precision.

This, their sixth official release, is the second installment of a trilogy started a few months ago with the critically acclaimed ‘Hello lonely, hold the nation’ EP which since its release in May 2010 has received wide spread support. From radio bass evangelists like Mary Anne Hobbs and Rob Booth (both of them have commissioned exclusive mixes for their respective shows); to prestigious record stores like Sounds of the Universe and Boomkat (receiving category of single of the week on both places); having being reviewed by The Wire, Resident Advisor, Playground and many others magazines and webzines. The record has also received massive support from different artists around the world, among them The Bug (King Midas Sound), Kid Kameleon, François K and Hollywood movie director Darren Aranofsky.
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“look sport, the next time you decide to cut a record just remember: everything has to pass trough me. I make the hits, not the public. I tell the dj’s what to play”

(from the movie ‘The harder they come’)

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Some reviews and people talking about 'Hello Lonely, Hold the Nation':



"grosse déception" (some guy on a message board)

"best production I've heard in ages" (Rob Booth)

"this is really exquisite, I absolutely love it
Negative green it has been going down a STORM with my listeners." (Mary Anne Hobbs)


"This release is one of the most interesting/beguiling/fascinating things I've heard in a long long time. Best elements of James Blake, Flying Lotus, DJ Spooky and Rhythm and Sound all rolled into one in a way I haven't ever heard before" (Kid Kameleon)


"Respect!" (Kevin 'The Bug' Martin)


"This Barcelona group's beats have a unique way of slurping forward from one pattern to the next, as if encased in a biological sac while a miasma hangs around them like the dim, grim light from a deep-sea creature. The slurp, thought, helps hold their beats together however uneven they might be, so unlike most of latterday Autechre - who they at times resemble beneath the slippery surfaces - this movement feels like actual dancing of a sort. DJs might balk at the 5/4 signature of "Negative Green", but the subterranean scrabbling of " Dirty Meinz" and the Burial-in-delirium feel of "U Gumbu" have a very real bodily appeal that's hard to stop getting under your skin." (Joe Muggs @ The Wire)



"The final track on Downliners Sekt's fourth EP features a vocal sample about how bass frequencies can heal the mind, followed by the return of an ear-splitting percussive pattern. There's something to be said for the disconcerting unease of "spooky" electronic music by the likes of Demdike Stare and Focus Group, but Montreal's Downliners Sekt take this aesthetic idea to a more mechanistic place, building tracks from hunks of industrial detritus and splinters of discarded steel, beats that sound like they could be composed of both factory machinery and the flinty click of malfunctioning lighters. The industrial symphony of "Dirty Meinz" suddenly sidelining itself in favour of a vocal breakdown is like some bizarro Disney movie where the machines come to life and playfully scare the shit out of unsuspecting people. Their fourth release, Hello Lonely, Hold the Nation, is the first to be picked up by an outside label. But it's by no means a compromise. Beginning with near formlessness, "U Gumbu" sets forth a torturously deliberate beat that lurches over what sounds like a crackling fire pit. (They give us flames instead of basslines, but even those are maddeningly inconsistent.) Later, on "Inside Maverick's" it sounds like the flames overtook the hardware somewhere in between songs as blackened, hollowed-out beats sound off resignedly, carrying with them the intrinsic heat of the flames without any of that brilliant light that usually goes along with them. Indeed, this EP deals in various shades of darkness, starting with complete black and progressing until the final track wherein the elements finally come together to form something that sounds vaguely like a dubstep track. The assembly-line beats coalesce into something familiar, with streaks of light emerging in between the cracking facade like water trickling through imperceptibly fractured rock." (Andrew Ryce @ Resident Advisor)



"I’d never heard of this individual (individuals?) before, but rest assured that I will be watching vigilantly for future Downliners Sekt releases. This is the sort of strange music that mostly defies categorization. The best way to describe this EP is that it has the bleak, jagged sensibility of Burial, with The Ghosts of Electronic Music Past drifting feverishly through its veins – indecipherable, androgynous vocals, film samples whose timbre and placement hearken back to hip hop and early jungle – but where Burial’s music is raw, unpolished and deeply emotive, these tunes are polished, intentional and altogether quite inhuman-sounding. In that respect I was reminded by all four of them of the second track on Sigha’s Rawww EP, “Hold Your Heart Up To The Light”- an almost arrhythmic amalgam of ghostly, angular sounds. Though most assuredly not for the dancefloor, “Hello Lonely, Hold The Nation” is an EP of absolutely fascinating music, and this is one thoroughly impressed music nerd" (ultraesthetic)



"Quite possibly the strangest rhythmical construction I've heard all year, and there's been some weird shit come out recently (see Autechre above), found on a recommendation from my friend M. Over nearly seven minutes, the track unfolds - beginning in media res, with digital claps puncturing the air, giving way, with some difficulty, to an awkwardly jumping bass - and systematically deconstructs itself, always holding its elements in suspension and flux, as if afraid to pin down a single note. It feels like the very definition of artificial life, a misty atmosphere where every surface and texture is grey and glinting, synthetic and disturbing to the touch. Different sections of the track - the grey-white bursts of trebly static, the slowly ebbing digital skank underneath and, somewhere distant, the persistent dry clicks of the kick - have, as in Holger Czukay's Canaxis songs, or Lee Perry's dub productions, different textures, as if captured via a variety of media. It extracts and reintroduces not just individual rhythmic elements - making an already lopsided bop squelch, dissolve and frequently mutate - but whole atmospheres, mists of synth and shifts of production that seem to change the shape of the whole landscape" (the end times talking about Dirty Meinz)



"We knew of the mysterious band who put out “The Saltire Wave” –but not who was directing the project or where they came from- and who had a sound that was both familiar and refreshing at once. Downliners Sekt seemed to have on their to-do list, as a priority: to dismantle post-rock, pick up the pieces and reassemble them by programming a new mechanism, and to transform the smooth, slippery drums close to jazz, blurring the ambience with pedal effects, and pairing the result with cold electronica to pollute the musical landscape. Fast forward to now – the blinding “Hello Lonely, Hold The Nation” – and we have learned more about them, and also that they have a plan. We know that D-Sekt is a trio based in Spain and France –watch out France, a nation rich in post-rock from Ulan Bator to Programme– who have studied the style’s potential evolutionary avenues with this maxi-single that sounds like the same group but ten years in the future, who are radically renewed but without denying their roots. Firstly, their sound has changed - there’s more micro-electronica and dub in the mechanism– and secondly, they are getting more attention from a potential audience that until now they had been disconnected from. To grow, you have to improve and be persistent. As happens in an eclipse, there are times when the necessary elements line up in an auspicious manner. The four cuts on “Hello Lonely, Hold The Nation” –available on vinyl or download here – reduce the rock texture and increase the abstract crunch, the clicks’n’cuts and the stealthy dub, IDM and ambient strokes. The end is particularly magical, when “Negative Green” ends with vocal sparks of modified pitch a la Burial, and in this instance, D-Sekt have assimilated their influences without imitating them, to enrich their own language. This is clear on the rest of the EP: they don’t give up their tranquillity of character, their emotional intensity or the downtempo rhythm drawn from the best of dubstep –the Hessle Audio school– and ambient –i.e. 12k– to record the type of music that right now any fan of Mogwai circa “Rock Action” would be proud to give their name to. If everything goes according to plan, they say they’d like to release two more 12” cuts this year through the Barcelona based label, Disboot. There is no getting away now: we want them" (Javier Blánquez @ playground)

[section 8]

I've been a fan of Downliners Sekt ever since their first album... can't wait to hear this!

[rob_booth]

“On weeks show I’ve got x2 mixes, ninja tune have kindly passed on Eskmo’s own 12 minute mix he made especially for the release of the beautiful XX 20th b’day boxset.
Having Kulture on EE is a real scoop, having been selected by the original Dubstep Warz players to feature in Generation Bass, a real talent and one to watch in the future. Some of my favourite tracks in 2010 are in this weeks show, Demdike Stare and Weevil are just 2 of those, and finishing the show with Downliners sekt just made sense after what can only be described as arguably the mix of 2010 on EE. Hope you enjoy 128, really enjoyed putting this partcular show together”


DOWNLOAD::::
http://media.blubrry.com/electronica/el ... ulture.mp3


[01] – Silent Servant – Where Next – [Sandwell District]
[02] – Reality Or Nothing – Untitled (Function Mix)
[03] – Moving Ninja – Uranium – [Multiverse '5 years' album]
[04] – Ruckspin – Shikra – [Forthcoming 'Pushing Red']
[05] – Ruckspin ft. Jack Sparrow – Blessings – [Forthcoming 'Pushing Red']
[06] – 16bit – FRZR9000 – [dub]
[07] – The Bug – Skeng (Autechre Remix) – [Forthcoming 'Ninja Tune']
[08] – Solar Bears – Head Supernova – [Planet Mu]
[09] – Jackson and His Computer Band – Utopia – [Warp]
[10] – Broken Note – Zound – [Forthcoming 'BOKA' '032']

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Eskmo – Celebrating ‘Ninja Tune XX 20th b’day boxset
(1st non exclusive mix on EE) – Passed on courtesy of Ninja Tune
This is a mix of Eskmo’s choice tracks from the Ninja Tune XX 20th anniversary compilations
- http://www.ninjatunexx.net
01) Floating Points Ensemble “Post Suite” – [Ninja Tune]
02) Daedelus “LA Nocturn” – [Ninja Tune]
03) Amon Tobin: “los and Found” – [Ninja Tune]
04) Long Lost: Woebegone (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Remix)
05) Spank Rock: “Tell Me What It Look Like” (Todd Edwards Remix) – [Ninja Tune]
06) Roots Manuva: “Witness (1 Hope)” (Slugabed Remix) – [Ninja Tune]
07) Anti Pop Consortium: “Volcano” (Four Tet Remix) – [Ninja Tune]
08) Dorian Concept: “Her Tears Taste Like Pears” – [Ninja Tune]
09) Shuttle: “Lion” – [Ninja Tune]
10) Offshore: “Jen At The Station” – [Ninja Tune]
11) Jaga Jazzist: “Toccata” (Grasscut Remix) – [Ninja Tune]
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[11] – James Blake – Limit To Your Love – [Forthcoming 'ATLAS']
[12] – James Blake – Tep and the Logic – [Dub]
[13] – Samuel H Simpson – Spronkle (F Remix) – [TAKE Records]


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Kulture (Signed to Skream’s Disfigured Dubz label)
This mix is a rare treat, Kulture displays the deeper vibe for 40 minutes straight.

Kulture – Not Long Left – [unreleased]
Kulture – A Little Faith – [unreleased]
Kulture – Distilled – [unreleased]
Kulture – Rock the Boat – [unreleased]
Kulture – Stoned with Emma Sleeping – [unreleased]
Kulture – Purple – [unreleased]
Kulture – Inwards – [unreleased]
Kulture – All I Need – [unreleased]
Kulture – Pipe Dreams – [unreleased]
Kulture – Chordal – [unreleased]
Kulture – Mako Energy – [Get Darker Presents: This Is Dubstep Vol. 3]
Kulture – Next Lifetime Refix – [unreleased]
Kulture – Tonight – [Ghetto Knowledge]
Kulture – Rainy Night – [unreleased]
Kulture – Crickets – [unreleased]
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[14] – Demdike Stare – Caged In Stammheim – [Modern Love]
[15] – Sandwell District – intro / Outro – [Sandwell District]
[16] – Mount Kimbie – William (dayglo Mix) – [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
[17] – Weevil Series – Adult B1 – [Weevil] Very Limited 3X12″ EPs
[18] – Ekoplekz – Distended Dub – [Forthcoming 'Punch Drunk']
[19] – Downliners Sekt – From Under Spinning Lights – [Forthcoming 'Disboot']




“ESKMO” (Ninja Tune) ZENDNL161 – Release Date: October 4, 2010
NOW AVAILABLE ON: Digital | Double Vinyl | CD | Deluxe Bundle


“Electrifyingly enveloping…Sufficient mind-melting invention here…to render
Eskmo a hotter property than that chilly moniker might immediately imply.” – BBC Music

“Eskmo has created his own sound.” – Future Sequence

“Elegently melodic, beautiful electronics and enough skewed rhythmatics to make this release a brilliant opening full-length release.” - Bleep

“Ethereal and very poetic in nature, and very representative of the whole listening experience.“ – The Line of Best Fit

“Genre-defying…synth blaze swim in a deep electronic pool…clanking bottom end…. Eskmo feels visionary more often than not.” - Textura

“‘More than capable of holding its own up with any of Flying Lotus’s best.” – Clash Music
“ESKMO” (Ninja Tune)

“For his new album entitled “ESKMO” (Ninja Tune), Brendan has abandoned the strictures of making tracks for the dance floor and the strictures of the 12” single format, and followed his visionary muse. “Before Warp and Planet Mu I kind of fell into the game of making tracks to get released on smaller dance labels, having to cater to ‘dance’ formulas,” he explains. “Over this past couple of years, I feel I’ve let go of that, and just writing the songs I want to write. I got back to what excited me about making electronic music when I started out, creating these little universes with sound and writing songs.”

The album was, he says, written over a six month stretch “in the middle of a whole bunch of personal relationship-type stuff, a lot of deep life-experiences happening that helped the music just bleed out of me. I just poured all those feelings into the music, it’s very cathartic. This is the first full body of work where I’m singing all over it, and allowing myself to get over that furlough of expression has been really liberating.” He goes on to say “Just like anything, I’m sure some people will connect and some won’t at all, but that’s not what this is about for me. Sound has always been a grounding purpose in my life. If you don’t dive into yourself as deep as you can, then what are you doing it for?“

The first release on the label following Ninja Tune’s 20th Anniversary box set signals a brave new chapter for this artist, and for electronica itself. Dreamy, haunting, full of ghostly funk and inventive sonics, Eskmo serves up electronica with a most human heart.” – Ninja Tune


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kulture - Kulture Double Pack

South London's Kulture is given the honour of releasing the first double pack on Skream's Disfigured Dubz imprint. It's an apt choice to help the label mature, presenting 4 deeper tracks equally adept in the home or the club. 'Vitamin D' is probably one of his finest to date, rolling up a blend of Detroit-inspired purple boogie bliss with LD-alike soca percussion and full-sunken subs. 'Liquid Sound' again rolls with the heavy Afro-Latin syncopations and fluid synth swirls with a hint of Bladerunner, before 'Screaming Frog' does the detuned 303 bass and swung halfstep thing in style and 'Soften' closes on a broken-beat/dubstep fusion. Smart.




kulture - Spooky

Kulture rolls on from his Disfigured Dubs transmissions with two atmospheric movers for Reduction. With 'Spooky' he unloads a Mala-esque roller driven by bottomless subs and infectious congas, and tinted with ethereal, theremin-alike synths. 'Bittersweet' is more minimal still, but nods to early Shackleton-style drum and bass arrangements with his own brand of sinister melodic character.



*ABOUT THE MIX*

For the ravey, dance-orientated music from Kulture you can check out Kulture's GetDarkerTV set



However, this mix is a rare treat, in that it displays the deeper vibe for 40 minutes straight.

It was inspired by someone saying that Kulture's style should be called "chillstep". Therefore, let it be known that this is the Chillstep mix.

You are advised to play this mix in your bedroom... with your significant other...

*LINKS*

http://www.kulture-music.com

[rob_booth]

Albums (Including compilations) - (Not in order) - TBC


ASC - Nothing Is Certain - [NonPlus+]
Anthony "Shake" Shakir - Frictionalism: 1994-2009 - [Rush Hour]
Autechre - Move of Ten – [Warp]
Anbb (Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld) – Mimikry – [Raster Noton]
Architect - Consume Adapt Create – [Hymen]
Access To Arasaka - Void () – [Tympanik Audio]
Actress – Splazsh – [Honest Jon’s]
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs – [Mercury]
Breakage – Foundation – [Digital Soundboy]
Bonobo - Black Sands - [Ninja Tune]
Clubroot – Clubroot II : MMX – [LoDubs]
Candle Nine - The Muse In The Machine – [Tympanik Audio]
Dead Fader – Corrupt my Examiner – [3by3]
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest – [4AD]
Deadbeat - Radio Rothko - [The Agriculture]
Downliners Sekt – Hello Lonely hold the Nation / We Make Hits, Not the Public - [Disboot]
Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing – [Modern Love]
Dark Matter: Multiverse 2004 – 2009 – [Multiverse]
Digital Mystikz ( Mala ) – Return II Space – [DMZ]
F – Energy Distortion – [7even Recordings]
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma – [Warp]
Fabric Presents: Elevator Music Volume 1 - [Fabric]
Four Tet - There Is Love in You – [Domino]
GetDarker Presents This Is Dubstep Vol.2 – [GetDarker]
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer – [Warp]
Horsepower Productions – Quest For the Sonic Bounty – [Tempa]
Helixir – Undivided – [7even Recordings]
iTAL tEK – Midnight Colour – [Planet Mu]
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have – [Hyperdub]
Jack Sparrow - Circadian – [Tectonic]
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me – [Drag City]
Lorn – Nothing Else – [Brainfeeder]
Max Richter - Infra – [FatCat Records]
Mount Kimbie – Crooks and Lovers – [Hotflush]
Mrs Jynx - Shark Carousel – [Planet Mu]
m² aka squaremeter - - Heliogabal – [Ant-Zen]
NHK – Special – [Important Records]
Nils Frahm & Anne Müller - 7fingers – [Hush Records]
Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal – [Mego]
Rudi Zygadlo - Great Western Laymen – [Planet Mu]
Surgeon - Fabric 53 - [Fabric]
Sandwell District – [Sandwell District]
Scientist Launches Dubstep into Outer Space : Dubstep Originals – [Tectonic]
Shed - The Traveller - [Ostgut Ton]
Scuba – Triangulation - [Hotflush]
Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In – [Planet Mu]
Shackleton - Fabric 55 - [Fabric]
The Reconstruction of Fives – [n5MD]
The Black Dog - Music for Real Airports - [Soma]
TVO/The Village Orchestra - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale – [Broken20]
Warpaint - The Fool – [Rough Trade]
Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music - Mixed With Love: Essential & Unreleased Remixes 1976-86 - [Strut]
Vex'd - Cloud Seed – [Planet Mu]
VA - Berghain 04: Ben Klock – [Ostgut Ton]
VA - Sub:Stance (Scuba) – [Ostgut Ton]
VA - Worth The Weight : Bristol Dubstep Classics – [Punch Drunk]
VA - Ninja Tune XX - [Ninja Tune]
VA - Ninja Tune XX Presents King Cannibal - The Way Of The Ninja – [Ninja Tune]
VA - The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One – [Stones Throw]
VA - Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Volume One - [Angular]
VA - Bangs & Works Vol.1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation – [Planet Mu]
VA- Deep Medi Musik – [Deep Medi]
VA - Fünf - [Ostgut Ton]

[rob_booth]

Airhead - In the mix exclusive

http://media.blubrry.com/electronica/el ... irhead.mp3


opening track:
James Blake & Airhead – Knives – [unreleased]


Mix – Airhead – Exclusive Mix for Electronic Explorations

01. Hugh Lecaine – Dripsody (JWD Music)
02. Airhead – Stilt Beetles (Unreleased)
03. Airhead – Masami (Forthcoming BRAiNMATH)
04. Actress – I Can’t Forgive You (Werk Discs)
05. Harmonimix – Broad Factor (Unreleased)
06. Morgan Zarate – M.A.B (Fat City)
07. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps [Airhead Remix] (Unreleased)
08. Nick Höppner – Brush Me Down (Ostgut Ton)
09. Klaus – Neph (Unreleased)
10. Airhead – Paper Street (BRAiNMATH)
11. Mount Kimbie – Would Know (Hotflush)
12. The xx – Intro [Airhead Remix] (Unreleased)
13. Grouper – Disengaged (Type)
14. Klaus – Tusk (Unreleased)
15. Airhead – Coffee & Yoghurt (Forthcoming BRAiNMATH)
16. Mark Pritchard – Elephant Dub (Deep Medi)
17. Airhead – Black Ink (Unreleased)
18. Clouds – Spat (Channel Zero)
19. LV & Untold – Beacon (Hemlock)
20. Clouds – Napalm (Unreleased)
21. Airhead – Milkola Bottle (Forthcoming BRAiNMATH)
22. Harmonimix – Big Boi (Unreleased)
23. Airhead – Roof Tiles (Forthcoming BRAiNMATH)

[Motorway to Roswell]

Big up, Rob.

[dubduck]

Yeah this is huge. Thanking you.

[rob_booth]

evening all,

I'm slowly uploading all the mixes within the ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS show onto my mixcloud account

I only started this the other day, but it's already taking shape, perfect listening for these bored shifts @ work.

Once a mix is published I've bump the thread and update the producers link on this 1st post.



Ramadanman – (Hessle / Applepips)
Untold – [ Hemlock / Hessle / Hotflush ]
Swarms [ LoDubs ]
Surgeon – ( Dynamic Tension / Tresor )
Airhead – [ BRAiNMATH ]
Bong-Ra – ( Ad Noiseam / Ruff )
Super Record Label - [ Raffertie’s Label ]
Ruckspin – [ Ranking Records ]
Boxcutter – ( Planet Mu / Hotflush )
Vex’d – ( Planet Mu )
Neil Landstrumm – [ Tresor / Planet Mu ]
Svetlana Industries
16bit – ( Boka Records / MTA )
Excision - [ Rottun Recordings ]
Loops Haunt — ( Black Acre / Fortified Audio )
Emika [ Ninja Tune ]
Milanese – [ Planet Mu / Warp Records ]
Scuba – ( Hotflush Recordings / AUS )
Shackleton [ Woe To The Septic Heart! ]
BenUFO – ( Hessle Audio )
James Blake – [ ATLAS / Hemlock / Hessle Audio ]
Eskmo [ Ninja Tune ]
Kulture [ Disfigured Dubz ]
Slugabed – ( Planet Mu / Ramp / Ninja Tune )
Downliners Sekt – [ Disboot / dsekt.com ]
Orphan101 & Bloodman – [ DecaRhythm ]
Niveau Zero – [ Ad Noiseam ]
Terminal Dusk Record Label Showcase
Raffertie [ Planet Mu / Super ]
October [ Caravan ] – Multiverse 5th Anniversary
Indigo [Mindset / Tectonic ]
DFRNT [ EchoDub ]
‘Ad Noiseam’ Record Label
Ranking Records – [ Ranking ]
Phaeleh – [ Disfigured Dubz / Soul Motive ]
Immerse Records Showcase – [ Immerse Records ]
NastyNasty – [ Frite Nite / Bad Acid Music ]
LoDubs Record Label
2562 – (Tectonic)
Hexstatic – [ Ninja Tune / Lower Level Records ]
YARDCORE – [ yardcore.net ]
1000names – [ Black Acre / Svetlana / Eklektik ]
Gemmy – [ Planet Mu ]
Rudi Zygadlo – [ Planet Mu ]
Al Tourettes – [ Apple Pips ]
Cardopusher – [ Hyperdub / Peace off ]
Kontext – [ Immerse ]
VVV - [ Fortified Audio / Surface Tension ]
XXXY – [Mindset / Pollen / Formant ]
Hyetal - [Soul Motive / Formant / Reduction ]
Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq) - [ Planet Mu boss ]
Point B [ Combat ]
Scan One [ Yellow Machines ]
Irish Dubstep Special (70 minute exclusive)
Fantastic Mr Fox – [ Black Acre / Hemlock ]
HxdB – [ Mindset / Dubkraft ]
Planet Mu – [ Worlds Greatest Label ]
Clubroot - [ Lo Dubs ]
Akira Kiteshi - [ Black Acre / Dealmaker ]
Vancouver Dubstep Special – (7 producers) - Cue
Jus Wan - [ NakedLunch / Applepips / Tube10 ]
SYNKRO – [ Z-Audio / SYNKRO / Mindset ] -
Jazzsteppa - [ Studio Rockers / Hotflush ]
F - [7even Recordings]
Rob Booth’s – ‘Desert Island Discs Mixtape’
Mount Kimbie [ Hotflush ]
Phaeleh [ Disfugred ] -
Broken Note – [Ad Noiseam / Peace Off ]
Rag & Bone Records
Pinch – [ Tectonic ]
DJ Madd - [ Boka ]
Ebola – [ Wrong Music / Acroplane ]
Starkey - [ Planet Mu ]
NakedLunch Record Label
Kowton – [ NakedLunch / Mindset ]
Grievous Angel - Cue Sheet
Pangaea - [Hessle Audio / Hotflush]
Geiom – [ Berkane Soul ]
iTAL tEK - [ Planet Mu / Atom ]
Ekelon – [ Planet Mu / Creative Space ]
TRG – [ Hessle / Tempa ]
Subeena – [ OPIT ]
Forensix(mcr) - now known as XXXY
FaltyDL & Friends – [ Planet Mu / Ramp ]
Combat Recordings – [ Combat ]
Neil Landstrumm – [ Planet Mu / Tresor ]
Nick Argon - [ Argon Records ]
Vaccine – [ Hotflush Recordings ]
Marlow – [ Black Acre ]

[rob_booth]

"Ekoplekz is a Bristol-based experimental electronic musician who shuns modern digital production techniques in favour of primitive analogue devices, lo-fi cassette recorders and a spontaneous, improvised approach to composition. Taking inspiration from ‘Radiophonic’ soundtracks, early dub reggae, krautrock and post-punk D.I.Y. experimenter’s like Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Robert Rental, Ekoplekz is intent on introducing a new generation to the kind of raw eruptions of sound that first gave birth to the UK’s electronic underground over 30 years ago.

Following last year’s “Stalag Zero/Distended Dub” 12″ on Bristol’s renowned underground imprint Punch Drunk, Ekoplekz follows-up this month with another 12″, the “Fountain Square EP”, and epic double cassette album “Memowrekz” for Mordant Music."



LINK
http://media.blubrry.com/electronica/el ... oplekz.mp3



[01] – Boddika – Underground – [Swamp81]
[02] – Boddika – Electron – [Swamp81]
[03] – Roots Manuva – Witness (Slugabed Remix) – [Ninja Tune]
[04] – Ghettozoid – Boy Toy – [Forthcoming 'One4Ho']
[05] – Balkansky & Loop Stepwalker – Tornado – [Ad Noiseam]
[06] – Lorca & Visionist – Slapstickk – [unreleased]
[07] – Indigo – Tears – Synkro Remix – [Forthcoming 'On The Edge']
[08] – Skudge – Convolution (2562 Remix) – [Skudge US]
--—> Osymyso – Milk Run Series – Episode 5
[09] – I.D & Skinnz – No Love – [Forthcoming 'Ear Wax']
[10] – I.D & Skinnz – Most High – [Forthcoming 'Ear Wax']
[11] – Om Unit – Timps – (hrdvsion remix) – [Forthcoming 'Civil Music']
[12] – TommyFourSeven – G – [Forthcoming 'C L R']
[13] – Photek – 101 (Boddika’s Drum Machine Mix) – [Photek Productions]
[14] – Emika – Count Backwards (Marcel Dettmann Remix) – [Forth..'Ninja Tune']
[15] – A Quaint Freud – Whyf – [AQF 004]
[16] – Submotion Orchestra – All yours – [Exceptional]
[17] – Neat+Submerse – Close – (Jack Dixon Remix) – [Forthcoming 'Airflex Labs']
[18] – Morris Cowan – Magnetor – [Zaubernuss]
[19] – Actress – Harrier ATTK – [NonPlus]



_____________________________________________
Ekoplekz – In the Mix Exclusive


01 – Ekoplekz – Reflectograph
02 – Pinch – Elements (Replekz’d)
03 – Ekoplekz – Jedikiah Slave
04 – Vomitus Skink – Mind Of The Mole
05 – Shackleton – Man On A String (Replekz’d)
06 – Sculpture – Greenish Radiating Needles
07 – Werneck-Wretchmond – Aethernet
08 – Peverelist – Livity (Replekz’d)
09 – Dolly Dolly – Terrance Knows
10 – Boxcutter – Factory Setting (Replekz’d)
11 – Ekoplekz – Organite
12 – Ekoplekz – Brian Hodgson
13 – Ekoplekz – Visions Of Purdown
14 – Ekoplekz – Dick Mills Blues

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Rob Booth cont’d
[20] – Desolate – Endurance – [Fauxpas Musik]
[21] – Matthewdavid – Los Angeles Is Beautiful – [Forthcoming 'Brainfeeder']



http://ekoplekznews.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Ekoplekz
http://soundcloud.com/ekoplekz
http://twitter.com/ekolad



The following text was taken from an interview ‘Future Proofing’ put together with Punch Drunk hed Peverelist

The Ekoplekz release is quite unique for Punch Drunk, a label that was already quite experimental. How did you come across Ekoplekz? What made you want to release his music, and how do you think it fits in?

Peverelist:

I’ve known Ekoplekz for a a number of years through the Bristol music underground. When he presented me with some of the music he’d been creating for the Ekoplekz project, I was blown away and really excited by the prospect of putting together a release. I wanted to do something special, a standout for the 20th release, and it made perfect sense. I don’t think he has many, if any, contemporaries — it’s quite stand-out. I think it fits with the other music we’ve released, not obviously in a sonic way, but certainly in that it does fit the ethos of the label, representing local artists influenced by sound system culture, dub, and electronic music.

There was a movement in the UK fusing electronics and dub ideas before imported house and techno made its mark, and Ekoplekz takes direct influence from where they left off. I am really into his approach which is, in many ways, the complete antithesis of contemporary music. He doesn’t have a sequencer so doesn’t spend hours fine tuning automations, it much more spontaneous, which I think brings the music to life so it doesn’t have that calculated and preconceived feel. That certainly resonates with some of my own ideas of bringing machines to life.

[rob_booth]

'Old meets New'



BLOG LINK::::::
http://electronicexplorations.org/the-s ... orchestra/




[01] - LFO - We Are Back - [Warp Records] (1991)
[02] - Nick Dunton - Between Worlds - [Forthcoming 'Surface Records']
[03] - Nick Dunton - Between Worlds (Sandwell District's for Rich Mix) - [Forthcoming 'Surface Records']
[04] - Mark Broom & James Ruskin - Merz - [EPM]
[05] - King Cannibal - Aragami Style (The Teknoists Boygrinder Bazooka remix) - [Forthcoming'Ad Noiseam']
[06] - Claro Intelecto - Tone - [Ai Records] (2003)
[07] - Autectre - Doctrine - [Warp Records] (1993)
[08] - Submotion Orchestra - All Yours (Jack Sparrow remix) - [Exceptional]
[09] - Distance - Malice - [Forthcoming 'Chestplate']
[10] - Underground Resistance - Entering Quadrant 5 - [UR] (1991)
[11] - Jimmy Edgar - Jefferson Interception - [Warp] (2005)
[12] - Egyptrixx - Naples - [Night Slugs]
[13] - Daft Punk - Teachers - [Virgin] (1997)
[14] - LFO - LFO - [Warp Records] (1990)
[15] - Downliners Sekt - Hockey Nights In Canada - [Disboot / dsekt.com]

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Emika (Ninja Tune)
http://www.facebook.com/emikamusic


01 - Emika, Count Backwards (Marcel Dettmann B-side) - [Ninja Tune]
02 - King Midas Sound - Waiting For You 001 - [Hyper Dub]
03 - Digital Mystikz - Education - [DMZ]
04 - Pinch ft Emika - 2012 - [Tectonic]
05 - Rob Sparxx - To Be In Love - [white label]
06 - Short Stuff - Regression - [Rubadub]
07 - Emika - Count Backwards (Kryptic Minds Remix) - [Ninja Tune]
08 - Chaim - U & Eye ft. Meital De Razon - [BPitch]
09 - Norman Nodge - The Happenstance - [Ostgut Ton]
10 - Pom Pom - [??]
11 - Paul Frick ft Emika - I Mean (Dollkraut's band reinterpretation) - [Doppelschall]
12 - Hidden Hawaii - qns 5/6 - [Hardwax]


_____________________________________




Rob Booth Cont'd

[16] - Sukh Knight & Shandy - Look At - forthcoming nwa001 - [New World Audio]
[17] - Addison Groove - This Is It - [Forthcoming 'Tectonic']
[18] - Chrissy Murderbot - Heavy Butt - [Forthcoming 'Planet Mu']
[19] - Duffstep - Tired (FaltyDL Remix) - [Join The Dots]
[20] - ike release - Don't Know - [Forthcoming 'Infrasonics']
[21] - George Lanham - Surrogate Siren - [unreleased]
[22] - Aux 88 - Tom Tom Beats - [Submerge Recordings] (2005)
[23] - Leftfield - Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) - [Epic/Sony] (2000)


_____________________________________
Weevil Orchestra "Brackwater Dub" Mix
http://www.weevilneighbourhood.com

No Tracklist
_____________________________________


End of show.





Emika
Double Edge (Pinch Mix)
Label: Ninja Tune
Genre: DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY


All the hype around Ninja Tune’s new darling, Emika, is clearly justified with this dark treat featuring a crushing remix from Pinch. ‘Double Edge’ is probably the most forward thinking pop track we’ve heard all year, that is if you like your pop dark like a Berlin backstreet at 4am in the middle of December. Quite remarkably, the track is also credited with additional production from Rashad Becker, aka one of the most revered mastering and cutting engineers in the world. She’s only the second person after Tin Man to be honoured with such an accomplished presence as far as we know. Not to play down Emika’s contribution, but this surely accounts for the enhanced bass quake and truly vast spatial dynamics created within. It also offers Pinch some really juicy meat to work with on his mix, embellishing the track with a stony-faced chill and fragmenting the vocals into digitized glossolalia. One listen to the sample should have you hooked…

____

Paul Frick / Emika
I Mean featuring Emika (Akufen / Dollkraut Mixes)
Label: Doppelschall
Genre: TECHNO / HOUSE


Paul Frick of the Brandt Brauer Frick trio pairs off with Emika for a subtly haunted yet driving slice of Tech-House pop backed with remixes from Akufen, Dollkraut and Finchhatten. The sharply futurist contours of Frick’s production both slice into and blur against Emika’s showstealing vocals on the original, while Akufen takes the pair somewhere low-lit and sensuous for a more intimate Beatdown groove, besides Dollkraut’s coldly dubbed and Wavey version, and an pumping Finchhatten mix.

____

Emika / Scuba
Drop The Other (Scuba Mix)
Label: Ninja Tune
Genre: DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY


Stunning debut material from the very promising Emika, blooming the dark flowers of her ‘Drop The Other’ single on Ninja Tune backed with remixes from Scuba and GeRM. Emika’s sound is favorably compared to current dance-pop auteurs the XX, Burial and Fever Ray and we’ve got no argument with that. The forward-thinking craft of the original ‘Drop The Other’ evokes the timeless sophistication of her current home, Berlin, with tense, glass cut strings and stoically clipped dubstep beats, perhaps imagining Leila jamming with Various Production. Scuba is called on for the remix duties, sharing a passion for the power of Berghain’s fearsome Funktion One stacks with a brooding steppers version whisking Emika’s vocals into half-heard erotic utterances. On the flip, there’s a Pete Tong-friendly slab of electro-house from GeRM that you need not bother yourself with, but as for the A-side, it’s an absolute must-have!

____________________________________________________________________

Repetition/Distract – Old Weevil Neighbourhood
Label: Weevil Neighbourhood
Catalog#: PICNIC
Format: Cassette, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 04 Apr 2011
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Abstract, Drone, Field Recording, Ambient

Tracklist
A Old Weevil Neighbourhood Pts. 1 & 2 21:34
B Old Weevil Neighbourhood Pts. 3 & 4 20:44



"Brackwater Dub" is a sound montage made especially for the Electronic Explorations podcast. Elements are taken mostly from the music on the B-side of the "Old Weevil Neighbourhood" cassette (plus very few bits from side A) and blended with additional material from various other pieces, which are currently unreleased. The source tracks were cut up and rearranged to create a musical piece that sits somewhere between remix, mix set and audio collage."

http://www.repetitiondistract.org>
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Repetition%2FDistract


"Old Weevil Neighbourhood" will be officially released on 4th of April 2011. The cassette is limited to 100 units. It is the first release on the new Weevil Neighbourhood project.

The Weevil Neighbourhood mainly works as an outlet for music for now but may develop into a variety of things in the course of time. There are two main aspects for the project: the idea of limitation - limited units available, limited life span of the units, constant loss of information - and the idea of a topology ("neighbourhood") with places, scenes, actors etc. instead of a linear development. Practically, everything that is going to happen in the Weevil Neighbourhood will be limited or deal with the idea of limitation and will have a distinct name instead of a number.

http://www.weevilneighbourhood.com
http://www.discogs.com/label/Weevil+Neighbourhood

[rob_booth]

CUE - 147 - Emika & The Weevil Orchestra

[rob_booth]

British born and Berlin based DJ, producer and sound designer Tommy Four Seven has just released his debut album “Primate”

To celebrate he has handed over an exclusive mix for the EE podcast. Ital Tek has also contributed with his 2nd mix for the show. His album of 2008 Cyclical became my LP of 2008.

Plenty of techno, electro and up front exclusives throughout my sections of the show

Cue sheet can be found here

Please DOWNLOAD and leave comments for this show on the official EE page it only takes a few seconds !



ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 148 - Tommy Four Seven & Ital Tek

[01] – Dalglish – 25.6.2010 – [Forthcoming 'Highpoint Lowlife']
[02] – Dead Sound & Videohead – In the Pit – [unreleased]
[03] – Dead Sound – Leave the Building – [unreleased]
[04] – Addison Groove – Make Um Bounce – [Forthcoming 'Tectonic']
[05] – DFRNT – Relentless – [Nu Directions]
[06] – Addison Groove – Work It – [Swamp81]
[07] – Addison Groove – Sexual – [Swamp81]
[08] – Baobinga & Hyetal – Trouble – [Build]
[09] – Roska – Measureless – [Forthcoming 'Hotflush']
[10] – 214 (twofourteen) – Get With It – [unreleased]
[11] – Anodyne – Empire of Light – [Combat Recordings]
[12] – Anodyne – Empire of Dust – [Combat Recordings]
[13] – NastyNasty – No Names – [Forthcoming 'Planet Mu']
[14] – NastyNasty – Stacking – [unreleased]
[15] – Pinch Vs Loefah – Broken – [Forthcoming 'Tectonic']
[16] – Kryptic Minds Vs Emika – Make You Sleep – [Blackbox]
[17] – Ekoplekz – Daytron Romance – [Mordant Music]

____________________________
Tommy Four Seven

01 – Richard Devine – Untitled 3
02 – Ancient Methods – B1 First Method
03 – Emptyset – Gate 3
04 – Speedy J – Drill
05 – Ancient Methods – A1 First Method
06 – Tommy Four Seven – Armed 3
07 – Emptyset – Gate 4
08 – Speedy J – Borax
09 – Technical Itch – L.E.D
10 – Architect – Blood Tracer
____________________________

Rob Booth cont’d
[18] – 16bit – untitled – [unreleased]
[19] – Vivek – Pulse – [Deep Medi Musik]
[20] – Machine Code – Confession – [Subtrakt]

____________________________
Ital Tek

01 – Ital Tek – Untitled – [Unreleased]
02 – Ital Tek – Days Illusion – [unreleased]
03 – Boxcutter – Little Smoke Remix – [Feat Kab Driver]
04 – Falty DL – Tell Them Stories
05 – Solar Bears – Twin Stars – [Lone Remix]
06 – Ital Tek – Heliopause
07 – Vangelis – Spiral
08 – Ital Tek Vs Boxcutter – Untitled – [Unreleased]
09 – Ital Tek – Untitled – [Unreleased]
10 – Starkey – Holodeck
11 – Om Unit – Prawn Cocktail (Salva Remix) / Starkey Peacekeeper
12 – Illum Sphere – Dreamstealin’
13 – Radiohead – Feral
14 – Akira Yamaoka – Heads No.2 (Silent Hill 3 OST)
15 – Tyler The Creator – Pigs Fly (Feat. Domo Genesis) / Ital Tek synths
____________________________

Rob Booth cont’d
[21] – Downliners Sekt – Hockey Nights In Canada – [deskt.com .. disboot]
[22] – Burial – Stolen Dog – [Hyperdub]
[23] – Dalglish – 8.4.2006 – [Forthcoming 'Highpoint Lowlife']



TOMMY FOUR SEVEN
PRIMATE

MARCH 2011 on CLR




End of March 2011, CLR (Create – Learn – Realize) will release the debut album “Primate” of British born and Berlin based DJ, producer and sound designer Tommy Four Seven.

Due to its unconventional and innovative production ethos, the record sets itself apart from the majority of contemporary Techno productions. Tommy Four Seven did not use any of the traditional percussion and beat sounds, such as hi hats, snares, rides, shakers or claps nor did he choose to work with synthesizers. Instead he used field recordings as the catalyst to shape rhythm and sound, many of which he recorded in his daily life in the city or on the road, are alienated beyond recognition. In addition to this, where most would use synthesizers, Tommy instead sculptured the engaging vocals of Emika, simply adding new and unusual textures to the sonic picture. Musically “Primate“ is as interesting as it is sonically. It is at the same time deep and hypnotic, driving and exhilarating, with downright unorthodox beat structures and sequences. It delivers everything we could expect from a current Techno production, without using a single cliché.

When Chris Liebing first listened to it, he was immediately fascinated and amazed. This different avenue of Techno seemed to be perfectly in line with the new, slightly more free-spirited and experimental CLR philosophy. That is why apart from offering to release the record, he even got involved with the finishing touches of the production, helping to make (as Tommy called it) “the bass sound mega-hot”. “Primate” is a unique and uncompromising debut-album of a young and promising Techno pioneer.

[tacospheros]

bigup to ital tek. i can't say enough about him. his tunes are just not like anyone else. i think he's one of the most crucially underrated producers. Moment in Blue EP was amazing. Spectrum Falls EP was amazing. Midnight Colour was amazing. Mako EP was amazing. Even going back to his Terminator EP. holy fuck

[rob_booth]

This is another mix from myself within quick succession, but this one is a little more full on ‘autonomic’, where others have been ambient and experimental. There’s lots of upfront goodness to be had in this one, so sit back and enjoy.


DOWNLOAD


Next show
RAMP RECORDINGS 'vinyl only' special celebrating EE's 150th podcast


[01] – Hiatus ‘Insurrection’ ft. Linton Kwesi Johnson
[02] – Boddika – Rubba – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[03] – O/V/R – Post-Traumatic Son (Marcel Dettmann MDR Version) [Blueprint]
[04] – Boddika – Grand Prix – [Forthcoming 'Nakedlunch']
[05] – Steve Stoll – FBP – (Wraith – Verbish Edit) – [ASRX]
>>>> Arpanet – Illuminated Displays – [Record Makers]
[06] – Mike Dehnert – Beatmatching – [Delsin]
[07] – 2562 – Juxtaposed – [When In Doubt]
[08] – Boddika – Soul What – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[09] – George Lanham – The Cambridge Offensive – [unreleased]
[10] – Boddika – Sometimes – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[11] – Grooverider – Cybernetic Jazz – [Higher Ground]
[12] – They Live – Cancel Standard – [Exit Records]
[13] – Dan HabarNam – Ant Society – [Santorin]
[14] – Boddika – 2727 – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
>>>> The Advent – Dark Fader Side – [Kombination Research]
[15] – 214 – Come On – [Forthcoming 'Car Crash Set']

_____________________________

ASC – In the mix exclusive

No tracklist
Too much upfront music !!!

_____________________________

[16] – Desto – Track 2 – [Forthcoming 'Ramp Recordings']
[17] – Pistonsbeneath – Cylindrical Sea – [unreleased]
[18] – Wedge – Phonics – [if symptoms persist']
[19] – Optimum – DS-10 – [Hum and Buzz Records]
[21] – Instra:mental – When I Dip – [Nonplus Records]
[22] – Peverelist – Dance Til The Police Come – [Hessle Audio]
[23] – Toasty – The Knowledge – [Hotflush]
[24] – Skudge – Vanisher – [Skudge]
[25] – 5 Nights of Bleeding – Linton Kwesi Johnson (Fausten version)





Growing up in different areas of England, on a steady diet of Motown, Techno & the blossoming UK Hardcore scene, his productions manage to encompass such a wide range of these influences. Starting out DJ’ing with a bunch of like- minded friends on pirate radio stations while still in school, ASC soon found himself getting interested in how the tracks he was playing were made. This led to an investment in a modest studio setup, which proved to be a defining point in James’ life.

An initial batch of tracks were written between 1997-1999, and eventually a 7 track demo appeared, of which 6 were signed to West Midlands based Nu Directions, and the remaining track was signed to LTJ Bukem’s well known Good Looking Records. After a handful of successful releases on these labels and a few others, James started his own label, Covert Operations, which went on to put out a total of 30 vinyl releases & 8 CD’s between 2000 & 2009.

After receiving much praise for his intricately detailed and well thought out productions, ASC amassed a serious back catalogue of releases on some of the most forward thinking labels out there, such as 720 Degrees, Offshore, and Paradox’s Outsider label.

2010 has seen the release of Nothing Is Certain, the album James released on Instra:mental’s popular NonPlus+ label, to great critical acclaim. Widespread reviews have cited it as one of the best electronic music long players for the year. Hot on the heels of that, ASC has launched his new imprint, Auxiliary.

If this wasn’t enough to keep ASC busy, September 2010 saw the release of a project entitled ‘Music For Pictures’. Liquid Cinema’s head honcho Jeff Rona asked James to create a library of music strictly with the idea of them being used for TV, film and other forms of media in mind. The title was a nod to the classic Brian Eno LP. Music For Film, and what James has come up with, might well be praised with the same regard in many years to come.

You could say the future is bright for ASC, but that’s more than an understatement.

[rob_booth]

CUE SHEET - 149 - ASC - EE

[archer]

[esfandyar]

that ASC mix is incredible. Some really stand out tunes within it. That beginning one is quite the sexy lullaby. thanks for this.

[Pistonsbeneath]

This is another mix from myself within quick succession, but this one is a little more full on ‘autonomic’, where others have been ambient and experimental. There’s lots of upfront goodness to be had in this one, so sit back and enjoy.


DOWNLOAD


Next show
RAMP RECORDINGS 'vinyl only' special celebrating EE's 150th podcast


[01] – Hiatus ‘Insurrection’ ft. Linton Kwesi Johnson
[02] – Boddika – Rubba – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[03] – O/V/R – Post-Traumatic Son (Marcel Dettmann MDR Version) [Blueprint]
[04] – Boddika – Grand Prix – [Forthcoming 'Nakedlunch']
[05] – Steve Stoll – FBP – (Wraith – Verbish Edit) – [ASRX]
>>>> Arpanet – Illuminated Displays – [Record Makers]
[06] – Mike Dehnert – Beatmatching – [Delsin]
[07] – 2562 – Juxtaposed – [When In Doubt]
[08] – Boddika – Soul What – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[09] – George Lanham – The Cambridge Offensive – [unreleased]
[10] – Boddika – Sometimes – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
[11] – Grooverider – Cybernetic Jazz – [Higher Ground]
[12] – They Live – Cancel Standard – [Exit Records]
[13] – Dan HabarNam – Ant Society – [Santorin]
[14] – Boddika – 2727 – [Forthcoming 'Swamp81']
>>>> The Advent – Dark Fader Side – [Kombination Research]
[15] – 214 – Come On – [Forthcoming 'Car Crash Set']

_____________________________

ASC – In the mix exclusive

No tracklist
Too much upfront music !!!

_____________________________

[16] – Desto – Track 2 – [Forthcoming 'Ramp Recordings']
[17] – Pistonsbeneath – Cylindrical Sea – [unreleased]
[18] – Wedge – Phonics – [if symptoms persist']
[19] – Optimum – DS-10 – [Hum and Buzz Records]
[21] – Instra:mental – When I Dip – [Nonplus Records]
[22] – Peverelist – Dance Til The Police Come – [Hessle Audio]
[23] – Toasty – The Knowledge – [Hotflush]
[24] – Skudge – Vanisher – [Skudge]
[25] – 5 Nights of Bleeding – Linton Kwesi Johnson (Fausten version)





Growing up in different areas of England, on a steady diet of Motown, Techno & the blossoming UK Hardcore scene, his productions manage to encompass such a wide range of these influences. Starting out DJ’ing with a bunch of like- minded friends on pirate radio stations while still in school, ASC soon found himself getting interested in how the tracks he was playing were made. This led to an investment in a modest studio setup, which proved to be a defining point in James’ life.

An initial batch of tracks were written between 1997-1999, and eventually a 7 track demo appeared, of which 6 were signed to West Midlands based Nu Directions, and the remaining track was signed to LTJ Bukem’s well known Good Looking Records. After a handful of successful releases on these labels and a few others, James started his own label, Covert Operations, which went on to put out a total of 30 vinyl releases & 8 CD’s between 2000 & 2009.

After receiving much praise for his intricately detailed and well thought out productions, ASC amassed a serious back catalogue of releases on some of the most forward thinking labels out there, such as 720 Degrees, Offshore, and Paradox’s Outsider label.

2010 has seen the release of Nothing Is Certain, the album James released on Instra:mental’s popular NonPlus+ label, to great critical acclaim. Widespread reviews have cited it as one of the best electronic music long players for the year. Hot on the heels of that, ASC has launched his new imprint, Auxiliary.

If this wasn’t enough to keep ASC busy, September 2010 saw the release of a project entitled ‘Music For Pictures’. Liquid Cinema’s head honcho Jeff Rona asked James to create a library of music strictly with the idea of them being used for TV, film and other forms of media in mind. The title was a nod to the classic Brian Eno LP. Music For Film, and what James has come up with, might well be praised with the same regard in many years to come.

You could say the future is bright for ASC, but that’s more than an understatement.

cheers again rob...stuck this on my ipod and gonna have a listen on the bus!