BERLIN 16/10 SIRIUS Pt.III w/ M.Slott/J.Vex'd/Blue Daisy ...
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:38 am
Welcoming on Oct. 16th @ Raum18:
Mike Slott (Dublin/N.Y.-Lucky Me/All City)
Jamie Vex’d (London/Berlin-Planet Mu/Hotflush/Lucky Me)
Blue Daisy (London-Black Acre)
débruit. (Paris-Musique Large/Civil Music/B.E.A.R.)
Front2Blaq (Dessau)
Jahrlatan (Berlin)
Doshy (Berlin/Augsburg-Robox Neotech/Peace Off/Destpub)
DUAL (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD)
RASPEL (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD/Robox Neotech)
TWRA a.k.a Beatnik..74 (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD/TBSC)
http://www.myspace.com/siriusraum18
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berlin-Ne ... 725?ref=mf
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Mike Slott (Dublin/N.Y.-Lucky Me/All City)
As well as a producer, Mike Slott is a true nomad who has lived in Chicago, Glasgow, Dublin and for a while now, in Harlem, New York. He has already released a couple of maxis on the Mecca of Dublin hip-hop, All City Records, as well as four EPs with Hudson Mohawke, and a collaboration with the intergalactic soul diva Muhsinah. Mike is a talented producer in a lineage of music royalty, with his father being the first major label jazz signing in Ireland. Even his cousin is an ex-member of Irelands most successful golden-era hip hop group. Not victim to expectation he wears his emersion in music very easily, moving this niche new music ever onward. If he's not in the cue of a low-cost airline you can find him in video-conference on ichat, possibley quaffing almond croissants in a slow food coffee shop. Damn that's jazz. And despite this musical traveller constantly moving off the beatne track, one way or another, he always manages to return home.
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Jamie Vex'd (Planet Mu/Hotflush)
Vex’d were some of the most important early innovators of dubstep. With early 12” releases making a huge impression on the embryonic scene, the 2005 LP Degenerate (Planet Mu) established their credentials as some of the most talented and sonically ambitious producers in electronic music. While the follow up to that album is still in the works, one half of the duo, Jamie has more recently been writing alone and very occasionally setting into the DJ world, where his mixes of some the freshest sounds from the UK with the distorted Vex’d snarl have destroyed dancefloors across the globe.
It's been a good six months since Jamie Vex'd graced us with a riotous remix of Scuba's "Twitch" on Hotflush, by far the most extroverted contribution to what has already become a seminal mix series and a paradigm example of just how jaw-droppingly good "wonky" can be when done properly. Happily, this release sees him ploughing much the same terrain by way of three bold, dazzling cuts that positively burst with wit and vitality.
Opener "In System Travel" sounds like a queasy, spazzed-out afterthought to the aforementioned rework, similarly loose and spiralling, but a good deal calmer too, alluding as much to the jazzy ruminations of trip-hop stalwart Amon Tobin as to labelmate Boxcutter's synapse-melting neo-junglisms. Over on the flip, "Saturn's Reply" comes off like a bastardized, funk-fuelled take on the whole electro/glitch-hop crossover school, pitching fat splodges of '80s analogue bass against a jerky array of spliced breaks and fuzzy, day-glo synths. For a debut solo outing, it's frighteningly confident stuff.
But the real treat here is "Radiant Industry." A colossal piece of bass engineering guaranteed to slaughter even the nastiest of house parties (never mind suitably well-rigged nightclubs), it must surely rank as 2009's fattest (read: phattest) tune so far. Consisting of one lazy-ass drum break, a selection of Soulwax-friendly rave clips and a downright illegal bassline that I won't even attempt to describe, it's Full Body Music of the highest calibre, steroid-fuelled and tweaked to within inches of its life. If it doesn't make you smile—and furiously so—then you've probably got tinnitus. Granted, there's something annoyingly provisional about all three tracks here—none of which extend beyond the four minute mark—but when music sounds this darn alive, it's hard to really give a monkeys. (Resident Advisor)
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Blue Daisy (London-Black Acre)
Probably one of London's best kept secrets ...
'Space Ex' - featuring treated vocals from LaNote - is the soul-stunning A-side that sounds like the work of a hugely experienced producer, but if this really is a debut release then we'd recommend keeping a very close eye. The track breathes heavily with a beautifully subtle inhale/exhale compression technique lending a hazy balance of pressure undulating between spacious atmospheres and overcast tempestuousness until the fronts meet to precipitates a piquant Kraftwerkian melody. 'The Fall' on the flip is a purely instrumental cut, shorn of vocals to reveal the full majesty of Blue Daisy's production, sounding here like a garage/house hybrid rhythm that's been left in the midday sun to wither and wilt and then played from a carnival soundsystem three streets away.
One of the singles of the year? Most likely. (Boomkat)
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débruit. (Paris-Musique Large/Civil Music/B.E.A.R.)
French synth-hero Debruit is a musical idiot savant. Xavier Thomas mixes Congolese drums with dirty grooves and Souk from Tunesian back alleys into eclectic electronic music. Passing through Paris, you might want to hide your sound-files from him. Be they flamenco guitars, your latest rhymes or just plain old field recordings, once they enter his Macbook they will emerge as something unrecognizable. Whether as part of his hip house project Kéèclac or a hard stepping electro hip hop act called débruit., with an EP on Musique Large. What remains will sound something like electro sounds mixed with old school hip hop ready to take on the world.
Mike Slott (Dublin/N.Y.-Lucky Me/All City)
Jamie Vex’d (London/Berlin-Planet Mu/Hotflush/Lucky Me)
Blue Daisy (London-Black Acre)
débruit. (Paris-Musique Large/Civil Music/B.E.A.R.)
Front2Blaq (Dessau)
Jahrlatan (Berlin)
Doshy (Berlin/Augsburg-Robox Neotech/Peace Off/Destpub)
DUAL (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD)
RASPEL (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD/Robox Neotech)
TWRA a.k.a Beatnik..74 (Berlin-SIRIUS/DUBWD/TBSC)
http://www.myspace.com/siriusraum18
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berlin-Ne ... 725?ref=mf
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Mike Slott (Dublin/N.Y.-Lucky Me/All City)
As well as a producer, Mike Slott is a true nomad who has lived in Chicago, Glasgow, Dublin and for a while now, in Harlem, New York. He has already released a couple of maxis on the Mecca of Dublin hip-hop, All City Records, as well as four EPs with Hudson Mohawke, and a collaboration with the intergalactic soul diva Muhsinah. Mike is a talented producer in a lineage of music royalty, with his father being the first major label jazz signing in Ireland. Even his cousin is an ex-member of Irelands most successful golden-era hip hop group. Not victim to expectation he wears his emersion in music very easily, moving this niche new music ever onward. If he's not in the cue of a low-cost airline you can find him in video-conference on ichat, possibley quaffing almond croissants in a slow food coffee shop. Damn that's jazz. And despite this musical traveller constantly moving off the beatne track, one way or another, he always manages to return home.
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Jamie Vex'd (Planet Mu/Hotflush)
Vex’d were some of the most important early innovators of dubstep. With early 12” releases making a huge impression on the embryonic scene, the 2005 LP Degenerate (Planet Mu) established their credentials as some of the most talented and sonically ambitious producers in electronic music. While the follow up to that album is still in the works, one half of the duo, Jamie has more recently been writing alone and very occasionally setting into the DJ world, where his mixes of some the freshest sounds from the UK with the distorted Vex’d snarl have destroyed dancefloors across the globe.
It's been a good six months since Jamie Vex'd graced us with a riotous remix of Scuba's "Twitch" on Hotflush, by far the most extroverted contribution to what has already become a seminal mix series and a paradigm example of just how jaw-droppingly good "wonky" can be when done properly. Happily, this release sees him ploughing much the same terrain by way of three bold, dazzling cuts that positively burst with wit and vitality.
Opener "In System Travel" sounds like a queasy, spazzed-out afterthought to the aforementioned rework, similarly loose and spiralling, but a good deal calmer too, alluding as much to the jazzy ruminations of trip-hop stalwart Amon Tobin as to labelmate Boxcutter's synapse-melting neo-junglisms. Over on the flip, "Saturn's Reply" comes off like a bastardized, funk-fuelled take on the whole electro/glitch-hop crossover school, pitching fat splodges of '80s analogue bass against a jerky array of spliced breaks and fuzzy, day-glo synths. For a debut solo outing, it's frighteningly confident stuff.
But the real treat here is "Radiant Industry." A colossal piece of bass engineering guaranteed to slaughter even the nastiest of house parties (never mind suitably well-rigged nightclubs), it must surely rank as 2009's fattest (read: phattest) tune so far. Consisting of one lazy-ass drum break, a selection of Soulwax-friendly rave clips and a downright illegal bassline that I won't even attempt to describe, it's Full Body Music of the highest calibre, steroid-fuelled and tweaked to within inches of its life. If it doesn't make you smile—and furiously so—then you've probably got tinnitus. Granted, there's something annoyingly provisional about all three tracks here—none of which extend beyond the four minute mark—but when music sounds this darn alive, it's hard to really give a monkeys. (Resident Advisor)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Blue Daisy (London-Black Acre)
Probably one of London's best kept secrets ...
'Space Ex' - featuring treated vocals from LaNote - is the soul-stunning A-side that sounds like the work of a hugely experienced producer, but if this really is a debut release then we'd recommend keeping a very close eye. The track breathes heavily with a beautifully subtle inhale/exhale compression technique lending a hazy balance of pressure undulating between spacious atmospheres and overcast tempestuousness until the fronts meet to precipitates a piquant Kraftwerkian melody. 'The Fall' on the flip is a purely instrumental cut, shorn of vocals to reveal the full majesty of Blue Daisy's production, sounding here like a garage/house hybrid rhythm that's been left in the midday sun to wither and wilt and then played from a carnival soundsystem three streets away.
One of the singles of the year? Most likely. (Boomkat)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
débruit. (Paris-Musique Large/Civil Music/B.E.A.R.)
French synth-hero Debruit is a musical idiot savant. Xavier Thomas mixes Congolese drums with dirty grooves and Souk from Tunesian back alleys into eclectic electronic music. Passing through Paris, you might want to hide your sound-files from him. Be they flamenco guitars, your latest rhymes or just plain old field recordings, once they enter his Macbook they will emerge as something unrecognizable. Whether as part of his hip house project Kéèclac or a hard stepping electro hip hop act called débruit., with an EP on Musique Large. What remains will sound something like electro sounds mixed with old school hip hop ready to take on the world.