J'AIME A BAD MAN YEAH

sometimes i forget about that east coast rush hour shit and just decide I need a chicken sandwich at 4:45. itd be a sorry state were it not for good radio (a myth in middle america?). Gcity's Roadblock Radio (rah rah rah roadblok !) and its sister the Street have deployed enough saucy urbanity to beat out old stalwart WFMU on many a late night of recent years, but when it comes to rushhour programming, no one has ever been able to top the Hudson Valley behemoth. Wednesday favorite Maria Levitsky dropped an incredibly fresh set on her show today to distract me from the gridlock. Check her playlists and listen live here. Big ups to her for playing the Artefact track off So Young So Cold, Tigersushi's comp of 77-83 French Underground. This song is so fresh and funky, it sounds as new as any of the current artists on the TS label, but reminds me of a squelchier, more discotequish take on the early A Certain Ratio/ESG sound. Off the same comp, Kas Product's So Young is an off the wall proto-breakcore grunge banger. Seriously, every track on this disc is this good and present sounding. Tasty French new wave treats.

Artefact - MAE
Kas Product - So Young But So Cold
buy the So Young So Cold comp from Tigersushi

SO for the past few weeks I've been getting very down with Spectral Sound, the dance-floor division of Ann Arbour Michigan's beloved Ghostly International Label, home to James T. Cotton (aka Tadd Mulinix, Dabrye), Matt Dear (aka AUDION). They've put out over 40 facemelting 12"s of grimy retrofucking techno, the kind of chamelous bangers which morph from thinkpieces into clubtrax when you crank up their volume. Flawless stuff, some of the best American electronic around right now. They also have a crazy aesthetic, with a logo that looks like a PacMan ghost and these deisel record sleeves:

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These fine vinyls can be purchased at the Ghostly store for very reasonable prices, and the B-Side to Kisses (pictured directly above) can be found in Sunday's post. Most recent from Spectral is a spicy 12" from Finnish technowunder Sami Koivikko, formerly of Apparat's label, Shitkatapult. The last track off Koivikko's Pääjääsä (SCP41) wont flee my dome, and I thought I'd post it FYE. This is a crazy sound: four to the floor house meets the grind of industrial techno, the result is not only catchy but dancable as all fuck, grimey but ethereal jam for raving up to your knees in silt. Shake it like Michigan, baby.

Sami Koivikko - Pientare