Oh, this interfaced life. Been x'ing and y'ing all over the place lately, structuring my domecile along degree zero. So things are good. And good things need a good theme.
Girl, let me tell you what. I've found it in the cow races and this one'll run you over like a sedated stampede.
Excepter, put down your pencils. Leave the space chipmunk vox and gliding arps to the pros, ok? JK!!! Prof
Stinson wants you all to get up and open up, wide open, and drop that ass down to the core. "Some pied piper shit up in this piece!" You got that one right, M.
Transllusion-Bump ItDue to my recent 'puter strife, been listening to more mixes than usual on this great web and have found more than a few that'll back you up. Take this
Kate Simko set from the WMC a few weeks back. Seeing that we're broadcasting live from a post-
Drexciya oceanscape 2day, Ms. Simko, never minding her caucasian persuasion, is bumping quite a soulful micro-electro melodotronica (hehehe) that is as hypnotizing as it is liquefying. Admittedly, I saw her open for The Field--who is godawful live, btw--last summer and she spun a deep house set that was slightly less boring, but just as souless as the headliner. Howevs, with her recent release on Spectral, the fantastic "She Said," lady Kate is someone I'm going to be paying a lot more attention to.
Another week, another quality
BIS mix. This time featuring the swiss miss Lexx, who first turned my head with a killer Black Sabath edit featured on
ARAWA last year. As my connection is failing to bring up the URL, all I can see is take your digital butts over to Beats In Space and listen to Lexx's humdinger of a mix, which is some seriously sun-kissed Motown bump.
And finally, we come to a DJ I've grown quite smitten with as of late,
Eli Verveine, a Swiss DJ who obviously has been at it for longer than she's had a MySpace page. I first caught the fire from a
mnmlssg post highlighting her stupendous
carebear mix, which is an ideal cross-section removed from the berlin-detroit dubosphere. Flash forward a few, and we've come to a stage we're her mixes have become my daily fourth meal. So if you're surfer along the Omar-S/Rhythm&Sound continuum, treat yourself to some
Eli Verveine.
Cronies Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid have both been busy since their collaborative album Tongues dropped last year. Hebden's conspicuous sampling of Conrad Schnitzler on Tongues made his allegiance to synth-krautrock quite clear, and his latest release as Four Tet reaffirms that link. The title track from the Ringer "mini-album" bears a curious resemblance to Manuel Göttsching records from the 1970s - coincidence? But Ringer is equal parts Motor City and motorik... sounds like Hebden wants his slice of that sweet techno-pop crossover pie which Axel Willner has been feasting on for the past year:
I'm still kicking myself for missing the Excepter performance at MonkeyTown earlier this month. Lately I've been consoling myself by putting their recent output for the Paw Tracks label on heavy rotation. The Debt Dept. LP finds our favorite stalwarts of mutant electronics in top form. Mark your calendars for their show in Brooklyn at Grasslands on the 29th.
Detroit high-tech soul from the classic Natural Aspirations series...
Kode 9 is unquestionably the man of the hour. Not only is his Hyperdub label responsible for some of the world's most adventurous dubplates, but his relentless remix work has the auterist calibre of producers like Carl Craig... and he's a damn good DJ to boot. On that note, the new Dabrye 12" on Spectral Sound is an intercontinental wet dream. As if new material from Tadd Mullinix weren't enough (cf. the new James T. Cotton LP), the Get Dirty vinyl features remixes by Kode 9 and Flying Lotus. The audio virus is now a global pandemic of Y2K/SARS proportions - put this one in your melting pot and smoke it!
