Here’s 5 records I like to accompany the haze

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Some musical enthusiasms of recent times:

This summer has been the summer of Dam Funk!

Untold brings yet another piece of awesome:

Beautiful work as usual from wax (who apparently has now pretty much been revealed to be shed):

Listening to James Blake really loud is a necessary pleasure but I think it made me hurt my neck:

Joy Orbison, best name twisting since Jichael Mackson, and some great music too!:

Lil Silva – ‘Different’ – its heavy!:

Michel Cleis – ‘Dark Glasses’ – lots of drums happening:

I’m pretty much consistently excited about music and I really miss mixing records

And that’s all for today.

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This would be easier to bear if it wasn’t so easy to monitor all the great and interesting music that is still coming out. Subsequently I am still stashing records into a wishlist in the vain hopes that I can go back at some point in the future and purchase some of these. Mp3s are not the same. Usually things will sit on the wishlist either till I buy them or to the point where I realise perhaps this record is not essential – and will then be kicked off.

Anyhow, here for whatever reason are 5 records that I am currently deeming worthy of attention:

Melchior Productions – “Choir” (Cadenza)
Ok, so I lied a little and actually bought a few records recently – this one was a must have. I am a big fan of Thomas Melchoir dating back to his excellent ‘The Meaning’ LP on Playhouse a few years back, and the equally amazing ‘Feel Sensual’ on Perlon’s superlongevity 3 comp. His best stuff rolls over you at first, slowly revealing hidden details and depths over a number of listens (preferably at volume). Choir on the face of it is a rolling tribal drum beat, interspersed occasionally by, well, a children’s choir. Repeat plays bring up the details of the drum patterns, the weird effects, housey chords, insect noises(?), and vocal snatches stashed away in the depths. It is also really nice and long, and I am currently submersing myself regularly. The A side “who can find me (I can’t)” is yet to grab me, time will tell if it is another slow burner or a rare dud.

Guillaume and the coutu dumonts – “I was on my way to hell” (Circus Company)
This one has just come out and pointed out to me by fellow BMPer and Detroit visitor Mick.. Guillaume is someone who’s stuff I have always checked for since his record a few years ago on mutek’s label drew me in with it’s african influences and bouncy b-sides. He has had a fantastic run of releases in the last year, with a great album, trippy weirdness emerging on a 12″ for Oslo, and the amazing “they only come out at night” and “Les Gans” coming through on musique risquee, surely two of the bigger tracks of the year. Les Gans in particular has been firing away at me all year, I just can’t get sick of it. His new record pushes synths up and out with a gospel sample (he used a lot of gospel style vocal work in Detroit – along with, excellently, the Commodore’s “Brick House”). Meanwhile the b-side sounds like he is working african rhythms along with some rather spooky horns. The artwork looks amazing too which is the case on most circus company records.

Omar S – “Day” (FXHE)
I listened through a whole bunch of Omar S records earlier this year including this one, then forgot all about it. It recently popped up on a mix, and nagged at me incessantly until I did some more detective listening and figured out where I’d heard it before. It is a real simple thing, just some skippy house beats, a funky bass and a looping, filtered vocal sample of the supremes. Somehow though, it is an annoyingly addictive track, very happy and summery (pity I will shortly be leaving the sunshine but never mind). I like this.

TRG and dub u – “Losing Marbles” (Hotflush)
There has been loads of good dubstep this year! One guy who I have recently started to note a lot of is TRG. He is a Romanian producer (heads up websta) who seems to be prolific yet fairly consistent with a stream of dark and slinky garage and techno influenceds dubstep weirdness. I really like ‘Losing Marbles’ – it almost sounds like Monolake!, with a double bouncing techno beat and weird aquatic squelches and clicks rattling the tune along. 2562, another of my favourite dubstep producers, adds a somewhat more broken remix on the other side. I had to grab this one too!

Radioslave – “Eyes Wide Open”
Radioslave does this kind of lengthy, pounding repetitive groove awfully well. For whatever reason I never seem to mention him in the same breath as my favourite producers but he has done a great many things I love over the past few years (the mighty Tantakatan from earlier this year being my last favourite). “Eyes Wide Open” is just some crashing beats, a funky, endlessly repeating bassline and some vocal snippets that repeatedly build and work themselves up into crescendos. It still reminds me a bit of Paperclip People’s “Throw” and this can only be a good thing! The flip “incognito” works a similar groove but with synthier builds and female vocals echoing in the mix.

So there is 5, I could enthuse more, but that can wait till next time. I can’t wait till my situation solidifies and I can start mixing regularly again!

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Tomorrow night (friday 15) I venture into the rain to play at the supperclub on Beresford square. I like supper – despite having a dodgy rep (thanks mainly to the antics of late morning up all night mentalist partygoers) it is generally a relaxed place where you can pretty much play whatever music you like. On an early evening in summer there are few better places in Auckland to be. On a night like tomorrow promises to be I can think of a bunch of nicer places to be, frankly, but it still should be fun.

Friday nights at supper are dubstep oriented. While I don’t mind the wobbly-bass noise sound seemingly favoured in Auckland I tend to buy the deeper/weirder/techno influenced sound. So I have assembled records from some of my favourite dubstep producers of recent times (Pinch, Shackleton, TRG, Martyn, Appleblim, Ramadanman, 2562) alongside some older 2step records on loan from the Websta collection. I am really enjoying the current deeper sound being pushed by the above artists (perhaps best showcased recently on Appleblim’s Dubstep Allstars 6). So anyway for those of you in Ak, feel free to pop along tomorrow, I believe I am playing between 10 and 11.

Saturday night brings with it a couple of gigs, I am going to kick it off at the Jet Jaguar gig at Khuja lounge, I have a Jet Jaguar album from a good few years ago which I recall as being some nice (if a little inoffensive) laid back electronic noodling. Should be a relaxing start to the night. Carrying on, Zen (the ‘new’ fu bar) has Loefah – who I know mainly from his great run of releases a few years back on DMZ. These records opened my eyes to the emergence of this style of music which was hacking away the extraneous matter and melodies and instead exploring the possibilities of pure, heavy bass. I have seen Mala (of Digital Mystikz) play twice, and enjoyed both times a lot – hopefully loefah will be another great night.

In the search for some musical goodness to link to I have found a podcast from Appleblim recorded in april. Shouts to Friedmylittlebrain.com for pointing this one out.

Appleblim – Rinse FM Podcast April 2008

Tracklisting:

Part1

• 1. A Made up Sound – D1 (unreleased)
• 2. Resilent – 1.2 (Chain Reaction ‘96) )
• 3. Shed – Warped Mind (Ostgut Ton ‘08)
• 4. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse ‘70)
• 5. Bill Conti – Reflections (off Rocky III soundtrack)
• 6. Beach Boys – Feel Flows (EMI ‘71)
• 7. Mr Fingers – Stars (Alleviated ‘87)
• 8. Fun Boy Three – Faith Hope & Charity (Chrysalis ‘82)
• 9. The Clash – Magnificent Dance (CBS ‘81)
• 10. 2 Bad Mice – Waremouse remix (Moving Shadow ‘92)
• 11. Davey Graham – I Cannot Keep From Crying Sometimes (Decca ‘64)
• 12. Advanz vs Gescom – Viral (Skam ‘98)

Part 2

• 13. Skream – Siminimal – dubplate
• 14. Ramadanman – Humber – dubplate
• 15. Shut Up & Dance – Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Z Audio)
• 16. Geiom – Reminissin (Skream’s Time Travel mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Berkane Sol)
• 17. Greena – Houze – dubplate
• 18. Vista – Elixir – dubplate
• 19. T++ – Audio19958 – dubplate
• 20. Jack Sparrow & Exodus – Blue – dubplate
• 21. Geiom & Appleblim – Shreds – dubplate
• 22. Calibre – Stolen Shadow – dubplate
• 23. Scuba – Systematic Decline – Hotflush
• 24. Martyn – All I Have Is Memories – Apple Pips
• 25. Komonazmuk – Bad Apple – dubplate – (fortchcoming on HENCH)
• 26. Wedge ft. Shadz – Everybody’s Movin – dubplate

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