I was lucky enough to catch the “Art Of Tomorrow” exhibition at Guggenheim Berlin before it’s ending on August 10. It features the amazing non-objective art of and encouraged by Hilla Rebay, who helped establish the Guggenheim museum in New York, now honoured with this exhibition. Her paper collages are to die for and have that perfect sense of forms and space I love. Not to miss if you’re nearby…
“Afterimage” is the farewell sounds of dubstep’s number one blogger Gutterbreakz. The mix assembles some of the artists working outside of the scene’s London-centic core. An alternative “Dubstep Allstars”, and far better if you ask me. You’ll find the download and an interview over at Riddim.ca! Couldn’t ask for a better soundtrack when driving down to the Berlin dubstep weekend in an hour…
Fidget is working on some new material, and has released one of the tracks with working title “Seeman” for download on their MySpace page. Still on repeat, I’m glad they’ve managed to turn the ship around from the latest disappointment, to the place where their great mixture of emo, punk and rock comes from.
More mixtapes… “Contagious Rhymin’ Vol 2″ from Virus Syndicate has infected the internet and can be inhaled here. Don’t worry, it’s more like an antidote! Glorious beats from Mark One with Nika-D, Goldfinger and JSD around the mic, Manchester style.
Sweet summer Sunday soundtrack stuff from Adult Swim and Chocolate Industries! They’re giving away the “Chocolate Swim” EP as a free download (mixtape style, no split tracks), with music from Kovas, Lady Sovereign, Ghislain Poirier, Mos Def & Diverse (tip!), and Vast Aire with MF Doom.
“A Piano” is the title of Tori Amos’ upcoming 5 disc box set filled with classics, rarities, demos, B-sides and unreleased tracks. It’s to be released on September 26 in a deluxe packaging that resembles a piano’s keyboard. All the details and tracklist is available at Undented. Skimming through, it’s got stuff for both casual fans and die hard collectors, probably even more than anyone ever hoped for!
The summerish snippet mixtape of my favourite music in June. Click here to listen! (Streaming with Flash in popup)
June 2006
Hope Of The States – Blood Meridian
Alexander Kowalski feat Barca Baxant – Start Chasing
Dabrye feat Ta Raach – Pressure
Lily Allen – Smile
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Burial – U Hurt Me
Dannii Minogue – So Under Pressure
Mia. – My Heart Dances
Justine Electra – Blues And Reds
Scuba – Twista
It’s a great feeling having finally found a smooth ident server for Mac OS X! IdentD, by Sebastien Gallerand, has a very handy preference panel plus being universal binary! Much needed after the very buggy Ident2. Me and my MacBook says thank you!
Urban? Grindie? Lily Allen (myspace) is like something grimey meets Amy Winehouse. Both releasing new albums soon. Don’t make me choose… And oh, forgot the link her “first” mixtape.
The Bpitch Control Loveparade After Hours Party with Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke and Fra at WeekEnd Badeschiff around noon on July 16 makes it possible to skip the main event at Watergate the night before without a guilty conscience… and with Freakcamp hosting a dubstep pre-party on the 14th, you might just need all the rest you can get in between.
The snippet mixtape of my favourite music in May. Click here to listen! (Streaming with Flash in popup)
May 2006
Jolie Holland – Crush In The Ghetto
I Am X – Bring Me Back A Dog
Britta Persson – Winter Tour
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldier
Zero 7 – The Pageant Of The Bizarre
Burial – Distant Lights
No Step – Remember To Wake Up
Tool – Vicarious
Audrey – Six Yields
Distance – Traffic
The official anthems are perfect examples of why football and music shouldn’t mix. T!T!T!, the London club night featuring Swedish bands and DJ’s, might be the only exception. On June 20th, they bring some serious world cup action to The Social’s dance floor. Sweden vs England on a big screen with Baggy Mondays clashing the T!T!T! boys at the decks. I won’t see you there though, I just helped out designing their MySpace profile.
Last night’s been on my mind all day. The haircut of supporting Catherine Irwin, the irresistible backup singer Rachel Flotard, how I want a pedal steel guitar, and of course the constant echoes of Neko singing (video from “Hold on hold on”). She hates auto tune with a passion, and I was amazed by the almost studio like performance… As a perfect ending, the not in stores “Canadian Amp” CD was sold at the merchandise stand!
The sound of never sleeping? Might just be. Drop The Lime being back on track with some upbeat stuff saved my day (his latest EP was a bore). The upcoming album, “We never sleep”, is described as “four-to-the-floor funk spiked with Grime and growling bass Techno, a fury of gritty club bangers dripping with romance and italo-punk attitude” by his label Tigerbeat6. You can listen to it here, and even get the mp3′s if you’re handy with your browser’s cache. I didn’t figure him for a singer, but it’s all good, and you can watch his live act from the Sonic Acts festival at Fabchannel. The album should be available from Dotshop on May 27.
The gritty sounds of south London is spreading, taking over south Stockholm this Saturday. Various BPM at K2, Götgatan 99, 20-02, 60 sek (free before 21). DJ Gena promised dubstep only, back to back with L-Wiz. Download her latest Interference mix for a nice preview. Last thing you need to know is, don’t be shy to buy me a drink. ;)
The snippet mixtape of my favourite music in April. Click here to listen! (Streaming with Flash in popup)
April 2006
Ellen Allien & Apparat – Way Out
Calexico – Bisbee Blue
DJ Krush feat Company Flow – Vision Of Art (Broken Remix)
The Dresden Dolls – Modern Moonlight
Mia Doi Todd – My Room Is White (Flying Lotus Remix)
Sirius Mo – Discosau
Low – Monkey (The Count Mix)
Ellen Allien & Apparat – Do Not Break
Snow Patrol – Perfect Little Secret
Emalkay – Frequency
The song might be “inspired” from her sisters illness, but does it really have to sound and look so much like her? Having Dannii as my favourite Minogue, it saddens me she’s given up her own sound from the “Neon Nights” album. Her new single and video, “So Under Pressure”, just screams Kylie. All is forgiven if I get a Jacques Lu Cont remix though…
“..and they made eye sound like mind.” Gotta love The New Adventures of Old Christine! I’m not even gonna begin to compare it with Seinfeld, or Jason Alexander’s Listen Up. Just don’t mind Elaine and go easy on the script, this is all about Julia!
I’m very impressed by Burial. It’s not so much about the music he makes, more about how, his ways and thoughts, uncovered in this interview by Blackdown. The press release decribes his upcoming album on Hyperdub, made without a sequencer in Soundforge(!), as “a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole’s Berlin crackle dub”. It’s sexy dubstep to me.
-”But there’s plenty of people who if they were given any room, would make dubstep sound like slowed down drum & bass. And those people are terrified of those sexy vibes I’m talking about. They don’t want this music to have come from garage.”
Until the album is out on May 15, listen to the Breezeblock album preview (mp3 rip of it here), get his “South London Boroughs EP” from Bleep and read the full interview.