while it was released in 2006, I was still listening to it well into this year. Faithless's Rennaissance Mix CD's were filled with some of my favorite, and new favorite tracks. Probably the best of these being LSK's "the takeover". While I do have the album, unfortunately this is really the only standout track.
enjoy
REMOVED
MP3: LSK - The Takeover(2003)
While this is probably one of the most absurd songs ever made, damn is it catchy.
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time for some serious soul-searching. With every other blogger putting out top-ten lists of their top albums from 2007, I'm going to mix up the formula a bit. So the next several posts will be songs that were played far too much on my stereo this year, weather they were released in 2007 or not.
#1, Joy Division. Transmission.
With the movie "Control" I went on a Joy Division kick I still haven't gotten out of, and hopefully won't for a while. I hoping to do a remix sometime soon.
MP3: Joy Division - Transmission(1988)
Despite having Daft Punk on the cover (please tell me i'm not the only one who's sick of hearing about them?), i picked up the latest Clash Magazine in my never ending search to fine a replacement for The Face. Suprisingly, the included CD entitled "Ones To Watch" was a very nice suprise. Included on it was this track TTTicTicTac by Marbert Rocel. It's a nice blend of acoustic guitar, with a slow house beat and a beautiful female vocal. Its a nice break from the glitch-fest that is the "latest and greatest".
MP3: Marbert Rocel - TTTicTicTac(2007)
going in kinda in the same musical vein as the last post...
Another find, a while ago actually, from one of my favorite music blogs, Analog Giant. Elliot Lipp. I'd heard the name before but never heard a track. Thanks to that blog though I did, and fell in love.
He's a pretty easy man to find on google so i wont bore you with details. Suffice it to say that he's my new RJD2 replacement after RJ's last album which didn't really hit the spot with me. If I had to describe him I'd say it was a combination of Massive Attack (use of synth's) and RJD2 (this man is clearly a digger) for his use of samples and good MPC skills on the beats.
Check out the link above to hear "Digital Disko (Make Moves)", below I've put my other favorite from the album "I Don't Know (feat. Jasia 10)".
ps. if anyone knows anything about Jasia 10 please let me know,
MP3: Elliot Lipp feat. Jasia 10 - I Don't Know(2007)
Found this in the local record shop this weekend.
Straight up dark, electronic, and funky with a real analog feel to it.
MP3: A1 People - No One Likes A Smartarse(2005)
I've never really been one for the holidays, and dubstep seems like a delightful genre of music to put on the headphones during the holiday travels and smirk gleefully at how cool and underground you are while all the other idiots in the airport are listening to britney spears. Am I right?
anyway, november brought us not only albums from two of the biggest dubstep producers, Burial and Boxcutter, but also the amazing compilation for soul jazz records, "Box Of Dub 2". This is basically a who's who of dubstep and its phenomenal. Really worth picking this one up on vinyl, just doesn't do it justice on the digital.
So here are two of my favorite tracks of the compilation. Pick it up below.
MP3: Cult of the 13th Hour - Wickedness(2007)
Dunno why but I was in the jungle mood today, and you shall reap the benefits.
While I'm not usually the biggest fan of artists purposefully misspelling their names, one of the exceptions I make is for early rave/jungle duo Altern8.
Starting in '89 and breaking up in '93 these lucky bastards got to see the unfolding of the UK rave scene while putting out a couple of albums with a handful of singles that got some chart attention.
Secondly I'll throw in a Prodigy song. I'm sure that pretty much everyone who was conscience in the mid 90's was aware of the Prodigy's album "Fat of the Land", but probably not so much so of their earlier stuff. So here's "Out of Space" a rocking early jungle release from them. The vocal sample is from Reggae legend Max Romeo's "Chase the Devil", which you'll also find below 'cause I'm in a good mood.
MP3: Altern8 - E-Vapor 8(1992)
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MP3: The Prodigy - Out Of Space(1992)
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MP3: Max Romeo - Chase the Devil(1976)
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Quite a while ago i was digging and found this white label which just said "the end" on it. Thinking it was either some Door's remixes or a promo from end recordings i decided to lay down two bucks and see what i was gonna get.
Putting the needle on gave me a thumping straight up acid techno tune that sounded straight outta detroit. looking up the serial number on the record i found i had come across a promo copy of "The End" by Circuit Breaker (aka Richie Hawtin) on Hawtin's short lived lable Probe records. Apparently, if it was the real record and not just a white sleeve, it should have said this:
Passed away at 11:30am on Friday January 5th, 1996 at Knickerbockers Deli in London Market, London, Ontario, Canada, in it's 4th year. Beloved son of Plus 8 Records, and brother of Definitive Recordings. Probe started in it's early years as the Plus 8 promo division, but soon became a label in it's own right. Probe is survived by all past artists and is remembered by Circuit Breaker in this special double pack. Memorial tributes and grievences can be sent to The BLDG., 530 Walker Rd., Windsor, Ontario, n8y 2nl, Canada. Tel.519258.7663. Fax.519.258.6248. email.plus8@wincom.net R.I.P.
word, RIP.
MP3: Circuit Breaker - Creator(1996)
So quite a while ago, a month or two there was quite the uproar in the blogosphere about Zach De La Rocha's solo album and when it was gonna come out. Someone compiled a mixtape of all the stuff that Zach has done solo called Keep It Zipped.. I was little surprised though to see that there was no mention of Zach's first musical venture, Inside Out. So here I am to fill the void.
They only released one e.p. once as a 7" and once as a tape apparently. So here's "No Spiritual Surrender" my own vinyl rip.
MP3: Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender(1990)
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Where to start with this i'm not quite sure.
Checking out this month's Wire magazine i was shocked, shocked i say, to see such old timers on the cover as Underground Resistance. For those that don't know UR, Underground Resistance is a label/collective of mainly techno artists thats been around about as long as i have. I can't recall the first time i heard a UR track, but i remember being struck by it's ability to convey such a sense of revolution in a lyric-less song. Its pretty much the purest techno your gonna get. Driving, flashing, in your face synth's with a repetitive bass that won't leave your hips alone.
Anyway, it turns out that UR is alive and well, touring even . So the next step was the hype machine to see if theres been any talk in the blogshere about them recently...but not a whole lot was going on over there. I was also disappointed that none of my favorite techno tracks by either UR or any other artists seemed to be represented. So here i am to fill the void.
MP3: Underground Resistance - Elimination(1990)
Once again, inspiration comes from others. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, right?
So a couple of months ago one of my favorite mp3 blogs, analog giant, posted a live set from Prefuse 73. Now i'm not the biggest fan, but this liveset really hit the right spot. Perfect blend of abstract and head bobbing, electronic and hip-hop, just right. There was one song that came on about 2/3rd's of the way through the mix that i just couldn't get out of my head, kept on fastforwarding in itunes to get the song. It samples one of those old hair-metal bands (Twisted Sister maybe?) with the chorus "Come hear the noise, girls rock your boys", searching this on google just gave me the original, and after a while, even after picking up a couple of Prefuse 73 CD's just to see if it had this song,i resigned myself to just skipping to it in itunes.
Fast forward a week or two and I see that one of my favorite hip-hop artists has (posthumously, RIP) released a new CD, J Dilla's Ruff Draft, low and behold, here it is.
Enough yapping, i present to you a true head bobbing tune, J Dill's Wild.
MP3: J Dilla - Wild(2007)
So a couple of weeks ago I was cruising around on my usual mp3 blogs (I forget which one, but it's somewhere on the right) and found this Youtube video. After listening to it about a hundred times I decided to actually buy the single and now its pretty much a regular in my room.
Anyway, this song is pretty much a precursor to the current dubstep sound that has been dominating my head. Organic, but still has a new-age electronic feel.
Enough talk, tune time.
mp3: smith & mighty - brainscan(1987)
