Magic Places “Through the Map Room Door”

Magic Places is Savannah-based musicmaker Paul M. Goerner, who seems to have a distinct proclivity for fantasy, sci-fi, and eerie soundscapes. The young producer has a complete album available to stream now via Bandcamp, entitled The Time-Traveler’s Pocket Guidebook, which “Through the Map Room Door” is lifted from. Magic Place’s tune starts out with a slow groove, a few ghostly synth sounds, and a disembodied female voice calling out from a distance—it’s a fairly sparse aural environment until about the halfway point, when things get a bit more driving and dense. In both cases, Goerner displays a strong sense of mood and melody, which are likely to serve the rest of his Guidebook album well when it’s released on the first day of 2011. (via Altered Zones)

Through the Map Room Door

Aus Music to Release Appleblim & Ramadanman Single with Carl Craig Edit

From the label that brought you quality releases by the likes of Joy Orbison, Midland, Al Tourettes, and others, Aus Music, comes a fresh collaborative single from the forward-thinking minds of bass music patrons Appleblim and Ramadanman. The two producers have combined their separate takes on the world of post-dubstep to create the slow-burning, nine-minute “Void 23″ tune. And guess who’s handling the b-side? Why, it’s Mr. Detroit Techno himself, Carl Craig (pictured above). For the flipside of Appleblim & Ramadanman’s 12”, the DJ/producer/icon delivers his own take on “Void 23” in the form of a nine-minute re-edit. Both tracks will be available in digital and physical formats on November 22.

Stream the New Album from Maddslinky

Maddslinky (a.k.a. Zed Bias a.k.a. Dave Jones) is often hailed as a UK garage pioneer, but the truth is that the veteran producer has never really gone away. Operating under a number of aliases over the past decade—including Phuturistix, Henchmen, Daluq, Talissman, Ruffcut Bias, Nu Design, 7 Wonders, Dekata Project, and Strontium Dog—Jones has produced a steady stream of low-end-heavy productions, the most recent of which is Make a Change, a new full-length album that comes out on October 26 through the Tru Thoughts label. Make a Change is actually the first Maddslinky album since 2002’s Make Your Peace, and it finds Jones cooking up new tunes, both alone and in collaboration with artists like Mr. Scruff, Skream, Omar, Jenna G, and others. The entire album is streaming below, and the artwork has also been included for your viewing pleasure.

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Video: The Dirtbombs Redo “Sharevari”

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As part of Scion A/V‘s music video series combining the talents of buzz-worthy musicians and filmmakers, Detroit garage-rock outfit The Dirtbombs is paired with Brooklyn-based animator/illustrator Steig Retlin (a.k.a. Plasticflesh) for this lively piece. The band works A Number of Names’ classic Detroit techno tune “Sharevari” into a jangly groove fit for some hole-in-the-wall bar’s 15-person afterparty, while Plasticflesh takes his visual cues from the those great music/dance TV shows in the ’80s, like The Scene or The New Dance Show. The results are brightly colorful and wholly entertaining, and eventually wander into some pretty trippy territory that we wouldn’t mind enjoying with a bit of sensory-enhancing contraband. Just saying.

Botany “Agave”

Amidst the CMJ-related craziness happening across New York this week are flocks of bright-eyed 20-somethings out for a cut of that indie cake. One of those 20-somethings is Spencer Stephenson (a.k.a. Botany), whose music has been storming the internet as of late and drawing comparisons to Caribou’s intoxicating synth-pop formulations. Hailing from the town of Weatherford, TX, Stephenson is spending the week in the big city drumming up momentum for his debut EP, Feeling Today, which comes out November 9. “Agave” is one of the EP’s five selections, and it’s a sparkling song that nicely juxtaposes chunky, Madlib-style drums with wind-chime melodies and faint vocal echoes.
(via Stereogum)

Botany – Agave

Botany – Agave

Simian Mobile Disco to Tour, Release Techno Double-CD ‘Delicacies’ in November

Back in January the Simian Mobile Disco boys alluded to a new, techno-oriented album in an interview with BBC’s Radio 1. Nearly a year has passed since then and SMD has just announced a massive, two-disc album of all-new “unmixed and mixed techno” called Delicacies, which will be released November 30 on SMD’s own imprint also titled Delicacies. One half of the album will feature a mix recorded live in studio, while the other half will be original productions. The press release describes the album as “amalgamating hard-edged analogous beat structures as well as some of the more mellow, melodic aspects of techno, Delicacies reiterates the sheer excellent musical eccentricity that Simian Mobile Disco continues to create.” Leading up to the album’s release date SMD will be on a DJ tour here in the States. Those dates, along with Delicacies tracklist, are listed below.

Delicacies Tracklist:

UNMIXED
01. Aspic
02. Nerve Salad
03. Casu Marzu
04. Thousand Year Egg
05. Skin Cracker
06. Hákarl
07. Sweetbread
08. Ortolan
09. Fugu

MIXED
01. Sweetbread
02. Hákarl
03. Nerve Salad
04. Casu Marzu
05. Skin Cracker
06. Aspic
07. Thousand Year Egg Drumappella
08. Ortolan

Tour Dates:

NOV 17: U Street Music Hall – Washington, DC
NOV 18: Santos Party House – New York, NY
NOV 19: Mezzanine – San Francisco, CA
NOV 20: Avalon – Los Angeles, CA
NOV 21: Voyeur – San Diego, CA

A Day in the Life of DaVinci

For this episode of XLR8R TV, San Francisco rapper DaVinci took one of our cameras with him and his SWTBRDS crew on a trip to the A3C Festival in Atlanta, where he performed with the likes of Mistah FAB, Moe Green, Truthlive, and more. They hit the festival, hang with their homies, and head to Waffle House in this day-in-the-life sketch, brought to you by Converse.

Podcast 167: Sistol by Donnacha Costello

Sasu Ripatti is a man of many hats. Since the late ’90s, the Finnish producer, probably best known as Vladislav Delay, has also released high-profile work as Luomo, Uusitalo, and Conoco. As such, it wasn’t exactly shocking to see him revive his Sistol moniker earlier this year after more than a decade of dormancy, yet it certainly wasn’t the expected move either. On the heels of his new album, On the Bright Side, and the double-disc reissue of 1999’s Sistol, both released on Phthalo Records offshoot Halo Cyan, we asked Ripatti to contribute a mix for our podcast series, but he elected to go a different route. Ripatti doesn’t really DJ, so he decided to turn over the podcast duties to his friend and fellow electronic music veteran Donnacha Costello. The Irish-born DJ/producer then assembled this exclusive mix, pulling exclusively from the Sistol catalog. Costello also took the time to send along a bit of extra insight:

I’ve been an admirer of Sasu’s music for many years and we have some common history, having shared a musical home at both Force Inc. and Mille Plateaux back in the early ’00s. Typically one thinks of Vladislav Delay or Luomo or even Uusitalo, but only those who have dug a little deeper may have discovered Sistol.

I must admit that I was aware of Sistol only by name, but when I was asked to prepare this podcast, I accepted immediately, knowing that whatever Sasu had pulled out of the hat, it would be special. I was not wrong—these tracks are indeed quite special. The mix was recorded over a three-day weekend in stolen hours late at night or while flying, and this may have influenced my choices. There are a few edits here and there, but for the most part, what you hear is what you get. Many of the tracks which sound like two or three tracks interacting with one another are simply the tracks in their original form. The structure is so sprawling and the sound palette so varied, evolving, and full that to have performed complex edits or layering would have been pointless and to have performed a “loop style” mix would have been an insult to the idiosyncratic, complex, and rather mad sound world of Sistol.

01 Sistol “A Better Shore (Edit)”
02 Sistol “Fucked-Up Novelty”
03 Sistol “Contaminate Her (Jori Hulkkonen Mix)”
04 Sistol “Hospital Husband”
05 Sistol “Glowing And So Spread”
06 Sistol “Funseeker (Oneohtrix Point Never Rainbro Mix)”
07 Sistol “Funseeker (Oneohtrix Point Never Rainbro Mix) (Second Copy)”
08 Sistol “A Better Shore (Walls Mix)”
09 Sistol “On The Bright Side (The Brighter Side Scuba Remix)”

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Brackles Songs for Endless Cities

The inaugural mix in a series meant to showcase young talent, Brackles‘ 17-track strut through the post-dubstep landscape sounds, at times, more like a revival than the next leap forward. Deep house sounds and two-step rhythms are there if you want them, but it’s the stylish, oft-kilter beats and assured, fluid delivery that mark Rob Kemp as a DJ pursuing new directions. The 24-year-old co-owner of the Blunted Robots label maintains a tautness throughout, laying down a steady future-garage tempo that wavers slightly with prickly, prismatic beats and then snaps back into the grid. Every little glitch and undercurrent of a bassline points to his mastery of momentum; he plays loose with wobbly beats and space without stepping off the gas. Flying Lotus’ “My Chippy” opens, sounding like a spaceship setting down before the rubbery bass and crisp hi-hats of Floating Points’ “Peoples Potential,” a fitting first transition. Other selections, such as Kyle Hall’s “Luv for KMFH” and Brackles’ own track, “Blo,” shine, and the mix’s last song, Funkineven’s “Must Move,” nicely bookends the mix. Like Alexander Nut’s Rinse mix, Songs for Endless Cities exudes a slick, sophisticated quality without sacrificing the sense of reinvention and experimentation found in the ever-churning London music scene. A fitting choice to kick off a label called Cool in the Pool.

Sub Swara “Steam”

There is no question Brooklyn duo Sub Swara has been at the forefront of US dubstep for the past three years. Since 2007, Sub Swara founders Dhruva, Haj, and Sunder have played host to Mary Anne Hobbs, Poirer, and The Bug at their monthly club night, solidifying them first as tastemakers. Dhruva and newcomer Sharma now make up the production chapter of what is Sub Swara, having released their first album, Coup d’Yah, to critical acclaim in 2008. The Sub Swara sound is never easily pinned down—the duo has done a wide swath of unofficial and official remix work for everyone from Mos Def to Balkan Beat Box, but dubstep is certainly in the foreground. That said, Sub Swara’s second full-length Triggers, out November 9 on Low Motion Records, will showcase the duo’s increasing interest in live instrumentation and collaboration—album guests include Dead Prez, Lyrics Born, Kendra Foster of Parliament Funkadelic, and even session horns from the Antibalas Afrobeat crew. “Steam” is taken from the album, and it’s a thundering piece of percussive energy that brings to mind UK funky’s drum love and kuduro’s relentlessness, all before the track does an unexpected, albeit brief about-face into dubstep’s familiar shuffle.

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