Various Artists Pop Ambient 2010

Even though it’s a decade old, Kompakt’s ambient franchise still manages to sound fresh, avoiding a tragic shift towards becoming hipster spa music or a Pure Moods for the techno set. While the template and talent has varied, the key is making sure that pop remains an important part of the equation. A melancholy-yet-romantic vibe stains the playful melodies and atmospheric bliss of this year’s installment, whether it’s the wispy, mandolin-like notes of Wolfgang Voigt’s “Zither Und Horn,” BVDUB’s 17-minute closing track, or Triola’s “Schildergasse,” the sound of an M83 crescendo on valium. Much like “The Sound of One Lip Kissing” by Marsen Jules, where clusters of notes gracefully collide and decay in time, each song is filled with sweet harmonies and slow-motion swells.

Fridays Are Old, It’s Time for Sexy Saturday

Massive party alert, you guys! It looks like South Boston’s Fridays are about to get a whole lot more Saturday-ier. The Savant Project Extreme Lounge and Boston Hardbody Productionz are bringing you the biggest, hottest, and sexiest club night Mission Hill has ever seen, Sexy Saturday. This Friday, April 9, DJ Mysterioso and DJ JDDJDJJDJ are droppin’ only the slammin’-est in “Top 40, hip-hop, rap, R&B, trance, Dutch house, Dutch trance, mash-up trance, house-house, and mash-ups” on only the hottest ladies from the greater Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut tri-state area. But don’t take our word for it. Check out the video up top to get the full 411 on the hottest dancefloor the 617 has ever seen.

Punch Drunk to Release First Guido Full-Length

One of the holy trinity of new wonky dubstep producers, Bristol’s Guido is the first among the crew (which also includes Joker and Gemmy) who will see a full-length record released. Called Anidea, the album follows two trailblazing 12-inches—”Orchestral Lab” and “Beautiful Complication.” With album snippets up on SoundCloud right now, fans can whet their appetites for what many are calling the most exciting release of 2010.

Anidea comes out soon on Punch Drunk Records.

Tracklisting:
1. Anidea
2. Orchestral Lab
3. Woke Up Early
4. Cat In The Window
5. Beautiful Complication featuring Aarya
6. Mad Sax
7. You Do It Right
8. Take Me Higher
9. Way U Make Me Feel featuring Yolanda
10. Tango
11. Shades of Blue
12. Tantalized

Podcast 131: Schlachthofbronx

Anyone who follows the XLR8R website knows that we’ve been digging the sounds of Schlachthofbronx for awhile now, but after hearing our editor Ken Taylor blast their 13-minute Belly Full of Pills mix approximately 400 times in our office, commissioning another mix from the bass-loving Bavarian outfit was a real no-brainer. Thankfully—both for the sake of XLR8R readers and our collective office sanity—the boys have delivered a sweltering, rapid-fire podcast that nimbly bounces between styles and continents. Packed with a litany of unreleased tracks, including many produced and/or remixed by Schlachthofbronx themselves, the mix dabbles in dancehall, cumbia, baile funk, mambo, kwaito, techno, and more, although all the music is united by a dancefloor-friendly spirit and a heavy dose of speaker-bumping low end. It’s like the most fun music ethnography lesson you’ve ever had.

01 Schlachthofbronx feat. Slush Puppy Kids “Nasty Bass”
02 Sonido del Principe “Pesebre”
03 Douster feat. Aidonia “Uucko Thight”
04 Discotrashmusic feat. Spoek Mathambo & Bigspace “Bumpercars (Schlachthofbronx Remix)” (Absolut Freak)
05 Boemklatsch “Reflex (Schlachthofbronx Remix)” (Bmkltsch)
06 Sticky “Jack It Up”
07 Schlachthofbronx feat. Slush Puppy Kids “Belly Full of Pills” (Disko B)
08 Die Vögel “Petardo” (Pampa)
09 Unknown “Unknown”
10 Schlachthofbronx “We Run This” (Disko B)
11 Hoodie “Dirty Maluku Style” (Made2dance)
12 South Rakkas Crew feat. Capleton “Bun Up 3000 (Schlachthofbronx Remix)” (Mad Decent)
13 Zebra Baby “+1 (Schlachthofbronx Remix)” (Itd)
14 Unknown “Unknown”
15 Claude Von Stroke “Vocal Chords (Schlachthofbronx Edit)”
16 Schlachthofbronx feat. MC Gringo & MC Nem “Foc Me Baby” (Man)
17 Busy Signal “Black Belt (Schlachthofbronx Edit)”
18 Moreno Negron “Chicorizo”
19 Miss Thing & Psycho Tanbad “Bonify” (Mixpak)

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Detroit Techno Pioneers to Headline Decibel Festival in September

The eighth installment of Seattle’s Decibel festival will happen September 23-26 of this year, with its perennial focus on live performance, interactive multimedia art, state-of-the-art sound, and technology-based education. What’s most exciting about this year’s installment is the inclusion of the Detroit 25th Anniversary crew as headliners, featuring techno pioneers such as Kevin Saunderson and Carl Craig. With such a promising line-up already in the bag, it is definitely worthwhile to purchase early-bird tickets now for 40% off at Brown Paper Tickets. And if such steep discounts and great artists haven’t convinced you to go yet, just check out the video documenting last year’s festival above!

Luciano to Release New Double-EP on Cadenza

With his last globetrotting LP behind him, Chilean-Swiss producer Luciano fulfills the promise from our In the Studio feature of generating several new tracks which contain almost no kick drums. On the Cuidad de Luz EP, the lush synth stabs and dubby sympathies of past releases are certainly present, but they exist in a space that doesn’t necessarily include a dancefloor; in fact, a brief section of “House Tool’s House” is the only bit where four-to-the-floor comes in at all. However, this is not to say that these tracks don’t have some function in a club setting, as all four would work brilliantly as DJ tools or late-morning rooftop tracks.

Cuidad de Luz comes out May 3 on Cadenza.

Tracklisting:

A – Somewhere We Got
B – House Tool’s House
C – Behind My Soul
D – Melodrama

Solvent “Loss for Words”

On the forthcoming Subject to Shift, his first album under the Solvent moniker in six years, Jason Amm brings an air of synth-pop melancholy to a sound that had previously inhabited the imagined world of happy analog robots. While the sonics remain analog, “Loss for Words” is indicative of Amm’s new direction—a sheen of sad, watery synths flows behind bright swells that bring New Romantic sounds to mind. With multi-tracked vocals intoning about an unhappy, non-communicative relationship softly floating above it all, one can imagine Solvent blasting out of many college dorm windows, and this is most certainly a good thing.

01 Loss For Words

Gosub “Eyes of Nimrud”

Miami’s Gosub has certainly absorbed the electro-funk sounds that have been coming from Detroit for years, as “Eyes of Nimrud” sounds like a lost Drexciya track. Its ominous bass loop, dry hand-claps, and squelchy synth runs would fit right in on a Submerge Recordings compilation, and the pitch-shifted vocals are insanely similar to those on countless Underground Resistance recordings. While the press release’s claim that Gosub is “predicting funk’s future” seems a bit absurd as a result of these similarities to older, more venerated recordings, his talents are evident and plentiful on this track taken from his The Last Time… EP. Available on sale right now, it would behoove all fans of UR and its affiliates to jump on this slice ASAP.

Eyes of Nimrud

Freeway and Jake One The Stimulus Package

Though the economy is still a mess, we can rejoice in the fact that Freeway and Jake One‘s The Stimulus Package is here to rejuvenate hip-hop. The two display perfect chemistry with the Seattle beatsmith’s bangers complimenting the Philly Freezer’s gruff delivery. While the subject matter is sometimes stale—hustling (“One Foot In”), kicking street wisdom (“Know What I Mean”), personifying crack (“The Product”)—Freeway’s lyricism is sharp and Jake’s production crisp. These are soulful compositions full of pounding drums, heavy bass, and chopped vocal samples. The former Roc-A-Fella foot soldier is in his true element, as tracks like “Microphone Killa” and “Throw Your Hands Up” make you wonder why he even bothered with Just Blaze and Kanye.

Diskjokke’s Second Album to Arrive June 22 on Smalltown Supersound

Three years after the release of Norwegian producer Joachim Dyrdahl’s debut album, Staying In, comes his second full-length record as the futuristic prog-disco peddling Diskjokke. En Fin Tid—which roughly translates to “happy time”—is slated for release June 22 thanks to Dyrdahl’s fellow Norwegians at Smalltown Supersound. The eight-song album was recorded and self-produced in Diskjokke’s brand-new studio, and is said to be heavily influenced by usual suspects Tangerine Dream, Arthur Russell, Alan Parsons Project, and mid-’80s Holger Czukay. Check out En Fin Tid‘s tracklist below.

1. Reset and Begin
2. En Fin Tid
3. Big Flash
4. Rosenrød
5. 1987
6. Bastard Alliance
7. The Bund
8. Nattestid

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