Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New Music Madness



Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm wired on coffee, sitting at a small bistro downtown Guadalajara, semi distracted by the parade of gorgeous girls strutting by... oh I'm excited about, well, mainly alot of new boomkat postings. Seems like it's become my main source of listening lately as I explore the darker ends of the very wide electronic music spectrum, steering away from convention and certain party lines very much alive, and blindly enforced, throughout the blogosphere...


I have to admit, I really like the name of this project by American ex-pat Jay Haze. Issued on Berlin based BPitch Control (home of my favs Moderat, Modeselektor, Kiki, Telefon Tel Aviv, Ellen Alien, etc), this album delves in minimal house territory, often flanked by the warmth of crispy synths and vocal samples. If properly used, there are some great dancefloor friendly romps here, like the 5th track, Orgasm On the Dancefloor Saturday Night. Nine minute epic I'm Burning Inside builds up into a synth arpeggio climax perfect for for when you have your special someone within arms reach... you know what I mean, ladies. Steer away from the two tracks that feature vocals from Chela Simon, however. I find her voice unfit for such an experiment, and the tracks very mediocre.

All in all, if I played a house dj set, I would definitely include a few of these special very original tracks, as minimal as they may be.

Release Date: Oct 2009




Rather short, but oh so very sweet, this new 9 track project by a certain Deepak Mantena on Illegal Art offers an unpredictable hip-hop odyssey into the obscure. Cut. Copy. Paste. Overlay. Repeat. STOP. Restart! This album is one ever expanding adventure in sample land that keeps listeners on the edge of their seats. Boomkat compares this to the hip-hop version of The Field, a comparison I have to agree with. Oh, and it's no coincidence that Illegal Art has already published works by the likes of Girl Talk. But the samples here are not popular songs, or they may be, we just don't know it. Samples are so skewed and rapidly collaged that you barely have the time to analyze; what is actually going on?

Of West Coast, Illegal art says:

On “West Coast,” Deepak's samples are all run through a handheld recorder that gives his constructions a gritty lo-fi loop-based sound, mixing fractured vocals, pop hooks, and an overall euphoric warmth.

Explains everything!

Release Date: Oct 27th 2009



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