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* Monthly Recommends - June

Posted on July 11th, 2008 by ab. Filed under charts.

Now that we’re almost half way through July, it seemed like a good time to review what was on high rotation in June.

Benjamin Fehr - podcast [mnml ssgs].

I wont include samples, since it’s very easy to click over there and just download it. It’s deep and lovely.

Tracklisting:

pep gaya - darker - klitekture 05
butane - vaguely defined - green water ep - rregular19
jichael mackson - 1000 bugz - stock5 07
paris the black fu & jack cousteau - fog dust vs detroit
heib - flatliner - senior solution management 03
ellen allien - go - marcel dettmann remix - bpitch
ds - jens zimmermann remix - snork enterprises 05
mr. static - west coast booty - karloff 25
dealta/aquatic - skipper - meander 02
o. deutschmann - siem reap - vidab 04
portable - don’t give up - cassy remix - sud electronic 10

Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From the Beehive [Smallville]

When I finally got my hands on this, I’d already listened to the teaser, seen the hype and was prepared to be ambivalent about it. I wasn’t prepared to fall in love with this rich, immersive music. There are beats, but it’s the texture that carries you.

Here’s a taste of the welcoming delights of the first cut ‘Come In’.

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Buy: Songs From the Beehive

Alva Noto - Unitxt [raster-noton]

Sharp and rhythmic work from Carston Nicolai. Satisfying in both its toughness and its delicate premise in which ‘modern life’ is translated into audio signals, both with processing - data from prosaic office programs like Excel and Word having been converted into audio information – and with numbers-to-spoken word from poet Anne-James Chaton who reads out the information from Nicolai’s wallet.

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Buy: Unitxt

Tags: alva noto, banjamin fehr, Songs from the Beehive, unitxt.

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* Belated May Monthly Recommends

Posted on June 15th, 2008 by ab. Filed under charts.

Better late than never, and in no particular order:

Move D - Drøne [Modern Love 049]

Another one sided 12″ from Modern Love. Immersive, droning wall-of-sound with polyrhythms that keep you coming back.

Jon Baily writes in his review that, “‘Drone’ is apparently an older track, hijacked from his infamous KM20 vaults.” Boomkat says something similar, “the track comes from David Moufang’s hallowed KM20 vaults, the place were he keeps his most devastating, vintage analogue material.”

I had no idea what this meant, but have since found that KM20 is a sub-label of Moufang’s Source Records. There were only three releases around ‘96-’97 - one of which it seems people can’t pay to get rid of, and all pretty easily available.

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Buy [Drøne]

Bvdub - Monuments to Oblivion + Tape [Southern Outpost] [SOSP-001] [SOSP-001.5]

I hauled out my crusty old walkman for the cassette tape of this part of the package. And after some initial skepticism, found it hard to resist this blatently nostalgiac appeal. The lo-fi loveliness - hissing tape noise and clunking buttons - was as tactile and retro as you’d imagine, but with soundscapes that flip you into a fantasy of a different order.

Buy: [Monuments to Oblivion]

Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Honey [Smallville]

More from Move D aka David Moufang, but this time in a different direction. Here he’s teamed up with Benjamin Brunn to do a teaser for their album, <i>Songs From the Beehive</i>. Brunn is an artist known for sparse ambient productions on Raster Noton relative, Bine Music. Downplayed house grooves in spattered patterns shot through with long chord washes are played out on the long a-side, veering into acid rhythms. But it’s restrained quiet of the b-side tracks that really get me.

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Buy [Honey]

Jacezsiek - Treny [Miasmah]

Bonobo name-checked Jacezsiek’s newest album Treny recently in an interview. Well, kind of. He couldn’t remember the producer, only the album title and that it had ‘lots of strings’. That it does have. Swirling orchestral sounds - apparently not samples, some almost-too-much castrati-style vocals, and some glitchiness underpinned by deep, rolling bass.

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Buy [Treny]

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