1000NAMES Illuminated Man preview

March 11th 2010 by Yang | Tags: , | Tweet this post

We keep posting about posting about 1000names that we’re almost running pictures out of the them! They’re just that sensationally good and here’s a little preview of their debut album due to drop in April on Black Acre. Beats from outer space……

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JAMES BLAKE The Bells Sketch

March 9th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , | Tweet this post

Again another James Blake, now for the Hessle Audio label. Like the Pembroke on Brain Math he works a lot with revers play of samples to suck you into track which he does on the title track The Bells Sketch. It’s light as thin air but it also feels intense by the sampled bells (?) and the swirling synths with this nodding beat in the back.
On Buzzard & Kestrel he uses beautiful organic (kitchen sink comes to mind) sounds to construct a swinging soul tempo (which has the Matthew Herbert feel to it) covered with beautiful timed voices. It such rich and dense, though subtle music you can only long for the spring breaks into sunshine and lambs in the meadow….Noticed an announcement that James Blake will be releasing on the R&S label. Listening to Give A Man A Rod give you an idea what that would sounds like. Give A Man A Rod starts with an even more uptempo housy tempo but with an vintage blanket on top. It’s really hard to describe how warm his sound feels. Even after the break when it falls in to this thick organ sound it stays miraculously soulful.

GONJASUFI A Sufi and A Killer

Part of the Los Angeles music scene (Brainfeeder ao), and aided and abetted here by producers The Gaslamp Killer, Mainframe and Flying Lotus, Gonjasufi stands strong despite his impressive helping hands. His dominant voice and ditto sound ideas are (lucky for him and us) all over the record. He moves music wise, somewhere between freak-folk, retro-hippie, orientalism, and abstract beats and it is tempting and dearing as hell. The electro-acoustic dominance together with the treated voices makes it kinda vintage but through the drums and bass it stays within the present. The sounds and songstructures stroll between psychedelic hypnotizing near madness which places him in the centre of his influences: San Fransisco seventies; Beatles; 22Pistepirkko; all these Mush kinda west-coast folk-hip-hop and as last: dub.
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AIRHEAD / JAMES BLAKE Pembroke

James Blake proves again how magically his electro-acoustic infected sound fits the contemporary musical spectrum. His handling of samples (reverse play) the organ, voices, are intriguing and delicate. On both Pembroke and The loin we hear the Blake treats which makes you wonder what exactly the role of Airhead has been. This record moves perfectly inbetween the early dubstep sounds and the stuff that we hear on Fat City and All City labels but the organic feel is so refined it stands easily on it’s own in the field of abstract beats.

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ROBOT KOCH Death Star Droid Remixes

Robot Koch released a while a go his debut album Death Star Droid, a very exiting and diverse album. Robot Koch asked some people to remix tracks of the album. My personal favorite Gorem Sen is remixed by Loops Haunt, Shlohmo, Body Language, Talen, Phono O, Beat Laden but there are also remixes from other tracks by fLako and Blue Daisy. As you see it covers our fav artists quite well! It contains also two brand new tracks, one called Blind (feat Grace) with a nice wobble over a soulful track. The other one is New Day which is a collab with Body Language. The Loops Haunt cover is my fav. Last week he played it during his live set and I was blown away, ran into him and was like I need that hip hop ish track. Turned out I have it, it was Gorem Sen…. The video-clip of Blind contains sampled material from Maya Deren, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel.
Gorom Sen (Loops Haunt remix)

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Gorom Sen (Shlohmo remix)

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OFFSHORE Sonic Router Mix

Offshore is on our radar ever since his debut on Stuff a few months ago. He did an mix for the Sonic Router with a great interview to go along with it. Very divers mix it became. Download

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JNEIRO JAREL new track!

March 1st 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , | Tweet this post

Here is a preview on the new Jneiro Jarel (aka Dr Who Dat?) Android Love Mayhem about to be released on his label Who! You might have heard it pass by in mixes by Samiyam or Ras G. Maybe you heard it on Mary Anne Hobbs radio show! Listen up….

1000NAMES EE mix

February 27th 2010 by Yang | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

Our friends 1000names are stepping up their game. The latest mix they did is for the incredible Electronic Explorations and it’s banging!

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HALP an introduction

February 25th 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: | Tweet this post

HALP is one of our new editors on the Lowriders Collective blog and Like Coco Bryce also one of the new interesting dutch producers. To introduce him I interviewed him to give you an idea who he is and what to expect, both music and writing wise. I put two tracks by Halp in the post which will be released soon!

•Please introduce yourself?
My name is Thomas, I’m 21 years old and live in Rotterdam.
And I have two cats, named Jip and Pim. They’re actually my girlfriends cats but they’re sort of mine now as well.
•Who are you?
A guy who really likes sci-fi but doesn’t really watch a lot of sci fi movies. Nor do I read a lot of books. And I really like music. There is also loads of stuff I don’t like but going through all that would be a lot of work.
•What do you do?
I make music under the name Halp and also study audiovisual design at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam. I also tend to play a lot of videogames but recently got a macbook pro so I cant really do that right now, which is good.

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IVAN ICE & EMAY Sounds Like

February 23rd 2010 by SIMcommander | Tags: , , | Tweet this post

Ivan Ice is part of our local BMU crew (with fellow members J’83, Bluntspeakers en Festa to name some). He released an EP on bandcamp together with Canadian underground MC Emay. I was surprised by how good this is. You hear in the beats the ghost of J Dilla but mutating towards something own. The Voice of Emay is great, lazy but precise in timing.
Over 10 tracks we hear and feel the skills of two very promising artists. The beats and sounds are impressive creative, not everything is as tempting (some tracks are to standard for my taste) but it proves that there is enough talent to beat the international competition! The short Stupid Shit says it all, a perfect play between rapper, voices, sounds and beats!
Wanna hear more from this.