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GZ 041
24 Aug 12
FOF 119
28 Aug 12
Review:
Alongside fellow West coast brethren such as Sholohmo, Groundislava is bringing forth a plush take on the Californian beat scene ideals, with his own brew favouring rich synths of an 80s persuasion. This particular slant of vintage aesthetic mining is shot through with the woozy detuned charm and melancholia that made acts such as Hype Williams stand out initially. The tempos on his debut album for Friends of Friends shift around while the atmosphere and approach stays joyfully intact, creating a cohesive ride through a romantic sound universe where melody is king and yet there's not one sappy note to be found.
PAN 33
09 Nov 12
Review:
Although his computer compositions for the Entr'acte imprint are steeped in the theoretical end of electronic music, some of Lee Gamble's earliest musical experiences were as an active participant in the jungle scene of the mid 90s, regularly DJing on pirate radio. Diversions 1994-1996 sees Gamble take samples of jungle mixtapes from the era and recompose them in an utterly unique way; honing in on the spaces between the breaks he loops and stretches out brief moments of music into haunting, post-apocalyptic soundscapes, allowing the original moments of euphoria to decay on the breeze. Despite its slightly difficult premise, Diversions is actually one of the most accessible PAN releases to date - and should serve as an ideal entry point for those wishing to explore Gamble's work and PAN further.
BFDNL 033
18 Sep 12
Review:
There's a pronounced split between the live incarnation of The Gaslamp Killer and his musical output, where most club kids have him down as some kind of chainsaw dubstep fanatic. However on record he morphs into a wondrous haze of 60s and 70s psych anchored to heavyweight funk. As his EPs promised, his debut album goes headfirst into a searing Molotov cocktail of psychedelic tendencies and exotic samples, from Indian strings to West coast guitars via groovy organs and hard-breaking drums. It's overloaded and messy in many places, red-lining and wild eyed, but anything less would be a disappointment right?
K 7292 DTM
07 Nov 11
Played by: Enzo Canale
Review:
What's so striking about the tracklisting for Gold Panda's entry into the DJ Kicks canon is its diversity, erring towards a more stripped-down, experimental kind of techno but ranging across Drexciya, Zomby and Bok Bok. Despite this erraticism, the flow of the mix is relatively smooth to begin with, but around Christopher Rau's "Do Little", the mix drifts off into a strange and sparse minimal hinterland. By the time the wall of chords in Giuseppe Ielasi's "2" hits you, it's hard to remember where it all began. In that sense, Gold Panda has served up one of the most daring DJ Kicks compilations in a long time. Recommended.
PAN 36
19 Dec 12
Review:
Lee Gamble's Diversions 1994-1996 saw the producer construct an immersive sonic landscape from an old jungle mixtape; its ambient, largely beatless compositions a world apart from the leftfield techno contained in his swift follow up, Dutch Tvashar Plumes. An album of heavily processed textures, tracks like "Skorokhodz" and "ExpRand Trace" bristle with a computerized sheen reminiscent of Actress, "Coma Skank" is characterized by its fuzzy, tribal clatter, and "Nowhen Hooks" even provides Gamble's own weird take on house music. Dutch Tvashar Plumes feels very much like a companion piece to Diversions - most obviously evidenced in the cavernous ambient interludes like "Black Snow", but also in the sense that the mangled rhythms feel like the structural skeleton that was ripped out of Diversions. Undoubtedly one of the albums of the year from one of the labels of the year.
KOMCD 66
02 Jun 08
APR 054
12 Mar 13
33046
13 Aug 12
361015 2638531
22 Mar 13
FRJCD V01
12 Nov 12
A-00127
13 Aug 09
RERVNG 01.5
15 Feb 11
KRANK 177
04 Feb 13
MOUTH 01
11 Dec 10
NNF 267
30 Oct 12
Review:
Having come through with a DIY approach to spreading his homespun synthesiser studies around, Golden Donna lets Not Not Fun take hold for this new EP which features styles that seem right at home on the label. "Flashing Hands Of Carousel" warbles and flutters with VHS soundtrack charm while core melodic refrains get bolstered by rippling, zipping and fizzing analogue sound effects, while "Paulding Light" shuffles along on a tidy house beat that calls to mind fellow oddball weilder of archaic machinery, Heatsick. However the sound is far more fully formed that that, and across five tracks Donna shows off a tremendous scope in what his applied science can be turned to.
FR 022
14 Jan 13
NPIP 032
25 Feb 13
Review:
Karen Gwyer returns to No Pain In Pop after a stunning addition to their last and downright brilliant mini compilation. The girl sure got game and we've been excited about her first full-length release after a stunning cassette excursion on London's low-fi Kaleidoscope label. Gwyer's music spans a multitude of musical facets and moods, starting with the opener "Sugar Tots", where dubbed-out kick drums go head to head with aqueous synths and a hypnotising percussive arrangement. There isn't a bad tune in sight here and even the sparse soundscapes of tracks like "Lentil" are consistently engulfed by a warm and human-like approach by our new favourite girl here at Juno HQ. It's filled with stand-out pieces such as "Night Nails" - a track that has one of the most bizarre drum beats we've heard in a long time, the charming bass tones of "Some Of My Favorite Lotions"; and, well...all of it, really - TIP!
000857 003528
01 Mar 13
WARPCDD 172
08 Mar 10
BFD 004
04 Aug 09
UNOGIA 09
06 Feb 13
SKA 002
01 Sep 09
JBH 036
26 Apr 10
STAUBGOLD 122
29 Mar 13
FAIT 07
27 Jan 12
INTOX 152
28 Nov 12
THW 004
10 Mar 11
Review:
The shockingly precocious Italian producer Gianmarco Ghiandoni aka Ghianda has commissioned remixes of his "Apricots" debut release for Technowagon. Of the three versions, the Populous remix is the most dancefloor friendly, with an insane hoover rave bass underpinned by a slamming groove. Luke Abbott's take is less functional, but will be of interest to deeper DJs thanks to its clicking rhythms and chiming percussion. However, the prize for the most unusual version goes to Mig Dfoe: shifting from the outright abstract to the glitchy and flirting with dubstep lurching, it's sure to get Ghiandoni and his fledgling label more attention.
RS 75
04 Oct 11
DNB 753
04 Dec 12
ARTMATIC 08
10 Jan 13
NKR 011
27 Apr 12
2TES 011DD
12 Mar 10
KAYAX 055
19 Nov 12
SHLU 005
28 Dec 12
WARPCDD 223
23 Jan 12
Played by: Chris Coco
Review:
Sumach Valentine aka Gonjasufi continues to display his singularly unique musical vision on MU ZZ LE, the San Diegan sometime yoga teacher's first full length LP since the stunning A Sufi & A Killer. This time round, he's turned the psychedelia up to the max, largely dispensing with his abstract influences in favour of a drowsy, hallucinogen influenced psych-pop stew. It's a good move. The sample-heavy, doped-up tracks veer from loose-limbed, jazz-flecked smokiness ("Timeout") and dub-laden fluidity ("Venom") to organ-heavy freakiness ("Rubberband") and super-distorted lo-fi reggae ("Blacksuit"), all the while coming on like the results of too many late nights flicking through long wave radio stations.
K7 276EP5
25 Jul 11
WARPCDD 216
30 Apr 12
KOM 53
18 Mar 02
PLANT 8939-2
06 Jul 07 |