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feat. Dan Deacon, The Walkmen, YACHT und Jochen Distelmeyers "Wohin mit dem Hass?"
• Live: The Whitest Boy Alive + Erobique @ Arena, Wien 18.08.2009
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• News: Lightning Bolt + Nadja
Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson release their fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights in mid-October. The album title felt sort of Boschian when I heard it and turns out the album art kind of is as well. Speaking of expansive, take a listen to the seven-plus minute "Colossus." From the start it locks into an interestingly half-speed groove -- littered with those echoed, cavernous vocalisms -- until the guys start running uphill at the 3:40 mark and then pass into a phased-out stratosphere in the last minute.
Lightning Bolt - Colossus
Across four extended soundscapes, psychedelic Denton post-metallers Pyramids team with seemingly everywhere/highly collaborative Toronto duo Nadja to create expansive ambient dirges that feel both fragile and heavy. You get the blast beats and wraithlike black metal vocalism of Pyramids' gorgeous self-titled debut on the airily pummeling "The Sound of Ice and Grass" and for sections of the highly triumphant closer "An Angel Was Heard To Cry Over The City Of Rome," but elsewhere the Texas quartet meld with Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff to create something entirely new: A spacious, darkly illuminated naturalist drone. The collection includes well-chosen guest spots from Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil bassist Simon Raymonde, Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch, and Mineral's Chris Simpson. The Mineral/Gloria Record frontman provides haunted vocals for "Another War," a track you can lose yourself in right now.
Listen here (via Stereogum)
• Special feature: Kompakt 10 via Pitchfork
For the past decade, Cologne's Kompakt has been the pre-eminent techno label in the world. Emerging in the late-1990s-- at a time in which techno itself was the province of a cabal of Detroit devotees with a conservative, narrow definition of their scene-- Kompakt used the 4/4 thump of the dancefloor as a means rather than an end. Label owners Wolfgang Voigt (Gas, Mike Ink), Michael Mayer, and Jürgen Paape created a central, branded imprint willing to release any and all sounds that took their fancy. Over the years, that has included ambient washes, hands-in-the-air electro-pop, thumping floor-fillers, and above all microhouse, a minimal take on house in which elements of rhythm are often glitches, whirrs, and clicks rather than more traditional mechanistic drums.
Today, Kompakt is a mini-empire. Its "act local, think global" approach has resulted in 16-person company that runs not only the label and website but also handles distribution, one of the world's largest techno record stores, a booking agency, and a publishing arm. In addition, compatriot Tobias Thomas handles a monthly Total Confusion residency in the label's hometown of Cologne. Meanwhile, the label is home to an international all-star team of dance artists, from not only Germany (the label's owners, as well as Superpitcher, DJ Koze, Justus Köhncke, Jörg Burger, Thomas Fehlmann, Sascha Funke, Dettinger, and many more), but also Sweden (the Field), Brazil (Gui Boratto), Chile (Matías Aguayo), Japan (Kaito), Iceland (GusGus), and the UK (Rex the Dog, the Orb).
Kompakt - The Early 20 Years mp3
Tracklist (with commentary from Michael Mayer)
1. All: "Alltag 1"
It's appropriate to start this journey with the godfather: All is Wolfgang Voigt's first appearance on Kompakt. "Alltag 1" still breathes the spirit of the Profan era and marks the birth of the Pop Ambient concept.
2. Ehlert & Lohberger: "Vito E.P. 2"
This is the most overlooked record in our catalog. Nobody liked it at the time-- except Wolfgang and myself. If I received this demo today, I'd sign them right away! One of many records we've released knowing it would be a flop but that we'd made a statement.
3. Dettinger: "Totentanz 1"
Dettinger's ambient long players, Intershop and Oasis, became our first true "classics." His 4/4 works are lesser-known but as revolutionary as the rest. Today, "Totentanz" still sounds shockingly modern and it somehow predates the whole Kuduro/UK Funky movement with its harsh digital dancehall vibe.
4. Sascha Funke: "Safety First 4"
Sascha Funke released his first records with us. His father (a Berliner) was a diehard supporter of Cologne's soccer club and little Sascha inherited the same passion. He'll drive a Ford because the cars are manufactured in Cologne, and he'll play Cologne techno on its stereo. We love Sascha.
5. Peter Grummich: "Schleusen Auf 2"
Another visitor from Berlin. "Schleusen Auf" sounds like an old, rattling subway on pretty decent drugs. I just put this one right back into my record crate...a timeless piece of confusing techno.
6. Schaeben & Voss: "Tombo's Revenge"
Aside from running the ever-excellent Firm label, these guys recorded some of the most dirty and "out there" tunes during Kompakt's early days. They're a snotty techno band with an amazing live show.
7. Jürgen Paape: "So Weit Wie Noch Nie (Ata's Playhouse Mix)"
The original version-- a tantalizing hybrid of German schlager and house-- was released on Total 3. For the 12" single release we requested a remix from our good old friend, Ata from Playhouse/Robert Johnson in Frankfurt. He did what he does best: music for late night girls.
8. Leandro Fresco: "Cera Uno"
This one may very well end up in my Kompakt all-time top 10. Leandro Fresco lives and works in Buenos Aires and he created a monster. All cuts on this EP are just unearthly and beautiful, particularly the ambient ones.
9. Superpitcher: "Heroin"
No words necessary here...just a little advertising for his new album coming up in February. It's going to be a.w.e.s.o.m.e.!
10. Dorau / Köhncke: "Durch Die Nacht (Geiger Mix)"
One of the kinkiest records on our Kompakt Pop offshoot featuring two of the most notorious German disco-teers. The Geiger remix turned out to be the gem...I'm still playing this out a lot.
11. Closer Musik: "2 the Beat 2 the Rock"
Matias Aguayo and Dirk Leyers gave birth to Kompakt classics like "Maria" and "One Two Three (No Gravity)". When the duo broke up, the girls in Cologne wore black for the rest of that year. The track featured here perfectly documents Aguayo's daredevil approach in production.
12. Lawrence: "Teaser"
We've been in love with the Hamburg-based Dial label and its protagonists Lawrence, Carsten Jost, and Pantha du Prince since day one. Bringing Romy Schneider to the techno floor is something that had to be done and nobody could have done it with more class than Lawrence.
• Stream: Jochen Distelmeyer (Ex Blumfeld) - Wohin mit dem Hass?
Lass ich mal kommentarlos hier stehen. Der Stream zu finden auf distelmeyer.de
Am 25.09. erscheint HEAVY! Das erste Soloalbum von Jochen Distelmeyer. Bereits am 11.09. erscheint die Single "Lass uns Liebe sein".
• MP3:
Lusine - Two Dots
While much of Lusine’s output, including his upcoming second album for Ghostly, A Certain Distance, is deep in the bubbly ping of bedroom electronics, his new single “Two Dots”, a collaboration with Finnish singer Vilja Larjosto is more lucid, and more, well, Brazilian. Though he’s a solidly American dude, Lusine—when he’s not writing soundtracks—must be listening to a lot of Bebel Gilberto and getting open. He cuts up Larjosto’s vocal into something a little scat, a little sad. Pretty sure this is downtempo, actually. Pretty sure downtempo is cool again now that Portishead is cool again. Oh, that was triphop. Maybe Lusine is triphop. (The Fader)
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