XLR8R Podcast: Rod Modell's MUTEK mix

Next week, Montreal will play host to the 12th annual MUTEK festival, which always serves as one of the year's premiere showcases for techno and forward-thinking electronic sounds. In hopes of getting everyone as much in the MUTEK spirit as we are, we decided to enlist one of the festival's heavyweights for the XLR8R podcast series. And who answered the call? Detroit techno veteran Rod Modell, best known for his work as Deepchord and as one half of Echospace with Steve Hitchell. Deepchord presents Echospace will be performing live as part of MUTEK's Nocturne 03 event—a party that also features a live set from Plastikman—and Modell has put together a preview of sorts with this exclusive mix, a session of dark and dubby techno that digs heavily into his own catalog. Highlighted by its incessant pulse, underwater synth melodies, and ever-present sense of foreboding, the podcast also serves as a primer for Modell's forthcoming Deepchord album, Hash-Bar Loops, which is slated for a July 4 release on the long-standing Soma label.

01 Steve Roach "Groundswell" (Fortuna)
02 Studio 1 "Rosa" (Studio 1)
03 Sustainer "Múltiplo" (Italic)
04 The Advent "Electro 8.07 FM" (Tresor)
05 Deepchord "Sofitel (Processed)" (Soma)
06 CV313 "Subtraktive (Intrusion's Road To Zion Dub)" (Echospace [Detroit])
07 STL "A Beautiful Mind" (Echospace [Detroit])
08 Dick Richards "Lichen" (Raum...Musik)
09 Intrusion "Intrusion Dub" (Echospace [Detroit])
10 Infiniti "Thought Process" (Tresor)
11 Marko Fürstenberg "Untitled 10" (Artless)
12 Martin Schulte "The Fog" (Rare Noise)
13 Pendle Coven "Uncivil Engineering Calm Mix" (Modern Love)
14 STL "Checkmate" (Echospace [Detroit])
15 Deepchord "Stars" (Soma)
16 Studio 1 "Silber" (Studio 1)
17 Le Clic "Jack Is Whack (2000 and One Classic Cut)" (Wolfskuil)
18 Kotai + Mo "Bu" (Electro Music Department)
19 Deepchord "Tangier" (Soma)
20 CV313 "Subtraktive (Intrusion's Twilight Dub)" (Echospace [Detroit])
21 CV313 "Sailingstars (Intrusion's Reform)" (Echospace [Detroit])
22 Steve Roach "Ancestral Horizon" (Fortuna)

Download mp3 from XLR8R.com

Luomo - new album "PLUS": 3 preview tracks

Out September 2011

CD/Digital/Limited12"

(Moodmusic Records)

Luomo aka Vladislav Delay, Sistol, Uusitalo… under a raft of names finnish artist Sasu Ripatti has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals, working with Scissor Sisters, Black Dice, Apparat, Craig Armstrong, Massive Attack, Robert Owens, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Towa Tei. Luomo is the experimental pop face, stretching lines between techno, house and disco.

Tracklist

01. Twist

02. Good Stuff

03. How You Look

04. Make My Day

05. Happy Strong

06. Medley Through

07. Form in Void

08. Immaculate Motive

09. Spy

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Luomo - Happy Strong by sasuripatti


Luomo - Good Stuff by sasuripatti

Luomo - Spy by sasuripatti

Echologist - Subterranean, Album previews

Steadfast Records

CD, Album

# SFV10CD

25 April, 2011

dub techno, ambient

(produced by Brendon Moeller)

Brendon Moeller, aka Echologist and Beat Pharmacy needs no introduction. His work with numerous fine labels such as Francois K’s Deep Space Media, Ann Aimee, Rekids, Mule, Echocord, Third Ear, Electric Deluxe, Ostgut Ton, to mention but a few, speaks for itself. Whether it be serious dancefloor bizniz, or dubbed out bass-scapes and experimentalism, his music has always possesses a quality and signature that continues to captivate a worldwide audience. This is his seventh full length album.

Subterranean is a deeply narcotic listening experience. Subtly evolving atmospheres, hypnotic sub-basslines, reverb-soaked drones and lush vibrating textures abound. All elements possess their own pulse and cadence, but stay in sync to create an otherworldly sub-aquatic experience.

The album gently ebbs and flows as exquisite modulations and articulations create a mesmerizing ambience that is at times as propulsive as it is passive. Minimal without being cliched, dubby without being played-out, repetitive without being dull. This is not music to be analyzed, it is to be felt, both physically via the bass tones and emotionally via the haunting ambience. Seemingly endless, the meditative soundscapes here are not merely indolence but rather a quest for the feverish outer limits of spacious bliss. Shoegaze techno? Perhaps.

Tracklist:

01. Subterranean
02. Slow Burn (Filter Dub)
03. Lunar Cycle
04. Ritual (Phased Rework)
05. Deliberate
06. Swell (Modular Take)
07. Junkyard
08. Creation

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El Sueño de La Casa Propia - Historial de Caídas Remixes

netlabel: Pueblo Nuevo

12 April, 2011

12 x track: mp3, ogg, FLAC

IDM, pop, acid, folk, breakbeat

"El Sueño de la Casa Propia" is a chilean one-man project by José Manuel Cerda, from the lovely city of Valparaíso. He released his first LP the past year: a caleidoscopic mixture of sampled experimental electronica, acid pop and chilean folk sounds, called "Historial de Caídas" under the experimental,electronic netlabel Pueblo Nuevo. One year later, it reveals a new album consisting on 12 reinterpretations of the original tracks by several chilean artists like De Janeiros, deMentira and Blit, as well as the venezuelan Algodón Egipcio and the mexican Sr. Amable.

"Historial de Caídas Remixes" introduces the listener into the avantgarde independent music from the end of the world, and the interesting experience of traditional south american music meeting new tendencies in electronica, indie pop and free improvisation.

Gabriel Reyes

Tracklist:

01. En mangas de camisa (De Janeiros Remix)

02. Sosiega-T (Miopec "Sosiégate!" Remix)

03. Cortina de humo (Algodón Egipcio Remix)

04. Un paso al costado (Yo soy dios, vecinos) (Sr. Amable Remix)

05. A la velocidad del amor (Ricardo Tobar Remix)

06. Puertas adentro (Pepepe Remix)

07. Amarillo naciente (Mika Martini feat. Catalina "Amarillo Crepúsculo" Remix)

08. En la medida de lo posible (deMentira Remix)

09. De oro la voluntad (María y José "Voluntad de oro" Remix)

10. Amarillo crepúsculo (Alejandro Paz Remix)

11. Acomódate en el suelo (Blit Remix)

12. Voluntad de oro (Sokio Remix)

:::download the full album for free at the Pueblo Nuevo website:::

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Warp Records

4 April, 2011

# WARPCD209

CD, Album / Vynil, LP

chillwave, pop, IDM, indie

(Produced by Stephen Wilkinson)

“Bokeh is the out of focus region of a photograph. It's not a quantifiable thing, but photographers and lens manufacturers are obsessed with it. In Japanese it means “haze”, “blur”, or even “dementia”. I called the album Mind Bokeh because I'm interested in the effect of defocussing your mind, whether through meditation, chemicals or whatever – it's a state of mind quite alien to Westerners.”

Tracklist:

01 Excuses

02 Pretentious
03 Anything New
04 Wake Up!
05 Light Seep
06 Take Off Your Shirt
07 Artists Valley
08 K Is For Kelson
09 Mind Bokeh
10 More Excuses
11 Feminine Eye
12 Saint Christopher

::: try it :::

all Lomography / analogue photography fans,

check out as well:

The Bokeh Project

Burial, Four Tet + Thom Yorke - Ego / Mirror

Text Records

Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM

16 Mar, 2011

UK garage, dubstep, indie, IDM

Cuando el músico británico Kieran Hebden, alias Four Tet, se reunió en el año 2009 con el enigma del dubstep, Will Bevan -más conocido cómo Burial- para lanzar los singles “Moth” y “Wolf Cub” bajo su sello Text, la idea y el resultado parecieron demasiado buenos para volver a repetirse. Dos años más tarde, Four Tet reinventa la fórmula con la adición del frontman de Radiohead, Thom Yorke, el cual había sido remezclado antes por los otros dos músicos en la versión de remixes del disco “The Eraser” de Yorke. “Ego” y “Mirror” son dos noctámbulos tracks donde los gruesos beats, el bass sound y la atmósfera sombría se deben a Burial. Four Tet colabora con dulces timbres y pianos, mientras que la voz de Yorke le imprime frescura e innovación a la obra, resultado en algo más cercano al pop pero cargado de profundidad, misterio e inteligencia.

por Gabriel Reyes, para Extravaganza!

Tracklist:

A. Ego

B. Mirror

Buy it here

Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep on the Floodplain

label: Drag City

CD, Album / Vynil, LP

released: Feb 2011

folk, psychedelic, drone

myspace

Devendra Banhart dijo una vez: “Ben Chasny es el jardín, yo solo soy un caracol que come lechuga en él” El decimoquinto álbum de estudio del virtuoso guitarrista acústico, alias Six Organs of Admittance, no hace más que seguir reafirmando su pasión por ese folk ritualista, melancólico y psicodélico, que pertenece a los bosques solitarios, a las montañas y a los ríos místicos. No hay nada nuevo en “Asleep on the Floodplain”, pero cómo en cada nuevo trabajo, Chasny se las arregla para capturarte cómo si fuera la primera vez. Las atmósferas oníricas y misterioras, a veces sencillas y cálidas de sus canciones, poseen algo precioso e inmaculado, algo poderoso que hace abstraerse de cualquier contexto y transportarse a un lugar desconocido donde dominan las leyendas antiguas. La contemplación de la naturaleza y su gran misterio.

por Gabriel Reyes, para (Extravaganza!)

Tracklist:

1. Above A Desert I've Never Seen 5:03
2. Light Of The Light 2:49
3. Brilliant Blue Sea Between Us 3:33
4. Saint Of Fishermen 1:02
5. Hold But Let Go 4:21
6. River Of My Youth 5:35
7. Poppies 1:01
8. S/Word And Leviathan 12:26
9. A New Name On An Old Cement Bridge 2:58
10. Dawn, Running Home 5:05

SCB - Loss / Future Unknown

Aus Music

12" vinyl

# AUS1132

March 2011

deep house, minimal

(produced by Paul Rose, alias Scuba)

Tracklist:

A. Loss

B. Future Unknown

on Aus Music

SCB is a house/techno project by Paul Rose, better known as UK bass pioneer and Hotflush Recordings owner Scuba. SCB was born in 2008 with a now-seminal rework of 'Hard Boiled' from the first Scuba album,A Mutual Antipathy, and has since developed with two full 12"s and remixes of Mount Kimbie and Phil

Kieran amongst others.

'Loss / FutureUnknown', on Will Saul's Aus Music imprint, is the first original SCB material to surface outside of Rose's own circle of labels. 'Loss', with its spacey melodies and repeating vocal slices, builds and builds into a slice of pure unadulterated dancefloor joy, very much in keeping with the musical territory occupied by Aus at the moment. On the flip side, 'Future Unknown', fills out the atmospherics with dark stabs and driving rhythms which eventually give way to an almost Scuba-esque brand of floating euphoria.

:::download:::