“It is all around us!” – this kicks the whole thing off ground, or rather grounds it, as we find polyphonic realspace handclapping from ra.h’s deep-dry ‘Fall of Justice’ which we might think can only exist in our living rooms – isn’t there something hiding in the woods, or is it just common hausmusik? The scope of this mix is not genre, but differences in music, feeling and life that become visible by a conscious selection of interesting material, throughout contextualised by voice samples that make me wonder what electronic music is actually about. Not with an interest in bastard pop eccleticism, but with a feel for beauty, it all ending in the sparkling scenario of an end-of-the-night taxi ride through downtown Chicago.
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Morton Shumway – What Makes The Possible Real? (Getting The Story Straight 002)
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Morton Shumway – Ibizan Street Dirt
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Getting even deeper into the music thing I present you an already classic mix.
Ibizan Street Dirt is a suspense-packed all-thrilled lameish pack of haptic funk – the media is the streets, so we find some dry, flirritating non-clash of reduced (neo-)detroitish to romantic styles, taking long transitions to then amount to a deep and dirty breakdown of unprecedented intensity.
- James DIN A 4 – Lucifer Rising
- W.B. – Gottogoaway
- Marathon Men – Sweet Exorcist / Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky – Coffee (Arab Dance)
- Dave Ellesmere – Grid Variation
- Audio Werner – Str8St8mnt
- Shed – Supa
- 2000 And One – Point of No Return
- Darko Esser – 13 (Noc)
- Gas – Untitled
- Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky – Coffee (Arab Dance)
- Krause Duo Nr. 2 – Kristallsemmel
- Omar-S – Day
Morton Shumway – The Inner Space Disco
Saturday, May 17th, 2008This wonderful little label Getting The Story Straight just came up with its third release so far.
Disjunctive ecclecticism, as found in Ibizan Street Dirt (GTSS001) and What Makes The Possible Real (GTSS002), rules this slow paced, round and sensitive mix consisting of elements from Space Disco, Material House, Reality Computing and Popular Music.
- Mono Puff – Pretty Fly
- Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Iz & Diz – Love Vibe (Pepe Bradock’s “Confiote De Bits” Remix)
- Mono Puff – Pretty Fly
- Quarks – Fallen
- Hosomi – Kumorizoranohajimarutokoro
- Björk – Jóga
- Mice Parade – Double Dolphins On The Nickel
- Asa-Chang – Kutsu #3
- Morgan Packard – Airships Fill The Sky
- Morgan Packard – Mink Hills
- Yumi Kimura – Always With Me
The intense climax is reached in the second half, when layering Hosomi and Björk creates a surprising tension. The momentum, then, just carries on, as this beautiful Mice Parade song is even more intesified by Asa-Chang’s trumpet play, anti-climaxing into two accordions from two different tracks, together breathing along, making lots and lots of space for the Mink Hills, when it’s nearly time to say good-bye already …
So keep your eyes open, your ears, that is.
Vangelis / Claude Larson – Multi-Track Suggestion (Cloud 08)
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008http://www.discogs.com/release/1103163
Years – passing by – VCO – VCF – and again – and again – Years – passing by – Let her go – Let her stay – In the memory’s place
Get – the machine – VCO – VCF – get the tape – get the bass – 100 + one – multitrack – patch bay, patch bay – EQ Low Cut – pre/post – frequency 1000
La, da da da – VCO – VCA – in the memory’s place – We let them play – VCO – VCA – I am no techno-guy – The life … – 1000 + one – Multitrack – patch bay, patch bay – EQ Low Cut – pre/post
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Favourite label Cloud on this release’s a-side features an outstanding Vangelis track from 1980. Combining synthetic and natural sound, this slow and repetitive journey along the evolution of a still unknown technology is about diving into a deep, sweet, sleazy and melancholic relationship to those machines and the spaces they might have opened.