Posts Tagged ‘Review’

Morton Shumway - Ibizan Street Dirt

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Getting 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.

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  1. James DIN A 4 - Lucifer Rising
  2. W.B. - Gottogoaway
  3. Marathon Men - Sweet Exorcist / Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky - Coffee (Arab Dance)
  4. Dave Ellesmere - Grid Variation
  5. Audio Werner - Str8St8mnt
  6. Shed - Supa
  7. 2000 And One - Point of No Return
  8. Darko Esser - 13 (Noc)
  9. Gas - Untitled
  10. Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky - Coffee (Arab Dance)
  11. Krause Duo Nr. 2 - Kristallsemmel
  12. Omar-S - Day

Morton Shumway - The Inner Space Disco

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

This 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.

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  1. Mono Puff - Pretty Fly
  2. Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
  3. Iz & Diz - Love Vibe (Pepe Bradock’s “Confiote De Bits” Remix)
  4. Mono Puff - Pretty Fly
  5. Quarks - Fallen
  6. Hosomi - Kumorizoranohajimarutokoro
  7. Björk - Jóga
  8. Mice Parade - Double Dolphins On The Nickel
  9. Asa-Chang - Kutsu #3
  10. Morgan Packard - Airships Fill The Sky
  11. Morgan Packard - Mink Hills
  12. 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, 2008

http://www.discogs.com/release/1103163

listen at last.fm

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.

House M.D.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

16/10/2004
Created by: David Shore
Produced by: Katie Jacobs, David Shore, Paul Attanasio, Bryan Singer

If you visit the doctors, what would they have to do to actually help you?

Keywords: Medical drama, enlightenment, imaging techniques, differential diagnosis

Morton Shumway – What Makes The Possible Real? (Getting The Story Straight 002)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

“It is all around us!” – this realisation kicks the whole thing off ground, or rather grounds it, as we get served with 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 think what electronic music really is about. Not with an interest in bastard pop eccleticism, but with a feel for beauty, on our way we find Audion’s ‘Death is Nothing to Fear’ contribution contrasted by ‘Good Vibration’, it all ending in the sparkling scenario of an end-of-the-night taxi ride through downtown Chicago. If love is possible against all odds, we may have learned about both on our way.