thx to everyone who came out friday, s!ck, spencers gifs and to all the amazingly talented performers. these people really understand modern dance music, and we’ve got recordings to prove it. jam live guest mixes from all the artists below, with photos from the night after the jump or on facebook.
the next one gonna be even crazier .. stay tuned for announcements>>>
hot on the heels of their new record, pleasure [listen here], pure x stopped through brooklyn earlier this month to bring their warmth and fuzziness to the last bobka show, a sweaty, ecstatic night. great to see so many people getting stoked on this band lately, and live in the flesh it’s easy to see why — they’re tapping into something deeper than we may know.
here’s a look inside the walls that night, “stuck livin” launching right into “surface”:
brooklyn writer/videographer mark craig also spliced in bits of my footage of “easy” and “dry ice” into this interview he captured with the band backstage that night:
more photos from the night, including tonstartssbandht and forma (not pictured: run dmt) after the jump.
photos by joe talman / thx elise for the cam assist
real talk: this isn’t my “actual” “chart” for “djing.” i’m sorry, but if certain european dance labels, not naming names (cough cough bpitch control crosstown rebels ostgut ton), would step up their getting-320s-to-german-pirates-to-put-on-youtube game, this might be a more complete picture of what i’ve actually listened to this month (besides 90s big beat britpop remixes and bjork singles on repeat). i’m not all that sorry, though, because if you really wanted to nerd out over that kind of music, you’d already be in a soulseek chat room; let’s do this
did i ever tell you guys about my “ambient hotties” prediction for 2011-12? serious noise heartthrobs, justin bieber putting out hand-screened 7″s, hearts of space / tiger beat crossover, oceans of sound as vast as the impossibility of teenage desire?
is there a more concise name for that thing where you don’t care about whatever mutant-rhythm uk a-side with pitched vocals and warped samples and blah blah blah is out this week on xyz dance darling imprint, but wow, the big dumb banger on the flip side, it’s so good, and anyway, what is this, a starbucks? fuck you nerds, i want TECHNO
speaking of techno, i always thought of this as “drone shit that some of my friends like to take synthetic hallucinogens to” until i left it playing in a youtube tab in the background while listening to the new cari lekebusch, and now it’s “drone shit that makes even recent cari lekebusch records interesting.” someone reissued something else she did this week (look it up), which is good, because goddamn if cari lekebusch doesn’t have a new release out just about every time i log into beatport
by the way, i still love you, cari
(cari lekebusch, 1994, just saying)
when my friends send me stuff that sounds like it’s coming from another room, i pretend they’re next door listening to the real record
i like this and everything but i don’t have any comment because “talking about rap on the internet” is best left to 2 groups of people: lifelong experts and clueless assholes
balam acab has made us a mix inspired by our mother earth. take it outside on your mobile audio device, preferably in the early morning or late in the night, and dream out…
british beat alchemist chris owen (ornine) creates some sublimely raw, mutant juke that has swirled our brains around since discovering him recently. intrigued to hear what’s behind these strange creations, ornine melded this for us, his first mix.
in his words:
“as for notes, these notes from a talk by Bruce Sterling on the state of the future have been on my mind, tried to capture this flux between clouds of ungrounded trance and flashes of mania, and how that reflects increasing social instability and evaporating ideology… built between the dancefloor and the net. ”
Ornine – Horselover (synth)
Jaydee – Plastic Dreams
Skillz – Talk of the Town
DJ NG feat Baby Kate – Tell Me What It Is
Blackdown – Crackle Blues (Burial Remix)
Vybz Kartel/Zomby – Mi Fi Gi Yuh Love/Digital Fauna (Ornine Edit)
Mariah Carey – My All (DEA Remix)
Hieroglyphic Being – A Visitor from Someone Elses Memories
Moderat – Rusty Nails (Shackleton Remix)
Dem Hunger – Mosque Vibrations
Anthony Manning – Liquid Quartz 1
Oneohtrix Point Never – Betrayed in the Octagon [ed. note: this part is sick]
Zomby – Rumours and Revelations
The Mover – Last Breath of the Homelands
Maluca – Jungle Violento (Zak-Matik Remix)
Boylan – No Cryin
Darkstar – Ostkreuz
DJ Spooky – Cream Crackers
Marshall Masters – Return To Zero
David Bowie – Crystal Japan
we asked claire/grimes, author of some of the most hauntingly beautiful music in recent memory, what she’s been listening to lately, and her picks show inspiration coming from some very diverse places:
grimes’ split w/ d’eon is out today on hippos in tanks / arbutus records: buy here or stream the full thing below. her glorious halfaxa lp still available for your chosen price. both include “vanessa,” check the self-directed video below. grimes’ current live set consists of all-new material and the lastfew times we’ve seen her (incl. at our own sxsw show) we’ve been blown away by the new stuff. what a talented lady.
harry bornstein b.k.a. magic mountain is one of the most promising new electronic musicians in new york. since emerging last summer with the incredibly strong pairing of “plains” / “one for my ego,” he has been at work prepping both his debut e.p. and new single “mae” set to drop next week, in addition to playing out and remixing. harry stopped by our radio show recently to live-stitch a selection of his current favorite music coming out of the uk:
note: we had to rip this from the radio broadcast and the quality is not up to our usual standard. apologies for the lo-fi-ness.
tracklist:
1. S-X- Take TIme Instrumental
2. P2J- Miss You
3. C.R.S.T. THe Bells (Girl Unt Remix)
4. Ramadanman- Work Them
5. Redlight- MDMA
6. Dark0- Hyli
7. S-X- Woo RIddim (DJ Q Remix)
8. Optimum- Light Year
9. J.O.H- J.O.H. is a ten
