Flavor of the week #1

Shackleton
www.skulldisco.com
www.myspace.com/shackletontunes
( ;D --> The self-effacing Lancashire-born Sam Shackleton first came to prominence during the early rise of the dubstep scene, running the label Skull Disco alongside Appleblim. Skull Disco is considered to have been influential, in that it combined more abstract or avant-garde musical forms with music that could work on advanced dancefloors.)
Fabric 55: Shackleton
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( ;D --> As anyone who has submitted themselves to Shackleton's ritualistic live shows will attest, this producer operates in a very special dancefloor dimension. Those shows have become the stuff of legend, reworking the most potent elements of his records into a stunningly febrile, in-the-moment context designed to elicit absolutely primal urges. In our opinion, his live show is one of the best in the world right now, and has been for a few years, so this mix is essentially one of the deadliest documents of post-everything club music money can buy.)
Three Eps
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There's A Slow Train Coming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-SYHNSag8&feature=related


Bliss
www.myspace.com/theblissworldofficial
( ;D --> Bliss with founding members DJ Steffen Aaskoven and Marc-George Andersen, and with Alexandra (vocals) and Tchando (vocals) is an international chill out pop music collective from Denmark, Sweden and Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, Since 2001, they have become one of the true chill-out underground acts.)
Grace
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Remixes
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No One Built This Moment
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People Among Us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_evX3YHsQ-A&feature=related


Akzidenz Grotesk (Gustavo Hjindervsson)
www.myspace.com/akzidenzgrotesk
( ;D --> Interesting Islandic Leftfield/Electro/Deep House/Minimal act.)
Isbuggs Ep
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Clean Living In Difficult Circumstances
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Isbjörn (Sven Väth mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4yPXHcJimI 


Kangding Ray
www.myspace.com/kangdingray
www.kangdingray.com
www.raster-noton.net
( ;D --> Kangding ray's music reflects his wide musical background, and a particular way of merging beats and textured soundscapes into slowly evolving compositions. KR combines machines with « real instruments » in a subtle and rythmic suite, integrating digital anomalies, walls of distortion, massive bass lines, micro-noises, voices and field recordings to create tracks that sit right between noise-pop, dubstep and experimental music.)
Pruitt Igoe
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( ;D --> Pruitt-Igoe is one of the most striking sequences from Koyaanisqatsi, a masterpiece of cinematography and soundtracking. In the sequence, the immense high-density housing project of the same name in St. Louis, is shown completely deserted and extensively vandalised before being demolished. With the track names, this release is clearly an allegory for the project, if not paying tribute directly to the film, and Raster-Noton mainstay Kangding Ray incorporates the label's signature digital sharpness, and masterfully reflects the estate itself and the film's bleak prophesies of social demise, to chilling effect.)
Koyaanisqatsi 4\9 -Life out of Balance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jVH7c2RTZY
Pruitt-Igoe Sequence - "Trouble in Utopia" - Narrated by Robert Hughes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd7VOz_Wstg
Automne Fold
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MMMathias
www.myspace.com/mmmatthias
( ;D --> Matthias is a promising DJ/Producer working out of Germany, with a distinctly french touch to his remixes and DJ mix.)
Lies
http://www.amazon.com/Lies/dp/B003RJ525Y/ref=dm_ap_alb2?ie=UTF8&qid=1293783622&sr=8-1-catcorr
MMMathias - Lies [Aesis Sui`Generis' better-bring-a-washrag Remix]
http://soundcloud.com/aesis/lies-aesis-better-bring-a-washrag-remix
www.myspace.com/aesis
www.aesissuigeneris.com

Have an X-nt 2011!
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Flavor of the week #52

Salem
www.myspace.com/s4lem
( ;D --> Salem’s sound, nearly impossible to describe using mere words, derives from the early 90′s “Chopped and Screwed” remix techniques of DJ Screw/Swishahouse hip-hop — demonic, slowed-down vocals and tempos combined with Chicago juke/footwork and dubstep/grime derived beats layered on top of a darkwave/juke-triphop wall of sound that incorporates elements of noise, drone, industrial and dream-pop. With this demented fusion, Salem pioneered a sound that recontextualized their forebearers straight into a nihilistic k-hole.)
King Night
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Asia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0C1ugzJJ90&feature=player_embedded#!
King Night
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMc91DQXHU


Shriekback
www.myspace.com/shriekbackconcentrate
www.shriekback.com
( ;D --> The sign of a great band is that it can manage to create, then expand on, it’s own own inimitable world using a trademark sound which, although recognisable, never ceases to grow and develop. Now approaching their 30th anniversary, Shriekback can be counted as one of those rare bands; at ease in their own skins with nothing to prove but everything to explore.)
Life In The Loading Bay
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-26.html


Xploding plastix
www.myspace.com/xplodingplastixfan
www.xplodingplastix.com
( ;D --> Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian two-man band playing Electrofunk/Big beat music with elements of jazz. Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian black metal band Kvist) formed the group in early 1999.)
Devious Dan Ep
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Pretend You Owe Me Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPEwhqK2FA


Tegma
www.myspace.com/tegma
http://soundcloud.com/tegma
www.tegmatekk.com
( ;D --> Since the late 90s Tegma has been in the forefront of the new wave of Scandinavian progressive trance scene.)
What Time Is Up | A Tribute To KLF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsLl2z5uSE


Biosphere
www.biosphere.no
( ;D --> Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his "ambient techno" and "arctic ambient" styles, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by www.hyperreal.org as one of the all time classic ambient albums.)
( ;D --> Our biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth, a closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system.)
Wireless: Live at the Arnolfini Bristol
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Patashnik
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Substrata; Man With a Movie Camera
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Flavor of the week #51

David Lynch
http://davidlynch.com 
( ;D --> David Lynch is best known for making films that bring our darkest thoughts to life in ways creepier than we could ever imagine. But the 64-year-old art-house staple isn't just a director-- he's a painter, a meditation advocate, an amateur meteorologist, and a musician, too. Along with writing lyrics for longtime composing partner Angelo Badalamenti, Lynch helped with some of the otherworldly atmospherics for several of his films and even wrote (and sang) on two songs for his last feature, 2006's Inland Empire. Last year, Lynch collaborated with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous on the Dark Night of the Soul project. Nowadays, the musical muse is hitting Lynch particularly hard. He just released a double A-side single featuring an uncharacteristic electronic track called "Good Day Today" along with a (more characteristic) twisted blues track, "I Know".)
Good Day Today
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Good Day Today (Boys Noize Remix)
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/David_Lynch/track/Good_Day_Today_Boys_Noize_Remix
( ;D --> An uncluttered, ear-pleasing electro-pop track with pulsing production - think Aphex Twin¹s ³Fingerbib² with less sauce, through a vocal mask of heavy computer filtration.)
Pitchfork_Interview
Boys Noize blog
www.boysnoize.com/blog/?p=3162
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/flavor-of-week-31.html


Terminal Choice
www.myspace.com/terminalchoicemusic
www.terminal-choice.de
( ;D --> Terminal Choice is a German Electronic rock band. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of Blutengel, Tumor, Pain of Progress and owner of the Fear Section label) in 1993. Their lyrics are sung in German and English. The sound was originally primarily electronic music, but with the 1998 album Navigator, guitars were added. Besides Chris, the original lineup included Jens Gärtner, who provided the drum and loops. In 1997, Manuel Selling was added to the lineup to provide the guitars. In 2000, Manuel left the band and Gordon Mocznay took over on guitar and bass guitar. A year later in 2001, Louis Manke joined the band as well, adding a second guitar to the band. Terminal Choice is currently Chris Pohl's main project, and have had success in Germany. The success of Terminal Choice has also transferred to the other members of Terminal Choice, as Chris helped Gordon form his own band, Mordorn, and also helped Louis form a band named Staubkind. Despite being involved with numerous bands, all members are still creating music with Terminal Choice.)
Übermacht
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Kaine Macht
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZH7Wv1cmA


Dntel/ James Figurine (aka Jimmy Tamborello)
www.myspace.com/jamesfigurine  
www.jimmytamborello.com  
www.dntelmusic.com
( ;D --> Better known perhaps for his work in bands like the Postal Service and Dntel, James Figurine (or Jimmy Tamborello) was inspired to create his own techno-pop solo album while on tour through Germany. Enlisting vocal help from Erlend Øye and Jenny Lewis, among others, James Figurine's debut solo album, Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake, was released in 2006.)
After Parties 2
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( ;D --> The second of two new EP's from Jimmy Tamborello’s Dntel, ‘After Parties II’ is possibly an even more horizontal take on his sound delivering subtle house experimentations and excursions into cavernous dub.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/flavor-of-week-15.html


Krystal Klear
www.myspace.com/krystaltracks
http://soundcloud.com/mygodmykrystal
( ;D -->  New Jack Swing Boogie Modern Funk 80's House Music.)
Tried For Your Love
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CTRL
www.myspace.com/ctrl
www.ctrlmusic.com
( ;D --> Ctrl debuted in 1998 with Secure The Shadow. Over the next eight years, the band released three more acclaimed albums, and appeared on various compilations. 2009 saw the release of their fifth offering, Lost In Static. It allows the unique blend of pop-tinged electro, driving beats and signature guitar to remain the staples of their sound. The band continues to grow with each new incarnation, while carefully tipping a hat to the founders of style. The band is often augmented by long-standing compatriots. Since inception, CTRL has performed more than 70 shows, with such notable acts as: Covenant, VNV Nation, Funker Vogt, Assemblage 23, Icon Of Coil, Combichrist, Chemlab, Information Society, London After Midnight, Cruxshadows, Voltaire, Imperative Reaction, Stomkern, and Iris, as well as many others.)
Lost in static
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www.cdbaby.com/cd/ctrl6
Lose the image
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Flavor of the week #50

Scuba
www.myspace.com/paulhotflush
( ;D --> Scuba, aka Paul Rose, has been at the forefront of the dubstep scene since its birth. Having founded the innovative and influential Hotflush Recordings label in 2003, he has continually brought colour and depth to an advancing genre, expanding its sonic structure and increasing its influence on the wider electronic scene. Through Scuba and seminal work by central figures including Distance, Vex d and more recently Mount Kimbie and Joy Orbison, Hotflush remains crucial to the immediate moment and the developing future of the most exciting aspects of electronic music.)
Triangulation
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( ;D --> Following the first Scuba album, A Mutual Antipathy (2008), and the more recent Aesaunic EP (2009), this album takes the Scuba sound to a new level. The collision of dubstep and techno has produced startling music from a wide range of producers in the last few years, none more than Scuba, and that has been well documented. But Triangulation moves past the dubstep/techno axis and into new territory. Working at multiple tempos, the album covers an area ranging from house to experimental drum n bass while retaining the Scuba sound that has become so distinctive. You Got Me and So You Think You re Special, released as an advance 12 , reflect the range of the album with the huge bass and frenetic energy of the former contrasting with the melancholic atmospheres and melodies of the latter. The listless beauty of Before, the aggressively percussive Minerals and the hyperactive electro of On Deck provide further stylistic variation, but this is not simply a collection of tracks for the best sonic results this album should be listened to in full.)
RA.198 Scuba vs SCB
www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=198
Sub: Stance
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A Mutual Antipathy
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Lights Out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FlVrJOeD80


Meat beat manifesto
www.myspace.com/meatbeatmanifesto
www.meatbeatmanifesto.com
( ;D --> Meat Beat Manifesto have been perfecting their techno sound since 1987 and have been major influencers on trip-hop, as well as drum and bass along the way. MBM’s latest album, Answers Come in Dreams, was just dreleased via Metropolis Records together with their new video for “Waterphone”. Juxtaposing vintage film footage—among some of the earliest recorded by the first mo
vie cameras of the turn-of-the-century—with their hyper-modern electro beats, “Waterphone” is both artsy and cerebral.)
Answers Come in Dreams
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Waterphone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnydQsl44Go&feature=player_embedded#!
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/01/flavor-of-week-4_18.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/flavor-of-week-33.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/01/flavor-of-week-3.html


Einstürzende Neubauten
www.myspace.com/neubauten
www.neubauten.org
( ;D --> Einstürzende Neubauten (German pronunciation: ['a?n??t??ts?nd? 'n???ba?t?n], Collapsing New Buildings) is a German experimental band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard), Alexander Hacke (bass, guitar, vocals), N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments, percussion, vocals), Jochen Arbeit (guitar and vocals), and Rudolf Moser (custom-built instruments, percussion, and vocals). One of their "trademarks" is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments.)
Strategies Against Architecture, Vol. 4
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/05/flavor-of-week-20.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/09/flavor-of-week-38.html


Marek Hemmann
www.myspace.com/marekhemmann
www.marekhemmann.com
( ;D --> Marek Hemmann has grown into the electronic music as a hunter, collector and true connoisseur of tones and sonics. It all began in the beginning of the 90’s with a guitar whose sonic spectrum was far too limited for him. The discovery of the samplers and the synthesizers suddenly opened new possibilities where the acoustic world could be conserved; it was now possible with sound and noise on synthesizers to create what the human ear has never before experienced. The reason for the sonic passion was delivered to him via the techno parties late 90’s in his home area of Gera which was soon a weekly anchor for electronic experimentation.)
In Between
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Pouppee Fabrikk
www.myspace.com/pouppeefabrikk
www.pouppee-fabrikk.com  
( ;D --> Pouppée Fabrikk is a Swedish EBM band, started in 1988 by Henrik Björkk and Leif Holm, who both hail from Karlskoga. Initially, the music of Pouppée Fabrikk (PF) borrowed heavily from minimalistic electronic acts such as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Nitzer Ebb, but with the addition of Jouni Olilla and Jonas Aneheim on guitar PF moved towards a more Die Krupps-style electronic/metal mix. The "Your Pain - Our Gain" CD was meant to be released in 1996, but due to differences in opinion between the band and the record company (Energy Rekords) it was delayed until 1999. In 1996 the band decided to take a break and PF was put on hold and the band members worked on various solo projects. In 2000 the band re-united for a gig at the Tinitus Electronic Festival and announced that they were making a comeback and returning to their roots. They released a four track mini CD entitled "Elite Electronics". A year later though, both Jouni and Henrik left the band to concentrate on their respective solo careers. PF disbanded shortly afterwards. After seven years of absence from the scene the band reunits in 2009, Christian R filling the place of former member Jouni Ollila. In October 2010, they once again re-united for a gig; this time at Bodyfest on Fryshuset.)
Symtom (sample)
www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Dj7Re5aSvBY&feature=related
( ;D --> Studio work in progress; PF studio pre-production for the coming release 2010.5 Demoversion of the track "Symptom".)
Betrayalizer @Bodyfest 2010 (Stockholm, 10/10-2010)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk5CO6Ms93U

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Flavor of the week #49

Balam Acab
www.myspace.com/thebalamacab
( ;D --> Balam Acab, like Salem and oOoOO, traverse the same shadowy territories that seem at once sensual and unnerving. Balam Acab creates something akin to Burial being slowly drowned in an ocean of drone, a cybernetic limbo haunted by distant machine moans, those trademark ghostly digi-diva vocals positively lost in another world all together. Influences: feelings, vibes, souls, spirits, nature, essences. Sounds Like:fear, nostalgia, bliss, sadness, euphoria, beauty, peace, dreams, loneliness, longing, a removal of all the layers that aren't until the one which is has been found, i want you to get lost...)
See Birds (Moon)
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See Birds
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See Bird
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNvrOiQZP-0


Simian Mobile Disco
www.myspace.com/simianmobiledisco
http://simianmobiledisco.co.uk  
( ;D --> Simian Mobile Disco are a UK based production and remix team. Formed from the ashes of Simian in 2005 its members are James Ford and Jas Shaw. In addition to his work with Simian Mobile Disco, James Ford is a producer and has worked with bands such as Florence & the Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Peaches and Klaxons.)
Delicacies
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Se also
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/10/flavor-of-week-42.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/09/flavor-of-week-37.html
Audacity of Huge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylu0ybj7DIg


Kode9
www.myspace.com/kode9
www.kode9.com/
www.hyperdub.com
( ;D --> Kode9 (born Steve Goodman in Glasgow, Scotland) is a London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator. Initially inspired by what he calls the "hardcore continuum", he also draws on dub reggae, and was one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene (which he views as a continuation of developments originally stemming from UK Hardcore). He appeared on the Grime compilation on Rephlex, and released the full-length album Memories of the Future (featuring the Spaceape) on his own label Hyperdub. Kode9 has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Warwick and has published a book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear.)
DJ Kicks
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/01/kode9-www.html


Jamie Anderson (Deepgroove)
www.myspace.com/djjamieanderson
( ;D --> There are few electronic music lovers that haven’t already heard Jamie Anderson’s work. He has proved himself as a long-term force to be reckoned within the dance music scene, not only through his own broad spectrum of production talents across the colours of dance music. Jamie perfectly combines the grooving subtleties of house with the twisted funk of techno. Additionally Jamie can be found producing under various pseudonyms with other artists lining up to work and be part of his productions and collaborations. He has joined forces to work on studio projects with artists such as Jesse Rose, Owain K, Jerome, Louis Osbourne, Deepgroove and Switch.)
13 Machines
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http://open.spotify.com/album/5FGzAtB0kUsVA7C2qLp5lx
Blue Music
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Thy Veils
www.myspace.com/thyveils
http://thyveils.com/
( ;D --> Thy Veils (Daniel Dorobantu) is an ambient neoclassical experimental music project from Timisoara. "To listen and listen again to this admirable musical surprise evokes names like Black Tape for a Blue Girl or Arcana, even though Thy Veils lacks voice interpretation. But the luxuriance has always been present, as well as the diversity, the purity of the sound, the clarity of it all.)
Mountain And Cloud
http://thyveils.bandcamp.com/album/mountain-and-cloud
Diaphanous Depressions
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