Flavor of the Week #31

Com Truise
www.myspace.com/iamcomtruise
http://comtruise.com
( ;D --> Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”.
What do you call musicians like Com Truise? He seems easy enough to pin down—throw out some words like “nostalgia,” “synth-wave,” “eighties,” and “electro-funk” and you’ll scrape by—but to be truly insightful about his music is tough, because art that is so blatantly referencing certain things in a certain way while also making them weird and new and unique is confusing. How do you classify something that is so obviously both vintage and current but is too fun to call postmodern?)
Galactic Melt
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TRON Legacy R3CONF1GUR3D - 10 - Encom Part 2 (Com Truise Remix) [Daft Punk]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41oYhhFwS8
"Polyhurt"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOCFNXHiB9w


Lackluster
www.myspace.com/lacklust3r
( ;D --> One of a kind is indeed the expression, which best describes the electronic music auteur Esa Ruoho, regardless whether we are talking about the organic quality of his music under the artist name Lackluster or just the artist himself in his private life. Esa Ruoho is truly an original; a homegrown and uncompromising composer and an eccentric explorer of science and nature, whose artistic career might seem at first glimpse to be just a sum of happy accidents. However, the illusion quickly dissolves after carefully examining his biography. Instead of coincidence, there is only talent and hard work.)
#296: Various / Secret Games
www.kahvi.org/releases.php?release_number=296
Repulsine Ep
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Jack of no trades
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHFK4tGFRw8
Reasonable Excuse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZDsCS-vpic&feature=player_embedded


Justice
www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
www.myspace.com/edbangerrecords
( ;D --> Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé (born 21 May 1979 in Besançon, Doubs) and Xavier de Rosnay (born 2 July 1982 in Ozoir-la-Ferrière, Seine et Marne). The duo is one of the most successful groups on Ed Banger Records and is managed by the label's head, Pedro Winter. Justice is known for incorporating a strong rock and indie influence into their music and image.)
Civilization
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one minute to midnight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7XTqHbsrdY
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html


Mat Zo
www.myspace.com/matzomusic
www.matzomusic.com
( ;D --> London based musician Matan Zohar taught himself to produce dance music at 13 years old, and by 16, he had taught himself to DJ. By mid-2007, Mat Zo had remixed for Andy Moor, Markus Schulz, and he became a DJ household name after Tiesto hired him to remix "Driving To Heaven", and the remix appeared on Tiesto's internationally recognized "In Search Of Sunrise 7" CD compilation. Mat Zo quickly worked up the ranks to become one of the most sought after progressive dance music producers in history. He has played in such cities as Holland, Germany, Ukraine, Ibiza, India, and various cities in England. Mat Zo's global reach multiplied when his Zoned monthly radio program was picked up by Afterhours.fm the summer of 2008. In the past couple of years Mat Zo’s fearsome reputation has grown with th release of a swathe of stunning productions. “The Lost”, “Near The End”, “24 Hours”, “The Found”, “Superman” and the huge collaboration with Arty “Rebound” have been just some of the highlights of this prolific producer’s output.)
Rebound
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Near The End (Original Mix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6OlKhEMOA


Flying Lotus
www.myspace.com/flyinglotus  
http://flying-lotus.com
( ;D --> Flying Lotus, (born Steven Ellison) is an experimental multi-genre music producer, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. His debut album, 1983, was released on Plug Research Records in 2006. He is most famous (yet also uncredited) for much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block and he has also contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists, including Mia Doi Todd. He is referred to as FlyLo by fans and critics. He is the nephew of the late Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane.)
Pattern & Grid World
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( ;D --> 2010 EP release from producer/musician Steven Ellison (AKA Flying Lotus). While the album Cosmogramma was high in concept and wide in musical collaboration, Pattern + Grid World pulls the focus back to Steven Ellison and his machines. These machines are speaking from the go, as "Clay" introduces itself in a fog of synth and vocoder and gives way to one of the many surprises here, the schizophrenic ping-ponging electro of "Kill Your Co-Workers". Drenched in alternating melodies, it's a synthetic counterpart to the grand string and harp arrangements of Cosmogramma, making acclaimed illustrator Theo Ellsworth's subtly psychedelic cover image of vision-through-noise all the more intimate.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

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