Flavor of the Week #12

Grimes
www.myspace.com/boucherville
www.grimesmusic.com
( ;D --> There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, “the marriage between the voice of a human and the heartbeat of a machine. Each album tackles a different set of influences and styles. Her newest album, Visions, incorporates influences as wide as Enya, TLC and Aphex Twin, drawing from genres like New Jack Swing, IDM, New Age, K-pop, Industrial and glitch. This approach has marked Grimes as a curator of culture, and allowed the project to remain flexible and evolving. A phantasmic state for the deep listener, sourcing the long forgotten spells running alongside humans for centuries and forcing them through a hyper-futuristic filter. Compositional and vocal delivery are coloured with an emotional trauma. Despite a generally upbeat demeanour, an urgency permeates the music. Calling us between our history and the future it uses the pleasure of minimal rhythms and dance to entice, but beyond its rich, software-sculpted cohesiveness, and vocal energy, runs a very real and odd world.)
Visions
G_Amazon
Oblivion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE


Casey LaLonde
http://caseylalonde.bandcamp.com
http://caseylalonde.tumblr.com
( ;D --> ambient american electronic experimental idm indie from minneapolis minnesota.)
Thank You
http://caseylalonde.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you
The Wanderer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xd3GNTqH4w
Izmir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZGBkIUgEc


Mondkopf
www.myspace.com/mondkopfonthemoon
( ;D --> Mondkopf is a French artist with a German name, which is fitting, given how often his productions play in a middle ground between those two countries' archetypal modes of electronic music. Looked at a certain way, Rising Doom, the 24-year old's latest full-length and first for Fool House, the label imprint of French fashion/mp3 blog Fluokids, borrows the machine muscle of harsh Teutonic techno and leavens it with just a bit of the joviality and melody of French touch.)
Rising Doom
M_amazon
The Song of Shadows
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Od6l-1bfgys#!


Sandwell District (label)
http://wherenext.tumblr.com
www.discogs.com/Sandwell-District-Feed-Forward/release/2619151 
( ;D --> Electronic Drums arranged By Tonal Arrangements, Recorded By Field Recordings – Juan Mendez Management – Peter Sutton. Percussion & Electronic Drums arranged By David Sumner. Percussion, Recorded By Field Recordings, Coordinator – Karl O'Connor.)
Feed forward
S_amazon 
Falling the Same Way
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML8JomV445E


Andy Stott
www.myspace.com/andystott_modernlove
( ;D --> Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator.)
We Stay Together
A_amazon
( ;D --> Entering the digital compression chamber of 'Submission' you become a willing participant, before the lights are cut and you're forced to adjust to the humid atmosphere and bruising, muscle-contracting darkroom throb of 'Posers'. Suitably initiated, the EP's fearless centrepiece 'Bad Wires' plunges into full on mud-party mode, dropping the tempo while intensifying the kinaesthetic funk with slow, clusterf*cked syncopation until you're drowning in synthesized oil and crushed-glass textures.)
Bad Wires
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAVTnDpobms

Over And Out