April 2013
4 posts
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - "They Can't...
Happy Tax Day in the USA ;)
Nas - "It Ain't Hard To Tell"
“Cause in my physical I can’t express through song, delete stress like Motrin and extend STRONG”
Uwue - "Silent Wave"
<a href=”http://treecoverrecords.bandcamp.com/track/silent-wave” data-mce-href=”http://treecoverrecords.bandcamp.com/track/silent-wave”>Silent Wave by Uwue</a>
The earnest and well-to-do Tree Cover crew in Harrisburg, PA sent through this gorgeous 7” from Caleb Cossick, aka Uwue, and it’s just ideal for springtime in the sunshine. His vocals are...
Kroba - "Treat Yo Self"
Archie Pelago’s sultan of sax swings through with a grand little number for April Fool’s Day, the Parks & Rec-sampling goodness of “Treat Yo Self”. Seriously, treat yourself today and give this Kroba edit a whirl, it will do some good for all you ugly ducklings out there.
March 2013
14 posts
Alphabets Heaven - "Birthday"
Alphabets Heaven - Birthday from diplodok493 on Vimeo.
Damn, those crazy Canadian cats up at King Deluxe keep elevating their game. This new video by Renata Gąsiorowska for Alphabets Heaven’s plaintive and eerily funky “Birthday” is a masterpiece of hand-drawn animated weirdness…it would be right at home on Adult Swim.
The circadian percussion and hazily-hewn synths...
Prostitutes - Crushed Interior
<a href=”http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/crushed-interior” data-mce-href=”http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/crushed-interior”>Crushed Interior by Prostitutes</a>
This new album from Cleveland’s James Donadio, aka Prostitutes, burrows deep under the soil and away from the hype of all these purveyors of brash, noise-laden...
Beatwife - "Dwistco"
Whenever anyone talks about acid when describing dance music these days, it tends to revolve around house music and a billionth revival of the “acid house” scene. Which I really don’t know very much about, except that Lory D is a don.
For me, the acid sound and all those little Roland TR-303 burbles makes me think of IDM and Aphexian madness, with skittering drums and sharp...
Rustie - "Triadzz"
Probably the most menacing track Rustie has put out since that lecherous, scantily clad remix of Zomby’s “Spliff Dub” waaaaaay back when. You can really see how far the guy’s come though, with those opening chords, the melodic breakdown halfway through and a really triumphant finish to the jam.
But I mean, really…that drop at :55 is just plain evil, some monsters...
CALLING VISUAL ARTISTS/FILMMAKERS IN NYC AREA
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SUS RECORDS would like to invite you to participate in a special event set this Spring. We’re looking for experimental visual artists to showcase their work in a very special location. Please email susrecords(at)gmail(dot)com with the subject line “NOODLES” and a link to vimeo/youtube/etc. Friends, fans, fam - please share / recommend this post to anyone this may apply. THANK...
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Cuttooth - 'Old Tape Machine' ft. Hitomi
cuttooth - Newcastle-based producer with a variety of sounds under his belt - shared a new collaboration with Hitomi (best known for her work in King Midas Sound) that creaks along trip-hop genre borders, in the same fashion as Blue Daisy’s debut LP on Black Acre pushed t-h into noisier, shoegazerific territory. ‘Old Tape Machine’ feels damn close to a CocoRosie production,...
Drunk Robots "A New Entropy"
Pretty brutal stuff here, from Portuguese artist Drunk Robots on a new full-length called aftermath. Glitching, stuttering beats underpin caustic waves of synthesizer and crumbling guitar, creating a wall of dystopian-tinged sound that comes across like a Nine Inch Nails, sans the Reznor vox. Bleak but epic, if you ever had a love affair with NIN like we did, you’ll find something to dig...
Throwback Thursdays: 2Pac - "Hail Mary
Classic and creeping jam from pac…
la da da da da daaaa
SD Laika - "Great God Plan"
Hailing from wheresoever in the American Midwest, SD Laika is an odd sort. His first transmission for Visionist’s Lost Codes imprint, Unknown Vectors, was a warped little journey through crystalline synths twinkling lovingly off the surface of serrated, grimey-as-fuck percussion and basslines. This tune is allegedly forthcoming on Glasgow’s shifty All Caps label, and showcases that...
Lotide - "Monks"
Close Kort and Styles Upon Styles confidant Devon Hansen, aka Lotide, crops up on a favorite label of ours with a hazy, lush long player called Moonless. Coming to cassette and digital on Astro:Dynamics on the first of April, the record sees jigsawing textures and atmospheres clasp together unsteadily into a variety of rhythms, often dropping out before you’ve quite got your head around...
Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Alma del Huila EP
Soul is on its way back. JT’s new LP looks to the Dean Martin days, Daptone Records surges forward with a new Charles Bradley record, and our own King Garbage prepares for their debut release in April. So then, where does Gabriel Garzón-Montano fall on this spectrum of slinky 2013 crooners?
Subtle nuances and excellent production mark this free release from Gabriel, with percs that...
Peter Van Hoesen - "Spectral Participant"
Creeping, off-kilter electronics from techno experimentalist and sound scientist Peter Van Hoesen, on this new track off of his recently released 2nd LP, Perceiver. The tune above sways uneasily through the fog, only gaining focus after the seemingly disparate melodic particles coalesce into a fluid, complex rhythm. This is modular music, constructed not on a screen but on two machines: the...
Torus - "Shallow Depth"
<a href=”http://sonicrouter.bandcamp.com/track/shallow-depth” data-mce-href=”http://sonicrouter.bandcamp.com/track/shallow-depth”>Shallow Depth by Torus</a>
March 12th, 2013 finds Dutch wunderkind Torus in fine form, with a second emission for Sonic Router by way of a free EP of awesome material, The Yard Sale. ”Shallow Depth”...
Donato Dozzy "K"
<a href=”http://furtherrecords.org/album/k” data-mce-href=”http://furtherrecords.org/album/k”>K by Donato Dozzy</a>
A classic from the vaults, a deep dig through Further Records discography reaps pretty fantastic rewards. Somehow Dozzy manages to make timeless music each and every time…no more words, just listen.
February 2013
25 posts
Yard - "Disco Belle"
Some really, reeeeeally dope grooves coming out of the Further Records camp yesterday, highlighted by this low-slung dub-techno workout by Chris Jones, aka Yard. The Portland producer weaves syncopated basslines, softly strobing synths, and a bulbous kick drum through washes of dilapdiating pads for an early morning roller that never quite lifts the haze.
GET WEIRD @ THE BUNKER ON FRIDAZE
we Korters are looking forward to this Friday’s edition of The Bunker, taking place at Public Assembly. Resident spinner Bryan Kasenic has cobbled together a psychedelic, out-there collection of artists for this particular event, enlisting Madteo, Fred P, Tin Man, Professor Genius and more in an evening that’s bound to get weird. In other words, we’re very...
feroX - "Gargoyle"
Italo-horror movie-inspired B-more and bass stylings from the depths…the divebombing bassline seems calibrated to send dancefloors into a frenzy
Autre Ne Veut - "Play by Play"
Never really been into the nasally vocal stylings of Brooklyn R&B wunderkind Autre Ne Veut, but right from the start, his new LP for Oneohtrix’s Software imprint is absolutely glorious. There’s many familiar, trendy elements that can be found in everything from trap to Grimes: 808 percussion, trancey arepeggios, and chortling synth choirs… so much so that it makes me a...
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Four Tet - "For These Times" (Forthcoming NONPLUS...
I mean, fuck. no one treats vocals quite like Four Tet. cannot wait for the full version and to pre-order a copy of the 5x12” boxset on March 29th.
Charles Bradley - "Why Is It So Hard"
Yep, this pretty much chokes me up every single time. There could not be better news than the forthcoming second LP from old-school soul man Charles Bradley…modern blues for the hungry at heart.
Throwback Thursdays: The D.O.C. "Lend Me An Ear"
An unheralded classic from Dr. Dre, this early-90s LP featured some of his best sampling and a gifted young rapper in The D.O.C., who’s career was cut short after his debut by a larynx-crushing car accident. The stuff legends are made of…
Portishead - "Glory Box (King Garbage Cover)"
Here’s your first taste of our label’s new act, the Brooklyn/Austin duo known as King Garbage. Their cover of the Portishead classic featured on The Fader today, and adds a creeping, pseudo-masculine element that saunters its way into the soul. The KG sound is on full display, with a beautifully re-harmonised chorus and singer Vic DiMotsis’s sultry croon.
Their debut...
Container - "Saturate"
New Container coming out on Rabih Beani (Morphosis)’s consistently lethal Morphine imprint, featuring this krautrock-meets-noise warehouse monster, “Saturate”. The psychedelic factor has gone through the roof, and the Tennessee native’s music continues to evolve into a tangled, addictive form of rhythmic subjugation. Scope that Treatment EP on the Doser label soon…
Samuel Kerridge - "Waiting for Love"
Clips came up today for Samuel Kerridge’s forthcoming drop on Downwards, furthering his throttled, sludgy sound with an eye-opening array of industrial environments and caustic, face-melting audio debris. The guy is really creating a world all his own, strap on the high quality cans and lock in: you need to hear this sound design, it’s other-worldly.
For more, revisit...
It's a De La kinda Friday
Sky’s full of rays and shining, we on the cusp of a dope weekend in NYC…time to break out the De La Soul, son.
Keith Kenniff - "For Hollie" & Hudmo - "Slowjams...
Happy Hallmark Day all you Kortologists…even if you hate all dem valentines, at the very least, lots of your favorite artists are sending the love via free, exclusive tunes. This one is a beautiful little ditty from Keith Kenniff/Helios/Goldmund, enjoy!
Also as a little extra, Hudmo’s always excellent Valentine’s Slowjams mixtape, fresh for 2013.
Trackman Lafonte & BonQuiQui - "A Paradise So...
Pretty zany yet awesome tune and video from Long Island Electrical Systems, showcasing Legowelt & Xosar’s alter aliases to heavy-lidded, sleazy effect. Poppier than most of the jams on LIES, but still with that lo-fi grubbiness that seams to coat the electro beat and lullaby chorus. Straight goodness.
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Theo Parrish - "Smile"
a late night YT dig session inspired by Parrish’s recent interview in which he calls out music journalists and producers alike.
Quiltland - "Days"
Heartfelt and introspective with spoken samples, swirling choirs and distant percussion, this new find from the London-based Astro:Dynamics imprint is quite the hidden gem. Quiltland seems to be hailing from the increasingly fertile electronic landscape of Sweden, but there’s little else we’ve been able to glean about who they are. It certainly looks like the Astro crew have mined...
Doshy - "Toys"
We’ve bumped to that bwoy Doshy before, his “Suspiria” update on Rwina was sick… grimey motherfucker. He’s dipping into some weirdout trap ish here, if you dig TNGHT, you’ll shimmy to this…big ups Saturate Records
Oake - "Left Already"
OAKE - Erajh Nur Dwfa from the kvb on Vimeo.
Haunting and frigid work from German unknowns Oake, who’re preparing their debut release for Regis’s expanding Downwards label. “Left Already” intersperses cold-blooded views of barren wilderness and timberwolves hunting with a swirling, ominous pulse; when the spacious vocals and hungry kicks come in, it all becomes a bit...
Mogwai - "Hunted by a Freak"
It’s going to be a twisted, turbulent Tuesday…batten down the hatches and put on some headphones (put this one on HQ, very intense)
uPhonic Soundsystem - Bella Danger
Super smooth, kicked back funk and reggae from the duo of Peter Gross and Something Wicked, forming uPhonic Soundsystem to meld dripping dub atmospherics with sultry vocals and searing leads on the guitar.
Admittedly, we tend to get caught up in the electronic realms of music more often than not…but when something this well-executed and conceived is brought to our doorstep, we cannae...
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The Spaceape - "Up In Flames"
visceral poetry and voodoo rhythms from The Spaceape. composed amidst an ongoing fight with illness, Xorcism was made free to download a few months ago but i’ve only just listening to it in the proper setting: a late sunday night with fried eyes and wandering thoughts. he’s never sounded so raw, unhinged, and driven as he does throughout this abbreviated EP. worth your next 15mins,...
Dusky - "Nobody Else"
Coming out like a cross between Rinse.fm and that plush, big-room house sound that Bashmore and many others have been pushing, the duo known as Dusky are setting up to drop a huge EP on Aus Music. Will Saul’s imprint has been on fire over the past 6 months, and this track looks to be another heater that will be rattling summer soundsystems for most of 2013.
The vocal teases us inside...
Floral - "Mornings" and "Afternoons"
Floral is photographer Nathaniel Young, operating in the Portland sphere of the US with an abundance of colorful creativity. These two tracks off of his free EP, Diem, show a crafty side to that Brainfeeder hip hop sound: detuning synths playfully interact with counter-melodies for a lilting, doozy effect on “Mornings”, followed by some MPC-bashery on “Afternoons” that...
Cassegrain - Tiamat EP
There’s plenty of folks digging furiously for grungier, creepier, and nastier sounds to conjure techno these days, but the Berlin-based duo of Cassegrain have been perfecting this sound for years. Hailing originally from Austria and Greece, the musical inclinations of this Prologue-signed team are subtle and technically confounding in the variety of ways each track morphs EQs, layers,...
Camp Lo - "Luchini (AKA This Is It)"
A throwback summer jam for your frosty February afternoooooonnnnn…
January 2013
25 posts
Secret Circuit - Afterlife EP
Pretty spacey new EP out on Beats in Space, enlisting the tunneling Martian psyche of Secret Circuit to re-route a seven-dimensional style of acid house, disco, and pop into a sumptuous whole. “Afterlife” stretches itself into a free-wheeling eight minute epic, complete with zero-gravity vocals and some really stellar work on the keys of several different synths.
There’s...
The Haxan Cloak - "The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)"
His debut LP was a dense blend of drone and acoustic cello pieces, sometimes tough to penetrate, but always pretty damn creepy. For round two, The Haxan Cloak seems to be laying down more spacious, cinematic arrangements that incorporate electronic elements more prominently than ever before.
His signature strings entering the frame at 3:20 in to ”The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)”...
ADR - "Slush Fund"
It’s cold and mushy outside, but spring’s coming up quick and Hippos in Tanks KNOWS this. ADR, aka Aaron David Ross who wrote the sumptous debut for the Public Information imprint, has returned in delirious form for HIT with a new record, “Chunky Monkey”, out in April.
“Slush Fund” is a scatting, drifting, roiling journey of old and new: vintage synths waft...
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BASH002: Clay Wilson
the second release from our label. FACT was kind to premiere the full EP, and XLR8R has ‘End Gap’ for free download. Digital will be available from today to forever, and vinyl gets shipped out by the end of the week.
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Bonobo - "Cirrus"
The announcement of a new Bonobo album is always a treat to look forward to, especially after the success of 2010’s charming Black Sands LP. Accompanying the notice of the new record, The North Borders, was this fantastic collage video set to LP jam “Cirrus”.
An other-worldly trip through 1950s pastiche and advertising cues, the video by Cyriak is an ideal match for...
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Lumigraph - "WaveWatcher2.0"
Some new Opal Tapes is on the way, and we couldn’t be more pleased. Crunchy techno doused in some aquamarine colors and funky syncopation, this dude Lumigraph sounds promising…
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lotide - "Quiet Lines"
Gnats buzz at the edges of this slow, pulsing tune from NYC multimedia artist & brethren lotide. The languid pacing sets the listener adrift downstream, never really encountering any rapids or momentary hazards; rather, the eyes start to flicker and the space between dreaming and canoeing idly in reality hazes over…
lotide just released a CD via his Bandcamp, called Iboga Nights. go...
