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Filter27 Playlist - April/May 2008
2008-06-05 04:25:00
I know that I've been very quiet lately, but that doesn't mean I stopped listening to music completely or keeping track of what's going on. Here's my favorite releases (and re-releases) of April /May: James Ruskin - The Dash LP // Tresor Laurent Garnier - Back To My Roots EP // Innervisions Redshape - Plonk EP // Present Soulphiction - Reclap (Kalabrese Remix) // Sonar Kollektiv Kode9 & The Spaceape - Konfusion 12" // Hyperdub Four Tet - Ringer EP // Domino Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears LP // NWAQ Model 500 - Classics LP // R&S Sebbo - Watamu Beach (Moritz Von Oswald Rework) // Desolat Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative LP // Modern Love Alter Ego - Gary (C2 Remix) // Klang Elektronik 2562 - Aerial LP // Tectonic Intrusion - Reflection 01 // Echospace [Detroit] VA - Robert Hood - Fabric 39 // Fabric London
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Radio Slave - May 2008 Chart
2008-05-05 22:50:00
Here is Matt Edwards' (a.k.a. Radio Slave ) May 2008 chart. I can't wait to hear his remix of Humate's "Love Stimulation". 01. Humate - Love Stimulation (Radio Slave's Panorama Garage Remix) // Poker Flat 02. Toby Tobias - The Feeling (12" Version/I-Cube/Jon Daly Remixes) // Rekids 03. Anu Brun - Headphone Silence (Henrik Schwarz Remix) // Objektivity 04. Radio Slave - Tantakatan (Shed/Boola/Mr. G Remixes) // Rekids 05. Jesse Rose - Tribute (Radio Slave Remix) // CDR 06. Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco EP Part 1 // Perlon 07. Kawabata - Persuasion (Serafin Remix) // Drumpoet Community 08. Karizma - Groove A K'ordingly // R2 Records 09. Tadeo - IO (Cassy Remix) // Apnea 10. Loco Dice - Pimp Jackson/How Do I Know // Desolat
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The Field won't make you Go Sublime after all
2008-04-26 02:46:00
Pitchfork is reporting that Swedish producer Axel Willner (a.k.a. The Field ) wanted to come to United States with his new band for a little tour, but United States immigration officials had rejected their visa applications and barred them and all of their gear from entering the country. Oops! Willner has been forced to cancel all US dates, including his gig at Coachella festival on Sunday. Come on Barack, you can (and hopefully will) fix this immigration shit! The Field's Band, Gear Denied Entry to U.S.; Tour Nixed [Pitchfork]
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Linkage: April 25, 2008
2008-04-25 20:02:00
- Danny Tenaglia's new single "The Space Dance" will be released on the legendary Tommy Boy label in May. Also his new artist LP, Futurism, is due in August. Stay tuned! More info TBA. - InfiniteStateMachine talks to Delsin Records label boss Marsel van der Wielen. - Wired has the scoop on the upcoming Joy Division edition of the Microsoft Zune MP3 player, which will feature a a modified version of the album cover of the band's debut, Unknown Pleasures. - Thank you, !K7, for this one. You're the best! Tracklist TBA.
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Update
2008-03-01 09:54:00
Hi everybody! I am taking a break from updating the blog. I'll be moving to my new apartment this week, and on top of that starting a new job at the end of March. I won't be listening to any music in the next couple of weeks, my computers will be shut down, iPod erased, and won't be responding to e-mails unless it's an emergency. Regular posting will resume mid-March. In the meantime feel free to check out other great blogs and news sites listed in our links section. See you soon!
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On Repeat: Yuro & Trago - Primary Roots (Redshape Clear Mix)
2008-02-25 00:00:00
Berlin-based techno prodigy Redshape delivers more mindblowing material ? this time it's his devastating rework of Yuro & Trago's "Primary Roots ". Possibly his finest (and hardest) effort to date, this one has Detroit influences written all over it. Huge, huge track! Out now on Dutch-based Rush Hour Recordings. Tip! Buy / listen: Rush Hour, Boomkat, Beatport
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Ellen Allien preps Boogy Bytes Vol. 4
2008-02-23 00:45:00
After last years mix for Fabric (Fabric 34), Berlin-based DJ, producer and Bpitch Control label boss Ellen Allien has mixed the fourth installment of the label's Boogy Bytes compilation series. Boogy Bytes Vol. 4 is set to drop at the end of March. After previous efforts from BPC labelmates Kiki, Sascha Funke and Modeselektor, Allien has put together 15 tracks into ? as she puts it ? an "emotional, noisy, trippy, weird, and sexual" live set. The mix features cuts from the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Melchior Productions, Friendly People and others.Format: CD Label: BPitch Control Release date: March 31, 2008 Tracklist: 01. Agf - Liniendicke 02. Vera - In The Nook 03. Ricardo Villalobos & Patrick Ense - Fizpatrick 04. Melon - Nitzi (In My Mind, So Fine) 05. Andres Zacco & Lucas Mari - Carbonela (Seph's Vidrionela Remix) 06. Konpiuta - Christmas Fairytale (Moessap Edit) 07. Sozadams - Eyes Forlon 08. Richard Seeley - Juicy Vermin 09. Lucio Aquilina - My Cube 10. Melchior Product...
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Sasha & John Digweed tour North America
2008-02-22 23:34:00
British DJ superstars Sasha & John Digweed will launch a month-long club tour next month, more than five years after their acclaimed Delta Heavy North America n run. The duo will tour United States, Canada and Mexico, taking on 21 cities in one month. The tour kicks off during the Winter Music Conference in Miami and hits all major U.S. cities, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. Digweed said in a statement: Both Sasha and myself have been talking for ages about touring the states together again, but really wanted to go back to our underground roots as recently the only shows we have done together have been massive festival events. So this time around we are playing a great selection of clubs with great sound systems rather than big arena shows, which will give our fans a chance to see us in a more intimate environment.You can purchase tickets here. Dates: 03/27 - Miami, FL / Mansion 03/29 - Miami, FL / Ultra Music Festival 04/02 - Boston, MA / The Es...
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Quote: Luciano
2008-02-15 10:07:00
When I'm DJing I like to compose. I'm always bringing vocals or acapellas into my sets. Vinyl is like an analogue instrument and you must do something with that instrument. It's meant as material for young DJs to do something with. DJs should do things like record keys at home and then mix things together. I think that makes things more exciting, when people at a club night suddenly hear an acapella from a seventies hit. You are bringing two worlds together. This allows you to advance electronic music. I'm not sure about such statements after listening to his recent Essential Mix. Whatever. Luciano : Force of nature [Resident Advisor]
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Carl Craig's Demon Days hits NYC
2008-02-11 22:01:00
The 2008 Demon Days ? a series of electronic music events that take place in key North American cities ? will kick off with special New York City quarterly residency launch party at Cielo on Thursday, February 14th (yup, that's Valentine's Day). Planet E label head Carl Craig is on the bill alogside New York-based DJ Gamall.
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Quote: Carl Craig
2008-02-08 21:18:00
We need to gain a historical respect for electronic music. Classical has had that for hundreds of years. I love all styles of music, but I don't find that electronic has the same type of timelessness. — Detroit-based producer Carl Craig tells Billboard. It's all in the mix for techno producer Craig [Reuters/Billboard]
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Reminder: Basic Channel 12-inches now available as MP3/WAV
2008-02-05 21:18:00
Just a quick reminder to all of you Basic Channel fans that all BC 12-inches are now available in digital download format (MP3/WAV) from Beatport.
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Robert Hood mixes Fabric 39
2008-02-04 09:25:00
Legendary Detroit techno DJ and producer Robert Hood has mixed the latest installment in acclaimed Fabric compilation series. Out in March, Fabric 39 contains a whopping 32 tracks, including exclusive edits and additional samples, featuring cuts from the likes of Monobox, Joris Voorn, Pacou, Marco Lenzi, Jeff Mills and many others. Hood explains: This mix has to be about the club. I'd like it to be dancefloor orientated and to take the listener on a trip. Any project I do, I like to read like a book. I like it to tell a story, you know? Not to just be random songs or tracks. I t has to have continuity to take you on a ride. It should have a concept and be able to translate and read as such. The DJ mix will be enhanced with live elements added to the mix. The live elements are just tracks or patterns, rhythm patterns that will be exclusive to the CD. Format: CD Label: Fabric London Release date: March 17 / April 14 (USA) / March 3 (FabricFirst), 2008 Tracklist: 01. Monobox - Si...
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Linkage: February 4, 2008
2008-02-04 08:23:00
- Fox News is reporting that U2 is thinking about ending its relationship with their label Universal Music Group. Will they go the Radiohead way? Well.. judging by recent comments made by the band's manager, they don't seem to like technology and innovation very much. - Inthemix.com.au has a short interview with DJ and producer Steffen Berkhahn, a.k.a. Dixon. - P2P Blog is reporting that Benn Jordan, a.k.a. The Flashbulb, has uploaded copies of his newest album Soundtrack To A Vacant Life to What.cd, The Pirate Bay and other torrent trackers in order to bypass the ineffective means of traditional music distribution. - iPods and other portable MP3 players are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher reported last week. According to Reuters, the FDA's tests of a variety of iPods showed they did not produce enough of an electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices.
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Quote: Larry Heard
2008-02-01 09:21:00
I spent more than 99 cents on records before I was eleven years old so it's lame of people to say they like music and then, in the same breath, say that it has no value. That means you don't like music; you like getting stuff free. If you had to pay for it you wouldn't make the sacrifice. You like it enough to get it on the download but you don't like it enough to pay for it. You're in a different category from me because I feel it does have a value. And the person and label and individuals involved that put some effort into it, they want and need to try to make something back to continue on. ? Legendary house producer/DJ Larry Heard talks to RA about music and everything in between. Larry Heard: Soul survivor [Resident Advisor]
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U2's manager: It is time for ISPs to be real partners
2008-01-30 08:43:00
U2's manager Paul McGuinness addressed the music industry with a rather pathetic speech at MIDEM's first International Manager Summit this week. McGuinness believes ISPs (Internet service providers) are largerly responsible for the decline in music sales and should start filtering p2p traffic and take responsibility for the content their customers are downloading and files they share. Oh boy. Here we go again! Today, there's a bigger issue and it's about the whole relationship between the music and the technology business. Network operators, in particular, have for too long had a free ride on music ? on our clients' content. It's time for a new approach ? time for ISPs to start taking responsibility for the content they've profited from for years. It's amazing to see and read about those ultra-rich music moguls who think they are too poor, hurt and don't get their fair share. Give me a break! I've said many times before that the problem itself isn't that people do not ...
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Download: Luciano - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, 2008-01-26
2008-01-26 06:30:00
Chilean minimal techno DJ, producer and Cadenza label honcho Lucien Nicolet, a.k.a. Luciano , provides this week's Essential Mix on UK's BBC Radio 1. This mix is long overdue, however, I don't like when artists use their two hour slot just to showcase material from their own label(s). Someone with as much resources as Luciano has could do much better... Download : Direct (save as..) [192kbps MP3, ~165 MB] Please DO NOT repost the direct MP3 link. Bandwidth costs money. Use this link instead. Thank you! Tracklist: M83 - Teen Angst (Luciano Remix) // Gooom Luciano & Thomas Melchior - Father // Cadenza Andomat 3000 & Jan - L Delay // Cadenza Alejandro Vivanco - Madre Tierra // Cadenza Loco Dice - A Chico A Rhytmico // Cadenza Reboot - Be Tougher // Cadenza Luciano - Los Update (Minirmx) // White Label Luciano - Fochedrem // Cadenza Guido Schneider - Albertino // Cadenza ID Kabale Und Liebe & Daniel Sanchez - Mumbling Yeah // Arearemote Alex Picone - Floppy // White Label DJ Le Roi...
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Reminder: Mumbling, hell yeah
2008-01-25 10:06:00
I'm still not getting the buzz and hype around Kabale Und Liebe & Daniel Sanchez's last year's minimal anthem "Mumbling Yeah ". But people seem to like it, so do fellow bloggers, DJs and music press. Fair enough. Anyway, I checked the Top 50 tracks for December 2007 over at Resident Advisor today and, rather surprisingly, "Mumbling Yeah" ranked at No. 21: But then as I scroll down I noticed there's a surprise at No. 40: Mumbling, hell yeah.
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Sleeveface Pool
2008-01-25 08:44:00
Sleeveface is a Flickr photo pool featuring more than 750 examples of random 12" vinyl sleeves submitted by members from all over the globe. Awesome! Check out more sleeves and other links here. Sleeveface [Flickr, via Boing Boing]
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Reminder: Downloads unavailable!
2008-01-24 10:20:00
As many of you have already noticed, starting today, January 24th, all the MP3's available for download on Filter27 that are hosted on Divshare file sharing service are not available (or won't be shortly). Well.. DivShare has instituted some new and rather unfortunate storage space and bandwidth limitations and our monthly transfer for January has exceeded almost five twelve times the allowed limit. Yup, they've got our balls in a juice maker... The files won't be available for the rest of this month, so please bare with us. We'll try to come up with some alternative solution as soon as possible, including uploads to other services and possibly subscribing to DivShare's extended monthly plan. Peace out. Update: We just received a "kind" reminder from DivShare: Thanks for using DivShare. This is a reminder that you've used 100% of your account's monthly download allowance. Your download tracking will renew on Feb. 16, 2008. Until then, your files will remain online, but n...
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Linkage: January 23, 2008
2008-01-23 09:40:00
- Pitchfork is reporting that Wolfgang Voigt and Cologne-based Kompakt will revisit the Gas catalog with the reissue of the out-of-print Gas, Zauberberg, Koenigforst, and Pop in a single 4 x CD/2 x LP collection called Nah Und Fern. Originally released on Frankfurt label Mille Plateaux, these records come restored and remastered and scheduled for reissue in May. - Gridface interviews San Francisco-based producer Brock Van Wey, a.k.a. Bvdub. - New label alert: Quarterlife Records is a New York City-based electronic music record label focused on finding, releasing and pushing a wide array of sounds from the dance music underground, all with an edgy and raw style true to the NYC underground.
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Quote: Redshape
2008-01-23 09:22:00
'True techno', as most people use it, is only a phrase like many others. Actually, 'true' really means honesty, love and the desire to express something. It's like people invented that phrase as they know what came before but they are incapable of changing anything. There is still a lot of 'true' music out there and the 'golden age' doesn't need to be recalled, it's still here ? just looking different than before. ? Detroit-techno producer Redshape, one of the most interesting new names in techno over the last few years, talks to RA. Redshape: The man behind the mask [Resident Advisor]
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Coachella 2008: Lineup announced
2008-01-22 04:12:00
The lineup for the 2008 edition of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, taking place April 25-27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California has been revealed. LA Times is reporting that organizers made the big announcement at a press conference today in Mexico City.
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Beatport imposing sales requirements for labels: Less crap in the future?
2008-01-21 10:25:00
I stumbled upon this interesting discussion recently over at GU forums. Jay Epoch (label manager for Proton Music) has kicked off an interesting thread worth checking out. Jay writes: I've watched sales dwindle each month as Beatport adds more and more labels releasing more and more music. During the month of December, Beatport set a last minute deadline for labels to get releases to them if they wanted to get music out by the end of the year. As a result, there were far fewer releases on Beatport in December. We managed to get our releases turned in on time, but many labels didn't. Sales for these releases we got turned in were about 2-3x that of the normal releases. This got all of the releases into genre top 100 charts. Anyway, here's the money line: Anyway, I'm sharing this because I just got this notification from Beatport: "Any label that cannot produce $300.00 in GROSS sales each quarter will be put on a probationary status. If the label is unable to hit the $600.00 m...
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London's Turnmills to close
2008-01-21 09:50:00
Reports surfaced that Turnmills ? one of London's best-known and longest running nightclubs ? is about to close to make room for real estate development. A spokesman for Turnmills tells Evening Standard: As far as we are concerned our lease is still intact until any legal documents have been signed, which they haven't at this stage and the permission to develop does not mean they need vacant possession for the first phase of the building works. The long-term plan for the building and development far exceeds our existing lease. We are in negotiation with the landlords to buy us out of the remaining lease if they want to bring the development of the basement forward - which they may or may not want to do. It's very early days. They've already dropped their name. Sad news for British clubbers indeed. Turnmills to become an office block [standard.co.uk]
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Quote: Henrik Schwarz
2008-01-20 09:35:00
...there is a lot of interest in digital formats and of course as a label, you feel that there is a lot of change happening. Vinyl seems to get less important ? sadly. For my label it is still quite OK to do vinyl, but I know many other small labels that are no longer able to do vinyl. It is getting too expensive to press records because you have to sell more than 800 copies to pay the pressing. It seems to be important to stay flexible. I don't know what the future brings, but too much music is getting copied: that's a problem for small and big labels. But I believe that people need music for their lives, so there is a need for new music that is going to stay and that's the most important thing. ? Berlin-based DJ, producer and Sunday Music label owner Henrik Schwarz tells it like it is. Henrik Schwarz: 21st century jazz [Inthemix.com.au]
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On Repeat: Pulshar - KMS (Pablo Bolivar Space Edit)
2008-01-20 08:48:00
I've been listening to this tune on repeat for a few days now. Deep, hypnotic and sensual ? highly addictive and easily some of the best dub-tech material I've heard in a while. Taken from Pulshar's (a.k.a. Pablo Bolivar & Aphro) new album, Babylon Fall Collection, out on Barcelona-based Phonobox imprint. Listen / buy: Juno: LP / MP3, Beatport, DJDownload
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Simon Reynolds re-issues Energy Flash a.k.a. Generation Ecstasy
2008-01-16 08:15:00
Notable English author, historian and influential music critic Simon Reynolds has announced he'll be expanding and re-issuing his legendary book, Energy Flash : A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture (the book goes by the title Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture in the U.S.), to include more recent take on the history of electronic music and related events. According to Reynolds, the updated and expanded 2008 edition of Energy Flash contains substantial new material on dance music developments in the ten years since its original publication in 1998, offering well-researched reporting and opinion in the style of his acclaimed postpunk history momoir Rip It Up and Start Again. The book is out late February (in paperback) and will be available in the U.K. only. You can pre-order it here. No official info yet as to whether or not a U.S. edition will be published.
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R.I.P. Ron Murphy (NSC/Sound Enterprises, Detroit)
2008-01-13 22:50:00
Ron Murphy ? record cutter, mastering engineer and record producer at Sound Enterprises (formerly National Sound Corporation) in Detroit , MI ? has passed away of a heart attack. Here is what was said about him on Discogs.com: "Ron Murphy is probably one of the most instrumental figures in the history Detroit electronic music. All you have to do is take a good look in your record collection and look for the little NSC logo on the runout groove on the inside of the record. Ron has shaped the sound of Detroit Techno more than just about anybody. There were allot of records back in the beginning that were brought in by people that knew next to nothing about production or mixing down properly and Ron has saved the sound of those records and many of them have went down in history as some of the finest examples of techno ever made. Ron has been one of the biggest opponents of overcompression in the industry as people have rushed to bring techno music into the rediculous loudness war that...
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Linkage: January 11, 2008
2008-01-11 21:55:00
- Billboard is reporting that Koch Lorber Films has acquired U.S. theatrical and home video rights to Scott Hicks' documentary Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. The feature explores the life and work of influential American composer Philip Glass. - Little White Earbuds talk music, booking, sales figures and merchandise with Hamburg-based Diynamic Music label. - InfiniteStateMachine is reporting that Syntax Music, a longtime dance music distributor in the US, is apparently going under after nearly 10 years in the business.
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