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STREAM: Jabberjaw - The Connie Shake
We thought 2009 was the year of Audion for Matthew Dear, what with all those singles and the live A/V extravaganza that is currently blowing through the States. But here's this release as Jabberjaw, an alias he's only used once before, for a 2003 EP on German techno powerhouse Perlon. We'll give you that the resuscitation seems a little random, but who can be mad at more floor-focused Dear material? People we don't want to hang out with anyway? Stream "The Connie Shake" below and cop the record from our buds at Ghostly.
DOWNLOAD: Bodycode - Imitation Lover + Lee Curtiss Stream
Ghostly are really killing these video vignette things. This newest one, shot by Shai Levy, follows Alan Abrahams (Bodycode/Portable) from pre-gig packing at his Berlin apartment all the way through to the Sunday afternoon performance, summer streets and taxicab back seats providing the journey. It's simple, elegantly shot, and should make you want to download "Imitation Lover", a favorite from the recent Bodycode LP, Immune. As a bonus beat, stream the new Lee Curtiss single, "Black Door Beauty," which just dropped yesterday through Spectral.
Lee Curtiss - Black Door Beauty
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: DJ Hell - The DJ (feat. P. Diddy) (Paul Woolford Blackout Remix)
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2009's most bewildering dance record? That would be "The DJ", DJ Hell's collaboration with our old friend P. Diddy. Aside from any nominal weirdness, there's the accompanying twenty-eight minute Radio Slave remix and the online fit Felix Da Housecat threw over Hell's alleged thievery of the Diddy vocal. But since we aren't The Brooklyn Vegan Of German Techno (sadly), we are just going to offer Paul Woolford's heaving, ten-minute-plus version, all squirrel space waves and high pressure drum machine gas, and ask you–is this really that weird? We always thought Diddy was best as a hype man, and hearing him yell about "twenty minute versions" over incisive European tech house is actually kind of awesome.
DJ Hell - The DJ (feat. P. Diddy) (Paul Woolford Blackout Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Geiom - Flic En Flac
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Such a colossal number of amazing producers are clambering from the UK's raver woodwork right now that it'd be more accurate to describe that 'woodwork' as a vast furniture forest alive with a gazillion potential clubland futures. Raised in rural England, Geiom's own sound is one pitched between the canopies and the coffee table; smooth, rich textures recalling the diamante bling of UK garage (gar-ij) while lurching low-end tells you to stand their nodding with your eyes closed (dub-step). Cue a confusion that leads your brains elsewhere - where? To "Flic En Flac", a glooping, curious soundstorm at the far end of UK dance music's ever-retreating horizon, helpfully dragged closer to you in London this Friday, October 9th, as Geiom's Berkane Sol label (together with the likemind heroes at Blunted Robots) annexes room three at Fabric.
Sounds Like: Kode9, Joker, Martyn
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Crystal Method - Come Back Clean (feat. Emily Haines) (Kaskade Radio Edit)
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As if "adored indie chanteuse" wasn't enough of a resume filler, Metric's Emily Haines is now dabbling in high-profile guest vocal work, specifically for uber-DJs of the stadium-playing variety. She recently worked with Tiësto for a track on his Kaleidoscope album, which followed an appearance on the new Crystal Method LP, Divided By Night. That collab, a song called "Come Back Clean," got released yesterday as a proper single, backed with a few mixes from American progressive house DJ, Kaskade. The radio edit of his gaseous, untiring vocal version is below, 'cause what's a Tuesday without big room house music to make you hate your cubicle even more.
The Crystal Method - Come Back Clean (feat. Emily Haines) (Kaskade Radio Edit)
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STREAM: The Rest Of Turbo 060-065
And The Great Turbo Re-Up continues with streams of 060-065–tracks from Jesper Dahlback, Kolombo, Guy J, Adam Sky & Zoo Brazil, Hugg & Pepp, and Zombie Nation–all available in the handy playlist widget below. More info over at the Turbo RCRD LBL blog, and if you haven't already, grab the downloads from those releases, listed after "Previously."
Jesper Dahlback - Super Connector
Jesper Dahlback - Master Circuit
Guy J- Shaman (Mohan Das Spellbound Mix)
Guy J - Shaman (Cari Lekebusch Remix 1)
Guy J - Shaman (Cari Lekebusch Remix 2)
Adam Sky & Zoo Brazil - Circle Jerk (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
Adam Sky & Zoo Brazil - Circle Jerk (Milano 309 Mix)
Adam Sky & Zoo Brazil - Circle Jerk (Jori Hulkkonen Remix)
Zombie Nation - Worth It (Arveene & Misk Remix)
Zombie Nation - The Fact (Milano Remix)
Zombie Nation - Mystery Meat Affair (Shadow Dancer Remix)
Zombie Nation - Radio Controlled (Hey Today! Remix)
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Jesper Dahlback - Mega Signalizer
Guy J - Shaman (Lontano Remix)
Adam Sky & Zoo Brazil - Circle Jerk
Hugg & Pepp - Penguini (Lando Kal Edit)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Harmonia & Eno '76 - Sometimes in Autumn (Shackleton Remix)
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I don't quite know how they pulled this one off. Amazing Sounds - run by the two gents from Allez-Allez - is a fledgling label. This is their first release. And it features Harmonia, Brian Eno and Shackleton. What?! The disbelief slackens somewhat when you hear what the dubstep-techno pioneer has done to "Sometimes in Autumn" - originally part of a 1976 collaboration between Eno and the kosmische masters, Shackleton's remix keeps ahold of the motorik beat and the psychedelic washes so beloved of Harmonia, but strips everything back. His presence on the track is felt in its emptied spaces - in the echo chamber of a chastened snare, for example - but he's respectful, keeping what needs to be kept so this feels less like a remix and more like the English-born, Berlin-based producer has been transported back in time to help birth something lurking, sullen and terrifyingly brilliant. At this point you wouldn't blame Amazing Sounds if they wanted to quit while they were (miles and miles) ahead, but after this comes out in November - on limited edition white vinyl and digital download - there's more gold: cuts promised from Dan Deacon, Luke Abbott and Hudson Mohawke. Keep an eye on things by signing up to their mailing list at the Amazing Sounds website.
Sounds Like: T++, Radiohead, Throbbing Gristle
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Octave One - A World Divided (O1 Fabric Edit)
The prolificacy of Detroit techno's godfathers is marvelous–a stream of focused, beleaguering machine music that hasn't ebbed since the genre was invented thirty years ago. Proof: Juan Atkins and Carl Craig have Discogs pages that resemble encyclopedia indexes, and Octave One, who debuted alongside Craig on 1990's Techno 2: The New Generation compilation, have released over a hundred records in that time. That is some Lil Wayne shit. This edit, of a song off the recent O1 LP, Summer On Jupiter, was made exclusively for their appearance at London's Fabric club on Saturday, where they play Room 2 alongside Atkins, Steve Rachmand, and Terry Francis.
Sounds like: Juan Atkins, Joey Beltram, Derrick May
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Karraskilla - Tren Siete (Brendon Moeller Remix)
One of the great things about techno is that you're often enjoying unidentifiable music, be it a white label, a bootleg, an obscure remix or edit, or, more often, some tune you just haven't heard yet being played in a club or found in a mix. This adds some intrigue to things without being annoyingly, purposefully anonymous. In that vein, I only know two things about Karraskilla: he's a Queens-based, Colombian-born producer and he records for Biatch Corp, a small events and label operation also based in New York. That's it. And his stuff is great–trippy, barren, utilitarian techno. A new 12", "Tren Siete / Expreso Cali," contains this rinse from Brendon Moeller (aka Beat Pharmacy aka Echologist), all heavy bass machination and stroboscopic synth coils. Innocuous in its fringe existence but one hell of a pushy record.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Coma - Reprise
(Photo: Manuel Schwiertz)
Aren't photo shoots against techno lore? I guess you deserve all the self promotion you can get when you're as understated and as capable as Coma, a duo from Cologne who make subtly affecting, minimal dance music that doesn't use its genre ties as an excuse to waste itself in dull techno brainspunk. "Reprise" will tug at your heartstrings, whether you notice at first or not - its sore ache is sly like that; the musical equivalent of a camera-toting Peeping Tom. Catch it on their new, three-track Crystal EP, out now through Kompakt.
Sounds Like: Karizma, Invisible Conga People, Panthu Du Prince
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