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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:46:19 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13)

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:22:46 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30)

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:36:38 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30)

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Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:28:00 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:15:21 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-9)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:48:43 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-9)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2)

metronomy

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:19 -0400

metronomy

Baby crying with Auto-Tune, more fun here

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:12:57 -0400

Baby crying with Auto-Tune, more fun here

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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:56:48 -0400

Kapsize is the label, Joker is the producer. His style is imitable, instantly recognisable and...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:46:21 -0400

Kapsize is the label, Joker is the producer. His style is imitable, instantly recognisable and intrinsically his. The self proclaimed ‘Purple Prince’ has been much hyped of late, remixing Little Boots, Djing all over the world and releasing beats on Hyperdub, with another forthcoming on Tectonic. This plate is the third release on Kapsize so far - following on from the collaboration with Glasgow’s hip-hop badman, Rustie on KAP002 – and it features the heavily BBC Radio 1 supported ‘Do It.’

Still managing to sound as catchy and as fresh as the day you first heard it, ‘Do It’ makes for a wicked peak time floor shaker harnessing the southern boom bap kicks and snare snap-click that drive the dirty chugging, snaggle-toothed grime synths in making a dark backdrop to the ascending string samples and filtered Dr. Dre-esque talk box lead lines and the oft repeated “do it” vocal sample.

If Silkie played more Sonic The Hedgehog and less jazz at home he may well have channelled his soulful funk vibes through some whining 8-bit synths like Joker has on ‘Psychedelic Runway.’ Using jagged bass synthesizers Joker propels his straight dubstep drum pattern swabbing the edges with punishing pads and leads that take the track into a more melodic grime territory, swapping the aggression of the genre for a guide book on key Moog manipulations.

This platter shows that both Kapsize and Joker are growing. With these tune he shows that he can turn himself to the deep side as well as the darkside fusing the upfront melodies of grime with some spatial meditation.

Links:

www.myspace.com/thejokerproductions
www.myspace.com/kapsize1
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Extreme Sheep / LED Art

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:28:00 -0400

“We took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display. Of sorts. For more info search for samsung LED TV or visit samsung.com/LED

kromestar - my sound

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:47 -0400

“The tracks are all impeccably executed and exude the polish we’ve come to expect from producers of his electronic ilk, plus he proves himself as adept at creating dub-wise fare as pure dubstep, andincludes a few mellower takes that consequently add welcome contrast to the overlong, seventy-six-minute collection. The sleek, laid-back flow of “Go Away,” “Aston Martin,” and “The Truth,” for example, proves that dubstep can just as easily entrance when presented in a softer mode. It’s in quieter settings like these that Kalsi’s talents impress most of all when his tasteful handling of the songs’ elements is so nakedly exposed. His material is further distinguished by the actual instrument sounds, in particular the pulsating throb of the deep bass lines and resonant snap and pop of the dubby snares that anchor so many tracks”

clark - growls garden

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:33:00 -0400

“Warp’s enfant terrible returns with another devastating slice of dirty gritty electronic music. Follow up to last year’s Turning Dragon, his most upbeat record to date, Growls Garden ups the ante once again as Clark launches another digital assault on the dance floor. Counting six tracks and clocking just over the twenty five minute mark, this EP is perhaps Clark’s most eclectic release since Clarence Park, as he revisits the dark hues of Empty The Bones Of You or Body Riddle (Growls Garden, Distant Father Torch), and, as he did with Turning Dragon, cuts some fine body-jerking grooves and harsh beats (Seaweed, Gonk Roughage).

The title track is also the first to carry the man’s voice, albeit heavily twisted and processed. Written in a matter of days, filling a gap during the recording of Clark’s next album, Growls Garden, Seaweed and Distant Father Torch have the urgency and angularity of true Clark monsters; rough around the edges, heavy footed, corrosive. Elsewhere, The Magnet Mineappears more complex and tortured, with multiple layers fighting for attention, while Gonk Roughage, once again using Clark’s voice as part of its structure, sounds like a nasty 12-rounder down a back alley. Only Farewell Mining Town, with its dense ambient sound waves, shows a hint of gentle elegance here and brings this EP to a surprisingly atmospheric end.

A true Warp stalwart in the great tradition of Aphex, Autechre or Squarepusher, Clark delivers another might blow with this latest EP. Whether this is in any way shape or form representative of his next album is anybody’s guess, but Growls Garden has too much to offer for it to matter at all”

http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/2009/03/clark-growls-garden-warp-records/

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Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:11:59 -0400

SND / Atavism

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:22:13 -0400

“Listening to an SND record can throw you into sonically unsettling terrain one minute, before dragging you into misshaped, involuntary rhythmic moves the next. “Atavism” carries on more or less exactly from where ‘4,5,6’ left off, but in places develops into a full-blown rhythmic assault that will leave you in a state of demented awe. Tracks like ” 02:13:69” or ” 05:36:58” engage in the most fluid and decipherable floor-friendly machinations SND have explored in a while, but the amazing thing about this music is how quickly it throws up odd time signatures and skewed arrangements, composed and refined with the barest ingredients.”

Bruce Lipton - The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter...

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:13:36 -0400

Bruce Lipton - The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter Meet

“By Bruce Lipton Recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one’s life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly controls the activity of our genes. This video will broadly review the molecular mechanisms by which environmental awareness interfaces genetic regulation and guides organismal evolution.”