This is a little mix I tossed off this evening – I can really get lost in Om Unit‘s stuff, and it all fits really well together… I’ve had a couple gigs now that I’ve based around certain sets of two or three of his tunes. So I decided to try a little experiment of making a mix ofonly his stuff from 2011. Think it came out pretty well. Check it.
01. Om Unit – Naiad
02. Om Unit vs. Kromestar – Merkabah
03. Krampfhaft – I Needed You (Om Unit Remix)
04. Om Unit – Fibonnaci 10
05. Comma – Mezcal Hologram (Om Unit Remix)
06. Om Unit – An Eternal Way
07. Silent Dust – The Giant (Om Unit Remix)
08. Ital Tek – War of the Ants (Om Unit Remix)
09. Arp 101 And Om Unit – Dr Funkenstein
10. Om Unit – Cold World
11. Starkey – Lost in Space (feat. Charli XCX) (Om Unit Remix)
12. Take – Juniper (Om Unit Remix)
13. Pixelord – Cybernator (Om Unit Remix)
14. Om Unit – Prawn Cocktail
15. Om Unit – The Timps (Alternative Version)
16. Om Unit x Lorn – Obsidian
San Francisco now has Bungalows, apparently. Tonight! Should be fun, I’m on at 11. Got a good set of some classics (lots of Baltimore Club) and some new stuff. This is the promoter’s first party, happy to support and be a part of it!
Other stuff that’s been on my mind (lots of charts and graphics) include this fascinating chart of “Influencers” on Soundcloud – Would be super interested to know how they came up with their formula.
Little study put together by Root Music. Note that only 3% of bands on facebook consider themselves electronic! And this isn’t a case of misclassification, people categorize themselves! My world is very very very small.
Finally, I’ve been meaning to do a post about PROTECT-IP / SOPA and fortunately it’s been pushed off till January but this is still an issue near and dear to my heart. Awesome letter here from the 100 or so people that basically built the internet/web/networks of today about what a bad idea it is. Check it out, brought to you by the EFF, of course.
Best of list coming tomorrow, and possible also the final mix of the year if I can get it together!
Finally catching up on my business! Construct from J’aime Le Dubstep has been super awesome and hosted a mix I made a couple months ago that I thought was definitely deserving of a home. Check it out!
Realizing I’m going to have released 10 mixes by the time the year is out, and I think across all 10 I pretty much said all the musical things I wanted to say in 2011. Maybe I’ll do a recap post at the end of the year.
1000names is one of those producers (or actually a duo) that has steadily gotten better and better in the couple years I’ve know about them. I liked their stuff just fine when I first heard it, but didn’t pay it too much attention. Now every release is better and better. They put out an EP on Svetlana a couple weeks back that’s seriously, truly awesome and I played on repeat for a long while. Click the album cover left to listen and buy.
Now they’ve got a full length coming out on the always awesome Project Mooncircle, who basically can do no wrong and is a paragon of the way a digital label should be run. The 1000names album is called Invisible Architect and is due out tomorrow and is beguiling and beautiful and, as their press photo suggests, a little off kilter and funny.
You can get it from the PMC bandcamp page, and they made a little promo video for it below, and you can check out more of their stuff on their soundcloud.
Also one other release of note that’s been keeping me humming is a new EP from Masmod on his own Nueva Forma label (another super awesome, well kept, well run net label). It’s called Conscious Automata and it’s a real advance in Masmod’s sound, with each track branching out into different directions and tempos – all held together by gossamer spider threads glistening with dew, but each a unique creation. Powerful stuff. Click below to get it for free(!) from their bandcamp, and check out the label’s gorgeous site and latest podcast “Listening Pleasures” here.
Tom played a great and eclectic show on Friday – I certainly heard a bunch of stuff that was new to me. And I don’t think I sounded too bad in the interview! So here it is on the BBC website – It will be up there for another 5 days. If you listen to the full show in that link, my interview starts at 1:34:00ish and the mix starts at 1:39:00. After the BBC takes it down I’ll put of the mix on my Soundcloud page. The tracklist is below, but I should say that about 3 times as many people sent me tracks as made it on here (20 mins is not much time)- I was totally overwhelmed by the unexpected response! So much so that I’m hoping to do an “Alt Take” mix and get that hosted somewhere. Keep an ear out for it.
Mix is just about to air on Tom’s show – or rather, it will air, along with an interview, sometime in the next three hours. But Tom plays top quality stuff across the spectrum so it’s worth listening to the whole thing. Pretty proud of this one, will post the tracklist after it’s been up on the BBC site for an appropriate time.
Oh, and one list thing, saw Africa Hitech last night at Public Works… my faith in many things is restored.
Got a message from PK this AM that not only had the Runner EP that I mentioned below just come out, but it’s in fact the label’s birthday! And to celebrate they’ve put together a compilation of both old and new tracks. With killer art as always. Realizing just how meaningful this label has been to me over the last year, introducing me to Vaetxh, Woulg, Fancy Mike, Alphabet’s Heaven and a ton of other great artists. Check the stunning video for Vaetxh’s Mass by Henning Lederer.
I’m heading out to play at SVRocks right now, But don’t forget to tune in to Tom Ravenscroft’s show on BBC6 tomorrow at 2100h in the UK and 1PM here on the West Coast. My 20 minute I made for him is being broadcast during that time!
This is LAMA – they’re a super group from Japan and their album came out today! My connection to them is Mr. Kensuke Ushio otherwise known as Agraph, who’s all the way to the right in the above photo. The other members apparently have incredible pedigree, but I’m nowhere near as versed in that world as I could be, so the only previous groups I recognized the names of were Number Girl and Supercar. It’s not available in the US yet, but hopefully the internets will somehow overcome that gap. Here they are performing “One Day” – with I think Agraph possibly appearing live from his bedroom!
UPDATE: Agraph informs me that you can stream previews of all the tracks from their website and if you can afford the shipping costs, you can buy it here!
A second group of music makers on my mind recent have been Recue and Jolea from Helsinki. Riku and I have struck up a lively conversation in advance of my mix coming out on the BBC on Friday – It contains a world premier of a new song by the duo called “We’re Not Like The Most” that is truly stellar. They’re both producers in their own right, together they run the Audiobaum label, and Jolea is blessed with a truly incredible, shiver-inducing voice. Links to a couple of their albums below, and the track that got me into Recue below that.
San Francisco now has Bungalows, apparently. Tonight! Should be fun, I’m on at 11. Got a good set of some classics (lots of Baltimore Club) and some new stuff. This is the promoter’s first party, happy to support and be a part of it!
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