Forthcoming on Permanent Vacation, Fin (ƒin) is the debut album of Barcelona producer John Talabot, whom you may remember from last year’s transcendent Families EP. Due to drop on January 27th, my levels of excitement for this release exceed even the delirium I experienced when I first saw an advert for Aquila. You’ll see why when you listen to the track below.
‘So Will Be Now…’ featuring Pional is nothing short of hypnotic, as rich textures collide with mercurial, downtuned vocals to produce a captivating 7 minutes of deep, pulsing house. Without exaggerating, I must have played this 10 times in a row already this morning. Maybe 11 times.
Forthcoming on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label, Transistor Rhythm is the hotly anticipated debut album from Addison Groove, the alias of Headhunter who made a huge splash in 2010 with ‘Footcrab’. Slated for a March 30th release, the first snippet of the album was unveiled yesterday in the form of ‘Sooperlooper’, which you can cast an ear (or two) over below.
Personally I think it’s a darn corker and I reckon the barn dance will be a-jumpin’ when I drop it tonight. Tobias is gonna freak! He’ll probably throw his hat in the air again.
With the EP officially being described as a “techno zap fest” and Sei A’s original version of ‘Flux’ attracting the label “psychedelic cha-cha”, I scuttled over to this like an overzealous crab and used my big snappy claws to slap it on the gramophone…or, at least, press play on my digital whiz machine (computer).
Putting the majority of the EP aside though, the tune I’m really interested in is Martyn’s remix of ‘Flux’. A little bit heavier than his usual output, it bears that characteristic underlying warmth, which manages to endure despite the 8bit complemented bludgeon of a kick often feeling like you’re being punched in the face by an attractive woman with hydraulic fists…
I wish I had hydraulic fists. Or pneumatic ones. Whichever is best. I don’t understand the pros and cons of either or whether they’d even work in the first place to be honest.
Forthcoming on R&S sister label Apollo Recordings, ’8Bit Romance’ is the latest offering from Cheshire-based producer Submerse. The anthem of the care-free future android, it’s a combination of delicate glitch, flighty textures and a Stretch Armstrong bassline (if you can possibly imagine what that means). Essentially, the feeling I’m trying to convey is that it’s very pleasant and hopefully one day, after working on my creative writing skills, I’ll be able to express such an opinion without saying “siiiiiick” and throwing my hands about like a drunk air traffic controller.
I’ve also included a streamed clip of ‘They Always Come Back’ which will probably appear on the same release, although I’m just making an educated guess. Or an uneducated one, depending on how you view pub quiz scores as qualifications.
Perseus categorises his music as “tropical euphoria”, which sounds like what you’d experience if you washed down a tab of LSD with a carton of Um Bongo on an exotic beach somewhere in East Asia. This tune, ‘Russian Girlfriends’, is very much in line with this newly coined genre, evoking images of sun-soaked ’90s rave festivals and, strangely, not actual Russian girlfriends. That seems to conjure more a snowy image…with furry hats. Nice furry hats.
If there was a video to this, it would be full of happy people doing cool things and wearing sunglasses (which is cool in itself). It’s like an optimistic beacon of light in this miserable dark winter. It was pretty much dark all day today, how am I supposed to function Mr. Sun? Where’s your damn hat?! It’s never on!
As you know, I’m prone to the occasional UK hip-hop post, but I tend to keep it fairly chilled out because understated beats and cathartic lyricism is what I loves yo. That being said [rap battle judging joke], here’s Cruger with an introspective discourse of unrealised ambition and general regret. It is, however, accented with a hint of optimism because what he’s essentially doing is acknowledging his personal flaws and proposing solutions, no doubt with a view to ultimately fulfilling them.
I’m pretty sure it will strike a chord with a lot of you because I know you tend to sit in your room and quietly sob while pretending to laugh so your parents/housemates don’t know you’re genuinely insane. Or is that just me?
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