Fragility this morning has prompted me to think that there should be something a little gentler about a Sunday, ahead of the return to work. So, from now on, Sunday’s will be Ambient Sunday. To start, here’s a whole album to download. This is by US newcomer John Praw. Bio: I’m an ambient musician living [...]
The 14th Minute are back with a new remix. After their superb Skrillex remix, my expectations were high. They’ve chosen 360 feat Pez (who??). This is electro disco. It bounces nicely, with it’s disco sheen. It’s… ok …. nothing really wrong … just a bit disappointed with the choice of source material. 360 feat Pez [...]
And back with another remix of Error Operator. This time sadly not for download. A remix by Stranger in Moscow of July, a track from the album Mistakes. The remix is a lovely extension of the original, with chiming guitar. Gives it a long summer’s day on the beach feel. Suntastic. Error Operator – July (Stranger In [...]
Something nice and wheezy for the weekend. Here’s a track from Aphex Twin’s 1995 single Ventolin on Warp Records. The remix is by IDM artist Cylob, who avoids Aphex’s trick of turning in something unlistenable by providing a challenging but not excessively so remix of Aphex’s paen to asthma medicine Ventolin. The remix includes “additional production [...]
Hyper is a breaks artist who I’ve never had strong views about one way or another. He’s back with a new album and the lead single The End gets a dubstep remix. But this is no laid back mix. This is dubstep assault and battery with shards of guitar everywhere. Think Orbital’s collaboration with Metallica [...]
A remix of Error Operator’s recent single for you to download. This remix by Nathan Spooner (who?) takes a dubstep influenced approach. It is pretty good when it gets going but the messing around with the Eisenhower sample at the start made me uneasy about its disrespect to the past. But perhaps I am being [...]
We had a post on Hustlers of Culture a while back, after which one of the band members, Richard Yori, got in touch. He agreed to do an interview about what happened to this short-lived band and the Wall of Sound deal. And there’s an early track to download. 1. How the devil are [...]
Yet more minimal, this time from Dimauro, with remixers covering a range of bases. Jacob Seville’s mix is the one to go for. The original bleeps like it’s Warp 1995. The Alexander Fog remix hits a bit harder but less effectively. And the Sozonov remix goes electro and glitchy. Jacob Seville gets it very right with a [...]
This track was sent with the message “Is this ACID enough for you?”. The sad truth is that this simply made me feel old. The brutal acid assault that peppers this track made me want to run away and hide. But for those made of sterner stuff, listen on: Amanda Palmer – Map of Tasmania (Discoforgia [...]
For no reason at all, other than I came across it played and wanted you all to hear it. An absolute classic rap track from 1988, presented in its lesser heard dub form (not actually wildly different from the original). Eric B & Rakim – Follow The Leader (dub) Buy