I didn’t know what to expect from this Barry Adamson remix. Sometimes his stuff is brilliant, other times simply rather dull. This one is… confusing. Starts in an electronic rock vein, with goth eyeliner and terrible, cliched lyrics. Then it goes all happy clappy piano. Then jazz piano and finally back to electronic rock and the [...]
Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker is one of my all time favourite tracks. The balance between the treated sighing and the off-kilter synth lines is accessible leftfield techno perfection. Here are two remixes to download that take different paths. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (MNHTTN:project Bootleg Remix) This doesn’t depart too much from the basic template but adds [...]
Essex techno boy has new EP out. I liked the PR description of him as a techno Susan Boyle. So, Susan, what’s the new EP like? His previous Moderate EP was a damn fine piece of go ahead techno (here). For the new EP, opener Shine is much more electro in its influences. Worryingly so. [...]
We’ve had various tracks from the US dubstep/IDM/hip hop duo and now they’ve an album – Stripes – out. And it’s free to download. The album is a confident mix of restrained dubstep, plenty of IDM influences and a hip hop underpinning. Opener, Wavy Life is an example. Plenty of strings dominate. The track has [...]
OMG. WTF. There’s a free Weatherall remix to download. Get to it, if you weren’t already aware. But you probably were. On the off-chance you weren’t. This is an extended frazzled,woozy-at-7-am, coming down-just-a-bit, where’s-the-after-party, I-love-you-mate track. Richard Norris (Time & Space Machine/Beyond The Wizard’s Sleve and ex-The Grid) says “nice bit of gating, side stick etc… [...]
Sammy K has a go at remixing Tonite Only’s We Run The Nite. This was remixed to spectacular effect by fellow Aussie Jordan F (here) in ambient dubstep style. This remix therefore has much to live up to. The remix takes an electro approach with rewind on the vocals at the start and end, which [...]
I was reflecting on what people read in this blog and this track seemed appropriate. It is also a good one. But beware self-indulgence follows. For those uninterested skip to the end for the music. I always hoped that the most popular posts on this blog will be the older classic dance tracks that I love. But it pretty [...]
After flipping from last month to next month, I thought it would be sensible to return to this month with Roni Size’s remix of Sabotage. Big beat collides with dnb on Wall of Sound – from 1996. A reminder that Agent Provocateur was a collaboration between John Gosling (also known as Mekon), Matthew Ashman (Ex [...]
Something on Detroit’s ASRX label. Never heard of label or artists. But just because it’s from Detroit, is it necessarily any good? And just because the spelling and use of underscoring is annoying me, does that make it bad? Fin_droon plays hard to get with a slowly building piece of tech house. In a club, [...]
A new remix from Arcade Z. The last one was so acid, it gave me a headache. And this time? A different proposition. An essentially indie sounding track given a dance makeover. There is a dancefloor remix version, which is a bit predictable. But there is also the remix remix. This is the one to [...]