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"Armour EP" is the first release from Glasgow based Wireman, a new signing to the Prime Numbers artist roster. Taking all the best e
lements from dubstep, techno and ambient electronica creating an original sound that is all his own. Taking influence from producers such as T++, Basic Channel, Autechre, 2562 and Kode9, Wireman has created some exceptional forward thinking dub techno. Wireman - Armour E.P.Label: Prime Numbers
Catalog#: PN04Country: UKReleased: 15 Dec 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, DubstepTracklisting1 Armour
2 Forge
3 Axiom
4 Perspex
The Fun Years emerges with a 50 minute listening experience that's left us gasping for breath. There's a dense crackle and frayed balance to these recordings that makes you feel like the whole thing could disintegrate at any moment, pulling you in to a sound-world formed by broken instruments, the crackle of battered, old vinyl, the edgy ambience of the great outdoors in the middle of the nigh
t and, quite suddenly, an amplified wall of sound playing tricks on your senses. Each of these tracks begins with the fizz and snap of looped and popped vinyl and ends with a devastated, tumultuous re-arrangement of sounds, but it's the process from A to B that's almost impossible to fathom in one sitting. These kinds of aural tricks that make use of manipulated found sounds, turntablism and affected acoustic instruments are hardly new, but 'The Fun Years' mark themselves out with a brilliant disregard for generic templates and accepted convention, imperceptibly realigning sonic boundaries in the process. Their mastery of sound comes a unyielding presence of the intrigue of the unknown. The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold InsideLabel: Barge
Catalog#: BRG005
Country: US
Released: Jul 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklisting:1 My Lowville (10:54)
2 Auto Show Day Of The Dead (7:11)
3 Fucking Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever (10:31)
4 Re: We're Again Buried Under (7:03)
5 The Surge Is Working (8:14)
This guy kills it all the time! It is an hour of future psych fuzz instrumental beats as well as exclusive tracks. Do yourself a favor and let the Gas Lamp Killer take you on a ride you don't want to get off of. Highly recommended and while you are at it get his other mixes as well. This hour long mix is loaded with head banging breaks from Kutmah, Roots Manuva and Flying Lotus. If you're unfamiliar with GLK's unique style of mixing, just imagine the hardest hitting drum breaks you've ever heard combined with a variety of sounds from another universe. He blends every type of music and aims to please with futuristic sounds that make T.I.'s Talk Box style seem primitive. I Spit On Your Grave is in no way futuristic in the techno-pop sense. Gaslamp Killer is well beyond techno, house, and other popular new music effectively defining an entirely new genre, future-psych turntablism. His style is difficult to categorize because of his exceptional taste in music that includes some of the most hypnotizing sounds from around the world.
Country: US
Released: 2008
Genre: Funk/Soul, Hip Hop
Style: Instrumental, HorrorcoreTracklisting:1 Untitled (16:43)
2 Untitled (27:06)
3 Untitled (16:14)
Chicago native Radius recently dropped his debut LP on The Secret Life Of Sound. The Radius LP is called Neighborhood Suicide and it’s a kick in the tits for all those that think they’ve heard it all before where instrumental hip-hop is concerned. This one’s a keeper. Neighborhood Suicide is an eleven track journey into the leftfield of the modern beat-maker’s laboratory. It’s a progressive sound with tight produc
tion and mean breaks. Throughout the LP you get essences of artists like; Four Tet, Blockhead, Dilla and Premier - but this is most definitely a unique sound. Each track is like an individual, beautifully crafted, futuristic soundscape. Rich in detail and with a story to tell, this LP will hit home hard with the introspective hip-hop listener. Radius - Neighborhood Suicide
Label: The Secret Life Of Sound
Catalog#: TSLOS016
Country: US
Released: 2008Genre: Hip Hop
Style: InstrumentalTracklisting:1 Humboldt Park (3241982 Intro) (1:53)
2 Uptown (Awaken) (6:19)
3 Logan Square (Rents Due) (3:48)
4 South Shore (Baahumbug!) (4:17)
5 Bucktown (Fuck Work) (5:44)
6 L.S.D. (Interlude) (1:37)
7 Englewood (Necessary Growth) (4:44)
8 Hyde Park (I Miss You) (5:13)
9 Rogers Park (North Pole Bakery) (4:06)
10 90/94 (Interlude) (2:42)
11 South Chicago (The Journey) (9:24)
The line between electronica and outright musical experimentation blurs more on a daily basis. Richard D. James and Kid 606 are hailed as pop/underground culture heroes, bringing with them work that in the past would have been at home only in the most academic or at least iconoclastic setting. The up and coming Headphone Science mines this vein, drawing from the before mentioned artists as well as John Cage, Lee Perry, and The Orb in seemingly equal measure.
Label: True Call
Catalog#: true call 001
Country: Germany
Released: 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, IDM, Downtempo
Tracklisting:
1 They Have Headphones, Do You? (6:48)
2 Only A Passenger (6:14)
3 The Detective Flight Pattern (5:05)
4 Linear Soul Station (2:36)
5 She Sat Towards The Front Of The Bus (4:00)
6 So Much Circular (7:39)
7 Californian Sun Girls (4:30)
8 Arrow Off The Letters (3:10)
9 Follow Fads Like Sheep (4:19)
10 Focus Blurred Till Clear (3:41)
11 We Resin Like Strangers (4:50)
12 Have You Read The Travelogue Lately? (4:18)
13 Circle Pimpin' (4:06)
14 Until The Next Line (6:11)
Beneath pseudonyms - Avrocar or July Skies - and album titles which doesn’t greatly inspire, Antony Harding has produced music to dream to, music to be elevated by. I already praised here the delicate, weightless world of his folk-oriented solo project called July Skies. Let me add to those of you who are fans of outer-space electronic melodies and ambient works that Antony Harding with the Birmingham based electronica group Avrocar delivered in April a new album filled with simplicity and serene beauty. It is called Against The Dying Of The Light.
Label: Make Mine Music
Catalog#: MMM037
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Ambient
Tracklisting:1 Rayleigh Scattering (2:55)
2 Iac (5:54)
3 Ultra Bronte (4:46)4 Our World Is Their Heaven (1:21)
5 Dialogue (5:47)
6 Illustrate A Way To Survive (3:59)7 Against The Dying Of The Light (3:47)
8 Soft Lightning (3:31)
9 The Element Library. Visual Deep (4:39)
10 Near Water (2:28)
11 Forst Zinna (5:18)
12 From An Adjacent Field (7:06)
Nebulo's subtle approach forms a complex fictitious scenery by using seemingly minimal resources that are more visible than ever. electronically treated instruments like organ and piano, combined with synth layers and modified beats generate tempers that range from surreal to melancholic or even nearly frightening. listening to 'avutma' is like walking in a dimly lit basement never knowing what's behind the next curve, and who or what is actually casting these shadows on the walls... Nebulo's trademark, a connection between ambience, idm, clicks'n'cuts and post-musique-concrète collages is presented here once again. as a reviewer wrote: "surreal dreamscapes painted with tears and sometimes even blood" - avutma might be the soundtrack of today's grand guignol.
Nebulo - ÃvutmãLabel: Hymen RecordsCatalog#: ¥768Country: GermanyReleased: 12 Sep 2008Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, AmbientTracklisting:1. Lactoz Pill (2:47)
2. Liminal (5:04)
3. P (6:53)
4a. Evice (4:14)
4b. Revengine
5. Accident (3:34)
6. Stramir (2:53)
7a. Kido (5:44)
7b. Pause
8. Substeel Animal (4:45)
9a. Limbes (5:32)
9b. Coton-Poudre
10. Videogamma (4:25)
11a. Trembledoux (4:35)
11b. Varia P
12. Sirenãvutmã (8:01)
lements from dubstep, techno and ambient electronica creating an original sound that is all his own. Taking influence from producers such as T++, Basic Channel, Autechre, 2562 and Kode9, Wireman has created some exceptional forward thinking dub techno.
