I just wanted to boast that I am going here tonight. Hyper pumped.
I saw MMayer a few weeks ago here - it was insane.
I recommend you techno heads get out here sometime.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Nicolas Jaar LIVE @ Bar 25
There's been a lot of talk about this guy recently, and I am still not 100% convinced on his 'organic techno' sound, but the more you hear, the more you start to come around...
Nicolas Jaar LIVE at Bar 25 from NICO JAAR on Vimeo.
MP3 link at the top.Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Belated Top Electronic Albums of 2010
I blog over at http://quarterpastmidnite.blogspot.com/ and my buddy Jack Murphy asked me to start contributing to this blog too so I thought I'd give it a shot. This is a duplicate of a recent post on my site but I reckon it'd be of interest to readers of Techno Transmission too. Note: I appreciate we're a few weeks into 2011 now and most best of lists have long since been and gone!
2010 was as fragmented and schizophrenic a year as ever in the world of electronic / dance music. In what strange world is Actress dubstep or Instra:Mental drum & bass? Artists seemed to be inter-breeding at an unprecedented rate with an irreverent approach to genre-bending. Flying Lotus transcended his Dilla’esque associations and pulverised everyone's brain with a bar-raising genre-less masterpiece. Meanwhile Shed made a techno album that jumped wildly between tempos and beats yet hung together beautifully. Similarly, the masterful Actress created an album that took in a bewildering range of influences yet pulled it all off with aplomb. In each of these cases, the artist took their genre as a frame to hang everything else onto; a starting point or a set of signifiers within the music. This was about building from the past but not in a nostalgic way. The best of these albums were surreal mutations adeptly mixing up old fragments into unlikely shapes.
Berlin
I think all of you have all been several times, but not me. So this year to celebrate my 26th birthday, I am making the pilgrimage to Berlin for five nights of untold seriousness.
I would love very much for people to come. The dates are
Thursday April 6th - Monday April 11th
If not, can I ask for some recommendations of things to do and see? Don't leave out anything you think is obvious, I'm pretty clueless.
Boom tsi boom sti piiissssssshhhhhhh ahhhhhh etc.
Monday, January 24, 2011
GusGus - Demo 54
Not much to say about this other than it's serious. I remember people playing it late late late in Room 1 years ago and tracked it down this week from a Hobo Minus Connections mix (also uploaded). It really reminds me of that room. A deep, brassy, slow and druggy work out. I love.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
NY Is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX
NY Is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XXListened to this a few times last weekend. Quite like it.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Bleep's Top 100 of 2010 - some Sunday reading.
An interesting slant on what was best in 2010 (with audio snippets).
Highlights for me, are the inclusion of;
- Daniel Maloso - Ritmo Especial (my fave track of all time)
- Scuba
- Martin Buttrich (this album probably deserves a full post of it's own on here somewhere)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Pterdactil Disco - Clive's Alright
From Robert James' blog...
"The next EP for Hot Creations is a collaboration between me, Jamie Jones, Lee Foss and FB Julian from the Kubicle parties, which should be out at the end of December. The project’s called Pterodactyl Disco and there’s a track on the EP called Clive’s Alright. The little vocal sounds like it says “Clive’s alright” and halfway through the track Jamie phones up Clive Henry and says “are you alright?” and he says “yeah, yeah, I’m alright” and then it just kicks back to the tune again."
Peronally I'd like to see these dudes make some tunes that don't all sounds the same, but they are very cool and from here in London so they get the nod from me.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Nicholas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
You can listen to all the tracks from Nicholas Jaar's new album here. I'm a massive fan of this guy, he's a really versatile and interesting producer and definitely one to watch for 2011.
"Nicolas Jaar has graduated - at least from the trappings of any young electronic music producer (his graduation from Brown University is 18 months away) defying categorisation in his captivating arcane artist album, ‘Space Is Only Noise’.
Four years after his debut on the Brooklyn boutique label Wolf + Lamb, and the much lauded follow up ‘A Time for Us’, who’s glacial slow-jam take on house sent journalists scrambling for adjectives, the 20 year old New Yorker by way of Chile returns to Circus Company with an uncompromising manifesto on traces of the past, love lost, and specters of the future, entitled ‘Space is Only Noise’.
Few are the producers of any age with the cohones to ride a sub-100-bpm tempo at peak time in the techno mecca of Berlin, and fewer still are those who receive an ecstatic hands-in-the-air response for their precocious efforts. It is precisely this sense of risk which elevates ‘Space is Only Noise’ beyond the realm of valiant first effort or crossover dance music oddity. Those looking to wade through the sea of Jaar’s potential influences will quickly find themselves flailing in the deep waters populated by the likes of golden age Factory records and the home spun digitalism of Mille Plateaux, Endtroducing era DJ Shadow and Eric Satie.
Nico gently coaxes his listener into the experience from the opening sounds of rolling waves on ‘être’, but quickly transitions into the sophisticated percussion and meandering melodies that characterize his sound. Nico seeks, and often finds, beauty in melancholy on the first few tracks of the album, especially ‘Colomb’. As the album begins to accelerate with ‘Too many kids finding rain in the dust’, Nico confronts us with the often forgotten reality that our sadness is not mutually exclusive from the dance floor.
On ‘Keep me there’ Nico´s voice appears over the delicious, rumbling melody. "We´re in a really bad bed, right?" he remarks. "Mm-- it´s not really a bed. It´s like a balloon" responds a sultry female voice as they both crumble away in laughter. Though your hips stir to the relentless bassline and the sexiness of the voices, your heart is jolted out of its luxurious malaise with the eruption of horns. Time stopping electronic treasure, ‘Problems With The Sun’ and the equally potent title track, ‘Space Is Only Noise If You Can See It’ bring the dancefloor back into focus, but its not long before Jaar pushes back to serenity.
"How can you talk about a landscape without showing the sky and the earth?" a voice asks, translating from the French on ‘être’. So Nico concludes, revisiting the start to close the album. Complete landscapes such as this are only realized in contrast - the indulgent against the reserved, the sky against the earth, the lightness against the darkness. Never the less, ‘Space is Only Noise’ is a coherent tour de force with few modern equals, and a great sign of things to come from one of electronic music’s most exciting producers.
Having previously contributed to the catalog twice with his ‘Marks and Angels’ EP as well as the sublime ‘Your Waltz’ on the Snuggle and Slap compilation, Circus Company are delighted to present Nicolas Jaar’s first forray into the realm of the long player.
The album format can be a daunting one for even the most seasoned artists, and at a time when the flavour of the month single seems to trump all else, one which many feel increasingly inclined to shy away from. Jaar, however, has made it quite apparent over the course of his nascent catalog and increasingly sought after live sets that challenge is an intrinsic part of his creative discourse, and ‘Space Is Only Noise’ marks a luminous first step in this undoubtedly prolific journey."http://www.filefactory.com/file/b4h996a/n/nicolas_jaar_[2011]_space_is_only_noise_[circus_company].zip
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Finally.
Photek is back! And this is the most techno(ish) of what I found so far.
More info here: http://photek.fm/
Some very heavy dubstep going on. I just hope he makes some proper TECHNO again. Let's remind ourselves of what he is capable of...
Monday, January 3, 2011
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