A forray into the finest experimental pop music, past and present. Short mixed segments meld genre classifications into insignificance, all bound loosely with brief cassette-recorded gurgles courtesy of your host who can’t toast, Saucy Jack.
A forray into the finest experimental pop music, past and present. Short mixed segments meld genre classifications into insignificance, all bound loosely with brief cassette-recorded gurgles courtesy of your host who can’t toast, Saucy Jack.
In this month’s podcast, Jack speaks exclusively to Boxcutter about his new album, Arecibo Message. Plus all manner of drama from Starkey and Joker, Funky from Karizma and Swedish Skwee from Daniel Savio.
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1. Boxcutter – S p a c e b a s s [Planet Mu]
2. Various Productions – Lost (Actress Remix) [Various Production]
3. Karizma – 33rd Street Anthem [ITH]
4. AGF/Delay – In Cycles [BPitch Control]
5. Mux Mool – Eagle Fantasies [Moodgadget]
6. Daniel Savio – Ohhh! [Flogsta Danshall]
7. Joker – Psychedelic Runway [Kapsize] 8. Starkey – Gutter Music VIP [Keysound Recordings]
9. Skream – I (Loefah Remix) [Tempa]
10. Boxcutter – Old School Astronomy [Planet Mu]
11. Boxcutter & Kinnego Flux – A Familiar Sound [Kinnego]
12. Barry Lynn – Metric Cycle [Planet Mu]
13. Rival Consoles – Milo [Erased Tapes]
14. Narcossist – Brothel Creeper [Clandestine Cultivations]
15. Echologist ft The Spaceape – Mercy Beat (No Mercy Dub) [Resopal Red]
This month includes a couple more melodic numbers from the likes of 200f & J Kamata and Bullion, Kode 9 doing the UK funky thing and a modern classic from Benny Ill vs. DJ Dinesh.
We also had an exclusive chat with Dorian Concept, recorded down at the Tate Britain in London before the Late at the Tate CDR Event. For more Dorian Concept info, plus videos of some pretty nifty synth action, check out http://www.kindred-spirits.nl/dorianconcept/
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Dorian Concept – Color Sexist [Kindred Spirits]
Mark Pritchard – ? [Ho Hum]
Tim Hecker – Sea of Pulses [Kranky]
2000f & J Kamata – You Don’t Know What Love Is [Hyperdub]
Martyn – Vancouver [Scape]
Boxcutter – Mya Rave [Planet Mu]
Bullion – Are You the One? [One-Handed Music]
Hermutt Lobby ft Non & Shadow Huntaz – Vampire Remix [Eat Concrete]
Onra ft Hazel – Supergenesis [Favorite]
Dorian Concept – Clap Beep Boom [Kindred Spirits]
Dorian Concept – Yorktown Recreation [Affine]
Flying Lotus – Camel (Nosaj Thing Remix) [Warp]
Ritornell – Emere [Karaoke Kalk]
Clark – Distant Father Torch [Warp]
Guido – Orchestral Lab [Punch Drunk]
Benny Ill vs DJ Dinesh – London [Tempa]
Kode 9 – Too Far Gone [Hyperdub]
10-20 – InB [Highpoint Lowlife]
Bibio – Torn Under the Window Light [Mush Records]
Fusing together the fashionable ends of the hyperkrunk scene with sublime jazz synth work and micro-editing capabilities, Dorian Concept’s debut LP is a complex beast. The record plays more as a collection of tracks tan as a whole, but as the title suggests, each number is its own organic explosion, refusing to be tied down by quantized programming or any individual prevailing characteristic or sound. The contrast in styles on the album is staggering, with the monumental synth swagger of the ‘Fucking Formula’ and ‘You Tiresome Thing’ jostling with the abstract torrents of numbers like ‘Mesh Beam Splitter’, which burrows into your brain like a colony of funked up termites.
It’ll have you bopping your head while it blows your mind, these are the compiled snaphots of the many faces of Oliver Johnson, one of electronic music’s freshest talents.