M A S C H I N E, electronic sound of 2010, proudly presents:
? ACTRESS / Wrek Discs / UK
Actress’s dubstep aesthetics mingle with rave breaks and micro-house attitude to conjure up a gleefully indefinable journey through one of the more tangential side roads veering off from today’s electronic music.
Actress – Purrple Splazsh
? FULGEANCE / Musique Large / FR
Fulgeance’s music is a perfect blend of huge, synth-laced French Electro and modern Instrumental Hip Hop.
Fulgeance – Haggis
? 1000NAMES / Black Acre / BG
The 1000names duo recently dropped Illuminated Man, one of the most breathtaking and accomplished LPs to come out of the abstract hip hop scene in the last few years on the consistently brilliant Black Acre imprint.
Event organised with the help of the French Institut of Bucharest.
* Free entrance for Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Moldovan Nationals, bring your ID. Only the first 15 people benefit from this promotion.
Svetlana Industries, our Serbian homies, recently launched a compilation featuring tracks from: Teebs[US], 1000names[BG], 8Bitch[UK] and 9 more others.
Minus @ RBMA Radio: Even Einstein could figure out that this computer programmer from Bucharest has collected way more musical power ups than your average beat maker. Combining massive mountains of bass with glitchy twinkling Gameboy melodies and a healthy dose of synth funk, it’s no surprise that he’s released three EPs already on the Romanian netlabel Archiva7. But it’s his live performances that have been taking him to festivals all over Europe and Romania, where he dubs out his tracks and reworks them live. On the plus side, if Tron teleported to Kingston, he’d have at least one friend there already. You do the math.
After sharing Jimi Bleachball, will share the whole mixtape album. So here it goes..
Foxes in Fiction: The whole thing was recorded for a kind of cassette A Side / B Side format so there is a pretty obvious division in style between the two. The first flows kind of as one long dreamlike hallucination song that segways pretty easily into each track, and is meant to inspire some pretty specific moods, while the second side more lucid pop songs. A big inspiration in making a lot of these songs was short-tracked hip hop albums like J Dillas’ ‘Donuts’. I don’t know how obvious this is. It wasn’t even really supposed to have an ‘album’ feel but it just sort of turned out that way, even two albums?, though I’m hoping it kind of has something for everyone.
Most of these songs are tracks that arose from restlessness, breaks between classes, insomnia and 5 AM isolation while in my in my apartment in Toronto. A couple of them are reworkings of old tracks that most of you guys probably have never heard but I felt would be fitting on this release. In the new few days I’m gonna post the lyrics and some detailed explanations into the meaning behind some of these tracks, cause who doesn’t love to know? Hope you enjoy it. xoxo
Her highly anticipated debut album ‘Lost Where I Belong’ (produced by Bonobo) will be released in August 2010, with a single of the same name being released on the 5th of April. The single includes an amazing Flying Lotus remix (FREE download link – requires valid e-mail address).
Andreya’s soulful vocals are already well known and loved from appearances on tracks such as ‘Tea Leaf Dancers’ by Flying Lotus, ‘Hold On’ by Mr Scruff, ‘Chemistry’ by Theo Parrish and ‘The Keeper’ by Bonobo.
Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus Preview Edit)
“020310 – Last night I chilled with long time buddy Steve, better known as Flying Lotus. We talked about his forthcoming album “Cosmogramma” (Warp) and on the future of Brainfeeder and his favorite video game at the moment. An interesting chat at the AB venue in Brussels, Belgium.”
Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar – download(personal fave’)
Damn if this track from LA soul-slinger Aloe Blacc isn’t the finest slice of vintage-sounding, piano- and horn-powered funk we’ve heard in quite some time. We’re not usually big on nostalgia parties, but if you can’t enjoy a few laps in the “I Need a Dollar” pool, you’re officially dead inside.
Taken from the second of All City’s set of 10 collaborative 10″ releases highlighting acts from LA’s burgeoning beat scene, Take‘s “Soul Particles” begins with a soulful disco sample, then launches into a shuffle that would make Flying Lotus proud. Snippets from the original sample form the regal melodic backdrop for the piece, with echoing female vocals and a nice, lilting synth line doing most of the work in front of secondary blips. With his more sample-heavy, experimental approach to crafting beats, Take is on track to become one of the most unqiue artists to emerge from what is an increasingly crowded genre.
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Jose James – Code (Produced by Flying Lotus) – download
Nu-jazz crooner Jose James continues to soothe with his smokey intonations on this track from his latest album, Black Magic. There’s something of the late Marvin Gaye in James’ voice on the piece, whose crackling beats and vintage organ samples could only come from LA’s Flying Lotus. In short, “Code” is perfect for some sexual seduction, but if you want a more immediate experience of FlyLo’s musical prowess, the producer is also making some limited live appearances in the coming months, which you can check out below.
Hey, so Victorian-dressing electronic guy Daedelus has a new mini-album coming out on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label.
Titled Righteous Fists of Harmony, it marks the first release on the new global Brainfeeder – which basically means they now have an international distribution deal – and preludes Daedelus’s forthcoming album for Ninja Tune, Bespoke.
Says FlyLo, “Daedelus was one of the first people I met in the LA scene, he hardly knew me or my sound at all and invited me into his home and shared stories and music with me when I was trying to find my way out here. He’s been such a great and inspiring friend ever since. I feel like with this album we’re close to coming full circle.”
Next up on Brainfeeder are albums from Lorn, Samiyam and Gaslamp Killer, plus a label compilation. ‘Til then, check out this track from the Daedelus and start getting excited.
Righteous Fists of Harmony comes out March 23 on Brainfeeder.
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