Lana Del Rey, eat your heart out … As there already seems to be a game new challenger hungrier and more illuminated – all in the due care of an act called White Blush aka Carol Rhyu and producer John Ho. Melodica remains blessed in the hands of L.A.’s White Blush.
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Top tracks for April 2012:
1. RUDA KRISHNA – Tonight’s The Night
2. Swedish House Mafia ft. Carly Rae Jespen – Call Me Greyhound (Kap Slap Bootleg)
3. Bon Iver – Holocene (BA$SY Remix)
5. MATT FOX feat. ELLZ – Limitless
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Insane and EFX-addicted.. but typically strengthened and feverously friendly after a half-MAX-glass of white winery.. L.A.’s / Chicago traveller in Newman Wolf gets his electronic stick out with ‘Oh, Rapture’ & ‘All This Evil.’
Philadelphia’s Manny Romano fortifies his resistance towards the fake & BS pretenders who dawn the UK’s version of The Voice splendidly with his own take on Eric Clapton’s ‘Cocaine..’ while the men in charge from Italy as HardtoPronounce (& Moonbass) call out anyone in the same human display to conclude that speaking with the same talk face to face should be exactly identical as writing the very same thing in its ultimate self.
Watching what he says repeatedly is Rome’s Oscar Cini (aka Lies) clearly NOT telling any lies.. and follows through with an ‘O’ and a Foals prototypical remix to toughen up the weak and brace up the sad in exemplary standard.
Wrapped up in a bun, its Numeral One.
Okay Class, it’s time to take the daily register …
Deletah? – Yes Sir..
Tim Ireland? – Yes Sir..
GWIL? – Present..
FINAL DJs? – They’re not in yet Sir.. Their Mam said that they wet the bed this morning and have to stay back until its fully washed & cleaned …
REX THE TRI∆NGLE? – He’s skiving Sir.. he said to me this morning that he thinks school is boring and that you’re proper Gay …
Well now that the so called register is taken care of and those final three cheeky chappies are locked up in detention.. we shake off the fictional cap for a tick and remind ourselves about why the line of up talent from Milwaukee, Hollywood, Vancouver – Canada (BIG cheer goes up in back..), Stuttgart & Chicago are all the Best In The World in what they do.
Disco to House; to Prog to Chill. To those French lil’ touches – and back again. It’s all summed up deliciously. Let’s get the “Red” + Cold Ones out together …
# The Party is @ Seven (Wink!)
Zoon Van Snook is the alias of Bristol, UK’s Weirdsmith Alec Snook. Following keyboard and sampling duty for numerous experimental-indie bands in the south west of England (which included nationwide touring, festivals and support for such acts as: I Am Kloot, Skunk Anansie and BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe), the debut Zoon Van Snook 12” EP was released on the acclaimed Brighton label Cookshop at the end of 2008.
This garnered radio support from BBC’s Rob Da Bank + Tom Robinson and lead to his debut hour mix for Ninja Tune’s inimitable Solid Steel. Since then, his remix portfolio has included Fujiya & Miyagi, Ernest Gonzales, Lost Idol & James Yorkston, and has paved the way for collaborations with James Yuill, Daedelus, Grasscut, Minotaur Shock and many, many more.
Never afraid of a beguiling melody and always blurring the lines between experimental and the accessible, Zoon Van Snook produces evocative audio mosaics which offer something new & spellbinding with each and every listen.
The simplicity and subtle folk-ness with ‘Sculptress’ (taken from “(Falling From) The Nutty Tree”) offers the listener to lose themselves amongst the soft guitar / piano playing, while Fujiya & Miyagi’s / Yppah’s versions (taken from “(Remixes From) The Nutty Tree”) puts itself out amongst an early morning Balearic spread of Nutella on your toast and a bowl of Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes as a side offering. Packaged across an 11-track “treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen” barrage of xylophone, angel-twinkled diamonds, there is enough happiness here to do actual cartwheels to.
Mister Zoon Van Snook has blown up a balloon-ified winner.
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ZOON VAN SNOOK – Sculptress (Yppah Remix)
BONUS!
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DIAGRAMS – Antelope (Zoon Van Snook Remix)
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It’s a pleasant return for the man that they call Mr. Larsson on a tempestuous downtempo tip – splashed by the side banks of chilled chords and Balearic memories from DANGA.
Wool’s “Pillows” from his Plant Music EP “The Good In You” out now.
Wool, or DJ Wool as he was known when he first released on Plant Music back in the 90′s (on Plant’s first ever release), is a phenomenal DJ and producer. He is one half of The Glass and has been releasing solo material and remixes on many different labels including Top Billin’, Discobelle and his own We Collect Enemies imprint. His new EP “The Good In You” is a beautiful blend of slow house and melodic techno featuring his lovely wife, Lindsey, on classical piano.
The title song sits perfectly with the new wave of slowed down dance music favored by DJs from Berlin to San Francisco, two towns he now calls home. The EP also features two other slow tracks also produced on a variety of modular and analog synths in his Northern Cali studio. Remixes come courtesy of NY to LA transplant DJ Sabo who keeps the downtempo direction, Plant Music’s Heavyfeet who jack it up with their UK garage and house sound and LA’s Pools (aka Mike B. and Morse Code) who take the b-side “Rehabilitate It” in a lo-fi 90′s direction.
Telling a straightforward tale of unfussy Pyramid dizziness unquestioned by orchestral pianos and 2201 universes, France’s Etienne Copin remains as minimal and space-filled as a milky way overrun with cosmic sadness.
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Arranged with a simplistic droplet of cultural art that covers the fashion and block of flats world by an uncomplicated and diverse mystic.. The Daydream Club brighten up our day with a neon love song that turns down the tempo, and settles in the ambience with not a lot of controversial areas in eyesight.
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The Sinclair Sinclair who hail from Tallinn, Estonia magnificently tie together a channel of harmony and ethereal presence which pulls down on large & noisy church bells, cathedral halls and early morning, sleepy eye handy wipes. Simply refreshing …
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In this instant vintage classic “Jaminglican” Procuder/Artist Dorsh, shows off his unique ability to swap accents at the drop of a dime (no pun intended). Like a chameleon he uses his lifetime of traveling and supreme knowledge of cultures to camouflage into any scene. He teamed up with Hoodie Allen’s Producer RJF for a soulful U.K. house feel and top notch Indianapolis video director Jace, for the seductive visuals. Fulljoy the playful nature of the tune and be on the lookout for his debut L.P. Neopolitan which will be realeased May 7, 2012 via Rad Summer.
In the past year, Dorsh has been featured on several top music blogs and radio shows domestically and Internationally. On February 24, 2012 his debut single “Je t’aime”, from the Neopolitan LP, premiered at #10 on Hypem’s popular music charts. Amidst performing with a wide range of artists from LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad to Talib Kweli, Dorsh has done remix work for FADERLABEL in NYC, engineered for Ska Rebirth in Kingston, and mastered for Asahi Brewery in Tokyo. Successfully earning his stripes in the as an engineer/producer, Dorsh is now ready to transition from behind the board to behind the mic with his debut LP Neopolitan for Rad Summer!
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Filled with more aurally and surrealistic imagination than David Copperfield, Harry Houdini and Jean Houdin on a roll call of the gifted and privileged, Swedish born Forss - third and fourth pieces are taken from his “Ecclesia” project perfectly.
Quite simply, Forss (Eric Wahlforss) is bringing the world of classical instruments played within church concerts to the forefront (strings, ambient noise, choirs, organs) and integrating them all with additional recordings of wooden, metal and stone objects that have been made up to make the beats and the percussion.
Using this concept and combining it with visuals as a fully integrated music & movement app, this will hopefully result in drawing in the user into its own digital world of intuitive album art and scenic sculptures.
( Now only if we could have all of that in a physical, hands-on, smells-funny-when-its-new full bodied book … )
Strengthening the continued view behind well thought out audio-visual performance concepts, Forss (creator, founder & CTO of SoundCloud) will be showcasing his craft during the opening performance at Berghain on 2 May 2012 in Berlin, Germany.
Support at Berghain comes from German producer & theoretician Ekkehard Ehlers who will be DJing before and after the performance.
The additional video below contains a snapshot about a timeless act that needs no introduction …
Opening performance at Berghain – Berlin, Germany and App launch: 2 May 2012.
“Ecclesia” released on 12 June 2012.
Initially we had picked out ‘U Ranaway,’ ‘Pray 4 Love,’ ‘Hold It Down’ and ‘Got 2 Make It’ for a tight lil’ download selection … However due to the powers that be, we’ll have to stress the point to purchase this EP pleasure instead – amongst the fabulous portal of ScionAV.com.
Amid an instant and religious, night time & dominating factor-feel (with a new fan of Moodymann being created over here …), ‘9 Nites 2 Nowhere’ takes you through a proggy electronic journey for just over eight minutes and is intermixed with bumpy rides, a beautiful brass instrument being blown around, and some frisky hi hat drums being played along a seabed of dynamic rivers.
‘Basement Party’ flexes it muscles with a lot of grittiness and chunk, while the fame-four from earlier are the crowning jewels of the EP. There are plenty of piano moments and plenty of off kilter jazz peppers with simlifyed early night funk too.
Detroit’s Moodymann keeps on making it extremely elegant and ravishingly funky.
