It’s a little know fact that Hungary’s greatest composer was actually really into glitch-hop:
Bela Bartok – String Quartet No.1 (Fractal Remix) by Fractal
(Alright, he wasn’t, but he did love dance music.)
bartok bela
jams, jams, jams, jams
So: The Virgo repress is fucking amazing. Jacques Green is fucking amazing. Bibio’s album teaser is fucking amazing. Hybrid’s orchestral / ambient stuff is really good. The Luke Abbott B-side is rad. The We Love tune from the new Bpitch Collection is so so so clever.
jams jams jams jams
I gotta say that Get Low, by Justin Martin, on Dirty Bird, has been the ass-shaker of the past month, give or take. Thanks to Kenzie Clarke for the tipoff.
Also should be mentioned that Egyptrixx is lots of fun live: warped, dub-ish tech/house with lots of snap in the drums.
beware, beware
Download here.
1: Steve Bug – Trust In Me (John Daly Remix) [Poker Flat]
2: Lindstrom – I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) [Playhouse]
3: Slacker – Turning To Air [Jukebox In The Sky]
4: Petter – All Together [Border Community]
5: Holden – Lump [Border Community]
I’m watching you now. I’ve been watching you for a long time. Can you believe that it took me this damn long to get All Together, Lump, AND that mix of I Feel Space down in a set?
backlog
CYCLONOPEDIA might be the single weirdest book I have ever read. A pseudo-academic Cthulhuian treatise on the Middle East, oil, and demonology, it is by no means for everyone (and isn’t really totally for me, to be honest). Read the first two chapters: if you’re enthralled, you’ll love it. If not, move on to brighter things.
SOLACE, on the other hand, is a game that you will get pretty much from the word go. It’s a vertical shooter about grief. Simple enough, right?
And, in music, the Future Times label mix for Resident Advisor is sassy as all get out, the Traversable Wormhole RA podcast is good but drags a bit, and I myself have something like four sets in the pipeline. More as it breaks.
ruin porn
The detroit EP is done. This makes me happy. I am now debating distro options. I could SoundCloud it up, I could put it on a USB key and throw it into the ocean. I feel there’s a healthy middle ground somewhere, however.
loyalty without paranoia
…Welcome to Russian (film) Minute!
.THE RUSSIAN ARK is a 96 minute single-shot masterpiece. If you have only the slightest bit of interest in media and the effect of media on people, you need to see this film. If you like period work, Russians, Russian culture, or history in general, you really, really need to see this film.
On the other foot, I finally got around to watching STALKER, after walking past the UN checkpoint in Tallinn over the summer. It likewise fetishizes the long, long take, but does so in order to build heartrending tension. For a movie that is basically three men talking, STALKER is profoundly gripping.
that drummin’ man
Music of the day is a box set of Gene Krupa’s band recordings. It is instructive how much and how little popular music has changed.
I also wanted to write two words about Osmos, which is a brilliant variation on the classic “eat things smaller than you and avoid things bigger than you” game. Specifically, your size is used as reaction mass to move your avatar / orb around. This tweak changes the gameplay from utterly trivial to utterly deep. Every move you make has to be considered, and some levels give you very little time to consider. Highly recommended.
the haps
Got terribly, terribly sick. Cool things continued to happen on the internet regardless.
Listening Room – listen to music with your friends online. It’s about damn time someone built this.
feeling things
Jams I am feeling these days:
– The Symphonies of Mahler & Sibelius. Whoooosh.
– Caribou’s SWIM. I need to stop sleeping on records for like a year.
– Petter. Seriously, what a guy.
– James Blake, still.
– Instra:mental, to my surprise. Not the drum & bass, but the kind of “where do we put this?” tunes.