The 463: Inside Tech Policy (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
I've avoided tag-your-it Internet memes successfully to date. But, now that fellow tech policy blogger Adam Thierer has taken the bait and thrown down his favorite album for each year of his life, I'm in. Mine... 1968: White Album, The...
Aural States (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Richie Hawtin- a name that looms large in the world of techno, but one that many outside of the scene may find unfamiliar. To be clear, we are talking about techno here, not house, not trance, not generic electronic dance music. And more specifically we are talking about pummeling Detroit techno, and then, as Hawtin’s [...]
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Here is Crookers Essential Mix for BBC1 Radio. (I stole the link from livesets.nu) Tracklist: Betin Cocek - Intro Ca-Ca (PIC) Erykah Badu - The Healer (Motown) Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army (CDR) Dabrye - This Is Where I Came In (Ghostly) Dabrye - Game Over (Flyin Lotus mix) (CDR) Mr.Oizo - Z - (Ed Banger) Portishead - Machine gun (Island) Ratatat - Bird [...]
Blunted Presents :: Articles (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
This popped through my letterbox the other day, the 41st installment from the FABRICLIVE mix cd series, this time featuring the kings of stripped out disco James Ford and Jas Shaw aka ‘Simian Mobile Disco‘. First thing I did when getting into the studio with this was blast it right the way through from start to [...]
Past Lessons, Future Theories (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Ellen Allien - Bim (Bpitchcontrol) Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Tambours) (Perlon) Plastikman - Snark (M_nus) Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts - God Damn the whole shebang Process - City-zen (Traum) Opopo - Dktrdktr (Urbnet) Tigerrr beat - Hold my hand Artist of the year - Haha (Universal) Ghislain Poirier - Blazin (Modeselektor mix) ( Ninja tune ) Sinequanon - Lenine rock (Sulpont) Lazersnake - Omnibox...
Anders_B-Log (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
A walk all along m_nus history mp3 says its from richie hawtin, but its not download 1. Plastikman - Passage (In) 2. Plastikman - Consumed 3. I.A. Bericochea - RB 4. Gaiser - Egress 5. Richie Hawtin - E01 6. Algoritmo - Indus 7. Theorem vs Sutekh - Canis 8. Berg Nixon - Abstraction 9. Marc Houle - Bay of Figs 10. JPLS - Fuckshuffle 11. False - [...]
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
We here at Discobelle are long time fans of French producer Don Rimini, he’s given us quite a few mighty tracks, remixes and mixes so when he dropped a new mix we’re more than happy to oblige with a post. The Don is playing the Ditch It All party at 333 in London this saturday [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
One of the sweetest stories coming out of Movement 08 came from the Beatport stage, where it was a family affair all around Sunday.
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
YouTube via ripe909 "A mellow acid track, obviously plastikman inspired. Mostly machinedrum and revolution, with a little virus for the bass. Sequenced up on six tracks of the octopus."
Missingtoof (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks pick is ‘Mute Audio Documents 1978-1984′. Compiled of Mute Records’ singles from the first 6 years of their existence, (which ends up being 128 tracks, [...]
nialler9 (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
To promote his new 4 track mini album of minimal techno, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet has produced a special 30 minute mix of similarly minimal groooooves. Grab it here. It may have 12 tracks on it but the first track ‘Ringer’ lasts for near 10 minutes. Greedy Hebden. This is definitely one (excuse the [...]
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Legendary techno producer and dj Richie Hawtin has a habit of merging concepts and new technology to push the evolution of music making and performing further into the future. Hawtin established the +8 record label back in the late 80’s which was largely responsible for defining the sound of techno music for two decades to [...]
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
As a way of celebrating Four Tet's new mini-album Ringer, his press people have had him knock together a DJ set. A DJ set which, oddly, is longer than the album it's promoting, but there you are. In fact, here you are , in all its mp3 glory. This is the set list: 1. Four Tet - Ringer 2. Liquid Liquid - Bell Head (Harvey edit) 3. Avus - Tear 4. Burial - Raver 5. Sam Clarence - Sextant daktari 6. Wookie...
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Track listing is as follows: 1. Four Tet - Ringer 2. Liquid Liquid - Bell Head (Harvey Edit) 3. Avus - Tear 4. Burial - Raver 5. Sam Clarence - Sextant Daktari 6. Wookie - Manchu 2 7. Autechre - Play Neu! 8. Matt John - Olga Dancekowski 9. Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck 10. Plastikman - Helikopter 11. Siobhan Donaghy - Carl Craig (Remix) 12: The Field - Action Visit Four Tet on MySpace. Enjoy his Andrew Bird...
Past Lessons, Future Theories (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Mathew Jonson and Adam Beyer - Big Dipper (Wagon Repair) Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework) (M-nus) Foat and Boddy - Droidnosh (Mule) Radioslave - Tantakatan (Rekids) Hrdvision - Playing For Keeps (Mole remix) (Wagon Repair) One + One - No Pressure (Renaissance) Paperclip People - Clear & Present (K7) Beaumont Hannant - Mind Colours (GPR) Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade (Ohm) Cristian Vogel - Sxsx...
