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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:00 +0000

Sayuri Michima - Untitled

A week in and one week to go, this series has been alright so far hasn't it? Fast running out of art to put up like, but no matter, onto today's tune; another bit from Richie Hawtin's short lived F.U.S.E alias. The one LP under this name is pretty sweet, hard techno stuff against Warp's trend around the time for 'electronic listening music' (fitting, s this LP is part of the {Artificial Intelligence} series). The hard stuff has its own merits, but I have the biggest soft spot for that smooth sound that is trademark Warp, sit back and enjoy.

F.U.S.E - UVA [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:00 +0000

Chiho Aoshima - A Contented Skull (2003)

Shinichi Osawa's The One is a bit of a wildcard when it comes to pressings, there's a bunch of different ones out there as I found when I picked up the expanded version with a ton of remixes on it. There's some strange changes on there too, like swapping out The Golden for a longer, alternate mix just called The Golden 2. The story's the same with Our Song, but in addition to the altered mix, the Japanese vocals of the original (A Lonely Girl Version) are swapped out with some different english ones along with a different subtitle (We Are All Innocent). There's both pretty stellar tracks, but the original is the one I fell in love with and am sharing with you lot today!

Shinichi Osawa - Our Song (A Lonely Girl Version) [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:01:00 +0000

David Firth - Coffeeshop Confidential (2009)

Sad news on Monday, as house mogul and defining voice behind Daft Punk's cult hit One More Time Romanthony passed away. And I feel like giving him just one song would be a disservice, so instead enjoy three of my choice cuts from Romanthony.

Romanthony - Hold On [click to download] |HTML5|

Romanthony - Hold On (R&B Vocal) [click to download] |HTML5|

Daft Punk - One More Time (Romanthony's Unplugged) [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:00 +0000

Kid Acne - The Chosen One (2013)

One from my early dubstep days this time. Back to 2008 when Rusko wasn't shoveling out brostep cack and had just released Babylon Vol. 1. It still stands up today ad pretty much embodies the sound that I fell in love with dub for. Shame how it all turned out, but at least we have some good tunes to remember it by.

Rusko - Lion's Paw [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000

Takashi Murakami - Melting Dob E (2008)

Commix have come back into my playlists again recently. Both because its been a while and to remind me to pick up their new stuff. Tucked away at the end of their debut LP Call To Mind is a remix by techno pioneers and living legends Underground Resistance. It's more techno than the drum & bass/house vibes of the album, but it fits in quite nicely.

Commix - Satellite Song (Underground Resistance Remix) [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Jason Cawood - Salvaged (Untitled), 2009

Real rough day today. As much as I don't feel like posting there's one song that keeps on repeating, the haunting re-imagining of Olson from Boards Of Canada's Peel Session EP. A fitting compliment to the original, but no less full of all things Boards. Lends itself well to repeat playings alongside it's original counterpart. Enjoy.

Boards Of Canada - Olson (Version 3) [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:19:00 +0000

VitaliV - Elvis

I must admit, for a long time I wasn't big on the Chem Brothers, aside from Star Guitar obviously. But I've picked up a few pieces here and there and back when a friend was kind enough to lend me his copy of Push The Button, and that's where I found this tune here. If we're talking progression, this tune nails it completely unlike the Deadmau5 method of builds, fakeouts and breakdowns. As an album closer, it's pretty much perfect.

The Chemical Brothers - Surface To Air [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:18:00 +0000

Copyright - Filth / Purity, 2010

Lotta history behind this one. Heard it a long time ago when I was a little Foxbat on Grand Theft Auto III, I probably shouldn't have being only around 6 or 7, but hey that's what older brothers are for isn't it? Fast forward to now, Omni Trio is one of my favourite drum & bass crafters, and the tune still sounds sweet as even 12 years later. It's also used in spectacular form as the opener of the Moving Shadow 01.1 compilation, track it down and give it a listen, the tracklist does not dissapoint.

Omni Trio - First Contact [click to download] |HTML5|

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scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:01:00 +0000

Kiki - Plate from Ballet Mecanique, Dudley Murphy & Fernand Léger, cinematography by Man Ray, 1923-1924

Old one from one of my favourite ambient dealers Oneohtrix Point Never here, from a cassette simply called Ruined Lives back in '08. The title track is a standout, a rather somber trip through a lot of synthesized goodness, a nice demonstrator of OPN's overall sound and one of his more accessible tunes at least until his love for arpeggiating comes in towards the end.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Ruined Lives [click to download] |HTML5|

3 Juno,
-Claude Van Foxbat

A Tune / An Art A Day

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:42:00 +0000

In the interest of keeping things fresh, I'm gonna switch to a pseudo-microblogging style for a bit. So I present to you my new idea: 1 Tune and 1 Piece of art a day for however long it takes for deadlines to be over (timetables are depressing). We'll get into bizness afeter the aforementioned art.

Tom Wesselmann - Smoker, 1 (Mouth, 12) 1967

Leading this is a little number from Simian Mobile Disco's second LP Temporary Pleasure. It suffers like many second albums, there is real gold on there in tracks like Audacity Of Huge, but they've been blogged to death. Here's a recent repeater of mine that comes in towards the end of the album, Bad Blood

Simian Mobile Disco - Bad Blood [click to download] |HTML5|

Pop Is Dead,
-Claude Van Foxbat

Sine Tempus

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:44:00 +0000

Goldie remains a huge influence on me, and I was reading up on his film that he's been working on for a long time, Sine Tempus, he's said its a coming-of-age story about a young paintbrush artist, which draws a whole bunch of parallels to Goldie's life. A few years back he released the soundtrack to the film saying it was out 'soon'. That was 2008, and while no film has surfaced the soundtrack will certainly tide me over till then, it's very visually evocative, as is the art for the album.

Onto the tunes, they bridge a full spectrum of moods befitting the film. Opening we have the downtempo trip hop styled number Don't Give In which reminds me slightly of State Of Mind from Timeless, the contrast between the cascading beats and the piano is pretty special.

Goldie - Don't Give In [click to download] |HTML5|

It's not long before the darker side of Goldie starts to show. The haunting intro to Letting Go gives way to an onslaught of breaks, the transition is so sudden that it almost takes you by surprise and it barely lets up over the seven minutes.

Goldie - Letting Go [click to download] |HTML5|

The album doesn't let up much either, changing up to a more anger fueled sound it's not hard to see this fitting into the soundtrack somewhere, especially when considering it's quite probably based on his own story; to quote the man himself from this track "Wake up, Smell the fuckin' roses"

Goldie - Breakin Glass [click to download] |HTML5|

Moving onto a more reflective tune now, featuring another haunting intro. This time, instead of flooring you with a sudden explosion of sound, Rhythm Killa eases you into it,m builing toa big crescendo after the break around 4:20. This one kinda has a nostalgic tint to it, but that could just be the brilliant self sampling from his first album's title track Timeless on this one.

Goldie - Rhythm Killa [click to download] |HTML5|

Continuing the reflective theme, this next tune sees the return of both Natalie Williams and the piano accompaniment from Don't Give In. It's a stark contrast to tracks like Breakin Glass for sure, but the mood it creates is fantastic and befitting of a soundtrack.

Goldie - Invisible [click to download] |HTML5|

And finally, closing the album we have Chances, featuring some Fever Ray-esque pitch shifting. It sees the return of the sax from Timeless, but the beats are much more subdued, fitting as it's the album closer and all. Speaking of, the ending section is nothing short of fantastic as the sax gets it own moment in the spotlight before it fades away.

Goldie - Chances [click to download] |HTML5|

Being an arty type, it's certainly interesting to see this play out, Goldie has said he wants to bridge the gap between visual art and music with this LP, and I think to an extent he has. It's going to be interesting to see a film with a unconventional soundtrack like this, if it ever surfaces.

Without Time,
-Claude Van Foxbat

Fastback

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:35:00 +0000

Heard of Fastback? I wouldn't be surprised if you said no. For someone with as much talent as this guy, it's impressive how little popularity he has. My first exposure to this guy was on a Daft Punk fan message board, where he became a hero with his uncanny inside knowledge on the French Touch scene (do we still call it that? I don't know I'm so out of... touch). He threw us all for a loop by going by the screen name Akchote, and slowly deviating from the trap style productions he had been posting into things like... this.

He had photos of promo CDs of SebastiAn remixes that hadn't be released, information about the new Kavinsky album, and information about SebastiAn and a few other Ed Banger crewmembers' activities... then after all the conjecture that perhaps he was actually SebastiAn began flying, he posted this.

Which was followed by Noel Akchote, SebastiAn's older brother and famed French country musician joining the message board and tearing this guy down as a stalker and general creep-o. It was all rather weird, but somewhat entertaining I guess. Ah, internet....

I still don't know what to think, honestly. Nor do I care, I guess. I follow Fastback on Soundcloud, and I am frequently blown away by the amazing quality of this guy's electro. Some of his tracks are available for sale on his bandcamp page.

Morepocalypse

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:25:00 +0000

Another Thundercat single dropped t'other day, this time featuring the Lotus man himself on the production side of things. To quote the man himself when he was teasing it he other day; "When I heard people trippin on the new daft punk song I said to myself. Wait till they hear this new Thundercat"

It's Monday

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:27:00 +0000

Nothing like spending 2 of the three days you have off working. That's deadlines for you, but anyways here's some stuff I've been diggin' as usual, with maybe some hints of the warm couple days we've had peekin' through.

A real old school number from Felix circa 1995 here, I remember stumbling across this one day and giving it that first listen. I've said may a time I usually pick tunes based on their titles, and this on was no different it properly nails the erm... mood set up in the title.

Felix Da Housecat - Marine Mood [click to download] |HTML5|

When I first covered Locust Toybox a few years ago, I mentioned Firth's other musical side projects, now most of these aren't strictly electronic but are still very well made. I'm The Manager is sort of the meeting point for Locust Toybox and his other music work (with amazing song titles to boot), as you'll hear with the return of that lovely guitar from his Aphex Twin cover.

I'm The Manager - Break Your Toes [click to download] |HTML5|

There's a good four or five bonus tracks tucked away on my limited edition copy of Röyksopp's second LP The Understanding, I ften forget they're not on the vanilla album and there's not much press about them (save for Go Away) which is a shame because they are actually really good tunes that compliment the rest of The Understanding nicely and balance out the instrumentals ratio.

Röyksopp - Looser Now [click to download] |HTML5|

And playing us out is a nifty bit of sample work from my fellow Leeds dweller Nightmares On Wax, the loop of Frederick Knight's I've Been Lonely for So Long is simple but very well done, though his Me + You loop from Smokers Delight is still my favourite. And with that, I better get meself back to work.

Nightmares On Wax - Chime Out [click to download] |HTML5|

It's Friday

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:36:00 +0000

Sorry about the lateness of this one, but it's approaching deadline season so I've been hard at work! (honest!) The important thing is it's a long 3 day weekend here in the UK, and that means one step closer to the summer off, in the meantime enjoy this amazing bit of youtube that I came across today, it's hypnotic.

Up All Night,
-Claude Van Foxbat

7-1-7-2-2-8

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:20:00 +0000

This year is turning out phenomenal for new album releases, just today Warp Officially announced a return from Scottish electronic wizards Boards Of Canada,with Tomorrow's Harvest dropping June 10th (sadly not June 9th) in europe, and the 11th in NA. After a cryptic vinyl release on Record Store Day followed by some activity on a youtbe accunt labelled 'Hell Interface' (BoC boffins will recognise it as a past pseudonym of the duo) and a video teaser on Adult Swim I had my suspicions that something was going on and I was right! It might not be the BoCSet of their old unreleased albums we were promised but I'd argue the first new LP since 2005's The Campfire Headphase is even better. Check out the Adult Swim teaser and an unlisted lovely lo-fi preview of the numbers station laden vinyl track after the released artwork.

Slow Saturday

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:53:00 +0000

With us moving to new hosting soon and the focus being on more legal streaming I've been toying around with making little mix type dealies again. Here's one I've worked on for a couple of days that's pretty chilled, check it out after more art by me I hope you dig it!

Slow Saturday Tape [click to download] |HTML5|

High quality version (above is VBR for streaming) can be downloaded from HERE or HERE if you're so inclined, and I'll put the tracklist after this, have a good weekend out there and remember: stay safe and enjoy the music!

Tracklist:
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Kittin Intro (Intimités EP, 1999)
Pretty Lights - Down The Line (Taking Up Your Precious Time, 2006)
Martina Topley Bird - Valentine (The Blue God, 2009)
The Knife - Vegetarian Restaurant (Hannah Med H Soundtrack, 2003)
Rex The Dog - Intro (The Rex The Dog Show, 2008)
XYYXX - About You (XXYYXX, 2012)
Pangaea - Router (You & I / Router, 2008)
Caspa - Scared Of The Unknown ('Ave It Vol. 2, 2008)
Röyksopp - Sparks (Melody A.M., 2001)

Charming Little Beaches in Charming Little College Towns

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:02:00 +0000

So a friend of mine going to one of the state universities about an hour asked if I'd come up and visit on one of my days off. It's a charming little college town with lots of record stores, antique stores and nice places to walk, and my social life sucks so I drove up yesterday. Upon recommendation of multiple other college kids, we went out to this beach. There was no parking, but everyone was parking on the street. I was assured this would be fine. After an hour or so on the beach, I returned to a $150 parking ticket.

One. Hundred. And. Fifty. Dollar. Parking. Fine.

"Park here," they said, "it will be fine," they said.

Well you fooled me once with your pretty eyes but I won't be fooled again.

(I realize this isn't electronic music, but I haven't seen anyone blogging about this song and I've been waiting for an opportunity to post it.)

Well, looks like I've got $150 to raise, so I'm gonna go weed through my record collection and see if there's anything I can part with. Ciao!

Silver, Silver

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:22:00 +0000

I meant to put up the single dealie along time ago before computer trouble came along. Anyway, Warp Mainstay and lo-fi tune crafter Bibio has been teasing at upcoming LP Silver Wilkinson for a while now, and Warp has a new tune from it up for streaming on their soundcloud.

To my delight it's another cut and chopped hip hoping number that bibio's been known to chuck in there every. The nice and dreamy intro gives way around a minute in letting that wonderfully chopped sample to slide on in and sit itself down in the mix lovely stuff indeed. Keep listening after the fadeout and you'll be treated to a lovely hazy soundscape that is no doubt influenced by Bibio's self proclaimed favourite album Music Has The Right To Children.

Also of note is this live version of Take Off Your Shirt from the T.O.Y.S single, cleverly and rather cheekily called Take Off Your Skirt. Like in Röyksopp's live shows he brings a totally different vibe to the tune, normally a fast paced indie style number. Also like Röyksopp live, this version features some liberal vocoder/talkbox working which just melds perfctly with the style. The reprisal at the end is pretty sweet too.

Gone Fishin',
-Claude Van Foxbat

Selektions

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:25:00 +0000

I was a latecomer to the Modselektor camp, I'd tried before to explore their sound but nothing gelled with me too well. That all changed come their third LP Monkeytown and since then I've been all over their stuff, lucky they have material spanning from here to 2003 then, there's a lot of variety to be had here.

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Starting off at the far end of things, I found this one just streaming youtubes one day. It's a brilliant slice of 'IDM' as they call it, and for sure an interesting look into how flexible the duo is as an aside to their usual electro style output. See if you can spot the cheeky amen breaks in it.

Modeselektor - Don't Panic [click to download] |HTML5|

On the flipside again, I was used to Modeselektor sounding fairly dark throughout their work (minus Siriusmo's contributions to Green Light Go) but again I was wrong. Buried towards the end of their debut LP Hello Mom! is this little lighthearted number that does actually remind me a bunch of Siriusmo (think Nights Off)

Modeselektor - I Love You [click to download] |HTML5|

And of course I couldn't let you go without letting a little of their usual in there. Happy Birthday! took me the longest to get into for sure cos it's a long(ish) album, bu one thing remains certain, the opening duet of tracks is borderline perfect.

Modeselektor - Godspeed [click to download] |HTML5|

Monkeying Around,
- Claude Van Foxbat

More Stuff

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:01:00 +0000

As you may have heard, Empire of the Sun is returning with a new album this June, and it's about damn time. Empire of the Sun put out some great stuff in the '08-'10 period (those 3 years when everything was just awesome), and I've been waiting for more brilliant tracks like We Are the People or Walking on a Dream ever since. It seems we might be getting just that.

I know some of the readers here are friends with me on Facebook, in which case you know that I'm a big Ellie Goulding fan. If she were an anime character and a I was a wiabu, she'd be mai waifu. But since I'm not that corny, she's just my favorite female pop artist, which is a much classier distinction. People may also have heard that I'm not a fan of Louis La Roche. Well I'm not. A lot of his strikes me as distinctly unoriginal, and I still don't believe his claims that he didn't intentionally impersonate Thomas Bangalter to promote his Peach EPin 2008. This remix kinda goes to prove my point- it's just dripping in Together. And also in Surkin. It's like he just superglued pieces of Surkin to Together with Ellie Goulding vocals. Meh. I dunno. I'm biased. Either way, this is still a very cool remix. I'm hoping to pick up the Halcyon Remixes album that Nike put out the other day to review it.

Also on Soundcloud, Magna posted this thing.

If you don't remember, Magna is an awesome American electro artist who released an EP on Power Glove Records a couple years ago and then quickly left his labelmates in the dust and became like a Super-Saiyan of production, and has been wowing everyone with crisp, fresh, genre-bending electro and house ever since. He's a pretty cool guy.

Giving Up on Giving Up

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:39:00 +0000

Never give up something crucial to who you are to please other people. You'd think that no one should have to say that, because it should just a given, but perhaps its not. Sacrifice is admirable, but there are some things you just shouldn't sacrifice for anyone, one of those things being your taste in music. When I left the Ilictronix writing staff around two years ago, it was something I didn't really want to do, but I was under a lot of pressure from important people in my life to 'grow up', and one of the things that clearly had to go was my childish love of cheesy, shallow dance music, and wasting so much time on the internet. Yeah, that was idiotic. It's taken me years to redefine myself as myself after finally throwing off the yoke of controlling, perfectionist peers.

There's be a bit of a paradigm shift within, and I still can't bring myself to appreciate the light-hearted jams I used to be in to. I call this the 'Grumpycat Syndrome', which has made it hard for me to appreciate anything fun and lighthearted, which is pretty much most of my old playlists. It's so bad I can't even listen to Discovery anymore. I mean, wtf, amirite? The first thing that really brought me back though was one Mr. Sebastian Akchote. There's something about this guy I just can't figure out, but everything he produces speaks to me on a deep emotional level. I guess you really have to be an electrohead for instrumental electro tracks with awkward rhythms and bits and pieces of music dashed to tiny pieces and sprinkled all over it to be 'deep' and 'emotional'. But it is. And to heck with you if you tell me it isn't! Coming on the tail-end of my re-transformation was the new Kavinsky album, which left me with a lot of new house-shakers for rainy house cleaning days.

So that's kinda where I've been for awhile now, and I want to share with you some of the songs I've had on rotation for the last month or two. You've probably heard most of them before, but sometimes a nice walk through the Room of Playlists Past is a little refreshing.

Klaxons - Golden Skans (SebastiAn Remix Demo) [click to download] |HTML5|

The Who - Baba O'Riley (SebastiAnRemix) [click to download] |HTML5|

SebastiAn - Embody (Kavinsky Remix) [click to download] |HTML5|

Kavinsky - Rampage [click to download] |HTML5|

Kavinsky - First Blood |HTML5|

Bloc Party - I Still Remember (SebastiAn Remix) [click to download] |HTML5|

Crystal Castles - Child I Will Hurt You [click to download] |HTML5|

Madeon vs. Katy Perry - Wide Awake for the Finale (TeeT's Mashup) [click to download] |HTML5|

Shesus - Debbie's Shoes (SebastiAn Remix) [click to download] |HTML5|

Crystal Castles - Sad Eyes [click to download] |HTML5|

Van She - We Move On [click to download] |HTML5|

Stay true, everyone.

The End Is Nigh

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:22:00 +0000

Bass virtuoso and former Suicidal Tendencies member Stephen Bruner dropped a single and a new album announcement yesterday. The follow up to The Golden Age Of The Apocalypse is fittingly titled Apocalypse and is out worldwide come July.

His funky vibes are a definite highlight in Brainfeeder's catalogue, and with Apocalypse dropping in the middle of summer I'll definitely be giving it some play and with label owner and hip hop maestro Flying Lotus is down as an Executive producer so this can only get better. Check out the single Heartbreaks + Setbacks below.

Plain To See,
-Claude Van Foxbat

Shame & Fame

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:31:00 +0000

I'm back! after a complete re-casing of my trusty PC (and a little upgrade why not?) we are officially back in action. Just in time for the end of spring break which is a bit of a bummer. But enough of that, I'm on a seedy electoclash kick again like it's 2003 and I'm a moody tech head in Berlin. Tracks and more after this delightfully crass artwork from the re-issue of Mount Sims' Ultrasex

Right, into the meat (no pun intended) of this release. Mount Sims is Matt Sims, and this is his debut LP before re-forming with a band as Mt. Sims in 2005. It's a sleazy electro-tech record that is very much a product of its time. But it is another fine example to the collection, far removed from the self lamenting bubblegum pop stylings of Golden Boy & Miss Kittin's Or, this record pulls no punches much like Frank Sinatra before it. But first, an instrumental.

Mount Sims - Later On That Night [click to download] |HTML5|

It's not long before we're treated to another fame bashing number that's expected of the scene by this point. Ultrasex is a nice meeting point of all the styles I've outlined so far, we have the Los Angeles longing much like Felix Da Housecat, the wistful musings in the vein of Golden Boy, the monotone culture critique of Miss Kittin & The Hacker and of course the all out filth like Peaches (which this album has in spades, especially on Hate Fuck).

Mount Sims - Black Sunglasses [click to download] |HTML5|

I also found this gem on my travels from our favourite distributor of electronic smut International DeeJay Gigolo Records. This is actually an alias of detroit man Gerald Donald of Arpanet and Dopplereffekt fame. The name is really befitting of the tunes, a lot of them do sound like kitschy Japanese advertising jingles, however much like in his Arpanet work, he really has a way with sounds that I really dig. Check it out if you're looking for a obscue-ish detroit electro style record.

Japanese Telecom - Virtual Origami [click to download] |HTML5|

This starts very nicely, then about halfway through it turns from this laid back electro stlye jaunt to some rumbly techno goodness. The transition is smooth all things considered, and I dig both sides of the track though I have to say I do like the first half a little bit more than the second, cheesy as it may be.

Japanese Telecom - Remote Transmitter [click to download] |HTML5|

And finally, bringing us back around to familiar tech territory, Miss Kittin & The Hacker's cover of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams from their early Intimités EP. Hacker's production breathes a new vibe into the tune, and Kittin's delivery is spot on, they cover tunes like this a lot when they play live and its a shame most don't see a proper release. Enjoy regardless.

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Sweet Dreams [click to download] |HTML5|

Good Service,
-Claude Van Foxbat

A Glitch Is A Glitch

scalesjordan@gmail.com (Prez Jordan) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:53:00 +0000

The forces of the internet collided the other day when beat crafter Flying Lotus spun a tune for cult cartoon Adventure Time.

The tune is a lovely return the the chiptune style that opened FlyLo's debut 1983back in '06 with some elements from the Pattern + Grid World EP showing through at times. It was a free download from his SC, but its since been disabled it seems. I'm sure you can find it if you shop around a little though!
What Time Is It?
- Claude Van Foxbat