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[Janjuggler]

Hi All,

 

Maxmillion Dunbar, House Of Woo

 

 

Review from: www.residentadvisor.net

 

Maxmillion Dunbar's recent material has exuded a certain gentle euphoria, almost like he's programmed his synths to emit little blasts of serotonin with each hook or melody. It's a formula that works because each splash of colour is anchored by rugged, hypnotic drums—the rough and the smooth work in unison. By releasing House of Woo through New York label RVNG Intl., the DC-based producer (real name Andrew Field-Pickering) has room to indulge his more esoteric leanings. Whereas Cool Water, his 2010 debut album on Ramp, was at times a little too cluttered, his second full-length is the work of a more assured hand.

Field-Pickering's various musical loves—hip-hop, classic house and dusty boogie records—are manifest throughout the album, although never overbearingly so. In the end it's a new age streak that seems most noticeable, and at times House of Woo seems to reflect a youth spent listening to Genesis and Morgan Fisher records in a smoke-filled bedroom. (Think of the pan flute that comes in midway through the album's opening salvo, "Slave to the Vibe.")

Littered throughout the LP are a number of dance floor-not-dance floor curios—"Coins for the Canopy" shuffles and sparkles, "The Figurine (Nod Mix)" is a tape-saturated melange of clipped vocals and curiously out of time keys, while "Inca Tags" is a nod to Field-Pickering's love of hip-hop. He knows how to program a bassline, too: "Ice Room Graffiti" stands up against the chunkiest '80s boogie tracks, the filtered swells of bottom-end working neatly with the swinging hats.

"Peeling an Orange in One Piece" sees our man return to woodwinds, while "Loving the Drift" injects some drama into proceedings, and with it the grand, sweeping strokes of colour from the record's first half are distilled into a more reflective tone. It's a mood that seeps into "World Taste Sweet (Stuck in the Middle)," which sees smoky puffs of sax rise through a landscape pockmarked with junkyard percussive hits and vocal snippets. House of Woo may be playful and irreverent, but that shouldn't disguise its status as a potent exploration of sound.

 

JJ

[Hydrology]

Stark Feat. Nitzer Ebb & David Arscott    
"Fall In Love With Me"
Pylon Records 

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Coil presents Black Light District 

 

[metal beat]

Clan Of Xymox ‎– Medusa. 1986 4AD original pressing. produced by influential English producer John Fryer. early darkwave synth. still cool all these years later.

[Hydrology]

I used to buy some 4AD records just for the artwork!

[cafe67]

13 hours ago, metal beat said:

Clan Of Xymox ‎– Medusa. 1986 4AD original pressing. produced by influential English producer John Fryer. early darkwave synth. still cool all these years later.

Wow just wow, bought this when it came out, , this and their first album were brilliant. 

Edited September 11, 2019 by cafe67

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Cornucopia - .C. Works. Electronica of various styles. Cornucopia hail from Puerto Rico

 

 

1-01    –Cornucopia    .C.
Performer – Claudio Chea, Jorge Castro
Remastered By – Claudio Chea
37:32
2-01    –Omei    I/C/U - (Intensive Care Remix)    9:22
2-02    –Needle & Sony Mao    dotCdot    6:12
2-03    –Lasse Marhaug   Frozen    4:10
2-04    –Black Sand Desert    Caustic Sermon On A Shattered Cylinder    5:43
2-05    –RGV    (.C.)onsilence    6:02
2-06    –Ultra Milkmaids    Hé-riko    5:15
2-07    –David Wells    op.r 01    5:49
2-08    –TV Pow    Don't Sweat The Credit Card Balance, It'll All Be Over Soon    5:09
2-09    –Duul_Drv    To See Cedars    4:01
2-10    –Andrew Duke    .C. (Andrew Duke Remix)    4:22
2-11    –Kim Cascone    The Brides' Glass Domain    6:39
2-12    –Critikal    Inexorable Process Of Suction    5:22
2-13    –Zanstones    Corniption Fit    3:36
2-14    –Francisco López    Untitled #139    6:10
 

[wim]

 

[mrbuzzardstubble]

 

[James Broadhurst]

Found this recent album while going down the roon radio rabbit hole. Never heard of these guys but it's absolutely incredible

[att23]

Blast from the past...

Feel quite uncool posting this, but I do like digging out old CDs to give them a spin every decade or so... LOL.  This one from the late 90s I think?

[Love_music]

Klaus Schulze ~ Kontinuum

 

[wim]

 

[wim]

 

[zog]

https://music.pitchblack.co.nz/album/third-light

 

new Pitch Black album flac download - sounding good so far!

 

[Janjuggler]

Hi All,

 

Jean-Michel Jarre Electronica, The Time Machine 

 

 

JJ

[metal beat]

Crystal Castles ‎– Amnesty (I). their last album from 2016 - brilliant creepy electronica

[Pops110]

On 05/08/2019 at 1:37 PM, metal beat said:

 

I think they call it darkwave as it is based around synths.   Guitar based is shoegaze.   Some fans of either are not fans and of both - not me thou.

  In the end, doesn't really matter.

 

anyway, check this chick out - damn fine

 

Maya Jane Coles ‎– Take Flight - 3 LP set from the English/Japanese Maya - superb downtempo trip hop - just the music for groovin to on an afternoon.

Hey mate, got any more suggestions like this? I’m loving all of her stuff. Thanks for the tip.

[metal beat]

On 20/09/2019 at 7:16 PM, Pops110 said:

Hey mate, got any more suggestions like this? I’m loving all of her stuff. Thanks for the tip.

 

 Mays's alter ego Nocturnal Sunshine is excellent.

https://www.discogs.com/Nocturnal-Sunshine-Nocturnal-Sunshine/release/7186891

 

check this out - very good.

 

Crooked Colours ‎– Langata. Neo Techno Australian band's new 2nd album . on Sweat It Out! records

Edited September 24, 2019 by metal beat

[Pops110]

16 minutes ago, metal beat said:

 

 Mays's alter ego Nocturnal Sunshine is excellent.

https://www.discogs.com/Nocturnal-Sunshine-Nocturnal-Sunshine/release/7186891

 

check this out - very good.

 

Crooked Colours ‎– Langata. Neo Techno Australian band's new 2nd album . on Sweat It Out! records

I’m loving Nocturnal Sunshine, i will definitely have a listen to Crooked Colours. I’m sure I’ve heard a few of their songs. Thanks mate.

[Guest deanB]

T. Raumschmiere- Blitzkrieg Pop

 

[hired goon]

 

State Azure - Modular Works III -- as the title says, the third volume in this series of modular synth noodlings.  25 tracks and almost 4 hours of mostly chilled electronica. "Name Yer Price" lossless download from Bandcamp.

 

--Geoff

[mrbuzzardstubble]

Kilo

Kilo are Austrians Florian Bogner and Markus Urban, and this is their second full-length release on Onitor after 2004's "folktronic" Augarten release. As much as their music was located in the center of this newly-proclaimed genre, it also insisted on being different. Kilo produce electronic music which deals with patterns specific to the genre, which examines them in order to deconstruct them -- resulting in a complex, uncategorizably organic sound. Compared to Augarten, the music on this release is much more fragile: aside from the guitars and the clicks and the cuts, there are new sound elements creating musical intensity through denseness. Within the minimal genre, Kilo manage to wrassle the density into something that sounds like Robert Wyatt, Kai Althoff's workshop, or the New York no wave sound of the late '70s at the gateway between Brian Eno and DNA. This release is inspired by an amalgam of techno, house, free-jazz, rock, ambient and tape-music, and the pieces were built out of improvisation, even during the production process. Urban and Bogner usually work with artifacts of free improvisation, putting tiny little pieces together and making new connections by inviting guest musicians to try their hand at modification. For this release, Kilo invited musicians (double bass, trumpet, horns) from the Klangforum Wien for guest appearances. The combination of all these exciting elements can be heard on Kilo - Forced Exposure.

[Love_music]

Steve Roach ~ Atmosphere For Dreaming

 

[Cope]

 

Cevin Key - Brap and Forth Volume 8

 

These Brap albums are always a mixed bag - some cool textures, some repetitive junk. This is about half and half, if I'm being honest. I really need to research who else makes music in the Skinny Puppy vein and broaden my horizons a bit.