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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Thunderdome: the Dutch rave with the world's fastest, hardest music

Thunderdome launched with a giant octopus on an ice rink – and created the Netherlands’ biggest youth culture movement. Three decades on, it’s stronger and tougher than ever

Last weekend, Thunderdome made history: 50,000 ravers massed at a convention centre in Utrecht for the biggest indoor hardcore dance event ever staged, breaking its own record set two years ago when it pulled off the mother of all comebacks, and reclaimed its crown as the world’s greatest living hardcore rave.

The site is mapped out like a theme park, with six areas of music ranging from the slower early rave sound of the “Thundergods” to the 200+ beats per minute blasting from the Tunnel of Terror. Tonight we’re paying homage to the most significant youth culture movement in the Netherlands, gabber, which is why there’s also a gabber museum, displaying limited-edition Nikes and multicoloured Australian-brand jackets – the gabber uniform – plus a tattoo station inking diehards with Thunderdome’s iconic Wizard logo, and a gabber barber serving up undercuts.

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by Holly Dicker via Electronic music | The Guardian

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Tricky review – a bizarre but brilliant enigma

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
After a year of tragedy, the spotlight-shy producer stays in the shadows during this erratic yet utterly mesmerising set

Tricky has always been allergic to celebrity. When his 1995 debut album, Maxinquaye, went No 3 and made him a media darling, his horrified reaction was to dismiss the “coffee-table” record and the trip-hop movement it birthed, and to move his music firmly left field to evade unwanted critical hyperbole.

Related: Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’

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by Ian Gittins via Electronic music | The Guardian

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Sudan Archives: Athena review – Afro futurism goes mainstream

(Stones Throw)

Although her name suggests a gem unearthed by the crate-digger label Awesome Tapes from Africa, Sudan Archives is an artist of now. Based in Los Angeles, the 24-year-old producer combines genre-defying sound with non-standard violin-playing and an Afro-futurist sensibility. Two previous EPs chart her journey from bedroom experiments with a loop station to fully realised, roots-inflected R&B tunes. So while Sudan Archives bears comparison to other queenly outliers like Solange or FKA Twigs, her sound has remained resolutely individual, informed by the electronic experiments of Cameroonian Francis Bebey.

On this debut album, Sudan’s sphere expands further. From the opening pizzicato plunk of Did You Know to the sultry distortions of Pelicans in the Summer, the variety of modes on offer has pixelated. Tracks like Confessions find western classical strings scything across a song about personal exile, while party grooves like Glorious boast a swirling north African motif on the fiddle. The album title takes its inspiration from Black Athena, a controversial scholastic work on the Egyptian influence on ancient Greece, though the songs often lean more towards the arty end of the mainstream, losing touch slightly with the startling radicalism of Sudan Archives’ early sound.

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by Kitty Empire via Electronic music | The Guardian

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Wah Wah Radio – October 2019

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Funk Factory – Rien Ne Va Plus

SAULT – Living in America

Brainstory – Mnemophobia

The Midnight Hour – Harmony

Natalie Cole & Peabo Bryson – What You Won’t Do For Love

The Milk – Never Come Down

Kavinsky – Nightcall

Velvet Underground – Rock & Roll

Duke Ellington – Jeep’s Blues

Chet Baker – The Thrill is Gone

The Milk – Colours

Joanna Newsome – The Book of Right On

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

The month's best mixes: digital sludge, techno slammers and Kylie

In our dispatches from the edges of dance culture, Florentino, Oli XL and Boomerang condense tracks into hyper-dense raves while Mx Silkman spreads out into dub

Oli XL — Lily Mix (on NTS)

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by Tayyab Amin via Electronic music | The Guardian

'We're an open wound': São Paulo's underground music scene

Brazil has long had countercultural music, but Jair Bolsonaro’s repressive presidency has made this community more determined than ever

‘When he got stabbed I just thought, we’re fucked. If he is alive, there is nothing we can do.” Brazilian journalist Amauri Gonzo is recalling the moment that he knew Jair Bolsonaro would be elected his country’s president. The stabbing of the far-right candidate seemed to confirm the picture of Brazil that Bolsonaro had been painting to voters: lawless, unsafe, and in need of a leader unafraid to meet violence with violence. Just two months later, in protest at five years dogged by economic crisis, corruption scandals and political turmoil, Brazil chose the openly racist, misogynistic, homophobic and anti-environmentalist former paratrooper as its leader. The underground musical community, which had come out in force against the extreme right candidate, was stunned. “It all went quiet,” says Gonzo, “like, ‘Oh, what do we do now?’”

Brazilian music might bring to mind the warm breeze of bossa nova, or a sound humid with the sweat of carnival, but a group of loosely connected São Paulo artists are making much harsher music to reflect, and resist, the Bolsonaro era, underlining values of community and artistic freedom.

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by Philip Bloomfield via Electronic music | The Guardian

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Sŵn festival review – weirdness and wonder in Cardiff's alt-pop paradise

Various venues, Cardiff
Based everywhere from an Irish chain pub to an antiques centre, this slickly organised festival shows how varied and vibrant today’s indie scene is

Prowling the stage at Clwb Ifor Bach, the Murder Capital’s James McGovern sums up the mood at Cardiff’s Sŵn festival: “There’s only one thing we want: more.” The crowd responds, stoking the Dublin post-punks’ fires as they charge from coiled menace towards frenzied collapse.

Smouldering among the dying embers of the weekend their set is the ideal capper to the event, which sprawls across a number of venues in the Welsh capital. Foregrounding new music and a sense of adventure, the bill must satisfy both planners and gamblers, and does so adeptly. Twelve years on from its first staging, Sŵn is a slick machine defined by rapid turnarounds and minimal clashes.

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by Huw Baines via Electronic music | The Guardian

Monday, October 21, 2019

Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #34 on Soho Radio

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The Milk – Colours

SAULT – Threats

Ghost Funk Orchestra – Slow Down

James Alexander Bright – Friends (Lovers Lost) (Edit)

Tawiah – Lost in a Dream

Jamael Dean – Kronos

Masok – Right Up Your Alley

Corey King – 3 Years

Yelfris Valdes – After Sly

Colectivo Arte & Manha – Mystic Brew

Jaimie Branch – Nuevo Roquero Esteréo 

Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon – Highlife (Radio Edit)

Penya Na Familia Ya Zawose – Heyyeh (Guedra Guedra Remix)

Damon Locks – Sounds Like Now

Sun Ra Arkestra – Children of the Sun

Miyasaka + 5 – Animals Garden

Sefi Zisling – Happy Solar Return feat. Kutiman 

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Struggle Sounds (Night Dreamer D2D Version) 

Butti 49 – Spiritual Rotations (Panoptikum Arkestra Soulinarium Session Remix)

Kraak & Smaak – Same Blood feat. The Palms

Leroy Burgess & Saving Coco – Til I Found You

Surprise Chef – All News Is Good News

Justine – Mama Didn’t Tell Ya

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Saturday, October 19, 2019

Floating Points: Crush review – beauty out of chaos

(Ninja Tune)

The second album from Floating Points – Manchester-born producer Sam Shepherd – is immediately visceral. Shepherd is a neuroscientist, and his sound has often been more cerebral and delicate than that of his UK electronic music peers (he first emerged at the peak of dubstep and breakbeat). His 2015 debut Elaenia was met with much critical acclaim, and this follow-up retains Shepherd’s intricate exploration, while pushing his sonics to a new realm of intensity. The opening track Falaise swims with familiarly warm orchestral sounds, yet Crush as a whole crescendos into moments of bleeps and whirring that invoke a disarming anxiety.

The album’s title, says Shepherd, is not to do with a romantic yearning, but with the helplessness of contemporary inevitabilities: climate change and self-serving politics. His signature cosmic lightness is often married here with weightier sounds: the urgent UK bass on LesAlpx; the slowburning elegance of Karakul juxtaposed with dissonant glitches; Bias pairs lithe garage beats with an eerie melody. Beautifully crafted, Crush unsettles with its quiet, fervent chaos bubbling beneath its surface.

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by Tara Joshi via Electronic music | The Guardian

Friday, October 18, 2019

Vagabon: Vagabon review

(Nonesuch)
Swapping crunching guitars for softer electronics, Laetitia Tamko’s second album is both sharp and tender

When Laetitia Tamko released her 2017 debut as Vagabon, the Cameroon-born artist was described as a saviour of indie rock, a genre largely dominated by white performers. The accolades were as limiting as they were well-intentioned, burdening Tamko as a corrective to a sound that probably didn’t represent the sum of her ambition or ability. Whether it’s a natural evolution or a pointed refusal, her second album swaps crunching guitars for a softer, mostly synthetic setting, a sound as expansive as it is intimate.

Related: Vagabon review – indie's enchanting outcast roars in ear-bleeding triumph

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by Laura Snapes via Electronic music | The Guardian

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

DOM SERVINI’S ALLO LOVE TEN :: OCTOBER 2019

  1. SAULT – 5 (Forever Living Originals LP)
  2. Brainstory – Buck (Big Crown Promo DL)
  3. Theo Parrish – What You Gonna Ask For feat. Lori (Dego Remix) (Sound Signature 12)
  4. Out of the Ordinary – Stranger Things Have Happened (Ramrock Red LP)
  5. David Walters – Memory EP (Heavenly Sweetness Promo DL)
  6. Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 – Joia! (Banana & Louie LP)
  7. V/A – Disco With a Feeling (Tramp Promo DL)
  8. Homeboy Sandman – Far Out (Mello Music Group Promo DL)
  9. Mr K – Happiness (Edit) (MXMRK 12)
  10.  Karate Boogaloo – Tom’s Diner (Hopestreet Promo DL)

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Wah Wah 45s Celebrate 20 Years at The Jazz Cafe on 23 November

Wah Wah 45s return to their spiritual home to celebrate twenty years of forward thinking soulful music. 

Some of you may remember the legendary Wah Wah Friday night sessions in the late 90s and early 00s run by label founders Chris Goss, his late brother Simon, and young pup Dom Servini. Those parties were a mainstay of North London club culture at the time, and what better way to celebrate two decades of the record label than to conjure up some of that magic once again with Chris and Dom joined by other label boss, Scrimshire. 

Expect deep disco, soul, boogie, house and classics from the Wah Wah vaults.

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See you there!

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NEW RELEASE: The Milk – Colours

The Milk have released a new single entitled ‘Colours’. Per the band themselves:

As a band, we have always shied away from any overt reference to society when discussing our music. It always seemed to us that there we’re more informed people who could deal with that sort of thing. However, whilst writing the latest record our sentiments have swayed somewhat. Maybe it’s just the natural process of getting older, perhaps wiser; maybe its a reflection of the environment we find ourselves in as the thoughtful silent majority in Britain today. 

There is a severe lack of real critical thinking in our society. Especially when division and prejudice have become the mainstream. All of us can choose to challenge the propagation of this fucking stupidity and maybe music can no longer be a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. 

‘Colours’ is ultimately a song about unity.

So close your eyes, have a listen and remember we are all the same when the lights are off.

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The Milk at Hoxton Hall

The Milk will be headlining Hoxton Hall on 25 October in London.

Without an ounce of pretence or artifice, The Milk howls, screams, cries, and yells in voices ragged with pain and a lived life. There is a virtual assembly line of retro soul funk bands with music coming from across the seas inspired by the golden age of ‘60s soul in their sound influenced by Northern Soul but also by such bands as the J.B.’sThe Bar-KaysThe Funk BrothersBooker T. & The M.G.’s and other classic soul outfits.

There is confidence when The Milk gets dirty and dark, intricately layered compositions with deceptively simple melody lines but, they can be as playful and sunny pop with their sound too. The four-elements band ensures a expertly mixed variety of music palettes that travel the late ‘60s to early ‘70s expanse, but never sacrifices project cohesion and whose use of vintage production techniques serves to add texture and nuance to The Milk’s work.

The intimate Hoxton Hall concert on 25th October will be a chance to listen to The Milk‘s new music from the band’s forthcoming LP, as well as some old favourites.

Age policy: 18+ only

Doors open: 7.30pm

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The Rail Abandon at The Green Note 5/11

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The Rail Abandon at Mount Pleasant Eco Park 2/11

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Bev Lee Harling at Kino Theatre 19/10

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Resonators at Gebäude 9 14/12

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Monday, October 14, 2019

No Bounds festival review – from bassline to ambient at Sheffield weekender

Various venues, Sheffield
With spectacular AV sets in a steelworks museum and immersive ambient in a swimming pool, local talent, international DJs and the city share equal billing

The dance music festival calendar is largely defined by two elements: the summer months and European outfits such as Dekmantel and Dimensions. But No Bounds in Sheffield is putting in the work to maintain a thriving electronic music festival scene in the UK, even as the seasons turn and the skies get gloomier.

It’s heartening to see that the organisers have invested care to make sure that its line-up isn’t just a copycat of its European cousins, nor concentrated on big names for maximum commercial success. There’s a particular focus on acts from close to home: Sheffield DJs such as Tino, Stevie Cox and 96 Back are booked alongside bigger names to ensure the local scene is nourished by the festival.

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by Jemima Skala via Electronic music | The Guardian

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood: 'Instead of cocaine, hook me up with a recorder group!'

He has composed a Prom and scored Paul Thomas Anderson films. As he launches his own classical record label, the guitarist reveals how it all started with the humble recorder

Jonny Greenwood is looking well, all things considered. There’s a thin triangle of stubble on his top lip that the morning razor has missed and a slight bleariness around the eyes, but it’s unlikely anyone spotting Radiohead’s lead guitarist in the corner of this London cafe at 10am would guess that he hasn’t been to bed for 24 hours. “No, not really had any sleep,” he mutters, running a hand through his shiny dark hair. “Hour, maybe?”

He’s here to discuss his new classical music record label, Octatonic, but at midnight he was taking a bow at the Albert Hall following a meticulously curated Prom. It was the culmination of his second life as a composer, a 16-year career that has seen him write for the London Sinfonietta, work as composer-in-residence for BBC Concert Orchestra, collaborate with the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and create remarkable scores for the films of Lynne Ramsay and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Paul Thomas Anderson sent me some film clips and I thought: 'It's going to be nice to be in a band with this person'

Volume 1: Partita No 2 in D minor and Volume 2: Industry, Water are out on Jonny Greenwood’s Octatonic Records.

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by Andrew Male via Electronic music | The Guardian

'It's a new golden age': Radio 3 launches video game music show

Presenter Jessica Curry says she wants to prove it’s not all about soundtracking battle scenes – there are plenty of beautiful, relaxing sounds, too

Radio 3 is launching a new weekly programme dedicated to video game soundtracks. Running on Saturday afternoons from 26 October, the hour-long show will be presented by composer Jessica Curry, who won a Bafta for her work with UK studio The Chinese Room and created and presented Classic FM’s video game music programme, High Score.

“[BBC presenter and journalist] Tom Service and his producer Brian Jackson came to interview me for Radio 3 at Chinese Room a couple of years ago, and we all really hit it off,” said Curry. “Tom’s an avid gamer and there was a definite feeling of excitement about the gaming scene and the music that’s being composed for games.

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by Keith Stuart via Electronic music | The Guardian

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Simon Harrison and the Basic Soul Show - Musique Non Stop


Simon Harrison and the Basic Soul Show - Musique Non Stop

Link to Basic Soul: Homepage of Simon Harrison and the Basic Soul Show

Posted: 29 Sep 2019 05:27 AM PDT
Playlist:
Bowman Trio - Badwater [We Jazz Records]
Forty Seven Times Its Own Weight - Cumulo Nimbus [Jazzman Records]
Franck Valmont - Maléré [Sommor]
Raices - Parata gua gua [Nemperor Records]
George Kawaguchi Big Four - Vietnam [BBE Music]
30/70 - Fluid Motion [Rhythm Section International]
EVM128 feat. Renato Paris - Changes (Renato's Live Version) [Studio Rockers]
Detroit Swindle - The Life Behind Things (Isoul8 Remix) [Heist Recording
East Of Eden feat. Javonntte - Days Go By [Distant Hawaii]
Daniel Maunick - Dirty Trix [Far Out Recordings]
Thatmanmonkz - Easy Still (w/ a brother is... ) [Shadeleaf Music]
Herbert With Dani Siciliano - So Now... [Phonography/Accidental Jnr]
Dego feat. Nia Andrews - Until Its Done [2000 Black]
Kool Customer - Fastlane [Bastard Jazz Recordings]
Submerse feat. Devin Morrison & Pink Siifu - Flashback [Project Mooncircle]
Michele Manzo - Long Deep Breath [Darker Than Wax]
A Tribe Called Quest feat. D-Life - Pad & Pen [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - Luck Of Lucien [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've Got) [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum [Jive]
De La Soul feat. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah & Monie Love - Buddy [Tommy Boy]
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - God Lives Through [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - Jam [Jive]
A Tribe Called Quest - Find A Way [Jive]
Jungle Brothers feat. De La Soul, Monie Love, A Tribe Called Quest & Queen Latifah ‎– Doin' Our Own Dang [Warner]
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RAPPAMELO | Ronin Arkestra – Sonkei | Musique Non Stop


RAPPAMELO | Ronin Arkestra – Sonkei | Musique Non Stop

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Posted: 28 Sep 2019 10:58 AM PDT


Ronin Arkestra. Sonkei. aww. good. dam good. yeah. Available. at. roninarkestra.bandcamp.com. enjoy.
full stream. Spotify. Deezer.
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Thursday, October 3, 2019

Wah Wah 45s at The Jazz Cafe 23/11

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Dele Sosimi at The Jazz Cafe 24/1

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Dele Sosimi at Rich Mix 24/11

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Dele Sosimi at Ninety One Living Room 22/11

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Dele Sosimi at the Royal Academy 14/11

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Dele Sosimi at Boisdale Canary Wharf 7/11

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

The month's best mixes: downbeat digi-dub and intergalactic ambient

Israel Vines spotlights the sci-fi sounds of techno legend Jeff Mills, while Via App is on creepy, confrontational form

Deep Mind Music: Aos

Related: The month's best mixes: blood-pumping beats and meditative techno

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by Lauren Martin via Electronic music | The Guardian

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Vorsprung durch techno: the glory days of Berlin clubbing – in pictures

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, empty industrial spaces were soon filled with the sounds of banging techno, from illicit parties that went on for days. Now, a new exhibition and book commemorates the legendary scene. Geh hart oder geh nach hause!

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Dele Sosimi at Prince of Peckham 17/10

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Dele Sosimi Family Gig at Eco Park 13/10

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Dele Sosimi at Eco Park 12/10

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Dele Sosimi at Fiddlers 11/10

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Dele Sosimi at Shapes Festival 5/10

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Dele Sosimi at Leytonstone Ballroom 4/10

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