tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78216497166539408812024-03-13T22:43:36.316-04:00Night Thief ConfessionalKelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-32523874651141551852016-12-28T23:56:00.000-05:002016-12-29T12:36:24.701-05:00Final Credits - Faves 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A long strange playlist for a long strange year, here are my personal favorite tracks of 2016, a year that felt more like an endless procession of Boschian nightmares than a standard measurement of the earth's rotation around the sun. </div>
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<li>Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker </li>
<li>Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth</li>
<li>Gonjasufi - Krishna Punk</li>
<li>Kiki Hitomi - Nightwalkers </li>
<li>A Tribe Called Quest – Melatonin </li>
<li>Mura Masa – Love$ick (ft. A$AP Rocky) (Four Tet Remix)</li>
<li>Mosca - Cedar Wood State (Volt mix)</li>
<li>Pearson Sound – XLB</li>
<li>J. Albert - See You At The Bank</li>
<li>Paul Woolford - No Requests (Special Request Fantasy FM Mix)</li>
<li>DJRum – Sometime I Share (Space Race Part 3)</li>
<li>Burial – Young Death</li>
<li>Willow - Untitled A2 (Workshop 23) </li>
<li>Sofie Letitre - Perfect Mistake (The Thing With Five Eyes Remix)</li>
<li>Machine Woman - I Can Mend Your Broken Heart (Kassem Mosse Remix)</li>
<li>DJ QU - Lotus (feat. Charlotte Carter-Allen)</li>
<li>Midland - Final Credits</li>
<li>Hi & Saberhägen - WC122</li>
<li>Wbeeza – Ferguson</li>
<li>Neinzer - The Beacon</li>
<li>ZK Bucket - Your Body (drifter remix)</li>
<li>Isaac Tichauer - Higher Level (Bicep Mix)</li>
<li>Mano Le Tough - Energy Flow (DJ Koze's Splasher remix)</li>
<li>Bonus: Escape From New York - Fire In My Heart (Instrumental Dub)</li>
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<b>Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker </b></div>
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<i>“There's a lullaby for suffering, And a paradox to blame”</i> </div>
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In theme and tone this haunting track is the perfect investigation of the cold, dark fog that settled over this year and the struggle and desperation to glean any sense from it. That Cohen, like so many other great artists this year, delivered it and then walked off stage forever seems viciously appropriate.</div>
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<b>Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth</b></div>
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<i>“He said morality is dead on that side. It’s been thrown on the ground on this side.”</i></div>
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Nicolas Jaar sounding not a little bit like classic Never Never Land UNKLE? This is one of those moments when I feel like a solitary member of the target audience for a track.</div>
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<b>Gonjasufi - Krishna Punk</b></div>
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Something about Callus left me a little flat, too many too short / too similar songs perhaps. But there are still a few transcendental moments and the inclusion of Pearl Thompson’s guitar (formerly of a little band called The Cure), turns out to be a brilliant counterpoint for all that hum and fuzz of the Sufi’s production and voice. Add some raga-punk urgency and I’m sold.</div>
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<b>Kiki Hitomi - Nightwalkers </b></div>
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Kiki Hitomi solo LP is as strange and wonderful as you would expect. This lurching late night fever dream of track is one of several highlights. </div>
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<b>A Tribe Called Quest – Melatonin </b></div>
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<i>“The world is crazy and I cannot sleep, but…”</i></div>
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One of the all too scarce comforts in this horror show death march of a year was that the Tribe LP was so good. Neither a nostalgic re-tread of past glory nor a pained break in new direction, We Got It From Here... is like an old friend turning up after years (18!) and immediately reminding you of why you used to hang so much. But even this was bitter-sweet with Phife passing just before it saw the light of day. </div>
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<b>Mura Masa – Love$ick (ft. A$AP Rocky) (Four Tet Remix)</b></div>
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The annual obligatory Four Tet entry. I don’t know a thing about Mura Masa but he and Rocky have a nice little pop song here, however when you add those Four Tet remix chops and that off-kilter yet driving percussion, it's insanely addicting, much like last year <a href="https://soundcloud.com/chvrches/chvrches-leave-a-trace-four-tet-remix-1">Chvrches rework</a> and most likely next year’s yet unheard gem. </div>
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<b>Mosca - Cedar Wood State (Volt mix)</b></div>
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The electro b-boy bleeper meets Mosca’s next level production chops. In lesser hands this could have been a solid but forgettable DJ tool but instead it is as restless as it is relentless without feeling figety or overproduced. Someone needs to get this to the Showtime! kids on the train. </div>
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<b>Pearson Sound – XLB</b></div>
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In my mind this is a spiritual kin to Cedar Wood State albeit with more of its grime & UKF DNA at the surface. Again it is a pretty sparse affair but the production and sound design take it too another level. This is the sound of the stripped down experiments on last year’s LP being weaponized for the afterhours warehouse and was probably responsible for the most WTF dancefloor moments of the year. </div>
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<b>J. Albert - See You At The Bank</b></div>
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Ridgewood QNS representing. Not sure if the title is a shout out to the classic Houston St. club - pretty sure J. Albert is young enough that his mom could have been an og regular - but there is something just the right side of nostalgic in this one.</div>
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<b>Paul Woolford - No Requests (Special Request Fantasy FM Mix) </b></div>
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The best bit of the Special Request project is that it’s not just jungle tropes being repurposed, it’s the whole of English underground, so you get early hardcore and even a bit of speed garage in the mnix for good measure. I’m also a big fan of having your weirdo alias remix your tracks even if it may be psychologically questionable.</div>
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<b>DJRum – Sometime I Share (Space Race Part 3)</b></div>
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A return to form for DJRum. Something in the vibe of this one, that R&B vocal juxtaposed with the rawness of the break and bassline, reminds me of classic Stuck on Earth, backroom at Vinyl, jump-up jungle. Those hand claps weaving in and out of the breaks though, that's something all together fresh.</div>
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<b>Burial – Young Death</b></div>
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The return of the year end Burial release. This one reaches back to classic Untrue, though the trance chords and sudden tempo changes of the newer materials are still here. The result is an uneasy balance of the familiar and unknown, a dynamic that has been essential to Burial's work since South London Boroughs. </div>
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<b>Willow - Untitled A2 (Workshop 23) </b></div>
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Talk about killing it on your first official release. This is the paradigm for a less is more approach, stripping everything back to the essentials and then just finessing the groove. Fathoms deep. Can't wait to hear more.</div>
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<b>Sofie Letitre - Perfect Mistake (The Thing With Five Eyes Remix)</b></div>
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The return of Jason Kohnen, aka Bong-Ra, and essential member of my two fave dark jazz outfits The Killminjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corp. Here in his new guise adding just enough doom to Ms. Letitre gorgeous vocal to make all the hair on your neck stand up. Also check <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thethingwithfiveeyes/live-at-the-nocturnus">Live at The Nocturnus</a> for the full Thing experience.</div>
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<b>Machine Woman - I Can Mend Your Broken Heart (Kassem Mosse Remix)</b></div>
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This team up was always going to killer, but this defied my expectations. Hypnotic and otherworldly, on a good set of headphones this track will lure you in and re-wire your neurons with each haunting refrain. </div>
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<b>DJ QU - Lotus (feat. Charlotte Carter-Allen)</b></div>
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DJ QU can do no wrong. That deep soulful vocal in an uneasy marriage to a raw-af growler of a bassline, the percussion constantly threatening to run off the rails but still propelling you forward. No one but QU does it like this. </div>
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<b>Midland - Final Credits</b></div>
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If you found yourself raving on boat, rooftop or sweaty warehouse this summer you most likely witnessed the power of this one to whip a crowd into a sweat soaked frenzy. From the teasing first cords building through to the massive climax worked every time. Add that huge melancholy, hell down right depressing vocal, for a year that had no time for songs about love and understanding and this one was a lock for underground anthem of the summer.</div>
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<b>Hi & Saberhägen - WC122</b></div>
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After wearing out sections of Four Tet and Ben UFO sets to listen to this one it finally gets a release. It’s pretty straight forward but those chords and that strained vocal sample get me every time.</div>
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<b>Wbeeza – Ferguson</b></div>
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A big, rolling slab of UK House, with just enough Detroit to give it serious resonance. Pretty one just runs dark and deep for days,</div>
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<b>Neinzer - The Beacon</b></div>
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Sometime around December of last year Ben UFO starting playing two wonderfully weird tracks that he conspicuously never named and never turned up on the tracklists of his Rinse shows. These tacks would turn out the be The Fear and it's flip side The Beacon by Neinzer, a produce had never heard of. By the time The Beacon finally hit wax in the fall, a certain strain of headz had worked themselves into a full on frenzy. After wearing out sections of radio shows listening to in on heavy repeat, the obsession final hit its apex when I got to witness Ben and Joy-O drop The Beacon at Sublimate, in a sweaty warehouse while early morning light poured through a filthy skylight. </div>
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<b>ZK Bucket - Your Body (Drifter remix)</b></div>
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In a year where my sunrise moments were more often found at the gym than the club/rave, teh combination of these two tracks in the hands of<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b074vwgj"> Ame & Dixon</a> were my sunrise gym anthem. Absolutely cathartic and revelatory while staying just on the right side of cheese the way only the Innervisions crew can do it.</div>
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<b>Mano Le Tough - Energy Flow (DJ Koze's Splasher remix)</b></div>
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No, subtle this one is not, but like everything Koze touches, it is a total fucking joy.</div>
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<b>Bonus: Escape From New York - Fire In My Heart (Instrumental Dub)</b></div>
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Pressed in a run of 500 copies in 1984 and then lost to obscurity, until DJ Harvey played it on Boiler Room and broke the internet / Discogs. A timely re-issue on new sub-label Isle o Jura followed and quickly resulting in that hug baseline rolling through my head when I woke every morning from May – August. Revenge from the two dollar bin. </div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call Super – Meltintu</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lena Willikens - Howlin Lupus</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joey Anderson - Under Water</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Future Poets – Infected</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skee Mask – Junt</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caiazzo – Refraction</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Physical Therapy – Hit the Breaks</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lake Haze x IVVVO – #1</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taro Tokugawa - Here My Dear</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plastikman – Expand (Tale of Us remix)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rrose – Vellum</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Levon Vincent - Woman Is An Angel</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BNS: C.A.R. - Idle Eyes (Roman Flügel Remix)</span></span></li>
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keys, swung percussion, and those lush horn licks, this initial offering from Flo
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Super – Meltintu</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
found both sides of this 12" extremely addicting. Perfectly balanced percussion and gorgeous melody that lingers like
the smell of spring rain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Roman
Flügel - Sliced Africa</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
track is so vibrant, so percussively busy, yet nothing is superfluous or out of
place. Guaranteed to put a smile on your
face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- Leave A Trace (Four Tet remix)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another
insanely good year for Kieran Hebden who I am becoming increasingly convinced
is actually a small army of clones. There
were any number of tracks that could have taken the annual Hebden slot on this
list: Digital Arpeggios, his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2VG_z05ZY">Hot Chip remix</a>, either side of the beautifully
left field<a href="https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/morning-side"> Morning/Evening LP</a>, even the epic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nIoXraa_Q">Eric Prydz remi</a>x, but this one has
just enough pop bliss to bring me back to it again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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– Loud Places (John Talabot’s Loud Synths Reconstruction) </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Talabot/ xx combination is always a guaranteed stunner and it’s no different
here, where Talabot takes the stand out track from In Colour and makes it
simultaneously deeper and more soaring without losing sight of the vibe of the
original. Also check out it’s even <a href="https://soundcloud.com/john-talabot/jamie-xx-loud-places-feat-romy-john-talabots-higher-dub">deeper, dubbier sister mix</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt
Karmil – Moment</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hands
down my summer jam of choice even if it didn’t really come out until fall. Which left me having to rewind an eight minute section of <a href="http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/788">Axel Bowman’s mix for BiS</a> so many times that I'm surprised I didn't wear our the mp3 like an old Maxell UR 90. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Niagara –
Falcão</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is
an absolutely filthy stomper. A much
more organic and groove conscious sound than his fellow Lisbon/Principe
producers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lena
Willikens - Howlin Lupus</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lena
Willikens' first Cómeme release is a perfect reflection of her rightfully revered DJ
style, dark, category defying and unapologetically weird while still having a cohesive drive that works on more open-minded dance floors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Joey
Anderson - Under Water</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of
those tracks that on good headphones or a big club system not just sounds but actually feels like it’s disassembling grey wet bits inside of your skull. All the swirling synths and off beat
percussion convey an uneasy sense that the track will fly apart at any moment into chaotic sheets of
noise but it never does, the groove buried deep in it's DNA keeps
everything moving forward even though it feels like time is standing still. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Future
Poets – Infected</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
favorite track from the Audio Rehab / deep tech universe. Though the dreamy vocals about being infected are a little off-putting. Also check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LPIJw_7WWo">MyDon</a> and ambitiously named
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/marcelluswallaceofficial/marcellus-wallace-dub-healy-book-bag-audio-rerab">Marcellus Wallace</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Skee Mask
– Junt</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huge year
for the Zenker Bors. / Ilian Tapes crew.
Their style of breaks/hardcore influenced German techno. This was my favorite of the lot but pretty
much everything they released was killer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Caiazzo –
Refraction</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A gritty
analog growler from the always on point Work Them camp. Refraction twists and mutates
into all manner of sinister shapes without ever taking it’s foot of the gas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Physical
Therapy – Hit the Breaks</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winner of
this year’s “what it says on the tin” award.
I’m not advocating for a new school breaks revival, but sometimes all
you really want is a chopped and stuttering breakbeat and monstrously ugly
bassline. If it comes with an added
layer of analog hum and grit, all the better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lake Haze
x IVVVO – #1</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
ambitiously named #1 sounds like someone found a classic late 90s trance 12”
that had repeatedly been used to cut out rails of Ket with a rusted razorblade and
just threw the mangled, gak grooved vinyl on the turntable and let it rip,
albeit with the cheesy drops and drum rolls thankfully excised. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Taro
Tokugawa - Here My Dear</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
rarest of treats in the internet age – a complete mystery. I can’t track down
any information on or other productions by Taro Tokugawa. All I know is this track came out on a series
curated by Samo out of Sweden. Furthermore, Here My Dear appears to exist out of time and place with only the rushing synths that rise up a
third of the way through giving any indication that it is a contemporary
recording. In any event it’s totally
enchanting and rewards repeated, obsessive listening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Damian
Lazarus & The Ancient Moons – Vermillion (&Me Remix)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">&Me
has become a can’t miss producer over the last few years.
This year saw the mighty <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andmeandyou/me-woods-km028">Woods</a> get played by just about everyone,
but this mix, that matches that meditative &Me percussion and dramatic
builds with the psychedelic vibe and quasi-occult lyrics of Damian Lazarus full
band project The Ancient Moons hits the sweet spot for this aging raver-magus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Plastikman
– Expand (Tale of Us remix)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first
time I heard this out, not knowing what it was, I thought it sounded like the
ghost of Spastic submerged within a 2015 melodic deep house track. Turned out that was more or less what it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rrose –
Vellum</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of
techno from the dark industrial side of the spectrum tries to sound like this
but none of it has the uniquely personal and subtle touches that Rrose
productions have. A singular voice that
stands out from the clanging, brooding, glut of post-Ancient Methods techno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Levon
Vincent - Woman Is An Angel</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Levon
Released his self-titled LP back in February and it still stands up as one of
the best of the year. Woman is Angel and and the epic
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBZOGp1U41w">Launch Ramp to the Sky</a> were the stand outs but this is the track that stops
hearts in the club as well as on headphones.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bonus:
C.A.R. - Idle Eyes (Roman Flügel Remix)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This track was not released this year, and
actually sounds like it could have been produced anytime in the last three
decades. But, thanks to Lena Willikens blowing minds when she dropped it at Good Room earlier in the year, it was the de facto theme song of 2016 for me and mine. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<li>Flowdan - Ambush (produced by Footsie) </li>
<li>Addison Groove feat. DJ Rashad - U Been Gone </li>
<li>Percussions – KHLHI </li>
<li>Sade - Stronger Than Pride (Fo' Sho' Karizma Remix) </li>
<li>Kowton – Glock and Roll </li>
<li>MFO - Slow Run in Our Dreams </li>
<li>Fluxion - You Don’t Know (Joey Anderson Remix) </li>
<li>Deadbeat & Paul St Hilaire - Little Darling </li>
<li>&ME - After Dark </li>
<li>Talaboman – Sideral </li>
<li>Pional - It's All Over (John Talabot Remix) </li>
<li>Pangaea – Pob </li>
<li>Randomer – Bring </li>
<li>The Bug feat. Manga – Function </li>
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<b>Flowdan - Ambush (produced by Footsie)</b><br />
A welcomed return to form for the mighty Flowdan this year with several devastating tracks with soul brother Kevin Martin and an EP for Hyperdub. Each track was killer. This Footsie production was my favorite. </div>
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<b>Addison Groove feat. DJ Rashad - U Been Gone</b><br />
One of several bitter-sweet posthumously released gems by Rashad. This time partnered with Addison Groove, the chopped soul vocals drip with extra resonance. RIP Rashad. </div>
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Percussions – KHLHI</b><br />
That track Four Tet, Daphni and Jamie played that at first I thought was annoying, and then I became obsessed with and now it would probably be best if I didn't hear it again for six months or so. </div>
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<b>Sade - Stronger Than Pride (Fo' Sho' Karizma Remix)</b><br />
That unmistakable Karizma percussion, all that low end rush and swing, and then a full three minutes in, after you have forgotten all about it, that Sade vocal drops and you're dancing like a fool, whether you want to or not. </div>
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<b>Kowton – Glock and Roll</b><br />
A proper dark rolla, yet definitely a proper house track, hmm..</div>
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<b>MFO - Slow Run in Our Dreams</b><br />
Deep heady, eyes down material. House music to get lost in. </div>
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<b>Fluxion - You Don’t Know (Joey Anderson Remix)</b><br />
Is there a Bristol/Jersey axis of dark paranoid house music, or does it just sound like there is? Either way no one did skunked out, introspective house music better in 2014 than Joey Anderson. The extra dread vibes on this remix make it my favorite of his many essential releases this year. </div>
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<b>Deadbeat & Paul St Hilaire - Little Darling</b><br />
A slightly different look from the legendary producer and vocalist. The Tikiman's often languid lyrics here given bounce and urgency through a straight 4/4 treatment with brilliant results. </div>
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<b>&ME - After Dark</b><br />
Big room track of the summer, even if I didn't know what it was until the fall. </div>
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<b>Talaboman – Sideral</b><br />
Serious earworm melody business. </div>
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<b>Pional - It's All Over (John Talabot Remix)</b><br />
Bitter-sweet baeleric vibes, haunting a hypnotic, I wake up humming this at least once a week. Talabot's Remix gives the track a little more drive (and those woodblock hits) </div>
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<b>Pangaea – Pob</b><br />
Proper metallic techno but with just enough hardcore/jungle vibe buried in its DNA to lend it serious physical presence. Unstoppable on the Output sound system. </div>
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<b>Randomer – Bring</b><br />
Technically released late in 2013, this was one of my most listened to tracks of 2014. None more dark and sinister, always riding the delicate line between proper menace and cartoon caricature, this one will instantly transport you to a sweaty basement or smoked filled warehouse, that is if you're not already there. </div>
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<b>The Bug feat. Manga – Function</b><br />
Angels & Devils was one of those LPs deep enough that every week you had different favorite track. Of the Devils tracks this one makes the list for it's fresh perspective on the classic Bug formula. </div>
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<b>DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn – On Site</b><br />
This track cannot be beat for sheer WTF factor but the real surprise is how much it rewards repeat listening. Nothing so chaotic and aggressive should be this enjoyable. RIP Rashad. </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="h.gjdgxs"></a>The slightly scruzzier kid sister to
Angels opener Void. Kevin Martin and Liz Grouper are potent combo leading you
down a late night alleyway where the shimmer of neon on wet brickwork puts the
summer sun to shame. <o:p></o:p></div>
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revelation have been adopted and repurposed by some of the new breed grime
producers, her tracks still sound like nothing else out there. This is world
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I’m not so sure about some of the lyrics (why is a b*tch or
two cool even revelatory in a party banger, but slow things down to an
introspective tone and I cringe). But
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enchanting to put down. <o:p></o:p></div>
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via remixes. I’m not sure this is
technically the best of the lot from their new LP, but it has just enough
warmth and percussive drive to get the job done and rewards repeat listening. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Thom Yorke – There is
No Ice (For My Drink)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Is it just me or can you perfectly picture a forlorn,
pre-dawn Yorke staring down at a room temperature gin & tonic with all the disappointment
and loss of an eight year old standing over his dead puppy? I feel you Thom, I
do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>FKA Twigs – Two Weeks<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In which our heroine levels-up to the big time pop star game
and manages to keep most of what was originally intriguing about her work intact <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Jamie xx - Sleep
Sound</b></div>
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A touch disappointing at first listen, but man is this one a
grower, rapturous in a dark club but also perfect for a mediative bus ride on a
rainy afternoon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>letthemusicplay Feat.
Kate Tempest - Our Town (Joe Goddard Dub)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A
favorite of Mr. xx’s DJ sets this year. I
loved it when I first heard it last winter, then forgot about it for a minute,
then heard it again in a sunny field on the outskirts of Amsterdam and it was
like bumping into an old friend while thousands of miles from home. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Morgan Zarate -
Sticks & Stones (feat. Eska & Ghostface Killah)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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For long time Benji B listeners this was one of the great
lost dubs. Doing the rounds at least as far back as 2009, this stone cold slab
of soul finally got a proper release this year on the Hyperdub 5.2 comp and
still sounds unquestionably fresh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Bilal - SIRENS
II (Produced by Adrian Younge and Ali
Shaheed Muhammad)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If this is a sign of the LP to come, 2015 is going to be a
big year for Bilal. My only gripe is
that it’s too short. I usually find myself looping it three and four times in a
row until I get my fix. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Snow Ghosts - Secret
Garden (Matthew Herbert's Wash It All Away Remix)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The vocals and keys here are so fucking inviting. Set them against percussion wound up with just
the right amount of potential chaos and
throw in a judicious amount of low end drive and sway and I am all in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Shabazz Palaces -
Forerunner Foray<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Shabazz Palaces are absolutely on their own cosmic
level. Thank the stars they’ve manage to
send transmissions back from there back to us earthbound mortals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Martyn & copeland
- Love Of Pleasure<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Has Martyn ever sounded this filthy? Not that this is not a Martyn
track, his production chops are all still here, but copeland’s sweet/cold
vocals free him up to push all the levels into the red and revel in the
distortion and feedback. I do with an full
LP of this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Kode9 & The
Spaceape - The Devil Is A Liar<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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A powerful swan song for one of my favorite vocalists/poets. RIP Spaceape.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Andy Stott - Violence<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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If I had to choose just one track of the year it would be
this one. Simultaneously beautiful and
terrifying, the track seductively lures you into its embrace and then, just as
you’ve lost sight of the exits, it begins to tear itself apart, threatening to take
your mind apart in the process. If you
listen to it three times in a row on your way to work, you may have an out of
body experience, or so I’ve heard. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-58718741244970233072013-12-30T20:27:00.000-05:002013-12-30T20:27:07.997-05:00Favorite Tracks of 2013 – the uptempo/dancefloor/experimental/aggy-as-f**k/ear-buds not recommended edition<br />
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<li>Theo Parrish & Tony Allen – Day Like This (feat Eska & Andrew Ashong)</li>
<li>DJ Rashad – Let It Go</li>
<li>Kode9 – Uh</li>
<li>The Bug – Freakshow (feat Danny Brown & Kiki Hitomi) / Dirty (feat Flowdan)</li>
<li>Boddika & Joy Orbison – Mercy (Boddika VIP)</li>
<li>Demdike Stare – Collision</li>
<li>Tessela – Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP)</li>
<li>Four Tet – Kool FM</li>
<li>Pedestrian & Jasperdrum – Kalkuta vs Zombie (PEDit)</li>
<li>Culoe De Song – No Contest</li>
<li>Jeremy Deller – Voodoo Ray (Optimo remix)</li>
<li>Doc Daneeka – Trife Pt. II</li>
<li>Deadboy – On My Mind</li>
<li>Mala – Como Como (Theo Parrish remix)</li>
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<b>Theo Parrish & Tony Allen – Day Like This (feat Eska & Andrew Ashong)</b><br />
Two absolute legends link-up to launch Parrish's new label and the results are as brilliant as one could imagined. A master class in subtlety and dynamic rhythm. This was the perfect soundtrack to both the sweaty sun-bleached afternoons and cool summer nights of 2013.<br />
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<b>DJ Rashad – Let It Go</b><br />
Rashad's Hyperdub output demonstrated that Juke/Footwork is as much a technique as it is a musical style. Like a Cubist painter applying a series of techniques to reinterpret the world around her, Rashad applies the footwork's methods to a seemingly endless pool of musical raw material to produce unique takes on the sound. In this case he recontextualizes classic 'ardcore euphoria into a fresh and dynamic experience.<br />
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<b>Kode9 – Uh</b><br />
2013 saw the first Kode9 releases in some time. This track, released alongside his excellent Rinse mix CD, is a bit more straight forward than the excellent Xing Fu on Hyperdub, and more effective for it. Where some of Rashad's tracks saw him re-coding London bass music history through the lens of Chicago footwork, Kode9's recent work sees him taking the dynamic rhythms and quantized samples of footwork and running them through the filter of UK bass culture, the results are a new mutation of the UK bass virus that can still trace its DNA back to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTsEsOzStSg">Sign of the Dub</a>.<br />
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<b>The Bug – Freakshow (feat Danny Brown & Kiki Hitomi) / Dirty (feat Flowdan)</b><br />
I refuse to choose between these brutal sonic weapons. Both are slightly tweaked versions of the same Bug riddim. Freakshow finds Danny Brown's frantic flow juxtapozed with Kiki Hitomi's haunting hook to brilliant effect. Dirty on the other hand is the most recent weaponized strain of the always on point collaboration between Kevin Martin and Flowdan, possibly their best since the mighty Skeng.<br />
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<b>Boddika & Joy Orbison – Mercy (Boddika VIP)</b><br />
The mighty Mercy VIP finally sees release to the masses and it just seems to increase the longevity of what in better world would be a lock for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BoddikaMercyVIPXmasNo1">Christmas No. 1</a>. To hear this on the massive Output soundsystem is to witness the sound of steel girders that support reality itself being rend and twisted into unrecognizable new structures.<br />
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<b>Demdike Stare – Collision</b><br />
An estranged kin of the Modern Love's <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/122025-Hate">Hate</a> series, Demdike Stare's Test Pressing releases see them mining the sounds of classic jungle and remodeling them for their own oblique purposes. This, the first of the series , sees Demdike Stare sounding much like classic <a href="http://youtu.be/8LrCVnz77uw">Panacea</a> built with strategies and technology the producer could only have dreamed of in '97.<br />
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<b>Tessela – Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP)</b><br />
"Right listen - I've just been told anyone who's got a fiesta parked inside the Market, you best move it or you're walking home. Right? Come with the Music..."<br />
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<b>Four Tet – Kool FM</b><br />
The initial calling card, or warning shot ahead of Four Tet's masterful love letter to pirate radio. If this is not ruff e nuff for you check the huge <a href="https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/kool-fm-champion-remix">Champion remix</a>.<br />
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<b>Pedestrian & Jasperdrum – Kalkuta vs Zombie (PEDit)</b><br />
The original Kalkuta is a big tune in its own right, but this PEDit by the man himself, with it's afrobeat inspiration on full display, is even better. (also check for Auntie Flows redit for more Fela for the dancefloor love)<br />
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<b>Culoe De Song – No Contest</b><br />
In truth, my favorite track is De Song's mix of Bright Forest (remix) / No Contest / Birds of the Feather on his <a href="http://youtu.be/r0_bhvlwNHg">Red & Blue podcast</a>, which I rewound so many times I'm surprised I haven't worn the bits away in the mp3. The brilliant rhythm of No Contest is the anchor and drive of that mix and certainly stands strong on its own.<br />
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<b>Jeremy Deller – Voodoo Ray (Optimo remix)</b><br />
What could be more quintessentially 2013 than a steel drum heavy cover of a rave classic created by an multi-media artist for the Venice Biennial and then returned to its dancefloor roots with a remix by Glaswegian House hedonists. All of that meta-narrative wouldn't mean jack if the track wasn't brilliant, but thankfully it is stone cold killer.<br />
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<b>Doc Daneeka – Trife Pt. II</b><br />
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/nmbrs/doc-daneeka-walk-on-in">Walk On In</a> has the dancefloor heft but something about this dark and deep, stripped-back slow burner hit's me in all the right places. That massive rolling bassline makes it absolutely addicting.<br />
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<b>Deadboy – On My Mind</b><br />
Deadboy's ability to craft haunting sub-heavy house tracks for dark cavernous rooms continues to grow in strength with each release.<br />
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<b>Mala – Como Como (Theo Parrish remix)</b><br />
Theo Parrish bookends the list with this absolutely beautiful remix. The master flushes out those elements that made Mala's original so appealing and then elevates them to another level. Quite possibly perfect.<br />
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<b>BONUS: Four Tet – The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix</b><br />
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Four Tet handily beats <a href="https://soundcloud.com/dj-illem/joy-orbison">Joy O</a> for most over the top, and literal, track title ever. Despite being given away for free to the masses, and as far I know being nearly unmixable, this chaotic ruckus of a tune ignited more dancefloor riots than any other in 2013.Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-45349590054398682872013-12-17T00:10:00.001-05:002013-12-17T00:12:41.471-05:00Favorite Tracks of 2013 - the downtempo/hip-hop/r&b/folks-singing-about-sh*t edition<iframe height="250" src="http://8tracks.com/mixes/3030350/player_v3_universal" style="border: 0px none;" width="300"></iframe>
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It was a weird year for music. Much like last year, there was a wealth of really good music but very little in terms of absolutely amazing music, but that could just be me not digging deep enough through all the noise of a post-internet mediascape. These are some of my favorite home listening tracks of the last year (dancefloor, etc. list to follow at some point)<br />
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<li>Typesun – The PL</li>
<li>Tinashe – Boss (Ryan Hemsworth remix)</li>
<li>Tre Mission – Brunch</li>
<li>Paul White – Street Lights (feat.
Danny Brown)</li>
<li>Kelela – Enemy (prod. by Nguzunguzu)</li>
<li>Future Brown – Wanna Party (feat.
Tink)</li>
<li>Le1f – Pocahontas (feat. Kitty Pryde
– Prod. By Drippin)</li>
<li>Djrum – Honey</li>
<li>James Blake – Retrograde</li>
<li>Just Friends – Avalanche (Shlohmo
remix)</li>
<li>Emika – Sleep With My Enemies</li>
<li>Various Production – Opus</li>
<li>The Knife – Without You My Life Would
Be Boring</li>
<li>King Midas Sound – Aroo</li>
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<b>Typesun – The PL</b></div>
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I'm a sucker for a stripped back,
backbeat driven R&B croon and this is as good as they come.</div>
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<b>Tinashe – Boss (Ryan Hemsworth remix)</b></div>
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It was a big year for the One Man Boy
Band with his well received EP and debut LP not to mention the killer
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/angelhazeym/cat-power-feat-angel-haze">Cat Power X Angel Haze remix</a>. But, I just kept coming back to this
one, the mix of sweet and tuff is just perfect. Even if it was leaked
last year I listened to non-stop in 2013 so it sneaks in on a
technicality.
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<b>Tre Mission – Brunch</b></div>
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If this kid ever decides to
rhyme about something other than girls and his rep the Kendrick's and
ASAPs of the game will be in serious trouble. Extra points to whoever managed
to bite Clams Casino on the beat.</div>
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<b> Paul White – Street Lights (feat.
Danny Brown)</b></div>
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To my ears, the best (so far?) of the fruitful collaborations between Mr. White and Mr. Brown.
Beats just weird and chaotic enough to match that wild flow
but still with enough forward momentum to keep the tack upright.</div>
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<b>Kelela – Enemy (prod. by Nguzunguzu)</b></div>
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In the spring Kelela appeared
as if from nowhere. I first saw her singing live on a Kingdom set at Output,
then w/ L-Vis 1990 at PS1, then came the jaw dropping <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bokbok/live-grime-set-with-kelela">grime mix by Bok Bok</a>.
By the time Cut 4 Me dropped the word was out and underground was buzzing. Kelela is at her best
on dark, ruffed up grime beats that would chew up other vocalists, and this one, by the increasingly on
point Nguzunguzu, is her best so far.</div>
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<b>Future Brown – Wanna to Party (feat
Tink)</b></div>
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The avant-bass & beats super group
comprised of Nguzunguzu, Fatima-al-Qadiri and J Cush teamed up with the equally about-to-blow-up Tink and somehow managed to roll out a
club banger from a post-geographic future that transcends the sum of
its impressive parts. When the LP drops in 2014 the game may very
well be irreparably changed.
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<b>Le1f – Pocahontas</b></div>
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Le1f showed some breadth and subtlety in
2013 releasing two killer mixtapes, Fly Zone and Tree House. While
the slower, deeper and more nuanced tracks were absolutely stunning,
I'm still a sucker for what the man himself calls <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/13046-le1f-interview-fly-zone-tree-house">“banjee,masculine, aggressive, club tracks"</a> that filled his debut, Dark York, and of which Pocahontas still
fits the bill. Hell the beat is so cunty that even the normally dreadful Kitty Pryde sounds
tight.</div>
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<b>Djrum – Honey</b></div>
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My favorite track from Djrum's somewhat
lackluster debut LP. This one still has some of the tension between
widescreen soundscapes and thick as molasses hum and crackle that made
the initial EPs so consuming. Also check his excellent remix of
singer songwriter <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/jono-mccleery-ballade-djrum-1">Jono McCleery</a>.</div>
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<b>James Blake – Retrograde</b></div>
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I could have picked Life Round Here or
the massive dub version of Voyeur but the fact is after a hundred+
listens this one still gives my shivers down my spine. That makes it the
best of the lot.</div>
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<b>Just Friends – Avalanche (Schlohmo
remix)</b></div>
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/06-just-friends-avalanche">The original</a> is a thing of great beauty
for sure, but there is something about this sliced and submerged
remix that is stands all on its own. Like Hemsworth, Schlohmo manages to rend
genuine emotion out of aquatic synths and off-kilter beats like some
sort of Abelton conjuring wizard.</div>
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<b>Emika – Sleep With My Enemies</b></div>
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Twisted sub-bass eneveloped torch song?
Yes please!</div>
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Various – Opus</div>
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After a moment of relative quite from the Various lab, the mysterious production team reemerged this year. This eyes
down, abyss-staring epic is their best work in a years.
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<b>The Knife – Without You My Life Would
Be Boring</b></div>
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The most straight forward track from
the wonderfully uneven and infuriating Shaking the Habitual.</div>
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<b>King Midas Sound – Aroo</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/08/my-bloody-valentine-in-dub-king-midas-sounds-roger-robinson-on-their-forthcoming-ninja-tune-lp/">“My Bloody Valentine in dub”</a> - shortly after Roger Robinson uttered those bass-weighted words came proof of concept in the form of Aroo. If this is, as it appears to be,
the warning shoot ahead of the groups next LP, then we are in for a aural
onslaught like no other.</div>
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<b>BONUS: Mikey J - Rock & The UK
Female Allstars – Roc The Mic ( feat. Amplify Dot, Baby Blue, Lioness,
RoxXxan, Mz Bratt and Lady Leshurr)</b></div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/37262133">Mikey J & The UK Female Allstars - Rock The Mic [Music Video]</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/trailpictures">Trail Pictures</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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This came out last year, but Kelly
found it this year on some deep youtube digging binge and I listened it pretty much non-stop ever since. Pure verbal fire
over a deadly serious war beat. The best pose cut in the last two years on either
side of the Atlantic (and 2Chains isn't even in it)</div>
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2012 was an example of the old theory
that tough socio-economic times breed great underground clubbing.
Props go out to all the promoters who have been grinding for the last
few years. Their persistence looks to have paid off in one of the
best dance party years in recent memory. Specifically Bunker,
Turrbotax, Discovery, Verboten and Percussion Lab as well as newcomer
to NYC from Chi-town Lit City.
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Here are some of my favorite
Instrumental / Dancefloor tracks of the last year. They appear in no
particular order and this list is nowhere near complete.</div>
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<li>Fatima Al Qadiri – Hydra</li>
<li>Girl Unit – Ensemble (club mix)</li>
<li>Falty DL – Straight & Arrow</li>
<li>Andrés - New For U</li>
<li>Four Tet – Lion (Jamie xx remix)</li>
<li>Breach & Midland – Somwhere</li>
<li>DJ Ali - Electra (Subb-an & Adam
Shelton remix)</li>
<li>Julio Bashmore – Au Seve</li>
<li>Balistiq Beats – Concrete Jungle
(Beneath 350 remix)</li>
<li>Rashad & Spinn – We Trippy Mane</li>
<li>Flosstradamus – Rollup (Baauer remix)</li>
<li>KW Griff – Bring in the Katz</li>
<li>TNGHT – Higher Ground</li>
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<b>Fatima Al Qadiri – Hydra</b></div>
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Absolutely gorgeous mix of underground
beats and middle eastern sound pallet.<a href="http://youtu.be/f6i_aAQ8fT8"> Ikonika's remix of last year's D-medley</a> is amazing as well.</div>
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<b>Girl Unit – Ensemble (club mix)</b></div>
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This track just got bigger and bigger
as the year progressed, until it was played by pretty much everyone
at BEMF.</div>
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<b>Falty DL – Straight & Arrow</b></div>
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Falty DL coming on like a swung out Floating Points. I can't wait for the LP. <a href="http://youtu.be/DLgECqamP24">Part 2 of afrobeat lacedMeans Streets</a> on Swamp81 is big as well.</div>
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Deep, soulful Detroit house from the
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<b>Four Tet – Lion (Jamie xx remix)</b></div>
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How can you go wring with a Four Tet and Jamie xx team-up. Something about the stripped down soundsystem vibe of this
remix reminds of classic Smith & Mighty / More Rockers and in my
world that is very high praise. Also check out <a href="http://youtu.be/GaNkE_0yFpc">Four Tet's ratherreserved remix of Angels </a>for the reverse perspective. </div>
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<b>Breach & Midland – Somewhere</b></div>
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Sprawling, widescreen tech house that
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Sultry and so very saxy</div>
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Not quite reaching the level of Battle
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<b>Balistiq Beats – Concrete Jungle
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<b>Rashad & Spinn – We Trippy Mane</b></div>
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Not that this track isn't brilliant but
it appars here as a sort of place holder of all the amazing tracks I
heard at Lit City over the last year that will probably never even
get released.</div>
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<b>Flosstradamus – Rollup (Baauer remix)</b></div>
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Run the Trap!!! 2013 looks to be the
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<b>KW Griff – Bring in the Katz</b></div>
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“...you already know” Absolutely
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The undisputed dancefloor destroyer of
2012. Resistance is futile this track will steamroll over you.</div>
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<b>Bonus: Joy O - Big Room Tech House DJ
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Another year, another secret, ridiculously titled, Joy
Orbison anthem. This one is slow burner and much preferred to the staid adult contemporary house of
Ellipsis. Of course it won't get a proper release until all the life
has been sucked from its veins. </div>
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A bakers' dozen of my favorite songs of
2012 – this is the home-listening / people singing and rhyming
about shit version. If I can steal a few minutes before the year closes I will try to throw together an instrumental / dance-floor companion.
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<li>Chromatics – Lady</li>
<li>Kendrick Lamar – Cartoons &
Cereal</li>
<li>Darq E Freaker & Danny Brown –
Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)</li>
<li>Jessie Ware – 110%</li>
<li>Mykki Blanco – Wavvy</li>
<li>Jai Paul – Jasmine (demo)</li>
<li>Andy Stott – Luxury Problems</li>
<li>Frank Ocean – Pyramids</li>
<li>Stubborn Heart – Two Times a Maybe</li>
<li>Gonjasufi – Skin</li>
<li>Hitomi – Thrown Like Jacks X Venus in
Furs</li>
<li>Zebra Katz feat Njena Reddd Foxxx–
Ima Read</li>
<li>Le1f – Wut</li>
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<b>Chromatics – Lady</b></div>
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The best Chromatics songs exist in a
liminal space where unformed possibility and nostalgic yearning
co-exist. Lady is born of that gauzy, lens-flare time of the night
when, by definition, it can't get any later and the cruise control
has just locked course for well after dawn.</div>
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<b>Kendrick Lamar (feat Gunplay) – Cartoons &
Cereal</b></div>
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<i>Elementary hood shit.</i> Sure
Swimming Pools was bigger, Kill My Vibe was catchier, and Good Kid
had that Roy Ayers sample but for sheer wtf?? factor this was Lamar's
calling card. The unsettling juxtaposition of guntalk w/ Saturday
morning nostalgia; the slung yet restless production, saturated in
hiss and old tv samples threatening to collapse in on itself; Lamar's
helium Quasimoto playing against Gunplay's gruff pre-crack DMX; in
the end its a heady, keenly unique experience. </div>
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<b>Darq E Freaker & Danny Brown –
Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)</b></div>
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<i>Crazy, Psycho, Deranged.</i> What it
says on the tin. Madman London grime producer teams up with
madman Detroit MC and a dark, unstable carnival ride of a track is
born. Appropriately,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-92qAjbGDo"> the video</a> is guaranteed to give you the spins
dead-sober in the afternoon. </div>
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<b>Jessie Ware – 110%</b></div>
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There are probably better Jessie Ware
songs but I am a sucker for a dreamy summer jam. Julio Bashmore turns
his swashbuckling skills to a straight up pop song custom built for
Saturday afternoons spent lying on sun kissed grass sipping cool wine
from the bottle. OG version with Big Pun sample intact is a must.
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<b>Mykki Blanco – Wavvy</b></div>
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The ultimate, getting-ready-to-go, pre-game Friday soundtrack. It also led to more than few late morning impromptu dance parties. Not to mention all the surprise
live appearances at 285 Kent, Cameo and seemingly wherever they would
give Mykki a mic. Get in now because he and his militia are primed to take over.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokeAMDm7mk"> Also one of my favorite videos of the year</a>.</div>
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<b>Jai Paul – Jasmine (demo)</b></div>
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“demo” in the sense that it is raw
as fuck. If this ever gets “proper” shine and gloss mixdown a la the Weeknd I
will weep.
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<b>Andy Stott – Luxury Problems</b></div>
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My personal hurricane soundtrack.
Somehow it was the perfect vibe for confusing bus rides and freezing
walks over the 59th street bridge, turned down low and kept on
constant repeat for two weeks straight.
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<b>Frank Ocean – Pyramids</b></div>
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Frank Ocean goes big, 10 minutes and
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<b>Stubborn Heart – Two Times a Maybe</b></div>
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Shout out to Kelly Hogan by way of
Giles Peterson (<i>it's a winner!</i>). The full LP is great but nothing
else on it manages to match the listing narcotic enchantment of this
early single. Forgetting a chick's name (twice!) has never carried
such existential weight.
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<b>Gonjasufi – Skin</b></div>
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Heartbreaking, stripped to the bone,
lament from the sufi. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YHMalpam0">Apparitions</a> with GLK is amazing as well.</div>
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<b>Hitomi – Thrown Like Jacks X Venus in
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Velvet Underground cover? meh. Classic
rock mashup? what is this 2003? This should be at best an amusing
throw away tune. Instead it is hypnotic, haunting and transcendent.
Hitomi's vocals and subtle re-edit make this something completely
other, both from its component parts and anything else out there.
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<b>Zebra Katz (feat Njena Reddd Foxxx)–
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Give me a brutal stripped-back bass
drum, a little ballroom attitude and a heavy dose of disturbing
over-enunciated lyrics and watch all the hair on my neck stand up.
Throw in Ms. Njena complete with all her extra <i>d</i>s and<i> x</i>s as well as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag">one truly disturbing game of double dutch</a> and you have the weirdo hit of the year.</div>
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<b>Le1f – Wut</b></div>
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Everything on Dark York is stellar.
This track is a great example of up and coming hip hop guys pulling
inspiration and production from the best of the underground
dance/beat scene (in this case 5kinAndBone5) and doing whatever they
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Bonus - <b>Lambo Furnace</b></div>
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The most devastating bootleg remix of the
most inescapable jeep/block/club track of the long hot summer. Turn
it up real loud one last time and then let's all move on and never
speak of it again.
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<b>Honorable mentions:</b> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wIJ774gJs">The Don</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQfof-fO3JI">AlbyDaniels</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USSez4WbAM8">Purple Kisses</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k86CV-0c0zk">Low MF Key</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6xMzltep_8">F**K You All The Time (Shlohmomix)</a>; and House of Ladosha's waaay to fierce for you <a href="https://soundcloud.com/houseofladosha/rollin">Rollin'</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>“This time, the fluid did not return to a restful state. Instead, the surface writhed and churned. Some great upheaval was being born out in the impossible space below the floorboards. Reptilian shapes breached the surface. A long slithering spine cut through the liquid only to disappear into the impossible depths.”</em></span></div>
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Ballroom dancing, Victorian etiquette and self replicating ultra-dimensional reptiles, these are the major components of my new short fiction, <a href="http://www.themedullareview.com/Kelcey_Wells.html">The Glimmer and The Gloss</a>, in the current issue of the excellent <a href="http://www.themedullareview.com/Volume_4__Issue__1.html">Medulla Review</a>. <br />
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The story took its initial inspiration from the work of visual artist <a href="http://nightthiefconfessional.blogspot.com/2011/02/ray-caesar-gentle-kind-of-cruelty.html">Ray Caesar</a>. I wanted to set a story inside one of Caesar’s surreal scenes, wanted to employ one of his unsettling precocious heroines as its protagonist, and then of course I wanted to fuck shit up. The end result is an irreverent piece that plays fast and loose with the boundaries between past and present, reality and dream-stuff. It inhabits a liminal space at the edges of classic lit, horror, and SF/F. A <em>sense-bender of a story</em> as the editors describe it. <br />
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Red lit and smoke machine tainted club sounds. This is a bass heavy mix of dark UK house, chunky percussion and filthy electro. The mix features tracks by producers on the verge (South London Ordnance, Jook 10, My Nu Leng), underground heavyweights (Roska, Girl Unit, Boddika), and even a few old-school heroes (The Stickmen ('94 stylee!), Andrea Parker, Aux 88). It also features more instances of the words "bitch" and "pussy" than I have personally uttered in the entirety of my existence, so maybe not for banging at the office. <br />
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1) Fatima Al Qadiri - Hip Hop Spa<br />
2) South London Ordnance - Fjord<br />
3) DVA - Flute Tune<br />
4) Zebra Katz (feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx) - Ima Read<br />
5) Roska - Bassface (Breach remix)<br />
6) Addison Groove (feat. Spank Rock) - Bad Things<br />
7) Girl Unit - Wut (Claude Vonstroke remix)<br />
8) The Stickmen - The Drug<br />
9) Boddika - Basement<br />
10) Auntie Flo - Oh My Days (Pearson Sound remix)<br />
11) The Pearl - Flesh Eaters (Distal remix)<br />
12) Secret Frequency Crew - Miami Eyes (Andrea Parker remix)<br />
13) Max Durante meets Aux 88 - Body Work (Max Durante lysergic remix)<br />
14) West Norwood Cassette Library - Get Lifted<br />
15) Spank Rock (feat. Big Feedia) - Nasty (Addison Groove remix)<br />
16) Jook 10 - Peng<br />
17) Headbirds - Dead Kingdom<br />
18) My Nu Leng - Croatian<br />
19) Fatima Al Qadiri - D-medley (Ikonika remix)<br />
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I have piece in the new issue of the mighty <a href="http://poetryisdead.ca/magazine/resurrection.html">Poetry is Dead</a>. It is an honor to have my work appear in one of my absolute favorite publications. This is their "resurrection" issue, just in time for the Spring thaw (though here in NYC nothing ever managed to freeze). Personal favorites from the volume include bits by Amber Dawn, Sean Howard and Stephen Collis's <em>To the Occupations</em>.</div>
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Also, my chapbook <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/kelcey-wells/music-for-end-times/paperback/product-5060449.html">Music for End Times</a> is part of the gallery show <a href="http://poetryisdead.ca/blog/arte-factum.html">Arte Factum</a>, which is dedicated to the art of the chapbook. It is up now at <a href="http://projectspace.ca/blog/">Project Space</a> in Vancouver and curated by Poetry is Dead editor Daniel Zamparelli. It runs for a few more weeks, so if you find yourself in area stop in a check it out.Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-27567988526332480112011-12-29T20:02:00.001-05:002011-12-29T20:03:27.878-05:00Twelve of 11<div class="MsoNormal"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" height="250" width="300"><param name="movie" value="http://8tracks.com/mixes/490618/player_v3"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://8tracks.com/mixes/490618/player_v3" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="250" allowscriptaccess="always" ></embed></object></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A list of my favorite tracks of 2011. No specific order and no claims of completeness, just the tracks I loved over the last year for reasons various and mostly subjective. </div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><ol><li><b>Ghostpoet – Survive It (Quest’s Guidance mix)</b></li>
<li><b>Clams Casino – Brainwash by London</b></li>
<li><b>Holy Other – Touch</b></li>
<li><b>Drake – Dreams Money Can buy</b></li>
<li><b>Dj Rum – Mountains, Parts 2 & 3</b></li>
<li><b>Floating Points – Myrtle Avenue</b></li>
<li><b>Falty DL – Mean Streets, Part 1</b></li>
<li><b>The Weeknd – Wicked Games.</b></li>
<li><b>Schlomo – Just Us</b></li>
<li><b>Rick Wilhite – Blame it on the Boogie (feat. Theo Parrish & Osunlade)</b></li>
<li><b>Julio Bashmore – Battle for Middle You</b></li>
<li><b>Jamie xx – Far Nearer</b></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Ghostpoet – Survive It (Quest’s Guidance mix)</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“I know, Times are hard, You're against the wall, and your head is down…”</i> The weary, yet determined, optimism of Ghostpoet’s lyrics perfectly captures the dire resilience that colored 2011. And, Quest’s remix, haunted by both the dread weight of ’06 dubstep and the bittersweet swing of classic UKG amplifies that sense of struggle at the songs heart.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Clams Casino – Brainwash by London</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Everything Clams Casino touched this year was gold. However, this smoked-out sub-base work out was a personal favorite for soundtracking late night subway rides. The shouty bit at 1:30 is a great reichian sing-along moment.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Holy Other – Touch</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">A long cold draft of liquid longing and desperation. The comparison to Burial is unavoidable but here all that late night hum is devoid of skittering beats or nostalgia. This is the best in a long list of excellent releases of dark electronics from Tri-Angle over the course of the year.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Drake – Dreams Money Can buy</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">The love/hate relationship with Drake continues. Yeah, his constant whinging over the melancholy of cars, money, women and fame should be grating, insulting or by this point tired but somehow you find yourself relating to the emotions even if the specifics are absurd. The touches of self-deprecation and the off-kilter, self-destructing beats certainly help.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Dj Rum – Mountains, Parts 2 & 3</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Widescreen, moody, sub-laced atmospherics. This track should be too noodley, overly melodramatic, disjointed. Instead, it reclaims and repurposes the emphasis on bass and space that dubstep discarded on its way to mainstream dancefloors. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Floating Points – Myrtle Avenue</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Brilliant in every way. This track is in a constant state of subtle flux, slowly writhing and contorting, the beats growing and tightening until they peek intensity and then, when you expect a huge synth flourish or massive drop, Floating Points simply places you down in new aural surroundings, not entirely unfamiliar but fresh and airy. Then the process begins again. The fact that that gorgeous vocal flourish (Fatima?) doesn’t appear until over 7 minutes in, is testament alone to the masterful amount of restraint at work here.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Falty DL – Mean Streets, Part 1</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">A number of Falty DL tunes from the past year could have made the cut (Hip Love. Lucky Luciano, Here We Go Again remix…). But this is perhaps the most unique and, pressed in a limited vinyl only run, the hardest to track down. Lagos by way of Brooklyn and Croydon, I do not understand how this wasn’t a huge anthem. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Weeknd – Wicked Games</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">No one had a bigger year than The Weeknd. Doubling down on Drake’s emo-bling and taking the beats edgier and sparser, the result is an addictive brew of filthy late-night R&B from the edge of the abyss. This track came with an amazing, supposedly unsolicited <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cob_YNooSd0">video</a> (NSFW).<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Schlomo – Just Us</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m on a dawn plane, unslept and hungover, reality lurching and pitching around me like I am out at sea instead stuck on the LGA tarmac. This song rises through a folder full of random odds and ends on my MP3 player, with no artist or track info, only the unhelpful cover art. Its frayed, skittering beats and haunted underwater carnival synths are the perfect complement to my state of mind. It takes more than a week before I track down the info. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Rick Wilhite – Blame it on the Boogie (feat. Theo Parrish & Osunlade)</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>"slick rick was in the house, turning it out, the girls were all singing lad di da di, I guess we were having a party…" </i>The official Den of Iniquities party jam. More fun than a serious Detroit house track should be allowed to be. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Julio Bashmore – Battle for Middle You</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">The hands down dancefloor anthem of the year. Classic house and garage (Doomsnight Revisted?) are encoded in its DNA, yet it sounds like nothing else out there. The call to “stomp your feet and get down” is superfluous. Like you have any choice.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Jamie xx – Far Nearer</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh, the steel drums!! I played this more times this year than all the other tracks on this list combined. If you stepped in my house or anywhere I was allowed control of the selection you heard it. In the winter it made you dream of beaches and sunshine. In the Spring and Summer it compelled you to sip cocktails in the sun and dance under open skies.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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"When Cornelio first served the woman she’d had been a girl of sixteen, as striking as the woman who sat before him now. A Criollo twice her age had put his hand on her thigh and when she spat to the dirt he laughed and called her ‘Indio.’ She shattered his nose with the bottle of tequila she was enjoying. As the man moaned on the floor, liquor and blood mixing with the dust his movements stirred, the girl pulled the knife strapped under her dress and removed his right ear with a slight motion. The Criollo never showed his crooked face again and Cornelio always kept enough añejo on hand. "</i><br />
<a href="http://www.rottenleaves.com/post/7415203543/incarnation-by-chris-deal">Incarnation</a> by Chris Deal <br />
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Chris Deal crafts a smouldering, embers hot, piece of borderlands noir for the excellent Rotten Leaves zine.<br />
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<i>"All the stuff you block out each day catches up with you in hotel rooms. Specters made of mental malaise stalk the corridors of every airport hotel and inner city stop over. All those thoughts you drown out with iPods, Ikea catalogues and foreign holidays. All those neuroses stifled with gym memberships, new wardrobes and cosmetic surgery. All the creeping paranoia. All of these things find you in hotel rooms. Sat there alone at two in the morning, having drained the mini bar, is it any wonder people commit suicide in hotel rooms?"</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.denpatrick.com/2011/06/sketches-002.html">Sketched 002</a> by Den Patrick<br />
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Den Patrick conjurers a lovely ruminative piece of location based flash.<br />
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<i>"I asked whether we could go inside and close the door. “There are no rules,” he said. “But—” I began. “Except that it stay empty,” he interrupted. “Can I eat in there?” I asked, a few days later. “There’s nothing you can’t do in there,” my father said, mysteriously. “Our family eats together at the table,” said my mother. Charlotte asked if it was my father’s room. “It doesn’t belong to any of us,” he said. “It’s just a part of the house. In the same way that Arfy lives with us but doesn’t belong to us.” On moving upstate we’d gained a puppy, to prove we had a backyard. “Is it Arfy’s room?” asked Charlotte, perhaps misunderstanding. “Arfy, too, is free to use the empty room,” said my father. “If Arfy poops in there, who has to clean it up?” I asked. We all glanced at my mother."</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6085/the-empty-room-jonathan-lethem">The Empty Room</a> by Jonthan Lethem<br />
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Some of the raw electricity of Lethem's early work may have dissipated over time but what has taken its place is a mastery of tone that lures the readers in and then gently twists their perceptions into peculiar angles. <br />
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Maybe I will do this one Friday a month, maybe I will think better of it and never do it again. Only the blog gods know for sure.Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-39838217709531824612011-06-29T01:02:00.001-04:002011-07-22T16:15:01.121-04:00Summer Mix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7P6UpLwv8Ek/TgqvKT_rcjI/AAAAAAAAATE/3u_UVkfdWHk/s1600/3673306522_4414cb1120.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7P6UpLwv8Ek/TgqvKT_rcjI/AAAAAAAAATE/3u_UVkfdWHk/s400/3673306522_4414cb1120.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
A quick little 40min. mix of breezy, unapologetic, sub-laced House music. This one is custom built for the hazy twilight hours, sipping drinks w/ umbrellas, dancing under an open sky. <br />
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1) Groove Theory - Tell Me (George Fitzgerald remix)<br />
2) Photek - Rings Around Saturn (Breach remix)<br />
3) The Martin Brothers - Steel Drums (Julio Bashmore remix)<br />
4) Julio Bashmore - Battle for Middle You <br />
(Maurice Donovan remix)<br />
5) Boddika - Soul What<br />
6) Ossie - Creepy Crawlies <br />
7) Jamie xx - Far Nearer<br />
8) Deadboy - Heartbreaker (Julio Bashmore remix)<br />
9) Jacques Greene - Tell Me<br />
10) ZZT - ZZafrika<br />
11) Caribou - Sun (Midland re-edit)<br />
12) Karizma - Good Morning (Kaytronik remix)<br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Not to diminish the timelessness of the early surrealist masters but I doubt that the unconscious landscape of the 21C dreamer bares likeness to Dali's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.virtualdali.com/46NudeInTheDesertLandscape.html">endless deserts</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> or the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426096748/piazza-ditalia-con-arianna.html">marble columned corridors</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> of De Chirico. I would suggest, instead, that if you took a snapshot of the contemporary unconscious the setting would resemble the brightly hued, leisure among the ruins of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://chloeearly.com/ce_flash.php">Chloe Early</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> or the dark, deconstructed down to geometric grid, urban landscapes of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ifrancis.co.uk/">Ian Francis</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Much of the work in Francis' New York solo debut, <a href="http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/francis_fireland_march_3_2011/">Fireland</a>, inhabits an uneasy twilight areas between the unconscious and the urban street. In High Angle Deer Park (above), an urban park is stripped and flattened into a grid pattern forming an abstracted game board where a mysterious competition/ritual underway bathed with sexual tension and submerged violence.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the striking <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #111111;">Three People Lose Track of Time in the Financial District of San Francisco</span></span> (below) the urban street is reduced to a series of streaked and tarnished geometric forms. What we can assume is a busy city street is depopulated leaving only the three narrative figures. The title places the scene in a specific location while the actual image is devoid of identifiable locative cues. Instead the figures inhabit a peculiar limbo, simultaneously in public and removed to a place of safety where internal life is free to manifest. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again only a teasing suggestion of narrative is discernible. The viewer is positioned as an uninformed voyeur spying on a private emotional moment. The emotions are familiar but the specifics of the situation are a mystery. The figures appear familiar enough yet their forms are fantastic. They are more changeable composites than studied likenesses. Facial detail conveys raw emotion, the intimate confusion of the female figures, the anguish of the male figure carry a certain weight, however the figures are unstable, their faces extending in multiple, legs fading into the background. They are vaporous inhabitants of dreamspace where all things, even people, are shrouded in occult meaning but that meaning is fluid, uncertain and beyond concise explanation.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is a connection to be made here between these urban landscapes, stripped down and re-mapped for unconscious exploration and the growing prevalence of augmented reality. However, I can not at this moment string the ideas together. It does seem, however, that there is insight to gleaned from the juxtaposition of the fantastic landscapes of Dali and De Chirico and these more contemporary abstracted urban scenes. Is it that the urban landscape has become so abstract, so removed from the "natural" world, so wiped clean through excess stimuli, that they are now the blank canvas for out waking dreams? On the other hand could it be that we have become so removed from any sense of uninfluenced imagination that our unconscious mind can no longer build the pristine deserts of surrealist fantasy? Instead we are left to simply augment the everyday world, creating just enough space to dream but perhaps not enough space to dream large. </span></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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In 1995 superstar porn queen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traci_Lords">Traci Lords</a> released <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Fires">1000 Fires</a> an album of disposable dance anthems. The LP's Juno Reactor produced high-gloss thump made a certain amount of sense as the backing track for Lords. There was a connection to be made between the bright lights in dark places hedonism or 90s dance floors and the over-lit trashy glamor of pornography from the same era. At the time both industries were seeing an influx of cash and begrudgingly ceded credibility. The two scenes were beginning to enter the wider culture, becoming household topics of conversations even if those conversations were still had in hushed tones.<br />
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Jump ahead fifteen years and you would be hard pressed to find two industries more drastically effected by the rise of technology and the accelerating effect it has had on pop culture than porno and pop music. Pornography is now omni-present and as acceptable a part of the larger culture as perhaps it is ever going to be. Its many starlets are not only wealthy but also pop icons. This money and visibility, along with advances in video technology, have lead to lavish production budgets for pornographic films that involve over the top plots, exotic locals and lavish sets.<br />
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However, our hyper-saturated media environment also allows easier access to mainstream porn's darkling sibling. Cheaply made films cast with skinny, tattooed twenty year olds (boys & girls, unlike mainstream pornography and hollywood's, massive age disparity) shot in grainy DV offer up a cracked mirror image to the bleach blond, and absurdly augmented starlets of mainstream smut. Where mainstream porn is increasingly hard to discern from major Hollywood movies, so-called alt porn is full of slap dash edits, cheap visual effects and at its most extreme, an Artuadian relationship to its audience. The hallmarks of the art/film school drop out cannot help appear absurd wrapped around what is still, at its gyrating heart, hardcore smut. However, this pretentious self awareness is no more bizarre than the glossy high budget aping of Hollywood the blockbuster found in more mainstream fair. Like most cultural forms, porn's cross-over into the larger culture comes at the expense of innovation and content. However, just like other cultural forms, a relational other forms to fill the subcultural void left in its wake.<br />
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Pop music is currently generating its own darkling other to mirror its very own high gloss stagnation. Signs of this growing dark-pop trend are most obvious in the blacker side of Lady Gaga's Night Porter meets Weimar Cabaret shtick. However, for the more adventurous listener a the peculiar sound has begun to coalesce around a number of insufficient names including Drag and Witchhouse. These new dark sounds often see pop sensibilities, R& B vocals, catchy synth melodies, submerged below a veneer of drone and feedback and merged with melodramatic analog synths that would be at home at the Bat Cave circa '95. The music often disseminates through word of net downloads or on strictly limited vinyl or cassette releases. A patina of the static and hiss of basement studio production sunk beneath lyrics laced with a dark sincerity is the final touch on obsidian mirror image to Bieber and Beyonce's glossy pop sheen.<br />
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One of the more respected forces enabling these new sounds germination, is Brooklyn's own <a href="http://www.pendu.org/">Pendu label</a> (d/l Pendu's <a href="http://www.pendu.org/mag/2010/11/22/new-mixtape-horror-scores-for-the-dancefloor-vol-4/">Horror Scores for the Dance Floor</a>). Along with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGSntTw_Q4">White Ring</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qjdo4yVv2I">Chelsea Wolfe</a>, Pendu also releases music by <a href="http://pendusound.com/artists/atelecine-ft-sasha-grey/">aTelicine</a>, a band whose founding members include porn starlet Sasha Grey (see what I did there?). aTelecine's music is probably the most challenging of any act on the label or within the man/label's musical orbit. The songs are born of old-school tape loops and analog synths. They have a relationship to both the avant-drone metal of Sunn O))) and early 90s Industrial. On the Industrial side, aTelecine have a clearer connection to the early experimental sound of Throbbing Gristle or Current 93 than the grind and stomp of Ministry. Lyrics (by Ms. Grey?) are lost in layers of distortion sinking into to thick atmospheric haze that is constantly being chided and shifted by off kilter percussion. Hints and flashes of lullaby melody than work against the drone to create the gentlest sense of impending chaos, a timidly prodding unease.<br />
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The experiments don't always work, songs occasionally never manage to fully form but simply stagger on as stillborn noise for its own sake. However, more often the layers of dark blistering sound blend into something rich and fully formed. These songs lure you in while still managing to transcend mainstream pop's reflexive capitulation to sooth and comfort, to entertain. This is in the end not the music of large heaving breast, neatly tussled hair and well timed moans. It's more the music of sweat and spit. It slaps you around and bit and makes you feel dirty and just a bit uncomfortable. Which for some of us is exactly what we are looking for.<br />
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<i>from aTelecine's A Cassette Tape Culture LP</i>:<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"Let’s hope that as talk radio hosts find time for reflection, and commentators step back to take a deep breath, they will recall that one of the most hopeful aspects of the current conservative revival is its reclamation of the American constitutionalist tradition. That tradition is anchored even beyond the Constitution, of course, in the Declaration of Independence. And that document, let’s not forget, proclaims that, 'Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.'</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">An American conservatism that looks back to 1776 cannot turn its back on the Egyptian people. We should wish them well—and we should work to help them achieve as good an outcome as possible."</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">from <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html?page=2">The Weekly Standard</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html?page=2"></a></span>The above was penned by Bill Kristol, a man I normally have very little time for. In fact, on more than one occasion, in the heat of intoxicated argument, I have demanded he be brought before the Hague and tried for war crimes (how is that for championing civil discourse?). However, a call to honor the commitment to liberty and the revolutionary courage of our forefathers, that I can get behind. It is bizarre that self proclaimed standard-bearers on both sides of our debilitating political discourse always take these calls for rhetorical consistency, for a return to core ideas and values, as acts of heresy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I also have to show a little begrudging respect to the libertarian Republican house members who stood by their convictions and <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll029.xml">voted against the PATRIOT ACT renewal</a>. There is a lot I do not like about the tea party movement, but if just a few of these men and women continue to vote their conscience the dynamic inside the beltway may be better for it. It will surely give their benefactors a shock to the system.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did anyone look up from the chip bowl long enough before the supergame to witness this madness:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It was a very surreal experience. Not the heavy handed patriotism laced into our media/sporting events, <911 I have made my peace with that. It was the total strangeness of having soldiers and aged athletes perform a cold reading of what is essentially a revolutionary manifesto. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"></span>The Constitution is our founding document, it codifies basic rights and freedoms and puts in place protections for those rights and freedoms. It does not sound that odd when read aloud by school children. The Declaration of Independence is a document of a different stripe. Its lines call out an occupying power on its many grievances. The words "tyrant" and "despotism" appear to great effect. It demands certain rights with the explicit threat that if these rights are withheld they will be taken by force.<br />
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No matter how dryly one reads <i>"it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."</i> from a teleprompter it will still carry a touch of menace, that goes double if one is surrounded by uniformed soldiers on the deck of an aircraft carrier.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-59379887105279771032011-02-09T00:41:00.003-05:002011-02-09T00:48:24.630-05:00Ray Caesar - A Gentle Kind of Cruelty<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8931052670814097" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ray Caesar’s new show for Jonathan Levine, <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Exhibit.ExhibitDescription&exhibitID=62E0CF05-19DB-5802-E088223AEB9C1088">A Gentle Kind of Cruelty</a>, is as unnerving and enchanting as fans of Caesar’s work expect. His unique female figures, with their unsettling combination of pale childlike innocence and stern, world-weary gazes are as alluring and as provocative as ever. Though the show definitely presents a singular unified experience, the work on display lends itself to a division into two aesthetic themes.</span><br />
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.8931052670814097" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On one hand there are pieces that have taken on elements of what the press release calls a “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more painterly approach”. There are more muted pallets and softer edges to the figures. Some of the pieces are treated with a layer of varnish that crackles at the surface allowing for the illusion of age and history and adding a wonderful textural element to the experience. Perhaps the most striking example of these new methods is <a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Exhibit.ExhibitArt&ExhibitID=62E0CF05-19DB-5802-E088223AEB9C1088&ArtistID=D3710946-3048-28EB-927E4BC74ACF9041&artidx=6&artistidx=1">Ancient Memory</a>, a warm, gently lit portrait that could almost have been painted by an old Dutch master. Except, of course, that it couldn’t be. This nimble dance involving allusions to the past, the illusion of antiquity, novel subject matter and fresh technology is one of the main things that brings a unique vibrancy and engagement to Caesar's work.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In contrast, several of the pieces embrace and exaggerate the gloss and shine of the modern printing process, using highly stylized color pallets and maddeningly fine detail. Several of these pieces contain a lurid, hyper-gloss liquid lacquer from which organic forms emerge as if from the aether. This alien fluid also appeared in a group show piece from last year, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://nightthiefconfessional.blogspot.com/2010/03/ray-caesar-returns-of-day.html">Returns of the Day</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. In Gentle Kind Of Cruelty, the image takes on several different forms. In </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://jonathanlevinegallery.com/?method=Exhibit.ExhibitArt&ExhibitID=62E0CF05-19DB-5802-E088223AEB9C1088&ArtistID=D3710946-3048-28EB-927E4BC74ACF9041&artidx=10&artistidx=1">Impromptu</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> the impossibly shimmering piano appear unstable. It’s spindly legs fluid and asymmetrical, defying basic physics. It is as if the strange glossy fluid of which the furniture is constructed has not yet fully set or cured, or perhaps something has caused it to be destabilized, it’s atomic structure regressing from a solid state to something looser and more chaotic. </span><br />
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Here we see another porcelain-pale female figure (though to my eyes she appears a year or two more mature than the standard Caesar figure). She lazily conjures a small city from a liquid floor so smooth it is mirror polished. Is this perhaps a subtle nod to the medium in which these work is created? Is this appearance of the hyper-gloss liquid god-stuff and it’s destabilizing effect on the reality of the scene similar in a way to the early impressionists’ employment of visible brush strokes in their paintings</span>?</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8931052670814097" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8931052670814097" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike the paintings that Caser’s work allude to, these pieces are not made of oil or pigment of any kind. True there is the ink and canvas of the print hanging that hangs in the gallery, but these materials were not present at the work’s inception. The work of art was born of code, 1s and 0s, and at the visible level an astronomical number of colored pixels. Much like the figure in Kingdom, the artist conjurers the image from a seemingly unknowable and intangible substance. This peculiar liquid lacquer, this impossibly glossy god-stuff, then can be viewed as an allusion to the peculiar nature of the creative process in the digital age.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">In both the hyper-modernized imagery of the lacquer pieces and the allusions to antiquity in the more painterly pieces one can see another layer of narrative being added to the Caesar’s already narratively rich work. In different way each of these experimentations in form and content opens a dialogue not only with the medium of the work but also with the post-modern, yet strangely ahistorical moment in which we find ourselves. </span><br />
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</div>Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-334225614779506892011-02-04T18:57:00.000-05:002011-02-04T18:57:28.905-05:00More Dick?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TUyR_8Co2FI/AAAAAAAAARs/121uzyytZuY/s1600/dick+trio+resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TUyR_8Co2FI/AAAAAAAAARs/121uzyytZuY/s1600/dick+trio+resize.jpg" /></a><br />
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Do you want more <a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/swingshift-dog-days-night-part-i/">Dick</a>? Sure we all do. The third and final Swingshift story arc soon come.Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-68190001573078717692011-02-03T21:27:00.008-05:002011-02-03T21:59:01.852-05:00Conjurers' Dub - Vol. 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i> - Kodwo Eshun: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/More-Brilliant-Than-Sun-Adventures/dp/0704380250">More Brilliant Than The Sun</a></i><br />
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A new bass heavy mix designed for those magical late-night/early-morning hours when spirits are summoned from obsidian and mad-beautiful ideas are conjured through key strokes. A sequel to last years <a href="http://nightthiefconfessional.blogspot.com/2010/02/conjurers-dub-mix.html">Conjurers' Dub</a>, to my ears this mix has a little more drive than its older sister but there is still enough bass and space to do the job.<br />
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My aim was an elastic mix of drag, doomjazz and dub-techno custom built for long winter nights spent trawling the abyss. Let me know what you think.<br />
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1.The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Deadly Rehearsals <br />
2.Forest Swords – Rattling Cage <br />
3.Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol <br />
4.Water Borders – Akko (Petals remix) <br />
5.Roman Lindau – Keppra <br />
6.Fever Ray – Seven (Marcel Dettman remix) <br />
7.Eliphino – I Just Can't <br />
8.Raime – This Foundry <br />
9.Badawi – The Axiom (Andy Stott remix) <br />
10.L.B. Dub Corp. - It's What You Feel <br />
11.Onmutu Mechanicks – Lupus Moon (Xdb remix) <br />
12.Nick Hoppner – Isp <br />
13.Mike Shannon – Under the Radar (Deadbeat remix) <br />
14.Scuba – Tracers (Deadbeat remix) <br />
15.Rhythm & Sound (feat. Tikiman) – Acting Crazy <br />
16.Resoe – Minus & Plus (Sigha remix) <br />
17.Lerosa and Donato Dozzy – Neon Snake <br />
18.Alice Russell – Hurry On Now (Emika remix) <br />
19.Echologist (feat. The Spaceape) – Mercy Beat (Mri vs. UES remix) <br />
20.Bvdub – A Silent Reign <br />
21.Forest Swords – Hjurt (Pariah remix) <br />
22.oOoOO - SedsumtingKelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-1965907619408723072010-12-16T00:02:00.007-05:002010-12-16T13:57:07.232-05:00Babes of the Abyss Playlist<span style="font-family: inherit;">As with I did with </span><a href="http://nightthiefconfessional.blogspot.com/2010/09/dog-days-nights-playlist.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dog Days' Nights</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, I am celebrating the conclusion of <a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/swingshift-babes-of-the-abyss-%e2%80%93-part-vii/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Babes of the Abyss</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>by assembling an </span><a href="http://8tracks.com/kelcey/babes-of-the-abyss-playlist"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8Tracks mix</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of music I either listened to while writing the story </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">or that I associate in some other way with the series. It is a strange and varied collection of sounds with the only common thread being a gauzy layer of decay and reverb. Many of the songs share a raw and unmastered aesthetic that matches well with both the general vibe of the Swingshift worldview and the often chaotic creative process behind the stories.</span><br />
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There will be more Swingshift in 2011, and <a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/cheer/">Cheer</a> is still available for depraved holiday enjoyment. As always, thanks for all of your support.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>she might be right</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>02 Gonasufi - My Only Friend (Hezus mix)</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please, stay even though you know my reality”</span></span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L-Girls theme - “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A drink of Belldonna on a Toussaint night”</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>strung out soundtrack to late nights at the club El Cambion</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>“millions of hearts have been broken, just because these words have been spoken...”</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>06 Demdike Stare - Bardo Thodol</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>several stories deep below Canal St.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>our man has big plans and a full moon swagger</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>08 Skeletons & Sobansa Mimanisa - Kiwembo / Unstuck </b></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Things are in motion ...Get out and get lost.”</span></span></i><br />
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</div>Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-75078646443649373212010-12-09T22:56:00.006-05:002010-12-10T15:51:09.846-05:00Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part VII<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TKOCaO0kGQI/AAAAAAAAAQk/skmQupuD2V8/s1600/SWNGSHFT_LOGO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TKOCaO0kGQI/AAAAAAAAAQk/skmQupuD2V8/s400/SWNGSHFT_LOGO.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">"A patch of lightening rolls its way through the fog and across the water’s surface. The air pressure is dropping. My ears fill with echoing Latin. My knees buckle as gravity goes fluid for a brief moment. Best guess, this is the time. "</span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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The damp and dramatic conclusion of <a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/swingshift-babes-of-the-abyss-%E2%80%93-part-vii/">Babes of the Abyss</a> is live at T21.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Full moon, Saturday night. Dick crashes a Meridian orgone siphoning ritual and brings his own pyrotechnics. BJ plays the heavy, Jonesy drives the getaway car and the cat returns to life on the run. And, it all goes down with a swagger.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There is one more multi-chapter story in the Swingshift trilogy. It should kick off in January.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you all for the support.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/swingshift-babes-of-the-abyss-%E2%80%93-part-vii/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part VII</span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/category/series/swingshift/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Swingshift Archive</span></a></div>Kelcey Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05527016728090958365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7821649716653940881.post-6186701530485082692010-11-18T14:27:00.003-05:002010-11-24T22:15:36.561-05:00Swingshift: Babes of the Abyss - Part VI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TKOCaO0kGQI/AAAAAAAAAQk/skmQupuD2V8/s1600/SWNGSHFT_LOGO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1LiIKF_DEk/TKOCaO0kGQI/AAAAAAAAAQk/skmQupuD2V8/s400/SWNGSHFT_LOGO.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">"Three flights down through narrow stairwells lit by flickering fluorescents. Then, we cross a dark empty sub-basement. The speed surges in my veins from the exercise. The immersive silence fills my ears with malicious insectiod whispers and twists my thoughts into intricate knots of paranoia."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.troubadour21.com/series/kelcey/swingshift-babes-of-the-abyss-%e2%80%93-part-vi/">Babes of the Abyss - Part VI</a> is live at T21.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">In the penultimate chapter of Babes of the Abyss, Swingshift proves the old adage that you can find anything in Chintown, including an orgone vacuum/bomb. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">I once heard a member of the NYPD's Trademark Infringement Unit tell the story of chasing an old woman, and knock-off watch salesperson, through a labyrinth of basement tunnels several stories beneath Chinatown. Since then, I have had a fascination with Canal Street's bootleg culture and the secret architecture of Chinatown. On more than one occasion my curiosity has gotten me chewed out in Chinese by ladies like the older lady in this piece.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Next time: the suspense filled, soaking wet climax of Babes of the Abyss. (I wonder if that phrase will bump my google ranking.)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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