Friday, November 19, 2010

Arnaud Rebotini - Music Components (2009)

























ARTIST`````Arnaud Rebotini
ALBUM`````Music Components (2009)
GENRE`````Techno
YEAR````````2009

The sexiest techno album of 2009
I should have posted this album a looong time ago (in 2009 to be precise). Don't know why I didn't but anyway, if you don't have it (you might have heard 2 tracks from it on my third Crashing comp) do get it and melt your headphones with every track on it. This is my favorite dance album of 2009 simply because there is no bullshit to be found anywhere on it. There is no unnecessary trendiness (charts were ruled by some of the worst progressive and tech house farts ever). Here is just Arnaud Rebotini making love to his collection of synths like TR 909, TR 808, SH 101, ARP Odyssey and Korg's Mono/Poly. But also, what's the most important part and what gives this album it's macho mojo is that it's a 100% no bullshit dance record. Each track is a rock-solid concrete piece of composition and among these 10 tracks I just can't find the shitty one. The weakest point on this album is that it doesn't last for 6 more hours.
It sounds like an intimate and romantic exploration and thats why it sucked on charts but I get the feeling that author's goal had nothing to do with charts. If you play this to a DJ and he says he wouldn't spin any of the tracks from this album that means that he/she is a mojoless douchebag and you should avoid them completely. My best advice is to go for an hour long walk and listen to the entire album in one go.

In this interview, you can see how much he is really into synths and the 771 views on youtube tells you enough about the public.


Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Famous Castle Jazz Band Plays The Five Pennies (1959)






















ARTIST`````The Famous Castle Jazz Band
ALBUM`````The Five Pennies
GENRE`````Jazz
YEAR````````1959

Stomp your feet!
The film version of cornetist Red Nichols' life was a Hollywood success, and one of the very few movies to resist the stereotypical image of jazz musicians as drunken, drug-addled losers. Here, the Famous Castle Jazz Band (who didn't play on the original soundtrack) reinterpret songs from that film in a delightful session that brings fire to the cornier production numbers written by Sylvia Fine and authenticity to standards like "That's A Plenty," "After You've Gone" (with a jaunty vocal from Monte Ballou), "Ja-Da," "My Blue Heaven," and the inevitable "When the Saints Go Marching In," given a rousing closing treatment here. Not the soundtrack, but in many ways a whole lot better.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

African Virtuoses - The Classic Guinean Guitar Group (2007)

























ARTIST`````African Virtuoses
ALBUM`````The Classic Guinean Guitar Group
GENRE`````African Folk, World, Latin Influenced
YEAR````````2007

Why
Life would be beautiful if it sounded like this.

Info:
After rushes on gnarly West African music over the past year-- particularly records by Saharan trance bands Tartit, Etran Finatawa, and the fierce Tinariwen-- the focus is sliding down the coast's bulb. This comp of lyric acoustic guitar work from the Diabate family is the third Guinean release Sterns Africa has offered this year, alongside a reissue of a Bembeya Jazz Ensemble retrospective and a singles collection from the Guinean state-run label Syliphone.

Review from Pitchfork:
Not to say that it's protest music, because it's not. If anything, the central charm here is how damn unhurried and relaxed the Diabates sound. Even when they ornament-- and the music is so harmonically and rhythmically simple that it's almost all ornament-- it's more amble than flash; on the closing "Solo Virtuose", Papa Diabate has about seventeen minutes all to himself, so he spreads out, sometimes lapsing into arpeggios alongside brother Sékou for the sake of mutual hypnosis.

Kevin Blechdom - Gentlemania (2009)


























ARTIST`````Kevin Blechdom
ALBUM`````Gentlemania
GENRE`````Country jangle, Broadway show tunes, old-school R&B, Sarcasm?
YEAR````````2009

Info:
Kevin Blechdom's discography is packed with reliable anomalies. So much so that it's almost pointless to mention that she was one-half of the (newly reunited) electronic duo Blectum From Blechdom. After eight years and a few solo albums, the glitchy, rude electronic music she made with partner Blevin Blectum tells you little about how she got to where she is, and a lot about the kinds of musical leaps Blechdom makes from record to record.

Review from Boomkat:
As the title suggests, "Gentlemania" is not as schizophrenic or madcap manic as her previous two electronic albums. Instead, Blechdom slows down, takes a deep breath, and, with thoughtful control, peels back layers of emotion for the listener to hear. Combining a strong background in classical and experimental music with a broad knowledge of pop styles, Blechdom seamlessly travels between and coalesces country jangle, Broadway show tunes, old-school R&B, and many other styles into a cohesive and


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SEXY-SYNTHESIZER - ROCK-SPECIAL EDITION (2008)

























ARTIST`````SEXY-SYNTHESIZER
ALBUM`````ROCK-SPECIAL EDITION
GENRE`````Chiptune, 8bit, Japan
YEAR````````2008

Info:
SEXY-SYNTHESIZER is founded in 2006 by Takeshi Nagai. Their sound is characterized by 1980’s arcade sound effects and familiar electronic sounds, with vocoder vocals singing over all that. Simply categorizing the group with terms like “chip tune” and “8bit sound” are not enough to explain their distinctive rock/punk-based electro groove.
Aside from working on their own productions, SEXY-SYNTHESIZER collaborates with various hip hop,R&B, and electro artists, as well as producing, track-making, and remixing for these artists. Playing live and DJing as well, the group continues to pursue their activities in various fields and genres


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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

V.A. Pinkycheek Sweetmint And Titshit Rave Buttpunch (2010)

ARTIST`````Various
ALBUM`````
Pinkycheek Sweetmint & Titshit Rave Buttpunch
GENRE`````
Naive, Nu Rave, Jpop, Kitsch, Dubstep, Drum & Bass, Happy Hardcore, Electro Indie, Dance, Synthesizer

YEAR````````2010
A Bleeding Panda Compilation!

What
Quite a chaotic selection - I am sure many of you who take music too seriously will be immensely irritated by some tracks here. In short, this is a pile of dance-nerd-rave-core tracks for butt-shaking. I really didn't know how to name the compilation so I just typed in some nice stuff as you can see.

I had a rather sad discovery a month ago - I flipped out on
a Japanese born techno-nerdcore artist imoutoid. After a few clicks I found out that he suddenly died from heart failure in 2009 (he was only 18 years old). There is not much information about him except some message board comments, a letter from his father and a bunch of pages that get messed up when you translate them with Google translate. Pay attention to his cover of the gorgeous Apex Twin song 4 (get it here) called HanaHazu*James!! OP "SoAi? 4Seasons" - shit, how do you pronounce that? There are some links on him here: http://dis.4chan.org/read/music/1244209724 and also check him out on youtube.

I really wanted to include at least one happy hardcore track on this compilation but after listening for several days to some multiple CDs "Hardcore Anthems" or whatever I found out that that's not my thing. I managed to cut out and rearrange a 1,5 min clip from an artist Gammer - a rather solid rave bang but that's it - I am not going back to that.

Anyways, some excellent fresh artists are here and I will be posting more quick comps like this very soon so stay tuned.

Tracklist:
01 Grandmaster Flash - Intro (2002)
02 imoutoid - Motteke! Sailor Fuku (imoutoid's FF6 Remix) (2007)
03 Captain Ahab - Girls Gone Wild (2006)
04 she - Music (2008)
05 Ronald Jenkees - Throwing Fire (2009)
06 Praga Khan - Rave Alert (1992)
07 Danny Byrd - Planet Earth (2010)
08 You Love Her Coz She's Dead - Young Tender Hearts Beat Fast (2009)
09 Nero's Day At Disneyland - Probably End Up Dead In Ditch Somewhere (2009)
10 Aira Mitsuki - Beep Count Fantasic (feat. Terukado) (2008)
11 Albatrosicks - Eternal Voyage (2009)
12 imoutoid - HanaHazuJames!! OP SoAi 4Seasons (Apex Twin Cover!)
13 Bong-Ra - Deathsucker Rave (2004)
14 Gammer - Now It's My Turn (2008)
15 Danny Byrd - Weird Science (2008)
16 Skrillex - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (Original Mix) (2010)
17 Magnetic Man - Anthemic (2010)
18 Fenech-Soler - Lies (Doctor P Dub) (2010)
19 SEXY-SYNTHESIZER - Space Music (2008)

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