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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: March 2010
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Wednesday, 31 March 2010. Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have [Hyperdub]. There's a sense of long-awaited resolution that comes with the news that Ikonika's debut album comes out next week, especially after my excitement. At the announcement earlier this year. It helps of course that it's frequently brilliant, managing to preserve the lopsided 'what the fuck? Contact, Love, Want, Have. Above all else though, the crucial aspect of. Contact, Love, Want, Have. Pushes the sound i...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: Hiatus what?
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Thursday, 29 April 2010. So this blog has been on a slightly self-enforced hiatus recently, especially in terms of original content. Quite aside from anything else, it's in the build up to the imminent arrival of something larger - stay tuned for updates on that one. In the interim period, here are some things CB/OB's been feeling of late. S quite astounding upcoming Anidea. As of this week I've started writing a regular Bristol focus column for Drowned In Sound, aiming to co...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: Short Circuitry 007
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Wednesday, 2 June 2010. Continuing along with the usual habit of posting the full transcripts of this column, the latest edition of Short Circuitry has just been published on. The actual article, complete with photos and videolinks, can be found up here, but here's the unaltered text. After another one of those hiatuses – in typical style, a case of life imitating art and hitting the wonky flex – Short Circuitry. EP in the last Short Circuitry (and I quote: “[The entire...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: 10-20 - Isthmus [Highpoint Lowlife]
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Tuesday, 8 June 2010. 10-20 - Isthmus [Highpoint Lowlife]. There’s a lot of love for the Highpoint Lowlife label round this way – they've been responsible for releasing some of my favourite records of the last twelve months, including TVO's stunning The Starry Wisdom EP. And Production Unit's lovely new Ghost Tracks. Series. In an appropriate feat of naming, or an even more impressive feat of suggestive projection, each has perfectly matched its title, from Island. It’s...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: June 2010
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Monday, 14 June 2010. Interview: Mount Kimbie [Hotflush]. Hotflush duo Mount Kimbie. S stunning debut Crooks and Lovers. Is due out next month. It's a truly labyrinthine listen, flitting swiftly through mindstates and abruptly changing mood at seemingly arbitrary points. In advance of its release I caught up with the band's Dominic Maker to chat about its genesis, their influences and how their music comes together, in this interview for Drowned In Sound. Tuesday, 8 June 2010.
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: Short Circuitry 008
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Monday, 12 July 2010. CD and the veritable dose of sonic frostbite that is the Moritz Von Oswald Trio’s. Have kept these drums rattling in some form of delicate equilibrium. Just about, anyway. Right, onward…. Digital Mystikz – Return II Space. Along with his fellow Mystikz, Coki and Loefah, he defined a genre, and almost everything that now lands under dubstep’s widening umbrella is in some way indebted to him. To keep things heavy for the foreseeable future. Hyetal is the j...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: FaltyDL in 2010
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Sunday, 4 April 2010. Given that UK speed garage had its roots in New York and the experiments of luminaries like Todd Edwards, it was a pleasingly circular development that NYC-based FaltyDL put together last year’s best garage release in his. Love Is A Liability. Album Since then, his. EP upped the head quotient, teasing apart his intricate beat programming to allow darkness into gaps in the mix, and his. All In the Place. EP Each percussive element constantly attempts to e...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: October 2009
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Wednesday, 28 October 2009. Track of the day: October 28th. Rhythm and Sound feat. Savage - Smile. Basic Channel duo Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus have been responsible for some compelling and truly beautiful music, but nothing simultaneously touches the neural centres controlling both aesthetic appreciation and contemplation like ‘Smile’. Rarely has a track composed largely of white noise sounded so fully realised. Video: Vladislav Delay - Toive. The closest approximat...
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket.: July 2010
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Close Bracket. Open Bracket. Monday, 12 July 2010. CD and the veritable dose of sonic frostbite that is the Moritz Von Oswald Trio’s. Have kept these drums rattling in some form of delicate equilibrium. Just about, anyway. Right, onward…. Digital Mystikz – Return II Space. Along with his fellow Mystikz, Coki and Loefah, he defined a genre, and almost everything that now lands under dubstep’s widening umbrella is in some way indebted to him. To keep things heavy for the foreseeable future. Hyetal is the j...
