Ellen Allien - Berlinette

Ellen Allien (born Ellen Fraatz) is a successful electronic musician, music producer and music label owner (BPitch Control). She lives in Berlin, Germany, but travels extensively. She sings in both German and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for her music is the culture of reunified Berlin; her album “Stadtkind” was dedicated to the city.

(taken from last.fm)

Back from Bulgaria, with some real "intelligent dance music" (needed by me to contrast all that shitty music I had to endure in Bulgarian clubs). Once again, this is great urban minimal techno.

[ BPitch Control | 2003 | Minimal Techno | 192kbps | 49:22 |

Tracklist
1. Alles Sehen - 3:52
2. Sehnsucht - 6:20
3. Trash Scapes Voc - 1:00
4. Push - 4:19
5. Trash Scapes - 4:43
6. Augenblick - 4:42
7. Wish - 4:49
8. Abstract Pictures - 4:57
9. Erdbeermund - 4:16
10. Secret - 4:11
11. Open - 6:13

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Arms And Sleepers - Matador Remixed

Arms and Sleepers began one night in the back of an ambulance in Cambridge. In an alleyway a man was bleeding with a cassette player in hand, the play button still on. What sounded like recordings of a gospel choir blared from the tin speaker, while down the street a jazz band could be heard.

The man was dying. He dropped the cassette player on the cement and closed his eyes, the sound carrying through the air into his ears for one last time. Though this moment in time died with him, his cassette lived on — and Arms and Sleepers were born.

Persistent international touring and constant dissemination of their sounds makes Arms and Sleepers a worthy opponent for the typical temporal constraints that can befall a band. Having issued a series of limited edition releases and the well-received Bliss Was it in That Dawn to be Alive EP (Fake Chapter) in 2007, Black Paris 86 is their debut full-length on Expect Candy Records (DE).

A tight and intense record, listening to it feels like sitting in a cinema, watching landscapes, beauty and tragedy - feeling warm and safe while a hint of mystery seems to whisper that not everything is ok out there.

(from Last.fm)

The brand new release of this great band. Remixes of their album "Matador" from other bands and themselves. Enjoy it!

Arms And Sleepers - Matador Remixed

(Expect Candy / 2010 / Trip Hop/Electronic/Ambient / 256 kbp/s)

Tracklist
01. Matador (Uzi & Ari remix) 5:42
02. The Architekt (Lymbyc Systym remix) 4:40
03. Twentynine Palms (Nolens Volens remix) 4:57
04. Simone (Amanda Rogers remix) 3:25
05. Helvetica (The American Dollar remix) 3:17
06. The Architekt (The Consulate General vs. Boy In Static remix) 4:32
07. The International (Arms and Sleepers remix) 5:38
08. Kino (Thisquietarmy remix) 5:31
09. The Architekt (Bigadiga remix) 4:03
10. The Paramour (Elika remix) 3:03

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Somatic Responses - Circumflex

john and paul healy, collectively known throughout the world as somatic responses, are native residents of a small industrial mining community snugly located in the southwest region of wales. amongst the 20,000 inhabitants of the city of ammanford, a sometimes-overbearing intimacy exists, where everyone knows everyone else, and where traditional welsh lifestyle is still the common trend.this is all quite an interesting backdrop indeed, when considering it has been the environment in which the somatic responses have consistently produced some of the world's most abrasive and original electronic music for the past 8 years. as john healy states, "our lives are completely external to this environment and lifestyle... our sound has no deep connection to our surroundings. i think we care more about where we are mentally than where we are physically, with reference to our music." this contrast becomes immediately apparent upon hearing the somatics' actual material. while maintaining a consistent balance of the aggressive and the introspective over the years, their sounds have been shown to be extremely diverse. the somatic responses intend to push their own experimentation in electronic music further with every passing day. somatic responses are into dislocated & broken beats that still retain rhythm. another consistent theme in the somatics' music is their tendency to design, construct, and decimate complex structures of sound, while ranging the level of architecture from the most intricate manipulation to complete fluctuation of mood and theme.

the sounds could be labeled as industrial with complex dislocated rhythms and associated structures filled with pure plasic and atari cookies.

via hymen records

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[Wales / 1999 / Hymen Records / IDM - Industrial / 320kbps]

Tracklist:
1 Umbrella 6:27
2 Ivtephx 5:28
3 Ucircumflex 7:05
4 Oldrosv 7:23
5 The Storm 5:28
6 Wherever 6:09
7 Open Window 5:46
8 Fourty 6:14
9 Halfway 4:25
10 Androstyle 5:04
11 Revula 5:21
12 Catflap 4:40
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1:04:11

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Benn Jordan - Pale Blue Dot: A Tribute to Carl Sagan

An appropriate biography for Benn Jordan (the man behind The Flashbulb, Flexe, Q-bit, Acidwolf, and countless other pseudonyms) would be in the form of a stock ticker constantly scrolling up to date information on his multiple careers and endeavors. He is well known around the world in electronica for his abrasive trademarks multiplied with a level of diversity that makes just about anyone’s head spin. His catalog of releases is so extensive and obscure that there is no place on the internet that can accurately and completely list them. It also seems that Benn has replaced sleeping with film composing, and has recently mirrored his accomplishments in the film industry.

(read more at last.fm)

[ Alpha Basic | 2008 | Ambient | VBR | 1:03:05 ]

Tracklist
1. Looking Upwards - 4:10
2. Ascent - 3:15
3. Leaving Earth - 2:49
4. Discovery - 3:07
5. Infinity Alone - 4:04
6. Passing Time - 3:11
7. Becoming - 3:25
8. Floating Vacuum - 3:56
9. Cold Agoraphobia - 2:13
10. Outside - 3:20
11. Hypoxia - 2:30
12. These Solemn Stars - 4:34
13. Looking Into The Past - 4:10
14. Floating Vacuum II - 3:28
15. Peace With Darkness - 4:00
16. A Distant Earthrise - 4:27
17. Safe Landing - 2:51
18. Sunrise In Blue Skies - 3:35

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Xingu Hill - Alterity

'alterity' is the fourth xingu hill album and the latest output of john n. sellekaers, well-known as creative collaborator with projects like torsion, black lung/xingu hill, snog, urawa, ambre, & nternal and chief of the audiomastering-studio metarc in brussels.

this album is free from stylistic limitations, it travels through groovy ambient tunes with surrealistic atmospheres to chaotic soundscapes towards slower, more experimental pieces which however form an intimate coexistence. the complex melting of these different styles emphasizes 'alterity' with a special, unique character, which may first appear with a strange affection but gets familiar the more attentive you listen. deeply fractured sonic mutations build up their own morphogenic aesthetics. it's unalterable giving a mindfully listening to enjoy a more experimental side of electronic music and assimilate the full potential with access to an exceptional sound experience! it exists in its own space and with its own rules!

taken from hymen records

[Belgium / 1999 / Hymen Records / 320kbps]


Tracklist:
1. Core Illness 4:10
2. Worms 0:29
3. Bandwidth Barons 4:27
4. One Of Us 5:31
5. Ziggurat Seven 7:11
6. Identities Are Fluid 11:52
7. The Conquistador Closes His Eyes 5:44
8. Texas Prayer Machines 10:01
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subtractiveLAD - Life At The End Of The World

With five genre-defying and emotionally arresting full-lengths in as many years, Stephen Hummel (aka subtractiveLAD) has established himself as n5MD’s “flagship” artist and the embodiment of its “emotionally experimental” credo and ethos. Combining the warmth and warble of classic analogue hardware, a vast cache of original instruments and plug-ins and an improvisatory compositional freedom gained from over a decade in jazz, subtractiveLAD creates a sound both cathartic and escapist, highly personal yet universally accessible, with an emotional depth rarely heard in the often cold, cerebral world of “armchair electronica.”

As a classically trained vocalist, accomplished jazz saxophonist and Fine Arts student (with a major in English Lit.), Hummel had already accrued an impressive set of influences and inspirations when he decided to pad his resume (and wallet) by founding his own patch/plug-in company, “Wavelength Devices,” in 1999. Finding the same “thrill of discovery” in tweaking parameters that he’d relished in improv jazz, he spent the next four years creating custom instruments (with a special emphasis on analogue emulators), shedding his acoustic roots as he amassed the unique “sonic arsenal” that would become the bedrock of the subtractiveLAD sound. When business slowed in 2004, Hummel donned his new moniker (a nod to his favorite filters and an acknowledgment of his own mortality), produced a demo and, with an in from fellow Vancouverite Spark, dropped a copy on the desk of n5MD label-owner, Mike Cadoo. Impressed by the demo’s technical precision and emotional integrity, Cadoo signed him less than 6 months later and, in February 2005, released subtractiveLAD’s debut disc Giving Up The Ghost to widespread, international praise.

(more on Last.fm)

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Tracklist
1. Beginning Again
2. Those Who Lose Dreaming Are Lost
3. Summer In Your Mouth
4. Ne Plus Ultra
5. The Deep And Lovely Quiet
6. Nautilus
7. With Eternal Lids Apart
8. Once The Stars Have Been Washed From The Sky
9. Life At The End Of The World
10. Always Ending

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Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir

Born in 1975 (Essex, England), Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson can be broadly described as an electronic musician, though he is perhaps best known for his experimental drum’n’bass with a heavy jazz fusion influence. Rising from near-total obscurity to drum’n’bass cause célèbre in the space of a couple of months, Jenkinson released only a pair of EPs and a DJ Food remix for the latter’s Refried Food series before securing EP and LP release plans with three different labels. His first full-length work, Feed Me Weird Things (on Richard “Aphex Twin” James’ Rephlex label), was a dizzying, quixotic blend of superfast jungle breaks with Aphex-style synth textures, goofy, offbeat melodies, and instrumental arrangements (Jenkinson samples his own playing for his tracks) that recall vaguely jazz fusion pioneers such as Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report. A skilled bassist and multi-instrumentalist, Jenkinson’s fretless accompaniment is a staple of his music and one of the more obvious affiliations with jazz (although his formal arrangements are often as jazz-derived as his playing).

(More on Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Star Time 2
2. The Coathanger
3. Open Society
4. A Real Woman
5. Delta -v
6. Aqueduct
7. Potential Govaner
8. Planet Gear
9. Tensor In Green
10. The Glass Road
11. Fluxgate
12. Duotone Moonbeam
13. Quadrature
14. Yes – Sequitur

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Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy

Born in 1975 (Essex, England), Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson can be broadly described as an electronic musician, though he is perhaps best known for his experimental drum’n’bass with a heavy jazz fusion influence. Rising from near-total obscurity to drum’n’bass cause célèbre in the space of a couple of months, Jenkinson released only a pair of EPs and a DJ Food remix for the latter’s Refried Food series before securing EP and LP release plans with three different labels. His first full-length work, Feed Me Weird Things (on Richard “Aphex Twin” James’ Rephlex label), was a dizzying, quixotic blend of superfast jungle breaks with Aphex-style synth textures, goofy, offbeat melodies, and instrumental arrangements (Jenkinson samples his own playing for his tracks) that recall vaguely jazz fusion pioneers such as Mahavishnu Orchestra and Weather Report. A skilled bassist and multi-instrumentalist, Jenkinson’s fretless accompaniment is a staple of his music and one of the more obvious affiliations with jazz (although his formal arrangements are often as jazz-derived as his playing).

Jenkinson grew up listening to jazz and dub greats like Miles Davis, Augustus Pablo, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey. The son of a jazz drummer, Jenkinson followed in his father’s footsteps, playing bass and drums in high school. Introduced to electronic music through experimental electro-techno artists such as LFO and Carl Craig, Jenkinson soon began assembling the rolls of disparate influence into amalgams of breakbeat techno and post-bop avant-garde and progressive jazz. Claiming a closer affinity with jazz than jungle (although he draws from both equally in his music), Jenkinson’s EPs as Squarepusher and the Duke of Harringay (Jenkinson moved to Harringay from his Chelmsford birthplace) were initially disregarded as misplaced perversions of jungle’s more obvious compositional principles, but found ready audience in fans of post-acid house experimental listening music. He inked a deal with Warp in 1995, releasing the Port Rhombus EP and three others through a variety of different labels. His full-length debut, Feed Me Weird Things, appeared in 1996, followed a year later by Hard Normal Daddy.

Critical acclaim for Jenkinson’s work peaked with 1998’s Music Is Rotted One Note, for which he became a one-man fusion group — multi-tracking himself playing drums, bass, and keyboards. The following year, he released two EPs (Budakhan Mindphone, Maximum Priest) and another full LP, Selection Sixteen. Go Plastic appeared in summer 2001, featuring the closest thing to a hit Squarepusher had ever seen, with the single “My Red Hot Car.” Subsequent releases such as 2003’s Do You Know Squarepusher and 2004’s Ultravisitor found him refining his fusion of composition, programming, and musicianship.

More recently, in 2008 Squarepusher released “Just A Souvenir”, an album with a more rock-influenced sound, followed in 2009 by “Solo Electric Bass”, consisting of live recordings of Jenkinson on the titular instrument.

Tom Jenkinson is also known as Chaos A.D.

(from Last.fm)

Great Electronic/IDM Album. Enjoy!

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Tracklist

1. Coopers World
2. Beep Street
3. Rustic River
4. Anirog D9
5. Chin Happy
6. Papalon
7. E8 Boogie
8. Fat Controller
9. Vic Acid
10. Male Pill, Pt. 13
11. Rat/P's & Q's
12. Rebus

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Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist

Some funky breakcore from Aaron Funk aka. Venetian Snares. Includes the ultimate dance floor killer Circle Pit, enjoy!

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Tracklist
1. Gentleman
2. Koonut Kaliffee
3. Sajtban
4. Kyokushin
5. Eurocore
6. Poo Yourself Jason
7. Circle Pit
8. Flashforward
9. Bebikukorica Nigiri
10. Miss Balaton

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Milanese - Lockout

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Tracklist
1. Baby Blue Remix (feat. RQM & Oliver Grimball)
2. Wonderful World (feat. Ben Sharps)
3. The End
4. B Sharpa (feat. Ben Sharpa) (Reload Mix)
5. The End (Untold Remix)
6. Unique 3 Take this Love (Milanese Remix)
7. Disclosure (feat. Ben Sharpa)
8. Fun with Robots
9. B Sharpa (feat. Ben Sharpa)
10. The End (Off Mix)
11. Shake wut ya Mama gave ya (Milanese Remix)
12. Disclosure (Instrumental)

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