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• A bootleg recording of Vladislav Delay’s set from DEMF last month, which can be downloaded here (also contains part of Jeff Mills’ and A Guy Called Gerald’s sets)
• A live performance of Monolake’s from Frigid in Sydney
• Rhythm & Sound’s DJ set from Paxahau’s 8th anniversary
• Pole - Steingarten
• Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures - La Nouvelle Pauvrete
• Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
• Andrew Pekler - Station to Station
• Kate Simko’s set from DEMF last month, which can be downloaded from her site here.

I’m a little behind in finally listening to the back catalogue of the ~scape label, there are quite a few gems there. Lots of forays into glitch meets jazz. They’ve also put out an interesting series of compilations where IDM/glitch-heads produce hip-hop. Staedtizism 3 is worth checking out for the tracks by luminaries Thomas Fehlmann and Daniel Bell aka DBX.

Robag Wruhme and the Wighnomy Brothers remixed FSOL.

I kind of figured it’d be standard minimal tripe, but it’s surprisingly good. I’ve always wanted to slip the original into a DJ set but the tempo’s just a little fast and the kick drum a little weak for it to fit well with anything. Their remix solves both of those problems and still manages to be an interesting interpretation of the original.

Discogs link

I’ve been playing a lot of Uusitalo (aka Vladislav Delay) lately. I held off on checking out Vapaa Muurari for the longest time because I’ve only really liked one of his albums (Vocalcity). However, after getting ahold of his latest album and noting the similarity to his other work as Luomo, I decided to give it a shot.

I’m not as into Tulenkantaja as much as Vapaa Muurari, as it’s a bit quirkier and more of a standalone album instead of being a live rework of his previous material. Had I known Vapaa Muurari contained as much reworked stuff from Vocalcity, though, I’d have checked it out much sooner.

So if you liked Delay’s work as Luomo and would appreciate it in the context of a live set with more of an ambient flavor, I’d definitely recommend checking out Vapaa Muurari. Tulenkantaja, not so much. It’s a decent album, though, just not quite my thing.

Microhouse, techno, and experimental minimal electronica fans rejoiced at the end of 2004 when it was announced that the Force Inc. Music Works family of labels would begin releasing again, having resolved issues arising from bankruptcy of German distribution giant EFA.

For those of us who like to wear our musical tastes on our sleeve so to speak, they are now selling T-shirts through their website.

Other techno-related shirts can be found at Hardwax’s website, and at Kompakt’s online store, in the back catalogue section.

felt like streaming and mixing some of the new records i’d picked up over the last month. i can never find a good track to mix out of the mataya one, so i bailed and started over.

mix 1 starts with some laid-back electro, moves into microhouse and light tech-house territory, then goes into some heavier, glitchier stuff. the mix of the last 3 tracks was shamelessly lifted from mr. c’s classic 2002 essential mix.

mix 2 is tech-house of the darker, deeper variety, with some basic channel stuff and aril brikha thrown in for good measure. ends on a floatier, housey note.

mix 1:

mesak - tufnu (klakson)
johan skugge - kyrkogaard (mitek)
subsound - electrobot (affected)
zvukbroda - kse zo (listen to reason)
omni a.m. & casey hogan - in my time of flying (euphoria)
le dust sucker - keine bewegung berlin (styles kickin’)
steve bug & richie hawtin - low blow (minus)
mataya - new game (listen to reason)

mix 2:

blue mar ten - numbers (deep structure)
second hand satellites - orbit 1.4 (hallucination)
maurizio - m5 (maurizio)
round four - find a way (vocal mix) (main street)
sanasol vs. ozzy - seveneleven (ozzymix) (thule)
aril brikha - on and on (transmat)
david alvarado - klugh (ovum)
juju christian - feel good (zeppelin)