UPCOMING RELEASE: UNCRAT «BOND UNSTABLE»

Artist: Uncrat. Title: Bond unstable. Label: Subsist Records.
Release date: May 2015. Genre: Techno, industrial.

Tracklisting:

1. Uncrat – Dispersion
2. Uncrat – Talk to understand each other
3. Uncrat – Wish You Were Here
4. Uncrat – Anthropocene
5. Uncrat – Geqzir
6. Uncrat – Evolutionary Convergence
7. Uncrat – P-Brane
8. Uncrat – Despite me
9. Uncrat – Mother Ship
10. Uncrat – Udeaekwa

About the release:

For its nature, the man is destined to overcome their limitations. Information and technology are bringing it to undergo transformations sociocultural than ever in human history has had so quickly. The alienation, the inability to talk and discuss, narcissism, insecurity, are symptoms of the post-industrial revolution. But if on one hand the technology is constantly evolving, (thanks to the discoveries in the military and space) is rather balanced advancement of humankind on planet earth, planet that suffers all the effects of an industrialized society, that can not or will not have the courage of a change become necessary so that even the frightening apocalypse seems near. The bond between man and the earth is unstable, as well as the society he owns.

https://soundcloud.com/subsist/sub-d39-uncrat-bond-unstable-bms-masterpreview

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SHOWCASE ELECTRIC DELUXE EN SÓNAR OFF WEEK 2015

El sello Electric Deluxe presenta un showcase con un cartel de lujo en Off Sónar Week 2015.

El próximo 17 de junio en la sala Bloc de Barcelona, actuarán Speedy J, Oscar Mulero, Marcel Fengler, Function, Shifted, Christian Wunschy y AnD. ¿Os veremos allí? Aquí tenéis info práctica si pensáis asistir:

Evento en Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1573121479605580/

Evento en Resident Advisor con venta de entradas:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?691962

Websites Electric Deluxe y Sala Bloc

Electric Deluxe stream on Soundcloud:

 

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KORELESS Y EMPTYSET EN DNIT CAIXAFORUM BARCELONA

El ciclo DNIT, comisariado por Delicalisten, presenta el viernes 24 de abril a las 22:00 en CaixaForum Barcelona, las actuaciones de Koreless, melodías preciosistas y atmósferas espaciales y Emptyset con un impactante show audiovisual.

Koreless
Nacido en Gales y residente en Glasgow, comenzó a crear música con solo 9 años. Influenciado por el mundo del jazz y especialmente por John Coltrane, pronto descubre la música electrónica y en 2008 pública por primera como Koreless. En 2011 editó el brillante «4D/MTI» , situándose como uno de los más prometedores productores de la escena electrónica. Ha recibido el apoyo de Fout Tet, Mount Kimbie,  Jamie XX y BBC Radio 1 en varios de sus programas. En 2014 editó el «Yugen EP» para el sello Young Turks.

Koreless ha ido perfeccionando su sonido con cada trabajo, creando atmósferas espaciales y altamente emocionales. Posee un lenguaje musical propio, se aleja de la pista de baile a través de estructuras armónicas con subgraves tremendos y vocales entrecortados. Durante los últimos meses ha actuado en los festivales más importantes, ha girado con Caribou y ha trabajado con artistas como How to Dress Well o Jacques Greene.

Emptyset
Proyecto con base Bristol por James Ginzburg, director de Multiverse Studios y Paul Purgas, comisario y artista electrónico.
Desde 2005 han perseguido la reducción y deconstrucción de la música a su estado menos adulterado de una manera densamente técnica. Exploran las propiedades elementales del sonido y las estructuras rítmicas.
El impacto de  los ambientes acústicos y la arquitectura del sonido se han mantenido como el eje central de su trabajo: performance, instalación e imagen en movimiento.

En sus orígenes se veía una clara influencia del techno y la escena Bass de Bristol. Con el tiempo han ido subiendo sistemáticamente los grados de ruido, empujando al límite cada uno de los elementos con un uso tremendamente astuto de la compresión y operando en el punto de tensión entre la arquitectura sonora experimental y la música de club.

La mayor parte de su trabajo discográfico se ha editado en Subtext y en Raster Noton. «Demiurge» (2011) fue el primer álbum al que siguió «Medium» (2012) grabado en directo en la Mansion Woodchester, y que marcó su primer acto de adaptación del sonido analógico en un espacio arquitectónico.

En 2012 editaron por primera vez con Raster Noton, lanzando el EP «Collapsed», seguido en 2013 por «Recur»,su disco más ruidista y experimental y el primer largo para el sello

Más información en la web de Delicalisten y venta de entradas, aquí.

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UPCOMING RELEASE: STERAC «DIFFERENT STROKES»

Artist: Sterac. Title: Different Strokes. Label: Mote-Evolver.
Release date: 18-05-2015. Genre: Techno.

Tracklisting:

A1 / 1 – Stroke 1
A2 / 2 – Stroke 2
B1 / 3 – Stroke 3
B2 / 4 – Stroke 4

About the release:

Having both been on the scene for over twenty years, Mote Evolver’s founder Luke Slater and Dutch producer Steve Rachmad are considered veterans of the techno scene – both outlasting the genre’s various dips and flourishes in popularity. This considered, Rachmad’s debut on Mote Evolver seems all the more highly anticipated. Operating under his STERAC guise, Rachmad’s inaugural contribution to the label comes in the form of four hypnotic, rolling drum-machine experiments.

Rachmad’s formula across the EP is a spartan, uncluttered one. Even the track titles (Stroke 1 – 4) suggest he has taken some pains not to complicate proceedings unnecessarily, instead letting the music stand for itself. In the wrong hands the use of Roland 808’s can feel like a tired cliché when it comes to techno, yet Rachmad’s manipulation of the tool is nothing short of masterful. There is a buoyancy to his thudding rhythms, filtered hats shuffling effortlessly above raw 4/4 pulses. This trait is defined right from the offset – ‘Stroke 1’ marching forward steady and resolute. As with the rest of the release, the track has an abstract quality to it – the elements are processed heavily; filters and stereo-delays a common feature. Across ‘Stroke 2’ even the synths used feel hazy and out of focus, jutting forward between Rachmad’s stuttered rhythms. This and ‘Stroke 3’ both have a celestial space-age feel, like a satellite being gracefully travelling across the orbit. The EPs closer on the other hand, ‘Stroke 4’, is incontestably rooted to the dancefloor. Devoid of melody, the track is a frantic percussive workout, jagged claps and ticks jutting out between Rachmad’s booming low-end.

As a whole, the EP maintains a perfect balance between holding a consistent theme, whilst still offering plenty of twists and turns along the trip. It is perhaps little wonder Rachmad’s STERAC project has been garnering much acclaim in recent years – this EP in particular revealing a focus and clarity that only comes with years of experience.

About the artist:

Since his earliest productions, Amsterdam’s electronic music pioneer Steve Rachmad has created a legion of monikers for his various compositions. We’ve seen tracks from Black Scorpion, Tons of Tones, Rachmad Project, Scorp, Parallel 9, Ignacio, Dreg, Sterac Electronics and many more come out of his studio…

One of the main characters living on Planet Rachmad has always been STERAC: a side of Steve’s musical personality that’s not easily described. Let’s say that where other aliases were used for excursions to more dub-, disco-, or house- oriented records, STERAC’s focus has always been on the no-nonsense, darker, and deeper side of techno.

The STERAC discography consists of classic tracks on labels such as M-Plant and Tresor, with the 2012 remixes of his legendary album Secret Life Of Machines (1995) demonstrating the lasting quality of the STERAC oeuvre. Reinterpretations by Ricardo Villalobos, Joris Voorn, and Marc Romboy to name a few, proved a bit hit with fans and fellow artists. This year, STERAC releases appear on Klockworks and Delsin, while his schedule takes him on a tour past the world’s finest clubs: from Berlin’s Berghain to Tokyo’s Womb, and from Output in New York to Club Rex in Paris. On top of that, a series of selected remixes is coming your way.

Follow Mote-Evolver on Soundcloud:

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PRIMERA EDICIÓN DE MOVISTAR LIVESOUNDTRACK FESTIVAL

Movistar LiveSoundtracks es un festival interdisciplinar que tiene como punto de partida el cine y la música en directo. Tendrá lugar el 24 y 25 de abril en el Convent Dels Àngels y MACBA de Barcelona.

Los músicos escogen sus películas preferidas, crean una banda sonora y la interpretan en directo. La belleza visual de las piezas se realza gracias al nuevo concepto añadido por la música en directo. LiveSoundtracks cambia la manera de vivir el cine. Vuelve al pasado mirando al futuro.

Alppine, Brunetto & Xarlene, Cristian de Sucre, Emiliano Zelada, Ensemble Economique, Francesca Banchelli, Jaime L. Pantaleón, Lena Willikens, Sara Fontán y Shinkiro son los artistas confirmados para esta primera edición del festival. Además de las propuestas de estos artistas, LiveSoundtracks programa las LST Movie Conversations, dos mesas redondas entorno a las bandas sonoras que abrirán las dos jornadas del festival, y el LST Cinematic Disco Club, dos sesiones de dj (Dj Ari Up – Raver Jewish) para cerrarlas.

Contarán con la presencia de Dublab Djs Cinematic Sets. Dublab es una radio de Los Ángeles que también tiene base en Barcelona y hará una sesión de música de banda sonora entre película y película.

El festival ha sido ganador de Movistar Artsy 2014, la plataforma de festivales y encuentros culturales de Movistar que nació en 2013 como la primera plataforma online para fomentar la emprendimiento en todas las disciplinas culturales.

Tienes toda la información y venta de entradas de esta nueva iniciativa, en su web.

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UPCOMING RELEASE: TRUNCATE «REMIXED PART 2»

Artist: Truncate. Title: Remixed Part 2. Label: Truncate.
Release date: June 2015.

Tracklisting:

A1. Mira Mar (Par Grindvik Remix)
B1. Mira Mar (Grindvik and Zahn Remix)
B2. Modify (Dustin Zahn Remix)

About the release:

David Flores aka Truncate has invited Pär Grindvik and Dustin Zahn to his eponymous label for the second instalment in his remix series.

‘Remixed Part 2’ follows on from Truncate’s premier remix EP, which last year featured contributions from Ben Sims and Mark Broom.

This instalment sees Berlinbased techno mainstays Dustin Zahn and Pär Grindvik contribute individual interpretations of Truncate hits ‘Modify’ and ‘Mira Mar’ respectively, as well as a joint rework of the latter. The last time we saw the two team up in the studio was at the beginning of 2014 when they reworked Minilogue’s «When Sadness Releases, Joy Arises» along with artist like Donato Dozzy, Rrose and Jesper Dahlback.

Listen to Trucante playing at Berghain Berlin April 2014

https://soundcloud.com/audioinjection/truncate-live-in-berlin-april-2014

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UPCOMING RELEASE: ASCION «PUBLIC HEAD»

Artist: Ascion. Title: Public Head. Label: 3TH.
Release date: April 20th, 2015. Genre: Electronica, Techno.

Tracklisting:

A1 / 1 – Landescape
A2 / 2 – Public Head
B1 / 3 – Acido Rosso
B2 / 4 – Xlight
B3 / 5 – Carnival

About the release:

Ascion’s new solitary adventure on 3TH records is the five tracks EP ‘Public Head’. Imprinted in a folder that is designed by the artist himself, it starts with the electro-ish journey of ‘Landescape’ continuing towards the atmospheric broken-beat techno ‘Public Head’.

On the flip side, ‘Acido Rosso’ is a banging track in the manner of late 80’s acid-house that creates a strong anticipation for a classic techno cut,’Xlight’. The EP is closing with the dramatic sci-fi attitude of “Carnival”.

About the artist:

Ascion’s solo projects, referring to both productions and performances, is often defined dark, mental and eclectic. His name was prominent for the
release «Kick on» on Drumcode (2009), the remix of the classic «Avion» of Damon Wild on Synewave and recently for various apparitions and collaborations on labels such as Modularz, InnerSurface music and M_rec LTD.

His work mainly focuses on his own record labels like the last solo-work «The Cybernetic Drama», released on 3TH records, which fully reflects his style and musical growth achieved during his years of production. Ascion’s experimental alter ego CSA, a reverse-abbreviation of his original alias, that was recently introduced by the label Violet Poison (releasing on the V.A «Sulla giostra nell’ombra» the track «Overture»).

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SÓNAR BARCELONA 2015 COMPLETA EL CARTEL

Just Blaze, Teengirl Fantasy, Pional, Nick Hook y el trío experimental Nazoranai (Keiji Haino + Stephen O’Malley + Oren Ambarchi), entre los más de 30 nuevos artistas.

Así, la programación se amplía a los ya anunciados: The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, Duran Duran, Die Antwoord, A$AP Rocky, FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Róisín Murphy, Jamie xx, Arca & Jesse Kanda, Squarepusher, Hot Chip, Autechre, Siriusmodeselektor, Kindness, Laurent Garnier, Ten Walls, Sophie, Francesco Tristano, Kiasmos, Lorenzo Senni y hasta 150 actuaciones más. Consulta aquí la programación completa.

Sónar de Día añade dos nuevos shows audiovisuales: «The Well», que une al joven productor Koreless con el artista Emmanuel Biard; y el estreno mundial de «Blueprint», espectáculo ideado por el creador visual Joanie Lemercier junto al músico James Ginzburg.

Sónar+D continuará ampliando sus contenidos durante las próximas semanas. Toda la información relativa al congreso profesional de Sónar, en su nueva web.

Playlist actualizadas de audio y vídeo Sónar 2015, haciendo clic aquí.

Información y compra de abonos a precio reducido, la entrada 2 noches y entradas individuales, haciendo clic aquí.

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HOMEWORK PROJECT BY ELECTRIC LOREM & KITTIKUN MINIMAL SHOUTCAST RADIO

La iniciativa Homework nació en un estudio de grabación berlinés del artista Atelier con el soporte del proyecto Electric Lorem y sus colaboradores habituales: SanthiAgo, Erica y Francesco.

En esta ocasión se trata de un proyecto de investigación creado para difundir semanalmente sus descubrimientos a través de los estudios Kittikun Minimal Shoutcast Radio en Tokyo.

En su line-up cuentan con artistas como Mattia Lapucci, Markus Bohm, Kane Roth, Moog Conspiracy, Emanuel De Vayrac y Siopis y anuncian que más nombres de la escena techno underground se unirán al proyecto. Al final de este post os invitamos escuchar los sets que tienen publicados en su perfil de Soundcloud.

Horarios de emisión y enlaces a sus playlist en diferentes plataformas:

Japan: Mon 0:00, 8:00, 17:00
Berlin: Sun 17:00, Mon 0:00, 9:00
Los Angeles: Sun 7:00, 15:00, 0:00

Streaming: http://goo.gl/M9tmYT

Winamp, VLC: http://goo.gl/ymIKI
Windows Media Player: http://goo.gl/DO6vY
Real Player: http://goo.gl/4Vilh
QuickTime: http://goo.gl/249Kw

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UPCOMING RELEASE: KAMIKAZE SPACE PROGRAMME «STOKES CROFT»

Artist: Kamikaze Space Programme & Emika. Title: Stokes Croft. Label: Trust
Release date: 20.04.2015. Genre: Bass. Pre-order: https://clone.nl/item34401.html

Tracklisting:

A1. Choke (feat. Emika)
A2. Clapper
B1. Cel
B2. HSBC
Choke (Instrumental) [Digital Only]

About the release:

Veteran Bristol-based producer Chris Jarman a.k.a. Kamikaze Space Programme joins the TRUST family with a blistering EP of hard-edged bass music. Hot on the heels of his ‘Concrete Musique’ EP for Luke Slater’s Mote Evolver imprint, ‘Stokes Croft’ showcases the bassier side of Jarman’s distinct production style.

‘Stokes Croft’ opens with none other than prolific multihyphenate Emika on guest vocals, whose haunting voice turn ‘Choke’ into an ear-catching hybrid of industrial bass electro and gothic pop. ‘Clapper’ follows this up with a percussive banger, perfectly encapsulating Jarman’s artistic vision of crafting futuristic beats entirely from found and self-recorded sounds rather than worn and tired presets. It’s a philosophy that does not rule out sublime melodic moments either, as ‘Cel’s drifting string and melancholic bleeps aptly demonstrate, while ‘HSBC’ closes the EP with a nod to the old-school, complementing jacking electro rhythms with squelchy acid lines and ghostly pads.

Released at the same time as TRUST’s 15-year anniversary series, TRUST XV, which brings together renowned producers such as DJ Stingray, VC-118a, Dez Williams, Clatterbox, and Plant43 on a three-part journey of spacious sci-fi electro, Kamikaze Space Programme’s ‘Stokes Croft’ represents the rougher side of the TRUST sound – head-strong, futuristic, and aiming to obliterate stylistic stagnation with sonic innovation.

About the artist:

Kamikaze Space Programme is a true sonic renegade, a genuine musical experimenter. Somewhere between a classic Musique Concrète and modern electronic approach, KSP’s music is made up of myriad samples and found sounds from real world situations, it lends the stuff a very real texture and aesthetic that links it to the here and now, the everyday, in a very real way. The sound of an old truck, the hiss of a kettle or the clunking of a door are all fair game for KSP, who then takes his strange sound sources and weaves them into infectious sonic tapestries and intricate rhythms.

It all started for Chris Jarman in the mid-90s when he worked as an accomplished session musician. He first dipped his toe into the electronic world as a D&B producer at the turn of the century and was quickly signed to revered label Renegade Hardware and soon began playing around the world. Never one to sit still, Jarman wanted to foment an even more original sound and thus the Kamikaze Space Programme project was born.

It’s a project with its own sonic identity that has been snapped up by the press and public alike, with many festival appearances taking him across the globe and much music being released on labels like Mote Evolver, Bob Bhrama’s West Norwood Cassette Library, TRUST Mindcut and has been commissioned to remix artists such as Paul Mac, Aubrey, and Drums Of Death, always adding his own idiosyncratic take on things.

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LEILA PRESENTA «AN AVATAR» EN NTS RADIO

Leila ha publicado en su página de Facebook un enlace a un podcast que ha grabado para NTS Radio (puedes escucharlo directamente al final de este post).

Como todo su trabajo, esta grabación no es para melindres. Contiene un tracklist duro y bien bizarro, con algunas pistas etiquetadas como «unknown».

NTS es una radio con base en Londres y creada en abril de 2011. Se definen como espacio para huéspedes y DJs en el que pueden explorar ideas, a través del sonido o de cualquier otra manera, sin limitaciones ni restricciones. Súper recomendable visitar su web www.ntslive.co.uk

Listen:

Leila: An Avatar – 3rd March 2015 by Nts Radio on Mixcloud

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AVANCE DE PROGRAMACIÓN SÓNAR+D 2015

Los días 18, 19 y 20 de junio, Sónar+D reunirá en Barcelona a los protagonistas de la innovación creativa más relevantes de los sectores de la música, el audiovisual, la interactividad, el diseño, la formación y la comunicación.

El programa de actividades de 2015 centra su mirada en el papel del creador en los entornos de la innovación tecnológica, así como en el auge de las plataformas digitales como herramientas clave en la generación y el desarrollo de contenidos.

Este año Sónar+D tiene una participación estimada de 4.000 profesionales y cerca de 2.000 empresas procedentes de 60 países. Entre los protagonistas del programa de este año destacan Kickstarter, Vimeo, Pinterest, littleBits o Arduino, cuya participación en Sónar+D se articula en varias actividades que expondrán en primera persona su modelo de actuación, las claves de su éxito y sus potenciales de crecimiento, además de la organización de workshops y clases magistrales.

Filmin, la principal plataforma española de cine y series online, se alía con Sónar+D para desarrollar una serie de workshops para profesionales de la industria audiovisual. Su festival de cine online, Atlántida Film Fest, se integra en la programación de Sónar+D.

Regresa la Start-up Competition, focalizada en las industrias creativas, que seleccionará 10 empresas de entre un centenar. A su vez, la habitual cita del Music Hack Day, organizada junto al Music Technology Group de la UPF, centra su desafío este año en tecnología wearable para la creación y la interpretación musical.

Tras el éxito de su impactante visualización de datos de géneros musicales presentada en 2014, el Barcelona Supercomputing Center propone «We Know What You Did Last Sónar», un gigantesco experimento colectivo de análisis de datos en tiempo real con la participación del público.

Los tres ejes temáticos de Sónar+D 2015

Herramientas y plataformas: los nuevos protagonistas de la creatividad.
Entre la lista de plataformas destacan Kickstarter, Vimeo, Arduino, Filmin, Pinterest y littleBits. Más por anunciar.

Las caras e historias detrás de los procesos creativos.
Algunos de los nombres presentes son Richard Russell (XL Recordings), Dan Gray (Monument Valley / ustwo) y Holly Herndon. Más por anunciar.

El festival como laboratorio: tecnologías y lenguajes experimentales.
Presentaciones y workshops a cargo de Indy Saha de Google Creative Labs, el programa STARTS de la Comisión Europea y el estudio Glassworks junto a la productora audiovisual CANADA. Experimentos a gran escala de la mano del Barcelona Supercomputing Center y el Music Hack Day. Más por anunciar.

Toda la información de Sónar+D en su nueva web www.sonarplusd.com, página de Facebook y perfil en Instagram

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UPCOMING RELEASE: CIVILIAN, REGEN, LIMO, FABRIZIO LAPIANA «DIFFERENT SEASONS VOL.1»

Artist: Civilian, Regen, Limo, Fabrizio Lapiana. Title: Different Seasons Vol.1.
Label: Out Electronic Recordings. Release Date: May 04, 2015. Genre: Techno.

Tracklisting:

  • A1. Civilian – One
  • A2. Regen – Reduct
  • B1. Limo – DarkDubTek
  • B2. Fabrizio Lapiana – Aubergine

About the release:

Out Electronic Recordings launches “Different Seasons” series, a sequence of various artists releases, featuring new collaborations and stabilizing the old ones. Different Seasons Vol.1 sets Civilian and Fabrizio Lapiana as new entries. Civilian is an unknown Berlin-based artist with the wish of experimenting new aspects of his dance-music personality on Out-ER – ‘One’ is a minded, acid-not-acid cut with plenty of energetic and introspective patterns. Fabrizio Lapiana needs no introduction, the roman artist built his own crystalline sound in the last seven years, releasing on his own imprint Attic and on M_REC – ‘Aubergine’ is a tasty, bleepy and limpid cut perfectly into the label’s musical range. Limo and Regen, whose profiles got already known through the label’s audience, return with their typical sort – dub and swinging from the Serbian producer with ‘Reduct’, steady and gloomy from the Transition LAB label owner with ‘DarkDubTek’.

About the label:

Out Electronic Recordings aims to release underground dance music created by producers that translate their vision in sounds, trying to define a new way into the grey and loopy scenario, looking forward to deliver the best quality-oriented tracks following the artists’ inspirations not trends.

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REVIEW: THE PRODIGY «THE DAY IS MY ENEMY»

Artista: The Prodigy
Album: The Day Is My Enemy
Sello: Cooking Vinyl

The same jilted generation

Hacerse mayor es nefasto para quienes se especializaron en gritar con el torso desnudo. Envejecer puede resultar patético, si se interpreta recurrentemente el mismo papel toda la vida. Ya han pasado 6 años desde su anterior trabajo, Invaders Must Die, y el mundo no se ha detenido desde entonces. Da igual lo indiscutiblemente influyentes que fueron en la música de su tiempo y lo oportuno de su descubrimiento para toda una generación. Esta vez iban a necesitar muy buenas razones para despertar del coma.

Pero este largo silencio no ha sido inactivo. La cocina de su nuevo álbum, The Day Is My Enemy, ha requerido todo este tipo, más por aburrimiento que por afán perfeccionista. Su oscura y violenta irregularidad es fruto del clima tormentoso y los giros bruscos en su gestación. A diferencia de los eternos camaleones que saben adaptarse a las últimas tendencias y conseguir sonar contemporáneos, The Prodigy no tienen otro recurso que la obstinación. Van a lo suyo, a defender su hueco en la historia, como un anacronismo programado que se dispara de vez en cuando en clave de revival. Sin embargo, esta vez no les ha ido mal el intento. El espacio tiempo se ha plegado para hacerlos converger en una nueva realidad, rabiosa y desmotivada.

Sin modificar apenas la misma fórmula en 20 años, su música vuelve a parecer fresca e impactantemente moderna. Es muy difícil de entender. Podríamos pensar que el universo ha retrocedido para volver a estrecharles la mano. Sonar como una parodia de sí mismos -algo que les ocurrió, por ejemplo, a los The Chemical Brothers en Futher– es un peligro real, pero ellos ya están a vueltas de todo. Aunque ya no alcanza a intimidar a nadie, estrangulado por su propia pose de malote cyber punk, Keith Flint debe estar como unas pascuas con su nueva excusa para volver a recorrer los festivales de verano y pasar el sombrero.

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UPCOMING RELEASE: FRANCESCO TRISTANO PRESENTS BODY LANGUAGE VOLUME 16

Artist: Francesco Tristano / various artists. Album: Body Language Volume 16. Label: Get Physical Music.
Release date: 01-05-2015.

Tracklist:

01. Francesco Tristano – Ongaku (exclusive)
02. Joe Zawinul – The Harvest
03. Luciano & Francesco Tristano – Amnesie (exclusive)
04. Julio Victoria – Impermanent (exclusive)
05. Danton Eeprom – Hungry For More
06. NYMA & Carreno is LB – Lunar Fringe
07. Francesco Tristano – Gaza World Cup (featuring P41) (exclusive)
08. Faktorm – Faith (exclusive)
09. M.A.N.D.Y. – Obsessed
10. P41 – Lalguer (exclusive)
11. Francesco Tristano – Jinguru (exclusive)
12. Francesco Tristano – Chester Copperpot (featuring P41) (exclusive)
13. Francesco Tristano – Sarasani (featuring P41)
14. Francesco Tristano – Dminorloop
15. Savvas Ysatis – Fade to Black (exclusive)
16. Cardopusher – 1989 Warehouse
17. Francesco Tristano – Place On Lafayette
18. KhalifeSchumacherTristano – Afrodiziak (Reboot Remix) (exclusive)
19. DJ Pierre – What is House Muzik (Roland Leesker Love Mix)
20. P41 – My Difficult Child (Studiovacanze Mix) (exclusive)

About the release:

For a long time, Francesco Tristano has behaved, musically, like a wild child making fun of his parent´s supervision, and repeatedly ran away from home to visit forbidden locations. One only has to review last year´s agenda of concerts: in between solemn dates in important venues all over the planet where he interprets programs of baroque and contemporary music, centring around composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin or Dietrich Buxtehude on the piano, are several commitments under the epigraph `Francesco Tristano live´. Those escapes have little to do with classical music; quite the opposite actually. They show that Francesco´s commitment to electronic sounds remains as alive as when he started to release his first “dance” records on Infiné, even though over the last years he consolidated his position as one of the most requested pianists with one of the most brilliant repertoires of his generation.

When Francesco Tristano escapes to a club, the spirit which possesses him is the one of Techno, specifically the original Detroit sound. There, in the heat of the cabin, he switches from piano to synthesizer, from pedals to software and what flows out of the speakers is a kind of music, which can only fit in this hedonistic context and the celebration of the body: expansive, rhythmic, emotional, sprinkled with piano stabs and unstoppable grooves. The material he uses is typically self-composed and unreleased, secretly produced in seclusion, to nurture a musical discourse, which only makes sense if it´s carried out like some kind of jam session, with the continuity of a DJ set, without exactly being a classic DJ set. There are transitions, but there are no mixes; and if there are tracks by other artists, they appear as elements facilitating the creation of a live remix. And from this accumulated experience, the idea and the content of volume 16 of the Body Language series was born.

Part of the Techno material Francesco Tristano was working on over the last few months has already appeared last December on the “Piano, Hats & Stabs” E.P., his first record for Get Physical. Some of those tracks are re-appearing now on “Body Language” in the form they were originally intended to be: as pieces, designed to fit into a much more ambitious and complex construction. With the exception of “The Harvest” – a Jazz classic, identifiable as Proto-Techno, that opened Joe Zawinul´s album Dialects (1986), which importance could be compared to Herbie Hancock´s “Rockit”, Francesco Tristano´s entire journey expresses itself in form of original productions (“Ongaku”, “Jinguru”), written in collaboration with other musicians. Here we are listening for the first time to “Amnesie”, half-half with Luciano, or the new project KhalifeSchumacherTristano, which was born from the ashes of “Aufgang” and remixed by Reboot – or material that was given to him by partners of the label, friends and other artists from his surroundings, like P41, aka the sound engineer Edoardo Pietrogrande; or Danton Eeprom, ex-partner in the Infiné days; Cardopusher, neighbour in Barcelona; and also M.A.N.D.Y., representatives of his new home-label, Get Physical.

On a traditional DJ album, the added value lies apart from the musical selection in the bravery of the mix. In the case of Body Language, the importance is not so much in the beat-matching, but much rather in the key-mixing. To round off the transitions of the tracks, Francesco Tristano has deployed all his musical wisdom, to add layers of synthesizers and piano attacks all over the place, to complete the rhythmic journey with a dense harmonic richness. His own tracks are born from piano grooves – you might even notice some chords borrowed from the «Suite In A Minor» by Jean-Philippe Rameau, one of the most important composers of the French baroque – and are always expanding in the depth of outer space. The result may sound familiar on first listening, but it becomes deeper when paying attention to the details and chord progressions. The architecture of the composition is actually quite surprising: Deep House and Detroit 2.0 with a sonic density, which is unknown in contemporary club music. The expression that best describes the musical philosophy of Francesco Tristano might be “Bach to the Future”. On Body Language there is no Bach, but the future is constructing itself minute by minute.

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LUCY Y BEN KLOCK ANUNCIAN «WAR LULLABY»

Ben Klock y Lucy son productores experimentados que se han currado unos nombres como innovadores de la escena techno. Además, cada uno por su parte, han demostrado en varias ocasiones que pueden trabajar perfectamente a dúo con otro artista sin sacrificar un ápice de su propia estética.

En el caso de Lucy (dueño de Stroboscopic Artefacts), su colaboración más conocida ha sido con su compañero Speedy J. Juntos crearon el increíble proyecto Zeitgeber. Ben Klock ha sumado fuerzas con Marcel Dettman para crear algunos de los sonidos más interesantes del label Ostgut Ton.

El EP se publicará el próximo 4 de mayo en 12″ y digital por Stroboscopic Artefacts. Ya puedes escuchar un adelanto:

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DANIELE ANTEZZA (DADUB) PUBLICA SU PRIMER ALBUM EN SOLITARIO

Daniele Antezza es la mitad de Dadub y el disco será publicado el 8 de junio como Inner8.

El disco tendrá 12 tracks, a modo de embriagadora pieza artística más allá de su particular identidad sonora: contemplación, acción y elementos esotéricos y exotéricos. Será publicado en Undogmatisch, el nuevo sello que Antezza ha fundado junto a sus colaboradores habituales Mirco Magnani (aka T.C.O.) y Valentina Bardazzi.

Como adelanto podemos escuchar el impresionante track «The Irony Of Karma».

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