Suits you,sir!

Went to this event at the weekend in a relatively new venue just around the corner and was delighted to have my faith in dubstep restored. Two rooms-with a good, forward range of sounds (except for the deadly strains of intelligent dubstep-my pet hate). Ikonika especially was impressive with a sound that was very fluid and techno influenced. And a real sense of excitement about the evening, being forced into new ways of moving just to follow the shape of the music.

Really enjoying your trip to africa-some of the stuff I have (eg living near africa) but that's comforting, coming across your tracks in da jungle. I like how stripped back a lot of the tunes are. Loving the solo track and it's very sly of you to use the faithless vocal-instant durban flashbacks. Where did you come across the dj mbuso track?

Tableau Noir

Uncle Rebus got me bad. I’ve finally come round to your way of hearing La Mezcla. Plus the high operatic camp of Ame, strings sandwiched between cowbells. And Love Spray so roks in that k-kinda-way. So here is my AfriKKKan reply. Check out the hot South African producers Culoe de Song and DJ Mabuso. And check out my hot combination (… if maybe I should have toned down the bass …) of the three tunes Congoloid, Work that Body and Insomnia. (Cheeky cheese squeeze). Plus two of my favourite tunes, The Dragon and Living Near Africa.

Tableau Noir

Ian Simmonds ft. The Ekonda Women Of Kinshasa – The Dragon

Culoe de Song – African Subway

Zombie Disco Squad & Solo – The Dance

Wighnomy Brothers – Moppal Kiff

DJ Mbuso ft. Shembe – Ukukholwa Kuwe

Solo – Congoloid (Minimow mix)

Min – Work that Body

Faithless – Insomnia (Ricardo Villalobos mix)

Jet Project – Monkey Skulls

Ilario Alicante – Living Near Africa

Stella Chiweshe – Zvinonhamo

Fusion

Benny Nero

It's an appealing concept:a non-cheesy, ethnomix. I started wondering how to classify-what are the limits-where do you cringe or what features lull one into a sense of authenticity?

I am a huge fan of portable and somehow his tracks always sound authentic with little sense of a template followed. But the second track is by an artist I know nothing about except that he has the cadenza seal of approval. For me, this track comes dangerously close to some sense of being too much, signifiers overloaded with latin emotion. But something about the woman's voice carries it. Somehow I believe her.

Then I start to think about the kicks from pushing these taste boundaries. This mix features ame- and also flirts with my prejudices-an overblown trance workout with echoes of the 80s. I should run screaming but there is a dark attraction to it all. I find this kind of drama fun-something to play with when I dance.

The Rebus Principle by Crawford

Portable - 30 Hz Michel Cleis - La Mezcla Vocal mix

Michel Cleis - La Mezcla

dOP - walk the line original mix

Silvetas - Caleza

Ame - Setsa

Philip Sherburne - Salt & Vinegar

Seth Troxler & Patrick Russell - Love Spray


Check out the weird and wonderful world of Benny Nero

http://www.konvulsator.de/bennynero/

All Back to K’s

This is from a couple of months back, for Keryn’s birthday. It’s emotive – partly because I know that’s what she likes and partly because she has been my babe du jour on more than one needy occasion. Shout out too to Greg, who on K’s birthday said to about 20 of us, many strangers: all-back-to-G’s instead of all-back-to-K’s. His place turned out to be the most beautiful flat of the most beautiful block in Brighton, and we danced and danced and watched the full moon move across the sea and the ghostly pier, and played this mix just before sunrise. And apologies to Cubby for more Cassy torture...

All Back to K's

Crowdpleaser & Ly Sander – Walking Home

Damian Lazarus – Moment

Loco Dice – How Do I Know?!

Alland Byallo – True (Lee Curtiss Remix)

Cassy – Poem

Butch – Last Tango

Function – Variance

Seth Troxler – Aphrika

Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts – Sous l’Arbre

Reshuffle – Hedonism

Rune – Bora Vocal

Federleicht – On the Streets (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Core Mix)

local collapse

100 Abandoned Houses Kevin Bauman

My, doesn't time fly in the blogosphere! Finally got the chance to have a 'serious ' listen to the ladies. From one feedback junkie to another, here goes.

The transition from ellen into Simko is great- i love that kind of dark reduced techno that you play plus the feel of almost live percussion. I'm surprised by the ellen allien-I've never payed much attention-any other recommendations?And the kate simko track is clinical and classy-I hadn't heard of her. Love the margaret dygas-it positively bristles as soundtraps go off.

The change of sound with agf in the middle feels like a good move to me-dancefloor damage. Only the cassy kind of throws me because I know it so well. You keep it pretty dark and trippy but playful too. And Leila's polite mayhem to close

I'm afraid you're going to have to come up with a more convincing metaphor for this blog though-if this is the sound of indigestion well then I'll have another slice.

And with this next mix there's equal parts stamping to pirouetting. From the archive:

local collapse

Local Collapse by Crawford

Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts – Can’t Argue with Silence

Onur Özer – traumbone

Henrik Schwarz & Aampondo – I exist because of you (Dixon’s Stripped Down Version)

Mihalis Safras – Interafrica

Schneider & Galluzzi – Albertino

Knowing Looks – 1= moon

Argy – Love Dose (Luciano rmx)

Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts – Yone

D.H.S. - House of God (Martin Landsky rmx)

Carl Craig – Movement 8 ( c2 version)

Henrik Schwarz / Ame/Dixon- D.P.O.M.B (version 2)

Letter to the Laingoustine

Well, already you’re clear about this blog’s nature. It is like a meringue. Cubby pirouettes at the curvy-wurvy tippy-top, spinning out vinyl with all taste and skill. I squat rather lower down, in the denser crumbly bit, gurgitating semi-digested laptop mixes. This one being an example. It’s for Marg, in answer to her question “Where are all the women producers in techno?” So here are some of their great tunes, bludgeoned by me. If not skill, let’s hope at least there is taste. The only thing that keeps me from the gooey chewy sugary morass below.

Letter to the Laingoustine

Quio - Me Mucker

Ellen Allien - Elphine

Kate Simko - She Said

Margaret Dygas - See You Around

Dinky ft. Jorge Gonzales - No Sleep

Sarah Goldfarb - Crashed by Society

Miss Fitz - Dementia

Cassy - For You

AGF ft. Delay - Generic

Anja Schneider - Beyond the Valley

Ada - Live it Up

Magda - Panna Cotta Eyes

Monika Kruse ft. Tim Price - Spank Me Later

Leila - In the Garden

Dreamtime Again

Setting the pace:thick and fast. It's been the warmest April since forever here in Berlin and this May Day we've had to call off the revolution once again. Time to slip, slip away...

dreamtime again


Ricardo Villalobos - Ananas

Matthias Meyer - tout va bien( liebe detail)

Culoe Du Song - The Bright Forest (Innervisions)

Stimming - The Anger (liebe detail)

Oleg Poliakov - Rainy Dayz -Portable rmx

Michel Cleis - La Mezcla (Cadenza)

Anthony Collins - upright bass -foog rmx (mule electronics)