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Evolution of Western dance music over the last 100 years

 

 

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New Plaid album

We always welcome a new record by British electronic pioneers Plaid. Scintilli ("I am many sparks") will be released in September (26/9). Label: WARP. The video of 35 Summers is a great teaser.

 

Best dance track 2010: may we have your votes, please?

Video yearmix 2010

Eclectro, the excellent Dutch website for lovers of electronic music, is providing us once again with its traditional and highly appreciated video year mix. 54 minutes of visual fingerlicking.

 

Tracklist:

1. Trentemøller – Even though you’re with another girl (Director: Adam Hashemi)
2. Nosaj Thing – Coat Of Arms (Director: Roland von Tessin)
3. Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom (Director: Edouard Salier)
4. Babe Rainbow – Shaved (Director: Salazar)
5. Jamie Woon – Night Air (Director: Lorenzo Fonda)
6. Black To Comm – Amateur (Director: Alvaro Posadas)
7. Ólafur Arnalds – Haegt Kemur Ljosio (Director: Esteban Diácono)
8. Toro Y Moi – Talamak (Director: Claude Lelouch)
9. Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss (Director: MEGAFORCE)
10. Blackbird Blackbird – Pure (Director: Samuel Pressman)
11. Poom – Rollercoaster (Director: Côme de Bouchony)
12. Audio Bullys – Only Man (Director: Jonas & Francois)
13. Architeq – Into The Cosmos (Director: Chopsy)
14. Andreya Triana – A Town Called Obsolete (Director: Mister McCarthy)
15. Papercutz – Lylac (Helios Remix) (Director: Daihei Shibata)
16. UNKLE – The Answer (Director: Ross Cairns)
17. Boom Bip – Last walk around mirror lake (BoC remix) (Director: FroschYankee)
18. Eskmo – Cloudlight (Director: Dugan O’Neal)
19. Applescal – Roofs Of Heaven (Director: Rick Robin)
20. Skyence – INSCT (Director: Johannes Timpernagel)
21. Polar Bear – A new morning will come (Director: Kira Zhigalina)
22. Clutchy Hopkins – Verbal Headlock (Director: Christian Borstlap)
23. Tim Knol – When I Am King (Director: Sverre Fredriksen)
24. Darwin Deez – Constellations (Director: Terri Timely)
25. Renaud Hallée – Sonar (Director: Renaud Hallée)
26. Four Tet – Circling (Director: Jesse Zanzinger)
27. Jimmy Edgar – New Touch (Director: Lucio Arese)
28. Nobody Beats The Drum – Grindin’ (Director: Rogier van der Zwaag)
29. DJ Mehdi – Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit) (Director: Romain Gavras)
30. Grum – Throug The Night (Director: The General Assembly)
31. Breakbot – Baby I’m yours (Director: Irina Dakeva)
32. Maximum Balloon ft. Theophilus London – Groove Me (Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada)
33. Noisia & Mayhem feat. KRS One – Exodus (Director: Alexander Lehmann)
34. Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit (Director: Lilfuchs)
35. Eskmo – We Got More (Director: Cyriak)
36. Teebs – Track 11 (Director: Frederic Henriques and Jean Brice Hubert)

Video yearmix 2010 from Renier Eclectro on Vimeo.

Review: Anbb - Mimikry

Anbb = Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) + Blixa Bargeld (Einstuerzende Neubauten). The minimal and distorted electronics from Carsten Nicolai fit remarkably well with the lyrics and voice of good old Blixa Bargeld. This record is fascinating and intriguing from the very beginning till the last note. Masterpiece, nothing less, nothing more.

Label: Raster-Noton 

Rating: 4,5/5

 

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New album Brian Eno: more details

There is some new information about the announced Brian Eno album. Small craft on a milk sea is a collaboration between Eno, Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. Release: 2nd November 2010 (15th November in UK) on Warp Records.

Review: Max Richter - Infra

German-born composer Max Richter studied piano in Edinburgh and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In the mid-1990s, he collaborated with Future Sound of London, lending his piano and sampling experience to the groundbreaking British duo. Like Jóhann Jóhannsson, he has always been looking for beautiful convergences between classical and electronic music. Infra started life as a collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, and some of the material was originally the score for a ballet inspired by Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” Richter reworked it into a full 40-minute program for piano, string quartet and subtle electronics. Infra is an album you want to listen to over and over again. So beautiful.

Label: FatCat

Rating: 5/5

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