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Leftfield Recommendations July 2012

Juno Recommends Experimental

Juno Recommends Experimental

Leftfield Recommendations July 2012
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1
Cat: PINGIPUNG 32LP. Rel: 23 Apr 12
 
About Me & You
It Is Not About Love
Embraces Eleven Ideas
Scarlet Pitch Dreams
Possibly You Find Your Own
This Album Is Not
Cars & Nightingales
Or Other Stirring Or Boring Tales
Narratives Inside The Pieces
out of stock $14.72
2
Cat: TEXT 016. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
128 Harps
128 Harps (Anthony Naples remix)
out of stock $7.36
3
Cat: GI 138LP. Rel: 11 Jul 11
 
Experimental/Electronic
Terminal
VHS Sex
Cathode Girls
Air Cal
Flightwave
Hyperlips
Brokendate
Glawio
Ether Drift
Futureworld
Galactic Melt
 in stock $22.08
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Cat: HORO 004. Rel: 16 Jul 12
 
Track 1
Track 2
Review: Sam KDC seems like a perfect fit for the Samurai Red Seal label, the UK producer having previously proved himself more than capable of crafting finely judged atmospheric soundscapes for exemplary labels such as Auxiliary and Nu Directions. Between Dreams is a natural progression for KDC, with Samurai Red Seal granting him the freedom to burrow deeper into elegant and emotive layers of sound, with the title track an all too woozy and intoxicating blend of blissful textures and contemplative moments. "Downpour" introduces an element of darkness and could quite easily be mistaken for one of Demdike Stare's more rhythmically driven moments. Superb.
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out of stock $8.41
5
Cyanide Sisters
Sundriped
BASF Ace
Slow Peels
Iwywaw
Norkuy
5891
Paragony (bonus track)
Tripyra (bonus track)
Space Dust (bonus track)
Innerface (bonus track)
Review: Ghostly International are back on the ante-up with Com Truise aka Seth Haley, a Brooklyn-based synth maverick who has made a name for himself this year. From the melancholic timbres of "Sundripped" to the Italo-disco chimes of "Slow Peels", this is a record with a one size fits all banner. "Norkuy" is also a stunner, showing off Haley's synthesiser skills but "5891" is one of those special moments, sending you swimming in a distant but reassuring world of smooth chords and spwaning cowbells.
out of stock $19.98
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Cat: DO 11. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Collin Gorman Weiland - "Curse"
Antonym - "Cinnamon Air"
Review: As part of Downwards' DO series, this 7" continues the theme of industrial, synth-wave strangeness that came to bear such a heavy influence on label boss Regis. Collin Gorman Weiland sounds as though he's been plucked from the seediest nether region of post-punk as the grainy guitar tones of "Curse" call out languidly underneath a thick blanket of distortion. This leaves plenty of room for Antonym's considerably breezier forays into synth-funk to cruise around. There's still an underlying tension in the carefully arranged arpeggios, but compared to the bleak drones of Weiland's own turn, it's thoroughly accessible. Highly recommended.
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Cat: STH 2291LP. Rel: 18 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Incantation (Jonti remix)
Stand Up Lazarus (Peanut Butter Wolf remix)
Chant Of The Unborn (James Pants remix)
Noon Day Sun (Vex Ruffin remix)
Party Machine (Prince Language remix)
Ancient Mariner (Jonwayne remix)
National Anthem To The Moon (The Stepkids remix)
Blam (Man Kind) (Samiyam remix)
Review: COLDWAVE/SYNTH: Bruce Haack has remained something of a long term fancy for Stones Throw boss Peanut Butter Wolf over the years, with the 2010 reissue of Farad - The Electric Voice complemented by appearances from the prolific Canadian composer in numerous PBW mixes over the years. And now the label presents this sublime set of remixes which cast the likes of Prince Language, James Pants, Vex Ruffin and Peanut Butter Wolf himself in the role of revising material from Haack's acclaimed 1970 LP Electric Lucifer, along with its follow-up Electric Lucifer, Book II and material from various other releases from Haack that surfaced over the years. The Prince Language remix of "Party Machine" and an absolute freak beat monolith version of "Chant Of The Sun" by the Pants man stand out, but the whole thing is dripping in that Stones Throw quality.
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out of stock $12.61
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Cat: LIES 011. Rel: 25 Jun 12
 
Servant Garden
Ocean Mom
Air On Earth
Water Breaker
White Cabbage
AAAAA
Review: It's always pleasing to see a young independent label turn things around and take everyone by surprise. In an age where music is often guided by rigid structures, Ron Morelli makes it clear that his vision surpasses the boundaries of house and techno. Newcomer Jahiliyya Fields opens his LP with an hypnotic assembly of drones which rapidly mould into a sweeping composition haunted by the presence of a distant female voice. Circular drones are carried into "Ocean Mom", where icy arrangements are quickly melted down to form a squelching industrial tone. "Air On Earth" gives us only a faint hint of a bass drum in the distance, which is then slowly engulfed in a sea of harsh modular soundscapes. Fields introduces a circus-like melody on "Water Breaker", and ties it neatly into a half-step reminiscent beat placed below fast bouncing chords and effects. Unicursal Hexagram reaches its peak with "White Cabbage", where smooth, looping synth melodies collide with arcane noises escaping from every direction and allows the sorcery of "AAAA" to tie everything together with irregular percussion. An inspiring journey through sound.
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out of stock $17.87
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Cat: SEM Z. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Time To Die
Espora
Force Of Gravity
Interzone
Zero G
Review: It was a good year in every respect for Spain's Semantica Records. They ticked all the right boxes and even introduced us to the power of Svreca but this EP by Arcanoid pushed all previous boundaries. It almost feels like an LP, where the tracks converse with one another to develop a glorious vision of the artist's mind. "The oppressed drum beat of "Espora" diverges neatly into the electro trickery of "Force Of Gravity"; whilst the flip introduces "Interzone", a chirping cascade of melodies and hi-hats, ending on "Zero G", a brilliant acid-powered excursion into the ether.
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out of stock $9.45
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Cat: AUXCD 003. Rel: 25 Jun 12
 
First Light
Open
Shinagawa
Rainfall
Dulcimer
Valley
Sea Of Trees
Review: ASC's Auxiliary label has delivered some excellent downtempo, ambient and experimental albums over the last couple of years, effortlessly flitting between obtuse grooves and comfy organic grooves. For the most part, this first full-length from the mysterious Kiyoko falls into the latter category, mixing enchanting found sounds and winding melodies with the yearning blissfulness of classic ambient (reminiscent, in many ways, of the more entertaining releases on the recently re-established R&S offshoot Apollo) and skittish percussion of IDM. With a title like Sea of Trees, you'd expect it be quite pastoral and organic, and by and large it is, with the fruity sweetness of "Valley" and the title track (similar in feel to early Four Tet or Fridge) standing out.
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out of stock $8.41
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Cat: PAMPALP 006. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Waitingfortherest II
Jitters
Still
My Orphaned Son
Retracer
Puma
Bright Night
Santa Ana Winds
Trudge
Jitters (Geotic mix)
Doc (Dntel mix)
Paper Landscape
Waitingfortherest II
Jitters
Still
My Orphaned Son
Retracer
Puma
Bright Night
Santa Ana Winds
Trudge
Jitters (Geotic mix)
Doc (Dntel mix)
Paper Landscape
Review: COLDWAVE/SYNTH: If you're looking for an alternative to functional techno or boorish bass music, then you've come to the right place. Over twelve tracks Dntel delivers an album that places great emphasis on melodies and dream-like textures. Although there is a good deal of variety on Aimlessness - compare and contrast the warm, fuzzy ambience of "Never Say Goodbye" and "Waitingfortherest II" - the underlying sound design and approach favours the seductively fragile. There are some echoes of Dntel's glitch past, most notably on "Bright Night" and "Retracer", but the highlights here are the dreamy, wispy arrangements like "Doc" and "Paper Landscape".
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out of stock $16.83
12
Cat: MM 053. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
Industrial/Noise
Post-MorteM
ModeM
Review: INDUSTRIAL/DRONE/NOISE: Having had some time out of the releasing game, Mordant Music return to extol the virtues of exploratory electronics that exist in a thoroughly darkened corner of your psyche. "Post MorteM" actually steps into action on a whisper of a 4/4 thud, while atonal ripples, scrapes and a fantastically out-of-place drum roll slowly stalk an imaginary prey. It's impulsive and overtly obtuse music, but within the wily sound design there's an occasional melodic phrase the struggles to free itself of the shackles of noise. Just as it teases your ears it disappears again into the monochrome. "ModeM" is less structured, collating low-end tones and rumbles before a climax of arrhythmic blasts of white noise start rapid-firing across the mix.
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out of stock $8.15
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Cat: BEC 5161203. Rel: 25 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Ice Cold
Wake Me Up
Every Little Thing (feat Irfane & Teki Latex)
Vibrations
Poisoned Apples (interlude)
When The Night (feat Jaw)
Love Ave
You
Albatros
Lean On Me (feat Teki Latex)
The Talking Drums
Empire
Ice Cold
Wake Me Up
Every Little Thing (feat Irfane & Teki Latex)
Vibrations/Poisoned Apples (interlude)
When The Night (feat Jaw)
Sigmund
Love Ave
You
Albatros
Lean On Me (feat Teki Latex)
The Talking Drums
Empire
out of stock $15.76
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Cat: KOMPAKT 259. Rel: 18 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Four Legged (with Chllnger)
Growing Forehead (with Kicki Halmos)
Lo Ng
All Those Weird Things
Just Remember This
Pinned (part 1)
Tipped Bowls
Balibat
Pinned (part 2)
Terror Paradise
Four Legged (with Chllnger)
Growing Forehead (with Kicki Halmos)
Lo Ng
All Those Weird Things
Just Remember This
Pinned (part 1)
Tipped Bowls
Balibat
Pinned (part 2)
Terror Paradise
out of stock $16.31
15
Cat: 1147 TP7CD1. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
Thunderbolt (King Cannibal remix)
Dark Matter (Alva Noto remodel)
out of stock $5.78
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Cat: THETRILOGYTAPES 004. Rel: 18 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Leary Blips
Freakee
Slang Autopsy
Someday
Sadetta
LB Extended Trip
Review: EXPERIMENTAL/ELECTRONIC: Little was known about the still impossibly young Dro Carey when he made his debut for The Trilogy Tapes label back in 2010 with the Venus Knock EP, but the reclusive Australian producer has certainly left his stamp on the electronic music world subsequent to that release. Across numerous drops on Hum + Buzz, Templar and Ramp Recordings, Carey has developed a quite singular, often experimental take on electronic music that giddily sticks two fingers up at attempts of easy categorization. Returning to Will Bankhead's supremely curated label with Leary Blips, the six tracks present cast Carey in his most confident and complete frame of mind to date. Seemingly flitting between standing still and tunnelling ever downwards while attempting to create all new rhythms and tempos at ease, from the moment the cavernous bass drops in the opening title track Carey takes you on a ride through music you're likely to have not heard before.
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out of stock $13.93
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Cat: STRIKE 137. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Enter The Tub
Seed Dogs
Lucky Connor
Snakes In The Grass
Todays Standard Form
Deepwater
Dreams Of Apolonia (Trying For You Love)
Bootstraps
Spectral Transgression
Moved By Waves
out of stock $14.46
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Cat: PPU 036. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Pluto
For The Hook
Review: While stylistically different to what you might expect from People's Potential Unlimited, this seven inch from The Trash Company is another essential release from the DC based label who are so good at uncovering the forgotten stories of North American music history. The tale of The Trash Company is one too detailed to compress into the space of a record review (do check the Funky Virginia blog for a complete story) but this release represent the first material to surface from the band's creative force Max Monroe in some 30 years. Diagnosed with Synesthesia - which allows you to interpret words and sounds in terms of colour and texture, Monroe's music is undoubtedly influenced by the neurological condition which makes the two tracks here sound crazily innovative. "Pluto" sounds like Minimal Wave artist Phillipe Laurent covering Dilla while "For The Hook" is reminiscent of a lost cut from Demdike Stare's Tryptych series. Look out for a full LP later this year released on PPU and Steady Sounds.
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out of stock $7.62
19
Cat: SFT 004. Rel: 25 Jun 12
 
Coldwave/Synth
Deep Dreams, Ltd
Royal
Girl
Goodnight
Trust
out of stock $11.04
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VARIOUS
Cat: AIR 002CD. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Ambient/Drone
Brian McBride - "At A Loss"
Marcus Fischer - "A Fifth Season"
Ioscil - "Else"
Chris Herbert - "Naimina"
Pan American - "TX"
Strategy - "Frog City"
Solo Andata - "Before Sunsets"
P Jorgensen - "401"
Rob Bridgett - "Field 3"
Mitchell Akiyama - "Dirge For The Canon"
Marcus Fjellstrom - "The Eroding (Fairytale Music 3)"
Sawako - "Hovering"
Simon Scott - "Modena"
Library Tapes - "Och Natten Andades Redan Under Traden"
Lissom - "Hollow Of Winter"
Mokira - "I Love You Pipecock"
Benoit Pioulard - "If I Could Possibly Tell The Difference, I Wouldn't Care Anyway"
Eluvium - "Sleeper"
Kyle Bobby Dunn - "La Passerelle De Ses Yeux"
Rafael Anton Irisarri - "Black Days Follow Me Around"
Lawrence English - "Cooperative Drift"
BVDub - "Surrender To Your Cold Embrace" (feat Wang Lijing & Lu Yan)
Review: Last year's first Air Texture compilation, the brainchild of Brooklyn-based James Healy (AKA Escape Art), was rightly praised for highlighting the ongoing development of the frequently ignored ambient scene. This second collection does a similar job. This time round, there are discs curated by Loscil (Ghostly International) and The Sight Below's Rafael Anton Irisarri. As before, all the tracks are new and unreleased. Stylistically, there are many shades of ambience on offer, from the droning numbness of Mitchell Akiyama ("Dirge For The Canon") and unsettling spookiness of Marcus Fjellstrom, to the gentle, childlike melodies of Library Tapes and heart-tugging piano forms of Eluvium.
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out of stock $17.36
21
Cat: HDC 004. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Ember
Aliceband
Cassette
Try To Remember Me
Be Tru
Heart Shaped Locket
Light Sleeper
Wasted Summer
out of stock $8.41
22
Cat: EXPERIENTIALLEARNING 002. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Moving
Wavy
Here
Now
Review: Mysterious Livejam affiliate EMG returns to the fledgling Experiential Learning imprint with four cuts of jack hammer techno explorations. "Moving" smacks down hard with hollow drums that would make Blawan blush before "Heavy" sees the sounds of ripped metal twisted and reshaped to form the darkest of grooves. The flip commences with the concrete percussive stomp of "Here" which features all manner of fascinating sonic quirks, echoes and vocal snippets than only truly reveal themselves after numerous listens, before "Now" offers a beatless soundcsape pockmarked by the twitches and intermittent clicks of interrupted transmissions from another universe. Truly mind bending stuff that comes wrapped in amazing artwork - highly recommended.
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out of stock $12.36
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Cat: PPM 055LP. Rel: 25 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Acid Jam
Granmasmitza
G Cids
Chaco Love Steve & Happy Acid Kinesinte
8th Grade Trauma
Ballad 9
Sine CZ Contrution
Fremboli
Z!! B!!
Z!! B!! (part 2 - Speak & Read remix)
Summers Vage Cloud
SFV Acid Style
Slim Ministry
Review: In a drunken blur of vintage gear, SFV Acid delivers a stern lecture to anyone who might think that everything that can be said with a 303 has been said. Much like former split single companion Polysick, SFV leaves dancefloor concerns at the door, instead plunging into a scatty array of sketches across this album that move from relatively direct lysergic workouts to the kind of psychedelic lo-fi noise processing favoured by Peaking Lights et al. It's a wonderfully diverting collection that can be at turns sublime (as on "Chaco Love Steve & Happy Acid Kinesinte") and then in the next instant faintly ridiculous (on the Mega Drive baiting "8th Grade Trauma").
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out of stock $14.20
24
Cat: XLT 574. Rel: 02 Jul 12
 
Techno
Jasmine (demo)
Jasmine (demo instrumental)
out of stock $8.41
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VARIOUS
Cat: DIN 40. Rel: 18 Jun 12
 
Experimental/Electronic
Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo - "Frontiers"
ARC - "Church"
Ian Boddy & Parallel Wolrds - "Soliloquy"
Mazmoneth - "Spooks"
Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo - "Ascension"
Markus Reuter & Ian Brody - "Dervish"
Wollo & Wostheinrich - "The Wayfarers"
Ian Boddy - "Continuum - Alpha"
Parallel Worlds - "Shade"
Mazmoneth - "De Molay"
Wollo & Wostheinrich - "Exploration"
Ian Boddy - "A Moment Of Gliss"
ARC - "Veil"
Parallel Worlds - "Frightening Frontiers"
Ian Boddy - "The Climb - Ascent"
Ian Boddy & Parallel Worlds - "Impresario"
Ian Boddy - "Yesterdays Memories"
Markus Reuter & Ian Brody - "Spiral Manoeuvre"
out of stock $3.69
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Cat: ZENCD 188. Rel: 11 Jun 12
 
A Particle Of Love
Generational
Wings
Lifeline
What Happened
The Great Wound
Surrender
Utopia
The Wall
The Stain
Protection
Review: It's hard to approach Rispah, the long awaited second album from The Invisible without taking into account the unfortunate events that surround it. Both the name and much of the melancholic mood are taken from the unfortunate passing of front man Dave Okumu's mother in the early days of tirelessly busy London trio setting out to follow up their Mercury nominated debut album, whilst Okumu has suffered further near fatal tragedy more recently when he was electrocuted on stage in Lagos. Produced in conjunction with UNKLE type Richard File, Rispah proves to be every bit as bewitching as their self titled debut, and the power of Okumu's vocals resonate all the more stronger given the obvious feelings running through him at the time
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out of stock $12.61
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