Category: electronica

Northern Lights XVIII

Imagine a sufi version of Animal Collective’s ‘My girls’, sung by Victoria Bergsman (previously the singer of the Concretes and the female voice on Peter Bjorn & John’s ‘Young folks’) – how amazing would that be?!
This is exactly what Victoria did – she went to Pakistan, found a group of sufi musicians and recorded not [...]

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Posted by yari on November 7, 2009
The Bear Quartet vs The Fall

I’ve had this compilation in my head for over a year, so I’m really pleased to finally put it somewhere else.
Not sure why these two bands merged in my mind – musically they don’t have a great deal in common, apart from being filed in the ‘indie’ or ‘alternative rock’ section. I suppose what they [...]

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Posted by yari on October 4, 2009
Dancehall Soundclash from J.Period

A bit of a departure this week from the normal fare of house music and its variants. On a recent visit to the mighty Amoeba Records on Haight Street in SF, I picked up a mix by J. Period.Checking out his bio, this guy has played with everyone from Lauren Hill and Q-Tip to more [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 30, 2009
Deep tribal house from L-Vis 1990

Well, this was the mi-summer mix from L-Vis 1990. But hang on – I’m in San Francisco. We’re actually half way through the second summer of the year. San Franciscans are treated to dense fog May through August so the halcyon days come in Spring and Autumn.
Blah, blah, blah. Back to the mix. This time [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 19, 2009
Matty from Glock’N'Spiel – fast and loose with minimal

Thanks to Tim from theargus.co.uk for pointing me in the direction of this mix from Brighton’s own Matty, a graphic designer who doubles up as a house DJ involved with the free underground movement that is Glock’N’Spiel.
This is a tight little mix that really get’s going about 15 minutes in. A jacking undercurrent keeps the [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 13, 2009
Slinky minimal house from Agnès

So, finally, after about 18 months I may finally get out to Kontrol – one of SF’s prime house/techno nights.
Agnès is due to be headlining tonight. A Swiss producer with a penchant for dubbed out minimal productions. For some reason I don’t get to check out much minimal these days, so looking forward to seeing [...]

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Posted by harry covert on September 5, 2009
Slinky techno mix from D Ramirez

There’s a point where tech house meets techno (or the lighter side of techno) and I get really confused on definitions. Although I know the less-pedantic amongst you would yell ‘who cares???’.
Still, the pedant in me yearns to call this techno, at least in structure if not in song. The building in the mix happens [...]

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Posted by harry covert on August 28, 2009
Better days ahead

So said Jimi Polo all the way back in 1989 over the top of one of dance music’s most memorable piano riffs. But then house music in those days was all about gay black kids coming up with funky piano snippets on their Utopian search. Oh, how far we’ve come.
So, here it is, my [...]

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Posted by kiterae on August 22, 2009
Northern Lights freecorded

I recently learnt to record music on the internet with this free (and legal) sound recorder: http://applian.com/sound-recorder/. If you download the toolbar you can simply record any streamed music online and save it as an mp3 file. Thanks for the tip Mr Galvin – very nifty.
So here’s a bunch of bands I’ve been meaning to [...]

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Posted by yari on August 17, 2009
Drop the Lime picks up the bass

Brooklyn’s Drop the Lime is a busy bee. Aside from performing on Institubes as Curses!, he’s remixed everyone from Armand Van Helden to Rex the Dog.
Prior to ingesting this mix for the wonderful XLR8R mag, I’d have labelled DTL as a fine purveyor of seriiious basslines. Now, for the first 15 mins or so of [...]

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Posted by harry covert on August 2, 2009