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Sun, 26 May 2013 16:12:48 -0400

Atoms for Peace

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:39:00 -0400

Atoms for Peace:

atomicos

Adrian Younge Presents Venice Dawn (EP)

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:54:17 -0400

Adrian Younge Presents Venice Dawn (EP)
© 2011 Wax Poetics Records

The story begins in 1998 as budding hip-hop producer Adrian Younge finds himself confined by the limitations of the MPC. He begins teaching himself how to play various instruments so he can fully realize his vision. First it was keyboards, then drums, sax, guitar, and bass. Fascinated with the sounds of Italian soundtracks by the likes of Ennio Morricone, Younge begins work on the soundtrack to the fictional film Venice Dawn, recording the album intermittently over the course of the next year. What developed was a sound equal parts Morricone and Air. Self-released, the entire album was composed, arranged, and played by Younge. Only a thousand CDs were pressed, replete with faux soundtrack album art designed by Younge himself. Sold mostly in the L.A. area, the CD became collectable among those in the know.

Fast forward to 2008, and Younge finds himself at the center of the Black Dynamite zeitgeist. Instrumental in the film’s development, Younge not only edited the film, but composed the original score as well. Hailed as a modern blaxploitation masterpiece, the Black Dynamite score solidified Younge’s position as a force to be reckoned with on the new worldwide soul and funk scene.

Taking some time off after the success of Black Dynamite, Younge began revisiting some of his earlier work from Venice Dawn and envisioned a new sound that would take the blaxploitation of Black Dynamite and mesh it with the more left-field sounds of Venice Dawn, eventually deciding to bring everything full circle by releasing the material under the Venice Dawn moniker. This new LP, titled Something About April, will be released this fall on Wax Poetics Records, with the first single, “It’s Me,” coming in August.

In correlation with the release of the new LP, Wax Poetics Records is reissuing a digital-only EP version of the original Venice Dawn album for free. Its rerelease eleven years later connects the dots between Black Dynamite, Younge’s early work, and his newest album,Something About April.

Volor Flex - Unlit (2013)

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:43:00 -0500

Artist: Volor Flex.
Album: Unlit.
Label: Dark Clover.
Genre: Uk Garage.

Audio

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:49:03 -0500

Teebs ‎– Cecilia Tapes Collection (2012)

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:19:48 -0500

Teebs ‎– Cecilia Tapes Collection

Label:

My Hollow Drum ‎– MHD005

Format:

CDr, Limited Edition

Country:

Released:

08 Jul 2012

Genre:

Electronic, Hip Hop

Style:

Instrumental

Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Electronic Music, Tar And Sehtar (VCR003) 2012

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:00:04 -0500

This post-revolution Iranian album from 1985 is so ahead of its time, so completely off on its own sonically and stylistically - that you’d be forgiven for thinking it were a hoax. In reality it’s one of the most sought-after and exceptional records from the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue, here brought back to life in this facsimile edition put together by the Dead Cert imprint - housed in a hand-assembled replica sleeve with a vinyl cut at D&M** For all intents and purposes, Iranian-American composer Dariush Dolat-Shahi’s ‘Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar’ is one of the most incredible electronic records we’ve ever heard. Until now, it’s been the preserve of a small handful of collectors who rightly hold it in huge regard and close to their chests. A syncretic traversal of Iranian folk music and modular synth strafing radio-phonic, musique concrète, neo-tanktrik and sound design disciplines, it simply sounds quite unlike anything out there (if you know better, please, please share!) and has had us, and everyone who’s heard it, utterly enraptured. OK, there may be some precedents in the work of electronic music pioneer Ilhan Mimaroglu, and it has undoubtedly directly or indirectly inspired music that has come since (Keith Fullerton Whitman’s ‘Variations For Oud & Synthesizer’, for instance)’, but we’re sure you’ll agree that the elements have rarely gelled so fluidly, phantastically psychedelic as this, before or since. It’s possible to trace that combination of traditional and contemporary styles, mixed with a liberating sense of freedom and abstract expression, to the composer’s history; from early enrolment in Shah-sponsored music schools and conservatories he was awarded scholarship for further studies in Holland, and when the revolution arrived in Iran he would permanently leave for the world famous Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the late ’70s, all priming Dariush’s tastes and skills for these recordings made during the mid ’80s, late at night in the university studios with the permission of Professor Ussachevsky. It’s testament to its enduring magic that listening back now for the umpteenth time we’re still bewildered and vividly transported as we were the first time, lost to its roil of tangled timbres and etheric dynamism, keeling to the metallic lushness of the strings and rendered mindblown at the synchronised sweeps of modular synth and simulated environs. It’s a genuine wonder of the electronic music world, and an essential listen, by anyones standards. (taken from Boomkat.com)