31 August, 2011

08/2011 like

ambient - Diskjokke - Sagara
ambient/experimental - Shlohmo - Bad Vibes
bass - CDBL - Vices EP
bass - Cedaa - No Northwest EP #4
bass - Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers EP
bass - Lunice - One Hunned EP
bass - Machinedrum - Ecstasy Boom EP
bass - Myrryrs - Feel U EP
bass - Pixelord - Iron And Cream EP
bass - Sepalcure - Love Pressure Remixed EP
bass - Sleepyhead - Good Love EP
bass/house - Lucky Paul - Slow Ground EP
beat - B.Lewis - Plug EP
beat - Bibio - T.O.Y.S. EP
beat - Clams Casino - Instrumentals
beat - eLan - Alligator Snaps EP
beat - Free The Robots - The Mind's Eye EP
beat - Himuro - 7th Shapeshifting
beat - Jakub Nox Ambroziak - Atom
beat - Knxwledge - Komposure / Flowrs / Old Klouds
beat - Nicolas Jaar - Nico's Bluewave Edits EP
beat - Paul White - Rapping With Paul White
beat - Squeaky Lobster - Will-O'-The-Wisp EP
beat - Ta-Ku/Pavel Dovgal - Finest Ego: Faces 12" Series Vol. 1
beat - VA - Finest Ego United Kingdom / Ireland Compilation
beat - VA - Pop Massacre 2
beat - VA - Roy Ayers Project: Beat Submission Compilation, Vol. 1
dance/disco - Cinnamon Chasers - Science
dance/disco - Mason - They Are Among Us
downtempo - DJ Shadow - I'm Excited EP
downtempo - Jesse Futerman - Super Basement EP
downtempo - Nostalgia 77 - Beautiful Lie EP
downtempo - Saturn Never Sleeps - Yesterday's Machine
dub/kautrock - Solyst - Solyst
dubstep/garage - DFRNT - Emotional Response
dubstep/garage - Duncan Powell - Impossible Songs
dubstep/garage - Phaeleh - The Cold In You
hip hop - Blu - NoYork
hip hop - Cities Aviv - Digital Lows
hip hop - Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
hip hop - Jeremiah Jae - Lunch Special Pt 4
hip hop - Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
house/techno - Clap Rules - Golden Hands
house/techno - Azari & III - Azari & III
house/techno - Chicken Lips Presents The Rhythm Odyssey - Metaphysical Transition
house/techno - Cosmin TRG - Simulat
house/techno - Fabric 59: Jamie Jones
house/techno - Martyn - Masks / Viper EP
house/techno - NT89 - Tyme / Lyfe & Syne EP
house/techno - Tanner Ross & Soul Clap - Shady Shores EP
house/techno - The Field - Looping State Of Mind
house/techno - Tommy Four Seven - Talus / Snout EP
idm - Access To Arasaka - Aleph EP
idm - Apparat - The Devil's Walk
idm - Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel Remixed
idm - Dead Janitor - Scientific Wrestling
idm - Downliners Sekt - Meet The Decline EP
idm - Infinite Scale - Ekko Location
idm - Ochre - Early Learning
idm - Raffertie - Visual Acuity EP
idm - Tim Ballista - Flux
indie/experimental - Gracie - For Summer EP
indie/experimental - I Break Horses - Hearts
indie/experimental - Kynan - I Will Count The Stars
indie/experimental - Little Dragon - Ritual Union
indie/experimental - New Villager - New Villager
indie/experimental - Pepepiano - King
jazz - Montalban Quintet - Montalban Quintet
jazz - Tapani Rinne & Teho Majamaki - Inside The Temple
neoclassical - Fennesz + Sakamoto - Flumina
neoclassical - Fourcolor - As Pleat
neoclassical - Nat Baldwin - People Changes
neoclassical - Pleq and Marihiko Hara - The Dawn Came Behind The Fog
pop/hiphop - IamOmni - IamOMNI produced by: Tricky
rnb - Jhene Aiko - sailing soul(s)
rnb - The Weeknd - Thursday
rock/indie - Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace
rock/indie - Ganglians - Still Living
rock/indie - i hate you just kidding - Days Grow Longer
rock/indie - Sin Fang - Summer Echoes
rock/indie - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
rock/metal - Crosses - EP
singer/songwrite - Mirel Wagner - Mirel Wagner
soul - Emily King - The Seven EP
soul - zebrahim - in my heart i am
witchhouse - Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder
witchhouse - HTRK - Work (Work, Work)
world - Tinariwen - Tassili

28 August, 2011

Such Unimportant Things Like Us/To Make Right What's Left

artist: ICR
title: Such Unimportant Things Like Us / To Make Right What's Left
label: Fokuz
catalogue: FOKUZ2011LPP1/FOKUZ2011LPP2
format: digital
date: 09/2011
country: The Netherlands

info:
Such Unimportant Things Like Us is ICR's most mature (and probably his final) drum and bass work to date, incorporating the very essence of his love of precisious drumworks and sensual musicality. The album is built around one topic that can be easily read out from the titles: it's about love and struggle for acceptance. As with this final chapter he closes his dnb roots, a new stage is already set: To Make Right What's Left is a necessary step forward, focused on 4/4 territory and other mid-tempo genres. The trademark deep and cinematic ICR sound remains the same, but in new forms. The double album is the best way to gain insight ICR's mind and soul thru his forward-thinking music in full spectre.

cover art:

tracklist:

Such Unimportant Things Like Us
01. Such Unimportant Things Like Us
02. Still Unloved
03. Skin Shades To Red
04. Until It’s Untold
05. Lost Balance
06. Love, Hate and Between
07. Dying Breed (with Salmz)
08. Concept Of Time
09. Surrender To Your Weakness
10. All Unloved
11. My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good

To Make Right What’s Left
01. Semi-Converse Confession
02. E Voce Se Entrega
03. Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences
04. Yesterday’s Man
05. Sunset Like Supper
06. Continuity-Discontinuity
07. Under Twenty-Six
08. Look So Good
09. I’m In Love With A Sentence But Forgot What It Means
10. The Risk Of Speaking Nonsense
11. Little Panda’s Echo
12. Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences (Headshotboyz remix)
13. Headshotboyz – Meanwhile In My Happy Place (ICR remix)

preview:

available:

11 August, 2011

Knowledge Magazine interview

Hungarian producer ICR is set to release what will probably be his last drum & bass album. As you'd expect he's going out in style with a double album, Such Unimportant Things Like Us / To Make Right What's Left on Fokuz Recordings. ICR explains all.

http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/news/icr-releases-double-album-on-fokuz.html