10/2011 like

ambient - Laurel Halo - Antenna

bass - Buraka Som Sistema - Komba

bass - Damu - Unity

bass - Emika - Emika

bass - FunkyStepz - Trouble EP

bass - Gang Colours - In Your Gut Like A Knife EP

bass - Gun Selectah - Gun Selectah EP

bass - Ital Tek - Whip It Up Remixes

bass - Krampfhaft - Makin' Magic EP

beat - AK Kids & 1000names - The gassAKu EP

beat - eLan - Fuzzy Numbers EP

beat - Long Arm - Organic

beat - Neat Beats - Cosmic Surgery

beat - Ras G & The Alkebulan Space Program - Space Base Is The Place

beat - Robot Koch - The Other Side

beat - VA - Aural Stimuli vol. 1

beat - VA - Mad-Hop vol.3

beat - VA - Music For Saharan Cellphones

blues - Tom Waits - Bad As Me

dnb - A Sides - Mysterious Vibes

dnb - Calibre - Condition

dnb - D Bridge - So Lonely EP

dnb - Dom And Roland - The Big Bang

dnb - Makoto - Souled Out

dnb - Synkro - Prologue / Summer Blues

downtempo - DJ Cam - Seven

downtempo - Monta At Odds - Unsuspecting

downtempo - VA - LateNightTales - MGMT

dub - Black Chow - Wonderland EP

dub - Massive Attack vs Burial - Four Walls

dubstep - Radikal Guru - The Rootstepa

dubstep/garage - Ghosts Of Paraguay - Silent Souls

dubstep/garage - Mimosa - Sanctuary

dubstep/garage - Nocow - Ruins Tape

experimental - Blue Daisy - The Sunday Gift

experimental - Death In Vegas - Trans-Love Energies

experimental - James Blake - Enough Thunder - EP

experimental - Matthew Herbert - One Pig

experimental - Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

experimental - Raleigh Moncrief - Watered Lawn

experimental - USF - The Spray

folktronica - 5turns25 - Evolution of the Human Heart

hip hop - Danny Brown & Black Milk - Black And Brown

hip hop - Gil Scott-Heron & Wu-Tang Clan - SHAOLIN JAZZ presents The Gil Scott Suite

hip hop - Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That?

hip hop - Murs - Love And Rockets Vol. 1

hip hop - VA - 12 Odd Future Songs

house/techno - Altered Natives - Tenement Yard Vol 2

house/techno - Andy Stott - We Stay Together EP

house/techno - Axel Boman - Europa EP

house/techno - Basic Soul Unit - Soulspeek EP

house/techno - BNJMN - Black Square

house/techno - Bok Bok & Tom Trago - Night Voyage Tool Kit

house/techno - Carsten Jost/Lawrence - A Greater Administration of Lower Interests

house/techno - Daphni - Jialong001 EP

house/techno - Darkness Falls - The Void EP

house/techno - Floating Points - Danger/Miniature 27 7" Vinyl

house/techno - Fout Tet - Locked / Pyramid 12"

house/techno - High Places - Original Colors

house/techno - Joe Goddard - Gabriel (Remixes) EP

house/techno - Justice - Audio, Video, Disco

house/techno - Kink - Reflections001

house/techno - Luke Solomon - Interceptor EP

house/techno - Lukid - Spitting Bile EP

house/techno - Luomo - Plus

house/techno - L-vis 1990 - Neon Dreams

house/techno - Mano Le Tough - In My Arms EP / Stories EP

house/techno - Mark E - Call Me EP

house/techno - Maxxi Soundsystem - Criticize / His Hat Was His Home

house/techno - Midnight Magic - What The Eyes Can't See EP

house/techno - Morris Cowan & Duncan Edward Jones - Strands EP

house/techno - Oliver Koletzki & Fran - Lovestoned

house/techno - S L I V A - WestBoy EP

house/techno - Surkin - USA

house/techno - The Black Dog - Liber Dogma

house/techno - The Juan Maclean - Everybody Get Close

house/techno - Tobias Lilja - Delirium Portraits

house/techno - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden remixes EP

house/techno - VA - If This Is House I Want My Money Back Zwei

house/techno - VA - Fabric 60 - Dave Clarke

house/techno - ZZT - Partys Over Los Angeles EP

idm - Detritus - Everyday Explanations

idm - Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities (Deluxe)

idm - Gescom - Skull Snap EP

idm - Global Goon - Carbon

idm - Krusseldorf - From Soil To Space

idm - Kuedo - Severant

idm - Morpion - Headcleaner

idm - Mr. Projectile - In The Fog EP

idm - Patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO

idm - Tycho - Drive

idm - Vaetxh - Mass EP

idm - Yoko Duo - Behaving Like A Widower

idm - Zool. - Vadem+

indie - Florence and The Machine - Ceremonials

indie - Ghoul - Dunks EP

indie - Hess Is More - Creation Keeps the Devil Away

indie - Jape - Ocean Of Frequency

indie - M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

indie - Real Estate - Days

indie - Tracey Thorn - You Are A Lover EP

jazz - BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG

jazz - John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas

klasszikus - Andrew Bird - Norman O.S.T.

klasszikus - Harold Budd - In The Mist

klasszikus - Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir - Pan Tone

neoklasszikus - Björk - Biophilia

neoklasszikus - Nils Frahm - Felt

neoklasszikus - Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos

ost - Cliff Martinez - Drive OST

rock - Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole

soul - Hawthorne Headhunters - Myriad of Now EP

soul - Kimbra - Settle Down - EP

soul - LoVeMuscLe - 4play

soul - Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do

witch house - Cold Love - Velvet Veins EP

Mero Star / Less Than Three

artist: ICR

title: Mero Star / Less Than Three

label: Counter Intelligence

catalogue: CILP002

format: 12"

date: ?/2011

country: The Netherlands

CILP002 - Coupe D'État LP

Records will be sold seperately and as an ´album´ set.

Plate 1

A1 - Cycom - Control

A2 - Cycom - Brain Damage

B1 - Dissident - Such A Real World!

B2 - Dissident - Levitation Flight

Plate 2

C1 - Fractional - Outbreak

C2 - Fractional - 2046

D1 - Dak - Ovi A

D2 - Dak - Ovi B

Plate 3

E1 - Alpha Omega - Tomorrow Never Comes (A Cat's Eye EZ Listening Edit)

E2 - Bop & Despot - Microfunk

F1 - Martsman - Antifunk (Titanium's Industrial Dub Mix)

F2 - Macc - Session N

Plate 4

G1 - Selector Moldy - It's All In The Mind

G2 - Materia - Metrosine (ft Hidden Lab)

H1 - ICR - Mero Star

H2 - ICR - Less Than Three

CILP002X - Coupe D'État LP Digital Exclusives

Only available when buying all 4 records, ie a complete album

X1 - Cycom - M Theory

X2 - Fractional - Planet Life

X3 - Dak - No Tears

X4 - Despot & Martin Schulte - Stone Roses

X5 - Materia - Genotype

X6 - ICR - Should Know

ICR releases double album for Fokuz (Knowledge Mag, 2011)

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.

Tell us more about the albums you're releasing, what can we expect?

This project has been in the works for years and slowly as I made more and more house and downtempo tracks I asked myself: "why don't you think bigger and release both?" I'm lucky to have Fokuz Recordings' faith for this project. Expect precious drumworks and sensual musicality in dnb, house and beyond. It's 150 minutes long so you'll have a well-rounded, big-concept album.

When is it coming out and on what formats will it be available?
The worldwide release date for both albums are September 26 and will be available in digital format only.

What's the thought process behind the titles?
I know it's not the most customer-friendly product title but I'm glad that Marco at Fokuz understood that in this case these titles works well with the album concept even if they're very long. If I had to explain I would say the duality of the albums are about facing and letting go the past (love and struggle for self-acceptance) and finding a new way - both musically and personally.

Did you set out with a specific vision of what you wanted to do with the album?
The initial idea of the Such Unimportant Things Like Us came into my mind when I made the follow up to my 2006 Counter Intelligence release So Unloved. With Still Unloved and All Unloved I already had a vision of an album with lots of emotions and frustrations. However not the entire album was made in one session, I've included some older tracks too that fit the concept - for example Skins Shades To Red which was featured on both Fabio and Grooverider's shows. As for To Make Right What's Left - it's more of a manifesto of what directions I want to go with my music whether it's house, hip hop, nu-disco, dubstep or garage.

Who have you collaborated with on it?
I wanted the album to sound personal so only three of the 24 tracks have guests. I have a collab with long-time Misspent Music artist Salmz. I loved his minimal atmospheres on Dying Breed and I wanted to disturb it with my quirky drum edits. On the non-dnb side, Hungarian wonky hip hop duo Headshotboyz feature. Their crisp but smooth style is close to me, so remixing them back and forth was easy and fun.

Why will this be your last drum & bass album?
Maybe it's a frivolous thing to say, but as for now I can't feel comfortable making drum & bass. I've been releasing dnb for almost ten years now - and I felt with this fifth official LP I've told everything I've ever envisioned in dnb. In recent years I simply enjoy other styles more. Playing around with house, hip hop and other mid or downtempo genres gives more freedom to me right now. It's about exploring new territories and challenging myself.

Tell us more about the two videos that have been made for the project…
The first two videos were both made by Hungarian VJ duo Keep Watching Crew. Music is an abstract artform and visuals such as the artwork or videos can capture your musical thoughts and feelings, so it was interesting to see how others associate pictures to your sounds. However, these are more about impressions, we tried to put it in a concept: My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good is like to catch the last breath of summer and 'Semi-Converse Confession is about frustration and accepting yourself in my view. Watch out for more videos coming later on with original footage and directing.

Got any other releases in the pipeline you can tell us about?
Some house remixes for Orson Records and Dutch label Counter Intelligence will release their second compilation Coupe D'etat featuring two drum & bass cuts from me: Mero Star / Less Than Three.

Such Unimportant Things Like Us tracklist


1. Such Unimportant Things Like Us

2. Still Unloved

3. Skin Shades To Red
4. 
Until It's Untold
5. 
Lost Balance

6. Love, Hate and Between
7. 
Dying Breed (with Salmz)

8. Concept Of Time

9. Surrender To Your Weakness
10. 
All Unloved
11. 
My Only Bad Is The Lack Of All Your Good

To Make Right What's Left tracklist

1. 
Semi-Converse Confession

2. E Voce Se Entrega
3. 
Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences
4. 
Yesterday's Man

5. Sunset Like Supper

6. Continuity-Discontinuity

7. Under Twenty-Six
8. 
Look So Good

9. 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)

09/2011 like

ambient - Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass

ambient - Bvdub - I Remember (Translations Of Morketid)

ambient - Teen Daze - A Silent Planet EP

bass - Cardopusher - Instant Loving EP

bass - Hudson Mohawke - Pleasure Principle EP

bass - Ifan Dafydd - No Good/Miranda EP

bass - Jacques Greene - What U R EP

bass - Modeselektror - Monkeytown

bass - Presk - Love Again EP

bass - Pritch & Trim - Stereotype EP

bass - Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567

bass - Rustie - Glass Swords

bass - Sully - Carrier

bass - VA - [unclassified]

bass - Walton - Walton EP

beat - Alias - Fever Dream

beat - araabMUZIK - Electronic Dream

beat - Brolis - beattape

beat - Ichiro - LoopShu

beat - Krts - Hold On EP

beat - Monokle - Birds Swirl

beat - VA - Blasphemous Jazz: The Bitches Brew Sessions

blues - Ben Waters - Boogie 4 Stu: A Tribute to Ian Stewart

chillwave - Neon Indian - Era Extraña

neoclassical - Kashiwa Daisuke - 88

downtempo - DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, The Better

downtempo - Hugo Kant - I Don't Want To Be An Emperor

dubstep - Actraiser - Tiger Road

dubstep - Hecq - Avenger

dubstep/garage - Bonecold - Somnipath

dubstep/garage - Rain Dog - See Hear EP

experimental - Boas - Grave Dreams

experimental - Fervier - The Lover

experimental - Megafaun with: Ida Bagus Made Widnyana (Gangsa)

experimental - Tropics - Parodia Flare

experimental - Welder - Florescence

experimental - yes please - Guerre - Darker My Love: Remixes

funk - Dam Funk - InnaFocusedDaze EP

funk - The Stepkids - The Stepkids

funk - Toro Y Moi - Freaking Out EP

grime - Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a F---ing Liar

hip hop - 9th Wonder - The Wonder Years

hip hop - Blu - Open

hip hop - Das Racist - Relax

hip hop - Declaime - Self Study

hip hop - Jonwayne - I Don't Care

hip hop - Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show, No. 12 - Raw Medicine (Madlib Remixes)

hip hop - MED - Classic

hip hop - Phonte - Charity Starts At Home

hip hop - Roots Manuva - 4everevolution

hip hop - Superstar Quamallah & Deqawn - Talkin All That Jazz

hip hop -FunkyDL - Blackcurrent Jazz 2: The Gold Reflection

house - Axel Boman - Esteban Peligro EP

house - Ben Westbeech - There's More To Life Than This

house - Crazy P - When We On

house - FABRICLIVE 59 - Four Tet

house - Gui Boratto - III

house - Joakim - Nothing Gold

house - John Heckle - The Second Son

house - Josh H - Every Day EP

house - Junior Gee - As Day Breaks

house - Legowelt - Poverties Paradise EP

house - Martyn - Ghost People

house - Masterpiece created by Gilles Peterson

house - Omar S – It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It

house - Roman Flügel - Fatty Folders

house - The Magician - I Don't Know What To Do EP

house - VA - Moombahsoul III

house - vOPhoniQ - Rainbow EP

house/techno - Lucy - Monad X

idm - Alva Noto - Univrs

idm - Cex - Secret Monog

idm - Enabl.ed - Everything & Nothing

idm - Floex - Zorya

idm - Lackluster - The Invisible Spanish Inquisition

idm - Plaid - scintilli

idm - Tapage - Seven

idm - Walls - Coracle

idm - Walls - Sunporch EP

indie - Drums - Portamento

indie - Feist - Metals

indie - Gem Club - Breakers

neoclassical - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen

neoclassical - Kid Koala - Space Cadet - Original Still Picture Score

neoclassical - Roly Porter - Aftertime

neoclassical - The Cinematic Orchestra - Entracte / Manhatta

rock - Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

rock - Howling Bells - The Loudest Engine

rock - Kasabian - Velociraptor!

rock - Mastodon - The Hunter

rock - MuteMath - Odd Soul

rock - Pack A.D. - Unpersons

rock - The Envy Corps - It Culls You

rock/hip hop - Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces

soul - Gretchen Parlato - The Lost And Found

soul - Jill Scott - Hidden Beach Presents: The Original Jill Scott - From the Vault, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Version)

soul - Jono McCleery - There Is

soul - Soulparlor - Evoluzion