29 October, 2011

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

09 October, 2011

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

07 October, 2011

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)

01 October, 2011

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