ICR

02 April, 2011

03/2011 like

ambient - Dreamsploitation - Possibles

ambient - Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld

beat - Aleph - Haunt For Little Blind Fish

beat - B.Lewis - Science Within Reason

beat - Daedelus - Bespoke

beat - Eufoteoria - Eufoteoria

beat - Jeremiah Jae - Rappayamatantra EP

beat - Jonny Faith - Blue Sky On Mars EP

beat - J-Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuf

beat - Mane Mane - Mane 2 Mane

beat - Mono/poly - Manifestations - EP

beat - Shankes - Gully Foil

beat - Sun Glitters - everything could be fine

beat - Take - Only Mountain remixes

beat - The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea - The Remixes Vol. 2

beat - Trebles And Blues - The Blue Note

chillwave - Blackbird Blackbird - Halo

chillwave - Hard Mix - Defaults

chillwave - Houses - All Night

downtempo - Bibio - Mind Bokeh

downtempo - DJ Vadim Presents The Electric - Life Is Moving

downtempo - Lanu - Her 12 Faces

downtempo - Long Arm - The Branches

downtempo - Mr Moods - In Love We Trust... And We Hate

downtempo - Nostalgia 77 - The Sleepwalking Society

downtempo - Tokyo Dawn Records - The Boogie

dubstep/garage - FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain

dubstep/garage - Salva - Complex Housing

dubstep/garage - Swarms - Old Raves End

electronic - Altrice - Stem (Remixes of Caribou's Swim)

electronic - Bodi Bill - Why

funk - Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Scandalous

hip hop - Action Bronson - Dr Lecter

hip hop - Awol One and Factor - Perfect Opposites

hip hop - Beneficence - Sidewalk Science

hip hop - Bodega Man - The Love album: Love in Love out

hip hop - Carnage The Executioner - Worth The Wait

hip hop - Dom Kennedy - The Original Dom Kennedy

hip hop - Dumhi - The Whole World's Watching

hip hop - Ezekiel38 - Sound Of The Zeeker

hip hop - Himself - Feel Like A Star

hip hop - Noah 23 - Prefuse 23 Mixtape

hip hop - Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R.

hip hop - Reks - R.E.K.S.

hip hop - Tufu & Anthony Drawn - Seelenquantisierung

house/techno - Art Department - The Drawing Board

house/techno - DJ Kicks - Wolf and Lamb Vs Soul Clap

house/techno - Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes

house/techno - Frivolous – Meteorology

house/techno - Jacek Sienkiewicz - On The Road

house/techno - Joel Mull - Sensory

house/techno - Martin Dawson - Sunday Smoking

house/techno - Mike Dehnert - Framework

house/techno - Prommer + Barck - Alex And The Grizzly

house/techno - Simon Baker - Traces

house/techno - Sven Laux - Homesickness Or Nostalgia

house/techno - VA - 20 Fucking Years Of Planet E: We Ain't Dead Yet

house/techno - VA - Soul Clap - Social Experiment 002

house/techno - Virgo Four - Resurrection

idm - Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory Remixed

idm - Globan Goon - Threezadoozy

idm - Lucy - Wordplay For Working Bees

idm - Mitoma - Interstellar Debris

idm - Moritz von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures

idm - Quench - Danner Reznick

idm - Seekae - +Dome

idm - Semiomime - From Memory

idm - The Flashbulb - Love As A Dark Hallway

idm - Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

idm - wAgAwAgA - Hyper Typewriter

idm - Zachary Gray - Montreal I II

indie - A Lull - Confetti

indie - Aucan - Black Rainbow

indie - Dodos - No Color

indie - Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Don't Say We Didn't Warn You

indie - Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!

indie - Found - Found

indie - Fredrik - Flora

indie - GAYNGS/Doomtree - Affiliyated remixes

indie - Laki Mera - The Proximity Effect

indie - Monogold - The Softest Glow

indie - Sister Crayon - Below

indie - The Do - Both Ways Open Jaws

indie - The Poison Tree - The Poison Tree

indie - The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave

jazz - Pierre Anckaert Trio vs. Monkey Robot - 74 Miles Away

jazz - Ring Ensemble - Ring Ensemble

jazz - rise - messages

neoclassical - AGF & Craig Amrstrong - Orlando

neoclassical - Dmitry Evgrafov - Lying On Your Shoulder

neoclassical - Kimmo Pohjonen - Uniko

neoclassical - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell

neoclassical - VA - SMM: Context

rock - An Emerald City - Fourth

rock - Bass Drum of Death - GB City

rock - Carol Bui - Red Ship

rock - Tera Melos - Zoo Weather

rock - The Strokes - Angles

rock - Those Dancing Days - Daydreams & Nightmares

rock - Voxhaul Broadcast - Time Is Everything

soul - Deborah Jordan - What You See

soul - Erin Ivey & The Finest Kind - Broken Gold

soul - Selah Sue - Selah Sue

soul - The Weeknd - House of Balloons

04 March, 2011

ICR exclusive free track (Knowledge Mag feature, 2011)

When I emailed Zoltan Gal (aka ICR) with a few questions for this feature, I expected to receive the standard three line answers. I was wrong. The detail and thought put into his replies made Zoltan look more like a novelist than a DnB producer, but when listening to his new album 'Something about Nothing', it's clear why he chose the latter profession.

Growing up in the Hungarian countryside, ICR was not your typical inner city junglist, but with a passion for electronic music it was only a matter of time before he caught the drum and bass bug.

"I remember getting up at 3am to tape Fabio on Radio 1," says Zoltan. "It was just fascinating how different it was compared to the usual techno stuff I listened to at the time. After that I began digging a little deeper into the scene and created my own website in 1999, drumandbass.hu, which quickly became the leading DnB site in Hungary."

Fast-forward to the present day and the Hungarian born leftfield specialist, whose precision and musical talent has caught the eye of labels such as Fokuz and Good Looking, is now releasing his third EP on Misspent Music, the brain child of Zoltan himself.

"When we launched Misspent Music in 2007 I thought it would be strictly for my own production," says ICR. "I produced a lot around that time and although I had releases on various labels, I still had tons of unreleased tunes – which was quite frustrating. Now not only is it an outlet for my own work, but also for other great artists from all around the world."

With a sound that has been praised by the likes of London Elektricity and Lynx, ICR's new album 'Something About Nothing' takes his production to new levels.

"I wrote this LP back in 2006, so it pretty much reflects my feelings and emotions at that time," explains Zoltan. "It's more accomplished than anything I've ever done really. I started my "career" with more techy / trancey atmospheric d&b which can be seen on my first album 'Daytrip', on ASC's Covert Operations label, but 'Something About Nothing' really gave me the opportunity to show my deeper side."

The approval of other artists in the industry is something ICR is evidently grateful for and with such success to his name so far, Zoltan is keen to keep producing DnB of the highest level.

"It's always a great feeling when these artists that you look up to acknowledge your piece of work," explains Zoltan. "It does make your time and effort feel worthwhile when you listen to your track played out by Fabio and Grooverider or on the Hospital podcasts. It makes you realise that you're almost there. I suppose it's just hard to keep that level."

With artists such as Spectrasoul, Bop, Instra: mental and Survival helping to keep that level consistently high, one could foresee leftfield becoming the future of the DnB scene, but ICR hopes this is not the case.

"Maybe it's strange to hear it from me, but I definitely hope it is not. As it literally suggests, leftfield is off the centre. If the minimal or leftfield, or should I say more experimental sound, emerges too much – it'd become the new "mainstream," says Zoltan. "What's more important to the future of the genre is balance, giving jump-up, liquid, tech and leftfield all a place in the scene, like it is today. It's all about variety, and DnB has plenty of that!"

So what do the coming months hold for ICR?

"I'm currently busy with the CD version of the album, my younger brother has done the artwork by the way, then I'm preparing for the next Misspent releases, including some crazy tunes from Fushara, Salmz and Cycom. I've also completed the follow up to 'Something About Nothing'. 'Between Nowhere & Goodbye' has been ready for a while so I decided to put this out early 2010. I've just completed a new album for Counter Intelligence as well – but it's too early to give details on this. I may put together some new tracks inside and outside d&b again. Until that, check out my new remix on the finest Hungarian house / breaks label, Glack Audio, out soon."

WORDS James Bass

ICR has given us an exclusive track to give away called 'Ars Poetica (Good Little Monsters)'. You won't find it available anywhere else. Download it here.

27 February, 2011

02/2011 like

beat - AEED - Titles

beat - Alphabets Heaven - Jay's Odyssey

beat - B.Lewis - La Semaine

beat - Dibiase - Sound Palace

beat - Shigeto - Full Circle remixes

classic - Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere

downtempo - Late Night Alumni - Haunted

dubstep/garage - Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection

dubstep/garage - Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX - We're New Here

funk - The Insane Warrior

funk - Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats and Follies

funk - Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine

hip hop - Beans - End It All

hip hop - Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

hip hop - Malcolm and Martin - Life Doesn't Frighten Me

hip hop - Propaganda + Odd Thomas - Art Ambidextrous

hip hop - Strong Arm Steady - Arms and Hammers

house - Agoria - Impermanence

house - Steffi - Yours & Mine

house - Voices Of Black - Plasric Dolls

idm - Geskia! - Alien

idm - Global Goon - Quones

idm - Pale Sketcher - Seventh Heaven

idm - Sunken Foal - Mother Of God

idm - Tilman Ehrhorn - Past Utopia

indie - Baths - Pop Music / False B-Sides

indie - Grizzly Bear - Blue Valentine OST

indie - Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

indie - Rainbow Arabia - Boys And Diamonds

indie - Shivering Timbers - We All Started In The Same Place

jazz - Austin Peralta - Endless Planets

nu-disco - Discodeine - Discodeine

nu-disco - Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs

rock - Death - Spiritual - Mental - Physical

rock - Faust - Something Dirty

rock - Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo

soul - Graciela Maria - Many Places

soul - Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul

20 February, 2011

New Profile Showcase Mixtape

My new artist website with a new profile showcase mix with my unsigned tracks and previously released material.

One hour mixtape of a new direction: deep, soulful house, minimal, garage, broken beat, even some wonky.

http://www.impulsecreator.hu/icr/

tracklist

01. ICR - Semi-Converse Confession

02. ICR - I'm The Edge Of Your Coin (Ferenc Vaspoeri remix) [Glack Audio]

03. Toro Y Moi - Still Sound (ICR remix)

04. ICR - Safehouse [Sonorous]

05. ICR - Smerty I Lyubvi [CHI]

06. ICR - E Voce Se Entrega

07. Lulla Violet - ARC (ICR remix) [Orson forthcoming]

08. ICR - Yesterday's Man

09. ICR - Under Twenty-Six

10. ICR - Nothing To Gain [Sonorous]

11. ICR - Lack Of Tomorrows [Glack Audio]

12. ICR - Look So Good

13. Korai Öröm - Dalmadala (ICR remix - radio edit) [1G forthcoming]

14. ICR - Little Panda's Echo

15. Headshotboyz - Meanwhile In My Happy Place (ICR remix)

16. ICR - Sunset Like Supper

17. ICR - Je Vous Souhaite Des Silences (Headshotboyz remix)

http://www.impulsecreator.hu/icr/

http://www.mixcloud.com/ICR/new-profile-showcase-mixtape/

http://soundcloud.com/icr/new-profile-showcase-mixtape

04 February, 2011

01/2011 like

ambient - Geotic - Mend
ambient - The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Anthropomorphic
beat - Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma Alt Takes
beat - Jacques Gaspard Biberkopf - Jonibek Madina Zikrallah Setara
beat - Lunice - Stacker Upper EP
beat - Mux Mool - Drum EP 2
beat - The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea - The Remixes Vol. 1
dnb - IJO - The Easy Listener
dubstep/garage - James Blake - James Blake
dubstep/garage - Maddslinky - Further Away remix album
dubstep/garage - Sepalcure - Fleur EP
dubstep/garage - System - B Remixes
folktronica - Melodium - Petit Jama
hip hop - Buck 65 - 20 Odd Years
hip hop - IMAKEMADBEATS - IMAKEMADBEATS
hip hop - Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbows
hip hop - Verbal Kent - Save Yourself
house - Isolée - Well Spent Youth
house - Julio Bashmore - Everyone Needs A Theme Tune
house - Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
idm - VA - We'll Never Stop Living This Way: A Ghostly Primer
indie - Cut Copy - Zonoscope
indie - Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
indie - Rioux - Everything You Need Is Right Here
indie - Robert Miles - Thirteen
indie - Tennis - Cape Dory
indie - The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
indie - When Saints Go Machine - Fail Forever
rock - Black Pistol Fire - Black Pistol Fire
rock - Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
rock - Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
rock - Seefeel - Seefeel
rock - Spokes - Everyone I Ever Met
rock - The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
rock - The Dears - Degeneration Street
rock - The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
rock - White Lies - Ritual
soul - Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming