An(other) Unmix!

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Yea, back so soon with another unfoundsound mix! Enjoy these rippin, funky ditties made with some sounds from our small world.

• Roberto Clementi -Valencia
• Alex Medina - 2 Bailes Con Martini Sisters
• Kriss - Jazz Club
• Roberto Clementi - 1939
• Alex Medina - Dinner in Jakarta
• Ben Parris - Chris Needs a Nickname (seph mix)
• Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - A Fitness Counterrevolution (Ben Parris rmx)
• David Last - Where it Falls (suz rip up the rug rmx)
• Miskate - Strange String

Holden Into Ryley EP

Many people have a lot of fun distorting sounds from acoustic instruments through electronics, myself included. In a realm riddled with mediocrity, Mark Templeton rises to the top like the cream of the crop. Check out the completely free LP he just released on Anticipate by clicking here. You'll find lots of great sounds manipulated into a completely new artistic vision. Check out the other releases as well--all very good stuff coming from that label.

Philly Time!

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From unfoundsound:

being that foundsound and unfoundsound were launched and nurtured in philadelphia, it’s only appropriate that we give you a new chapter to our “location series” – a compilation of tracks from philly artists entitled philly time! you get a whopping 13 tracks (woohoo!) illustrating the vast diversity that philly artists have to offer. the list of artists ranges from veterans to newcomers. you get deep and lush atmospheric bliss fromscuba (a.k.a. king britt), tweaked-out tech-house insanity from nigel richards, danceable field recording brilliance from unfoundsound’s ownfidget and tleilaxu, harsh and abrasive tech-core from duran duran duran, grime-ish dirty dub from starkey, fun-filled idm-ish tech-house from kilowatts, plus everlasting goodness from pink skull, accidentallyand city rain. you also get some dope remixes! two tracks frommiskate’s zuni ep (foundsound-03) are fiercely reworked by diss0nanceand robmall. plus, jamie morris transforms “goofball” (unfound-01) bysomeone else into a minimal loop-techno gem. yes, indeed. philly will always be home.

Bongolize It! V/A Harry Klein Networks

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I love bongos, and this VA release from Harry Klein Netorks, Bongolize It! I've posted a few of my favorites, but please download the album for yourself.

From http://www.harrykleinnetorks.de/:
This is now the first release on HarryKleinNetworks where we asked the artists if they like to do a track for us with a Bongo theme. And we are really surprised how many people were interested to be with us on this compilation. This release shows a rich bandwidth of electronic music with very specific interpretations from each artist. Some are more Housy, some Techno but all really into all dance floors over the world. We are sure you will find your track. So, please, get bongolized for this summer.
Following artists appear on this release: Dana Ruh (Berlin), Daniel Rajkovic (Berlin), Dario Zenker (Munich), Dawnrock (Munich), Easy Changes (Moscow), Hubble (Berlin), Jacqui & Frank Masters (Geneva), Jorge Savoretti (Rosario), Marco Zenker (Munich), Maresh (Cluj Napoca), Margaret Dygas (Berlin), O.Vince (Montevideo), Ralph Sliwinski (Freiburg), SchoenereWelt! (Munich), Seph (Buenos Aires), Spunky Brewster (Berlin), Step (Torino), Violett (Buenos Aires), von Haugwitz (Graz). For further information´s about he artists – bio, picture, website, please click on the artist name on www.harrykleinnetworks.de.

Two Zombies Later Volume 2

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Here’s some more space age lounge music for your tiki ass. If you are looking for an excuse to put your feet up and sip on a frosty, it’s May Day today---a celebration of many things, especially warm weather.  Happy May Day. 

Two Zombies Later Volume 1

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This post is for my beautiful wife, who loves anything with a tiki or lounge asthetic. There are some great tunes on here, and some really horrible tunes, but all of them have those textbook lounge/tiki sounds. But, perhaps one of the best parts of this release is the cover art! As the biz said, it's spring again, so dust off your tiki shwag and get partying!

From Comfort Stand Recordings: I once heard about an abandoned train station filled with records no one wanted and that image fueled a thousand waking dreams. My vinyl dreams were always daydreams. They played on their own screen and the show ran all day long. Even now, with the vinyl bug in remission, those dreams still linger and lie in wait. I never dreamt about finding records I knew about; I dreamt about records I can only imagine. And there's something about the records discussed on the exotica mailing list that allowed me to believe that almost any record I could imagine, might possibly be hiding at the bottom of a pile somewhere. Unlike at least one of my friends on the exotica list, I've never dreamt about finding a record that doesn't exist. But I have dreamt about records that, by all rights, shouldn't have existed. Records that never should have been made. Shotgun weddings and unlikely juxtapositions where styles and genres mingled and smashed up against each other in inadvisable combinations. And that reminds me of another dream I've been carrying around for a while.

Sometimes I stand in front of my record shelves, thinking about what I want to hear and I wonder what it might sound like if I could treat all the records on the shelves, like musicians in a great mess of a symphony orchestra. What it would be like if I could literally conduct my records. Point to this one and that one, mix them together, have them all playing at once. And I suppose that relates to my dream of finding the perfect cut. The one that embodies everything I love about this music. It's those last two dreams I think about when I listen to the two CD's created by the various musicians who've passed through the exotica mailing list over the years. If I were a musician myself, maybe I'd take all these various dreams and impulses I have, and try to create that perfect cut myself. Short of that though, I've got this collection of music which represents, I assume, analogous dreams on the part of my fellow exotica listers. I suppose I'll never find that perfect cut but the music here will undoubtedly keep those dreams flowing.

Goofball EP

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Nope, not another beatless album. A timely up as this dude is playing in Cambridge, MA on Wednesday. This EP is the first release from unfoundsound, and it's mad goofy. I like the 1st and last tracks and hope you do as well.

from unfoundsound: unfound01 is an in-house release, with two members of the (un)foundsound crew in action: three tracks by someone else, aka sean o'neal, and a remix by fusiphorm, aka cyhl. the three original pieces come in someone else's now characteristic style, which have seen him release on labels like musik krause, tuning spork, remains, microcosm and of course foundsound: minimal quirkiness, with groovy basslines and a subtle use of field recordings, always with an eye directed at the dancefloor. the title track is revisited by fusiphorm for his production debut, in a remix that deliberately adds an even housier sensibility to the original goofyness.

DJ Lab

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I've always been partial to music that is either funky or sneaky. When both are accomplished in the same song, it's a rare treat. Case in point with his 2nd track, Spookers Dub. Fun!

from www.31337records.com:
We are proud to present you our latest release from DJ Lab one of Copenhagens top DJ’s!- Because of the great competitiveness in his city, Anders Brøndum aka DJ Lab has built a high standard of quality for his sets and prooves technical skills in his own productions which he already put out on labels such as echocord or tic tac toe.

Lab’s style took off as straight up banging minimalism but has developed considerably over the years. Today, his arsenal ranges from Detroit techno over trancey Cologne’ism to minimal house and Dub. As long as it’s quality, it’s playable.

From 1998-2000 he was a regular name in the Roskilde Festival lineup – playing for thousands and thousands of ravers at one of Europe’s largest music festivals.

By 2000 his credentials had brought him a monthly residence on the National Radio of Denmark. From 2004 and onwards, he’s upheld a residence at Copenhagen’s largest club, Vega – and since its opening in January 2005, internationally respected electronic club Culture Box has put Lab on the lineup numerous times.

The 30 something ep is packed with 3 beautiful Dub tracks starting off with “Libra” which was the favorite track of all of us including sean o’neil (someone else) on this ep, followed by “Spookers Dub” which is indeed a little spooky, but really unique and funky. The last track called “third shift” is very hypnotic and is more club oriented than the other tracks. all in all a great ep for everyone who is into minimal and dub!

miskate

Here's a fun video courtesy of aesthetic parcel (video), and Miskate (music). The travels of a groovy ladybug, and it's encounter with a dancing jukebox and cowboy ghosts. Good stuff.
zuni lullaby

whatwhat?

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unfoundsound presents a six-track masterpiece courtesy of brooklyn's david last -- featuring three original numbers, plus three remixes by so inagawa (of the suffragettes), ditch and suz. on the whatwhat? ep, david last demonstrates his diverse music-making dexterity and crystal-clean production skills. the ep commences with "animal hybrids" -- a quirky, snippy dancefloor killer fueled by snarling found sounds and snappy percussion that all minimal techno djs can appreciate. then on "where it falls", david last slows the bpm down to a chugging crawl -- yielding a groovy, slow-paced dub tune meticulously doused with blips, bleeps and heady reverbs (somewhat reminiscent of monolake). this is followed by "sporty ankles" -- a minimal masterwork that moves gently with broken beats, pretty vocal stabs, snippy percussion, drenching reverbs and a dubby undertone. then so inagawa reworks "where it falls" into a deep, sample-heavy minimal ass-shaker soaked with goofy found sounds and reverb-drenched timbres. then ditch offers an upbeat remix of "sporty ankles" -- a driving crowd-pleaser with a hard-hitting beat, gritty melodies and funny sound-sculpting. and last but not least, suz offers another version of "where it falls" -- a sexy and heady minimal house ditty doused with chopped up vocal snippets, a rumbling bassline, grainy textures and shuffly percussion. oh yeah! another whoppin' ep!

Anticipate Recordings Summer Tour Remix Volume 1

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One artist I have been listening to a lot lately is Ezekiel Honig, who has a record label named Anticipate Recordings. This label combines elements of ambient, electro-acoustics, slow motion techno, and found house. Over the last several months I have been listening to quite a bit of music from that label, and wanted to throw the most recent web release up here for all a listen.

From www.anticipaterecordings.com:
We're pleased to bring you an exclusive digital release: Summer Tour Remix Volume 1, which, as the title suggests, is a collection of remixes of Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings. 11 tracks from label friends and associates that are all based on the original field recordings, with plenty of instrumental straying from the source…

The concept is simple. Take the sounds from Sawako's Summer Tour field recordings, and make new material with them. That's all the artists were asked to do. The result is a collection that displays the range of artists and the range of approaches. Some use only the original source sounds. Some use them sparingly in the context of a new song. Some add new instrumentation to an otherwise field recording-heavy piece. The common thread is that we love them all. A big thank you to the artists who took the time to participate and bring us such excellent work. Enjoy.