Unshow

Tomorrow (saturday) night from 11-12midnight I’ll be DJ’ing on Brown University Radio, playing a set of unique, quirky-woozy-thumpy-funky-fresh electronic music from mainly the unfoundsound/Foundsound crew , via Berlin, Philly, Argentina, The Canary Islands, Japan, and Baltimore. Streaming at www.bsrlive.com, or listenable in the Providence area on 88.1 FM.

Aesthetically, it sounds like music that steelyard/scrap metal sculpture-people would dance to, if they could dance.

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

Unfoundsound: An Unmix

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Somewhat vaguely similar to my appreciation of art welded from junk, I am fascinated by the capture, tweaking, and collaging of raw sounds in order to make music. Beauty can come from lots of things- even discarded metal, or random noise waves propogating through the air.

That's why I've got lots of love for Unfoundsound! A netlabel out of Philly, they release quirky, dj friendly dance music that is made with (among other things) found sounds and field recordings from natural or unnatural environments. Besides releasing great music under creative commons licensing, they also have a series of field recordings which make for great fun in making your own music.

From their site:

through monthly releases, unfoundsound offers worldwide exposure to promising new artists as well as established artists from around the globe. in addition, unfoundsound provides a series of free downloadable field recordings (the unfields) available to everyone for creative sampling, musical composition and whatever your fuzzy, little heart desires. enjoy!

Damn Skippy! Thanks to Unfoundsound for their really solid, interesting releases. I hope everyone enjoys this little collection of songs which I put together rather roughly. Also check out their sister label Foundsound for more great music.

* Ditch - Yack
* David Last - Halitosis Rockers
* Kriss - Undersun
* Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
* So Inagawa - Kada
* Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
* Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
* Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
*Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
*Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
*Roberto Clementi - Exigent

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.

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.

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!

The Commute, Part 1: To Work

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Compiled with the pre-sunrise, groggy commuter in mind. In sequence, this podcast includes:
Ezekiel Honig "Going Sailing Refrain 1" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Ezekiel Honig "Oceans and Living Rooms" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Antiguo Automata Mexicano "Extirpe" from Kraut Slut, Static Disco
DB "December 75" from Background Records [mnlv07]
Dave Miller "Down the Line From Harvey" from Mitchells Raccolta, Background Records
Ezekiel Honig, "The Breeze of Hibernation" from It's Getting Cold Outside, Unfoundsound
Morgan Packard "Dappled" from Airships Fill the Sky, Anticipate Records