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Conflict - Custom Rock (1986)

 

Label:    Not On Label (Conflict (2) Self-released) – none
Format:    
Vinyl, 7", Single Sided, White Label
Country:    UK
Released:    1986
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk

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On 31/03/2022 at 18:28, Vesper said:

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

(Full Album)

 

Label:    Island Records – ILPS 9309
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:    UK
Released:    Nov 1974
Genre:    Electronic, Rock
Style:    Art Rock

 

Burning airlines give you so much more.has an unnerving habit of coming on my shuffle just as i’m about to board a plane in asia..which having a Japanese wife means quite often.

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MASHUP - Tear You Apart + Bela Lugosi's Dead - DJ ALANT Mix - She wants revenge / Bauhaus Re-Upload

 

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Doja Cat - So High (San Holo Remix)

 

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NOFX // The War On Errorism (FULL ALBUM)

Label:    Fat Wreck Chords – FAT657-1
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, White
Country:    US
Released:    6 May 2003
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk

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Cock Sparrer - Running Riot

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Cock Sparrer – England Belongs To Me (FULL ALBUM)

 

 

Running Riot    3:29
Trouble On The Terraces    4:08
We Love You    4:03
Chip On My Shoulder    1:59
Taken For A Ride    2:01
Sister Suzie    3:30
Watcha Gonna Do About It    3:05
Again & Again    2:40
What's It Like To Be Old    3:13
England Belongs To Me    3:02
Working    2:45
Riot Squad    2:44
Where Are They Now    2:57
Argy Bargy    2:35
The Sun Says    3:25
Price To High To Pay    2:56
Run With The Blind    3:20
Closedown    2:57
White Riot (Live)    1:50
Out On An Island    4:38

Label:    Decca – FR 13710
Format:    
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Stereo, Push Out Centre
Country:    UK
Released:    1977

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DJ Sly, Skepta, Trigga, Eksman, Shabba, Spyda, Juiceman, Nutcracka, Coalition Boxing Day Bonanza 2007

bars coming HARD AF back in deh day!! 

 

Special appearance from Skepta, DJ Sly & MC Trigga present Coalition Boxing Day Bonanza.

Recorded Live @ Brixton Mass, London, on Wednesday 26 December 2007.

DJ SLY, SKEPTA, TRIGGA, EKSMAN, SHABBA D, SPYDA, JUICEMAN, & NUTCRACKA.

Edited July 2, 2022 by Vesper

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Black Rave Culture - Black Rave Culture Vol 2

 

 

• The DC trio highlight the versatility and vitality of Black dance music on an incredible second album.

https://ra.co/reviews/34951

• An artist name like Black Rave Culture is an invitation to think critically about how to represent a culture that is so often portrayed as a monolith—or even worse, as non-existent.
•  
• On the trio's second LP, Black Rave Culture Vol 2, the DC-based crew let the question of what "black rave culture" is marinate across 12 eclectic tracks.
•  
• Their answer is to showcase the diaspora's intrinsic multiplicity. "When it comes to Black dance music, there is very much a perception that a lot of Black artists can only make one thing," the group told RA earlier this spring. "
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• We wanted to touch on a various array of genres to show that we have range and can do it well." To celebrate Blackness is to celebrate diversity, adaptability and versatility—natural rebuffs to the restraints of white hegemony.
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• The group's second LP demonstrates the wide breadth of Black creative talent, with samples offering credence to the countless subcultures Black people have birthed over the last three decades.
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• The record's commemoration of Black music is a through-line that closely aligns with the mission of label that released the trio's first LP, MoMA Ready's Haus Of Altr.
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• Since 2018, that imprint, and Black Rave Culture themselves, have kept an ear close to the concrete of the East Coast Black underground, uplifting the sound of Black house, techno and club in America and beyond.
•  
• Black Rave Culture members James Bangura, DJ Nativesun and Amal are all strong producers in their own right, sharing a love for rowdy, scuffling breaks. But on Black Rave Culture Vol 2, the trio push themselves outside their comfort zone.
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• On the opener, "Never Left," they spruce up their classic breaks formula with Brazilian funk. Though the track title might convince you otherwise, the crew have not been gone long—their debut album was released just last year.
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• The title could also be interpreted as a reference to the widespread ignorance of the enduring Black innovations within electronic music, along with recent efforts by Black-led platforms like dweller and Black Artist Database to correct dance music's flawed historical narrative(s).
•  
• As "Never Left'' closes, aquatic pads return repeatedly after intermissions of complete silence, like an artist scurrying backstage only to emerge once, then twice more, for a "gotcha!" encore. The record's expanse of cultural influences unfurls on tracks like "Something Else," where dubstep wubs meet bombastic chants that could easily be ripped from a '90s Atlanta "booty shake" bass track.
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• This might not sound all that impressive, but when producers assume the task of taking on so many genres at once, the result isn't always this pristine. Like seasoned cooks, Black Rave Culture work these diasporic palettes in a way that avoids feeling contrived or choppy, but instead splices old genres into an all-encompassing, singular style.
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• The lead single "Sub Poppin" shows off this talent best: the Ha stab, traditionally used in ballroom music—a style that emerged out of New York's 1980s queer and largely Black underground vogue scene—is diced and retooled as a main melody on a perky club track.
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• On "Long Distance Dilemma," another cultural touchstone of Black identity shows up through a sample of Allen Iverson's infamous "practice" press conference speech.
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• The track revolves around snippets of Iverson's defiant answer to a question concerning the Black former NBA player's commitment to practice. Iverson, who faced heavy scrutiny throughout his career (and who was at one point one of NBA history's most prolific scorers) made a valid point: why was there all this alarm about his practice habits when he still demolished every game?
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• Muttered toward the close of the track are a few of his enduring lines: "I'm supposed to be a franchise player. Listen, we talking about practice. Not a game!" The somber tone of the track—which comes from the idling East Coast house synths that the Haus Of Altr crew has come to be known for—leaves behind questions as to what exactly "practice" means to the trio.
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• A missed call during an extensive tour? A life-altering set clashing with a relationship-altering Zoom date? Tracks like this hint at the more lackluster aspects of navigating the competitive electronic music world. The isolation of touring, the stress of canceled flights and the horror of dodgy promoters all lie beneath the shimmering surface of the traveling artist's persona.
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• A knowing rawness courses through "Pay Me,", a song centered around a two-note melody and a grunt—the kind someone makes when they're feeling a beat or when they're threatening someone who owes them a check—and "Deep Breathing," which incorporates laborious panting over stark percussion.
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• The crew taps dreamcastmoe to unleash his buttery falsetto above the ornate synths on the album's closer, "In My Bizness," where the fellow DC artist details the misunderstandings that come with having hoes in different area codes: "I just come around / When the money's in town / Shawty in my business."
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• Black Rave Culture Vol 2 makes one thing clear: if these producers are stellar on their own, they're unstoppable as a unit. Their vast scope allows them to highlight a wealth of Black electronic music genres with respect.
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• Just listen to the lush, billowing pads caressing the club beat on "Moroccan Mist"—it's the sound of the crew reaching far and wide, and deep into a collective history—to produce something new and beautiful.
• Tracklist

  01. NEVER LEFT

  02. CEREBRAL ATROPHY

  03. ACTIVATE

  04. MOROCCAN MIST

  05. SOMETHING ELSE

  06. PAY ME

  07. DEEP BREATHING

  08. SUB POPPIN

  09. DOPPLER

  10. ISSA BOP

  11. LONG DISTANCE DILEMMA (PRACTICE)

  12. IN MY BIZNESS feat. Dreamcastmoe

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Edited July 5, 2022 by Vesper

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Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights [Full Album]

Label:    Matador – OLE 545-1
Format:    
Vinyl, LP, Album, 150g
Country:    UK
Released:    20 Aug 2002
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Indie Rock

Edited July 26, 2022 by Vesper

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The 4 SKINS - 1 Law For Them (HD Video Edit)

Label:    Clockwork Fun – CF 101
Format:    
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Strawberry Lacquer
Country:    UK
Released:    1981
Genre:    Rock
Style:    Punk, Oi

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Ricardo Villalobos - Thé Au Harem D'Archimède (2004) Microhouse

Label:    Perlon – PERL 43
Format:    
3 x Vinyle, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Pays:    Germany
Sortie:    11 May 2004
Genre:    Electronic
Style:    Minimal Techno

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8507-the-au-harem-darchimede/

I suspect that a lot of this tech-house stuff is easy to make. Perhaps process shouldn't be a determining factor in the opinion of a final product, but nevertheless I respond pretty consistently to Kompakt and Force Tracks and especially Perlon releases in part because the tracks just sound more thought-out and laboured over. If anything, they're extremely detailed. Sometimes detail work makes us dance harder, and on rare occasions it can even give a track some unexpectedly human quality: Michelangelo Matos talks about the thread of pessimism that courses through Luomo's Vocalcity, for instance. Whatever gives icy tracks like "Tessio" or Jan Jelinek's "Tendency" such emotional depth, Fruity Loops definitely doesn't have a preset for it-- at least just yet.

Blame the detail work, the drugs, or the greasy long hair in his eyes: Ricardo Villalobos' Thè au Harem d'Archiméde is the sound of paranoia, a ticking bomb that never quite goes off. Nine well-carved tracks fidget violently within a remarkably controlled spectrum of sound. While tech-house in 2004 widened its scope for bigger sounds, trading computers for synths and hard grooves for genre and song structure, Villalobos approaches Thè au Harem with a monkish, almost classical degree of top-down restraint. It seems as if the Chilean-Berliner sticks to only seven or eight percussive sounds throughout the whole album, running them through every possible permutation, milking them till they're miraculously warm and woozy. Villalobos gave us great hooks on 2003's Alcachofa; here he stalks us in a sweaty haze of Amazon rhythm, challenging us to find the hooks ourselves.

Dizzying and sometimes nerve-wracking, Villalobos is hardly a shyster though, hooking up Thè au Harem's hardest working listeners with fantastic payoffs throughout the mix. While the first three tracks flaunt grooves as tightly-wound as Maurizio twelves, Villalobos still finds an unsettling amount of wiggle room for wind-chime strings in "Hireklon", swashbuckling slurps in "Serpentin", and noirish synth accents in "For All Seasons". As the album progresses, tracks become livelier and more unpredictable, each building on the rhythmic developments of the one before. Lush pun-on-title-track "Thèorème d'Archiméde" is the tipping point, thereafter Villalobos insisting on increasingly chaotic routines: "Temenarc 2" spins like a shattered Tiefschwarz record, and follow-up "Temenarc 1" all but bats its way out of an aluminium trash can. By the time the aptly-named "True To Myself" finishes out Thè au Harem, Villalobos has become quite the derelict, offering 14 minutes of weary chants and ghostly yelps. Think Dani Siciliano in Downtown 81 drag, chasing us through the jungle.

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Edited January 8, 2023 by Vesper

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Benzz - Je M'Appelle (Ft. Central Cee, Tion Wayne, Russ Millions, ArrDee, French Montana)

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RA.847 Bella Boo............... The sound of Sweden in summertime.

https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra847-bella-boo

https://ra.co/podcast/847

 

 

As anyone who's been to a Nordic country in the summer will tell you, there's a certain magic in the temperate air that you only get from a place that is cold and dark for most of the rest of the year. That probably goes some way towards explaining how a country like Sweden produces some of the sunniest music around, whether we're talking about pop or underground dance. Since she debuted on Stockholm label Studio Barnhus in 2018, Bella Boo has been at the forefront of this sound, making clever, fun and joyous house music on records like Once Upon A Passion, where pop instincts embed into deep house grooves.

Bella Boo's RA Podcast both highlights her distinct personality and also the sound of Stockholm in full summer bloom, featuring local producers like Kornél Kovács, Axel Boman, Genius Of Time and Samo DJ. It's full of catchy basslines, hooky vocal snippets, luxurious melodies and plenty of brilliant transitions. It's kind of like listening to one of her records: a restless and kaleidoscopic approach to house, where the rhythms shift and a new earworm is always around the corner. Bella Boo has all the makings of a star, and this mix feels like another step in her impressive rise.

What have you been up to recently?

DJing, summer vacation and experimenting with my sound in the studio. Making lots of music that will never see the light of the day  trying to push myself forward.

What are you grateful for these days?

Friends and family, the love and support through highs and lows. My daughter, my light and my everything.

How and where was the mix recorded, and can you tell us the idea behind the mix?

It was recorded at Trädgården a sunny morning in August. This is my favorite place to DJ in Stockholm. Sound is great, crowd is great and I love the 360 degree DJ booth in the middle of inside and outdoors. Placed in the middle of the crowd it gives the right energy to DJ. I wanted to include as many artists from the Stockholm scene as possible in the mix, since they all have had such great impact on me. The pioneers Jesper Dahlbäck and Cari Lekebusch from legendary SVEK really set the standards and the music is timeless, banging. The boys from Studio Barnhus of course, the playfulness inspires me so much—fun but never ironic—and their support means everything. Of course when speaking about the Stockholm scene you have to mention Samo DJ, your favourite DJ's favourite DJ. So yeah, recorded in Stockholm showing my love for our local scene mixing it up with tracks I keep returning to and of course some new tracks from producers that amaze me. I wanted the mix to be like a big slow rolling wave, taking you up to where it breaks and then sucks you back to peace.

Tracklist

Kornél Kovács - Usch
Bella Boo - Can't Leave You Like This (Karima F remix)
Axel Boman - Atra feat. Kristian Harborg
Bella Boo - Edit
Mr. James Barth - Bodyfluids
Omar S - Ice Cream feat. Supercoolwicked and Alandra
Chris Ellis & Babyxxan - Um Ah Help
Baby Ford - Gravy Train
Moon - Soul Of Mean feat. StickyDub
Jesper Dahlbäck - Mening
DJ Gregory - Don't Panic (Karizma Main Remix)
Mumbai Science - Jasmine
Joe - Tail Lift
Manuel Tur - 125 BPM
Groove Junkies & Scott K. - Done Me Wrong (Instrumental)
DJ Tennis & Ashee - On My Own Now feat. Lady Donli (Extended Acid Dub)
SWAG - EVERYTHING I KNOW I LEARNT ON ACID
Mike Dunn - Can I Turn It Up Vox Mix
Kamohelo - Bob's Keys
Mr. Barth - Knock Em Out
DJ Bone - Music (Aaron-Carl Remix)
Samo DJ - Way2Go
Marcel_Dettmann - State Of Art (Ryan Elliott Dub)
Dave DK - Jelly Legs
Bambounou - Cascade
Welt Discos - Oklou - God's Chariot (SH Remix)
BEN HAUKE - Dep First Draft
Genius Of Time - Taurindo Shuffle
ATRIP - Für Immer

Edited August 30, 2022 by Vesper

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Emil & Friends // Downed Economy

https://soundcloud.com/cantorarecords/downed-economy

Label:    Transparent (3) – TP001
Format:    
Vinyl, 7", Single, Limited Edition
Country:    UK
Released:    21 Sept 2009
Genre:    Electronic, Rock
Style:    Synth-pop, Indie Rock

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Madchester Mix - The 100bpm by Shoegazer

Electronic - Get The Message (12" Mix)
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix In Two Halves)
Primal Scream - Loaded
DNA - Tom's Diner
EMF - Unbelievable (The Cin City Sex Mix)
Happy Mondays - Step On (Stuff It In Mix)
Stereo MC - Connected
Mock Turtles - Can U Dig It? (Steve Proctor Remix)
World Of Twist - She's A Rainbow (12" Version)
Real People - Window Pane (Extended Version)

 

 

 

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Zedd feat. Foxes - Clarity (Drunk Dragons Power Remix)

Drunk Dragons
Vilnius, Lithuania

Label: Universal Music – none
Format: CDr, Maxi-Single, Promo
Country: Sweden
Released: 2013
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Electro House, Hardstyle, Dubstep

 

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Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany - Edge Of Innocence (Resident Advisor's 2022 Album of the Year)

The Best Albums of 2022

https://ra.co/features/4077

 

Electronic music is something of an ouroboros: sounds hark back to the past as trends recycle in a never-ending loop. The revival of genres like jungle and trance, among others, is proof positive, and the subject of many articles from cultural critics like Simon Reynolds and Mark Fisher. But there's a distinction to be made here. Some artists' chase of rose-tinted nostalgia is nothing more than empty cliché, while others treat their return to a bygone era like a hero's journey—familiar, yet eclipsed by a new, fortified sensibility.

D. Tiffany and Rosa Terenzi achieve the ideal balance on their debut album, Edge Of Innocence. It offers a mélange of influences that run the hi-BPM gamut from electro to drum & bass without losing grip of the rippling, psychedelic groove at the core of everything this duo do. "Grains Of Sand" is a case in point, replete with synths that stab through a thicket of lumbering percussion, as is the fittingly named breakbeat bop "Redemption Arc," kitted out with all the sleek dynamism that emerges after a period of dark contemplation. By the end of Edge Of Innocence, you get the feeling that, though the duo are working with well-worn sounds, they've made them all their own.

 

Label: Delicate Records (2) – DR004
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 19 May 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Techno, Drum n Bass, Jungle, Downtempo
 

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