Cold Specks - Holland
Cold Specks - Steady: I Predict A Graceful Expulsion is one of those landmark albums of the year, the kind you hear and immediately guess if it will make the top 5 of the year, or just the top 10. Another powerful Canadian voice has arrived. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
DJ T - City Life ft Cari Golden (Maya Jane Coles Remix): First of 2 MJC tracks up in this place, I've just been grooving on some excellent deep house as of late. At first I was kind of digging the Maja Jane Coles DJ mix for its selection, but then you realize it could have been assembled much better so fuckit, do it yourself.
Doldrums - I'm Homesick Sittin' Up Here In My Satellite: The party starts here with the ramshackle cacaphony! From the new album Empire Sound.
Epic45 - People Say This Place Is Slowly Dying (Reworked By Charles Vaughan): The album Weathered is mostly remixes, and all of it has a magical golden quality to it. If you want that mid-90s AFX-styled electro ambience there is much to be had here. Also tweaks the drone centres and the meowed-out downtempo bliss centres. Recommended.
Flosstradamus - Rollup: The whole footwurk phenom was kind of irritating since most producers had no idea how to really produce. It was quaint. But here we have a veteran producer riffin on the formula to some fabulous results. And be sure to check their track with Kid Sister on it as well.
Gossip - Perfect World: New Gossip out in 2012! woot.
Hectic Zeniths - I Might Drown: From the self-titled new album, this might as well be a dubbed out Flornce and the Machines remix.
John Zorn - The Invisibles
John Zorn - The Middle Pillar: The Gnostic Preludes is the most beautiful thing on Tzadik out so far this year. So accessible your mom would love it, but full of depth and and emotion.
Kate and Janelle - Star Witness (Neko Case cover) (in P.C.V.S. stairwell)
Neko Case - Star Witness: If you didn't see this on youtube (And yes, this is a youtube rip), this is an achingly beautiful rendition of Case's track by two graduates from this Canadian arts-focused high school that was slated to be closed. They are in a stairwell and are almost overwhelmed by the reverb, making it a fitting eulogy. It makes me so sad to think it receives the arbitrary axe! And despite this video going viral and it making Neko Case cry, and despite the tragedy of the school closing, the school also went ahead and raised over $50k this years for mosquito nets to prevent malaria. Yeah, jaw dropping. So here's the original, and the even superior cover. Support the youth, people.
Maps & Atlases - Old & Gray
Maps & Atlases - Remote & Dark Years: I think the new album Beware and Be Grateful sounds like what I wished TV On The Radio sounded like.
Parov Stelar - Song For The Crickets: Deep jazzy grooviness is what they do best. Forget flipping a swing groove for anthem house music, this is where it's at.
Philippe Petit with Herve Vincenti, Maria Grigoryeva, Alexander Mahniev, Vladimir Shubin - Many-Minds in Many Worlds: Swirling, varied and challenging, Philippe Petit & Friends' Cordophony is at the very least one of the most interesting contemporary classical albums out this year. Varied instrumental groupings produce tracks move in sometimes startling. I don't find this an easy listen, but very compelling. Recommended for fans of more difficult classical music and improv jazz.
Scenic - Another Sky (The Magician Remix): The Magician rocks the nu-disco like none other.
THIS WEEK'S TRACKS
Cold Specks - Holland
Cold Specks - Steady
DJ T - City Life ft Cari Golden (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Doldrums - I'm Homesick Sittin' Up Here In My Satellite
Epic45 - People Say This Place Is Slowly Dying (Reworked By Charles Vaughan)
Flosstradamus - Rollup
Gossip - Perfect World
Hectic Zeniths - I Might Drown
John Zorn - The Invisibles
John Zorn - The Middle Pillar
Kate and Janelle - Star Witness (Neko Case cover) (in P.C.V.S. stairwell)
Maps & Atlases - Old & Gray
Maps & Atlases - Remote & Dark Years
Neko Case - Star Witness
Parov Stelar - Song For The Crickets
Philippe Petit with Herve Vincenti, Maria Grigoryeva, Alexander Mahniev, Vladimir Shubin - Many-Minds in Many Worlds
Scenic - Another Sky (The Magician Remix)
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