Jay Electronica - Exhibit C (Prod. Just Blaze)

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Jacek Sienkiewicz - Modern Dance

One of my favourite records of the year until now. Perfect late nite minimal with enough melody to keep you listening.

Check Jacek Sienkiewicz - Beacon.

Lindstrom & Prince Thomas are floating through space again

The new albums is called II and it perfectly fits this paper-reading Sunday morning. It's out on the 26th of May but (oh the internet!) leaked already.

Interesting blog in the Telegraph (a newspaper I fundamentally disagree with when reading their news pages though):

half the original attraction of the genre was that for the first time in years it meant you could dance to what is fundamentally rather cheesy music without feeling particularly embarrassed about it - in fact, while feeling it was actually rather cool. And herein lies the contradiction inherent in dance music afficionados such as myself. I love the idea of telling as many people as possible about the occasionally obscure music I love, but once I realise it has taken off and is all over the place, the excitement is gone - over.

Hey though, it was good while it lasted.

1. PFM - One & Only

In our collection life defining tunes, here's PFM with one of my all time favourites:

Best albums of 2008 (first half)

Just enough time to give you my favourite LP's of the last 25 weeks!

1. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Mariah Carey – E=MC2
3. Duffy – Rockferry
4. Portishead – Third
5. Santogold – Santogold
6. Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of Understatement
7. Move D & Benjamin D – Songs From The Beehive
8. Wighnomy Brothers – Metawuffmischfelge
9. 2562- Aerial
10. Clipse – We Got it For Cheap Vol.3
11. Four Tet – Ringer
12. Erykah Badu – Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
13. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
14. Prosumer & Murat Tepeli – Serenity
15. Scuba – A mutual antipathy
16. Johnny Greenwood – There Will Be Blood OST
17. Low Motion Disco – Keep it Slow
18. Jimpster – Selected Remixes
19. Carl Craig – Sessions
20. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
21. Hot Chip – Made in the dark
22. Ellen Allien – Sool
23. Jamie Lidell – Jim
24. Claro Intellecto – Metanarrative
25. The Kills – Midnight Boom

Discovered after six months that my collegue is the guy who writes the linernotes for all the Vampisoul records! Ha! Human Rights Lawyers and music freaks: one front ;).

Best albums of 2007

It's that time of the year again. And 2007 was a grand-cru year..

1. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
2. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
3. Burial – Untrue
4. Efdemin – Efdemin
5. M.I.A. – Kala
6. Stephan Bodzin - Liebe ist…
7. Gui Boratto – Chromophobia
8. Typhoon - Tussen licht en lucht
9. Feist - The Reminder
10. Italians Do it Better – Doing it after dark
11. Jay-Z – American Gangster
12. Guy Gerber - Late Bloomers
13. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
14. Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Cendre
15. Stars of the Lid - ...And Their Refinement of the Decline
16. Robyn – Robyn
17. Robert Babicz - A Cheerful temper
18. Bjork – Volta
19. Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortedala
20. Gus Gus – Forever
21. Radiohead - In Rainbows
22. The Tough Alliance - New Chance
23. Kathy Diamond – Miss Diamond to you too
24. Hot Chip - DJ Kicks
25. Swayzak - Some Other Country
26. Dominik Eulberg - Bionic
27. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
28. Panta Du Prince - This Bliss
29. Quince – En.Vi.Sion
30. Sorcerer - White Magic
31. Deepchord presents the Coldest Season
32. Pinch – Underwater Dancehall
33. Royksopp - Back to mine
34. MIA – Bittersus
35. Cobblestone Jazz – 23 Seconds
36. Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
37. Joris Voorn – From a deep place
38. Apparat – Walls
39. Daft Punk – Alive
40. Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
41. Agnes – Dumble Debuts
42. Cocoon Compilation G
43. Mintzkov - 360 Degrees
44. Gui Boratto – Addicted Vol.2
45. Pole – Steingarten
46. The Tuss - Rushup Edge
47. Professor Genius - Professor Genius
48. Kompakt - Total 8
49. Common - Finding Forever
50. VA - Dirty Space Disco
51. Au Revoir Simone – The Bird of music
52. Damero – Happy in Grey
53. Slam – Human Response
54. Chromatics – In Shining Violence
55. Lopazz- Kook Kook
56. Telefon Tel Aviv - Remixes compiled
57. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James OST
58. Dixon - Body Language IV
59. Onur Özer – Kasmir
60. Fairmont - Coloured in Memory
61. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain
62. Britney Spears – Blackout
63. Deadbeat - Journeyman's annual
64. James Murphy - Fabriclive 36
65. Soulwax - Most of the remixes
66. Thieves Like Us - Play Music For You
67. Thomas Schumacher - Perlen 5
68. VA - DJ Kicks Mixed by Booka Shade
69. Compost Black Label series vol 2
70. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
71. Port royal - Afraid to dance
72. Matzak - Life Beginnings
73. Patrick Watson – Close to paradise
74. Dominik Eulberg – Heimische Gefilde
75. Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
76. Murcof - Cosmos
77. Alicia Keys – As I Am
78. The Black dog – Book of Dogma
79. Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
80. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
81. Soul Jazz Records – Singles 2006-2007
82. Shlomi Aber – State of No one
83. Prefuse 73 – Preparations
84. Martinez – A Chemical Imbalance
85. JPLS – Twilite
86. Boxcutter – Glyphic
87. Chateau Flight – Body Language
88. Kaito – Contact to the spirits
89. Lusine – Podgelism
90. Marcus Intalex – Fabric 35
91. Famous when dead 5
92. Pharoahe Monch – Desire
93. Justice – Cross
94. Theo Parish – Sound Sculptures Vol. 1
95. Andreas Heiszenberger - Ah
96. The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control
97. Rihanna – Good Girl Gone Bad
98. VA – Boxer 50
99. Air – Pocket Symphony
100. Gudrun Gut – I Put A Record On

Italians Do It Better

Some minimal-fatigue is discernable over here and that's why slowly I got totally into the current rerevival of italo. Some truly great releases are providing the soundtrack to my summer.

1. Italians Do It Better Labelsampler - After Dark

Thanks to slm I'm completely into the sounds of Mike Simonetti's label. Pitchfork was all over it and damn rightly so! Not one single bad track on this compilation. Pure cosmic bliss.

2. Studio - Yearbook 1


The afrobeat version of The Field? Trans Am in the disco? Life's a beach!

3. Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond to You Too
4. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance



It even gets better when innocent girls are singing over those brumming basslines!! Maurice Fulton produced Kathy Diamond's record and that's of course not a bad thing.

5. Professor Genius - s/t

Like somebody says it on his myspace: it's half italo, half aquarium. Perfect record to drive to sunny landscapes in the south of ehm, Italy.

6. Prins Tomas Presents Cosmo Galactic Prism

The name speaks for itself: splendid overview that goes from The Mole, Matias Aguayo to ehm, Carlos Hernandez. Space is the place!

7. The future looks bright with debut albums of Glass Candy and Chromatics coming up

Check them in space.

Download here a wonderful 'THISISNOTADISCO'mix and see how the best sounds of now get incorporated into one nice mix.
1. Hatchback - White Diamond
2. Lindstrom & Solade - Let's Practice (Wade Nicholls Dub)
3. Frank Helby - Tuislangboogie
4. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Mirage Remix)
5. Ilija Rudman - UMMA
6. Faze Action - Stratus Energy
7. Emperor Machine - Who You?
8. Prince - Controversy
9. Front 242 - Circular Motion (The Delicate Genius Edit)
10. Zombi - Sapphire
11. Efdemin - La Ratafia
12. Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe
13. Polmo Polpo - Requiem For A Fox
14. The Field - Over The Ice
15. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life