You may have noticed that he last post kind of jut finished. well that's because I looked at the pile of tracks I was gonna post and realised it wasn't gonna all fit in one. Continuing from where we left off, liquid funk is just about on the horizon. First thing you'll notice about the tracks being produced around this time is they're a lot faster, both in terms of BPM and overall structure. Like in this track, it's only ten seconds before the first drop happens, and [...]
I recently came into a fair amount of real old school drum & bass. like even older than the stuff I've put up before, we're talkin 1993 up in here. Now, opinions are usually divided about what's better, the old school or the newer 'liquid funk' style. Me, I like 'em both, and I'm gonna whip up a nice mixture of the two, starting with the old. Click for big (1280px x 800px) I can never escape Omni Trio, his production is always solid [...]
I spent the last couple of days with a friend, and we spent a lot of that time waxing nostalgic about when we were beginning to explore Electro. We were lucky that it was around 2006-7, which is pretty much the time when every track out there was golden and new stuff was out every week or so. And after spinning them both on vinyl and from files I was feeling pretty inspired, so now I'm putting together another list of my Electro favourites, both old and new. An Electrospective if you will (sorry.) [...]
A quick one today as we hit up an EP I couldn't get my hands on in time for the main entries. I managed to pick this EP up about a year ago from a nice German bloke, and it contains arguably what is the Square man's most famous track, that is Come On My Selector . There's a bunch of other quality sprinkled throughout the 7 tracks here, so let's do this. I'd heard of the opener a couple of times but never [...]
Hey guys I probably won't have time to post anything, so here are some good tunes that came out this week. No particular order or theme, sorry! Let's start with Justin Faust 's new gem. Vanguard 's remix for the Tekken Tag Tournament remix contest, anyone that owned a playstation probably played Tekken so there's no need to introduce it I guess. [...]
Today's been a quiet one, been tracking down some demo cassettes. It's been nice though, after the past couple days I was ready for a little bit of doing nothin'. And that meant what a day off usually means for me: a bit of catch up on things I meant to do resulting in an art and sound binge. And it's that that I'll be taking select pieces from today. After my last post about old school dubstep, I picked up the latest free EP dropped by [...]
Hey guys. Some great tracks came out this weekend, here are those who really got on my mind. I couldn't not start with this track. Frank Ocean gives us another track from his soon to be released album Channel Orange. A magnificient mix between poetry, hip hop, electro and jazz. Louis La Roche is best known for his disco house skills, he diverges from his [...]
A while ago I was sifting through my dubstep collection, it's mostly older stuff before the whole 'brostep' thing happened, and listening to them again I found they are still quality tracks. This was meant to be a mixtapey type deal, but it decided to crap out and delete half of itself right before I went to post it. That and I'd like to revisit the old type of posting for this one to talk more about the tracks themselves. I've mentioned before how the 'step pays homage [...]
Hi there Magna just released his entry for the remix contest Zedd started for his track Spectrum. I'm happy to finally be able to post it, it's a terrific remix, very different from the original. Magna embraces dubstep with talent here, creating two very impressive drops, using that death vocoder I love, keeping his original sound while adding those sweet "madeonesque" harp notes that add so much to the whole thing. [...]
Good afternoon internet, I just stumbled across an album that I think you're gonna dig. It's by a one Arcade High and is summed up by the man himself as: "It's been described as a cross between the kinda of SynthWave we are used to, influenced by ‘80’s TV and Movie themes, and the adrenaline chaos of video game arcades a couple of decades ago." that got me thinking of Kavinsky. And Miss Kittin & The Hacker to a lesser extent, so I went and scooped myself a copy. [...]
I complain about the label 'IDM' a whole lot. Probably more than I should but come on, seriously? "Intelligent Dance Music"? and the thing that annoys me most is how casually it gets thrown around: I don't consider the stuff made by Boards Of Canada to be the same genre as AFX's trademark beat butchery but apparently they're the same under 'IDM'. Anyway enough, moaning from me, the important thing is I've had to throw it around a couple times since it seems to be standard internet lingo for it, and I post a lot of things that fall under [...]
Hey there It's becoming a habbit, here's The Magician 's new Magic Tape! Would you mind help us find the missing track in the playlist? 01. Isaac Tichauer - Doing What I Got 02. Monsoon Season Feat. Miss Bee - Green On Blue (Moon Boots Remix) 03. Panama - Magic (Midnight Magic Remix) 04. Peter & The Magician - Memory [...]
You know, us bloggers are always marred by copyright issues, I'm sure you all know about it so I won't bore you with the specifics. Anyway I got to thinking of ways I could still post my usual eclectic mix and have it be a little more legitimate. I toyed with the idea of making a podcast, and even made a prototype but that idea soon fizzled out. Anyway, I got to making some mixtape type dealies. They're not anything special, they're pretty [...]
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Hey. So, on tuesday I received this... First thing first, Marble does not mess with people who buy their stuff. That translucid vinyl is simply gorgeous, they also include a CD edition of the album in the package which is a very nice touch. Hats off. 1. Ice Cold A very gloomy, dark and smart way to open because this has absolutely nothing in common with what [...]
Hey guys You probably remember His Majesty Andre's minimix for Annie Mac a while ago, well it's Madeon's turn now. He decided to wrap up 93 tracks in 5 minutes for us and it is pure genius. You maybe want the tracklist right ? There it is. Madeon — Shuriken The Beatles — A Day In The Life M83 — Intro Woodkid — Iron Groove Armada — Look Me In The Eye Sister Madeon — Icarus [...]
Evening all, I just remembered I made one of these a long time ago to show off Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 , which while not on Warp is a downright essential album. Basically imma go through stuff I missed while writing a very warped history, mainly because I didn't get them in time or I bought them after I posted about their respective dates. Up first is the album that made me eat my words after saying "I only liked Autchre's first two albums", Tri Repetae [...]
That is all. Take care, guys! With
Ilictronix
