While the release (so far) is only available via iTunes in the UK, you can grab the latest HK Classics through their shopping portal (just close your eyes real tight to avoid being contaminated by press release, graphics et al).
Issue II also features this juicy little number via Ghosts of Venice:
We’re really chuffed to bring Edwin Van Cleef to Toronto under our The Impossible Night party guise next month, another co-presentation with the wonderful lads who make up The Wheel Wells. Our Mirabel will also be making an appearance.
If you’re in the D.C area on December 8th, you can also catch him with Xylos and Monarchy at U Street Music Hall. We’ll be sure to update this entry when more dates get added to this North American jaunt.
If you haven’t absorbed the Never Be Alone at Night EP yet, your life is lacking a little something something. Enjoy!
Our brothers from a more awesome mother were kind enough to feature us on their first The Playground podcast. We sat down with DJ Kid A at The Ossington to chat Brilliantine, The Impossible Night and soak in the sweet riffs of Styx that you will inevitably hear in the background….
Mirabel (aka What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow?) also contributes an 45min set, including their new remix of Yelle’s S’éteint le soleil:
Labels, new labels! Everyone, welcome Bromance to the fold. The website is very helpful, and perhaps not so serious! This is Broinski’s new playground, and he’s brought that French guy with the B’wohh face.
First EP with new Gesaffelstein track “Control Movement” and “Let The Beat Control Your Body” from Brodi himself is out 21st November. Bro up!
Almost everything recently unleashed by Discotexas has felt like Christmas come early, but this Moullinex and Xinobi tag-team is the stuff of my high school dreams:
There should be a name for this sort of thing that happens: you listen to an album, fresh off the press, and one of the tracks strikes you just so. It’s not the single, no, and it’s probably not even the second single. It might be buried somewhere, or it might just be the track after the single, or kind of long and windy with the sorts of introductory sections that the pop radio disk jockeys just hate. What’s wrong with you, jockeys? Long intros are great. Anyway, can you guess what I’m getting at? This happened to me the first few times I listened to Arnaud Rebotini’s album, this thing that is nameless.
The album is Someone Gave Me Religion and it’s really quite good. There was a single several months back with a pretty hot B’wohh remix just when he was on his ascendancy. There’s a lot of variance – some pretty hard electro tracks, some contemplative downtempo analog sounds and here and there some sort of vaguely Gothic interpretation of Vitalic. These are the really good ones. So, buried in the album (not really – it’s track 2, but the one before it is a shade over 13 minutes long, so it’s buried enough, and it’s an album, do people even look at tracklists anymore?) is this track called “Another Time, Another Place” with some nice buried vocal and emotive saws and some really hot tightly gated claps. Hot claps, everyone! Gotta get the hot claps on your track. This is the one that stuck with me, and now, several months later, we’ve got an absolutely stuffed remix package for this very track, which is maybe meant to bring to mind Lana Turner and Sean Connery, and does a little bit.
Best of the bunch is from Acid Washed. Fresh off a really wonderful Yuksek remix (the best one), this is sort of a spiritual cousin. Lots of points for maintaining the melodic center while adding that rolling, rumbling, propulsive love.
Second prize goes to JBAG who have been on a bit of a roll lately. Really crisp, sort of a Discotexas night version. No stream, but the whole release is out on 7th November, so just buy it then. 11 tracks – there’s Gucci Vump, Mustang and Turzi Electronic Experience on there as well! You have no excuse.
Another Time, Another Place is out 7 November on Blackstrobe. Get it here.
We’re really chuffed to present Goldroom (aka Josh Legg, Binary founder/Nightwaves) next Friday under our “The Impossible Night” moniker alongside The Ambitious C. Warm-up performances will be supplied by our darling Mirabel (formerly What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow?) and infamous Czehoski residents The Wheel Wells.
You’ll see a peppering of these “locals-only” posts now and then, as we’ve spent the last year curating shows sporadically in our favourite haunts. Don’t worry – so far you’ve only missed Munk, Ghosts of Venice, Gang Bang DJ’s, CC Disco, Mix Chopin, Hemingway, and Justin Faust. No biggie, mang.
Tiger Sushi and Excuse My French deployed the new DyE video to Vimeo last week — if you want to see what happens when you marry softcore Hentai with H.R Giger’s brain, look no further.
Animation maestro Jérémie Périn has churned out some other great (and markedly NSFW) videos over the past two years, most notably Flairs Truckers Delight. You can check out a sampling of his music video animation work via Primiere Heure.
Joakim’sNothing Gold is assured a space in my top albums of the year. Like Metronomy’s criminally underrated third album, it straddles things that heretofore could never have been straddled. The feeling of, “Okay, that’s not so bad” pushed into the air with enough force to keep you sitting down, or staring ahead, maybe bobbing your head a bit before you maybe get up and dance for a while, all the way thinking, “Really, this isn’t so bad after all” and then you get to something like “In the Cave” and you crack a little smile at what he’s doing. Joakim is the sort of guy who really knows what he’s doing, even when it sounds like he’s trying to explain to you he knows nothing of the sort.
“Find A Way” underwhelmed me a bit at first. Something about the vocals made me think late-period James Murphy in his confessional mode, and I might have been turned off a bit just because it’s never the same when anyone else tries to do that, or even if he tried to do it again, which is probably why he stopped. Anyhow, it really grew on me, especially in context. These sorts of tracks are the ones that always get me the most excited about remixes – will they bring out the elements that I heard first, or the ones I loved later? In this case, because we know he knows how to pick ‘em, both and neither. The lineup is one of the best: Soul Clap, John Talabot, Das Glow and Punks Jump Up, who are a strange pick until you realize that is the point. The point is you are supposed to see their name on there and remark how funny it is that the guys who make things really bouncy tackled this thing that seems more like a deep cut on an album of deep cuts and then oh right there you go.
My pick is the sublime Soul Clap “floating” mix, but the whole package is fantastic.
There are many of us who are constantly awed by the incredible strength of music coming from Toronto right now. Inspiration is everywhere. From one thing and some other things that may or may not turn out to be important as this story develops, we have something called Rosso Alfa , and from that, Vanity Muscles , a little bit of law and order in our city of moss. Looks like we’re working with a track a week, or more, and this is really worth watching.
“Take Me Home” will indeed find a nice home in our sets, sound clouds and some lost summer nights. Download for free.
Brilliantine Records is proud to present the latest offering from Oslo producer Pelifics (alias of Eirik Seu Stokkmo) as an EP in two potent acts.
Expanding on his already notorious style, Lifetime Volume 1 provides us with his markedly fresh combination of disco and house, infused with a strong homage to 1980’s pop and funk. The result is a series of compositions that leave the listener happily oscillating between sounds of youthful nostalgia and the future sound of disco.
