F – Energy Distortion (2010)
In an essay in The Village Voice 15 years ago, Simon Reynolds poetically described the proliferation and divergence of the nascent post-rock genre away from “rock’s grand narrative” into a “delta of microcultures.” The same metaphor might be used nowadays to describe the rapid evolution of dubstep. After the river banks were breached in the first big wave from Croydon and Bristol, dubstep has now spread into a myriad of imperceptibly subtle microgenres or tributaries, saturating the terrain between dub, techno, ambient and even itself. The name dubstep is now almost a useless throwback to that first wave, no longer useful for accurate orientation.
F’s Energy Distortion is no exception to the complications of classification. You will find plenty of dubstep skank, sub bass and a strong emphasis on the third beat of every bar, but there isn’t really a straight-up dubstep track on the album except for perhaps the loafing tribalism of “Chillin’” and the optimistic dawn of “Shift.” The majority of tunes are instead built like floating and twisting mobiles suspended from intricate percussive sculptures that at times emphasise the kick drum techno-style, or, alternatively, dig out the bass and smear on the hi-hats for a more rolling finish. In the end, the results are rarely easy to define. “Perspectives” and the frantic sprawl of the title track are two examples of the more techno-driven sound, but it is the slipperiness of the exceptions like “Poka”—which works big beats in a sparse vacuum flavoured with silvery techno chords—that really stand out.
Similarly, the best moments of the album are often chimeras of drum & bass and other genres. “0907″ is sparse, but it has the gruff, dogged persistence and veiled aggression of drum & bass, whereas the heavy pressure of “See the Light” shines darkly over some classic bass warble. “On the Corner,” too, has moments and samples that hark back to the golden era of the genre, but at the same time, is an unclassifiable hybrid.
Energy Distortion is held together by F’s strong compositional sense. He doesn’t wear out his riffs, keeping things fresh from beginning to end. Perhaps the only minor criticism might be the lack of deep head space to take away the emphasis of the beats. The flow of Energy Distortion is clearly built with dance floor dynamics in mind. Which dance floor is anybody’s guess, but since it works so well, it’s hard to care what you might call it.
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Label / 7even Recordings
Cat # / 7EVENCD01
Released / spring 2010
Style / Dubstep, Techno
quality: 320 kbps stereo
Tracklist: F – Energy Distortion
01. Intro
02. Shift
03. Poka
04. Energy Distortion
05. Another Place
06. 0907
07. See the Light
08. Forever
09. Hologram
10. On the Corner
11. Chillin’
12. Spacewalker
13. Perpectives
Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke (Collectors Edition)
Artist : Ladyhawke
Title : Ladyhawke
Label : Modular
Genre : Electronic
Ripdate : May 2010
Quality : VBR kbps
Size : 85.5 Mb
Tracklist:
1. Ladyhawke – Magic (03:26)
2. Ladyhawke – Manipulating Woman (03:34)
3. Ladyhawke – My Delirium (04:14)
4. Ladyhawke – Better Than Sunday (03:24)
5. Ladyhawke – Another Runaway (03:15)
6. Ladyhawke – Love Don’t Live Here (04:01)
7. Ladyhawke – Back Of The Van (03:39)
8. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning (03:47)
9. Ladyhawke – Professional Suicide (03:42)
10. Ladyhawke – Dusk Till Dawn (02:35)
11. Ladyhawke – Crazy World (03:33)
12. Ladyhawke – Morning Dreams (03:58)
13. Ladyhawke – Oh My (Bonus) (03:23)
14. Ladyhawke – Danny And Jenny (Bonus) (03:32)
15. Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning (Acoustic) (04:08)
16. Ladyhawke – Dusk Till Dawn (Acoustic) (02:42)
17. Ladyhawke – My Delirium (Acoustic) (04:40)
Richie Hawtin and Marco Carola – Amnesia Ibiza Closing Party ( Video )
Artist : VA
Title : Amnesia Ibiza Closing Party
Label : Minus
Genre : Techno
Ripdate : 2010
Format : MP4
Video Codec : H.264
Audio Codec : AAC
Video : MPEG4 (H264), 480×272, 12.50fps, 440Kbps
Audio : AAC Version 4 LC, 44100Hz, 119Kbps, stereo
Screenshots :
Trackilst :
1. 0:10 Jesper Dahlback – Dialekt
2. 2:34 Audiofly – Shazam (Leon Mix)
3. 8:00 Federico Grazzini – tokyo
4. 13:40 Christian Smith, Reset Robot – Elixir (Gary Beck mix)
5. 18:30 Yakine – Stickney (Julien Chaptal remix)
6. 25:19 Andrea Appolloni – Hello Momo! – David Pher Remix
7. 28:30 OTP – Close To The Edge (Original Mix)
8. 36:51 Federico Locchi & UGLH – Mentiras9
9. 44:20 TP – Close to the edge (Kreon remix)
10. 47:00 unidentified
Aleks Patz And Alex Caytas – Weve Gat (NXD023)
VA – Action Series Volume I (GLK027)
Youandme – CUTZ1 [CTZM1]
Artist : Youandme
Title : CUTZ1
Label : CUTZ.ME
Genre : Techno / Tech House
Date : May 2010
Quality : 320 kbps
Size : 36.5 Mb
Store : www.beatport.com
CUTZ features special versions, remixes and edits of wonderful sercret tracks because its hard to find the little weapons in million of tracks these days . So we played out and which we have the feeling more people should know about them. One characteristic is to keep the original spirit alive and make the tracks more dj friendly and give them more dancefloor oriented vibe.
Enjoy!
Tracklist :
1. Carlos Nilmmns, Ian Elgey – B-Lo (Youandme EDIT) (08:14)
2. Map.Ache – The Fool (Youandme EDIT) (07:42)
Banobo- Black Sands (2010)
Middlebrow music is better than middlebrow anything else. Of course I’m biased—every arts partisan should be. I realize, of course, that “downtempo,” a term that radiates palms-up-shrug consensus, is even maybe a little lower than middlebrow by now. There are lots of reasons it should be. But not many apply to Bonobo’s resonant fourth album.
A decade into his career, Simon Green’s ear has sharpened to a degree that rivals anyone’s. Black Sands sparkles with dozens of tiny details but you never lose their outlines; Green’s structures are shapely but feel loosely draped. On “1009″ you certainly notice the way parts of the percussion gently shift timbre, the roundness of the low end, the dry slurp of some of the filtering—it’s easy to hear it strictly as a piece of production. But for all its fleeting, phantom touches, a simple underlying keyboard riff keeps it legible from a distance, and enticing. Green has steadily increased the amount of real-time instrumentation over his career, and it helps make Black Sands occupy a room as smartly as it does a pair of headphones.
Green isn’t stuck in some mythical head-nodding 1995, though. “Kiara” is a good example: the bass’s centrality to the mix is a given, but it’s got an infrared glow that makes it feel closer to a modern dubstep (or even wonky) track, and an occasional blipping keyboard pattern has a distinctly purple-via-Joker feel to it. Not that “Kiara” couldn’t have been released (and fit in nicely) in 1995. It’s just that Green seems interested in right now, which is maybe why he sounds so good in it.
Of course, you aren’t going to figure a record like this to have excellent lyrics as well as music, and you get some bleh poeticism here. “Heavy, soothing / A gentle symphony,” is what Andreya Triana sings on “Stay the Same,” its vagueness only amplified by the fact that Green’s production isn’t merely some Vaseline-smeared-lens version of small-combo jazz and/or Ultimate Breaks & Beats. We can get sick of it later, when enough bistros and cafes catch on. It deserves the exposure.
Artist: Bonobo
Label: Ninja Tune
Cat # / ZEN140
Year: 2010 spring
Style / Downtempo
quality: 320 kbps stereo
Tracklist:
01. Prelude
02. Kiara
03. Kong
04. Eyesdown feat. Andreya Triana
05. El Toro
06. We Could Forever
07. 1009
08. All in Forms
09. The Keeper feat. Andreya Triana
10. Stay the Same feat. Andreya Triana
11. Animals
12. Black Sands
Rusko- O.M.G.! (2010)
Rusko’s new album is going to be called OMG. I know it should really be all about the tunes, but the name is awful. If he’s trying to be cute, he’s only succeeded in making me feel sick. He may as well fuck his music career, log on to 1998 msn and ask a 14 year old girl ‘”a/s/l?” Jesus, ‘Woo Boost’ is a bag of shit too, it sounds exactly like ‘Mr. Chips’, what’s happening mate? I hope he’s taking the piss and changes OMG to You Must Be Skanky to Ride This…umm…or something good.
At least the podcast he did for Mad Decent the other day was tolerable, there’s a few interesting morsels tucked in there somewhere. For example, the fact that the album isn’t going to be purely dubstep and that some of it will stray into disco territory, that’s pretty intriguing right? Regardless, Rusko is a talented musician even if he does have a penchant for mid-range wobbly shit at times, so I’m optimistic that there will be a few decent tunes knocking about when OMG drops. For now though, we just have to make do with ‘Mr. Chips V2′…
Artist: Rusko
Label: Mad Decent Protocol , LLC
Style: Dubstep/Electronic
Quality: 320 kbps stereo
Year: May 4 2010
Tracklist:
1. Woo Boost
2. Hold On ft Amber Coffman
3. Rubadub Shakedown ft Rod Azlan
4. Dial My Number
5. Du U Wanna Have A Party
6. Kumon Kumon
7. Scareware ft Redlight
8. Raver’s Special
9. Feels So Real ft Ben Westbeech
10. You’re ON My Mind Baby
11. Got Da Groove ft Gucci Mane
12. Oy ft Crookers
13. My Mouth
14. District Line
Kaiserdisco & Flavio Diaz – Le Feu EP
Artist …… : VA
Title ……. : Le Feu EP
Genre ……. : Techno
Label ……. : Drumcode
Source …… : WEB
Quality ….. : 319kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Full Stereo
Ripdate ….. : 04-05-2010
1. Kaiserdisco – Vert 8:05
2. Flavio Diaz, Kaiserdisco – Jaune 5:06
3. Flavio Diaz – Avid 7:24
4. Flavio Diaz, Kaiserdisco – Rouge 7:53
Korgborglar – VHS Heroes EP (BD011) PROMO
Artist : Korgborglar
Title : VHS Heroes
Label : Bdivision
Genre : Techno
Date : May-2010
Quality : 320 kbps
Size : 87.2 Mb
Tracklist :
1. Korgborglar – Max Renn (Original Mix) (07:42)
2. Korgborglar – Max Renn (Robert Raine Thermal Remix) (07:58)
3. Korgborglar – Max Renn (Yiannis Balkizas and Alex Jann Remix) (08:13)
4. Korgborglar – Max Rockatansky (Original Mix) (06:54)
5. Korgborglar – Max Rockatansky (Neat Remix) (07:17)
Tevo Howard – Crystal Republic
Artist : Tevo Howard
Title : Crystal Republic
Label : Rush Hour Recordings
Genre : Tech House
Ripdate : May-2010
Quality : 320 kbps
Size : 108.62 Mb
Tracklist :
1. Tevo Howard – Crystal Republic (07:58)
2. Tevo Howard – Laboratory (06:51)
3. Tevo Howard – The Glass Ceiling (Full Edit) (07:28)
4. Tevo Howard – Material (07:44)
5. Tevo Howard – Data (Album Edit) (07:38)
6. Tevo Howard – Data (Long Version) (09:39)
Poni Hoax – We Are The Bankers
Artist ………:: Poni Hoax
Title ………….:: We Are The Bankers
Genre ………….:: Tech House
Label ……:: Abracada
Quality ………..:: 320kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Size….. ……….:: 60.04 MB
Release Date ……:: 04-05-2010
Tracklist ………::
01 We Are The Bankers (Original Mix)
02 We Are The Bankers (Renaissance Man Sax Mix)
03 We Are The Bankers (Renaissance Man Dub Mix)
04 We Are The Bankers (Mustang Remix)
05 We Are The Bankers (The Living Island Remix)
LoQuai – DNA
Artist :LoQuai
Title : DNA
Label : Mistiquemusic
Genre : House
Ripdate : May-2010
Quality : 320 kbps
Size : 172.2 Mb
Store : www.beatport.com
Tracklist :
1. LoQuai – Dna (Original Mix) (08:45)
2. LoQuai – 3 Wishes (Original Mix) (08:23)
3. LoQuai – Dust In Space (Original Mix) (07:15)
4. LoQuai – I Dreaming (Original Mix) (06:15)
5. LoQuai – Lost Time (Original Mix) (06:31)
6. LoQuai – Lunar Park (Original Mix) (08:36)
7. LoQuai – Organic (Original Mix) (06:56)
8. LoQuai – Prototype (Original Mix) (07:04)
9. LoQuai – Reflections (Original Mix) (06:40)
10. LoQuai – Take A Cruise (Original Mix) (09:34)
VA – De Maxx Sampler (LMFLF033) Vinyl
Artist : VA
Title : De Maxx Sampler
Label : La Musique Fait La Force
Genre : House
Date : May-2010
Quality : VBR kbps
Size : 38.4 Mb
Source : Vinyl
Tracklist :
1. Riva Starr Ft Noze – I Was Drunk (04:54)
2. Mstrkrft Ft Nore & Isis – Bounce (A-Trak Remix) (05:24)
3. Lindstrom & Christabelle – Lovesick (03:12)
4. Etienne De Crocy Ft Camille – Someone Like You (06:13)
5. The Supermen Lovers – Starlight (06:00)