April 28, 2006 at 1:36 am · Filed under Chillout, Free
I don’t know much about shuttle358, aka Dan Abrams. What little of his music I have heard is of high quality. I’d describe his stuff as being on the softer, ambient side of minimal techno, although 12k describes his music as ‘microsound’ whatever that means. Peaceful, introspective stuff. The song, ‘logical’ is so good, I’m surprised it’s offered as an mp3 from the 12k label. I was mighty pleased to add it to my collection. It’s a shame Dan’s music is not available from Beatport, as I am pretty much through with mailordering CDs.
April 26, 2006 at 4:22 am · Filed under Free, Techno, hard & nasty
When I think of “techno” I think of hard, pounding, nasty, synthetic, distorted, static noise, punctuated by beats and sweeping, spatial stereo effects.
For the longest while, I thought that such a thing did not exist, that my idea of techno only existed in my head. Then I discovered Speedy J.
I’d first heard of Speedy J, or Jochem Paap, many years ago. He had several releases on Plus 8 records, and to be frank, I didn’t like a single one of them, and still do not. Then, he produced some softer material in the mid 1990s, which I also didn’t care for.
But as of Loudboxer, and his freakin awesome live sets, I am a huge fan.
Jochem’s a true techno pioneer. He makes records that only have short endless sound loops on them, his personally crafted loops, which he feeds into Ableton Live, a cutting edge realtime music mixing software. He then tweaks some knobs and creates, live, an organic, flowing, cerebral mindfuck music that slowly mutates and morphs over time. Motifs emerge to the ’surface’ of the sound and dive back into obscurity; patterns overlap each other, speeding up and slowing down, asynchronously intertwining. Like Plastikman’s seminal Consumed album (but much, much harder), this music is simultaneously purely synthetic and technological, while at the same time organic, fluid and ever-changing.
This is deep, nasty techno, and if you’ve never heard anything like it, you’re in for a treat!
Hear Jochem cook up a cerebral, spatial, morphing main course for the adoring crowd with these incredible live sets:
April 22, 2006 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Beatport.com
Music is a passion of mine and I’d like to share some of the ‘gold’ I’ve come across, especially since MP3s have changed the way we listen to — and distribute — music. The music I love most exists within a pretty small niche, but the world has 6 billion people in it… there’s bound to be kindred spirits out there. Hopefully my tastes will corrupt others’, as my own have been corrupted by late nights listening to CITR in Vancouver as a teenager. I’m here to share the wealth, the love, the fresh tunes.
As always, music (and beauty) is a matter of taste… hopefully yours are similar enough to find this site useful!
