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Yukiko Liri – Talk In The Dark

Rupert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:05:25 +0000

Yukiko Liri – Talk In The Dark

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Alif Tree: Amazing jazzy chillout

Rupert — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:43:16 +0000

Both tracks are from his French Cuisine album. Jazzy and cinematic.

Alif Tree – I Feel Blue

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Alif Tree – Forgotten Places

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Miss Fitz – Menternal (Villalobos Remix)

Rupert — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:50:00 +0000

Certainly not a track with mass appeal or accessibility, I nonetheless really dig this bizarre, overdose soundtrack. Partly for its binaural qualities, and partly because Menternal is so damn weird.
Ricardo Villalobos takes an already strong song to the next level with his trademark style. Berlin minimal techno for the win!

Miss Fitz – Menternal (Villalobos Remix)

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Taho – Cryptomeria

Rupert — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:18:26 +0000

A great piece of down-tempo tech-house from the talented Frenchie.

Taho – Cryptomeria

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Also grab this very fresh set:

Taho – live at Fukhouse (Toronto)

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ATB – Beautiful Worlds

Rupert — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:18:42 +0000

ATB knocks it out of the park with this one.

ATB – Beautiful Worlds

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Tiesto – Battleship Grey

Rupert — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:57:54 +0000

Tiesto – Battleship Grey

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Nona – The Sweetest Taboo (Quiroga Remix)

Rupert — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:45:29 +0000

An excellent, seductive piece of tech-house.

Nona – The Sweetest Taboo (Quiroga Remix)

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Trancey Housers

Rupert — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:42:09 +0000

Here’s a couple of great tracks I have no idea how to categorize ;)

Fernando Ferreyra – Deep Ocean (Mariano Favre mix)

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Best name ever?

Sunburnt Octopus – Cafe Metrio

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Carbon Based Lifeforms

Rupert — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:00:30 +0000

Carbon Based Lifeforms – Erratic Patterns

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Carbon Based Lifeforms – Gryning

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Monolake – Plumbicon (Live In Osaka)

Rupert — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:19:12 +0000

Plumbicon (Live In Osaka)

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Sensorica – Amira

Rupert — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:15:45 +0000

This is amazing chillout.

Sensorica – Amira

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Solvent aka Jason Amm

Rupert — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:48:26 +0000

Solvent is Toronto, Canada’s blip on the emotive synth-pop-electro radar. Good stuff!

Solvent – Devices and Strategies

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Solvent – My Radio

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Solvent – My Radio (Schneider TM Mustang Interpretation)

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Solvent – Quiet Life

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Solvent – Wish

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Which of these Trance tracks is doper?!!

Rupert — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:45:57 +0000

It’s time to unleash two absolutely stellar trance tracks, as I notice many of my visitors are into the trancier side of things.

I can’t decide which of these is doper; I’ll leave that to you.

Above & Beyond generally do what I call sacharrine-cheese trance, which is a little too over-the-top cheesy for me (think vocal trance, and lots of it!). But Tri-State is freakin’ awesome… Make sure you’re chewing gum when you hear this, we don’t want you to grind your teeth flat… ;)

Above and Beyond – Tri-State

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This next song is aptly named Ambience, by Michael Burns. MB has some other fresh tracks under his belt, but we’ll get to that some other day. For now, feast your ears:

Michael Burns – Ambience

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If you’d like to chime in on which track is even doper than the other one, leave a comment below or drop me a line. I’m also always on the look-out for more great material, not that I’m running out of fresh tunes any time soon, so if you have any suggestions, get in touch.

Giving you the Creeps

Rupert — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:26:16 +0000

I stumbled across a track by some artist named The Runner called The Creeps (DJ Pisces remix). This track is gorgeous, deep, and weird, just they way I like my down-tempo chilled beats… deep, thick, dark lumbering bass throbs envelope you like a warm and muggy summer’s night, and wind chimes softly clang in the background, reminding me of the sailing boat storage yard at Jericho Beach. When a breeze blows there, hundreds of sails clang and clung in the shipyard.

Gregorian chant-style vocals drift in and out; a male vocal “Ahhh…” punctuates the black space, a light-hearted female vocal samples asks a bizarre question… This is some seriously great chillout material for warm summer nights with the windows open. I’m very pleased with this mature, unique, unusual gem… 5 stars.

The Runner – The Creeps (DJ Pisces remix)

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Evolution – Walking On Fire

Rupert — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:27:41 +0000

I first heard Walking On Fire (Bedrock remix) on Proton Radio many years ago… I caught the tail end of it, and fortunately had it saved to my hard disk. I had no idea what it was called, who it was by… I just knew it freakin’ ruled. Years later, I managed to track it down, and today it is available through Beatport at 320kb/sec for $1.49 USD. You can’t go wrong.

The music conjures up visions of tearing down a highway at night, with teary, blurred vision and a death wish… cars streaking past, etc.

Both the original mix and this version are well worth buying, but the version below is my favorite so I put it here for all of you who have either never heard it, or didn’t know who it was by. This is top-notch Progressive with emotional female vocals riding the waves of “Digger’s” choice remixing style. Anyway, enjoy!

Evolution – Walking On Fire (Bedrock Vocal Mix)

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Josh Collins: Who needs drugs with tracks like these?

Rupert — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:01:27 +0000

About once every two years, I discover an artist who rocks me, who renews my faith in the quest for Quality Tunes, who makes me wonder how I ever got this far without knowing about them. Like Monolake a year ago, and Fluxion the year before that. This year it�s Joshua Collins, a name that was vaguely familiar to me but ultimately meaningless.

I should also mention I�m not super-huge into house; most house is a little too �flaming� for me� a little too disco-ish or tacky or whatever. I�m generally not into vocals either.

This guy doesn�t just do house; he does druggy, spatial, liquid, freaky, groovy house that ripples and smears with tracers, that hovers in the air between your speakers and you. This guy does my kind of house. This music reminds me of coming home high as a kite as a teenager and listening to CITR 101.9 FM in Vancouver and listening to the alien sounds of house, drum and bass and techno until the wee hours of the morning, or until the drugs wore off and I could sleep. Music so far out there as to be almost inaccessible, yet strangely seductive. True human creativity in its rawest, purest form. This music actually makes me feel high, the highest honor of any urban art work. It makes me nostalgic. And speaking of drugs, I�m guessing Joshua Collins did his fair share of acid back in the day. Whoa.

Without You is probably my favorite Josh Collins track… druggy and delicious. It’s like a mushroom overdose; twinkling and dripping with tracers and waves of euphoria. This is out there.

Josh Collins – Without You

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Josh Collins – Mesmorize

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Josh Collins – Never Let Go

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Josh Collins – Mesmotized

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Mesmotized?! That’s not even a word!!

Bluehaze throws in a wicked proggy remix of Feel It In The Air… “It” being the music as your drugs kick in and you’re on the dancefloor.

Josh Collins – Feel It In The Air (Bluehaze remix)

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Josh Collins – Last Chance

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World Keeps Turning is a bittersweet, introspective song… with a hint of sadness.

Josh Collins – World Keeps Turning

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Supergrass: Superdope Brazilian D&B

Rupert — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:56:05 +0000

Carlito and Addiction are excellent producers, with many fine Brazilian-style D&B tracks under their belts, and this is their best track so far. Brilliantly executed, chillin’, and jazzy are the four words I’d use to describe this track. I’ve listened to it for 4 years, and it’s still one of my favorites, and I never skip past it.

Carlito & Addiction – Supergrass

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Ronan: Swank house

Rupert — Tue, 09 May 2006 22:44:57 +0000

I stumbled across an artist named Ronan, on the Swank record label. I don’t know anything about Ronan, but there’s only three tracks by them and all three are pretty solid. My personal favorite is Let It Out, which is just a cool, easygoing, loungy house track. To have three solid tracks on one release is pretty remarkable; Ronan is one to watch.

Ronan – Let It Out

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Ronan – We Got It

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Ronan – Even Better

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shuttle358

Rupert — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:36:59 +0000

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.

shuttle358 – logical

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shuttle358 – frame

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