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20 April, 2009 | 10.33AM

Gumball Machine Weekend

Yppah [Ninja Tune]

Written by: Liz Miller
Filed under: Music Recommendations: ninja tune, yppah

Known also as Joe Corrales, Jr., Yppah blends the warmth of guitars, live drums, flutes, keyboards, and tambourines with psychedelic drum samples, forming a blissfully sweet narrative.

Yppah’s new ‘Gumball Machine Weekend’ EP on Ninja Tune is a gorgeous and thoroughly uplifting slice of downtempo mastery.

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4 March, 2009 | 6.50PM

? / The Hologram

Mark Pritchard [Ho Hum]

Written by: Dan Cole
Filed under: Music Recommendations: ho hum, mark pritchard

The first release on new eclectic London imprint Ho Hum sees the iconic Mark Pritchard leaving his 23rd century robot-dubstep manifestation behind and producing something completely removed from this body of work.

Played to death by the High Priestess of experimental, Mary Ann Hobbs, this is a wondrous transgression into heavenly ambient, emotive-electronica.

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1 March, 2009 | 6.23PM

King of the Witches

Capracara [DFA]

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music Recommendations: capracara, dfa

If you’re one for the undiluted acid house of yesteryear, the UK’s Jonathan Burnip aka Capracara might be your man to deliver the goods.

Burnip’s forays of late include remixes for Matt Edwards’ Rekids imprint, a side project with Joel Martin of Quiet Village, and contributions to the disco label History Clock.

11 February, 2009 | 6.28AM

Maybes

Mount Kimbie [Hotflush Recordings]

Written by: Dan Cole
Filed under: Music Recommendations: hotflush recordings, mount kimbie

Mount Kimbie were included in the handful of artists selected by Beatportal as ones to watch in 2009, and this, their debut release on Hotflush Recordings is a clear indication as to why they were chosen.

With an extended intro consisting of nothing more than reverberated guitars, the 2 step kick shuffle kicks in at around 1:30, with added claps, clicks and sublime child like vocal snippets thrown in.

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16 November, 2008 | 10.05PM

Chart: Famous When Dead VI

Todd Terje [Various]

Written by: Terry Church
Filed under: Music Recommendations: charts, todd terje

Titled after the compilation series that highlights their standouts of the year, Playhouse’s Norwegian wunderkind Todd Terje presents us with a new disco-centric chart on Beatport.

Responsible for some of the hottest disco remixes and productions that have been coming down the pike nonstop lately, Terje has compiled some of his personal faves, including his own smoky and richly textured exotic rework of Simon Baker’s ‘Plastik’ from last summer, also featured on the actual compilation.

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4 November, 2008 | 1.19PM

Equilibrium

King Roc [Mutual Society]

Written by: Mike Blogstein
Filed under: Music Recommendations: mututal society, two armadillos

Conceptual dance music is a rare breed in today’s ‘churn them out and start the next one’ disposable music world, but King Roc is here to fix that.

Music made with a storyline, ‘Equilibrium’ (and his previous releases on Mutual Society) are future classics, with more in mind than obvious gimmicks simply used to gain chart placement.

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11 August, 2008 | 3.06PM

Top Track: ‘Whispers’

Aeroplane [Eskimo]

Written by: Lolo Van der Venne
Filed under: Music Recommendations: aeroplane, eskimo

Aeroplane have been lurking beneath the crest of a huge wave in the nu disco ocean for some time now.

With this moody disco crawler (and only their third 12”), featuring vocals from nu disco ‘it’ girl Kathy Diamond, they sting like a ray.

2 June, 2008 | 12.31PM

Silent Movie

Quiet Village [K7]

Written by: Mark Treadwell
Filed under: Music Recommendations: quiet village, radioslave, rekids, silent movie

Outside the sky is clad in chainmail grey and it’s the sort of horrible rain that falls like annoyance from the heavens and makes you wish that instead of being stuck in an equally grey office, you could allow yourself to drift away into a swoon, and dream of Italian beaches or French Rivera cafes, of riding through deserted, sun scorched rolling hills on a silver stallion and before bedding down for the night, making love to a succulent senorita, in a honky tonk down in Mexico.

This is what Quiet Village ‘Silent Movie’ sounds like.

22 May, 2008 | 11.52AM

A Jean Giraud

Professor Genius [This Is Not An Ex...

Written by: Mark Treadwell
Filed under: Music Recommendations: brennan green, exit, giraud, professor genius

Its here just in time for those warm hazy summer days!

Along with the girls that were hot wearing less than bikinis, and the rockers and lovers driving Lamborghinis, the ambient revival is in full swing.

Well, “swing” may be a little too upbeat, but you know what I am getting at.

18 March, 2008 | 12.09PM

Il Tagliacode

Andrea Sartori [Persona]

Written by: Lee Smith
Filed under: Music Recommendations: andrea sartori, persona

Quality techno imprint Persona have recently released excellent long players from label boss Stewart Walker and Touane, and happily, the standard remains immaculate on Andrea Sartori’s impressive debut.

Quite where he’s been hiding, I don’t know, because the maturity and feeling behind this wide-ranging work is the sort of thing that takes most producers years of experience to achieve.

1 March, 2008 | 9.06PM

Soma Compilation 2007

Various Artists [Soma Recordings]

Written by: Ben Raven
Filed under: Music Recommendations: alex smoke, black dog, slam, soma

Soma’s Glaswegian operation is one of techno’s key fortresses.

Names like Alex Smoke or Funk D’Void are some of the sound’s biggest artists as a result of the eagle eye label bosses Slam have spied on the scene over the years (and let’s not forget that without them we wouldn’t have Daft Punk either, who signed with Soma to release their groundbreaking debut, ‘Homework’, in 1997).

18 February, 2008 | 3.32PM

Lost and Found (1998-2000)

Sun Electric [Shitkatapult]

Written by: Richard Brophy
Filed under: Music Recommendations: shitkatapult, sun electric

When most acts split up, they tend not to keep working together, but this was not the experience for German ambient act Sun Electric.

It seems that despite putting out their last album together in 1998, they keep jamming away, and Shitkatapult have presented the results on this outtakes release.