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Kalimba
Steve Lawler [R&S]
At the close of one year and the start of another, a release like Steve Lawler’s ‘Kalimba’ is all the more significant.
A carnivale of ethnic percussion, tribal chants and the hyperdrive energy of Carl Cox’s brand of funkdafied techno, it is nothing if not unusual for the Year Of Our Lord 2008.
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Songful Bird (Deep Vocal Mix)
Terry Grant [System]
Terry Grant’s got a way with deadpan female vocals that nonetheless convey all sorts of darkness: Check out 2006’s “Misery”-like monologue ‘I’ll Kill You’ on ‘Bedrock’, his debut release.
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Disco in 2008: Trend or transition?
The last 12 months have arguably belonged to disco.
Yes, there was a resurgent deep house scene that muscled in on minimal’s four-four stranglehold, and of course dubstep continued its steady ascent into the electronic scene’s consciousness, but thanks to the entire shift in attitude it induced, it was the spinning ball of disco that shone above all else; a genre that changed the way music was played and partied to in 2008.
In our exclusive feature, Beatportal’s Kerri Mason investigates how this new incarnation of the sound is currently shaping up, gathering the impressions of long-time disco aficionados James Murphy and Pat Mahoney, and looks at how the scene emerged from the ashes of the 1979 Disco Demolition event to become a dominant musical force in the 21st century.
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Plastic Dreams (Audion Can't Go Home Mix)
Jaydee [R&S]
If you see the world in keywords, like I do, then this release is one heck of a search. Jaydee![[a]](http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_a.gif)
. ‘Plastic Dreams.’ Audion. Whoa.
It’s hard to touch 1993’s original ‘Plastic Dreams’: That simple little chord, riff, and rollicking breakbeat still does dastardly things to dancefloors; an evergreen energy-booster.
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Bad Habit 09 Mixes (ATFC's Lektrotek Re-Visit)
ATFC [Defected]
Can we take a minute and give it up for 1999?
Records stores were bustling, clubs were packed, Subliminal Records was sending out stacks of promo vinyl every week, and yours truly was the age of innocence: 20.
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Speak Softly Love
Alexandru Parlogea [Muzenga Records...
Has the DJ’ing occasion ever called for a light-handed house remix of the theme from ‘The Godfather’?
We had a feeling that you’d say that.
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Out With A Bang
Einzelkind [Kindisch]
The piano stab: So easy to use, yet so hard to use well.
Cuban-born, Frankfurt-based duo Einzelkind not only master the art on ‘Out With A Bang’, on Get Physical sub-label Kindisch![[l]](http://www.beatportal.com/images/site/misc/wiki_box_l.gif)
, they even employ some other dangerous elements – vocal snippets used like percussion, filters, and a full-on piano riff – with style and grace.
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People Of The Night
Nivek Tsoy [I Records]
Don’t call it seasonal, but there’s a Halloween-ish quality to Nivek Tsoy’s aptly named ‘People Of The Night’ from his new four-track ‘Empty Streets EP’ (i! Records).
It’s not at the Horrorist level of gruesome though.
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Parking Violation (Ejay's Salt & Pepper Mix)
Meter Maid [Bump Shop Music]
For true ‘heads, doing anything on a dancefloor other than dancing – standing, texting, talking, sucking face – is just not cool, man.
But almost equally reprehensible is walking over to someone doing one of these things and telling them not to: It violates the egalitarian spirit of underground clubland.
The Bump Shop Music crew has made it easier on all of us by doing it with a song by Meter Maid, ‘Parking Violation’.
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Don’t Know Why
Bimbo Jones [Tommy boy]
Before you write off Bimbo Jones as just another commercial act (their Eurythmics-esque first single ‘And I Try’ was the No. 1 club track in the country last week, according to Billboard), consider this: Bimbo vocalist Katherine Ellis has flexed her impressive pipes for everyone from Meat Katie, to Superchumbo, to Mark Knight.
She sounds like Moloko’s ravishingly quirky Roisin Murphy one minute, and the grand dame herself, Annie Lennox, the next.
Next to Jennifer Hudson, she might be the biggest and most exciting voice to release music this fall.
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