Get The Curse

Que se passe-t-il du côté des blogs electro anglais ? Après vous avoir donné quelques éléments de réponse avec le podcast d’Allez Allez ainsi que la playliste de Ronan Fitzgerald, j’ai l’honneur de convier l’excellent blog Little White Earbuds, que nous lisons assidument. Dessus, on y trouve tout ce qui est excitant en ce moment en minimal house / techno / nu-disco. Un peu comme chez nous. Merci à Steve Miziek pour cette sélection, bonne écoute.

BRENDON MOELLER N-Train
(EP - Third Ear Recordings)
2008

“One Man’s Junk,” the follow up to last year’s well received “Jazz Space EP,” hosts some of Moeller’s most lucid and melodic work to date, case in point, the luscious “N-Train.” Its thick, insistent bassline is the locomotive force on top of which arched guitar plucks
weave their groove together and hi-hats glide past like a thin stream of steam. Expect an ever expanding crowd to shout “All aboard!” after this EP lands.

FRANCESCO TRISTANO The Melody (Carl Craig remix)
(EP - Infiné)
2008

With pianos once again en vogue only a truly well written chord progression stands out from the pack of rudimentary exercises. Tristano’s rambunctious lead on “The Melody” is infectiously catchy while maintaining a sophisticated air. Carl Craig’s remix is shockingly gentle, its singular patterns and hushed drones simply adding texture for the sparkling chords to poke through. Bonus points for the beatless version as well, a tool I plan to employ often.

MATTHEW DEAR Sunday Adventure Club
(Unreleased)
2008

Leave it to Matthew Dear to infuse minimal techno with a searing, highly filtered 303 vamp that recalls the blistering solos of
Funkadelic visionary, Eddie Hazel. The Bar25-referencing “Sunday Adventure Club” is lean enough to be layered with other tracks and compelling enough to blaze its own trail. How long we’ll have to wait before it see official release is to be seen, but I’ll be wearing it out in the meantime.

BJORN TORSKE God Kveld
(EP - Smalltown Supersound)
2008

The Norwegian elder stateman’s 2007 album defies its title — Feil Knapp (”wrong button”) — by offering a near perfect and dizzyingly diverse selection of musical thoughts. “God Kveld” errs on the side of modern disco, balancing itself on loose tom patterns, hand claps and synth patter that would get his fellow Nord Hans-Peter Lindstrøm on the dance floor.

COTK Too Many Machines
(EP - Auralism records)
2008

Coalition of the Killing are new to me, but the inaugural release on their own Auralism Records suggests their unknown status won’t last long. The San Francisco-based duo’s highly nuanced “Too Many Machines” cuts a fine line between heartburned analog techno and sky-scraping electronica. Lest DJs find a crowd who doesn’t mind dramatic stops and starts, they might find more uses for this at home than in the club.

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