Bibio - "Mind Bokeh" (Album Sampler)

Bibio is releasing a new record! This sampler is obviously a schizophrenic mash-up of sound bites from his new record, but it sounds like he is attempting a more "accessible" approach. Countdown is on; 2011 is shaping up nicely for electronic music.

Tim Hecker

This is huge: new Tim Hecker record (!!) out February 14, 2011 (two days before my birthday!). I am so entirely excited, and slightly embarrassed that I found out about this announcement so late (and have taken so long to post on here), but alas, the internet just gets away from you. It's also fitting that the friend who first introduced me to Tim Hecker tipped me off to this (tks Chuck! -ed.).

***Update: Stream "Hatred Of Music I" on Kranky's SoundCloud

album details:

RAVEDEATH, 1972 (2011)

CD and 2xLP released by Kranky (U.S.)

The Piano Drop
In the Fog: I-III
No Drums
Hatred of Music: I-II
Analog Paralysis, 1978
Studio Suicide, 1980
In the Air: I-III

Morgan Packard - Dusted Review

Forgot to post this: I wrote a review on Morgan Packard's newest record, Moment Again Elsewhere, and it's been in high rotation ever since. It will surely make my year-end list for electronic music. Check it out.

Flying Lotus video

New video for "Kill Your Co-Workers," one of the highlights from his newest EP Pattern + Grid World. As ever, its trippy bent is congruent with Fly Lo's other stoner clips, and it's refreshing to hear him working in these fast tempo's, on the grid. The whole off-beat, soporific druggy beat thing seems to be dying off, and that's fine-- how much further could unquantized beats be taken, anyway?

new Lone

Nottingham's Lone seemingly dropped the ball with his last record Ecstasy & Friends, but he always seems to come through with great 12" singles-- this is no exception. Much like Zomby's Where Were You In '92, "Pineapple Crush" is an updated, left-field nu-beat take on dance music from the 1990s. (I've dubbed this movement "Nu-Beat" since, well, "wonky" sounds just ridiculous and because "Nu" spells-out '90s, to describe this non-ironic, backwards-glancing sound.) Werk Discs put this out back in August (so late to the game!), as a 10" single, and re-released it with (decent) remixes soon thereafter. Somehow, with all of the dated samples and rave-y sonics, Lone's signature sound remains intact. This is just plain fun. Recommended.