Modeselektor - Monkeytown
"Berlin duo Modeselektor returns full force with a new album whose immense energy and club-boiling beats will inject the global dance community with inspiration that reverberates across the entire musical spectrum."
"Flowing freely between styles and tempos, Monkeytown experiments with the edges and extremes, exploring fresh sonic territory from a solid base of beats located deep within the groove. With massive drums, minced vocals and a mastery of mounting tension, Modeselektor creates a new animal out of dance music, a mutating chimera with body parts of left-field hip hop, soulful R&B, punk rap and playful surprises. Contributing to the album is an exciting palette of guest vocalists and musicians, including Thom Yorke, Busdriver, PVT, Anti Pop Consortium, Miss Platnum, Sascha Ring (aka Apparat), Pillow Talk, Gordon Boerger, Siriusmo and Otto von Schirach."
01 "Blue Clouds"
02 "Pretentious Friends" feat. Busdriver call by Pillow Talk
03 "Shipwreck" Modeselektor & Thom Yorke
04 "Evil Twin" vocals by Otto von Schirach
05 "German Clap"
06 "Berlin" feat. Miss Platnum
07 "Grillwalker"
08 "Green Light Go" PVT drums by Gordon Boerger, additional synth by Siriusmo
09 "Humanized" feat. Anti Pop Consortium
10 "This" Modeselektor & Thom Yorke
11 "War Cry" guitar by Sascha Ring (Apparat)
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Modeselektor "Monkeytown" (MONKEYTOWN015) OUT BETWEEN SEP27-OCT04 by Modeselektor
Nero - Welcome Reality
""I don't know where we're going," coos Alana Watson on this English dubstep duo's single "Guilt"; but that's just a setup for the air-sucking dropout and explosion of ugly, bass-driven bluster that follows. Watson gives Nero's robotic skronk a rare injection of humanity, and the U.K. producers are smart enough to build most of their debut full-length around her husky voice, skipping the sampled spasticity of Skrillex in favor of Daft Punk's melodic big beat ("Doomsday"), '80s-inspired electro-pop ("Crush"), and stadium-sized mash-ups of squealing guitar and windy synths ("Me & You")." -SPIN
01 "2808"
02 "Doomsday"
03 "My Eyes"
04 "Guilt"
05 "Fugue State"
06 "Me And You"
07 "Innocence"
08 "In The Way"
09 "Scorpions"
10 "Crush"
11 "Must Be The Feeling"
12 "Reaching Out"
13 "Promises"
14 "Departure"
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Nero - Welcome Reality by Interscope Records
SBTRKT - SBTRKT
"Ambitious like James Blake, and freewheeling like the London dubstep scene he’s lit up for two years, SBTRKT (real name Aaron Jerome) tries a lot of things on his debut — and succeeds at most. Guest vocalist Sampha evokes Blake’s parched croon, only SBTRKT is far more urgent and playful than Blake’s album. The vocal-driven songs have an irresistible R&B-once-removed hookiness: Basement Jaxx would kill to have made the buoyant, 2-step garage throwback "Pharoahs." Elsewhere, "Something Goes Right," "Ready Set Loop," and "Sanctuary" have a starry-eyed quality that's grounded by the intricately skipping rhythms and, particularly on the grinding "Wildfire," mutant mega-bass." -Rolling Stone
01 "Heatwave"
02 "Hold On"
03 "Wildfire feat. Little Dragon"
04 "Sanctuary"
05 "Trials of the Past"
06 "Pharaohs"
07 "Something Goes Right"
08 "Right Thing to Do"
09 "Ready Set Loop"
10 "Never Never"
11 "Go Bang"
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Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
"The textures and ingredients of Jaar's music exist in the context of techno-- rhythm and repetition are clearly important to him-- but Space is not dance music. It's too slow, sure, but it's also too diffuse in its methods and results. Pianos, organs, guitar strings, and, most surprisingly, Jaar's voice all fall under Space's sepia-toned veil. This sounds like a lot to take in, but Jaar goes to great lengths to ensure that Space settles lightly. The tracks are short, funny, and always hitched to a melody. He sidesteps impulses-- during the quivering "Almost Fell", for instance, or during "Specters of the Future", during which actual techno threatens-- to drift into full-on ambience, skronk, or extended beat passages. The goofy bass bumbling of "Problems With the Sun" is as likely to stick with you as the elegiac "Colomb".
...Space never feels like a showcase for Nicolas Jaar; it's just a modest and well-decorated gathering place for some things he loves, a place for them to interact. This teetering restraint masks the true weirdness of Space Is Only Noise. I could understand someone finding the intensely self-contained Space a bit claustrophobic, but the album is most rewarding when you just grab a seat at the table. Because when Jaar chants "Grab a calculator and fix yourself" I don't sit there and think, "Gosh, why am I listening to electro-acoustic downtempo future-jazz?""-Pitchfork
01 "Être"
02 "Colomb"
03 "Sunflower"
04 "Too Many Kids Finding Rain in the Dust"
05 "Keep Me There"
06 "I Got a Woman"
07 "Problems With the Sun"
08 "Space Is Only Noise If You Can See"
09 "Almost Fell"
10 "Balance Her in Between Your Eyes"
11 "Specters of the Future"
12 "Trace"
13 "Variations"
14 "^tre"
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Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise by CircusCompany
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