I’m on a music kick this Saturday afternoon! Spent a lazy afternoon feeling uplifted since music has a way of creeping into my spirit like that. Started by tuning in to the sounds of one of my favourite radio selectors, Gilles Peterson (amazing show today, featuring Lonnie Liston Smith and plenty of spiritual jazz and [...]
Untold‘s brilliant Change In A Dynamic Environment trilogy is one of my favourite releases of 2012 (like a marriage of my punk past with my electronic present), and his label Hemlock Recordings has put out releases by some of our favourite bass artists here at Hot Sauce HQ. Now he’s announced the launch of another [...]
Is it just because I have been gravitating more towards techno lately, or is it because we have entered an(other) age of techno in electronic music? I mean, look at all those (formerly?) UK bass guys producing more and more techno-inflected or full-on (industrial-ish) techno tracks. No complaints from me, though I do love my [...]
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Aside from my junior high school years (Bel Biv Devoe, Boyz II Men, and TLC anyone?), I never liked most modern R&B, whether it’s slow jams or the kind of stuff that you’re allowed to like and still have some “street cred,” like Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. With the latter, I respect them as [...]
20 finely crafted dreamscapes from the slight underground. recorded: November 20, 2012 length: 1:10:27 Hannah Georgas – Enemies Fancy Mike – Mary B James Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws Eight and a Half – Go Ego Picture – Everything Time The XX – Fiction (Druid Cloak Blood Magick remix) Rumtum – Bird Eyes [...]
Detroit Techno was my gateway into the techno world during the mid-nineties. Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills and Robert Hood shaped my 4/4 world and educated me all about what proper underground minimal music should sound and feel like. Forward thinking labels like UR, Red Planet, Axis, Purposemaker, 430 West, Direct Beat and M-Plant had me [...]
As i have written before on here, Delsin Records continues to put out quality deep techno and deep house music that stimulates the deep techno and deep house part of my brain. Featured here are three of my favourites from this year – two albums and one ep. Delta Funktionen – Traces After four years [...]
Gentle electronic pop and warped vocals served cold with bass recorded Oct.30 2012 length: 1:13:17 Billow Observatory – Pankalia Sleep∞Over – Romantic Dreams (Balam Acab rmx) Doctor Jeep – Broken Heart Air France – It Feels Good To Be Around You Kuhn – Even Bears Rainbow Arabia – Boys and Diamonds (Altropolis rmx) Lymbyc Systym [...]
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