Pylon Sounds

RIP Romanthony.

So good.

“Pete Rock, King of Hip Hop came down to the Boiler Room to work us out at W Hotel NY. A legendary producer pulling out the classics for us.”

Parisian producer Andrea might be reletively unknown but this should definetely change with the Moose Records release of the pay what you wish download of his beautiful new EP “Cruising”.

The EP is full of slow, moody electronic sounds, traplike beats, sampled vocals etc. that all comes together for a perfect night-time listen when you’re staying home.

Hyped young Norwegian producer/dj Cashmere Cat doing his thing for the Diplo & Friends radio show on BBC Radio 1 ie giving us a massive set.

Tracklist after the jump.

Intro (Aurora Piano)
Cassie – All My Love
Cashmere Cat – Mirror Maru
DJ Tev – Up In It (Cashmere Cat Eurosonic Edit)
DJ Tray – Bugatti
Wiley – Colder (Samename Edit)
Trippy Turtle – Senorita
Shlohmo – Later
DJ Tray – All The Time
Jeremih – 773 Love (Cashmere Cat Edit)
Holy Other – Past Tension
Cashmere Cat – Kiss Kiss (LidoLido Remix)
Drake – Girls Love Beyonce
August Alsina – Sucka
Future – No Love
Trae – Slammin Doorz
Cashmere Cat – Aurora
Drake ft 2Chainz – No Lie (Cashmere Cat Edit)
Trippy Turtle – Damn Those Jeans
DJ Yolo Bear – Freeki Ho
Samename – Mishima Curse
DJ Tray – Men In Black Theme
Hermitude – HyperParadise (Flume Remix)
Sinjin Hawke – I´m On One (Cashmere Cat little drums version)
Miguel – Do You… (Cashmere Cat Remix)
The-Dream – Rockin That Shit
Fantasia – Without Me
Kanye, Raekwon+++ – The Morning
Cashmere Cat – Paws
Village – Love On The Line
Cashmere Cat – Mirror Maru (Mike Gip “Jerseys Handsome DJ”, Boomclap Edit)
Trippy Turtle – I´m Sprung / Mirror Maru
DJ Tricks “Mr. Shake Ya Speakers” – Love You Down
Feadz & Kito – Wettex (Cashmere Cat Remix)
Mindless Behavior – Used To Be

Skream with a disco mix to help us get the weekend started just the right way.

“Here’s a new disco mix I did before I left for Asia….Share,Upload do what ya want with it..”

Swedish reggae project Helt Off covers the 2007 Familjen hit track “Det Snurrar I Min Skalle”.

Swedish reggae project Helt Off covers the 2007 Familjen hit track “Det Snurrar I Min Skalle”.

Upper Cuts is a biweekly free download series from Enchufada, Buraka Som Sistema’s independent label based out of Lisbon. Last month they released the hard hitting, bass heavy track track “Bye Bitches” from Hungarian production duo Slap In The Bass and reggae vocalist Sena. The track has now recieved a visual treatment that we here at Discobelle are proud to give you as an exclusive premiere.

New single from sensation The Weeknd.

Italian but London based Stefano Ritteri used to have Solo as his dj/production alias but has now switched back to his birth name, the music is still on that smooth yet funky, tribalistic house tip and this latest top class mix is no exception.

Berlin based producer/dj and founder of go-to tropical bass label Man Recordings – Daniel Haaksamn – teams up with Angolan singer Coréon Dú for his new summer anthemlike single “Lemba” that sounds like Berlin minimal goes afro house and the track has already seen support from the likes of Laurent Garnier, Riva Starr, Sinden, Roundtable Knights, Oliver $, Foamo, Schlachthofbronx, Nickodemus and many others.

“Young Chop on the beat”

This is a post about mid-90s Asian cinema, late-80s cyberpunk and Footwork.  This is how it goes down.

Though Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express was often pilloried for its sentimentality, its true calling was as a mainline to a vision of Hong Kong beneath all the hyper-capitalism.  While the idea of Tokyo as a living embodiment of Cyberpunk was pretty well established as a trope by now, it was the street level bustle of Hong Kong that nailed the feel.

Cyberpunk’s appeal was never really its science.  Wetware and the Matrix were undoubtedly fucking cool but it was the characters that sprung up — as a fleshy mirror to the brutality of the trans-national corporations — that felt like the ‘big idea’.  As pulp-y as they often were, the placeless, de-socialised privateers that populated Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy were the hook.  For every conniving Zaibatsu there was a nihilistic punk destroying their body for love and/or profit (thus making them a terrible nihilist).

Chungking Express had plenty of this.  Characters spirited away from their neighbourhoods at the whim of global corporations.  Vague, disinterested and displaced people, coalescing briefly around a single place.  What the film captured was just that, an unerring sense of place and that place felt like The Sprawl.  A warren of memories and sounds and machinations and chance.  It’s opening sequence: a nervous repetitious melody and an overcast sky couldn’t have encapsulated this better.

To Chicago and a machine assisted quest towards complexity for complexities glorious sake.  Footwork could sometimes sound like dark AI’s computing the Universe but it was the street-level hacking of sound that perhaps allows it to most seamlessly slip into this patchwork.  Snatches of nostalghia over something hyper-modern.  Attempts to bend dancers to its will with varying degrees of success.  The beauty is in the game though, the battle between the machines with their programmers and the rhythmic battles that they fuel.

Sometimes all I ever want to do is listen to Footwork.

Thug Entrancer‘s Death After Life -1 is at the heart of all this.  As achingly sad and grandiose as Wong Kar Wai’s super-urban melodrama; as brutally light-footed as anything out of Chicago and as evocative of The Sprawl as I’ve heard in a long time.  The reverb heavy horns are the thing, the hook, the single sound that wrenches me back to Hong Kong, back to a childhood idolising hackers and that weird brand of fin de siecle tech utopianism.  The hand claps are the thing,  reminder that this is dance music, that dance can be attrition and war and exhilarating.

Thug Entrancer – Death After Life – I

Thug Entrancer’s latest EP, Death After Life, is out now on Laser Palace.  You can pay-what-you-want here.

Ryan Hemsworth with beautiful summer tune “Perfectly”.

DOWNLOAD: Ryan Hemsworth – Perfectly (Mediafire)

“When the Swedish duo Masquer released their EP “Covers” last fall it was their version of Destinys Child’s Bills Bills Bills that aroused critical acclaim all over the music blogosphere. Kicki Halmos, who was recently featured on Sasha’s latest single “Shoot You Down”, and Pelle Lundqvist are in the ending process of finishing their second album, which will be out 2014. Meanwhile you can enjoy this chaotic, twisted version of 90′s r’n'b gone goth.”

Seems like Seth Troxler is back.

(Art is by the excellent Gordan Shark.)

It’s like getting really, really close up to a Roy Lichtenstein painting – smudging your face up against the glass and crossing and uncrossing your eyes, focusing on a cluster of dots at a time and rocking your head back and forth to approximate some sort of internal zoom lens.

I wonder if that’s how Chris Smith of Fractal Skulls sees the world – like Yayoi Kusama must do. All softly flaring and then fading points of colour. His gentle, precise synthesizer poems feel lived in, like miniature, heavenly pop art worlds. They breathe.

Chris’ releases as Fractal Skulls so far have included some self-released cassettes, a split with Laurent Chambert of The Other Colors, and now a new split with Adam Willetts on the tape label Bunkland.

Fractal Skulls’ submission is a 20-minute lower-case synth-odyssey. This is perfect music: ego-less, careful, a bouquet of tones.

Chris has given us two short extracts from the full piece for download, but you’re well advised to check out the full release.

Fractal Skulls – Regenerative Systems

Fractal Skulls – You Are Sound

Buy Telepylos/Sandyford Lines from Bunkland

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British singer John Newman is the voice behind Rudimental’s “Feel The Love” and “Not Giving In” and he’ll be releasing his debut solo single “Love Me Again” on Island June 30th.

As a Discobelle exclusive we get a pumping remix from Ejeca who hits hard on all the house chords: hi-hats, piano, bass, chopped up vocal samples and handclaps that all play off magnificentlly against John Newmans vocals.

BONUS: Check out the video for the original version.

London producer Girl Unit smashes it with his mix for the latest installment in the Night Slugs mix series, serious vibes on this.

Tracklist after the jump.

01 – IKONIKA – Mr Cake (Hyperdub)
02 – DJ TECHNICS – Nights In Egypt (DSG records)
03 – DJ BOOMAN – Ha Ha
04 – P.O.L. STYLE / MATRIXXMAN / VIN SOL – Sexual Convo
05 – DJ HOOK – Jay Desean Vogue Theme
06 – DJ J-HEAT – NJ Transit Anthem
07 – HYSTERICS – Pleasuredrome (Night Slugs Club Constructons)
08 – BLEZT / DJ J-HEAT – Tw3rk
09 – DJ SPOOKY – Missy Hot Boys Refix 06 (Party Package)
10 – L-VIS 1990 – Space Drips (Night Slugs)
11 – KINGDOM – Viper XL (Fade to Mind)
12 – BOK BOK – And Dancin (Night Slugs)
13 – JAM CITY – Pink Snow
14 – GIRL UNIT – Praise Dance
15 – BRANDY – Paint This House (RCA)
16 – CIARA – Body Party (Instrumental) (Epic)

Great track! (Via Electric Zoo)

Tune!

Gucci Mane is released from prison and immediately starts dropping tracks. First one is with 2 Chainz and the second one features Chi-town rapper Chief Keef.

The debut Fantomas album – Patton’s first major release since leaving Faith No More – was intended as a literal musical transcription of a comic book, one which the listener is not privy to, but instead has to decode in the stampeding drums, electric-shock guitar-bursts and gibbered vocals – all postmodern ‘KAPOW’s and ‘KERRUNCH!’s Delirium Cordia was a wordless opera based around an implied story about surgery sans anaesthesia. Suspended Animation tried to make a sonic cartoon about the month of April – each ‘song’ another Tom and Jerry-style japefest depicting an individual day, and sounding fairly accurately like Carl Stalling or Hoyt Curtin might if Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros’ big bands had been pared down to the simple, befuddled resources of Melvins and Slayer.

Carl Stalling – Putty Tat Trouble, pt 6

Melvins – Black Betty

Listened to in isolation, Mike Patton’s soundtrack for Crank: High Voltage, the sequel to a relentlessly high-concept Jason Statham action movie, sounds a LOT like how you might imagine the Fantomas demos to sound. Everything is written and recorded by Patton, with him playing all the instruments (or mimicking instruments with his signature vocals) – much like how Fantomas’ albums are, before the music is handed over to Buzz Osbourne, Trevor Dunn, and Dave Lombardo to transmute. On paper, it seems like a bizarre choice for a major Hollywood property to invest in – Crank being the kind of action film fodder that is lapped up by the Nuts and Zoo Statham-disciple page-gluers, and kind of removed from the more ‘worthy’ genre of movies Patton now makes a living writing music for (The Solitude of Prime Numbers, A Perfect Place, The Place Beyond The Pines).

Mike Patton – The Snow Angel (from The Place Beyond The Pines)

That is until you see Crank: High Voltage.

The relentless, hyper-paced shock and vulgarity of Crank: High Voltage (sold to Patton by its directors as “Basically exactly the same as the first one. But times a thousand.”) doesn’t so much find the perfect visual counterpoint to Patton’s own Wacky Races musical shitfest – it actually completes the score as music.

In an interview prior to the film’s release, Patton described the difficulty he had in arranging music for the film. Patton is the sonic maximalist par excellence. Every one of his post-FNM albums explodes with a million detailed squiggles, poings, flutters, and explosions. It’s simply how he hears music when he composes – what are essentially an array of sound effects bouncing off each other and somehow coalescing into  melodies and rhythms. With Crank, Patton talked of being forced to rein this maximalism in, and having to strip the pieces down to much simpler configurations in order to serve the film, although the reasons why aren’t immediately obvious until you see the picture.

Crank: High Voltage, even without Patton’s OCD score, is already pure sonic overload. The foley work – all screeching tyres, gunshots, ejaculating fire hydrants, crunching bones, surgical plops, farts and other orifice-related oscillations, bomb ticks, magazine changes, fuck grunts, pukes, butt slaps, and all-round carnage – already sounds like a classic Mike Patton soundscape in 5:1! (Think Adult Themes For Voice as blaxploitation OST.) And that’s before he’s even played a note of music!

Mike Patton - Wuxiapian (from Adult Themes for Voice)

Instead, the sound editors weave Patton around the foley and diegetic sound of Crank as an extra element, so that the three strands all pull together as a particularly violent composition in itself. It’s full of all the mathematical, stomach-lurching on-the-dime stops and changearounds of Fantomas, but they’re punctuated in the film by Statham’s repeated “CUNT!!!”s, weird racial slurs, and the aforementioned theatre-hell of sound fx.

Mike Patton – Il Cielo In Una Staza (from Mondo Cane)

Although played as something in-between the splatter of Fantomas and the ersatz mania of Mondo Cane, Patton limits his sonic palette to a tormented toy-shop of Speak & Spells, children’s pianos, shakers, rattles, and other ‘joke’ instruments. When guitars do shred into the picture, they’re almost hysterically over-processed, like a weird send-up of the nu-metal FNM influenced but so despised (one of the few non-Patton contributors to the soundtrack is a Linkin Park song, and LP’s front-goon Chester Bennington has a 10-years-out-of-date cameo in the movie).

Viewed as one piece – with your brain-turned off from the genre-destroying, knowing ridiculousness of the plot and dialogue – Crank: High Voltage becomes symphonic, an extended audiovisual opera of ugliness. If Patton were to ever attempt a note-by-note live recreation of the music (as Fantomas attempted with their The Director’s Cut compendium of film themes), you’d sense that he’d only be able to truly do it justice by having Jason Statham there, hard-man frowning, and reading his “CUNT!!!”s and mockney rhyming slang off a music stand; revving engines, shrieking prostitutes, and foley artists smashing melons all strategically placed throughout the audience.

Mike Patton – Chelios (from Crank: High Voltage)

Crank: High Voltage attempts to out-vulgar itself at every turn, it goes beyond being simply ‘offensive’ into delirious surrealism. The film opens with Statham engaged in a mid-free-fall fist-fight from a helicopter before splatting onto tarmac – a direct continuation from the first movie’s ending, except the whole sequence is rendered inexplicably as an 8-bit video game. When Statham later does battle with a Triad who has stolen Jason’s heart from his own body (throughout the film he has to taser or otherwise electrocute himself in the face or balls to keep his artificial “strawberry tart” charged) amidst the pylons of a collapsing electricity substation, the film for no contextual reason switches into a Japanese monster movie parody. Patton is often credited as possessing a kind of ‘musical Tourettes’ – Crank: High Voltage actually has a slapstick character with ‘Full Body Tourettes’. Patton once described himself as “having no race”, Crank: High Voltage burns through racial caricatures as if there were no such thing as racism.

As the author of the near-mythical ‘Video Macumba’ snuff compilation, you can imagine Patton was happier than a pig in scat when he discovered this movie.

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British singer John Newman is the voice behind Rudimental’s “Feel The Love” and “Not Giving In” and he’ll be releasing his debut solo single “Love Me Again” on Island June 30th.

As a Discobelle exclusive we get a pumping remix from Ejeca who hits hard on all the house chords: hi-hats, piano, bass, chopped up vocal samples and handclaps that all play off magnificentlly against John Newmans vocals.

BONUS: Check out the video for the original version.

With their fourth LP Optica, released earlier this year, Stockholm studio pop veterans Shout Out Louds transcended their angsty indie roots to deliver a blissful and beautifully produced electropop album. Veteran Norwegian DJ Prins Thomas gives standout track “Illusions” a welcome space disco sheen on this subtle remix, which steps up the energy by introducing a locomotive synth bassline, house claps, and an array of atmospheric cosmic delay effects. One of my favorite remixes of the year, delivered just in time for warm nights.

“Almost three years after his debut album Modern Thrills, Tesla Boy returns with a brand new single ‘M.C.H.T.E.’. NOISEY gives us the first listen to this impeccable pop gem filled with shimmering synths, and an undeniably catchy chorus. Heavy percussion and a rhythmic, funky bass line round out a track that has all of the makings to a feel good ’80s flick. ‘M.C.H.T.E.’ is just a glimmer of insight into Tesla Boy’s sophomore album ‘The Universe Made of Darkness’, set for a May 21st release and a sure staple as one of this summer’s most anticipated albums.” -Vitalic Noise

Swedish dancehall/reggae warriors in Safari Sound have been around since before Discobelle started, with relentless performances whether it be dj-sets, club nights, radio shows or mixes they have cemented themselves at the forefront of the worldwide soundsystem scene. Their latest and mighty mixtape “Word, Sound And Power Vol. 1″ transfers us straight into summer mode.

Solange Knowles teams up with L.A rapper Kendrick Lamar for slow burner and laidback single track “Looks Good With Trouble”

A$AP Ferg is preparing to release his debut album “Trap Lord” which will arrive later this year. Before then, you can check out the remix to big single track “Work” that features A$AP Rocky, French Montana, ScHoolboy Q and Trinidad James.

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NYC producer/dj Brenmar decided to unleash this seriously amazing mix done for his appearance on the Diplo & Friends radio show on BBC Radio 1.

“Brand new 60 min for BBC Radio 1 and 1xtra Diplo and Friends radio show. A lot of new jams and a few older ones for good measure :)”

Tracklist after the jump.

Brenmar – Intro
August Alsina – I Luv This Shit
Aluna George – Just A Touch (Brenmar Remix)
B-Ju – My Sneakers
Kingdom – I Thought U Knew
Kelis & Dubble Dutch – Milkshake Deep Underground (Brenmar mix)
GB The Flyboi – Perk N Twerk
SupaStaar – I Can Be A Freak feat. DJ Chose
SMI – Not Ready (Instrumental)
Brenmar – Let’s Pretend
Dj Funk – Follow (Ghetto House Mix)
Cassie – I Love It feat. Fabolous
Menta – Snake Charmer
Dj Papi & Dj Getem – Thong Song (Brenmar refix)
Brenmar & Dj Fade – Outta Sight
Tamia – Stranger In My House (Get Loose Remix)
Ciara – Body Party (Kiff Remix)
Brenmar – What They Do feat. Shyvonne
BYRELLtheGREAT – PourItUp X Swimming Pools X Bands mixup
Acre – Silvr
Brenmar – Be The One
Kevin Gates x Meleka – Arms of A Stranger (Murlo Mix)
Ru Paul – You Better Work (DJ A.N.S. NYClub Mix)
Travis Porter – Pocket Watchers
R. Kelly x The Phantom – #1 (Brenmar Mix)
JME x Future x Young Scooter – Everything Ours (Brenmar Mix)
LLoyd Banks – Bring It Back Inst.
Brenmar – Done (Don’t Luv Me No More)
Tyrese – Fireworkz

Stockholm duo Up To No Good presents us with their latest doozy just in time for summer. Restrained, steel drum sounds are sprinkled like the cherry blossom flowers from the cover throughout the track and the pretty vocal sample makes this a fine tune that we imagine should be played as the finale to your nights out for many months to come.

“This is a record that we grew up with as children so we wanted to keep it classic, and groovy. Hope you enjoy it!”

The moustache clad and hard working producer/dj Eric Sharp originally hails from San Francisco but has now relocated to Los Angeles where he’s already become a staple of the dance music scene, towards the end of his time in San Francisco he wrote his latest release “Pioneer EP”. The EP was just released on his own label Rock It Science Labs and it’s four amazing tracks of dark, twisted house music in the best sense. The tracks are well suited for late night/early morning dancefloors as well as for the peak time in the club. This impression is further cemented by the EP already breaking into the Juno Top 30 chart.

This post is dedicated to our friend Matt.

We have long known that good science fiction isn’t really about the future but about the present. Contemporary situations, concerns and trajectories of development are stretched to fit an altered framework, and from this strange viewpoint, we reach new insights. This means that good science fiction isn’t prediction, but a reflection about today’s zeitgeist and the qualities of the new world encoded in it. Also architecture fiction, a usability test of potential realities that may help us make decisions today – is that the kind of world we want to live in – or that – and what do we do about it?

We have the temptation to interpret electronic music like the musical equivalent of that conventional notion of science-fiction as future gazing – a purveyor of soundtracks for the days to come: the frantic street-hustling of new wave cyberpunks, martial communions atop techno obelisks, or the wide-eyed exploration of alien galaxies.

But of course, it is not that, or it is that, but it not really about that. Electronic music is just a mode of expression that humans adopt when electronic technologies become available to them, because it is in the nature of humans to express themselves through whichever media exist – as if their spirit, infected by the will to communicate, was an irrepressible fluid forever looking for vessels to contain and transmit it, all of which are of course, smidgens for immortality – every song a singularity.  And what glorious diversity this yields, but also what recurrence of themes and moods, a source of great joy in its revelation of spiritual commonalities across the spaces and times that mankind inhabits.

Look at Mammani Sani et son Orgue, an avant-garde musician from Niger whose minimal electronic composition channel a millennial tradition of Saharan song-writing into tone poems wonderful like Kraftwerk’s infrastructural hymns. This is motorik music for spaces without straight lines, lands where all roads are built by the wind

He first picked up his organ in 1974, when Kraftwerk released Autobahn, and he recorded his only album, ‘La Musique Electronique du Niger’, in 1978, the same year as the Man Machine. We hear his compositions filled the Saharan airwaves, evolved into radio broadcasting drones and soundtracks for TV intermissions.

The romantic in 2JFG imagines for a moment that one night, as they sped down the Westphalian motorway, our favourite man-droids were reached by radio waves supernaturally amplified, over the Sahara and the Mediterranean, by the sheer gorgeousness of their content and their need to be heard by kindred spirits. But the truth is simpler, and more beautiful. Mammani Sani et Son Orgue and Kraftwerk converge in the human (and reflect the human’s wonder, exhilaration  – and sadness – as he gets on the road, leaving home behind), because they start in the same place, in the human.

And that connection across spaces suggests continuity over time, a sharing that gives us hope and consolation in the face of strife, suffering and transience.

Mammane Sani et son Orgue – Bodo

La Musique Electronique de Niger is out in Sahel Sounds. Buy it here.

Cam’ron samples Cynthia Fee’s track “Thank You For Being a Friend” from 1980′s sitcom – The Golden Girls – on his latest track “Golden Friends”.

Hot on the heels of the release of their much anticipated debut album “Hanging Gardens” (drops May 14th), highly acclaimed L.A dreamlike disco/house duo Classixx drops a mixtape for Solé Bicyles and their Fixtape series. Listen to this beautiful mix while cruising the streets.

Nail – Cassiopeia

I’m very much enjoying this right now so thought I’d share, it’s been a while I know. From when trance was still good, this track comes from 1993’s Strictly 4 Groovers, an LP from rave favourites the legendary DiY soundsystem crew.

It’s a slow builder, starting off with some trancey arpeggiated synths, the lush bassline comes in after a minute or so, the spacey atmosphere grows with hints of cymbal until the beat finally arrives three minutes in. even then it’s another minute until the handclaps (my favourite) hit and we’re into full-on gorgeous ambient trance.

Try it, you just might like it.

And if you’re unfamiliar with DiY then there are worse places you could start than the seminal DiY Jack set from 1992’s Castlemoreton festival – check the link below to download the whole set.

• DiY Jack @ Castlemoreton, 1992 ::
• Release info at Warp ::
• Buy at Bleep.com ::

File Download (9:46 min / 16 MB)

“IV Play” drops May 28th!

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Peter Gordon and Factory Floor‘s Beachcombing is a chimera and a mirage that confounds our expectations about what is warm (the saxophone), and what is cold (those electric machines). The synths ululate like creatures of the dark forest, or cruisers creating their own zone of perversity in a forlorn park under the shadow of an squadron of leprous high rises. The saxophone is a relay releasing mega-bursts of information like the last escape pod from a moribund civilisation, or the final stage in the evolution of communication technology, when mankind transcends the digital.

Engineering mutates into mysticism, techno into jazz and everything becomes birds soaring in that awesome zone or genre that could well be called “Psyche Out” as un-defined by Optimo, who are aptly putting Beachcombing out, a moment we celebrate with Peter Gordon’s and Nik Void’s very own choices of inspirations and influences.

This is basically what we are about, we are so honoured to be featuring this post. Enjoy, and buy the record here.

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme part 1: Acknowledgements

Peter: “As a kid, I used to listen to this every night as I would fall asleep. This record opened me up to the truly transcendent nature of music.”

Love of Life Orchestra – Condo

Nik: “Condo is the first track I heard by Peter and sparked off our initial conversation on-line that let to our collaboration. I personally refer to Peter’s work in my head as compositions rather than tracks. I love this fade in, I love the ethereal vocals in unison, the slowed down metronomic cowbell beat.”

The Mothers of Invention – Plastic People
Peter: “Totally opened me up what was possible regarding use of studio, collage, genre mixing, smart writing, incredible musicianship yet totally irreverent.”

Nico – Frozen Warnings
Nik: “Again another track with an ethereal quality. Her vocals ride the track, and the track ride her vocals. There are no rules here, just feeling.”

Terry Riley – In C

Peter: “My first experience with what would be called minimalism. I was transfixed by the hypnotic sound and fascinated by the structural implications.”

Throbbing Gristle -Distant Dreams (Part Two)

Nik: “When Gabriel played me the synth line for Beathcombing it reminded me of the same dream like quality of TG’s Distant Dreams Part Two. Journey tones mixed in with a hypnotic undercurrent.”

Atlanta based Treasure Fingers with a pumping mix to be played now that the warm weather has finally arrived.

BONUS: Grab a free download of his brand new track “Cloud Life”.

Mesmerizing electronica track from British artist/producer William Arcane, Want Somebody is lifted off his upcoming June 12th Pictures Music release “Permanence”.

The Hot Natured and Anabel Englund single “Reverse Skydiving” dropped yesterday, as an added bonus we get this low slung remix from Berlin/Washington DC house duo Benoit & Sergio that manages to incorporate a playful bass and synth stabs to contrast with the sultry, chopped up vocals provided by Anabel Englund.

BONUS: Watch the video for the original version.

Grab the pumping track “Bsnez” from Italian producer 1984 below.

The fact “Fall” was the fourth single off Aussie electropop duo The Presets‘ 2012 LP Pacifica is no small indication of that album’s depth. With his new remix of this great track, Danish producer Tomas Barfod (of WhoMadeWho fame) takes what was originally a glistening, euphoric 90s Euro House throwback and transforms it into a moody slow-building ballad. Groaning subterranean synths and driving disco percussion provide a perfect backdrop for Julian Hamilton’s full-throated vocals. The official Fall remix package – featuring the likes of Alan Braxe, Hook N Sling and SymbolOne – will be released soon via Modular.

French label Bromance celebrates 20 000 Facebook fans with an exclusive mix from the Club Cheval crew.

Motor City Drum Ensemble with a masterful set of funky disco/house from his recent appearance at The Boiler Room in London.

Adam Rickfors is a new Swedish house hope that is predicted to follow names such as Adrian Lux, Alesso and Albin Myers in worldwide recognition.

Ace Hood unleashed the official remix of his smash hit single “Bugatti” via Twitter. The remix features Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Meek Mill, French Montana, 2 Chainz, Birdman, DJ Khaled & Future.

“I woke up in a new Bugatti! Remix!”

If you’re in New York then we’ve got your chance to see Cosmo Baker and Stretch Armstrong at REVIVAL at FreeCandy this Saturday, May 11th. Stretch Armstrong first gained notoriety from the Stretch and Bobbito radio show, one of the best hip hop shows in New York history. Stretch is responsible for introducing hip hop legends like Biggie Smalls, Nas, Wu-Tang, and Mobb Deep. Not only that, Stretch is also the co-founder of the NY-based label Plant Music. Cosmo Baker is a great in his own right, a master of everything from hip-hop to disco to funk and bringing it all back together.

To enter to win, send us an email at holla@discobelle.net. The winner will be selected this Friday, May 10th. If you aren’t lucky enough to win, you can still RSVP for the show over at DoNYC for $5 admission before 11pm!

Night Slugs co-founder and long time Discobelle favorite – London producer/dj L-Vis 1990 – presents an exclusives filled mix for the latest addition in the Fact Magazine Mix series.

We’ll just go ahead and repeat the catchphrase of The Simpsons character Montgomery Burns: Excellent.

Tracklist after the jump.

1. Unknown – Curmudgeon (Forthcoming NS Club Constructions)
2. Helix – Linn jam (Forthcoming Night Slugs CC)
3. Rushmore – Clapse (White)
4. MMM – Casiotone (MMM)
5. Pearson Sound – Crimson (Beat Ritual Mix)
6. NA – X-Treme Tremble (White)
7. Bobby Peru – Cold Blooded (White)
8. Kingdom – Corpse (Fade To Mind)
9. Ikonika – Backhanded Winners (Hyperdub)
10. DJ Assault – Vandalism (Jack Murphy Edit) (White)
11. Macabre Unit – Dem No ready
12. Jam City – How We Relate to The Body (Helix Bootleg) (White)
13. Rushmore – Bloodlines (White)
14. Jam City – Untitled (Forthcoming NS Club Constructions)
15. Mike Q – Is it all (White)
16. Manare – Riddle (Clek Clek Boom)
17. Frak – 777 (Borft)
18. Egyptrix – Water (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
19. L-Vis 1990 – Acid Workout

Gucci Mane was apparently released from prison before the weekend so here’s the dark and grimey C4 produced track “Stripes”.

Mariah Carey teams up with Miguel on new slow burner single “#Beautiful”.

Tel Aviv producer/dj Yarin Lidor brings forth a chill, stuttering bass bootleg remix of the Alicia Keys track “Fallin’”

Since the warmer weather seems to be here, we’re glad that Fare Soldi decided to present this mixtape of old school Italian pop songs full of groove.

Tracklist after the jump.

1) Alan Sorrenti “Love Fever” (1979)
2) Pino Daniele “A me me piace ‘o blues” (1980)
3) La Bionda “Bandido” (1979)
4) Antonello Venditti “Stukas” (1982)
5) Pooh “Io sono vivo” (1979)
6) Stadio feat. Lucio Dalla “Lunedì cinema” (1986)
7) Vasco Rossi “Splendida giornata (instrumental)” (1982)
8) Tony Esposito “Pagaia” (1982)
9) Loredana Bertè “Prima o poi” (1980)
10) Piero Piccioni “In viaggio con papà” (1982)
11) I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli “Discogatto” (1979)
12) Heather Parisi “Disco bambina” (1979)
13) Franco Califano “Balla ba” (1977)
14) Lucio Battisti “Una donna per amico” (1978)
15) Lucio Dalla “L’ultima luna” (1979)

Since the warmer weather seems to be here, we’re glad that Fare Soldi decided to present this mixtape of old school Italian pop songs full of groove.

Tracklist after the jump.

1) Alan Sorrenti “Love Fever” (1979)
2) Pino Daniele “A me me piace ‘o blues” (1980)
3) La Bionda “Bandido” (1979)
4) Antonello Venditti “Stukas” (1982)
5) Pooh “Io sono vivo” (1979)
6) Stadio feat. Lucio Dalla “Lunedì cinema” (1986)
7) Vasco Rossi “Splendida giornata (instrumental)” (1982)
8) Tony Esposito “Pagaia” (1982)
9) Loredana Bertè “Prima o poi” (1980)
10) Piero Piccioni “In viaggio con papà” (1982)
11) I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli “Discogatto” (1979)
12) Heather Parisi “Disco bambina” (1979)
13) Franco Califano “Balla ba” (1977)
14) Lucio Battisti “Una donna per amico” (1978)
15) Lucio Dalla “L’ultima luna” (1979)

Stunning mix for the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix series from London producer/dj Maya Jane Coles.

It is not everyday that 20JFG gets to feature contemporary politicised Serbian electro-body-pop music of a beauty and energy such that it flares over the cardboard industrial complex of the nouveau fashion zombies turning them into statues of ash which are then projected against concrete walls, like the nuclear shadows of humans caught in the midst of a party, a political rally, or both (they can be the same, or be made to be the same).

Zastranienie are the real deal. Read their manifesto and access their releases.

Ponder on the idea of pop as a dual use technology that can work as the framework for a debauch, but also a Samizdat for the transmission of subversive ideas and emotions. Also on the idea of industrial music not as a fashion statement or perversity token which is chosen or even surrendered to, but a reflex against authoritarianism, and the manifestation of a love/hate affair with technology developed while growing-up in the ground zero of a highly probable mechanised holocaust.

Get your cerebral cortex scraped by the wild convolutions of the most paranoid roland-burst we have had the pleasure of contending with since the halcyon days of Adult.

Find an outlet to discharge the energy outputs thus generated. Heat. Dance. Friction. Action.

Zastranienie – Izdvojeno Iz Konteksta/Abeceda Straha

Acquire Duh Vremeni here. We’ll be writing more about Zastranienie in days to come. This was simply our first instinctive reaction.

We assume the name of Norwegian group ‘Three Winters’ is inspired by the disruption of the seasons that, it is said, will be an omen for the start of Ragnarok. Their Atrocities EP certainly has a sense of foreboding and dread that, in becoming dominant and routinised, connects it to the romantic ballads beneath a gunmetal sky of the cold wave desperados, and the noises that can be heard outside of Le Hague’s electro-torture bunkers.

We rejoice in the Italo tropes butchered in the title track – the gothic throb and the operatic excess, the synthesised chanting unforgettable like the Morricone theme for a Mexican stand-off at the dead zone, that four to the floor rhythm that mimics the pulse of a chase and the metronomic swing of the back-alley stabbing which is its culmination.

If Atrocities looked like something, it would be Venise’s Playboy after an eternity spent in the House of Usher, falling, decaying. We’d take him back to ours, without a doubt.

Three Winters – Atrocities

Acquire the Atrocities EP from Swedish post-apocalyptic pop label Beläten.

“Hey — this is a video my friend Video Marsh made for this really old Grimes song from my first record. We were supposed to release it ages ago and somehow it didn’t happen probably because it didn’t comply with the press cycle at the time and since I’ve stopped caring about complying with press cycles im sharing this now.

enjoy :)” – actuallygrimes

Tune!

Dada Life brought Nolan, a lucky fan, along with them for a week of their North American tour. The only rule was to keep the camera running.