For a restless artist such as Matthew Dear (he produces micro house and experimental electro pop under his name and techno under monikers like Audion, among others), making a compilation album is another way of expressing his constant aesthetic research. So, for the 7th volume of the Body Language series released on the German label Get Physical, the American DJ went over his hard disc files and made a CD mix that completely reflects his personality.
Crushed by the project he himself has created, Mike Skinner has reached the final stage of The Streets with Everything is Borrowed. After announcing he was not planning to continue with his project and that he would only release five albums under that moniker, in his fourth studio album, the British artist aims at new objectives: his lyrics deal with God, love, death, the family and the human race.
The way in which Thought So..., the latest album of Nightmares On Wax, represents the identity George Evelyn and Kevin Harper began to build up 20 years ago when they started a project together. Later on, Evelyn decided to continue alone: recorded on the road from Leeds to Ibiza, the album is a trip along a downtempo highway including stops at the different genres that compose Evelyn's musical taste.
After four years of Involver, Sasha released Invol2ver, the follow-up we've been waiting for so long between false tracklists and audios that leaked via Internet and about which most fans of the Welsh DJ and producer dreamed during said period.
In their singles "The Count" y "Hustler", in their album
Attack Decay Sustain Release, in their remixes of Bjork's "Innocence" and Klaxons' "Magick", the boys of Simiam Mobile Disco have demonstrated their ability as producers and, in CD mixes like
Bugged Out: Suck My Deck, the British duo has captured the magic they create from the DJ booth. Now, with their participation in FabricLive vol. 41 (another compilation, the third one of the series,)
SMD teaches us music through dance, some gems in their record boxes and new tracks that will be classified as classics in a couple of years.
"We are sorry, we don't do interviews or tour," state Syclops at their MySpace.The mysterious band is formed by the Finnish artists Hanna Sarkari, Jukka Kantonen and Sven Kortehisto, and they are very lucky to have a fourth member –who also has a very low profile, – their producer: Maurice Fulton.
If Choice: A Collection Of Classics --the last CD mix released by Danny Tenaglia -- was a compilation in which he acknowledged and paid homage to all persons that influence him, Futurism (recently released on Tommy Boy Records) sums up the New York DJ's present: without abandoning tribal sounds and the humanized techno Tenaglia generally plays in his long sets, his weekly residency at the Ibiza's club Space helped him to renew his sound and use a not-so-euphoric line that flirts with minimal house and tech.
From IDM to ambient pop, Reimer Eising, better known as Kettel, played with lots of elements to complete his album Myam James, released on Sending Orbs, which had originally lanuched it in EP format. It not only ended up becoming an album, but it also became a series whose second part will be released in a few months (check it out at his MySpace.)
Desyn Masiello, Demi and Omid 16B started to work together as SexOnSubstance (SOS) in 2004, and their best letter of introduction to clubber's world was their participation in the BBC1 radio show Essentiall Mix, where they played a set that ranked among the best sets of 2006. After two years, hundreds of shows all around the world and prior to their show at Moonpark Buenos Aires (August 9), the trio takes control of Balance Series vol. 13, in which they relaunch several tracks to finally obtain a 100% original compilation.