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Archive for May, 2010
Betrayed Desires
Lemonade and Crystalised remixes.
Funkier bass and choppy samples.
Boyz Noize & Erol Alkan – Lemonade (Justin Robertson’s Deadstock 33’s Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Intense power-bomb.
Boyz Noize & Erol Alkan – Lemonade (John Roman Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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A nice bass heavy jacking house remix.
1- The xx – Crystalised (Lorcan Mak Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Quality Dubstep.
2- The xx – Crystalised (Dark Sky Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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More Dubstep.
3- The xx – Crystalized (The Neon Lights Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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The permutations are endless.
I recently watched Primer. If you haven’t, you are missing out one of the best indie/science-fiction films ever made. Its plot seems like a paradox, yet there are no contradictions. Here’s a more complex variation of the famous Grandfather Paradox.
From “All You Zombies” by Robert Heinlein.
A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. “Jane” grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert “her” to a “him.” Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.
Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, “he” becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop’s Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the “time travelers corps.” Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.
The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop’s Place in 1970.
The question is: Who is Jane’s mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane’s twisted parentage. If we draw Jane’s family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.
Stay Ali – 97 (Right Click to Download)
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Jane’s Paradox Timeline
Some are born to sweet delight.
The Twelves are a electro/disco duo from Brazil. They have released killer remixes and sets in 2009 and they don’t seem to plan on stopping anytime soon. Disco remixes of Fever Ray and Something Good Can Work (From Kitsune #7).
Two Door Cinema Club -Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix) (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Fever Ray -Seven (The Twelves Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Résistance à la Mode ♥ Karin Dreijer Bonus:
Fever Ray – Seven (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Classic old school quality house.
Nina Simone – Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat’s Heavenly House Mix) (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Bauchamp -Calypso (Right Click to Download)
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Artwork by Nick Lepard.
Some are born to endless night.
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
Two tracks from Crystal Castles’ new album Crystal Castles and two tracks from Crystal Castles’ old album, also called Crystal Castles.
Crystal Castles – Empathy (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Crystal Castles – Celestica (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Crystal Castles – Untrust Us (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Crystal Castles – Air War (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Definitely better than the original.
Dusty Kid – Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins Cover) (Right Click to Download)
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The story of a young man’s hedonistic adventures in club land.
Matthew Herbert – Leipzig (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Heroin Chic Bonus :
Pete Doherty – 1939 Returning (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
This is the debut of Oni Ayhun. It is the first release in an unpredictable and never ending 12″ series on the self-titled label Oni Ayhun Records. OA’s music is (about) drama. OA makes records that combines disturbed dance music on the border to insanity with free dreamy drone stories without a beat. Like a surrealistic musical with a narrative based on associations, abstractions and confusions, the music is a journey through different settings and scenes. Each record features a handmade engraving, unique for each release.
OAR001-A, is an attempt to tame cheesy fusion-jazz into a new free fusion between sharp electronics and organic textures, elastic funk and rubber set in an odd shady environment. Is it a big animal playing its nose, a beast, or is it the myth about the ant-eater trying to play its tail?
OAR001-B, is it the bees humming about their life by the concrete factory? Or is it about the people living under acid rain singin their story? Or is it just diary notes from OA’s everyday life..?
Oni Ayhun – OAR001-A(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Oni Ayhun – OAR001-B(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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“Once upon a time long long time ago there was a mystical city called Tar.. And at that time all the cities were intact and flourishing, there were no ruins, because the final war had not yet begun. When the great catastrophe occurred, all the cities crumbled.. except Tar.. Tar still exists. If you know where to look for it you will find it. And when you get there you will be presented with wine and water and you could play with a gramophone. When you get there, you will help harvest grapes and you will pick up scorpions hidden under white rocks. When you get there, you will know eternity. You’ll see a bird that drinks one drop of water from the ocean every hundred years. When you get there, you’ll understand life. You’ll become a cat, phoenix, swan, elephant, baby and an old man. You’ll be alone and accompanied. You’ll love and be loved, you’ll be everywhere, and yours will be the seal of seals. As you approach the future, you’ll find ecstasy, and it will never abandon you.” (From Alexander Jodorowky’s “Fando y Lis”, 1968).
OAR002, the second release from Oni Ayhun is a 22:44 min long story, split on two sides.
Oni Ayhun – OAR002-A(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Oni Ayhun – OAR002-B(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Discover steep, rugged canyons, painted rock minarets, desert vistas framed by blooming wildflowers, soaring raptors and singing canyon wrens on the wildest remaining rivers. Join this amazing journey composed of quiet floating as well as exciting whitewater rapids. Search for birds including both the zone-tailed and gray hawk, elegant trogon, elf and whiskered screech owls, and eight species of hummingbird. Enjoy dazzling flower displays, and observe an astounding concentration of nesting raptors. Drink in spectacular canyon vistas. Watch elk, deer, bighorn sheep-and ranchers at work-in this rugged habitat. Enjoy the relaxed pace of a free-flowing river with few rapids, stunning scenery, interesting geology and rich natural history. Search for grizzly bear, wolf, awe-inspiring herds of migrating caribou, and arctic birds in full breeding plumage that travel thousands of miles to nest here. Through the foothills and across the coastal plain. Cruise the wild islands and coastlines. From Humboldt penguins to hundreds of macaws and parrots gathering daily at the world’s largest-known clay lick in the Amazon, you will encounter a plethora of bird species each day. Witness seabirds, walrus, sea otter, Arctic fox and bear-and ceremoniously cross the Arctic Circle. Impressive landscapes-from pristine coves and beaches to expansive tundra and soaring mountains-serve as photogenic backdrops to this remarkable adventure.
Oni Ayhun – OAR003-A(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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This music works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter through an acid-base reaction, causing bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leavening the mixture. It is used where the batter lacks the elastic structure to hold gas bubbles for more than a few minutes. Because carbon dioxide is released at a faster rate through the acid-base reaction than through fermentation, music made by chemical leavening is called ‘quick compositions’. The tracks are made up of an alkaline component, one or more acid salts, and an inert starch (cornstarch in most cases, though potato starch is also used). Acid in music can be either fast-acting or slow-acting. A fast-acting acid reacts in a wet mixture with baking soda at room temperature, and a slow-acting acid will not react until heated in an oven. This music, that contains both fast- and slow-acting acids is double acting. By providing a second rise in the oven, double-acting music increase the reliability of baked goods by rendering the time elapsed between mixing and baking less critical. Common low-temperature acid salts include cream of tartar and monocalcium phosphate. High-temperature acid salts include sodium aluminum sulfate, sodium aluminum phosphate, and sodium acid pyrophosphate. This includes both..
Oni Ayhun – OAR004-A(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Oni Ayhun – OAR004-B(Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Take the long road and walk it.
We have featured eLDOKO here. I’m loving the whole tribal techno/house movement. Hotbox is a fantastic example. Deep house with tribal percussions.
eLDOKO -Hotbox (Right Click to Download)
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Melodic minimal tune from Dirtybird Records.
Sascha Braemer -Club Foot (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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I have a confession. I don’t like deadmau5. Let me rephrase that. I am indifferent to most of the deadmau5 releases. So far I have only enjoyed Not Exactly and Strobe. Why am I telling all this? Because I love Moguai which is released from mau5trap and produces somewhat similar songs to deadmau5. So while featuring Moguai, I thought it would be hypocritical of me to not include deadmau5.
Moguai -d.s.f.h (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Moguai -Electra (original mix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Know your prejudices bonus:
deadmau5 -Strobe (Original Mix) (Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Photography by Lola Dupre
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
APRICOT – Short Film by Ben Briand
Via M.B.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between
reality and your feeling of what reality should be like.
Music with balls. I wish there were more tracks like these two coming out everyday.
Boy 8-Bit – The Keep(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Rubix – Disco Electronique (Clip Edit)(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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More Phoenix. Italo-disco interpretation of Lisztomania and spaced-out instrumental centerpiece “Love Like a Sunset”.
Phoenix- Lisztomania (Holy Ghost! Loves Paris Remixomania)(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Phoenix – Love Like A Sunset(Right Click to Download) (itunes)
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Welcome to the dark side
Our favorite zombie is back with his new EP Nightcall. The title track is co-produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (1/2 Daft Punk) and mixed by SebastiAn.Dark and smooth electronica with robotic vocals.
Kavinsky – Nightcall(Right Click to Download) Via BalKaymak
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Kavinsky – Nightcall (Breakbot Remix)(Right Click to Download)
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Kavinsky – Pacific Coast Highway (Jackson Remix)(Right Click to Download)
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Ratatat AND The Knife? This combo is heavenly.
The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health (Ratatat Remix)(Right click to download)
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Fever Ray – I’m Not Done (R_D Remix)(Right Click to Download)
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Learning from making mistakes.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Tiga – What You Need (A-Trak Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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John Forde – Stardance (Right Click to Download)
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Alex Gopher – Aurora (Riot In Belgium & Knightlife Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Little Boots – Meddle (Designer Drugs 80s Coke Jam Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Le Tigre – Deceptacon (DFA Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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