Cyclic Defrost Magazine

Extended Playlist 260109 - www.2ser.com 107.3FM

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 08:53 PM CST

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - Departure
("NYC" - 2008, Domino)

Silver Apples - You And I
("Contact" - 1969, Kapp)

Giant Paw - Alarm Clock
("The Stars Are Ours" - 2009, Feral Electronics)

Kevin Blechdom - Interspecies Love
("I Heart Presets" EP - 2002, Tigerbeat6)

Aboriginal Voices - Le jour l’ennuie
("Aboriginal Voices" 12inchEP - 1982, R.F.)

Know-U - Like Horse For Comfort
("Kabuto" 12inchEP - 2008, Frequency Lab) #

Harmonic 313 - No Way Out
("When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence" - 2008, Warp)

Silver Bone Tone - When It Runs Out
("Current Climate" demo - 2008) #

Grace Jones - Devil In My Life
("Hurricane" - 2008, Wall Of Sound)

Ursula Bogner - Punkte (recorded 1984)
("Recordings 1969-1988" - 2008, Faitiche)

Liebe ist cool - Schäfchen zählen
("Du und ich" - 2003, self-released)

Psapp - Fix It
("The Camel’s Back" - 2008, Domino)

Coconot - Polen Muchacha!
("Cosa Astral" - 2008, Bcore/Mistletone)

Gang Gang Dance - Vacuum
("Saint Dymphna" - 2008, Warp)

Mira Calix - Roundabout (feat. The Young Danish String Quartet)
("The Elephant In The Room: 3 Commissions" - 2008, Warp)

Robbie Avenaim - Bodyrocking
("Rhythmic Movement Disorder" - 2008, Room 40) #

Susumu Yokota - Suture (feat. Casper Clausen & Anna Brønsted)
("Mother" - 2009, Lo)

WOW - Future Ghost (Pink Frost Remix)
("No Aspirations + Remixes" - 2008, Levity) #

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Various Artists – Body Language Vol. 7 Mixed By Matthew Dear (Get Physical / Inertia)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 04:53 AM CST

Body Language 7

In the wake of recent preceding volumes from Chateau Flight and Junior Boys, this seventh volume in Get Physical’s ongoing ‘Body Language’ mix series sees Matthew Dear drawing together an expansive 20 track selection over 75 minutes. In comparison to his more dark technoid and minimal-oriented recent outings as alter-egos Audion and False respectively however, ‘Body Language 7′ sees him leaning towards decidedly lush dancefloor tracks, with the unmistakeable taint of house present amongst virtually all of the tracks here. That said, Dear teases the listener at first with almost 12 minutes of atmospheric build-up, with the delicate flickering textures of Dinamoe’s opening ‘The Green French One’ seguing beautifully into the almost LCD Soundsystem-esque blues-y grooves of Kalabrese’s ‘Cityblues.’ Before long however, Dear’s pretty much got the set in full swing with Radio Slave’s stripped-back reworking of Mille Caro & Franck Garcia’s ‘Dead Souls’ nicely melding into similarly upfront tech-house offerings from DJ Koze, I:Cube and Soulphiction. Perhaps most curiously, it’s a mix that’s virtually absent of Dear’s own productions and re-edits, apart from exclusive unreleased track ‘Free To Ask’, which sees him reprising the midtempo vocal electro-soul seen on his ‘Asa Breed’ album under his own name for Ghostly International. A strong mix from Matthew Dear that sees his pushing the button marked ‘house’, and one that’s sure to please the Get Physical fanbase.

Off The Sky - The Geist Cycles (Databloem)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 01:12 AM CST

the geist cycles

The Geist Cycles began as a series of live collaborations acting out a certain transmutation, that of life into the afterlife. Despite the artists intentions, however, there are other equally prominent transitions happening here: Jason Corder’s shift from ambient post-rock to his own kind of poly-linguistic Babel, for one, a unified multiplicity comprised of crystalline, harmonious note showers and clanking digital transmissions.

The somewhat coarse, rocky surfaces are scoured with strings and vaguely ominous pulses, which flesh them out with more subtlety. Without the sense that someone is working the faders and knobs, and without the sense that the music has the earthly heaviness of limbs, the translucent pieces are able to glide, undergoing changes in musical mood, pace and structure, but always conveying the same sort of non-place.

Inasmuch as the sound is generally rather fluid, all whirling glint, fizzling static and distinctive hums merging and separating in an impersonal yet somewhat singular manner, the intermittent inclusion of strings, piano and appropriated female voices stir the air with nature’s hallucinagenics and lends these otherwise indistinct atmospheres a touch of pathos. The album isn’t exploratory but instinctive, and in that it remains poised and understated throughout, resulting in Corder’s most intimate and enveloping electronic environment yet.

Max Schaefer

Various Artists – DFPRMX (Concrete Plastic)

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 01:11 AM CST

Seattle-based electronic producer Chris H. Jones first emerged back in 2007 with his debut album, Deciduous Flood Plains as Yard and two years on this accompanying remix album (curiously attributed by Concrete Plastic to ‘Various Artists’) sees the nine IDM centred tracks from that aforementioned record being reconfigured in a distinctly more tech-oriented and dancefloor-friendly style by an impressive cast of remixers, including Anders Ilar and Fisk Industries (returning the favour for Yard’s recent reworking of ‘Brassica’). While I have to confess that for the most part I was previously unfamiliar with the majority of the remixers gathered here, the end results manage to consistently be both impressive and diverse. Arctic Hospital immediately kick things off with a robotically-flexing tech-house reworking of ‘Cascade’ that nods towards Audion’s dark pneumatic grooves amidst the shimmering background synthscapes, before Anders Ilar takes ‘Portabello’ out on a glittering deep-electro trajectory that smears dubbed-out melodic chords against the brittle-sounding rhythms, to spectacular effect.

Elsewhere, Let’s Go Outside return things to the throbbing tech-y darkness with their sinister retake on ‘Under The Bonnet’, a powering direction neatly followed up by Rootsix’s muscular, vaguely proggy reworking of ‘Synthetic Waves.’ It’s Fisk Industries however who really offers up one of the biggest highlights here, eschewing techno bpms in favour of taking ‘Canopy’ on a deep, dark hiphop / electro journey that threads horror-movie orchestration with sampled tablas and clicking programmed rhythms, while Eric McIntyre bends and reshuffles ‘Bees’ into a headscrambling blur of fractured breakers’ grooves on his ‘Oligolecty mix’, Celer’s minimalist ambient reshaping of ‘New Beginnings’ providing the perfect closing antidote if your nerves are getting a wee bit scrambled at this point by the former’s DSP-smashed breakbeats. An extremely impressive remix album that’s well worth seeking out.

Chris Downton