Seeing as a great deal of the music I trawl, seek out and divine is from dusty secondhand racks, charity shops, mysterious online sellers and...
5:5:5: VI. 2016: Impacts and Impressions... Nine x5.
Branner Griswell X Electric Ape X Proprio X Scaramanga Silk X Ring Modulator X Alphabets Heaven X Kubla Khan X Stephen Kin;Aesthetic X Clas Tuuth
This month 9 sterling selections drawing on 2016, label regulars have dug deep and racked hard to create a special collected end of year snapshot, a series of micro 5:5:5:s.
So here we go, in no particular order or sequence, representing five tracks a piece that impressed, impacted, generally caught their attention in (but not necessarily from) 2016...
Filtered Listening VI : 18/12/16
4hourXmaspecial | EA x KK x RM x SK
See & Listen again:
A special Filtered Listening show to close the year with 4 hours from 4 Kin-Aesthetic Recordings regulars, revolving 2 records a piece...
Iggy Pop – Sunday [2016, Rekords Rekords] (SK)
Beirut – After the Curtain [2006, 4AD] (SK)
Barry Woolnough – Great Father Spirit in the Sky [2015, Moine Dubh] (KK)
Montezumas Rache – Wu Du Wu [2014, Second Circle] (KK)
The Comet Is Coming – Journey Through the Asteroid Belt [2016, Leaf] (EA)
Floating Points – For Marmish [2015, Pluto] (EA)
Nico Motte – Beats Benny Keats [2015, Antinote] (RM)
Automat – Ost [2016, Bureau B] (RM)
Stephen Kin;Aesthetic brings a 2hour freeform selection on Innov8 inc. a few Brighton trax and another preview cut from the forthcoming K-A-R release, E.I.E. / 1.2 EP ...
See & Listen again:
- Black Uhuru - Sponji Reggae (Disco Mix)(Prod. by Sly & Robbie) [1981, Island]
- Funkapolitan - Understandably Flattering (Prod. by August Darnell) [1981, London]
- Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives [1977, Stiff]
- The Invisible - Generational (Raw Version) [2012, Ninja Tune]
- Lifetones - For a Reason [2016 reissue, Light In The Attic]
- Abel Lima - Stebo Cu Anabela [2016 reissue, Analog Africa]
- Farafina - Samba [1989, VeraBra]
- Alphabets Heaven - Party [2015, WotNot]
With signatures throughout, this is trademark Ring Modulator; informed, assorted and impressive.
See & Listen again:
- Dalek I - The World
- Mark Ronson & Lily Allen - Oh My God (Emperor Machine Vocal Mix)
- Blixaboy - Artic
- Kalima - Shine (Concrete Mix)
- Playgroup - MX Jam
- Arnaud Rebotini & David Carretta - PSG OM
- Emika - Let's Dance (Shoklee Emikaized Mix)
- Pye Corner Audio - Lost Ways
Welcoming Clas Tuuth to the Filtered Listening pages, he delivers this month's 5:5:5: trek, spilling his early Junglist memories through the influential Congo Natty sound.
5:5:5: V.
Congo Natty the Rebel MC
by Clas Tuuth
Back for Filtered Listening III last Sunday on Innov8radio, with Simon Electric Ape and Stephen Kin;Aesthetic cramming em' in...
See & Listen again:
- The Invisible - Love Me Again (Auntie Flo's Marimba Jam)
- Bob Holroyd - African Drug
- Shackleton - White Flower with Silvery Eye
- Underground Resistance - Amazon (4 Hero Version)
- Scaramanga Silk - Barakatuk
- Lee Gamble - Digbeth
- Michael Brook - Earth Floor
- Aphex Twin - Cheetah 2 (LD Spectrum)
Listening adventures that stuck with us of late:
Embryo
Discovering the remarkable sound of early Embryo, with Steig Aus leaping out as a must find LP.
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Jóhann Jóhannsson
Re-acquainting ourselves with this overwhelmingly beautiful soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson from 2011 on pioneering...
The fourth fivefivefive in the continuing series of passionate theming, Scaramanga Silk serenades us over 5 tracks, with his ode to Paul Hunter...
'In recent years, DJing and musical tastes have become blurred and eclectic...'
Kubla Khan & Kin;Aesthetic back to back (2x2) on Innov8 radio for last Sunday eve's blow-out of outernational rhythms, gritty beats and, well, see / hear for yourself...
- A.K. Paul - Landcruisin'
- Badbadnotgood - Structure No.3
- Yusef Lateef - Love Theme from Spartacus
- Bittoua & Fajt - Kamen
- Beak> - Lulsgate
- DJ Firmeza - Alma Do Meu Pai
- LL - Ombu
- Nora Dean - Angie La La
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