March 20, 2008 at 10:09 pm · Filed under Articles, Media
Artist: JUNIOR BOYS/VARIOUS
Title: Body Language Six
Label: Get Physical Germany
Cat: GPMLP 020
Format: 2xLP
Released: 17 March, 2008 Genre: Disco/Re-Edits
Get Physical invite Canadian electro-pop duo Junior Boys to DJ the next instalment in the Body Language mix series.
Tracklist
01 Sorcerer - Surfing At Midnight (Prins Thomas Miks)
02 Supermayer - Saturndays
03 Chelonis R. Jones - Deer In The Headlights (DJ Hell Remix)
04 Love Nine – Feedback
05 Kreon & Lemos Feat. Feeboy - Fola
06 Kelley Polar - Rosenband (Magic Tim’s Instrumental Version)
07 Steadycam - In The Moog For Love
08 Radio Slave - Screaming Hands (Cosmo Vitelli Radioaktivitat Remix)
09 Studio - Life’s A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)
10 Gui.tar - Love Started To Shine
11 Stereo Image - Dark Chapter
12 Matthew Dear - You Know What I Would Do
13 Pushé - Don’t Take Your Love Away
14 Visage - I’m Still Searching
15 Junior Boys - No Kinda Man
16 Rework - Love Love Love Yeah (Chloé Remix)
17 f0st3r - bl3w r0d30 d3m0
18 Chloé - Be Kind To Me
19 Bill Nelson - When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True
February 28, 2008 at 6:26 pm · Filed under Reviews
Justus Köhncke’s two previous full-lengths on Kompakt, Was Ist Musik (2002) and Doppelleben (2005), were slightly frustrating affairs. Both albums were filled with clever pop structures, quality sound design and subtle shifts in mood, but somehow they tended to fall short of pure emotional captivation. Partly of course this was due to Köhncke’s notorious vocals, which are at times just too deadpan and at times just too camp (check his destruction of Jürgen Paape’s seminal ‘So Weit Wie Noch Nie’ for the evidence, but the albums were also occasionally marred by Köhncke’s weakness for soft-focus disco, with kitsch rather than glamorous and decadent results. Safe and Sound combines many of these tendencies, but happily, it’s a much more satisfying listen. So much so you’ve got to wonder what inspired the difference. Perhaps this more muscular sound is down to Köhncke spending a lot of time in the clubs, or perhaps it’s a product of his new studio (located in an old butcher shop). The newfound help of the album’s co-writer/producer Fred Heimermann (certainly on ‘Tilda’, but likely more) might also be a contributing factor. But perhaps there was just something in the air? Those leaves on the Pop Ambient-esque cover, after all, do look suspiciously like marijuana.Köhncke’s disco tendency come to the fore on several tracks, but more confidently than on the previous two albums. With its ‘70s strings, ‘Parage’ is downright funky and would, in an ideal world, play on radios in Cadillac cars with whitewall tyres. ‘Molybdän’ lives up to its elemental name (attn non-scientists: ‘molybdenum’ is a heavy metal) and mimics more disco ball glitter than disco sound itself with sparkling stabs of sound and winding analogue washes. More overtly disco is the brilliant opener ‘Yacht’ which pays strong homage to ‘Slave to the Rhythm’, but then develops its own melodic narrative.Grace Jones isn’t the artist from the past to get name-checked. The first single from the album, ‘Feuerland’, is a cover of Krautrocker Michael Rother’s track from his 1977 LP ‘Flammende Herzen.
February 14, 2008 at 3:40 pm · Filed under Articles, Media
Real Name: Dennis Kensington
Richard Davis - Cold Hard Facts Label: Was Not Was Released: 24 Sep 2007 Style: Minimal, Tech House
Richard Davis creates staggering minimal-house by adding pure intensity, propulsive beats and a glimpse of pop-appeal. His amazing music is defined through some sweet melancholic viewpoint, warm subbasses, clear clicks and plops, shuffling hihats and a wonderfull touching voice to keep you warm and the dance floor hot. Believe us, you’ll be into it.He is the one who makes something deep and minimal.”Tears-on-the-floor-syndrome” can be described his music.He is working on his new album as i knew and talked with him.Wait!! *3 of the mix are very good but i prefer the original one. But if i’m gonna play in a club i will play Nick Hopper’s Mix. A.Cold Hard Facts (original) A1.Cold Hard Facts (Ruede Hagelstein remix) B1.Cold Hard Facts (Nick Hoppner remix)
February 7, 2008 at 8:47 pm · Filed under Media, Reviews
I thought too,but they didn’t.Duran Duran had smatterings of “rock band” in their persona back in the 1980s heyday, but underneath it all there was a strict code of dance that was adhered to (i.e., “The Reflex,” “Wild Boys,” “Is There Something I Should Know,” etc.) They are running through the valley.And I feel it,I can see it,Yes I need it.I believe it…
Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre
Label: Epic Released: 19 Nov 2007
Style: Pop Rock,Electronic
