Enjoy Tycho's sunrise DJ set from the Dusty Rhino at Burning Man, August 30, 2018. Track list below the audio embed.
Fila Brazillia - A Zed And Two L's
King Of Woolworths - Bakerloo (Main Titles)
Squarepusher - Iambic 5 Poetry
DJ Krust - Soul In Motion
Aphex Twin - IZ-US
Tycho - Adrift
PFM - One & Only
Art Feynman - Slow Down
Weval - Thinking Of
Glue70 - Til You Say
Com Truise - Flightwave
Melanie De Biasio - Afro Blue
James Holden - 10101
Voyage - Dynamic
Weval - It'll Be Just Fine
Roman Flügel - 9 Years (DJ Koze Remix)
Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush
Pluko - l o v e
Aleksandir - Yamaha
Chrome Sparks - Moonraker
Kölsch & Tiga - HAL
Bicep - Glue Original Mix
Chrome Sparks - All There Is
Tycho - Awake
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Ben Cartwright-Cox observed that he could modulate the bass frequencies in electronic dance music/dubstep in a way that was easy to detect with a signal processor and inaudible to his unaided ears, so he wrote some code to hide messages in the wubwubwub.
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Alex AKA Yaxu writes, "I co-founded the Algorave movement. Now I'm working on an album of live-coded algorave-style music." Read the rest
You might could also try Gangstagrass. Read the rest
Jarre tapped the whistleblower for vocals on "Exit," a track from Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise, a new electronic music album that drops in three weeks. Read the rest
Perhaps the first effective strategy in America's decades long war on drugs, after 2 recent teen deaths, Los Angeles County is considering banning all EDM festivals.
Via MyNewsLA:
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to explore banning raves on county property while examining security and safety measures at the music/dance festivals following the weekend deaths of two women at the HARD Summer music festival at the Pomona fairgrounds, apparently from drug overdoses.
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Seriously, they don't come deeper and harder than this. [via r/videos]
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Having belatedly discovered the Electro Swing genre, I'm enjoying the hell out of it. My wife brought home a link to Caravan Palace's "Clash" (from their 2012 album Panic), which is pretty much perfect in its ability to hit all my sweet spots: Django/Grapelli-ish picking, megaphone singing, Andrews Sisters harmonies, Herbie Hancock glitch-tunes, and just enough dubstep to be interesting (but not enough to be annoying). Read the rest
Remember early-nineties Belgian techno of the sort that (Mike Shallcross quipped, as quoted on the wikies) was "tough, metallic tracks...with harsh, discordant synth lines that sounded like distressed Hoovers?" If you're having a hard time trying to recreate the sound from that description, try this.
This is Belgium Part Two: Cherry Moon On Valium has discovered a cheap and effective way to breathe new life into those old 12 inches: just slow them down to 115bpm, and voila (gesluierd): the intervening decades telescope down to nothing in an eyeblink. Read the rest