matthew herbert / harbourfront, toronto / august 25, 2006


Matthew Herbert performed an experimental polished soulful house set. The singer was the true highlight.

junior boys / cd release party at the elmo, toronto / august 26, 2006



I love the Junior Boys. Sample a taste of the show here.
tour dates

eric cloutier / calculating infinity



tracklist
01. daniel stefanik - deviant behavior [moon harbour]
02. matthias tanzmann - bulldozer [moon harbour]
03. hug - singalong [k2]
04. ellen allien - just a woman (audion version) [spectral sound]
05. gaiser - egress [m_nus]
06. g.man - quo vadis [~swim]
07. hugg + pepp - rulltarta [dahlback]
07. adam marshall - vancouver ginger (chicago's tribute to jack mix) [antenna recordings]
09. billy dalessandro - in the dark [kompute]
10. martin landsky - go for the back [pokerflat recordings]
11. gui boratto - noronha [k2]
12. john tejada - forced fiction [palette]
13. kb project - feel it [elevate]
14. dj buck - make it hot [siesta]
15. dj linus - who stole the soul (the other mix) [exun]
16. lfo vs. f.u.s.e. - loop (f.u.s.e. mix) [plus.8]
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ezekiel honig / live set / percussion lab
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This is my favourite set from the Percussion Lab series.

ezekiel honig / more human than human remixes / microcosm music
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ezekiel honig + morgan packard / early morning migration / microcosm music
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Seattle, Washington / September 14 -17, 2006

Great blog celebrating subways from around the world.

ryan crosson / live pa at smartbar, chicago


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audio werner / trust / hartchef discos


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shiers mp3
trust mp3

dan curtin / contexterrior podcast #8

1 Jay Haze - Junion
2 GummiHz - Select & Bounce - Mobilee
3 Mike & Dot - Cut - SubStatic
4 Tres Demented - Shez Satan - Planet-e
5 Jay Haze - Belin Pimpin EP pt 2 - Tuning Spork
6 Aadrvareke - Just Washed That Pig - Rush Hour
7 Audio Werner - Orandon - Perlon
8 Daniel Stefanik - Window Smasher - Cargo Edition
9 Raudive - Get Off - Klang Elektronik
10 DBX - Live Wire - Accelerate
11 Marlow & Dehlia - Movin (M. Tanzmann rmx) - Moon Harbour
12 Michael Ho - Econoclast EP - Tuning Spork
13 Dan Curtin - Your Little Fantasy - Pneuma
14 Fuckpony - Lost in Deep - Junion
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junior boys / so this is goodbye / domino


eye review
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Check out the Wooster Collective for great posts on street art.

pantha du prince / lichten/walden / dial


boomkat review
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lawrence / swap / novamute
boomkat review
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trentemoller / the last resort / poker flat


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mike shannon / resident advisor
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hot chip / colours (dfa remix) mp3

ensemble / disown, delete (feat. chan marshall) mp3

summer has been distracting...


junior boys / so this is goodbye / domino



Junior Boys' So This Is Goodbye is an outstanding album. One of the top three albums of this year. Gorgeous nostalgic synth pop that goes above and beyond their previous debut Last Exit which had reviewer's crumbling at their feet. These Hamilton, Ontario boys can do no wrong.
pitchfork review
double shadow mp3
count souvenirs mp3
so this is goodbye mp3
fm mp3
links expire august 29

lawrence / along the wire / ladomat


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pitchfork music festival / chicago

matmos




matthew dear



ada and dominik eulberg


ada



dominik eulberg


Pitchfork was truly amazing. Dominik Eulberg and Matthew Dear both played solid dj sets and had the crowd going wild. Ada played a well crafted live set and Matmos performed mostly beat oriented tracks which was perfect for a summer festival. View youtube clips here.



Marloes ten Bhömer creates amazing fashion forward conceptual shoes.

Have fun wasting time, I mean creating magnificant art at www.jacksonpollock.org

Check out Ghostly podcasts

marek hemmann / live @ radio moscow / june 2006
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apparat - komponent (remix by telefon tel aviv)
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junior boys - in the morning (remix by alex smoke)
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Creepy, playful, surreal work by Ronald Kurniawan


Check out local Toronto artist, Carlos Weisz's creative blog, Kinectic Form for regular updates and charming funnies.

3 channels / kamczatka / flumo



Sounds like summer! Flumo net label releases quality tech-house by 3 Channels.
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Reminder or perhaps an introduction...
Deep Mix Moscow Radio always keeps me happy when I'm starved for something new to listen to.


I'll be taking a short holiday. Pictures from Pitchfork and downloads will return in August.

Two graphic designers from Tirol/Austria use this blog for daily impressions.

destructed
PDF art magazine from Germany

various artists / exclusive bugs / de-bug hartwaren

01 Moderat / Let Your Love Grow (5:24) /Featuring - Paul St. Hilaire
02 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme / Moppal Kiff (7:11)
03 Move D / Like I Was King (5:01)
04 Claro Intelecto / State Of Grace (3:10)
05 Henrik Schwarz / Endangered Species (Mix 4) (5:04)
06 Omar-S / Open Mist (7:52)
07 To Rococo Rot / Last (4:00)
08 John Tejada / Panorama (6:40)
09 Lawrence /Offline (4:58)
10 Fuckpony / Nosebleed (4:52)
11 Daso & Riley Reinhold / U.F.O. (4:33)
12 Mouse On Mars / Ravolver (4:38)
13 Toktok / Honk MD (3:29)
14 Juan Atkins / Coke dj-culture (4:51)
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keith fullerton whitman / for acoustic guitar / apartment b
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isan / plans drawn in pencil / morr


boomkat review
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jacek sienkiewicz / techne / cacoon
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mocky featuring jamie lidell / in the meantime
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jamie lidell / harbourfront, toronto / july 8




I love Jamie Lidell, and this was no doubt one of the best shows of the summer.

twerk / living vicariously through burnt bread / mille plateaux
boomkat review
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mitchell akiyama / mort aux vaches / mort aux vaches
boomkat review
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alex smoke / shwingnut ep / vakant
boomkat review
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alex smoke / snider/make my day / soma
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out july 24

Click on the image above for great pictures from Sonar in Spain.

camera obscura / horseshoe, toronto / july 4



Toronto was the first stop on their tour, make sure to catch them if they come your way.
view a clip from the show

damian lazarus and michael mayer / stink mix / kompakt

Matias Aguayo "So In Love" acapella (kompakt)
Dinky "Home on a Sunday" (horizontal)
Adolf Noise "Der Grundton" Mayer rmx (Freude am Tanzen)
Losoul "Cut So Sweet" (playhouse)
Miskate "E Spirit" Butane rmx (alphahouse)
Latex "The Porcupine" (rebelone 07)
Gabriel Ananda "Doppelwhipper" (platzhirsch)
Tobias "Street Knowledge" (logistic)
Mayer/Voigt "Transparenza" (kom extra)
Rob Mello "The Energy" no ears dub (disco 45)
Mlle. Caro & Franck Garcia "Far AWay" jen cardini & shonky rmx (xtown rebels)
Hug "The Platform" (k2)
Minilogue "Hitchhiker's Choice" (xtown rebels)
Gui Borrato "Like You" supermayer rmx (kom pop)
special secret finale

*the kompakt folks passed this out at the sonar beach party
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eric delay / kindheitstraum / fragment



Gorgeous wet clicky bliss.
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various / total 7 / kompakt

CD1

01 07:08 Kontrast - Grey Skies To Blue
02 05:35 Triola - Wighnomys Polarzipper Remix
03 06:08 Gui Boratto - Arquipelago
04 06:51 Justus Kohncke - Love and Dancing
05 07:25 Thomas Mayer - Sweet Harmony
06 04:06 The Modernist - Pearly Spencer
07 06:43 Scsi 9 - When She Said Goodbye
08 07:47 Superpitcher - Tonite
09 06:30 Dj Koze - Getreide Phunk
10 06:10 Wighnomy Bros - Wombat
11 05:40 Mikkel Metal - Ulyt
12 04:38 The Rice Twins - For Penny and Alexis

CD2

01 07:38 Gui Boratto - Like You Supermayer Remix
02 04:15 Wassermann - In Tyrannis 2006
03 06:45 Robert Babicz - 3 Sonntag
04 07:13 Steadycam - Knock Kneed
05 04:41 Jurgen Paape - Take That
06 06:10 Hug - The Happy Monster
07 07:18 Axel Bartsch - Redlight
08 05:31 Reinhard Voigt - Tranceformation
09 04:59 Thomas Fehlmann - Saft
10 06:55 The Field - Over The Ice
11 03:47 Oxia - Domino
12 05:09 JonasBering - Melanie
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out aug. 21

MUTEK press photos

dj delano / before breakfast mix



Deep, dark and minimal.
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some treats from the west coast...


gillsans / pacific front mix

tracklist
Urban Force - Croatia - Instabil
Deepchord vs. Octal Industries - Departure - Octal
IMAX - 3am - Octal
Rod Modell - Luminescent - Echocord
Octal Industries - Arrival - Octal
D.P. - In Blue - Echocord
Fenin - Hazzle - Echocord
Berlin Dub Sessions - Untitled - Future Dub
Fenin - Konstrukt - Shitkatapult
Igor O. Vlasov - Soundscape - Force-inc.
Stewart Walker vs. Theorem - Dive - Minus
Oliver Hacke - Walk In The Woods - Background
Dibiman - First Laki - Perlon
Cabanne - Smiling Papers - Perlon
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Victoria based PICA are the talented duo of Jamie Drouin and Michael Petite working together to produce some clean minimal techno. Listen to the their recently recorded set from their website
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thom yorke / the eraser / xl recordings



Thom Yorke's own words...

this is just a note to say that something has been kicking around in the background that i have not told you about.
its called The Eraser.
nigel produced & arranged it.
i wrote and played it.
the elements have been kicking round now for a few years and needed to be finished & i have been itching to do something like this for ages.
it was fun and quick to do.
inevitably it is more beats & electronics.
but its songs.
stanley did the cover.
yes its a record!
no its not a radiohead record.
as you know the band are now touring and writing new stuff and getting to a good space so i want no crap about me being a traitor or whatever splitting up blah blah...
this was all done with their blessing. and i don't wanna hear that word solo. doesnt sound right.
ok then thats that.

love thom
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jp33

100 Awesome Music Videos by the people at Pitchfork.

pantha du prince / lichten, walden / dial

Pantha Du Prince takes his personal palette of sounds and applies them to new minimal techno structures. He creates driving sophisticated dark funk by blending a brooding drive, a heavenly lift and a tech/house structure similar to the Traum label injected with impeccably chosen/arranged sounds. Pantha Du Prince is essential listening. He's always highly recommended and highly regarded in my mind. His 2004 release Diamond Daze will forever be a classic. Lichten, Walden is the teaser to his highly anticipated album coming out later this year.
boomkat review
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listen: mp3 sample
download: diamond daze
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depeche mode / john the revelator/lilian / mute



Depeche Mode requests a remix from Pantha Du Prince. This collaboration gives me goose pimples. Find out more here

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1. Depeche Mode - Lilian (Pantha Du Prince Neues Holz Remix) - Mute
2. Alex Smoke - Never Want To See You Again - Soma
3. Tiefschwarz feat. Tracey Thorn - Damage (M.A.N.D.Y. Dub) - Fine
4. Tim Deluxe - Espoo's Rose - AT
5. Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie (Dominik Eulberg Remix) - Karmarouge
6. Depeche Mode - Lilian (Chab Vocal Mix) - Mute
7. Blackstrobe - Nazi Trance Fuck Off (James Holden Mix) - Crosstown Rebels
8. Booka Shade - In White Rooms (Neo Mix) - Get Physical

bjork / where is the line (white label promo single) / one little indian



Perfect remix by the brilliant San Fransico duo Matmos.
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michael levition / my favorite place to drown / ace fu records



Michael Leviton has stolen my heart this week with his quirky love songs and ukulele strums. Michael states, “My personal favorite place to drown is in a pretty girl’s eyes, but on a less personal level, the title’s supposed to refer to how love seems to be everybody’s favorite self-destructive past time. Romance is the most worthwhile misery. In the old days, sailors used to chase after sirens and drown. Drowning is sort of the essence of romance. It’s not very romantic unless you’re in over your head.” Fans of Jens Lekman are bound to love this.
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junior boys / so this is goodbye / domino
download: when no one cares mp3
download: count souvenirs mp3
out august 14th.

john tejada / eurotunnel/calibration / ~scape
boomkat review
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agaric / momentum ep / treibstoff
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agaric and lawrence / virke and place to be / liebe detail
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antonelli / esplanada ep / kalk pets
boomkat review
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tiemu / subway / between us
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I'd like to thank my friend Ben in Kansas City for the hype. Check out his blog and podcasts.

Newly acquainted friend, Greg Smith from vague terrain has an informative review on MUTEK.