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VENETIAN SNARES

Where You Stopped The Heaviest

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VENETIAN SNARES

Where You Stopped The Heaviest

Unconventionally spacious and restrained minimalism from Aaron Funk.

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Elan

Good High

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Elan

Good High

Especially sour-faced slow banger from MDSLKTR's HipHop weapon

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DJ Screw

Have You Ever

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DJ Screw

Have You Ever

Syrup-drowned soul music for the Nightshift.

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Charli XCX

Stay Away (SALEM's Angel Remix)

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Charli XCX

Stay Away (SALEM's Angel Remix)

Ultra-blunted anti-G R&B-Trance simulation.

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Konx-om-Pax

7th Dimension

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Konx-om-Pax

7th Dimension

Astro-travelling synth-bursts outta Glasgow.

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Black Roots Players

Temp Dub

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Black Roots Players

Temp Dub

Seriously smoked out cyber-dub. Nexx level digi-business.

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BURIAL

NYC

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BURIAL

NYC

Time and space dilating hyper-garage

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NIGGAS WITH GUITARS

Side B

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NIGGAS WITH GUITARS

Side B

Seventeen minutes of distressed synth signals and bong-water ambience.

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LEYLAND KIRBY

Video 2000

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LEYLAND KIRBY

Video 2000

Surreally disorientating and discomforting monster from James Leyland Kirby.

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Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Flying Lotus

Kryon

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Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Flying Lotus

Kryon

Space shuttle creaks and leaking synth circuitary.

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TIN MAN

Mona Lisa

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TIN MAN

Mona Lisa

Fugged-up Acid House music with asphyxiated vocoders and cross-eyed keys.

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DJ Screw

Money and Power

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DJ Screw

Money and Power

Houston's hugely influential DJ Screw warps the beat. Basic, but brilliantly effective.

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PORN SWORD TOBACCO

Giftwrap Yourself, Slowly

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PORN SWORD TOBACCO

Giftwrap Yourself, Slowly

Tenderly drugged and downbeat instrumental electronic pop.

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Marcus Schmickler

Smooth Hang (Gliding)

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Marcus Schmickler

Smooth Hang (Gliding)

An illusory ascent/descent deploying the infamous 'Shepard Tone'.

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This time on 14tracks:

“14 tracks: Screw the pitch”

Rollin' from DJ Screw's doped tones to Markus Schmickler's queered pitches, this 14tracks selection explores the relationship between displaced pitch and space in screwed HipHop, dub and experimental electronics. From the very first experiments with variable tape speeds, through the widespread use of turntable pitch controls, right up to the application of autotune and time-stretching, the evolution of electronic and mechanised music is continually displacing our perception of the "norm", and in turn creating heightened (or equally drowsy) psychedelic effects. Our selection focuses on a bunch of cuts which toy with our perceptions of time and space, veering from the radically wrenched BPMs of Salem, Niggas With Guitars and Burial, via the soured harmonics of Leyland Kirby or Kode 9 & Flying Lotus, and the illusory tones of Marcus Schmickler's 'Smooth Hang (Gliding)'. As spatial rendering techniques advance into the next dimension and the R&B field searches for new sensations, we can only imagine the possibilities for the future....

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On 24 May 22:36 BeachSloth said:
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“Trippy”

This is one of the most eclectic 14 tracks yet.

On 26 May 02:17 Hate Fck said:
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“Mindfuck”

Some of the greatest stuff I've heard in a while, all over the place, and amazing.

On 17 Jun 19:05 Frank D`Arpino said:
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“Awesomeness”

best 14 imho!!

On 21 Jun 00:48 Dual said:
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Not to blow one's own horn or anything, but please check this of mine from the late 1980's:

http://www.disquesdual.com/dd_audio/modem/Fall.m4a