Posts by Jakub

Finally had some time to settle down and dive into this Caustic Window LP, the great thing about it that I noticed right away was how quickly my music life flashed before my eyes and I calmly ended back up at the record store I bought my first Aphex Twin LP. I’ll just shut up and let you listen, for some this is still a sacred moment.

Back in 1994, there were plans of releasing a full LP of music from Richard D. James, aka The Aphex Twin, under his “Caustic Window” moniker on his own label, Rephlex Records.

This album unfortunately never saw the light of day until around 1999, when Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) granted a rare interview with the Aphex Twin fansite, joyrex.com (no longer active). In the interview, Mike described the tracks in detail, and went on to explain that only 4 people at the time were known to have a vinyl test pressing of the album – Richard James, Chris Jeffs (aka Cylob), Grant Wilson-Claridge (co-founder of Rephlex Records) and Mike himself. Each person was sworn to never make copies of the music, and for 20 years, not a single track had ever been commercially released (with the exception of two tracks that appeared on compilations).

Until now.

I’ll be DJing in San Francisco tomorrow evening from 6pm – 10pm along with live shows from Beacon and Small Black for the first ISO50 installment at NightLife at California Academy of Sciences. Details and tickets here: http://bit.ly/NL020140

• RSVP: http://on.fb.me/1kAwufO
• Event Webpage: http://bit.ly/NL020140
• Tickets: http://bit.ly/NLtix2014

55 Music Concourse Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco CA
94118

Surprisingly this is Lone’s 6th album which is a bit mind-boggling but very exciting to have someone this prolific sharing soo much. Right when I thought Lone was going to head the Rustie / Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack route he rewards us with this mellow collection of tracks that touch on New Age intros and his earlier material without the heavy lo-fi touch.

The album is out June 16th via R&S records: Support VINYL | CD | FLAC

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World Cup and Driftless Recordings clock in with the shortest EP sampler ever made but it might be just enough to get me hooked.

I’m becoming a bigger and bigger Napolian fan, dug up this Oneohtrix Point Never remix that didn’t get enough love.

Lee Bannon is the torch bearer of this indie drum n’ bass scene that keeps growing. I love how constant and direct he is, not too flashy just focuses on the quality of it.

The Russian youth internet culture writing songs about Hawaii? i’m in.

We’ve all loved the Daphni alias but i’m sure this news is going to bring a lot more smiling faces to the net. “Our Love” is out October 7 via Merge, would love your thoughts on this, i’m sort of into it but there is this hint of a Eurodance sound bank that doesn’t sit right with me yet.

Our Love Tracklist:

01 Can’t Do Without You
02 Silver
03 All I Ever Need
04 Our Love
05 Dive
06 Second Chance
07 Julia Brightly
08 Mars
09 Back Home
10 Your Love Will Set You Free

Tour Dates

UK/EU Dates:
6/12 Lucern, CH – B-Sides Festival
6/13 Barcelona, ES – Sonar
6/20 Hilvarenbeek, NL – Best Kept Secret Festival
6/21 Berlin, DE – Red Bull Music Academy Stage at Mauerpark
6/22 Westmeath County, IRL – Body & Soul Festival
6/26 Foligno, IT – Dancity Festival
7/04 Turku, FL – Ruisrock
7/05 Amsterdam, NL – Pitch!
7/08 Corsica, FR – Calvi on the Rocks
7/11 Lisbon, PT – Optimus Alive
7/12 Liege, FR – Les Ardentes Festival
7/13 Brugge, BE – Cactus Festival
8/14 St. Malo, FR – La Route Du Rock
8/15 Wales, UK – Greenman Festival
8/16 London, UK – Jabberwocky
8/27 Pula, HR – Dimensions Festival
9/05 Isle of Wight, UK – Bestival
9/06 Bologna, IT – LINK Club
10/08 London, UK – KOKO *
10/10 Cologne, DE – E-Werk *
10/11 Hamburg, DE – Grosse Freiheit *
10/15 Leipzig, DE – Conne Island *
10/16 Prague,CZ – Meet Factory *
10/17 Budapest, HU – A38 *
10/18 Vienna. AT – Electronic Beats at TMuseumsquartier *
10/19 Munich, DE – Muffathalle *
10/20 Zurich, CH – Komplex 457 *
10/21 Lyon, FR – Transbordeur *
10/22 Lille, FR – Aeronef *
10/23 Liverpool, UK – Liverpool Music Week at Camp & Furnace *
10/24 Bristol, UK – Simple Things Festival at Motion *
10/31-11/01 Paris, FR – Pitchfork Festival
11/07 Turin, IT – MiTo Club to Club
11/08 Reykjavik, IS – Iceland Airwaves
*Support Jessy Lanza

North American Dates:
7/26 Chapell Hill, NC – Merge 25th Anniversary at Cats Cradle
8/23 Los Angeles, CA FYF Festival
11/10 Montreal, QB – Le National*
11/11 Boston, MA – Paradise*
11/12 New York, NY – Webster Hall*
11/13 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer*
11/15 Washington, DC – Black Cat*
11/17 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West*
11/18 Orlando, FL – The Social*
11/19 Miami, FL – Grand Central*
11/20 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder*
11/21 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks*
11/22 Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds*
11/23 Austin, TX – Mohawk*
11/24 Toronto, ON – Danforth*
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Real big easy vibes today from Mark Barrott and the International Feel crew. Lets go beyond Caribbean pleasure, past all the rainforest brush and sit back and lay our hat behind the crystal clear waterfall.

Tracklist
1.Baby Come Home
2.Dr Nimm’s Garden of Intrigue & Delight
3.Go Berri Be Happy
4.Essene
5.Formentera Headspace Blues (Pt’s. 1 & 2)
6.Deep Water
7.Island Life
8.Back To The Sea
9. Sacred Islands

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Beacon is back with this remix for Tomas Barfod touching on Little Dragon meets Ellen Allien / Apparat with the bubbly rhythm and all the transitioning parts flow soo easily into each other.

Medlar gets tapped to rework a Arthur Beatrice cut, the piece has such diversity and musicianship compared to most remixes these days. What really grabs me is the amount of quality downtime in the breakdown and the full opening of the song in the last 2 minutes that fuses together soo many genres without ever feeling like he lost control.

1080p delivering another internet uncovered gem, this is getting ridiculous because the vaporwave umbrella can only hold soo many soundcloud musicians, this is spewing into the New Age world but giving us one of the most interesting takes on utopia, i’m completely drenched in happiness that this sound is happening.

Having trouble finding any of the House Of Doors material as MP3’s, i’m just picking up the vinyl on Discogs. The only full track I could find is this Max D remix that touches on that Dutch Techno sound and very much inspired by some 90s Hardcastle jams.

Sorry for the silence, I had the Heathered Pearls live show to prepare and I also played my teenage dream show which was Movement Festival in Detroit, anyways back on the horse!

A pretty perfect pairing which I hope turns into a remix swap, Jacques Greene just posted his remix of Fort Romeau, always ethereal and always a dancefloor hit.

Kiasmos has elements of Booka Shade if I remember correctly, slightly more indie and the piano keys feel like a sample but I could be wrong, either way worth checking out until the end.

Yagya just posted a 20 minute preview of his album, I have to say it might be his best yet, for him this seems like he’s pushing his own boundaries slowly but still noticeably and fans of the old material won’t be disappointed.

Another breathtaking internet fusing caribbean piece, these sort of sounds are very visual maybe because I sit on tumblr for 2 hours a day but I have to give it to Huerco S. for making this CFCF rework a special one.

EVENT INFO:
Lot 21 Gallery
933 20th St, San Francisco, California 94107
Thursday, May 22at 6:00pm – 9:00pm

We’ve been huge fans of Reuben Wu since the beginning years of the blog so we wanted to share this weeks SF gallery show with the readers. Info is above, i’m very jealous since i’ll be on the East Coast.

Somewhere between 1970s concept album art, expeditionary imagery, and Surrealist painting is where Reuben Wu’s photographs steadfastly sit. His are pictures made in the real world, however, through collapsing time and merging processes, the real is transformed into the surreal, evoking a response simultaneously familiar and foreign. The photographs amplify the strangeness of place and speak to Wu’s individual experience within it.

The remnants of his processes –chemicals dragged arduously across the sensitized paper surface, infrared film shifting the world’s natural hues, light leaking into the camera and hitting the film plane —leave traces of their varied journeys embedded in the final image. Wu’s physical journey is a similar one; he treks with cameras in tow to places that, for most of us, are left to those who fall into the category of “explorer”. Considering the lengths he travels to make his photographs, the unpredictability of Wu’s materials is not exactly what we’d deem trustworthy. The resultant images delineate from the expected photographic trajectory and provide a mode of looking that is equally experiential and aesthetically unique.

Reuben Wu (b. 1975) is a photographer and musician currently living in Chicago, Illinois. He received his MSc in 1998 from the University of Liverpool.

The Colorvision series is still rolling here on the blog. In this edition i’m including only Software artists, the Huerco S. still makes me laugh.

SUPPORT: VINYL SHOP

Napolian – 1 Peter 1:3-4

Huerco S. – Skug Commune

Thug Entrancer – Death After Life VI

Sculpture – Polymorphic Operator