If Alfred Hitchcock produced avant-techno records instead of mood-altering movies, they’d sound a lot like the boogie monster beats of Demdike Stare, a British duo best described by the following mix:
And if that’s not enough for you, Sean Canty (Finders Keepers) and Miles Whittaker (Pendle Coven, MLZ) also gave us a run-through of their favorite records at the moment after the jump…
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Listening Station asks a simple question every so often: What’s on your turntable?
Here’s what Oneohtrix Point Never obsessed over last year…when he wasn’t stringing together slabs of space age vinyl for his double-disc Rifts (No Fun, 2009) collection. New Yorkers, take note: dude’s opening for Small Black and Washed Out tonight at Mercury Lounge. He’s on at 7:30, though, so do not sleep if you’re even slightly into Kraut-y music that screams “We have liftoff”…
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Here’s the deal for anyone heading to OSCILLATIONS tonight: Memory Tapes goes on at 11:30, but the party doesn’t stop when he steps off stage. Nope, we’ve got two DJs lined up for the rest of the night. First up: Tanlines, a duo with ties to Don Caballero, an s/t cover star, and Professor Murder, a band that absolutely destroyed one of our DIW parties back in the day.
Their new stuff (the Settings EP, out March 9 on True Panther/Matador) is a bit more sun-baked, though, with hollowed-out drum hits and synth lines that slither across your speakers like a thousand laser pens. Or at the very least, a logical extension of the five records below—certified jams (Janet Jackson included) that Tanlines just might drop later tonight…
[Photo by Will Calcutt]
In case you can’t tell, we’ve never been into fist-pumping or pretending we’re on a B-roll episode of Jersey Shore. That said, the self-titled staff has frequented ’superclubs’ around New York City before, simply to see some of the world’s greatest DJs (Richie Hawtin, Matthew Dear, Michael Mayer, Carl Craig) spin on sound systems that are more expensive than our parents’ house. And you know what? We might do it again tonight, as Damian Lazarus‘ Rebel Rave Tour brings Seth Troxler to the egghead environs of Pacha.
Now, we know what you’re thinking. Helllll no. Hear us out though, in the words of Time Out NY’s longtime clubs editor, Bruce Tantum, “On the face of it, the Rebel Rave Tour’s party at Pacha has all the makings of a major-league culture clash. After all, Pacha is the city’s consummate center for what might be politely termed populist house…But we’re thinking that this odd pairing is so crazy, it just might work.”
One listen to Troxler’s Boogybytes Vol 5 mix (out March 2 on Bpitch Control) confirms this, as the Detroit native drops a seamless series of psychedelic singles, from his K hole-creating Fever Ray remix (“Seven”) to the gleaming Jabberjaw guise of Matthew Dear (“The Connie Shake”). And if that’s not enough for you, we’ve got two other things after the jump: (1) a peek into Troxler’s current record crate and (2) free downloads of Troxler’s downward spiral duet with Dear (“Hurt”) and a Resident Advisor Podcast that plops Cat Power in the same room as Omar-S, the Talking Heads, Animal Collective, Chromatics and David Bowie. Sounds like some juice heads will be scratching their gel tops tonight…
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When Michael Mayer and Kompakt’s label manager, Jon Berry, announced the launch of a “slasher disco” label, we were psyched but skeptical. After all, we love Goblin and the godfather of Gothic synthscapes (John Carpenter) as much as the next guy, but an entire label based around that concept? Kinda strange, right? Well, yeah. And that’s the beauty of Fright’s first release, Gatekeeper’s Optimus Maximus 12-inch. The Chicago duo’s four tracks are moody, moonlit, and hell bent on driving black-lit clubs absolutely bonkers. Which might be why the first installment of Pendu’s weekly Tuesday Nite Disco party (tagline: “horror scores for the dancefloor”) features Gatekeeper and one of 2010’s leading buzz bin acts, Salem.
Tickets for tomorrow’s Glasslands gig are available here. In the following edition of Listening Station, we asked Gatekeeper to give us a peek into their moss-covered record crate. Here’s what they came up with…
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As psyched as we are to finally see Joker paint the Big Apple purple, there’s two other reasons to roll up to Trouble & Bass early this weekend: Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990—resident DJs of London’s wildly popular Night Slugs party, and a favorite of labels like Mad Decent and Dirty Bird—are also spinning their own potent bassline mix of dubstep, house, garage and grime.
A perfect pairing for the speaker-flexing platters of the T&B crew, in other words. Or as Bok Bok said in an interview with FACT magazine, “We want London to turn their back on noisy cocaine music and rediscover getting really loose and wild to raw, dutty bass music. We’re trying to strip away all the pretenses and just let people get raw in a club and really have fun with club music…a new sound, a whole new variety of club music. We want everyone to be bass-heads!”
Here are five gateway drug favorites from Bok Bok’s current crate, along with a couple mixes from the past year.
To give you an idea of a typical Modeselektor DJ set, their new Body Language mix features everything from the heady hip-hop of Missy Elliot to the sleek minimal techno of Robert Hood, with traces of Animal Collective, Busta Rhymes and Benga tossed in for good measure.
Here’s where you can catch the Berlin-based duo in the coming weeks, along with a quick look at their current crate…
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As anyone who’s ever been to a Trouble & Bass party will tell you, dubstep is not as London-centric as you might think. In fact, it reaches as far as Philadelphia in the case of Starkey, a T&B associate who also helps run Seclusiasis alongside longtime DJ/producer, Dev79. Since his Ephemeral Exhibits (Planet Mu) record is one of dubstep’s most sorely-overlooked albums—yep, they exist—we asked Starkey to share some of his trusty 12″s at the moment. You can catch him in the cleanup crew slot for Martyn at Le Poisson Rouge tonight.
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We didn’t know a damn thing about Dixon before his excellent Body Language mix, the record that first introduced us to the rock solid Italians Do It Better roster (see Chromatics’ rain-slicked “In the City” single) and a hefty stack of other surefire selections that just so happened to include Thom Yorke. In the years since, Dixon has delivered a number of other essential discs, including a seamless collaboration with Henrik Schwarz and Âme (The Grandfather Paradox, which hit shops earlier this year) and this month’s Temporary Secretary mix on Dixon’s own Innervisions imprint. Like any decent DJ set, it refuses to be pinned down by any specific genre or scene, whether that means dropping a house remix of Junior Boys or setting the scene with the hellraiser pop of Fever Ray.
Dixon managed to fire off five of his current must-plays right before boarding a plane for New York. He plays Brooklyn’s Market Hotel tomorrow night as part of Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin’s ongoing Mister Saturday Night party.
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While they’re closely aligned with the neo-disco scene (see their new DFA single and coveted spots on Milky Disco 2 and Cosmo Vitelli’s excellent Moments of Crisis comp), Canyons bring much more to the turntable than 4/4 beats and glitter-encrusted basslines. We’re talking everything from well-oiled electro funk to slightly-twisted traces of acid techno, robotic R&B and deep, diva-driven house.
And if you ask DJ/producer Leo Holiday (one-half of the Australian group alongside Ryan Sea-mist), things are only going to get more complicated on the first proper Canyons full-length. “It’s going to be put together thoughtfully, in a way that makes it coherent—not just a collection of dance tracks,” he explains. “Our goal is to write an album that makes sense when you listen to it from start to finish and to create something we’re proud of in terms of the whole aesthetic of the project. We’re playing a bunch of [live] stuff on it, and we’ve also got a few friends and vocalists that we’re doing sessions with.”
Since we’re still at least six months away from Canyons’ debut album (pegged for a spring 2010 release through Modular), self-titled asked the duo to dip into their DJ crate and talk about some of the tracks we might hear dropped tonight, as DFA and People Don’t Dance No More present a Hudson-trolling boat party with further sets from Jacques Renalt and OSCILLATIONS alum Justin Miller…
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