20 posts tagged “six”
although i probably don't need to call this to your attention, the Weekly Six has been shelved, indefinitely. this has been the case since around the beginning of the year, before traveling in India for two months and moving to San Francisco. other areas of life have demanded far too much attention as of late (see above), and such frivolities must unfortunately face the knife as a result.
keep watching this space for new music reviews and who knows what else...
partly to revisit the theme of last saturday night, and partly because these are simply a few of the things that have caught my ear as of late. below you will find sub-bass to rock your very core. syncopated beats to induce mental tailspin. quaking chaos of the darkest and most intensely sublime variety, to arouse terror and awe in equal balance. i hereby offer you some mad shit. oh and some other stuff too, including Björk, just because she's a cutie. enjoy.
- Enduser - Death Vest
- Covenant - Wasteland
- Dryft - End of the In
- The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Justin Robertson 12" Mix)
- The Herbaliser - Moon Sequence
- Venetian Snares - Epidermis
uploaded last week, but posting was interrupted by a weekend away in London. insert meandering thoughts about the six in this space. please mind the gap.
- Milla - Rocket Collecting
- UNKLE - Celestial Annihilation
- First Movement - Altered Acclivity
- Lindstrøm - The Contemporary Fix
- BT - Dreaming
- Kurtis Mantronik - Hush
there's a little bit of both pre- and post-Maschinenfest mixed through this edition of the six. you could almost say our theme song of the past few weeks, not to mention the road trip to and from Germany, was that Robyn track. it is so strangely addictive, and we fucking LOVE it. check out the fun little video here. Drumcorps of course performed at M'fest, with his long ropey dreads, electric guitar and a heaping spoonful of chaos. i was happy to see the Pelican disc on sale at the Ad Noiseam table while there (apparently just because Nicolas likes it), and the Enduser track covers the melancholy sheen inherent in standard versions of reality. Pig & Dan speaks for itself as quality, grooving techno, and well Death In Vegas in a way continues the ragga theme we had going this past weekend (which, for the record, included much breakcore and jungle goodness).
anyway.... the next six.
- Enduser - Choppin Lambs
- Pig & Dan - On To The Beat
- Pelican - A Delicate Sense Of Balance
- Death In Vegas - Twist And Crawl
- Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
- Drumcorps - Incarnate
no (real) job, no school, no money, and yet somehow i remain a busy man (read: no time). when you're in limbo, it seems, the days are just packed. or on the other hand, when you're sick (as i've been this past weekend) you might just feel like a waste of life. especially when the weather is nice, as it was on saturday and sunday. i haven't gone running in almost a week now. it's predicted to rain all this week, like it did last week. my poor girl sprained her ankle last thursday night. stuff that probably should have happened didn't really happen these past few days. but at least we ate well, and taught ourselves how to play gin rummy...
- Frank Lorber - Sky High
- Sigur Rós - Hjartað Hamast (Bamm Bamm Bamm)
- Autechre - Cichli
- Agoria - Kofea
- Tarmvred - Primitive Germanic
- The Herbaliser - Bring It
i had all these tracks uploaded before going on vacation last week (as some of you may have noticed), with the intention of posting the next installment of the six before departure. for various reasons (packing, for instance) that didn't happen, so now it's time to actually follow through with the formalities. this isn't yet the six of thesis doom, the cuts that pushed me through endless days of reading, writing and research, but rather a few items that caught my ear in the meantime since. maybe i should call this the back-to-school six, just because it's that time of year and i can now safely say (with rather smug satisfaction) the phrase doesn't apply to me. from a nicely executed Nine Inch Nails cover to classic acid hooks, simple abstract beats to your darkest jungle nightmares... enjoy.
- Mira Calix - Simple Friends
- Tiga - Down In It
- Orbital - Lush 3-2
- J Dilla - Over The Breaks
- Adam F - Jaxx
- Edgey - Remorse
time to make an attempt at getting back on track with the six. many things in life take a back seat when one is working hard to finish up a masters thesis, it seems. now that it's at least submitted, i can work on catching up in other areas. perhaps the most appropriate thing to do would be to list the six tracks that got me through those months of research, reading and writing about architecture and the conditions of supermodernity (Underworld's Mmm... Skyscraper I Love You comes directly to mind). although choosing only six might be a bit difficult, it's a likely candidate for the next edition of the six. for now, however, i give you a list that's been gradually condensing like summer air on a cold glass of water, reflecting a state of curious dedication traced with indistinct shades of nihilism. something akin to paranoia, in other words.
welcome to this week's six...
- Amon Tobin - Always
- Matthew Dear - Reason & Responsibility
- m² - Reanimation Limit
- Barbara Morgenstern - We're All Gonna Fucking Die
- Gridlock - 15
- Infected Mushroom - Frog Machine
been awhile, hasn't it? the excuses underlying a roughly half month absence from the six are many and varied. time flies when... well, never mind. take your techno and your glitch, your beats and your chanting, and be at least mildly satisfied with the state of your life. at least that's what my grandfather always told me.
lost in transit, this week's six fortunately had a tracking number...
- M.I.A. - 10 Dollar
- Swayzak - Celcius
- Hecq - Holo
- Infadels - Murder That Sound
- Oliver Bondzio - Best Kept Secret
- Bola - Pae Paoe
with a mood spiraling into comfortably numb, it's not really remarkable that the following tracks reflect the dichotomy of ebb and flow i've been engaging over the past few days. from quiet and laid-back with a splash of jazz, to percussive and in-your-face with extra heaps of buzzing bass, it seems like this week's theme is just another shade of black & white. but let's not let that undercurrent of unease go to waste while we're at it. the signals are all there, iced and dangerous, lying just out of reach in those gray areas of social, political, critical, polemical, emotional... you know there's something about a song when it can induce the most cosmic euphoria and the most bottomless depression simultaneously, time and time again. cheers, lou.
this week's six.
- Mocean Worker - Boba Fett
- Leaf - Glitch Exercise
- Zero 7 - Polaris
- Cubanate - Isolation
- Alias - Eyes Closed
- Lou Reed - Perfect Day
starting off with a hazy Bonobo ambiance of colored glass and polished wood, i then get hypnotized by the fathomless techno of Jacek Sienkiewicz, Hansel's latest release continues to get better with every listen, M83 plus remix equals a certain variety of bliss, the girl and i have been a little obsessed with Harrowdown Hill ever since Ellen Allien dropped it into the mix (reference here), and a little Dutch breakcore never hurt anyone... right?
so shake up a gin martini, extra-dry, toss in a couple olives and put your mind at ease...
it's finally time for this week's six.
- Bonobo - The Shark
- Jacek Sienkiewicz - Deep Layer
- Hansel - Mind Control
- Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
- Bong-Ra - Dub Murderer
