Rolling Re-Re-Reconstructed Club Music 2021

Horrible news, love the records so much :'(

oh no! :(

This is sick:

https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/na-zala-zala

Really enjoying this too (spacey chords on top of hard breaks & kicks in the 130 - 150 range, US producer on a UK label):

https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/call

DJ Delish absolutely bringing it once again:

https://djdelish.bandcamp.com/album/28th

I'll be on Chal Raven's radio show in an hour on threadsradio.com, selecting some tunes and playing some new tracks (actually I don't know how many of the selections may have gotten cut for time, we'll see!). Hopefully it'll be archived, it was great to talk to her.

Mixcloud archive is up, also dropped a new EP of dance music:

https://www.mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/interrobang-w-chants-27-jul-21/

https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/quintuple-helix-ep

Catching up:

Siu Mata - Speed Dembow Edit Pack vol 1
https://broworkk.bandcamp.com/album/siu-mata-speed-dembow-edit-pack-vol-1

quest?onmarc two-tracker
https://questionmarcdj.bandcamp.com/album/contagion-spinout
(the Neana collab is a banger)

NKC - Beams
https://nkcproductions.bandcamp.com/
Blown out drum tracks but with some '90s/00s movie soundtrack vibes, title track is like post-Big Beat?

New amazondotcom EP coming, eagerly anticipating this one:
https://amazondotcom.bandcamp.com/album/war-bride

all centre 3rd anniversary compilation (remixes)
https://allcentre.bandcamp.com/album/all-centre-acen3001-3rd-anniversary-compilation

New Tristan Arp:
https://tristanarp.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-looking-glass

Also the first track from aya's Hyperdub debut album <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8Xo-zjBg8

That NKC is very nice, thanks! I need to do some catching up myself, been sleeping on music this summer because I've been trying to avoid spending money as much as possible since I've not been making a regular check since June. I budgeted very carefully, and even with a fair amount set aside for whims, I am just now coming to the end of the money...and I start a new gig on Wednesday for a few months. The wishlist has grown a lot these few months.

Interesting compilation, preview tracks are very promising (especially the Precolumbian & Estoc):

https://behuaicara.bandcamp.com/album/behua-icara-ritmos-para-sanar-vol-2

Some Bandcamp day highlights:

Goon Club Allstars & Friends vol 1 (DJ Lag, Nidia, etc)
https://gooncluballstars.bandcamp.com/album/goon-club-allstars-friends-volume-1

Sputnik One (Wisdom Teeth)
https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/sputnik-one-love-from-above-ep
Really into this one

Dave Quam - Vexations
https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/vexations
2 bangers

Scratcha DVA - Afrotek
https://scratchadva.bandcamp.com/album/afrotek-ep
(Gqom-esque)

Ikävä Pii - EPOS Digitale (Early Reflex)
https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/epos-digitale

thank youu

love that aya tune, stoked for the record

k wata delivers on the promise of his earlier ep on an interesting compilation

https://etoano.bandcamp.com/track/k-wata-wok-hei

New DJ Haram sounding just right: https://djharam.bandcamp.com/album/era

For those into the Nashazphone/ZULI and Cairo experimental scene, "1127" released a 41-track record the other day, and some of it sounds pretty amazing
https://1127.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-adrenalean-post-kovidclub

Will check that out.

The full Ritmos para Sanar Vol​.​2 comp I posted above is really strong btw.

Speaking of K Wata, this is a sick remix lineup (amazondotcom, Clemency, Henzo):
https://kwata.bandcamp.com/album/do-u-want-remixes

And speaking of amazondotcom, her full EP is out today:
https://amazondotcom.bandcamp.com/album/war-bride

The Scotch Rolex record is really amazing, can't remember whether we've talked about it yet.

Big comp from Livity Sound: https://livitysound.bandcamp.com/album/molten-mirrors-a-decade-of-livity-sound

This is cool too: https://simocell.bandcamp.com/album/yes-dj-mini-album-fanzine

Really nice vocal track from Hiedrah Club de Baile (Buenos Aires): https://hiedrah.bandcamp.com/album/fe-en-la-mantis

And new Holy Other, after 8 years?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hjjOtWzLM

This new Slikback record, all collaborations, is absolutely FLATTENING ME right now. It is fucking bananas good.

https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/melt

all of that and it’s name your own price? damn

i know right

new air max 97, first track is a bit schaffel-y

https://airmax97.bandcamp.com/album/psyllium-eat-the-rich

AM97 has the newest Dekmantel podcast, haven't listened yet.

Serious percussive club fare from Strict Face:
https://music.strictface.net/album/pulsers

Yet another full length of various flavors of dembow/kudurow type bass music from INVT, I don't know how they are so prolific
https://invt.bandcamp.com/album/doble-carga

Also been going back to the georg-i EP on YCO a lot, it's probably my stand-out of the year for sound design.

That schaffel beat is an interesting twist. The flip is more compelling to me tho, a powerful rhythm. The podcast was a bit all over the place for me.

Unrelated to Air Max 97 but at the moment I'm hearing quite a few tracks that sound like this +10 bpm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T423D-NzrkA

(If you don't want to hear 2-step progressive breakbeat from 1997 don't bother clicking. I guess it is vaguely related to Air Max 97, at least numerically.)

Does this count?

https://kessleruk.bandcamp.com/album/ambivalent-ep

Just a chill d’n’b/breakbeat record that sports the right amount of haunting melodies. Love it.

― pomenitul, Friday, February 26, 2021 9:46 AM

Just wanted to say that this is really good.

also getting a bit ... trad? but weird enough and nicely moody for autumn covid purgatory nyc

https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/invariant

like that, uptown churl.

https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/im-hole

let's gooooooo

Yessssss, so proud of her, waiting to dive in until I can really experience this.

This article on the production is great too: https://ra.co/features/3903

Tristan Arp album is out today too:
https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/sculpturegardening

I can't get into Arp's stuff, for whatever reason I find it really unremarkable.

This latest Call Super release is fantastic. He has quite a distinct aesthetic. Thinking he was French I was going to make a comparison with the production work of Joakim but no Call Super is from London innit.

(The titles are Cherry Drops I and II. I don't know if it's a double EP, an LP or what.)

Thanks for the heads up:

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/album/call-super-cherry-drops-i

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/album/call-super-cherry-drops-ii

Getting perversely into how the drums are pointedly dry and rinky-dinky while the synths are super lush and psychedelic

gonna register my … bemusement with the new aya, maybe I’m on the wrong side of history but the sort of post Sophie glitchy robot diva vox aren’t doing it for me, obv production is virtuosic but it’s so intensely twitchy and in your face, maybe I’m just too old …

I'll admit that the instrumental tracks are my faves, but I appreciate the balance and absolutely love the record, she did it. Aya has a such a clear voice through production & synthesizers, they always sound so alive and spontaneous, I can't imagine thinking like that. (I'll never get over the Turbulent Dynamics EP though.)

Tbh I'm having a harder time with the Lotic album, another brilliant producer turned vocalist. Except she's really singing, un-effected, a lot. All the songs work better in the context of the album than as singles, but it's so dense...there's a ton going on with the production, and then there are always all these layers of vocals happening on top. The back half of the album has some lovely moments though, especially 'Apart', I was waiting to hear that one again.

(really just wishing both of them success though, I know so much went into these albums)

oh for sure, i'm very into, in theory, the sort of pro-social transhumanist vibe emanating from european experimental-club yet pop adjacent stuff like sophie, aya, lotic and ... some others im forgetting, stateside lagging on this tip. maybe arca is sort of parallel/precursor from a more hip-hop rhythmic axis

as for that production article, mixing into waves L2! a nice reminder that simplicity in DAW music is key

clunkers and bangers both abound on this comp but when it hits its cool:

https://zonaexp.bandcamp.com/track/brasil-olho-chorando

A couple big records today --

De Grandi - Euro Control
(full of bangers)
https://degrandi.bandcamp.com/album/euro-control

Fraxinus - Position (Displacement)
(first album in forever, still absorbing but there's some really sharp club material here)
https://powerplant.link/album/position-displacement

In February, pom recommended this record by Kessler, and I quite like it.
https://kessleruk.bandcamp.com/album/ambivalent-ep

Also, if yr into his thing, new EP released today from Slikback— pay what you want, pretty fucking sick!

https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-i-just-want-to-feel

Parris:

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/track/crimson-kano

First things first the 2nd Single from my album is up today ‘Crimson Kano’ ahead of full release on the 19th November. Here’s some words about it:

Crimson Kano started out as an idea in exploring polyrhythms and time signatures. I saw @ben___ufo mention this idea when describing using different polyrhythms to swap tempo seamlessly in a DJ set and I wanted to try to write a tool that explored this idea explicitly where it kinda leaves you like ‘wtf, how did I get here’. I’ve written a few tunes in 3/4 but never at 160 so wanted to show how you can explore two different rhythms at once at the same to make something sound fast and slow simultaneously.

Some gripping theory there, guess I should start paying attention to Ben UFO again. Tbh I had tuned him and his crew out because they were becoming such a dominant force in the scene that I didn't want my tastes to be majorly shaped by this small clique.

(Apologies if we've already cancelled mentions of 'the scene' here. Also thanks to Jordan for posting those Call Super links for me -- I tried searching for them when I posted but either they weren't up yet or I overlooked them.)

And yeah instead of Hessle Audio I allow my tastes to be shaped by Livity Sound and Lobster Theremin these days.

If you want to hear some crazy metric modulation-based mixed (aka 'triplet mixes'), this mix is a flex:

https://soundcloud.com/peopleofvalley/michaelbrailey-for-valley

Yesss that’s the sauce. It’s very compelling in a not especially dancefloor-friendly way. Some of it is quite catchy. It’s sort of filling the same niche as math rock. Or Linkin Park? Could do without more of that.

Quite of few of his own edits on the track list. Some aya too.

Ha yes, I love it in a math rock/minimalist drummer brain way, but is essentially just showing off for other DJs/musicians, I'm sure no one on a dancefloor really cares about the elegance of your shift into a new tempo.

Now I'm going back to my fave MICHAELBRAILEY edits of yore:
https://michaelbrailey.bandcamp.com/track/shalt-x-sean-paul-temperature-michaelbrailey-acheron-ultimate-destruction-edit

https://michaelbrailey.bandcamp.com/track/grrl-x-mariah-we-belong-together-michaelbrailey-workout-runway-gym-edit

(he's a gem, we've been labelmates twice over)

viborg, you might be interested in the Donato Dozzy record that came out end of last year, as it is at 170 BPM but due to the polyrhythms and such, it truly does not sound like it excepting one track: https://donaotodozzysm.bandcamp.com/album/the-tao

I really like it.

I did the old ‘change the tempo using triplets’ trick on an EP for Cut La Roc about 10 years ago but going from 140bpm breakstep to 93.3bpm hip hop and back. Probably not the best idea to keep people on a dancefloor in retrospect 😂.