These New Puritans – Attack Music (HERVE garage attack dub) – free download

These New Puritans are a post rock electronic band with influences as far stretched as Yo La Tengo, Underworld and Wu-Tang Clan. As a result the tunes are ripe for a remix or two. Here’s one from The Count himself Herve. You can download this for a limited time from his Soundcloud page here.

These New Puritans – Attack Music (HERVE garage attack dub)

THESE NEW PURITANS attack music (the counts aka HERVE garage attack dub) by hervespace

Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) – free download

The Foals have been on top form of late with some amazing new work. Their haunting tune “Spanish Sahara” has been redone by Mount Kimbie giving it more of a glitchy, edgy feel. Have a listen and get downloading.

Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)

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Phuturelabs – Experiment 1 on Radio Magnetic

The kind folk at Radio Magnetic asked us if we’d take the Phuturelabs sound to their very high quality airwaves. We of course agreed, gathered up our fave tunes of the moment and dived in headfirst. It’s myself (Paul) and Cliff behind the controls for the first episode (or experiment if you will) with Kieran chipping in a wee guest mix of IDMness.

So pop on over to Magnetic and have a gander or listen below (higher quality bitrate MP3 coming shortly).

 

 Phuturelabs - Experiment 1 [75:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tracklisting:

1. Phantogram – When I’m Small – Ghostly
2. Breakage – Open Up – Digital Soundboy
3. The XX – VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
4. Distance – Beyond – Chestplate
5. Kuedo – Starfox – Planet Mu
6. The Set Up – Lizard (Ronin Reconstruction) – Nerve Breaks
7. Epyptrixx – Battle for North America – AAAHH!! Real Monsters
8. Noisia – Split The Atom – Vision
9. Four Tet – Love Cry – Domino
10. Donaeo – Riot Music (Skream rmx) – Digital Soundboy
11. Floating Points – Peoples Potential – Eglo
12. Seafar – GLA (FSOLDIGITAL.COM)
13. Seafar – High Tide at Point Ormond (FSOLDIGITAL.COM)
14. Midmir – Whiteout – Retronym
15. Fur – Witches – Waaga Records
16. Fur – Hidden – Waaga Records
17. Essell – Daydream – Soulseek Records
18. Echoes Escape – 10 (unsigned)
19. Fur – Friends (Solar Bears Remix) – Secret Station
20. DFRNT – Decay – On The Edge
21. Jose James – Blackmagic (Joy Orbison’s Recreation) – Brownswood
22. Y2D – Autonomy – Nerve
23. Black Van – Yearning (Emperor Machine Mix) – DFA
24. Caribou – Odessa – City Slang

Phenoplastic – Presented In Colour – free download

If you’re a fan of Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada, or just a fan of quality IDM electronica, then you should really give Phenoplastic’s recent release “Presented In Colour” a listen.

Hailing from the “dear green place” of Glasgow, Phenoplastic (aka Paul Harrison) is an upcoming musician producing music that is, on the one hand reminiscent of tracks you might have heard before, and at the same time, utterly original.

Kieran (PL)- “So, tell us a bit about yourself- how did you get into writing electronic music?”

Phenoplastic- “Well… I’m a jazz musician mainly – a piano player, though I’ve been making electronica for far longer, since I was about 14. It all began when my Commodore 64, which was pretty cool for music at the time, was replaced by an Amiga 500, and I started making tunes with the tracker software everyone was using back then.

I have tapes and tapes of stuff from back then (the very early 90s) which I dug out recently and listened to again. Nothing releasable there though, I think, though it was great to hear them again!”

Kieran (PL)- “What does your studio setup consist of? What did you use for ‘Presented In Colour’?”

Phenoplastic- “The album was produced using Logic, mainly with softsynths and all kinds of plugins. I’m always looking for new ways to distort and dirty sounds. I’ve always thought that the post-digital obsession with ‘hi-fi’ was misplaced and that more lo-fi sounds can communicate more spirit and soul. I don’t know why this is, though. I also suppose I use some of my jazz influences to bring in weird melodies – different kinds of melodies and harmonies that you don’t often hear with electronica.”

Kieran (PL)- “Anything else you think we should know about Phenoplastic? “

Phenoplastic- “….I should tell you that I’ve started on the follow up to ‘Presented in Colour’. No idea when it will be done though!

Many thanks to Phenoplastic for taking the time to answer a few questions for us!

If you’re liking the tracks below you can download the entire album, in all its various digital formats, for free here.

Phenoplastic – The Alms

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Phenoplastic – Skellybob Wood

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Phenoplastic – Hawaii 61

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Autechre 12 hour long Radio Broadcast 02/03/10

Originally broadcast via their website on Tuesday the 2nd of March 2010.

A 12 hour long continuous mix by the Autechre boys featuring over 170 tracks!!

From Squarepusher to Herb Albert via Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, FSOL & 808 State, this mix has got it all!

One listener managed to record the entire show and has made it available for download via P2P sharing here. Size of the mix is nearly 700mb and the quality is 128kbps.

Alternatively you can get it directly from the below link-

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Autechre 12 hour Radio Broadcast

No track list was provided for the mix- so an army of fans have made a collaborative public google docs file here to try and figure one out. As time goes on it will become more complete- but even a quick scan just now shows that the mix is fairly comprehensive!!

Unfortunately putting a 12 hour mix onto the blog isn’t possible- so instead I’ll leave you with one of my favourite Autechre tracks “Second Bad Vibel” (Video by Chris Cunningham).

Ekaj – Detox – free download

Time for some big chunky breaks shenanigans! In recent years the breaks scene has kinda died off a little and as a genre it isn’t really represented that well – but with some digging you can still uncover the odd gem and this is a prime example! This has just been released for free on my Nerve Breaks label so get this on your Mp3 player of choice asap and get yer armchair groove on!

Ekaj – “Detox”

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Competition – win a copy of Breakage’s “Foundation” album

The nice folk at Digital Soundboy have given us two copies of Breakage’s amazing “Foundation” album to give away. It’s an absolutely brilliant album and you can read our review from earlier this month for more info.

To enter the competition simply email us your name and address and we’ll pick two names out of the hat next Monday (15th March).

Entering also automatically adds you to our email list but don’t worry – you won’t get tons of spam from us – all you’ll get is a once weekly email listing all the posts from the previous week and the very very occasional email with the early heads up on stuff we have coming up on the site.

To get you in the mood – here’s the video for new single “Speechless (featuring Donaeo)”.

Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)

Caribou tune “Melody Day” remixed by Four Tet has been wearing down my hard drive for weeks now. Sit back, relax and enjoy!

Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet Remix) by Caribouband

The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Baby (Clock Opera Remix) – free download

New York’s finest live 8 piece The Phenomenal Handclap Band have been given another rework. So many doing the rounds at the moment but this one is a stand out. Their tune “Baby” had been funked up by London producer Clock Opera. Thanks to the guys at XLR8R for the heads up.

The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Baby (Clock Opera Remix)

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Joey Beltram – Slice 2010

Lots of 2010 updated working their way onto the Phuturelabs headphones at the moment!

After the brilliant remixes of Yello, it’s time for Joey Beltram’s 2001 track “Slice” to get an update. The original was a cracking wee techno number with a bassline reminiscent of “I Feel Love” and the first remix from Carl Cox doesn’t wander too far from the original, simply beefing up the sounds in a “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” stylee. Alan Fitzpatrick steps up next and retains the vocal hook of the original but sprinkles a touch of darkness over proceedings – turning the track into a moody techno rumbler. Joseph Capriati’s remix finishes off the package and while he does a good job – it’s the first two remixes that tickled my fancy.

Joey Beltram – Slice 2010 (Carl Cox rerub)

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Joey Beltram – Slice 2010 (Alan Fitzpatrick rmx)

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