Lazy Sundays: Grouper
For those uninitiated in the world of Grouper, it’s the solo project of American musician Liz Harris who creates vast complex soundscapes though ambient noises, field recordings as well as electronic and acoustic instruments. This is music that can stir deep emotion as well has having the ability to send you to sleep as the [...]
Lazy Sundays: Vittorio Mazoni – free downloads
While not, in fact, Italian, geographically-juxtaposed duo Vittorio Mazzoni clearly appreciate the country’s library music and soundtracks of the 1960s. The pair make their music hundreds of miles apart. Josh lives in Cumbernauld – Strathclyde’s least favourite post-modern urban hell-hole, while Dan lives London, the centre of the known universe. Benevento All’alba by Vittorio Mazzoni [...]
Inanna – Cariad
Los Angeles producer Inanna is a new name on me but this lovely slab of atmospheric goodness guarantees it’ll be one I’ll be watching out for in future. The original is a wonderfully constructed piece of floaty electronica and almost doesn’t need any beats to drive it along. There’s also a package of remixes, the [...]
Lazy Sundays: Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos
Tim Hecker’s ambient soundscapes have long found a home here on the Sunday Labs playlist and his “Ravedeath, 1972″ album is definitely one of the year’s best. He’s just released “Dropped Pianos”, an album of tracks that originally formed the sketches for the “Ravedeath, 1972″ material but that stand easily alone. Ranging from complex piano [...]
Perc – You Saw Me (TVO remixes)
Perc’s recent album “Wicker & Steel” is packed to the brim with quality moody techno and he’s recently opened up the tracks for remixing. The reworks that stood head and shoulders above the rest for us were from Broken20 label boss TVO. He delivers two takes of “You Saw Me”, the first of which (the [...]
Lazy Sundays: Sasha & John Digweed – Northern Exposure
In the what now seems like the distant past of the early and mid ’90s, the electronic music scene had grown for underground parties in cities throughout the UK, through raves in fields and was fast becoming a more mainstream affair. There was money to be made and stars to be born. Both clubs and [...]
Lazy Sunday: Oneohtrix Point Never
I first got hold of some Oneohtrix Point Never (OPN) music when good friend Konx-om-Pax gave me the promo for his compilation album “Rifts” (which he had designed the sleeve for). From that moment on I have been hooked on what has been on offer from the US producer also know as Daniel Lopatin. His [...]
Lazy Sundays: Teargas & Plateglass
Sunday’s take a dark turn this week with the eerie atmospherics of Teargas & Plateglass.
Lazy Sundays: Techno Dads’ Hardcore Chillout mix
The Techno Dads blog is here to help us make the adjustment into old age where looking after kids takes priority over attemping to look after ourselves after weekends spent mashed in front of speakers. Alongside the posts about classic techno and house there’s also some rather nice mixes entitled “Dad Casts”.The latest in the [...]
Lazy Sundays: Dadavistic Orchestra
While we’ve been getting busy getting all enthusiastic about the new techno material from The Black Dog, it seems this collaborative project sneaked under the radar. The six sides of the hexagon that is the Dadavistic Orchestra comsists of the three members of the Dog alongside three members of influential electronica pioneers the Psychick Warriors [...]
