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 [...]
Lazy Sundays: Another Mixed Bag
We have covered some amazing music on Sundays, from new electronica and IDM to classic albums and DJ mixes. This week, I thought I would change it up a little and pick out some quality tunes that have been floating about over the last month or so to keep your Sunday as relaxed as possible. [...]
Nathan Fake and Mark Pritchard join the Radiohead remixers
Following the brilliant Jacques Greene and Caribou remixes, the next installment of Radiohead remixes has arrived. Lined up behind the desk this time we have melancholy electronica master Nathan Fake and the man of many names – Mark Pritchard – appearing once under his own name and once under his Harmonic 313 alias. Fake takes [...]
Lazy Sundays: ASC – Music For Pictures – free downloads
ASC has a reputation for top quality electronica and while a lot of his work hovers around the 170 BPM mark, he’s also responsible for a huge amount of quality downtempo and IDM work (also under his Intex Systems alias). The folk at Liquid Cinema signed him up for an album of soundtrack work and [...]
