Jodeci — Freek n You (TOKiMONSTA Frickinyoo remix)
TOKiMONSTA is the greatest. Today she dropped this slo-jam, accompanied by the following instructions: “Make some frickin freek babies.”
DONE.
R+Naaaa — IE
from R+Naaaa (Riow Arai + Nonpareille, Anna Yamada, Akane Del Mar, Ayako Akashiba, Achico) (2009)
Understated beauty from Tokyo-based electronic producer Riow Arai in collaboration with Anna Yamada.
Panabrite — Octopus in Your Dreams
from Sub-Aquatic Meditation (Aguirre Records, 2012)
Lovely scuba-diving sounds from Portland’s amazingly prolific Panabrite, aka Norm Chambers, a lover of “library production music, nature/science documentaries, and vintage electronic sounds.”
Analog at its most magical. Get it at bandcamp. (along with a huge number of other slow thrillers!) Or visit Panabrite at soundcloud / blogspot.
Urban Dance — Alienlover
from Ceramic Dance (1986)
This…is the FUTURE. Well ok actually, it’s 1986—incredible Japanese techno-pop that sounds like it could have come out yesterday. What is up with those crazy guitar loops? Amazing stuff, really.
Urban Dance is headed by Shinobu Narita, who handles electronics, guitar and vocals. And as many trailblazing projects are, this EP was produced with help from Haruomi Hosono.
Read more here, in Japanese. WaxMask has the follow-up album to this EP.
Roberto Cacciapaglia — My Time
from The Ann Steel Album (1979)
This song is the best thing I’ve heard in months. It’s from a one-off collaboration between American-born model Ann Steel, who sings like a beautiful robot, and Roberto Cacciapaglia, a Milanese pianist, composer and computer music scholar. The chugging electronic beats he created here are hypnotizingly good. Pre-natal Stereolab.
Stored on the shelves of my memory / My thoughts are in perfect array
My life runs smooth like a highway / billboards show me the way
My way of life has the glamour / of an artificial neon ad
I need overwhelming information / for a complete shopping list
Acrylic colours oscillate my eyes / when i walk down a drugstore aisleStored on the shelves of my memory / My thoughts are in perfect array
I learn do it yourself cybernetics / While I’m jogging on a rolling tray
I love my weekends in the pure air / On the heights of the Eiffel tower
My time my time I love my time
Walsh — Welcome to 2k12
from Back 2 the High Life (2k12)
Been digging on the new Walsh release all week. Brandon Biondo strikes again! Get yer funk on at bandcamp or the sublime AMDISCS. And pop open a High Life while yer at it.
Trippple Nippples — Golden Road (Oli Chang Remix) (2012)
More beautiful sounds from the Tokyo dream team, Trippple Nippples, re-imagined by remix wizard Oli Chang. (you can hear the original on the Trippple Nippples soundcloud)
I was lucky enough to catch the girls’ Glasslands show last month, an audio freakout with a jaw-dropping stage show to match. Catch them if you can… (bring earplugs)
In this past week the High Highs’ Oli Chang has dropped half a dozen amazing new remixes over on his Sndcld. Don’t miss his redo of Empire of the Sun’s “Walking on the Sun” and Millionyoung “Replicants” - all stripped naked and repainted with piano and atmospherics. Absolutely lovely.
Oh, and speaking of the women of Tokyo’s Trippple Nippples… I can’t wait to tell you about #MEGABLAAG SXSW 2012. Sayin’. Shhhh. Here. Shhhh.
Big K.R.I.T. — Moon & Stars (Clams Casino Remix) (2011)
Damn, clams! Everything Clams Casino touches hits the jackpot.
Francisco y Madero — Poolpartyndo
from acapulco en la azotea EP (2011)
Carlos Pesina has yet another great project to keep track of, in addition to his work as Pepepe and Los Amparito. His newest collaboration, with San Francisco’s Jess Sylvester on guitar, is Francisco y Madero.
Their EP Acapulco en la azotea is a beachy escape, launched, like a resort wear collection, just in time for your daydreams of the tropics.
previously on yerdarlingdaily // bandcamp
via odiolosjueves (Pesina’s tumblr)
Roberto Carlos Lange — Way
from Vesicle Pisces (2011)
Here’s a quiet, thrilling piece of drone from Robert Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro. A sort of rumbling electro-acoustic odyssey, glued together with pipe organ, a subtle pleasure for your ears. It’s also free for the taking at his bandcamp.
Roberto performs this Friday 12/23 at The Stone in NYC, as part of the dublab/Luaka Bop night of programming.
Ata Kak — DaaNyinaa
from Obaa Sima (1995?)
When I first heard this I was in a stupor for seven minutes—what the hell is this?
It’s Ghanaian highlife singer Ata Kak rap-singing on top of clubby techno beats and shabby synth piano, with a few Michael-Jackson-esque shrieks thrown in—and released on CASSETTE. This shit is old. And it’s some of the catchiest stuff I’ve heard in recent memory.
I first heard this track on Dent May’s Journey Through the Nite mixtape for Vice Magazine, which is highly danceable and highly recommended. The original source is of course none other than the unbeatable blog Awesome Tapes from Africa—but you might want to grab the remastered album, here.
Vektroid — Splash
from Neo Cali (Oct 2011)
This song rises up and spreads its wings, like a little mushroom poking slowly through pine needles on the forest floor, before it opens its cap and shoots spores all over the place. To hear 18-year-old Washington state producer Vektroid tell it:
this is my ode to moody summers transfigured upon pattern diffused lifescapes and brushed off; to fabricated memories of teen hackers of the past and their elementary school computer labs buried deep within the oceans of time. to a new life, experienced more vividly through microsoft encarta and library terminals of the past. we miss you.
Album drops Oct 7th; you can pre-order over at Bandcamp. Til then, why don’t you boot up MS-DOS, sit back, and relax…
Glass Boy — A friendship over a long distance.
from Splayed and Nonplussed (2011)
Something dreamy from itinerant electronic producer Glass Boy aka Justin Lambert, currently in Brooklyn, by way of Bloomington, Indiana and Charleston, South Carolina. Says his bio: “He is currently working on the soundtrack for a documentary on victims of torture for the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture.” Stay tuned…
Book your delayed vacation over at the Free Music Archive.
Suzanne Kraft — Chng
Absolutely kicking track from my favorite disco kid, Suzanne Kraft aka Diego Herrera. So impossibly funky it makes me wish I was doing aerobics. A potential liability if you’re listening in a locale that doesn’t permit dancing. To which I say—get thee to a dancefloor.
Of this track, Diego says: “it’s a re-edit I did well over a year ago that Running Back wanted to put out but I messed up the Ableton set and couldn’t get it sounding how I wanted it to.”
Sounds pretty much how I want it to though… and speaking of Running Back, it’s a Berlin-based label that’s just put out Kraft’s Green Flash LP… a Voyager-worthy record (ok it’s not golden) of slowly evolving, slightly hypnotic disco boogie beats. I’ll post a track from that soon. If you can’t wait, go run back over there to check out the LP, the mp3s, or the Running Back tumblr. Oh yeah, and the original posting of ‘Chng’ o’er at the mighty dublab mp3 blog.
