🎶 #nowplaying Shed – Killer (2012)
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Despite his move from Ostgut Ton to Modeselektor's 50Weapons stable, Rene Pawlowitz's third album as Shed is for the most part business as usual - that business being the supply of richly evocative and highly effective techno for head and feet. As with Shedding The Past and The Traveller, The Killer gives equal weight to dubbed-out, dreamy IDM investigations as it does to club-ready material, though on tracks like 'Silent Witness' and the absolutely boss 'I Come By Night', an effective synthesis of these two divergent tendencies is achieved. All that said, as befits Shed's departure from the Berghain camp, there's actually little in the way of conventional 4/4 to be heard on The Killer anyway, with a bias instead towards spring-loaded breakbeats both fast ('V10MF!/The Filler', the wonderful 'Follow The Leader') and slow - 'Day After', to take one example, exists at the intersection of dubstep and Scorn-like hip-hop (as previously done, with more vitriol, on 12" cut 'RQ-170'). The A-side of that 12", 'The Praetorian', appears here in an ambient album mix, the Autechre-ish beats dispensed with all the better to emphasise the mellifluous, almost psychedelic synth-scaping at work. 'Ride On' might just be the LP's highlight, with its broken steppers' rhythm, delirious vocal stabs and dark strings - this is the real soundtrack to driving through Mega City One at night. You know you're always going to get tremendous value from Shed, and tunes that you'll return to time and time again - The Killer is, as expected, killer.
🎶 #nowplaying Really Red – Teaching You The Fear: The Complete Collection 1979-1985
REALLY RED was the backbone of Houston's underground from the early punk era clear through 80's hardcore. Like The Dicks in Austin, they directly challenged an insanely violent policed department at no small risk to their own lives. Their sound itself had more art and post-punk elements then most, with a musical and lyrical depth on par with bands like Mission of Burma, Wire, or Dead Kennedys. This collection presents the sound better then it has ever been, so hear them again for the first time - or the first time EVER.
We’re loving the new album Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico’, by @tancologne
Watch their video for Alien over at DS.
Tan Cologne are the American duo of Lauren Green (formerly Mirror Travel) and interdisciplinary artist Marissa Macias who began collaborating in Taos, NM.
Their debut album Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico came out last week and ‘Alien’ is a shimmering, atmospheric and gently propulsive example of the cosmic psychedelia that the pair have created.
You can hear the desert, the stars, the shimmering heat of the day and the cool twilight breeze as they blend their vocals and drape the sound in reverb and delay. Everything drifts lightly via the billowing and swirling guitars. Think Mazzy Star, Warpaint at the most ethereal and CAN suspended in a dream-state.
Cave Vaults On The Moon In New Mexico is out now via @labradorrecords
