ENDUSER [US:OHIO]
not so distant drums
this track represents one of those instances of having your preconceptions blown in the space of four minutes. never before has bollywood sounded so mind-altering than in this breakcore / broken beat widescreen presentation courtesy of ohio’s enduser, aka solo producer lynn standafer. both bhangra and breakcore can be found filed away in my cd library, i just never assumed i would ever find them together in the same temple. and now that i have, their marriage seems absolutely right and absolutely essential. and enduser‘s breakcore is not as damaging as say something like shitmat, it’s far more considered – the deft editing shines through admist the bewildering choas of the beats. this track comes from last year’s e.p. ‘bollywood breaks’, which also features contributions from larvae, mad e.p. and line47 (co-founder of enduser’s sonicterror label). nip over to the adnoiseam site for further excerpts from this release as well as hours worth of other mp3s from the label’s catalouge. more info on enduser here.
P-LOVE [CANADA]
blue and brown (feat. bonobo)
bully records bring something very special to your door with their new release, the debut full-length from p-love. under the p-love name, paolo kapunan has appeared on releases not only through bully, but also on mush and ninja tune which should give you an instant indication of the territory he’s exploring. on the history front, sixtoo features heavily in p-love’s collaborative resume, as does the dex-trimental kid koala. the album, due 20th september, is called ‘all in your mind’ and features another sixtoo buddy matt kelly, plus bonobo (as heard above), simon from quantic soul orchestra and brazilian producer amon tobin. in stark contrast to the above post, this mp3 begins with the lightest of touches and keeps the beats on hard restraint until the climax. if this is any indication of what’s to come, p-love will be all over your favourite music magazine in the next few weeks.
BOSTICH [MEXICO]
autobanda
polaris
a long overdue follow-up to the recent nortec collective interview on the fat planet show a few weeks back. bostich is ramon amezcua from tiajuana. a former dentist (ah, the rhythm of the drill!), amezuca has been on the bostich tip for the last 17 years, and in 1999 released the first ‘nortec’ track, the above mp3 ‘polaris’. this was regarded as break-through moment in mexican music, fusing the traditional ‘nortena’ sound with contemporary production – a technique oft-used for other traditional sounds worldwide, but never adapted to nortena. thus, the nortec collective was born and they’ve been keeping headz nodding on their many ventures ever since. the new nortec record ‘the tijuana sessions vol.3’ naturally features bostich alongside fellow nortec-ers clorofila, fussible, hiperboreal and pan√≥ptica. get the full back story at the home of nortec, mil records and more mp3s from bostich at bostich.com.
THIS WEEK’S RADIO SHOW: the feature album this week has had a long gestation before it finally reached australian shores. crammed disc’s ‘electric gypsyland’ was first released back in april last year, and is only now getting a respectable local release. at first glance, electronic remixes of balkan music might raise a few hairs, but praise is due to crammed for not going for the obvious commerical market, offering instead an eclectic and often experimental selection of mixes of taraf de haidouks and the kocani orkestar from the likes of avant-jazz producer juryman, the marvellous arto lindsay and uk-dub producer bigga bush from rockers hi-fi. more info here.