09 May 2009

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Atack of the Artist Albums

Posted: 09 May 2009 04:00 AM PDT

Every year the music industry flexes its muscles in the spring and fall to push out their higher selling full length albums in time for summer vacations and winter holidays. This spring is no different but it hasn’t gone without notice, at least for me, that the usual artist album rollout is of particularly high quality.

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Berghain 03 - Len Faki

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Two of the exclusive, and most forward-thinking tracks from Len Faki's critically acclaimed 'Berghain 03' mix get their own deserved soap box on Ostgut Ton, with Edit Select's rumbling opener 'Bauer' promising a night of atmospherics, and Len Faki's air-raid techno cut 'BX 3' hinting at future desolation. The energy is relentless and the outlook is rather scary.

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The first night of Nic Fanciulli’s tour: Chicago

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Nic Fanciulli puffs on a cigarette at 646 N. Franklin Street in Chicago. A train rackets overhead, clanging on rusty steel girders that scream renovate me. A man in a wheelchair with no feet asks for change. The only thing that shines is the moon and a flashing yellow light. Fanciulli exhales and drops his cigarette, staring at some imaginary point down the street like a captain anticipating stormy weather starboard. It's the first night of Nic Fanciulli's Global Underground North American tour and by God, it better go well.

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Spraycan EP - Renaissance Man

Posted: 08 May 2009 01:06 PM PDT

Have you ever been sitting at your desk, on a bus, or in line at the bank, and been listening to music on your headphones, and before you know it, you realize you’ve been very vigorously bopping your head up and down making a complete ass of yourself in public for the last five minutes? Well, that happened to me this morning. After a few sniggers and some sideways glances from the people around me, I realized what I was doing and thought I’d better check to see what had caused this embarrassing, albeit welcome, involuntary reaction. To my (non) surprise it was the playful, horn-laced, but heavy-hitting bass sounds of the new Dubsided EP ‘Spraycan’.

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