Teleosteopathy

I went to the Warehouse Project in Manchester last weekend along with a couple of friends to see Marco Carola and Sven Väth doing their thing. In the end it was a bit disappointing - read about it here if you want to.

In any case it made me want to make another mix, so here it is. It’s got tracks from a few albums that i’ve been playing a lot recently - Michal Ho, Onur Özer (see the previous post), Gaiser - and two cuts from Hugo’s subliminal Death By Sex release. I’ve also been getting HUGE mileage out of Daft Punk’s Homework of late, so I just had to sneak in a little slice of that 90s classic. The mix is no marathon - it’s about 40 minutes I think - so hopefully a few of you will have time to hear it.

OH HUGO NOV’ 07

DOP - Allo Boom Boom [Circus Company]
Miss Fitz - Every Week [Freak N Chic]
Onur Özer - Traumbone [Vakant]
Mark Broom - New Life [Donnacha Costello Remix] [Minimise]
Daft Punk - High Fidelity [Daft Trax]
Hugo - Cacao [Tuning Spork]
Hugo - Cocadisco [Tuning Spork]
Miguel Toro - Otro [Moon Harbour]
Michal Ho - Saftwerk [Tuning Spork]
Gaiser - Eye Contact [M_nus]
Len Faki - My Black Sheep [L.B. Dub Corp Remix] [Figure]
Aquilina & Venturi - 3 Hours [Trapez]

Michal Ho’s Screw The Coffeemaker is really blowing me away at the moment. Give it a listen.

Onur Özer is on imperial form here with his new album on Vakant. Kaşmir treats us to 8 lengthy excursions through slithy toves and borogoves, ever surrounded by wrack and gloom. Amid all this deep-sea sediment, however, there’s a clear streak of humour - especially when you notice the Around The World-like bass lolloping along underneath the claves-led meanderings of “Terpsichorean Echoes”.

Each track undergoes several shifts of mood. “Innervoice” starts off guarded, its brass band murmuring to themselves under machine-gun flurries of snares. By the 7-minute mark the brass has become more strident, more regal, but now has to contend with Fed On Youth-like wailings and some seriously nasty cowbell.

Closing track “Aida” lightens the atmosphere slightly, although not without a slight queasiness reminiscent of some of Geogaddi’s later moments. This is not an album to be treated as backing music - i’ve found it increasingly rewarding since I first heard it, most of all when i’ve given it my full attention.

Onur Özer - “Terpsichorean Echoes” [Vakant]