Peaceful Mind - Ray Of Light
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Ray Of Light" initially sounds like some kind of lazy hippie drum circle, taking its sweet time to pick up the pace. Finally three minutes in, some whispers synths whoosh their way in, like a slightly looser, more organic, shows a lot of patience in its slow build (what comes later: a two-chord phrase.)
"
Unfinished Dream" reinterpretation gives the kick drum a punishing low-end boost and hints of melody are replaced by a full-throated synth that basically blots out the entire frequency spectrum, along with the filthy acrid drums we expect from
Peaceful Mind.
Peaceful Mind drenched the tracks in shimmering synth for his progressive vison spreading the drums out sparsely and laying down a heaving concave bass-line to give the twinkling mass a bit of shape.
Preview: release
Tracklist
01.Ray Of Light (Original Mix)
02.Unfinished Dream (Original Mix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR054
Release: April 2th 2012
Style: Progressive House
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Franzis-D - Romance En Cordoba
The "
Romance En Cordoba" palpitates with a breakcore pace and monstrous build that begins brutally, but is then tightly wound until its forced release into a veil of torpid synths.
Franzis-D is melting faces on a dance floor somewhere, and then it transforms and proceeds to lullaby you to another realm.
A grittier, grimier side of
Stanisha comes through with 2 versions one its brittle crackle and eerie vocal sample, the other one is certainly more of a headphone oeuvre than dance floor banger that incongruity is what makes his work so interesting.
Matias Fernandez Vina feels curiously free of the current "bass music" narrative, won't find much experimenting with house rhythms here. Instead, his remix presents a post-human world of industrial decay and rusting machines..
The array of detuned and broken string instruments and other techno-exoticism that
Matias Spataro lays down the theme pretty well: rigid percussion oscillates with a downswing into murky LFO wobbles, accented with chimes, bits of string. All deep corners, imagined harems and other seedy dens of iniquity comes from the
Jose Tabarez, his brand of strident, strobe-burst expansionism deeper, headier, its horizon-wide synth swaths leading the way across soft clicks and radiant chords.
Preview: release
Tracklist
01.Romance En Cordoba (Original Mix)
02.Romance En Cordoba (Stanisha Remix)
03.Romance En Cordoba (Stanisha Romantic Mix)
04.Romance En Cordoba (Matias Fernandez Vina Remix)
05.Romance En Cordoba (Matias Spataro Remix)
06.Romance En Cordoba (Jose Tabarez Remix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR055
Release: April 9th 2012
Style: Progressive House
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Alexandros DjKevingr - Terrorism In London
Alexandros DjKevingr loves to do weird stuff while he plays and mix several sounds together. He is into tech/funky & deep house generally and cant say “no” to a very nice production even though he is not into the genre of that particular style.
Unsurprisingly, "
Terrorism In London" is a demanding journey through the dark side of DjKevingr's computer wizardry. It begins with the title track—a stormy session with an eerie vocal line—but the unnerving vibe in with the countless beats, percussion and vocals which emerge underneath a hypnotic set of high-frequency whistles.
Like Silence, most of "
300 Yogurts" weigh in at less than four minutes—continuing a shift away from the lengthy soundscapes. "
Skg" employs cut even deeper, as evidenced in the deliciously crisp growls and vocal cascades whose sub-bass grinds away like a maniacal floor buffer. "
RetroBody" stranger to ambient-oriented excursions at its most haunting when the beat drops away completely the former leads off with a dubwise bass riff that slowly disappears under a chorus of anxious, otherworldly moans.
Preview: release
Tracklist
01.Terrorism In London (Original Mix)
02.300 Yogurts (Original Mix)
03.Skg (Original Mix)
04.etroBody (Original Mix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR056
Release: April 16th 2012
Style: Tech House
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Dj Duma & Nico Kala G - Elements Of Darkness
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Elements Of Darkness," a collaboration between
Dj Duma &
Nico Kala G, has something going for it atop crisp, snapping percussion, its sweeping strings and brightly-hued dabs of synth are intensely emotional. Filled with off-pattern snares, disappearing/reappearing bass line, nice vocals and oddly apportioned synths, "
Elements Of Darkness" might best be described as an experiment in doing all the wrong things at all the wrong times and eventually emerging better off for it. The ramshackle array of rickety drums and nature sounds is held in place by a bassline that erupts into a dusty sample that's been pinched and pulled in unnatural ways. Once the whole thing gets going it's a chugging
AquAdro of a tune, all sorts of elements bubbling, bouncing and bobbing in a hectic manner that coheres to form an infuriatingly earwormy hook.
Kaan Koray version mates a brisk kick drum and nasty jacking bassline with monotonous chords stolen from his bag, a weird intersection of vocals and dark sounds that nevertheless sounds completely natural in his hands.
Simon Landa takes away the catchy hook and instead turns it into a heavily-filtered crawler bored through by a relentlessly arpeggiating synth putting the entire track on a treadmill, rendering that catchy sample almost unrecognizable.
Preview: realese
Tracklist:
01.Elements Of Darkness (Original Mix)
02.Elements Of Darkness (AquAdro Remix)
03.Elements Of Darkness (Kaan Koray Remix)
04.Elements Of Darkness (Simon Landa Remix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR057
Release: April 23th 2012
Style: Progressive House
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Orelse - Sun Above Your Eyes
"
Sun Above Your Eyes" is a new EP from
Orelse continues in that vein, where spare 4/4 frameworks are established early on and the main focus of each track is essentially about how the resulting gaps are filled. Most often it's with a roughshod collection of pinging toms, sharpened claps and swirling pads, though plenty of found sounds also lurk within.
The version of
Stanisha is aptly named for its modern lullaby overtones. If you have young kids, the soft edged and rippling chords which roll over more kinetic beats and hi-hats might be the perfect thing to send them off to sleep. A muffled sax and vocals also infuses the already fuzzy ambiance with yet more soulfulness, while the remixes are the sound of playing outdoors on a hazy and lazy summer afternoon come from
Franzis-D remix.
T-Dallas remix does that trick of pairing fairly firm, well-defined drums and crisp percussion with more rolling and incidental melodies and streams of earthy hues. Finally even though remix of
Erdi Irmak reconciles the trio with their more indie roots, through its campfire strumming and debonair vocal harmonies, it uncomfortably sticks out next to its surroundings.
Preview: release
Tracklist:
01.Sun Above Your Eyes (Original Mix)
02.Sun Above Your Eyes (Stanisha Remix)
03.Sun Above Your Eyes (Franzis-D Remix)
04.Sun Above Your Eyes (T-Dallas Remix)
05.Sun Above Your Eyes (Erdi Irmak Remix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR058
Release: April 30th 2012
Style: Progressive House