tech

Octave One- Love and Hate (Cari Lekebusch Remix) 0

Detroit’s Octave One brothers get an efficient Swedish makeover from techno legend Lekebusch.
Meanwhile LOUDAT is getting unpicked, fucked with and reassembled in an effort to make the site a bit more posh like.

Eyelove – Prism (Mysticism EP) 0

SLIME TIME Now up to the 27th release on it’s seemingly tireless schedule Slime Recordings strikes gold once again with the forthcoming track from Eyelove. Just one of the 8 outstanding tunes on the Mysticism EP Prism serves up the soundtrack to your next sunrise. Rarely will you find an EP that traverses such a broad spectrum of electronic music quite so deftly. Due out 19th March.

Loudat’s Best Of 2011 1

As the year draws to a close and the apocalypse comes galloping over the horizon it’s a good opportunity to look back all teary eyed at 2011. Here’s the obligatory post summarising the year past with a track selected from every month. This is the best week to go blog dredging – everyone is compiling their “best of” posts so you can find a bunch of decent tunes you may have missed without actually having to read anything. Sweet.

Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You by Amyyyyyyyyyyy

Steve Mason – ‘All Come Down’ (Hervé Ghost Remix) by hervespace

Ivano Tetelepta – Flowers 0

TECH TRIP OUT Sometimes I miss the grotesque sarcasm of record shops. Haughty staff leering over the counter at you, judging your very worth by the polythene sleeves you have in your clumsy, hopeless paws. But blessed are the record-shop staff cunts because they’re the people that might just correct your crooked, dog shit hearing and encourage you to listen to something like this.

Sublime tech-house hypnosis for a 6am spin out. Shell out your fucking cash or get out of my shop.

FETE – Song For Her (Hannulelauri Remix) 0

Another great idea from the people that brought you the Moomins and Sauna Endurance Fatalities! Finnish duo Hanannaneenlurlerewaththefuckk…..(ahem) Hannulelauri faithfully work their magic on Fete’s release “Song For Her” offering up this exquisite view of house introspection.

Orange Muse – Oyster (John Selway Refined Remix) 0

TECH HOUSE BURN UP It would be tech house all the way on this blog if it was remotely entertaining to write about. The music speaks for itself but the producers come across as so anodyne and anonymous there’s very little out which to take the piss. John Selway is dead good. erm….so his music….his favourite colour is….see what I mean. His probably got 4 kills to his name and runs fetish club but I’m fucked if I can find anything to work with. So why not just listen to some nice tech house. Bollocks to music journalism.

Extra Gravity – SGP 2011 Pagoda Mix (Bourbon Warfare DJs) 0

TECH HOUSE PARTY MIX – This mixtape hoo-haa is already going rather well as I just  had this slice of tech house goodness flop onto my digital doormat.

Recorded on the Pagoda stage at this years Secret Garden Party – Extra Gravity played a very tidy early evening warm up set and… what are the chances – I was THERE.
What the fuck?
I ask for people to send in mixes and I get a recording of a party which I WAS AT. Too good.

This seamless Extra Gravity mix warms the party cockles very nicely, and SGP is a party where the party cockles like to be warmed. A highly proficient, well programmed blend from laid back acid and dub grooves swelling to a tech house party. Exactly what you need for an early evening lakeside DJ set.
The evening queue for the pagoda stage was so ridiculously long I ended up stripping to my thunderbags and swimming to the dancefloor. A cracking weekend.

1-Don’t Turn It Off – 40 Theives ft. Qzen (Brennan Green mix)
2- Back To Me – 6th Borough Project
3-The Voice – Thyladomid
4- Doin’ ya thang – Oliver S
6- Church Lady – Dennis Ferrer
7- You Got Me Burning – Cevin Fischer ft..Loleatta Holloway
8- Bisco – Mihai Popoviciu, Markus Homm, Jay Bliss
9- Body Move – Uto Karem
9- Smash Up – Uto Karem
10- Utopolys – Uto Karem
11- I’ll House You – Luetzenkirchen
12- Plasic Dreams – Jaydee (Sergoi Frenadez+ JP Candela Refix)
13- Wongel – Lee Burridge + Matthew Dekay
14- Odyssey – Kenney Leaven (dOP remix)

Karin Park – Tiger Dreams (Photek Remix) 0

DRINKING ON THE DUBSTEP Having been nominated for penning “The Best Norwegian Song Of All Time” Karin Park carries a rather weighty accolade. How the fuck does a song get selected for such lofty praise and more to the point what happens to the tunes that don’t make it to first place ? Slip into total obscurity like a Mercury Award nominee ?

In years to come we can expect to see Karin Parker, destitute and toothless begging for change whilst angrily slurring:

” I…iiiiii. Mmee..IIIIII wrote the ssssecond beeesht tune offff all facking tiiimmmeee you Caaaants….”

Alas there is no second place for the best Norwegian tune in the history of the civilised world so she’s just going to have to make do with being remixed by “The Best Producer In The World Called Rupert”