I been busy talking to the likes of Geoff Barrow and MikeQ and Zebra Katz and Tim Lawrence and TALWST. And now it is time for more tunes, specifically ones to get your cocktail-umbrella-drink on while listening to. Check it! [UPDATE: Download the mix from MediaFire here.] I Do Like …
Dylan Ettinger Lifetime Of Romance Not Not Fun I discovered Dylan Ettinger more or less at random, trawling the Forced Exposure mailing list for anything with hints of synth drone and/or Krautrock influences, when I stumbled on his trippy, languid masterpiece, New Age Outlaws. Suffice it to say that Lifetime …
Friday night in Toronto doesn’t usually present eight bajillion desirable nightlife options, so deciding not to go to Azari & III made me feel like a shipwrecked sailor deciding which of the remaining crewmen to eat. But these mercenary decisions have to be made, and there was no way I was missing DJ …
Ya boy Colin Munroe drops a hot rock with a gloriously grimy RZA beat and some noise from Munroe’s fellow Ontarians, Memoryhouse (who should really think about ditching their own records and doing this full-time). Yo Colin, when’s the record out? (via the good people at Potholes In My Blog) …
Lone Galaxy Garden R&S My favourite thing–among many–about Lone’s fifth full length is that it never pauses for breath. That’s not to say everything on Galaxy Garden is super frenetic; the actual tempo of opening track “New Colour” is a fairly laid back 125-ish bpm, something you could just as …
Some garage-y goodness from Slakah the Beatchild (check out his Slakadeliqs project which is getting heat right now) and Ayah, a Toronto singer who’s got a collab with DJ Jazzy Jeff in the works. This would mix real well in one of my sets with some Burial/Four Tet, methinks…