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…
Orbital Wonky ACP Recordings It’s hard enough identifying most bands purely by their sound, never mind electronic acts. But within a few seconds of shimmering synth tones and crystalline keyboard arpeggios, you know you’re listening to Orbital. On Wonky, their first album in eight years, Paul and Phil Hartnoll have …