Various - Music For Dancefloors - KPM Music Library (STRUT)
Conch Records
UPCOMING: Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth (WARP)
Due out June 2013 on CD & LP+MP3, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Recorded in their South London studio, 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth' combines the electronic sensibilities of 'Crooks & Lovers' (2010) but sees Mount Kimbie move out of the bedroom and into a professional studio. Dominic Maker and Kai Campos are joined in collaborations on two tracks with King Krule who lends his distinctive, discontented vocals to 'You Took You Time' and 'Meter, Pale, Tone'.
The duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos have consistently transformed themselves, expanding their influence on electronic music far beyond their small beginnings. 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth' builds on the electronic sensibilities of 'Crooks and Lovers' making full use of the possibilities afforded by a professional studio. The album continues where their live shows left off, with the addition of more live instruments including drums, horns and vocals.After two years, the music has matured though still retains their distinct sound. Maker explains the development, 'tastes change, what you want out of life changes (...) Naturally, how we want to sound has changed too.'
TRACKLIST - 01. Home Recording 02. You Took Your Time (feat. King Krule) 03. Break Well 04. Blood and Form 05. Made To Stray 06. So Many Times, So Many Ways 07. Lie Near 08. Meter, Pale, Tone (feat. King Krule) 09. Slow 10. Sullen Ground 11. Fall Out
GIG: Old Dogs, New Tricks - Racket Bar - Fri 24 May
MC Slave (aka Loggy Log aka Mark Williams) & Chopper Reeds (aka Doughboy aka Scott 'The Power' Towers) playing good music from across the ages.
OLD DOGS - NEW TRICKSMC Slave (FFD) & Chopper Reeds (FFD)Racket Bar - Fri 24th May - FREE ENTRY
UPCOMING: Colm K. - The Love EP (BASTARD JAZZ)
Due out June 2013 on 12", to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Bastard Jazz is proud to present The Love EP from Cork, Ireland based DJ and producer Colm K. Colm, a 2009 graduate of the Red Bull Music Academy, has been making waves for a few years now through after his debut Basics 12" for Bastard Jazz and a 7" and a 10" released on sublabel BSTRD Boots (the latter of which is sold out and regularly changes hands for upwards of $50 on eBay and Discogs), and recently shared billing with Mr. Scruff on a Hypnotic Brass Ensemble remix 12" on Choice Cuts.
Here on The Love EP, Colm's musical vision has truly matured on a fully realized 12" that draws on such disparate influences as Herbie Hancock, 80's boogie, J-Dilla, vintage House music, Floating Points and Q-Tip productions. Things kick off with "The Attic", paying homage to the classic " " by " " with it's immediate synths coupled with hard hitting boom-bap drums, rhythmic percussion, deep bass, and twinkling keys before transforming into a seriously bouncey boogie bounce midway through. Next up, "Nothing" works in a "Love Hangover" inspired vocal line sung by ______ with it's booming kicks, astrologically inspired synth leads and acoustic guitar stretches. On the flip, "Good Fridays" bumps nice and tough with it's neck-snapping drums, synth chords and plunging sub-bass before a midway changeup into a seriously deep piano driven monster - a perfect late night surprise. The EP rounds off with the 63 BPM cosmic jam that is "Spaced" with it's slap bass and delayed synths sitting perfectly in the pocket. Art for the EP comes from graphic artist Donal Thorton, notable for Onra's Long Distance cover, and many of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble covers on Choice Cuts.
Getting upfront play from Lefto, Kev Beadle, Robert Luis (Tru Thoughts), Nickodemus, Garth Trinidad (KCRW), Bradley Zero (Boiler Room)
Tracklist:
1. The Attic
2. Nothing
3. Good Fridays
4. Spaced
BOOK: I Believe You Are A Star by Peter McLennan
Available from Conch here, Book Launch at Conch Saturday May 25th from 3pm
I BELIEVE YOU ARE A STAR is a collection of magazine interviews written between 1992 and 2003 by Peter McLennan. He talked to locals just starting their recording careers (P-Money, Stellar, SJD, Black Seeds), through to established artists (Salmonella Dub, Shayne Carter, Bailter Space). They are fascinating insights of where these artists were at, and provide a look into their creative process.
The book launch will be held at Conch Records, 115a Ponsonby rd, from 3pm, Saturday May 25th, with special all-NZ vinyl DJ set from Dylan C. Books on sale on the day - first 25 copies come with a free mix CD of recordings mentioned in the book. Read about the artists and listen to them at the same time!
Before starting his blog Dubdotdash in 2003, Peter was a freelance magazine journalist for a handful of magazines, including Real Groove, North and South, NZ Musician, Rip It Up, Pavement, Selector, Planet, Lava and Stamp. This collection of interviews draws together some of the articles he wrote and is focussed on local musicians, DJs and artists.
There's some interesting threads in these interviews, like Stellar discussing their sizeable album budget and comparing it to what Straitjacket Fits or JPSE got, then Fiona McDonald having a similar conversation round her album budget, citing JPSE and Stellar.
There's Tigilau Ness (Che Fu’s dad) talking about how he got sent to prison after the 1981 Springbok tour protests, which is a pretty heavy story. Tigilau got chucked out of school for refusing to cut his afro, how staunch is that?
Or Shayne Carter, explaining why he didn’t want to send out advance copies of his debut album as Dimmer (after making me sit with him in the Sony boardroom and listen to the album in its entirety), and me suggesting that if I’d had the album before the interview, I could've written some pertinent questions. To which Shayne replied with words to the effect of “Oh, I didn’t think of that.”
Peter says “I got to meet some fascinating people writing these pieces. I feel very lucky to have met them - that’s part of the reason why I got into magazine writing. I wanted to meet these creative people and find out their process, and they turned out to be people I’d want to meet anyway.”
Other interviews include... SJD, Pitch Black, Sola Rosa, HDU, Darcy Clay, Graffiti art in Aotearoa: DLT, Otis Frizzell & Dan Tippett, Roger Perry, Dawn Raid, Kog Transmissions, Subliminals, Solid Gold Hell, Weta, Hinewehi Mohi, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Phase 5, Jakob, DJ Sir-Vere and the ITF DJ champs • PLUS: articles on the Aotearoa Hiphop Summit 2001 (and a NZ hiphop timeline), and the state of NZ music videos in 1992, and 1999.
Peter McLennan is a writer, musician, DJ, graphic designer, blogger and pop culture fiend, based in Auckland, New Zealand. The book is published independently by Dunbar Noon Publishing, thru the print on demand service, Createspace (book/e-book). Book design by Peter McLennan. RRP $20.00.
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