Word The Cat

alphaville have been running an excellent series of podcasts for a while now. field recordings, rain, distant electronics.

greek sound artist manekinekod (named for the waving cat) studied music for film and builds herself a “dream machine” here.

tba a.k.a. natalie beridze hails from georgia and builds a more gentle mix on her contribution. FACT are accompanying these podcasts with a series of interviews and you can read TBA’s here.

and here’s a track off TBA’s album annulé on max ernst from 2005.

TBA – cheg

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dubbel dutch has been making quiet waves for a while now in this new bass water. here he is remixing fellow austin, tejas resident parson in a broken paving steppers style. he has a mix over here too.

parson – i rep the dirty south (dubbel dutch rmx)

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another one to watch is ghosts on tape who plays out at san francisco’s ice hott. here’s a slow, mean one. and he’s got a fine mix you can have too.

ghosts on tape – Midnight Moves

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i’m sure you’ve heard that Wiley gave away 200 tracks last week. you can nab all 11 zip files here. this is like a ready-made post for blogs. time (to listen) becomes a bigger commodity than data. self-appointed aggregators stand up. BUT.

it’s also a nice side-step for someone who is working on material for a multi-album record deal, as well as being a tribute to Wiley’s insane level of creativity “there ain’t much rest involved”. a lot of the material is rough, unmastered but still strong.

BUT. it’s also interesting for the idea of archive. i’m sure i’m not the only one who has had a hard drive die and felt a massive sense of relief that i lost a shit_ton of music. there’s a big anxiety when music is petrified into file trees, sub-directories and ultimately compressed into binary data. contingency and surprise are more fun.

so, in no particular order, here are some new Wiley tunes. he’s got range.

spending time in the north. spending time with autotune.

wiley shifty & wrigz – if ur makin money

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going on dilla

janiece – addicted

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beat like sugar bars hard like caramel.

wiley – Exp 102

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stupid. amazing. pies.

wiley – value for money

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pop. wide. sample. your lose your love.

mz bratt ft wiley – lose your (love)

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