Word The Cat

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dutty artz’s Lamin Fofana has a new EP out. soundscapes, minimal atmospheres, success! you can hear and buy it over here (the title track is a recommended slow burner).

to mark the release Lamin’s done a broad based, dynamically epic mix by the name of calypso. (more mixes need found speech as a passageway). here it is:

Lamin Fofana – Calypso mix

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Kuedo – Shutter Light Girl
Lucky Dragons – Realistic Rhythm // Killah Priest – Crusades
The Big Pink – Tonight (oOoOO Remix)
Ikonika – Yoshimitshu
Scissors and Sellotape – Chapter 4
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated // Svpreme Fiend – Heartache VIP
Shed – Ostrich-Mountain-Square
Spoek Mathambo – Control
Oneohtrix Point Never – Preyouandi
Mike Ladd – Planet 10
Mark Pritchard – Heavy As Stone
Digital Mystikz – Unexpected

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on a vaguely related, but completely different tip. vamanos and boima, who do the ghetto bassquake blog have started a label. their first release is from London highlife band the Hackney Empire. the full release is out on friday, but in advance here’s a mutant, multi-lingual remix by monterrey’s Erick Rincon. it’s not quite as unrelenting as Rincon’s other productions but a good vibe for a mutant day of 25 degree late summer heat and an onrushing autumn sniffle.

Hackney Empire – Fraudian Slip ft. Kastro (Erick Rincon’s Tribal Guarachero Remix)

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I love Reykjavik. it’s all energy by summer and by winter hibernation (and the experimentation that results in). badly-lit brown unredecorated coffee shops with human grease stains on the walls, churches that look like waterfalls, outdoor baths, abundant mushrooms…!

here one in a HH/RnB style (let’s not be specific). Henrik Biering & Blaz Roca ft Friðrik Dór – Keyrumettígang (produced by StopWaitGo). Hold tight the executable saturated current.

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Sykur are three sweet young people from Reykjavik. Here is some well-penned hype and a track from their 2009 record “Frábært eða frábært” [buy].

“SYKUR was originally founded in the early nineteenth century by a small group of Icelandic aristocrats who envisioned music as a means of letting go of one self and rejoice in a wild dance. Naturally, they were way ahead of their contemporary musicians who mainly used music for science and skiing.

The original team, who then called themselves ‘Sigkjör’ held countless social gatherings, some said to have lasted for days on end until they suffered a horrible synthesizer accident in 1893, decapitating three and rendering themselves unable to easily access their spleens and other internal organs. Over the years several people have upheld their legacy and now the latest group to take up their banner consists of Stefán Finnbogason, Halldór Eldjárn and Kristján Eldjárn Hjörleifsson.

No one knows what happened after 31. may 2008. But you are about to find it out.”

Sykur – Bite Me

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Finally, evil madness who you may know better as BJ Nilsen, Stilluppsteypa’s Helgi Þórsson and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Pétur Eyvindsson let loose on a load of analog gear. Buy their record through 12tonar. Again, they have unfuckwithable hype.

“Part demon horror flick, part zombie shark and whale fight scenes, it is to be overpowered by the largest independent tentacle in the world. Corporations take notice and use this roaming squid appendage as a source of bringing dead pets back to life to work dullish day jobs, leviathinii walking on large makeshift scaffolding leggings with the power generated, and a it’s also a proprietary syllogistic model for CEO loss set up in close circuit yacht videos.”

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today a very strong nguzunguzu mix comes your way. nguzunguzu have been one of the heaviest things about this year, no question. they have an ep (Mirage) coming out on Silverback Records at the start of October. beats everywhere, wonderful garish synths and RnB acapellas. yeseyeseyes.

NGUZUNGUZU – MIRAGE EP MIX

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TrAcKlIsT:

INTRO
GOT U- NGUZUNGUZU ((PHYSICAL THERAPY MOMENTS IN SAMBA EDIT FT. TWISTA))
ALL THE WAY TURNT UP- DJ K. MILLZ
LET THE HORNS BLOW- DJ PHINESSE
DE OUTROS TIPOS 2010- DJ EMACI
SCRATCHA- WACHA- RACHA 2010- DJ FRAGA (via Dave Quam)
REC LOOSE- NGUZUNGUZU
LOSE MY MIND FREESTYLE- CIARA
BENDIN- PELICAN FLY
GIRL- THE PHANTOM (BRENMAR REMIX)
PINK CLOUDS- SAM SPARRO (NGUZUNGUZU REMIX)
SPITTIN’ N RIDDIM- NGUZUNGUZU
HAMBONEZ- BENNY STIXX
STRUT- NGUZUNGUZU
PHAT SI- COOLY G
PANG- KINGDOM
MIRAGE- NGUZUNGUZU
DRUMS AND TOMS- SGUBHU SA PITORI FT. TAMAR & KGAUGELO VS.
SEX INTELLIGENT- THE DREAM VS.
PULSE VS FLEX- LIL SILVA
DURBAN FUNK- CNDO
P.O.S- BUILT FROM SCRATCH
CHEATERS- TEENGIRL FANTASY

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it looks warm outside, but it’s not. in conditions like this it’s important to keep moving. Benjamin Newland made a soundsystem that moves – well-divided into its well-designed constituent parts:

“I think the wireless speakers can be used informally to socialise the consumption of music, outside ipods and club culture. Several of designs are suitable as open source designs where people can download them, adapt, and make them for themselves. It would be great to create a culture of sound system modification and display, much like modified car culture.”

jacked up sodcasting: design pagentry, intended environments, radical panning. interview taken from we-make-money-not-art…

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the more observant among you will notice that the track used to exhibit the nomadic sound system is girl unit’s I.R.L… girl unit has produced one of the biggest things there is as the moment. in case you don’t know, it’s ‘wut’ (forthcoming on night slugs)…

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and those here in london can catch him playing on friday alongside a very strong lineup here.

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september? september? who is september? here is a mix for people who are still summer.

several tracks from spooky [slew dem] and brenmar. mixed live on ableton.

wordthecat – summer 010 mix

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tracklist:

hard mix – alright
aqf – in the bull run
tanlines – iced coffee (club mix)
filip filipi feat. shanell – can you rock (nguzunguzu remix)
colours feat stephen emmanuel – hold on (se22 mix)
spooky – carnival hype
spooky – bad influence
sweet female attitude ft shado kane – flowers (sunship vs chunky mix)
el-b – i feel (ft. natasha)
diskjokke – flott flytt
blondes – spanish fly (brenmar remix)
ce ce rodgers – someday
dj cleo – goodbye
ikonika – dckhdbtch (loop) + crystal castles – suffocation (loop)
kingdom – that mystic
aaliyah – r u that somebody (brenmar windy city mix)
tama sumo – rarified (the oliverwho factory remix)
levon vincent – double jointed sex freak part 2
guido – mad sax
jeremiah – birthday sex (venom and damage remix)
roska – our father
ill blu – bellion (spooky’s re-bellion remix)