Word The Cat

image by yokohama yuichi

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the weather is getting warm and perhaps inescapable. humid air retains smells for much longer. you can smell tobacco 10 metres away or the smoke being pumped out of the barbeque restaurant from down the road. here is a mix of odour from psychadelic bus a.k.a. hiroki murai from mokmal.

“The activity that centers on Tokyo and Toyama is being done now. Music is being produced now.”

psychadelic bus a.k.a. hiroki murai – non verbal communication vol.3

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tracklist

quiet village – i regret the flower power
tokyo black star – violent rush
tiefschwarz – ghostrack (radio slave remix)
frankman – orion
zoexenia – cherish
gamat 3000 – feeling love (feeling dub)
upz – noiz f/ rasu (abican soul remix)
slam – azure (radio slave remix)
dominik eulberg – liebelle nwellen
dennis ferrer – the undertow
fuckaponydelic – switch the lights (motocity soul remix)
petits djinns – sous l’arbre
quiet village – desperate hours

they’re quite famous, they’re also quite good and they have a new record out. don’t know about you but this is the sort of thing i hear behind my eyes as i’m falling asleep. amplified and with a hint of todd. crystal castles.

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and closer to sleep…

crystal castles – empathy (wordthecat screw)

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as the weather begins to open up and before intense humidity slams it shut again, a window of cumbia. this is built from gigs of stuff i’d never got around to listening to. retroactive searching reveals at least a quarter of it came from mr /r. follow those tracks back up to here and here.

wordthecat – 37 minutes of cumbia

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Pedro Laza y su Pelayeros – Navidad Negra
Gabriel Romero – La Subienda
Reynaldo “el papi” Diaz y su Grupo – Fidelina (son)
Aniceto Molina – La Faldita Coqueta
Grupo Jalado – Cumbia Parrandera
Viento Calido – Ya No Puede Ser
Grupo La Cumbia-La Negrita
Los Daddys – Cumbia Negra
Majeza – Tu Heriste Mi Corazon
Los Askis – Amor Regresa
Los Shapis – Hombre Casado

matthew herbert has a new record out. herbert is primarily an electronic composer, who previously built records out of sampling the human body and the food industry. this record (entitled one one) contains only sound produced by herbert and is the first part of a trilogy. the second part (one club) is built entirely from crowd sound in a club in hamburg. the third (one pig) returns to the food industry and charts the birth, life, slaughter and consumption of a single pig. on one one he sings. his voice is quite soft and heavily treated. so, using this as a diveboard, here’s a post about voices and electronics, or more loosely, a post about electronic music that people sing over…

first up, from one one…

matthew herbert – tonbridge

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and second, staying in north kent, a track from 1974 by robert wyatt. for electronics substitute synthesizer.

robert wyatt – sea song

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third a track by zerkalo, named for Tarkovsky’s film, the title of which translates as mirror. zerkalo are heinrich mueller whose name is also gerald donald. gerald donald was in drexciya. he is joined in zerkalo by victoria lucas. there’s a strong visual theme (dare i say concept) to their production too with videos by julia pello & darlene lin. interview and more here.

zerkalo – last meeting from the experiment zero release

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and finally, a compressed banger. pj harvey from her 1998 is this desire? LP. always had a big soft spot for this record. this is the hardest thing on there.

pj harvey – my beautiful leah

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maruosa

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wordthecat – bees and things and flowers (spring 010 mix)

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mariah carey – angel (the prelude) (loop)
egyptrixx – everybody bleeding (kingdom remix)
digital mystikz – pathways (doc daneeka remix)
roska f/ jamie george – love 2 nite
jam city – witches sunset x rossi b & luca f/ killa p – e10 riddim
four tet – sing (mosca remix)
nguzunguzu – got u
tj productions – dna riddim instrumental
spice – back broad (dna)
aidonia – wine up yuh body (dna)
mr vegas – let them talk (dna)
lady saw – me hold you (hold yuh)
gyptian – hold yuh (remix f /nicki minaj)
mount kimble – at least (instru:mental remix)
ricardo miranda – black acid (legowelt remix)
pawel – dawn
boo williams – mortal trance
ill blu vs aaliyah – rock the boat