Couldn’t think of a better person to kick things off for us. Here is the first installment of the IS050 Colorcast Mix series.
Tracklist
01, Assembler/Responder, Palmer Station, Bishop & Clerk
02, Alex G, Serpent is Lord, DSU
03, Duane Pitre, Section III, Feel Free
04, Bibio, Dinghy, Green
05, Ricky Eat Acid, In my dreams we’re almost touching, Three Love Songs
06, Dirty Beaches, Pacific Ocean, Stateless
07, Carl Hultgren, I Walked Alone [Instrumental], Tomorrow
08, Cepia, Me and My Gin, Cepia
09, Foxes in Fiction, Glow (v079), Ontario Gothic
10, Jib Kidder, Yesterday’s Gone [Robitussin Ramble by Benoît Pioulard], Steal Guitars: Fencing Partners
Last month Seattle’s Benoît Pioulard released another gorgeous LP to the world called “Sonnet” you can pick up the digital, cd, and vinyl on his bandcamp.
“The basis of the album was a series of field recordings of tones and unintentional harmonies that I made in the summer & fall of 2013 – whistling industrial air conditioners, bird songs, locust drones, washing machines – that I mimicked or interpreted on the guitar, making loops that developed into fuller compositions.
Several of the pieces are recreations of harmony loops that I heard in a series of extraordinarily vivid dreams, and then woke up and recorded.
A few pieces had lyrics and vocal parts that I ultimately removed; at a certain point the album became an exercise in restraint, so I strove to leave only what I felt absolutely essential.
Unlike most of my previous recordings, there are no digital / software after-effects on the album; all sounds are from analog tape and / or my few guitar pedals.” Thomas Meluch (Benoit Pioulard)
The sound of the fifth Benoit Pioulard full length is lush and verdant, a temperate rain forest of ear ecstasy that reflects the environment surrounding the artist. A mostly instrumental work, it is an adept melding of song and sound, melody and texture, the intangible and the palpable, that in an abstract sense recalls the more fractured and loose end of the 70’s krautrock movement.
Tycho sunrise DJ set on the Disco Space Shuttle at Burning Man on Friday, August 29th, 2014. Thanks to everyone who made this morning special and of course all my love to everyone at Apogee Camp, best burn yet!
Special thanks to: Nitemoves (Rory O’Connor), Heathered Pearls (Jakub Alexander), Rob Garza, Christopher Willits, Kiyoka, Katie B. , DJ Dane, Clark, the Dusty Rhino crew, Seth, Tobias, and the whole Disco Space Shuttle crew.
Track Listing:
>> SET BEGINS – APPROX 5:40AM
Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Remix)
Boards of Canada – Olson
Clark – Tooth Moves
Manitoba – Dundas, Ontario
Atoms For Peace – Dropped
Tycho – Dye
Photek – Pharaoh
>> SUN RISES AT APPROX 6:20AM
Ulrich Schnauss – In All The Wrong Places
Tycho – Awake
Bibio – À tout à l’heure
Airbird and Napoleon – In The Zone
Tycho – Awake (Com Truise Remix)
Psychemagik – Cosmic Forest
Cos-Ber-Zam – Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
Leon Vynehall – Time
Leon Vynehall – Be Brave, Clench Fists
Fort Romeau – Jetée
Dauwd – Lydia
Mirror People – Kaleidoscope (Psychemagik Remix)
Mano Le Tough – Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)
16 Bit Lolitas – Deep Space Girls (DAVI Remix)
Dauwd – Heat Division
Tycho – L
Lancaster – Beachy Thing
Panama – Destroyer
>> EMBRACE SCULPTURE BURN BEGINS
White Denim – A Place to Start
Washed Out – Amor Fati
Little Dragon – Little Man (Tycho Remix)
Moths – Heart
White Denim – Street Joy
A Gap Between – “Orange Horizon” Clark – “Tooth Moves” Lone – “Karen Loves Kate” Daniel Avery – “Knowing We’ll Be Here” Sly-One – “Come to Mine (HNNY Mix)” Airbird & Napolian – “In The Zone” Shigeto – Lineage “(Sun Glitter Remix)” Ulrich Schnauss – “A Long Way To Fall” The Beat Broker – “Departure” Atlas Sound – “Washington School” Jaakko Elno Kalevi – “No End” Mungolian Jetset presents Jaga Jazzist vs. Knights Of Jumungus – “Toccata” Christopher Willits – “CLEAR” Panda Bear – “Untitled” Benoit Pioulard – “Fluoresce” Bibio – “Down To The Sound” Todd Terje – “Snooze 4 Love (Version)”
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We’ve finally reached it, the Top 10 songs of the year. Make sure to check out the rest of the playlists easily by using the Featured Post Section on the right side, I hope you’ve found something new or just a playlist to sit back with.
**Side note: I didn’t include Moodgadget or Ghostly International releases because that would just not be fair.
#10 Jessy Lanza – 5785021
Just how everything expands after the 3 minute mark does it for me, Junior Boys perfection.
#9 DJ Rashad – Pass That Shit (feat. Spinn & Taso)
I need the extremes of both ends of the music spectrum to make me feel normal, being from Detroit you couldn’t get enough Ghetto-Tech, this song just makes me happy.
#8 Diana – Born Again
“The Pop Song of the Year” for me, all ages and genres, nothing matters but the music here.
#7 Ptaki – Krystyna
The Polish in me and my love for slow disco bumped this song into the Top 10. Really though you can’t deny that bassline and the sample, just heavy lush disco, its like the West Coast Rap of Disco.
#6 Toro Y Moi – Say That
If anyone deserves Top 40 support its Chaz, keep him happy and in the studio.
#5 Boards of Canada – Nothing Is Real
They came back in such a perfect way this year.
#4 The Field – A Guided Tour
My favorite listening album of the year, beautifully prepared, a formula that doesn’t need adjusting.
#3 Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End
The only emotionally vocal song that hit me this year, he does simplicity soo well.
#2 Dirty Beaches – Casino Lisboa
This song is the definition of passion and drive.
#1 Bibio – A Tout a l’heure
Uplifting done right, changes my mood instantly, music is priceless when it can do that to you.
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Looking for that essential hidden summer album to share with friends that have been loving Bibio and Prins Thomas/Lindstrom world? Then you’ll love this slow burning dub disco LP from Almunia. It has moments where the acoustics range everywhere from Jose Gonzalez to synth journey’s by Hatchback. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I adore these tracks to no end: The Magician, Secret Marriage, and Ode To Mom
ISO50 Playlist 16 – Compiled By Heathered Pearls & Tycho Track Listing Bibio – A Tout a l’heure Bonobo – Cirrus Machinedrum – Whatnot Atoms for Peace – Default Sepalcure – He Said No XXYYXX – Alexis Airbird & Napolian – In The Zone Toro Y Moi – Say That (DaM-FunK Re-Freak) Dauwd – Ikopol Lord RAJA – Panthera Bengal Chrome Sparks – Marijuana Ulrich Schnauss – I Take Comfort in Your Ignorance (Tycho Remix) Yuna – Lullabies (Jim-E Stack Remix) Maribou State – Scarlett Groove (Feat. Saint Saviour) Clarian & Guy Gerber – Claire Nosaj Thing – Eclipse/Blue feat. Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead) Beacon – Bring You Back White Denim – Street Joy Youth Lagoon – Mute Frank Wiedemann & Ry Cuming – Howling Smashing Pumpkins – Cupid De Locke Avey Tare – Bobby’s Loop Meanderthals – Collective Fetish Superstructure – Escape Levek – Girl In The Fog John Talabot & Pional – Braves Grizzly Bear – gun-shy (Lindstrøm Remix) Poolside – Next To You Hot Chip – How Do You Do? (Todd Terje Remix) Lindstrøm & Todd Terje – Lanzarote Lescop – La Foret (Joakim’s Balenciaga Remix) Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan [DJ Steef Edit] Ptaki – Krystyna Todd Terje – Snooze 4 Love (Version) Darkstar – Timeaway Knxwledge. – wishuwerehere. Throwing Snow – Aspera Andy Stott – Numb The Holydrug Couple – Out of sight
Last week Bibio shared a video sampler of what his album will sound like, geeking out to this one.
Little People was sent over email to me, I love the use of moss, glass and projection, if only I could get large amounts of moss for live shows, i’d be soo content on stage.
This Sparkles and Wine teaser video has been floating around the web the last few days, showing off the importance of how you light a face in a video, makes a huge difference.
Last but not least, more great content from the guys at Yourstru.ly, sharing an inside look of the Solar Year studio time.
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Sabrina Ratte has done it again and this time its for this upcoming Steve Hauschildt upcoming release. The song alone would have been a true pleasure but Sabrina came in created a beautiful world for it, as always perfecting inversion/decay/color.
Courtship’s [Imageless] caught me off guard on his recent EP, it wasn’t asking for my attention, its as almost like you were watching the song happen, it settles in the distance like a slow moving still, the dialog makes it though, it drops you back into reality in seamless way.
4AD signs an unknown Danish man that goes under the name Indians(how was that not taken?), sounds like something Bibio will one day become.
Knxwledge aka Knx. has the loosest sounding beat out there, almost to the point that it almost sounds like your wood block jacob’s ladder is struggling to work again. My favorite part about him is the quickness he gets in and out of a song, he makes me come back and play his songs 7 or 8 times so I can get the full satisfaction out of them, beat makers take note.
