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Eliot Lipp+Lawrence+DIIV+Edgar Froese

Posted by Jakub



If you’ve ever seen Eliot Lipp live at some point in the last 10+ years you’ve probably recognized his synth styles, I always appreciated Eliot for that and that he’s giving his album away at donation only this week, head over if you get a chance and support that talented bastard.

I’m at the front of the line when if comes to Peter Kersten fans, if its Lawrence or Sten it has my full attention, the perfect marriage of classic Detroit Techno and gentle tweaking making his sound one of the best to lay your head back to.

Dive had to change their DIIV, good it was early on, this is slowly becoming a favorite summer rock cut.

This is only a portion of Edgar Froese’s “Maroubra Bay” I found the vinyl a couple months, the man has one of the best album cover catalogs ever.

image via Michael Chase

Lawrence Resident Advisor Podcast

Posted by Jakub

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When I have to explain to someone that I know deep down doesn’t give a crap about dance music or they file it under club music in their head it really gets me down right in the middle of the conversation. I usually try and speed talk thru and explain the sound as 90%(more like 96% actually) of dance music is awful and there is 10% thats gorgeous. Lawrence in my mind can make mix for a grandmother, a politician, a baby thats falling asleep, a clubby kid riding around in a Nissan Cube, a construction worker that watches alot of Everybody Loves Raymond and I truly think if they got to sit thru one of his sets they’d find out how good this music is, so whenever I find a Lawrence mix I usually ride it out until even the MP3 is worn down like a track shoe you’d find on the side of the road.

The mix is inspired by the early hours of a deep club night, when the magic is going to be built up and everything is open. I selected old and new all-time faves, deep and danceable – just lovely music.” – Peter Kersten aka Lawrence

Resident Advisor has one of the best podcasts for dance music, so well thought out every week, I check who the guest is every Monday morning and usually it never disappoints.

TRACKLIST
LawrenceDon’t Follow Me – Mule Electronic
Further DetailsAnother Time – A Touch Of Class
Theo ParrishHeal Yourself And Move – Peacefrog
Mike HuckabyRadiance – Deep Transportation
Christopher RauNe Travaillez Jamais – Dérive
MikeOi Vai Voi – Sushitech
LeonidResting 2 – Statik Entertainment
LowtecPlease Go Away – Playhouse
Norm TalleyThe Journey – Third Ear
Rick WadeFirst Darkness – Laid
Schatrax – Vintage Vinyl 1 – Schatrax
STLSilent State – Smallville
Robert DietzWitness – Running Back
Loco DiceHow Do I Know ?! (Cassy remix) – Desolat
Q-Burns Abstract MessageMess Of Afros – Glenn Underground Mix – SSR
MoodymannU Can Dance If U Want 2 – KDJ
Christian NaujoksBloom (Lawrence Edit) – Dial Records

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Lawrence – RA161 podcast mix

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Lawrence+Daedelus+10:32+Marumari

Posted by Jakub

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Sten aka Lawrence held my #1 spot on my Top 10 list of 2008 and his 12″ vinyl single Jill on Mule Electronics in 2009 will probably be in my Top 10 list of singles in 2009. I’m a sucker for these lush melodies over the well crafted rhythm sections Peter Kersten puts together. He uses delay so well and mutes notes perfectly like some gentle tribal lullaby if there was such a thing.
I’m not sure what synth it is but it almost sounds like a faint chime in the melody, I think I heard it in 80’s-early 90’s sitcoms, now that sound is just a killing me its so good. Here’s a big fake Pitchfork review rating of 10/10.

Daedelus and his friends started their new label FoF Music which features split EP’s by different aritsts as one release, clever idea if the artists don’t mind, only problem is if you’re not feeling the other music by the other musician on the same release but that’s not the case here since Jogger really delivers some good tracks too. One thing is that vocal sample Billy Corgan? or does Alfred just have a great voice and we didn’t know all this time.

10:32 is Tim Koch who you may know from the free Ghostly Swim compilation on Adult Swim or from the Merck label if you have followed the Tycho catalog follows up with a digital EP on Ghostly with integrating acoustic guitars, female vocals, and raw found sound in a pretty distant and perfect way.

I feel like I talk about Marumari a lot on the blog, he is definitely a favorite producer, this track called A Girl I Met At the Rest Stop was the first song I ever heard by him, its off the infamous IDM compilation series Bip-Hop Generation. The track sounds like a more up front live Selected Ambient Work track like Pulsewidth but way more calm and slower going.

Lawrence – Jill

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Daedelus – LA Nocturn

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10:32 – Jitter Heart

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Marumari – A Girl I Met At the Rest Stop

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