ERNESTO FERREYRA
LoMidHigh Oganic – Midnight Sun EP
Right in the trails of the past months releases, Andreas Jornvils splendid OMG EP and the deep warm ethnic La Boca EP by Gonzales comes the proper stomping business from Ernesto Ferreyra.
The first cut has this irresistable good times feel and discolike flavour thrown in for good measure with those rumbling congas. Bakana is the name of the game here.
Taking you back to the mid 90’s cut up techniques of Cajual Records and exactly the track that someone like Derrick Carter would kill the floor with.
Flip over the record and you get the bonus bouncer of Ground which is a slow builder that has something like an Italo Disco synth in the distant deep space and all of a sudden explodes in cascades of soundwaves.
More info:
www.lomidhigh.com
www.myspace.com/ernestoferreyra
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ADAM MARSHALL
New Kanada 17 (NK17) – “Vespers EP”
A1. Vespers
B1. Deep Knight Track
Vinyl release: June 12, 2009
Digital release: July 1, 2009
One of the things that RA’s recent Mutek oral history crystallized was the idea that Canadian artists in the late ’90s and early ’00s needed to leave their home country to truly flourish from a gigging standpoint. The argument could also be made, however, that the same is true for their production: Free to work in the studio for extended periods of time without a day job to worry about, these artists have finally found their own language to speak in, one that isn’t translated through Detroit, Chicago, Toronto or even Berlin, where many of them now reside.
After many years of living in the city, you get the sense that finally Adam Marshall—one of those Canadian ex-pats—is finally finding his own production language. Or that it’s finally resonating. Marshall has an EP out on Simple, an imprint that has nothing to do with the Canadian scene, as well as the sterling North at Night EP already to his name in 2009. And as good as those releases are, “Vespers” might be the best. Its chunky house beat is unremarkable, but the radio transmissions and synth programming are anything but. The sampled radio is used—unlike Akufen—underneath as coloring, appearing every so often for a moment to remind you of its existence, while the synths lay out a long, glowering phrase. The best part? When most everything cuts out aside from a voice telling us, “We’re getting to be toward the official peak.”
“Deep Knight Track” doesn’t match the heights of “Vespers,” but it’s still a solid track, taking a echoing synth stab as its raison d’être and going all Tony Lionni with it every so often. It’s a playful little tune, and one that can probably have great use as set builder, but I’m having trouble getting past “Vespers” most times that I break this out. I anticipate you will too.
More info:
www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6299
www.newkanada.info
www.myspace.com/remote_culture
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MIKE SHANNON
Wagon Repair – “The Re-Nag EP”
artist: Mike Shannon
title: The Re-Nag EP
label: Wagon Repair, CA. (Distributed by Word & Sound, DE.)
Wagon Repair are excited to announce the latest EP from Berlin based Canadian Mike Shannon.
The Re-Nag EP, his third Wagon Repair release and first production of 2009, is the latest in a long line of releases from the head of Cynosure Records, with his work having previously graced imprints from ~Scape and Num to Richie Hawtin’s Plus 8 Records.
Opener ‘Darkstar 3000′ is a futurist techno stomp. Engined by poked melodic tones and a prominent metallic hat, dissonant stealth melodies manoeuvre around percussion and punched bass. Biding time to prolong suspense, both bass and key melodic journeys coordinate to climax in a tightly executed sensory assault. ‘Sweets’ opens energetically with static percussive tones circling around a pummeling kick. A rapturous vocal takes lead, effervescing within a wind tunnel of wobbly bass melodies and dizzy pads to close. ‘Sweetapella’ is an abstract entity, with it’s sole vocal discernibly haunting in the absence of beats and structure. Full of texture and space, this is one for the producers that will surely not go to waste.
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