Produced and Written by Simon Peacock
Vocal by Alex Guidry
Backup Vocals by Shelby Davidson
Art by Quin C. Greig
The compilation includes Headshotboyz feat. Dalma Berger, Kelpe, Mute Speaker, FVLCRVM, Oddlogic, Shatter Hands, Yuki Sato, Sina., Fallgrapp, The Black Arrow., sosiego/金, Jimmy Pé, KONCH!S, Stratasoul, Nolan House, Broc Berrigan, GLGN, Je$u$ and Jetsam.
Thank you all for getting involved, whether you are on the compilation or not, and making this possible.
This compilation is the perfect soundtrack for your boozy winter!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Deep Lake Records!
Artists found on this years VA include some Kahvi regulars including Brioskj, 4T Thieves, Polaski, MigloJE, Madstyle and Acrilic Colours and a lot of guest artists bringing some very interesting flavours to the mix. There are ambient tracks along with retro beat driven acid, something for everybody. We hope you enjoy this years VA, and remember the other Christmas releases from 4T Thieves and Reii released last week.
Tracks of choice are too many to mention but for something really refreshing check out Serhio Efremis – Mystery for a real taste of Russia.
Merry Christmas from all at Kahvi!
>From the epic space swoons of ‘Subroutine Traffic Stop…’ to the manic energy and dissonant beauty of ‘Dys4-1A’, every inch of ‘BRKN’ is stylistically eclectic and robust, melodically affecting and compositionally complex. Where ‘BRKN’ excels best is its ability to mix those heart-rending melodies into vigorous and rewarding compositions. The melodies of ‘Rules and Regalia…’ call into mind the heydays of Bit Shifter, ‘Requiem (Our Stolen Future)’ ends with soft but emotively poignant sweeps of motifs, and ‘We Never Sleep/Artemidorus’ moves from crunchy experimentalism into a melody that defines the term ‘tearjerker’.
‘BRKN’ is an album as well as a journey. Every track slips into the next as a continuous piece and the effect is infectious. A consistent aural and emotive assault, every turn and shift as unforgettable as the preceding, every arp brimming with emotion and every passage a piece of compositional masterpiece that ticks the boxes of both rational talent and emotive creativity. Those who have already decided their albums of the year may have been slightly pre-emptive; on his debut, AutoReMi-PK has already solidified his place as an incredibly talented composers, and ‘BRKN’ as one of the scene’s best offerings in some time.
I guess this is supposed to be mainly electronic dance music but to actually call it that would be an insult to dance music. Although rightfully bouncy and even catchy from time to time, this seems more like a twelve year old with severe ADHD heard three dance tunes from the nineties and proceded to replicate it using sampling techniques from the eighties. Sometimes it goes very well, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what the author intended. It is sloppy, amateurish, crude and possibly illegal. It is right up our alley. Enjoy.
-Jan Strach, Underpolen Netlabel
PRODUCER: Hermann Reuland
TRACK NAME: Back From The Scratch
GENRE: Progressive House
SERIAL: YPQN035
RELEASE DATE: 2012
LABEL: YPQN RECORDS
LENGTH: 07:26
BPM: 125 BPM’S
KEY: C
TRACKLIST:
01. Mr. Sanz – Quantize (6:15)
02. Haveck – Lobotomia (7:16)
03. Yallah Fingah – Itapirubah (6:39)
04. Chemical Surf – Good Time (6:10)
05. M. Junior – Can’t You See (7:47)
This second opus brings us in a mystical adventure carried by a brutal and heavy bass tainted of an ingenious mixture of stolen animal and sciencefiction sounds. A well orchestrated alternation of organic and synthetic sounds evolving on rhythm form IDM to techno and disco to rockabilly.
Activité Animale tells us about transformation from man to animal, a frightening absurd metamorphosis creating a necessary humility to an open travel where everything is possible. Consider this album as a skillfully build up journey releasing your deeper animal instincts.
In fact Activité Animale is first if all an invitation to discover the « galactic zoo » universe of Marc de Blanchard, kingdom of laser tigers and leopards hearts !
Within this 22nd release, Da ! Heard It Records is promising once again a nice sound and visual adventure. Prepare your grooming to a kicky expedition trough the farthest reaches of your animality.
Distributed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, the EP can be downloaded here: http://www.daheardit-records.net/fr/discography/dhr-22
01 Entropy
02 Scratching The Pink Turntable
03 Freakin Out
04 Honey?
05 Catalytic Oxidizer
06 Panda Bear Madness Minute
07 Astronomical Twilight
08 No Interruption
09 Night Bird Flying
10 Drippin’
11 Infiltration
Firmly in the easy listening genre, Nice to meet you ep is full of subtle touches and nice grooves to get you involved in the tracks. Listening carefully, you’d be forgiven in thinking that Lalo Schifrin had dropped by and chosen a few well placed notes, especially the electric piano in Irony of fate. A nice mix of 70s cool with 21st century technology!
Of course, not every track is the same with Solar Station being in a similar ‘feel good groove’ like Kenny Beltrey from previous releases.
Tracks of choice for this listener: Summer Rain with that familiar vibe that seems to be so familiar but you can’t quite put your finger on it and Wave my soul for an epic chillout track perfect for a few beers on the balcony. Chill! 
This Space Occupied (by Maida) was originally commissioned by the Washington Project for the Arts for a 5-hour endurance performance in an elevated glass cage at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC fall of 2012. It is an interactive performance of structured improvisation, stream of consciousness choices by Maida Withers as performer and dancer, and Steve Hilmy as musician and composer, that reveal the precariousness of life in the glass cage. The 5-hour endurance event was inspired by notions of the Occupy movement. Portions of Maida’s text are fragments of poetry of David McAleavey who is a professor of literature and creative writing at George Washington University, and Alex Caldiero a poet, polyartist, sonosopher, and scholar of humanities and intermedia and a professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley State College.
In this recorded performance Maida Withers wears a headset mic and Steve Hilmy processes her speech and movement while performing on keyboard, computer, and miscellaneous controllers, making all sonic decisions in the moment.
