shadowboxing » downtempo http://shadowboxing.org burning down the dance Thu, 17 May 2012 19:54:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pedestrian – Dance Music for Home Listening Vol 2 http://shadowboxing.org/2012/02/pedestrian-dance-music-for-home-listening-vol-2/ http://shadowboxing.org/2012/02/pedestrian-dance-music-for-home-listening-vol-2/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:17:07 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=2148 This is filling my ear holes nicely this morning (it’s 8:12am in Austin, TX). I came by the mix through a tweet from Blu Mar Ten, so hat tip to them for the link. No official tracklist but there are bits from Burial, James Blake, Frederic Robinson, and Deft.

SR#106 – ‘Dance Music For Home Listening’ Vol. 2 by Pedestrian

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dL’s 90 minutes of MoWax Mix by Decades

]]> http://shadowboxing.org/2011/11/decade-mowax-mix/feed/ 0 Blu Mar Ten – Love Is The Devil http://shadowboxing.org/2011/10/blu-mar-ten-love-is-the-devil/ http://shadowboxing.org/2011/10/blu-mar-ten-love-is-the-devil/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:08:23 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=1928 If you’ve been living under a drum&bass rock for the last few months, producers par excellence Blu Mar Ten are dropping their new album “Love Is The Devil” on Monday October 31st.

The album features a bit of everything in drum&bass from minimal to melodic to dancefloor stormers with a couple of, what I perceived to be, downtempo tracks thrown in for good measure. (A correction from BMT! @blumarten: interesting some it sounds downtempo. there’s only a 3bpm difference between any of them. the whole LP’s at the same speed!). “Made In London” is pure jungle, which Bailey has on rotation and that features, a very high, MC Rymetyme delivering the titular quote. The catchy, ethereal “Five Summers” has been heard in sets by London Elektricity, DBridge, Marky, and S.P.Y. for the last few months. Finally, I’m a sucker for vocal tunes so my personal favorites are “The Fourth” featuring vocals by Jennie Potts and the epic panty-remover, “Whisper” with Kirsty Hawkshaw.

I’ve long professed my man-love for all things BMT so I won’t bore you with that stuff again, but suffice it to say that you need to go out and BUY this album. It’s worth your hard-earned money.

Oh, I nearly forgot to mention that if you purchase the vinyl you’ll also get a CD, high quality MP3s, stickers, and the promo artwork.

Album Preview:
Blu Mar Ten – Love is the Devil by Blu Mar Ten

The promo video to support the tour makes me wish that my promoter shoes still fit.

BMT Live Promo Video:

Want more BMT? Find their mix and podcast archive HERE.

**I confused “Five Summers” with “Love Is The Devil” in the original version of this post. I’ve edited it and corrected the error.**

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There’s a bit of a discrepancy on whether this is Volume 4 or Volume 6. The one labeled Vol. 4 was released by Island Records as catalog number 162-531 074-2 while the Fourth & Broadway version is labeled BRCD 620. The label art is the same, except for the Fourth & Broadway version included the cat. number listed above. Either way it’s the same compilation and I’ve chosen to call it Volume 6 for this post.

Rebirth of Cool 6

Tracklist:
Smoke City – Underwater Love
iO – Claire
Outside – To Forgive But Not To Forget
Nicolette – You Are Heaven Sent
Lamb – Cotton Wool (Fila Brazilia Mix)
LTJ Bukem – Horizons
Nitin Sawhney – Migration
Da Lata – Jazz Garage
Alex Reece – Feel The Sunshine
Ernest Ranglin – Surfin’
Luciano meets The Jungle Brothers – Who Could It Be (Jungle Brother’s Mix – Radio Edit)
Lewis Taylor – Bittersweet
DJ Pulse & Jazz Cartel – Street Player
Dave Angel – Rudiements

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http://soundcloud.com/mikeysyphon/mikey-syphon-making-daylight

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From Fact Mag:
Earlier this year, as you doubtless know, a more-anonymous-than-most r’n’b singer called The Weeknd released a mixtape. It was called House of Balloons, and it was very, very good.

Last night, six previously unreleased tracks leaked into the internet abyss, apparently from when The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, worked with a production team called The Noise. You can stream them below [via The Fader, via Pigeons & Planes], as well as a new Weeknd track called ‘Rolling Stone’ from his YouTube channel.

Unreleased The Weeknd by k.niteh

No download yet, but I’ll keep my eyes open for one.

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According to his wiki, The Weeknd, is Toronto-based R&B singer Abel Tesfaye, but House of Balloons is not your typical Top 40-Bullshit-R&B record. I don’t really know how to go about describing the album so, rather than give you the very poor analogy of Burial meets John Legend in falsetto (he’s eerily similar to the vocalist in Burial’s Archangel to me), I’ll let people that get paid to write reviews about music tell you everything that you need to know.

This Pitchfork Media review by Joe Colly pretty much nails it.
The group’s penchant for druggy atmospherics is mirrored in their lyrical content, which is overtly sexual, narcotics-focused, and occasionally downright frightening….What makes this whole thing work in an album context is that all the thematic and sonic pieces fit together– these weird, morning-after tales of lust, hurt, and over-indulgence (“Bring the drugs, baby, I can bring my pain,” goes one refrain) are matched by this incredibly lush, downcast music….though the image of nightlife painted by the Weeknd isn’t a place you’d ever want to live, it’s one that’s frankly very hard to stop listening to.

(I went ahead and censored the nip in the album cover below to make the post SFW)

The Weeknd – House of Balloons Direct Download (right click, save as)

If you’d rather listen before “buying” you can hear all the tunes on Soundcloud.
The Weeknd – House Of Balloons by The_Weeknd

P.S. “The Knowing” is greatness.

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http://soundcloud.com/mikeysyphon/mikey-syphon-inner-dimensional

Shed-Can’t Feel It
Andreya Triana-A Town Called Obsolete (Mount Kimbie RMX)
Sigha-Expansions
2562-Intermission
Mount Kimbie-Ruby
Subreachers-Elysian Fields
Blue Wave-Complicity
Kryptic Minds-1000 Lost Cities
Furi Anga-Rainbow Unit
Spherique-Snowflakes Catcher
Blue Motion-When She Is Gone Stay
Bulb-Distinctions Of The Same Feat. Tiiu
Blue Motion-A Foggy Day
Trainspotting-Rain Diary’s
Scuba-Descent
Pablo-Music Maestro
Joy Orbison-Hyph Mngo

]]> http://shadowboxing.org/2011/04/mikey-syphon-inner-dimensional/feed/ 0 Genuine Fraud – Soft Hits (Side B) http://shadowboxing.org/2011/01/genuine-fraud-%e2%80%93-soft-hits-side-b/ http://shadowboxing.org/2011/01/genuine-fraud-%e2%80%93-soft-hits-side-b/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:24:22 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=1387 Here’s the second half of the amazing Genuine Fraud Soft Hits mix…

Tina Turner, Michael McDonald, and Kenny Loggins…are you fucking kidding me?! You are commanded to download now!

Soft Hits (Side B) by Genuine Fraud

Tracklist:

Tina Turner – What’s Love (Genuine Fraud Remix)
Lemon Jelly – Soft
Exile – Kiss You All Over
Toto – Georgy Porgy (OOFT Rework)
Kenny Loggins – This Is It (Mad Mats Rework)
Prince – Wanna Be Your Lover (Tim Zawada Edit)
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgetting (AC Re-Edit)
George Benson – What’s On Your Mind (soho808 Something’s Going On Edit)
Fleetwood Mac – Brown Eyes (Maulongated Version)
Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane (Mojo Filter Junkie Re-Love)

]]> http://shadowboxing.org/2011/01/genuine-fraud-%e2%80%93-soft-hits-side-b/feed/ 0 Genuine Fraud – Soft Hits (Side A) http://shadowboxing.org/2011/01/genuine-fraud-soft-hits-side-a/ http://shadowboxing.org/2011/01/genuine-fraud-soft-hits-side-a/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:22:47 +0000 Wes http://shadowboxing.org/?p=1383 I was turned onto this mix by my buddy Roofless. It falls into this nebulous gray area between downtempo and Balearic house, but it is totally amazing.

You need to hear this, if for no other reason than because it has a Boz Skaggs tune in it and that takes serious balls.

Soft Hits (Side A) by Genuine Fraud

Tracklist:
Godley & Creme – Cry (DSD Balearic Edit)
Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes – (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (LeSale’s 2nd Base Edit)
Dire Straits – So Far Away (Karl’s Balearic Relove)
Steve Perry – She’s Mine (Red Ken’s Resuscitated Edit)
The Revenge – Night Flight
Boz Scaggs – Lowdown (Musica Hermosas Dirty Lowdown Edit)
The Revenge – Forever in their Debt
Gap Band – Yearning For Your Love (Genuine Fraud Remix)
George Benson – Breezin (Genuine Fraud Re-Edit)

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