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Speaking of those vinyl only Sleeparchive releases:

Sleeparchive – Meson (buy at Forced Exposure or hardwax for the Europeans)

Hardwax’s description is itself cold German minimalism: “Hypnotic bleeping techno + 6 loops”. Let’s make that a little more Japanese:

The Hadron EP:
Hypnotic bleeping techno
(plus six white-noise loops)

I’m impressed by the crisp subtlety, especially the bass. For a song that’s 50% synthetic kick (the rest is high-hat, “whirr” white noise, “woo-woo-wooo” space noise, and “incessant bleep”) it doesn’t come off as a bass track. Yet the subwoofer… it is working so hard. Makes me wonder how it would sound on something more powerful than my 10″ sub.

I suspect the effect is because Sleeparchive trims his samples, shoving everything into the low end. Let’s check Audacity‘s spectrum view:

Ralph Stanley – O Death

Capcom – A Prayer for Kevin Garnett (Willy Joy’s Safe Journeys Remix)

Sleeparchive – Meson

Ralph Stanley: subtle human, Sleeparchive: subtle machine, Capcom: unholy train wreck.

According to nxtplanet’s comment [Youtube] Sleeparchive and Surgeon are both big geeks. Let’s see…

Sleeparchive:

Surgeon:

Sleeparchive’s got a bit of the geek going on. Surgeon just looks like a Hitler Youth.

Bass for your face

For some much less subtle bass, check out Rinse FM‘s I Love Dubstep double mix CD (get at Amazon, Turntable Lab or Forced Exposure). It’s every major dubstep track from the last few years. Mixed, of course, so afficianados can still proudly display their imported vinyl.

Also on double CD is the new (and apparently last) Skull Disco release. It’s a bunch of their latest vinyl EP’s and some remixes. Skull Disco has always been good at conceptual integrity: dark, morbid tunes. Very dark. Very morbid. Yay!

Shackleton – Death Is Not Final (buy direct, from the lab or from Forced Exposure)

Keeping with a theme:

If you want more music for no more $$$, check their free mixtape.

US copyright sucks

If it was more lenient, maybe we’d have a chance to get this album for less than $30: Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald – ReComposed (also at Amazon and the lab).

I’m listening to it now and it’s amazing. There’s nothing to really share though, it unfolds pretty smoothly over an hour, and an excerpt would be much less than the sum. So instead here’s Carl Craig remixing Rhythm & Sound (Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus).

Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) (buy)