The top releases on Bleep, as selected by T Woc.
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The top releases on Bleep, as selected by T Woc.
ERATP093LP
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
A Winged Victory For The Sullen, the duo of Dustin O’Halloran and Stars of the Lid’s Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, release their third full-length on Erased Tapes. Following 2014’s score for the dance piece Atomos and the release of Wiltzie’s music for the film Salero, Iris marks their first film soundtrack effort as a duo, with the digital bonus track edition including two solo pieces by Wiltzie, as well as tracks by Belgian artist Petite Noir, French trio dOP, DJ Pone and The Shoes.
Set to the eponymous French thriller drama which tells the story of a businessman’s young wife disappearing in Paris, the commission prompted them to develop a new compositional method. Using the film’s images as triggers for experiences, the initial sketches were conceived on a modular synth in Berlin, while the final sessions were recorded with a 40-piece string orchestra in Budapest. Inevitably cinematic, Iris contours its musical narratives more clearly than their two previous albums. A harp melody emerges against the backdrop of their characteristic string drones on ‘Prologue Iris’, meanwhile, the minimalist violins of ‘Gare du Nord, Pt. 1’ evolve into a foreboding electric guitar pattern. In similar fashion, ‘Le retour en forêt’ subtle flute-like ambience crescendos into a dense synth sequence, urged by its pulsating beat. Such powerful dynamics mirror the tension-filled atmosphere of the film thus proving the success of their new approach, treating the music as something that happens, rather than a quality.
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
DJ Kirk Degiorgio and Mark Melton present a long overdue reissue of the 1975 album The Strange World of Bernard Fevre on their rarities label Sound Obsession. It was the second album of library material by the French analogue synthesizer enthusiast — who came to fame with his Black Devil Disco Club moniker, and is released as part of a comprehensive reissue series that also includes his 1978 debut Disco Club and his two other library records, 1975's Suspense and Cosmos 2043 from 1977. The Strange World Of Bernard Fevre savours the glory of the Moog and other timely hardware in its otherworldly arrangements, and is an essential part of Fevre’s subjectification that led him to become the father of experimental disco.
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Acroplane Recordings and Lunar Disko man Automatic Tasty returns to Sheffield imprint Central Processing Unit with another EP of jolly electro funk. Following 2014’s ‘The Rites of Wrong’ on Wrong Island Communications, The Life Parochial sees the Irish producer play humorously with the connotations of different congeneric genres: ‘Aromatic Toasty Hits The Town’ draws on acid house ideas, and the ultra funky ‘The Parish Hotline’ goes down a lively disco route.
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
For her sixth long-player, Jane Weaver immerses herself in the conceptual landscape of a journey toward the Silver Globe. Harnessing the sounds of sprawling prog-pop with the productional polish of her major label peers, the record pairs celestial themes with airtight melodies and cinematic expressionism. Whether it is the melancholic simplicity of Cells or the driving 8 minute opus of Argent the recipe remains simple but totally bewitching. An epic sense of narrative executed by an artist with an unmistakable handle on scene-setting and semi-pop composition. Fittingly, the vinyl arrives with a silvery tint.
FKR077LP
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Remastered tapes from the vaults of Israeli experimentalist and all-round outsider Ami Shavit. By all accounts, Shavit was one of the first Israelis to flirt with the idea of electronic musicianship. In Alpha Mood is a collection of those embryonic stages. Following a private press-run and a very limited release, Finders Keepers Records have remastered the scraps from the cutting room floor and remastered them for reissue. With nothing in the way of post-production, the 6 cuts on this release are brilliantly unpolished- exploratory blueprints from an early adopter.
SHIPLP05
320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Shipwrec cement what is hopefully the first of many albums from ambient-electro lynchpin Datassette with Selected Offal.
Arriving two yeas after his Apollo 12", which bought the Datasette sound to a wider audience, he submerged himself back in the electronic underground before without little fanfare or warning dropped a hundred track strong pick 'n' mix of 100 strong dubs written between and put into the binary title Offal (1999-2014) .
Moving to the present day and Shipwrec have done the world a favour by collating a seventeen track album, spread across two 12"s (and for the digital heads a bonus track to boot), Selected Offal features a stripped-back and finely tuned entry point into the vast project.
Compiled with suggestions of fans, unheard and alternate versions, Selected Offal goes a long way to showcasing how diverse a talent Datassette is. Whether it's producing fuzzy tape tekno on Hands Faces, washes of neo-classical ambience on Vocoder Mic Tap Loop Verb, cut and paste disco on Floozen B or providing a must-be-heard-to-be-believed cover of the John Maus classic Crucifix.
For many of you we imagine Datassette may well be a name unknown, but on Selected Offal his mixture of crisp production and well executed, yet cheeky swagger are sure to see those with a soft spot for Bochum Welt, Mood Hut, MNLTH, James Ferraro. Leyland Kirby & Chris Clark make some well deserved space on their record shelves and hard drives for him.
RRLP01
Nice 'n' grimey bass rollers from the Rudimentary crew.
Perfectly shaping up next to recent Astral Black sides, Sentinalas gives way to some serrrriiiioousssly slowed down beats. Composed out of records T-Woc bought whilst on a digging trip to Sao Paulo, its sort of like a bass heavy hip-hop equivalent to The Caretakers haunted ballroom 78 vibe.
The goals set out to achieve here reflect an array of mixed up samples that are fused together with an MPC, a lot of FXXX and some rather tasty synth hooks that add a nice layer of dub to the mix.
Imagine a Andy Votel & Seekersinternational mixtape patchworking of Entroducing and you are walking down the right alley.