#italo body music

[secretmeaningofthings]

Strict Tempo - Body Heat: Dark Disco Holiday Party 12.22.2022 (Live @ Underbelly Seattle)

YouTube - https://youtu.be/Czu8pA43ZL4  Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/VoxSinistra/strict-tempo-body-heat-2022/ Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/voxsinistra/strict-tempo-body-heat-2022

OTHR - Deltoid (Pablo Bozzi Remix) Anbau - Radioactiva Fluid Ghost - Echoberyl's Prisoner (3am Shado Remix) Pablo Bozzi - Lightless Area Petros Spatharos - Dystopia Aspecto Humano - Black Light Black Light Odyssey - No Future Machinegewehr - Antimaterie SDH - All of That (Pablo Bozzi Remix) Invoker - Batumi (Biesmans Remix) Nico Band - Let It Show (Curses Edit) Tobias Bernstrup - Hitman (Cute Heels Remix) Neurotiker - Yautja Kendal - Mort Sur Le Dancefloor (TGC Mix) M83 - Road Blaster (Lauer Remix) Neurotiker/Dani - Ojos Distantes (Chinaski Remix) End of Mortal Life - Disco Paranoia Franz & Shape - Lump (ft. Shrubbn!! Gesaffelstein Remix) Antoni Maiovvi - Valencia Forever Pablo Bozzi - 42 Chambers Vibe Impact - Hypnotic Connection Boytronic - Under the Red (Leaether Strip Remix) The Problems - Living In My Car Neurotiker - Dystopian Romance (NRT and DANi's Vocoder Chronicles) Louis de Tomaso - Frank Too Radondo - Dusk (Curses 'Lucid Dawn' Mix) Machinegewehr - Human Visage

[rocambolestim]

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[ryanshaneowen]

Ryan Shane Owen, Batman body paint, 2017

[ground-flesh]

2023.4.22(Sat) hate.hate.hate @ 大塚地底

[ithisatanytime]

(italo disco forever and more)

[soillodge]

Listen/purchase: Tomorrow Never Dies 001 by Various Artists

[msfbgraves]

Well, Schlossberg just confirmed they don't see what happened to Robby this season as sexual assault and fans shouldn't either. Isn't it SO great when you have dudebros like them to lecture us on how severely drunk teenagers can consent /s

I would never let a producer in the entertainment industry tell me what is and isn't sexual assault. I mean, when Shirley Temple was twelve years old, she was 'loaned' to another studio for a film and the first thing that happened was, a big Hollywood guy took her into a private office and showed her his naked body (after they had taken away her mother to another office and came on to her). Anything could have happened but I think she did the best thing you can do in such a situation and embarrassed him by howling with laughter. Assault of minors is rampant in the industry, of course they don't want people raising questions about taking sexual advantage of teens. And no, I am not saying Schlossberg himself did but he is part of a culture that still has absolutely no problem with the concept, of course he is echoing those sentiments.

They may not have meant it to be read that way but every writer who thinks they own a story or its interpretation doesn't respect what stories are. Stories are formed and informed by the writer(s) but they are its own beast and affect people in different ways. And when you're ever lucky enough to create something that then inspires others to continue it themselves [Like HE DID!!!], you'll have to live with the fact you never quite own a story. People will take it and reshape it and expand it when they love it enough. Sure, you can say whether or not you agree with an interpretation, you can choose to engage with it or not, but once you send a story out into the world, you're not the only one shaping it anymore. Ask Kamen about the Daniel he'd envisioned. That Danny Webber was an insecure all American kid, not a skinny, sassy Italo-American punk. He had to rewrite it into a musical to get his timid white boy on stage. Authorial intent is not the be all, end all. That doesn't mean that the audience gets to tell the writer what to do, but the writer can as little tell the audience what to do. I'm interested in what writers intend and what they have to say but when it isn't on the page I feel free to disregard it and when it is no one can make me think it's not.

Schlossberg is just some guy. He can tell me what to think but he doesn't control it. As the Germans say: thoughts know no master.

[pretentious-art-love]

Album Review #55 - L'amour toujours by Gigi D'Agostino

Ah, sadness, the all ever recurring sadness, have you noticed how most dance music is just happy? I mean, naturally, if you are dancing you are happy, you are energetic. But, to be honest, I like dance music that retains that feeling of sadness, not just of sorrow, but also that feeling of wistful thoughts, for some, it could be nostalgia, for others, it could be something they haven't experienced yet, something they are longing for. Okay, actually, despite what I have said just now, there is actually quite a lot of dance music that retains that feeling of sadness, but I don't think there ever was a music genre that properly depicted that sensation of longing in such a romantic way, than Italo Dance.

With the duration of this whole album, it might seem a bit too long, but keep in mind Italo Dance is a singles genre, this album all in all has several remixes of its own songs, alternate versions, and repeats, if anything, I think seeing it as a boxset it is more fitting, a boxset where you can pick the versions you want, make yourself a nice playlist, activate the cross-fade, and enjoy all in all a nice DJ Mix, you can still play it in full, and a lot of the songs might sound similar at times, but if there is something true to the the Italo Dance formula is the ever lasting downcast trance you end up in when you play it. When you play Italo Dance, you are not only listening to it, you are feeling it on every limb, go ahead and try it, slowly move, standing up, sitting down, dancing it is just a fantastic activity, not just when you do it as a coordinated and practiced skill, but as an expression of the soul, I want to move my arms, my shoulders, even if I look silly, even if I am crying and tears are coming from my eyes, I want to move as well and express what I am feeling with my extremities, my head, my skin.

A downbeat, robotic sounding big emotional delivering vocals, a piano carrying the main melody and careful, or sometimes a silly, cute simple synth that sounds more like a sampled horn than anything else, and at the end delicate keyboards that create a flimsy but delicate atmosphere around you. Even songs like The Riddle, as I mentioned in my review of the single, even with its majestic nature, it maintains a feeling of pure optimism, as if you were going into an adventure, and it is beautiful, absolutely beautiful, songs like The Riddle are songs that I want to describe my life with.

Chansons for the Heart doesn't have just a body with energy but also a kind heart and a wishful soul, it is a beautiful filled with brimming passion which I would recommend to anyone with a broken heart to give it a try, if you allow it to, it will make you cry. Oh and there is also a whole bonus disc, but that one is just okay.

8/10 for Chansons of he Heart

5/10 for Beats for the Feet

7/10 for the whole album

[igazikutya]

Zajok a nappaliból - 2023 TOP12 LP és EP/Single megjelenései

Top 12 LP – 2023

1. NVST - Filled with Oil [2023, Les Disques Magnétiques][LP] 2. Beau Wanzer - A Dead Person's Monologue [2023, iDEAL][LP] 3. The Orb & David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres In Colour [2023, Sony][LP]

4. Flesh & The Dream - Choose Mortality [2023, Everything Forever][LP] 5. VC-118A - Waves Of Change[2023, Delsin][EP] 6. Judgitzu - Sator Arepo [2023, Nyege Nyege Tapes][LP]

7. Years Of Denial - Suicide Disco Vol. 2 [2023, VEYL][LP] 8. PANGAR - Position [2023, Pangar][LP] 9. Benedikt Frey - Fastlane [2023, ESP Institute][LP]

10. Anatolian Weapons - Earth [2023, Subject To Restrictions Discs][LP] 11. Deadbeat - Kubler-Ross Soliloquies [2023, BLKRTZ][LP] 12. Ultramarine - Send And Return [2023, Blackford Hill][LP]

13. Artefakt - Floodplain [2023, Semantica][EP] 14. Totek – ttk. 1 [2023, Darker Than Wax][LP] 15. Paul St. Hilaire - Tikiman Vol.1 [2023, Kynant][LP] 16. Cosmo Vitelli - Medhead Remixes [2023, Im a Cliche][Rmx-LP] 17. Scotch Rolex & Shackleton - Death by Tickling [2023, Silver Triplet][LP] 18. African Head Charge - A Trip To Bolgatanga [2023, On-U Sound][LP] 19. Harmonious Thelonious - Cheapo Sounds [2023, Bureau B][LP] 20. Legowelt - The MidiVerb Chalice [2023, Axumisia][EP] 21. Labelle - Noir Anima [2023, InFiné Éditions & Eumolpe][LP] 22. Pris - Phantom [2023, Resin][LP] 23. Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Chasing Stateless [2023, Planet Mu][LP] 24. Andrea - Due In Color [2023, Illian Tapes][LP]

25. Maps and Diagrams - A Study Of Ends Or Purpose[2023, Handstitched][LP] 26. The Black Dog - My Brutal Life [2023, Dust Science][LP] 27. Tolouse Low Trax - Leave Me Alone [2023, Bureau B][LP] 28. Actress - LXXXVIII [2023, Ninja Tune][LP] 29. Marmo - Epistolae [2023, Utter][LP] 30. VHS Head - Phocus [2023, Skam][LP] 31. Froid Dub - Deep Blue Bass [2023, Delodio][LP] 32. Fire & Adrian Sherwood - Fire [2023, Salgari][LP] 33. Mioclono - Cluster I [2023, Hivern Discs][LP] 34. Cristian Vogel - Fase Montuno [2023, Edition Mille Plateaux][LP] 35. Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X [2023, Fire][LP] 36. Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi - Golden Apples of the Sun [2023, Transversales Disques][LP]

Top 12 EP/Single – 2023

1. Orphx - Revenant [2023, Self-Released][EP] 2. Univac - MagnetFunk [2023, 30D ExoPlanets][EP] 3. Toribio - Tongue In Cheeks [2023, BDA][EP]

4. Djedjotronic - Smog on the Dancefloor [2023, Italo Moderni][EP] 5. Khidja - Transmissions Part 1 [2023, Malka Tuti][EP] 6. Laksa - Body Score [2023, RE_LAX][EP]

7. Al Wootton - Vitus [2023, Optimo Music][S] 8. Talaboman - Bosca Bosca - Bosco Bosco [2023, Night Land][S] 9. Coco Bryce - Canaan [2023, MYOR][S]

10. Humanoid - Sweet Acid Sound [2023, De_tuned][EP] 11. Viels - Distorted Reality [2023, Dynamic Reflection][EP] 12. Na Nich - Black Soil [2023, Delsin][EP]

13. Ancient Methods - The Third Siren [2023, Persephonic Sirens][EP] 14. Civilistjävel! - Fyra Platser [2023, FELT][EP] 15. Jerome Hill - Crude Appraisal [2023, Super Rhythm Trax][EP] 16. Pugilist - Negative Space [2023, Of Paradise][EP] 17. Jeff Mills - X-Ray Zulu [2023, Axis][EP] 18. Rhys Fulber - Brutal Nature Redux [2023, FR][EP] 19. Priori & Al Wootton - Flaw [2023, Trule][EP] 20. Orphx - The Way Through All Things [2023, Sonic Groove][EP] 21. Lew E - Touched / Teardrop [2023, Basic Spirit][S] 22. Yaleesa Hall - Newman [2023, Will & Ink][S] 23. DYL - Fjord [2023, Nous'klaer Audio][EP] 24. Ayaz - Unpinned [2023, phase group][EP]

25. nueen - Link [2023, 3XL][EP] 26. Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice [2023, XL][EP] 27. Sepehr - Diaspora Cocktail [2023, Planet Euphorique][EP] 28. interferenc - pH4R [2023, Self-Released][EP] 29. Khidja - Transmissions Part 2 [2023, Malka Tuti][EP] 30. Soreab - Maschera [2023, Baroque Sunburst][EP] 31. Sabatoj - I.C.U. [2023, Katharsis][EP] 32. Terrain - Corners [2023, Varmal][EP] 33. Luke Slater & Dubfire - The Dissent [2023, Mote-Evolver][EP] 34. Dino Sabatini - Opera Quattro [2023, Outis Music][EP] 35. Domenico Crisci & Retina.it - Diorama [2023, Semantica][EP] 36. Benedikt Frey - Recall [2023, Malka Tuti][EP]

[rexwrendraws]

11, 12, 15 for ask game

[ ask game! ]

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what?

OH DO I!!! (cracks knuckles) Alright here we go: user rexwrendraws essential music masterlist pt.1 of ?? —

rex's recs (haha) (which hasnt been updated in a while oops)

my 102 hr house/disco playlist (disco + italo disco + french touch + funk, and anything in between)

my beloved halloween playlist

"the man from U.N.C.L.E but it's a 60s cartoon": the playlist (ye-ye pop and other spy sounding things)

general playlists by year: 2023 , 2022

according to spotify, my top genres are new wave, post-punk, punk, and electronica/dance!! current top artists on the app are jacob collier, daft punk, francis and the lights, the cure, massive attack, and bauhaus if that means anything hehe

but i promise i will listen to absolutely everything and everything!! i love getting and giving music recs

12. Easiest part of body to draw?

Hands, I guess! Once you've figured out anatomy shortcuts, it always works itself out.

15. *Where* do you draw?

Desk or sat in bed :]

[secretmeaningofthings]

The long-awaited reappearance of my 80s synth and post-punk, new wave, and synth pop-focused program, Secret Meaning of Things... now in a video format as well.  Secret Meaning of Things 02.28.2023 (Music for Ballerinas)

YouTube - https://youtu.be/NMhoBe2QUWo Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/voxsinistra/secret-meaning-of-things-02282023 Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/VoxSinistra/secret-meaning-of-things-02282023/

Mothermary - Coming For You (Nicolaas Remix) Bragolin - Into those Woods Vandal Moon - Chemical Love Josef K - It's Kinda Funny Demolition Group - You Better Stay Alive Mueran Humanos - Detra-s De Una Flor (An-i Remix) Rina Pavar - Light Haze M!R!M - Say Nothing (feat. SDH) Zanias - Metrics VOGUE.NOIR - Strange Days part.2 Bestial Mouths - I Am the Spell Camouflage - Music For Ballerinas Аркадий Хоралов - Воскресенье (Kompleks Edit) Jorkes & NIKKNAME - Citizen Valerie Dore - Get Closer Shock - Dream Games (2021 Remaster) Rational Youth - Ring the Bells Fee Lion - On Me Gudrun Gut - Lover VOGUE.NOIR - Only When Black Light Smoke - Morning Comes (feat. Leah Lazonick) New Haunts - Still Dark Sky Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises (Jellybean 12" Dance Mix 2018 Remaster) LMX - Addiction Informatics - Proximity Switch (Accidents in Paradise) Two of China - Los Niсos Del Parque (No Name Mix) Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns (_Unsubscribe_ Remix) Opera Multi Steel - D’Une Pierre Deux Tombes Camouflage - The Great Commandment (Acid Commandment) (2018 Edit) Prudence - Her Desire Czarina - Silence & Surrender (Neon) Mueran Humanos - Los Problemas del futuro Voyou - Houseman (Maxi Version) Echoberyl - Rising from the Dead (Spooky Remix) Swan Lake - The Dream (54 Dub Mix) Soft Cell - Torch (12'' Version) Rue Oberkampf - Glycine (Nö Remix) Delta 5 - Journey Parade Ground - Took Advantage (Short Version) Suffer Ring - Vermillion Barrels Bedless Bones - A Poison Tree Skeleton Hands - Robot Hands Menthull - Maude Dlina Volny - Hollywood  Obscure By Degrees - I'm Dying Frank De Wulf - Compression (Remix) C.C.C.P. - United States of Europe (1989) Bara Hari - Tempest Oppenheimer Analysis - Subterranean Desire Laska - Into the Smoke LMX - Until the End Only Edges - Sudden Reason Oppenheimer Analysis - Scorpions The Associates - Club Country (12'' Remix) Land of Giants - Cannibal Dolls A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head

[moochilatv]

Muscle Memory presents: Body Of Light

All Star music band ! This sounds super cool

Muscle Memory are here to make your body take control. Brooklyn duo Michael Tapper and Steven Reker have already cut a distinct shape separately in the local scene as dancefloor-filling DJs, and together they’re making dance music that’s weird, wooly, and with a throbbing pulse that moves you from the inside out.

They’ve already captivated live audiences and listeners alike with the alluring “Taste of a Kiss,” and with plenty more singles in the pipeline Muscle Memory are set to provide proper satisfaction to anyone with a sweet tooth for left-of-center electronic music.

Tapper and Reker have been notable city stalwarts for a minute now; you’ve doubtless heard the former’s stick work behind the drum kit for bands like We Are Scientists, Yellow Ostrich, and Fool’s Gold. Meanwhile, Reker’s own off-kilter approach to songwriting has shone through in his seminal indie rock band People Get Ready, as well as his dancing and choreography work for artists like David Byrne, Khruangbin, and Fleet Foxes.

This summer, the duo stepped out with their intoxicating debut EP Taste of a Kiss, featuring the hypnotic title track as well as three distinct edits of the tune—including a delightfully Prince-inspired remix from West Coast producer Woolfy. With more single releases on the way, Muscle Memory are continuing to embrace their own creative regimen, discovering new sounds within their emerging collaborative approach while remaining informed by their indie backgrounds. Larry Fitzmaurice

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What if Arthur Russell made an Italo Disco song and invited Gang Of Four on guitar? It might sound something like Body Of Light, Muscle Memory's 2nd single.

That was the inspiration, anyway, and to make a song that would fit in the DJ sets of their monthly residency at James Murphy's NYC club Nightmoves.

Mixing - @the_andrew_raposo Mastering - @joshbonati Remix - @justinstrauss1 Photo - @danielrampulla

[agendaculturaldelima]

  #SinMusicaNoExisto

📣 “MUNDOXRADIO MADE IN PERU [8º Aniversario]”🌎📻👽💃🌜🦇🍷🌘 🧛‍♀️🩸🎊🖤

💥 Bailando hasta el amanecer con las mejores canciones en los géneros: New  Wave - Post Punk - Dark Wave - Gothic Rock - Synth Pop - Cold Wave - Industrial - Future Pop - Space Synth - Electro Dark – Vanguardia - Italo Disco - Britpop - Indie Rock - New Romantic - 80s - 90s - 00s.🔥 🎼☢️⚙️

🎶 Concierto: Ruido 87 (New wave) / Maquinaria Mecánica (Electro Body Music/Anhalt)🎹

🎩 Feria: Santisima Muerte / Luna Negra Arte Goth / XicKath13 / El Mundo Gótico de Pandora / Motava Parfum / Miss Psychoart / Eureka Manos Libres / Darkitsch / Accesorios Vamparadise / Wicked Witch🕷️

🎧🎹 Dj Set: Dj Rave 808 / Dantalius / Joseph Olivares / Miguel Guerra / Estaka / Lucho Nueva Helden / Trinico / EM / Johnny Zm Djdarkbox / Willy Chong / State 101 / Julian Discjektor / Seth Xanadu / Donomie / Yozty / Dj Darklands💿💽

© Producción: Mundo X Radio.

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📆 Sábado 17 de Agosto

🕙 10:00pm.

🏘 Colmena Bar (av. Nicolas de Pierola N° 634– Centro de Lima)

🎫 Entrada: S/.10

📱 Reservas: 937043580 [Yape]

[iwantjobs]

6/28/2024: CLUB TRANG: Thanks to today's physical therapy of laying like a corpse with a metal chair on my head to stretch out my painful disabled dislocated tight neck and head all day today...I am back. I am going to make my own exercising night club called Club Trang for hardcore heterosexual people and 21 and older only (no gays, bisexuals, no trans, no diseases, no cheaters, no alcohol, no drugs, no lying, brushed teeth abd scraped tongue with no body and feet odors ans genitals odors, no back stabbers, no gamblers, no homeless, no no-shower people, married people ok, no dead beat dads, no kids, etc. allowed, college educated people only, no in-debt people, no suicidal people,no butt sex people, condom only people unless married or looking to make babies, religious people get in free, but no religious people fighting over religions, though, no cannibals, no men sticking their butts out dancing, vegans gets in free, all races are welcome, all politics (Hamas, houthis and Lebanese, original Nazis, commies, no Satan worshippers, freedom people, and Zionists ok) leave your fighting, swords, boring sex people are welcome, adventurous sex people not welcome, no rainbow and now speaking of rainbows, guns, knives and bombs at home, invalids people are welcome, retarded people are welcome, no men in tight clothes, no prostitutes And pimps, no illegals, teachers, nurses, and social workers, and nice cops and soldiers get in for free, no men with earings, no longer hair men allowed, no man haired females accept exceptionally beautiful woman, no strippers or OnlyFans people,no men swaying their hips too much while dancing, no men dancing too fast, no men twerking, nearly death elderlies in moveable death beds get in for free but diapers need to be changed first, no nose boogers or nose hair and ear hair sticking out, environmentalist and animal activists get in for free, fat people have to dance or get out) and it will play old italo 800's beat music of euro 80's songs and sometimes Vietnamese songs and open to other countries songs but only in early 80's Italo disco beat, but sometimes I'll inject other music to clear out the italian mochismo atmosphere out. English speaking only, but foreign language can be whispered. Trang's work at 51.2 years old. Crap, I have to upgrade my Internet. Can't do this on a budget of $11/month internet service plan. Let's see if I can do it with free library internet. Well, this club will only be attended by one person with all my restrictions. It's ok, I am a disabled and a mental now, my pain forces me to be a loner now so I am OK with that.

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Acclaimed Paris-based electro pop sextet and JOVM mainstays L’Impératice  will be releasing their highly-anticipated, self-produced third full-length album Pulsar through microqlima records on June 7, 2024. Pulsar is an album, where the band — founder Charles de Boisseguin (keys), Hagni Gown (keys), David Gaugué (bass), Achille Trocellier (guitar), Tom Daveau (drums) and Flore Benguigui (vocals) — made every decision while capturing the band’s spirit both onstage and off. Fittingly, the album reportedly radiates with the energy and wisdom of an outfit that has helmed countless dance parties around the world on the way to find itself and its sound. Throughout the album’s material, the Parisian JOVM mainstays move freely and authoritatively among the sounds they love, bridging hip-hop, kosmiche and modern pop with their most unabashed embraces of French Touch and international house of their growing catalog. Pulsar is also the first album of their catalog to feature guest vocalists, including acclaimed folk/pop artist Maggie Rogers and rapper/producer Erick the Architect among a list of others. The album sees the acclaimed pop outfit trying a new creative approach: They split into two teams of ever-interchanging members to explore new ideas, led by the band’s founder Charles de Boisseguin. It was a way of incorporating every voice into the songwriting process like never before, pulling from idiosyncratic upbringings and enthusiasm. They then passed tracks to lead vocalist Flore Benguigui, a longtime jazz singer, who would sometimes write two-dozen vocal melodies for a song, just to see which one fit best. It was an arduous and exciting process that saw the band go from writing through recording in about nine months. For L’Imperatice, this was the sort of self-determination they’d longed for and now found. Throughout the album’s material, the band’s Benguigui boldly sings of self-empowerment, shirking beauty standards, ageism and drag normalcy throughout the album’s material. These are apt messages for incandescent anthems of experience, of fully being yourself, instead of anyone else’s version of it. The album will feature, “Me Da Igual,” a sleek and elegant, hook-driven Giorgio Moroder-era-disco-meets-French touch tune anchored by a strutting bass line, a squiggling Nile Rodgers-like funk guitar line and glistening synths serving as a sinewy and silky bed for Flore Benguigui’s sultry and ethereal delivery. Further cementing the French outfit’s reputation for crafting infectious, sensual, dance floor friendly bops, “Me Da Igual” features lyrics sung in Spanish and French while being a call to free ourselves from the injunctions to please at all costs, to reclaim your body by abandoning yourself to the euphoria of strobe lights and the dance floor — and listening to the sensations that movement and sound provides you.  The album’s second and latest single “Danza Marilú” features Italian vocalist Fabiana Martone. Continuing a bit where its immediate predecessor left off, “Danza Marilú” is a sleek, hook-driven, Giorgio Moroder-era-Italo-disco-meets-French touch bop anchored around glistening synth arpeggios, squiggling funk guitar, a supple and sinuous bass line and thumping beats. Inspired by and written as a rebuttal to Serge Gainsbourg‘s “L’Homme á tête de chou,” Pulsar‘s latest single is a defiantly feminist anthem for women of all ages, encouraging them to get on that dance floor and to be freely themselves — in spite of the looks that may ensue by insecure haters of all stripes. The acclaimed French outfit are in the middle of a lengthy international tour that will see the sextet playing four shows in NYC: April 9, 2024 at  Racket NYC; April 10, 2024 at Music Hall of WIlliamsburg; and September 7, 2024 and September 8, 2024 at Terminal 5. The September 8, 2024 show was added due to demand. And that isn’t surprising to me: I’ve caught them once, and they’re a must-see act that will have the entire room dancing the night away. Alon...

[days-of-steam]

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

(Released July 11, 2023)

Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Sprinkles, Tiqqun, Weatherall - this mix is one of the first I’ve heard that approaches AI-assisted technologies (demuxing, polyrhythmic mixing, etc) in a way that reminds me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them, and here it’s far more subtle. It’s enticing and unnerving to me but such is the effect of the dawn of a new form of technology that has the principle for use and abuse. Here it’s done to only positive effect, again highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain. A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over. From downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission. Mais je divague...

Bianca Scout - Kingdom [First Terrace, 2022] Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [Curle, 2016] T++ - Dig [Honest Jons, 2010] Avatism - Self Control [Vakant, 2017] Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [Crème Organization, 2010] Ayln - Victim [Nous, 2018] Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [WNCL Recordings, 2018] Reckonwrong - Morton [Pinkman, 2015] Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [Text, 2016] Blawan - Iddy [Hessle Audio, 2010] Martyn - Body Music [Dolly Dubs, 2018] Pugilist - Déjà Vu [Banoffee Pies, 2022] Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [SHUT, 2018] Shed - Lumber Fix TT [The Final Experiment, 2018] Private Press - Wetweird [Of Paradise White Label, 2022] Clark - Superscope [Warp, 2014] Andrea - Rainbow [Ilian Tape, 2015] Glaskin - Grey Lines [Hotflush, 2018]