Incoming! Meshuggah: Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave it Motion. Out on March 23rd (EU) and March 26, 2012 (NA) via Nuclear Blast Records.

Incoming! Municipal Waste: The Fatal Feast: Out April 10th (NA) and April 13, 2012 (EU) via Nuclear Blast Records.

“Plastic, hollow shells that focus only on the in-the-now grooves or keeping in line with trends.” This is how Martyn would describe some of today’s DJs. He isn’t necessarily finger-pointing particular individuals, the Internet can take care of that — just look at the polemic Skrillex. But his general view is that DJ superstar culture coupled with rock star marketing has created a host of vacuous producers for whom he has rubbed shoulders with during his own travels. For Martyn, they lack in any culture or history of the foundations in the music they promote and create, and easily jump on the nearest development with a brash ignorance. On Ghost People the Dutch producer would like to invoke not only nostalgic memories, but the rapport of Paradise Garage DJs and hedonistic club nights of the past.

It’s not the first time the once drum and bass DJ has taken a side look at the social and cultural aspects of his work. Great Lengths although not explicit in its delivery, had a very sombre and melancholic feeling. This release “has definitely a lot more drive, from being on the road, from being unhappy with a situation perhaps.” Martyn certainly seems to have an acute perception of the “scene” and the ebbs and flows of DJ life, and as one critic has commented on the landmark Fabric 50 mix: despite being a “temporary moment”, it nonetheless could not “taste fresher, […] unifying house, techno, dubstep and UK funky to such a glorious extent; the first to portend the possibilities for coexistence between disparate scenes and sounds.”

Ghost People essentially transcends “House music’s nomadic memory”, a deep influence that remains throughout a multitude of artists in recent years, springing up in the futuristic and dystopian techno of Gatekeeper, or to take a huge step back, an album complete of House music’s earliest influences in the shape of 2562′s Fever LP. Every sound on the latter had to originate from a 70s or 80s disco record.

This album doesn’t put such a self-imposed limit onto itself, but just as 2562 is keen to delve amongst the building blocks of house, Martyn is equally willing to explore the melodies and emotions; the fizzing 808s and the cold synth stabs, passing through Detroit and Chicago on ‘Masks’ and ‘Horror Vacui’. It is heavy on the 4/4 beats and somewhat more aggressive than Great Lengths. “It’s similar to how Erosie’s album artwork is intense, an overload of thoughts, instead of an easily digestible image” comments Martyn, who insisted on the elaborate installation piece for the secret album release launch in east London late last month.

Notably, this reaffirms Martyn’s break with the confounds of two-step, and as his mind wanders through the worldwide scene once more, just where will he go next.

[Originally published for TLOBF]

This is good.

King Cannibal - Riddim’N’Bruise Mix - Sub FM - 05/01/2009 - 36:22 - 83,5 Mo - 320kpbs

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King Cannibal - Riddim N Bruise Mix
5/1/2009

01 - Two Fingers Feat. Sway - What You Know - Ninja Tune
02 - Shackleton - You Bring Me Down (Peverelist Remix) - Skull Disco
03 - Martyn - Suburbia - Apple Pips
04 - Scuba - Hard Boiled (SCB Edit)- Hotflush Recordings
05 - Mike Dunn - So Let It Be House - Clone Classic Cuts
06 - Sleeparchive - Perspective - Ostgut Ton
07 - Rhythm & Sound - Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) - Burial Mix
08 - Unknown Artist - Untitled A1 - Seldom Felt
09 - Claro Intelecto - Round + Round - Modern Love
10 - Apparat - Hot - BPitch Control
11 - Tigerhook Corp – Evil Eyes - Vamp Tech
12 - Scuba - Ruptured (Surgeon Remix) - Hotflush Recordings
13 - Shackleton - New Dawn - Hotflush Recordings
14 - Pangaea - You & I - Hessle Audio
15 - Headhunter - In Motion - Tempa
16 - Benga - Emotions - Tempa
17 - Geeneus - In To The Future - Rinse Recordings
18 - Ceephax Acid Crew - Ceephax Acid - Breakin’ Records
19 - Roska - Gone To A Better Place - Roska Kicks & Snares
20 - Monkey Mafia - Lion In The Hall (Main Mix) - Heavenly
21 - A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray - Rham!
22 - No Smoke - Koro-Koro - Warriors Dance
23 - Martyn - Suburbia - Apple Pips
24 - Atheus - Sphere One - Baum Records
25 - Peverelist - The Grind - Punch Drunk
26 - Renegade Soundwave - Women Respond To Bass - Mute Records Ltd.
27 - 30Hz - Crazy - Lot 49 
28 - Quantec - Electromagnetic Pulse - Meanwhile
29 - Zomby - Rumours & Revolutions - Brainmath
30 - Loefah - Yours - Ringo Records
31 - Babylon System - Loaded - Argon
32 - Ebola - Pass The Buckfast (King Cannibal Remix) - Unreleased
33 - Milanese - So Malleable (Acapella) - Warp Records
34 - Instra:mental vs. Drkstr - The Chamber - Darkestral Recordings
35 - Boxcutter - Brood V.I.P. - Abucs
36 - TC - Wheres My Money (Caspa Remix) - D-Style Recordings
37 - Unknown Artist - Injustice - Hate
38 - 2562 - Enforcers - Tectonic
39 - Scuba - Ruptured (Surgeon Remix) - Hotflush Recordings
40 - 2562 - Circulate - Tectonic
41 - Appleblim & Peverelist - Over Here (Brendon Moeller Remix) - Apple Pips
42 - Pendle Coven - Waveplate - Modern Love
43 - Burial - Distant Lights - Hyperdub
44 - Pangaea - Router - Hessle Audio
45 - Jus Wan - Action Potential - Apple Pips
46 - Dave Clarke - Wisdom To The Wise - Bush
47 - Kode 9 vs. LD - Bad - Hyperdub
48 - Misc - Hooked - Lost Souls Recordings
49 - Bjork- Dull Flame Of Desire (Modeselektor’s Rmx For Girls) - One Little Indian

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I am not exactly sure why find these 7”s from Jahtari so enchanting. Maybe it is because the spindle art gives me memories of computers from days gone – even though I was an Atari kid. Or maybe it reminds me of those music programs that I used to try and unsuccessfully use, plotting random symbols on notation and wondering if I should have paid more attention in music lessons.

Anyway, this is the second release on the Jahmiga sub-label and carries on from 2009’s excellent ‘Whiskey Bar’. Although officially released by an “unknown artist”, I would make an educated guess in saying that it could be by Tom Giles, aka Clause Four, who composed the first Jahmiga release. In tune with that release, ‘Porque Te Dub’ charismatically infuses an ‘old’ track – this time 70s track Porque Te Vas by Jeanette (widely known from the movie ‘Cria Cuervos’) – amongst the punchy 8-bit digital laptop reggae sounds.

As all the releases on Jahtari, it follows the strict dub/reggae composition rules set out by the label and doesn’t fail to provide a distinct, crisp, and mesmeric journey into dub.

Buy from: Boomkat / Juno

The Sword have unveiled a free download of album track ‘Tres Brujas’ in support of their forthcoming release ‘Warp Riders’. You can download it at http://www.swordofdoom.com or via the widget below. The album is scheduled for release on August 23rd.

Tracklist

1. Acheron / Unearthing The Orb
2. Tres Brujas
3. Arrows In The Dark
4. The Chronomancer I : Hubris
5. Lawless Lands
6. Astraea’s Dream
7. The Warp Riders
8. Night City
9. The Chronomancer II : Nemesis
10.  (The Night The Sky Cried) Tears of Fire