UNKLE just announced to release a new album called ‘Where Did The Night Fall’ on 10th May in the UK and Europe. To celebrate the release a new track, ‘Natural Selection’ (featuring The Black Angels), will be available for free download.
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‘Where Did The Night Fall’ Tracklisting:
1. Nowhere
2. Follow Me Down (feat Sleepy Sun)
3. Natural Selection (feat The Black Angels)
4. Joy Factory (feat Autolux)
5. The Answer (feat Big In Japan (Baltimore))
6. On A Wire (feat ELLE J)
7. Falling Stars (feat Gavin Clark)
8. Heavy Drug
9. Caged Bird (feat Katrina Ford)
10. Ablivion
11. The Runaway (feat ELLE J)
12. Ever Rest (feat Joel Cadbury)
13. The Healing (feat Gavin Clark)
14. Another Night Out (feat Mark Lanegan)
Dunaewsky69 is the moniker of a young talented musician from the Ukraine: Alexander Gladun (Александр Гладун). He released two excellent albums already and participated two tracks to a split release for the famous Awkward Silence split CD series.
His new release, the mini-web-only-album ‘Detimorya’ is available for free and worth downloading – click here. Pre-listen to all tracks:
Very soon after Wisp’s first relase on Rephlex -the highly acclaimed album “The Shimmering Hour”- he releases his second album on Rephlex in the same quality – or even better. And more good news the Replex site has been rebuild completely. It used to be the worst site on the net but it now contains release news, full-length track previews and fast page loading without fancy animations and features. Well done!
The album is already floating in the www. It will surely take some time until the people have realised the Rephlex site is now a good place to visit and order tracks for reasonable 6 quid.
…and the winner is: Moderat, the fantastic collaboration of Modeselektor and Apparat with their self-titled album. See also my post from June about the album. This record was my clear Number One in 2009, no doubt. Watch the promotion video:
Listen to all tracks starting with my personal favourite ‘Les Grandes Marches’:
A superb new album by Robert Henke’s moniker Monolake arrived just before the end of the year. And I was excited by the layers, patterns and sound structures of this album which have actually nothing do to with ‘Silence’. He takes a vast array of sonic sources like hammering on metal plates at the KWO Berlin (every East German child knows the KWO) and capturing sounds at the Cold War Teufelsberg Radar Station in the former West Berlin. But not to become too political he also works with sounds from the Grand Canyon, Swiss tunnel workers, a friends answering machine, a printer etc.
WARP’s future prospects are great! With the 2010 compilation WARP already gives a look-out to what will happen in 2010. Beside rather established WARP artists like Flying Lotus and Bibio there are new WARP signings on this compilation like Nice Nice and The Hundred In The Hands with some exciting tracks. And not to forget Rustie has signed to WARP – fantastic! The compilation is available for unbeatable 3 quid!
While browsing on the Plaid website I followed a link to the Plaid remix of Embed’s ‘Zero-1′ and came across a nice dubstep mix of the track ‘Grate Britain’ feat. Lee Oakes (LOKI):
This is a nice mix and video but to me the Embed stuff is all too much about 9/11 conspiracy. Their album “Sonic Weapons” has been released – guess when – on 11/09/2009. That’s paranoid, nice label website though.
I am currently refreshing the +spatze.com appearance. It’s not a complete re-design – I’ll just give it a fresh look. I will use the new Ocean Mist 2.0 theme by Ed Merritt and this how it’s going to look like:
This will also allow me to include web 2.0 features like videos. It takes a while until I will have customized the style sheet and revised all the content (with tags etc.) so please bare with me. If you are experiencing any problem please drop me a line: info [at] spatze.com
Warp20 is an amazing concept to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Warp Records. The Warp20 Box Set contains of the best of 20 years of Warp, new and unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans on Warp20.net (I voted mainly for Plaid tracks).
The most incredible part of the Box Set is in my eyes Warp20 (Recreated) containing 21 tracks from Warp artist recreated/covered by other Warp artists. Absolutely breathtaking, listen here:
Advanced copies of the 14th Yo La Tengo album have already leaked on the net back in July. ‘Popular Songs’ has now been officially released – in September, two months too late. Anyway, the song ‘By Two’s’ reminds me very much to ‘Don’t Say A Word’ from my personal YLT favourite ‘Electr-o-pura’. I like the new album as it is a very typical YLT record. No surprises and that’s good. Get two free MP3’s from the album here.
