Demdike Stare – Liberation Through Hearing

Modern Love / iulie 2010 / try / buy

masters of everything dark and strange

full release

Posted in de-dans, download on August 3rd, 2010 by de-dans | 2 Comments

Bathcrones – Psychorama

No Pain In Pop / 2010 / try / buy

Bathcrones – Holy Rome

Bathcrones – False Teeth

Vara asta nu are nici dracu chef sa danseze, summer of love is fucking over, post-rave, post-amphetamine is the name of the game. Synth-uri, reverb-uri, melodii frumoase, toate un pic cam dupa formula, dar pe plaja, dupa-amiaza, nu se discuta de-astea. Mai ales cand esti la birou de fapt.

Posted in de-dans, download on July 28th, 2010 by de-dans | 1 Comments

Simon Reynolds – Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss

Pontone’s Special Guest: Simon Reynolds – Eldritchtronica and Wyrd Bliss Mixtape

“When Pontone asked if I fancied coming up with a mixtape of favorites from the last decade, I thought “that could get pretty motley”. So I focused on a particular sound-stream: “eldritchtronic”, a non-existent genre that cuts across a bunch of zones (hauntology, the trippier end of microhouse, hypnagogic/glo-fi, the Brooklyn school of “ecstatic experimental”, etc). Mostly electronic but rarely intersecting with the dancefloor, this music merges blissy and eerie, the wired and the wyrd. And because the 2000s was when the linear temporality of music definitively dissolved, there’s leakage from the remote past, musique concrete and text-sound by artists I encountered for the first time during the Noughties. The selection was by me; Pontone assembled and sequenced (expertly–only thing I’d change would be to have “Chronometer” emerge out of “Fizheuer” Zieheuer”… try it, you’ll see what I’m getting at). But I did ask for the Ariel Pink song to go last, as that has special meaning.” Simon Reynolds

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Posted in de-dans, sets on July 23rd, 2010 by de-dans | 1 Comments

Monici Minitape for FGM

missing you…

Monici Minitape July 2010

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Posted in de-dans, sets on July 21st, 2010 by de-dans | 7 Comments

Casino versus Japan – Night On Tape

Attack 9 / 2010 / try / buy

Dupa 6 ani de absenta, Eric Kowalski (Casino versus Japan) revine cu un nou release, o colectie de piese mai vechi si mai noi dar care nu au mai aparut pana acum. Mai atragator mi se pare un mix cu piese din intreaga cariera, un remember despre o trupa carora multora ne-a marcat macar o perioada din viata si despre care incepe sa se vorbeasca din nou din ce in ce mai mult, alaturi de Boards Of Canada, ca fondatori de tendinte extrem de actuale.

Casino versus Japan – a guide mix by pontone.pl

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Posted in de-dans, download, sets on July 19th, 2010 by de-dans | 0 Comments

Buzz.RO! Bogdan Marcu

Bogdan Marcu, artist experimental, produce un EP numai din sampleuri din releasurile Local Records: Bogdan, Minus si Eusebio. In afara de Mihaela Runceanu, totul este dat jos de pe FGM. Traiasca CC!

The Battle from Heaven in Hell

The Battle from Heaven in Hell (drum macin)

The Battle from Heaven in Hell_2

The Battle from Heaven in Hell_3

Cred ca, m-am jucat prima data cu sunetul cand inca nu mi se ingrosase vocea. Faceam povesti audio cu sora mea cu casu’ lu bunica mea sau mici interventzii sonore pentru trezit din somn la 6 dimineata, pentru scoala, care trebuiau sa fie ori galagioase ori destul de funny ca sa nu adormi la loc. Banuiesc ca, de aici mi-a ramas predilectia spre a cauta umoru mai inainte de a urma un stil sau gen clar, de aceea sunt atras de glitch, mashup sau orice altceva care imi permite sa combin multe genuri sau sa alatur stiluri nepotrivite sau nealaturate pana acum in general, sa rup eclecticu cand ti-e lumea mai draga. Sa si exemplific: metal cu dance, preferatul meu gotic – manea sau in cazul de fatza stilul lui Bogdan spatial trance mai serios cu glitch hopul si gameboyul copilaresc al lui Minus plus putin exotic latino de la Eusebio, toate in aceeasi propozitzie. E destul de ushor de dat in haos cand faci asa ceva, dar daca cauti putin, gasesti armonie. De iesit din minimal nu mai vorbesc, dar my rok – noize head o cere cateodata.
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Posted in de-dans on July 16th, 2010 by fresh good minimal | 5 Comments

Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal

Editions Mego / 2010 / try / buy

Editions Mego once more, pentru ca dupa Emeralds nu putea sa mearga decat Oneohtrix Point Never, un timp din State (Daniel Lopatin), celebru de altfel pe zona lui dar care la noi a ajuns mai tarziu, cand am realizat ca ambientul lui nu e chiar ambient. psychedelic synth orgy.

Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never – Stress Waves

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Posted in de-dans, download on July 7th, 2010 by de-dans | 6 Comments