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This is Tricky
Submitted by dr™ on February 25, 2007 - 1:24pm.Excellent news today RobotSound™ enthusiasts. Tricky Disco has released the first new songs since 1991! Yes, you read that correctly. Michael Wells has decided to resurrect one of my favorite GTO aliases. Bleep fans worldwide can rejoice. Perhaps this heralds a Bleep renaissance? One can only hope.
Available exclusively as iTunes downloads, please go get these and make yourself happy. Links are below.
EDM
Submitted by dr™ on February 12, 2007 - 11:32pm.At the moment, I'm getting ready to move to a new apartment [thanks to my best friend shacking up at his girl's place and bestowing upon me his coveted abode]. Since I don't own any major furniture, the bulk of my work entails boxing up the ever-growing record collection, always a fun event. There's the all-important sorting, à la Rob Gordon in High Fidelity [a novel/film dear to my heart] - you need to make sure your categories are well thought out. For me that means there are separate boxes for 80s, Industrial Dance/EBM, 89'-'92, mid-90's Techno, Indie, "IDM", Italo, Ambient/Experimental, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, GTO/LFO/MBM, 7"s, and of course, many for mid-90's through present-day Electro. Not an easy task, mind you.
One part of this process involves revisiting old classics that you probably haven't heard in a number of years. The track I came across tonight came out in 1995 on a remix compilation for the Japanese group Soft Ballet. Done in a dance-y ambient-breakbeat-dub stylee by Global Communication [aka Reload, Jedi Knights, etc.], this was released at a time when "Intelligent" dance music was still dance-orientated, before the machines completely took over. This music is not computer algebra - this is E dance music to which one can chill. I urge you to turn off the lights, slip on the headphones, and don't be afraid to get your groove on to this one.
Soft Ballet - Ride (Global Communication Dub Mix)
[it starts out a bit quiet for the first 30 seconds or so]
