专辑编号#:ZENDNL171

国家：英国

发行日期:2011年2月21日

类型:Electronic

风格:Downtempo, Abstract, Drum n Bass, Experimental

这游戏《Splinter Cell》可够下本儿的，Ninjatune几位大拿悉数出动给做这张。

Tracklist

Genre: Ambient / Downtempo / Experimental / Future Jazz

Four Tet在我心目中，一直就是一电音界的解晓东那角色——很鸡肋。出过不少作品，但是别提说得上名，就大概其连说出他们什么风格都有点费劲。

不过2010年初的这张’There is love in you’估计是能给我留下印象最深的一张。查了一下履历，上一张专辑发布还是2005年，看来这四五年歇得Kieran Hebden算是真开窍儿了。

本专辑也入选Ninjatune 2010最佳专辑。

Tracklist:
01. Angel Echoes [04:00]
02. Love Cry [09:13]
03. Circling [05:17]
04. Pablo’s Heart [00:11]
05. Sing [06:48]
06. This Unfolds [07:55]
07. Reversing [02:40]
08. Plastic People [06:33]
09. She Just Likes To Fight [04:34]

Tracklist:
01 – Straw Men (feat. Sway)
02 – Whatuknowabout (feat. Sway)
03 – Better Get That (feat. Ms. Jade)
04 – Two Fingers (feat. Sway)
05 – That Girl (feat. Sway)
06 – Keman Rhythm
07 – Jewels & Gems (feat. Sway)
08 – Bad Girl (feat. Ce’Cile)
09 – High Life
10 – Doing My Job (feat. Ms. Jade)
11 – Not Perfect (feat. Sway)
12 – Moth Rhythm

由于前一阵儿瞎逼折腾，忘了关注Ninaj Tune，并且数据库没鼓捣明白，所以一直也没“发片”。刚才突然发现Amon Tobin跟一个叫Joe Chapman的人组了个Two Fingers。还在今年跟Big Dada发了一张同名专辑Two Fingers，据说还火的挺厉害，不知道大家伙儿是冲着Amon Tobin去的还是真的很带劲？

不知道哥儿姐儿几个听了没有，我先给发出来，有啥马后炮之后再说吧。

Release Note：

Imagine if Timbaland were kidnapped and held hostage in a council flat in Tottenham. Imagine then, that elite robot agents aligned to the New World Order were sent into rescue him with laser cannons little knowing that the kidnappers were in fact an underground cell of benefit-cheat Jedi. Imagine hip hop recapturing the sheer brutality of classic-era Public Enemy without it becoming a retread. Imagine if “urban” music was made not for the charts but the heart. Imagine “Two Fingers”.

Two Fingers are Brazilian beat-adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe “Doubleclick” Chapman. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of “electronica”. In Montreal they applied production techniques associated with UK styles like drum & bass to the template of hip hop. It was an experiment with explosive results. MOBO-winner Sway (now signed to Akon’s Konvict label in the US) heard what was brewing he was so taken with it, he flew straight out to Montreal and recorded seven tracks with them, showing a harsher, more serious side to his personality whilst offering wry social commentary on everything from the way young Black men are treated (”What You Know”) to crazy girls who do too many pills (”That Girl”). The remaining rhythms were voiced by sometime Missy protégé Ms Jade and dancehall legend Ce’Cile. A couple of instrumental rhythms were added and this, first stage of a continuing project, was complete.

“Two Fingers” is a project unlike anything that any of the three main players has ever made before, a unique, utterly uncompromising, brutal and beautiful record that could only have grown out of the UK and the internationalism of those involved. If it’s not hip hop as we know it, then nor is it drum & bass or grime. Like all the best music it transcends genre to stand on its own icy, transcendent, brilliant.

之前在一个网站上看到过这乐队，有兴趣看他们的原因，不仅仅是我手欠，更因为他们名字好玩儿，所以才点进去。当时看到的对这张专辑的评语是这样的。

Soon to be released on ATP Recordings Street Horrrsing is a perfect showcase of why Fuck Buttons are one of the most exciting noise bands around right now. Few bands of this style manage to sound as lush and beautiful as FB do here, highly recommended.

但纵使再牛逼，您一个玩儿脑已滋的，我看着这几个字儿就脑仁儿嗡嗡响。更甭提听了。

知道去年底NT评他们是08最佳唱片之一，我才斗胆听了一把。

我才疏学浅，再加欣赏水平一般，听不出太多好赖，只是有一些小片段，还是处理的挺有意思的而已。

另有一段儿专业的评述：

團名以髒話開頭，似有譁眾取寵之嫌。然聽過Street Horrrsing，只能承認，Fuck Buttons這名字還取得真好。

一如Black Dice、Boredoms或同廠的Bardo Pond，Fuck Buttons兩名英國樂手是披著迷幻噪音外皮的Spacemen 3忠實信徒。鬼魅的扭曲嘶吼搭配原始鼓擊，血腥的聽感浸滿肅殺之氣。太空搖滾的音色包裹著失序與不安，變態的尖叫更讓人冷汗直流。

就像電影魔宮傳奇，Street Horrrsing彷彿讓人親臨一場活人祭典，歷經狂喜似的集體催眠，已分不出眼前究竟是天堂還是地獄。

（原文載於《破報》復刊525期）

这张也是Ninja Charts里我最喜欢的之一，乐队介绍可以随便搜搜，到处都是，中文的还是。乐队自己给自己打的铆是Ambient Punk，我认为，自己一下儿就把自己归到什么什么类里的这种做法，有点儿der，或者说很朴实。事实上在这张里，也能听到，他们把好多当下流行的元素，齐了喀嚓全都擩你耳朵里了，也不怕让人听着闹心，你当是张曼玉哪，擩给谁谁乐三天。

还好，这么多东西，真有很耐听的，而且还是在我第一次顺着听Ninja Charts里每一张的时候就发现了的。很妙哈！

01 Intro
02 Agoraphobia
03 Never Stops
04 Little Kids
05 Microcastle
06 Calvary Scars
07 Green Jacket
08 Activa
09 Nothing Ever Happened
10 Saved By Old Times
11 These Hands
12 Twilight At Carbon Lake

Most people recognise the power of a name that fits well. One should not be surprised at the powerful grinding sounds of a band called Fuck Buttons, nor should one be quite taken aback when Casiotone For The Painfully Alone sounds a wee bit emotional.

But Deerhunter are more subdued than their name suggests. For example, instead of enjoying the great outdoors, the narrator of Agoraphobia would rather spend his time in a prison cell. When you make it to the penultimate track, Neither Of Us, Uncertainly, you’ll realise that the song’s title aptly captures the spirit of Microcastle: Deerhunter are not, as their name suggest, epic warriors on the killing fields, rather they are young meek people, awkwardly shuffling past, trying to grasp at some bit of truth before it slowly, inevitably floats away.

After a few listens, Microcastle might take hold in your mind as an indie concerto. Broken into thirds, the album draws you in with some light pop fare before spilling its guts to you in a slow, dramatic middle section. But just when it seems the dark will only get darker, Nothing Ever Happened kicks in with a throbbing beat and pushes you through the last energetic stretch of the album.

But back to the beginning – although Agoraphobia sounds depressing on paper, it turns out to be quite buoyant in the hands of Deerhunter. The upbeat song introduces the album proper after the introductory instrumental, Cover Me (Slowly), grinds to a halt, and it is this sort of tug and pull construction that gives Microcastle some lasting power. Not convinced yet? Later on, the title track sloshes by with singer Bradford Cox barely able to push the words out in time, but just when you think you’re safe in feeling gloomy, the drums come in and nail it into your skull: suffer through it and everything will come out fine.

Deerhunter’s power doesn’t lie in their ability to create fast and slow songs and to put them next to each other in succession. Dynamic flourishes are one of the hardest things to pull off as a band without making it sound cheesy, and Deerhunter are able to give life to each of their crescendos, to give inspiration to each of their fading notes.

The sounds on Microcastle form a lush landscape. Ethereal voices blend into battered guitars and a determined rhythm section. Tagged as an experimental rock group, that abysmal chasm of classifications, Deerhunter lean more towards the ear-to-ear panorama of My Bloody Valentine than the warbled squawks of Lightning Bolt or the intense jabs of Deerhoof. Deerhunter, however, manage to steal a portion of each of those groups, using them to cook up a new recipe of indie experimental delight.

Label: Sub Rosa
Catalog#: SR 281
Format: CD, Album, Mixed
Country: Belgium
Released: 07 Apr 2008
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country, Hip Hop, Non-Music
Style: Interview, Cut-up/DJ, Experimental

听之前，先看看这段儿评论：

The material on this “Sound Unbound” mix is an audio essay that links artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Antonin Artaud and Allen Ginsberg. It also foregrounds some issues that I think the 21st century really needs to understand – art isn’t about objects anymore. Art is a continuous investigation into humanity’s place in the world, it gives us hope and tells us simply that another world is possible, I hope you listen to the mix and think about it as another kind of text. A text that asks a simple, yet deceptively complex question: where does the 20th century end and the 21st century begin? Where do we draw the line between art and objects, art and artifacts? The jazz musician Eric Dolphy once infamously said “when you hear music, after its over, it’s gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.” In the era of ubiquitous computing the new vision of music is about omnipresence – the music is everywhere .

时代感如此之强，有如此强悍的标志性么？照这个也得听听，看看他究竟是不是扯淡呢。。。

01. Radio Mentale / Matthew Herbert – Cool Noises
02. Martyn Bates Mixed with Allen Ginsberg – Once Loved / A Footnote to Howl (DJ Spooky Rem
03. Jean Cocteau – Le Buste (DJ Spooky Remix)
04. Sun Ra – Imagination
05. Mikhail Mixed with Gertrude Stein – Untitled in Cof Minor / A Valentine to Sherwood Anderso
06. DJ Spooky Vs. Rob Swift – Scratch Battle
07. Marcel Duchamp Mixed with the Master Musicians of Joujouka Mixed with Interview wit
08. Raymond Scott – the Paper Work Explosion
09. Alter Echo Mixed with Pamela Z – Perpetual Next / Pop Titles ‘you’
10. Liam Gillick Mixed with Aphex Twin – Sarah (Los Angeles Soundtrack) / I Could Never Make
11. James Joyce Mixed with Erik Satie – Eolian Episode / Gnossiene (DJ Spooky Dub Version)
12. Steve Reich by Ulrich Krieger – Reed Phase
13. Shukar Mixed with Radio Mentale Mixed with Raoul Hausmann – Cika-Laka / Cool Noises Pt2 /
14. Augustos De Campos Mixed with Bill Laswell Mixed with to Rococo Rot – Dias Dias Dias / Ab
15. John Cage – Rozart Mix
16. Antonin Artaud – to Have Done with God’s Judgment (DJ Spooky Remix)
17. DJ Spooky – One Laptop: Theme
18. Sussan Deyhim – the Spilled Cup (DJ Spooky Remix)
19. Raymond Scott – General Motor Futurama (Interstitial)
20. Marcel Duchamp Mixed with George Lewis & Aki Takase – Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voic
21. Bill Laswell Mixed with Rene Magritte – Ghost Dub / Le Surrealisme Et Les Questions
22. Anthony Braxton & Evan Parker Mixed with Pauline Oliveros – the First Set Area / A Litt
23. Bora Yoon – // (DJ Spooky Remix)
24. Pierre Schaeffer – Cinq Etudes De Bruits: Etude Violette
25. Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto – the Need to Be
26. Philip Glass by Ulrich Krieger – Music in Fifths
27. Edgard Varese – Poeme Electronique
28. Iannis Xenakis – Concret Ph
29. Ryoji Ikeda – One Minute
30. Sonic Youth – Audience (DJ Spooky Remix)
31. Alter Echo Mixed with Dong Lim – Track 01
32. Terry Riley by Ulrich Krieger – Dorian Reeds
33. Luigi Russolo Mixed with DJ Spooky – Corale
34. Fanfare Savale Mixed with Vladimir Mayakovsky – Rumba Lu Georgel / I Know the Pow
35. Pilgrim’s Song Mixed / Trilok Gurtu & Bill Laswell – Pilgrim’s Song Mixed / Kala
36. Nam June Paik – Hommage A John Cage
37. Morton Subotnick Mixed with Acid Bassline – Mandolin Mixed with Acid Bassline
38. The Master Musicians of Joujouka Mixed with Hans Arp Mixed with Boujeloud – Mali Mal Hal M
39. Sub Swara Mixed with Kurt Schwitters – Track 02 / Anna Blume
40. Walter Ruttman Mixed with Ache Lhamo – Week End
41. Raymond Scott – Bendrix Tomorrow People #1 (Taken form Manhattan Reasearch)
42. Martyn Bates Mixed with the Palaces of Gesar’s Family – I Can’t Look for You / the Pa
43. Otto Luening & Wladimir Ussachevsky – Incantation for Tape
44. Carsten Nicolai – Timesdot3
45. William S. Burroughs & Iggy Pop with Techno Animal – the Western Land

Bjork多年的亲密战友和革命伙伴，伊朗大蜜LEILA的首张专辑。

Iranian electronic producer Leila Arab has signed to Warp for the release of her third LP under her first name. Some eight years in coming, the follow-up to Courtesy of Choice is called Blood, Looms and Blooms, and it features guest appearances from Specials vocalist Terry Hall, Tricky collaborator/solo artist Martina Topley-Bird, and longtime Leila pal Luca Santucci, among others. Warp will release Blooms in the UK on June 9.
Leila has a fair number of live dates supporting Bj?rk in April and May, but our first studio sample of her new tunes will come in the form of two singles. Warp will release the "Mettle" 10"/digital single on April 21, then follow it with the "Deflect" single on May 26.
U.S. release dates for the album and the singles are still being finalized, but Warp is planning for "Mettle" to make its way over in mid-to-late April and Blooms to follow in mid-to-late June.
You can view the alluring cover of Blood, Looms and Blooms, along with Leila’s dates, after the jump.

TRACKLISTING
01. Mollie
02. Time To Blow (With Terry Hall)
03. Little Acorns (With Khemahl & Thaon Richardson)
04. Daisies, Cats And Spacemen (With Roya Arab)
05. Mettle
06. Teases Me (With Luca Santucci)
07. Carplos
08. The Exotics (With Seaming)
09. Deflect (With Martina Topley-Bird)
10. Norwegian Wood (With Luca Santucci)
11. Lush Dolphins
12. Ur Train (With Luca Santucci)
13. Young Ones
14. Why Should I (With Terry Hall & Martina Topley-Bird)

Press Release
1893. Chicago. The World’s Fair to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America opens. In the entourage of one Nikola Tesla, the renogade pioneer of modern electricity, travels Alfred Darlington, a young inventor from Los Angeles.

On only the second day of the fair, Darlington is electrocuted in a terrible accident, pronounced dead and taken to the morgue. Two days later, an attendent there hears knocking from one of the drawers where the corpses are kept. Armed with a shotgun and whisky he opens the drawer to find the young Alfred not only alive and well but babbling about a future worlds he has visited and asking that everyone now calls him “DAEDELUS”.
Tesla, both relieved that the boy has survived and embarrassed by the accident, allows him the run of his workshops. Over the next six months of the Fair, he devotes his time to building strange electronic instruments and on the very last night of the Fair presents the Love To Make Music To Symphony, which, he claims, is the sound he heard in the future.
The events of the performance are shrouded in secrecy – widely believed to be a result of a cover-up by government and the vested commercial interests who had most to gain from the Fair’s success. The few reports which have filtered out say that people go mad as they listen to the strange, alien sounds the young composer describes as “music”, that they scream, laugh, pull off their clothes, have sex with each other and themselves, fall into reveries and shout of “the hills, the beautiful hills”. Daedelus himself is dragged from the stage and detained indefinitely in a mental hospital in Chicago and stays there until his mysterious disappearance on May 29th 1913, incidentally the night of the riots in Paris at the first performance of Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring.
But for another twist the story would have ended there. However, Dr John Thompsock of the Chicago Ultra-Arts & Science-head Institute and one of the greatest living Tesla-ologists is lucky enough to obtain a cache of Tesla’s papers from a shadowy Eastern European in 1999. In amongst them he finds a cylinder disk. On playing it, he discovers that it contains the only recording made of Daedelus’ first and last performance.
Digitized and cleaned of crackle, pops, and shorn of 45 minutes of detuned primitive oscillator noise, this is the performance which you are holding now. Or listening to. Almost as strange as the day it was first performed and as liable to bring on what we can only decribe as “sexual fever”. To ease you through – and hopefully hold the fever at bay – this version features commentary from a number of leading scientists including Om’mas Keith and Taz of the Sa-Ra Foundation, plus (Dr) Michael Johnson, (Prof) N’fa, Paperboy (Mphil), (Dr) Erika Rose and (Prof) Laura Darling (of the Long Lost Institute). Of more than academic interest, this should still appeal to all aficionado’s of Very Very Late Victorian Music.

Tracklisting:
01 Fair Weather Friends
02 Touchtone (feat. Paperboy and Taz)
03 Twist The Kids (feat. N’fa)
04 Get Off Your HiHats
05 My Beau (feat. Erika Rose and Paperboy)
06 Make It So (feat. Michael Johnson)
07 Only For The Heatstrings
08 I Car(ry) Us
09 I Took Two
10 Assembly Lines
11 Bass In It (feat. Taz)
12 Hrs:Mins:Secs
13 If We Should (feat. Laura Darlington)
14 Drummery Jam
15 You’re The One (feat. Om’mas Keith)

rapid.1 / rapid.2

向来对拿声音做实验这事儿不感兴趣，更没兴趣听着诸多艺术家实验到天荒地老。这张例外，谁让这里有Kid Koala的呢。而且更夸张的是，还是俩Turntablist大拿’Kid Koala’和’Martin Tetreault’在2005 Victoriaville音乐节上的二重奏。实在没法说这张专辑的感觉，倒是Tetreault用电影来形容他们俩所做的事儿更恰如其分——把一节节音乐片段，用丰富的想象力剪切拼贴在一起。

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Track Listing:
1. Drum-o-scope 5:09
2. Michel au pays des merveilles 8:37
3. Pluto attack (la revanche des exclus) 3:21
4. Godzilla a les blues 5:48
5. L’île aux trésors ? 5:10
6. No, fantaisy island ! 4:05
7. The DJ Factory turn crazy 6:02

Label:

Tracklist:
01. Altibzz 2:52
02. The Plc 4:17
03. IO 3:08
04. plyPhon 2:33
05. Perlence 3:25
06. SonDEremawe 1:21
07. Simmm 5:00
08. paralel Suns 3:03
09. Steels 2:56
10. Tankakern 3:39
11. rale 3:43
12. Fol3 3:47
13. fwzE 2:39
14. 90101-5l-l 3:11
15. bnc Castl 2:52
16. Theswere 2:12
17. WNSN 4:57
18. chenc9 4:57
19. Notwo 5:34
20. Outh9X 7:15
Total: 1:13:22