men and their machines

hell.o

all sorts of weird grooves have been dug into in the last few days including juno reactor, richard h. kirk, and minimal house mixes by m.a.n.d.y.

but, here's a quick rundown of the stuff i should be telling you about.

to start things off here's a quick rundown on a bunch of ninjatune newbies : fink, ammoncontact, and daedulus.

fink drops the beats, and discovers his love for acoustic guitars with some deft dubbed up touches for his new album, biscuits for breakfast. its a lovely album, that could easily attract accusations of genre bandwagon jumping as the singer songwriter malarkey is rather hot at the moment, but fink manages to make such concerns a non-starter by his sheer quality.

ammoncontact get more muscular than their previous releases, which kind of passed me by. this time around, they have added a chunk of guest vocalists and producers (cut chemist!) to help flesh out their nu-funk vision, and come off with a new album, called vocals strangely enough, that is far far better than i would have ever have expected.

finally, daedulus releases a new album called denies the days demise. which to be honest i have yet to get into as its rather obtuse, dry and hard going, though initial plays reveals a few standouts that i need to investigate further.

on warp : nightmares on wax : in a space outta sound - awful punned up title, but this perfect seasonal album, now that the recent cold weather has drifted into our short term memories. george continues combining the usual melee of dubbed up, scratchy hip hop grooves, soulful melodies and various well sourced samples with consummate ease. of course, it's not going to bust open the doors of originality, but this album will make people feel good when the sun shines. me included.

in other news : posted reviews for the fashion conscious hard rockers wolfmother, out now on modular, and the gorgeous debut album from sol seppy which is out now on gronland

ta ra for now

mark e

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