Sonic Sunset

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Nice blend this week from Seattle’s veteran selector Kuri Kondrak. Raised on the roots music of Jamaica (his dad owned a reggae record store), Kuri’s sets cover a wide swathe of music that spans Detroit techno, jackin’ house, b-boy electro, Italo-disco and other early dance sounds. Music editor at Resonance Magazine http://resonancemag.com for 6 years, he remains editor-at-large; still freelance writing on (and playing) all forms of electronic music, past and present.

Part 1 > Kuri Kondrak

Phil Ranelin – Vibes From The Tribe (Hefty)
Earth, Wind & Fire – You Can’t Hide Your Love (CBS)
The Drunk – The Drunk Pt. 2 (Rong Re-edit)
John Carpenter – The End (ZYX)
Material – Don’t Lose Control (Celluloid)
Citispeak – Rock To Rock (Streetwise)
Domu – The Boss (Neroli)
Power House – Kenny’s Jazz (Gigolo/Nu Groove)
Kurtis Blow – America [Club Version] (Mercury)
Malcolm McLaren – She’s Looking Like A Hobo (Charisma)
Twin Hype – Do It To The Crowd (Profile)
Willesden Dodgers – B.P.M. 112 (Automan)
Gemini – Imagine A Nation (Relief)
Elektrik Funk – On A Journey [I Sing The Funk Electric] (Prelude)
Mr. Clavio – Paper World (Creme Organization)
Bobby O – Still Hott 4 You (\”O\” Records)
Yello – Bostitch (Do It Records)
X-Ray – Let’s Go [Dub Mix] (Transmat)
Murat Tepeli feat. Prosumer – Rides (Playhouse)
Pepe Bradock – 4 (Atavisme)

Part 2 > David Siska

multicast – foehn – further oblique perspectives (k2 o)
loess – sofar (toytronic)
dark comedy – corbomite maneuver – exhibits (art of dance)
autechre – clipper – tri repetae (warp)
ifach collective – rock tek da city (ifach)
dbx – losing control (accelerate)
sleazy d – i’ve lost control (trax)
w-moon – entry plug ep (metrojuice)
christian wunsch – les paradis artificiel (tsunami)
schatrax – you don’t act the same (schatrax)
bedouin ascent – winter trees – further self-evident truths (rising high)
phon.o – typodub (cytrax)
daniel stefanik – growth (statik entertainment)
conjoint – no balls – earprints (source)
gramm – type zwei – personal rock (source)
phenomyna – travellor [reprise] – unexplained (art)
speed jack – emma – surge (r&s)
agent cooper – minus – ll01 (ll)
active service unit – zaytoon (dublin-london)

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Part 1 > Laid back soul ices down a steamy August night, music for a backyard lit by a glowing pool. Abstract library funk gives in to synthesized beats before diving into chill mode. Check Sly & Robbie’s monster bassline cover of Don’t Stop the Music, and a new boogie twist from Bugz in the Attic.

Part 2 > Synthetic funk and gauzy dub sounds gradually subside into abstraction. Newer goodness from BoC introduces boogie electricity from NYC courtesy of Larry Levan via Tony Paris, Environ, and Rheji Burrell out of apartment 3A. Burial’s deep night horns and scattered snares make way for relaxed favorites, with Kit Clayton providing the ultimate hypnosis.

Part 1 > Matt MacQueen

Leroy Hutson – Cool Out – The Curtom Story: Chicago Silk n’ Soul (Curtom)
The Main Ingredient – Summer Breeze – Euphrates River (Pickwick)
David Axelrod – Song of Innocence (EMI)
The New Rotary Connection – I Am The Blackgold of the Sun – Hey, Love (Cadet)
I:Cube – Adore – Past Present Future (Versatile)
Sly & Robbie – Don’t Stop The Music – In Good Company (Hip-O)
Bugz in the Attic – Consequences – Back In The Dog House (V2)
The Time – Ice Cream Castles – Ice Cream Castles (WB)
Morgan Geist feat. Jeremy Greenspan – Most of All (Environ)
Cetu Javu – Situations (ZYX)
Spandau Ballet – Feel The Chant [Instr.] – Chant #1 (Chrysalis) 1981
Raw Silk – Just In Time [dub] – Spaced Out (Disorient)
Adonis Presents: Noleian Reusse – Lovers Jak – Images EP (Mathematics)
Bobby Konders House Rhythms – Let There Be House (Nu Groove)
Rhythm & Sound – Truly [Vladislav Delay mix] (Burial Mix)
Daniel Ibbotson – Blue, Brown & Black – Freezone 5: The Radio Is Teaching My Goldfish Ju-Jitsu (SSR)
The Detroit Escalator Co. – Twilignt Finding [reprise] (Peacefrog)

Part 2 > dave siska

boards of canada – skyliner – trans canada highway (warp/music70)
tony paris – electric automan [dub] (vanguard)
bochum welt – greenwich (rephlex)
kelley polar – here in the night (environ)
n.y. house’n authority – apt 3a (nu groove)
rod modell – harmonics of ether – flow.ers (sutemos)
burial – broken home – south london boroughs (hyperdub)
savvas ysatis – alright [surgeon’s keith 4 nat mix] (tresor)
6th sense approach – relax 2000 [mark broom rmx] (reload)
maurizio – m6 (m)
memory foundation – your last chance (m-plant)
model 500 – m-92 lightspeed – deep space (r&s)
kit clayton – wshape revisited – $x=$moles*$avocadoes; (background)
vladislav delay – raamat (chain reaction)
mouse on mars – flim – glam (sonig)

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A late-night cooler from Dave mixes ethereal touches, dub-drenched rhythms, and surfactant percussion, with uptempo hypnosis & flashbacks from Detroit & Chicago. New music from G-Man and a summer stroll from Marcellus Pittman hold down part 1, while Chip E’s autobahn exploits and Jus-Ed’s clattering rawness set the tone for part 2.

Part 1 >

pub – summer [scons on the lawn mix] – do you ever regret pantomime (moamoo)
boards of canada – amo bishop roden – in a beautiful place out in the country (warp)
murcof – ulysses [fax rmx] (leaf)
ruoho ruotsi – balai ballet – la sweet [deadbeat deep down dub] (de’fchild)
rhythm & sound – dem never know [sleeparchive rmx] (burial mix)
smbp – stars falling (citymorb)
g-man – the way you move (wir)
marcellus malik pittman – a walk thru osaka – in the dark (still music)
eight miles high – art gallery – two (klang elektronik)
morgan geist – outronic – remnants (environ)
pola – cidre – meme (plop/inpartmaint)
exos – listen to my voice – my home is sonic (ae)
robert hood – psychic (m-plant)
oliver ho – westworld remix 2 – listening to the voice inside rmxs (meta)
red planet – firekeeper (red planet)

Part 2 >

armando presents mike dearborn – 1991 a new age (muzique)
autobahn – do you like this beat [london calling mix] (fierce)
duplex – motion blur – ep 5 (clone)
jus-ed – am-mix – health flammability reactivity (fxhe)
access 58 – horizon (pacific)
the orb – a huge ever-growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld [orbital dance mix] (big life)
florence – the vineyard (eevo lute)

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Part 1 > We rock a killer set from Jeremy Campbell mixed exclusively for Sonic Sunset. Originally from SF but now a fixture on the NYC leftfield disco / odd-genre DJ scene, Jeremy has whipped up all kind of frenzy with past nights hosted by the alldisco.net crew of vinyl pranksters (some nights recorded live are still archived online). His current \”non dance\” party DAZZLE SHIPS continues — more on his current projects at tropicalcomputersytem.com. Dig it!

Part 2 > Darker textural moods are layered against lighter ambience for a short but intense excursion from Dave.

Part 1 > Jeremy Campbell

Max Berlin’s – Dream Disco (Les Disques Du Martin)
Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Polydor)
Chic – Everybody Dance (Atlantic)
Computer – Come and Dance (AB Productions)
Koxo – Pas a pas (Step by Step) (Six A.M.)
Patrice Rushen – Haven’t You Heard [edit] (Elektra)
Gino Soccio – The Runaway [edit] (RFC)
Can – Red Hot Indians (Virgin)
The Grateful Dead – Serengetti (Arista)
Hall & Oates – Running from Paradise [edit] (RCA)
Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Atco)
Pigbag – The Backside (Y)
XTC – Nearly Africa (Virgin)
Tom Tom Club – Spooks (Sire)
Grace Jones – Feel Up (Island)
Hazel Dean – Searchin’ (I Gotta Find a Man) [Instrumental] [edit] (Attic)
Bryan Ferry – Don’t Stop the Dance [Special 12\” Re-Mix] [edit] (EG)

Part 2 > David Siska

vainqueur – elevation ii [original] – elevations (chain reaction)
monolake – nucleus – gravity (ml/i)
thomas koner – zyklop – zyklop (mille plateaux)
this mortal coil – fyt – it’ll end in tears (4ad)
manual – 1986 – the north shore (darla)
various artists – 8 (fat cat)
studio pankow – linienbusse – linienbusse (city centre offices)
shapes & forms – fractal – shapes & forms (k2 o)
seefeel – lux1 – starethrough (warp)

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it’s dave at the controls for the night, with a variety of summery house & detroit techno sounds leading up to a feature of sweet abstract notions from germany’s arovane – from the glittering mechanisms of his autechre-like sounds on the DIN imprint to the organic, sometimes pastoral palette of his city centre offices releases. check the new a.i. downtempo from time constant and a just-out maurizio-deep slice on germany’s statik entertainment.

Part 1 >

time constant – emphasis – silent phone calls in the fall (macrometasomakosmos)
panoptica – tecnica manana (certificate eighteen)
rhythm & sound – rise and praise [vainqueur rmx] (burial mix)
daniel stefanik – starless (statik entertainment)
imax – 1 am – dc trax (octal)
son sine – karuna (nurture)
damon wild – eva – downtown worlds (kanzleramt)
robert hood – omega (peacefrog)
steve o’sullivan – breezer dub – top shelf dubs (mosaic)
octave one – i believe (transmat)
e-dancer – pump the move (kms)
kosmic messenger – sights & spirits (trance fusion)
counterattack – unspecified enemies (counterattack)
insync vs mysteron – missing link – android architect (tenth planet)
gf – electronic switch – electronic lesson pt 1 (kk)
perspects – desire & efficiency (ersatz audio)
ectomorph – breakthrough (interdimensional transmissions)

Part 2 >

closer musik – 123 no gravity (kompakt)
the modernist – opportunity knox – opportunity knox (harvest)
tone theory – limbo of vanished possibilities (plink plonk)
mathew jonson – gemini ep (itiswhatitis)
arovane – torn (din)
arovane – neel (city centre offices)
pub – summer [arovane amx 1] (vertical form)
arovane – amine – atol scrap (din)
arovane – r/elet – atol scrap (din)
arovane – a secret – tides (city centre offices)
arovane – goodbye forever – lilies (city centre offices)
dynamo – aussen vor [amx] (din)
arovane – tomorrow morning – tides (city centre offices)
arovane – seaside – tides (city centre offices)
arovane – plnt (fwd)
arovane – tokyo ghost stories – lilies (city centre offices)

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Matt pilots 3 hour solo submarine dive. Part 1 slides in with quiet storm moods: classic soul, dub with shades of chill hip-hop and disco. Part 2 continues to blur Chicago and Detroit deep house, ending with Detroit techno from Claude Young and Jeff Mills after midnight. Recent releases this week include latest Sound Signature T.O.M. collaboration, and warm deep space electronics from D5 via Amsterdam.

Part 1

Prince – Crucial – Crystal Ball 3xCD box (NPG)
Al Wilson – Show and Tell – The 70’s Soul Experience (Rhino)
The Mayfield Singers – I’ve Been Trying (Curtom)
Outkast – Stankonia [Stanklove] – Stankonia (La Face)
Rhythm & Sound – Boss Man [Tiki’s Pure Blue Remix] SMY Remixes #1 (Rhythm and Sound)
Michegan & Smiley – Nice Up The Dance – Studio One Story (Soul Jazz)
The Clash – Armagideon Time – On Broadway (Epic)
KRS-One – Sound Of Da Police (Jive)
Jaylib vs. J-Rocc – The Message – Champion Sound: Remixed (Stone’s Throw)
Andres – Love Hurts – Andres (Mahogani Music)
Fred Wesley – House Party (Curtom)
Talking Heads – Popsicle – Sand in the Vaseline (Sire)
Pam Todd – Let’s Get Together (Vault)
Flakes – Sugar Frosted Lover (Magic Disc)
Roy Ayers – Chicago – Drive (Ichiban)
T.O.M. – Renaissance – (Sound Signature)
Chez Damier & Ron Trent – Morning Factory – The Grand Lodge of Luxor (Thebes) EP – (Prescription)

Part 2

The Nightwriters – Let The Music Use You (Trax)
The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice (Planet E)
Tim Harper – I Feel A Groove (Peacefrog)
Earth People – Dance (Kool Groove)
Projekt: PM – When The Voices Come (Guidance)
Moodymann – Mahogany Brown – Mahogany Brown (Peacefrog)
Rick Wade – Deep-N-Dirty – Late Night Basix vol. 2 (Harmonie Park)
untitled B2- TRIBUTE to Ken Collier (Intangible)
Dan Bell – The Symphony [ (Elevate Special Projects)
Octave One – Quahya – X-Files (430 West)
Octave One – Farpoint – X-Files (430 West)
D5 – Run – Neutrino EP (Delsin)
Claude Young – Free Fall – The Collective EP (Utensil)
Jeff Mills – Native High – Steampit EP (Purpose Maker)
Jeff Mills – Where’s My Rabbit – Vanishing Act EP (Purpose Maker)
Jeff Mills – The Sun – Shifty Disco EP (Gigolo)
Claude Young – The Woodwork – Deepest Shade of Techno (Reflective)