Rolling Re-Re-Reconstructed Club Music 2021

And assorted experimental electronic oddities, carrying on from:

Rolling (post-)Reconstructed Club Music 2020

Let's start off with a slow electro roller from M.E.S.H.
https://hesaitix.bandcamp.com/track/sequistice

cheating bc 2020 but new to me and i want more of this in 2021

https://dynoman.bandcamp.com/track/beams

That album cover is so CIA

This is a little aggro for me these days, but Pixelord is an o.g. and there are some really cool moments (like the end of 'Whoooosh'):
https://pixelordmaxdahlhaus.bandcamp.com/album/let-s-collapse

I'm feeling the double-time 100bpm, I know I've heard the first track on a mix or two:
https://nostrohoodsystem.bandcamp.com/album/nahash-ep

Boom, Club Chai vol. 2!

https://clubchai.bandcamp.com/album/club-chai-vol-2

Apparently this is a farewell comp, all my favorite labels are closing up shop these days ;_;

Ok 2021, here we go, Byrell the Great x Precious EP, banging yet slick ballroom:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Z4pnbIrUyyOCDcQuHtzLG?si=JLcx_OuiRIWn2Tur2k7sFw
(no Bandcamp link wtf!)

Ah, all is right with the world again:
https://byrellthegreat.bandcamp.com/album/snack-time

Also this great EP of rave-y, garage-y, basslines & breaks from C Powers on Contagion Discs, love the second half in particular: https://contagiondiscs.bandcamp.com/album/which-ad-experience-do-you-prefer

Ok, big Bandcamp Friday >>>

DJ Swisha - Clout Psychosis
https://djswisha.bandcamp.com/album/clout-psychosis
Reliably fun & mixable as always. Is that cover from Shadowrun? Love it.

Bored Lord - Rave Toolz
https://boredlord.bandcamp.com/album/rave-toolz
Exactly what it sounds like, breaks & diva vocals. Sounds simple enough but it's a cool concept: "these songs are one part edit, one part blend, one part an experiment in sampling. for each track i first paired two sample-heavy classic rave break tunes based on them sharing keys, samples, or tempos. then i dissected the songs by sample source to recreate the tracks from scratch. later i blended them together on top of rhythms and basslines i made up."

A hot club beat from Dave Quam:
https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/snare-screams

A new 15 track full-length from Color Plus, who put out those amazing New York Dance Music comps:
https://colorplus.bandcamp.com/album/torpid

Obeka - Drum Core
https://djobeka-music.bandcamp.com/album/drum-core
Some Afro-Caribbean drum tracks that sound a little bit kuduro, a little bit South African

And I hate to do this so early in the thread, but my album is out today too:
https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/poly-pointillism

Minimal obsessively rhythmic kalimba pieces that are most beatless, but nevertheless meant to be mixed with dance music. I think it might appeal to the Workaround fans on this thread. :)

loving that Obeka single, especially “Aye Gombey!”

would probably fit well in a dog latin mix

It's good! Thank you for the heads up

This Zuli EP sounds insane btw (can't imagine losing all my samples/plugins):
https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-caps-uiq0012

New Rian Treanor EP is typically wild:
https://riantreanor.bandcamp.com/album/obstacle-scattering

Lots of records I'm anticipating in the near future -

Tristan Arp:
https://tristanarp.bandcamp.com/album/oddkin

object blue on TT:
https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/grotto

And most definitely Sunareht's LP, who is like a grittier & more fun version of Lorenzo Senni: https://sunareht.bandcamp.com/album/amorama

Damn this sounds amazing too, and very rave-y:
https://clubnightclub.bandcamp.com/album/lowflow

yo, all this obeka stuff sounds great, Drum Core, Night of Kizomba and Ruthala especially. Nice find! Would love to see him blow up a bit.

this enayet ep is cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvaV3oElgpk

feel like slink is a label to watch ...

Bored Lord's Archival Transmission has also been really good, i like the vaporwave nods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukbmjSffta0

Cool! I'll have to check out those other Obeka releases. And Slink. And agreed yeah, Bored Lord's releases have been ridiculously prolific and high-quality during the pandemic.

This came out today:
https://infinitemachine.bandcamp.com/album/im086-laughing-ears-blood
Laughing Ears - Blood (hi-def Norse-themed rhythms, kind of reminds me of amazondotcom but more off-kilter)

And I put out an EP of club versions:
https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/millions-tip-ploy-drum-vips

oh fuck, new chants! glad to see that from you!
Your recommendations and music are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks Forks <3

(the base album came out a few weeks ago - had a nice RA review the other day!)

i missed it and am adding to playlist now.
You should shout about this stuff! do we not have a thread?

Does this count?

https://kessleruk.bandcamp.com/album/ambivalent-ep

Just a chill d’n’b/breakbeat record that sports the right amount of haunting melodies. Love it.

xp, overdue: Chants: Poly Pointillism

Awwwww thanks, I feel bad enough about sneaking my stuff in here, outside the bounds of IMM!

crown emoji @ jordan

this cassius select ep - which i just only found out about via that enayet ep - slaps and is tailor made for this thread. late 2020 so sorta cheating but ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFramkX008

Jordan, do you know my pal W1lli3 who is from Madison, moving back there in the next month or two from Oakland?

(Also, going to peep the Chants record on Friday :-))

I don't think so, but I'm always up for meeting new music people here! It's a very small community.

(and thanks <3)

I'll try to put y'all in touch. It's sometimes hard to know what his headspace is like because...well, the last five years of his life have been marked by tragedy heaped on tragedy. Can't imagine what he's been through. But we used to make music together, and he's a sweetheart who is into the sort of stuff yr into! He's friends with Joel (Golden Donna), if that gives any context.

Ah, ok cool.

(should probably take this off ilx but this is a different person than Dav1d L@st, who also moved back here from Oakland for awhile for tragic reasons, and is friends with J03l, right?)

feeling this james bangura. tense and breaky

https://art-e-fax.bandcamp.com/album/e-fax009

Different person, Jordan! If your webmail works, I'll try to connect y'all through that. Mine does.

Yeah mine works :)

James Bangura is so prolific & good.

A couple new hmurd tracks messing around with meter & time sig, love the sound design:
https://hmurd.bandcamp.com/album/sync-button-brine-jester

I'm guessing this Friday is going to be a big one for Bandcamp drops.

New Siete Catorce EP:
https://brukrecords.bandcamp.com/album/temperatura

Also new Osheyack & Nahash on Svbkvlt next month, love the preview track:
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/club-apathy

I wonder how the Bandcamp ban has been affecting them, if they're using VPNs out getting someone outside China to administer it or what.

I would imagine it’s not a big deal. the label founder is an expat from the UK. if in-country sales are a thing, that’d probably be via different channels. is it just that the site is inaccessible, or does the government try to block money transfers?

I think it's the former, no idea about the latter.

Soooo many Bandcamp emails today (as expected)!

Ok here we go:

Loris on Subreal
https://subreal.bandcamp.com/album/rastros
Full release isn't out yet, but sounds very DJ Plead (with more kick drum)

new Kirk Barley ambient EP
https://kirkbarley.bandcamp.com/album/lake-of-gold-primer

new Bored Lord EP (of course)
https://boredlord.bandcamp.com/album/lavirga
Breaks galore

MM - Massive Music
https://eventhestrong.bandcamp.com/album/massive-music
This one is really fun, drums for days. Billed as DDM = dumb dance music, lol.

object blue - Grotto (TT)
https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/grotto
Still digesting this but it's cool, love the last vocal cut-up track. She did an NTS show only playing stems from it and talking about them, that was unique.

Dave Quam
https://davequam.bandcamp.com/album/groundscore-b-w-pink-line-beat
Fun two tracker, I'm getting Dance Mania vibes (which have been hitting the spot for me, going through old mixtapes on youtube lately)

Checking this Indonesian label out based on a Ch@l Ravens rec, there are some pretty crazy records on their bandcamp:
https://yesnowave.bandcamp.com/album/alkisah-dikisahkan
(also Slikback and Gabber Modus Operandi on that comp)

drumzu - Fourtunes EP
https://drmzu.bandcamp.com/album/fourtunes-ep
Uk funky? Very playable/danceable.

DJ JM - Bad Advice EP
https://djjm1.bandcamp.com/album/dj-jm-bad-advice-ep
More functional fun

Enjoying the new Mr. Mitch album:
https://mrmitch.bandcamp.com/album/lazy

It sounds sort of early '10s in a good way.

Tons of gems here:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-club-music/best-club-music-on-bandcamp-january-february-2021

The new ZULI EP got released a day early, and it's certainly not as weird as his previous material, definitely more indebted to jungle and d'n'b, but it's really hitting the damn spot.

Can't wait to check that.

Also out today, shiny dancehall/flex EP on Nervous Horizon:
https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/album/sim-terminate-ep

This one is a curiosity, Jaf Ge Nos - Un Discorsetto EP:
https://nostrohoodsystem.bandcamp.com/album/un-discorsetto-ep
Long tracks that are almost like medleys or overtures, sort of reminds me of the weirder material on HudMo's Butter. Technicolor and silly, going in and out of beats and jazzy free-time interludes, sounds like it was made by a keyboardist.

That Jaf Ne Gos is excellent, thank you Jordan.

NKC collaboration with Nabalayo, a Kenyan singer/producer:
https://eventhestrong.bandcamp.com/album/mwizi

Sunareht's LP is out today, I think it's a stunner (adds to his whole weightless house chords thing without losing what makes it special):
https://sunareht.bandcamp.com/album/amorama

And I'm super into the rhythms & sound design on this Tristan Arp EP:
https://tristanarp.bandcamp.com/album/oddkin

Really nice vocal track from Hiedrah Club de Baile (Buenos Aires): https://hiedrah.bandcamp.com/album/fe-en-la-mantis

And new Holy Other, after 8 years?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hjjOtWzLM

This new Slikback record, all collaborations, is absolutely FLATTENING ME right now. It is fucking bananas good.

https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/melt

all of that and it’s name your own price? damn

i know right

new air max 97, first track is a bit schaffel-y

https://airmax97.bandcamp.com/album/psyllium-eat-the-rich

AM97 has the newest Dekmantel podcast, haven't listened yet.

Serious percussive club fare from Strict Face:
https://music.strictface.net/album/pulsers

Yet another full length of various flavors of dembow/kudurow type bass music from INVT, I don't know how they are so prolific
https://invt.bandcamp.com/album/doble-carga

Also been going back to the georg-i EP on YCO a lot, it's probably my stand-out of the year for sound design.

That schaffel beat is an interesting twist. The flip is more compelling to me tho, a powerful rhythm. The podcast was a bit all over the place for me.

Unrelated to Air Max 97 but at the moment I'm hearing quite a few tracks that sound like this +10 bpm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T423D-NzrkA

(If you don't want to hear 2-step progressive breakbeat from 1997 don't bother clicking. I guess it is vaguely related to Air Max 97, at least numerically.)

Does this count?

https://kessleruk.bandcamp.com/album/ambivalent-ep

Just a chill d’n’b/breakbeat record that sports the right amount of haunting melodies. Love it.

― pomenitul, Friday, February 26, 2021 9:46 AM

Just wanted to say that this is really good.

also getting a bit ... trad? but weird enough and nicely moody for autumn covid purgatory nyc

https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/invariant

like that, uptown churl.

https://aya-yco.bandcamp.com/album/im-hole

let's gooooooo

Yessssss, so proud of her, waiting to dive in until I can really experience this.

This article on the production is great too: https://ra.co/features/3903

Tristan Arp album is out today too:
https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/sculpturegardening

I can't get into Arp's stuff, for whatever reason I find it really unremarkable.

This latest Call Super release is fantastic. He has quite a distinct aesthetic. Thinking he was French I was going to make a comparison with the production work of Joakim but no Call Super is from London innit.

(The titles are Cherry Drops I and II. I don't know if it's a double EP, an LP or what.)

Thanks for the heads up:

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/album/call-super-cherry-drops-i

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/album/call-super-cherry-drops-ii

Getting perversely into how the drums are pointedly dry and rinky-dinky while the synths are super lush and psychedelic

gonna register my … bemusement with the new aya, maybe I’m on the wrong side of history but the sort of post Sophie glitchy robot diva vox aren’t doing it for me, obv production is virtuosic but it’s so intensely twitchy and in your face, maybe I’m just too old …

I'll admit that the instrumental tracks are my faves, but I appreciate the balance and absolutely love the record, she did it. Aya has a such a clear voice through production & synthesizers, they always sound so alive and spontaneous, I can't imagine thinking like that. (I'll never get over the Turbulent Dynamics EP though.)

Tbh I'm having a harder time with the Lotic album, another brilliant producer turned vocalist. Except she's really singing, un-effected, a lot. All the songs work better in the context of the album than as singles, but it's so dense...there's a ton going on with the production, and then there are always all these layers of vocals happening on top. The back half of the album has some lovely moments though, especially 'Apart', I was waiting to hear that one again.

(really just wishing both of them success though, I know so much went into these albums)

oh for sure, i'm very into, in theory, the sort of pro-social transhumanist vibe emanating from european experimental-club yet pop adjacent stuff like sophie, aya, lotic and ... some others im forgetting, stateside lagging on this tip. maybe arca is sort of parallel/precursor from a more hip-hop rhythmic axis

as for that production article, mixing into waves L2! a nice reminder that simplicity in DAW music is key

clunkers and bangers both abound on this comp but when it hits its cool:

https://zonaexp.bandcamp.com/track/brasil-olho-chorando

A couple big records today --

De Grandi - Euro Control
(full of bangers)
https://degrandi.bandcamp.com/album/euro-control

Fraxinus - Position (Displacement)
(first album in forever, still absorbing but there's some really sharp club material here)
https://powerplant.link/album/position-displacement

In February, pom recommended this record by Kessler, and I quite like it.
https://kessleruk.bandcamp.com/album/ambivalent-ep

Also, if yr into his thing, new EP released today from Slikback— pay what you want, pretty fucking sick!

https://slikback.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-i-just-want-to-feel

Parris:

https://canyoufeelthesun.bandcamp.com/track/crimson-kano

First things first the 2nd Single from my album is up today ‘Crimson Kano’ ahead of full release on the 19th November. Here’s some words about it:

Crimson Kano started out as an idea in exploring polyrhythms and time signatures. I saw @ben___ufo mention this idea when describing using different polyrhythms to swap tempo seamlessly in a DJ set and I wanted to try to write a tool that explored this idea explicitly where it kinda leaves you like ‘wtf, how did I get here’. I’ve written a few tunes in 3/4 but never at 160 so wanted to show how you can explore two different rhythms at once at the same to make something sound fast and slow simultaneously.

Some gripping theory there, guess I should start paying attention to Ben UFO again. Tbh I had tuned him and his crew out because they were becoming such a dominant force in the scene that I didn't want my tastes to be majorly shaped by this small clique.

(Apologies if we've already cancelled mentions of 'the scene' here. Also thanks to Jordan for posting those Call Super links for me -- I tried searching for them when I posted but either they weren't up yet or I overlooked them.)

And yeah instead of Hessle Audio I allow my tastes to be shaped by Livity Sound and Lobster Theremin these days.

If you want to hear some crazy metric modulation-based mixed (aka 'triplet mixes'), this mix is a flex:

https://soundcloud.com/peopleofvalley/michaelbrailey-for-valley

Yesss that’s the sauce. It’s very compelling in a not especially dancefloor-friendly way. Some of it is quite catchy. It’s sort of filling the same niche as math rock. Or Linkin Park? Could do without more of that.

Quite of few of his own edits on the track list. Some aya too.

Ha yes, I love it in a math rock/minimalist drummer brain way, but is essentially just showing off for other DJs/musicians, I'm sure no one on a dancefloor really cares about the elegance of your shift into a new tempo.

Now I'm going back to my fave MICHAELBRAILEY edits of yore:
https://michaelbrailey.bandcamp.com/track/shalt-x-sean-paul-temperature-michaelbrailey-acheron-ultimate-destruction-edit

https://michaelbrailey.bandcamp.com/track/grrl-x-mariah-we-belong-together-michaelbrailey-workout-runway-gym-edit

(he's a gem, we've been labelmates twice over)

viborg, you might be interested in the Donato Dozzy record that came out end of last year, as it is at 170 BPM but due to the polyrhythms and such, it truly does not sound like it excepting one track: https://donaotodozzysm.bandcamp.com/album/the-tao

I really like it.

I did the old ‘change the tempo using triplets’ trick on an EP for Cut La Roc about 10 years ago but going from 140bpm breakstep to 93.3bpm hip hop and back. Probably not the best idea to keep people on a dancefloor in retrospect 😂.

Link??? :)

YSI?

God i miss those days sometimes lol

https://open.spotify.com/track/0TGeBgj12ureMx5IHHjf9e?si=nPjiPP-aS6GhSI_jTpu1iA

Also featuring a stab made from the outro of a Manics album track if I’m remembering correctly

NEW PLOY EP:
https://ployuk.bandcamp.com/album/rayhana-e-p

This grooves hard (Henzo - Iron Lighter EP):
https://leftrightandcentre.bandcamp.com/album/iron-lighter-ep-lrc005

Classic Principe vibe:
https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/ang-stia-nos-cora-es-da-tia

Nice single from Wordcolour:
https://wordcolour.bandcamp.com/track/bluster

playing the hell out of the Kessler, thanks all.

is there a good way to search mix tracklists, to find out who's putting "Only A Fool" into their sets and what they're playing alongside it?

Heh let me know if you find a better way, but I just use google and the search on the NTS site. I guess there's mixesdb.com, but that seems kinda limited.

hmmm if mixesdb is to be believed no one has had the courage to play Only A Fool

Looks like it was maybe played on this Optimo mix way back in 2016, is that the same track?
https://www.nts.live/shows/optimo/episodes/optimo-25th-june-2016

alas no

This is cool, kinda reminds me of Lone in the way it shifts between dance, beats, IDM-ish tracks, and ambient, but I like J. Albert better:
https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/phase-portrait

B E N N - Entheos on early reflix, hits hard:
https://earlyreflex.bandcamp.com/album/entheos

New on Salviatek (Sueuga Kamau):
https://salviatek.bandcamp.com/track/claridad-ext-tica
https://salviatek.bandcamp.com/album/como-el-viento-vuelve

Great club tool:
https://zutzut.bandcamp.com/track/molly-y-mary

Oh -- nunu's debut album, self-released, which I haven't had the occasion give proper attention to yet, but love what I've heard. Hard ambient, sort of cinematic + ecstatic sound design, apparently each track made from the same samples and synths:
https://nununtp.bandcamp.com/album/cycle

I think this fits on here?

https://muqataa.bandcamp.com/album/kamil-manqus

I don’t love all of it but the highlights (like Dirasat ‘Ulya and Ikmal) are pretty amazing

I'm so over giant compilations, but I've been going through the most recent Juke Bounce Werk comp and it's very high-quality, lots of fun tracks (mostly 160 but gets more varied in the back half):
https://jukebouncewerk.bandcamp.com/album/juke-bounce-werk-presents-jbdubz-vol-9

And I'm not sure if this has been posted above, but I slept on it and it's amazing
https://hausofaltr.bandcamp.com/album/black-rave-culture
Black Rave Culture, D.C. producer trio including James Bangura.

Happy New Year, ugh guess I have to come up with a 2022 thread title now.

Is there a new thread? Nothing to report on yet, but curious!

I'll start one. Title suggestions???

"Structure? What structure? Rolling Re-Deconstructed Club Music 2021."

Or something like that?

Thanks, chose to keep it simple, and resisted calling it "Rolling Reconstructed Club Music 2022: Resurrections"

Rolling Re-De-Reconstructed Club Music 2022