S/D: the OTHER broken beat

I've been listening to the CiM comp on Ann Aimee a lot lately. The recent Emoticon comp has its moments (Future Beat Alliance tracks in particular). Delsin's put out some incredible things the past few years -- Newworldaquarium's "Trespassers," Find the Cow, etc.

Must say that I'm excited about the upcoming Kenny Larkin. Wonder how it'll fit in to all of this.

that seems to be the hallmark of this set of producers.

The newish Cortex album is what, 24 untitled tracks?

Also, some newer smaller labels like Red Antenna in New York, Merck in Florida - esp. check Adam Johnson on Merck - he had a couple very nice EP's on the smaller Chicago label Parotic a couple years back..

I would also recommend digging into the Italian stuff by Marco Passarani/Nature Records/Jolly Music/etc. if you havent already.

I woudl also check regularly the electronica section at the Smallfish shop (smallfish.co.uk)- they seem to stock a lot of that style, and have audio samples for most. Thats where I heard the Cortex stuff on Ann Amiee and alot of other obscure(?) newer stuff.

this is actually what started my quest - i ran out of stasis / a.r.t/ likemind to collect! i think i have everything except the tracks he did as skye ... on a sort-of-related note i heard he was producing and engineering r&b and 2step. do you know what recordings he's worked on?

now people with knowledge: tell me more about yotoko's WET INK and which future beat alliance releases i should be looking for ...

I would also recommend digging into the Italian stuff by Marco Passarani/Nature Records/Jolly Music/etc

i think someone on forced exposure once called the italian scene "mystical", hermetic might also be applicable. i def. need more passarani, more leo anibaldi, more d'arcangelo (though i'm not into the new stuff), more lory d (he didn't get much talk round here) and so on ... what is nature records all about?

I think the Nature label was set up by Passarani - it's pretty diverse, but quite a bit of the broke beat stuff you've described - Passarani's full-lenghth "6 Katurn" is pretty nice. Also I've heard many good things about "Raiders of the Lost Arp" (Mario Pierro, also part of Jolly Music) - a bit newer on the italian scene. alot of this Italian stuff seems tough to find in the states..

though i read this and it makes me think of the rather overrated claro intellecto. i think what i am getting into with delsin, ann aimee, deepart etc is the way they use their synths to get at a space somewhere between cold detroit bladerunner noises and BoC nostalgic wooziness. i want wispy synth-action like cim's "rna"...

yotoko / future beat alliance / rushhour recordings seem to be the sites where london broken beat and this stuff are crossing over. has anybody heard the nubian mindz lp or the g-force and seiji lp?? how much jazziness will i have to deal with? it's not that i'm against jazziness just that my 2000black and laws of motion and people comps are sort of gathering dust in the file drawer and i feel like i should listen to those more thoroughly before i embark on any more glittery afrofuturism.

I would say you prob. have to listen before you buy to avoid the jazzier stuff - more prominent on the rush hour stuff than delsin too

Recall liking FBA's Disconnected quite a bit, even though I kept going back to one track -- Sweet -- which I believe is also on the Delsin Day by Day comp.

Still need to give the Yotoko LP some more spins. First couple plays, it struck me as nice, if not stunning.

Can we get some Titonton love in here??!?!?!

the last i heard of titonton was the intercourse lp. i still can't believe he followed it up with six sex-themed eps!

alex cortex - inward CTRL
alex attias - presents the chromatic universe
future beat alliance - disconnected + lumiere
nubian mindz - new world chaos + one of the archive eps
yotoko - wet ink

i think i am a bit let down by alex cortex, who doesn't seem to have the same quality control as CiM. also many of his tracks are so dry and astringent they made me feel nauseous nauseated and paranoid.

future beat alliance is excellent excellent and made me drag out my old move d - does anybody remember him? he was excellent, too. isn't he working in some sort of duo now? i'm excited to hear more new FBA stuff on versatile and maybe i'll be looking into chateau flight, etc (i love gilb'r and i:cube as djs but i'm not convinced on their music)

nubian mindz and yotoko are great though much more conventional than i'd imagined. yotoko is unexpectedly witty! the first track starts with a kozmigroov voiceover: "i am the [blank] of the earth ... this is deep" and when she says deep there is this great cheesy bubbling water soundeffect. also some of yotoko seems to be very 4/4 tech-housey which can only be a good thing. nubian mindz i am still getting into but it makes me want to pick up the seiji remixes collection.

and finally alex attias - i should be embaressed! lots of it sounds like united future organization or brand new heavies!! but it's fantastic ... like they nailed the 2000black formula down so well it just works anyway no matter how "out" the reference points are. the plutonia (dego?) tracks are particularly awesome - there's one sounds like nu era mashed up with cinematic orchestra.

good stuff, thanks again for suggestions.

i guess i also need to start tracking down the rest of the defocus / emoticon / headspace eps which i'd avoided because i'd sensed they were too straight forward (aphelion's "zugzwang" did that, i think)

there's a nu era ep called "broken techno" on archive which is rather ace and has the detroit influence in full effect. it definitely sounds like a techno version of the london sound wrt the drum programming. i'm listening to it now and there's definitely some black dog in the mix, too.

have you heard "the deepest shade of techno" comp, vahid? it came out on reinforced in '96. it's not really broken beat, but it has a lot of great cuts on it.

i have been hunting for this broken beat connection, too...

nature records seems to have a really sporadic and eclectic release schedule.

Another comp you might get a kick out if Lush Life Electronica on Quango records. It has the most horrible name in the world, but it is all early/mid 90's Detroit'y UK ambient techno/idm. As a matter of fact, CiM is on there if I remember correctly. You can probably find it dirt cheap online and it has lots of goodies.

I don't know if you are still on 313, but you should mail Tom Churchill from Emoticon and ask him for a few recommendations. He is a pretty knowledgeable and friendly fellow.

tricky- yeah you're right, Nature is pretty sporadic. I was sort of thinking of their whole distribution camp - Final Frontier, which also covers Plasmek and the Pigna label who released the newer Raiders of the Lost Arp stuff.

v- If you're more digging the cim stuff, and you mentioned the Stasis and Redcell stuff as a starting point, I'd again recommend the Adam Johnson full length on Merck titled Chigliak.. more lush ambient/detroity arrangements than alot of the 2000Black & other broken beat stuff - maybe somewhere inbetween Detroit Escalator Co. and older melodic Autechre w/ a few 4/4 cuts that are more of a warm tech-house.. (i have the whole album on slsk if you want to hear it, you can email me, but it's not connected 24/7)

Attias' Selector Series mix from the same year is also great. I'm pretty sure Plutonia is Attias and Dego. (Were you talking about the Chromatic Universe comp, vahid?)

The new DKD (Dego, Kaidi Tatham, Daz-I-Kue) LP struck me as pretty good after the first downloaded listen. Need to get an actual copy of that quick.

Now off to hunt down all of these recommendations that I've yet to hear.

the wach - "longer"
stockholm cyclo - "music is all this" (kabuki rmx)
slope - "basscheck"

plus everything on the Zest label, run by the Hidden Agenda guys. the most recent one getting play with me is the b-side to Max Fresh's "Welcome To The Candy Kitchen" (title escapes me). but all 6 of the label's releases are worthwhile...

Alright -- this is very wonderful! I don't know why the song with Donnie is a bonus track, when the rap tune that would otherwise close out the album is so limp. Lots of group female vocals, a couple instrumentals. Quite laidback, not very noodly at all. Might be my favorite single-artist broken beat album, surpassing Feed the Cat and Creating Patterns.

also the art for the ann aimee stuff has been astounding. and i'm generally not a huge fan of post-graffiti "street art" or "urban design" or whatever but delta moves from strength to strength for several years now and this collaboration is gold.

still haven't heard dribs' "open log book" ep.

also the ann aimee site says "all communication seems lost". are they or delsin shutting down??? seems unlikely since the dynarec lp was well-promoted and distributed and all that but who knows.

Has anyone heard this? Mark De Clive-Lowe - Six Degrees

I liked some of the stuff he did on People records and it's been sitting in my local 2nd hand shop for yonks.

this sick EQD record out of hardwax seems reminds me of this sort of stuff

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=157948

how underrated is this album?

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20554