$45.00
Some Old Bullshit is a compilation album by the Beastie Boys released in 1994. It compiles several of their early EPs, recorded in the early 1980s. These recordings present a sound radically different from that of the hip-hop sound generally associated with the band. Instead, these songs represent the band's part in the early New York hardcore scene. The album also features taped segments originally heard on Noise the Show, a popular hardcore radio show on WNYU in New York that played early recordings from the Beastie Boys. These segments feature the hyperbolic introductions of Noise the Show's host, Tim Sommer, an early supporter of the band. – Record Store Day
Label: Grand Royal – GR 003, Capitol Records – B0032587-01 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, White, 180 Gram |
Country: US |
Released: 27 Nov 2020 |
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock |
Style: Breakbeat, Leftfield, Punk, Hardcore |
$39.00
Tasty, fluid future jazz with a heavy hip hop and breakbeat backbone!
Following up their 2019 release, Jazzbois Goes Blunt is their self-titled EP here in 2020. A promising trio of jazz and hip hop heads, their studied approach can also be seen as the foundation for improv. Definitely one to check out for fans of artists such as Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Kiefer, Kaidi Tatham, Henry Wu, Mansur Brown, Floating Points, and BBNG.
Label: HHV – HHV829, Cosmic Compositions – CC025 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: Europe |
Released: 24 Jan 2020 |
Genre: Hip Hop, Jazz |
Style: Instrumental, Jazzy Hip-Hop |
$39.00
Tom Jenkinson returns to the vintage hardware used in his early '90s works on ‘Be Up A Hello’ – his first project as Squarepusher following a 5-year hiatus. – Warp Records
At the record’s best, tracks pelt off the starting blocks and hit top speed without ever looking back. Lead single Vortrack’s eerie, submerged acid is all blots and splatter like octopus ink, fathoms deep. Susurrous hi-hats slowly creep, disguising the imminent jetstream of drum breaks, cymbal crashes and screaming synths. There’s the thrilling toxicity of freaky acid cut Speedcrank, while Nervelevers, a glitch and breaks romp that never stops rolling with the punches, proves an album highlight. The opening tunes’ hooky melodics feel almost uncomfortably reminiscent of chiptune, and elsewhere there are pretty but unmemorable beatless passages, stretching the stylistic range of the record. Ultimately Be Up a Hello is a fun albeit bumpy ride through future-retroism, best felt in the moment itself. – The Guardian
Label: Warp Records – WARPLP309R
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
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Country: UK
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Released: 2020
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Genre: Electronic
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Style: Breakbeat, Drum n Bass, Acid, Jungle, IDM
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$25.00
Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years ‘Free Fall’ EP. ’Dark Lotus’ is a transition between 'Dark Energy’, her debut album, and her forthcoming ‘Black Origami’ full-length.
A-side ’The Escape of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)’ is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.‘Nyakinyua Rise’ races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy. - Bandcamp
Label: Planet Mu – ZIQ384 |
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM |
Country: UK & US |
Released: 2017 |
Genre: Electronic |
$48.00
A futuristic collection from Midnight Shift and Voitax!
Label: Midnight Shift Records – MNSVOI 01, VOITAX – MNSVOI 01 |
Series: Midnight Shift X – MNSVOI 01 |
Format: Vinyl, 12", Compilation |
Country: Germany |
Released: 07 Feb 2020 |
Genre: Electronic |
Style: Breakbeat, Breaks, Broken Beat, Deep Techno, Dark Ambient, Dub, Dub Techno, Electro, Experimental, IDM, Industrial, Noise, Techno, Ambient |
$39.00
With an obsessive determinism to sharpen her sonic palette, Laurel Halo finds a home at Honest Jon’s with a graceful and fascinating blueprint for releases yet to come on her latest, In Situ, a double EP marked by perfectionism. The record appears to hearken back to her first instrumental release, 2011’s Antenna, a collection that saw her shifting away from her heady, abstract pop material to become more attuned to making music with sound and shape as the focus. As with In Situ, those songs were ambient, ecological sketches. With the current release, the basic structure of each of each track is revealed at their very beginning, followed by a reconfiguring as each progresses. In a way, it’s similar in approach to Actress‘s work on Splazsh, or much of Drexciya‘s output. There’s a speculative feel with this approach, especially given her introduction of modular-synth work and her dub and world-music influences.
The EP begins with the pointedly titled “Situation”: Built around high-frequency bells, an aquatic, drifting piano line and staunch drums, the song’s feel sits between that of a mesmerizing Basic Channel workout and the spectral ambience of Oren Ambarchi‘s Suspension. The track swings and topples, as it develops and dissolves all at once. On this track, as on the others, is no structural payoff, per se—no “ah ha” moment in which the pieces all come together to wash over the listener, as with her past works. Instead, there’s a drifting aura, ushering you from one track to the next.
Elsewhere on the EP, there’s a sense of her desire to build a more congealed, material music, picking up where Aphex Twin left off with his ambient works. “Nebenwirkungen” recalls a standard Hessle Audio cut or a track from Kassem Mosse, but stretched out and dismantled even more than they allowed.
The aim here seems to be slippage: Rotating, percussive synth lines build momentum as broken techno drum patterns attempt to bridge together the individual melodic parts, submerged in deep bass pressure. This is readily apparent on “Drift” which uses a muscular, all-consuming kick drum as the core, while various metallic objects funnel around caught in the broken established groove. The closer, “Focus 1,” takes on Afro-jazz with a Vladislav Delay mindset, scooting along for eight minutes while a improvised lead piano line glosses over.
In Situ is ultimately beautiful in design, and speaks quite a bit to where Laurel could potentially go, now that she’s spent some time exploring her understanding of sound design and club music. You can definitely hear her thinking her way through each track, treating each as packets of sound, to be observed and experienced in a loop. - XLR8R
$39.00
"This is the new album by Modeselektor. It has been in the works for two years and was made within a month. It’s a record offering essential Modeselektor, a record formed by experience, self confidence and the usual madness. It raises a question and answers it straight away. „Who Else” is yet another counteraction to boredom and formulaic approaches. Hear Modeselektor casually kicking against the pricks. Somebody’s gotta do it. Who else?" - Monkeytown Records
Label: Monkeytown Records – MTR096LP |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: Germany |
Released: 22 Feb 2019 |
Genre: Electronic |