Burked

Photograpy by Robert Doisneau

A new album by Mark van Hoen as Locust. I love the vintage electronic music aesthetics. Great work.

Play in Spotify: Locust – You’ll Be Safe Forever

Map art by Matthew Cusick

Sexy staccato techno cuts by Sev Dah. Dancefloor ammo.

Play in Spotify: Sev Dah – Rudis Sentetia EP

Art by Hsiao Ron Cheng

Impressive new EP by Gold Panda on Ghostly International. 

Play in Spotify: Gold Panda – Trust

Photography by  unknown photographer

Best of 2012: SUNDAY
33 Songs that fit. Always.

Always in need of music that can be played any moment. Nothing too heavy, deep or complex. Music that fits any sunday afternoon with friends ,family or in company of a good book. 

Play in Spotify: BEST of 2012: A SUNDAY

Top 10:

1. Minotaur Shock – Ocean Swell

2. Django Django – Firewater

3. Here We Go Magic – I Believe In Action

4. Diiv – (Druun Pt. II)

5. Portico Quartet – Steepless - feat. Cornelia

6. Connan Mockasin – Unicorn in Uniform (Coyote Acid Mix)

7. John Talabot – Destiny feat. Pional

8. Shigeto – Huron River Drive - Evenings Remix

9. Miloopa – Folk Devils (feat. Eivind Aarset)

10. Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Golden Heart

All tracks:

Minotaur Shock – Ocean Swell
Marek Hunhap – 000050000
The Greg Foat Group – Girl and Robot With Flowers - Part 3
Lucrecia Dalt – Conversa
Antibalas – The Ratcatcher
Django Django – Firewater
Here We Go Magic – I Believe In Action
Haleek Maul – Fraulein - Produced by King Britt
Seahawks – Dream Riders
Diiv – (Druun Pt. II)
Cobblestone Jazz – Across the Nation
Shijo X – Runnin’
Shigeto – Huron River Drive - Evenings Remix
Kotki Dwa – Poison
Portico Quartet – Steepless - feat. Cornelia
Liars – No.1 Against the Rush
Connan Mockasin – Unicorn in Uniform (Coyote Acid Mix)
Mac Demarco – Cooking Up Something Good
Andrew Bird – Desperation Breeds…
Hauschka – Ping - Tolouse Low Trax Remix
Fiona Apple – Left Alone
John Talabot – Destiny feat. Pional
NeferTT – Cleos Spot
The Orb – Man in the Moon
Dam Mantle – Lifting
Vieo Abiungo – Drowsy Salted Morning (Benoit Pioulard Remix)
Miloopa – Folk Devils (feat. Eivind Aarset)
The Reboot Joy Confession – Part D
Lower Dens – Brains - Trentemøller Remix
Gulls – SOID - El Buho Remix
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Golden Heart
Peaking Lights – Live Love
Dam Mantle – RGB

Thanks to all the artists for amazing music and magazines, blogs and tweeps for sharing.

Photography by Tyler Casson

Best of 2012: SPACE
55 most loved ambientesque tunes

This is a selection of my favorite ambient, soundscape and dub music. Mostly beatless but sometimes just enough pulse and sense of rhyhtm to keep things going. Wonderful music for contemplating, meditating, sleeping, thinking, working.

Play in Spotify: BEST of 2012: SPACE

Top 10:

1. Bee Mask – The Story of Keys and Locks

2. Deepchord – Aquatic

3. Au – under/Epic (feat. Colin Stetson)

4. Ametsub – Lucent

5. Peter Van Hoesen – Admonition

6. Andrea Belfi – B

7. The Green Kingdom – Backyard Epiphany

8. Manual – Floating World

9. Atom TM – Gauß`sche Landaufnahme Teil I

10. Greg Haines – Ernetti

All tracks:

Keith Kenniff – Flow & Branch
howse – Other Ways
Anton Zap – Sunshine - Original Mix
Bee Mask – The Story of Keys and Locks
Deepchord – Aquatic
Atom TM – Voralpenthema
Bob Holroyd – All Colours Part 1 - Steve Roach Remix
Shifted – Colour Of The Fall
Known Rebel – Smart Ambient
Mohn – Wiegenlied
Fennesz – Haru
Laurel Halo – Nerve
Ametsub – Lucent
Synkro – Broken Promise
Au – under/Epic (feat. Colin Stetson)
Marconi Union – Time Lapse
Unrecognizable Now – Kane Ikin Remix
Earth House Hold – If Only For a Moment
Marcus Fischer – Wires On Carpet
Jan Jelinek – HipBird
Actress – Holy Water
Offthesky – Flotsam Drift (Offthesky Remix)
DFRNT – Prism
Lower Dens – Propagation - Cex Remix
Aepiel – Aves - Original Mix
Peter Van Hoesen – Admonition
Andrea Belfi – B
Kane Ikin + David Wenngren – Chalk
Bersarin Quartett – Zum Greifen nah
Raime – This Foundry
Demdike Stare – Demdike Stare Meets Shangaan Electro
Chevel – Closed Eyes
36 – 1983
Black Elk – Lost Hearts
Talvihorros – In The Midst of the Waters
Greg Haines – Ernetti
Olan Mill – Carnaval De Sucre
Kreng – Tourniquet - Part 1
Park Avenue Music – Golden Hummingbird - Ametsub remix
Pawn – sleepy films in your head - Original
Offthesky – Forever Over
Kane Ikin – Europa
Atom TM – Gauß`sche Landaufnahme Teil I
Ivano Tetelepta – Lunar Farside - Original Mix
Philippe Petit & friends – An Air of Intrigue - Original Mix
Buchikamashi – Mujo (Transience)
Kettel & Secede – Jahe
Monolake – Unstable Matter
Manual – Floating World
Locrian & Christoph Heemann – Edgeless City
The Green Kingdom – Backyard Epiphany
willamette – open wounds (for j.n.)
Tim Hecker – Scene From A French Zoo
Stephan Mathieu – Coda (For WK)
Trapist – The Gun That’s Hanging On The Kitchen Wall

Thanks to all the artists for amazing music and magazines, blogs and tweeps for sharing.

Artwork by unknown GIF artist

Best of 2012: BEATS
55 refreshing rhythmic excursions into the future

So many beatsmiths and soundsorcerers who raised the bar for the next years to come. This is my definitive selection of (Spotify enabled) tracks that kept me up at night, made a great soundtrack for early morning commuting and helped me dancing weird.

Play in Spotify: BEST of 2012: BEATS

Top 10:

1. Clark - The Pining 1, 2  & 3

2. KiloWatts – Vector Eyes

3. Lone – The Animal Pattern

4. Mark Fell – SOA-5

5. Julien Mier – Rainbow Covered Home

6. Maribou State – Pagoda

7. Machinedrum – No Respect

8. Mouse On Mars – metrotopy

9. eleven8 & Clarity – Changing Colours

10. My Panda Shall Fly – Data-Module

All tracks:

KiloWatts – Vector Eyes
Forss – In Paradisum
Killawatt – Kaba
Julien Mier – Rainbow Covered Home
Aftawerks – Girl
Stumbleine – Kaleidoscope
Miroslav – Neanderthal
Kit pop – Bounce - Thinnen Remix
James Ferraro – E-7
Mouse On Mars – metrotopy
Himuro Yoshiteru – Knock Knock
Lone – The Animal Pattern
Seaming To – Deer
Shigeto – Soaring
Cid Rim – Draw
Arca – Tapped In
Kuhrye-oo – Give In (For the Fame) - d’Eon’s Kallisti Remix
Portico Quartet – Laker Boo - DVA’s Hi:Emotions remix
My Panda Shall Fly – Data-Module
Grimes – Genesis
Quench – Drecha
LV – Diamonds
Dntel – Jitters - Robags Marf Labo Mix
Mr 76ix – Lectric Landlady
Sweatson Klank – Always You
Fission Theory – Flu Fragments
Dam Mantle – Canterbury Pt.1
Fennesz – Fa - Mark Fell Remix
Mark Fell – SOA-5
Mala – Cuba Electronic
The Gaslamp Killer – Seven Years of Bad Luck for Fun
The Micronaut – Mairenke
Dusk – Fraction - Kowton Remix
Machinedrum – No Respect
Simian Mobile Disco – Seraphim
Grischa Lichtenberger – 0811_09_re_0211_08
Burial – Kindred
Xhin – Blinding Truth - Original Mix
Monolake – Lilith
Baby Kruger – Selkiyeah
NeferTT – Blue Skies Red Soil
Maribou State – Bricks
Maribou State – Pagoda
Nuage – Satellites - Original Mix
eleven8 & Clarity – Changing Colours
Sawlin – Sour Tear
We Sink – Cat o’Nine Tails
Clark – The Pining pt1
Clark – The Pining pt2
Clark – The Pining pt3
D’Marc Cantu – Good
Hypno – Kancourde
Red Rack’Em – All Alone
Jimmy Edgar – Sex Drive

Thanks to all the artists for amazing music and magazines, blogs and tweeps for sharing.

Artwork: Bodega LA by Dan Witz

Best of 2012: DANCE
111 propelling floor tunes meant for moving

This is my final selection of 111 dancetracks that I played over and over again, danced to and love to hear again in 2013. These are all Spotify enabled tracks for your listening pleasure. Please note, there’s a virtually unlimited source of beautiful vinyl-only / non-spotify music out there for you to discover.

For now.. have a listen and share!

Play in Spotify: BEST of 2012: DANCE

Top 10:

1. Nyra – Dres Done - Original Mix

2. Conforce – Be There at Night

3. Kangding Ray – Isib

4. Deepchild – Want

5. The Mole – Makers - DeWalta mix

6. Polar Inertia – Sole Star

7. Claro Intelecto – Night of the Maniac

8. The Reboot Joy Confession – Part A

9. Locked Groove – Rooted

10. Matmos – You - RRose Mix

All tracks (13 hours total) :

The Mole – Makers - Mike Shannon mix
Moenster – This Is for You - Robags Chukka Boot Rekksmö Version 2
Sandrow M – The Three Trees
Patrick Pulsinger – 6789 Cmon
Suzanne Kraft – No Worries - Secret Circuit’s Professional Gold Mix
Nyra – Dres Done - Original Mix
Conforce – Be There at Night
Someone Else – Pillowface
Shenoda – supercede
0x7f – Virtualized
Mario Basanov – Damn Girl - Original Mix
Kangding Ray – Isib
Four Tet – Pyramid
RotaryDisco76 – Until Your Teeth Rattle (Reynold Remix)
Chymera – Strange Things Are Afoot - Claro Intelecto Remix
Henik Jonsson – Acapellan - Donato Dozzy Remix
Imugem Orihasam – Gleam From Distant Gate - Original Mix
Mig Dfoe – Dogward
Marc Antona – Sorry for the Violence - Original Mix
Andreas Bergmann – Undo - D.Diggler Remix
Few Nolder – Doubt
Marc Houle – Undercover - Bruno’s Electric Blanket Dub
Deepchild – Want
October – String Theory - Legowelt Remix
Mattias Fridell – Denial of All Reality
Tolga Fidan – Double Edge Sword - Original Mix
Technasia – Octaval
The Mole – Makers - DeWalta mix
Seuil – 1999
Textural Being – Cables
Mike Shannon – Foxology
Hauschka – Cube - Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix
Frost – Da Drop suri - Rhadoo Remix
Deepchild – Dirty Cutlery
Herva – Triangle
Imugem Orihasam – Same Position
Frank Sebastian – Bhavana
Damiano von Erckert – No Fish In Detroit - Original Mix
The Black Dog – High Rise Choir Reprise (Remixed by Sigha)
Andreas Bergmann – Redo - Original Mix
Polar Inertia – Sole Star
Deep Space Orchestra – Khan - Original Mix
John Talabot – Depak Ine
Pär Grindvik – Wyatt ARP - Terrence Dixon Rework
Claro Intelecto – Night of the Maniac
Ukkonen – Kerrokset
The Reboot Joy Confession – Part A
Matthew Dear – Her Fantasy - Tornado Wallace Remix
Glenn Astro – KDIM - Original Mix
Bart Skils – All About the Music
Exium – Thyra
DeWalta – Peregrine
Roger Gerressen – Inked Jester - Echologist Dub
Vcmg – Spock - Regis Remix
Rub A Dub – Viki Triki - Original Mix
Cassegrain – Painter Of Modern Life - Ed Davenport Fixation
Sascha Dive – Underground Railroad - Willie Graff & Tuccillo Remix
The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – Mi Corazon - Horror Inc. Echoes of My Love Remix
Mike Dehnert – Andruck
Ed Davenport – A Bridge Mystic
Bruno Pronsato – Feel Right - Original Mix
Nuno Dos Santos – Hamming
Basti Grub – Cats and Dogs - Original Mix
Michel Banabila – Route Planner - Planner Minimal Mix
A Made Up Sound – Hang Up
Matmos – You - RRose Mix
Rrose – A, With All Faces Bleached Out
The Advent – Gamora - A.D.I.N Mutation
Cari Lekebusch – Steady Motion - Alan Fitzpatrick Gets Ravey
Maribou State – Puppet Strings
Sigha – Puritan
Rob Hes – Slow Burn - Original Mix
Darling Farah – All Eyes
Ricardo Jefferson – Jericho
Alex Flatner & Lopazz – Dinosaurs - Wareika Remix
Magda – Fixation - Original Mix
Anton Pieete – It’s A Plucker - Original
Dam Mantle – Brothers Fowl
Chevel – Past
Sawlin – Eviment
Luke Abbott – Modern Driveway
Haku – Naiad - Jacques Renault Remix
Kozber – Gillett Square - Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix
120 Days – Dahle Disco
John Tejada – Bifur Gates
The Mole – Makers - Deadbeat dub mix
Delta Funktionen – Redemption
Joachim Spieth – Sensual - Brendon Moeller Reshape
Strip Steve – Money Trouble Funk
Wesley Matsell – The Unmaker
Recondite – Haptic
Altered Natives – Allwhere
Damien Zala – Left & Right (original) - original
Maceo Plex – Frisky
Andy Ash – 500 Motor
Locked Groove – Rooted
Lake Powel – Bright Eyes, Dirty Hair
Chymera – Strange Things Are Afoot - Original Mix
Cobblestone Jazz – Who’s Future?
Rob Hes – Bottomless - Mark Mywords For Four Remix
Djungl – Rakatakata
Blondes – Lover
Benjamin Brunn – Nash
Dollskabeat – Bored of Shit
Madteo – Very Sweaty Palms - Kassem Mosse remix
Alex Israel – Mongo Raw
Nu Zau – Untitledescu 1 - Faster Remix
Bjorn Wilke & Someone Else – Guten Morgen - Santos Resiak Brickwall Dub
Drivetrain – This Toxic Tempest
Nautiluss – Surfeit - Original Mix
Simian Mobile Disco – Interference

Thanks to all the artists for amazing music and magazines, blogs and tweeps for sharing.