Hotflush are giving away a track taken from their forthcoming Back & 4th compilation; a 20 track, 2CD compilation of old and new material, chronicalling the rise of the label on one CD whilst looking to the future with the other. Back & 4th includes exclusive tracks by people like Sepalcure, FaltyDL, Boxcutter, Sigha, Roska and more and its released on 4th April.
The track in question is by Boddika, and its called 'Warehouse.' Boddika of course is the solo alias of Al Bleek, one half of the Instra:mental duo, co-owner of Non Plus+ and one of the most prominent producers over the first few months of 2011. Hitting a raw electro style square on the head the Boddika releases on [nakedlunch] and Swamp 81 are hard, and consistently playable, a trait they share with this track.
Bloc Weekend 2010 was a real eye opener. Through friends you hear the ruminations of one of the weirdest most absurd sounding festivals in the calendar, and what you get is exactly what you imagine, a hardstyle no messing tribute to the multi-national elite of electronic music set in, well, set in a 1960s hardstyle holiday park. The novelty of raving in Butlin’s never leaves you, but it’s the quality of the programming that keeps you grounded amongst the colour, indoor burger king and giant Bob The Builder statues. Last year’s festival was a true test of personal intensity with highlights too numerous to attempt to recall.
This year the party returns to Minehead on the 11-13th March with a lineup that really does read like a roll call for inventive futurist musicians in 2011. Topped by Aphex Twin and Magnetic Man, two acts that given the notoriety of the former and the chart success of the latter need no introduction, the festival boasts stages from likeminded people and kin like Bleep.com, Resident Advisor, Numbers, Subloaded, Plex, Outlook Fesitval and Mary Anne Hobbs featuring all manner of names from Moderat and Four Tet to Jamie XX, Roska, Shackleton and so many many many more. Without echoing the epic lineup for this year’s festival we urge you to go here and see what your missing.
It really is more than alot.
The Bloc team have also uploaded a selection of audio content from Blocs gone by to their particularly functional site. Recommended listening goes to Pinch’s ’09 set, Model 500’s set from last year and the brand new and exclusive Venetian Snares track, ‘There Now You Have Syphilis’ which you can stream here:
We wrote about 10-20’s debut album for the Highpoint Lowlife label a while back, dipping our ears into “the poison and pollution of a lifetime spent pondering numerous genres of electronica” and loving every last echo we found. Since then he’s released a series of landform EPs – geographically themed snapshots of a journey through dystopian landscape called ‘Island,’‘Lake’ and ‘Mountain’ - for the label, with the fourth and final installment, ‘Isthmus’ (apparently its a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas usually with waterforms on either side), due at some point in the next month.
Much like the eponymous album, much of the work on these releases channels numerous elements of sound; aligning whirrs you’d be accustomed to finding on Autechre records, with the static wash of Burial and the unquantized bump of Dabrye. Out of the three EPs already available ‘Lake’ is possibly the highlight, thanks in no small part to the disjointed mess that is ‘Endzone’ and the insistent post Dilla thump of ‘Boat’ when its given a telling sound designer’s overhaul. ‘Ishtmus’ only further displays 10-20’s ferocious talent for textures; merging the distorted greyscale static of Boards of Canada with his twisted version of a 2-step beat on ‘Halogen.’ The tear out white noise manipulation and ominous throb of ‘Athens’ follows, complete with typewritter chatter percussion, elongated chimes and trickles of awkward melody before it all subsides into the slow motion drum programming of ‘Zizec,’ its kick drums and disturbed chants bumping like it came straight out of a late nineties era Anticon producer’s MPC.
Ultimately these four releases build up the second essential as hell album from 10-20, a scary talent whose productions properly flesh out his noise heavy post-electronica ideas. Thanks to the kind people at HPLL you can download ‘Zizec’ in full glorious technisound here...
DOWNLOAD:10-20 - Zizec [Exclusive Sonic Router download]
You can catch 10-20 alongside Roof Light at the first of HPLL's monthly parties this coming Thursday at the Big Chill Bar, London.
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