READ: SRQ017: Braiden

The 17th edition of the Sonic Router column of theQuietus focuses on Rinse FM DJ, Braiden. With his debut release, 'The Alps,' now sold out release on Joy Orbison's Doldrums imprint and a steadily building reputation as a selector we treated him to lunch on a snowy afternoon last December and sat eating quietly as he monologued...

"UK music is so based on rhythm, you know what I mean? You look at a lot of drum and bass, UK funky, dubstep etc and a lot of those genres would look down on 4x4 music because it's one rhythm – which is totally missing the trick – but, they would say that. And a lot of it is rhythmically focused but it doesn't have any atmosphere to it, or doesn't really experiment with the emotive qualities of the music. You get that a lot more in techno - I think sometimes you get that too much in techno - but it's very much about the atmosphere and the sounds made, but they don't do anything interesting rhythmically. That's what I'm trying to bring together: something that is emotive, in an interesting headspace that does a lot for the mind but is also rhythmically interesting." - Braiden

READ: SRQ017: Braiden


Braiden - 100% Braiden Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs (July 2010)

Link:
www.stevebraiden.com

READ: SRQ016: Distal [Embassy Recordings]

This month the Sonic Router column on theQuietus profiles Atlantan producer, promoter and Embassy Recordings label boss, Distal. A long time conspirator of ours, his tireless enthusiasm, astonishing commitment to pushing bass heavy sounds in his native territory and his frankly incredible hit rate when it comes to fresh music makes him one our super friends - a hallowed honour bestowed on but a few.

"I remember growing up in Atlanta where liking electronic music was kind of a rebellious movement from the norm. Atlanta has been 100% rap and hip hop since as far back as I can remember; there's never been room for techno!" Distal recalls coyly. "It's a double-edged sword really. On one side, the masses and popular musicians in America are finally into dance music and dubstep in particular, but at what cost?" - Oli Marlow

READ: SRQ016: Distal
DOWNLOAD: Distal - Sonic Router Mix #59



Tracklist:

Distal – 'Amphibian'
Moldy – 'No Means To Smoke It' (Forthcoming Embassy Recordings)
Subreachers – 'Let Go' [Jack Sparrow Remix]
Distal – 'Novocaine Blonde' (Forthcoming Fortified)
Mayhem – 'Freak' (Forthcoming Argon)
Distal – 'Mamanimal'
Rashad – 'Who Tesr'
Distal – 'Boca Ratawn' (Forthcoming GhettoPhiles)
Wheez-ie – 'Barefoot Billy'
Distal & DJ Rashad – 'Stuck Up Money'
Bombaman – 'No Touch' (Aufect)
MachineDrum – 'GYBE'
Ruckspin – 'Shikra' (Pushing Red)
Ramadanman – 'Bass Drums' (Soul Jazz)
Distal – 'EEL' (Forthcoming Seclusiasis)
Mayhem & Distal – 'Frozen Barnacles' (Surefire)
Acre – 'Ghatt' (Embassy Recordings)
Addison Groove – '5 Mins Of Funk'
Distal & HxdB – 'Typewrtier Tune VIP!' (Surefire)
Distal – 'Feed Me'

Link:
www.myspace.com/distaldub

READ: SRQ014: Joe [Hessle Audio]

The latest edition of the Sonic Router opinion column on theQuietus focuses on Joe who has to date released music on Hessle Audio and Apple Pips...

First releasing 'Grimelight' b/w 'Rut' on the closely watched Hessle Audio in April of last year, the unknown Joe - and his efficient command of stylistically brutal percussion, minimal arrangements, thick sub bass and subtle strokes of melody – has taken over a year to provide a follow up. In the last six weeks or so, though, he has hit out with a quickly succeeded duo of platters: an untitled piece backed with 'Digest' for Appleblim's Bristol based Apple Pips label and his DJ tool-come-party-starter 'Claptrap' b/w 'Level Crossing' for Hessle. Thankfully each piece he's released has been worth the prolonged silence, jumping out from the off with stuttering drum lines and or a sense of groove that's now recognisably his: a playful yet mature exploration of unadulterated percussion and minimal sound colouration. - Oli Marlow

READ: SRQ014: Joe [Hessle Audio]

Link:
www.myspace.com/joemakemusic

Photo: Shaun Bloodworth

READ: SRQ013: Sonar 2010 Review

The lovable rogues at theQuietus sent me to Spain on a mission to enjoy Barcelona's optimum 'International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art,' Sonar 2010 last week. Here's what came out of my withdrawl laden, fuzzed out brain and bandaged fingers earlier this week...

"The whole vibe of the city during Sonar is infectious; reams of bars, tapas spots and pavement corners are coated in music lovers, the glorious weather soaks everything in a sheen that simply feels 100% significant and isolated to this 4 or 5 day period; and bar the lime green lanyards sported by the festival goers milling around Barcelona’s awkward, thin streets it’s not obvious that everyone is there for simply for the music. In fact a lot might not be there for the festival, but for a bunch of the numerous off Sonar parties that pepper nightclubs, hotel roofs and secluded beaches around the same time as the festival – a glorious subculture that often holds more than the festival can accommodate."

READ THE REVIEW IN FULL: SRQ013: Sonar 2010 Review

Link:
http://2010.sonar.es

READ/DOWNLOAD: SRQ012 - Eleven Tigers

SRQ012 focuses its attention on the work of Lithuanian producer Jokubas Dargis aka Eleven Tigers - ahead of the release of his astounding Clouds Are Mountains album on the Soul Motive label - concentrating on his strong bond with technology, a deep love of Talk Talk and his improvisational techniques.

His Sonic Router mix is also strangely bewitching.

READ/DOWNLOAD: SRQ012 - Eleven Tigers



Tracklist:

Insides – Yes
Apparat – Wooden
Hildur Gudnadottir – Elevation
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – Lose Me On The Way
Arovane – Auben
Autechre – Sim Gishel
Efterklang – Chapter 6
Bark Psychosis – Burning The City
Biosphere – When I Leave
Spyweirdos – Should Be A Spell
Deaf Center – Eloy
Tomas Dvorak – Mr.Handogate
Pangaea – You & I
Eleven Tigers – Autogenesis
Caural – Cruel Fate Of Spring

Link:
www.eleventigers.net

READ: SRQ011 - Boss Kite

After listening to a lot of the margins music commonly referred to as 'skweee,' of late I'd been mulling over the best writing options afforded to me in my quest to document a style of music I was becoming more and more besotted with. Not knowing much of the gentry or history behind the movement itself - hailing from Scandinavia, the primitive sound has really blossomed over the last few years - but sharing a common love of the sound I approached Brighton based producer Boss Kite, hoping to harness his passion for the genre and his productions as the source of a further investigation.

Catch him in the chat and the mix over at The Quietus.

READ: SRQ011 - Boss Kite



Tracklist:

1. Boss Kite – 'Dotch Clogs'
2. Joxaren – 'Fel I Facit'
3. Mangrove – 'Perfect Disaster'
4. Boss Kite – 'Moody Blues'
5. Boss Kite – 'Clef Bassett'
6. Beem – 'Manka' (:Kinema: vocal edit)
7. Beatbully – 'Skweeed'
8. Rigas Den Andre – 'Guilty' feet, No Rhythm
9. Mrs Qaeda – 'Liikutuksia'
10. Daniel Savio – 'Monkey Pee Monkey Poo'
11. Wankers United – 'Superfonky'
12. Master of Ribongia – 'Sweetbeat' (Boss Kite Remix)
13. Pixelord – 'Quartz Boy' (Coco Bryce Fake Skweee Mix)
14. Markis Sage – 'Two City Clash'

Londoners can catch Boss Kite's live show on 9th April when he plays THEM at Corsica Studios alongside Kuedo and Boxcutter:



...or make the pilgrimage to Donky Pitch's first Birthday on the 20th May where he’s on the bill with Fulgeance & Randy Baracuda.

Link:
www.myspace.com/bosskitemusic

READ/DOWNLOAD: SRQ010 - F [7even]

I was so close to making the February deadline, but after a run of pars this past week the latest Sonic Router Quietus column managed to surface today, on the 1st March. This edition focuses on F, aka Florent Aupetit, a French producer releasing mainly dub-techno influenced material on the 7even label.

Catch him in the chat and in the mix...

READ/DOWNLOAD: SRQ010 - F [7even]



Tracklist:

Untold & LV - Beacon - Hemlock Dub
Helixir - Untitled - 7even Recordings Dub
Instra:Mental - Vicodine - Naked Lunch Dub
Jus Wan - Untitled - ?
Headhunter - Evolver - ?
F - Chillin' - 7even Recordings
J. Sparrow - The Fullest - Tectonic
Ruckspin & Quantum Soul - Venus Project - Transistor Recordings Dub
James Fox - Put It Back (Ramadanman Refix) - Take Records
F - Hologram - 7even Recordings
J.Sparrow - Untitled - ?
DJG - Avoid The Noid - Pushing Red Dub
DJG - Avoid The Noid (Headhunter Remix) - Pushing Red Dub
F - Funk Injection - 7even Recordings



F - 'See The Lights'
directed by DBKN + FxAxXx

Link:
www.myspace.com/musicbyf

READ/DOWNLOAD: Blue Daisy - SRQ009

Camden resident and producer Blue Daisy is the subject of January's Sonic Router penned Quietus column. He takes us through a few of his processes and opinions and drops an exclusive mix...

READ/DOWNLOAD: Blue Daisy - SRQ009



No tracklist, sucker.

Links:
www.myspace.com/bluedaize

READ: SRQ007 - A Dubstep Column For November

Get the skinny on the new 2562 LP and Peverelist's forthcoming CD plus news on new Guido, Gemmy, Headhunter, Sigha, Joy Orbison and Untold by reading this month's Sonic Router Column on The Quietus.

READ: SRQ007 - A Dubstep Column For November

READ: Sonic Router 005 - A Dubstep Column For August

Yep, its around that time again, and yes it is getting later and later in the month each time. Still... its compilation corner for us over at The Quietus with releases coming from Hyperdub, Mary Anne Hobbs, RSD, Echo Expansions and Rush Hour's Beat Dimensions Vol. 2 all getting a mention.

READ: Sonic Router 005 - A Dubstep Column For August

Oh and in related news, Hyperdub have announced the full tracklist for the afore mentioned dual CD compilation, '5.'



CD1:

01 King Midas Sound: "Meltdown"
02 Kode9 & the Spaceape: "Time Patrol [ft. Cha Cha]"
03 Darkstar: "Aidys Girl's a Computer"
04 Samiyam: "Roller Skates"
05 Flying Lotus: "Disco Balls"
06 Black Chow: "Purple Smoke"
07 Burial: "Fostercare"
08 Cooly G: "Weekend Fly"
09 Zomby: "Tarantula"
10 Martyn: "Mega Drive Generation"
11 LV: "Turn Away [ft. Dandelion]"
12 Mala: "Level Nine"
13 LD: "Shake It"
14 Quarta 330: "Bleeps From Outer Space"
15 Ikonika: "Sahara Michael"
16 Joker & Ginz: "Stash"

CD2:

01 Kode9: "9 Samurai"
02 Burial: "South London Boroughs"
03 Kode9 & LD: "Bad"
04 The Bug: "Money Honey Remix [ft. Warrior Queen]"
05 LV: "Globetrotting [ft. Erol Bellot]"
06 Burial: "Distant Lights"
07 Kode9 & the Spaceape: "Ghost Town"
08 Kode9 & the Spaceape: "Fukkaz"
09 Samiyam: "Return"
10 Darkstar: "Need You"
11 Zomby: "Spliff Dub (Rustie Remix)"
12 Ikonika: "Please"
13 Zomby: "Kaliko"
14 2000F & J Kamata: "You Don't Know What Love Is"
15 Joker: "Digidesign"
16 Quarta 330: "9 Samurai (Quarta 330 Remix)"

Just... wow.

READ: Sonic Router Monthly 003 - June

The 3rd installment in the Sonic Router Montly is live now over at The Quietus.

Click quick and you could win one of three copies of Tectonic Plates Vol. 2.

READ: Sonic Router Monthly 003 - June '09

READ: Sonic Router on The Quietus

The very first edition of the brand new monthly Sonic Router column is now live on The Quietus.

It [hopefully] sheds a little light on a few upcoming and recent releases. Plus, you can win a t-shirt courtesy of Wigflex if you hurry.

READ: Sonic Router on The Quietus

Thanks to John and Luke for letting this happen.