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doru649 wrote:

Mr Cooper - Amongst Strangers
(Wimm Recordings 2005)

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this little piece was floatin around soulseek
and being the burglar that i am, i snatched it up.
what a lucky find, cause it's only been released a month ago
on an obscure japanese label..

mr cooper was also part of the "mummy fortuna's theatre company"
out on lex records some time ago.
and this is his first solo record.

i can say that it's splendid.
when listening to it, i almost forget about the cold outside.
this album is perfect for those grey days
when you just wanna sit down
and warm up with a cup of tea.
nice stuff that you can chill to,
but it's not "chillout" crap.

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Man buys records.
Man listens to records.
Man grabs elements digitally from records.
Man twists sounds in his own image.
Man adds live instrumentation over the top.
Man scratches more records along to music.
Man presses "record."....
Man smiles effortlessly.

Pablo Aravena is a friend/ filmmaker living in Montreal, who has just completed a full length documentary on street art from around the globe (www.nextthemovie.com) It is a very comprehensive representation of the modern movement of post-graffiti. We are proud to be involved in some small way. Sixtoo has contributed some solid heat in the form of incidentals for the film which we have decided to make available to the public. A full EP of Sixtoo film music ??€¦
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While everyone keeps a critical eye on the rest of the alt-hiphop scene, the folks at Endemik continue to quietly but surely and lovingly expand what can be done with the ancient genre. Here is the next instalment.

While a few will be familiar with SkyRider via the productions he contributed to Bleubird's album, the music on 47:34 will surprise even them. The man claims this record to be a document of the coma in which he spent ten days. And while this is a subject that has been touched on before ??€� most notoriously by The Mars Volta on their debut LP ??€� the experience has never been described so believably.

The songs on this record are loose and downbeat, but their sound is impossible to classify with a one-word genre definition. They're awry pieces of post-hiphop production, minimal but still held together by subtle melodies from samples and a plethora of live instruments. They veer between folksy, psychedelic and orchestral, often occupying all three positions at once. The tracks flow in and out of one another in an incredibly hallucinogenic way ??€� it's chilling. The only real parallel to what has been done here can be drawn with Pilot Balloon's album ??€� both possess a deceptive minimalism, but hide countless layers of complexity and arrhythmic detail that make their tracks incredibly involving.

Though DOT:ALT does not indorse engaging in recreational comatose behaviour, we do highly recommend that you experience the closest recorded alternative to date.

Eliot Lipp's self-titled solo debut sounds like what might happen if some of post-rock's elders received a healthy dose of hip-hop funk and pledged their undying devotion to the Sequential Circuits Six-Trak synthesizer. You can almost deduce this yourself, as the productions gleam with imperfections, but are balanced by rock solid drum programming. Lipp is something of a newcomer, and his instrumental work shows much promise thanks to his ear for solid grooves and his attention to diversity of sound, which includes everything from straight-up hip-hop beats (Deep) to guitar-based head-nodders (One Knot). Be sure to check out the summery, Latin-tinged Gordo and the laidback sound collage Ballkid.

While most people might still think scratching is limited to battles like DMC and DJs laying down cuts on tracks, the turntablist scene has nicely hopped along in the last 5+ years moving away from battles and the hip hop roots of the artform towards a more musical approach to making music using turntables, which has been referred to as scratch music. But labels aside, this way of making music is still in its infant stages, even if the tablist artform has been around for well over a decade. D-Styles offered the world the first all scratched LP, Phantazmagorea, followed a few years later by Ricci Rucker and Mike Boo's Scetchbook. Using nothing more than a turntable, a mixer, a multi-track recording program and an abundance of records, the album was fully composed by scratching individual instruments: kick drums, snares, percussion sounds, leads, bass lines, solos, etc. "We were just trying to prove a point: that other themes can be made with scratching by jumping from theme-to-theme."