Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

Made Like a Tree [Copenhagen, Denmark. July 17th, 2010] - Thick, atmospheric, resonant dub techno infused with melancholy. ♫ mlat29 - Mikkel Metal.mp3 Mikkel, what have you been up to lately? Besides working on a lot of new material, I've "rediscovered" mixing and had some fun mixing at home. And generally I've just been enjoying the summer. Midi Deux Best Albums Of 2010 Nous vous proposons une liste des albums qui nous ont marqué cette année. Elle reste complètement subjective et ne reflète que nos goûts personnels donc n'hésitez pas à nous faire part d'albums que nous aurions loupé. John Roberts - Glass Eights modyfier This is an archived mix from '2007. Enjoy and always remember to live the music. I do. It governs most of my life decisions which, in-turn, give me inspiration to create.

Surgeon - Breaking the Frame Surgeon - Breaking the FrameListening to Breaking the Frame is not unlike going to an exhibit at which each of the displayed works occupies an entire wall. Each of these nine tracks is stark and enormous. Straight off, they announce themselves, and while each has a good amount of detail that you don't even have to listen very closely to notice, what's striking about them all is that those strong first impressions remain true the entire time each track plays. Emptyset - Demiurge Emptyset - DemiurgeHow abstract can you make techno and still call it techno? How noisy can you get before it's all washed away in a torrent of fuzz? These are the kind of questions Bristol duo Emptyset pose with their second album, Demiurge, a pulsating storm of distorted frequencies that occasionally takes the shape of intelligible beats. Demiurge is a move, conscious or not, towards outright accessibility even though it mostly abandons their eponymous debut album's more distinctly beat-oriented structure.

Deadbeat - Drawn & Quartered Deadbeat - Drawn & QuarteredPretty much the only way for dub techno to sound interesting—or at least interest people—these days is to be so experimental that it barely even qualifies as "dub techno" anymore. Quite a quandary. Canadian producer Deadbeat, now based in Berlin, has always embraced this anything-goes spirit, filling last album Roots & Wire with cross-genre flirtations and presenting a stunning and canon-challenging vision of dub techno history with his Radio Rothko mix CD. Scott Monteith's sixth album is a bit daring placed against his back catalogue, then, marking the launch of his new BLKRTZ imprint by going back to basics. Don't be disheartened: this isn't an album of Basic Channel ripoffs. Far from it, in fact.

Various Artists - Laid Compilation Various Artists - Laid Compilation If house music's always been the musical springboard for Dial, then the label's subsidiary, Laid, is their attempt to launch into the deeper machine-soul ends of the spectrum. Established with the vinylphiles in mind, Laid's until this point been wax only, releasing a series of quickly snatched up singles from artists like Rick Wade, John Roberts, Lowtec and Kassem Mosse. So it's no surprise that the news that the label would collect those recent artefacts onto a CD compilation struck the stringent (and often needlessly stiff) vinyl-only brigade as a back-turning maneuver, one that undermined the rarity of their hard-sought 12-inches. For home listeners and convenience seekers, though, the news was a blessing, a chance to collect most of Laid's almost unassailable back catalogue in one shiny round place. Kassem Mosse's "Untitled," on the other hand, is simultaneously gritty, funky and often breathtakingly beautiful.

LWE 2Q Reports 2011: Labels Narrowing labels down to the best of the best for any time period is always a tricky thing, as there are always so many great outlets that some are bound to get left out. Some exist in so much of a niche that it’s awkward calling them “the best” (this is always the case in writing about music though – this isn’t a race), while others keep their fans tantalized with exceedingly sparse release schedules. Mathematics, Future Times, Hivern Discs, Aus Music, Time to Express, L.I.E.S., Hessle Audio, Absurd, Crème, Hotflush, Lunar Disko, Swamp81, FXHE, Acido, and Sex Tags Mania (among others) are having a great year and deserve honorable mention. The following list is split between some of the most successfully prolific labels in dance music and some of the more interesting smaller upstarts, in no particular order.