LWE staff writer Jordan Rothlein mixed together Curator’s Cuts 10. We will post the tracklist later in the week, as each curator discloses and describes the tracklist as part of the podcast.
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BBH: Soft House Company, What You Need…
August 18, 2010 – 9:01 AM
Although Soft House Company’s 1990 single “What You Need…” feels like a New York house anthem its Italian origins are what make it so special.
Mount Kimbie, Crooks & Lovers
August 10, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Mount Kimbie’s Crooks & Robbers is a quirky little electronic album from a group whose beauty sneaks up on you, and whose poetry maybe isn’t readily apparent on your first bus ride.
Digital Mystikz, Return II Space
August 5, 2010 – 10:01 PM
Mala, producing sans Coki as Digital Mystikz, has cast what could be the purest dubstep of the last few years — if not the purest dubstep imaginable at this point — in the form of Return II Space.
Al Tourettes & Appleblim, Lipsmacker
August 4, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Appleblim and Al Tourettes’ first single of all original material lands on Will Saul’s Aus Music imprint a little off balance.
Various Artists, Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
July 29, 2010 – 10:01 AM
The Limpopo-based head of Nozinja Music Productions recently had his greatest hits from 2006-2009 lovingly compiled by Mark Ainley of Honest Jon’s in London and Mark Ernestus of Hard Wax — on Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa, and the music contained therein seems destined to cause unrest amongst their usual clients.
Ben Klock, Berghain 04
July 15, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Ostgut Ton has always been about placing techno and house above the fray, and that’s precisely where Berghain 04 is simmering. Ben Klock has given us a commercial-free statement on techno executed artfully.
Sepalcure, Love Pressure
June 28, 2010 – 10:01 PM
That Brooklyn duo Sepalcure could turn out such relevant and future-forward music on Love Pressure, their first time out, bodes very well.
LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
June 22, 2010 – 10:01 AM
This Is It, the third album from James Murphy’s LCD Soundsystem project, is less successful at engaging indie rock and dance music audiences as evenly as on previous releases.
Marcel Fengler, Thwack
June 16, 2010 – 10:01 PM
Bigger, punchier, and more self-assured than Marcel Fengler’s previous string of 12″s for Ostgut Ton, the Thwack EP doesn’t just sound like the work of a hungry young producer; he sounds like he’d eat the whole party sub at the coming-out soiree we critics finally owe him.
Elektro Guzzi, Elektro Guzzi
June 15, 2010 – 10:01 AM
As meticulously arranged as the ten jams on Elektro Guzzi’s self-titled debut album are, and as totally nifty as they sound at points, the album does succumb to some of the problems that plague long-players of the bedroom producers they imitate.
LWE Podcast 52: Andre Lodemann
June 14, 2010 – 12:01 AM
Steering clear of misguided Civil Rights vocal samples and those same old Rhodes riffs, Andre Lodemann has instead found warmth through some of the most colorful and utterly heartfelt melodies that have been pressed to vinyl in a hot minute. The Dessous, Freerange, and Simple veteran — and Best Works boss — solidifies his deep house credentials on the exclusive, gorgeous mix that is LWE’s 52nd podcast.
T++, Wireless
June 3, 2010 – 10:01 AM
On Wireless, purportedly Torsten Pröfrock’s final T++ collection, the producer — long recalling a chemist or perhaps nuclear physicist –seems to have moved his operation to a biology lab, if not a roadside barbecue pit.
Little White Earbuds Interviews JD Twitch
June 2, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Jumping from Optimo’s peculiar envisioning of peaktime techno to a strange series of events deep in Madrid clubland, JD Twitch gives Little White Earbuds a peak into the infamous past and exciting future of some of dance music’s most singular party-starters.
Marcel Dettmann, Dettmann
June 1, 2010 – 10:01 AM
While it’s at times painfully monochrome, Dettmann certainly succeeds both as an expansion and as a fine-tuning of Marcel Dettmann’s aesthetic.
Aybee, Ancient Tones
May 27, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Despite its inauspicious beginnings, Aybee ends up making one hell of a statement on his cassette tape-only album, Ancient Tones.
Roska, Rinse Presents Roska
May 18, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Despite warnings that he was jumping the gun, Roska releases his debut full-length on Rinse with nary a concern for how well ten of his tracks can sit side-by-side.
DJ Qu, For The Beneath
May 5, 2010 – 10:01 PM
For The Beneath, his latest 12″ on his own Strength Music label, once again pitches that signature DJ Qu sound — dark melodies always in the service of off-kilter yet hard-hitting percussion — for the bleakest, sweatiest, most subaltern dance floors imaginable. Should you, fair record buyer, take the plunge yet again?