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LWE Podcast 46: Donnacha Costello retires this week

LWE’s 46th podcast was mixed by Donnacha Costello. Make sure to add his old school flavored mix to your collection before it retires this Friday, May 6th.

Tevo Howard, The Age Of Compassion

The Age Of Compassion, Tevo Howard’s first release for Buzzin’ Fly, straddles the line between sanguine and sappy. Donnacha Costello and Aera provide remixes.

MSF, Meaning Formation EP

Donnacha Costello introduces the MSF pseudonym for the Meaning Formation EP while largely hewing to the sound featured on his most recent album.

Pale Sketcher, Can I Go Now (Gone Version)

Justin Broadrick’s latest project, Pale Sketcher, completely foregoes the guitars and fixes his attention on the synths.

DOTW: Pale Sketcher, Can I Go Now (Donnacha Costello Remix)

This week’s download shows Donnacha Costello finding the pastoral beauty in Pale Sketcher’s “Can I Go Now.”

Donnacha Costello, Before We Say Goodbye

Travel seems to always conjure mixed feelings. We travel with friends and loved ones on holiday but we also travel for work/commute. The ease and relative affordability of flight means we’re sometimes quite a ways from home, while anything less than a thirty minute commute is a luxury most don’t have. As a much loved producer, Donnacha Costello, then, finds himself in an odd relationship with travel, often on the road due to a mixture of work and pleasure. On, Before We Say Goodbye, his fourth album and first since 2003’s Isol on Rastor-Noton, Donnacha mulls over his time spent at the gate and on the train, expressing these thoughts through a small collection of analog gear (only four instruments in total).

LWE Podcast 46: Donnacha Costello

LWE caught up with Costello for a quick chat a bit about the album as a format and his love for old gear while he provided LWE with its 46th exclusive podcast, a trip through his early influences and favorite records.

Donnacha Costello, While in Exile

A new Minimise release? After retiring the label earlier this year in response to the minimal boom, Donnacha Costello started the Look Long imprint with the philosophy that music should be produced for the long term, not to satisfy any trends. Yet the only “trendy” thing about Minimise, however, was its name; the label’s 35 releases were full of Donnacha’s colorful and melodic take on techno without once sounding like the now oft-maligned “genre.” Nevertheless, a new label seems to have refreshed the Irish producer, who has revived Minimise after only a couple months away with the digital only release “While In Exile,” available for free on the label’s website or as higher quality files for purchase.

Donnacha Costello, The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play the Game

With his Minimise label laid to rest before it reached its tenth birthday (Costello felt the name had become almost cliché considering the last few years’ obsession with the genre) the Irishman returns for 2009 on his brand new Look Long imprint, the name reflective of its ethos. After ending 2008 with “It Simply Is” — the emotionally rousing swan song for Minimise — we find Costello in a pensive mood for his new label’s first release.

Donnacha Costello, It Simply Is

[Minimise] Donnacha Costello is always a hard man to pin down. He seems impervious to trends, instead often focusing on productions that pose subtle conceptual questions. His 6 X 6 = 36 series, for example, felt like it exploried the relation of dance music’s comparatively formal beat structure to abstract systems. His “Color” series, on […]