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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:46:50 +0000

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:12:58 +0000

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tracklist:

1. Naive Diver - Eyewitness
2. htrspltn - about kuki
3. Naru - Диапазон
4. Omut - Krotorik
5. Raskureal - Na Drugoi Storone
6. htrspltn - black practice
7. Skajite Michilu - Mom & Trains
8. Naive Diver - Space Winds
9. Raskureal - 1st Stage
10. htrspltn - hibernate
11. Daskmathic - Air Max 90
12. Cao Sao Vang - bugs bunny get stoned
13. Casey Cat - Seeker
14. Naive Diver - Dark Matter
15. Kuj skills - Dragon's rice
16. htrspltn - dance, laugh, fight
17. Daskmathic - Midnight Train
18. Locky-Stocky - Запуск
19. Lowkarma - I Hear Voices
20. Naive Diver - End Of Computer Age

New Artist "Az Smooth"

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:33:55 +0000

Hey family just wanted to touch in with you guys and give a lil up date on how things are going . Im real excited for the release of this new album. Its been a long time in the making . It will have something for everybody to relate to touching on personal triumphs in my recent life. I hope you real enjoy it. I will also be doing promotional contest giving away free t-shirts/hoodies/and early extended copies of the album. I'll keep you posted on when those will be. I just want to thanks you for you love and support it is truly motivating.

BE ON THE OUT FOR IT IN 4/2013
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Infinity City mix series

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:27:00 +0000

Welcome to the all-new mix series from KidVector.

I’ve wanted to get something like this going for a long time now and I’m glad to finally be able to share with you the first instalment in what will hopefully be a long running mix series.

Our first trip to Infinity City since the 2008 finds our favorite future mega-tropolis in an introspective mood. We have a couple of remixes from the phenomenally talented Banks (expect big things in 2013), some classic tracks from MJ Cole, Magnetic Man and Scuba as well as a spotlight on some recent highlights from Project Mooncircle, finishing up with AlunaGeorge's hypnotic 'You Know You Like It'.

LISTEN HERE - http://www.mixcloud.com/KidVector/infinity-city-1/

Remember to follow me on mixcloud to stay up to date with the latest Infinity City shows. http://www.mixcloud.com/KidVector/

If you have any inquiries or you're interested in syndicating Infinity City please email me@kidvector.com

Peace,
KidVee

if you nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on low-fire (best of 2012)

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:20:14 +0000

my L favourite longplayers from 12, in alphabetical (with my favourite track)

2econd Class Citizen - The Small Minority (Memory Page)
Asaf Avidan - Different Pulses (Is This It)
Blockhead - Interludes After Midnight (Never Forget Your Token)
Brian Eno - Lux (Lux 4)
Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano II (Train of Thought)
Chinese Man - Live à la Cigale (Le pudding à l'arsenic)
Christoph Berg - Paraphrases (Interlude (remixed by aus))
dictaphone - poems from a rooftop (Manami)
Food - Mercurial Balm (Mercurial Balm)
Grand Salvo - Slay Me In My Sleep (With the photograph lying between them, she tells him her story and they talk for a long time.)
Helios - Moiety (Ours Everyday)
Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago (Flight)
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka - Silfra (Krakow)
How to Dress Well - Total Loss (Cold Nite)
Ilya - Fathoms Deep (All I Got)
Inch-time - Myth and Impermanence (Woods)
Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods - Time Travellers (Faded)
John Talbot - Fin (Missing You)
Kettel & Secede - When Can (Ringvanes)
Kid Koala - 12 bit Blues (3 Bit Blues)
Library Tapes - Sun Peeking Through (Sun Peeking Through)
Little People - We are but hunks of wood (Eminence Grise)
Loscil - Sketches from New Brighton (Second Narrows)
Marcus D - Melancholy Hopeful (Nocturne of Love)
Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (Harborview Hospital)
Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
(Winter 2)
Message to Bears - Folding Leaves / Remixes And Demos) (When We Were Young)
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (I'm Getting Ready)
Minotaur Shock - Orchard (Through The Pupils Of Goats)
Mungolian Jet Set - Mungodelics
(Mungolian Jetset Presents Jaga Jazzist Vs Knights Of Jumungus: Toccata)
Nils Frahm - Screws (You)
Patric Watson - Adventures In Your Own Backyard (The Things You Do)
Peter Broderick - http://www.itstartshear.com/ (Everything I Know)
Poppy Ackroyd - Escapement (Glass Sea)
Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet (Lacker Boo)
Psychemagik - Psychemagik (Andalucia)
Rebecca Brandt - Numbers & Shapes (Other Places)
Shigeto - Lineage (Ann Arbor Part 3 & 4)
Shitao - No bridge behind (Like The Dust)
Soap&Skin - Narrow (Voyage Voyage)
Stephan Mathieu and David Sylvian - Wandermüde (Velvet Revolution)
Susumu Yokota - Dreamer (Animiam Of The Airy)
Taken by Trees - Other Worlds (Dreams (Coconut Cut))
Terranova - Hotel Amour / Nightporter
(Paris Is For Lovers (My Love) (Featuring Tomas Høffding))
The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends
(The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (featuring Erykah Badu))
The Caretaker - Patience / Extra Patience
(Isolated lights on the abyss of ignorance)
The Flashbulb - Hardscrabble (Seq Changing Airborne)
Tor - Drum Therapy (Paper Rain)
Ursprung - Ursprung (Mummenschanz)
Yppah - Eighty One (Film Burn)

my X favourite extended players from 12 (with my favourite track)

01 Dustin O'Halloran & Hauschka & Jóhann Jóhannsson -
Transcendentalism EP (An Ending, a Beginning)
02 Samaris - Stofnar falla EP (Stofnar Falla)
03 Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Stare (a2 (Max Cooper Remix)
04 Glen Porter - The Devil Is A Dancer, The Piper Is A Madman
(The Devil Is A Dancer)
05 Hiatus - Change Up EP (Change Up (feat. Smoke Feathers))
06 Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact 10"
(Deltron 16 (Looking Across The Sky Dub Mix))
07 Monkey Safari with Bon Iver - Hi Life (Hi Life (Cheeky Bold Cover))
08 Pascal Pinon - (Party Wolves EP (5 Hour Party People)
09 Drops - Believe You Me EP (You Have My Word (Message To Bears Remix))
10 The Kills - The Last Goodbye (The Last Goodbye)

my icelandic top X (with, you'right, my favourite track)

01 Asonat - Love in Times of Repetition (Cycle Starts Over)
02 Beatmakin Troopa - If you fall you fly (The First Touch)
03 Mikael Lind - Felines Everywhere (Untangling lines)
04 Sigríður Níelsdóttir - Fagra Ísland (Ástarjátning)
05 Legend - Fearless (City)
06 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Copenhagen Dreams
(They Had to Work it Out Between Them)
07 Hildur Guðnadóttir - Leyfðu Ljósinu (Leyfðu Ljósinu)
08 Human Woman - Human Woman (Sleepy)
09 Yagya - The Inescapable Decay of My Heart
(Waiting For The Rain (Instrumental Version))
10 Kúra - Halfway to the Moon (Anchor)

my top V compilations from 12 (with, as you know, my favourite track)

01 Headphone Commute - ...and darkness came (Silence)
02 Clown & Sunset - Don't Break My Love (Avalanche)
03 The Cinematic Orchestra pressents - In Motion #1 (Dream Work)
04 Project Mooncircle - 10th Anniversary Compilation
(Gika Gika (featuring Sneaky & I.V.A.))
05 Outliers Vol. I - Iceland (The Wind Sings)

my top V hungarian releases (still with my favouirte track)

01 Meszecsinka - Meszecsinka (Kuku)
02 Saint Leidal The 2nd - a6m zero (eggs of the future)
03 Suhov & Mil - Dusty Hungarian Soundbytes
(Fütyülök rá (I don't care a damn))
04 Ozon - Nobody Cares Anymore (Walkin' Home)
05 Mayberian Sanskülotts - PseudoDeath (Altató)

my V favourite reissues in 12 (with my, yes, yes)

01 Long Arm - The Branches - Deluxe Edition (Key Door (Berry Weight Remix))
02 King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (Jubilee Edition)
(Bats In The Attic (Unravelled))
03 Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Remastered) (Hymn of the Big Wheel)
04 Keith Kenniff - Branches (Experimedia Reissue) (Every Morning)
05 Banco De Gaia - Farawell Ferengistan (Special Edition)
(Ynys Elen (Androcell Remix))

my X favourite remixes from 12 (can't believe, but i don't need brackets for this section, hell yes!)

01 Cherokee (Nicolas Jaar remix) by Nicolas Jaar
02 Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix) by Shigeto
03 Eleni Karaindrou - Depart And Eternity (Remix) by Undogmatic
04 Island Remix by Peter Broderick
05 Promises (Nils Frahm Version) by Nils Frahm
06 Shades (Kippi Kanínus remix) by Kippi Kanínus
07 Secrets, Accusations & Charges (Max Cooper Reconstruction)
by Max Cooper
08 Washed Up (reworked by The Gentlemen Losers)
by The Gentlemen Losers
09 Dream Baby Dream (Remixed by Four Tet) by Four Tet
10 The Hang Track Pt. II (Rupert & Mennert Imploded Remix)
by Rupert & Mennert

X most listened experiences this year, from other years (with my favourite tracks in the brackets)

01 Josh Ritter - Animal Years (Girl In The War) - 2006
02 Hiatus - Ghost Notes (Save Yourself) - 2010
03 Pretty Lights - Glowing In The Darknest Night (Still Night) - 2010
04 Hermigervill - Sleepwork (Darkshot) - 2005
05 Thes One - Lifestyle Marketing (Northwestern Bell) - 2007
06 Inner Science - Elegant Confections (Vent) - 2011
07 Ragga - Baby (Matthildur) - 2000
08 Fredrik - Trilogi (Vanmyren) - 2010
09 Dert - Talk Strange: A Beat Tape Inspired by Björk
(Dert Is Out of Love) - 2009
10 Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (Bohemian Forest) - 2010

Mass Dosage's top gigs of 2012

Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:00:18 +0000

So, a quick look back at the top gigs of last year - I managed to get to 28 gigs which was pretty good going. Looking back over the list there were more disappointments than in years before (I'm looking you Aphex Twin and Afrika Bambaata) but still more than enough good nights out to justify a post. Here we go... (All venues are in London, UK)

A Winged Victory for the Sullen @ Cecil Sharp House
Monday 16 January 2012
The year started off on a supremely chilled note with this as the first gig I went to. The venue was small and intimate and the ambient sounds of the sullen ones were well appreciated. Being seated it was very much a "sit back and listen" evening which was perfect, this isn't exactly dance music after all.

Radioactive Man @ The ? Bar
Saturday 31 March 2012
Up next was something completely different at a small, sweaty, (literally) underground club in Stoke Newington. Radioactive Man did a great set dropping electro and breaks and getting a very enthusiastic crowd into some serious ass shaking. I had been out to two other parties during the day and evening but still found the energy to get down to the beats. Nice!

System with Vivek and Mala @ The Dome
Saturday 21 April 2012
System is a regular dub step night that has moved around various venues in London. This installment was at a large grimy venue up North near Tufnell Park and featured the talented Mala from Digital Mystikz. The focus was purely on the music with no lighting or frills, just speakers set up in two massive stacks that were so loud that at one point tiles came tumbling off the ceiling onto the dance floor below! Tear the roof off!

Kenny Dope @ East Village
Friday 11 May 2012
What better way to unwind after a long day at work than some seriously good hip-hop DJ'ing provided by Masters at Work's Kenny Dope and the always on point DJs from the London Doctor's Orders crew? Some of Hip-Hop's greatest tracks spanning the last 4 decades were dropped along with some funk, soul and reggae. A truly wicked night out.

Soundcrash warehouse party with Luke Vibert, 808 State and others @ Oval Space
Saturday 2 June 2012
Some serious dance music was very welcome after having being solidly rained on while cycling to the Oval space warehouse. A few hours of getting down to some old skool rave music dried everyone out and it felt about as close to the original early 90s Manchester scene as one can get in this day and age. Cycling home a bit before dawn with no more rain was a relief too ;)

Erykah Badu @ The Hammersmith Apollo
Wednesday 27 June 2012
This was the second time I've been fortunate enough to see Erykah perform live. She has a wealth of older material to draw on but also dropped plenty of tracks from her more recent albums and a few gems off collaborations with other artists (Liberation really stood out for me). There were plenty of quirky interludes and modifications to tracks that made the live experience noticeably different and it was a pleasure to be there.

Hospitality @ The Brixton Academy
Friday 28 September 2012
Hospital Records move their high energy night out around the UK and of course London features as a regular destination. With 3 dance floors playing Drum & Bass, dub, reggae and dubstep and a host of DJs, artists, vocalists and other performers there was plenty to keep the punters amused. By 3am I was pretty much danced out, but the party looked like it was going to continue to the wee hours.

MF DOOM and others @ The Kentish Town Forum
Friday 12 October 2012
I'm a huge MF DOOM fan but have been disappointed by both the previous times I saw him perform live with sub-par sound, an overly loud support MC and a bog standard live show that didn't stand out in any way from hundreds of other Hip-Hop gigs. So it was with a bit of reservation that I thought I'd go for "third time lucky" but fortunately it panned out as Doom seemed to be in a really good mood and had lots of energy. He pointed out he was dieting and had lost some weight, which is maybe why he didn't need his even fatter hype man this time. He ran through all the classics from Operation Doomsday to Take Me to Your Leader and Madvillainy and Born Like This. The night also featured loads of other performances, some of which were better than others. The biggest disappointment was Madlib who is great as a producer but live? Not so much.

Herbie Hancock @ The Royal Festival Hall
Monday 12 November 2012
This year's London Jazz Festival featured a rare treat - Herbie Hancock performing solo. We were treated to some piano pieces and improvisations as well as a track that he built up from scratch using various sound tools and instruments that he had on stage before he finished off playing a few of his classics on a very cool keytar. The man has still got it.

Flying Lotus @ The Troxy
Friday 16 November 2012
I've seen Flying Lotus perform about 4 times in the past but more than a year had gone by since the last time so I figured it was about time to see how his live show had evolved. There was a much bigger focus on the visual aspects of it with amazing computer generated animations being displayed on a screen behind him and a thin screen hanging in front of him which gave an incredible 3D effect. It took a while to get everything in synch and started but once on his way he delivered a superbly mixed set which went from lush chilled beats to frenetic stomping and back again a few times.

Rodriguez @ The Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 17 November 2012
The world's much belated discovery of Rodriguez thanks to the success of the "Searching for Sugar Man" documentary saw him return to touring with sell out shows all over the world. Being South African I've known his music since I was a teenager and I've always appreciated it even though the style was far outside of what I usually listen to. I never managed to see him the times he came to South Africa so it was great to finally have the opportunity. He is visibly old and frail and had to be helped on and off stage by his daughter but he was sharp when dealing with the crowd and his singing and guitar playing were still good. We found the sugar and it tasted good.!

My best of 2012

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:22:43 +0000

Another year passed. Who gives a fuck?

TOP 10 LP:

10. Future of the Left: The Plot Against Common Sense
In 2012 it's very hard to create epic music without being ridiculous. One possible method is to mix up epicness with great quantities of "motherfuckerness".

9. Global Goon: Quonk
Monstre compilation of the most bizarre acid songs I've ever heard in my life.

8. pozvakowski.: sevenpeopleleft
Way more noisy and aggressive like their previous works. Full with energy, gives you beautiful pictures of isolation.

7. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist
Inspired, wonderfully psychedelic wall of sounds. Just as good as the artists.

6. Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: Walk, Love, Sleep
Fucked-up jazz monsters, manifesto of serious madness.

5. Moritz von Oswald Trio: Fetch
Long, slow, dark, erotic, surprising - best soundtrack for being alone high and sad.

4. Kid606: Lost in the Game
I really like this new direction of Kid606. Ethereal, trippy soundscapes, intelligent, low-key, elegant electronic music.

3. Aesop Rock: Skelethon
After a 5 year hiatus Aesop Rock returned with a mature, chiseled alternative hip-hop album. Thoughtful-poetic, intimate stream-of-consciuosness style lyrics, smooth beats, wonderful melancholy.

2. Kid Koala: 12 Bit Blues
Blues-hop tales from the golden-handed DJ. Chill you out, turns you down. Blues have never been so cool.

1. BadBadNotGood: BBNG2
Words are useless here, this is definitely the coolest shit this year. Oh, and it's free.

Other memorable LPs of the year:

Actress: R.I.P.
JJ DOOM: Key To The Kuffs
Last Step: Sleep
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.: Sons of Bitches Brew
Loscil: Sketches from New Brighton
Claudio PRC: Inner State
Fire! with Oren Ambarchi: In The Mouth - A Hand
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Cobra Juicy
Vessel: Order of Noise
Unsane: Wreck
Hairy bones: Snakelust (To Kenji Nakagami)
Nathan Fake: Steam Days
Pigs: You Ruin Everything
Dubmood: Lost Floppies Vol. 1

TOP 5 EP:

5. Christoph de Babalon: Traumspiel
4. Burial: Kindred
3. Nathan Fake: Iceni Strings
2. Venetian Snares: Fool the Detector
1. Kid606: LSDMTB303

Best songs of the year:

10.Black Moth Super Rainbow: I Think I'm Evil

9. Claudio PRC: Echoes

8. pozvakowski: killick

7. Bass Clef: Ghost Kicks in the Spiral

6. Future of the Left: Notes on Achieving Orbit

5. Actress: The Lord's Graffiti

4. Unsane: No Chance

3. Kid Koala: 4 Bit Blues

2. Aesop Rock: Cycles to Gehenna

1. BadBadNotGood: CMYK

+1. Tej: Átlag Éjjel ( :D )

Disappointments:

5. Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
It's not their fault that they can't outdo Jane Doe never again. Fine. But Axe to Fall was a brilliant record, they showed some really suprising stuff. Compared to that, it's only a so-called safety-game. It's like, popcore. It would be amazing...but not from Converge.

4. Crystal Castles: (III)
It wasn't THAT bad, just fucking boring. I mean, they already created two wonderful album with interesting musical solutions. Compared to those, this record is only the product of crisis, without any innovation. Yeah, there are some cool tunes and synth themes, but in my opinion, Crystal Castles doesn't need to copy this lame, shitty "witch house" microtrend. Or what the fuck is it called.

3. Swans: The Seer
I was very pleased with their previous record, My Father..., it was a beautiful record, with glorious songs. So I was waiting for The Seer like a child. So lame, but it's just a big pile of pointless catharsis in more than two hours.

2. Bong-Ra: Monolith
The featuring of Sole was the only good point on this record. Brainless stuff, nowhere near the creativity of the earlier Bong-Ra records, for example: Full Metal Racket.

1. Otto von Schirach: Supermeng
I adore Otto, honestly. But this is the shittiest record I've heard in my entire life.

And, at last, my TOP 10 Concerts in 2012:

10. A Winged Victory for the Sullen/Ólafur Arnalds/Nils Frahm, Budapest, Trafó, 2012. 10. 10.
9. drMáriás-Pándi Balázs-Kovács "Royal" Ferenc-Benkő Róbert quartet, Budapest, Mika Tivadar Mulató, 2012. 12. 12.
8. Eskmo, Budapest, A38, 2012. 09. 01.
7. MF DOOM, OFF! Festival, Katowice, 2012. 08. 04.
6. Thurston Moore, OFF! Festival, Katowice, 2012. 08. 04.
5. Socalled, Budapest, Akvárium Klub, 2012. 09. 16.
4. Iggy Pop & The Stooges, OFF! Festival, Katowice, 2012. 08. 04.
3. Kuedo, OFF! Festival, Katowice, 2012. 08. 05.
2. Ceephax Acid Crew, Budapest, Akvárium Klub, 2012. 12. 21.
1. Pissed Jeans, OFF! Festival, Katowice, 2012. 08. 04.

+1. BNNT sound bombing at OFF! Festival, Katowice
+2. Henry Rollins spoken word performance at OFF! Festival, Katowice

Happier new year...or, you know, what? Fuck that. I wish you a ... new year. If you xome up with an adjective, comment this shit. Peace y'all!

Another Point Of Mix I - January 7, 2013

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:02:51 +0000

Hello everybody !
I'm glad to announce the release of Hugo Kant - Another Point Of Mix I, January 7, 2013 on Bellring with remixes by Zé Mateo, Jon Kennedy, Radio Citizen, Blossom, Kovacs, Screenatorium, Renegades of Jazz, triberg & Cuz !

listen, more infos & pre-orders here :)