The Bootleg Tapes | Vol. X
Why is this mix series titled “The Bootleg Tapes”? I have been pondering this question… Wikipedia describes a “bootleg recording” as “an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.” The article goes on to explain that “the process of making and distributing such recordings is known as bootlegging.” To be honest, I did not pay for any of these tracks, and some of them have not yet been released by their respective labels. I did not receive permission from the “copyright holders” to re-distribute this content, (as SoundCloud’s copyright infringement detection software pointed out to me when I tried unsuccessfully to upload the mix the first couple times.) In short, these mixes are conceived and distributed in contravention of music copyright law. For this reason, it would seem that the title of the series is fitting.
For this tenth episode, I put together a special two-hour mix comprised of an eclectic selection of house, techno, UK garage, and soul. Most of the tracks are contemporary, but you will hear a handful of classics from the likes of Fingers Inc., Rhythim Is Rhythim, Inner City, and Carl Craig.
Special thanks to the other Low-Life staff-writers who helped me find a great deal of this music–as well as to our followers.
TRACKS
Cirrus - Bonobo [Ninja Tune]
Harm In Change - Toro Y Moi [Carpark]
You Give Me Fever - Romare [Universal]
Whatnot - Machinedrum [Innovative Leisure]
Everything - Justin Jay [Southern Fried]
Turns Turns Turns (Blue Hawaii Flüchtig Mix) - Majical Cloudz [Arbutus]
Elegante - Squarehead [5AND7]
So Submissive - Citizen [MadTech]
Reykjavik - Brolin [Double Denim]
Guuurl - Lapalux [Brainfeeder]
Local Traffic - Wolfey [White]
The Variable - Wolfey [White]
Can You Feel It? (instrumental) - Fingers Inc. [Trax]
Something We All Adore - Solomun [Supernature]
Desire - 69 [R&S]
Brazil (slow version) - Luke Abott [Border Community]
Sandstorms - Carl Craig [Planet E]
The Fallout - Dark Sky and Breach [Naked Naked]
Tenderly - Disclosure [Make Mine]
Good Life - Inner City [Virgin]
Soul What (Boddika Remix) - Boddika [Swamp 81]
Sunshine (Uto Karem Remix) - Tomaz & Filterheadz [1605 Music Therapy]
Sad - Jerome LOL [Self-Released]
Phosphor (Norman Nodge Remix) - Onmutu Mechanicks [Echocord Colour]
Tomorrow Belongs To Us - Booka Shade [Defected In The House]
Beam Me Up (George Fitzgerald Remix) - Close [Aus Music]
Energy Flash - Joey Beltram [R&S]
Positive Education - Slam [Soma Quality]
Defiant Order - Birdy Nam Nam [OWSLA]
Loose Your - Günther Lause [Laut & Luise]
Mask - Pedestrian & Maribou State [Catz N' Dogz]
Closer - Lulu James [Sony / RCA]
Distant Shores - Petar Dundov [Music Man]
Ford Trax - Baby Ford [Virgin France]
Strings Of Life - Rhythim is Rhythim [Transmat]
Retrograde - James Blake [Republic]
Love,
Wolfey
Retrospective | 2012
We are a day late on delivering this, but we had to wait up until the 31st to pull this thing together – just in case we needed to make any last minute additions (and also because we are habitually disorganized and tardy).
After a haphazard electronic congress amongst the various selectas’ in our slightly dysfunctional family, we put together a collage of the music that moved us in MMXII.
We didn’t attempt to rank these releases–nor to affix to each of them a rating–because it is our view that this sort of enterprise is not meaningful. We assure you that we have vetted all of it. Finding high-grade jams below should be straight-forward–like shooting fish in a barrel. We invite you to trust us and to peruse with an open mind and curiosity.
With love–
Selected Releases
LPs
Pink – Four Tet [Text]
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean [Def Jam]
Devotion – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Mala In Cuba [Brownswood]
Unpatterns – Simian Mobile Disco [Wichita]
Fin – John Talabot [Permanent Vacation]
R.I.P. – Actress [Honest Jon's Records]
The Keychain Collection – Gang Colours [Brownswood]
Until the Quiet Comes – Flying Lotus [Warp]
In Our Heads – Hot Chip [Domino]
Breakthrough – The Gaslamp Killer [Ninja Tune]
good kid, m.A.A.d City – Kendrick Lamar [Top Dawg]
Ghettos & Gardens – Justin Martin [Dirtybird]
Luxury Problems – Andy Stott [Modern Love]
Visions – Grimes [4AD]
Held – Holy Other [Tri Angle]
Don’t Break My Love – Clown & Sunset [Clown & Sunset]
Beams – Matthew Dear [Ghostly International]
Instrumentals Mixtape 2 – Clams Casino [Self-Released]
Total Loss – How To Dress Well [Weird World]
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EPs
Kingdoms – Fort Romeau [100% Silk]
Black Rainbows – Dark Sky [Black Acre]
Kindred – Burial [Hyperdub]
Burial – Truant/Rough Sleeper [Hyperdub]
Go To The Mo – Kill Frenzy [Dirtybird]
Last Words – Ryan Hemsworth [Wedidit]
(Self-Titled) – Jets [Leisure System]
Ready – Jacques Green [3024]
Changes – LOL Boys [Friends of Friends]
Calling Me – Dusky [School]
(Self-Titled) – TNGHT [Warp]
Disclosure – The Face [Greco-Roman]
Ghettos & Gardens (Remixes Vol. 1) – Justin Martin (Dirtybird)
Vision of Love – Bicep [Feel My Bicep]
Froth/Mercy – Boddika & Joy Orbison [SunkLo]
His He She & She – Blawan [Hinge]
Pyramid Lake/Black Ink – Airhead [R&S]
Acquiescence – Anenon [Non Projects]
Grey – Atem [Blenheim & Celtic]
Vacation – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
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Tracks on Heavy Rotation
Held – Holy Other [Triangle]
Au Seve – Julio Bashmore [Broadwalk]
Jasmine – Jai Paul [XL]
Prism – Jacques Green [3024]
Look Out – Homeboy Sandman [Stones Throw]
[Jacques Greene]
Control (feat. Ria Ritchie) (Joe Goddard Remix) – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Nova – Burial + Four Tet [Text]
Revolution – Mala [Brownswood]
Flutes – Hot Chip [Domino]
Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe – Kendrick Lamar [Top Dawg]
[Joe Goddard]
Crystal Caverns 1991 – Lone [R&S]
Higher Ground – TNGHT [Warp]
Species Out Of Control – Simian Mobile Disco [Wichita]
The Hope – Scuba [Hotflush]
So Will Be Now (feat. Pional) – John Talabot [Permanent Vacation]
[John Talabot]
Ye Ye – Daphni [Merge]
Bad Religion – Frank Ocean [Def Jam]
Dream To Me – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Always – Maths Time Joy [Live For The Funk]
Elegante – Squarehead [5ANDSEVEN]
[Flying Lotus]
Whatnot – Machinedrum [Innovative Leisure]
Please Forgive My Heart – Bobby Womack [XL]
Inspector Norse – Todd Terje [Olsen/Smalltown Supersound]
Lion (Jamie xx Remix) – Four Tet [Text]
Yoro Diallo (Lone Remix) – Egyptian Hip Hop [R&S]
[Four Tet]
The Perfect Blues (Jacques Greene Remix) – Jesse Boykins III, Melo-X [Ninja Tune]
$tripper – Bicep [Chemical]
Nissim (feat. Amir Yaghmai) – The Gaslamp Killer [Ninja Tune]
Shades – Dark Sky [50 Weapons]
Forgotton Notes – Hackman [Ramp]
[The Gaslamp Killer]
November Skies (feat. Nina Kinert) – Tomas Barfod [Friends of Friends]
The Narcississt (feat. Inga Copeland) – Dean Blunt [Hippos In Tanks]
Thrown – Kiasmos [Erased Tapes]
wen uuu – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
Truant – Burial [Hyperdub]
[Tomas Barfod]
Her Fantasy – Matthew Dear [Ghostly International]
Grey – Atem [Blenheim & Celtic]
What’s In Your Head – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Running (Disclosure Remix) – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Confidence Boost (Harmonimix Remix) – Trim [R&S]
[Matthew Dear]
All Inside – Bondax [Super]
Fuck You All The Time – Jeremih [Def Jam]
Small Talk (Four Tet Remix) – Ultraista [I Am Fortified]
Rained The Whole Time (Nicolas Jaar Remix) – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
The Ego – Nicolas Jaar [Clown & Sunset]
[Nicolas Jaar]
Sleepless – Andy Stott [Modern Love]
For Sake – Aeroc [Ghostly International]
Make It Good – The White Lamp [Brownswood]
Boiling (feat. Sinead Harnett) – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Nothing So Great – Evy Jane [Self-Released]
[Disclosure]
Default – Atoms For Peace [XL]
Blue Skies Red Soil – NeferTT [Hotflush]
Gold Soul Theory – The Underachievers [Brainfeeder]
New For You – Andrés [La Vida]
Chum – Earl Sweatshirt [Self-Released]
[The Underachievers]
Compuphonic – Maddslinky [Broadwalk]
23 (feat. Tymer) – Shadowchild [Food]
Get Free (feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors) – Major Lazer [Mad Decent]
Child – George Fitzgerald [Aus Music]
What I Might Do (Club Edit) – Ben Pearce [MTA]
[George Fitzgerald]
Kindred – Burial [Hyperdub]
Chained – The xx [Young Turks]
Leaf (A$AP Rocky feat. Main Attrakionz) – Clams Casino [Self-Released]
Timeaway – Darkstar [Warp]
Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix) – Jessie Ware [Universal]
[Darkstar]
So Many Details – Toro Y Moi [Carpark]
Born To Die (Gucci Vump Remix) – Lana Del Rey [Interscope]
Goin In (Boy 8-Bit Remix) – Zinc [Rinse]
Signal Loss – Pariah [R&S]
Jupiters – Four Tet [Text]
[Toro Y Moi]
Tissues & Fivers – Gang Colours [Brownswood]
Swims – Boddika & Joy Orbison [Swamp 81]
Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage? – Blawan [Hinge Finger]
Lost In Tokyo – Koreless [Vase]
Argonaut – Floating Points [Eglo]
[Blawan]
Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix) – Lana Del Rey [Interscope]
Blessed (feat. Kendrick Lamar) – Schoolboy Q [Top Dawg]
Sleepless (feat. Jezzabell Doran) (Shlohmo Remix) – Flume [Future Classic]
Jagged Edge – Eats Everything [Pets]
Crispy Duck – Dense and Pika [Hotflush]
[Eats Everything]
Forget (Shlohmo Remix) – Lianne La Havas [Self-Released]
Huron River Drive (Evenings Remix) – Shigeto [Ghostly International]
Terrorist Threats (feat. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko) – Ab-Soul [TDE]
Lotus Bootleg – Jonwayne [Self-Released]
Avalanche – Just Friends [Clown & Sunset]
[Shlohmo]
& It Was U – How To Dress Well [Weird World]
Why Don’t You – Synkro [Apollo]
Ellipsis – Joy Orbison [Hinge Finger]
Flo Jam – Dusky [Dogmatik]
Meu – Jets [Leisure System]
[Joy Orbison]
Oblivion – Grimes [4AD]
The Black God – SpaceGhostPurp [4AD]
Femme Fatale – Justin Jay [Dirtybird]
Fools Good – Troy Junner [Mindset]
It’s True – Wih’lo [Self-Released]
[Grimes]
No To Love (George Fitzgerald Remix) – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Move Love – Robert Glasper [Blue Note]
Gotham Mix 1 – A.CHAL [Self-Released]
Mirror Maru – Cashmere Cat [Pelican Fly]
What You Need – Flume [Future Classic]
[Robert Glasper]
L O W – L I F E
Shigeto | Friends and Lovers
Earlier today, Percussion Lab, a collective “dedicated to bringing you underground music for a new beat generation,” premiered an official compilation showcasing cuts from the likes of Sepalcure, Machinedrum, Daedelus and more. Praveen Sharma, who produces as Braille and figures as 1/2 of Sepalcure curated the lineup for Percussion Lab Presents: Cambio. So, with that in mind, head over here to stream and download the collection. Part of the proceeds will be directed towards Hurricane Sandy Relief.
Below, you can listen to Shigeto’s contribution to the pack. “Friends and Lovers” is a sumptuous, simultaneously beat and melody-driven piece that reveals a warmer side of the Detroit-based producer.
Download || Friends and Lovers – Shigeto
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Anenon | Gelatin Silver (Flutters)
“Gelatin Silver (Flutters),” produced by one of Red Bull Music Academy’s forward thinking alumni, Anenon, can be found on Ouroboros, a compilation curated by Bryant Rutledge a.k.a Low Limit. Ouroboros is a showcase of North American artists who are pushing the boundaries of electronic music and features the talents of Machinedrum, HxdB, Obey City, and more. You can stream it over at FACT here.
“Gelatin Silver (Flutters)” is a short high. The melodies move so smoothly that, despite the fact that the track clocks in just over three minutes, it seems like it’s over before you’re ready. Nevertheless, the song is a generous taste of Anenon‘s signature atmospheric electronica. Brian Simon’s in-depth studies of composition over the years are evident in the organically textured percussion and harmonious tones of his latest piece.
[Anenon]
alh
Machinedrum | Whatnot
Fact Mag just threw up this rather menacing dance number from Machinedrum. The tune is driven by the interplay between its dark skipping bass riff, and a torrent of skittering rim-shots and snares overlaid with a hypnotic guitar loop and the soft drone of vocal snippets.
Wolfey
Jets | Lock Lock Key
The Berlin based label and collective, Leisure System, is back with another refreshing drop into their catalogue from two producers, Jimmy Edgar and Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum, working together in the collaborative effort, Jets.
[Machinedrum aka Travis Stewart]
In a recent interview with Fact Mag about the collaboration, Travis mentions that “you can kind of hear where we’ve been, and what we’ve come to, and everything.” What stands out in this duet is the presence of Edgar’s multi textured electro funk sounds and Machinedrum’s syncopated rhythmic tendencies. It may seem quite surprising for the producers to team up, but once heard, its pleasantly familiar.
[Jimmy Edgar]
Keep an eye out for the release from this pair on Leisure System.
John Doe
Boards of Canada | Untitled (Machinedrum Edit)
[Travis Stewart, a.k.a. Machinedrum]
Travis Stewart, better known in the music world as Machinedrum, set free his remix of an unreleased, untitled Boards of Canada track earlier today. The edit is a step and a half away from Stewart’s previous work (see previously: Machinedrum | Alarmaa), which showcases his clearly eclectic taste in music. Below is Travis’s process in reworking the relatively unknown Boards of Canada song.
“I decided to take this bootleg recording and re-produce it for fun. Using the recording I laid new drums over the existing drum patterns (almost 100% accurate to original), replayed some synth parts and the bassline. The only thing I didn’t try to re-create was the original vocoder parts and some random samples so I used the original bootleg recording for that. I was tempted to make a shorter 4-5 minute version but I figured I should preserve the original piece in its intended length.”
Download || Untitled [Machinedrum Edit] – Boards of Canada
[Boards of Canada]
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Machinedrum | Alarmaa
[Alarmaa EP]
Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum was nice enough to give this gem of a track away for the free LuckyMe Christmas Advent, which the label released back in December. The highly acclaimed Glasgow label celebrated the festivities by giving away one free remix/unreleased/rare track from their astounding assortment of acts listing from Jacques Greene, Hudson Mohawke, Lunice, Mike Slott & Rustie.
Alarmaa made its way around the Boiler Room with it’s in your face drums, bubbling synths and heavy winding bass. Don’t be surprised if this tune destroys your dancefloor.
Download || Alaarma – Machinedrum
Machinedrum & FaltyDL | Give In 2
[FaltyDL]
The soundcloud download limit was reached within 4 hours of Mr. Lustman, better known as the N.Y. beatmaker FaltyDL, posting this track. The frantic percussion and spirit of this collaboration between FaltyDL and Travis Stewart, a.k.a. Machinedrum, mimics the same Black-Friday-esque chaos in which the tune was gobbled up in.
Download || Give In 2 – Machinedrum & FaltyDL
[via xlr8r]
[Machinedrum]
And have a taste of this unreleased fire played out by Machinedrum at the SXSW Boiler Room. Thank Mr. D. Fu for the tip.
“Where ever the fuck you are, turn it up – turn it up!”
sam.i.am
Nosaj Thing | Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs
[Nosaj Thing performing in Vancouver]
Nosaj Thing touches down with a new mix, crafted for Miss Mary Anne Hobbs‘ Xfm show last Saturday. His set selection is immaculate, featuring the likes of Jonwayne, Jamie XX, Machinedrum and Jacques Greene. He signs off with a rework of the track he produced for Kendrick Lamar.
Nosaj Thing - Sci (Rough)
Nosaj Thing - Eclipse/Blue Feat. Kazu Makino
Nosaj Thing x Architeq - Untitled
D Tiberio - Raver 5
Jacques Greene - iwon’t123
Jamie xx - Touch Me
Lunice - Superman OG
Machinedrum - A New Meaning (Rough)
Jon Wayne - Jackknifee
Nosaj Thing x Teebs - Untitled
Nosaj Thing x Kenrick Lamar - Cloud 10 Rework
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