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Retrospective | 2013

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As per usual, I’m just a little bit late handing in this final report. But it’s not because we left it to the last minute… (Well that’s not entirely true; some of us did.) But some of us have been deliberating for weeks – and much more intensely during the last week or so. After countless hours of sifting through the ol’ iTunes library and scrolling through SoundCloud <3s, we painstakingly compiled this list of releases that moved us from the past year.

We didn’t rank them. Who are we to make the ruling that “so-and-so dropped the best track of the year”?

Think of this as a music yearbook for our eclectic little dysfunctional family of music enthusiasts.

It’s not the case that all of us agree on every single item on the final list. The list would look completely different if any one of our other staff-writers had prepared the final draft in my stead. But I did my best to weave a tapestry of each of our distinctive contributor’s thoughtful selections. That said, it is impossible for me to transcend my personal bias in the final selection process.

There were way too many tracks that I wanted to include and had no choice but to leave out due to length limitations. We could have put together a list of three hundred tracks, but we had to abritrarily draw the line somewhere… We selected twenty LPs, twenty EPs, and one hundred tracks to share with you.

So – don’t take this as an exhaustive list. I must admit that we left out a large handful of gems, but I did my best to throw together a sampling of music from 2013 that bobbed our heads, shook our butts, and filled our hearts with reverence and joy.

What does the future hold for us?

L O W – L I F E

Selected LPs

Reflektor

Reflektor – Arcade Fire [Merge]

Family Vacation

Family Vacation – Axel Boman [Studio Barnhus]

Tomorrow's Harvest

Tomorrow’s Harvest – Boards of Canada [Warp]

Random Access Memories

Random Access Memories – Daft Punk [Columbia]

Psychic

Psychic – Darkside [Other People]

Settle

Settle – Disclosure [PMR]

Amygdala

Amygdala – DJ Koze [Pampa]

Doris

Doris – Earl Sweatshirt [Tan Cressida, Columbia]

Engravings

Engravings – Forest Swords [Tri Angle]

Beautiful Rewind

Beautiful Rewind – Four Tet [Text]

Overgrown

Overgrown – James Blake [Atlas, A&M, Polydor]

Rap Album 1

Rap Album 1 – Jonwayne [Stonesthrow]

Immunity

Immunity – Jon Hopkins [Domino]

Cut 4 Me

CUT 4 ME – Kelela [Fade To Mind]

Yeezus

Yeezus – Kanye West [Def Jam]

Six Feet Beneath the Moon

6 Feet Beneath the Moon – King Krule [XL, True Panther]

Cold Spring Faultless Youth

Cold Spring Faultless Youth – Mount Kimbie [Warp]

Eve

Eve – Booka Shade [Embassy One]

Anything In Return

Anything In Return – Toro Y Moi [Carpark]

Treat Me Right

Treat Me Right – Trus’me [Prime Numbers]

Selected EPs

Scala

Scala – Agoria, Francesco Tristano [Innervisions]

Tatischeff

Tatischeff EP – Ame [Innervisions]

River Dealer

Rival Dealer – Burial [Hyperdub]

MTS Vol.2

MTS Vol. 2 – Crazy P [Future Boogie]

Careless EP

Careless – Dusky [Aus]

Uprising EP

The Uprising – Ian O’Donovan [KMS]

Planets, Spaceships EP

Planets, Spaceships – Jamie Jones [Hot Creations]

Taking Over EP

Taking Over – Joe Goddard [DFA]

Anaphora

Anaphora – John Tejada [Palette]

Yugen

Yugen – Koreless [Young Turks]

LZD, Pt. 2

LZD II – Laszlo Dancehall [Man Make Music]

Brother Sister

Brother/Sister – Leon Vynehall [Aus]

Airglow Fires EP

Airglow Fires – Lone [R&S]

Truths EP

Truths – Maribou State [Southern Fried]

Send A Prayer EP

Send A Prayer – Motor City Drum Ensemble [MCDE]

Sweet Life

Sweet Life – Rick Wade [FINA]

Elliot

Elliot – Roosevelt [Greco Roman]

Gotham EP

Gotham – Ten Walls [Innervisions]

Requiem EP

Requiem – Ten Walls [Life and Death]

Strandbar

Strandbar – Todd Terje [Olsen]

Selected Tracks

Axel Boman

Axel Boman

Pressure – Adesse Versions [Make Love In Public Spaces]
For One Hour (ft. Scalde) (Paradis remix) – Agoria [Rebirth]
Out – Autem [ASL Singles Club]
Hello – Axel Boman [Studio Barnhus]
Cinderella Curfew – Baunz [self-released]

Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada

Satisfy – Bicep [Feel My Bicep]
It’s All Over – Blanc 1 [Hivern]
Semena Mertvykh – Boards of Canada [Warp]
Heat – Boddika [Swamp 81]
Imperfection – Bodhi [Future Classic]

Booka Shade

Booka Shade

Giving It All (Joe Goddard remix) – Bondax [Ultra]
Cirrus – Bonobo [Ninja Tune]
Love Inc. – Booka Shade [Embassy One]
Come Down To Us – Burial [Hyperdub]
Walkin’ – CAS [self-released]

Darkside

Darkside

All My Love (Kingdom edit) – Cassie [self-released]
FlyLOVE – Chris Turner [Rebirth]
Lose Yourself to Dance (ft. Pharrell Williams) – Daft Punk [Columbia]
Confidence – Daniel Stefanik [Cocoon]
Heart – Darkside [Other People]

Disclosure

Disclosure

Colt – Dense & Pika [Hot Flush]
When A Fire Starts To Burn – Disclosure [PMR]
No One Gets Left Behind (Konstantin Sibold remix) – DJ Yellow, Flowers & Sea Creatures [Compost]
Started From the Bottom – Drake [Cash Money, Island, Republic]
Need U (100%) ft. A*M*E – Duke Dumont [Ministry of Sound]

Four Tet

Four Tet

Careless – Dusky [Aus]
Hive (ft. Vince Staples & Casey Veggies) – Earl Sweatshirt [Tan Cressida, Columbia]
Love Your Illusion – Eric Volta [No. 19]
Between Villains – Captain Murphy, Viktor Vaughn, Earl Sweatshirt [Williams Street]
For These Times – Four Tet [Nonplus]

Atoms For Peace

Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich of Atoms For Peace

Pyramid (Atoms For Peace remix) – Four Tet [self-released]
Majestic Mountains – Franskild [Sweat It Out!]
I Can Tell (By the Way You Move) – George Fitzgerald [Double Six]
Truth South – Glimpse [Aus]
Renata (Daphni remix) – Holden [Border Community]

James Blake

James Blake

Musician – Homeboy Sandman [Stones Throw]
Sirocco – Ian O’Donovan [KMS]
Faithful – Jacques Greene [LuckyMe]
Retrograde – James Blake [Atlas, A&M, Polydor]
You Naked (Jimmy Edgar remix) – Jamie Lidell [Warp]

Kaytranada

Kaytranada

Golden (Kaytranada Life Living Edition) – Jill Scott [self-released]
I See Lights (Karmon remix) – Jimmy & Fred [Exploited]
She Burns (ft. Mara Carlyle) – Joe Goddard [Greco-Roman]
Somewhere – John Tejada [Kompakt]
Open Eye Signal – Jon Hopkins [Warp]

Jonwayne

Jonwayne

Altitude – Jonwayne [Stones Throw]
Ringo – Joris Voorn [Green]
Big Room Tech House DJ Tool – TIP! – Joy Orbison [Rinse]
Lucky I Got What I Want – Jungle. [Chess Club]
Avalanche – Just Friends [Clown & Sunset]

Kanye West

Kanye West

Everything – Justin Jay [Southern Fried]
Hold My Liquor – Kanye West [Def Jam]
Survive – Kidnap Kid [Black Butter]
Sun – Koreless [Young Turks]
Nightflow (Kenny Larkin Drama remix) – La Fleur [Watergate]

Leon Vynehall

Leon Vynehall

Guuurl – Lapalux [Brainfeeder]
Ain’t No Time – Laszlo Dancehall [Man Make Music]
I Know – Leftwing & Kody [Off]
Sister – Leon Vynehall [Aus]
Airglow Fires – Lone [R&S]

Maceo Plex

Maceo Plex

Loneliness – Luca Bacchetti & Guti [Endless]
Closer – Lulu James [Sony RCA]
J.A.W.S. – Luxury [Method]
Mind On Fire – Maceo Plex [K7]
Eyesdontlie – Machinedrum [Ninja Tune]

DJ Koze

DJ Koze

It’s Only (DJ Koze Remix) – Matthew Herbert [Pampa]
Burning Bright (ft. Kim Ann Foxman) – Maya Jane Coles [I/AM/ME]
Creep (ft. Wayne Tennant) – Michael Gracioppo [Innervisions]
Trace – Midland [Aus]
Without You – John Talabot [DJ-Kicks]

Jamie Jones

Jamie Jones

Turn Off the Lights (Jamie Jones remix) – Mineo [Hot Creations]
Send A Prayer Pt. 2 – Motor City Drum Ensemble [MCDE]
Made To Stray – Mount Kimbie [Warp]
Finder – Ninetoes [Kling Klong]
Thank You 4 Letting Me Be Myself – Omar S [FXHE]

Theo Parrish

Theo Parrish

Wires (Theo Parrish Remix) – Owiny Sigoma Band [Brownswood]
Untitled – Paul Woolford [Hotflush]
Your Love (You Give Me Fever) – Romare [Black Acre]
Elliot – Roosevelt [Greco-Roman]
The Wheel (Employee Of The Year remix) – SOHN [self-released]

Shlohmo & Jeremih

Shlohmo & Jeremih

Bo Peep (Do U Right) – Shlohmo & Jeremih [Yours Truly]
Lady C’mon (Kissey remix – extended version) – Sinkane [DFA]
Bipp – Sophie [Numbers]
Makin’ Love – Sound Stream [Sound Stream]
Time (ft. Seth Troxler) – Subb-an, Tom Trago [Visionquest]

Ten Walls

Ten Walls

Another Earth – Tale Of Us [Minus]
Requiem – Ten Walls [Innervisions]
Amaze – Terekke [L.I.E.S.]
Oh Sheit It’s X – Thundercat [Brainfeeder]
Let’s Go Dancing (Maya Jane Coles Dancing In The Dark remix) – Tiga vs. Audion [Turbo]

Todd Terje

Todd Terje

Strandbar (disko version) – Todd Terje [Olsen]
Worst Enemy – Toddla T Sound [Ninja Tune]
Hummel – Topspin, Dmit Kitz [Save Room]
Imprint Of Pleasure – Tube & Berger [Suara]
Wit(z) – Valentin Stip [Clown & Sunset]

Larry Heard

Larry Heard

Summer At Night – Vincenzo Varagone [Soundlab]
Say You Won’t Ever (Larry Heard club mix) – Wallflower [Rebirth]
All Little Things – Wareika [Visionquest]
Make It Good (Pete Josef remix) – The White Lamp [Mixmag]
A1 – 8prn [self-released]

with love,

L O W – L I F E


Booka Shade | Mixmag mix

For the latest edition of In Session , Mixmag welcomes Frankfurt-based Tech-House barons Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, a.k.a. Booka Shade .

Cop the free download, if you’re feelin’ it.


Booka Shade | Love Inc

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In anticipation of Eve , their upcoming LP brought to us by Embassy One , these two Berlin-based dance music luminaries have shared a single entitled “Love Inc”, which delivers a warm rush of euphoria.

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[Booka Shade]

Wolfey



Booka Shade | Blackout: White Noise

This prolific Berlin-based duo just shared the title track from their upcoming Blackout: White Noise EP . Simply put, this is crisp melodic muscular dance music inspired by house and techno. It effortlessly holds my attention as it breathes, builds, and evolves over seven minutes…

They will be playing at Coachella this year and may be coming to a town near you in the not-so-distant future–check the tour schedule here .

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Wolfe y


The Bootleg Tapes | Vol. X

Bootleg Tapes | Vol. X (art)

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


10 Days Off 2012 | Ghent, Belgium

Ever heard of Ghent? I didn’t think so. Well, if you haven’t, don’t beat yourself up too much because not once have I heard that perfectly plain North American yammer during my time spent here, despite the town bearing Lonely Planet’s number 7 spot on its 10 Places to Visit Before You Die list.

But enough about the town. Its lovely. Trust me. Canals, churches, cobblestone, jolly drunks, pretty people, and prettier personalities; its all here. What else is here, though, is an incredibly unique concert series showcasing an acute selection of electronic music’s foremost purveyors. That’s the real reason I’m here. Found down a winding alley and along side a murky jade strip of river is the Vooruit Art Centre ‘s 10 Days Off festival.

“In 1995, 10 Days Off started as 10 Days Of Techno. Today, almost every electronic music genre can be seen and heard at the festival. 10 Days Off has become a landmark in the international electronic music scene. The festival welcomes artists, clubbers, music lovers and media from all over the world.

The festival has its own character and style, built on its pioneering decisive choice for programming electronic music.”

[via 10 Days Off ]

[Day 1 - Salva]

Each night sports a variation of style; from house, to bass, hip-hop, disco and so on and so forth. They keep it fresh, to say the least.

[Day 9 - The Magician]

Featured this year; Salva , Holy Other , Lapalux , Africa Hitech , Kutmah , Teebs , Addison Groove , Booka Shade , John Talabot , The Magician , as well as many more. Lucky for you, the majority of these sets can be heard in their entirety, below. Personally, Mr. Talabot’s performance really tickled my fancy.

[Day 7 - Africa Hitech]

[Day 8 - Booka Shade]

Now you can’t say that you’ve never heard of Ghent, Belgium.

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