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“You & Me” had its first makeover by Bauuer –you can check that out here .
Wolfey
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
[Toro Y Moi]
The second single from Toro Y Moi ’s forthcoming record Anything In Return has surfaced, accompanied by a video, which depicts Chaz Bundick looking effortlessly aloof, grooving in a variety of mountainous landscapes.
“I’m just trying to make sincere pop music that’s not all processed and bubblegum. Underground isn’t always relevant; I want to see what’s popular, then put my own spin on it.”
Anything In Return , Bundick’s follow-up to Underneath the Pine drops January 22 via Carpark Records .
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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–
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]
In anticipation of his upcoming LP release Anything In Return via Carpark on January 22nd, Chaz Bundwick made available “So Many Details”, which is the first single from the project.
Wolfey
Shit sounds cool to me-
Earlier today, a both unlikely and praiseworthy collaboration dropped on the Odd Future Tumblr between Tyler and Toro Y Moi . It’s not all that surprising though, seeing that Tyler is quite the fan of Chaz. Songs from Toro Y Moi have been featured on both of Tyler’s Summer Camp Mixes.
Tyler and Chaz both emphasize that the current version of “Hey You” is a rough draft and that we can expect a studio version in the near future. Looking forward to it-
Download || Hey You – Tyler, the Creator x Toro Y Moi
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Will: “Hi, my name is Will [Wiesenfeld]. I am Baths , and this is for L O W – L I F E . c a, in Canada, Vancouver.
L.L.: Tell us about yourself.
Will: “I’m Will, I am 22, from Los Angeles, I make electronic music, and I love electronic music.
LL: Now that it is nearing the end of the year can you recall any major highlights from 2011?
Wil: Well, Japan – was not just the highlight of touring, it was a highlight of life. It was one of the best weeks of my entire life, and I had this horrible horrible feeling of never wanting to leave, and was 100% ready to abandon every friendship I’ve ever made in LA, and my family, just like “fuck it, I’m going to live in Japan.” But I realized coming back to LA that I would have to make a lot more sense of things before that would ever happen, like: learn the language, because that’s a pretty big barrier, but it was incredible, it was the best week of my life.
LL: Amanda – one of Low-Life’s contributors – suggested that music you produce under Geotic is among some of her favourite tunes to study to. From an artistic perspective, how does the experience in producing Geotic differ from say Baths or Post-Foeutus ? Does this translate to your focus on Baths (do you prefer it)?
Will: To give you a full low-down on the names; Post-Feotus doesn’t really exist anymore, it’s like Baths is what Post-Feotus was. The way I designate the two, is that Baths is active listening, and Geotic is passive listening. When I’m making a Baths track, in whatever form of function, it’s something that I would hope people are actively listening to; it’s for turning on a stereo and paying more attention to, and making an effort to take it apart – really really listen to it. Whereas Geotic stuff is intended to sort of be more atmospheric, and more a part of whatever’s happening. Not really like you have to be focused and listening, but that you can study, or read a book, or whatever it is that people do while they’re listening to music. That’s the intent behind it, because that’s the way that I listen to a lot of my favourite music, and the whole effort of the Geotic stuff was with that in mind.
LL: You’ve emphasized the importance of live performance, and have even expressed interest in forming a live band. I have not seen your perform live before, but from videos I have seen, you put on a high energy show. Any recent ideas of what’s next for performances?
Will: You make me sound I think way cooler than I am, it’s not like audience participation or anything, it’s more just that it’s… there’s a type of feedback I think with any live performance, where you read the audience, and the audience reads your reaction to them, and so if the audience is particularly negative, or you just happen to focus on one person that’s like pouting, it can deter your whole performance, so for me I try and establish very early on, that I’m comfortable, that I’m excited to be wherever I’m playing, and in turn make other people feel more comfortable, and that vibe circulates.
LL: Shlohmo spoke in a Dubspot interview at the Friends of Friends 2 year anniversary on how being “branded” as an artist can hurt the beauty of what is within the LA beatscene and what it’s really about, which he said is creativity, and openness. Are you seeing more of this connotation being developed around what people expect to hear, or are they pretty open?
Will: People are becoming more open, at least with me because I’ve spoken about wanting that. I have a very very strong desire for not being pigeon-holed, I think anybody would… it was initially quite frustrating with the “chill-wave” thing, because at the same time I was such a fan of all that shit, like I love that first Toro Y Moi record, I love the Washed Out EP, and all of that stuff, and that was undoubtedly a big influence on how I was making Curulean, but at the same time that’s not the only music I’m planning to create, and I don’t think the Baths album was in any way strictly that type of music. In life, more than anything, I’m most excited to work on this next album after this tour finishes, and go home and just start the next record because I know for a fact it’s going to be completely different than what Cerulean was. The material and the lyrics that I’ve written so far are much much darker and fucked up, and that’s the record I almost started before Curulean, but because I knew Cerulean was going to be the first thing that I put out into the world, I wanted to make it much more accessible and easier on the ears. I can’t wait to make the next thing, because it’s going to be very very different, and it will stop maybe the pigeon-holling that has happened – if it has.
LL: Flying Lotus said in an interview with Pitchfork , “Well, I feel like a lot of kids, a lot of halfway kids, come out here, kids who started making beats six months ago, thinking they can get on stage because their drums are off.” Daedelus was responsible for showing Sean of Anticon your music before Cerulean’s release on the label; do you get a lot of these “halfway kids” throwing demos at you?
Will: I mean, I am a halfway kid, I don’t know – fuck. That’s a very funny question. My situation is a little different, like I started writing music a long time ago, it was bad, but I’ve been writing full structured electronic music since I was 14, and I didn’t come into the beatscene like, “yo, fuck, I’m tryin’ to make these crazy beats right now, like let me do my shit.” It was more like, “I write songs, and let me try whatever I want to.”
Definitely there are people that give me demos, and there are people that come up to me like, “I make electronic music, you’re a big inspiration to me”, and it’s the coolest shit ever, because I’m that person all the time. Like tonight, Morgan Greenwood is playing, he’s opening the show, and he is like the number one influence in my life right now — he is the only music I am listening to right now. All of the stuff he did with this group Azeda Booth , it’s like creepy how much I love his music, and how much I am deconstructing it all of the time, so like… I am that person all the time, and I meet kids that are like that with me, and it’s like, “you don’t get it, I am this person.” It’s cool, and it’s humbling.. he [Morgan Greenwood] makes me feel humble.
LL: Recent favourite songs?
Will: Oh shit, well Morgan Greenwood is in the room, so this is a little bit weird, but I basically have been listening to Azeda Booth like all year, and the songs: Fijian Hearts, Squal, In Red, and Landscape with Grass, are pretty much my favourite songs.
LL: Thank you for your time.
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