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Three young musicians have recently joined together for this exciting acoustic techno project. On the one hand Daniel Brandt and Jan Brauer, who as a duo named „Scott“ produce club music with a jazz attitude.

On the other hand Paul Frick, who has studied composition with Friedrich Goldmann at Berlin University of Arts (UdK). Besides pieces for orchestral instruments he also releases house music.

With prepared piano, vibraphone, drums, various percussions, brass and string instruments, rhodes, bass guitar and analogue synthesizers the trio creates textures that may bring to mind Steve Reich as well as the oldschool loop techno. Experiment meets deepness, complexity meets minimalism. The generation of the sound is mostly acoustic – even the bassdrum. Only few electronic instruments complete the sound.

Brandt Brauer Frick succeed in a thrilling synthesis of club and concert hall. On both platforms they will present themselves, getting percussive and energetic sounds out of apparently harmless classical instruments.

http://www.brandtbrauerfrick.de/

Video directed by Daniel Brandt & Julian Schleef

Funky Homework

Homework - Hudson Square (Exploited) from exploited records on Vimeo.

Following their head turning "Fissa Tune EP" on Exploited and another storming EP ("Trumpet Express") on Made to Play, here is the new release by Homework: "Hudson Square EP": 4 infectiously catchy tracks! Homework's debut "Fissa Tune" has been getting plays from a who is who in dancemusic. With a full schedule of international gigs (including Berlin's Panoramabar), top remixes in the pipeline (Round Table Knights ect.) and an upcoming guestrelease on Snatch! (Riva Starr's label), Homework provide a unique and diverse sound and guarantee serious business.
Homework (comprised of Zip & Tom) succeed in something many other people haven’t lately: making dance music that’s equally satisfying for your feet and brain.

Homework's new EP "HUDSON SQUARE" on EXPLOITED is pure revisionist nostalgia. The "HUDSON SQUARE"-EP goes beyond what they had laid out with their previous productions, exploring the soulful&discofied sides of house music and proving once again that Homework will never cling too long to one style or genre. Homework remain commited to pushing all genres of dance music forward and that's why they fit perfect on EXPLOITED. Homework are there to set musical trends, rather than to follow them. Or to put it in Dr. Cornel West's words: "You have to be able to cut against the grain, get the distance from your peer group."

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Do You Believe?

The australian label Future Classic comes up with an other strong release. The hot summer tune "Do You Believe?" is the debut from LA production duo Poolside.

Big piano keys, whispered vocals, a light drizzling of 303 acid served at 105 bpm over a thick summer disco groove, with remixes by Jacques Renault feat. Tiffany Roth from Midnight Magic, James Curd and Cosmic Kids.

There's buzz on this tune! It was debuted by Aeroplane in their January 2011 mix for BBC Radio 1 and amassed over 10,000 YouTube plays for the video clip in just a week!
An end of summer hit for the Southern Hemisphere, while a welcome sign of Spring for the Northern Hemisphere.

Vinyl - Out 21 March 2011

Beatport

The Phenomenal Handclap Band "15 to 20"

from one of the best albums of 2009...

...and some memories of an amazing adriatic boatparty...clap your hands.. you guys rock!!

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James Blake - Limit To Your Love

James Blake - Limit To Your Love from James Blake on Vimeo.

cool cover of feist - limit to your love

The Invisible - London Girl

nothing new... but defnetly needs to show up in this blog once! so here we go...




Though they're being touted as the British TV On the Radio-- along with the, per usual, ad nauseam Radiohead comparisons-- the immediate contemporary touchstones for the Invisible's debut single "London Girl", a track of disco lineage and techy undercurrents, are more akin to groups like LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip. The TVOTR comparisons are readily apparent: lead singer Dave Okumu's swooning vocals' often uncanny similarity to that of Tunde Adebimpe, indie-prog atmospherics, and genre-blurring experimentation.