Teased by minor-key arpeggios, murky voiceovers, and the occasional flash of acid squelch and dub delay, you keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never does. After an hour, he has barely broken the 100-BPM mark, and the further he presses on through pensive, echo-soaked new wave disco and cosmic house, the heavier the anticipation looms. Beginning with languid, shuffling breakbeats and steadily, stealthily dialing up the pace, the beats march slowly and deliberately forward. In the case of John Talabot’s latest for Beats in Space, perhaps it’s the slow tempo that reveals its keen sense of focus. Sometimes it has to do with meeting the dancefloor’s demands other times, that motivation is more cryptic, if every bit as palpable. Some DJ sets feel supercharged with purpose. John Talabot – Beats in Space 07.17.18 Part 1 It’s a phenomenal set, and a fateful one: She recorded it one night last summer, opening for Shanti Celeste-a gig that paved the way for her debut EP, Electrical Encounters, to appear on Celeste’s Peach Discs label in the fall. It’s a set made for dancing, but the way she applies the occasional rich streak of color leaves bittersweet moods lingering just beyond the disco ball’s dappled radius. Keeping the tempo quick, she favors oodles of keyboards, brittle 909 snares, and just the right amount of garage-y pump and swing. It’s a chill opening, and a perfect setup for the pure fire of Toronto’s Ciel, who lays down an hour of ’90s house with a jubilant spirit. The first hour comes from Manmade Deejay, of Copenhagen’s Regelbau collective, and it makes for a good snapshot of their laid-back ways, flitting effortlessly between ambient drift, downbeat breaks, leftfield curveballs (like the hammered strings of Japanese composer Yas-Kaz’ 1984 album Jomon-Sho), and obscure recent finds (like the queasy VHS flashbacks of Vancouver, BC’s Hidden Valley Logging Company). This nicely complementary double-header aired on “ Glue,” a show on Utrecht’s Stranded FM that aims to bring disparate DJs together. Manmade Deejay & Ciel – Glue / Stranded FM It’s a real journey, an experience of pure transport, and one of the most engrossing mixes I’ve heard in ages. You could call it “ambient,” but it’s not so much that it colors your surroundings as that it replaces them entirely, throwing up a succession of illusory environments manifested in sound. The beatmatched parts create seamless blends of sounds and styles you’d never expect to fit together, while weird electromagnetic squiggles make it feel like your headphones are catching signals out of thin air. It takes in dub reggae and lo-fi hip-hop, Sublime Frequencies-style ethnomusicological excursions and Two Lone Swordsmen’s pulsing downbeat, scraped cello and spindly jazz-funk. I still haven’t figured out exactly what kind of creature it is.
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I’ve been listening to this set from Berlin’s Kohwi a lot lately-on transatlantic flights and sunrise runs, as background music for reading novels, on low volume while dropping off to sleep. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.