Bleep Update 28th February

 
Here we have another select roundup of the best releases to feature on the Bleep frontpage over recent weeks. All of these releases come in standard drm-free MP3, are iPod/Mac/PC compatible and have been encoded at the maximum quality of 320kbps. Clicking on a release will take you to Bleep where you can listen to it in its entirety.
 
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Ghislain Poirier - No Ground Under (Ninja Tune)
First album for Ninja Tune from Toronto's Ghislain Poirer and he has delivered in spades, No Ground Under takes the pulse and rhythms of dancehall and twists them up into a seething electronic mass, much in the same rich vein as The Bug and Modeselektor. Without a doubt one of the best and most original releases on Ninja Tune for some time.

AGF - Words Are Missing (AGF Produktion)
Probably the selections most Wire reader friendly release, Words Are Missing is the latest album from poet, producer, label owner and artist Antye Greie and is a sonic collage of fractured beats, densely intricate sounds, industrial percussion and mutilated, chopped up wordless vocal phrases. An engaging and satisfyingly challenging body of work.

Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
The long awaited debut solo project from Deerhunter Bradford Cox see's the band's frontman take time off from blogging about his bowel movements to deliver an album of noisy beauty that takes its cues from the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground.

The Doubtful Guest - Acid Sauna (Planet Mu)
Brilliant debut album from classically trained Libby Floyd, one of the current crop of female electronica producers putting shame in the game of their male peers. Fans of the harder end of the electronica specturm should take note as Acid Sauna smashes its way through gabba, acid and Mentasm style hardcore techno with delirious effect, one of the most exciting new producers out there, opera's loss is our gain

Carl Craig - Sessions (K7)
K7 present Sessions, a personal selection from Carl Craig featuring tracks spanning his whole career. Early classics such as Throw, Rushed and Bug in The Bassbin nestle together with some of his more recent remixes for the likes of the Junior Boys, Rhythm And Sound and Theo Parrish.

Starting Teeth - I Won't Do Anything I Can Do (Creaked)
Starting Teeth is a new collaborative project from Nathan Jonson and Childe Grangier aka Hrdvsion (Wagon Repair) and Hopen (Plak). Their debut release for Swiss label Creaked showcases their unique and futuristic vision of electronic music with its very special mixture of free-electronica, funnymental techno and breaks 'n cuts.

Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart (Chemikal Underground)
Ex-Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat drops his Lucky Pierre solo guise and goes naked, so to speak on this unsettling album of lurid, sexually obsessed tales set to a crackly, cinematic soundtrack. Worth the price of admission just for the unlikely cover of Springsteen's Hungry Heart hiding away near the end of the album

Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks)
From the label that brought us last years excellent Panda Bear album comes this 8 track collection of ever so slightly ramshackle, experimental folk pop from all girl trio Rings. Sonically adventurous, Black Habit has an innocent, almost naive exterior but hides within it a dark heart and sounds much like a slightly twisted score to a psychedelic production of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales.

Funk D'Void - SciFiHiFi 4 (Soma)
The fourth instalment of Soma's Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi series sees Scottish born Barcelona resident Funk D'Void take charge and it's fair to say the series is in good hands. Over the course of an hour Mr D'Void skillfully mixes up some prime techno and electro nuggets seemlessly blending the likes of Vector Lovers, Dirt Crew, Lusine and Blakkat, top stuff.

Glass Candy - Beatbox (Italians Do It Better)
Originally only available on the last Glass Candy tour, Beat Box still managed to gatecrash many end of year charts last year and is now finally available in digital format. An outstanding collection of synthesized disco that takes elements of post punk, new wave, electro and above all italo disco and reformats it for todays dancefloors.

Chessie - Manifest (Plug Research)
Hardly the most prolific of artists out there, it's a good seven years now since Chessie's last album Overnight was released on Plug Research. Still good things come to those that wait and after this epic delay he's back with his newest album Manifest, a cinematic clash of post rock guitars and grainy soundscapes that tugs at the heartstrings and lingers long in the memory after the last chord has faded into the ether.

Nemeth - Film (Thrill Jockey)
A compilation of tracks by Stefan Nemeth (of both Radian & Lokai) that were originally produced for experimental films and shorts over the course of several years. The tracks are as you'd expect - very cinematic, plaintive solo piano rubs up against dreamlike drones and tones whilst radio interference bleeds through create an unsettling if evocative soundscape.

School Of Language - Sea From Shore (Memphis Industries)
Solo effort from David Brewis, one third of Field Music, that takes the kind of sunny pop his band specialises in, samples it, chops it up and reconstructs it into wonderful new shapes. Like Cornelius jamming with ELO, this is a wonderful, psychedelic and above all fun pop album.

Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)
St. Albans' finest Chris Clark is back with his most ferocious album to date. Eschewing his more refined, ethereal moments, Turning Dragon is a full on maxi-rave-blast, that has been honed to perfection over the course of the past twelve months' heavy touring schedule. From the cut up samples of Truncation Horn to Ache Of The North's almost Quoth-like thump this is some of Clark's best and most dancefloor friendly work to date and pretty much guaranteed to cause maximum devastation when pumped through any half decent soundsystem.

Pomassl - Spare Parts (Raster-Noton)
Vienna based Franz Pomassl has been delivering these sonic signals from the electronic wilderness for over a decade now and has made a name for himself with his dystopian soundscapes of digitally reconstructed sounds. Don't go looking within this album for anything as commonplace as a melody or even a recognisible noise, instead marvel at the intricate sound engineering on display, definitely one to listen intently to whilst kicking back in your clinically white, futuristic habitation pod.

Triple R - Selection 6 (Trapez)
A handy snapshot of the minimal scene from one of the most consistent labels around, Trapez. Mixed together by Riley Reinhold, Selection 6 clicks and throbs along nicely in a style that should be mightily familiar if you've ever spent any length of time in one of Berlin's legendary techno clubs.

Dabrye - Get Dirty EP (Ghostly)
Dabrye returns with a brand new track featuring AG plus a couple of tasty re-interpretations of material from his critically acclaimed Two/Three album. Hyperdub boss Kode 9 remixes Air whilst new Warp signing Flying Lotus brings some of his trademark wobble and crackle to Game Over.

Beckett & Taylor - World Of Me (Hand On The Plow)
Exceptionally wonky four track EP of machine funk from Beckett & Taylor. Title track World On Me comes across as the bastard son of Jamie Lidell and Secondo, whilst Me Too sounds like a Chicago house soundtrack to a mid eighties arcade machine. Finishing off the package Cristian Vogel turns in a brace of remixes that thump and growl in all the right places.

Rone - Bora (Infine)
Rone's Bora is one of those tracks that as soon as you hear it will have you desperate to hear it in the dark confines of a club, hymnal chords slowly build, as one by one he introduces new elements into the mix, till the track breaks into jerkily hypnotic beats and acid squiggles, great club music that gets into your head as much as your feet.

B12 - 32 Lineup EP (B12)
B12 kick off the year with three great tracks of retro-themed acid-tinged techno on their own label that stand up strong next to the classics from their back catalogue.

Emperor Machine - Slap On (DC)
Another excellent two tracker from analogue fetishists The Emperor Machine. You should know what to expect by now, sweeping synthesizer arpegios, lazer beam melodies that echo off into space and a thumping disco-not-disco beat, perfect for late night shuffle at a disco on the edge of the milky way (or Shoreditch, whichever's easier).