Blue it up on South Beach

I would like to thank my buddy Francisco (Arjuna / Franz Martins) and the cool crowd at Blue for the hospitality and great music.

Francisco and I opened the night with a two-hour minimal blast. Let me put it this way: I had so much fun that I completely forgot to take pictures! Francisco filmed some of the mix, and I have to get my hands on it ASAP to post here.

DJ Set: Filitico: Digitigrade 2 - House of Tech

PLAY MIX ON PODOMATIC

Energetic Techy Groovy. Lovely

Mixen by FiliTico - For Your Ears Only

Tracklist
1. Steve Lawler - Courses For Horses (Original Mix) [Renaissance]
2. Gel Abril - Very Wrong (Chaim Remix) [Be As One Imprint]
3. Phage, Daniel Dreier - Unseen [Highgrade]
4. Gavin Herlihy - Opium Haze [Kindisch]
5. Solead - Giddy Down (Jamie Stevens Remix) [Vapour]
6. Scella - Santiago de Chile [Strike Recordings]
7. Bitmut - smokeflat [Regular]
8. Daso - Idee [Spectral Sound]
9. Junior Boys - No Kinda Man (Jona Remix) [Get Physical Music]
10. Amir - handless (original_mix) [Suchtreflex]
11. Donnacha Costello - Pistacio A [Minimise]
12. Autotune - Dirty Phage (Daniel Dreier Remix) [Fumakilla]
13. Audio Soul Project - Taking Shape Version 2 [Systematic]
14. Jona - dehydrate [Toys for Boys]

DJ Set: Tolga Fidan @ Vakant

http://vakant.net/va/mp3/sets/tolgafidan_live_022008.mp3

The guys at Vakant are sharing a new exclusive set from Tolga Fidan, whose All Pressure is Relief review I posted recently. Enjoy!

Review: Tolga Fidan: All Pressure is Relief EP

Label: Vakant (Official) (Myspace)
Artist: Tolga Fidan (Discogs) (Myspace) (Last. FM)

A-Side All Pleasure Is Relief (Sample)
B-Side For Our Fathers (Sample)

If genres were cubicles, Tolga Fidan would knock them down turning the place into a sleek spacey lounge with matching exotic seating on his third EP at one of Berlin’s flagship minimal record labels, Vakant.

A-side constructs a pleasure inducing collage of percussion. Snippets of female voices move the track forward as its individual bits mesh together in anticipation of a lush Spanish-like melody. Laid back yet groovy, like a cool Sunday sunrise on a balcony overlooking a foreign land, the piece leisurely picks up the pace aggregating layers of sunrays, voices, strings, and eventually a chunkier nonetheless graceful groove.

B-side uses the previous side’s worldly essence and takes it much further along, harder and deeper. Perhaps like a mid-morning day hike in that favorite exotic getaway of yours, somewhere out there... (post pics in the comments area if you know what I’m talking about). TF takes along a harmonica for the journey to help cope with the tribal drumming on his way up the hill. The strings are more prominent here and the mournful siren wails towards the end tops the track off in an ever-rising exotic tribal trail.

Tolga Fidan cares little for musical boundaries, and for that he deserves much respect. His work somehow manages to show us 'worldly ethnic music' through the techy-minimal looking glass in ways that both sides would and should appreciate. His style perfectly fits the Vakant motto of standing for the spaces left between the beats.

UFO PARIS / THE BETWEEN BLUES / DOP

Paris based combo dOP released this video a couple months ago. I like the cryptic existential lyrics, the sort of pseudo minimal breaks, and the dark apocalyptic non-office safe imagery. This is definitely super jagon sucking material. Weird.

UFO PARIS / THE BETWEEN BLUES / DOP

The First Day of the Rest of My Life

Miniloge blazes a path of audio/visual ecstacy, again. These guys sure know how to pick the right artists for their work.

Myspace Electronic Music Record Labels

Here is a Myspace link list of some of my favorite record labels. I will update... Enjoy!

Alphabet City
Candyflip Records
Cocoon
Connaisseur
Daredo
Fear of Flying
Flow Records
Get Physical Music
Great Stuff
Herzblut
Iboga
Kompakt
liebe*detail
Lost Language
Manual Music
M_nus
Mobilee
Moon Harbour
Naked Lunch
Ostgut Tonträger
Proton Music
Rekids
Spectral Sound
System
Tribal Vision
Turbo
Twisted
Vakant
Wagon Repair

Pier Bucci - l'nuit

Spacey Floaty Effortless: Pier Bucci.

Mind Over Matter: Richie Hawtin - We (All) Search

As a fan of technopathy, I can't help but wonder: Would I ever get bored of my superpowers?

I digress. Here I present to you Trippy Ritchie Hawtin, the video: We (All) Search

Claustro

I caught this video made by daveonzo. I was getting a little dizzy with the crazy camera angles! Nicely done.

FiliTico Owl Radio mix 041807 -el otro soy yo- minimal & progressive

Another day, another sonic landscape. Minimal yet Progressive. Electro yet Organic.

The truth Lies
Between the Lines

Tracklist: (format: track # - artist - song [record label]

01. Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix) [Get Physical Music]
02. Alex Smoke - No Consequence [Soma Quality]
03. Alex Smoke - Chica Wappa (Mejor Edit) [Soma Quality]
04. Duca - Bubble Gum [Blue Tunes]
05. Wink - Have To Get Back (Non Vox Version) [M nus]
06. Nuel - Calavera No Chilla [Regular]
07. Popnebo - Of Course She Does [Traum Schallplatten]
08. Schatz And Wickinger - Aufziehvogel [Elektro.Komfort]
09. Quixote - Pelters [Vakant]
10. Turmspringer - Nim [Tonkind]
11. Billy Dalessandro - Don't Sleep (Slutbox Remix) [Sitehoder]
12. Christian Quast - You Are (Alessandro Crimi Remix) [Broque]
13. Daso - Sam N' Max [Connaisseur]
14. Paradroid - Technology Dream Was Squashed [Force Inc. Music Works]
15. Alex Smoke - Never Want To See You Again (Floor Mix) [Soma Quality]

Filitico Owl Radio mix --el otro soy yo-- feb 20 banging house

I came across a couple 'new & old' tracks here. Sweaty kicking bass was my inspiration.

Tracklist:
(format: track # - artist - song [record label]

01. Nick Holder - erotic illusions (Triple T OV Mix By Steve Bug & Martin Landsky) [Poker Flat] {LISTEN} {BUY}
02. Gabriel Ananda - doppelwhipper [Platzhirsch Schallplatten] {LISTEN} {BUY}
03. Huntemann & Winter - in your car (featuring xenia beliayeva) [Confused Recordings] {LISTEN} {BUY}
04. Röyksopp - what else is there (Trentemoller remix) [Astralwerks] {LISTEN} {BUY}
05. Chris Micali - ditf [unreleased] {LISTEN & DOWNLOAD}
06. Missy Elliott - We Run This (X-Press 2's Rave 'N' Bleep Dub) [Atlantic] {LISTEN} {BUY}
07. Scsi-9 - just married [Force Tracks] {LISTEN} {BUY}
08. Peace Division - Blacklight Sleaze [NRK Sound Division] {LISTEN} {BUY}
09. Mateo and Gantelmi meets Miss Anacoe - danseur [My Best Friend] {LISTEN} {BUY}
10. Vinny Troia - Expression (Abe Duque Remix) [Curvve] {LISTEN} {BUY}
11. Scsi 9 - Out of friend [Force Tracks] {LISTEN} {BUY}
12. Moonbeam - vodka & sand [Regular] {LISTEN} {BUY}
13. Maetrik - aggravate me [Stil Vor Talent] {LISTEN} {BUY}
14. Argy - night ritual [Pokerflat] {LISTEN} {BUY}
15. Moonbeam - hunt main [Regular] {LISTEN} {BUY}
16. Bruno Pronsato and Franco Cinelli - hide your wives [Milnor Modern] {LISTEN} {BUY}
17. Billy Dalessandro - come with me [Resopal RED] {LISTEN} {BUY}
18. Dapayk and Padberg - newmini da dap [Mo's Ferry Prod] {LISTEN} {BUY}
19. [a]pendics Shuffle - lonely payback [Adjunct] {LISTEN} {BUY}
20. Mathias Kaden - maybe [Vakant] {LISTEN} {BUY}
21. Minilogue - ahck [Wir] {LISTEN} {BUY}

Electronic Exercise

Burn calories with some good music!

Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden Remix)

http://www.psihoops.com/

"psihoop w/minimal techno"

FiliTico Owl Radio mix -el otro soy yo- minimal & electro

I welcome 2007 with this mix at FAU's own Owl Radio. I took it nice and easy and grooved to a combination of minimal house and electro.

Tracklist:
(format: track # - artist - song [record label]


01 Dapayk and Midnight - Emergency [Fenou] {LISTEN}
02 Ezekiel Honig - More Human Than Human (soultek's got too much soul mix) [Microcosm Music] {LISTEN} {BUY}
03 Gui Boratto - Arquipelago [K2] {LISTEN} {BUY}
04 Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Liaison [No Response] {DOWNLOAD}
05 Pan-Pot - P.O. Box-mpx [Mobilee] {LISTEN} {BUY}
06 Frank Martiniq - Knicker Bockers [Boxer] {LISTEN&BUY}
07 John Tejada - Unit b1656 [Plug Research] {LISTEN} {BUY}
08 Gui Boratto - Symmetria [K2] {LISTEN} {BUY}
09 Eyerer and Chopstick - Get Alive [Great Stuff] {LISTEN} {BUY}
10 Herbert - The Soft Pink Truth - Promo funk [Soundslike] {LISTEN} {BUY}
11 Paradroid - Faked Moon landingL(fym remix) [Force INC] {LISTEN} {BUY}
12 Daisy Daisy - Michelle Plays Ping Pong (vicarious bliss match point mix) [Sunday Best Recordings] {LISTEN} {BUY}
13 Bruno Pronsato - Means Love (psb mix) [Orac] {LISTEN} {BUY}
14 Cirez D - Knockout Sebastian Leger Remix [Mouseville] {LISTEN} {BUY}