Friday, 18 November 2011
Frontier Sounds, Friday Selection
Personally the track conjures up the image of the Worm and Hog staff party, with that sad sight of a disco light on an empty dance floor and our young protagonist, beyond drunk, eyes closed, limbs lightly swaying, experiencing a rare moment of euphoria in his otherwise miserable existence.
Pickster presents The Rise Of Moombahton Compilation by El Cuco Recordings
This album, The Rise Of Moombahton, is available as a free download here, so get your copy and get down with the Moombahton kids.
. Summer Camp - Better Off Without You by dudutorres
Homework this week is Summer Camp`s, Welcome to Condale, cannot recomend this album enough, buy it and have a fantastic weekened.
Tune in to radiofrontier.ch 10.20am (11.20 Swiss) today
Once again a CloudToy representative will be on air at 10.20 am (11.20 Swiss) to play and discuss some tracks, so log on on to http://www.radiofrontier.ch/ and tune in.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
K.K. For Funk's Sake
K.K.- For funk's sake by K.K.
I'm not really a fan of house but I love the intro on this track, It sounds like the fog horn on the titanic if they were to replicate it as a space craft. Picture the scene, the largest space craft ever constructed, groaning as it leaves it's mooring on mars and drifts out into the dark abyss of space, with a robotic, irish Leo and a voluptuous Kate, running around the ship dressed in period costume, in the throngs of some artificial conception of love (or is it robo lust!?). Either way their electronic antics, like mobiles on planes, interferes with the navigation systems of the ship and, whilst everyone is distracted getting down at 'the real party,' in the basement, it plows into an asteroid. Robo captain, bearded and looking suspiciously like Captain Birdseye, is starting to regret his decision to go at warp speed in trying to reach Saturn before christams.
As the artificial gravity systems on the ship begin to fail, no robot really cares much (the human's who built and sent them on their way haven't put any emergency pods on the ship, they are only peasant robots after all!) so everyone is going to be destroyed anyway and besides, their robots, they weren't programmed with a sense of self. This track is a celebration of this historic occasion, with less of the soppy love stuff and more of the beautiful, electronic destruction.
I'm not really a fan of house but I love the intro on this track, It sounds like the fog horn on the titanic if they were to replicate it as a space craft. Picture the scene, the largest space craft ever constructed, groaning as it leaves it's mooring on mars and drifts out into the dark abyss of space, with a robotic, irish Leo and a voluptuous Kate, running around the ship dressed in period costume, in the throngs of some artificial conception of love (or is it robo lust!?). Either way their electronic antics, like mobiles on planes, interferes with the navigation systems of the ship and, whilst everyone is distracted getting down at 'the real party,' in the basement, it plows into an asteroid. Robo captain, bearded and looking suspiciously like Captain Birdseye, is starting to regret his decision to go at warp speed in trying to reach Saturn before christams.
As the artificial gravity systems on the ship begin to fail, no robot really cares much (the human's who built and sent them on their way haven't put any emergency pods on the ship, they are only peasant robots after all!) so everyone is going to be destroyed anyway and besides, their robots, they weren't programmed with a sense of self. This track is a celebration of this historic occasion, with less of the soppy love stuff and more of the beautiful, electronic destruction.
Playerz, The Flavours EP vol 2
Playerz set to release second cross genre drum and bass EP, details here.
http://www.kmag.co.uk/the-flavours-ep-volume-2.html
http://www.kmag.co.uk/the-flavours-ep-volume-2.html
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Daily Frontier Selections
The Beach by ageofconsent
Pictureplane - TranceGender (Adeptus Remix) by Adeptus
The Lion's Roar by First Aid Kit
Bowie-esq, Ashes to Ashes sounding first single from Age of Consent
ASAP Rocky - Bass by beatsbaby
Free mix tape available from www.asaprocky.net/mixtapes.
Pictureplane - TranceGender (Adeptus Remix) by Adeptus
Free download available from the relevant section of mixmag.net
African influenced electro from Africa Hitech
The Lion's Roar by First Aid Kit
Managing to sound both American country and English folk simultaneously which is surprising considering they hail from Sweden this is a Beautiful track from First Aid Kit.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
CloudToy on radio
A CloudToy blog representative will be speaking on Radio Frontier tomorrow with some CloudBoy approved new music, so log onto www.radiofrontier.ch tomorrow at 9.20 am (10.20 Swiss time) to listen in. Like them on Facebook, they are friends of the blog and a great new start up radio station.
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Kytami
Safehouse Anthem ft.OSC by kytami
Stay Remix by kytami
Two very different tempos from one very promising prospect, this is Kytami, who proves just how effective the use of strings are in electronic music, especially drum and bass. As S.P.Y. showed us recently with the incredible By Your Side, the use of orchestral sampling creates impressive dance music. This is for the simplest reason; it takes all the depth and layers inherent in the orchestral sound and brings it to the dance floor. In the case of By Your Side, it is, on a very basic level, a break-beat with sub bass, over an epic orchestral sample.
Although Kytami does not use a full orchestra but a sole violin, I feel the same effect is still relevant. We are used to the sound of a violin in the context of an orchestra or classical piece. A strange things happens therefore when we hear the violin, this association causes the stereotypically normal electronic elements to take on a grander role, as they come to represent the epic-ness of a full blown orchestra in a form now contemporary and designed for the club.
With the slightest amount of manipulation that violin creates sounds more interesting than any that can be synthesised electronically. The high pitch cuts through you in the most beautiful way, juxtaposed with, but complemented by, that soothing low bass line; it's like your brain is being sliced open with a sword made of codeine.
Forgive the hyperbole and abnormally gushing review but this evidentially excites me, and for no more reason than the live element. Club nights often get stagnant when formulated as a series of DJ sets, I find it a lot more interesting when the nights are varied and try to incorporate some form of live element. What could be more exciting than seeing Kytami mid way through the night, going for it like a member of eScala gone off the rails, telling Simon Cowell and Britain Got Talent in a musical fashion, where they can shove it.
Two very different tempos from one very promising prospect, this is Kytami, who proves just how effective the use of strings are in electronic music, especially drum and bass. As S.P.Y. showed us recently with the incredible By Your Side, the use of orchestral sampling creates impressive dance music. This is for the simplest reason; it takes all the depth and layers inherent in the orchestral sound and brings it to the dance floor. In the case of By Your Side, it is, on a very basic level, a break-beat with sub bass, over an epic orchestral sample.
Although Kytami does not use a full orchestra but a sole violin, I feel the same effect is still relevant. We are used to the sound of a violin in the context of an orchestra or classical piece. A strange things happens therefore when we hear the violin, this association causes the stereotypically normal electronic elements to take on a grander role, as they come to represent the epic-ness of a full blown orchestra in a form now contemporary and designed for the club.
With the slightest amount of manipulation that violin creates sounds more interesting than any that can be synthesised electronically. The high pitch cuts through you in the most beautiful way, juxtaposed with, but complemented by, that soothing low bass line; it's like your brain is being sliced open with a sword made of codeine.
Forgive the hyperbole and abnormally gushing review but this evidentially excites me, and for no more reason than the live element. Club nights often get stagnant when formulated as a series of DJ sets, I find it a lot more interesting when the nights are varied and try to incorporate some form of live element. What could be more exciting than seeing Kytami mid way through the night, going for it like a member of eScala gone off the rails, telling Simon Cowell and Britain Got Talent in a musical fashion, where they can shove it.
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