P030: Cabeza de Vaca – Ambient

A beatless program this week as we play all ambient on Cabeza de Vaca show and Scanner FM. The show is split into two halves. The first half focused more on experimental and left-field music is also divided into two halves.

 

The first two tracks are from Spanish artists and labels. First up is Mikel Lauki from Pais Vasco (the Basque Country) who is apparently resident in Barcelona. This is his second release after “69º54´S​-​135º12´E” which came out on the Audio Gourmet netlabel in 2011 and available for free on Bandcamp.

 

 

 

His latest release comes on the prolific and highly interesting Audiotalaia label which is also based in Barcelona. All or most of their releases are also available for free by following links from the Audiotalaia website . There is plenty there if you have a look around, including some compilations.

 

Also for free is the recent release from Lovethechaos, another Barcelona-based label. This release, recently made available on cassette, has an interesting history and I quote from the label’s website

 

“Engendrons emerges as a result Of an experiment by Lovethechaos Records, in an attempt to bring together different artists under one same project.

 

In a secretive exercise, five artists were invited to create a 15min long sound piece.none of them knew who participated in this project nor the aim of it. The only premise was to create an unrhythmical piece to lay them over afterwards and create a unique composition unknown to the artists until it’s release.”

 

As for who the artists might be, one could be D.forma who we played on the recent Spanish music show, although there are plenty more there as well.

 

One artist and release that I did not play on the show this was by Alex Gámez aka Asférico and Störung organiser which you can also download for free:
 

 

 

The second quarter of the show features tracks from two albums recently released on Aguirre, the Belgian experimental and ambient label. We feature a segment of Quiet Evenings (Grant and Rachel Evans; Motion Sickness of Time Travel) and a whole track by JD Emmanuel who has been releasing music for over 30 years.
 

 

 

One of his most surprising releases is perhaps a track that came out on Innervisions a few years ago:

 

 

The second half of the show is taken up by some techno and house artists, mostly B sides, but the Anthony Child (Surgeon) release is obviously more stand-alone. In particular, the Udacha label track by Bipolardepth has some beautiful qualities and we will be focussing an entire show on them in the next few weeks. As for Anthony Child, I always wanted to start a set with “Not-two” the ambient sound design track from the end of “Breaking the Frame”

 

Number	Artist	Track	Label	Year
1	Lauki	Atlas	Audiotalaia	2013
2	Engendrons	Side-A	Lovethechaos	2013
3	JD Emmanuel	Illusions	Aguirre	2013
4	Quiet Evenings	Telepathic Heart	Aguirre	2013
5	Anthony Child (Surgeon)	The Space Between People and Things (Part 1)	NNA Tapes	2013
6	Len Faki	BTX3	Ostgut ton	2013
7	Planetary Assault Systems (Luke Slater)	Beauty In The Fear (The Black Dog's Destroyed On Purpose Mix Pt. 1)	Ostgut ton	2012
8	Bipolardepth	Posevy	Udacha	2012
9	Space Dimension Controller	Music For Spaceports	R & S Records	2013

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P029: Cabeza de Vaca – Omar S.

Detroit legend Alez “Omar” Smith or Omar S gets a going over this week on Cabeza de Vaca show and Scanner FM. In particular, we highlight his fourth album “Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself”, released in March this year. The title is a decent follow up to 2011s “It can be done, but only I can do it”, suggesting a bit of ego behind the man. However, Omar S does say in a recent interview for Juno

 

“I name it that because all my fans kept telling me to be yourself, keep doing what you do. Thanks Homie’s and Tender Roni’s. This is why I did this Album, for my fans.”

 

The real gift to the fans is the music, however, which once again stands tall, athough perhaps not quite as exciting as “It can be done…”. There is a little bit more restraint this time around, the only exceptions being the slightly misogynistic samples from “the street” between a couple of the tracks and the second track (really the first after a small intro) which features the contribution of Luke Hess as well.

 

 

Luke Hess of course recently released a new album on FXHE, which is the label run by Omar S and who also helps out with some remixes.

 

Perhaps the only thing left to do is work a bit more on the cover art! But full respects with such a sustained level of quality over the years.

Number	Artist	Track	Label	Year
1	Benjamin Brunn	A sun life	Third Ear Recordings	2012
2	Paranoid London	Paris Dub 1 (feat. Paris Brightledge)	Paranoid London Records	2012
3	Diva	But I've Never	New Kanada	2012
4	Omar S & Aaron 'Fit' Siegel	Tonite (feat. L'Renee)	FXHE	2012
5	Omar S	The Shit Baby (CP-1 Played By D.Taylor)	FXHE	2013
6	Omar S	Hellter Shelter	FXHE	2013
7	Omar S	Triangulum Australe	FXHE	2012
8	U	Haunted	ManMakeMusic	2012
9	Gerry Read	Evidence	Fourth Wave	2012

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P028: Cabeza de Vaca – Keysound Recordings.

Only our second dubstep-orientated show on Cabeza de Vaca show and Scanner FM. The focus is today on London’s Keysound Recordings label run by Dusk and Blackdown.

 

At one stage the label seemed secondary to the other activities of the duo, but in the last few years has gone on to become more active and play an important role in fostering many local artists, several of whom feature on today’s show as well as the label bosses themselves. The later released their second album “Dasaflex” at the end of 2012, whereas a lot of the recent attention turns to the label compilation “This is how we roll”.

 

Anyone needing more might want to turn their attention to the Mix Mag showcase mix on Soundcloud.

 

The label has also posted a new video for Mumdance & Logos “In Reverse” from the compilation.

 

 

 

Number	Artist	Track	Label	Year
1	Indigo	Sunrise	Apollo	2012
2	Kryptic Minds	The Divide	Osiris Music UK	2012
3	Kahn	Fierce	Bandulu Records	2012
4	Wen	Spark it	Keysound Recordings	2013
5	Beneath	Prangin	Keysound Recordings	2012
6	Samrai	Hear me now	Keysound Recordings	2013
7	Dusk and Blackdown	Dasaflex	Keysound Recordings	2012
8	Inga Copeland	So far so clean	World Music	2013
9	Dark Sky	Double U	Tectonic	2013
10	Special Request	Lolita (warehouse dub)	Special Request	2012

 

 

 

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