Great, experimental beats coming from ELOS, a new name on Alpha Pup roster. DunDeals comes from the forthcoming Flying Sky Fortress EP to be released on April, 26th. Definitely an artist to be watched in the future.
Robox Neotech dropped two freebies by our filthy friend NastyNasty who is about to release the monstrous EP on this German label. Sick as always, not to be missed! I am a big fan of Jasper and I simply knew his cooperation with Robox Neotech could not fail. Music for MechaBeatNicks!
Lazers, neon synths and more lazers in a fantastic remix by Broken Haze (part of Raid System crew) hailing from Tokyo. This music is soooooo uplifting, forcing your body to break dance instantly. This tune made my day!
Grab the original and Broken Haze's remix via bandcamp
Moa Pillar - The Moon And Thunder Dance (G5 Music)
1. The Moon And Thunder Dance
2. Water Lily
3. Haema
4. Flying Low
5. Red In Rainbow
6. Lake Mystery
All music by Feodor Pereverzev
Mastered by Evgeny Schukin
Worldwide digital distribution: Alpha Pup Records
DOKTOR KRANK'S RELEASE OF THE MONTH
9 / ***10
Russian beatmakers are unstoppable. They are young, talented and bring their unique sensitivity and 'soul' to the contemporary electronic music. They don't care about fashion and hype which is quite prevalent also in non-mainstram music nowadays (see: future garage or uk funky I am really fed up with at the moment), they simply do their thing. 19-year old (sic!), Feodor Pereverzev from Moscow, a.k.a. Moa Pillar is the prime example of this new wave of fascinating artists from Russia. He has just released a fantastic The Moon and Thunder Dance EP on the new Russian imprint G5 Music (part of the respected Gimme5 community), supported worldwide by the American Alpha Pup Records.
Many of you probably heard Water Lilly - one of the biggest anthems and bangers and one of my personal top tracks of 2010. When I first heard this tune I felt as if someone had slapped me in the face and then pushed me off the cliff. But I did not crash. On the contrary, this was a great flight! The raw power of Moa Pillar's sonic assault instantly increased my interest in music made in Russia tenfold. Though other tracks do not attack the listener with equally brute and beautiful force, this EP proves that Moa Pillar like no other artist can very skilfully combine regional, ethnic soundscape with ultra modern heavy bass & mutant beatz, creating synth-driven compositions, weaving through the listener's mind like good stories told by old shamans at the fireworks in the dark woods. I feel particularly attuned to this feeling of atavistic yearning and archaic undercurrent richly distributed in Moa Pillar's music, as in enchanting Red in Rainbow or Flying Low. Such soulful moments are so sorely missing from the music I hear nowadays, that I cannot remove a big smile from my face. Female vocals in Heama with fantastic, spacey synth improvisations simply turn me on!Lake Mystery starts like a typical oriental, arabic song to suddenly twist into cut-up ethnic chants with lots of beautiful bleeps and bits in the background building up to absolutely mesmerizing trip! As in the case of many artists from Eastern Europe I heard recently I really wonder how come such youngsters are able to produce such a mature music?
For years, I've been a strong adherent of Entheogenic Reformation in oppossition to the Pharmacratic Inquisition we face daily in our fucked up reality and my mind is really satisfied listening to such a beautiful, modern yet archaic and in the end - psychedelic stuff. We all know the stories of Siberian shamans, don't we? This is the music these wizards would definitely incorporate in their ceremonies with ease :))
I am deeply sorry, for my far too-long stream of consciousness, but somehow this music has inspired me to creative (I hope) writing which unfortunately you have been now exposed to... Anyway, check this music and let yourself be attracted to the tribal world of Mr. Moa Pillar:
For the time being you can grab this EP on iTunes only, which is kinda sad, as I don't use and have no intention of using Steve Jobs' greedy tool. Fortunately, soon this release will appear in other, more user-friendly places in the interweb (Boomkat, Juno etc.).
Apart from great music content, this EP shows more amazing talents, as the artwork by Hargi Csik & Erik Kirtley is the best thing in this department I've seen in months! Simple but extremely effective and emotional, the way I like :)
You better memorize the name of G5 Music, this imprint has more amazing music from Russia in the pipeline. Moa Pillar's is just the beginning, trust my werd!
Machina Muerte label in cooperation with Alpha Pup Records released a few days ago the notoriously good bass-heavy, devilish hip hop album Illuminati Thug Mafia by Isaiah Toothtaker - a rapper, tatoo master, street fighter (among other things) from Tuscon. Straight-in-yer face rhyming, foul language, brave beat mixed to create a powerful music shot for any music junkie looking for a quality fix. The legion of collaborators on this brilliant album ensures the variety and eclectic selection, you have no chance to be bored during the rough trip with your scary toothtaking host. Illuminati Thug Mafia is one of the best and interesting albums of 'canonical' hip hop I've heard for months. My personal highlights include: Intruder, WTF You Say, Tantamout,Self Control (crazy synths!!! though Pink Floyd fans might have mixed feelings about this one ha ha), Unheard/Unseen (great beat and drums!), but the entire release is of top-notch quality. Highly recommended by Doktor Krank!
Collaborators on Illuminati Thug Mafia include: MURS, Mestizo, HUMANSUIT, Zackey Force Funk, Lucky.I.Am, CRIME KILLZ, Lush One, Cadalack Ron, Rheteric, Alex Pathetic, and SerpDot and the production side was handled by Mainframe (Johnson&Johnson), Jacob Safari (Wavves), CRIME KILLZ, Eligh (Living Legends), Kid Static, LouisahHH, Masque Anonymous, The Briefcase, and Nick Sena.
Virtual Boy (a duo comprised of Preston Walker and Henry Allen) is a new addition to Alpha Pup roster. On 1 Feb 2011 they will release their Symphony No. None EP. Grab a single from this EP - Mass for free via Soundcloud. This is absolutely amazing piece of electronic music, with great cinematic vibe, spacey melodies, awesome orchestrations, engaging all your senses and emotions. This reminds me of my favorite soundtracks to the great movies of Korean director - Chan-wook Park (e.g. Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), but enriched with this contemporary glitchy basslines made in West Coast. Can't waith to hear the entire EP! What a day for spiritual music :)
PS. I'd like to thanks Shilo from Dancefever5000 for this tip.
Today, Poland celebrates its Independence Day, which means a long weekend of four days off :)) I need this badly after really tiresome week. Atm, chilling out at my parents' house, doing nothing surfing the net. Finding some hidden treasures, like this great video of the great remix!
Low End Theory can do no wrong in the podcast department. Vol. 7 in now-becoming cult series introduces a cross-Atlantic clash of uber personalities, namely the man behind Alpha Pup Records pushing the boundaries of glitched hip hop & electronic music, an icon of West Coast movement - the mighty Gaslamp Killer who meets the Lady in Dubz, one and only Mary Anne Hobbs who needs no introduction.
Gaslamp Killer delivers a killing set of bass heavy, dubstep and glitch smashers like e.g. Joker and Ginz remix of Zero 7 , Eprom's Humanoid (my personal top-3 track this year) and many more but then merges them with some stuff (if I am not mistaken) off his EP released recently, thus creating dark dark dark mood. Scary and infectious as usual :) Mary Anne Hobbs presents pretty experimental and eclectic and urban mini-mix, very 'planet-mu' oriented, which is no surrprise as on 8th September, MAH releases her third compilation "Wild Angels" (IMHO the best one to-date) and goes on a US tour. Stay tuned for the review and all the details within the next 2-3 days.
