Friday Goodies

Lots of nice stuff for everybody this Friday: some words on Chymera’s upcoming releases, info about Convextion appearing on the radio this evening, and a nice disco/house/electro/techno mix by gmos….

First off, I recently received some tunes from another Irish producer who is just banging things out right now: Chymera. I remember virtually running into Brendan for the first time around 2003 or so, when he was on a 313 related email list. Now, he’s dropping ridiculous melodic techno jams on labels like NRK which put out his most recent 12″ “Wish”, which sounds like a housier version of the clean uplifting techno that Underground Resistance is known for. Perhaps even better than that release though is the jam “Shadowdancer” which will be dropping on vinyl in a couple weeks on the Ork label out of Ireland. This tune reminds me of Omar-S’ “Just Ask The Lonely” but with a more overt melody, it just rolls along building bit by bit to a rather extatic conclusion. I recommend you check it out on his myspace page, I’m going to be hammering this one for a long minute! On the flipside, “Planetarium” has a feeling not unlike the early Mathew Jonson records on IIWII, nice reverbed synths, really nice fall afternoon music. Also coming up is Chymera’s debut 12″ on Delsin, a long-time favorite label of many of the ISM techno-nerds. “Hundulu” is the track, and while Soul Designer (aka Fabrice Lig) drops a nice remix on the b-side, it’s all about the original for me. It’s a tougher tune than his other recent jams, with some pounding drums and massive strings, it builds and releases, builds and releases. I am definitely looking forward to hearing this one dropped at DEMF ’08, it’s the kind of jam that Derrick May or Kenny Larkin will slay people with. Check out sound samples of it on the Delsin site. And best of all for deejays like me who play slow, he keeps the tempo slow enough to mix with other music outside of just techno, unlike many other melodic techno producers.

Secondly, a friend of mine in Chicago is having Convextion on his radio show tonight. Here is the info for those in Chicago and those who would like to stream the show over the web:

etc radio this Friday night
2007.10.19fr 23:00-02:00 CST
hosted by m50 & pHonaut
featuring Convextion (aka E.R.P. – live – Plano, TX – Down Low, Ai, Matrix)
tune in to WNUR 89.3 FM locally
or mms://media.wnur.org/wmtencoder/live.wmv
or http://live.wnur.org:8092/listen.pls
or http://129.105.123.14:8094/listen.pls
or http://129.105.123.14:4500/listen.pls
via http://www.wnur.org/
http://www.phonaut.com/
http://m50.net/

Their radio show has had guests such as Taho (France – Delsin), Kage (Detroit), Velocette (NYC), Todd Sines (NYC – Planet E), Archetype (NYC), AUX-88 (Detroit), John Arnold (Detroit –
Fragile), Steve Tang (Chicago – Emphasis), T-1000 (Detroit / Chicago – Generator), Common Factor (Chicago – Planet E), Zachary Lubin (Chicago – 6277), Soultek (Chicago – Echospace), Hieroglyphic Being (Chicago – Mathematics), Nolian Reusse (Chicago – Mathematics), Mike Wade (Chicago – Tresor), Quantazelle (Chicago – Dust Science) and Jacen Solo (UK – Ai) in the past, so checking it out on a regular basis might also be a good idea! Rumor is that Convextion will be rolling straight from the airport to the radio show, so expect him closer to the end of the show than the beginning. But tune in for the whole thing, lots of good music should be played!

Finally, if you need a music fix right now, my man gmos (from Ireland as well, also an ISM reader and commenter) has a mix up here entitled “Let Me Be What I Wanna Be” that features many of my all time favorite jams:

1 Gene Harris – Prelude
2 The Russell Brothers – The Party Scene (SV)
3 The Jones Girls – You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
4 Family Tree – Family Tree
5 Theo Parrish – Rain For Jimmy
6 Rolling Stones – Miss You
7 Lenny Williams – Midnight Girl
8 M. Pittman – There’s Somebody Out There
9 No Way Back (Ron Hardy)
10 Class Action – Weekend
11 Loosefingers – Lamentation
12 Patrice Scott – Atmospheric Emotions
13 LHAS Inc – Captured
14 Smith N Hack – Space Warrior
15 The Other People Place – Let Me Be
16 Recloose – Kapiti Dream
17 Wardell Piper – Super Sweet
18 Oto Gelb – He Dances All Night
19 Loleatta Holloway – Catch Me On The Rebound

so check that out!

Also, I’d like to mention that Wojtek (aka Detroitio here on ISM) will likely be heading back to Poland to be with his ailing grandmother for a week or so. Let’s keep him, his grandmother, and his entire family in our thoughts. As important as music is, nothing is more important than family. Music is wonderful because it helps us connect with each other, and no connection is stronger than that familial bond. It’s easy to forget about that in this hyper-accelerated society with so much pressure to do other things, but it’s importance is perhaps even greater now because of this pressure.