BC Interior, Canada
8.43 pm (pacific time):
Eric Schneebeli made music history…
Eric played a set on the radio (fuckin FM radio!!) …. ‘The Bass Test – Ep. 15 – That One Episode When MoloKaii Was The Guest And Then He Played Footwork-Breakcore.’ So why is this significant?
Eric Schneebeli unleashed something on the unsuspecting world that can never be undone…
The set started out with Schneebeli playing trax (and interviewing) MoloKaii, which was fucking entertaining as hell. MoloKaii clearly knows how to make some futuristic glitchy bass music, and it’s well worth a listen. But what came next? Well, I’ll tell you what came next… Schneebli played out a couple 5ifty$ix K tunes – a couple of footwork breakcore tunes. It was the night of the new release of the new 5ifty$ix K album, and Schneebeli was the first DJ in radio history to play this kind of music live across the radio airwaves…
So, I’m pretty damn excited bout that. If you’re curious about the new album, you can get it here:
This episode is all about @MoloKaii. It aired live on May 13, 2014, the release day of his new album: Moon Juice Dripping On The Mind.
First up is a long interview with MoloKaii, next is a mix by MoloKaii, then I play a couple of cuts from 5ifty$ix K’s new Footwork-Breakcore album Hardcore Is Back Vol 1 and we finish with a Larry Levan track from 1981.
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Molokaii is pretty damn talented, btw; that much can not be overstated. I was super excited to post about the 5ifty$ix K tunes getting played out, but I gotta say, in fairness, Molokaii’s trax were dope as fuck, and until the bass world (hopefully) becomes more acclimated to the alien sounds of footbreak corecorework corebreak footwork madness, there is other stuff out there – and I know tons of people who will really dig Molokaii and his masterfully trippy grooves. Actually, I know a lot of people already dig his sounds already, but he’s definitely going to get an even bigger fan base after this radio showcase.
‘Veselaya Karusel,’ translates to ‘Jolly Carousel.’ What is Jolly Carousel?
This:
So…. what the fuck is this? It’s an old Russian cartoon from the 1960s, and it played on Russian TV until 2002. It was sampled, along with Beavis & Butthead, for an extremely noisy and fun breakcore compilation called, ‘Moscow Breakcore Masscare.’ It was released by The RusZud label, and features 18 trax, and can be downloaded right here, for free.
It’s had thousands and thousands of downloads, but if you live out my half of the globe, I can almost guarantee you haven’t heard it. It’s a gem from 2009. Yep, five years ago.. The… ‘Good Old Days,’ …? Though I can’t imagine what was good about them, as everyone was just entering the peak of worldwide recession, but… Anyway, yep. I thought I post about this now, however, because I just found this lovely compilation this morning, and it’s crazy, and seeing as breakbeats and breakcore are starting to slowly come back, little by little, I thought I’d post about this rare-but-recent classic.
The RusZud label recently released an intriguing new breakcore compilation, entitled “Moscow Breakcore Masscare.” It features 18 new tracks from almost as many artists and has – as we see – a rather bizarre cover, too. Front and center is a well-known statue of poet Vladimir Maiakovskii (1893-1930), surrounded by large explosions, engravings of angels, evidently peeved serpents, and 19th-century engineering sketches. At the foot of this inexplicable melange of things divine, hellish, and mechanical are a couple of male DJs, with human hands and piscine bodies.
Clearly there are surprises ahead.
The biggest of these is perhaps the back cover (which we’d rather not show you). It contains a picture of Beavis holding a chainsaw to the edge of an old vinyl 45, which produces jagged red soundwaves. Over his exposed brain, decorated with rubber plungers, is a severed part of the male anatomy (i.e., someone else’s!); it is flying by with great speed, having been recently detached from its owner. What on earth this all means is unclear, until we take a look at the tracklisting. Track #16, the longest and most intricate on the album, is by Moscow’s Gnomcorps (below); its title makes reference to a “Gay Parade on Maiakovskii Square,” where our statue is located in Moscow.
Now, I know what you’re thinking… “Will, the breakcore is stupendous, simply mesmerizing, but we need more old school Russian cartoons!!! Deliver!”
Ahh, alright:
Here is ‘Как Львёнок и Черепаха пели песню’ !!!!
(‘How Lion and Turtle sang a song’)
…and, of course, more Veselaya Karusel: ‘Антошка, Два веселых гуся, Рыжий – конопатый и т.д.’ !
(‘Antoshka Two cheerful goose, Auburn – freckled, etc.’ )
Well, it’s here! For fans of Teklife, and fans of Venetian Snares; and everyone in between who wants to taste a new style of hardcore, it’s 5ifty$ix K’s new 12-track LP (available now)
5ifty$ix K – ‘Hardcore is Back, vol 1’
When he’s not running his audio company (bassadelic.com) or running his label (dynastyshit.com) or maintaining jukemusicforum.com, 5ifty$ix K is busy killing subwoofers with his uniquely hardcore take on electronic music. This album sees 5ifty$ix k (aka StrangeFlow, aka William Dunn) taking the fresh hybrid sounds of footwork/jungle to a new and more abrasive level by adding a tripped-out and hardcore momentum that is completely unprecedented and 100% unparalleled in the world of electronic music releases. In fact, this is the FIRST ALBUM EVER to feature both footwork/juke AND breakcore in the same space and at the same time. Go ahead and google “breakcore footwork,” and see for yourself.
It’s a combination that works a lot more than originally anticipated, and it is certainly something to satisfy folks out there always on the lookout for trax on the hardcore side of rhythmic electronic music.
Anyway, enough of the descriptions, take a listen and decide for yourself. The album was mastered by the incredible Simteks, who cannot be recommend enough as a sound engineer. Top notch.
So, enjoy the album, ‘Hardcore is Back, Vol 1,’ and spread the tune around – let the insanity pass like a virus, causing floods and destroying bad bass trax everywhere. :)
$6 USD – Click here to download 5ifty$ix K – ‘Hardcore is Back, vol 1’
Track listing:
1. Thought I Was a DJ — 02:20
2. 1996 Shit — 02:36
3. Turn it Up — 02:24
4. Nice Rhodes — 03:26
5. My Name, on Repeat (feat. a vocal sample by Keri Bellybelle) — 02:44
6. Built That Trap — 03:14
7. Got it — 02:37
8. Moon Shit — 01:58
9. Just Begun — 02:28
10. Raw Funk Shit — 02:04
11. Gruuvy — 02:14
12. My Thang — 02:31
My favorite is that first track. So go to dynastyshit.com and click on the new album, read all the unnecessary ranting that 5ifty did for each track (actually a fair bit of ranting when you click on a lot of the individual trax on that dynastyshit.com link, like on the track, ‘Raw Funk Shit’ where 5ifty$ix explains the musicality of the tune, rips apart pre-existing electronic music, asks for your opinion, assumes you had a good argument, and then voluntarily withdraws from the conversation, feeling intellectually destroyed by your cunning musical arguments and assuming that you have won the argument)… anyway, then after you read about all that (or don’t…) you can snag the whole thing for just six bucks, or 75 cents per track. Hope ya guys dig it.
Oh, shit, you want something for free though, right? Of course! I do! You do! We all do! Well, here::::::
It’s that first track, and its abso-fucking-lutely free! Why? Why not! Ahhh, what a life!
But, if you would be so kind, if you enjoy this album, please consider buying it (or a couple of trax) so that more albums like this one can be made in the future; hopefully Dynasty Shit can really become an empire for hardcore music, and lots of future releases will come out by 5ifty$ix and by other names in the game, and we can all happily pollute the world of EDM until the whole dancefloor is hardcore as funk.
infoz:::: New hardcore footwork jungle tune to tease the world for the new album that’s coming out later on this week on DynastyShit.com
The album was mastered by the incredible Simteks, whom I can’t recommend enough. Though I hope he doesn’t get too many more clients, because I want to hog his insane mastering skills for all my future albums for years to come. The sped-up vocal sample in the beginning was Eric Schneebeli, who featured some music of mine on his show, ‘the Bass Test,’ (and what better way to thank someone than to sample the fuck outta them into one of your new songs? I see no better way..)
But anyway, enjoy the track, it’s one of a dozen on the new album, ‘Hardcore is Back, Vol 1,’ that I’m releasing very soon. Spread the tune around, let the insanity pass like a virus, destroying boring tunes everywhere.
THE FULL ALBUM iS NOW AVAiLABLE, TOO!!!! LiSTEN TO THE ENTiRE THiNG HERE!
So, I was trolling around on the stats page of Bassdelic… Well, actually, I suppose trolling is the wrong word, since it’s my own page, eh? Uh.. Ok, I was… “performing valuable maintenance work, ya know, the fancy little fuck that I am,” and I noticed something.. Perhaps you will notice it, too… Here’s a map that started on February 12th, 2012 – the day Bassadelic was born, officially… though, in fairness, it wasn’t really set up nice and proper for a few months. It seems like that’s how internet projects go, you get an idea, then you buy the domain as quickly as fucking possible before someone else snatches on it, all the while preparing for what will eventually become THE BEST WEBSITE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEBSITE UNIVERSE! Or, at least, that was the idea, I guess. It’s not exactly the biggest site ever, but I like it. I sure like it, a lot! :) Anyway, the point is, here’s that map:
Anyway, notice anything strange? ..Do you see that big ol’ white island the size of ten Indias?? Yea, Greenland! And, I know, it’s snowy, and everyone there has pale skin, but this isn’t a LITERAL heat map, or a pigment map, it’s a population density map, of sorts. It tells you how many folks from all over the world have been visiting this very website. So, what the fuck? There have been hundreds of thousands of clicks and views, and yet, not ONE of them is from Greenland?? I mean… WHAT? Where, are they on some island, in the middle of the ocean, not quite connected to Europe OR North America, kinda’ floating around in their own little world?
… Well, it certainly appears as such.
Ok, now for some perspective.. Here’s a map of the world, with all the countries labelled:
And what about Chad, Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Iran? What about Iran? Obviously, the question of missing populations is more dire than ten Malaysian plane crashes, so I have to do something about this.
I want clicks from Greenland, as well as Iran, and all the countries in the middle of Africa! I will not rest until this is done! So, to that aim, I thought perhaps I should talk more about these countries, as a blatant attempt to get those few clicks I so desire!
So there’s this neurotrance project based out of Greenland called Silly Twit! Yes, Silly Twit is from Spitzbergen, Greenland. They made darkpsy / forest type of album, which blew me away, because it’s that freestyle trance (mentioned in another article on the site) but also because it’s style is called, ‘forest,’ which, after listening for a bit, makes sense. I want to hear more Greenland forest music. Now!
Expedition Greenland is the first solo release by Silly Twit, a darkpsy/forest project founded by Matakana and Sequin. This collection of five songs brings deep and mystic psychedelic sounds combined with heavy grooves and intelligent arrangements. These brain-twisting tracks are telling silly stories about two shepherds searching for their wayward sheep Mariedl, who has wandered far from the deep forests of Austria. Mastered by Erofex with artwork by Moosgruen.
You can also check em out on their soundcloud. Yes, they’re from Greenland, and yes, their music is dope, and yes, I’m glad I found out about it.
But what else? I’ll tell you what else – fuckin Iran! I can mention Greenland all I want to on this page, and maybe I’ll get some hits from there… (greenland) but what (greenland) about Iran??? (greenland)
I’ll tell you what about Iran…
Wow.. Anyone hear interested in Stockhausen-esque experimental electronic music from Iran??
PERSIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Yesterday and today 1966-2006
ALIREZA MASHAYEKHI – ATA EBTEKAR
From the site:
From Alireza Mashayekhi to Ata Ebtekar/Sote, the quantum leap of the very unknown electronic music composed in Iran from the Sixties till today. Two Iranian music masters who work (mainly) on ancestral structures to create something radically new, who travel around the world to finally live and work in their country – two vivid creators through the hazards of History.
Alireza Mashayekhi was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He is one of the pioneers of modern music in Iran. Mashayekhi’s works have been performed in Iran and abroad for more than 35 years. Mashayekhi believes that contemporary composers should create music in wide range of styles. His own compositions have tended towards three major direction: pieces that are directly inspired by Iranian music (e.g. Symphony No. 5, Persian Suite and Shahrzad) and compositions that are not directly related to Iranian music (e.g. Symphony No. 6, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,Sonata for Piano) and multicultural compositions (e.g. Symphony No. 8 and the electronic composition East-West). At the time of Stalin in the USSR, many pieces were composed with predetermined identities in honor of Marxism and Leninism by the request of the governmental authorities or by the artist’s own whishes. Among these pieces those with artistic rightfulness remained and they were honored in both East and West, but the political weight of the other ones did not succeed to help them survive. Alireza Mashayekhi
Alireza Mashayekhi is regarded as a pioneer Iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works, which have been performed in Iran and abroad for more than 35 years, have greatly influenced the contemporary music in Iran. Hooman Asadi of the University of Tehran, Iran
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic composer, sound artist and recording engineer who was born on September 2nd, 1972. His goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his mind. Sote is interested in keeping the tuning of Persian classical scales (Radif) and melodies from old Persian folk songs within a new electronic framework. Since he has a firm conviction that rules and formulas have to be deconstructed and rethought, he alters some of these modal systems from their original tonality and rhythm (tradition). He has released several cds and vinyls on Dielectric/RLR, Spundae and especially on Warp.
Want to hear an example??
Here’s a Alireza Mashayakhi trak from 1966, which is also available on the compilation mentioned above (OMG the 3d-panning on this destroys my brain :) Yea, it seriously sounds fucking 3d, and right now I’m only on my LAPTOP. I’m sure under the right right circumstances, this type of music could elicit a real psychedelic voyage…
Well, it’s true, there are a handful of countries in the middle of Africa that haven’t clicked here. And, to be honest, I don’t know a whole lot about Chad. Is it one of those countries without much internet? If not, I’d love for someone from the African nation of Chad to come on and correct me. Eh? Eh? OOOhh yes, and, btw, (greenland) … Yes, yes, (greenland) . Ah, that’s good, for now.
But anywho, yea, I should look into those African countries some more, but, to be honest, I’ve been working on this site for so many hours today, and most folks aren’t going to keep reading this far into an article, especially one that could suddenly switch directions and start going into Africa right now after talking about so much other stuff already… Copouts, I know; excuses, yes. I will get to these countries in another post, but for right now, I’m going to leave this article as a, “to be continued…”
So, Andrei Tăut recently hit me up on email, with a song he just put out, describing it as a chill trap song. And, yes, indeed, it’s very chill! This guy’s got some real talent, and I think you should check out his work.
Coming straight outta Romania, Andrei had this to say when I asked him for a bit more information about himself and his music-making:
I first heard dubstep in 2012, I think. I just got in love with it and decided to start with an older version of FL Studio.
I released my first song in early 2013, anyway it sounded like a really ugly low-fi dubstep. In summer 2013 I teamed up with 2 of my classmates and we created our first “band”. I was making beats for them and they used to make freestyles on them. The beats used to sound more like some EDM beats, so it was really strange. Later 2013 and early 2014 I went full EDM. I was making nothing more than 16 bar intros, 16 bar build-ups and 32 bar drops. I realised fast that the EDM genre is pure garbage and tried giving more attention to the trap/twerk scene. And I finally found myself in this Chilled Trap Music with huge 808’s and down-pitched vocals.
…Yea, the dude’s 15, and he’s already pretty damn good. This gives me a lot of hope for the future of electronic music / chill trap, etc! There’s a free download on that soundcloud page, so I suggest you download it now! Other than that, I’ll let the music speak for itself. If you’re in the mood for something chill, this is a good place to start.
Yea, I think if you’re in a chill mood (or want to be in one, the track above, #letmechill, is a good one.
There’s some fun stuff on the rest of his SC page as well, and some good reposted tunes from other similar artists – but then, after looking around for awhile, I also found this little gem at the bottom of the page, that I posted just below: it’s called, ‘Merry Christmas from Tautixx,” and it’s Christmas-themed trap music! LOL! I love it! It’s obviously a bit tongue-in-cheek, rewriting Christmas carols with the language of trap music – an eight and a half minute holiday trap for ya; I don’t think this mix is what he wanted me to lead with in this post, but it’s already got thousands of hits, and it’s fuckin’ hilarious, so I figured I’d post it. Trap music with a sense of humor, now there’s something you really DON’T see very much of. Like, almost ever. So kudos on this one :)
Good to see trap music has more an emotional range than just ‘angry,’ as, let’s face it, a lot of the biggest trap tunes by electronic producers of the last couple years have been just macho and angry bangers. Nothing wrong with a macho/angry banger, but it’s awesome to see it comin’ round to be chill, and, in some cases, fuckin’ hilarious. Anyway, just my opinion :)
Keep making awesome music, Tautixx! Looks like you’ve got some real talent, and I’m sure we’ll be hearing more of you in the years to come!
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