1. 2012:01:24.1900

    Black Jazz Consortium - Deepness (RE:Actions Of Light, Soul People Music, 2007)

    Doesn’t need an explanation, does it? It just is.

    Notes: 7
  2. 2012:01:18.1021

    Technique’s - This Old House (The Workshop Mix) (Nitegrooves, 1995)

    Mr Phillips’ recipe for House — solid and nailed to the motherf*cking ground.

  3. 2012:01:16.0930

    Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #6 from Raw Cuts # 5 / Raw Cuts # 6  MCDE, 2009.

    It’s hard to pick a favourite from the Raw Cuts. We’ll make it #6 for today. Deep is the house.

    Notes: 2
  4. 2012:01:09.1426
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    Mix: Forward Strategy Group @ Open House, NYC (2011)

    2 hours in the mix with the FSG board of directors. Heads down, tunnel vision territory, mostly. Suffice it to say they’re really good at working the reflective moments. Download on SoundCloud.

  5. 2012:01:05.1908

    Mix: WhereNext? Audio Quarterly #1 (2011) A 90-minute transmission from the aether, including Throbbing Gristle, Vatican Shadow, Cabaret Voltaire and assorted Downwards and Sandwell releases. See you on the other side. Download.

    Mix: WhereNext? Audio Quarterly #1 (2011)

    A 90-minute transmission from the aether, including Throbbing Gristle, Vatican Shadow, Cabaret Voltaire and assorted Downwards and Sandwell releases. See you on the other side. Download.

    Notes: 86
  6. 2011:12:30.0101

    Perc - London, We Have You Surrounded (Wicker & Steel, Perc Trax, 2011)

    Final post of what has been a fantastic year of robust techno / non-techno. The Guardian’s Tony Naylor summed up the common feel of my favourite releases of 2011 quite aptly in his review of Perc’s debut album:

    “In a year of riots, phone hacking and looming economic meltdown, Ali “Perc” Wells, has created the perfect mood music for the time. Unrelentingly serious, at times tender and vulnerable, Wicker and Steel is a bleak audio montage of modern Britain, created from hard techno, ambient drones and reconditioned industrial noise.”

    If you avoid the more popular end of year lists as I do, Wax Works and affiliates have some fine highlights of the year on their blog for your perusal.

    Thanks for listening, and the reblogs, which we appreciate very much. Here’s to deeper, darker and more disturbing music in 2012. Salute!

    “Music foretells the evolution of society because changes in musical paradigms happen more quickly than in social organisations. The scope of possibilities is explored much more rapidly in music than in the social infrastructure. Therefore, the mutation in the organisation of noise, in the nature of sounds, in its technology, helps one to understand and predict the evolution of the society as a whole.” — Jacques Attali in an interview with nthposition (2002)

    Notes: 6
  7. 2011:12:20.0930

    Egyptian Empire - The Horn Track, Ffrreedom, 1992 

    It’s ‘ardkore, proper ‘ardkore. PE and Human League samples with a devastating Amen. A monster.

    Notes: 5
  8. 2011:12:13.1840

    Emptyset - Function (Demiurge, Subtext, 2011)

    Official video by Clayton Welham and Sam Williams, who also worked on Emptyset’s live show at Alpha-ville.

    Notes: 11
  9. 2011:12:10.0520
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    Unknown Operator - The Great Traitor (Remnant, 2011)

    Anonymous breakbeats from the US, allegedly. Sounds like contemporary war zone techno and Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia from 1989 combined. Shortwave recordings from the Conet Project add to the mystery. Ace!

    Notes: 9
  10. 2011:12:09.1654

    DJ HMC - LSD (Southern Cross EP, Juice, 1995)

    Real workout track by one of Australia’s finest techno exponents and founder of Dirty House Records.

    Notes: 3