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BEST MOVIES / NAJBOLJI FILMOVI 2014

2015-02-06T00:06:00.000+02:00

These are the best movies that I have watched in the past year + January, the most of them are from 2013, but years are not important. I have watched huge amount of it so the list is long also.

best of the best
Night Moves (2013) Kelly Reichardt
Gloria (2013) Sebastián Lelio

Enemy (2013) Denis Villeneuve
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013) Sebastián Silva

Dogtooth (2009) Yorgos Lanthimos

Ida (2013) Pawel Pawlikowski

Nebraska (2013) Alexander Payne
The Great Beauty (2013) Paolo Sorrentino

still very good

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Her (2013) Spike Jonze

Whiplash (2014) Damien Chazelle

Maps to the Stars (2014) David Cronenberg
Gone Girl (2014) David Fincher
This Is 40 (2012) Judd Apatow
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Wes Anderson

best asian

A Touch of Sin (2013) Zhangke Jia

Bai ri yan huo (2014) Yi'nan Diao

Still the Water (2014) Naomi Kawase
Like Father, Like Son (2013) Hirokazu Koreeda

about the family (more or less)
Promised Land (2012) Gus Van Sant
Leviathan (2014) Andrey Zvyagintsev

Child's Pose (2013) Calin Peter Netzer
Old Cats (2010) Sebastián Silva
Before Midnight (2013) Richard Linklater
The Auction (2013) Sébastien Pilote
Go Get Some Rosemary (2009) Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Deux jours, une nuit (2014) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Boyhood (2014) Richard Linklater

best LGTM/sexual
Tom à la ferme (2013) Xavier Dolan
L'inconnu du lac (2013) Alain Guiraudie
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013) Denis Côté
Nymphomaniac (2013) Lars von Trier

best theatrical movie (like you were in theatre)
Venus in Fur (2013) Roman Polanski

best animated
Ernest & Celestine (2012) Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner

best documentary - i have watched only few
Let the Fire Burn (2013 Documentary)

out of time
Black Orpheus (1959) Marcel Camus

Albums of the January

2015-02-04T23:20:00.000+02:00

Album of the month

Björk - Vulnicura

The most weak and broken is the best Björk. So cinematic orchestrated, discretely co produced (by Arca and the Haxan Cloak) and open vulva of her soul all together as one organism releasing no stories only emotional narratives. Landscapes of separation, hate, love, fear and finding some new coordinates. Her suffering is universal here and will get under your skin and stroke your bones. ''don't remove my pain, it's my chance to heal''

Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal (total leftfield delight, no specific style, some strange atmosphere)

Vakula - Voyage to Arcturus (thousand years back and forward at the same time, soundtrack for SF classic novel of David Lindsay you can read it here, for full experience)

Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again (fingers and words of birds of feather)

Universal Togetherness Band - Universal Togetherness Band (some lost tapes gladly found, will warm your winter days and dancefloors, as always Numero Group finds and releasing soul and funk excellence)

Panda Bear - Meets the Grim Reaper (psychedelic candy-shop)

Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear (sophomore Misty more freely singing for Bored in the USA honeybears)

Amen Dunes - Cowboy Worship EP (is it a cry is it a scream inside the scream, dark and dusty bars melt down, with the tears of the cowboy, lost drove..) hear it here.

BEST ALBUMS 2014 / NAJBOLJI ALBUMI 2014

2015-01-25T15:59:00.000+02:00

Dean Blunt - Black Metal
(new Dean Blunt is good as it's cover is black pic.twitter.com/I0Btdnzl6o — zbog zato (@greeengeee) November 3, 2014)
Beck - Morning Phase

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata

Sun Kil Moon - Benji

Grouper - Ruins

Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers

Aphex Twin - Syro (nothing new from Aphex, but much better than the most of new music)

Caribou - Our Love

Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra - When The World Was One
(there is only one word for this one - MAGIC)

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

Alvvays - Alvvays

Ben Frost - A U R O R A (ambient music on nuclear power, cutting through the glaciers)

Ariel Pink - pom pom (circus pop)

Woods - With Light And With Love

The Juan MacLean - In a Dream (electro hous pop bliss)

Fatima - Yellow Memories (best neo soul fro the Floating Points Eglo kitchen)

Total Control - Typical System (is it synth, is it punk, or how ever they named it, it had very heavy rotation in my stereo)

Sebastien Tellier - L'Aventura
(This one seems to be my favorite summer album, tropical french lessons from Brazil de Mr. Tellier. Diary from his tropical journey and catching the sun around the world. Very pleasant sounds gonna help you during hot summer days in the city, already approved. This album follows his almost total instrumental album Confectio, which i found also great, so check it out. And have a nice L'Aventura)

Trust - Joyland
Lone – Reality Testing
Vermont – Vermont
Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
Leon Vynehall – Music for the Uninvited
Lykke Li - I Never Learn

Planningtorock - All Love's Legal

Moiré - Shelter
FKA twigs - LP1
Kane West - Western Beats
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh

WORST MOVIES 2014 / NAJGORI FILMOVI 2014

2014-12-28T17:46:00.001+02:00

The Signal (2014) William Eubank
SF tresh and nothing less little bit psychedelic and vacant.
Pitch Perfect (2012) Jason Moore
Wins two stars because is so stupid that i had to skip it and saved my time and few moment of vomiting scene.

Garden State (2004) Zach Braff
patetic, + pathetic + pattetik = 3 stars / 3

Wetlands (2013) David Wnendt
beacause is not WTF at all

Chef (2014) Jon Favreau
cause it tastes like shit

A Most Wanted Man (2014) Anton Corbijn
more bad than some bad episode of some bad TV show

Breathe In (2013) Drake Doremus
not to be that i didn't tell you

Como agua para chocolate (1992) Alfonso Arau
because many said it's their best

The Best Offer (2013) Giuseppe Tornatore
the worst offer

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Martin Scorsese
the best of the worst, only because of the stoned scenes

Dirty Beaches - Stateless

2014-11-26T02:47:00.000+02:00

Statless is one of the best ambient/instrumental albums this year. Here is official statement for statless.

All seasons are cyclical, like real life shit. We adapt and venture through each phase with intentions of engagement, embracing mistakes and chances that eventually become the foundation of identities and roles we take on in life. All pain is temporary, as in joy, anger, doubt and all human emotions. Nothing is forever. Just a constant cyclical randomization processed in patterns and algorithms. We can’t predict life, but we can try to brace ourselves for the ever changing tides of time.

Some dreams, are worth breaking your limbs for.

Stateless by Dirty Beaches

Dedicated to ALL the young gods out there.

Sincerely,

Alex Zhang Hungtai
June 13th, 2014. LIsbon, Portugal
credits
released 04 November 2014

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Caribou - Our Love (2014)

2014-09-10T10:24:00.003+03:00

From the first Dan Snaith album Start breaking my heart, it was obvious that we dealing with extraordinary producer who was able to do such a gorgeous album with such fruity loops equipment, so dreamy and emotional, with that somehow anti consumerism cover with MC Donald's exterior. Even there there were intentions for club music, like 2 step garage house intrusions on couple of tracks like Paul's Birthday. That what released many years ago under his first moniker Manitoba, which he was forced to change into Caribou later, because he was sued for using that name by other artist. There was one album later In Flames where we got group, also as Manitoba, with totally new sound, here appeared some neo hippy psychy folk electronica compositions. This sound was kept until Swim album, i think.

After dubstep nu house bass attempt under Daphni moniker, which is more compilation than an album, has a couple great tracks, for little bit weird floors, we are getting the new Caribou proper album. It starts with first single Can do without you, club and radio little less friendly song, with kind of if extruded pathetic and common love phrase, which in musical crescendo (break in club music) sounds no pathetic at all. The whole album sounds like very honest love confession. Like Beck sad ''I'm a full grown man, but I'm not afraid to cry''. Calmdown Silver is dreamy on repeat ''hear it'' sample, driven by some breezy synths. This one was like a intro for more uptempo All i ever need and Our love title track rave revival, nu house, for which even new guys like Disclosure or Dusky or Julio Bushmore should be jealous, and it craves for club remixes. Love which melting from the walls soaked with sweat, MDMA and ecstasy (with Smiley or Heart). After you Dive (instrumental) you'll get the Second Chance with Jessy Lanza, I downloaded her solo hyperdub album twice as much times as I have deleted it. But here with Caribou is a bliss. Song simbolically named like a second chance for ''our love'' very pleasant appearing and i think the first full female vocal song in his opus.

After Julia Brightly visited Mars - personal favorite and perfectly layered track, flute driven and again repetitive vocal samples, represent more UK bass sounds, we go Back home, where you gonna find out that Your love will set you free, which is actually different version or Owen Pallett remix of All I Ever Need (i think that author named him as one of the contributors on this album).

Our love, the touch between love tremblings of ex rave generation, it's plastic but soft, it's computer but with soul. You can consume this one as love pop or electronic album or if you don't have intentions for neither you'll get the perfect combination. For the very first few plays it's very pleasant and it satisfies my senses, and it gets heavy rotation in my stereo. I think it is going to last like that for a while in you case and surly gonna worm you forthcoming cold days and dance floors.

7,9/10

na srpskom (google translate)

Od prvog Dan Snaith album Početak razbijanje srce , bilo je očigledno da imamo posla sa izuzetnom proizvođača koji je u stanju da uradi tako sjajan album sa takvim Fruiti Loops opreme, tako sanjalački i emocionalnog , s tim nekako anti konzumerizma poklopcu sa MC DONALD'S eksterijeru . Čak i tamo bilo namere za klupske muzike , kao što su 2 Step Garage upada na nekoliko numera poput Pavla rođendan. Ono što pušten pre mnogo godina, pod njegovim prvim Moniker Manitoba, koji je bio primoran da promeni u Caribou kasnije jer je bio tužen za korišćenje tog imena od strane drugih izvođača . Postojao je jedan album kasnije In Flames , gde smo dobili grupu , i kao Manitoba, sa potpuno novim zvukom , ovde su se pojavile neke neo Hippi psichi Folk Electronica kompozicije . Ovaj zvuk je zadržan do Svim albumu , ja mislim.
Nakon dubstep Nu House bas pokušaju pod Daphni nadimak , što je više nego kompilacija albuma , ima par velike tragove , za malo čudnih sprata , mi dobijamo novi Caribou pravilno album . Počinje sa prvog singla mogu bez tebe , klub i radio malo manje prijateljski pesmu , sa vrstom ako ekstrudirane patetična i zajednička ljubavi frazom , koja u muzičkom krešendo ( pauze u klupske muzike ) Zvukovi nema patetično uopšte . Ceo album zvuči kao vrlo iskrene ljubavi ispovesti . Kao i Beck Sad ' ' Ja sam pun odrastao covek , ali ja se ne bojim da plače ' . Calmdovn Silver je Dreami na ponavljanje ' čuo ' uzorak , vođen od strane nekih Breezi sintisajzeri . Ovo je kao uvod za više Uptempo Sve što sam ikada potrebna i Naša ljubav naslov numere rave oživljavanje , Nu House , za koje čak i novi momci poput otkrivanja ili Duski ili Hulio Bushmore treba da bude ljubomoran , a ona žudi za klupske remiksa . Ljubav koja topi od zidova natopljen znojem , MDMA i ekstaze ( s Smilei ili srce ) . Nakon što Dive ( Instrumental ) ćete dobiti drugu šansu sa Jessi Lanza , sam skinuo njen solo album hiperdub duplo više puta kako sam izbrisao . Ali ovde sa Caribou je blaženstvo . Song simbolično nazvan kao drugu šansu za '' naše ljubavi '' prijatnom pojavljuju i mislim da je prvi puni ženski vokal pesme u njegovom opusu .
Nakon Julia Jarko posetio Mars - lični favorit i savršeno slojevit stazu , flauta vođen i opet ponavljaju vokalni uzorci , predstavljaju više Velikoj Britaniji basova , idemo nazad kući, gde ćeš saznati koji će vas osloboditi Tvoja ljubav , koja je zapravo drugačija verzija ili Oven Pallett remiks All I Ever Need ( mislim da ga je autor naveden kao jedan od saradnika na ovom albumu) .
Naša ljubav , ljubav između Touch tremblings bivše rave generacije , to je plastična , ali meka , to je kompjuter , ali sa dušom . Možete da konzumiraju ovo kao ljubav pop ili elektronskom albuma ili ako nemate namere za ni dobićete savršenu kombinaciju. Za prvih nekoliko predstava je vrlo prijatan i zadovoljava moje čula , a dobija rotaciji u mom stereo . Mislim da će to trajati tako neko vreme u tebi slučaju i mrzovoljan da te crv predstojeći hladnih dana i plesni spratova.

7,9 / 10

Night Moves (2014) Kelly Reichardt

2014-09-08T21:03:00.001+03:00

It's been a week since i have watched Kelly Reichardt last movie. Good thing is that i didn't know it was her movie. And I didn't know anything actually. Now I can tell you the whole story and it won't change anything. This is a minimal movie which don't tell much, but opens so many questions. I can tell you what mind boggles i got in my mind caused by this one, but they are irrelevant. Maybe movie gonna open some others to you. 9/10

tags: existential crisis, healthy life communes, ecology, escapism, organic food, love.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043933/

Aphex Twin - minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]

2014-09-04T22:13:00.001+03:00

Green Music Weekly #2

2014-07-14T23:49:00.000+03:00

14. july ''14

track of the week
GOAT - Hide From The Sun
Music that sounds like south Serbia afrobeat rock, but is actually occult swedish village group. Obsess us with new song, while we hide from sun. GOAT return with COMMUNE the eagerly awaited follow up to their astonishing debut album WORLD MUSIC. COMMUNE continues on with World Music’s acidic grooves, hypnotic incantations, and serpentine guitar lines but also introduces a darker more angry edge to the band, not seen before.

album of the week

Am i dreaming am i awake... that's good definition for this one. The most impressing work up to date from this young producer (this is 6th or 7th full length). I already listening it on and on. Nothing weird, nothing awkward, just the dream. Soundscaped like some sf movie, which is asking you about where the world is going through. Samples between the tracks reminds me of David Holmes legendary Let's get killed (this could be the same album of new generation) Tags: blade runner, vangelis, 5th element, and other SF movies...

compilation of the week
Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997

Coming 2014, we have a very special release on the way for lovers of quality original Chicago house music as we team up with the legendary Dance Mania Records for their first ever full label compilation, dropping on January 27th, 2014. Dance Mania has wielded its influence heavily across dance music since its first breakthrough club smash in ’86, Duane & Co’s ‘J.B. Traxx’, offering a raw, DJ-led alternative to the Chicago powerhouses of Trax and DJ International. Founder Ray Barney astutely released classic after classic during the early years – ’7 Ways’ by Hercules (Marshall Jefferson), ‘House Nation’ by Housemaster Boyz (Farley Jackmaster Funk) and Li’l Louis’ debut recordings all helping to cement Dance Mania’s credentials.
You can preview this right here

ep of the week
C.P.I. - El Túnel / Proceso

Barcelonian acid house techno kraut shit produced by Hugo Capablanca and Marc Piñol. Released on Hivern Discs (John Talabot's label), great great stuff.

revelation of the week
Chad VanGaalen - Shrink Dust [2014]

This is actually revelation of the day and of the week at the same time, this young guy is the most underrated thing on the musical blogging, tumblring, music reviewing scene. As i read somewhere, all I know his preparing some animated movie, and this is kind of soundtrack for it, collaborated with Xiu Xiu, and is obsessed with some weird analog instruments and plays on aluminum guitar, got his dog illustrated at the back of the LP package, and album is country...

GreenMix 2014-06-30

2014-07-01T12:00:00.003+03:00

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Gloria (2013) Sebastián Lelio

2014-06-18T02:43:00.002+03:00

In this one you will get the mature sex scenes, old woman experimenting with drugs. She's in 50's or 60's but it means nothing. That years are not what you have thought. You need to meet Gloria, if you want to change your life. I have watched this movie about two months ago and still keep returning to the point why do I like it so much. It's a story of a 50-60 year old woman, and she doesn't want to sink into usual everyday habits of her coeval. Ok. I can't let myself believing that she isn't a real person, because Paulina Garcia is Gloria, she didn's act it. She have done everything that she was suppose to do, and now is beginning of the rest of her life. She's strong. She's curious. Cataract issue is just a reminder, but does it change her willingness at all? She's going out. She is doing yoga. She's strange, she is dangerous. She's threat to all weak and shy. Life is now, whenever and where ever. And love is all we need. God bless Gloria.

There are some little distractions, or contraries of my main opinion, but those things just made me explore more and think why is she in some situations little bit rude and in others is more then the tolerant (noise of the neighbors). Great directors work here, is in the second light, cause this was the one man (woman) show almost.

8,8/10

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2014-06-13T12:11:00.003+03:00

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Green Music Weekly

2014-06-11T00:03:00.000+03:00

track of the week
Caribou - Can do without you
Caribou, aka Dan Snaith, has announced the follow up LP to 2010's Swim. It's called Our Love, and it's out October 7 via Merge. That's the cover art above. It features collaborations with Jessy Lanza and Owen Pallett, the latter of whom Snaith recently collaborated with under his Daphni moniker. He's also shared the audio for "Can't Without You", which you can listen to above.

album of the week
Sebastien Tellier - L'Aventura (2014)

This one seems to be my favorite summer album, tropical french lessons from Brazil de Mr. Tellier. Diary from his tropical journey and catching the sun around the world. Very pleasant sounds gonna help you during hot summer days in the city, already approved. This album follows his almost total instrumental album Confectio, which i found also great, so check it out. And have a nice L'Aventura.

compilation of the week
VA - Disco Love Vol 3 - Even More Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered! (2013)

Selected and mixed by great soul disco lover Al Kent, known for his Million Dollar Orchestra project, super collection on BBE Music, of rare soul disco tracks, very close to or maybe even better then my favorite compilation of this kind, for Numero Group, Don't Stop - Recording Tap (2008). High potent grooves with soul vocal bliss very balanced for hot dance, love disco love...

You can preview this unmixed or mixed right here

ep of the week
Visionist - I'm Fine (Part I & II) (2013)
Can't stop lisen to this very future bass and very modes but somehow deep compositions, very nice for this new producer. Even though his set from two weeks ago at MAD in Belgrade festival was great.

reveal of the week
Kemialliset Ystavat - Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa (2014)

This is finish experimental psychedelic group. And i would describe it as the most weird and the most beautiful at the same time. They have very nice visual concept, see here. And you can listen to whole album here

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (2014)

2014-05-31T13:03:00.003+03:00

This is personal album of the month.

Here it comes, the best hip hop album of the year, and for me the first in a year I can listen on and on in it's entireness. Madlib is good friend of my ears over decade now and this is his masterpiece, great chose of samples, wonderful arrangements and perfect mix of sounds and vocals (raps). On contrary Freddie Gibbs is unknown guy for me, before I downloaded the album friend of mine, which is great fun of hip-hop, told me that Freddie is little bit too much gangsta style of rapping. That appears to be partially the truth, but in coordinance with great Madlib samples, his too much bitch, bitch, bitch, pussy, pussy, weed, pot, money, phone, I am this, I am that etc., sounds more acceptable, and after a few listenings, becomes funny and interesting. I caught myself get attracted to find out the story of the songs even. The tracks strings one after another, like a Gibbs's words are flowing, whatta great flow. And hits are raining down, like the sweets falls down from Piñata. It starts with some triangle drama where nigga was cut down Deeper (first singe), the everyone get so High with so funny Danny Brown, and smokey intro and outro for this one. Right after comes pure bliss, and musically and samples and flow works brilliant, Harold's becomes my the heaviest rotation song this year. The albums continues like this with a lot of guests and cinematic passages between tracks, ind the middle atmosphere comes to more dramatic mode, there's a lot of shotguns sometimes, some dangerous situations, but niggas gonna work it out. One by one the whole album feels like a some dealer documentary maybe, you can join him by this film yes this is best gangsta movie you can taste right now. Please enjoy mothafuckers.

this one gets 9/10 of me

PS if you get bored by Freddie rapping (in any case, i don't believe), Madlib announced instrumental version soon.

The Double (2013) Richard Ayoade

2014-05-31T02:30:00.001+03:00

If I am allowed to describe this movie as some recipe, pot would be filled with (in order of appearance): Add little bit of this and little bit of ... Before watching I didn't know anything about (my new practice in watching movies) the movie or which director was working on it. At the beginning I tought this is some new Terry Gilliam, cause it has reminded me of Brasil, but somehow atmosphere was more David Lynch Eraserhead dramatic, then i have had very Franz Kafka feeling like in Process or The Castle. And a lot of George Orwell's 1984 spice. Then I was trying not figure nothing at all, then the double appeared and comparison with The Enemy, the Denis Villeneuve's newest film, was inevitable (later on that). At the end i read that story was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Double (1866). And have to add little bit of David Cronenberg spice also. Hm.

After all spices, this young director will have to make some extra effort on defining his style on next work. I have to admit that this is my first Richard Ayoade's film, and I found out that he is known of Submarine (maybe next movie to check out). Small short storyline taken from IMDB (skip if you don't like spoilers). A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.

Claustrophobic scenery (scenography) helping already theatrical drama scent, and music background and periodically first roll is really fantastic, or works very fine. From some asian pop 60's to some obscure electronica. (as someone wrote ''includes classics such as Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto, East Virigina by Danny & The Islanders and the credit song The Sun by Kim Jung Mi). There's also some SF TV Show that Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) watching, with some detectives heros fighting with laser pistols, which is helping with retro future feeling in this. Scenery is also moody and dark almost like Eraserhead. Mia Wasikowska (earlier possibly known from Stolker or Kids are all right), as Hannah here, is fantastic, funny, sarcastic, beautiful, modest, tricky and little bit Amelie kind of hook for a poor shy guy as Simon. She is his mirror, he is the same, but she's looking for her opposite. Which she is finding in Simon's alter ego - James. This becomes the main fuel for the rest of the play.

Alter Ego alter ego alter ego again. Is this me better than that me? Is this better me and evil me real or I'm losing my mind. You should watch this one if you even one of the up above mentioned spices, or you are in eternal fight with other inner yourself.

8.3/10

p.s. soon I will make parallel with The Enemy (keep updated with me)

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2014-05-30T12:02:00.004+03:00

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Fatima - Yellow Memories (2014)

2014-05-22T16:40:00.004+03:00

Great modern r'n'b/soul album, by eglo records diva.

Yellow Memories is Fatima's debut album, but she already feels like an established artist. She's Eglo's in-house vocalist, and has had a starring role in many of the label's best moments, often bringing a beautifully soulful touch to the imprint's fuzzy and forward-thinking beats. She's also won plaudits for her guest songwriting and vocal work for producers such as Scratcha DVA and Dâm-Funk. You get the impression Fatima could have easily made an album years ago. The fact she's taken her time reflects what a considered project this is.

Listen to Yellow Memories from start to finish and you're immersed in a distinct mood. Introspective R&B and soul is the theme. Much of the music is ambitious. Take the Flako-produced "La Neta," which switches times signatures halfway through, or the Theo Parrish-penned opener "Do Better," which has a sense of virtuosity and drama that's uncommon in modern music. Eglo boss Floating Points is a lynchpin to the operation, having produced five of the record's 12 tracks. His partnership with Fatima has created two of the best cuts here: the climactic "Do Better" and the comparatively pared down "Biggest Joke Of All." The latter is simply a boom bap beat, an amazing vocal performance and a keyboard jam, but its simplicity is exactly what makes it work.

Other guest producers here include Scoop De Ville, Oh No and Knxwledge. None of these are huge names, but all have cult followings in the world of leftfield beatmaking, and every one of these collaborations is a winner. Particularly worth singling out is "Circle," produced by Computer Jay and the ever-impressive Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra. Here there's a scuffed up, almost psychedelic feel that, like so much of the album, is starkly contrasted by Fatima's expressive tones. That mix of traditional soul melodies with interesting and occasionally strange music is what makes Yellow Memories work so well. Fatima's voice is instantly rewarding, but keep coming back and you'll find elusive elements in the music you missed first time around.

Yellow Memories really is all killer and no filler. To the uninitiated, Fatima is likely to draw comparisons to Erykah Badu, particularly her New Amerykah albums, but that might not do justice to her originality. She really is a unique artist, and with a label like Eglo in support, she's likely to say that way.(taken from resident adviser)

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2014-05-21T04:27:00.001+03:00

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2014-05-21T01:11:00.001+03:00

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Vermont - Vermont (2014)

2014-05-07T12:37:00.001+03:00

With an artist roster as prolific and well-established as Kompakt's, you won't find much downtime that could be used for new entries to the catalogue. That's why we are especially happy to not only present the inaugurating full-length of VERMONT, but also introduce two distinguished producers to the fold that have built their impressive careers in our immediate vicinity, albeit appearing on the label for the very first time: Innervisions' MARCUS WORGULL and DANILO PLESSOW (of MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE fame), two floor familiars praised for their gripping club tunes that showcase a surprisingly unwound and novel side to their respective artist personas.

With VERMONT, MARCUS WORGULL and DANILO PLESSOW submit a noticeably mature work that seems to come from a well attuned production duo, effectively concealing the fact that this is their first collaborative effort... and a decidedly informal one at that: these cuts were not conceived with specific aesthetic goals in mind, but emerged from a series of loose jam sessions disclosing the trespassing spirit of the sonic adventurer. It's in the sanctum of Danilo's former Cologne studio, surrounded by an armada of vintage analogue synthesizers, that the two music buffs somewhat inadvertently tapped into the city's collective subconsciousness and minted fourteen sleek soundscapes of almost krautrockish proportions.

Exhibiting high amounts of arpeggiated curiosity and following a factual no-sampling policy, tracks like wonderstruck opener YAIZA, undulating bleepfest DYNAMIK, the cinematic ELEKTRON or ambient ballad MAJESTÄT are immersed in the enticing allure of freeform sequencing, even deciding to forego the full-blown percussion kits we've come to love in the two producers' main bodies of work. The restricted rhythmic pallet pays off extraordinarily well, as can be heard in the rich, breathing textures of KATZENJAMMER, DROIXHE or EBBE: if inclined to do so, one could label them as introspective synth poems, albeit with a strong sense for structure and dramaturgy that speaks volumes about the musical kinship of their originators - with or without drums.

With this kind of sonic DNA running in their systems, it should come as no surprise that Marcus and Danilo enlisted the help of luminaries DOMINIK VON SENGER (guitar on SHARAV, COCOS and MONTAG) and JAKI LIEBEZEIT (drums/percussion on COCOS and MACCHINA), two key figures of Cologne's krautrock scene - the former as guitarist with underground mainstays Dunkelziffer and Phantom Band, the latter as drummer for seminal pioneers Can. Further contributions come from Irish musician DERMOT O'MAHONY (violin on ÜBERSPRUNG) and Cologne agent provocateur LENA WILLIKENS (theremin on LITHIUM), two welcome additions to the sound of VERMONT: a sound that manages to be outstandingly soothing and inexplicably stirring at the same time, probably one of the rarest feats in electronic music today. (text taken from http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/vermont_cd)

17/20

Floating Points - King Bromeliad

2014-04-02T11:57:00.003+03:00

Floating Points has a new record on the way for Eglo Records.

Sam Shepherd's output has been scarce these past couple of years: in 2013 he put out the Wires 12-inch and contributed some previously released tracks to Eglo's first compilation, Eglo Records Vol. 1. His next EP features two tracks—"King Bromeliad" and "Montparnasse"—and, according to the Floating Points SoundCloud page, is due out "soon" via Eglo. You can listen to "King Bromeliad" in full below:

Tracklist
01. King Bromeliad
02. Montparnasse

King Bromeliad / Montparnasse is due out soon on Eglo.

Jamie XX - Girl/Sleep Sound

2014-04-02T11:54:00.001+03:00

Jamie xx will release a new double A-side 12", "Girl"/"Sleep Sound", May 5 via Young Turks. "Sleep Sound" was played during Jamie's BBC 6 mix late last year. Now, he's shared the full audio for the track Sleep Sound listen below.

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014)

2014-03-17T02:52:00.001+02:00

The most enjoyable album this year, i couldn't hear or clearly understand any of words, beginning is very pleasant, cheerful and willing. It seams to me that you can get, i one package, here Wilco, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and etc. All those which I haven't listening so much by myself either. Middle part of the album is almost ambient kind of thing. And as final there comes more alive songs which appear like from nowhere. Very delightful, for a very few listens, and it promises many more. It's kind of feeling that you already heard this somewhere or sometimes, and everything is so familiar and it's not at the same time. Magic on this one.

8,9/10

Damien Jurado ‎– Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son (2014)

2014-03-17T02:50:00.001+02:00

This is again proof that all good albums comes with not easy to explain why is something good, after first listen, i start to adore this record. I've never before even heard about this guy, and then I've checked album teaser and so some part of video from recording the album, it looked like visit to a shrink, more than recording music, some kind of trance state of mind of Damien and his producer. Some gurus and deserts and dusty sandy winds are blowing, through the desert mountains of this songs. Some mystic secrets and a lot of silver are melting down with this songs, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Sun. And yes Damien will soon play here in Belgrade, with sun of June.

8,5/10