va . body language vol. 1 by m.a.n.d.y. [cd get physical, 2005]

diversas vezes, quando vou na rua, várias pessoas interpelam-me ...
muito raramente alguns amigos - aqueles 3 ou 4 com gostos semelhantes aos meus - perguntam-me que mixcd aconselharia no meio de um mercado saturado de propostas diversas mas bem lá no fundo praticamente iguais.
nessas alturas assumo o meu papel de guru e falo nos m.a.n.d.y. capaz de revelar ao menos atento interessado nas novas linguagens da música de dança coisas como booka shade, mathew jonson, recloose, isolée ou luciano e misturado com mestria (cacofonia), "body language" é bem capaz de ser a melhor das propostas e tem a vantagem de colar "i feel space" de lindstrøm com "moon roller" de francisco - algo que deveria ser institucionalizado em diário da república como obrigatório em qualquer pista de dança.
observando o alinhamento com a distância de quase meio ano, "body language" traz poucas novidades (facto) mas compensa isso com outro facto. ao incluir praticamente tudo o que de melhor foi feito nos últimos tempos de forma a constituir uma boa escuta em viagem ou numa soirée de amigos - daquelas em que, valha a verdade, passado uma hora já ninguém quer saber da música para nada - "body language" é um winner. ao nível, por exemplo, da compilação "kreucht & fleucht" de dominik eulberg da qual falarei noutro dia.

stereo - janeiro 2006

01. ricardo villalobos . achso [2x12" cadenza, 2005]
02. prins thomas . goettsching [12" full pupp, 2005]
03. john tejada . voyager [12" palette, 2005]
04. mikkel metal . victimizer [cd kompakt, 2006]
05. hell . the final countdown [12" international deejay gigolo, 2005]
06. richie hawtin . the tunnel / twin cities [12" novamute, 2005]
07. biosphere . dropsonde [cd touch, 2005]
08. lady sovereign . vertically challenged [cd chocolate industries, 2005]
09. pablo bolivar . anjanas [cd regular, 2006]
10. james cotton . dance of death [12" udek, 2006]

wighnomy bros. | robag wruhme . remikks potpourri [cd mute, 2005]

como o próprio nome indica (remikks, 'tão a ver?) o cd em epígrafe inclui as remixes dos wighnomy bros e de robag whruhme efectuadas nos dois ultimos anos, mais 2 inéditos, um deles o fantástico bobb für F .
"remikks potpourri" é assim um resumo essencial das movimentações desta dupla (wighnomy bros é sören bodner e gabor schablitzki, gabor schablitzki é robag wruhme) nas diversas vertentes do minimal techno, nomeadamente no lado mais próximo dos conceitos de música pop, novo milénio e música pop no novo milénio.

francisco . music business [cd nature, 2005]

diz a wikipedia:

"Italo disco is a style of electronic dance music that was popular during the 1980s. The style contains more synth pop/electro elements than does American disco, which developed from funk and soul. As the name implies, many italo disco artists came from Italy but the term applies to music in this style irrespective of the performers' origins.

Electronic dance music started to develop in the late 1970s when traditional sounding disco bands began to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic effects. This early form of electronic dance music is unofficially called "space disco" due to its odd sounds and sci-fi stylings. One of the main influences during this period was the producer, Giorgio Moroder.

Italo appeared as a developed form in 1982 in Italy, with artists releasing completely electronic songs using drum machines and other equipment. Synth-pop, New Wave and the New Romantic genres were the foundations for italo taking off, as these became very popular around the world at this same time during the early 1980s. Typical songs were simple, with catchy melodies, and were often sung using vocoders and overdubs. Much of the genre featured love-song lyrics sung in heavy English accents—in most cases such accents were affected; English was the artists' second language. Along with love, italo disco themes deal with robots and space, sometimes combining all three in songs including "Robot is Systematic" (1982) by 'Lectric Workers and "Spacer Woman"(1983) by Charlie.

Many see 1983 as the height of italo, with frequent hit singles and many labels starting up around this time. Such labels included American Disco, Crash, Merak, Sensation, and X-Energy. The popular label Disco Magic released more than thirty singles within the year. The term "italo disco" was reputedly coined by Bernhard Mikulski, the founder of ZYX Music (Germany), in 1984 when ZYX released their first volume of "The Best Of Italo Disco" series.

During the late 1980s italo began fading away and some groups moved into the HI-NRG genre, which combined high-paced italo and house. Such artists include Divine and The Flirts. Also during the mid-1980s Spacesynth developed as a sub-genre of italo. This style of italo was mostly instrumental and focused more on space sounds than the earlier pop-oriented songs.

Italo disco developed a cult following and releases in 1998 by Legowelt, and in 2000 by Jeans Team, Bangkok Impact and Hong Kong Counterfeit were among those that fuelled renewed interest. As of 2005 several online radio stations stream the genre and underground clubs are playing the records widely again. Its renewed popularity is inspiring re-releases and new mixes on many of the record labels that released the genre initially. ZYX records has released many new CD mixes since 2000. Labels like Panama Records and Radius Records have gone through great lengths to find the original artists of obscure italo tracks for re-release on vinyl."


os exageros barrocos e o hedonismo militante característicos do italo disco são muitas vezes de difícil compreensão para cérebros menos habituados às cascatas de sintetizadores a divagar alegremente no fio da navalha do bom gosto. o melhor será talvez começar por "moon roller", primeiro single editado ainda em meados de 04 e então, baseado nesse pressuposto, avançar como se não houvesse amanhã para a escuta deste álbum. "music business" é o reflexo da ideia de uma bola de espelhos cercada por borboletas numa pista de dança semi-deserta onde italo, space disco e classic house se fundem em algo que numa língua estrangeira se poderia definir como jollymusic [não por coincidência um dos projectos paralelos de francisco].

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50 discos para 2005

para memória futura. hoje são uns, amanhã seriam outros. a bola é redonda e o mundo também. então é assim, por ordem alfabética, senhoras e senhores, uma lista com os melhores 50 discos de fandango editados no ano que ainda agora terminou, com a certeza que fica muita coisa por ouvir e com o denominador comum no groove, declarado ou implícito:

alex smoke . incommunicado [soma]
alex under . dispositivos de mi granja [trapez]
[a]pendics shuffle . helicopter hearts [orac]
atmosphere . you can't imagine how much fun we're having [rhymesayers]
atom™ . acid evolution 1988 - 2003 [logistic]
audion . suckfish [spectral]
blockhead . downtown science [ninja tune]
boards of canada . the campfire headphase [warp]
boy robot . rotten cocktails [city centre offices]
breakestra . hit the floor [ubiquity]

cage . hell's winter [definitive jux]
colleen . the golden morning breaks [leaf]
common . be [geffen]
deaf center . pale ravine [type]
dj koze . kosi comes around [kompakt]
flanger . spirituals [nonplace]
francisco . music business [nature]
iñaqui marín . klinischtod [regular]
isolée . we are monster [playhouse]
jacen solo . virgo [ai]

jamie lidell . multiply [warp]
jan jelinek . kosmischer pitch [~scape]
jesse somfay . between heartbeats [archipel]
juan atkins . the berlin sessions [tresor]
juan maclean . less than human [dfa]
kano . home sweet home [679 recordings]
kanye west . late registration [roc-a-fella]
kaos . hello stranger [k7]
kelley polar . love songs of the hanging gardens [environ]
lawrence . the night will last forever [dial]

lcd soundsystem . lcd soundsystem [dfa]
lindstrøm & prins thomas . lindstrøm & prins thomas [eskimo]
lontano . chroma [factor city]
luke vibert . lover's acid [planet mu]
malcom kipe . breakspiracy theories [merck]
markus guentner . 1981 [kompakt]
matias aguayo . are you really lost [kompakt]
metope . kobol [areal]
misc . like morning in your eyes [sender]
murcof . remembranza [leaf]

out hud . let us never speak of it again [k7]
pier bucci . familia [crosstown rebels]
quantic soul orchestra . pushin on' [tru thoughts]
rocky marsiano . the pyramid sessions [loop]
roots manuva . awfully deep [big dada]
sharon jones & the dap-kings . naturally [daptone]
stavöstrand & skugge . humla [onitor]
vector lovers . capsule for one [soma]
whitey . the light at the end of the tunnel is a train [1234]
whomadewho . whomadewho [gomma]