Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden packed a couple of his own new productions into this new free mix that he loaded onto Soundcloud this week, according to FACT. When Domino issued his fifth solo LP in 2010, I wrote about it for Blurt Magazine: On There Is Love In You, Hebden explores more of the refined and understated house and techno that characterizes his 2008 Ringer EP, with a generous bundling of the organic elements that have so often enriched his work. Read more.
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Even as they’re busy with equally provocative electronic records in separate solo side projects, New York City producers Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma dealt an aurally dense and lively full-length as Sepalcure in 2011. I wrote about their absorbing EP called Fleur earlier this year, and the self-titled LP follows strongly the ambient house/bass-driven beat sound they’ve been turning out since 2009. Read my PopMatters piece on Sepalcure’s debut LP
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When London natives Jas Shaw and James Ford were in psyche-pop band Simian, their post-show DJ outings on tour might have been an accidental, necessary distraction for the duo at the time, but the throw downs eventually led to sizable matters. Their party-rockin’ moniker, Simian Mobile Disco, is what Shaw and Ford called themselves full-time when their band dissolved. On SMD’s Attack Decay Sustain Release (Wichita, 2007), Shaw and Ford’s clearly defined motive to wreck shit at parties is coupled with winning pop melodies. Read the rest of my 2007 Remix magazine feature, which has been formatted terribly for the Web. Simian Mobile Disco play MoMAPS1 today.
