VARIOUS - Elaste Vol 2 (Compost Germany) Comentários: Finally available, double album selected by Tom Wieland named after the legendary German 80's fanzine Elaste. Great compilation featuring some rare electronic disco, space funk and other dance music oddities such as: Hippolytes - Blow You Out Tonight, Selection – Rebel On The Run, Jagg – Take Time, Panoptikum – Elaste, Alan Hawkshaw – The Speed Of Sound, Vulcans – Star Trek, LEB Harmony – Feeling Love, Ströer – Don’t Stay Till Breakfast, Zodiac – The Other Side Of heaven, Curt Cress – Sundance, Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody (Halucinogenik Version). [electronic-disco] in flexx [Para Ouvir/Samples]
ONRA - Chinoiseries (Label Rouge) Comentários: Brilliantly odd instrumental hip hop album here from Onra, compiled and constructed around vintage Vietnamese pop records picked up in flea markets on a trip to the far east. 32 short tracks make up "Chinoiseries", each of them clocking in at the 1 or 2 minute mark and delivering a tight selection of beats that somehow bring to mind J Dilla, Rza, Madlib, Moondog, MF Doom and the Sublime Frequencies label rolled into one beautifully incoherent package. Having a ravenous appetite for the "Radio Transmission" style beloved of the aforementioned Sublime Frequencies crew, we might be perfectly primed for this sort of thing, but while the dusty exotica, folk and plastic pop of the source material here could so easily have ended up sounding like the sterile plunderphonic coffee table beats that typified so much instrumental hip hop in the late 90's, Onra manages to harness the mystifying magic of the original material and
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