Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

20 August 2009

Alland Byallo - Concrete Leaves | Noice!

A great feature on my longtime friend and mad techno genius, Alland Byallo, who graces us with a new minimal tech-house DJ set.

from Noice! Podcasts:
Alland Byallo (KONTROL, Nightlight Music, Forward, SF)
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Earlier this year we had the whole Kontrol crew on our radio show. this week we welcome back one of SF's Finest. with the new Album "Brick by Brick" set to be released shortly, we expect great things from this Cat. without further ado, please welcome back: Alland Byallo.
Alland is one of the busiest men in the San Francisco techno community. Having produced electronic music for over 10 years and DJing for nearly as long Alland come to be an international talent, releasing original material and remixes on respected US and European record labels such as Liebe*Detail, Floppy Funk, Utensil Recordings and Dirtybird among many others, and headlining events all over. His music, a blend of old and new elements of techno, house and minimal, is regularly charted and has been licensed to CD’s released by Universal, OM Records, Proton Music and Airdrop Music.

Alland’s involvement with music didn’t just start from splurging and buying some 1200’s. Having been raised with music since the age of 5 playing piano, and adding trumpet at age 11, it only seemed natural for Alland to follow up his skills and training by sharing his taste in quality music with people as a DJ, and pursuing production. Alland is always quite busy in the studio working hard on his own unique take on electronic dance music for his own Nightlight Music imprint and many other labels. In 2006 Alland founded ElektrUS. This private forum is made specifically to increase European interest in the American minimal techno / tech-house scene. By providing a simple, central and easy means of communication, ElektrUS streamlines the booking process and maximizes the productivity of tour booking ventures. The hope is to make the US a more fun and respectable place for the techno community, and a more profitable venture for European talent and agents. This forum was a large part of successful US techno bookings in 2007 and 2008, and is set to help more in the coming years.

Not only is Alland a resident, graphic designer and A&R for what is arguably the States’ most respected and notorious techno night, [KONTROL], he is also booked regularly as the opening act for influences such as Superpitcher, Trentemøller, Michael Mayer, Booka Shade, M.A.N.D.Y., Swayzak, Miss Kittin, Modeselektor, Claude VonStroke, Jeff Samuel, Heartthrob, Redshape, Ambivalent and many others. Alland has quickly grown to be one of the most in-demand Techno talents that SF has to offer. Among many great parties, 2007 saw Alland performing live at Seattle‘s Decibel Festival and DJing at Lovefest in San Francisco. n 2008 Alland played a fantastic DJ set on the Beatport Stage at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF Movement), a DJ performance at Decibel 2008, and played a successful European tour including gigs at such world famous clubs Panoramabar in Berlin and Propoganda Moscow. His recent tour of Europe saw him play rockin sets and building goodwill at such illustrious clubs as Harry Klein in Munich, Week End club Berlin, Uebel & Gefährlich and Kubik in Hamburg, and Cyprus' infamous Klub D. And now with his full-length album Brick By Brick due out this summer it’s obvious that the future looks bright for both him and his label, Nightlight Music.
01: Kenny Leaven - Odyssey (dOP Remix) [Elenore]
02: Tuccillo - Panorama (Kalabrese Remix) [Delusions of Grandeur]
03: Tolga Fidan & Seuil - Galata [Eklo]
04: Volta & Salvatore Freda - Patatas Madras [Freerange]
05: Luciano - Oenologue [Cadenza]
06: Shenoda - Rage [Fresh Meat]
07: Ribn - Cottbus [Ovum]
08: Dustin Zahn - Wet Skin [Mindshake]
09: Brendon Moeller - The Boost [Connaisseur]
10: Carl Craig - Angel (Jerome Sydenham Vocal Dub) [Planet E]
11: Frozen Border - 2.1 [Frozen Border]
12: Nick Chacona - Time Bandit (Hideo Kobayashi Beats Mix) [Statra]
13: Bernard Badie ft. Dajae - Tonight (Git Down Tonight Dub) [Tony Records]
14: Miss Mee ft. Jiney & Mizzy - Surprise Me (Lunar Disco Dub) [Brique Rouge]
15: Francois K. - Mindspeak (Danny T's Hard & Soul Mix) [Wave Music]
Outro: Hollis P. Monroe - I'm Lonely (DJ Dozia Remix) [Stickman]

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16 April 2009

1997 melted » 2002 shattered » 2008 faded »

20 bruised serenades for the heartbroken, the battered, & the imploded, by various sirens whose whispers embraced pain on extended repeat.



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24 March 2009

Free Download: Neo Ouija - PercussionLab I

A Dionysian orgy of snaps, crackles & pops in a melodi-chrome fantasia!

Neo Ouija Percussion Lab Mix #1 by Neo Ouija

Tracklist:_________
1. Zegunder- Woolgather
2. Faction - Heavy Clouds
3. Bauri - Knusfilur
4. Geiom - Eitiel
5. Seven Ark - 3.21
6. Infant - Pring
7. Xela - Afraid of Monsters
8. Praveen - Haze
9. Seven Ark - Sixteen
10. Kettel - Her Thin Voice
11. Metamatics + Clatterbox - How I Missed You
12. Sense - Lament
13. Apparat - Riding
14. Accelera Deck - Ghosts Come Clean
15. Honey Sacrifice - Snowblack

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Deutsch Hip-Hop der Alte Schule

Rakein's Deutschrap and Rockmix

Funny (and totally true) decade-old anecdote:
My college German professor was so cool, she let me bring in Napster-burnt CDs of Bushido, Nina MC, & Die Fantastischen Vier, translating them for the entire class to learn slang from.
Until, that is, certain lyrics made them edelweiss cheeks flush with embarrassment!
:-P

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13 February 2009

Cooler - B'ala

virtual sex / sexo virtual
Image by Ferran. via Flickr
Right in time for Valentine's Day, get down with that special someone® to the new joint by Cooler off the new Cup of Chi 13!  Zehr romantische!



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09 February 2009

Cup of Chi Vol. 13

Hot on the heels of Cup of Chi 12, Modul hammers it home yet again, with a sizzling and relentlessly grimy banger, AciderAMB brings the high-energy pain, with some twists of whimsy, in FlagpoleCooler gets effect-crazy in the down-tempo electro-acoustic B'ala.


Release notes:
Artists: V/A
Title: Cup Of Chi vol.13.
Genre: House / BreakBeat / Downtempo
Label: Chi Recordings
CatNum: COC013
ReleaseDate: 23/02/2009
Soon after the success of the 12th Cup of Chi, Modul kicks off the follow-up with the driving tech-house "Acider" - a kind of free-jazz battle between a wobbling, ever-ruling bass-line, a catchy hook, and densely slurping textures. AMB, who seems to have been popping back to the breaks wing recently, takes over with the energetic "Flagpole" that you probably wouldn't label cruel - until you arrive at the drop in the breakdown perhaps. Cooler concludes the package with "B'ala" delivering an excellent musical blend of acoustic and synthesized sounds.


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