Apocalyptic lovers

"Cavernous Dub, Tearjerking Ballads, Apocalyptic Lovers, Gangsta House, Smack hop, Dancehall Shoegazing, No Wave Blues, Slo-fi Soul, The Stars, The Oceans, Love, Lust, Loss and Sensuality"

King Midas Sound's Waiting For You is one of the albums of the year, clearly. Smearing woozy ethereality over a dubstep with the emphasis on dub is unanticipated - & often mesmerising.

Its accumulating intensity is highlighted in the spacey, chiming Too Long, featured alongside an illuminating interview with The FADER earlier this week.

All of KMS's earlier Dub Heavy - Heats & Ghosts EP - which includes the, ironically, original Too Long Dub - & their Surround Me track from the outstanding first Box of Dub compilation can be heard in this Spotify playlist, by the way. No surprise that the new version & the dub mix together beautifully (hear them together via SoundCloud below)...& whichever of the countless original Troddings that seems to be cited in Too Long ought to fit too.

Too Longer (Too Long + Too Long Dub)

King Midas Sound > Too Long (unreleased; courtesy of KMS & The FADER)

Photo by Niall O'Brien

Important: LMYE only makes music available that artists/labels have chosen to share freely. Let us know if something here shouldn't be.

Continuing the inter-generational conversation

BreakThru Radio re-up: on paper, the Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid collaborations could have been commissioned for a pair of Four Tet fiends & jazz-loving chin-strokers like LMYE. In practice, the ensemble stuff often plays it safe (even when getting pretty free) by leaving Kieran to squiggle electronically in the background. But the duos are particularly rich, subtle, fascinating conversations between two generations of musician & any number of genres.

To these ears, the pair's highlight so far is the timeless yet fantastically modern Our Time from Tongues. Their We Dream from The Exchange Sessions Vol. 2 is less obviously beautiful, but still spurts & pounds to massive effect (NB: version here is a giveaway edit...).

One peak from the ensemble is the intense Which One? from Spirit Walk; the storming Lions of Juda, especially, & Lugano are deep workouts too. 

Jiggy Jiggy from the more recent Daxaar starts fairly lame, but gets rather more rewarding as it builds (NB: giveaway version to comply with LMYE's hair-shirt policy on music under a year old...); the title track is fiercer, by the way.



To finish, here's a couple of other collisions of jazz heavy-ish weights with more contemporary-ish sounds: Pharoah Sanders with the underrated 23 Skidoo - Hendang (from 23 Skidoo) - & Courtney Pine with Attica Blues - Trying Times (from Another Story; there's a bone-crunching version from an old Talkin' Loud promo, Year on Year).

Official Hebden/Reid video:

Tiki-taka

Tikiman/Paul St. Hilaire is the commanding, supplicating voice of much of the great Rhythm & Sound/Burial Mix output that LMYE's been celebrating lately (see here, here & here).

Besides his own Basic Channel-linked label (False Tuned), he collaborates pretty constantly & widely - including with Apparat & Modeselektor last year: check out the ferocious live workout of Let Your Love Grow on Things To Be Frickled, or the marginally more restrained version on Happy Birthday...

He was also on Soul Jazz's first Box of Dub dubstep compilation last year.



Here's some other non-Rhythm & Sound outings (Main Street isn't too far from its BC cousin, granted, but anyway...) - several G-Stone sessions among them:

Dub in a Nutshell ft. Paul St. Hilaire > You Never Know [SoulPhiction Mix] (from Motorsoul Vol.1)

Main Street feat. Paul St. Hilaire > Acting Crazy [Club Vocal] (from Round One to Round Five)

Mind over Midi featuring Tikiman > Revelation (from World Dub Pastry)

Rodney Hunter feat. Paul St. Hilaire > Vampire (from Dub Club - Picked From The Floor EP)

StereoTyp meets Tikiman > Jahman [Original Version] (from My Sound)

Live:

Right on for the darkness

Get over to Skull Disco pronto for a giveway mix. It's a dark, clanking hour in DST's company - one that really encapsulates this huge, echoey sound.

Would have liked to link this up with one of the awesome Shackleton & Peverelist remixes of Pole. But LMYE's lonely but sincere 'policy' on not posting music unless the artist has made it freely available won't allow that...

For now, here's the original Winkelstreben (from Steingarten). Before the Peverselist treatment, it was a fine piece of 21st century Krautrock.

Also, check out an earlier Pole collision with a dubby edge: the shimmering Balalaika Dub with Manuela Krause (from Mein Freund Der Baum on Monika Enterprise, home of a number of LMYE's German electronica favourites; also on this quite tasty compilation, which also includes Burial Mix lynchpin Tikiman/Paul St Hilaire & Cabaret Voltaireist Richard H. Kirk's Sandoz...).

Back to SD, live video:

Inter-generational conversation

On paper, the Kieran Hebden/Steve Reid collaborations could have been commissioned for a pair of Four Tet fiends & jazz-loving chin-strokers like LMYE. In practice, the ensemble stuff often plays it safe (even when getting pretty free) by leaving Kieran to squiggle electronically in the background. But the duos are particularly rich, subtle, fascinating conversations between two generations of musician & any number of genres.

To these ears, the pair's highlight so far is the timeless yet fantastically modern Our Time from Tongues. Their We Dream from The Exchange Sessions Vol. 2 is less obviously beautiful, but still spurts & pounds to massive effect (NB: version here is a giveaway edit...).

One peak from the ensemble is the intense Which One? from Spirit Walk; the storming Lions of Juda, especially, & Lugano are deep workouts too.

Jiggy Jiggy from the more recent Daxaar starts fairly lame, but gets rather more rewarding as it builds (NB: giveaway version...); the title track is fiercer, by the way.



A couple of other collisions of jazz heavy-ish weights with more contemporary-ish sounds: Pharoah Sanders with the underrated 23 Skidoo - Hendang from 23 Skidoo - & Courtney Pine with Attica Blues - Trying Times from Another Story (NB: there's also a bone-crunching version on a Talkin' Loud giveaway, Year on Year).

Official Hebden/Reid video: