A bowl full of mush

No comb, brush nor old ladies whispering 'hush', but we do have - as the children's bed-time story ordains - a bowl full of Mush. Has any record label ever been less suitably named? What little I know of their stuff is crunchy & snappy to a fault...

&, incidentally, has any ever offered a more sorted sample of their wares than this? (Temporary Residence - about to rerelease early Fridge, I see - is decent too, sure, but without the same buffet dimension.)

Anyway, despite my struggles with Bibio's hey nonny no tendences (I know, I know, Boards of Canada endorsement, universal love for Fi - but still not wholly persuaded...) his remix of Lymbyc Systym's Truth Skull [from Love Your Abuser Remixed] gets progressively finer & more warped - here's an LMYE hack that purges the dull first half & kicks off from the Tortoise homage/rip-off...

Also Mushy, Boom Bip & Doseone's deliciously pummelling & ranting The Birdcatcher's Return [from Circle]. 

Others new to my mush: 

Caural - Lake [from Remembering Today] & I Won't Race You [from Mirrors For Eyes]

Fisk Industries - Reflection [from EPs & Rarities]

More Fisk to fry after this...

Martian misadventure

"A sonic adventure inspire by the red planet and all the legends that surround the 4rd stone from the Sun. Electronic magic landscape drawing with sweeping filters, analogs sounds and retro drum-machines."

Well, yes. Don't know about that Martian malarkey (& there's more where that came from - lowell's canals, Helene Smith, the Laestrygon area...). Indisputably, though, the first track of Malaventura's new Mars EP is a luscious piece of shimmering old-school techno - with all the filtered retro-analogueness an inter-galactic traveller could hope to beam up: Cydonia. 

Also: Fernando's deftly jazzy Exploring the Surface (from The Secrets of the Moon) & the Satie swings by Detroit TAKE5 (from Ruidos+Piano, with Alejandro Ventura). 

Video (with background to this rewarding piece):   

Snail's pace in Saskatoon

After Foals, Foal - obviously! From squawky English yearning to luscious, impassive Canadian glitch (though the luscious glitcher appears to have moved on to something twangier these days...).

Anyway, the first slice from Chad's 2003 Nishi (net label) release re:construction: 5:11.

Get the whole thing here. & a live mix that features the first track here. & cough up a few downloads for his more recent Foliage here.

Happy accident department: Foal's current six-stringed output works well against the start of this absurdly good minimal mix by fellow Canuck Knowing Looks (whose Uzbekistan Love will have to be checked out!)...

Aimless and ambient

"Rather aimless and ambient" complained The Guardian. They say it like that's a bad thing!

Every so often, the near-infinity of annoyance that is Foals (MySpace) surprises me with a little gem. No great surprise, admittedly, that Kieran Hebden's epic remix of Cassius (listen via widget) resonated with these ears. 

But though their Antidotes was a way off LMYE's highlights of 2008 (also here), its Electric Bloom was also quite bracing. 

Now they've lobbed out a couple of quite tasty (whatever they say in Faringdon) works-in-progress: A Future Dub & XCFAVA . Have to draw the line at the choral 'Deux' version of Dub, though... 

But the best of the giveaways is this winningly moody, rackety take on some obscure B-side [try not to be put off by their "which we kinda prefer actually" comment]: Glaciers (Early Mix).

Keep your shirt on

Reuber is a master of a kind of post-krautrock & ruhig blut (on Staubgold) his masterpiece. Across its 50 minutes-plus this epic EP vaults a very German gamut - from exquisitely reflective, spacious ambience to an initially almost stately clanktronica that mounts in its own sweet time to splintering frenzy, & back again. 

With sincere thanks to Timo, a permissioned LMYE hack: from ruhig blut b. 

Albums: Anna/Kintopp/Suedpol

Also check out the inspired Live Sessions on his MySpace currently - again, channelling a deep immersion in the experimental/kosmische heritage...

Reuber is also half of the excellent Klangwart, by the way...