I finally got to experience a lot of live acts I'd been waiting years to see.

DEMF - Rhythm & Sound

They played 6 hours of dub reggae in the rain. I'm still not fully on board with the whole non-Burial Mix dub reggae thing, but one of the highlights of the festival was hearing them blast No Partial and Smile.

DEMF - Monolake

Mr. Henke fucking brought it. Although the sound was a little on the quiet side for the first few minutes, after he got going he proceeded to destroy the main stage.

DEMF - Kate Simko…

Top Releases of 2007:

Tony Allen - Ole Remixes

Moritz Von Oswald provides a sublime remix that treads upon a middle ground between the Maurizio records and the Rhythm & Sound label. A very welcome release for those of us who have been starving for non-dub-reggae Basic Channel output.

2Raumwohnung - Mir Kann Nichts Passieren / Ich Bin Der Regen Remixes

Another incredible remix by Moritz Von Oswald. Rumors were circulating that Basic Channel are splitting up, and if the end result of that is more Moritz Von Oswald solo work in this vein then I'm all for it.…

oh my god oh my god oh my god

Waiting for snow FINALLY got re-released. I've been wanting a copy of this album for, hell, probably more than 5 years. The problem until now has been that it was released in a run of only 1000 copies, so the only hope for landing one was paying stupid money on ebay or downloading it from a p2p network.

It'll be nice to replace my shittily-encoded set of mp3s with the real thing.

I just saw the T.S. Monk Sextet at the Great American Music Hall. They were incredible.

Helen Sung, their pianist, is a total fucking badass. I haven't been that entertained and impressed by a piano player ever. See her live. ASAP.

Deepchord is playing at fabric on December 8th.

I eventually have to experience fabric at some point, it may as well be for deepchord if they're not doing any US dates.

Murcof - Cosmos arrived in the mail today.

goddamn. if you haven't yet, go buy it. that's all i've got to say about that.

Uusitalo (aka Vladislav Delay) - Karhunainen

Tracklist:

1 Vesi Virtaa Veri
2 Korpikansa
3 Tohtori Kuka
4 Konevista
5 Sikojen Juhla
6 Karhunainen
7 Satumaa
8 Nälkälaulu
9 Himo Perkele
10 Puut Juuriltaan

Samples can be heard at the uusitalo myspace page. also, one of the tracks from the album can be downloaded on the huume website.

Sounds like it's gonna be a good one. He played Karhunainen at DEMF, plus a bunch of other dancey tracks. If those are gonna be on the album then I'm eagerly looking forward to it.

DEMF review:

things that were awesome

-shaking vladislav delay's hand
-vladislav delay's set
-hearing rhythm & sound play no partial, mango drive, and smile live
-hearing luciano play my favorite villalobos remix of all time, Moved (Ricardo Villalobos remix)
-seeing charles webster close with i'm your brother
-walking into the beatport tent just as mathew jonson brought the house down with magic through music
-being in the middle of a frenzied dancefloor when monolake brought out a ridiculous booty-shaking electro beat from nowhere
-rocking out to kate simko's set while standing two feet…

just found toneshared.com, which seems to be a repository for free ringtones made by various electronic musicians.

thomas brinkmann's are easily the best. and by that i mean they are incredibly annoying and hilarious, and if you used them as your actual ringtone everyone within hearing range of you would probably try to take your cell phone from you and destroy it.

in all seriousness, i'll probably use the ringtone provided by
vladislav delay, if i can figure out how to compress it to 600KB without making it sound like shit.

despite the fact that this lessens my chance of getting a copy, there's a new deepchord release coming out soon on heirophant records.

samples can be found at covert records' website.