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The Synthi Group is back for the second installment of their ongoing Electronic Music Studio (EMS) instrument centered compilations. With the popularity of Vol. I, downloaded over 41,000 times, it was made clear that an interest exists for the unique sound of EMS machinery. Vol. II continues the DIY ethic of the first, encapsulating a diverse array of sounds from ultrasonic frequencies and spring reverb howls to rubbery logic sequences and colliding inverted ramp oscillators.


Encompassing elements from vintage analog, ambient, glitch and experimental, both beginners and aficionados of electronic music alike will find interest in the varying styles presented here. Available through Clinical Archives, the Synthi Group: Vol. II must not be missed. Bleep.

1.
Artist: THM
Title: Flirtation In Paradise (The Apple And The Snake)
2.
Artist: Trinité
Title: Le Feu de Saint-Elme
3.
Artist: Frequency in cycles per second
Title: Proto-Raum
4.
Artist: Jacti
Title: Schizoland 9
5.
Artist: alka
Title: diode malfunktion
6.
Artist: Sam Samshuijzen aka SamZen
Title: One of these Imps
7.
Artist: Digitana
Title: Vayu Somnium
8.
Artist: Green Line
Title: Deodar Road
9.
Artist: Doombient
Title: Slower
10.
Artists: La Guerre Des Boutons (Trap & Zoid, Djp, Boeuf Stroganoff)
Title: 6eme sens giratoire
11.
Artist: Head Boggle
Title: Ampulla Synthi Mumbo
12.
Artist: Johan Schurer
Title: SpringTime
13.
Artist: Jonathan Fitoussi
Title: Music For Synthi
14.
Artist: Maelem
Title: Metal Aliens Lap Dance
15.
Artist: Mono-Poly
Title: Blip00
16.
Artist: George Kayavis
Title: Crackle
17.
Artist: Impulsantwort
Title: unsound structures
18.
Artists: Nicholas D. Kent and John Blackford
Title: subtonic

NUKE PLANT AERIAL #11

Rudolf - Hope Without Leg

From Archipel website :

"(...) "Hope Without Leg" ripple up the spine with a down and gritty nature which firmly clutches one's neural axons and brings them nearer to each other, shortening synaptic clefts, and thus digging its rolling rhythmic paws into newly formed pathways with which to travel throughout novel unexplored territories of quantum electricity".

Good to the bone

The Radars - Finger Licking Chicken

Songs for people in their thirties

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex (1996)



Spectrum - Indian Summer (Beat Happening cover - 1994)

Dystopia 12 & The Hord of Dancing Dots Mix

Duplan DJ set - 03/01/10

Dystopia 12 & The Hord of Dancings Dots Mix - DUPLAN DJ SET - 03-01-10 by Duplan

JulieAndrews / DjKoze / MarcHoule / Phunklarique / DustyKid / MiniBoyz / Ambivalent / NathanFake / DustyKid / DjKoze&GebrTeichmann / SimonBaker / Ambivalent / TimoMaas / MrOizo / ArthurRussel / ? / Rebotini / GabrielAnanda / DarioZenker / Koze / KassemMosse / Villalobos / Rayuela / Julie Andrews

Sous le signe du "V"

It's been two days I have this song in my head.

Lully - Jordi Savall - Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs

This is real Lounge music

Pas de la daube de chez Costes.

The Johnny Burt Sound - Lady Of The Mist




Complesso Gisteri - Sfumature (2a Versione)




Henri Mancini - Candlelight On Crystal

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #4 - Edgar Winter & Adriano Celentano

Aujourd'hui l'équipe de Nuke Plant Aerials est un peu paresseuse alors nous ne vous fournirons qu'une introduction rapide (et en français) des deux artistes de ce #4.

Edgar Winter, frère de Johnny, est un Américain à la crinière blonde albinos, joueur de saxophone, de piano, d'ukulélé, de basse, de batterie. Sa carrière, dans les années 70, est marquée par pas mal de disques relativement dispensables car hésitant toujours entre blues, funk et rock FM. Cela dit, quelques morceaux parviennent à surnager, et c'est le cas de la pièce proposée ici, excellent exercice de hard funk sorti en 71 et retrouvé sur une compilation de la maison Epic sortie la même année. Il faudra cependant faire abstraction des cris plutôt insupportables d'une choriste très zélée.

Tout le monde connaît Adriano Celentano grâce à son I Want To Know, classique de Radio Nostalgie. Ce beau gosse italien à la gouaille fameuse a fait autant de navets au cinéma qu'il a sorti de bons disques. D'abord très rockabilly, chantant dans un anglais parodié des reprises des années 50, Celentano est passé par une période variète sixties avant de connaître vraiment la gloire (du moins en Italie) dans les années 70. Accompagné d'une armée d'arrangeurs et de producteurs de génie, il a notamment eu une période disco-electro-funk-rock, marquée par quelques titres considérés par d'aucuns comme des classiques secrets. Les deux titres ici proposés méritent de se retrouver sur tous les Iphone du monde. Sortis en 79, ils ont vieilli comme du bon vin et ont gardé ce petit goût sucré qui en fait aujourd'hui de savoureux trésors.

So dig it !!

Edgar Winter - Give It Everything You Got




Adriano Celentano - Soli




Adriano Celentano - Pay, Pay, Pay

Expériences électroniques

I have posted him already, but he is worth it. Dan Deacon is a mad geek and a strong musical personnality as well. He particularly loves to mix Bach style harmonies with overdriven digital keyboards and Chip and Dale voices. His concerts are crazy shows where he stands in the middle of the crowd equipped only with a table covered with electronic devices, effects pedals, and toys. The track proposed here is pretty slow and contemplative for its first part, but it then joyfully shifts into a running cavalery of broken-up voices, to end up suddenly with the main theme again.

Trinité is an electronic trio from Paris and features members of Turzi, Chicros, Kill For Total Peace or One Switch to Collision. Using only a Tenori-on, vintage analog keyboards and oscillators (sometimes a string instrument), they like to build long electronic improvisations around a simple synthesizer phrase.

Two very different visions for an equal listening pleasure. Try them.

Dan Deacon - Snookered

Trinité - Cheyenne (Live @ l'International, 15-07-09)

The Black Cupboard Nuggets & Rarities #3 - Pop Concerto Orchestra

Today we have a not so rare (in France) 7" record from a old french band. Pop Concerto Orchestra was created in Paris in the 70's by Olivier Toussaint and Paul de Senneville, who were producers and composers of french pop at the time. Senneville was the owner of a small record label, Disc AZ. They created another band called Anarchic System. Throughout the 70's and 80's they had many hits with music for TV commercials, songs for french singers like Michel Polnareff or clowns like Richard Clayderman.
I have been listening to Pop Concerto Show on my parents K7 tapes since I was 3 or 4. It was really nice to find the vinyl and discover the B-side, Elga, which is great as well, more in a melancholico-kitsch style of great effect.

Dig it !!

Pop Concerto Orchestra - Pop Concerto Show




Pop Concerto Orchestra - Elga