Not sure how I've only just discovered this but the new single from Breach is basically the only thing I want in my ears. Take one-part Disclosure, one-part Azari & III and one-part 1990s garage catchiness then shake 'til done. Oh, the video is hot.
Iceland's Ólafur Arnalds turns his hand to techno here having previously focused on new classical sounds. Kiasmos is a collaboration with Bloodgroup's Janus Rasmussen and this track is taken from the forthcoming album.
Says Arnalds: "This song, like most of our songs, was made late on a Friday night while enjoying a glass or two of a nice Scotch. It’s one of our personal favourites of the upcoming album and is usually the point in our live set where things change from ‘slight head-bobbing chill’ to ‘all right, let’s party!'. We want to release this song ahead of the album to get ourselves as well as you all excited for a much more Kiasmos-active 2014!"
There's a real Jon Hopkins vibe to this, in the way it blends piano and techno… So it is perhaps unsurprising that you can them both at Sonar Reykjavík later this month.
Following on from his recent Bruh Jackman collaboration with production partner Jabru this debut release for Futureboogie treads a familiar path, blending soulful house and deep chunky rhythms.
Title track Change My Life is full of soft Rhodes and glittering soulful vocals, providing a warmth that rubs up against the techy, robotic bass work. It creates an uplifting and laid back modern disco record, the vocals arguably generic but functional in their determined optimistic independence. It's hazy disco music for dusk, and suitably lovely.
The tracks that follow are a little deeper. Lost From Me has a more delicate and distinctive vocal but innevitably isn't quite as instantly catchy. The simple drum patterns and rumbling bass lines build a heavy and more intense backing that feels like the moment just before a storm breaks.
Final track We Make Delicious is more techno influenced, thick drum patterns and menacing bass stabs create a stripped back, more minimal feel against which a sultry vocal dances along.
Change My Life is released through Futureboogie on 9 December on vinyl and 5 Jan on MP3 [affiliate links]. Preview the title track on Soundcloud:
One of the more tense moments from Jon Hopkins excellent album Immunity gets a pretty tense video from director Tom Haines. Sweaty and hypnotic.
This precedes an extended version of Immunicty, due out on 9 December, and the remixes of Collider, featuring Pangaee and Karenn & Objekt and out on 12" on 24 February. Hopkins will also be playing at Field Day on Saturday 7 June.
Strong and bold electronic soul courtesy of BlackPlastic favourites Debian Blak and Joshua Idehen of Benin City.
