Another month has passed and it’s time for Remixta Episode #11. This time we are bringing you lots of different music from all over the world. Keith303 starts the show with his above great House music. Lot more rhythmic dance music by Noby, Amok, Tarek-FM who keep the tempo up. Some really evil Zombiecore by Dead By Silence. Really excellent IDM from a newly found act Aech Rom, that picture in the header is also connected to his music, it really sounds like the picture, doesn’t it? (Picture itself is made by excellent concept artist Bastien Grivet).

Also we are playing some Hip Hop, ambient, and lots of other stuff. So, enjoy the show, keep sending us great music and see you next time in Remixta episode 12!

Track list

1. 00:00 :: Keith303 – Devil in Disguise (evoke’10 cut)
2. 03:37 :: Noby – Monophonique
3. 07:02 :: in_tense – Minus Touch
4. 13:12 :: Amok – POP-IT!
5. 21:03 :: Simon Harris – Ecstasy – The Sheer Fun of It
6. 22:11 :: Dead by Silence – Invisible Zombie
7. 25:26 :: Tarek-FM – Mindbender
8. 30:19 :: Aech Rom – Sick Duck
9. 33:31 :: KOTR – Brain On Drugs (Production by dtunez)
10. 38:09 :: Void Pointer – Tuesday
11. 41:50 :: Bad Bandwidth – On The Edge Of The Bandwidths

During the show we had fun on Renoise IRC. Some people thought IDM is pretty cool genre, but the name sucks. People started think new meanings for the acronym. Some of those were, “Intellectually Decadent Mess”, “I Dig Modulations”, “I Drink Milk”. Also someone mentioned that Zombiecore is a dead musical genre…

Show begins with a track by Renoise technical music guru It-Alien who may not be called Eye-Tea Alien, because his name does not come from Impulse Tracker nor Information Technology (nor Internet Things for that matter), but is a pun on word “Italian”.

Next, we play lots of different electronic music introduce couple of amazing albums and talk about the brand new release under Remixta netlabel.

Tracklist

1. It-Alien – A Comet Passing By
2. Amok – Sea Of Tears
3. S-Wrong – Captain Hastings
4. Braintwister – Blockade Runner
5. Hitori Tori – Cold As Fuck
6. Binärpilot – Underground
7. The Hooligan – Viper mk2 Closing the Spacestation
8. Braintwister – Calculus
9. D Fast – Consideration
10. Slippycurb – Chlorine
11. Ashkan Asgary aka ashy!mpala – Lower Back Tattoo
12. Braintwister – Structure
13. Makunouchi Bento – Rain Dragon, Hidden Genius
14. keith303 – From My Halcyon Heart

Braintwister – Identity Matrix

The same day as this show was broadcast, Remixta netlabel released an album by Braintwister. The album contains four tracks of quite original Drum and Bass with lots of sub bass and mathematical rhythms.

I received the material quite long time ago and I was planning for a grandiose release, but I found myself short of time to do all the stuff required, so the release was postponed several months until I finally decided to just release it on bandcamp and let the music do the talking.

Great release nevertheless, and thanks to everyone who helped us to get it on the internet. If you enjoy it, show some love to Braintwister (kasmo) on renoise forums: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27228

Hitori Tori – Kinematics

“This collection of songs evokes the disorienting feeling of daily commutes on high speed trains in the Kansai region of Japan. The view out of the cabin window was an endless blur of bobbing telephone wires and slanted trees.”

In 1998 Julian La Brooy’s four track recorder was tragically destroyed. A sound tracker completely changed everything and Hitori Tori was born. Agitated breaks became combined with tweaked arpeggiated synth lines, and a few lugubrious tones were thrown into the background for good measure.

Early releases included tracks as part of the electronic duo Finch on the Sugarmonk Omniscience Complilation in 1999, followed by several electroacoustic tracks out on Luumu recordings. Fasp, another musical incarnation, released an album on the Nishi net-label in 2002. In 2010, Hitori Tori continues with his meticulously detailed productions releasing series of 8 digital singles on Balanced Records.

Having played shows in Japan and Canada, Hitori Tori currently performs and resides in Vancouver.

(Description taken from: http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.e/pan_047/)

Hitori Tori is also one of the well known Renoise artists and is specially notable because of his amazing Renoise live skills using LividIndustry Ohm64. Read more about this and watch a video at Renoise In:Depth.

Makunouchi Bento – Swimé

Probably one of the best Renoise related albums from this year.  One of the most interesting Ambient albums of all time. Filled with atmospheric textures and strange sounds from very wide spectrum of superb acoustics.

Strange melodies mixed with animal voices, sounds of nature and city into psychotic composition with amazingly clear sound image which won’t leave anyones emotions untouched.

Definitely an album worth getting, and you can get it for free on Bandcamp:

http://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com/

Binärpilot – Nordland

Not really a Renoise album, but Binärpilot does use Renoise from time to time, and I just find his music great enough.

Binärpilot comes with a brand new album Nordland. Another 10 tracks of chiptune inspired dance music that just makes your feet move.

“Due to our symbiotic state, the memories of my host have begun seeping through. It comes to me in vivid fragments, saturated with the hopes and ideas of human adolescence. How beautiful it is to aspire, how delicate a process it is to construct an identity through pieces of idolatry and inspiration. Now, these are all memories I am happy to share. Reflections on abandonment, opposition, but most of all joy. Don’t forget to dance.”

The album is available in several different formats, some of them free, go check out the options at http://binaerpilot.no/

Like every time, every song in this show requires a hilight, but other than album tracks I would like to hilight the great track by DDtMM from year 2006, not much to say: there is a good reason why I would play that old track. Also, special mention goes to the ending track by Joulac. Starting off as really cheesy trackerish house track with a little twist that takes you somewhere totally else.

But who wants to read a lots of words, better start listening!

Tracklist

1. Polybius – Appleyard
2. Lackluster – Ism Psm Sm (EP Aeration)
3. Helvetikone – Bender (Album Bubble Hum)
4. Charly Linch – The Fall
5. Next Life – The Reunion (Album The Lost Age)
6. Next Life – World Map (Album The Lost Age)
7. mr mark dollin & Alex Strain – Saint Santa (Album mmd_as)
8. DDtMM – The Breakup
9. Transient – You and Me
10. Juolac – Feel Your Heart Started

Albums of Greatness

mr. Mark Dollin and Alex Strain – mmd_as

After long time of work two musical masterminds have created this amazing release free for everyone to listen. Mixture of complex ambient soundscapes, haunting lyrics and impressive rhythm sections are the keywords that can be used to describe this album, but there surely more than just those things that make this release as good as it is.

Remixta plays a track Saint Santa from the album which is a critical view of the commercialized holiday called christmas. This track was also released earlier as a christmas present for the community.

My favourite beside this track is Phoebe, but as said, this album is full
of greatness and you can hear from every single note that those two australian artists have spent more time working with each individual track than many other artists spend time on entire album.

Transient – Symphony of Curves

Transient brings us a new album filled with amazing collage of samples. A downtempo/triphop release which in it’s whole goodness is availabe as a free download for everyone.

Crisp master, positive and groovy melodies together with lots of
variations keep the listener engaged through the entire album and leave them wanting for more. Not much to say here but the same words I left in the Renoise forums under the album thread: This release just pure awesomeness.

Remixta plays first track from the album, You And Me. Not neccesarily my favourite track from the album, but as all the tracks are good and have their own special moments full of goodness needed to play I just chose the easy way out and started from the beginning.

Next Life – The Lost age

Something totally unexpected from Renoise scene. Some progressive metal music mixed with chiptune elements, complex rhythmic structures, ripping guitars and various electronic textures. This two man project from norway surely knows what they are doing, and not only on album — they have said to have great live shows. I have heard the claim from many people I trust so I am confident to recommend for you to go and see them next time they perform nearby.

The album contains 16 tracks, each of them less than two minutes long. The short tracks are bit problematic for radio DJ like myself, but together as an album work very well in continous pushing structure.

Remixta plays two tracks from this album.

Helvetikone – Bubble Hum

The artist name is said to be just some random made up word that doesn’t bring too many unrelated google search results, but thanks to the finger of fate the word sounds very close to Helvetin Kone which in finnish means “The Hells Machine”. This is actually what the music sounds like for me. Minimalistic electronica with touch of something really dark and hellish.

How exactly it sounds for you is up for you to decide as Remixta presents track number six, Bender, from the album. It is also interesting to note that the man behind this project is also the man behind Renoise. The allmighty Taktik himself.

Don’t listen to this stuff when riding in a bus, you may fall a sleep and miss your stop! To avoid getting into looprides with a bus, I ended this show with something bit faster. A remix of hit track from last time.

As I had many other tracks I wanted to play, but had already exceeded the time limits, I may release second podcast this month, with more dance oriented stuff aswell.

Track list

1. Mick Rippon – Legend of Woo (Xerxes Remix)
2. Oleksus – Дзвін (Ringing)
3. Void Pointer – Mushroom Fever
4. mr mark dollin – Long (From album 3 Smargaid Maerd)
5. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts 32 (Xerxes Remix)
6. Knetter – Sketches of Mind (SDC 32. winner)
7. Void Pointer Feat. Jaede – Stuffed Animals (Haga & Plen’s Schizophrenic ’99 mix)

3 Smargaid Maerd

Todays episode of Remixta includes a track by mr. mark dollin from his latest album 3 Smargaid Maerd. One of the greatest electronica releases in this year.

I picked the track “Long” because this is my favourite track from the new album, it reminds me a bit more of the previous work from 2 Smargaid Maerd. Cold and dark, yet warm sounding and highly technical ambient soundscapes. His music is really original to him, and his distinct sound is something that really sticks with you.

This album, according to his own words, like previous albums in the series, deals with the meeting place of organic melody and quirky electronica: thematically dealing the unknown realms of delicate emotion and lucid dreaming. There is a general progression from loose improvisations to structured dramas.

You can fetch this album together with full digital artwork and his previous works from from his homepage.

Discuss this episode here (Renoise Forums)

This time the podcast is mostly concentrated on groovy and melodic dance music influenced by music from 70′s to 90′s but there also more modern sounding tracks, so I hope it’s pleasurable listen to everyone.

This is the first time I am doing a podcast and first time I am commenting on the radio show in english language so bear with me on the accent and bit clumsy speaking. There is room to improve and it shall be better next time.

If you have any new great stuff coming out please get in touch with me so we can showcase it on the next episode. Also send me a link to your new tracks if you have any if I like them I just might to play them on the next podcast!

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Playlist

1. Hooligan – Frozen
2. Tenda – Confrontation
3. Beatslaughter – Siedepunkt
4. Void Pointer feat. Jæde – Stuffed Animals
5. Binärpilot – Robot Wars (check out the video)
6. Hooligan – Nitrodisco
7. D Fast – Do You Wanna Dance With Me
8. Mitch Murder – Mellow Mode
9. Antismap – Cyclic dream

I used Mr. Mark Dollin track titled Happy Pain on the rant between the tracks. I didn’t have intentions to play any music by Mr. Mark Dollin this time, but I had this track handy for backing ambience. Don’t worry though, I will probably play something by him next time!

Showcase

This months podcast is showcasing a great new album Planet Boogie by one of the best Renoise artists D Fast. 80′s style funk/disco featuring technical grooves, big variety of instrumentation and excellent mastering.

This is something you will definitely enjoy if you like to shake your booty to the groove now and then. The track we are playing Do You Want To Dance With Me asks you a question… So do you want to take a little dance with music by D Fast? Ofcourse you do! Don’t hesitate to spend a buck and order the album now!