Editor’s Choice: April 27, 2013
Rather than operate as a music news source, Electronic Beats operates more as a music information source. We want to share with you; we want you to know what we’re hearing, what’s reverberating through our cochleas and sending broader vibrations throughout our bodies, and by extension our audio-addled souls. Welcome to Editor’s Choice.
Michael Aniser (Contributing Editor)
Moon Wheel – “بابل,”
After releasing his first proper album on Not Not Fun earlier this month, Berlin based Moon Wheel just uploaded this suprisingly different track to Soundcloud. This is a deconstructed 4/4 banger, complicated techno, non-IDM…
Opal Tapes – “Batch 6”
The latest Opal Tapes Batch reads like an industrial techno all-star team. Shapednoise, S Olbricht, Rejections! Get it!
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Louise Brailey (Deputy Online Editor)
Stay Positive – “You Hate Me” feat. Cooly G
Stay Positive formerly known as Stay + formerly known as Christian AIDS hook up with the first lady of funky for this undiluted slab of high tensile Ibiza-optimised mongrelism. It’s all fun until someone gets sunburnt boobs and the drinking games start.
Lana Del Rey – “Young and Beautiful” (DH Orchestral Version)
“Will you still love me when I’m no longer young and beautiful?” Oh hush now, lil’ Miss Needy. Don’t ever change, Lana.
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Moritz Gayard (Online Duty Editor)
Excepter – “All the People”
It’s definitely been too long since news of the almighty no-punk outfit Excepter reached my inbox. Thank God Religion Records is just about to release a roster compilation entitled Psychic Selections Volume. 1, containing this instant classic.
Y◊ung Diam◊nd – “YBMB v.1”
Young Diamond is back with some dangerous dance beats aka nu rave dance shit. Enjoy the bass.
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Daniel Jones (Contributing Editor)
Jonny Teardrop – “O Mirror”
I got a lot of love for my boy Jonny. The Parisian punk’s music generally ranges from blown-out distortion to witchy bass—which makes gentle moments like “O Mirror” so captivating.
CRNKN X ƱZ – “Booty to the Ground” (Lazerdisk Party Sex Remix)
New Jack Trap?? God yes.
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Michael Lutz (Magazine Duty Editor)
Quasimoto – “Planned Attack”
A cut right off of the new Quasimoto LP Yessir Whatever which Stones Throw announced earlier this week. Check out a conversation between Madlib and Thomas Fehlmann, featured in Electronic Beats Magazine Winter 2012/ 2013.
Published April 26, 2013.