25 Boards of Canada Songs in 30 minutes

Some mini clips from many Boards of Canada tracks making a sampler.

 

It Ain't My Fault by Mos Def and Lenny Kravitz - James Curd Remix

Another jazz oriented remix by James Curd. This song was created in response to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico almost one year ago today. It ain't my fault. It is the fault of an irresponsible, unprofessional, greedy, devilish oil company called BP.

Jazzbit - Sing Sing Sing (Yolanda Be Cool & DCup Radio Mix) [Video]

The classic swing tune Sing, Sing, Sing remixed by Dcup.

"Blame" by House Calls

Both Flosstradamus & James Curd (both from Chicago) have been producing and remixing dance tunes for sometime but I have never heard anything they have done together until they teamed up to call themselves House Calls. This is a track from a relatively new and unknown genre of music called Electroswing that is coming out of Western Europe and now is getting popular in Chicago (and I'm sure other cities). The world's first Electroswing club opened in London 2009 so it seems like it might be around for a minute.

Stevia (Susumu Yokota) - Sensitive Planet (1997)

Susumu Yokota pseudonym Stevia on some minimal chillout house.

Susumu Yokota - Saboten

Susumu Yokata it strange, incredible and as original as it gets. He has been releasing different types of electronic music for almost 20 years yet most music lovers have no idea who this mysterious Japanese enigma is. I was first exposed to his Image (1983-1998) album via a mad scientist friend who owned a record store and lent me a used store copy. I was confused by his music at first but the more life slowly melted away all that I thought I knew to be true, the more true Yokota's productions felt to my ears. Music that sounded non conventional with a lack of structure and order began to match the true nature of things and sound as real (at times more real than) as structured music.  I recently looked him up on youtube and there are some really cool visual art/videos that have been added to his music by fans. His music is often soundscape like and perfect for bizarre and beautiful visuals.

His works released under his own name are mainly electronic experimental albums with pieces of various genres mixed in but he has many pseudonyms that produce such genres as house, minimal house, ambient and glitch. In addition to Susumu Yokota he has releases albums under the following: Anima Mundi, Ebu, Prism, Ringo, Stevia, Ying & Yang, Yokota, 246, and an album with Rothko.

Toddska - Gal From England

New Tropical banger from Toddska. Toddla & Roska linked up to do the  'Toddska' EP. Tropical and bass meet head on.

Jan Jelinek - Do Dekor

Time to get back to some more ambient electronic music focusing clicks and cuts. I blame 4/20 for the shift. Here we have a mellow Jan Jelinek track from the wonderful ambient electronic album Loop-finding-jazz-records album.

Original Old School Perculator

I almost forgot what time it was. This is one of my favorite youtube videos ever, the new school sinks up with the old school to transform brilliance.

Tigre - Pocz & Pacheko

Here is a pretty chill UK Funky sounding tune from Pocz & Pacheko. I like the images, angles and effects in the video. They utilize technology while basing the video on nature and simplistic images which end up looking much more weighty than they would normally.

Happy Birthday Mix for Mary Jane

So in honor of my girlfriend Mary Jane's birthday on April 20th I decided I would post this mix I made for her a few years ago. It is about a half hour in length, the first half is reggae and the second half is hip hop. Enjoy. 

420 mix by MadCoins

Killed By Synth - baile FREAK (Estelle x Kid Kaio x KBS edit) remix video

The main message is that she can be a freak, in case you missed it.

Nicolas Jaar - Mi Mujer

I know everyone has been on Nicolas Jaar's nuts lately so I hesitated posting this. A lot of people don't understand how this guy is getting so many props in the last year. I am not familiar with much of his music but from what I have listened to it seems his "unremarkableness" (new word i just coined) is actually what makes him so fresh. In an ADHD age where there are so many monster build ups, unnecessary crescendos and grinding, wobbling bass at every corner of new music, it is refreshing to hear some talented, relentless balance that does not stray from funky head nodding for over 6 minutes. It won't snap your neck or make you have a seizure but it will certainly make you want to groove as you lose yourself in the beat. Another favorite track of mine by him is a chill soul take called "What My Last Girl Put Me Through", dig it.

Ramadanman - Revenue (Original Mix) [HQ]

This tune by Ramadanman has the distant feel of some Muslimgauze tracks (gotta love the darbukas rattling away). That is me saying a lot for Ramadanman as Muslimgauze is massive legend.

Kahn - Like We Used To (HD)

Nice new 2 Step from Kahn. It almost sounds like (but I think its just similar) there is a sample in this track from the Debruit song I posted a while back.

MadCoins - UK Funky mix for you, from me

 UK Funky Garage by MadCoins

I threw together a mix of some fresh UK Funky and some older UK Garage tracks. Free listen, free download over at Mixcrate. Enjoy.

Nguzunguzu - Mirage (SIL003)

Nguzunguzu is making some noise with his unique beats lately. I hear his stuff on podcasts and internet radio shows from time to time. I don't know much about the guy so instead of pretending to I will just post this track and power down.

Kingdom - Okay To Dance

New, very solid, track from Kingdom. I like what this guy is doing, I posted more about him a few weeks ago.

Boards of Canada - An Eagle In Your Mind

Cat Soup is my absolute favorite anime of all time and I just found another amazing Boards of Canada track put to clips of it. If you ever get the chance to watch Cat Soup in its entirety do yourself a favor and pack yourself a bowl (of popcorn) and enjoy, you won't regret it.

Boards of Canada - Music Is Math

It's been a minute since I posted some Boards Of Canada and this video I just found is too good to not share. Watch it and then go invent something.

Thomas Brinkmann - B-day by ateate

Here is some minimal techno/glitch and a really nice video from German producer Thomas Brinkmann who has also been featured on the Clicks and Cuts compilations over the years.

Kit Clayton - Material Problem

Kit Clayton is a cat based in San Francisco that has been around for a while doing a glitched out, sometimes funky, ambient sound. The first time I heard him was on the Clicks and Cuts Vol. 1 release back in 2000 I think it was. Anyone who digs this should definitely check out the Clicks and Cuts compilations, especially vol 1 and 2 (though I think volume 1 is well out of print and not released digitally so good luck). I think there are 5 volumes out by now. I was given a copy of volume 1 before I traveled around Europe and it was really life changing to listen to such glitchy, futuristic sounds on a train/bus/cliff/castle/cathedral/city in a foreign land at the turn of the century (ooh that sounded so dramatic and grandiose).

To Rococo Rot - Telema [1998]

I don't believe I have posted any of the Berlin trio To Rococo Rot yet. These guys have such a futuristic sound, especially when they first came out. No one would guess how old this is if they didn't know. As one youtuber puts it in the comments "It's quite amazing that this was done way back in 1998; the age doesn't show here at all, and this could easily had been done just yesterday rather than years ago." I lived with a guy that owned a record store back then and he was always bringing this futuristic sound home with him. When I would listen to it I could tell I was getting the jump on where electronic music was headed. While everyone else was on the rave/hip hop tip, groups like To Rococo Rot were doing some truly progressive things with sound. Groups/individuals that were doing this in the mid to late 90s don't get enough credit, mainly because they were laying down a type of sound that was so far ahead of its time.

PS I like how the cats appear unexpectedly in the middle of this video.

Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays Robert Johnson 2

Ekkehard Ehlers is one of my favorite people currently creating music. He is mostly unknown because the vast majority of his music is avante-garde or experimental. I think the guy is a musical genius and if you are a truly open minded music fan you should hip yourself to his stuff. He will create the occasional danceable tune like this but 99.9% of his music sounds nothing like this. This is one of the few tunes of his that fits in with what I've been posting here lately so enjoy some groovy Ekkehard Ehlers (creating what he thinks Robert Johnson would sound like if he were still alive and churning out music?).

Funky Fresh mix by Vice T

Funky Fresh by Vice T

A mix of mostly UK Funky by Vice T. He has been holding it down for future-now UK dance music in Boston for a few years now.

Limonious - Swedish Pommak

More Skweee. Man, this is some seriously funky screaming and squeaking. Whatever this track is funkishly squawking about is for you to translate. I would love to see one of the Yak Films dancers (previously on this blog) flex to this beat, amazing combo waiting to happen.

Kool DJ Dust - Skweee

Live Skweee

mesak: popkumm

A Skweee banger, this was one of the first skweee tracks I heard. If all of them were to this quality I would have piles of the stuff but alas, I only own about 10 tracks that I really have felt. Part of that reason is because all of the best Skweee is released exclusively on vinyl (45s mostly) and this kid needs many more dead presidents in order to purchase vinyl from Scandinavian countries and have it shipped to Austin, Texas. The digital compilations do have their champion tracks and for now those will have to suffice.

SPOEK MATHAMBO - CONTROL

This video is of uncompromising quality. Control, fifth video from Spoek Mathambo’s debut album Mshini Wam, is a darkwave township house cover of the Joy Division classic ‘She’s Lost Control’. For the music video, Spoek has collaborated with one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, Pieter Hugo & cinematographer Michael Cleary. It explores the world of township cults, street preaches and teen gangs and was shot on location in a squatted train boarding house in Langa, Cape Town. The cast is mainly made up of the neighborhood kids who run their own dance troop, Happy Feet. Dig it.

Hypno - Go Shorty

The Icelandic bass lover Hyno aims this one directly at your ass bouncing muscles. Nicely done with the UK Funky blending with Garage beat.

Point B - Battery Operated

This 2-step Garage track sounds like it was produced by a hip robot alone in the basement of an old abandoned warehouse while the city slept. It's the soundtrack of a non-sentient being's creeping loneliness and needing to "dance it out" in the same way a sentient being gets hurt and "walks it off". This is on the Frijsfo Beats record label, released last month, 3/11. Available for purchase here

Hypno - KOKO

This track pulls your head in a few different directions including the Garage, UK Funky and Jazz direction. It is a pretty stripped down track yet there are layers to it, I smell a remix. It has been released on the newly launched Teal Recordings record label out of Copenhagen, Denmark. Here is the description under the youtube video: "Kari Guðmundsson aka. HYPNO hits TEAL002 with two exciting pieces lying somewhere inbetween dubstep, house and garage. KOKO is a hypy swingtime-jam ready to make dancefloors go nuts; thrilling percussive variations, deep sub hits and nutty samples. The more soulful, yet experimental ANALIES, draws on HYPNOs signature percussion. Adding sampled vocals, effective kick-drum patternshifts, takes the listener off-guard."

Deadboy - Brock Lee Riddim

More Deadboy to calm you after my confusing Nintendo/Devo post.

DEVO - Girl U want / Gates of steel

I swear the Japenese guys (I assume) that composed the music for R.C. Pro Am were rocking out to Devo when they slapped it together. Devo = 8 bit remote control car racing inspirational music. Or something. I'm telling you, the progression after each chorus is so similar to the beginning of the race on R.C. Pro Am. I am ashamed, astonished and impressed with myself for knowing this.

R.C. Pro AM for NES playthrough (1/3)

So check this out. I know I am super nerd for this but I have to share. When I was a kid I had this game and I also had the record by Devo with "Girl U Want" on it. The music in the game always reminded me of the song and vice versa. So listen closely to the synth/keyboard right before you start each race (when you first click play on this vid) and then check out the synth progression on "Girl U Want" right after each chorus during the song.

Deadboy - If U Want Me (Full Track)

There are certain synth tones in this Deadboy track that take me back to playing Nintendo on my living room floor (ever notice how everyone played Nintendo on the floor?) as a child. Specifically the tones remind me of the game R.C. Pro Am. That game was bad ass. I hear the sound effects from different Nintendo games (but especially that game) in a lot of syth driven music. A) because I spent childhood glued to a Nintendo and B) because I spend my nowhood glued to synth driven music.

Ghosts On Tape - Predator Mode (Roska Remix)

Speaking of Roska again, here is some Roska refix again. Fresh like baked breads.

DJ Naughty - Quicktime (Roska Remix)

Roska's take on Quicktime.

DJ Naughty - Quicktime

Funky that gets in your blood.

Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me

And more beauty from Ramadanman because beauty is good for your ears. Tracks like this improve your filter for quality music. It is sort of like what has been seen cannot be unseen. Too much of this and there is no going back to what the masses listen to. You will forever be the outcast. The well versed, interesting outcast no one will be able to hear over the pitbull track they are all singing along to. Off you will creep into the closet of the party to listen to what you deem "proper jams", never to be incorporated into a group scream-along again. Welcome my friend, to your new, lonely paradise.

Dubbel Dutch - Throwback

I am feelin this Throwback by Double Dutch. It is two years old already but I am just getting around to giving it walkman rotation as we used to say. Buy the this track or the whole EP here.