As serious as your remixes

Crazy-eyed beatsmith Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) will be releasing a bumper pack of remixes on Domino on September 25. The 2-disc effort offers one disc of Hebden's lauded remixes of people from Radiohead to Aphex Twin, and the second delivers reworkings of a range of tracks from the Four Tet back catalogue, with the likes of Boom Bip and Manitoba on knob-twiddling duties. Cunningly, it's entitled 'Four Tet Remixes'. Not too sure where they got that name from. The full tracklisting can be found here.

A few new purchases...

The best known cure for the post-festival blues has left me purchasing these fine releases, which I feel you all deserve to know about...

Osborne - Daylight (Spectral) - Some gorgeous summery tech-treats from the ever prolific Todd Osborne. It may be a whole three years old, but it is a classic feel-good hit from the Spectral camp with a balearic feel that is needed in every record collection. Throw in the Isolee pyjama mix for good measure, and you've got a corker of a 12"!

Spektrum - Horny Pony (Non Stop) - The mentalist minimal funkers return with a killer slice of dirty disco fun. This is serious music that doesn't take itself seriously, and with some tasty remixes thrown in (particularly the minimal groove of the James Priestley offering) it's a good slice of vinyl to get your mitts on.

John Tejada - Logic Memory Centre (Plug Research) - The ever prolific Mr. Tejada dropped this album back in '04, and it's a blinding slab of glitchy minimal with enough activity to keep you interested, and some understated vocal turns to create a full-length as good in your lounge as on the floor.

Luke Vibert - Kerrier District 2 (Rephlex) - As previewed earlier in this blog, the six tracker has finally fallen into SB&B's hands, and it's as good as you would hope! Lush, mildly camp and downright funky, particular highlights are 'Robotuss' and 'Sho U Rite'. Add to that the Ceephax remix of the latter, and you can't go wrong, with Jenkinson jnr. delivering a breaksy mix that sounds like jungle with a muzzle on. Brilliant stuff.

Ewan Pearson - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi Vol. 01 (Soma) - SB&B's first dip into the now steam-rolling 'Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi' series (keep eyes peeled for the Luciano mix out now, and the imminent Alex Smoke) sees Ewan Pearson delivering a smorgasboard of delicious tech-house, full of interstellar synths and wholseome bass. With a cheeky dash of pop thrown into the equation, it's a good all-rounder for all the family.

Clark's new album is the bomb?

In what is set to be a corker of a month for Warp, October 2nd sees Clark (formerly Chris) dropping his third full length on our eagerly awaiting ears. Sorely underrated in the shadow of the big Electronica names, Chris Clark snuck out the 'Throttle Furniture' EP in February. Lead track 'Herr Bar' will also kick off the new LP, bafflingly entitled 'Body Riddle'. Judging by that track, and 'Ted' which is currently funking around on the Warp front page, it seems that the St. Albans lad has gone for a more direct, smack-em-in-the-face approach than the sprawling grandeur of 'Empty the Bones of You' (an all-time electronica fave of SB&B). Here's hoping that the rest of the album delivers, and catapults Clark into the big league of beat manglers (where we believe he belongs).

UPDATE! Check the ever-useful discogs for the tracklisting for the incoming album...let's get excited people!

Slap happy

It may have been floating around on the interweb for a little while now, but it's only appropriate that SB&B acknowledges the return of the mighty Tom Jenkinson, better known as Squarepusher. The new album is called 'Hello Everything', and drops like a snare rush on October 16th. Whether it will be a return to the amen-mangling mayhem of Go Plastic etc., or the jazz-noodling of Music is Rotted... remains to be seen, but the first clues lie in a track called 'The Modern Bass Guitar' which moonlighted on the Warp front page for a short time. With mixed reactions from the bloodthirsty (and difficult-to-please) message board/net hounds, the best thing to do is wait and judge for yourself.

Tobin's on the tube...

Enigmatic Brazilian Ninja Tune-smith Amon Tobin has surfaced on YouTube with some sketchy but exciting details for his forthcoming album. The sample-bothering boy-wonder has left his turntables alone for this project, instead focusing on the found-sound ethic that his home town of Montreal seems to inspire in so many people (Sixtoo to name but one). Anyway, a video with a killer soundtrack has cropped up here of him and his microphone stealthing around everywhere from dog kennels to what look like observation towers on what must be a perilous assignment. Here's looking forward to the next album then, if he doesn't get his hand bitten off in the meantime.

*Hold up!*: A quick look on Wikipedia (of all places) has revealed a couple of other Amon morsels for all you Supermodified-freaks out there. It turns out that earlier this year he snuck in a collaboration with Mike "don't-mention-Faith-No-More" Patton on his Peeping Tom project, for a track called 'Don't Even Trip'. As soon as SB&B gets wind of what this track is like you'll be the first to know. The album also features collaborations with Massive Attack, Dan The Automator, Kid Koala, Doseone, and, er, Norah Jones... should be an interesting one ;)

As well as that the ever handy YouTube has got some trailers for an Eastern European gross-out flick, Taxidermia, that Tobin has soundtracked. The sound seems to be in a similar vein to his Chaos Theory album: dark weird Latin folk music, and the film doesn't seem to let up on that front either... excellent news! There's three clips; 1, 2, 3, to pick from, so get stuck in.