Back from the store...

In textbook music geekery fashion I am currently (metaphorically) rolling around in a pile of delightful records picked up from a quality second hand store on the binternet. Here's a list of the treats that I snagged:

Innerzone Orchestra (aka Carl Craig & friends) - Programmed (5 x 10" box set mmmmm)
Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits / Music People (12")
Baby Ford - Normal (inc. AFX Helston Flora Remix hell yes!) (12")
Neil Landstrumm - Pro Audio (2 x 12")
Pole - 45/45 (12")
Tim Wright - The Searcher / The Walk (12")
Super_Collider - It Won't Be Long (12")
Stefan Goldmann - The Schnich Schnach EP (12")
Alton Miller - EP (12")
John Tejada & Justin Maxwell - 2 Speaker Dream (12")
Carl Craig - Science Fiction (12")
Move D - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (12")
Radioactive Man - Dive & Lie Wrecked (12")
Murcof - Utopia Remixes (with the immense Sutekh remix :) (12")

Nice to get a few classics for a change!

Picking up Sine Waves

Producer of the week for me is Todd Sines. He's notched up an impressive series of releases over the years for the likes of Carl Craig's Planet E, veteran label Peacefrog, Andy Vaz's new vintage imprint Yore, and to my mind he is one of the most visionary 4/4 artists out there.

His sound can lurch from crisp, minimal funk jackhammers under the .Xtrak name to the deepest sensual house aimed squarely at the bedroom, but it all has an unmistakable leftfield bent to it. Experimental isn't the right word for his tunes, they simply breathe a life of their own, too addictive to be academic and too weird to be popular. Anyway, here's the Click-Wobble picks from the Sines back catalogue.

Todd Sines & Natacha Labelle - 'Overlap' [Planet E] - Seductive vocals, downtempo blue keys and a ever-so-slightly jerking rhythm make this an absolute winner.

Todd Sines & Natacha Labelle - 'Broad_Band' [Frankie] - Every track on this EP is a belter, whether it's the underwater electro funk of 'Thick Satin' or the moody haze of 'Elastic'.

Cron - 'Interrupt' [Chair] - Deep, sparse electro from one of Todd's aliases. A real hypnosis job.

.Xtrak - 'Don't Stop' [Yore] - After more than ten years leaving his .Xtrak moniker lying dormant, Todd resurrected it for Yore and packed a serious old skool punch with the tracks that resulted. Razor-sharp hi-hats, snares that sound like tiny controlled explosions and plenty of acid.

There's heaps more out there to discover, but this should give you somewhere to start. For a surprisingly large amount of free tracks check out his website: Toddsines.com