Renoise In:Depth » Song Roundup http://www.renoise.com/indepth The official blog for the Renoise massive Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en The ReSelektor 2 http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-2/ http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-2/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:39:17 +0000 mr_mark_dollin http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-2/ Time for the second edition of The ReSelektor, showcasing some of the top releases from the end of last year and the start of this year. Let’s go:

FreakOST - Stonerman :: Chippy joy meets some sort of postmodern Greek folk music-doof and gets nicely noisy. Perfect for easy digestion for those on a C64 nostalgia diet wanting to see the style pushed into weird goodness.

Neä - Sad Candy :: The Basement Wigga submits some old Renoise fast tek-groove to classically trained vocalist Neä and the results are brilliantly future-tribal and strangely haunting. A strong case for mixing up electro with the acoustic world - human analogue interaction with cold electronics. Get it, and start hoping for more.

Sharku - Milkman :: Wobbly junk hiphop with some tasty vox bits and jazz pads. Funky and cleanly presented, it’s just waiting to be dropped into a set for pure weirdness injection. Fresh, in that Neptunium kind of way…

Kinoma - Helas! :: Basil takes us to some dark alley on the set of Bladerunner and gives us a slick sombre slap of music. This one is high on the gabba nostalgia, but with enough misty melody to soften the punch. Short, sweet and sour.

Kallipolis - To The One I Never Knew :: Taken from his recent “Li” album, Kallipolis continues his tour-de-force in reducing breakcore down to essential emotional elements. Light amen breaks float over gentle acid and pretty harp lines with just enough ambient soothing to cuddle the listener like a long lost lover. Moving music, both physically and emotionally.

Sunjammer - Airports :: Returning with a beasty doom piece Sunjammer shows us how to kill time waiting for the next flight. There’s a lot of rave and gabba nostalgia going on, and this will hammer nicely for people looking for a taste of the old sound. Dark and raging, make sure you keep a terror-cap on it while you listen in your plane seat: or security will shut that party down quick smart.

Astar - Night Traffic :: Mathew Mae mines an old club style here but does a beautiful job of it. Subtle with it’s nice sense of swirling space, crisp dampness, eventual emotional density and sonic delicacy, this is stuff for either the dancefloor or the headphones.

N Sound - Attica :: Taking breakcore to much more interesting places with grandly reverberated industrial vistas, N Sound gives us a delightfully uplifting soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic junkyard party. It’s grittiness is seriously good.

Edsche - Remembrance :: Soulful plinks in an ambient space mourns in demo-style flow. This track is a definite for those looking for something sombre and quiet.

Vitaxin - Just Ice For All (Government Killer Edit) :: Annide returns with a wicked hybrid of chip, disco and noise. Sounding like a sidechained wet dream of old C64 game soundtracks mashed with some positively strange textures, there’s enough cool in here to excite the most cynical retro enthusiasts. Perfect for club playback and nerd-dancing.

Encryptio - Laptop Lullaby :: Simply lovely in sonics, Encryptio only gives us a short little taste of a wonderful lush musical world. It has a joyful drone with playful kinder-melodies, perfect for setting a scene or guiding a transition. Like single piece of scrumptious candy to be savored.

NeuRoTiX - le Donne Del Giovedi’ Del Mondo :: Neurotix returns bearing the gift of an XRNS. This track has nice noise and parades convincingly digi-texture meeting sleuth jazz. An art piece, and interesting listen.

mr_mark_dollin - Absolutely Doomed :: Dub industrial plod meets warm emotive guitar solos and stream of consciousness spoken-word dream narrative. Glitchy and bittersweet.

Achenar - Survive Yourself :: Achenar brings the doom with a frosty barrage of orchestral-industrial drama and bile. Distinctive vocals sets this apart from the crowd. Taken from his recent commercial release All Will Change, you can expect a solid musical offering. Celtic war meets celestial cyber-annihilation.

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The ReSelektor - 1 http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-1/ http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-1/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:22:20 +0000 mr_mark_dollin http://www.renoise.com/indepth/artists/the-reselektor-1/ Welcome to the inaugural edition of The ReSelektor! This is the first of many monthly “best of” roundups of the songs released by Renoise artists. The aim is to showcase these tunes to show the community how Renoise can be used to make amazing music. These songs are full of technique that show an In-Depth knowledge of Renoise usage.

The format will be as follows: Name of artist or artists with website link; a title which is a link to the mp3/ogg of the song (we’re not doing streams at the moment); then followed by a short description of the song. You can also subscribe to The ReSelektor Podcast. At the moment the podcast only features availible mp3s, not the songs that are in OGG or are hidden behind PHP downloaders.

Without further ado, here is The ReSelektor - 1

Beatslaughter - Innere Leere :: Released for the Camomille 100 release, this is Beatslaughter at his slick and dark peak. Crisp sound-design rolls funk-glitch grooves over reflective ambient atmosphere. Strange futuristic sounds grunt in primitive echo, a soundtrack to de-evolution.

Mushen - Breakhopcore :: As the title suggests Mushen tries his hand at a street-smart acid groove fusing breakcore’s fast percussive antics and the arrogant strop of gansta-hiphop. Amen and acid nostalgia abound.

BotB - Kreissägebläter :: BotB makes a second submission into his recent foray into creating nightmare dramas of epic proportion by welding breakcore violence with Wagnerian orchestral excess. This very well could be the song played with the next war in your local neighborhood.

Kaneel - Pyjama Lapin :: The multi-talented Kaneel continues the dark brooding emotion of recent work with his trademark cute melodic weirdness and melancholic melodica. Released for the excellent first compilation of Petite & Jolie.

It-Alien - Churches Of Umbria :: The Renoise Ninja-Grandmaster It-Alien returns with an epic folk-classical soundtrack that has a richness that no one else is capable of. We’re still asking the question: How is this possible to do with a computer?! Listen and believe.

Dufey - Story of Tellus :: Asking us to extend our empathy into the future, Dufey drops a strong and clear ethnic groove: full of enough lush melody and emotion for your own future-dreaming to slide right into.

Kenny Beltrey - Ffwd :: With a breath of fresh sonic air Kenny Beltrey returns with a straight-up groove that begs being danced to, along with atmospheric repeated melodies sweet enough to carry you through the night.

Hektic - Back To The Future :: Short and sweet, Hektic marries oldschool tracker blop with enough thick and weird sonic texture to put this in a class of it’s own.

Danoise - Kys mit blodrøde smil :: Totally unlike most dance oriented scene music, Danoise masterfully takes us on an emotional journey through pop-folk with excellent placement of avant-noise. The soundtrack to soul and sky being ripped open.

Void Pointer - Stoorzender :: Difficult to categorize but unmistakably irresistible, Stoorzender grooves with uniqueness. Bridging zones between psychadelic and hiphop, it’s a lofimat danceparty on an inter-dimensional ice sheet.

Le Monsieur Baguette and Mushen - The Unbelievable Attack Of Les Horrid Bananas :: Monsieur Baguette teams up commando style with Mushen for an all out breakcore gorge-fest full of comical insanity and pure pining emotion. Amazingly done with nothing but native Renoise effects, check out the XRNS here.

Alex Strain and mr_mark_dollin - Uneasy :: Dark cinematic introspection weaving through lost jazz melody and doom-atmosphere. Free of drums, deep space is given to a tense narrative, like waking up sweating from some obscure nightmare.

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