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I’m sitting alone in a dark room on a Friday night listening to tunes. It’s okay, because thanks to technology, a whole bunch of people are listening with me. Tonight, I’m blogging too, to make it even more exciting. Weeeekeeeeeeeend.

Let me fill you in on some of the crazy squonk that I’m banging tonight.

First I’ll hit you with an Aussie track that got it’s 5th Liquid Electric play tonight on FBi Radio - Trifecta by Jonny Faith.

Trifecta by jonnyfaith

Jonny Faith and Monk Fly are super dj best friends who run a club night called Headroom, and a radio show on 2ser which I think is on the same time as this show. Together they put together a CD called ‘Headroom Vol. 1’ which has some great music, mostly from Australia but with a few tunes from the rest of the globe. This tune by Jonny Faith is probably my favourite tune on the CD, with a strong futurefunk tip. Click through to this dude’s soundcloud to hear more of his stuff. It rules.

1000names - Paradise Rings / Saturn Race

This is some genius bass stuff from Sofia, Bulgaria. the A-Side, Paradise Rings starts up with a pitched up disco sample, feeling like it’s going to break into something tacky and 4/4, before it brings the bass and swagger. This is very highly recommended stuff. I’m sure this is a bit of a dick move, but I’m going to post a link to the Lowrider’s Collective blog, because they’ve already uploaded the tunes there.

http://www.lowriderscollective.com/1000names-paradise-rings/

Pantha Du Prince featuring Panda Bear - Stick To My Side

Pantha Du Prince’s track ‘Steiner Im Flug’ was my first exposure to this artist. It was a few years ago, just as I was starting to discover and really ‘get’ minimal techno. The remarkable thing about this tune was just how minimal it was - starting as an almost lowercase clutter of organic noises that form a space around a beat. The rest of the album felt like it was actually pretty techno-ey, but was still rather lovely.

The ‘big single’, as it were from his new album Black Noise, features Panda Bear on vocals. He’s in a band called Animal Collective, and given that you’re reading a blog I assume you already know exactly who he is. On this track, as on the rest of the album, Pantha Du Prince has focused on his organic sounds, creating a kind of folktronica more rooted in the sounds of 4/4 club music than other folktronica artists like Four Tet and Koushik, who fit better within a hip-hop framework. Its an insistent groove built from found sounds, supported by a Booka Shade-y bassline. I’m curious to see if you could play it in a club.

Tolga Fidan - Drunk Rotations

One last tune that I finished the show with, this is an epic dancefloor jam released on Vakant recordings. By epic I mean really long. There’s a good, consistent modulation about this tune, keeping it interesting without big dynamic builds and drops, and it does some really interesting things with some drum samples, before wandering into some nice piano lushness. It’s a stands-out-but-fits-in tune for your tech house sets.  Listen to it at Vakant’s website.

http://vakant.net/#/category/releases/tolga-fidan-releases/-