Posted by SRD on December 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Tim Hecker in DiS 50 Favourite Albums Of The Year Tim Hecker// Ravedeath 1972 [Kranky] Great news that Tim Hecker has been placed at #2 in Drowned In Sound’s albums end of year list, an album that definitely deserves it. Tim Hecker ‘Hatred of Music I’ [Kranky] Here’s the list in full, see what you … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Nicolas Jaar, Kranky, Space Is Only Noise, Circus Company, Kompakt, Tim Hecker, Ravedeath 1972, Low, Walls, Coracle, Paw Tracks, The Field, Looping State Of Mind, Southern Record Distributors, Music Distributors, Drowned In Sound, Hatred Of Music I, Tom Boy, Katy B, On A Mission
Posted by SRD on November 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
MOJO‘s ELECTRONICA TOP TEN ALBUMS 2011 Compiled By Stephen Worthy 01. Blue Daisy The Sunday Gift (Black Acre) 02. Machinedrum Room (s) (Planet Mu) 03. Zomby Dedication (4AD) 04. Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise (Circus Company) 05. James Blake James Blake (Atlas/ A&M) 06. Africa Hitech 93 Million Miles (Warp) 07. Kode … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Nicolas Jaar, MOJO, Space Is Only Noise, Circus Company, Kompakt, Stephen Worthy, Walls, Coracle, Blue Daisy, Black Acre, Southern Record Distributors, Music Distributors, The Sunday Gift, Electronica Top Ten Albums 2011, Blue Daisy RA & Pitchfork Review, Nicolas Jaar in the Guardian, Walls Dummy Mix
Posted by SRD on November 25, 2011 · 1 Comment
Dummy interviews Walls + Dummy Mix 101 Walls ‘Coracle’ Kompakt “Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia have done quite a bit since their last Walls Dummy Mix. They’ve released two fantastic albums, toured every which way, and even found time for musical side projects. Their last album, ‘Coracle’, is a stunning landscape of sound punctuated by … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Alessio Natalizia, Coracle, Day Glow, Domina (Carl Craig’s Mind Mix), Download Mix, Dummy Mag, Eric Copeland, Fursaxa, Girl, Girlande Lithops, Interview, Kompakt, Maurizio, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Music Distributors, Penrose Ave, Roedelius, Sam Willis, Shit And Shine, Shit No!, Southern Record Distributors, Suicide, The Bells of Capistrano, Walls, Wolfman, Zara Wladawsky
Posted by SRD on October 27, 2011 · 1 Comment
Q Review of The Field’s ‘Looping State Of Mind’ The Field “Looping State Of Mind” (Kompakt) “…Each of the album’s seven tracks starts with a simple groove and meticulously builds on those foundations, creating a collection of electronic soundscapes that somehow occupy a parallel space between the dancefloor and the after-party…Boundless and ecstatic, this is … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Arpeggiated Love, Bachelorette, Burned Out, Choice, Colin Stetson, Eat Your Own Ears, Fausto, Frieden, Grow Old With Me, Home, Is This Power, Jurgen Muller, Kompakt, Looping State Of Mind, Lucio Battisti, Mixtape, Nachtmahl, Orange, Perc, Poison Dwarf, Robin Turner, Sea Bed Meditation, Separazione Naturale, Sweet Slow Baby, The Field, The Stool Pigeon, Then It's White, Then It’s White, Walls, Wolfgang Voight, XOYO
Posted by SRD on October 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Walls in NME Walls ‘Coracle’ (Kompakt) Album Review in NME – 8 “London – based Walls duo Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia put journos in floatation tanks to experience their new album ‘Coracle’; it was a cunning ruse for a record whose luminous soundscapes are at once alien yet familiar, adding hazy heartbeat rhythms to … Read more
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Posted by SRD on October 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Walls ‘Coracle’ Reviewed in The Times and MOJO Walls ‘Coracle’ (Kompakt) Out Now The Times 4/5 Stars (October) “…Raw Umber/ Twilight would sound great in a draughty bus shelter in Swindon. With vocal loops floating plangent sounds, many of the tracks here are reminiscent of the German ambient maestro Ulrich Schnauss – and in this … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with 4 stars, Alessio Natalizia, Coracle, Drunken Galleon, Ecstatic Truth, Ed Potton, Heat Haze, Il Tedesco, Into Our Midst, Kompakt, MOJO, Raw Umber / Twilight, Sam Willis, Stephen Worthy, Sunporch, The Times, Ulrich Schnauss, Vacant, Walls
Posted by SRD on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
New Album / Single Releases from SRD In no particular order New Album Releases 01. Walls ‘Coracle’ LP/CD (Kompakt) Electronic/Ambient/Shoegaze 02. Gui Boratto ‘III’ 2xLP/CD (Kompakt) Electronic 03. Roman Flugel ‘Fatty Folders’ 2xLP/CD (Dial) Electronic 04. Joakim ‘Nothing Gold’ (Tigersushi) Electronic CD 05. Nadine Carina ‘Magic Box’ Electronic CD (Stattmusik) Singer Songwriter 06. Alias ‘Fever … Read more
Filed under Tony W · Tagged with Acute, Alias, Ambient, Anticon, Axel Boman, Badness, Black Acre, Blindstruck/ Scientist, Classic Dischord, Classic Hardcore, Coracle, Creeper / Horror, DC Breaks, Decay feat Royalston, Dischord Records, Disco Zombies, Dizz1, Doom, Drone, Drum & Bass, Drums Over London, electronic, Epic Post Rock, Exotic British Modern Jazz, Faith, FANTASTIC VOYAGE, Fantomas, Farwell Poetry, Fatty Folders, Fever Dream, Gizeh, Glass Table, Gone Soon, Grid Recordings UK, Gui Boratto, Guinea Pig Records, Heaven On Earth - The Classic Mercury Recordings, hip hop, Hoping For The Invisible To Ignite, III, Ipecac, Joakim, Kompakt, Kranky, Leftfield Pop, Live For Nothing, Low, Lucky Tiger EP, Magic Box, Marcel Dettman, Michael Garrick and Shake Keane, Mutated Forms, Nadine Carina, Neighbourhood feat Mandarin, Noothgrush, Nothing Gold, Optiv & BTK feat MC Fokus, Ostgut Ton, Post Rock, Punk, Ram Records, Rawtee, Renegade Hadware, Rising Stars, Rock, Roman Flugel, Shoegaze, Singer, Sludge, songwriter, Southern Lord, Subject To Change plus First Demo, The Director's Cut: A New Year's Revolution, The Platters, Tigersushi, Translation EP, Trouble In The Streets, Tru Thoughts, Trunk, Trust, Walls, Wastegash, Zed Bias
Posted by SRD on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Walls ‘Raw Umber / Twilight’ is ‘Song Of The Day’ on The Line Of Best Fit “…Walls are also very good at channeling that straight-to-the-gut emotion… tracks like ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ are all about simple, familiar, wide-eyed basslines…” Written By Josh Hall Read it in full here Walls’Coracle’ out on Kompakt on 26th September Walls ‘Raw … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Berlin, Barcelona, Liverpool, London, Factory Floor, Kompakt, Manchester, Bristol, Battles, Canada, Paris, Walls, Coracle, Raw Umber / Twilight, Song Of The Day, The Line Of Best Fit, Josh Hall, Nation Of Shopkeepers, Shacklewell Arms, Mercury Lounge, NYC, USA, Cameo Gallery, Royale Nightclub, Boston, Le National, Montreal, Phoenix Concert Centre, Toronto, Grog Shop, Cleveland, VIA Festival, Pittsburg, Vic Theater, Chicago, Fine Line Music Cafe, Wilma Theatre, Missoula, Neptune, Seattle, Wonder Ballroom, Portland, Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, Bootleg Bar, Los Angeles, Mayan Theatre, Nottingham, Rescue Rooms, Start The Bus, The Hague, Rewire Festival, La Machine, Sheffield, The Plug, Cork, Cypress Avenue, Galway, Roisin Dubh, Dublin, Twisted Pepper, Kazimer, Now Wave, Brussels, VK, Amsterdam, Studio K, Apolo, Madrid, Joy Eslava, Bilbao, Café Antzokia, Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), Live Music Club, Hamburg, Golden Pudel, Postbahnhof, Minehead, ATP
Posted by SRD on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
FoxyDigitalis Interviews Walls Kompakt will release Coracle on 26th September In 2010 Sam Willis of London DJ duo Allez-Allez came together with Alessio Natalizia of bedroom pop project Banjo Or Freakout to release the first, self-titled WALLS album. Released on Kompakt, the über-slick German label best known for records by The Field, Gui Boratto and … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Alessio Natalizia, Allez-Allez, Banjo Or Freakout, Coracle, DJ duo, FoxyDigitalis, Gui Boratto, Half Machine, Kompakt, London, Richard Onslow, Sam Willis, Steve Dewhurst, The Field, Walls, Wolfgang Voigt
Posted by SRD on September 7, 2011 · 1 Comment
Walls in DJ Mag Walls (Kompakt) Here comes the money shot… Walls are September’s Money Shot: Leftfield Single of the Month and Disco Single of the month in DJ Magazine. Leftfield Single of the Month ” It’s easy to see why Walls are mentioned in the same breath as Battles, Paw Tracks and Caribou…And with … Read more
Filed under Harry · Tagged with Alessio Natalizia, Battles, Caribou, Disco Single of the month, DJ MAGAZINE, Kompakt, kraut- disco beats, Leftfield Single of the Month, Money Shot, Paw Tracks, Sam Willis, Sunporch, Walls
