Devonwho: Strangebrew

One quarter of the Klipmode collective, Portland / L.A. based producer Devonwho is back at the forefront of the game and will be dropping his new "Strangebrew" EP this February from All City. You will have already heard the title track featuring on Elan's inverted audio mix late last year..

His beats have now moved on to a next level with his signiture funk sound - more up tempo wtih alot of rythmic synth, and of course, his original heavy bass, lead synth melodies and pads still exist. Sun-drenched synths and G-funk vibes are the order of the day here; ‘Strangebrew’ and ‘Sleet’ zip along with their low-slung bass and melodic purple keys while on the flip ‘Cactus’ takes the pace down a bit. Slow jamz with a fast feel, these three rolling 4/4 workouts are rounded off with a fresh rework of the title track from fellow West Coast funakateer B Bravo.

Look for it in stores March 5th 2012 and for those of you in Tokyo, be sure to get on down to the first leg of his All City Japanese tour down in Saloon with some of the cosmopolyphonic collective on 17th February. The line up for that one is real!

[Line Up]
Live:
Devonwho (All City/Klipmode)
Daisuke Tanabe (Circulations)
RLP (cosmopolyphonic)

DJ:
DJ SAGARAXX (Coffe & Cigaretts Band)
9dw (catune/waxpoetics)
sauce81(cosmopolyphonic)
Fujimoto Tetsuro (cosmopolyphonic)

Finest Ego: German, Austrian, Swiss Compilation; Faces 12" Series Vol. 2

Finest Ego and Project Mooncircle have featured regularly on this space for quite some time. From monthly mixes, to regional compilations putting both well-known and unknown names out there.

Having previously frequented Australia & New Zealand, Japan, Russia, UK, the beatmaker compilations this time touches Central Europe and reaches Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The compilation includes a plethora of: Chief, Brenk, Dexter, Mono:Massive, Hulk Hodn, Captain Crook, Stroe, Hubert Daviz, Comfort Fit, Robot Koch, Jazzo & Melodiesinfonie, Quendolin Fender, Ju-Ar, Twit One, Suff Daddy, Figub Brazlevic, Szenario, Portformat, Flowtec, D-Fekt & Mr. Beef, Bit-Tuner, Feux, Kalifornia Kurt, B-Ju, Playpad Circus, Flex Fab, Ill-Luzion, Anthony Drawn, Hazeem, Minor Sick, XL The Red One, Glenn Astro, Frederic Robinson, and Willy Sunshine. Preview it in it's entirety below, and then hit the bandcamp to grab.

Also forthcoming is the 2nd release in the Faces 12" series which will be the double A side 12" Project Mooncircle cut from Mike Gao & Daisuke Tanabe. Due out Feb 17th 2012, this release will be a follow up to the 1st which dropped last year, which featured Pavel Dovgal and Ta-Ku. Both Gao and Tanabe get 5 tracks to make their move. This one is set to hit us on February 17th, so stay sharp until then or head here to pre-order one of the 300 limited edition 12" copies.

Himuro Yoshiteru - Live from Tokyo

Leading on from the brilliant Nihon Kizuna compilation comes the birth of the Tokyo State of Mind series from Rhythm Incursions.

The series officially kicked off a few days ago over at Percussion Lab with a live set by Himuro Yoshiteru, and will continue with live sets from Yosi Horikawa, Daisuke Tanabe and Keizo Machine (on Percussion Lab) and DJ Duct (on Rhythm Incursions). All these live sets were recorded at the Nihon Kizuna Tokyo release party (Himuro, Daisuke, Yosi and Ken One) as well as the Skratch Evolution 3 event organised by Ken One (Duct and KeizoMachine).

Himuro Yoshiteru, included on this compilation, is one of the most under rated modern Japanese producers from the Tokyo electronic underground. His debut release in 1998 was on Worm Interface which the particularly nerdy of you may remember as home to one of the best obscure Squarepusher releases (under the name Tom Jenkinson). Over a decade later, Himuro is still crafting some of the most colorfully diverse sounds out of Japan. This set, recorded in April 2011 at the Nihon Kizuna sompilation release party, sees him putting his 8 bit, dubstep, glitch and idm influences to the forefront in a lively display of the sounds of the Tokyo underground. There's a dreamy thread running through the entirety of Himuro's set that never allows the surrounding abrasiveness to get too aggressive.

Right click here, to download.

To coincide with this, a live show from effervescent Tokyo supporter and friend, Ken One. A standard Ken One affair which sees him chop and cut his way through 30 minutes of classic hip hop, breaks and his own music, including the Mind Rain track which is featured on the Nihon Kizuna compilation. All live of course.

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Stricklybeats Mix

This one reads as more of a playlist than a mix, but even still the selection is a fairly precise exposition of one of the many directions that the beat scene's been heading of late.

Cuthead - lost weekend
Boho Fau - sLink-y
Ichiro - slow leak
Kingfisherg - eagled
Daisuke tanabe - brown station
shigeto - a close keeper
toro Y moi - lissoms
lone - Sungrazer cascade
mndsgn - yeau
mndsgn - quitesimple
Xperiment - catch 22 ft othello
Stone detectives -kikapopu
Sam a la bamalot - spacemaker
Myke forte - 2halves
Bahwee - SF
Wax paper cup - pyramid
Connie Hawkins - Rucky Reads
nosaj thing - caves (teebs remix)
Jneiro jarel - Amazonica