Waves & Death Suite

These tracks need no explanantion. The two gods of electro come together to produce pure quality dance music.

 

BOYS NOIZE & EROL ALKAN – WAVES

 

BOYS NOIZE & EROL ALKAN – DEATH SUITE

goddamit!!! another thing i HAVE to post!!!!!

here’s a sexy preview of the new boys noize and erol alkan collaboration!!!!!!!!!!! i’ve been so excited about this for sooooooo long!!!!!!!!! MOTHERFUCKERS! live video from melt festival! there better have been a wizard present!!

BOYS NOIZE & EROL ALKAN >> WAVES

Mightyfools Samples + other bangers!

If you’re a budding producer, then buy this sample pack. It comes with 220mb of bass sounds, drum hits, fidget/electro loops and more from the best producers in the business. Its worth 20 squid but its definately forking it out if you want the same sounds that your musical idols prdouce! Thank you Mightyfools for going out of your way to produce this for us! Really!

BUY MIGHTYFOOLS BASSLINE & ELECTRO SOUNDS TO SAMPLE

As I still can’t get over their recent mixtape for their Australia tour, I got as many of the tracks individually (not including the ones we have already posted). All the Mightyfools remixes have not been released yet but they’re probably the best tracks on the mix. Thats saying alot though, check this shit out!

Herve’s been pretty average recently to be honest, producing realy middle of the road electro remixes. This one is an exception as there’s no doubting his producing sounds with variation and cool sounds and an excellent structure. Turn this one up loud.

BAD BOY BILL – FALLING ANTHEM FT. ALYSSA PALMER (HERVE’S WE ARE BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS REMIX)

We all know that Diplo is a very talented man, even though he sometimes produces a little bit of shit! This crunky number is definately one to get you bouncing, building up to a very ravy climax.

LAIDBACK LUKE & DIPLO – HEY!

A bit of wobble/electro, niiiice, really hits the spot. The middle of the track produces a beautiful cut, pasting and layering of the vocals breaking into a superb drop with a mix of the vocals and a harder wobble sound. Well done Stevo and Danny.

N.A.S.A. – GIFTED (STEVE AOKI REMIX) (DANIEL DEXTER FLOORBURNING EDIT)

ROBOT ROBOT ROBOT ROBOT! I’ve never heard of Hey Today! but I’ll definately be Hype Machining them alot now. What an intro to a fucking electronic distortion mesh of beautiful electro/techno. When the track stops and builds up, it resolves in a funky, feel good electro classic. Really really liking this tune.

ZOMBIE NATION – RADIO CONTROLLED (HEY TODAY! REMIX)

More like a reslave! A 7 minute track of constant banging electro. Perhaps a little repetetive, but constantly change of drum and synth intensity you sort of forget about that. Lovely hi-hats!

YEAH YEAH YEAHS – ZERO (EROL ALKAN REWORK)

Last but probably the best! Boys Noize produces and very bouncy number which will make you jump even if you’re a pretty cool guy! Could he have caught up with todays million miles an hour dance scene, I certainly think so.

DJEDJOTRONIC FT. SPOEK – DIRTY AND HARD (BOYS NOIZE JUMP IF YOU’RE AN IDIOT MIX)

you know richard norris is a wizard too

if you don’t follow this blog regularly you probably don’t know how much we love beyond the wizard’s sleeve. they are sensational. i mean for one they just work perfectly with the whole wizard thing we have going on. and more importantly the 21st century recreation of 60s and 70s psychedelic brilliance (by erol alkan and richard norris) spells a whole lot of possibility and wonder that is lacking around the place right now……..

i was very interested in the influences that have sculpted these men into making such fantasmal sounds, and after reading the latest DESERT ISLAND DISCO with richard norris over at dt I HAVE BEEN ENLIGHTENED! so here it is PLUS the mp3s of the tracks so you can get down to some good-old home-brewed wizard magic too!

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DESERT ISLAND DISCO - RICHARD NORRIS (BEYOND THE WIZARD’S SLEEVE)

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In the week of the release of their first CD of material – Reanimations Vol. 1 – we spoke to Richard Norris, one half of Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, to dig through his big trippy box of desert island record treasure. The former Grid man and psychedelic guru has a love for the weird, wonderful, experimental and left-of-centre, and here’s your chance to find out about the roots of his and Erol Alkan’s 21^st Century psych sound. Turn on, tune in…
 
Bo Diddley – Mumblin’ Guitar
 
When I started playing guitar, aged about ten or eleven, I had a few lessons from this bloke up the road called Steve, a bit of a muso with a comedy Seventies moustache. What Steve lacked in hirsute refinement, he certainly made up for in his music taste, which was mainly rockabilly, rock & roll and the blues. He brought me into the world of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and my all-time favourite, Bo Diddley. I loved his square guitar, his mad sounds and his percussion touting sidekick Jerome. I loved the album Steve lent me – all the lyrics seemed to have Bo’s name every other line, the guitar playing was other worldly, particularly on a cut called Mumblin’ Guitar, or they’d be like some surreal comedy sketch like Cops and Robbers. Bo and Jerome and the crew seemed to be having a great party and I wanted an invite.
 
I met Bo Diddley in a lift once in New York, and saw his last UK performance a short while before he died. He had some new guitar pedal that was making an abstract, looping noise. Bo’s eyes lit up and his smile got wider with every new sonic peak he managed to wring out of it. A maestro. 
 
Blossom Toes – We Are Ever So Clean (is an album you should buy) here is a psych pop taster - People Of The Royal Parks
 
When I was a teenager living in St Albans, I got a job working for Bam Caruso records, a psychedelic re-issue label run by graphics design supreme Phil Smee from his house near the station. I was officially ‘label manager’, although in reality I was more a general office boy and writer for the Bam Caruso magazine Strange Things Are Happening.
 
It was my dream job; making tapes all day from Phil’s phenomenal record collection, helping with design, writing about music. I learnt more in a year at Phil’s than in the three years I spent at college. Blossom Toes We Are Ever So Clean, a whimsical piece of British psych, reminds me of that time – I was young, naïve, and full of freakbeat. I would have stayed forever – in fact Phil is still in the same room, designing away – but got signed to Warners as the Grid and took a different path. Shame – I loved that job. It was pretty much the only proper job I’ve ever had. 
 
Suicide – Ghost Rider, Kraftwerk – Autobahn (the 22 minute version for your pleasure!)
 
Dave Ball came down with Gen to the Jack The Tab session, and I was a bit wary of him, what with him being a pop star in that Soft Cell and the like. We soon got on thanks to our common interest in two bands, Kraftwerk and Suicide. These two played very different synthesizer music – Kraftwerk sleek and efficient, Suicide pure rock and roll – but both remain two of my all time favourites. Me and Dave formed the Grid, and we’ve played music and loved Kraftwerk and Suicide ever since. Dave’s even worked with Suicide on a recent single. 
  
Wire – Map Reference 41ºN 93ºW
 
Alongside Can, Wire are probably my favorite band, managing to carve their own path, creating their own world with scant regard for outside commercial pressures, managing to write some great wonky pop tunes in the process. This is one of them, a melodic victory utilising fairly obscure subject matter. I love the way it’s from their album 154, which was the amount of gigs they’d played when they made it, I love the way Colin Newman shouts ‘Chorus!’ just before the chorus, I love the way the title is so wilfully unlikely for a pop song. I’ve met some them on a few occasions, including an interview with Graham and Bruce from the band which was easily the most uncomfortable and confrontational interview I’ve ever done, but I still love Map Reference and almost everything else they touch. Just don’t make me interview them. 
  
The Clash – Straight To Hell
 
I didn’t really get the Clash’s first album – I was a big Sex Pistols fan and they seemed at the time like a bunch of over dressed also-rans who were trying just a bit too hard. I liked it, but it didn’t blow me away. It wasn’t till they started bringing in hip hop, reggae and funk into their sound that I realised their worth. Straight To Hell was later, a perfect slice of Strummer yearning and atmosphere. I worked with Joe for a couple of years, and our track Yalla Yalla, on the first Mescaleros album, was my attempt to write something in the area of Straight To Hell. It’s a great tune – no wonder MIA took it for Paper Planes. Strummer was a great and rightly highly rated lyricist with a great scope, who took it all in. 
  
Adonis – No Way Back
 
In September 1987 I went to interview Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV frontperson Genesis P.Orridge in his house in Hackney. There were loads of stories going about that Gen was some sort of art school Aleister Crowley sorcerer, who practised sex magick and was in general dark and evil. The person I met certainly wasn’t – Gen was polite, intelligent and in possession of a fine black humour and the ability to take the piss out of himself. We bonded over a shared love of psychedelia, and got excited about a new music neither of us had heard called ‘Acid House’. We’d heard house, as there’d been a couple of hits and it was in some clubs, but the possibilities suggested by Acid House, of merging psychedelia with the dancefloor, were too strong to resist. We went into a cheap recording studio the next weekend armed with some videos, spoken word records, a few musician mates, some children and a dog, and made an album of what we thought acid house might sound like, called Jack The Tab.
 
By the time we released the album in Spring 1988 we’d heard acid house – the first track I heard was Adonis’ No Way Back. We liked it enormously, and still do, but the possibilities of Jack The Tab were sidelined for a bit. Until I met Erol and started Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve. Our early mini-albums sound just like Jack the Tab, only 20 years later. Get ready for the third summer of love… 

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Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve: Re-Animations VOL.1 is out now! - buy it here - AND SEE OUR POST ON IT PLUS LOTS OF TRACKS HERE!!!

BEETROOTS EUROPEAN TOUR…and then…..uk!!!!!!??

i saw this on the erol alkan forum and  just couldn’t resist. i love the artist who does these posters ( www.myspace.com/turbokrapfen) and it gives me an excuse to post more beetroots. gods in black velvet masks. more head//bangers from the dynaic duo. these tracks are sweet examples of the bloody beetroot style and could be used to dead the living! 

the bloody beetroots-rombo (feat. congorock)

the bloody beetroots-verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi

 

the bloody beetroots-pour un rasage de très près et

the bloody beetroots-butter

 

BLOODYBEETROOTS.EGG CLUB.KINGS CROSS.27th FEB

THE WORM ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::+

ZZT (tiga + zombie nation) claim that their record, the worm, will ‘WASH YOUR BRAIN CLEAR OF ALL WITCHCRAFT’. their 2nd 12″ is called the worm and it’s an absolute diamond, remixed by erol and endorsed by justice, boys noize soulwax etc. etc. literally all of the big boys are raping this song at the moment and there is a reason. just the sound on this song…….too hard to describe. but thankfully they said, “The song itself secretes a thick, grassy oil onto the club floor, creating a rich, profoundly damp environment for rock dancing, searchingly soulful head-nods and murder from beyond the grave.” thanks. their 1st release, lower state of consciousness, is also real good with a justice remix as well. here’s the worm! (and the justice remix of lower state..)

ZZT-THE WORM (ORIGINAL MUNICH VERSION)

ZZT-LOWER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (JUSTICE REMIX)

the alkamist’s wizardry

ACID ACID ACID

The god that is erol alkan has, this year, surprised and amazed both dance and alternative music critics with his side project and band beyond the wizard’s sleeve. alkan and bandmate richard norris combine to create pieces that reconstruct the psychedelia of the 70’s using a unique mixture of musical know how and technical wizardry. they have also been known to put layer upon layer of acid drenched sitars on top of the rolling stones, very erol. They have four EPs (Birth, Spring, George and West) a whole load of brilliant mixes (check erols podcast) and have injected their style into contemporary songs by legends such as late of the pier, the chemical brothers and peter, bjorn and john(?).  (ps. sorry richard norris for giving erol so much love can’t help it)

Listen to these beyond the wizard’s sleeve’s tracks and remixes, happy tripmas!

beyond the wizard’s sleeve – red tuesday 

My absolute favourite erol related track! Description: The most amazing high in music played by sitars, oooooooooooo yyyeeeeeahhhhhhhhh!

beyond the wizard’s sleeve – get ready to fly

A nice, cool physcadellic rock track.

late of the pier – the bears are coming (beyond the wizard’s sleeve remix)

BEST BAND EVER, I SHIT YOU NOT, fucking awesome orginal song which Erol stays true to.  i’m sorry, but its a fucking no brainer.

peter, bjorn and john – young folks (beyond the wizard’s sleeve remix)

We do like our mainstream….sometimes. Erol tripifies a 2008 hit.

the chemical brothers – battle scars (beyond the wizard’s sleeve remix)

A  tribal remix of a track by one of the best electronic duo’s ever.

more erol! The next two are edits of the French prince himself sebastiAn.

sebastiAn – momy (erol alkan’s simple, yet effective edit)

sebastiAn – walkman (erol alkan edit)

Its Christmas in two days! Here’s another one which does need to be explained. erol produced late of the pier’s epic/classic/amazing/…..fucking amazing album fantasy black channel, and has since taken on the role of mentor to late of the pier with them even citing him as a father figure. Lead singer Samuel Eastgate (a.k.a. Samuel Dust) has started a solo project, with erol helping on some of the production and generally eroling it up a bit, called LA priest. I emplore you to listen! Melodic and electronic sublimity.

LA priest – engine