Auditory Update 2

Auditory Updates will help your ears adjust to modern society by giving you something to listen to besides memories of the sweet Utahian wilderness.






Its been a while since the last update. So here are a couple of recent albums I've been bumping recently.


First up, John Dahlback's Winners & Fools. This comes from the 22 year old Swedish native who first started recording music when he was 15. Stylistically the album stays pretty close to Swedish-house/ electro-house genres, with a couple electropop numbers in there, here or there.

*Bonus*
Heres the video for the song Blink, a house banger. The video pretty much my life has become, school and raves. The song is not on the album.



Next, up is Matmos' Supreme Balloon. I'm not quite sure if this 7 song output would be considered an album or ep as it clocks in at about 45 mins. Nevertheless, theres some solid work here from them. The album fits in somewhere in between the idm/"listening techno" and straight electronic work from the 70s. The title track, is a 24 minute long, mini opus that would rival the growing beat-driven sound scapes of Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze. The rest of the work is some of the more melodic and straight electronic work Matmos has put out.

A favorite band of mine for sometime, Ladytron, just put out their new album, Velocifero. On their last album Witching Hour they added a bit more guitar work, but here their back to electro bangers. I can't say enough about how perfect Helen Marine's vocals perfectly fit the music of the band. They'll be in philly on Thursday June 26 with Datarock (ill definitely be there).


The last ablum is Stanogold's Selftitled. She's been getting a lot of comparison's to M.I.A. but this comparison can be slightly misleading. Some of the music on Santogold's album does mirror sound similar to an M.I.A. but there is a lot more variety musically. There are alot of people remixing her tracks too. Check out hypem.com to see some the more dancey mixes people have turned out from her tracks. Great album to start off the summer time vibe.





*There are plenty of places to find these on the nets, but if you want some tracks or to sample the album, drop a line in the comments.*