CALL SUPER

I'm always impressed when ever I hear great composed electronic Music. I feel as those tracks that simply sound minimal and intricate, is our future salvation agains't mainstream bass driven pop. I highly recommend you coleccionistas to get yourselves a hold of "The Present Tense" EP and Double check on Houndstooth.. Call Super is one to be heard loud and clear.

“With every record I sit and write through process. Frankly it’s much like painting. Depending on that process and my mood, things come out a certain way. The present thing is to do with how I feel we live now, and my response to that. It’s to do with being in this permanent kaleidoscope of influence, with so many things bouncing off one another and distance being compressed to nothing and that leading to one being bombarded with everything one wishes for culturally. I don't feel retro, or futuristic, or anything because of that. Because of that I feel lost in the present and that’s wonderful.” - Call Super

Mala y su latin Flavor

Mala at Work on New "Cuban" Album

• Words: James Eaton at xlr8r.com

In a recent article on Clash, the online culture hub reports that dubstep diety Mala (whoseXLR8R podcast we still can't stop listening to) is finishing up an album he recorded with Cuban musicians. Apparently, the DJ/producer was coerced by Gilles Peterson, who has been traveling to the island nation for several years, to make the trip. As the Brownswoodlabel head and BBC radio host explains, "I basically took Mala over [to Cuba] with me and we spent the first few days recording Latin rhythms and we took those back to the UK and he’s been working on that. We went back and made the album, but when I was making the album I would be in studio one and all the musicians would come through and play a straightforward type of album. Then when they were done with me they would basically go through and see him and he would do his interpretation of the Cuban thing for his own album, which is going to be coming out in February." Peterson went on to say he has another chapter of his own Havana Cultura project in the works, which will reportedly drop around the end of February or beginning of March. Needless to say, word of a new full-length LP from Mala has our attention absolutely piqued, and we'll be bringing you any and all updates once they arrive.

Amon Tobin= Isam

With a full length record, we also get a glimpse into sound design and live touch control, along with a cross-media event involving photography and sculpture. It’s the latest Amon Tobin, and for lovers of digital sonic manipulation, it’s big news.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/04/listen-to-amon-tobins-sound-design-magnum-opus-isam-with-pop-up-commentary/