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P033: Dadub special

14/05/2013

Dadub, the Italian duo of Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, have had a key role in the Stroboscopic Artefacts sound. Not only have they produced some of its most memorable releases, including their recent debut album “You are eternity”, but they work behind the scenes mastering the labels output and putting the final touches on the labels signature sound, forged from dark ambience, intelligent beats and a gritty finish to the digital purity. Cabeza de Vaca turns its attention to some of the duos recent releases as well as some of their contemporaries from Spain and abroad. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – May 6, 2013

11/05/2013

A show of two halves today, downtempo, soulful beats and bobs to start before the bassline and twisted house kicked in to shatter the quiet. Starting this weeks show was a track from the wonderful new project from Peter Wraight, arranger for the Matthew Herbert big band and his new project The Webster Wraight Ensemble before we dropped the most soulful cut from the intriguing recent release by Clouds on Ramp. Now we’ve been bigging up the Omar album recently from the sampler and it looks like the music is living up to the expectation. The album is a real soulful journey across the styles. Ty then followed up with some great Fela sampling hip hop before US soulboys Myron & E made a great first impression. Read more…

P032: Sex special

09/05/2013

It may be time to send in your tax return, but there’s only one thing on our minds at Cabeza de Vaca and Scanner FM: sex. This week we pay tribute to the second best thing in the world after tax havens, dividends and creative accounting. Starting seductively with the Modernist, we come all too quickly to the happy finish of Terre Thaemlitz with plenty of bump and grind on the way courtesy of several memorable 12 inches from the archives. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – April 29, 2013

06/05/2013

So it’s all about locking into the long groove this week with only 11 tracks making up this show and a fair bit of 4/4 to boot but a lovely slice of nu-soul, courtesy of Kyra Simone, kicked off the show from  the nice new lovers compilation, The Heart #3, on Tokyo Dawn Records who are probably about to create a baby boom if they release any more in the series. Another Record Store Day release then followed with the ever interesting Nicolas Jaar giving Grizzly Bear a nice slo-mo deep house twist which led into the outrageously sprawling and quite frankly, epic, Larry Gus remix of Sinkane‘s, “Warm Spell” which led into another equally epic track, the soon to be reissued “Boutade” from Mugwump – look out for that on International Feel in June. Read more…

P031: Mark Fell special

02/05/2013

English producer and conceptual sound artist Mark Fell has been challenging the process, structure and purpose of electronic sound since the late 90s. Solo he has played in art galleries, toyed with house and built nanoparticle-powered random music. With Mat Steel he has sculpted glitch mobiles and rhythmic networks under the name SND and more recently they have cut and paste together a new form of polyrhythmic house under the Sensate Focus name. On Cabeza de Vaca this week we follow the evolution of a track, from its origins in the chord-driven house collaboration with DJ Sprinkles (Terre Thaemlitz), via the fluxing and phasing dancefloor of Sensate Focus and then into the solo atomic world of the sentielle objectif actualité. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – April 8, 2013

25/04/2013

Quite a soulful vibe this week, kicking off with one of two tracks in the show from Omarand his wonderful remake of his 1990 classic “There’s Nothing Like This” taken from his new EP The Man which is boding very well indeed for the album. A sensitive Taylor McFerrin remix of “Come To My Door” from Jose James then followed before a hatrick of modern soul classics was completed by Sweatson Klank‘s “Morning After Pills” from his, now available, album on Project Mooncircle. Jazz was then the order of the day with the opening track from Kevin Beadle‘s stellar compilation, Private Collection, out on BBE Records. Read more…

P030: Ambient special

23/04/2013

Another ambient show on Cabeza de Vaca this week. We start off with two Spanish artists and labels and then turn our attention to a pair of new tracks from Belgium’s Aguirre imprint. In the final half of the show we uncover some overlooked ambient tracks from techno and house producers on some recent 12”s and album releases. Read more…

P029: Omar S special

16/04/2013

Omar S should need no introduction: the Man from Detroit has been a constant presence on the dance floor for almost a decade, inspiring minds and moving bodies with his ability to innovate at the same time as providing universally acclaimed sounds that straddle both techno and house. This week on Cabeza de Vaca we show our respects to his recent 4th album and some other recent singles. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – April 1, 2013

16/04/2013

New classical vibes kicked off this weeks show starting off with a taste of the Buddha Machine inventor’s new album Fistful of Buddha and then ably followed by a track from the live recordings of Jaga Jazzist’s concert with the Britten Sinfonia. Springintgut then provided another cultured tune from their fantastic and highly recommended, Where We Need No Map, album which is about to drop on the consistently great Pingipung label. The Herbertesque vibes of Jonatan Backelie then seemed like the sensible follow up and is a deep electronic grower. Read more…

P028: Dubstep and a focus on Keysound Recordings

10/04/2013

Some dubstep this week as we turn our attention to the Keysound Recordings label from London run by Dusk and Blackdown. Several of their recent releases, combining Grime and classic dubstep styles, have set the standard high for 2013, whereas we also highlight the recent album by the label owners themselves and show our respect to some of the new blood they continue to foster. Read more…

Novedades + Entrevista Astroboyz

10/04/2013

Nos ponemos al día con Alex-Astroboyz antes de que vuele hacia New York para formar parte de la Academy 2013. Ha tenido la amabilidad de traernos 3 nuevos temas inéditos y exclusivos y ha sido un placer charlar con él. Antes de eso, como siempre, algunas novedades de mucho nivel y, para finalizar la presentación, una intensa “perla” elegida por el propio Alex. Disfruten.  Read more…

Canela En Surco 008 – Black Enuff

10/04/2013

Listen…listen, not only with your ears…listen with your soul and your spirit to the souns of an african village…listen to incantations to the God DAMBALLA on a mooonlit night…listen to the sounds of the Pygmies blended with the Soul Sounds of 39th Street in Chicago…PYGMY POWER!! Read more…

P027: Killekill label special

03/04/2013

A show that feels a bit sacrilegious and only the week after Easter. This week on Cabeza de Vaca and Scanner FM we preview some tracks from the nastier side of techno and electro and then focus our attention on Nico Deuster’s Killekill label from Berlin, which purveys some of the same sounds, somewhere between humourous and dirty and bathed in acid.

 

P027: Especial del sello Killekill

 

Un programa que se siente un poco sacrílego y sólo una semana después de Pascua. Esta semana en Cabeza de Vaca y Scanner FM avanzamos algunas pistas de la parte más desagradable del techno y el electro y luego centrar nuestra atención en el sello Killekill de Nico Deuster y basado en Berlín, que proveen algunos de los sonidos mismos, localizado en algún lugar entre el humor y la suciedad y bañada en ácido.

 

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P026: Spanish electronic music Part III: Semantica and techno.

26/03/2013

For the third and final installment of our three part Spanish electronica series we turn our attention to Svreca’s iconic Semantica label from Madrid who have risen to become a landmark imprint of modern design and front-line sounds from hard and experimental techno to IDM. For the rest of the show we highlight some of the standout techno tracks from Spanish artists and labels. Read more…

P025: Spanish electronic music Part II: Hivern Discs and house.

21/03/2013

For the second of our trilogy of shows dedicated to Spanish electronica, we turn our attention to house, moving inwards from the fringes of bass and techno, to the modern classical sound of Barcelona’s Hivern Discs label run by John Talabot. We focus on four recent releases from the label representing five different artists from the Peninsula and trace their history and influence. Read more…

Dreamy Beats MIX – por DJ Chelis

21/03/2013

Esta semana un mix especial de Chelis, uno de los más relevantes, cultos, encantadores y excelentes djs de España (y el resto del mundo). Lo ha llamado “Dreamy Beats“, y lo grabó en su casa con la única iluminación de su equipo… sugerente ¿verdad? pues escuchadlo, porque superará todas vuestras expectativas. (gracias Chelis!) Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – March 11, 2013

20/03/2013

J’s Bee – Strange Supper (Far Out promo)
Jimi Tenor & KabuKabu – Africa Kingdom (Kindred Spirits)
Jeri-Jeri – Sama Yaye with Mbene Diatta Seck (Ndagga)
Kab Driver – Welsey Slipes (Reset Industries promo)
Springintgut – Western Kyoto (Pingipung promo)
Spontaneous Overthrow – All About Money (Chocolate Industries)
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators – On The East Side (Timmion)
Mr Beatnick – Symbiosis (Don’t Be Afraid promo)
Sweatson Klank – Asking For It (Project Mooncircle promo)
Lorca – Searching (20:20 Midnight Visions)
Pause – Falsey (Plexus promo)
Anushka – Yes Guess (Brownswood promo)
Kassem Mosse – IP Mirrors (Non Plus)

P024: Spanish electronic music Part I: Héctor Sandoval and experimental music

14/03/2013

This week we start the first of three programs celebrating Spanish electronic music. First up is a primer of some of the more experimental and IDM-leaning artists from across the peninsula, highlighting in particular the work of Asturian Héctor Sandoval and his recent landmark album under his Komatssu moniker and his collaborative techno project Exium. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – March 4, 2013

14/03/2013

There was a deep and slightly more experimental flavour to this weeks show kicking off with the most melodic offering from the new Tangent album which led nicely into a taster of the new J’s Bee album which truly is a thing of wonder. They are a ten piece Japanese group, mixing up the styles to lush effect before the Ambient Jazz Ensemble took up the cinematic mantle and ran full steam ahead with it. Letherette then changed the musical course with some future boogie beats, closely followed by more of the same from hot young Belgian talent Pomrad just about to release his EP on the ever interesting Earnest Endeavours label. Sweatson Klank then provided some thinking man’s hip hop before Khing Kang King took the “thinking man’s hip hop” tag to the next level and beyond. Read more…

P023: Post-Sandwell District special.

05/03/2013

In their ten years of operation the loose collective of artists that form the Sandwell District collective have risen from relative obscurity to leave an immediately recognizable mark at the core of modern techno. Combining industrial grit, violent and stark aesthetics and media subversion tactics, they have come to define not only modern electronica, but in many ways the modern age. It is somewhat fitting then that the label operations descended into chaos at their moment of triumph, the release of 2011’s “Feed Forward” album which is the starting point of this weeks show. Cabeza de Vaca picks up the pieces and traces the trajectory of each of the three main protagonists Function, Regis and Silent Servant and their associates, bringing their influence to bare and highlighting their recent work. Read more…

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