Posts Tagged ‘joakim’

Holy invasion of the disco prog demigods

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

My dudes and ladies. The vast amount of rad progressive disco and house and electronica that has been released over the past year can only mean one thing: the dudes producing this music cannot be from our planet. They must actually be shape-shifting disco prog demigods disguised as humans to live among us. The music they make is their means of communicating with their home planet and with my remote viewing abilities I have been able to decipher the messages hidden within their music. They are planning an invasion and our only hope lies in a pregnant woman, Dennis Quaid and a non-descript English actor whose mild success in films has qualified him for a lead role in our apocalypse. This is the only plausible explanation. That or I fell asleep to the trailer for Legion after taking too many painkillers.

Either way, I decided to give you guys some tracks so you could have a soundtrack to dance your apocalyptic troubles away. Only the best will do, so first off let’s start with Joakim’s massive new remix of Naum Gabo’s Pictur. This remix only affirms the Frenchman’s standing as one of the few extremely capable producers who can successfully bridge the gap between disco, house and electro. The 12″ comes with Joakim’s remix as well as a Naum Gabo’s own reworking of his dark nudisco. But Joakim’s strung-out epic of warped wobbly synths is what you get today. Beautiful artwork as well on the sleeve.

Naum Gabo – Pictur (Joakim Remix)

The other track comes from one of my favorite disco edits labels, Moxie. These dudes have really figured it out and have released so many quality edits from a celebrity panel of dance producers. The latest is no exception and comes from an unknown audio assailant. Two edits of a Prince-inspired space disco track come in Male and Female Versions. Today I share the Male Version, so get it while it’s hawt.

Unknown Artist – Holy “Invasion” (Male Version)

The effect of adding another zero… nothing!

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

So last year sometime I came across an amazing remix of a group whose name intrigued me, Principles Of Geometry. In particular the track I heard was the Joakim remix of POG’s “A Mountain For President”, the original of which featured Sebastien Tellier. All good names in my book and the track turns out to be an amazing epic of ambient synths laid over a mix of arpeggiated basslines, electronic humming, and tom fills. Through this brilliant sonic haze comes the stabbing vocoded vocals of an androgenous robot driving a speedboat off the coast of Miami at a sunset in 1984, pure bliss.


Principles Of Geometry – A Mountain For President (Joakim Remix)

So basically I loved the track. I loved it so much that when I saw a new release by the group on a special limited edition single sided pressing with a rad etching on the b-side, I jumped at it. But the moral here is that I should have pulled my head out of my ass and done some research on the record because it is nothing bad necessarily. Just a sadly dated sounding track. Who would have known, the original of “A Mountain Of President” was pretty dope, but slapping Beastie Boys vocals over a glitchy chopped beat with lyrics of political progress more than four years outdated – it’s just not really a time I wish to reminisce on. But maybe some of you out there will like it more than me, or maybe we’ll find ourselves in a nu-glitch scene within the year, and this track will be a hidden precursor to the movement, but I hope that’s not the case. (Also, note to self: even if the word geometry is in the name of your group, don’t go throwing a bunch of fucking math jargon in your song titles trying to sound clever). I hate to get all preachy, sorry for the bitter post!

Principles Of Geometry – The Effect Of Adding Another Zero (Principles Of Geometry’s Distributive & Associative Part One)
(removed as per artist’s request, listen and buy here!)