na: alias resurgam
For those of you out there who are anticon, hip-hop or electronic fans, the album that the Alias/Why? track Well Water Black is on (I mentioned it in this post) came in today. I haven’t been anticipating an album like this in quite a while. I was considering buying the limited edition physical version if we didn’t get it in but I believe this is the digital release date so there ya go. So far it is really, really good. At least grab Well Water Black, that song is essential and I can’t get enough of it.
Also of note for electronic fans is a new Bomb the Bass single So Special. Yesterday I also saw a single off the new Faint album.
For fans of darker electronic music, a shout out to my friends in The Panic Lift whose album dropped today. I’m not really into that type of music anymore, but those of you who into EBM will probably enjoy it. A colleague also recommended the other Hive records release today by genCab as a glitchier dark act with clean vocals, which I checked out for a minute and it sounded decent.
I’ll also recommend this release to fans of The Notwist. Alias is very much part of the extended family, remixing a number of tracks for them as well as various other Notwist-related projects (13&God, Lali Puna, etc.), and collaborating on other projects together, such as Markus Acher’s vocal on Unseen Sights, tracks on Styrofoam’s “Nothing’s Lost” album and many many other examples.
I’m especially conscious of these connections because I came to Alias through The Notwist door.
I’d been waiting for this one too, and during the wait, and as I started sucking it down, I realized, I LOVE this guy. He really has come to represent that juicy anticon sweet spot at the oozing intersection of hip hop, glitchtronica, some very nice indie touches on several tracks, and just to be sure you’re paying attention, a little ambient.
Okay, last nod to our boy getting around, check the remix of “Into the Trees” on the “Men of Station” EP by 13&God — by Alias and Why? So there you go.
That 13 & God is very much up my alley. The “intersection of hip hop, glitchtronica and … indie” is very much where I have been living lately, though I came through on the Why? side. I actually downloaded Shrink by The Notwist last week after seeing some chatter about them on the messageboards, it’s good stuff.
It’s more on the IDM/dubsteppy side but I have also been loving the new iTAL tEK album lately.
I am loving The Notwist. Especially Neon Golden. So many good recs in this post and eMusic MB post re: the new Notwist.