Gino Soccio – Try it Out (Original 12” Version)
I couldn’t stop playing this song when I discovered it from a box full of old records, I remember It had a lot of scratches but sound and groove was there. This is definitely a perfect song that will never die.
ESIBAER – Grauzone
After arriving to mexico after having spend some time in Berlin, my older brother showed me a group of tracks from the New German Wave scene, among them I discovered swiss band Grauzone getting a gigantic identification with their sound that came out an obscure era of cold war and music manifestations like post punk. The song features a man singing he wants to be a “polar bear in the cold polar”. By being one he “wouldn’t have to cry any longer and everything would be fine.” The instrumental arrangement also evokes an Arctic atmosphere.
Azra – Kao Tij La
Some years ago I found this band from Yugoslavia, a country which no longer exists. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any original version on Youtube, here’s a live performance of the track. Its pauses, perfect rhythms and instrumentation are perfectly synchronized.
Movement Of Fear – Tones On Tail
I prefer Pop from 1982 that from today’s. Another masterpiece from Pop’s Album. Tones On Tail is a side project of the gothic rock Bauhaus.
A Number Of Names – Shari Vari
This track from 1982 is the first techno track released in Detroit. Is a must to know track if you like electronic music. Thought it has more than 30 years it has a particular modern sound.
Shocking Blue – Venus
Best track of this Dutch band in my opinion. This was in 1968, where guitars and rock where heading the music. And electronic was merging in a silent but certain pace.
Simon Diaz – Tonada de Luna Llena
This Venezuelan Singer who past away some years ago was an influence for all musicians from this country, reviving the almost dead “Tonada Llanera” (Plainmans Tunes) in the 50’s.
Laid Back – White Horse
This is algo an immortal track. Great synths and rhythmic. It pushed me into designing music to a dancefloor.
Mulatu Astatqe – Tezeta
The father of Ethno-Jazz
Schubert – Trio Op 100
One of my favourites classical track from Schubert
Alejandro Molinari – Break the Bricks EP (Blindetonation)
Rugged electronic disco label Blindetonation welcomes a new producer to the fray for their fifth EP. That man is the fast rising Alejandro Molinari, a Venezuelan producer, singer, guitar player and DJ from Caracas who serves up six scintillating tracks of fine machine music. Molinari uses analog and acoustic devices to create his fully formed sounds and integrates lo-fi samples of songs, speeches, interviews, field recordings and films too giving them a conceptual and cultural edge. With a passion for blending the synthetic and the organic, he has already impressed on Onerpm and does so again here. Excellent opener ‘Break the Bricks’ is five minutes of corrugated synths, undulating rubber bass and carefully uttered male vocals that lend a human touch to the abstract sounds all around. ‘StereoMatches’ is slower and more trippy, with freewheeling synths riding up and down the scales whilst slap funk drums bring the infectious groove below. ‘Peso Muerto’ is deeper and more stripped back, with elastic drums and meandering sine waves making for a rather haunted and excellent atmosphere, then ‘Human Machine’ layers up fat drums and plodding bass stabs with twinkling keys and dehumanised vocals that make for a brilliantly robotic groove. ‘Machine Experience’ is then back to direct dance floor action with driven kicks, cosmic energy and prickly percussion making you sit up and take note before this well formed.
