ENCLAVE "Ironyism" EP

ENCLAVE "Ironyism"
[IF? Records IF043]

Here's the debut release from Melbourne's Paul Derons, and the latest addition to the IF? roster.



Enclave
is the most recent artist to join IF?, harking from the label's hometown and
old stomping ground - and marks a welcome return to the "acid" tech
sounds that hallmarked IF? when it first kicked off in 1995, produced
by a guy who purchased his first TR-505 in 1991 - but all taken from
the rather beneficial hindsight of a contemporary perspective, o'
course!



Ironyism is available online today as a 5-track digital download, exclusively through Addictech here:
http://ifrecords.addictech.com/


TRACK-LISTING/MUZIKAL ANALYSIS BY ENCLAVE

1 Resynd (Sinhouse Edit) (8:18)
"A tough, rolling techno track - largely produced on a RS7000 groovebox."

2 Ironyism (5:49)
"Deep, dirty Plump DJs-influenced booty tek - with some more serious industrial textures thrown in for good measure."

3 Squelcha (Live) (5:06)
"As
the track name suggests, super-squelchy acid, performed and
semi-improvised live on the newly remodeled Korg DS-10
portasynth/sequencer on the Nintendo DS gaming platform. Bouncy acid -
super-duper tweaked before your ears."

4 Specialbraanch (6:21)
"Some
seriously thick swaggering booty tek - inspired as much by dirty
tech/electro as it is by some of my favourite post-rock acts (The Jesus
Lizard, Ricaine). Think a Rickenbacker bass played through a big muff
pedal, accompanied by a crankin' beatbox."

5 Cakey (Live Remix) (8:00)
"An
older, unreleased remix of a wide open rolling techno/minimal track -
produced and performed live on my old, trusty RS7000 groovebox."



Paul,
who is a Boag's Strongarm Bitter man, puts it all in perspective best
himself: "I have been producing and playing a more streamlined mélange
of tough electro, minimal, deep house and techno in recent times, and I
believe this is amply reflected on my debut IF? Records offering," he
says.

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COCAINE SPEAKING

Yep, we cracked DJ Mag - the October '08 issue (see above). Page 142, in the Mix Doctor section.

We submitted Little Nobody's original 1999 'Mind-Bending Remix' (by Andrez and Franc) of the Little Nobody vs. DJ Fodder track, Cocaine Speaking, recorded the same year by Andrez and Jeff.

That track was released on the Kiss-FM (Melbourne) compilation through Shock in 2000 (http://www.discogs.com/release/254783) under the DJ Fodder name, with Little Nobody credited as remixer as well as co-producer.

Then we released it on Little Nobody's own album, also in 2000 (http://www.discogs.com/release/429995).

Also that year it turned up in Sydney on vinyl on the Nine09 label (http://www.discogs.com/release/80608) under the name Little Nobody vs. DJ Fodder.

So why submit the track for consideration 8 years later?

Well, it never really got far outside of Australia, although Muzik mag over in the UK described it (in 2001) as 'A bit like Gordon Brown breaking off from talking about monetary policy to dance the can-can. And we all know how great that is.'

And we're collaborating with Sydney's Elektrax and Hypnotic Room imprints to serve up a slew of new remixes, including ones by Dave Tarrida and Mijk van Dijk, shortly.

So, we submitted the original to DJ Mag to see what they had to say 9 years after the track was put together (without telling them that) - and they were surprisingly spot-on about the age:

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IF? BLOG thingy

Yep. We've been seduced by the Blog bug. Go figure.
http://iffybizness.blogspot.com/

Stuff on muzak, anime, Tokyo, IF?, etc, etc.

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CONVERSATIONAL DENTURES Mouth Wash EP

Well, we have a new IF? release out today—the debut offering from Aussie act Conversational Dentures, called (fittingly enough) "Mouth Wash". It's IF? release #49.



This
one crisscrosses boundaries somewhat (yeah, yeah—so what else is new
with an IF? release?), and at moments brushes up against dubstep,
abstract cut-up sounds, IDM, electro, hip hop beats, and dub techno.

While
it's also been released as a limited edition vinyl 10-inch in Japan,
it's available internationally exclusively as a digital download
through Addictech:
http://ifrecords.addictech.com/


Tracklisting:

1 Go Play The Atari (2:05)
2 Anything ( Someone B.I.G.remix) (5:28)
3 The Mean Reds (4:44)
4 Teeth Rattler (3:02)

Hope
you have time to check this one out—there're sneak previews up on
Addictech so you can listen to bits and pieces, if at all curious.

IF050 will be out next month, and 'tis shaping itself up as a moderate surprise.

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Little Nobody "Game Over: Reset 140" remix EP
Current mood: artistic
Category: Music

Little Nobody
"Game Over: Reset 140"
(IF? Records)



Hey,

We put out the Game Over EP in March, and it was a slow, eclectic, at times dubby/electro reconsideration of beats and breaks, asymmetrical electronic rhythms and squelching, near-acid synths. Sydney's 3D World magazine called it "Head-bending stuff that's well worth investigating."



Anyway, not too long ago (over a vast amount of drinks), one of Andrez's mates over here in Tokyo, Yusuke Abe, challenged him to reboot that EP - at 140bpm, with a more up-for-it (albeit open-minded!) techno/house club in mind. Yusuke had a vested interest, as he wanted to DJ a couple of the tracks out, but thus Reset 140 was born.

The outcome is obviously faster-paced, now more tech than dub, and it's available from our label IF? as an exclusive digital download-only release online, through Addictech here:
http://ifrecords.addictech.com/


Tracklisting:

1 Juice And Jelly (Reset 140 Mix)
2 Game Over (Reset 140 Mix)
3 Get Away From It All (Reset 140 Mix)
4 Dereliction Due (Reset 140 Mix)
5 So What?

Oh, and as always there is one hack videoclip up on YouTube here:



JUICE AND JELLY (RESET 140 MIX)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwsSmtF578

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LITTLE NOBODY - Woklurk Orange EP - NOW OUT!

LITTLE NOBODY
Woklurk Orange EP
(IF?/Hypnotic Room)

Well, got another L.N. release out today, this one perhaps a shade more introspective, minimal and chilled, but still up and out there, methinks.



It's another collaboration between IF? and Hypnotic Room, and it's available as a digital download from Beatport, Juno Download, Audiojelly, Beats Digital, etc, etc.

BEATPORT

This is the propaganda info-sheet that Hypnotic Room put together:

"The Original Mix of Woklurk Orange starts off grainy and lo-fi, like a radio not quite in tune, with someone lazily tinkering on a keyboard, before the kick kicks in. And it's a mighty kick – deep, powerful, spellbinding. The tempo may be slow, the haunting pads in the background might be moody and there may be ethereal, drifting moments to the track, but overall it's a funky, sublime, Booka Shade style piece that leaves you breathless!

"The Retort Mix continues the lo-fidelity intro concept, but bends straight into the beats: initially minimalistic, then a more layered techno groove reminiscent of Jeff Mills in his early Axis records.

"The Kyu-Kyu Buzz Mix goes funky, disco-tek house, with a wild echo-effect on the stripped back beats. It's another sensually slow builder, with sampled real rock drums, that culminates in some devastatingly funky/jazz techno in its latter half – guaranteed to send a crowd mad.

"Hakuchuo Numa tweaks the cute – there are some wonderful sneaky, burrowing sounds squeezed into the demanding minimal tech-house groove here – and it shakes your tail-feather in ways Chicago's DJ Rush or DJ Sneak might approve of!

"Finally, Have You Heard This? winds up the EP with a beautiful, organic mix of house, breaks and dubstep that would raise the floor in any summer venue dance area.

"Woklurk Orange is one of the more gorgeous EPs we've heard this year!"


...so, nice comments indeed, but the proof of the busted pudding (as my dad would say) is in the actual tasting!

You can also check out other info, including DJ/producer feedback, and tune in to sample sounds of the EP, online here at HYPNOTIC ROOM

Tracklisting:
1 Woklurk Orange (Original Mix)
2 Woklurk Orange (Retort Mix)
3 Woklurk Orange (Kyu-Kyu Buzz Mix)
4 Hakuchuo Numa
5 Have You Heard This?


There're also a couple of videos up @ YouTube:



WOKLURK ORANGE

WOKLURK ORANGE (KYU-KYU BUZZ MIX)

...anyway, enough self-promotion kerfuffle!! Hope some of you have the time to check this out, and any feedback is always appreciated!!

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DICK DRONE interview

Hey all (or should that be "Hey y'all!"? Southern-fried chicken twang seems kind'a cool)...

In case anyone here's curious, interested, or just plain bored and indifferent, there's a relatively entertaining interview/story with Tokyo-based duo DICK DRONE, scribed by Terry Rance (who used to work for Inpress) up on the main feed of the Beatportal site here:

DICK DRONE story
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/stoking-the-engine/

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[IF?/Elektrax] SON OF ZEV "Submerged" EP
Category: Music

SON OF ZEV - SUBMERGED
[IF044/ELEK015]

We've been waiting for this one - another collaboration between IF? and Sydney's Elektrax imprint, following up on Zen Paradox, to bring you another pioneering Melbourne tech artist: Son Of Zev.




NOW AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL D/LOAD @ BEATPORT + JUNO, etc, VIA ELEKTRAX:
http://www.elektraxrecordings.com/elek015.html


ABOUT S.O.Z.

Quite
literally the son of Zev – his dad – Allan Klinbail has been renowned
in Melbourne, and the rest of Australia, since 1997, under his
production nom de guerre, Son Of Zev.

He's been a stalwart
member of the IF? posse since he handed me a CD-R while I was DJing at
one of the Hardware parties in 1998, and as soon as I listened we stuck
him on the bill as a live act at our next Zoetrope party, playing
alongside Voiteck.

Son Of Zev has performed live on multiple
occasions in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle, supporting Squarepusher,
Luke Vibert and Spearhead, at parties like Every Picture Tells a Story,
Tresor and Zoetrope, and clubs like Centriphugal and Filter; most
recently he played at two of the notorious Melbourne More Bass parties.


The ‘Submerged’ EP has been an extended work-in-progress for
this talented producer, fine-tuned and tweaked over the past few years,
before being allowed to see the light of day – and it shows.

The
depth of the productions and the quality sustained within each of them
is something to savour. The opening title track itself is superb, a
classic remake of all that’s good about German labels like Tresor and
Disko B, shaken up a bit with the wonderful, Detroit-infuenced
Melbourne scene that Son Of Zev emerged from in the mid 1990s – think
Voiteck and TR-Storm – combined with that fidgety live sound and
swinging grooves Son Of Zev is famous for.

‘Breakdown’ smacks
you round a bit like a modern jazz-jam session on steroids,
‘Trimetric-Funk’ offers up a sublimely bent form of tech-house that
would sit well on any Planetary Assault System record, and ‘Wintersun’
offers more of the same, without being samey.

Closing up shop
here is the final track, ‘Dummy’, an innovative tech track that
references Chicago’s DJ Rush, yet places everything in a Germanic
sound-cycle, with an edge of Detroit and a sprinkling of the wonky
techno of Dave Tarrida or Cristian Vogel. It’s all so evidently
Melbourne — and more specifically Son Of Zev.

Brilliant stuff.

There's also a recent interview with Allan at the de-VICE site: http://de-vice-third.tripod.com/id17.html

VIDEO



Also, there's a new videoclip online @ YouTube:

Son of Zev "Submerged"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ4588jwTto

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VARIOUS - WE TOO ARE YOU old skool re-release compilation

VARIOUS - WE TOO ARE YOU
(IF? Records, August 22)

feat. VOITECK . DAVE BEATTIE . LITTLE NOBODY . MUTE FREAK . ISNOD . THE ALCOIIDS

We just released this compilation today as an exclusive digital download release through Addictech - featuring a swag of older skool and more recent banging tech-glitch-industrial sounds, all of it made in Melbourne, and a bonus remix by German producer Biochip C(Force Inc.).

You can check out the new release "We Too Are You" and d/load it all here:
http://ifrecords.addictech.com

These tracks, composed from 1996 to 2008, were all previously unleashed on an assortment of IF? Records releases over those years, but there's a particular focus here on the Zeitgeist 2 compilation from 1996 - a double-CD collection of Melbourne-made electronica that a review in Mixmag that year joyfully described as  “sounding like a dead dog being flogged on a corrugated iron fence”.

Local Aussie mags like Beat, Inpress and 3D World raved about it instead.

Funnily enough, the harder, experimental, somewhat abrasive sounds that local people like Voiteck, Dave Beattie (Q-Kontrol) and Mute Freak (ex- Lung U.P.C.) were exploring in the mid '90s, has become more commonplace and acceptable in the 12 years since - even in magazines like Mixmag.

So here it all is served up afresh, some of this a cross-section of Melbourne's more cutting edge electronic music directions... with additional input from Sydney's Alcoiids.

Tracklisting:
1 The Alcoiids vs. Little Nobody - Action Hero (2001 "Reaction Hero" mix)
2 Little Nobody - 7fk (2008 "Double-Click To Play" Dead Channel mix)
3 Isnod vs. Little Nobody - Nobody Plays Guitar (2001 "Reaction Hero" mix)
4 Voiteck - Coyote (1996 Biochip C remix, "Zeitgeist 2")  
5 David Beattie - Magik Dust (1996 "Zeitgeist 2" mix)
6 Mute Freak - Pleasurable Death (1996 "Zeitgeist 2" mix)
7 Voiteck - Bloodbath (1996 "Zeitgeist 2" mix)
8 Andrez + François - Make It So!! (1997 "Zeitgeist 3" mix)

...enjoy...

Currently listening : Little Nobody Presents Reaction Hero By Various Artists

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IF? turns 13

Yep, you read right - our li'l baby is now a teenager!

We started IF? Records 13 years ago back in Melbourne, in a 1995 when Zen Paradox, FSOM, Voiteck and Honeysmack were shaking the underground techno scene in that city - and we were lucky enough to get all of 'em on the first Zeitgeist compilation we put out that year - http://www.discogs.com/release/222151



So, to celebrate what people generally perceive is a bad luck number (and living up to our iffy reputation), we'll be releasing a double-compilation in September/October 2008.

The two compilations will be titled Z-13.1 and Z-13.2, and feature 30 tracks by 26 artists including internationals Jammin' Unit, his brother Khan, Micoland from Leeds in the U.K., Kero from the Detroit Underground crew in Canada, a swag of Japanese acts including CHIZQ, Electron Tee, Masaya Sasaka and Alone Together, plus Australians galore (of course!).

Think Aussies Pat Stormont, Zen Paradox, TR-Storm, Little Nobody, DJ Hi-Shock, Son Of Zev, Isnod, Seb Bayne, Cuznmatt, Bitch Shift, etc, etc.

Stay tuned.

Currently listening : Zeitgeist, Vol. 1 By Various Artists Release date: 1995-07-14

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