Tailored Communication: Xmas Mega Mix

From our friends at Tailored Communication comes an Xmas Mega Mix to cancel out the X-Factor chart dross!

"While you're roasting your chestnuts and knocking back the gluhwein, it's my pleasure to offer you an alternative soundtrack for your season. Jump deep into snow drifts of bass and dance giddily as delightful melodies fill the air...

Have a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!"

Tailored Xmas Mega-mix 2010
mixed by, Santa's favourite elf, Exercise One


  Tailored Xmas Mega-Mix 2010 by Melissa

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Tracklisting

Shed - STP2 / Ostgut Ton
Sideshow - Dub It all / Aus Music
Scuba - Before (After) / Hotflush
Emika - Cooling Room / Ostgut Ton
Exercise One - Prowl / Wagon Repair
Margret Dygas - Hidden (nsi mix) / PowerShovel Audio
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Can´t Have Everything feat dOP /Crircus Company
Martyn - Miniluv /Ostgut Ton
Peter Van Hoesen - Irrational X (Exercise One Remix) / Exone
Scuba - Tracers (Deadbeat Remix) / Hotflush
Will Saul & Mike Monday - Sequence 1/ Aus Music
Joe - Claptrap / Hessle Audio
Shackleton - International Fires / Fabric
Sendai - Northeast / Time To Express
Mount Kimbie - Carbonated / Hot Flush
Space Dimension Controller - Temporary Thrillz / R&S
Phantasmeano - Vowels / Exone
Bloody Mary - Arabesque (Jin Choi rmx) / Dame-Music
Greie Gut Fraktion - Wir bauen eine Stadt (Alva Noto remodel) / Monika Enterprise
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (Gui boratto remix) / Kompakt (from Michael Mayer's Immer 3)
Mathew Jonson - When Love Feels Like Crying / Wagon Repair
Mount Kimbie - Between Time/ Hot Flush

Vinyl and digital reviews: Peter Van Hoesen and Cobblestone Jazz

Title: Entropic Minus Six
Artist: Peter Van Hoesen
Label: Time To Express
Release date: 8 Feb 2010

Sounds like: Cleaned-down techno with added fuzz; punchy bass throbbing in and out, up and down

High notes: The acidic 'Terminal'; kick-drum and dissipating bleep dominated 'Strip It, Boost It', with a hint of Gus Gus in the breakdown; the harder and more abrasive 'Quartz #1', obviously taking a cue from hard minerals; and the crashing wave of techno, 'Defence Against The Self, jostling you with claustrophobic atmospherics.

Bum Notes: None

More info: Grab a free four track download care of petervanhoesen.bandcamp.com, including 'Strip It Boost It - Entropic Dub' and 'Terminal - Markov Layout'. Get it in mp3, FLAC and more, and hold tight for the forthcoming full-length LP!

Title: Chance EP
Artist: Cobblestone Jazz
Label: Wagon Repair
Release date: 22 Feb 2010

Sounds like: Deep, melodic house with a river of keys running through it

High notes: Side-A's 'Chance Dub' demonstrate that looser ambiance does not increase production sloppiness; it's interlocking cogs of leftfield. B-side 'Chance' is a lighter affair with Air keys and an echoed vocoder, and keeps a curious pace - like someone went to the chillout room and dropped some 'phetamines.

Bum Notes: It's only a two track EP!