The Barcelona festival has added a third round of names for this year’s festival which also include Chic, Dam-Funk and Audion.
After the seismic splash created by the full-length Donato Dozzy remix package, it’s little wonder that Chris Madak is keen to return his Bee Mask creation to the hands of remixers to see what other results might arise. So it is that he launches Pear Growers’ Series, an “irregular private press 12-inch series” that commences proceedings with remixes from a sizable pair of producers to set out the standard the label intends to operate at.
KWC 92, some excellent remixes of Bee Mask, and the return of Madteo provided some of this week’s highlights.
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The artist otherwise known as Bee Mask guides us through five records that hold particular resonance to him and his working practices.
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The Philadelphia artist starts new imprint with remixes of his own material from Surgeon and Abdulla Rashim.
It’s an especially healthy time to be into ambient electronic music, not least when you get presented with propositions as enticing as this one. Bee Mask’s thirteen minute opus “Vaporware”, draped across the lead side of his release for Room40 last year, particularly held within it a great potential for imaginative remixing, but the artist couldn’t have been expecting the response he got from Donato Dozzy when he approached him for a remix. It was a smart move, either on the part of Bee Mask or Spectrum Spools who now release this collection, as Dozzy has a rich history in ambient material as much as his transcendental techno ways, but even they must have been shocked when the Italian producer returned not one but seven full-bodied reworks.
Tantalising details have slipped out regarding the next release from Spectrum Spools, with Donato Dozzy reworking Bee Mask.
The task of whittling down our shortlist of favourite albums this year felt more arduous than ever; the past 12 months have seen a glut of formidable long players released, and the strength of this list is reflected by those LPs that didn’t make the cut. Our final selections were based a few important questions, most pertinently, ‘had we heard anything like this before?’ If the answer was yes, chances are it didn’t make it. The 20 long players showcased below are, in our opinion, utterly unique, crammed with enough ideas and flair to make them worthy of revisitation for years to come.