Continuing with our REWIND! of 2007, here are the Top 10 Electronic Musings on ([HearingTest]) in 2007… All but “Lion” were released this year, and most of them can be found on BLEEP.com or Boomkat.com. 2007 was also a great year for watching the magic of electronic synthesis and we enjoyed watching loads of wonderful videos. I consider myself very lucky to have attended some of the Bay Area’s hottest live electronic music performances and somewhat capture them on video. It’s all here as we REWIND! 2007’s Greatest Hits! ([More →])

Digging through the ([HearingTest]) audio archive for the Top Rankin Tunes of 2007, I discovered that most of my favorites could be summed up as shotta anthems. So, I pulled out 10 tunes for Top Rankin Shotta Anthems of 2007. These selections are from the archive of tunes featured on ([HT]) over the last year: ([More →])

Pull up Selecta, let’s hear those tunes one more time! Here are my selections for the Top 10 Tunes and 15 Albums Released In 2007… Tune in again tomorrow for a REWIND of the Biggest Tunes Published On ([HearingTest]) in ‘07! ([More →])

Roni Size and Cypress Hill inna Drum and Bass style… If I had an ambulance, this is similar to what I’d do with it. But I’d outfit the back with a 10k rig so’s everybody could hear it; like the trucks in the “Poison Dart” video…

Roni Size & Cypress Hill - “Child Of The Wild West”

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Ambient psychedelic rockers Spectrum are set to release wave after wave of tunes in 2008. The adventure begins in February with an LP titled Spectrum meets Cpt. Memphis - Indian Givers. This record documents the unique collaboration between Spectrum (Peter Kember/Sonic Boom and friends) and record producer/piano player Jim Dickinson! This album ^ will be released in addition to the highly anticipated new Spectrum album, also due in ‘08, plus an EP that will precede the LP. whew! ([More →])

Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th at the ripe age of 79 years old. Stockhausen was a pioneering experimental composer who annotated electronic music, encouraged chaos in his compositions, and made music from math. In a loving statement made by his publisher Stockhausen-Verlag:

IN FRIENDSHIP and gratitude for everything that he has given to us personally and to humanity through his love and his music, we bid FAREWELL to Karlheinz Stockhausen, who lived to bring celestial music to humans, and human music to the celestial beings, so that Man may listen to GOD and GOD may hear His children.

On December 5th he ascended with JOY through HEAVEN’S DOOR, in order to continue to compose in PARADISE with COSMIC PULSES in eternal HARMONY, as he had always hoped to do: You, who summon me to Heaven, Eva, Mikael and Maria, let me eternally compose music for Heaven’s Father-Mother, GOD creator of Cosmic Music.

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Bjork’s new video for “Declare Independence” just dropped along with a bunch of behind the scenes action. Michel Gondry directed the video - his 7th for Bjork! What do you think of it? ([More →])

Autechre have a new album called Quaristice that will be released on March 3rd 2008. The experimental electronica duo haven’t updated their own website since the release of Untitled in 2005, but Warp Records revealed that Autechre will release their 9th album in ‘08. Autechre has scheduled one live show for March 10th in Poland and it seems likely that many more dates will be announced in support of the new album.
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T2 hit the bigtime with Jodie Aysha and “Heartbroken.” These days, the lucky lad is working with the lovely Addictive ladies. The vocal duo were in the BBC studios recently along with T2 in sesh with Cameo. Here’s video of the BBC 1xtra sesh: ([More →])

DJ C and Modeselektor remix Ghislain Poirier’s “Blazin,” originally from his No Ground Under LP on Ninja Tune. These 2 versions are not included on the remixes album!

DJ C, Ghislain Poirier, Modeselektor Links

DJ C discusses his “Blazin” remix on Mashit - plus a free download of this song!
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Ghislain Poirier music $pace

Hardcore bangin techno, 8-bit video game music, and hip hop are all very high on my list of favorite kinds of music. It’s rare you hear all three combined, and more rare to hear it done well. There are a handful of mad tunes made with Gameboys, and a few with the Mario Bros. theme song, but “Tetris” by Dacav 5 is one of the best I’ve ever heard.

HearingTest rating: I just want to fire up the soundsystem and blast this! Wake up the neighbors! This one’s a banger!
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When asked to describe the sound of The Bug, Kevin Martin responds, “Beats, Bombs, Bass, Weapons, Congestion, Space, Concussion and Seduction.” !!Sounds Beautiful!! Martin [the man behind the bug] has refined an arsenal of tuff tunes (with Flowdan and Warrior Queen passing the mic) and wicked remixes (for Ghislain Poirier and Thom Yorke of Radiohead) into dangerous dubplate killahs! Perhaps the don of toxic dancehall finished construction on his urban-legendary soundsystem and now makes distorted ragga dubs on a barricade of bassbins instead of a pair of studio monitors! “Poison Dart” is The Bug’s most recent weapon of choice: a staggering riddim made razor-sharp by Warrior Queen’s defiant tongue. It’s a heavy tune that aches to be played BiG and LouD in an open space where the bass can unfurl into the wide wobbling synths that decay into long echoes.

HearingTest has the brand new video for “Poison Dart” and details on the remixes by Skream, South Rakkas Crew, Stereotyp and a Flowdan version that will accompany the originals to be released in December. I’ve even posted Warrior Queen’s lyrics for “Poison Dart” which aim Warrior’s wisdom at young shottas inna de dance. If your native tongue is more patio than patois, these subtitles might help. ([More →])

Ghislain Poirier - Montreal’s instigator of electronic mayhem - has a new album called No Ground Under. Ninja Tune released the LP in Canada, but it won’t be released in the US until early 2008. The first single off No Ground Under is the ragga/dancehall tune “Blazin” featuring Face-T. The EP single includes the original album edit and remixes by The Bug and DJ C. In the meantime, here are 2 different remixes of the same song that are not part of either release: a Modeselektor remix and a second remix from DJ C that’s more of a mashup. ([More →])

The mysterious Swedish/Ukranian electro outfit - Maskinen - have released a new video for “Alla Som Inte Dansar.” If you like Modeselektor type stuff, you’ll probably dig Maskinen… ([More →])

The innovative electronica experimentalist, Jean Michel Jarre, is infamous for his immersive audio environments. His major label album was Oxygene on Polydor in 1976. The album (which sold some millions of copies) is considered by some to be the “most important and influential electronic music album ever.” He used a range of analog synthesizers, echo, phaser, and an early Korg drummachine to create the lush melodies, unique rhythms and spacey atmospheres that characterize the album. ([More →])