
All right, we’ve been pretty super bad with the newsletter in the recent months. Things were hectic, or maybe we just got lazy. Anyway, we’re back, and intend on serving you your weekly dose of wax and silicon goodies more regularely in the future. The Densing may go on.
To kick off the highlights of the week, let’s start with the newly relocated to Berlin Tim Exile and his new album on Warp, the surprising “Listening Tree”, available on vinyl and CD at your favorite record store (and we’ve got the “Family Galaxy” single as well). Also on Warp, do not miss Hudson Mohawke‘s “Polyfolk Dance”, in a more hip-hop direction. And “almost” on Warp, don’t pass on the soon-to-be-rare 12″ of Flying Lotus feat. Declaime on amp
A lot of new dubstep wax also arrived this wek, with for example two new split 12″ on Tectonic (Martyn / 2562 and Skream / Benga), some super heavy dubstep CD (a rare thing) from Somatic Responses and Kromestar, a new Sarantis 12″ and a new compilation on Terminal Dusk, or three new records by the great 16 Bit (quite varied, one of them featuring a Mr Oizo remix). Speaking of the devil, Mr Oizo‘s “Pourriture” 12″ has arrived from the Ed Banger stock to Berlin.
Those of you looking for more delicate atmospheres and a few more strings should be well advised to check out the new LPs by Japan’s Mono (“Hymn To The Immortal Wind”) and Holland’s The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (“Mutations”), while your dose of fresh hip hop might come in the form of MF Doom‘s new album on Lex.
Finally, let’s cool down, expand our musical cultures and trip away with the double CD compilation curated by the usual more techno oriented Henrik Schwarz and Ame Dixon (“The Grandfather Paradox”, on BBE) or Lustmord‘s new “The Dark Place Of The Earth”.
By the way, while most of you will have noticed that our live-gigs recommendations have risen from the grave as well, we’d like to remind everybody that the Dense DJ Team is playing this Thursday at Maria Am Ostbahnhof during a new Jarring Effects event, together with Ezekiel and Brain Damage. Pre-sales tickets can be purchased at the store.
Here’s the list. Rejoice, for it has risen and of course, keep on densing.
ELECTRONICA, DUBSTEP, ELECTRO & BREAKS:
Larvae – Videos – DVD – 10.90 €
16 Bit – Twice – 12″ – 8.90 €
Bar 9 – Triple Drop – 12″ – 8.90 €
Likhan – Redlight / Quiet Riot – 12″ – 7even Recordings – 8.90 €
Cardopusher – Unity Means Power – 2×12” – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
Somatic Responses – Reformation – CD – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
Trygghet – Two View – 12″ – Atelier Musik – 13.90 €
Geiom feat. Marita – Reminissin’ – 12″ – Berkane Sol – 9.90 €
AGF / Delay – Symptoms – CD – Bpitch Control – 18.90 €
Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling (Soundtrack) – CD – Bpitch Control – 20.90 €
Gunjack – A Murder Of Crows – 12″ – Consume – 8.90 €
ID – Akusative / Flay – 12″ – Cool And Deadly – 8.90 €
Parson / Fragile – Into The Night / Night Of The Hunter – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Matka – The Killers Playground – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Ekelon – Techrische EP – 12″ – Creative Space – 8.90 €
Kromestar & Droid – 6 Points / Dirty Dirty – 12″ – Dark Circles – 8.90 €
16 Bit & Mr Oizo – Flat Beat / Classical – 12″ – Dub & Run – 8.90 €
Giant – Rocker / Rain Mind – 12″ – Dub Police – 8.90 €
Renaissance Man – Spraycan EP – 12″ – Dubsided – 9.90 €
F1 & Kromestar – Hard Grade / Pass Da Spliff – 12″ – Dubstar – 8.90 €
Kromestar – My Sound – CD – Dubstar – 16.90 €
Mr Oizo – Pourriture – 12″ – Ed Banger – 9.90 €
Various Prod & Gerry Mitchell – The Invisible Lodger – LP – Fire Records – 17.90 €
Jakes – The Jakes Project vol. 2 – 12″ – Hench – 8.90 €
Joe – Grimelight / Rut – 12″ – Hessle Audio – 9.90 €
Hecq – Steeltongued – 2CD – Hymen – 19.90 €
The Bug feat. Killa P & Flow Dan – Skeng – 12″ – Hyperdub – 8.90 €
LD – Traumatic Times / Woodblock – 12″ – Hyperdub – 9.90 €
TRG / Kontext – They Know / Plumes – 12″ – Immerse – 8.90 €
Elmapi – Arcane Electronique – CD – Lentonia – 13.90 €
Elmapi – Pop Up – CD – Lentonia – 13.90 €
EDH – 7″ – 7″ – Lentonia – 8.90 €
A&E (Stock, Hausen & Walkman) – Stone Deaf / Machine – 7″ – Lentonia – 8.90 €
Hoodz – Bad Mind / Clash – 12″ – Lo Dubs – 8.90 €
Sully – Trackside / Duke St Dub – 12″ – Mata-Syn – 8.90 €
DJ Maxximus – Neo – 12″ – MG 77 – 8.90 €
Mordant Music – The Hauntological Song – 10″ – Mordant – 8.90 €
Jean-Michel – Tons Of Fun – CD – onpa))))) – 10.90 €
Monster X – Satan Iz Love – 12″ – Peace Off – 8.90 €
Remano Eszildn – R-Tracks – LP – Planet Mu – 15.90 €
Stagga – Sick As Sin – 12″ – Rag & Bone – 8.90 €
Flying Lotus ft Declaime – Whole Wide World – 12″ – Ramp Recordings – 8.90 €
Trill Bass – Trillitary Mind – EP – Ruff – 8.90 €
Reso & ID – Shifty – 12″ – Smokin’ Sessions – 8.90 €
Mobthrow – Mutant Dubstep Vol. 3 – CD – Spectraliquid – 10.90 €
Neil Landstrumm – Empire On A Fiver – 12″ – Stuffrecords – 9.90 €
Martyn / 2562 – Yet / Kontrol – 12″ – Tectonic – 8.90 €
Skream / Benga – Trapped In A Dark Bubble / Technocal – 12″ – Tectonic – 8.90 €
Horsepower Productions – Damn It / Kingstep – 12″ – Tempa – 8.90 €
Sarantis – Nitroglycerine / Half Dead – 12″ – Terminal Dusk – 8.90 €
Compilation – Azure – 12″ – Terminal Dusk – 7.90 €
Fractional – Still Life? – 12″ – The Centrifuge – 7.90 €
16 Bit – PCP / President Of Europe – 12″ – Urban Essentials – 8.90 €
Unknown Artist – Greasy Mitts / Dark Heart – 12″ – WAR – 8.90 €
Tim Exile – Family Galaxy – 12″ – Warp – 7.90 €
Clark – Growls Garden – 12″ – Warp – 10.90 €
Clark – Growls Garden – 12″ – Warp – 10.90 €
Tim Exile – Listening Tree – 2LP+CD – Warp – 20.90 €
Tim Exile – Listening Tree – CD – Warp – 17.90 €
Bar 9 – Murda Sound Remixes – 12″ – Z Audio – 8.90 €
Mike Lennon & Rusko – When Science Fails – 12″ – Z Audio – 8.90 €
INDIE, JAZZ, PUNK & MORE GUITARS:
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – Mutations EP – CD / LP – Ad Noiseam – 14.90 €
The Whitest Boy Alive – Rules – LP – Asound/Bubbles – 19.90 €
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle – LP – Drag City – 20.90 €
The Ex – 30 – 2LP – Ex Records – 18.90 €
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind – 2LP – Human Highway – 19.90 €
Santogold – s/t – CD – Lizard King – 14.90 €
Liars – They were wrong so we drowned – CD – Mute – 17.90 €
Mulatu Astatke / The Heliocentrics – Inspiration Information – CD – Strut – 17.90 €
Loudest Boom Bah Yeah – Booty Beats Fully Realized – LP – Teenbeat – 15.90 €
EXPERIMENTAL, AMBIENT, EXOTICA & NOISE:
Aun – Motorsleep – CD – Alien8 – 17.90 €
H. Schwarz & Âme Dixon – The Grandfather Paradox – 2CD – BBE – 19.90 €
Compilation – Adventures In Sound – CD – El records – 17.90 €
Compilation – A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island – CD – Lo Recordings – 20.90 €
Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer – 12″ – Record Makers – 9.90 €
I.U.D. – The Proper Sex – LP – The Social Registry – 19.90 €
Lustmord – The Dark Places Of The Earth – CD – Vaultworks – 16.90 €
Mama Rosin – Brule Lentement – LP – Voodoo Rhythm – 17.90 €
Snake Figures Arkestra – Cooks & Devils – CD – Zarek – 13.90 €
Heather, Kammerer, Shirley – Ruby, Ruby, Ruby – The Shadow Of Your Smile – CD – Zarek – 16.90 €
Charlemagne Palestine & Perlonex – It Ain´t Necessarily So – 2CD – Zarek – 18.90 €
TECHNO, MINIMAL & HOUSE:
Dub Taylor – Beauty & Beast – 12″ – Alpaca – 8.90 €
L Kubic – Pompeji – 12″ – Black Fox Music – 7.90 €
Modeselektor – Happy Birthday Remixed #3 – 12″ – Bpitch Control – 8.90 €
Ernesto Ferreyra – Siluetas – 12″ – Cadenza – 8.90 €
Digitaline – Tapadaka – 12″ – Cadenza – 8.90 €
Michel Cleis – La Mezcla – 12″ – Cadenza – 9.90 €
Minilogue – Animals RMX – 12″ – Cocoon Recordings – 9.90 €
Sarass – Compost Black Label 44 – 12″ – Compost Black Label – 9.90 €
Adam Marshall – North at Night EP – 12″ – Cynosure – 8.90 €
Christian Naujoks – Untitled – LP – Dial – 17.90 €
Donk Boys – Sucker Punch – 12″ – Dirty Bird – 8.90 €
Chris Lattner & Coco Malente – Limbo Taxi – 12″ – Einmaleins Musik – 8.90 €
Walker – Schrei Nach Liebe – 12″ – Force Inc. – 7 €
Someone Else – Elsewehere EP – 12″ – Foundsound – 8.90 €
Daniel Steinberg – Uptown / Revival – 12″ – Front Room – 8.90 €
Who Made Who – The Plot (remixes) – 12″ – Gomma – 8.90 €
Who Made Who – The Plot (Nôze, Mole Remix) – 12″ – Gomma – 9.90 €
Oliver Huntemann – Rikarda – 12″ – Ideal Audio – 9.90 €
Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest – 12″ – Innervisions – 9.90 €
Jus-Ed – Our Children EP – 12″ – Kinda Soul Recordings – 8.90 €
Martin Eyerer – Cave Canem – 12″ – KlingKlong – 8.90 €
Sven Tasnadi & Juno 6 – Leipzig EP – 12″ – Liebe Detail – 8.90 €
Donnacha Costello – The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play – 12″ – Look Long – 8.90 €
Kerri Chandler – Track 1 Revisited – 12″ – Max Trax – 9.90 €
DeWalta / Aquatic – Skipper – 12″ – Meander Music – 8.90 €
Anja Schneider / Lee Van Dowski – Deseo – 12″ – Mobilee – 8.90 €
Filippo Moscatello – Pagliaccio – CD – Mood Music – 18.90 €
Italoboyz – Bla Bla Bla – 12″ – Mothership – 9.90 €
Portable – The Emerald Life – 12″ – Musik Krause – 8.90 €
DJ Sneak – Back In The Box 2 – 12″ – NRK – 9.90 €
Karmina – Wonder 21 – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Abonné – Bongospace – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Marcus Hartmann – Rapid Fire – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
2 Working Donkeys – Sex In The Jungle – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Blackwall – Blackcrack / Proseedore – 12″ – Opossumini – 7.90 €
Compilation – Kalte Füsse II Vol.2 – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Split Pot – Inhouse Mixes – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Gennaro Rossi – Multicoloured Plants – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Sweet ‘n Candy / Rufus Dunkel – Hit The Points / All My Eye – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Moritz Piske – Slipless In Seattle – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Moritz Piske – Ein Känguruh Im Clubraum / Huldigung Den Triolen – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Blackwall – Fast And Cheap / Cocs – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Split Pot – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Format: B – Cosa Nostra Funk – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
SweetN.Candy – Behind The Scenes – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Compilation – Kalte Füsse II Vol.1 – 12″ – Opossumrec – 7.90 €
Sven Tasnadi – Our Destiny – 12″ – Ornaments – 9.90 €
Compilation – 10 Years of Poker Flat – 2LP – Poker Flat – 17.90 €
Compilation – 10 Years of Poker Flat – 3CD – Poker Flat – 31.90 €
Steve Bug – Two of a kind – 12″ – Poker Flat – 8.90 €
Martini Brös – Pläy – 2 x 12” – Pokerflat – 17.90 €
Ion Ludwig – The Manipulator Of – 12″ – Resopal – 8.90 €
Echologist ft. Spaceape – The Mercy Dubz – 12″ – Resopal – 9.90 €
Two_EM &El Locco – Bodywork – 12″ – Rotary Cocktail Recordings – 8.90 €
Dreher & Smart – Call of Banganzwe – 12″ – Rotary Cocktail Recordings – 8.90 €
Robert Dietz – Forward Snipping – 12″ – Running Back – 9.90 €
Das Bierbeben – Remixes – 12″ – Shitkatapult – 7.90 €
Lindström – Where You Go I Go Too – 2LP – Smalltown Supersound – 23.90 €
Compilation – Nueva Cumbia Argentina – 12″ – Soot – 11.90 €
Osborne – Hover Crafting EP – 12” – Spectral – 9.90 €
SCSI-9 – Haystack EP – 12″ – Subotnik – 10.90 €
Amir – Communicare – 12″ – Trapez – 8.90 €
re-UP – Inside Us – 12″ – Upon You – 8.90 €
HIP HOP:
MF Doom – Born Like This – CD – Lex – 17.90 €
Diplo & Santogold – Top Ranking – A Diplo Dub – CD – Mad Decent – 14.90 €
MF Doom (Viktor Vaughn) – Vaudeville Villain – 2LP – Soundink – 19.90 €
Hudson Mohawke – Polyfolk Dance EP – CD – Warp – 11.90 €
PRINTED MATTERS:
De:Bug – #131 (April 09) – Magazin – de:bug – 3.80 €
Zonic – 14-17 – Magazin+CD – Pommersche Literaturgesellschaft – 12 €
Happy new year from everybody at Dense. May 2009 bring you bass, beats, drones, glitch, riffs, noises, breaks and everything else that sounds sweet to your ears. Here’s a list of new releases found under the current blanket of snow over Berlin, to help you kick start your musical year.

Two in-store gigs this week, a month-long special sale and plenty of new records: here’s quite a lot to read today from your favorite record store.