Tag Archives: Warp Records

Bibio – You (2013)

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‘You’ has the longest history on this album because an early version of it was actually made around 5 or 6 years ago. At that time I was making a lot of cut-up sampled hip hop type stuff on my MPC. I always liked the track but it felt unfinished at the time and I didn’t want to just put out short beat type tracks on my albums. Tracks like ‘Fire Ant’ (from the album Ambivalence Avenue) started in a similar way, until I worked more sections into it and fleshed it out. A similar situation happened with ‘You’ but this time it was partly prompted by the positive response I had from early versions of the track. I did quite a few shows between 2009-2011 around the world, mostly Europe, and an early version of ‘You’ got played at most shows. It always seemed to get a good response, people reacting like they already knew it… then people started asking what it was. It brought my attention back to the track when I was in my studio – thankfully I had saved all the original samples on my MPC so I ‘produced’ it again, pretty much from scratch, upping the tempo and making it bounce more and getting the groove to sit right. I still felt that it needed fleshing out, so I revisited the record where I got the original samples from and sampled more parts to create the outro as well as adding more of my own instruments and drums. The intro was made with live instruments, me playing bass, guitar, a sitar-like string instrument and rhodes piano as well as drum machine sounds. I referenced the melodies I had created in the main sampled section of the track by highlighting them in the instrumental intro section. Finally the track felt complete so it was then added to the ‘potential album’ playlists which had been growing over the last two years. Tracks in the playlists got added and taken off on a regular basis, but ‘You’, despite being one of the older tracks, always remained there – it felt right and I never tired of it. It’s also the only track on the album that relies more on samples as opposed to multi-tracked live instruments, so I think for this reason it kind of stands out. [Source]




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Mount Kimbie – Made To Stray (2013)

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Mount Kimbie, comprised of South Londoners Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, recently released a single, “Made To Stray”, from their forthcoming album due out in late May. Entitled “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth”, the album will have 12 tracks in all and will be released through Warp Records. The single has a similar feel to their “Crooks & Lover” album which came out in 2010, but with a more refined sound, both musically and production-wise… which can be attributed at least in part to the fact that their recording this new album in the studio rather than in a bedroom. [Source]





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Jamie Lidell – In Your Mind (2013)

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Perhaps surprising to some of his many fans, Jamie Lidell started out producing rough experimental techno during the late 90s as part of the then booming Brighton scene. Employing his distinct voice more and more, both for singing and as a means of sound creation, Lidell teamed up with Cristian Vogel to form Super_Collider, which combined Vogel’s experimental production style and Lidell’s crooning vocals to great acclaim. After two successful albums Lidell continued his solo career and returned in 2005 with ‘Multiply’, an album of contemporary soul music recorded together with skilled live musicians Mocky and Gonzales, which perfectly balanced Lidell’s experimental edge with a mainstream pop appeal. The album was so successful that Jamie Lidell was invited to support Elton John on tour, completing his unlikely metamorphosis from techno extremist to pop star. [Source]




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Grizzly Bear – A Simple Answer (2012)

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Grizzly Bear, although one of the most ubiquitous indie rock brands in the world today, has always felt like a band of small stories and intimate environments. But tunes like “A Simple Answer” indicate a subtle generic shift for Grizzly Bear, from their signature strain of bedroom rock to a genre of greater scope and ambition. [Source]




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Bibio – Feminine Eye (2011)

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”Bokeh is a Japanese word,” explains British artist-composer Stephen Wilkinson, a/k/a Bibio, in reference to Mind Bokeh, his second full-length disc for Warp. ”The word from which it originated, boke, means blur or haze. Bokeh with an ‘h’ on the end, however, is more specific to photography; it’s the out-of-focus region of a picture. Photographers and lens manufacturers, particularly Japanese ones, are obsessed with bokeh, because the creaminess of the blur and its relationship to the focused subject may enhance the sharp aspects of the photograph, may make the portrait stand out.” Bokeh is a good analogy for Wilkinson’s newest work, where his alternately dreamy/woozy atmospherics surround ever more confident song craft.




Through these gash old rags
These racks and grates and straps of bags
Like a berry in the leaves
Or a swallow in the rotten eaves
I see your beautiful feminine eye
I watch it reflect the moving sky
Tapping my foot to your favourite tracks
Leaking from your headphone backs

In these ropes and poles
With “PLEASE WAIT HERE” and aching soles
Like a diamond in the rough
Or an emerald in a crimson cuff
I saw your elegant feminine eye
I watch it watching the clock tick by
Tapping your foot to my favourite tracks
Leaking from my headphone backs