AyGeeTee – Time Wharp & Motion Sickness of Time Travel remixes

Ah, AyGeeTee and Time Wharp. Consistently two of our favourite producers working today, these two have got together and created a blistering, stuttering, getting-mown-down-by-a-machine-gun track with a kaleidoscopic dream-mare of a video by the pretty incredible Astro Nautico/Paolo Xz. It’s pretty nauseating stuff, but shit me is it good. And there’s a dog wearing sunglasses in the video too. Boom.

Oh, and here’s another of AyGeeTee’s remixes, by Motion Sickness of Time Travel. Who’s also done the video for it. You know, casual like. Sure.

Image is by Swedish photographer Henrik Isaksson Garnell.

AyGeeTee – Brad Septembers

I’m going to put up another post today featuring someone that we cover pretty frequently. There are very good reasons for this though, as AyGeeTee‘s output over the last six months has been pretty bloody spectacular – especially the brilliant ‘Soul’, which has snuck under a lot of people’s radars but solidified itself as one of our favourite releases of the year.

‘Brad Septembers’ finds the mercurial producer in weirder form, with tracks flitting in and out of each other more disparately, never quite hitting the singularity of stride that ‘Soul’ achieved. But that’s not to say it’s not a great little release. And if you’re yet to discover this guy then this a pretty good place to start.

No doubt there will be more soon to come. No doubt we will cover it again. Keep it up, 2, 3, 4, keep it up, 2, 3, 4…

 

Image is of the Vancouver riots, by Rich Lam. They look much better than the current London ones that have just forced my local Sainsburys to close. Boooo! Love not looting!

AyGeeTee – soul

We like to try and keep our output as fresh and varied as we can here at AV. However, sometimes we feel it’s right to re-tread a few already well-worn paths.  Despite having both covered and included AyGeeTee’s earlier offerings in previous posts and mixes, his recently released LP, ‘soul’, is an irrefutable career highlight and one whose praise should be hailed from the rooftops. He’s created layers of sound that are at once prismatic and fluid, at once melodic and cacophonous. Beats that raise you up into a somnambular dance of tranced-out idolatry. And a mood that I’m going to struggle to define forever.

Listen to it in its entirety here. Then purchase it for your own stipulated sum. Excellent.

Image, which almost defines the mo0d, is by Megan Cullen.

AV Best Of March

As usual our monthly round-up of musical treats is here a little late, but hopefully it won’t detract from your enjoyment of it. There’s 14 brilliant tracks on this mix and it is a privilege to be able to bask in their reflected glory. Listen, download and, with any luck, enjoy…

Click here to get the full track list and to download the mix for free.

Painting is by Nadia Duvall

AyGeeTee

One of the most glaringly obvious yet infinitely explorable facets of the internet is its power of anonymity: the freedom to express opinions without the slightest physical recompense; the possibility of existing as entirely new personae, leading alternative virtual lives. I’ll stop there though before I go all Philip K Dick and start banging on about a dystopia where you can download memories from Mediafire and where my entire personality’s been uploaded as a video on Youtube with a Gillette advert at the start of it.

The reason for mentioning this is to introduce someone who goes either by the name of AGT or AyGeeTee, depending on whether you’re listening on Soundcloud or Myspace. All other information provided has been stripped and all attempts at a definition, a style or an aesthetic have been rigorously blurred. And it’s probably for the best, as the music is generically uncategorisable, drifting in and out of beats, sometimes warm and engrossing and at points jarring and abrasive. Whatever way you look at it though, it’s pretty damn great.

Here’s a short cross-section for you to enjoy.

If you like you can listen to all his/her/their other tracks here.

Image is a design by Lebbeus Woods.