Triosk- Tomorrowtoday

I'm really feeling the new Robert Hood Fabric 39 mix. But, I must admit, I was surprised by the pace. So many mixes and productions plod along at 125 to 130 BPM, and I've become more or less accustomed to that tempo. This mix kicks off at a barnstorming, mid-nineties techno pace, hovering around 135-138 or so. Perfect for a brisk run.

Here's the tracklist:

01 Monobox - Silicone Fingers – Logistic
02 Element 9
03 Robert Hood – Who Taught You Math – Peacefrog
04 Pacou – X-Factor – Cache
05 Robert Hood – Strobe Light – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
06 Marco Lenzi – Taboo – Molecular
07 Joris Voorn – Fever [Rephrased] – Keynote
08 Fab G – Bust The Vibes [Real Disco Mix] – Grand Prix
09 Dan March – Sandune – Meta
10 Element 3
11 Diego – Mind Detergent [Robert Hood Remix] – Kanzleramt
12 Jeff Mills – Skin Deep – Axis
13 Robert Hood – School – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
14 Element 23
15 John Thomas – Mr. Funk – Logistic
16 DJ Skull – Informant – Hypnotic Tones
17 Scorp – One Side – Music Man/N.E.W.S
18 Pacou – All It Takes – Cache
19 Phase – Mass – N.E.W.S.
20 UK Gold – Agent Wood - [Adam Beyer Remix] – New Records
21 Solid Decay – Legalize! - Lessismore
22 Element 7
23 Robert Hood – Side Effect – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
24 Mion- Drop The Filter – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
25 Scorp – New Energy – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
26 UK Gold – Agent Wood [Original Mix] – New Records
27 Robert Hood – Still Here [Los Hermanos Remix] – Music Man/N.E.W.S
28 John Thomas – Pulp Funktion 2 – Logistic
29 Robert Hood – The Greatest Dancer – M-Plant
30 Low Life – Exclamation - Mosaic
31 Robert Hood – And Then We Planned Our Escape – Music Man/N.E.W.S.
32 Element 12

From this week's Earplug:

Surfacing alongside contemporaries like Massive Attack, Portishead helped invent the so-called "Bristol sound" of the mid-'90s. The trio — comprised of vocalist Beth Gibbons, producer Geoff Barrow, and guitarist Adrian Utley — also played a pivotal role in the popularization of "trip-hop," using somber, slowed-down breaks, crackling vinyl scratching, and haunting vocals to catapult themselves from pirate radio to dorm-room stereos around the world.

Fresh off an 11-year hiatus, the group is finally making good on sporadic announcements and MySpace bulletins, staging its long-awaited return with the release of Third in late April. For the album, the band embraces faster tempos hammered on analogue drum machines, enlists the help of a men's choir, and constructs its own samples instead of cribbing bits from its record collection. The result is, in the words of Utley in an interview with Billboard, "the older brother of its predecessors... the same mindset we've always had, only further down the road." (CJN)

Aphex Twin- Delphium

I've been listening to Selected Ambient Works pretty much non-stop lately. This track and Xtal are the two highlights for me.