With Labor Day behind us, Summer is officially disappearing in the review mirror. But the best thing about fall isn’t the colors, it’s the great new music that the season brings to get us through the shorter days and colder nights until Christmas. Here’s the albums you should be certain to check every week. …MORE
The first taste of trip-hop legend Tricky’s latest full-length, Mixed Race, is built around a Peter Gunn melody and mainly vocals by Franky Riley, which is only a little disappointing since we’ve grown so fond of Tricky’s own razors and phlegm vox. The ’60s flavor has long been a favored device of peers like Portishead, but this really marks the first time Tricky has diverted far from his own dark and dank sonic space.
Gui Boratto
Renaissance: The Mix Collection
Released by Renaissance
When one of electronic music’s most respected staples, Renaissance, and Brazilian DJ and producer Gui Boratto teamed up for the first time, the result can surely be compared to a spacey sound journey through an atmospheric rainforest. Boratto gets in the mix with this groovy third release for the Renaissance name, following the likes of M.A.N.D.Y, Dave Seaman and James Zabiella. For the mix, Boratto picked tracks by some of his favorite artists and producers of the moment—Tricky, Josh Wink, Martin Buttrich, Lusine, Christian Smith, Mathew Jonson, and Bomb the Base, to name a few—as well as his own material, including four never heard before productions. While one might get locked in from song two, which is a John Tejada remix of Boratto’s 2009 “Take My Breath Away,” almost every song is a trip of its own, including Tricky’s “Past Mistake” making for a surprisingly eerie, yet beautiful ending.



























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