BIRKEN & MARKOWSKI
Split 12-inch Minus Vinyl #11.
IF118 - RELEASE DATE 22 OCTOBER 2010
Two scintillating new mixes by Paul Birken and Marcin Markowski, brewed (perhaps) on the high seas of electronica - with a cutlass and a flagon of rum.
Superb cover also by Marcin. More news soon.
Son Of Zev/Rysh Paprota.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #10.
IF113 - RELEASE DATE 1 APRIL 2010
Another rousing dual selection from two of the right proper Melbourne crew: Rysh Paprota and Son Of Zev, putting together some cool cat tech/electronica in another wildly diverse split offering.
LISTEN + INDULGE HERE.
Sebastian Bayne/Little Nobody.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #9.
IF107 - RELEASE DATE 17 FEBRUARY 2010
A special treat, this - two remixes of Little Nobody's track 'Compulsion' cooked up in Moscow by Sebastian Bayne (aka DJ Slab), the former editor of 3D World magazine, who Andrez played with in Beijing way back in 2001, and who's currently baking some of the best tech-house/electronica we've heard.
1. Compulsion (Mockba Mix один)
2. Compulsion (Mockba Mix два)
SAMPLE SOUNDS + BUY
Kultrun/Sasha Radic.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #8.
IF104 - RELEASE DATE 26 JANUARY 2010
Two of our current fave Melbourne acts get together on the same digital download dubplate with some yummy brand new tunes just in time for Australia Day.
1. Kultrun - Zap
2. Radic - Brain Candy
SAMPLE SOUNDS + BUY
Toshiyuki Yasuda/Little Nobody.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #7.
IF102 - RELEASE DATE 25 DECEMBER 2009
One of IF?'s favourite, more cooly quirky Japanese artists (who's also worked with Señor Coconut) gets together with our label founder to rehash each other's tunes, just in time for Christmas – and the length of Toshiyuki’s remix even matches the catalog number.
1. Toshiyuki Yasuda – Pink House (Little Nobody remix) (5:04)
2. Little Nobody – Nobody’s Driving (Toshiyuki Yasuda remix) (1:02)
SAMPLE SOUNDS + BUY
E383/Martin Mueller.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #6.
IF089
RELEASE DATE 25 JUNE 2009
Two sizzling tech numbers from hotter-than-hot Scottish wunderkind Thomas Mccluskey and Austrian enfant terrible Martin Mueller. And, yes, we do like to flaunt our foreign superlatives when talking up these talented people!
1. E383 - Monomaniac
2. Martin Mueller - Home Beats
SAMPLE SOUNDS + BUY
Koda/Polygon Prompt.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #5.
IF082
RELEASE DATE 25 MAY 2009
Two killer tracks from the opposite side of the Pacific - diagonally-speaking. One from the original home of IF? Records, Melbourne (Australia) by Koda; the other by Polygon Prompt in Okinawa, Japan.
1. Koda - Tilb
2. Polygon Prompt - 24
SAMPLE SOUNDS + BUY
Jammin' Unit/Little Nobody.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #4.
IF072
RELEASE DATE 30 MARCH 2009
IF? boss and Little Nobody main man Andrez Bergen first met Cem Oral (Jammin’ Unit, Ultrahigh, G104 and one half of Air Liquide) in 1996 in Sydney, Australia, when Cem was touring at the same time that Andrez was there to launch the IF? Records compilation, Zeitgeist 2, in that city.
Andrez prompty got quite smashed and stuck an IF? sticker on Cem’s shoe, and they’ve been mates ever since: Back in '97, Cem did a remix of Sydney outfit Krang for the third Zeitgeist comp ('Z3') through IF?, and this year he remixed Andrez’s track ‘Robota’.
So it was only a matter of time that the two did something split together like this, and the two tracks here hint at both practiioners’ ongoing affection for ‘80s computer games and/or classic B&W sci-fi movies and robots.
We’re not sure which particular one holds sway.
1. Jammin’ Unit – Where Distinguished People Congregate (Jammin Masters Mix)
2. Little Nobody – All Humanoids Must Not Escape (Stomp ‘Em While You’ve Got ‘Em Mix)
PURCHASE HERE
Pat Stormont/Zen Paradox.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #3.
IF063
RELEASE DATE 30 JANUARY 2009
It's somehow appropriate that this latest in the 'Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl' series starts with a new track by current Melbourne electronic music enfant terrible, Pat Stormont, and it finishes on a track recorded in 1995 by Zen Paradox - that same much-lauded electronic music city's undoubted techno/electro elder statesman, and a man still amazingly relevant 14 years later.
Which is exactly how old IF? Records itself is this year; the baby that was also kick-started - again in Melbourne, Australia - in 1995, is now an unwieldy teenager living it up in Tokyo, Japan.
Yet in spite of alcoholic and substance abuse, wear and tear, and the tyranny of distance, the label has never forgotten some dodgy roots in its city of birth, and the amazing depth of talent (and experimentation) exemplified by these two debonair gents with their aural cutlasses and a perfectly attuned, matching musical philosophy.
1. Pat Stormont - "Badly Grounded"
2. Zen Paradox - "Tubetribe"
PURCHASE HERE
Dave Tarrida/Jason Leach.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #2.
IF061 - Released in January 2009
Continuing on the piratical theme, kick-started when Little Bitches walked the proverbial plank, comes this second volume in the Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl series.
This time our swashbuckling producers-of-the-moment are the seminally illustrious Dave Tarrida (Sativae/Tresor/Mosquito) and Jason Leach, of Subhead fame (Tresor, Death To Vinyl).
Both fellas have here taken a spanner and trusty blade to the old Little Nobody/DJ Fodder track from 1999, 'Cocaine Speaking', and the contemporary interpretation by the two lads is nothing short of subtly wonky, mind-blowing tech/electro/house that'd dessimate most hard-driving aural senses.
Superb? Yes. Over-the-top? Hell yeah. Jason Leach's mix is itself 14 minutes of wayward madness.
1. Cocaine Speaking (Dave Tarrida remix) (5:24)
2. Cocaine Speaking (Jason Leach remix) (13:48)
PURCHASE HERE
Little Bitches.
Split 12-inch, Minus Vinyl #1.
IF069 - Released in December 2008
Little Bitches is the footloose and fancy-free brand new collaborative pairing of the Chairman of the Board himself, Ben Mill (aka Bitch Shift), in Melbourne, and Little Nobody in Tokyo - hence, obviously, their silly project title - and here they started out by remixing one of each other's latest tracks.
It drifts somewhere in the terrain between kick-arse tech/electro and freestyle IDM, with darker elements of acid and house sandwiched within, and perhaps even a missing parrot or two. What the pirate iconography on the cover has to do with anything is anybody's guess. Heck, who doesn't love old skool literary pirates?
So, if you're inspired by this somewhat rambling press-release, you better trundle along only to Addictech, Juno and Input-Output Inc. (we're skipping Beatport and the rest of the big-wig online fleets) to listen to the samples, and better yet spend your hard-earned cash on one or both of the mixes by the buccaneering "artists" involved.
I don't know about the lads, but we could do with a gold doubloon or two in our rather threadbare pirate chest.
1. Psyborg-9 - Your Soul Is Mine (Bitch Shift remix) (8:01)
2. Bitch Shift - Citrus Funk (Little Nobody remix) (7:15)
PURCHASE HERE
