I`m listening to this very nice compiled mixes from MOTEL DE MOKA these days –
it`s fun to be part of…
I
* Sascha Funke – [listen] Mango
Mango (Bpitch Control, 2008)
* Dominik Eulberg – [listen] Adler
Heimische Gefilde (Traum, 2007)
* Gui Boratto – [listen] Atol
Division Ep (Harthouse Mannheim, 2006)
* The MFA – [listen] The Difference it Makes
The Difference it Makes (Border Community, 2001)
* Popnoname – [listen] The Movement
Surrounded by Weather (Italic, 2008)
II
* Booka Shade – [listen] Charlotte
The Sun & the Neon Light (Get Physical, 2008)
* Lifelike – [listen] So Electric
So Electric (Different, 2008)
* The Honeydrips – [listen] Fall from a Height
Here Comes the Future (Sincerely Yours, 2007)
* Junior Boys – [listen] In the Morning
In the Morning 12″ (Domino, 2006)
* Ratatat – [listen] Wildcat
Classics (XL, 2006)
III
* TV on the Radio – [listen] Staring at the Sun
Young Liars Ep (Touch & Go, 2003)
* M83 – [listen] Don’t Save Us from the Flames
Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute, 2005)
* School of Seven Bells – [listen] Half Asleep
Alpinisms (Ghostly International / 2008)
* Ulrich Schnauss – [listen] On My Own
A Strangely Isolated Place (City Centre Offices, 2003)
* Fuck Buttons – [listen] Lisbon Maru
Tarot Sport (ATP, 2009)
IV
* Soulwax – [listen] NY Excuse
Any Minute Now (PIAS, 2004)
* Yo Majesty – [listen] Club Action
Club Action 12″ (Domino, 2008)
* Metro Area – [listen] Miura
Metro Area (Environ Records, 2002)
* M.I.A. – [listen] Galang
Arular (XL, 2005)
* Jimmy Edgar – [listen] I wanna be your STD
Color Strip (Warp, 2006)
You can download the whole set here
I. Rich, melodic technopop tunes that sit halfway between club fare and home listening. It seems these are pleasant enough for almost every type of audience to enjoy.
II. Highlights from out electropop collection. Very likely they were designed to appeal a very specific niche with all those requisite sharp-edged, Casio-based noises and 80’s samples that make them feel like good old friends to us in the mid-twenties demographic.
III. It’s hard to think clearly when exposed to any sort of saturation of the senses. You’re being forced to trust your animal instincts. How could anyone avoid thinking about steaming sex while there’s a hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling wall of sound coming out of the speakers? Maybe you were distracted. Try again.
IV. Yet another playlist filled with patches. After giving it some thought I think that the one thing these songs do have in common is that they incursioned in sounds which eventually became cliché; the pan-global influence, grime, electro, disco revival, hip-house. Regardless of fatigue I still remember them with fondness and it will be hard for me not to look back in a few years and realize how much these sort of songs helped define the promiscous musical environment in which I lived in for the better part of the decade.
by Moka in the Best Of 00’s