WE FORFEIT (Mix 5) :: No-One Likes To Be Alone

New year and a new mix. Robbie flying solo here. Inspired by Chris’ suggestion for a bit of a focus on techno and Alan Lockett’s great work in his Dalliance mixes, this selection pulls together tracks from reviewed records past, present and future alongside recent acquisitions. Made on a relaxed Sunday, expect some hammers, pounders and thumpers alongside some softer moments. Starting off with a track that drives my girlfriend up the wall, the trippy “The Birds” from Ian Blevins replete with Hitchcock samples. A label I’m only getting to know The Bunker New York and Eye Teeth is a totally new imprint to me, both appearing through Israel Vines and Patrick Russel. All favs but some standout numbers gotta’ go to Der Noir’s deep and defined “Blue,” Terrace’s grooving “Funktroit” and The Pulse Projects freshly minted “Rulucky.” Cignol’s recently released “Sunken Cities,” from Hidden Galaxies, is a cold cracker to reflect the icy tones of Ekman’s first vinyl album on the irrepressible Shipwrec. Irrepressible might be better used for Ekman, the Dutchman rears his acid scorched head a second time as Overloper on his latest 12” screamer for Pater Noster. One of the madmen of Borft, Villa Åbo, gets two deserved shots on here. I’m half sure I was at Femur the night in Madrid when this was first dropped, half sure and Chris might know why. Koehler closes with a banger from his superb Contra Blood EP on Berceuse Heroique.

Enough natter. Fair flips to all the below. All vinyl as ever. Enjoi. WE FORFEIT.

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Tracklist ::
Ian Blevins :: The Birds (Not An Animal)
Romans :: Coptos (Patrick Russell Remix) (The Bunker New York)
Israel Vines :: Relapse (BMG Version) (Eye Teeth)
Der Noir :: Blue (Love Blast/Subsound)
Terrace :: Funktroit (De:Tuned)
The Pulse Projects :: Rulucky (Subapical)
Villa Åbo ‎:: Askew The Eternity (Kontra-Musik)
Ekman :: Goldbach Number (Shipwrec)
Cignol :: Sunken Cities (Computer Controlled)
99LETTERS :: Neo Life (TRP Dub) (Dalmata Daniel)
Villa Åbo ‎:: Madrid (Börft)
Overloper :: Carpe Noctem (Pater Noster Ltd.)
Koehler :: Contra Blood (Berceuse Heroique‎)

WE FORFEIT · WE FORFEIT (Mix 5) No - One Likes To Be Alone

WE FORFEIT (Mix 4) :: 500m below Madrid (NYE mix)

This mix comes from the blurry twilight of new year’s eve, during the witching hour twixt past and future. We were drafted in to play a set at the Sindicato de Circulación Ferroviario and Sindicato del Colectivo de Maquinistas de Metro’s annual shindig in Atocha, both being the local train union which we hooked up through Chris’ dad’s Red Clydeside connections. The plan was laid out. A 28 hour back to back mix. 12:00 December 31st to 16:00 January 1st. An hour for each metro station on the circular line 6 here in Madrid with the sweaty closeness, the blacked windows and would-be liaisons mapped out to a beat. Sadly, due to rolling strikes between the municipal electricity workers amalgam, the collective society of light technicians and our sound guy raising the placard against his corrupt employers (We Forfeit Ltd) we only managed to record one hour of the day-plus marathon.

Chris starts our metro journey and takes us straight into the tunnels. Plunging his train of tracks into flickering darkness, Cosmo Vitelli’s superb remake of Andrew Claristidge’s “And Now You Dance” careens headlong into Benedikt Frey before the lights rise for Valencia’s very own Daniel Kyo. We’re slipping back into the shadows with Mick Wills and his claustrophobic edit of Das Geschwader on Arma, chugging along to the weaving grooves of Caltrop’s “Lenny” until the ultra-bright bars of the business district. Suits, briefcases and mirror shades from New York’s Wall $treet in the synth stabbing splendor of Vercetti Technicolor’s remix of “Victim.”

Carriage doors crunch open, allowing Robbie and Lame´s 1985 track “You’ve Got The Night” on. Doors close and we’re swaying to Machinegewehr after spotting “A Girl You Know” in the next carriage up when darkness envelopes as we enter into the hazy shadows of Dynamite Winter Palace’s “Romance.” The light comes up, bodies fizz past the window as we enter the station. Passengers untangle themselves from each other and eyes meet in the sensual “Cruel Game” for Nouvelle Phénomène before the clunk of metal and we’re off again; whizzing through the subterranean channels of Timothy J. Fairplay and Garofano Rosso.

It was around the hour mark that our sound lad said no more and took to the picket line. We’re not sure exactly at what point of the 28 hours this was recorded but ya’ get the idea. Shouts to Otto @ Bordello and Nico in Nueva York! ¡Feliz año! – WE FORFEIT.

Down down down https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mbgdY42t1E75XHR33XArroGl9yi223cR

Tracklist ::
Andrew Claristidge :: And Now You Dance (Relecture By Cosmo Vitelli) (Mille Feuilles)
Benedikt Frey :: Wolves (Love Pain Sunshine & Rain)
Daniel Kyo :: Wrong Way (Bordello A Parigi)
Das Geschwader:: Himmelfahrt 89 (M.W. cut) (Arma)
Caltrop :: Lenny (WT)
Wall $treet :: Victim (Vercetti Technicolor remix) (Mysidian)
Lame’ :: You’ve Got The Night (Golden Sound)
Machinegewehr :: A Girl You Know (Bordello A Parigi)
Dynamite Winter Palace :: Romance (Knekelhuis A Parigi)
Nouvelle Phénomène :: Cruel Game Nouvelle Phénomène (Vanzetti & Sacco Remix) (Bordello A Parigi)
Timothy J. Fairplay :: Love & Columbium ‎(Charlois)
Garofano Rosso :: Anni Di Piombo E Corruzione (Giallo Disco)

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WE FORFEIT (Mix 3) :: Mulled wine, scented pine and yuletide electro

It’s Christmas. Mince pies and black eyes. Chris and myself are celebrating with a six pack of special brew washed down with lashing and lashings of Lambert&Butler. To help this feast of mental ecstasy and physical excess we’ve put together a mix centered on the supposed style of 2017, electro, with a few other sonorous sprigs.

There have been some cracking electro records in the last twelve months, although the same could be said for the last sixty or one hundred and one months. We’ve sieved through some of our favs from past and present to add some sonic bite to that slab of turkey you’re gnawing on.

Chris starts us out on this journey with a hero of dutch techno, Stefan Robbers (aka Florence.) He works his way into the enchanted forrest of Djax-Up-Beats before coming across the tin mechanics of Das Muster and the London Modular Alliance. The voyage ends in the emerald city with the wizard, I-F, doling out some bubbling bass before firing us back to Kansas; or not.

The idea of bookending with some machine magicians is followed by me. Aphex Twin and the recently reissued D’Arcangelo finish my selection with generous helpings of acid tainted machine funk set off by thoughtful electronics. A personal favorite of the year is in here, “Aurore Boréale” from Franck Kartell’s superb Alaska album, alongside nods to past crackers from Junq as well as E.R.P.. Shout outs to Cultivated Electronics, De:Tuned, Shipwrec and Suction who have put out superb music throughout 2017.

As ever, an all vinyl mix lovingly blended with care and carelessness. Recorded in Madrid but brought to you from the grey clouded purgatory of the Irish midlands and the heady heights of Glasgow’s high rises, WE FORFEIT wish you a year of lottery wins and broken promises.

Down it: https://drive.google.com/open?id=19_cnmpTYonCAw6LJpmPt6nhk8yb4KM9R

Tracklist ::
Florence :: Exploration (Eevo Lute Muzique)
SBLES3PLEX :: They Were There Before (Djax-Up-Beats)
Das Muster :: Fehlersuche (Between Places)
London Modular Alliance :: Tremors (Hypercolour)
I-F :: The Wonderer (Viewlexx)
Aphex Twin :: On (Warp)
LA Synthesis :: Agraphobia (Carl Finlow’s Transmogrify Remix) (De:Tuned)
Junq :: From Below (Cultivated Electronics)
Delta Funktionen :: New Planet (Shipwrec)
Hardfloor feat E.R.P. :: You Know The Score (Boris Divider Remix) (Hardfloor)
Franck Kartell :: Aurore Boréale (Bass Agenda)
The Exaltics :: Places (Clone)
E.R.P. :: Perfume Persuasion (Frustrated Funk)
D’arcangelo :: Diagram XI (Rephlex/Suction)

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WE FORFEIT (Mix 2) :: It’s cold at the bus stop

Ooft. Fierce nip in the air these days. Madrid’s temperatures have plummeted and Chris Robertson and myself have knocked together some music to reflect those wintery moods as well as tracks to warm your cockles to.

There’s a ‘bitta chat outa me in the mix but some extra bobs here. Everything is from Aleksi Perälä and Gifted & Blessed. I been listening to Perälä since his Ovuca days but his work under his own name is undoubtedly some of his best. The Finn’s Colundi Sequence material is frigid, trippy and seriously addictive, the albums have definitely put a dent in my finances but they’re well worth the corn flakes dinners. Definite desert island discs stuff for me, some of the best electronic music in recent years. The rest of the tracks are by Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker aka Gifted and Blessed. He’s an artist I came to far late in the day but one who has a real something to his sound and style, a musician I’ll be keeping an ear on.

Chris treats us to a range of cracking tracks from here in Spain and abroad. Veteran Jordan Fields, Barcelona’s Polybius Trax with a special shout out to Frak’s Cromo Fraction released on one of Madrid’s premier imprints Femur (if you’re about in the new year we’ll be at this) Chris finishes with the Ian Martin, an artist more versatile than cellotape, with a the title piece from his excellent Future City LP released on a personal fav of a label, Bio Rhythm.

Right, more matter with less art. WE FORFEIT.

Download https://drive.google.com/open?id=12R5hYXKiqrUOOkamnrBP6UT1Nb3RukbA

Tracklist ::

Aleksi Perälä :: UK74R1512110 (Clone)

GB :: The Beginner (Gifted & Blessed)

Aleksi Perälä :: UK74R1512130 (Clone)

GB :: The Seeker (Gifted & Blessed)

GB :: Seven In Twenty Four (All City)

Aleksi Perälä :: Hydrophobic EFFEct (Clone)

Aleksi Perälä :: UK74R1409097 (Clone)

Jordan Fields :: All Analogue (Rawax)

Myriadd :: Law Of One (Polybius Trax)

Gesetz der Oktaven :: Broken Boiler (Third Ear)

Frak :: Cromo Fraction (Femur)

Ian Martin :: Future City (Bio Rhythm)

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WE FORFEIT (Mix 1) :: First One

Procrastination. It’s the name of the game these days. Time spent staring into computers, gazing into tablets, daydreaming in a headphone hermetically sealed bubble. Sure why not? We’re all guilty of it.

It was with an end to such dilly-dallying that I got in touch with a good mate and electronic music nut here in Madrid—Chris Robertson. The plan: get into the habit of making some mixes and get ’em up on that there internet. The result, procrastination. We tried but life got in the way. Nights out. Hangovers. The daily grind.

But finally, finally, after many attempts, computer stresses, corrupted audio files and forgetting to turn on the sound card, the pair of us have managed to put together some tracks in some sort of mixed order. All vinyl. Mixed by our fair, once youthful, hands through aged mixers and recorded on aged computers (forgive any blips and fuzz in advance.)

Our plan, and you’ve probably already guessed this might not always go according to schedule, is to regularly host hour-long mixes of the finest cuts of electronic music, with some intermittent chat, right here on igloomag.com. For the foreseeable future expect acid, ambient, amor, braindance, cold wave, drone, despair, electro, electronica, elation, house, industrial, italo, house, techno, tantrums, synthwave and all sorts more sonic shenanigans.

From the sunshine of Madrid to the headphone hermetically sealed bubble of your head, this is WE FORFEIT.

Downtown : https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_zFMG1Rl58FVFNhdHhWTUZZTVk

  Tracklist ::
Kapé I’llmusier :: Gaspar (A13)
Braiden :: Apex Of The Sun’s Way (Off Out)
Nuron :: Eau Rouge (Likemind)
Pentatonik :: Moulin (Kudos)
R-Zone (02) :: Rosa Luxembourg (R-Zone)
Autechre :: Basscadet (beumonhannanttwomx) (Warp)
Th’idiot :: Radpops (030303)
Composite Profuse :: Unalaska Ice Fields (Shipwrec)
Arcanoid :: Monocyte (Tabernacle)
Edmx :: Girder 86 (Power Vacuum)

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