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Influences: Koudlam

 
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Sometimes Koudlam makes music that sounds like the collective mind spazz of a beach resort nightclub breaking out into a 15 man fight just as the hanmering drop of a Tiesto banger hits. And then sometimes his music sounds like the battered and bruised egos and faces of combatants the morning after. Techno bombs with rancid edges, superclub trance heard from the depthes of K pits, and autotuned RnB ballads for maudlin drug dealers, Koudlam creates dance music dripping with the fleeting euphoria and flashes of violence that inhabit mainstream clubbing. It's quite unlike anything else out there. He's got an album coming  – Benidorm Dream – dropping January 26th. A listen to the stomping primal scream of Negative Creep gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect. In the meantime, here are the influences that Koudlam channeled in making the record….

 

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Castlemorton '92

This song sounds for me like the birth of a nation, of a certain techno, maybe like the rave spirit itself. Maybe because i associate it with the youtube video “castlemorton 92” wich figure this historical illegal rave by the spiral tribe . It s that kind of simple dance song, house universal shit that can make a million people stand up and dance .and in the same time it has this nostalgic litle feeling of an utopia already gone.

  • Castlemorton '92

    This song sounds for me like the birth of a nation, of a certain techno, maybe like the rave spirit itself. Maybe because i associate it with the youtube video “castlemorton 92” wich figure this historical illegal rave by the spiral tribe . It s that kind of simple dance song, house universal shit that can make a million people stand up and dance .and in the same time it has this nostalgic litle feeling of an utopia already gone.

  • The Pogues - Summer In Siam

    It’s the classic hit, and it has the taste of the last dance, composed for the last drunken heroe lost far from home in a vietcong bar… I almost think every musician works all his life to create one song like that.

  • Jesus' Tod - Burzum (Filosofem)

    Its the ultimate romantic song whose frequencies speak directly to the brain. The litanie of love and hate, of the selfdestruction. Played very loud it s a transe, almost a mantra like some boudist trip but in the opposite direction.

  • Eek-A-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem

    Mcs from reggae music are fascinating me and eek a mouse is the master. Wa do dem is his mega hit.

  • Nirvana - Big Long Now

    It has been my only food for many of my teenager years. Sometime it helps to feel good when you feel so badly

  • Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing (Video)

    Skateboarding with friends, stealing in a wallmart, kissing a girl, california, the real life. I love that mythical rock band.

  • Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Keneda

    A musical and art consortium, melting many great talent, at the top of technological and lyrical, it s the miracle of that japanese project who created the original soundtrack of Akira, a masterpiece which inspired me a lot

  • Vangelis - Blade Runner - Theme End Titles (1982) Blu-Ray

    Vangelis is one of the synth master of all time, like tangerine dream or jean michel jarre. Like all of them he created some pretty bad songs on the end, and sometimes those one are more wellknown by people than his real masterpieces.vangelis composed many great albums before blade runner but this soundtrack is maybe like the apogee of his science and art. magnificent.

  • Neil Young - Pocahontas

    Every musician loves Neil Young I guess. Pocahontas has perfect lyrics

  • Disciples Of Belial - Goat Of Mendes

    This record by Jason Mendoca released on the label praxis is not well known. It’s something i used to play when I was a DJ in rave parties. When i wanted to play a hardcore set, i often began by this song which is like a manifest. It’s a musical UFO, it is techno and metal, full of brillant ideas.