BUT IS IT ART?
Warp Earth Catalog is a mixtape of ideas to inspire, inform, enable and energize creativity and positivity in a time of global disruption and uncertainty. Based on the classic countercultural guide the Whole Earth Catalog and its credo of ‘access to tools’, these are tools for strength, awareness and thoughtful entertainment. From wherever in the world we are, let’s support each other, make things and help maintain the ecosystem of independent creativity.
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Hudson Mohawke
B.B.H.E.
Warp
WARPDD315
4 August 2020
At last, 2020 is the year of Hudson Mohawke. After dropping the surprise new EP Heart of the Night online, the Scottish DJ and producer gives us his first LP under the moniker in four years. The vibe of B.B.H.E. is that of a mixtape; it’s a collection of tunes worked on over many years, scattered with turntablist strangeness (‘Mandarania’), synth brass bombast (‘Brooklyn’) and instrumental hip hop languidness (‘Beyond’), each track shot through with Hudson Mohawke’s unmatched left-field electronic sensibilities. As always, the producer resists easy categorisation, saturating B.B.H.E. with auditory left-turns wherever possible.
Warp Earth Catalog
Warp Earth Catalog is a weekly mixtape of ideas to inspire, inform, enable and energize creativity and positivity in a time of global disruption and uncertainty. Based on the classic countercultural guide the Whole Earth Catalog and its credo of ‘access to tools’, these are tools for strength, awareness and thoughtful entertainment. From wherever in the world we are, let’s support each other, make things and help maintain the ecosystem of independent creativity.
Yves Tumor “Heaven to a Tortured Mind”
WARP304
01. Gospel For A New Century
02. Medicine Burn
03. Identity Trade
04. Kerosene!
05. Hasdallen Lights
06. Romanticist
07. Dream Palette
08. Super Stars
09. Folie Imposée
10. Strawberry Privilege
11. Asteroid Blues
12. A Greater Love
Darkstar “Wolf”
WARPDD312A
Darkstar return with their first music since their 2015’s ‘Foam Island’.
On ‘Wolf’ Darkstar (Aidan Whalley and James Young) pair hypnotic shoegaze vocals with stripped back club-focused sounds, exposing a fragment of what’s to come of the UK duo’s idiosyncratic take on electronic pop.
