Mindcast.41 || Karsten Pflum

Our homie KARSTEN PFLUM is back with his fourth installment for the Mindcast series. As with one of the previous editions (Mindcast.21), it’s about celebrating a new release: on 24 November his brand new album “Love Canticles” is unleashed on the Welsh label Touched Music. Love Canticles is a solid collection of squelch, rattle and drop — guaranteed to please our followers and make your feet tap. Kicking off with a dissonance that plays with your expectations of melody, the whole thing is solidified by a strong mix of conventional and broken rhythms, with technical precision marking many of the tracks, “I Am Ice” being a perfect example.

UK producer Ochre offered his mastering and remixing skills to polish the album, joined by remixes from ISAN and Humanoid (aka Brain Dougans, one half of The Future Sound Of London) in the final stretch. All in all, a spacious and thoughtful piece of work that carries on Karsten Pflum’s tradition of style-melding and refusing to sit in one box, same as this sonic mixtape.

Mindcast Mixtape 11/2017 ||

Tracklist ||

01 Rabit – Possessed [Halcyon Veil, 2017]
02 Si Begg – Isometric Projection [Shitkatapult, 2017]
03 Si Begg – Energieerzeugung [Shitkatapult, 2017]
04 Finfrig – Tune The Birds [Caoutchou Recordings, 2017]
05 Floating Points – Nespole [Pluto, 2015]
06 Unknown Artist – Twels [Touched Music, 2015]
07 Ariadne’s Labyrinth – Tiny Car [Touched Music, 2017]
08 Alek Stark – Singularity [Fundamental Records, 2015]
09 Legowelt – Whatever Happened To Surfhouse [Clone West Coast Series, 2017]
10 Dynamic Wave – Xenomorph [Dynamicwave.it, 2006]
11 Tysk Raider – XOS [Aura Expansion, 2017]
12 Slashing Cousin – 1404 [Skam, 2015]
13 Special Request – Catacombs [Houndstooth, 2017]
14 Wen – Plinkz [Big Dada Recordings, 2017]
15 DJ Nigga-Fox – Weed [Príncipe, 2013]
16 Horsepower Productions – Legends [Tempa, 2016]
17 Ray Tracing – JP-8 ∙ 88 [Irdial Discs, 1991]

Mindcast.41 || Karsten Pflum

November 22, 2017