In conjunction with their new release on Untitled & After, “Untitled 19″ Land Sound has posted a new chart of their favorite tracks on Beatport.

Land Sound’s Untitled Chart

09.21.2010

Tracks:
5th of July (Morgan Packard Remix)
Indian Summer (Birdcage Remix)
Malibu (Silencefiction Remix)
Everything Is Forgiven (Yellowcake Remix)
Malibu (Kyoka Remix)

Untitled 17 collects five very diverse remixes of Robert Crouch’s past releases on Untitled & After. Each track pushes and pulls at Crouch’s rhythmic and textural explorations. Each artist extracts Crouch’s key elements of subdued beats, deep drones and field recordings and expands them as their own. Untitled 17 is like a magnifying glass held up to all the intricate details of Crouch’s music, blowing them up into bold, focused, aggressive statements.
Morgan Packard’s remix of “5th of July” maintains the original’s vibrant textures, but pushes the beats to an off-step dub without the dread.
Birdcage’s remix of “Indian Summer” is deep, focused and propulsive. Shimmering pulses build into overwhelming shoegazer beams of white light.
Silencefiction’s remix of “Malibu” reinterprets the original as a techno track propelled by a fuzzy bass guitar. All rhythmic structures descend into a slow half-time trot before leaping back to life.
Yellowcake’s remix of “Everything Is Forgiven” is all deep blue swirling from the center. A complexity that keeps all in perfect balance.
Kyoka’s remix of “Malibu” is a radical rhythmic reinterpretation of the original. Fractured samples and loops of beats play off each other like some sort of Capoeira. Half giddy game and half aggressive battle, each moment is inspired and unpredictable.
Cio D´Or (Prologue / Treibstoff) A wonderful EP with lots of facets for amazing 2010 sounds between incredible deep dub, deep house & breaks!One word: Fantastic!
Max Cooper (Traum) I love the Morgan Packard remix, will be using that for my sets for sure. I also enjoyed listening to the Kyoka remix, although I’m not sure if I’ll manage to fit that into the playlist.

Deepchild (Trapez / Anabatic / Resopal) Rating: 4/5 –  Another brilliant release from a very special label. Morgan Packard and Kyoka remixes are off the chain gorgeous. Thank you. Yellowcake also bring the submility straight to my 4th eye!

Maetrik/Maceo Plex (Audiomatique / Dumb-Unit / Mothership / Crosstown Rebels) Rating: 4/5 – Loving the yellow cake mix! really nice take on the original. thanks!

President Bongo (GusGus / Gluteus Maximus) Rating: 4/5 – i looove the 5th of july, indina summer and malibu (silencefiction) mixes!

Andrew Grant (Circoloco / Barraca Music / EDEC) Rating: 5/5 – yes i am down for it

James Blonde (MBF / Gastspiel / Sweat Lodge) Rating: 4/5 – solid vibe thanks

Spesh (Loöq Records, Qoöl, Jondi & Spesh) oh crap this is an excellent release.

tomi chair (Nice & Nasty / Ballarine) I like Birdcage & Yellowcake remixes! Nice atmosphere!

Pedro Goya (Troia / Classic/ MFF/ Brique Rouge/ Om) Rating: 4/5 – good deepness in here. works great as a “slow it down” track…will play this for sure. simple and effective! Kind of remembers me Alva Noto’s or Boards of Canada stuff!

Reviewed by Philip Sherburne in his Critical Beats column in the July 2010 issue of The Wire:

07.20.2010

Tracks:
A – Hindsight feat. Kevin Knapp
B – Ya Feel Me?

About:
Marc Smith’s Untitled 16 fears no house with chunky rhythmic swing and emotional chord progressions. These two tracks drench your ears in vintage shimmer and pulse over focused dancefloor provocation. Think Nu Space Disco without the lethargic pace.
Hindsight is a full, lush mix of melodies and swing that makes no small use of the vocals of one of the most in-demand vocalists in techno and house today: Kevin Knapp. A simple, emotional falsetto melody in the spirit of Odyssey, Imagination and Shalamar (or dare we say Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool & the Gang?) asks “How did I ever see you were for me? …But the problem isn’t me.” Love in conflict – isn’t this the stuff dance classics are made from?
Painted from the same palette of spacious vintage synths and shuffling beats, Ya Feel Me? brings a touch more of the Tech with a tight kick-to-clap punch. Snips of male vox play hide-and-seek with swirling, shifting melodies that echo and drift into the ether.

Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister / G-Stone / Peace Orchestra) Rating: 4/5 – Like both tracks. Will play this.

Mathias Schaffhäuser (Ware) Rating: 4/5 – cool tracks, i like these euphoric vocals in Hindsight and the KRAFTWERK like synth in YA FEEL…..

Luciano (Cadenza) Rating: 4/5

Laurent Garnier (F Communications) Rating: 4 – Great deepness

Tyree Cooper (Groove Baby / Supa Dupa / Ovum / DJ International) I like “Ya Feel Me” because its a nice track to start with at six in the morning and the crowd is still waking up…..Nice Job

Robert Owens (Compost / Poker Flat / Trax) Rating: 4/5 – nice vibe

Perc (Perctrax / Kompakt / Drumcode) Rating: 4/5 – Classic sounding house music, I like it.

Omid 16b (SexOnWax / Alola) Rating: 4/5 – cool

Aubrey (Solid Groove / Textures / Dark) Rating: 4/5 – Ya feel me is very deep, great selection of noises… thanks alot

07.06.2010

Tracks:
A – Luv Hate Us
B – Another Man (You’re On the DL II)

About:
The Lady Blacktronika’s Untitled 15 is a pair of deep, resonant tracks in the spirit of Detoit’s Beatdown sound. Amidst the resurgence of interest in Deep House, these tracks take their cue, not from the evolution of Minimal, but from pioneers like Moodyman, Theo Parrish and Norma Jean Bell, creating what Lady B calls, “Future Blues”. They come from the tradition of reflecting a soft soul out of hard urban life, creating beauty from heartache.
Lady B’s moody, soulful vocal samples are so moving you’d forget any love song ever had a happy ending. Vocals pitch up and down, between genders, swirling and echoing. Luv Hate Us is a thumping heartbeat, that pumps ever forward as we’re asked, “Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?” Another Man shuffles and shimmers behind the confession, “If I could, could forget him, I would, please believe me…I’m in love with another man.”

Tyree Cooper (Groove Baby / Supa Dupa / Dance Mania) Rating: 4/5 – I like the Detroit Beat Down stuff and this no different. I’m feelin “Luv Hates Us” it has that slow build up and then drops u off into the funk.”Another Man” Is also a good track when u wanna keep that crowd jackin to something so different……Great Job.

Deepchild (Trapez / Anabatic / Resopal) Rating: 5/5 – Damn, damn fine stuff. Moodymann’s spirit continues with a unique incarnation and angle…just… FRESH. Full support for Another Man. YES. YES. YES.

Philip Sherburne (The Wire / Pitchfork / Beatportal / Resident Advisor) beautiful stuff. love the pace, love the textures, love the vocals…

Perc (Perctrax / Kompakt / Drumcode) Rating: 4/5 – Very good release. 99% more interesting than 99% of releases!

Groj’s new mix titled “Morfluphe” featuring two Untitled & After tracks.

06.01.2010

Tracks:
A – Beren Gardh
B – Nén Varna
C – Ethuil Siniath

About:
Groj’s Untitled 14 collects three techno tracks, at once epic and quirky. Groj’s use of synthesis is so diverse and highly crafted that electronic becomes organic, each track creating its own ecosystem of cohabiting life-forms. Though Untitled 14 is aimed at the dancefloor, you could almost imagine no human hand intervening in their creation, but artificial life forms creating sound according to game theory that balances struggle with harmony.
Beren Gardh (the bold world) is entangled and suspenseful, generating rippling sounds that accumulate to capacity…and release.
Nén Varna (safe waters) is a steady thump amidst turmoil, seeking island refuge from a wild ocean.
Ethuil Sinath (spring tidings) is an ornate and sensual progression of beats and blossoming vernal melodies.

Laurent Garnier (F Communications)
Rating: 4 – will play this a lot

Deepchild (Trapez / Anabatic / Resopal)
Rating: 4 – Loose and experimental, dope. Exciting to hear such unexpectedly creative work.

Max Cooper (Traum)
Thanks for this, Beren Gardh is a really really great track!!

Tom Findlay (Groove Armada / Lovebox)
Rating: 4 – nice and moody, but not too much so.

05.25.2010

Tracks:
A – so fast
B – so long ago

About:
Kenneth Scott’s Untitled 13 is a deep techno generator, running low and slow. Churning below the 120 BPM threshhold, these heavy tracks overflow with sparkling details and melodic twists.

so fast pumps out Detroit-tuned synths with a near-orchestral approach to composition…but something’s not quite right as leads joust in and out of tune, jumping left and right, creating unexpected, decentered shifts.
so long ago spins like a dark, dancefloor caliope in dialog with minimal pricks and pops.

This pair of tracks were originally lost when Scott’s laptop was stollen from a gig in 2009. Luckily, a cd-r of so fast and so long ago was found in the DJ booth at legendary 222 Club in San Francisco in early 2010.

Hence, this pairing is the beginning and the end. There will never be a remix.