Tonight

Day by river, night by house music..Come bathe with us in the sultry sounds of Etbonz and Goodwin live sets accompanied by Dane Overton's trippiest of tripsuals = )

..and most definitely listen to this sic live mix ala Kim Ann Foxman from last month's Ecstasy night. Pure bliss. This girl kills it every time <3

Kim Ann Foxman LIVE @ ECSTASY by House Of E on Mixcloud

Polonaise - Trocadero

Avalon and Scott getting deep and expansive for (proudly) 100% Silk! So excited for this one, check this exclusive to Ecstasy preview of "Untitled 3"'s (Steve/Wilhelm) Reichian house pulse.

Polonaise on Mixmag.net

So you may remember we had an abortive post on Polonaise, the polyrhythmic house project of Avalon and Scott, a while back. Well, we took it down because we had a 100% Silk release brewing and wanted to woodshed a bit, til... now!

Scope Amanda Brown of Silk's mix for Mixmag (yeah) with a bunch of cool 100 Silk tracks and check out the preview of "Trocadero" from the forthcoming Polonaise debut 12" on Silk below. Enjoy and watch the sidebar here to order the Polonaise 12" very soon.

Polonaise - Trocadero by Mixmag

Enter Polonaise

Two polyrhythmic tracks from the newly minted Polonaise team of Ecstasy's own Avalon K. and Scott G. Check this "digital-double-A-side" preview of 3-on-the-floor Roland boxes and some serious Reichian modes!

UPDATE: We've removed the tracks, but for a rad reason. Watch here for updates on the Polonaise debut 12"!!! Make-up goodies soon, guys, we swear.

Thema by Polonaise
Untitled #2 by Polonaise

OP+MC: 12" Release, A Children's Story

There was this great party the other day.

There was dancing.

There was a delicious (vegan) cake.

There were hella trippy people.

There was realness.

They were (contemporary) dancing in the streets.

In the end, I got a free whiskey for playing a few records, met my new favorite DJ (and he's already in my band!), I got to yell through an unintelligible vocoder, took 2 packs of "Emergen-C" (not a euphemism), and throughly made up for a mostly shitty week. You can't ask for much more, man!

Let's do that again.

UPDATE! New pictures from Jared!

Rites Of Spring

Hey, everybody, we're very pleased to announce two of our artist/contributors to E-Blog, have a spring offering for you.

OPERATIVE "Pulse"

"Pulse" is our homage to the square wave and to its self-modulation, implying steady rhythm but also variation by its very structure. Binaural high-hats beat out a martial time while analog circuits bubble out into a thick, stroboscopic sunset. If our song "Ramp" is James Tenney trying to meet Joey Beltram half-way, then maybe "Pulse" is Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" slouching towards Orbital's "Halcyon & On & On".

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MIRACLES CLUB "Light Of Love"

"The ecstasy laser sweeps down on Friday night, you and your crew. This is dream house, a sound not unlike what triumphed in mid-Eighties Chicago, but with a shimmering, psychedelic sound world. "Light of Love" is the beauty of the road and the wide-open plane, the feeling you're all alone on the dance floor and that you own the night. Awhirl in a collage of piano, conga, acid-touched bass, and "a-la a-la-la-la-la" you find yourself echoing waaaaaay past the dawn."

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Operative (via Root Strata) and Miracles Club have digital EPs out now (or soon) at you're favorite digital download outpost (iTunes, Boomkat, etc), so keep an eye out. In a matter of weeks we'll have the 12" vinyl edition available through the bands with click -to-order links here. Hit up operativegroup@gmail.com and miraclesclub@gmail.com respectively for updates!

Operative Itunes

The Miracles Club Itunes