house . techno . electronica . ambient . neo-classical
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TRACK LISTING
1. Iguana
2. Cryptoad
3. Tastes Like Metal
4. Mongolian Spot
5. Blooodungeon
6. Carrots On Strings
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Pack Your Bags
9. Alibi
10. Cherry Cowboy
11. Odyssey
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- MAD008X
- Release date
- 16 Feb '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: There's simply no stopping Make A Dance as they quickly ratchet up the releases. Number eight sees north east maverick Man Power team up with Kenyan based Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno for an exotic and richly scented double header. As usually, the MAD crew are on hand with a high voltage remix. Great label that you need to get to know!TRACK LISTING
A1. Lou Land
A2. Battle Hil
B1. Battle Hill - Make A Dance Remix
B2. Battle Hill - M.A.D Dub Mix
Her music possesses that nostalgic familiarity and that fresh wonder at the same time.
Her performance is a unique and enchanting expression of wise melancholy and a poetic love for life.
Mari Mana was born and raised in Berlin. She wrote her first songs in the year 2000, and since 2008 has taken her performances to various concerts and festivals worldwide.
With arrangements consisting of strings, bass, drums and electronic elements, arranged and produced together with Mo Stern, we present Mari Mana’s music for the first time on vinyl.
The songs 'Floating' and 'Find Me' are influenced by Soul, Folk and Electronic Music, and feature various international musicians, including Alex Trebo (ITA), Timo Lassy (FIN), Marlene Schuen (ITA), Lee Caspi (ISR) and Natasha Jaffe (USA).
TRACK LISTING
A1. Floating
B1. Find Me
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- LP
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- BLACKEST047
- Release date
- 18 Mar '16
TRACK LISTING
1. Sassafras Gesundheit
2. Fortunes Past
3. Fortunes Begun
4. Perfect Scorn
5. Blackest Frypan
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- 12"
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- TOYT102
- Release date
- 24 Jan '20
In Berlin he teamed up with the Toy Tonics boys and now TT boss Kapote and the crew are working with him in Berlin Kreuzberg to find a new R&B & Disco influenced style of electronic dance music.
The first release is a collabo between french talent Mangabey and Kosmo Kint - produced by Kapote.
The 2 songs have a chilled L.A. G Funk Vibe that makes you think about certain Dr. Dre productions from the 90ies combined with some broken beats and 4 to the floor house vibes.
The song might remember some french touch tracks too and some might think about that West London early 2000 "Dego" Vibe maybe. Anyway, its new and there is not a name yet for that style. Let's see where the TT crew will bring Kosmo Kint sonically over the next years.
STAFF COMMENTS
Millie says: New to the Toy Tonics label Kosmo Kint, alongside Mangabey have dipped into all the genres going - Disco, House, R&B, Broken Beat, Funk, Electronic and created two tracks of pure dance music hits. TT bringing the vibes to Piccadilly!TRACK LISTING
1. Time No More
2. Time No More (Instrumental)
3. Get Lost
4. Get Lost (Instrumental)
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- CDS
- £2.99
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- DOCK36CD
- Release date
- 14 Jul '03
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- VOAM013
- Release date
- 1 Dec '23
Opening with the bat shit crazy but totally engrossing "Pumping Plastics" which features his trademark wild squealing synthesis coupled with precision rhythmic prowess. "Vanklemotor" refining this formular to a highly combustible rendition of techno that's patent protected by Mannerfelt's very own sonic lab.
"Eurtrashed" sees him explore more deranged and dark machine realms, spewing and gurgling what feels like a pneumonic level of mainframe phlegm across pounding technoid beats and alien chatter. "Liquid Ratten Mainframe" lets the gremlins out of the cage for some inhuman conversation which is indecipherable by our meagre human ears but surely suggests some higher form of interplanetary communication that we're not quite privy to yet.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Pumping Plastics
A2. Vankelmotor
B1. Eurotrashed
B2. Liquid Rattan Mainframe
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- LP
- £25.99
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- STUMM488
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
- Format Info
White vinyl LP includes A4 art print signed and individually numbered by Maps, plus digital download code.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- CDSTUMM488
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
Maps’ music has always embraced melancholia, but with Counter Melodies Chapman has produced an album of upbeat and uplifting dance tracks. The album is a new adventure through the familiar emotional terrain of the Maps sound, while also transporting you to more resolutely optimistic and hopeful places.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: A near perfect collection of rave-influenced electronics, with a bright sidechained synth lines and saw wave stabs, underpinned with an intricate and dynamic percussive backdrop. It's a heady and hypnotic mix, and one that results in an album that sits somewhere between chilled home listening and dark dancefloor business. Really lovely.TRACK LISTING
Witchy Feel
Heya Yaha
Thru Lights
Psyche
Windows Open
Transmission
Lack Of Sleep
Valentine
Fever Dream
My Love Is Like
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- Ltd LP
- £20.99
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- BB367LP
- Release date
- 5 Mar '21
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- CD
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BB367
- Release date
- 5 Mar '21
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- 12"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- VOV 18
- Release date
- 26 Jan '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Proper Piccadilly fare this. Two exercises in loop-sample-filter that should keep the Mark E and Cottam fans happy whilst "Quantity Check" is that punk-funk curio your next oddball barn dance needs - complete with sexy dub version - oooh yes!TRACK LISTING
Quantity Check
Blue Eyes Clear
Quantity Check (Ryu's Rub)
Nao Fazer Nado
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- 2xLP
- £18.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TAOLP062
- Release date
- 29 Nov '19
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- CD
- £9.99
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- TAO062
- Release date
- 29 Nov '19
Indeed, the exquisite Dead Air bears only a passing resemblance to its 2016 forerunner, Ghost Stations. The trio have dispensed with beats, brass and guest musicians this time around, opting instead for a more intimate and textural approach, a constantly evolving soundworld of tones and sensory impressions. Dead Air also bears little resemblance to the trio’s initial vision for it. “The album we set out to make had far more of a rhythmic element,” explains Talbot, “ but fairly late in the process, we decided to completely change direction.” This is entirely in keeping with Marconi Union’s guiding methodology. Ideas remain fluid throughout the writing process, until Talbot and bandmates Jamie Crossley and Duncan Meadows ultimately settle on what feels right to them. As such, Dead Air is a sublime testament to their collective instinct.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Marconi Union have been a constant source of pleasure for me here, with their wonderful capability to imbue any sound with all sorts of majestic overtones and euphoric, airy ambience while still retaining a momentum and sense of progression. Lovely stuff.TRACK LISTING
A.M.I.D.
Mossfield
Imbalance
Permafrost
Fractured
Dead Air
Burned
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- CD
- £10.99
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- TAO060
- Release date
- 12 Aug '16
After fourteen years of writing and performing, the trio – founder members Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley with keyboard player Duncan Meadows – are thought to be “amongst today's most talented musicians” The Sunday Times. They have continually steadily refined and developed a unique musical identity, gracefully blending together elements of dub, jazz, ambience and electronica within their richly melodic compositions, evoking emotions that set them apart from their peers.
Before making a record Marconi Union usually have a clear idea about its ultimate direction. But this time, they decided to set aside any preconceptions, they spent the last two years experimenting with playing, programming, editing, re-editing, (agreeing and disagreeing) until Ghost Stations naturally evolved. Once the title was decided upon, everything fell into place connecting ideas of abandonment, empty spaces and dereliction.
“We always want to move forward and try new things, there's no point in just treading water, so it was great to use a couple of guest musicians [Digitonal's Andy Dobson on clarinet and Girogio Li Calzi on trumpet]. Sometimes you need real playing, especially when it comes to feel”.
Over the last fourteen years, their studio albums, 'Under Wires and Searchlights' (2003) (“sonically immaculate” Uncut), 'Distance' (2005) (“one of the most successful ambient albums of recent years” The Sunday Times), ‘A Lost Connection’ (2010) (“minimal, introspective, ethereal electronica – gorgeous” The Guardian), ‘Beautifully Falling Apart (2011) (“places MU firmly in the vanguard of acts making atmospheric, ambient music” Music OMH, Different Colours' (2012) (“a work of be-witching beauty” DMC), and their last album, Weightless (2014) (“an ethereal sense of free flowing dimensions” DJ Mag), have brought them to the attention of larger audiences and international critical acclaim.
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- 2xLP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TAOLP065
- Release date
- 7 Jan '22
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- CD
- £10.99
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- TAO065
- Release date
- 5 Nov '21
Signals is the latest addition to Marconi Union’s highly acclaimed discography. Despite having released twelve albums in the last eighteen years they continue to experiment and push boundaries.
‘In some respects Signals is a more traditional songwriting album than anything we’ve done before, but it draws on the same techniques we’ve used on our previous albums’
After their previous album, the largely beat-less Dead Air, one might think that Marconi Union would be primarily influenced by synth players or guitarists. However, it turns out that Signals was actually informed by the bands’ admiration of a number of different drummers and this played a significant part in helping shape its sound.
‘We were quite inspired by various players like Jaki Liebezeit, Clive Deamer and Tony Allen and tried to imagine what our music would sound like with them playing on it.’
Signals combines synthetic textures with organic sound, and merges the familiar with the unknown, transporting the listener deep into their imagination. The one-word title is both mysterious and evocative, suggesting a multitude of images that range from high-tech electronic messaging to ghostly abandoned radio stations and even that most basic level of human expression, body language.
It Is both ironic and yet somehow so right, that a group so regularly described as ‘enigmatic’ should make an album that alludes to communication. Although, long-term fans will be relieved to note that Marconi Union decline to enlighten us on what all this means.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
Cycles Repeat
The Halo
Side B
Blowback
Strata
Side C
Citizen’s Dream
Breaking Point
Side D
Looking Through The Ilex
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- 2xCD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TAO061
- Release date
- 20 Jan '17
When talking about the possibility of re-releasing of Tokyo, Marconi Union saw the opportunity to return to the original material and to explore it further by creating an accompanying four track 'Live Remix EP', to be released together as a double album under the title 'Tokyo +'. Rather than simply remixing the tracks they decided to completely reconfigure them. Taking the original stems they created new loops and parts and combined the samples with live playing, with the addition of their live drummer, Phil Hurst. Each version was largely improvised and has that certain groove which can only really be achieved by the artists all playing live together at the same time.
The Marconi Union sound has quietly whispered its way into the consciousness of those searching out ambient music and following on from the critical success of their most recent album 'Ghost Stations', with this release, their entire catalogue is now available on the Just Music label to their ever growing and loyal number of fans worldwide.
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- LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TAOLPBK049
- Release date
- 7 Jul '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl edition.
Black vinyl edition.
"The world's most relaxing song: aural bliss" Time Magazine
"One of the most popular ambient tracks of all time" Yahoo
'Weightless' topped a scientific list of the most relaxing pieces of music of all time, research suggesting that it can slow the heart rate, reduce blood pressure and decrease cortisone levels
Continuous worldwide spotlight on this track sparks new interest daily in Marconi Union and all their music as the story continues its viral reach across the globe online and in print, on radio and TV.
Consistently topping the Billboard Digital Song Sales Charts, iTunes Electronic Music Chart, UK Independent charts, European and Australian charts and the Amazon Ambient Music bestsellers list, Marconi Union are considered one of the leading ambient (and electronic- synth) acts in the world, continuously topping many lists as the most important contemporary ambient artists around today.They have released 12 albums on the Just Music label since their 2003 debut, continually refining and developing a unique musical identity that seamlessly blends elements of dub, jazz, ambience and electronic music.
Originally released in 2014 and their most successful album to date, the band's 7th studio album Weightless (Ambient Transmissions Vol 2) is now to be released on vinyl.
The album includes the now iconic and seminal track Weightless together with 5 more tracks, the latter derived from the ideas of the former, simply entitled Part 1 – Part 6. The tracks are minimal, combining warm drones and drifting sounds with occasional sparse rhythms. The inspiration for the album came after the band were commissioned to collaborate with a sound therapist from the British Academy of Sound Therapy and write a piece of relaxing music, the first "Weightless" track. When scientifically tested for its effectiveness scientists reported that their research indicated that the music slowed the heart rate, reduced blood pressure and decreased levels of cortisol, a steroid hormone that is released in response to stress. When the research was made public there was an instant and intense media reaction which continues to this day.
"Minimal, introspective, ethereal electronica – gorgeous" The Guardian
"Exquisite, subtle soundscapes, an essential purchase for ambient addicts" DJ Mag
"Amongst today's most talented musicians" The Sunday Times
TRACK LISTING
Weightless Part 1
Weightless Part 2
Weightless Part 3
Weightless Part 4
Weightless Part 5
Weightless Part 6
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- Coloured LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- DR1024
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
- Format Info
Blue vinyl, includes limited risograph print.
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TRACK LISTING
A1. Apathy
A2. Body
A3. INWIW
A4. Barely There
A5. For Zoya In China
B1. No Sleep No Dream
B2. Lakes
B3. Sadballad
B4. 3 Movements
B5. Ash
B6. Lesson
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- DR1004
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
TRACK LISTING
A1. Groceries
A2. Birthday
A3. Figures
A4. Smoke
A5. Goodnight
A6: In Normal Ways
B1. Looking
B2. For Flora
B3. Sugar
B4. Exist
B5. Wayne
B6. West
Teena Marie
John Morales Presents Teena Marie - Love Songs & Funky Beats - Remixed With Loving Devotion
BBE
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- 3xLP
- £35.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BBE605ALP
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
TRACK LISTING
1 – I Need Your Lovin’ (John Morales M+M Mix)
2 – It Must Be Magic (John Morales M+M Mix)
3 – Aladdin’s Lamp (John Morales M+M Mix)
4 – First Class Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
5 – Now That I Have You (John Morales M+M Mix)
6 – I’m A Sucker For Your Love (Live In Long Beach, Ca 1981: Alternate Mix / John Morales M+M Mix)
7 – Behind The Groove (John Morales M+M Mix)
8 – Love Just Wouldn’t Be Right (John Morales M+M Mix)
9 – Portuguese Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
10 – Chains (John Morales M+M Mix)
11 – 365 (John Morales M+M Mix)
12 – Wasn’t I Good To You (John Morales M+M Mix)
13 – Square Biz (John Morales M+M Mix)
14 – More Love (John Morales M+M Mix)
15 – You Got Away (John Morales M+M Mix)
16 – You’re All The Boogie I Need (John Morales M+ M Mix)
17 – Lonely Desire (John Morales M+ M Mix)
18 – Fire And Desire (John Morales M+M Mix)
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- CD
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- PITP 42CD
- Release date
- 19 Apr '24
- Format Info
Hand-numbered, limited to 200 copies.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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TRACK LISTING
To Belong
Hushed
Timeshifting
Bridges
Cemented
Of The West
Suddenly Green
Mended Own
All You Give (For Ash)
Bluest
Night Palms Sway
In The Spaces
To Belong (Reprise)
Call & Answer
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- 7"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- PITP 42
- Release date
- 19 Apr '24
- Format Info
Hand-numbered, limited to 200 copies.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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TRACK LISTING
Hushed
Of The West
Bluest
Call & Answer
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- IIB 071
- Release date
- 15 Mar '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Mine says: Treading a path between dubbed out spacey balearic and unhurried drug chug, Marius Circus' lush sounds should find many a fan in the shop. Avoid now, regret later!TRACK LISTING
Lost On A Path To Nowhere
Lost On A Path To Nowhere (Jazxing Pathfinder Remix)
No Way Home
Space Crumbs Trail
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- 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- DOG95
- Release date
- 24 Nov '23
Title track “Enchantment Under The Sea” sets the mood with a minimal, low slung drum machine groove laying the foundation for layers of Rhodes and synth chords conjuring up images of a sub-aquatic vision of depth and beauty. Up next we have “Zone Tonight”, the epitome of a late night city scape driving track utilizing heavily saturated drums, subtle acid line, distant piano melody and moody Detroit pads to draw you into its deep confines.
Flipping over we have “Vertigo” which treads a similar sonic path as Mark effortlessly fuses rich harmonies and entrancing melodies, inviting listeners to lose themselves in its depths. Closing out this blissful journey we have “Bodymap” which drops the BPM a little more with simple understated drums, melancholic string line and pulsating bassline.
The “Zone Tonight EP” is a testament to Mark E's unparalleled prowess in crafting immersive, uncompromising and emotive soundscapes for your aural pleasure.
STAFF COMMENTS
Martin says: Long serving UK vet deploys more of his trademark wavy house sounds with four new tracks for the equally epochal Delusions Of Grandeur - purveyors of some of the finest house music for the last 15 years.TRACK LISTING
A1. Enchantment Under The Sea
A2. Zone Tonight
B1. Vertigo
B2. Bodymap
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- 2xColoured LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- NOUSLP008LE
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
- Format Info
Limited edition white vinyl version
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- 2xLtd LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- NOUSLP008
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
TRACK LISTING
01 Reverie
02 Open Up The Blinds
03 Demise
04 Locked In
05 Surface Tension
06 Take Me There
07 Devotion
08 An Inclination
09 Exit To Bliss
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- BFCD025
- Release date
- 10 Oct '11
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRR338LPC1
- Release date
- 12 Jun '20
- Format Info
Limited Pearlescent Platinum Coloured Vinyl.
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- LP
- £19.99
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- TRR338LP
- Release date
- 12 Jun '20
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- CD
- £10.99
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- TRR338CD
- Release date
- 12 Jun '20
The gated drums of Phil Collins and chorus-drenched guitars of INXS were prominent influences on Enter The Mirror, paired to magnificent effect with the increasingly dystopian lyrical themes (which, ironically, were also massive influences on popular music in the 1980s, and feel ever more relevant now). In addition to longtime members Coley Dennis, Matt Cherry, Chris McNeal, and Mike Albanese, Maserati are joined by friends and collaborators, Bill Berry (R.E.M.), Owen Lange, and Alfredo Lapuz Jr. Self-reflection and loss of control as both a positive and negative aspect of modern existence is at the heart of Enter The Mirror. It is Maserati’s most efficient and cohesive album, and a monumental accomplishment for a band who have weathered many storms throughout their first two decades and found the will to not just keep moving, but to move with style and chase.
TRACK LISTING
1. 2020
2. A Warning In The Dark
3. Killing Time
4. Der Honig
5. Welcome To The Other Side
6. Empty
7. Wallwalker
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- LP
- £20.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRR149LP
- Release date
- 28 May '21
TRACK LISTING
1. Join Us, Mystic Sister (1:18)
2. No More Sages (5:01)
3. Monoliths (6:20)
4. Thieves (2:40)
5. The World Outside (Thee Loving Hand Remix) (8:11)
6. Inventions (Justin Van Der Volgen Remix) (7:57)
7. Monoliths (Steve Moore Remix) (5:16)
8. Do You Hear The Nightbirds Calling You? (3:14)
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- 2xLP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRR196LP
- Release date
- 28 May '21
TRACK LISTING
1. San Angeles (6:35)
2. Martin Rev (8:16)
3. The Eliminator (3:54)
4. Flashback (2:31)
5. Abracadabracab (10:42)
6. Solar Exodus (6:49)
7. Lunar Drift (3:51)
8. Earth-Like (4:13)
9. San Tropea (7:08)
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- Ltd LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- SPS2366
- Release date
- 20 Oct '23
- Format Info
Vinyl LP presented in a deluxe edition with printed innersleeve and a special transparent obi strip; the cover is also printed internally. Hand numbered.
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Making music is trying to start over again every time. It’s a matter of questioning and approaching. It’s never settling for the sound that fills the world around. It’s looking for a door in the sky. And maybe find it, open it, go beyond it. Rod Modell and Gigi Masin, this time together, are offering each other vibrations and insights. The former lives between two lakes, the latter between the Venetian lagoon and the sea. Everyone on their own shore, building electronic bridges in semi-darkness to allow us to cross too.
A simple concept requiring little pre-production conversation: Rod has reworked a piece of Gigi, making it his own, and so did Gigi with a piece of Rod (can you guess which is which?). A magnificent intersection of sounds and thoughts, remaining suspended to watch the passing of time, to listen to the noises and silences of life that passes inexorably around us.
TRACK LISTING
A. Red Hair Girl At The Bus Stop (19:31)
B. Summer Morning At Lighthouse Beach (15:43)
The ‘A1’ gets the EP rolling with muffled drums and enticing moods that sit delicately underneath the soulful, samples and sweeping synths before ‘A2’ offers up resounding kicks that balance delightfully with the reverberating modulations and powerful yet interesting fx. The A3 lays focus on an aquatic house roller with bubbly melodies and dreamy pads with magnetising emotions brimming to the surface. On the flip, the ‘B1’ is an engaging cut with breezy resonance and ethereal leads which lure you in from the start whilst the dubby drums, solemn ambience and laid-back moods take focus in the ‘B2’. Rounding things off in experimental fashion, the ‘B3’ is an eccentric meditative, cut with leftfield oscillations and beatless vibrations which blend together with stunning effect.
STAFF COMMENTS
Patrick says: There's two things you can guarantee with a MASK 12" - 1. It's gonna fly off the shelves and 2. It's gonna sound absolutely monstrous on a system.This edition is no exception, working from a 909-laced house riff on Carly's "Why" through immersive and texured modular techno (Barry!) to wriggling electro and ambient bliss. Megoh!
TRACK LISTING
A1.
A2.
A3.
B1.
B2.
B3.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- MB01
- Release date
- 14 Feb '20
Filled with playful optimism and grooving, hypnotic beats, this is a confident and assured solo outing from long time Plaid member and touring partner, and a perfectly selected mastering enginner in Chris (Ochre) at Melograf mastering.
Gorgous hazy electronics perfect for sitting by the fire or frolicking in a field!
TRACK LISTING
1 There You Are
2 Lumito
3 We Were Kin
4 Star Rover
5 Les Hippocampes
6 Spring Dwindle
7 Liffclang Halo
8 Are You Ok?
9 Zedended
10 Dial
11 State Of Croak
12 Hex
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- Cassette
- £3.99
- Cat Number
- IHMR III
- Release date
- 29 Sep '14
TRACK LISTING
I. Bellum
II. Numbing
III. Detached
IV. Mute
Master Plan
Electric Baile / Pushin’ Too Hard - Gerd Janson & Enzo Elia Edits
Running Back Super Sound Singles
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- 12"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- RBSSS5
- Release date
- 5 Apr '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Running Back turn their attention to this cheeky number from 1986. Bearing all the hallmarks of Ron Hardy, Chip E, Farley Jackmaster Funk or the WBMX dance party craze; it's an electrified proto-house track that should find plenty of favour across the current landscape.TRACK LISTING
A1. Electric Baile (Enzo Elia Vocal Edit)
A2. Electric Baile (Enzo Elia Dub Edit)
A3. Electric Baile (Enzo Elia Bonus Beats)
B1. Pushin’ Too Hard (Gerd Janson Mega Mix)
B2. Pushin’ Too Hard (Gerd Janson Instrumix)
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- Ltd 12"
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- MAW2028
- Release date
- 13 Oct '23
This release entails the story of a special studio session by one of the NY house pioneers who brought you "The Music's Got Me" by Visual along with his partner Timmy Regisford back in 1982. His name is Boyd Jarvis (RIP), a keyboard genius, also one of the early creators of this unique sound. Masters At Work had only a few rare sessions in the early 90s with Boyd and the outcome are some of these stunning outtakes on "Boyd's Jam", produced by MAW. Driven by the Zipper sound and swinging house KD beats in MAW style, the Boyd bassline carries the tune in the pocket groove with LV chords bringing atmosphere and mood. Then comes the Boyd magic with his organ solo ripping through the hypnotic groove.
This one is classic Masters At Work taken from the early 91-92 sessions, it's as authentic as can be. Limited copies!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Boyd Jarvis joins Kenny and Louie for a seriously deep grooving, jazzy house cut that's one of the highlights from the recent hurricane of Master At Work releases.TRACK LISTING
A. Boyd's Jam (On The Organ Mix)
B1. Boyd's Jam (MAW Synth Dub)
B2. Boyd's Jam (MAW Zipper Beats)
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- Ltd 12"
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- MAW2029
- Release date
- 13 Oct '23
"Maw Want You" is a early signature MAW groove which has inspired many house producers to pull from that vibe. Featuring an almost Reece bassline, skitty hats and deep driving synths it's like Detroit meets New Jersey meets New York all in one tidy club hit!
Really nice to see MAW revisiting these classic house jams and getting them out there for a new audience. Essential stuff really.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: House music demigods Kenny and Louie are back on it big time. Digging out lost tapes, reissuing classics and dropping more big fresh new bombs via MAW Records and Kay-Dee. This is new material - and guess what - it kicks hard! From the soulful licks of "Funky Anane" to the sub-tickling Reece bassline of "MAW Want You". It reminds us why their the best in the business!TRACK LISTING
A. Funky Anané (MAW Jazz Dub)
B. MAW Want You
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- Ltd 7"
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- MAW701
- Release date
- 13 Oct '23
The something intangible and powerful about the "The Ha Drop". It's bass-buggin' low end, it's squealing mid range utterances, it's kicking drums. Although falling in the house format it possesses a unique energy which was adopted by the Vogue scene to great celebration.
Limited copies of this true underground anthem - don't sleep!
TRACK LISTING
A. The Ha Drop (Kenny Dope Edit)
B. The Ha Drop (Lil' Dope 45 Dub)
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- 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- SCDD035
- Release date
- 28 Jul '23
TRACK LISTING
A1. Brillantine
A2. Eyeliner
B1. Eyeliner (Mall Grab Remix)
B2. Lip Plumper
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- 12"
- £7.99
- Cat Number
- VIVOD 018
- Release date
- 5 Jan '18
TRACK LISTING
A1. Die Nibelungen
A2. Bayerischer Wald
B1. Virtuosic Mechanic
B2. Kammermusik
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- LP
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- SFW40261LP
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- Expected 3 May '24
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- £11.99
- Cat Number
- SFW40261
- Release date
- Expected 3 May '24
Release date: Expected 3 May '24
TRACK LISTING
1. Good Morning Electronics
2. Injection Basic Sound
3. Mud- Dauber Wasp
4. Music Or Noise?
5. Why?
6. Lend Me Your Ears
7. Return To Archive
8. The Way Japanese Beetles Sound To A Rose
9. Going To Sleep
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- CD
- £13.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- OLE6772
- Release date
- 8 May '06
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- 12"
- £6.49
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- 44BC
- Release date
- 24 Feb '14
A trio of companion tracks seal the deal: ‘Future Beacon’ combines sacred, mystical arpeggios and rattling breakbeats; ‘Dowlais Wheelie Crew’s layers of vibrant synths form a decidedly modern groove; and ‘Rite Of Pant’ is a rousing exercise in handmade primal proto-house.
This is the final release in a collectable four part series of limited vinyl (500 copies). All four covers fit together to reveal a larger picture by UK designer Jack Featherstone.
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- Ltd LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BB313LP
- Release date
- 11 Jan '19
Carl Matthews is by no means immune to the maelstrom of geo-caching notebooks. Krautrock (tick), guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era artist (tick), under-rated UK electronic composer (tick). Man with a beard, surrounded by synths. (tick). Best of all, he was once described as the Edgar Froese of Cumbria.
Is there a suspension bridge which connects Carl Matthews to the mainland European tradition of Harmonia, Cluster and Tangerine Dream?
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- LP
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- VGLP013
- Release date
- 16 Jun '17
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- CD
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- VGCD013
- Release date
- 2 Jun '17
The album’s starting point was a series of acoustic improvisations recorded in a variety of locations, from a 700-year-old chapel in the Devon countryside to a basement studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. In an attempt to create a fractured sense of space reflective of the digital condition, the duo found themselves working within a place that could only exist in the digital landscape. By crushing the recordings through a hundred different virtual rooms of reverb and other chaotic digital processes they collided, soared and splintered into sweeping new rhythms, melodies and drones. Pushing the computer’s processor beyond its limits threw up sonic ‘errors’ that wouldn’t be easily possible to create through standard methods. In response, these outcomes created new and unplanned inspiration for further composition. Elements of the album were then produced binaurally adding a three dimensional listening experience. The outcome is a unique landscape that blurs the line between the virtual and physical worlds.
“Cerebral yet accessible” - Uncut (8/10)
“A fascinating album that continually surprises with its neo-classical meets electronic template” - Clash
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- Dinked Edition LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- CSR008LP
- Release date
- 14 Apr '23
- Format Info
• "Rusty Solenoid" orange vinyl. *
• Stanley Donwood pencil drawing art print. *
• Augmented Reality Artwork Experience (scan QR code).
• 2 bonus tracks (download). *
• Hand numbered sleeve. *
• Limited edition of 250. *
• "Rusty... [ + ]
The ghost in Ghost Notes refers to a robot drummer, although its appearance is less corporeal than it might sound. In fact, it employs quite crude technology not too different from your set of automatic car keys. John Matthias and Jay Auborn used solenoid magnets to convert audio signals sent from their computer into voltages that could fire hammers that would in turn hit a real drum kit. “It looks like a science experiment, all covered in wires”. Despite the rudimentary looks, ghost-drummer does an impressive job; allowing for digital collaboration with real instruments. In other words, instead of working with samples played off speakers, these can now be reproduced live, in a physical space.
As if straight out of a scene in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the first time John Matthias and Jay Auborn brought their creation to life was a haunting experience. They fed it complex rhythmic information from a 1950s jazz recording of drum solos and lo and behold the drum kit came alive in the room with shocking resemblance to the original performance. That chilling encounter which, in the musician's eyes took technological appropriation to new, terrifying levels, pivoted the musician’s ideas: “We realised that we could use the method to extract the low level often overlooked rhythmic patterns within our own recorded or live material. [...] We now focused on creating Ghostly echoes of our own performances rather than invoking the dead to be in our band”.
This process became the bare bones behind the composition of Ghost Notes, rather than playing acoustic instruments and later digitally manipu- lating these recordings, these two stages were brought together in one moment and place in time, “The digital elements of our music were in the room with us during the improvisational stage, and in binding them together, we could create a live album of sorts”.
Just like a live session is filled with and shaped by factors such as the energy emanating from the audience on any given night, or the acoustics of a particular venue, Ghost Notes also embraces and plays on the undetermined. As the computer struggled under the demands of interpreting John Matthias and Jay Auborn’s improvisations live, it would sometimes act unexpectedly, hitting the drums as if possessed by its own agency. “Errors in the digital processing became fruitful diversions, like John Cage’s Ghost in the machine”. The result of this cyborgian jam session? A high-energy album featuring a wide range of sounds and tempos. In this regard, Ghost Notes stands in stark contrast to the more minimal, ambient output of other artists experimenting with similar frameworks of digital- acoustic interplay. Perhaps it’s because of this immersive quality, where textures, layers and emotional dramaturgy all combine to create unheard of worlds and make it impossible for partial listening, that Ghost Notes’ first track is named Dive Into This. Matthias' soaring violin lures listeners into shifting landscapes of syncopated drum beats and cycling synths. Classical structures are deconstructed into electronica and back, all the while Auborn is distorting acoustic sounds beyond recognition. “It’s about screwing with the materi- ality of it,” he says.
Although Ghost Notes is rich, layered and textured, it’s not one inch impenetrable. What could otherwise feel dense gets pierced by enthralling melodies such as virtuosic violin segments that pull on 19th-century romanticism, or soulful piano grooves à la Alice Coltrane or Marvin Gaye. At other times, the music tells imaginative stories, “In Christmas at the Twisted Wheel, we created a mini violin concerto which begins in an imagined Christmas advert for John Lewis through a dissonant landscape to The Twisted Wheel Northern Soul Club in Manchester”.
Ghost Notes is a testament to the enormous artistic freedom John Matthias and Jay Auborn have achieved together. Within the conceptual framework they set for themselves, they trusted sound to be their one and only guide, a model which led the duo on a vast exploration between extremes and nuances, like the collision and subtleties laid out on Vodka and Coke. In the track, emotional violin comes together with raw, brutal textures – “caveman beats” as the duo calls them. White-washed static noises are heard as the track progresses, the result of the computer’s own interpretations of what it was being fed, creating a surprising unison between the two contrasting worlds. “The sounds were a kind of digital shadow of ourselves. An in-betweenness of acoustic and digital”. It’s in that in- betweenness which doesn't sit comfortably in either classical nor electronica that Ghost Notes succeeds. It’s within that grey space between humans programming robots, and robots breaking down and erring like humans that the album achieves its finest, most original aesthetic expression, opening a new path for human-robotic collaboration in music-making.
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THIS EDITION:
The album cover was created by artist, Stanley Donwood, using a copper verdigris technique in which the original drawing is printed on a copper sheet and undergoes a chemical decay process.
The original pencil drawing by Stanley Donwood is what is used for the print in our Dinked Edition. 6” x 6” with augmented reality experience information on the back.
On the inside cover of the vinyl, the artist Mike Phillips has developed 100 new images using a Generative Algorithmic Network (GAN) - an algorithmic AI technique for which Mike Phillips used the AI to compare the front cover copper verdigris image with the pencil drawing and produce the new set of twisted forms. You can see these 100 new forms concatenated together in an Augmented Reality animation developed by Chris Price of Zubr with sound designed by John Matthias and Jay Auborn by pointing to a QR code on the reverse of the Donwood print in the Dinked vinyl edition.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
Dive Into This
Long Time Dead
Auto Psalm Engine
Lovelaced
Side B
No Parable
A Silver Solenoid
Christmas At The Twisted Wheel
Vodka & Coke
Mause
Run / Stop EP - Inc. D'Arcangelo, Bot1500, Uf0, Utopia Cloak, Anitta, Suso Flores Remixes
Massage Brain Cult
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- 2xLtd LP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- MBC003
- Release date
- 27 Aug '21
There's absolutely shed loads to go at across the double vinyl packa.ge Has remixes from D'Arcangelo, Bot1500 & UF0 whilst Mause's own compositions range hyper-serene futurescapes, dual-sequenced drum chaos (think AFX's "Drukqs") and glitched up neon-rave beauties. There's nods to electro in there too, with all the classic (and not so well known) drum boxes working overtime alongside a vertible array of soft and hard synths.
Honestly, if you're into the multi-dimensional evolution of electronic music that's taken place over the last 30 years or so, then this is gonna proper melt ya mind. Buy the ticket, take the trip - you will not be disappointed! Incredible.
TRACK LISTING
A1.DMX Acidheim
A2.Evas Bounce
A3.Errire
B1.Dolpin Funk1
B2. Baecon3
B3.Thorn(r8)
C1. Dolpin Funk1-Utopia Cloak's "search For Atlantis Re-edit"
C2. DMX AcidHeim - Anitta Rmx
C3.Thorn(r8) - D'Arcangelo's "whispering Edit"
D1. Evas Bounce - Bot1500
D2.Erirre - Uf0 Rmx
D3.Baeco
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- 12"
- £9.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SNDW12020
- Release date
- 8 Feb '19 (originally released 4 Aug '14)
On the first side South African singer Shaluza Max's massive Mashkandi / house anthem from 2002 gets a first release on vinyl. This track was a huge hit in South Africa and around the world on its release. With a soaring Zulu vocal and big sound it's a fitting reminder of a very talented musician who worked as a very well respected producer, composer and arranger. He died tragically young at the age of 47 in January of 2014.
On the flip we drop a fairly unknown track from the mid 1980s from one of the biggest names in African music, Tabu Ley Rochereau. A kind of almost Balearic proto-house congolese pop cut with drum machines and trademark sweet Congo horn section, 'Hafi Deo' is a beautiful track that fell into obscurity outside the Congo by perhaps being too smooth for the 'world music' crowd in the mid 80s. Tabu Ley passed away in November 2013 in his late 70s with over 250 albums and 3000 songs to his name. A true pioneer of the Congolese soukous sound, he was also one of the most influential African musicians of his generation.
TRACK LISTING
Shaluza Max - Mangese
Tabu Ley Rochereau - Hafi Deo
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- 2xLtd LP
- £31.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- GP6
- Release date
- 8 Apr '22
- Format Info
Limited to 500 for the World.
Limited to 500 for the... [ + ]
Cycles is the latest album of work by Irish composer Jules Maxwell whose music has featured at London's National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and The Roundhouse. Cycles is an exquisite album of meditative instrumental music. It is quiet and circular in nature but deeply atmospheric and dramatic at moments.
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- 12"
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- SOLEASPECT 006
- Release date
- Expected 28 Jun '24
Release date: Expected 28 Jun '24
TRACK LISTING
Rise To The Top
Like A Dream
Our World
Rose Colored Glasses
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- 2xLP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TRNHC007LP
- Release date
- 4 Feb '22
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- TRNHC007CD
- Release date
- 26 Nov '21
As the worst tendencies of humanity are championed by those in power; rage, fear, greed and apathy. We see every injustice, every conflict, every catastrophe flash up on our screens. We stay complacent and consume to forget our complicity in the structures and systems that sustain that behaviour. As the world teeters on the edge of disaster, we sigh and keep scrolling, the uneasy feeling in our stomachs eating away at us a little more each day. However easy it would be to switch off and pretend all is lost, there’s no choice but to remain engaged. To set that feeling of hopelessness aside and use the fear and frustration as fuel to make something positive. ‘No Feeling is Final’ is a message of hope and solidarity. It’s a story of growing grassroots movements across the world that are rejecting the doomed futures being sold to us, and imagining new realities based on equality and sustainability.
It’s a reckoning with the demons in our histories and a promise to right the wrongs of the past. It’s a plea to take action in shaping the world we leave for future generations. It’s a simple gesture of reassurance to anyone else struggling in these troubled times: “Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Continuing and building on the self-sufficient, do-it-yourself ethos that has been core to their existence, ‘No Feeling is Final’ was once again recorded and produced by bassist Jamie Ward, and released on the bands own Robot Needs Home Collective Label, in collaboration with close friends Wax Bodega (North America), New Noise (Asia) and Birds Robe (Australasia).
TRACK LISTING
01. We’ve Arrived At The Burning Building
02. Zarah
03. Complicity
04. Invincible Summer
05. The Weight Of Light
06. Refuturing
07. Green Unpleasant Land
08. Even Tide
09. The Last Hours
10. Tomorrow
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- DE010
- Release date
- 9 Feb '24
I have to say everything we've had from this producer so far has been excellent, and if you're into the classic lineage of US house music - from jacking, primitive acid trax right up more high fidelity, soulful house productions and even disco edits and such like - Dave Maze has you covered! Be great to see him in action on UK soils soon - anyone got him booked?!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Dave Maze can do no wrong in my book at the moment, and I'm feverish for him to play a gig here in MCR. Two disco-house refixes that sound a bit Strictly Jazz Unit / Stilove4music and one epic warehouse jam that's a bit Weatherall-esque as well. A true rising star.TRACK LISTING
Side 1
1. Organic Boogie (5:13)
2. Tasty Yams (5:03)
Side 2
1. It's Just A Dream
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- LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- 37D020LP
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- 37D020CD
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
Around the same time McAlister started a deep dive into a personal sonic realm that has manifested as an ambient project under his own name. 2018 saw the release of Three Breaths, the first offering from this exploration. 2021 will see the second installment, an album called Scissortail which vividly puts McAlister’s evolving master craft on display. It is a collection of moving, meditative, immediately satisfying and quietly stunning work. It is the sound of an artist letting go entirely of pre-conceptions or expectations, instead mining the depths of that very real and abstract place of sound, texture, color and feeling. Some songs arrive almost intuitively, while others feel mechanically made, fed through the framework of synthesizers and the patchwork of recording gear. And with that comes a compelling duality to the work; a machine grace informing the on-going but subconscious dialogue between energy and material, sensitivity and asceticism.
TRACK LISTING
A
1. Portrait (5:39)
2. Slow Wave (5:14)
3. Cycle 3 (6:16)
B
4. Crowns (5:29)
5. G0 (5:33)
6. Cycle 5 (5:04)
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- 12"
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- WCR 006
- Release date
- 13 Oct '17
TRACK LISTING
A1. Anemone
A2. Blue Bells
B1. Family Party
B2. Animal Garden School
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- Indies Exclusive LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DOC109LP-C1
- Release date
- 13 Nov '15
- Format Info
Available exclusively to independent retailers as an orange swirl coloured double vinyl edition with detailed and immersive liner notes and essays.
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Mark McGuire's albums are, amongst many other things, strong arguments for the album and for the stereo system. They're not just music; they're statements, and they demand to be experienced by the best sonic means available. They're throwbacks, not in style, but intent and effect. Put another way -- they don't make them like this anymore.
McGuire's albums have beautiful and carefully selected cover art. McGuire's own liner notes for his breakthrough Dead Oceans debut, Along The Way (2013), are an experience unto themselves -- a detailed explication of an artist's "journey towards the beginning" -- a new spiritual manifesto you won't find on Spotify. The wall of sounds contained therein constitute a degree of ambition uncommon since the 70s heyday of McGuire's forebears - Göttsching, Eno, Fripp. This is not laptop music.
Beyond Belief, his second full-length for Dead Oceans, finds McGuire now well on the way of his own trip. Fantastical liner note tales written to accompany and set the stage for his mostly-wordless songs delight and confound. Throughout nine tracks we find an unrelenting drive to refine, build upon, focus and maximize the effect of an already remarkably prolific body of work. Though deservedly known for his virtuosic multitracked guitar playing, McGuire in fact plays every bass / synth / piano note, and every beat on the album himself, his vocals more prominent than ever before. 26 months in the making, the passion going into Beyond Belief is self-evident, and the effect is overwhelming.
Running nearly 80 minutes, the bold and fearless Beyond Belief is McGuire's magnum opus to date, but in truth, there is no end in sight for McGuire's vision, making any such assessment wholly premature.
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- LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- WARPLP305
- Release date
- 27 Sep '19
- Format Info
Numbered indies exclusive LP in black paper inner, in printed outer sleeve with silver foil number and 6 panel fold out poster.
Numbered indies exclusive... [ + ]
The compositions were commissioned by No-Nation with PRSF for Music and debuted as ‘The Secret Life of Organs’ in 2016 with a run of live dates in the UK supported by Arts Council England. The original pieces have since been revised to make up "All Night Chroma". Performed at the Harrison & Harrison organ of the Royal Festival Hall by James McVinnie. Composed and produced by Tom Jenkinson of Sqaurepusher.
TRACK LISTING
Mono Chroma (2013)
01: Voix Célestes
02: Mutations With Reeds
03: Flutes With Major Bass
04: Reeds & Flûtes Harmoniques
Poly Chroma (2016)
01: Mixtures
02: Bombardes & Cymbel
03: Flutes
04: Full Organ
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- MC070
- Release date
- 24 Nov '23
Hailing from Bangalore, trained in Hindustani music and poetry since childhood, MD Pallavi’s beautiful voice makes an elegant companion to cellist / composer / producer Andi Otto’s idiosyncratic and unconventional style. Andi’s music has featured on labels such as Shika Shika and Pingipung (which he co-runs and curates) and, of course, Multi Culti, who released his previous album ‘Bow Wave’ which featured his first collaboration with Pallavi.
While the heart of "Songs for Broken Ships" showcased the duo's unique meld of cross-cultural folktronica and acoustic ballads with MD Pallavi's poetic Kannada verses at the core, "Remixes from the Clouds” reframes these elements for a vast spectrum of electronic listeners and club go-ers.
An ethereal hypnotic techno re-interpretation of ‘Prayer to the Cloud’ from Italian producer Simone de Kunovich. Scottish ambient maestro and mushroom aficionado Auntie Flo's ecstatic reinterpretation of "Clockshop". Multi Culti veteran downtempo wizard Peter Power's organic and earthy rendition of "Prayer to the Cloud." The mystic sounds of Kaleema breathing new percussive life into "Clockshop". The package concludes with a 'prayer-a-pella' version of "Prayer to the Clouds", spotlighting MD Pallavi's vocals in their purest form, for DJs and producers seeking to slather their rhythms with spiritual voice.
The Multi Culti imaginarium also present an expanded digital package that includes mixes from Hannah Lee, Bliz Nochi & Emil Jourjou, Migramara, and Poligra. In the words of Shawn Christopher: "people from all nations, dancing together." Celestial harmony, one 12” at a time.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Prayer To The Cloud - (Simone De Kunovich Remix)
A2. Prayer To The Cloud - (Peter Power Remix)
A3. Prayer To The Cloud (Prayer-a-Pella)
B1. Clockshop - (Auntie Flo Remix)
B2. Clockshop - (Kaleema Remix)
B3. Clockshop - (Album Version)
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- FTTFCS002
- Release date
- 12 Apr '24
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Resurrecting bona fide classics from the house music cannon, 4 To The Floor turn their attention to two cheeky booty twisters from '94 and 2002.TRACK LISTING
A. MD X-Spress - God Made Me Phunky (Original Mix)
B1. Three Kings Featuring Jaygun & Bashy - Shake Dat Booty (A Pal Joey Interpretation)
B2. Three Kings Featuring Jaygun & Bashy - Shake Dat Booty (Wahoo Main Mix)
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- Coloured LP
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- UTR151BLUE
- Release date
- 7 Jul '23
- Format Info
Limited 180g Sky Blue vinyl copies (500 copies).
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- CD
- £10.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- UTR151
- Release date
- 7 Jul '23
Me Lost Me presents sound reaching in opposite directions, straddling time towards the archaic and timeless traditions of folktales, and towards the possible and potential futures of pastoral Britain and the world at large. Part speculation, part reminiscence, what results on the new album RPG is music that sounds ultimately displaced and yet omnipresent, adjacent to a hapless Vonnegut hero whose life is scattered throughout time and history, but full of wonder and curiosity rather than fear.
On track “The Oldest Trees Hold The Earth”, we see time stretched out between the branches of impossibly old beings in the woods. This track was co-written in Aarhus, Denmark with fellow Newcastle folk musician (with Danish heritage) Ditte Elly. The pair wordlessly passed a sheet of paper between each other to write the lyrics, inspired by Højbjerg and Mosegård, the woods they were sitting in. “How long should I wait/Before the moss grows?/On my skin, on my outstretched arms,” the lyrics are sung in a round, the close harmonies delicate and detailed.
A central thesis of this album is the joy of creation, something which is paid homage to in the album’s final track, “Science And Art” (Not because we need it to last/just because we needed to make it - so we invented the words/this language). It is also reflected in the definition that Jayne gives for “folk” itself. She comments, “To me, folk is quite an expansive idea. I think of it as creative work that's often made ad-hoc, with things that are at hand and more often than not it's born of a DIY ethos. It is songs and stories of the people, as in the traditional sense, but also creative coding, game design etc. Whatever outlet someone has for their creative expression could be described as folk. It's the things we make because humans need to make things, and the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us.”
Crucially, on latest album RPG, Dent expands her songwriting and looks towards the unreal locations of worldbuilding in video games for inspiration. She comments, “I think the main similarity is the importance of a song's setting/environment to inform its narrative and textures, I'm often most inspired when out walking in the natural landscape, in cities and travelling to places I've never been before - the environment I'm in really impacts the work I make. While writing this album, however, I found myself inspired by imaginary landscapes, those in video games, paintings, etc. I was writing stories into these unreal locations instead. Even the songs inspired by real places, like The Oldest Trees Hold the Earth, have a very surreal quality to them in the songs, like they're being warped and turned into something not of this world. I think that's the main difference for me in terms of the thematic content and inspiration behind this album - I've been getting more and more interested in balancing surreal and fantastical environmental elements with ordinary and everyday settings.”
RPG upends the concept of the eternal return - we may be in the midst of inevitable repetition, but we tell stories whilst awaiting the passage of time.
TRACK LISTING
01. Real World
02. Eye Witness
03. Festive Day
04. Heat!
05. Mirie It Is While Summer I Last
06. The God Of Stuck Time
07. Side Quest
08. The Oldest Tree Holds The Earth
09. Collide
10. In Gardens
11. Until Morning
12. Science And Art
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- 12"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- NUANCE003
- Release date
- 1 Dec '23
“Hardship Repackaged As Growth” opens the EP with boomy, rugged low end and grainy driven synth lines with sharp hits of wide sonic impact and a depth of layered atmosphere, placed on a bed of dense percussion until its break point exposes contorted, abrasive stabs just surviving the crunch of their processing, that then take the forefront. “Countenance” replies to the previous track with a more calculated, rounder and organic palette of audio that focuses on a cadenced synth line that breaths with the arrangement, fizzing to break point and engaging the deeper listen. Swung percussion keeps the groove providing a propulsive backing that sits on gnarled bass hits before the focus returns on the charged lead line.
“Character Ethic” carries deep suspense from the off, with filtered menace being teased below the surface, warping atmospheres are stacked and build the apprehension against a militant 16th shaker before an almost vocal like modulated synth reveals itself and is left to dance prominently across the stereo field. Layers of energy providing percussion complete the picture for a mesmerizing trip. “Desperate And Relevant” the most driving of the 4 cuts takes an effectively reduced stand where square wave accents build new levels of intensity. Propulsive low-end and cohesive percussion writhe through the track’s arrangement closing out the EP with a powerful ending, a blistering siren sees the track’s breakpoint provide a release worthy of the pressure built.
Pressed on 140g black vinyl, reverse board full-colour print sleeve with poly-lined inner sleeve.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Another winner from Ben from E-Bloc.. Tapping that golden faucet of UK tech influences - fans of Surgeon, James Rushkin and Ben Sims are gonna find plenty to beat their chest to here. Unparalleled sound design coupled with precision body mechanics make this a beast for the big rigs. TIP!TRACK LISTING
A1. Hardship Repackaged As Growth
A2. Countenance
B1. Character Ethic
B2. Desperate And Relevant
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- 12"
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- DLYD27
- Release date
- 12 Mar '21
TRACK LISTING
A1: Abstinence Blues Mixhell Extended
A2: Abstinence Blues Mixhell Edit
B1: Abstinence Blues Mixhell Instrumental
B2: Abstinence Blues Original Mix
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- Coloured LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- ZIQ429
- Release date
- 26 Mar '21
- Format Info
Silver vinyl
Silver vinyl
Inspired by the visuals of Evangelion and nineties anime soundtracks such as Ghost In The Shell (and its later Stand Alone Complex series), the new Meemo Comma album is a soundtrack to an imaginary anime that, like its real counterparts (e.g. Full Metal Alchemist), takes the beautiful parts of Kabbalah and sets them to science fiction stories. When asked about the themes that inform her new album, Lara Rix-Martin says "Judaism is filled with many tales and teachings that prevail in science fiction to this day - whether consciously or not. Sci-Fi is the genre best equipped to explore the immensity and challenges of human experience. Something that Judaism has also been attempting for over three thousand years." "I watched Ghost in the Shell when I was 14 and it was so striking, visually and sonically. The soundtrack has acted as a backdrop to explore my Jewish identity. I have been reading the Talmud since last year, discovering a deeper love for Jewish stories and teachings.
There are some beautiful, hopeful ideas in Kabbalah too, which were a central inspiration to this album such as the idea that the first human was non-gendered and just this form made up from the qualities of HaShem (God) who performed 'Tzimtzum', contracted their form using their Ein Sof (eternal light) to create 'Adam Kadmon' whose form split into all human souls." Lara playfully subheads her album: “In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness. A team of humans are forming an android, Adam Kadmon (CODENAME: UNIT KADMON). First, humans have to gain higher consciousness guided by the Sefirot.“ While you don't have to know about these influences to enjoy the music, it stands true that the intention is an irreverent love letter to the way grand myths are birthed into the future through new forms, retaining their beauty and elegance
TRACK LISTING
A:
1/Upload To Unit Kadmon
2/Neon Genesis: Title Sequence
3/Tikkun Olam
4/Ein Sof
5/Tzimtzum
6/Gevur
7/Genesis 8:22 – Annihilation
8/Tohu & Tikun
B:
1/Tif’eret
2/Unit Chai
3/Yetzirah
4/Merkabah
5/Nefesh
6/End Credits
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- LP
- £16.99
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- ZIQ409
- Release date
- 25 Oct '19
'Sleepmoss', the second album from Meemo Comma a.k.a. Brighton-based producer Lara Rix-Martin, is an adventurous, unusual and very contemporary sonic take on the impact of landscape. It’s a kind of storytelling, inspired by the shifting landscapes of her daily walks with her dog on the South Downs. Discussing her under-the-radar debut album 'Ghost on the Stairs' with Aimee Cliff at The Fader in 2017, she noted how she is “drawn to eerie sounds in my work.” This fascination remains on 'Sleepmoss' but the context has changed from the interior and inwards gaze to a much wider, wilder viewpoint. Lara describes her new record as being “about getting lost in the sumptuous divinity of the dark months in Britain. It is in many ways the opposite reflection of 'Ghost on the Stairs' which was about internal processing of sounds, specifically human speech. The last album was almost an exorcism of issues troubling me but this album is about the glory of solitude and the richness of romance that can be found in nature.”
‘Sleepmoss’ challenges us to rethink our perceptions of the “pastoral” and to look at nature afresh with new eyes. For not only are the landscapes around us an escape: much more lies there, it's this turbulence we need to find peace with, and Sleepmoss grapples with the physicality of the landscape in a fresh and intuitive way. Rix-Martin notes “Musically, we have never truly embraced rugged landscapes in their full glory and I felt this when I thought about the many different composers over the centuries, their work seemed uptight and far too human in scale. For instance Vaughan Williams had unquestionably beautiful moments in The Lark Ascending, but it's too clean, too controlled. I wanted to channel a take on classical music that was hyper-real, focusing on letting the elements speak to us, not the other way around.”
A visual influence is J.M.W. Turner - “his work with changing light and storms that are raw and expressive.” and the abstract way in which Turner boldly revealed both horror and beauty (some would say “reality”) is reflected in the sonic approach throughout Sleepmoss. The album’s timeline starts out with summer's end, and the feeling of the air changing. Within this timeline, Rix-Martin describes the drama of her songs as visual stories. “The sounds around us are totally different depending on the season, I always assumed it was to do with the change in water vapour and heat in the air. Summer is much too high pitched and spiky.” To pull out a couple of our favourites, the songs 'Night Rain' and 'Murmur' are “the story of predator and prey, death and life, one fortifying the other while a storm rumbles. The next morning the woods are clear birds sing in the breeze from the night’s storm.”
‘Sleepmoss’ captures not only a unique perspective on nature but like nature itself, reflects the shifting times we live in. As Rix-Martin points out, Nature is often seen as “something to be controlled, neatened, conquered.” Sleepmoss interprets and admires nature in all its glory.
TRACK LISTING
A:
1. Reaping
2. Night Rain
3. Murmur
4. Tanglewood
5. Winter Sun
6. Amethyst Deceiver
7. Windross
B:
1. Lichen
2. Meadhead
3. Firn
4. Sleepmoss
5. Psithur
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- Ltd LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- PIP004-LP
- Release date
- 5 Jan '24
Cossetted away from the outside world in van Lummel’s loft, with multi-instrumentalists Janneke Nijhuijs and Wieger Hoogendorp joining them to create a musical four-piece, Mega Wega was born. Over the course of four weeks, the quartet embarked on an almost continuous creative session punctuated only by impromptu parties and mixing sessions. Life-long bonds were made and over 70 tracks recorded before the mundanity of day-to-day life came calling.
For one reason or another, the project never saw the light of day, with tracks sat gathering dust on hard drives for the best part of a decade. During the madness and loneliness of the COVID-19 pandemic, Trago rediscovered the tracks. Delighted by what he heard, a collective decision was made to add finishing touches and release the resultant album on van Lummel’s PIP Records imprint. Further instruments and vocals were added over two days at Hoogendorp’s studio, before mutual friend Tom Ruig got on board to mix the album.
So, what can you expect from "Haunted", Mega Wega’s debut album? First and foremost, it’s the sound of pure creative expression - the distillation of a freewheeling, no-holds-barred, spontaneous musical journey variously inspired by the do-it-yourself ethos of musical counterculture, shared inspirations and influences, epic jam sessions, distant stars (Wega, sometimes known as Fidis or ‘the harp star’, is one of the brightest in the night sky), imaginary journeys across dusty deserts, and the comradeship of four new friends.
Enchanting and alluring, it’s an album that gleefully denies lazy categorization and ploughs its own eclectic, atmospheric musical furrow in vivid sonic detail. It’s a collective exploration of heady musical eclecticism unified by saucer-eyed vocals, low-slung bass, loose-limbed beats, sweaty percussion workouts and hazy electric piano motifs.
"Haunted" begins with the woozy and hallucinatory slow-burn soundscape of "Get Things Done" - an effects laden shuffle akin to lying flat on your back tripping under an intense desert sun - and ends with the creepy, mind-mangling post-punk funk of "Brain Carpaccio"; in between, you’ll find spaced-out, low-tempo lo-fi soul ("Move Around", "Haunted"), deep and off-kilter opioid jazz ("Copenhagen"), intoxicating psychedelia ("Last Night on Earth"), piano-laden dream-pop epics ("Shake Or Fall"), and Latin-infused, percussion-powered hedonism ("Chopping Heads").
Born out of spontaneous collaboration and immersive, almost endless recording sessions, "Haunted" is an album shot through with imagination and boundless energy, captured for posterity by four friends and collaborators at the top of their game.
TRACK LISTING
Get Things Done
Copenhagen
Last Night On Earth
Shake Or Fall
Haunted
Chopping Heads
Fool Around
Brain Carpaccio
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- 2xLtd LP
- £28.99
- Cat Number
- ABPLP008
- Release date
- 25 Aug '23
This compilation meticulously curates handpicked tracks from Megalon's 1993 collection, featuring music from their EPs released on the legendary Plink Plonk label during that year. By delving into these archival tracks, the compilation effortlessly showcases Megalon's signature blend of modern, forward-thinking, and impeccably sleek techno hybrids. Prepare yourself for a diverse range of musical moods that provide a comprehensive 360° sonic experience of Megalon's esteemed catalog, ranging from deep techno meditations to high-octane dancefloor anthems.
Every track included in this compilation has been meticulously sourced from Megalon's original DAT tape archive and expertly remastered by the highly skilled Curvepusher. Furthermore, the artwork and design have been thoughtfully crafted under the watchful eye of Rogan Jeans, the original Plink Plonk Records and Megalon designer, ensuring a visually captivating experience that complements the music perfectly.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Belief
A2. Darkness (Shaded In)
B. Sorcerer (Funky Magus Mix)
C1. Semblance (Dim A)
C2. Incantation
D1. Semblance (Dim B)
D2. Transition
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- GWDHW0004LPX
- Release date
- 13 Aug '21
- Format Info
Transparent magenta vinyl
Transparent magenta vinyl -
- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- GWDHW0004CD
- Release date
- 13 Aug '21
Produced by Charlie Francis (R.E.M., The High Llamas) at his Loft Studio in Cardiff, ‘In Tune’ Meilir’s eagerly anticipated debut album has been a long time coming but promises a thrilling and exciting musical journey for the listener. The record rewards repeated listening, to really get under the skin of these thought-provoking compositions.
'this album is a sublime masterpiece' - Circuit Sweet
'exquisitely detailed emotional fragility and sonic magnificence' - From The Margins
‘Meilir creates simply gorgeous electronic soundscapes’ – Get Into This
STAFF COMMENTS
Javi says: Shades of Phil France, Radiohead, and idiosyncratic post-rock dance across Meilir's debut album. 'In Tune' manages to be both whimsical and heartwrenching, which makes it all the more prydferth, if you ask me...-
- LP
- £20.99
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- CAK163LP
- Release date
- 26 May '23
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- CD
- £10.99
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- CAK163CD
- Release date
- 19 May '23
Drawing on the music era of her teenage years growing up in Jakarta – Javanese radio Dangdut, gamelan cassettes, Moving Shadow-era liquid jungle, Japanese chill-out, etc. – as well as her current work in progressive percussion trio Asa Tone, Malay’s solo debut is boldly borderless, bridging worlds and wavelengths into a richly imagined hybrid synthetic utopia.
hipernatural is momentous linguistically, too, as Malay’s first foray into singing in Indonesian, the language of her youth. She characterizes her lyrical mode as “abstract, and a bit broken,” an intuitive collage of diaristic emotion and oblique poetry (“plant me in fleeting twilight / missing home, where is home? / I am another you”). Her voice serves as its own versatile instrument, alternately intimate and alien, sensual and sacred, shaded with the haze of hidden heavens.
Co-produced with long-time collaborator Kaazi (100% Silk, Asa Tone), the album’s 12 tracks are cohesive but eclectic, threading through temple bass music, cyber siren techno, Stereolab drum n bass, new age downtempo, and dial-up rave reveries, flecked with tactile fragments of offworld dialogue, computer hum, bubbling water, and beyond.
Malay’s technique of sampling and processing her voice into an electronic palette which she then performs on generative instruments gives the songs a bewitching artificial intelligence elegance, exquisite but uncanny. Hers is a hybridity both organic and hypermodern, deeply personal yet globally sourced – YouTube rips, nature tapes, cheap sample packs, club bootlegs. hipernatural champions a dynamic new language at the axis of then and now, of east and west.
TRACK LISTING
1. Tepi Memori
2. Bahasa Baru
3. E.m.z.
4. Spesimen Sempurna
5. Intuisi
6. Kupu Kupu Elektronik
7. Di Atas
8. Itu Cukup!
9. Anda Katakan
10. Kita Vs Mereka
11. Wanita
12. Energi
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- 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- NOEARS001
- Release date
- 13 Oct '23
So what do we have here? Rob revives his No Ears moniker for a duo of perfectly crafted dancefloor delights. Pieced together with diligence and more than a little trademark Mello funk, this is up there with his best work.
House hero, master craftsman and absolute gentleman. Get on it!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Rob Mello returns (coincidently the same week we get a new album from X-Press 2)! Reminding us why he is clearly one of the UK greats, two incendiary and highly grooving tracks that I challenge your gran not shake her hips to! I'm especially liking "Electric Dreams" which starts off a bit like "I Feel Love" but quickly transforms into a concentric carnival house frenzy!TRACK LISTING
A. Electric Dreams (NoEars DUB)
B. Ohh La La (NoEars DUB)
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- LP
- £20.99
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- ERATP116LP
- Release date
- 21 Dec '18
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- CD
- £12.99
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- ERATP116CD
- Release date
- 7 Dec '18
The album release coincides with Melnyk’s 70th birthday, but despite the autumnal hint in its title, there’s little suggestion of him slowing down. Having received critical acclaim and coheadlining the prestigious Royal Festival Hall as part of the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary celebrations, after many years his audience is now both global and growing. The composer is finally gaining a momentum in his career that matches the vibrant, highly active energy of his playing.
Cascades of notes, canyons and rivers of sound: there’s something about his music that channels the natural world at its most awe-inspiring. In ‘Fallen Trees’ the connection with the environment continues, taking its cue from a long rail journey Melnyk made through Europe. Glancing out of the window as the train passed through a dark forest, he was struck by the sight of trees that had recently been felled. “They were glorious,” he says. “Even though they’d been killed, they weren’t dead. There was something sorrowful there, but also hopeful.” That sense of sadness touched by optimism infuses the album, too: rarely has Melnyk made music so shot through with melancholy and regret, but which sounds so rapt, even radiant.
Drawing comparisons with Steve Reich and the post-rock group Godspeed You, Black Emperor!, Pitchfork praised his 2015 album ‘Rivers And Streams’ for it’s “sustained concentration and ecstatic energy”. That energy is present in ‘Fallen Trees’ too, but at points the tone is quieter, the mood darker and more wistful. At points elsewhere on the album, despite being rooted in the wonders of the natural world, there’s a kaleidoscopic quality in the fractal flurry of notes and the broad spectrum of colour they summon.
Critics have detected the influence of Ravi Shankar and other Indian styles in Melnyk’s music, along with the insistent, repetitive textures of minimalist pioneers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Melnyk himself cites his debt to the American composer Terry Riley, particularly the legendary 1964 work ‘In C’, which he says “opened the world for me”. But he adds that if you listen carefully, you’ll also be able to hear the lilting contours of traditional Ukrainian folk music.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: For those of you that thought modern classical music was all plaintive, slowed-down montage soundtracking (Dave?), Melnyk is here to provide a frenetic but strangely relaxing onslaught of shimmering keys and endlessly expressive pianissising about.TRACK LISTING
1. Requiem For A Fallen Tree
2. Son Of Parasol
3. Barcarolle
4. Fallen Trees - Part I: Preamble
5. Fallen Trees - Part II: Existence
6. Fallen Trees - Part III: Apparition
7. Fallen Trees - Part IV: The Are Down
8. Fallen Trees - Part V: Not Forgotten
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- CD
- £7.99
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- ERATP064CD
- Release date
- 15 Dec '14
In 2012 Lubomyr's ears began to notice the remarkable tonal depth of upright pianos. To Lubomyr the upright piano sound is like a natural forest of microcosmic colours. 'Evertina' and 'Awaiting' were created on a middle-aged upright piano at a friend's home in New York in October 2012 – just before Hurricane Sandy hit the city. Some children were listening to Lubomyr as he played in a hotel lobby in Cologne and 'Butterfly' is the piece that he made for them. It was recorded on a battered grand piano somewhere in Switzerland in late 2013, with the lid closed down to soften the effect.
"The piano for me has so many different faces, so many personalities and wonders, it is like life itself, ever-changing yet always holding to a permanence of beauty. Like butterflies that never fly in a straight line but always carry their loveliness with them in their multi-angled paths. I want people to hear these pieces, that are always hidden from the world. I keep them locked away in a quiet place, far from the concert hall. Why do I do that? I guess it is because they are so easy to play, so effortless, I can do them while sleeping. Whereas my more demanding abilities on the piano come out in the forceful nature of continuous playing. There, the new ground is being broken and a new door is being opened for the world. But that does not mean that I am bound by nature or by god to do only continuous music. My heart moves into these pieces just as it moves into the continuous modalities. So here, for the very first time, I am bringing three of these little miniatures to the public view. May everyone enjoy them for their gentle simplicity and quietude.
These three pieces fit so nicely together in spirit, they present a tableau, a tiny triptych that can reach the world without waiting for a major work, they stand beautifully on their own, and do not need an album to surround them with comfort and padding. No, they are what they are, and a short musical interlude as this record gives, is just perfect for their nature." – Lubomyr Melnyk
Lubomyr Melnyk is a true innovator, exploring new directions for contemporary music. Classically trained and greatly affected by the minimalist movement in the early 1970s, the Ukrainian pianist developed his own unique language for the piano, named after the principle of maintaining a continuous, unbroken stream of sound. Melnyk has shown a remarkable devotion to the instrument, always striving to discover new ways of composing music in the continuous mode. His focus is on the actual sound of the piano as much as the harmonies and melodies of the music. Playing rapid and complex note patterns made Lubomyr one of the world’s fastest concert pianists. His virtuoso piano technique forms overtones that blend, collide or even create new melodies in rare moments, and thereby shape the composition beyond its original form. To accomplish this requires a special technique, one that has taken Melnyk many years to master. To witness one of his rare live performances is nothing short of a mind-opening experience.
TRACK LISTING
01. Evertina
02. Awaiting
03. Butterfly (for Solo Piano)
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- CD
- £12.99
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- ERATP077CD
- Release date
- 27 Nov '15
Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk has often felt that his unique Continuous Music playing is akin to water – flowing and ever connected. As he further developed his technique, and the more the notes flowed, the closer to water he felt. “I found my hands and arms and everything inside them changing from normal muscle and flesh to well... water.”
With his latest album, ‘Rivers and Streams’, Lubomyr focuses deeply on this connection to water, to the point where the music itself begins to embody its liquid form. Produced by Robert Raths and Jamie Perera, the album flows seamlessly from the live recordings of ‘The Pool of Memories’, captured in a church, to pieces entirely born in the studio, such as ‘Sunshimmers’ and ‘Ripples in a Water Scene’, which feature Perera on acoustic and electric guitar.
Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in ‘The Amazon’, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.
Following on from 2013’s ‘Corollaries’ album and last year’s ‘Evertina’ EP, Lubomyr’s latest offering compounds upon his existing fluid signature style, and breathes an organic vitality, both nuanced and thoughtful.
"In the body of the Continuous Piano Master, the fingers and the hands turn into Water, Air and Stone. These are the three manifestations of the Continuous Technique. And for the Continuous Pianist, the fingers physically transform the music into one of these three elements.
The greatest of all miracles in the universe is Water. It is also, I believe, the rarest of all physical things in the universe. Water is the most magical and the most mysterious of all things we know! And so I dedicate this album to the Rivers and Streams of this world – in gratitude for their Beauty!“ – Lubomyr Melnyk.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Another beautiful release from Lubomyr Melnyk, creator and practician of what he calls 'Continuous Music'. A technique in which constant notes are played throughout the pieces, creating a driven and dynamic style. Despite being continously playing, Melnyk manages to imbue these pieces with a certain delicacy when needed, reminiscent of Labelmate Nils Frahm, these tracks are beautifully nuanced and outstandingly performed. Gorgeous meditative modern-classical.TRACK LISTING
1. Parasol
2. The Pool Of Memories
3. Sunshimmers
4. Ripples In A Water Scene
5. The Amazon: The Highlands
6. The Amazon: The Lowlands
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- Ltd 12"
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- MO022
- Release date
- 12 Apr '24
4 The Ones Who Know!!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: The saga continues! Jamal Moss' Members Only series, to some, is one of the most important collection of 'edits' to have ever been committed to wax. Their balls-out reckless invention, leftfield source material and experimental frequency abuse appealing to the more adventurous and uncompromising DJ.TRACK LISTING
A1. Release Of Lust
A2. 5 Fingers On A Hand
B1. Pray That U Find Luv
B2. Where My Hot Sht At
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- 2xLP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- CON917LP
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
Both halves of this dynamic double album were originally conceived as individual film soundtracks but once the multi-instrumental duo of Verity Susan & Matthew Simms brought ‘Music For Film’ into a live space, the desire to shape it into a cohesive whole was more than they could resist. The resulting, intoxicating, musical odyssey can be viewed independently from the associated films and stands proudly as an ambitious artistic statement.
“The music we like and admire ranges from challenging to really tuneful, and we try to bring all that together in a way that sounds natural.” - MEMORIALS
TRACK LISTING
1. Tramps! 03:03
2. Feel Of Time 04:01
3. Housewives 00:59
4. Blue Feather Boa 05:02
5. A Job For Derek 01:55
6. What A Life 02:14
7. Kind Of Beyond 05:02
8. Sportswear Couture 04:12
9. Typhoon 04:12
10. Peacock Punk 02:16
11. We Live Here 04:35
12. Boudicaaa 02:05
Men From The Nile (Roy Davis Jr. & Jay Juniel)
Watch Them Come - Inc. Green Velvet / Soul Clap / Matt N Ricky Remixes
Undaground Therapy Muzik
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- Ltd 12"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- UTM2-004
- Release date
- 7 Apr '23
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Tribal house zenith from '99 which Theo Parrish and many others got many dancing miles out of. Nothing epitomizes that red-lit, bassment buggin' house sound more than this. A true classic of the genre.TRACK LISTING
Watch Them Come - Original Mix
Watch Them Come - Green Velvet Rmx
Watch Them Come - Soul Clap Rmx
Watch Them Come - Matt N Ricky Rmx
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- LP
- £16.99
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- MOSHILP67
- Release date
- 4 Mar '16
Aside from sharing bills with Anna Calvi, James Blake and These New Puritans, Meredith’s dizzying CV includes being Composer In Residence for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, writing a piece for MRI scanner, soundtracking Prada’s Spring / Summer 2015 campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore.
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- CD
- £12.99
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- 4847520
- Release date
- 14 Apr '23
TRACK LISTING
Tuggemo
A Short Tribute To Teenage Fanclub
Honeyed Words
Solstice In
Solstice Out
Chorale
Shill
Haze
Blackfriars
Nautilus
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- Coloured LP
- £18.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- MOSHILP116
- Release date
- 10 Dec '21
- Format Info
Pumpkin coloured vinyl featuring a lucky dip of 4 different sleeve designs.
Pumpkin coloured vinyl... [ + ]
For Bumps Per Minute, Meredith has collaborated with BAFTA-winning sound artist Nick Ryan to design a bespoke tracking technology so that every thump, bump and swerve of the 18 dodgems around the track can trigger a separate composition. This results in a kind of ultimate shuffle where high octane music and ideas compete for airtime and each performance is unique. The installation will occur approximately every hour at DODGE through the day/evening.
The idea for Bumps Per Minute came about when the composer was thinking about what might be a more pandemic friendly replacement for the ice rink at Somerset House where she has her studio. The idea grew from there and now this summer DODGE is taking over the main courtyard at Somerset House, featuring a full smorgasbord of Yinka Ilori designs, DJs, food, drink and of course, dodgem rides.
Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems features full-length individual musical identities of all 18 dodgems – each one a bold and distinct musical track in its own right as well an intro and outro track (voiced by comedian Rob Broderick).
The key to both the dodgems themselves and the release is a user ‘driven’ triggering and shuffling of the material. Meredith encourages the listener to ‘take the driving seat’ and jump from one track to another, mirroring the real dodgem ride, shuffling and curating their own listening experience via the virtual interactive dodgems page or their preferred listening platform.
Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems explodes out of the starting gate with Meredith’s uncategorisable sound and signature energy, combining fairground wildness with a healthy dose of the nostalgic electronics of old school gaming.
On the composition, Meredith says “I approached writing these 18 tracks like little exercises, making identities that are bold, playful and characterful but without beats, percussion or any acoustic elements and relying on my skills to create melodic and harmonic based energy”. She continues “they’re also less about musical development than my orchestral work or material in my studio albums, these tracks are only themselves and unapologetically so, and that freed me up to unleash some pretty bonkers ideas, knowing it’s about these bold switches - like a sort of musical Whacky Races…"
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: I'm not going to pretend that this isn't an unhinged selection of neon synth stabs and video-game soundtrack influenced fairground music, because that's absolutely what it is but I would also be amiss if I didn't say it's also wildly inventive, heavy af and undeniably brilliant. What madness.TRACK LISTING
A1 START ENGINES
A2 BPM 100
A3 BPM 144
A4 BPM 108
A5 BPM 178
A6 BPM 62
A7 BPM 124
A8 BPM 112
A9 BPM 130
B1 BPM 200
B2 BPM 72
B3 BPM 104
B4 BPM 131
B5 BPM 110
B6 BPM 109
B7 BPM 101
B8 BPM 194
B9 BPM 155
B10 BPM 107
B11 STOP ENGINES
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- IMPREC097CD
- Release date
- 3 Jul '06
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- Ltd 10"
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- FOX040
- Release date
- 27 May '22
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: The Metamorph returns for some more of his wonderful, classic synth inspired sound. From the twinkling keys of 'The Visible World' or the widescreen majesty of closer 'Slumber Submerged', this is a confident and beautiful release on a wonderful new label. For fans of Vangelis, Eno or Tangerine Dream, Gavin is a talented composer and a lovely chap to boot. Superb stuff.TRACK LISTING
1. Opening Titles 03:06
2. The Visible World 04:23
3. Reverie 04:01
4. Slumber Submerged 08:39
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- 3xLtd LP
- £30.99
- Cat Number
- ENVLP00215
- Release date
- 27 Oct '17
In the late nineties, the budding producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani bonded over their shared love of slower tempos and '70s and '80s NYC club culture. Obsessed with record digging and the sounds they heard on late-night club classics radio shows - and turned off by current releases they saw as artlessly updating sublime disco by sampling, filtering and subjugating them with huge kick drums - the duo set out to discover how their favorite old 12" records were made. They naturally gravitated towards extended dubs of songs - full of strange mistakes and echoing backing tracks - instead of the better-known vocal versions. Lacking the big budgets and gear that made so many of their favorite classic records come together, they were forced to take a guerrilla approach. They reprogrammed their techno-oriented arsenal of secondhand synths and samplers, using novel digital recording technology to capture live instrumentation and prioritizing mood over hooks, and the resulting music was just wrong enough to sound unlike anything else being released at the time.
After four essential 12" releases, the duo released their first and only album, "Metro Area", in the autumn of 2002. twenty years later, it's time to celebrate the culmination of their shared history and inspiration once again.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Though it may be 21 years old (scary right!), the music on Metro Area's remarkable debut is just a vital as ever. Refined drum programming, spacious arrangements, neat hooks and nocturnal moods, all brought together into the warmest, grooviest house music you could ever hope for. It always reminded me of Brooklyn on a warm, sweaty late afternoon, even though I've never been there! :PTRACK LISTING
A1. Dance Reaction
A2. Piña
B1. Caught Up
B2. Evidence
C1. Miura
C2. Soft Hoop
D1. Orange Alert
D2. Square-Pattern Aura
E1. Atmosphrique
E2. Machine Vibes
F1. Strut
F2. Let's Get...
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- Ltd 12"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- BEC5161823 (RSD14)
- Release date
- 28 Apr '14
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- 12"
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- ZEN12669
- Release date
- 22 Mar '24
To celebrate the new relationship, their first offering from the label, “Nice Town”, will be released on a special limited edition vinyl - featuring the eclectic rapper, jazz musician and MD for Iggy Pop Pan Amsterdam, and including special remixes by Metronomy and Alain Ogue.
It's not what I was expecting at all - an alluring, coastal shanti with breezy, optimistic vibes; that trumpet motif alone should be enough to keep you beaming for the entire day. And it's bossa nova drum palette (featured on the Metronomy remix) is a bright and funky direction towards movement. The electro beats and rap from Pan Amsterdam is laid back and charismatic - yes - everythings perfectly in place for an evergreen anthem that I reckon has enough legs to see it through to the end of the year lists. Perfect pop!
Flip side sees a more housey remix by Alain Ogue who swamps the trumpet motif in echo, gets busy on the filters, affects the vocal with a kinda AM radio distortion and generally makes the track available for your clued up London indie-dance crowd. Top stuff!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Two truly infectious takes on one scrumptious trumpet theme. Guitar guitar licks, seaside organ, clever vocal. This has got has got HIT written all over it without being over in a flash.TRACK LISTING
A1. Nice Town (Original)
A2. Nice Town (Metronomy Remix)
B1. Nice Town (Alain Ogue Remix)
Written and produced by Martin Gore, work began on ‘MG’ following the final dates of Depeche Mode’s ‘Delta Machine’ tour in March 2013 at Gore’s home studio in Santa Barbara. An entire instrumental album had been in his thoughts for some time, particularly since he has been writing instrumentals for Depeche Mode since 1981.
“I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic and give it an almost sci-fi like quality,” Martin explains. “Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least 5 days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.”
‘MG’ is a soundtrack to an emotional and mysterious film of your own design. From the Angelo Badalmenti - like atmosphere of ‘Elk’ to the industrial electro swagger of ‘Brink’, it landscapes a unique and arresting vision.
TRACK LISTING
Pinking
Swanning
Exalt
Elk
Brink
Europa Hymn
Creeper
Spiral
Stealth
Hum
Islet
Crowly
Trysting
Southerly
Featherlight
Blade
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- 2xColoured LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- LM091LPC
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
- Format Info
White vinyl edition.
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- 2xLP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- LM091LP
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
- Format Info
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- LM091CD
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
TRACK LISTING
1. My Sweat Dries With The Heat
2. You Can’t Win But You Can Lose
3. If Wishes Were Fishes We’d All Cast Nets
4. Fangs
5. This Is Killing Your Gainz
6. To The God Named Dream
7. The Death Of FOMO
8. Hexagon Of Death
9. It’s Recess Everywhere
10. When The Centre Doesn’t Move You’re In It’s Path
11. Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye
12. Fangs (Avalon Emerson’s Re-Chip Remix)
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- Ltd LP
- £18.99
- Cat Number
- OMLP15
- Release date
- 9 Nov '18
'When I moved to London in 2015, many things changed at once - I started going to more techno and electro nights, I changed my live-set setup, and I had access to a fully-equipped recording studio through my music masters programme. At the same time I was reading a lot of books on time travel, not just science fiction but also psychology and neuroscience - like how the human brain perceives time from moment to moment, how we can experience overlapping time, and how we interact with our past and future through memory and imagination. “The Sampler As A Time Machine” is the result of all these new influences coming together. The tracks were developed out of ongoing studio experiments interpreting these different ideas of time travel by using samplers and tape to re-sample and manipulate original music performed by me on various instruments including my voice.'
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: I'm sure Optimo Music devotees don't need convincing here. But anyone wondering what the label's about could do much worse than bagging this LP and the forthcoming compilation from the camp. Essential stuff for lovers of leftfield, DIY electronics.TRACK LISTING
Side 1
1. Human Being (3:45)
2. Overwrite The Past (3:39)
3. It's All Connected (2:36)
4. Time Can Break In (4:07)
Side 2
1. We Are The Beat (4:38)
2. Marconi's Eternal Tone Cloud (3:09)
3. Made Of Glass (1:46)
4. Which Memories Will Make It (7:11)
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- Ltd LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- ALT64
- Release date
- 16 Apr '21
Tucker’s ever-evolving soundworld continues to unfold with this collection of harsh realms centred around processed electronic systems, strings and vocal manipulations. On the album, Microcorps employs altered voices, sound synthesis and atomised beat constructions. In a move away from previous projects "XMIT" investigates erasing the self, removing obvious traits of the hand and voice, and allowing a focus on the humanoid rather than the human. Instead of recognisable lyrics and coherent imagery, "Microcorps" evolved synthesised voices to generate alternate characters.
He expands, 'I was investigating how language brings our world into being and how manipulating the actual grain of the voice could open up momentary shifts in perception.'
Each track is born from a balance between composition and improvisation within set parameters. At each stage audio is heavily processed and then reconfigured. Setting up systems that are non-repeatable, where decisions can be premeditated and intuitive but never the same with each performance, using hardware and instruments outside of the computer to make live stereo takes that have limited room for editing and mixing.
'I’d been looking into combining dream music with machine rhythms, but there are so many great examples out there of both music forms, so I started to cut up the drones and really filter the drum patterns to create a hybrid space.'
The album artwork features manipulated ink drawings by Tucker that originally featured in his recent comic. "XMIT" refers to a time in which information both physical and nonphysical transfers at an alarming rate beyond human comprehension into an age which is at once banal and terrifyingly alien.
TRACK LISTING
1. JFET
2. DOR
3. XEM W/ Gazelle Twin
4. OCT W/ Simon Fisher Turner
5. UVU
6. ILN W/ Nik Void
7. ABII W/ Astrud Steehouder
8. VEQ
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 6716832
- Release date
- 16 Mar '18
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- 2xCD
- £12.49
- Cat Number
- ZIQ369CD
- Release date
- 2 Sep '16
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: What can we expect from two stone-cold stalwarts of the electronic music scene? Excellence, that's what. Analogue funk to the high heavens, acidic breaks and groovy sample mayhem. There really is something for everyone here, and it couldn't be any more of a perfect match between Paradinas' footwork/jazz/twee stylings and Mr. Twin's gritty machine worship. There are some proper tunes on here, and a lot of them. A historic catalogue, and a collaboration made to delight.TRACK LISTING
3LP
A:
01/Mr. Frosty
02/Reg
B: 01/Jelly Fish
02/Eggy Toast
03/Vodka
C:
01/Winner Takes All
02/Giant Deflating Football
03/Upright Kangaroo
D:
01/The Sound Of The Beady Eyes
02/Bu Bu Bu Ba
E:
01/Vodka (Mix 2)
02/Portamento Gosh
03/Waltz
F:
01/Brivert & Muonds
02/Clissold Bathroom
03/Jelly Fish (Mix 2)
04/Organ Plodder
2XCD DISC 1:
01/ Mr. Frosty
02/ Reg
03/ Jelly Fish
04/ Eggy Toast
05/ Vodka
06/ Winner Takes All
07/ Upright Kangaroo
08/ Giant Deflating Football
09/ The Sound Of The Beady Eyes
10/ Bu Bu Bu Ba
DISC 2:
01/ Vodka (Mix 2)
02/ Portamento Gosh
03/ Waltz
04/ Brivert & Muonds
05/ Clissold Bathroom
06/ Jelly Fish (Mix 2)
07/ Organ Plodder
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- 2xLtd LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 19658820491
- Release date
- 14 Oct '23
- Format Info
2LP on black vinyl.
2LP on black vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Children
2. Fable
3. Fantasya
Side B
1. Landscape
2. In My Dreams
Side C
1. Princess Of Light
2. Fable (Dream Version)
3. In The Dawn
Side D
1. One & One (Club Version) Feat. Maria Nayler
2. Children (Original Version)
3. Red Zone
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- LP
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- FKR105LP
- Release date
- 2 Oct '20
‘The Carrier Frequency’ (1984) was a legendary stage work that emerged from the collaboration between the influential performance company Impact Theatre Co-operative and cult novelist Russel Hoban. The incantation of Hoban’s text voiced in the broken verbiage of a post-apocalyptic broken language and the entranced physicality of Impact’s ritualistic performance in a pool of cold dark water printed deeply on those who witnessed it. It reached an impassioned crescendo on the rising score by Graeme Miller and Steve Shill who also performed in the work. The music exploited samples from Hoban’s own recordings of the shortwave radio broadcasts which he tuned in as he wrote, helping him order the green phosphorescent letters on the screen of his Apple computer. Shill and Miller mirrored Hoban’s channelling in their approach to making the score, following the notion that this was the broadcast of some Central Eurasian radio station doomed forever to circulate fragments of static interlaced with desultory public information broadcasts and ‘The Record’, its only surviving fragment of a lost culture.
The score was forged on an 8-track tape recorder sandwiching harmonium and accordion with the output of a digital delay machine that could trap and fragments of audio to be triggered and manually pitched. It is a knowingly crude montage where samples denote fragmentation itself and their reassembly, like Frankenstein’s monster, shows the stitches that join the stolen body parts.
Available for the first-time ever on deluxe vinyl with the full cooperation of the composers and Impact Theatre Co-Operative lynchpins Graeme Miller and Steve Shill.
TRACK LISTING
A Long Paleness
Reggie Windmill
Landschaft
And Now The Record
Longdream
Beat Frequency Oscillator
Without Impatience
A False Altar
The Girl From Tirana
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- LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- FIX010V
- Release date
- 24 Nov '23
A Grisaille Wedding is an immersive experience that fills the space these artists have come to dwell in during their creative journeys. It not only pushes the boundaries of music but also bridges regional dialects within the conversation of contemporary electronic music.
Rainy Miller: “A Grisaille Wedding is a project based in the personification of the semi-fictitious world that Space Afrika have come to build over the years. Using musique concrete and British soundscapes, I wanted to fuse the sonic with both noise and the contemporary.”
Space Afrika: “The record’s title figuratively describes the marriage of two similarly motivated perspectives, each affected by a common backdrop and familiar ground tread amongst the scrimmage of urban sprawl, sombre, a boisterous landscape and clouds of uncertainty.”
TRACK LISTING
1. Summon The Spirit / Demon
2. Maybe It's Time To Lay Down The Arms
3. 00-Down / Murmansk, 12
4. Sweet (I'm Free)
5. Shelter
6. HDIF
7. The Graves At Charleroi
8. 1-2-1
9. Let It Die
10. I Believe In God, When Things Are Going My Way
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- 2xCD
- £24.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- AXCD051
- Release date
- 7 Apr '17
- Format Info
2xCD / 32 page colour booklet.
2xCD / 32 page colour... [ + ] -
- 2xLtd CD/DVD
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- AXCD050
- Release date
- 7 Apr '17
- Format Info
1x Blu-Ray Music Disc / 1xCD / Poster liner info (approx. 15 x 20 inch) in a CD size slip case (with sticker mentioning 5.1 surround Blu-Ray).
1x Blu-Ray Music Disc /... [ + ]
It has been 100 years since the British composer Gustav Holst introduced his most famous score «The Planets». An elegant musical tour to each one of our Planets in the Solar System, Holst brought forth imaginary visions of space that would survive many generations and decades after. As an important piece to the classical universe, “The Planets“ is regularly played throughout the World every year as it had been the most vivid translation of our cosmic neighborhood until now.
Jeff Mills pays tribute to this century of incredible musical production. He embarks to compose a sonic journey to re-discover our neighboring planets in a 18 piece suite that explores the nine planets, including the portions of space in between the Planets, the nine regions Mills calls Loop Transits.
Deeply inhabited by science-fiction, Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories and esthetics from the outset. For him, Space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present. Mills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept and model for creativity. From the beginning, his first releases explore futuristic and science fiction topics and continue to do so to this day. For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative drive which explains the artist’s ceaseless activity.
Since its creation and like the intention of Holst, each track is musically imagined to invoke the psychological affect, emotions and ideas of each planet. But unlike in the year 1918, when the score was first publicly heard on the last week of World War I, 100 years later, we now have a more accurate knowledge about what each Planet is made of and what they look like. The piece should bring the audience closer to confronting each planet in ways that audiences in 1918 could only dream of.
With the French composer Sylvain Griotto, the arranger of Planets and Mills’ previous work on the album and classical score about the NASA astronaut and doctor Mamoru Morhi’s space journey in 1992 and 2000 from the album “Where Light Ends“, Mills has created an electronic music album that have been translated for symphonic and philharmonic orchestras and will accompany them in their live debut and all performances. Starting to conceptualize and produce music for it dating back to 2005, Mills constantly worked on the project over the years to bring it to fruition.
In July 2016 Jeff Mills has completed the last production stages of the Planets album at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Recorded and will be released in 5.1 surround on the Blue Ray digital format, the soundtrack needed a particular high level of expertise that could only be attended to at hands of the renowned senior studio engineer Jonathan Allen. The expertise and quality associated with the legendary Abbey Road Studios is recognized globally and undeniably the most famous studio in the World. It is with acclaim from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, or more recently Radiohead before him, that Jeff Mills will bring Planets at this legendary music institution.
The mastering sessions occurred on August 2016 with the acclaimed Mastering engineer Darcy Proper in Holland.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Legendary hardware pioneer and Detroit legend mills concepts the hell out of the planets on this suite of planet-themed symphonic works. Perfectly balanced ambience, mixed with soaring orchestration and pure analogue thumps. Listen to the master at work.TRACK LISTING
Blu-Ray Tracklisting:
PLANETS Classical Version (HD 5.1 Surround Sound / Stereo Sound)
1. Introduction 2. Mercury 3. Loop Transit 1 4. Venus 5. Loop Transit 2 6. Earth 7. Loop Transit 3 8. Mars 9. Loop Transit 4 10. Jupiter 11. Loop Transit 5 12. Saturn 13. Loop Transit 6 14. Uranus 15. Loop Transit 7 16. Neptune 17. Loop Transit 8 18. Pluto
CD: Original Sketch (electronic Version)(stereo) 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto
2 CD Set:
CD1: PLANETS Classical Version (stereo) 1. Introduction 2. Mercury 3. Loop Transit 1 4. Venus 5. Loop Transit 2 6. Earth 7. Loop Transit 3 8. Mars 9. Loop Transit 4 10. Jupiter 11. Loop Transit 5 12. Saturn 13. Loop Transit 6 14. Uranus 15. Loop Transit 7 16. Neptune 17. Loop Transit 8 18. Pluto
CD2: Original Sketch (electronic Version)(stereo) 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto
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- 2xCD
- £24.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- AXCD051
- Release date
- 7 Apr '17
- Format Info
2xCD / 32 page colour booklet.
2xCD / 32 page colour... [ + ] -
- 2xLtd CD/DVD
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- AXCD050
- Release date
- 7 Apr '17
- Format Info
1x Blu-Ray Music Disc / 1xCD / Poster liner info (approx. 15 x 20 inch) in a CD size slip case (with sticker mentioning 5.1 surround Blu-Ray).
1x Blu-Ray Music Disc /... [ + ]
It has been 100 years since the British composer Gustav Holst introduced his most famous score «The Planets». An elegant musical tour to each one of our Planets in the Solar System, Holst brought forth imaginary visions of space that would survive many generations and decades after. As an important piece to the classical universe, “The Planets“ is regularly played throughout the World every year as it had been the most vivid translation of our cosmic neighborhood until now.
Jeff Mills pays tribute to this century of incredible musical production. He embarks to compose a sonic journey to re-discover our neighboring planets in a 18 piece suite that explores the nine planets, including the portions of space in between the Planets, the nine regions Mills calls Loop Transits.
Deeply inhabited by science-fiction, Jeff Mills adopts its ideas, concepts, stories and esthetics from the outset. For him, Space is an obsession and his music almost becomes a musical science-fiction. Conquering space, his music embodies the future while both respecting the past and remaining well into the present. Mills takes the rotating principle of the solar system as aesthetics, concept and model for creativity. From the beginning, his first releases explore futuristic and science fiction topics and continue to do so to this day. For Jeff Mills, the future is a powerful creative drive which explains the artist’s ceaseless activity.
Since its creation and like the intention of Holst, each track is musically imagined to invoke the psychological affect, emotions and ideas of each planet. But unlike in the year 1918, when the score was first publicly heard on the last week of World War I, 100 years later, we now have a more accurate knowledge about what each Planet is made of and what they look like. The piece should bring the audience closer to confronting each planet in ways that audiences in 1918 could only dream of.
With the French composer Sylvain Griotto, the arranger of Planets and Mills’ previous work on the album and classical score about the NASA astronaut and doctor Mamoru Morhi’s space journey in 1992 and 2000 from the album “Where Light Ends“, Mills has created an electronic music album that have been translated for symphonic and philharmonic orchestras and will accompany them in their live debut and all performances. Starting to conceptualize and produce music for it dating back to 2005, Mills constantly worked on the project over the years to bring it to fruition.
In July 2016 Jeff Mills has completed the last production stages of the Planets album at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Recorded and will be released in 5.1 surround on the Blue Ray digital format, the soundtrack needed a particular high level of expertise that could only be attended to at hands of the renowned senior studio engineer Jonathan Allen. The expertise and quality associated with the legendary Abbey Road Studios is recognized globally and undeniably the most famous studio in the World. It is with acclaim from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, or more recently Radiohead before him, that Jeff Mills will bring Planets at this legendary music institution.
The mastering sessions occurred on August 2016 with the acclaimed Mastering engineer Darcy Proper in Holland.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: Legendary hardware pioneer and Detroit legend mills concepts the hell out of the planets on this suite of planet-themed symphonic works. Perfectly balanced ambience, mixed with soaring orchestration and pure analogue thumps. Listen to the master at work.TRACK LISTING
Blu-Ray Tracklisting:
PLANETS Classical Version (HD 5.1 Surround Sound / Stereo Sound)
1. Introduction 2. Mercury 3. Loop Transit 1 4. Venus 5. Loop Transit 2 6. Earth 7. Loop Transit 3 8. Mars 9. Loop Transit 4 10. Jupiter 11. Loop Transit 5 12. Saturn 13. Loop Transit 6 14. Uranus 15. Loop Transit 7 16. Neptune 17. Loop Transit 8 18. Pluto
CD: Original Sketch (electronic Version)(stereo) 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto
2 CD Set:
CD1: PLANETS Classical Version (stereo) 1. Introduction 2. Mercury 3. Loop Transit 1 4. Venus 5. Loop Transit 2 6. Earth 7. Loop Transit 3 8. Mars 9. Loop Transit 4 10. Jupiter 11. Loop Transit 5 12. Saturn 13. Loop Transit 6 14. Uranus 15. Loop Transit 7 16. Neptune 17. Loop Transit 8 18. Pluto
CD2: Original Sketch (electronic Version)(stereo) 1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto
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- CD
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- AXCD053
- Release date
- 26 Jul '19
In his own words...
“There are influences of the Moon we can detect, measure and document as scientific facts. If these are perceived as rational explanations, then it should raise questions about the possibility of other unseen mental and metaphysical connections humans have, not just with the Moon but with all other celestial bodies in and outside this Solar System. On the flipside, as we recognize that our Sun gives us light and a lifespan, what does an even greater force in the Cosmos, perhaps the darkness [or absence of anything] affects us.
If we look at the Moon as a component in a vast configuration of integral connected parts, then an intuitive sense might lead us to a wider understanding about how deeply our relationship lies.
This album and the imagination that helped to produce it should be considered as a proposition with open-endedness and no foreseeable conclusion. It is a chemistry of facts and feelings based on then, now and forever”.
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl
A. Control, Sattva And Rama (7’03”)
B1. Stabilising The Spin (5’04”)
B2. The Tides (4’25”)
C1. Sleep-Wake Cycles (8’32”)
C2. Erratic Human Behavior (4’45”)
D1. Lunar Power (5’20”)
D2. Electromagnetic (5’35”)
CD
1. Control, Sattva And Rama
2. Stabilising The Spin
3. The Tides
4. Sleep-Wake Cycles
5. Erratic Human Behavior
6. Lunar Power
7. Electromagnetic
8. Decoding The Lunar Sunrise
9 Peaks Of Eternal Light
10. Measuring The Doppler Shift
11. Theia
12. 180-Degree Repositioning Phase
13. Absolute
(total Timing: 69 Min)
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- Ltd 12"
- £15.99
- Cat Number
- LT130
- Release date
- 9 Jun '23
To give the package an extra edge, deep house connoisseur Hugo LX and boogie-house maestro Art Of Tones are enlisted for remixes. The former strips things back to a more delicate groove; aquaplaning syths and pads all combining with the gently shaking perx to create a more sublime and serene version of the OG. The Art Of Tones remix is equally strong but goes for a more uplifting approach and puts the funk, boogie and soul front & center, with live sounding disco drums and a much more organic palette guiding proceedings. Top stuff as always from the Local Talk mob!
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Soulful, sun-flecked house music from the unstoppable Local Talk camp. Three different takes on this catchy track ranging from disco, voguey house and a skitty, deep house twist.TRACK LISTING
A. Love's Gonna Get You (Hugo LX Underwater Mix)
B1. Love's Gonna Get You (Art Of Tones Remix)
B2. Love's Gonna Get You (Main Mix)
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- Ltd 12"
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- REC140 (#RSD17)
- Release date
- 5 May '17
MIND GAMERS
Music from the heart.
Mind Gamers is not a super group but UNITY.
Mind Gamers cheer for beautiful women in Los Angeles, Sydney and Paris.
Mind Gamers are: Sebastien Tellier, Daniel Stricker, John Kirby.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Come To America
B1. Golden Boy
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- 2xLP
- £22.49
- Cat Number
- POB040LP
- Release date
- 6 Apr '18
- Format Info
140g virgin vinyl LP features heavy-duty gatefold- Includes MP3 Download Code.
140g virgin vinyl LP... [ + ]
Sonically, Bellowing Sun is both kaleidoscopic and telescopic in nature, offering a radiant palette of rhythmic, textural, and tonal complexity, as well as rapid shifts in scale, from the intimately corporeal to the dizzyingly cosmic. All four J’s—Jaime, Janet, Jim, and Jon—appeared together on Undying Color, but have since solidified into a formidable, cohesive unit, a true band capable of increasingly expansive arrangements. Though divided into twelve movements, or aspects—zodiacal sectors, perhaps—the piece functions as a heroic, integral whole. The album’s sequence reveals a dynamic push and pull between contemplative stasis and headlong momentum, imparting a palpably physical mass to the cataracts of sound. Bean sings on half of the tracks, including early stunner “Matchstick Grip” and the spectacular closer “Pause to Wonder.” Whether articulating words or intoning phonemes, her powerful, lucent voice elevates the proceedings to a devotional plane whenever it emerges from the saturated field of sound.
TRACK LISTING
A1. “Feeding On The Flats” 4:24
A2. “Matchstick Grip” 9:27
A3. “A Palinopsic Wind” 3:40
B1. “Zeitgebers” 7:38
B2. “Lanterns On The Beach” 3:06
B3. “Vermillion Pink” 9:21
C1. “Halfway To The Zenith” 4:51
C2. “Oculate Beings” 6:35
C3. “Talking Knots” 5:32
D1. “Twenty-One Falls” 6:56
D2. “Acrophasing” 6:10
D3. “Pause To Wonder” 5:39
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- 2xLP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- BAY128VX
- Release date
- Expected 26 Apr '24
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- BAY128CD
- Release date
- Expected 26 Apr '24
Release date: Expected 26 Apr '24
Chimet charts the progress of the two storms over the course of a week, utilising data from Chichester West Pole Beacon a weather station in the Solent which stands in some of the most treacherous waters in the UK.
The album was created using 2,016 sampled data streams, translating seven days of information into 67 minutes and 12 seconds of detailed and evolving music. With mother nature orchestrating the piece, she is joined by intuitive and powerful improvisations on piano, cello and synthesiser. The recording captures the sense of building expectation and tension, the dropping air pressure, the rising winds, the interlocking storm systems and the serene aftermath. The shifts are seamless, monumental and open to the elements.
Chimet is a record to lose yourself in. Like the sea itself, it doesn’t give up its secrets easily. The listening experience seems to change depending on your state of mind, and resonates on a primal level which belies its data led compositional approach. For generations, artists and musicians have been drawn to the sea for their inspiration. That emotional response to the vastness of the ocean is a powerful force. While the origins of Chimet lie in the numbers, the resultant record sits proudly in that artistic tradition. Music to watch the horizon to.
Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby: project concept, artistic direction, data sourcing, analytics & programming PJ Davy: sound design & programming Matthew Bourne: piano, cello & Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog (LAMM) synthesiser
TRACK LISTING
A1. Ophelia (14:40)
A2. Petrichor (5:58)
B1. Latent (4:40)
B2. Chimet 50º 45’.45 N, 00º 56'.59 W (7:59)
C1. Arise (12:20)
C2. Force 10 Pt. 1 (2:19)
D1. Force 10 Pt. 2 (15:00)
D2. Debris (6.29)
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- Ltd LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- BALMAT07
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
The first two "Absent Friends" - a 2014 set for Blowing Up the Workshop, and a 2017 cassette and web player for Whities (now AD93) - were hybrid affairs, part DJ mix and part collage, mostly featuring music made by other people. Then, in 2020-21, Finlayson developed the project into a live show of his own material. Armed with hundreds of bespoke stems created in his studio -idiosyncratic FX chains, feedback loops through cheap rack gear, heavily post-processed field recordings, found voices, etc. - he would improvise on four CDJs, mixer, FX, and live synths, extending techniques he learned as a club DJ into a live context, accompanied by visuals by Stockholm-based artist Paul Witherden.
"Absent Friends Vol. III" is an album of studio versions of the music developed for the live show. But in Minor Science’s world, even a category as simple as studio versions is slightly opaque. 'Most of these tracks weren’t composed in the studio,' Finlayson explains: 'The sounds started out as stems and source material for the live show, and might not have been intended to go together - but then through performance, they settled into shapes that worked. I then recreated those performances in the studio.' That organic process of ideation and realization might help explain the unusual coherence of the album, in which sounds and textures flow seamlessly from one to the next, sometimes seeming to stand still, and sometimes looping back. There are virtually no melodies, few recognizable motifs or riffs, yet the eight-track album nevertheless moves with a distinctive logic and a determined sense of purpose, from the frozen-in-time shimmer of the opening “Introduction” through the early cuts’ studies of space and light; from the seemingly autobiographical “Summer Diary” through the rushing trance (yes, trance) arpeggios of “Contingency” and on to the dulcet denouement of the closing “Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix)".
TRACK LISTING
A1. Introduction
A2. Dread The Evening
A3. Sun Turn
A4. The Dinas Walk
A5. Summer Diary
B1. Life Texture
B2. Contingency
B3. Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix)
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- WIGCD470
- Release date
- 23 Oct '20
Following “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong” and “megapunk,” “el cielo no es de nadie” defies the idea that one grandiose act means more than little ones. The video, co-directed by Ela and Pepi Ginsberg, presents striking images of Ela’s machines and her moving throughout the stage and hallways of a club. It gives a feel of Ela’s visceral, intimate world and urges finding a deeper connection to those around you. “‘el cielo no es de nadie’ is about all the love I see in small, everyday acts. It’s an invitation to appreciate unheroic, but constant and meaningful actions,” says Ela. “The song’s title, ‘el cielo no es de nadie,’ refers to the phrase ‘I’ll give you the sky,’ a common expression used in Spanish when in love. In the song, I defy it: 'you can't give me the sky' / it isn’t yours to give.”
Before forging her path as a solo electronic artist, Ela was a drummer in a teenage hardcore band. She joined the band when she was just 12, performing with them for almost a decade. Ela then moved to the United States to attend Berklee College of Music, where she double-majored in jazz drumming and synthesizer design. This roving background instilled in her a belief that we all have the power to change things, and as she delved deeper into her work with synthesizers, she saw a clear connection between the freedom of the DIY scene she grew up in and club culture. “I deeply identify with club culture, and want to make music to dance to,” she says. “I also want to make songs in the more traditional sense, with melodies, lyrics, and singing. I want to make songs that stay with people through the years.”
Using only hardware to perform, write and record, Ela creates complex, technical electronic music that exudes a warm vibrancy, along with a darker, almost celebratory understanding that our breaths aren’t infinite. Her sharp, coiled words are cathartic—due in part to her approach to writing them. “I always start writing by improvising alone,” she says. “Once I have some instrumentals I’m happy with, I intuitively grab the mic and sing a phrase with a melody in it. I always keep that initial phrase.” On acts of rebellion, you sense the stories hidden in everyday things. You feel Ela’s personality and viewpoint; you sense her presence. The cover features a photo of her, most of her face obscured, but her eyes sharply focused.
On acts of rebellion, she’s asking us to make contact not just with her, but also the people that inhabit our lives. She’s suggesting we leave our gadgets behind in favor of flesh-and-blood communities. She’s asking us to think, dance, and love, while she coaxes humanity from her hardware—machines that rattle and whirr alongside her and, in turn, make us feel more alive.
TRACK LISTING
1.N19 5NF
2. They Told Us It Was Hard, But They Were Wrong.
3. El Cielo No Es De Nadie
4. Megapunk
5. Pocket Piano
6. Dominique
7. Let Them Have The Internet
8. Tony
9. Do Whatever You Want, All The Time.
10. Close (ft. Helado Negro)
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- WARPCD150
- Release date
- 15 Jan '07
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