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Heart Sphere

E.R. (Emergency Relief)

Tornado Wallace and Jamie Tiller present Heart Sphere, on their new imprint Basic Spirit. The first release "E.R. (Emergency Relief)", is a mid-tempo, cosmic trance manifestation with three revisions; Guitar Mix, Piano MIx, and the vinyl only Children Mix. For disciples of Big Room Balearic ™️, new-normal-beat, classic-trance, and George Clooney.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Worth it alone for the 303-laced Balearic-twist of Robert Miles’ “Children”, this is high grade Balearic house action folks miss at your peril!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Heart Sphere (Emergency Relief) (Guitar Mix)
A2. Heart Sphere (Emergency Relief) (Piano Mix)
B1. Heart Sphere (Emergency Relief) (Children Mix)

New record on Basic Spirit, Tornado Wallace and Jamie Tiller's label that brought us the sell-out Heart Sphere 12" which sampled both Robert Miles' "Children" and the E.R theme tune!

Making sure the second release is as hot as the first, Tornado steps up and delivers four high octane tracks that traverse house, techno and breakbeat.

“Dream Corner” comes in two flavours: stuttered vox and sweeping atmos complimenting the prog-informed breaks n bass on the OG, whilst the ‘speed bump’ mix rapidly ups the tempo for a skippier take; punctuated by an elongated breakdown in which the acceleration occurs. Both are gonna sound great in the open air with the sea reflecting the sun into your eyes in your favourite paradise dance location.

On the flip, “Sea Translation” takes cues from the breakbeat renaissance, rolling out a vintage-flavoured Bowlers styled cut; the type Il Bosco and DJ Absolutely Shit have been turning heads around the UK with recently. Nice to see Tornado jump on the bandwagon with a stylish tribute to the golden years of dance music. Finally, we get a dreamy ambient number to close off the EP. It’s another doozy from the label and bound to sell out sharpish.

 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Following up that cult-adored E.R / Robert Miles-sampling first release; Basic Spirit head Tornado Wallace hits a purple patch on these two breakbeat-laden festival hits with a proggy and expansive outlook making it perfect for the open air. TIP!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Tornado Wallace Presents - Dream Corner (Original Mix)
A2. Tornado Wallace Presents - Dream Corner (Speed Bump Mix)
B1. Tornado Wallace Presents - Sea Translation
B2. Tornado Wallace Presents - Sea Translation (Resurrected Mix)

Dean Spunt

Basic Editions

    An excursion in electronic sound unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, instrumentally – the syntax of the systems and processes of a 64-voice Mo’Phatt module distilled through his non-aesthetic aesthetic. Wacked digital soundscapes bounce colorfully across the stereo azimuth, by turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive; post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic.

    Dean Spunt’s all-new Basic Editions is an excursion in electronic sound that instrumentally unpacks his fascination with language — in this case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive, Basic Editions distills a 64 voice module through a headful of ideas — somewhat like pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the other end.

    With this new release, Dean IDs his process as “using sounds, rather than making sounds.” This approach to music-making is a train of thought that’s been rolling out from the far horizon of the past for ages now — but for Dean, whose previous works within and without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it’s a fresh work stance. Given, however, No Age’s traditional sonic manipulations (via loops and treatments), Basic Editions delivers further unexpected hard-rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic that has defined Dean’s path over the past two decades. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colorfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic.

    And to think that it all happened ’cause of a glimpse of an E-mu Mo’Phatt at the local online gearery! Dean was looking for a box to give him a new angle; not knowing anything about this one seemed like the right path through the next phase of his own adventure. This “urban dance synth” was made great use of in hip-hop productions around the turn of the millennium. There’s lots more to know about the machines of that time — choose your own rabbit hole — but the takeaway here is that it generates a finite amount of very circa-2000 sounds and he got it for fifty bucks. Inspired, Dean spent a minute getting its basic capacities in hand, while acquiring a few other boxes with compatible cards (more sounds!). Then he was rolling — doing gigs with his Mo’Phatt and a midi-keyboard while recording more involved collages at home.

    In one way of thinking, Basic Editions is the sound of Dean not being influenced by anything — how could he be? The sounds were all preset! There is, however, an instinctiveness to pushing a closed system in a curatorial manner, and it’s here that Dean’s inclinations took the wheel of the proceedings, bending the farmed sounds in and out of color and shape, creating improbable constructions whose gears clash together and revolve with an odd combination of nerviness and chill. It’s all RIYL: Moebius, Nuno Canavarro, General Magic & Pita, Carl Stone, Jon Hassell.

    Further refinements are provided with the artwork, which reprocesses generic graphic information sourced from various modules, while the album title tips its cap to a fine rank-and-file clothing line offered at K-Mart. Courtesy of Dean Spunt, a Basic Editions all its own — now on the rack for counter-insurgent sonic wanderers everywhere!

    TRACK LISTING

    Side 1
    Gonzo Bop
    Critic In A Coma
    European Cardboard
    Boom Times At The Phatt Farm
    Apricot Child

    Side 2
    Confusion Is SysEx
    Highlighter Bombastic
    Fructose
    The Eternal Present
    Find Me In The Forums

    BASIC

    This Is BASIC

      BASIC is a mind-meld between Chris Forsyth, his frequent running partner (and formidable 6-string thinker) Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery (Natural Information Society).

      "This Is BASIC", their debut album, is a complex and entrancing instrumental LP recasting forgotten scraps of guitar history into a moving mosaic of strings, skins and electronics.

      Taking inspiration (and their name) from the 1984 Robert Quine/Fred Maher album ("Basic"), Forsyth and Millevoi got together for a run of low-key jam sessions using an Alesis drum machine for rhythm tracks and forging a collaborative language from angular polyrhythms, pulsing baritone-guitar lines, and shimmering chorus-pedal washes (another stylistic nod, this time to the glistening post-punk of the Durutti Column and numerous 4AD bands).

      Avery was soon enlisted on drum kit a setup that quickly morphed into a single drum, bell, and a bespoke electronics rig of his own creation. The trio quickly flowered into an improvisational swirl of disorienting electronics, hypnotic throb, and dense flanged-guitar harmonics: three unique voices spinning a complex conversation of textures and rhythms.

      TRACK LISTING

      For Stars Of The Air
      Nerve Time
      Positive Halfway
      Last Resort Of The Gambling Man
      Versatile Switch
      New Auspicious

      Ron Geesin

      Basic Maths - Soundtrack From The 1981 TV Series

        Wow! So you’re telling me Ron Geesin made this kooky electro groovy score to a really progressive maths educational programme on Central TV in 1980 and it’s musically anarchic and amazing and it’s never been issued before? Until now. Wow again!!!! And there’s 30 tracks!!! Trunk Records we love you...

        Basic Maths was the second educational TV Series for the Midlands-based ITV station for which I composed, played and recorded all music and noises. The first series, also for budding mathematicians in the 7-10 age group, was Leapfrog in 1978 produced by ATV (Associated Television): Basic Maths was for the newly-formed Central Television, the work spanning 1980-1981; both series were of twenty-eight parts.

        The most worthy idea for both of these series was to project mathematics into life by means mainly of non-verbal sound and vision, with both animated and live action films, linked by two presenters, Fred Harris and Mary Waterhouse. In my role as Media Composer, I had had quite enough of voice overs, therefore music well under, so this fairly radical educational approach at the time encouraged my creative juices to run unhindered. Of course the sound had to do something with the picture and not just use it as a carrier for peacock display. It had to duet, play with and explain the visual content using novel and engaging techniques, so this involved the usual and sometimes intricate mathematical calculations which constantly exercised my already reasonable school maths.

        Far over on the West Coast of the USA we find a room full of drum machines, samplers and keyboards. Hard at work is Israel 'Iz' Gravning aka Tone Scientist, who's been using this Seattle studio to produce genre-defying future music for more than 25 years.

        Landing somewhere between Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ moniker, Pat Thomas' recently reissued "New Jazz Jungle" LP, Objekt's high-tek bass hybrids and a soundsystem friendly smattering of breaks and bass; Tone Scientist has conjured up something decidedly fresh but totally following the lineage of modern nightclub developments so as to sound natural and logical. An impressive double EP that skirts through numerous tempos and flavours, all with the dub woofers and a heavy sense of rhythm in mind. Recommended! 

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Matt says: A more breaksy offering from Basic Moves and Tone Scientist who observes the early days hardcore, jungle and broken beat and re-packages the vibe for modern dancefloors. Plenty of bass across a jam packed double 12" pressed super heavy and nice for the DJs sticking two fingers up at the controller brigade.

        TRACK LISTING

        Tone Scientist - Discrepancy
        Tone Scientist - Heartache
        Kris Moon - Bossman (tone Scientist Remix)
        Tone Scientist - Pyramids On Mars
        Tone Scientist - Things Get Done
        Zion12 (aka Tone Scientist) - Esoteric Junglist

        Basic Rhythm

        Cool Down The Dance

          Basic Rhythm returns to his Jungle roots for his final release with Planet Mu. Harking back to the golden era of the mid 90s, but with a contemporary slant, Basic Rhythm hands in three dance floor killers, with a remix from the grim reaper himself, Loxy. The titular track, Cool Down The Dance, opens with a jittery fragmented drum pattern and wooshing stereo effects, lending a slightly disorienting feel to the intro before the well known vocal refrain leads into a monster amen drop. Deep subs, amen breaks and steely stabs roll out this dance floor banger.

          This is followed up with an absolute behemoth of a track. Horse Mout’ utilises an infamous vocal sample in a fresh way, building upon the intro with waves of dubwise effects before launching into a devastating onslaught. With support from scene stalwarts DJ Storm and Flight this one has been smashing up dance floors! The third track is a remix of Cool Down The Dance by Loxy, bringing his inimitable cool production style to the fore, stripping away the amen layers to reveal something for the darker corners of the dance. One for the head noders and the eyes down crew. The final track, Satta, is a nod to the dub of Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, and On U Sound. A slow boiling minimal intro that drops into the extreme minimalism of just a kick drum and sub bass line belies the swagger of the eventual drop. Swinging drums in an almost military pattern tumble and stagger around the core line of kick drum and sub bass, lending this an almost drunken air.

          TRACK LISTING

          A:

          1/Cool Down The Dance
          2/Horse Mout'

          B:

          1/Cool Down The Dance (Loxy Remix)
          2/Satta 

          Anthoney Hart returns with his second Basic Rhythm album for Planet Mu. 'Electronic Labyrinth' is a maturing of his sound that draws a line under his work as Basic Rhythm thus far. The title itself conveys the overarching theme of the album, evoking the journey through a musical labyrinth that Hart has undertaken over the last 30 years or so, following a path through to the centre where these disparate strands have coalesced and solidified into a coherent whole.

          The underlying themes are of a more personal nature, intimated by the cover photo of St Fabian Tower where Hart first joined the now infamous Rude FM in the late 90s, the sometimes misleading directness of the track titles, as well as explicit references to books such as Wilson Harris’ Palace of the Peacocks, the ontological promiscuity of Harris’ writing mirrored here in Hart's own musical endeavours. What you end up with is an album that not only draws upon a wide range of influences from both the musical and literary worlds, intertwining them within a deeply personal context that imbues the music with a depth of meaning, but that is also somehow more coherent despite such a wide range of references and hidden meanings. It is at once both an album of subtexts open to interpretation, and a cohesive whole that fits together perfectly.


          TRACK LISTING

          A:

          1/Craft
          2/Hayward Road
          3/Acid Track
          4/Larkin Around

          B:

          1/Electronic Labyrinth
          2/Techno
          3/Palace Of The Peacock
          4/The Secret Ladder

          Basic Rhythm follows up his album 'On The Threshold' with an EP that lays out the explicit connections between hardcore and footwork. A connection made even clearer by the inclusion of a rare remix by Chicago footwork originator RP Boo. "2 Da Core"'s punchy rolling drums are levelled up against rough samples and a vocal hook pitched up and down in classic hardcore style. "Get Up" runs a tubby bass under hazy vocal samples and weird sound effects. RP Boo's remix of "2 Da Core" disassembles the track into pieces, building a stalking helicopter-like rhythm which plays hide and seek with the samples, while the closing track "Nuh Ramp" rounds off the EP with tumbling micro-edited rhythms and a melody built from small colourful sounds that draw on the Caribbean roots of this music. 

          TRACK LISTING

          A1. Da Core
          A2. Get Up
          B1. Da Core (RP Boo Remix)
          B2. Nuh Ramp

          Jade Imagine

          Basic Love

            Jade Imagine burst out of the bubbling music scene of Melbourne, Australia, with their debut album, Basic Love. Emotionally dictated by the wit and noir of Jade McInally (vocals, guitar, synths) and propelled by a band that seamlessly fuses synthwave and art-rock, this album is an impressive culmination of Jade Imagine’s signature style of bleak pop and contemplative new-wave. Featuring singles Big Old House and Remote Control.

            TRACK LISTING

            Gonna Do Nothing
            The News
            Big Old House
            Remote Control
            I’ll Take You There
            The Weekend
            Cut Me Off
            Past Life
            Get Out Of Your Head
            Don’t Say It’s Over

            Gaika presents his debut album, "Basic Volume" after captivating listeners with a blistering pair of acclaimed, self-released mixtapes "Machine" and "Security" and the Warp-released EPs "Spaghetto" and "The Spectacular Empire". The 15 track collection is co-produced by Gaika, with additional production from similarly forward thinking contemporaries, including SOPHIE, Dutch E Germ, Dre Skull and DADRAS, Aart as well as previous collaborators including Jam City, Nick Leon and Frank Ocean’s "Blonde" and "Endless" collaborator Buddy Ross. Speaking about the album, Gaika says, “Basic Volume" is collection of alchemical parables for all the Immigrants who wander the earth in search of themselves”

            TRACK LISTING

            Basic Volume
            Hackers & Jackers
            Seven Churches For St.
            Jude
            Ruby
            Born Thieves
            36 Oaths
            Black Empire (Killmonger
            Riddim)
            Grip
            Clouds, Chemists And
            The Angel Gabriel
            Immigrant Sons (Pesos
            And Gas)
            Close To The Root
            Crown & Key
            Warlord Shoes
            Spectacular Anthem

            Embrace

            Love Is A Basic Need

              20 years into their recording career Embrace are making an epic and emphatic return with their seventh studio album. With three #1 albums, six Top 10 singles, sold out arena shows and over two million album sales behind them, Embrace returned to the music scene three years ago with their Top 5 self-titled album Embrace. Already being hailed as a return to “classic” Embrace, new album LOVE IS A BASIC NEED was recorded in the first half of 2017 at the band’s own Magnetic North Studio, produced by Richard McNamara. With tracks such as the emotive and powerful Never, LOVE IS A BASIC NEED sees Embrace return to the classic sound that first made us fall in love with them. The album’s overriding theme is one surrounding love and Danny McNamara says; “We set out to make an album where every song on it would stand up against the best songs we’ve ever written, and I’m pretty confident we’ve done just that.”

              White Mice

              Tallawah / Version

                Deejay / MC White Mice is a graduate of three sound systems - Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion, Jammy's Hi Power, and his hometown Ticka Muzik. His first break came at Sun Splash in 1985, when he and Little Kirk were called on stage to perform with Tenor Saw. Recording at King Jammy's and Channel One studios, with Junior Delgado at the controls, over next the few years White Mice released a series of records considered to be amongst the very deadliest of digital roots reggae. Nearly all were put out on his brother Blemo's Intellitec imprint, originals of which are ultra-ULTRA rare. Basic Replay reissue these 45s complete with vocal and dub versions.

                White Mice

                It's A Shame / Version

                  Deejay / MC White Mice is a graduate of three sound systems - Sugar Minott's Youthman Promotion, Jammy's Hi Power, and his hometown Ticka Muzik. His first break came at Sun Splash in 1985, when he and Little Kirk were called on stage to perform with Tenor Saw. Recording at King Jammy's and Channel One studios, with Junior Delgado at the controls, over next the few years White Mice released a series of records considered to be amongst the very deadliest of digital roots reggae. Nearly all were put out on his brother Blemo's Intellitec imprint, which Basic Replay reissue here complete with vocal and dub versions.


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