Name: Safe Ground by BEA1991
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Description: 2nd single from BEA, available for digital download on July 21.

This song is so hypnotic. Been listening solidly since last September. It's manages to sound sad and beautiful and hopefully all at the same time.

can't stop listening... esp. love this bridge!

Beautifully simple and amazing track.  Heard this on Metropolis years and years back, and I have always loved it.  Thanks so much! 💙💙💙 Supported @rhythmicity

2nd single from BEA, available for digital download on July 21.

Safe Ground

Taken from Laura's 'Committed Language' EP

Buy: https://deekrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/committed-language-ep


Laura Groves - Dream Story

Buy Fruit Juice here, Shipping from MAY 12th.
http://nightschoolrecords.bigcartel.com/product/lssn039-happy-meals-fruit-juice-12

Fruit Juice is the first new recorded material from Glasgow-based electronic avant pop duo Happy Meals since the intense aftermath of Apéro, their debut album which garnered a place in the Scottish Album Of The Year final 10. Shorter in scale but sharpened and expanded, Fruit Juice takes the tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments of ther first LP into undiscovered countries glowing with possibility.

Since Apéro’s release at the end of 2014, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook have toured the globe, from Moscow to Bombay via various European festivals, and have honed their dynamics live, in the moment, improvising and twisting the beat into new forms. As their live show has become more visceral and cinematic, Fruit Juice documents the duo’s new confidence. Run Around opens the E.P., with a sun-soaked tropicalia as conceived by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Rodden’s vocals warped into wordless peons to the rising sun. La Labas reaquaints the listener to Rodden’s Franco-Gallic tendancies, but this time Happy Meals reveal a sparse melancholy, with spacious percussion and synth fragments giving way to one of the group’s most immediate moments to date. If You Want Me Now is pop music, pure and from the source. Alternating between French and English, Rodden recreates the live persona that has emerged since the group’s beginnings; an unrestrained performer bringing the innate sensuality beneath Happy Meals’ surface exploding into the light. Cook’s production work here sounds fresh and classic simultaneously,  a glorious Jacno tribute enthralled to House music and Italo Disco. Fruit Float, opening Side 2, draws us back up into the cosmos, with arpeggiated synths from Cook’s synth arsenal duetting with a flute solo before Suivez Moi delivers another pop song worthy of eternal repeat, a slice of electro not unlike the heights of Dare!-era Human League. Seductive and irresistible, it precedes the biggest step-up in Happy Meals’ recorded output, the acid-fried Now That You Have Me: ostensibly a high-BPM remix of If You Want Me Now that hints at the insanity of the final moments of a Happy Meals live show.

Released as a limited to 500 12” featuring marble-painted artwork hand-made by the band, Fruit Float precedes Happy Meals’ 2nd full length album recorded on the Azores Archipelago. Each Fruit Float sleeve will be different and feature a digital download.


HAPPY MEALS: If You Want Me Now (from FRUIT JUICE LSSN039)

"Gender Studies," the title track from the new full-length album, now available from Hidalgo Records: http://goo.gl/LWlhjB
Written and produced by Kent Odessa and Rob Arbelo. Additional production by Hays Holladay and Robert Lux. Mastered by Jeremy Cox. Backing vocals by Taylor Stapleton.

Gender Studies

"Ding Sum" is the second single taken from the upcoming album 'KoKoro'. The album is released worldwide on September 16th. 
Pre-order 'KoKoro' now: 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kokoro/id1120259121 (US)
https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/kokoro/id1126375293 (SWE)
http://www.controlgroupco.com/store/products.php?cat=14 (VINYL)
https://gentlereminder.bandcamp.com/album/kokoro (CASSETTE!)
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/album/kokoro/id1126375293?mt=1&app=music (AU/NZ)


KoKoro

Ding Sum

Fake French

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

Taken from the digital only Remix EP, featuring tracks taken from C Duncans' album 'The Midnight Sun', reinterpreted by Dutch Uncles, KDA and Babe.

London-based house music producer remixes C Duncan's 'Do I hear'. It would sit nicely next to Kid A-era Radiohead, with C Duncans original piano over KDA's skittering drums and modest bassline that builds to a euphoric ending.

Out on FatCat. https://fat-cat.co.uk/release/like-you-do-remixes

C Duncan - Do I Hear - KDA 35 Re-Edit

From the upcoming Extended Version of Kelly Lee Owens self titled debut album, out Nov 24th on Smalltown Supersound

Kelly Lee Owens - Spaces

From their third album "Du bist so symmetrisch", out October 26th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Klaus Johann Grobe "Discogedanken" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Mount Kimbie's album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth out 27th May 2013 via Warp Records.

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Mount Kimbie - Break Well

BEA1991 is a Dutch British audio-visual artist with an interest in Pantheism, progressive pop music and autodidact learning.

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