The craft spells remix 12” shows two extremes. The Whatever/Whatever remix is lush, dense and full of texture. Simonetti's approach is a more unorthodox, minimal, loop heavy affair, adding hints of melody in unexpected places - tying it all together in the end...

Whatever/Whatever is the duo of Justin Strauss & Bryan Mette who've remixed the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Woolfy and Yacht at the height of the indie dance scene around the start of this decade and are now breathing new life into the project with recent remixes for Inflagranti, Pollyester, Stephan Eicher and Cantoma.

Mike Simonetti is head honcho of 2MR, has been DJing for 20 years and has recently acquired production notoriety for his breathtaking emo-techno duo Pale Blue and his sold out solo 12" Bossa Nova Civic Club Bootleg.

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Craft Spells - Whatever/Whatever & Mike Simonetti Remixes

Eluvium -  Under the Water It Glowed

Incitation EP // October 16 2015 // One Little Indian Records

Written, produced and performed by Olga Bell. 

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Calm and still, you feel some eighty-thousand hours roll away. 
More or less what you wanted: everything disintegrating. 
Think about the future, don’t it seem to turn a darker shade? 
More or less, you’re doubled over, in and out of love again. 
So don’t go. 
Don’t go. 
Don’t go gently, incitation, do your damage. 
Undo me over again. 
Coaches calling you a winner, honestly you want to believe them. 
Defense in an offense inning, everything turns in on itself. 
☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ ✂︎ ☁︎ 
Don’t go gently, incitation, do your damage. 
Undo me over again. 
Don’t go gently, incitation, someone is awake. 
Someone else is working while you hesitate. 
Baby dance in the dark with me. 
Never in very far with me. 
What a nice dream, to come and go. 
Dance in the dark with me. 
Never in very far with me. 
What a nice dream, don’t go. 
Don’t go gently, incitation, do your damage. 
Undo me over again. 
Don’t go gently, incitation, someone is awake. 
Someone else is working while you hesitate.
 
 

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Incitation

Melodies

Nicola Conte & Nico Lahs return with their eagerly awaited second EP, continuing the musical journey they began with their acclaimed 12” Macumba de Oxalà / La Danse De L’Esprit.

This new release confirms the creative synergy between two producers who speak the same musical language: a refined blend of spiritual jazz, Afro-American rhythms and electronic sensibility, designed for the most eclectic and sophisticated dancefloors. The Tema Due project is aimed at a refined club scene, attentive to the depth and purpose of sound. Once again, Conte and Lahs are turning the dance floor into a ritual space, where body and spirit move in harmony in a musical language that not only entertains but also elevates.

In this “EP2”, Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs collaborate for the first time with the talented young Brazilian percussionist Gabriel Prado and consolidate their long-standing partnership with pianist Pietro Lusso, who plays a fundamental role in shaping the musical identity of this work. Among the tracks, “Share Your Love” stands out in particular, interpreted by Brazilian singer Nina Miranda, who brings emotional depth to a track that talks about peace, sharing and love between peoples, and is enriched by the participation of Giovanni Guidi on Fender Rhodes and synths.

“EP2” precedes the release of Tema Due’s full-length album, which is currently taking shape – a work that promises to further consolidate the duo’s shared vision, expanding their conceptual and sonic scope. To crown this creative cycle, the album will also be followed by a third EP with additional unreleased tracks, symbolically closing a trilogy of sound and vision. A coherent, intense and uncompromising musical journey, where club culture meets spirituality and artistic exploration.

Share Your Love

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B1. Share Your Love (feat. Nina Miranda)

Dwindle (Mike Simonetti Remix)

B. Craft Spells - Dwindle (Mike Simonetti Remix)

If I Could (Whatever/Whatever Remix)

A. Craft Spells - If I Could (Whatever Whatever Remix)

Maude Hope (feat. Laetitia Sadier)

Limited 12": smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckSpotify
Apple: smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Jungla Inquieta

Julianna Barwick, "Never Change"

new single off her new album "If It's Written" out Sept. 14th

DENA -  Speculations feat. Erlend Øye

Langage

Langage (Blogothèque Acoustic Mix)

Fenster passed "oh canyon" to the magical hands of knob wizard "slow steve"

SLOW STEVE (FR-DE)
http://slowsteve.bandcamp.com

Also known as Deoda Byrnes or Defenestration, SLOW STEVE is a french composer, sound artist and music activist living in Berlin. He plays a noisy analog synth pop with layers of keyboards, vocals, anolog synthesizers and drum machine, bringing his audiences into a sonic realm of outer space. After a three weeks EU tour opening for Fenster in October 2011, he's currently working on a first EP in collaboration with the talented producer Tadklimp.
Slow Steve played among others with Blouse, Wild Palms, Civil Civic, Dustin Wong (from Ponytail), the Black Atlantic, Yule FM, Royalchord.
His remix of the Fenster track OH CANYON, co-mixed with Tadklimp, will be released digitally on Morr Music on Sep 28th (AT CH DE) and Oct 2nd (Worldwide)

Fenster: Oh Canyon - Slow Steve RMX

Electronic record label focussed on live acts. Est. 2014 in NYC. Sister label of Captured Tracks and Sinderlyn.

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