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Wanderer

The second instalment of our night celebrating soul from around the world brings DJ Love on The Run from NYC to bless the Plastic People sound system alongside FP. 5 Hours of warm music on the EMTs. Recorded live at Plastic People 25th January 2014. Unfortunately the recorder died in the last hour, so we had to cut it short. 
Thank you to everyone that came to get down. Artwork by the amazing http://aliaugur.co.uk
Be sure to check out DJ Love On The Run's blog of sweet soul sounds too!
http://secretrendezvousonline.blogspot.co.uk

and heres the mix to download:
http://eglorecords.com/2014/04/youre-a-melody-2-2/

You're A Melody #2

Taken from 'Mosaic', the debut LP from Throwing Snow, released on Houndstooth on June 2nd 2014. Available from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/iTunesMosaic and the Houndstooth store: http://bit.ly/MosaicLP 

Also available on the ‘Pathfinder’ EP, from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/pathfinderEP and the Houndstooth store: http://bit.ly/pathfinderEP 

Tour dates:
Sun 01 June - Official Album Launch: Ace Hotel, London, UK
Thu 05 June - In-store: Rough Trade, London, UK
Fri 06 June - RBMA Weekender, Warsaw, Poland
Sat 07 June - Parklife Festival, Manchester, UK
Sat 07 June - The Brickworks, Nottingham, UK
Fri 13 June - Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Wed 18 June - King's College, Cambridge, UK
Thu 19 June - The Rockingchair, Sheffield, UK
Sat 21 June - Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thu 26 June - The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, UK
Sat 19 July - Lovebox Festival, London, UK

US Press | Louise @ MOTORMOUTH - louise@motormouthmedia.com
UK Press | Naomi @ TOTEM - naomi@totemlondon.com

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Throwing Snow feat. Adda Kaleh - The Tempest [Houndstooth]

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Millie & Andrea are Miles Whittaker and Andy Stott, fellow labelmates at Modern Love who collaborated on an occasional series of 12” releases between 2008 and 2010. It’s been four years since we last heard from them but they now return with “Drop The Vowels”, their debut album. Produced fast and loose through late 2013 / early 2014, it’s an album that recalls the strict and stripped funk of Anthony Shakir as much as it does Leila’s incredible debut ‘Like Weather’, eschewing the dark aesthetic both producers are best known for in favour of something much more visceral. It’s an album borne from a love of both pop and club music, made to evoke an adrenalised, hedonistic, as well as an emotional response.

Opener GIF RIFF brings to life a Gamelan edit stripped bare before the over-compressed ‘Stay Ugly’ breaks out with a tumbling, broken arrangement situated somewhere between Richard D James and Jai Paul. “Temper Tantrum” and “Spectral Source” follow, versions of tracks originally released on the second and third Daphne EP’s respectively, the former a rugged rave anthem tempered by blue strings, the latter a proper dancefloor destroyer recalling Shake’s mighty ‘Madmen’. ‘Corrosive’ flits between a fillibrating, arpeggiated steppers rhythm and a brutal jungle breakdown, while ‘Drop The Vowels’ further explores and strips bare bass & drums before the slow but jacking warehouse killer “Back Down” provides pure percussive abandon. Quay ends the set with something quieter, a sublime coda made entirely from field recordings.

Stay Ugly

‘You Are Eternity’ is the third album to be released on Stroboscopic Artefacts and comes from two of the minds who have shaped the label since its earliest days: Dadub. Recorded over a period of two years, but containing fragments and ideas that stretch back a decade ‘You Are Eternity’ has been mixed together to form a continuous piece rather than twelve discreet tracks. The effect? An immersive journey that encompasses the descriptors brutal, ferocious, ambient and aqueous.

It would be easy to describe the album’s structure as that of two halves, but it’s not that simple. The structure that Dadub has developed is cyclical at its most compliant, and elliptical at its most oblique. Within these forms the sounds that emerge run the gamut of electronic music. ‘Existence’ and ‘Unbroken Continuity’ explore futuristic, atmospheric states. ‘Path’ swaggers with rippled dub. Embedded into ‘Truth’ is a polemic sample of Henry Waxman questioning Alan Greenspan. And the same record houses ‘Transfer’, a staunch cut that’s more than fortified to do some damage.

In the studio Dadub’s process is nothing short of alchemical. Their characteristic sound originates from entirely digital sources, but their sound treatments reanimate this raw material filling it with warmth and human emotion. The source loops and synthesised lines are run through countless channels and complex chains of effects to arrive at a destination unrecognisable from the points of origin. Dadub are true sound materialists.

Knowing that Dadub place so much emphasis on process, it’s all the more interesting to hear their collaborations with other artists and ‘You Are Eternity’ is graced by fellow SA cohort Edit Select, the sound experimenter Øe and Ninja Tunes stalwart King Cannibal. It is indeed King Cannibal who teamed up for the album’s most ferocious cut ‘Transfer’. Whereas ‘Experience’ ft. Øe is a hazy slither of atmospherica. And the only straight kick of the entire record is to be found on the track with the most elusive subject matter, ‘Circle’ ft. Edit Select, a collaborative elegy on the ultimate unknown. ‘You Are Eternity’ tends towards spaces that are undefined, that are unquantifiable - this album is a foray into Jenseits.

The album title hints at the almost spiritual origins of the album, Dadub’s search for music that goes further, that spreads away from the confines of the time and place in which we find ourselves, music that seeps into the cavern of the eternal. Tucked into ‘Vibration’, the very first track, is a sample of the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. He leans close and says: Music is a spiritual gift, and those who misuse it, die young. Sage words. ‘You Are Eternity’ is a record that refuses to take any chances, Dadub are clearly producers intent on being around for quite some time.

Words: Clare Molloy

Tracklisting:

1. Vibration
2. Truth
3. Life
4. Path
5. Circle [feat. Edit Select]
6. Death
7. Transfer [feat. King Cannibal]
8. Arrival
9. Unbroken Continuity
10. Experience [feat. Øe]
11. Existence
12. Iridescent Fragment

DADUB - You Are Eternity (Continuous Mix) [Stroboscopic Artefacts]

The first single from my 4th solo album, Immunity, released worldwide 3rd June on Domino Records. Available on vinyl and digital now.

Watch the video: http://youtu.be/Q04ILDXe3QE

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