DOMENIQUE DUMONT - COMME CA

SYRACUSE - LOVE

SYRACUSE - VAPEURS D'ÉQUATEUR

NICO MOTTE - TACOTAC

RAPHAEL TOP-SECRET & NELSON BISHOP - CHEKEMA

2nd volume in Tolouse Low Trax's retrospective

OUT NOW

TOLOUSE LOW TRAX - WOODEN WORDS

The Antinote guys have always been keen on introducing new names to you and this addition to the label’s catalogue makes no exception to the rule: they are pleased to present Sfarot, the debut EP from Alek Lee, a musician currently living in Tel-Aviv.

The geographic origin of the artists on the Parisian imprint has never been felt as much as on Alek Lee’s debut 12”. In a very “fourth world” manner, Alek Lee brings together middle-eastern influences in his music with ease and without ever having it sounding cliché: on Harabait and Sfarot (and its dub version), his friends and him play the violin, the bass clarinet and the accordion in a way which reminds of Klezmer music, putting the three songs on the EP in line with both his musical education and his cultural background. 

This seems strikingly true when taking into account the process Alek Lee went through to record the tittle-track: the original material used in Sfarot comes from a recording Lee did a few years, and on which were recorded traditional songs Israeli children used to learn at school, performed by a choir of very young kids. Both conceptually and musically hypnotizing, Sfarot and its dub version take the listener on a slightly psychedelic trip
as the haunted voices from the kids loose themselves in long reverbs and are backed by a wide range of instruments played by the Israeli musician including an electric organ, percussions, etc.

And if you are still in need of more dubby excursions, the closing track is the one for you !

Sfarot

ALEK LEE - SFAROT

ALEK LEE - HARABAIT

Five Years Of Loving Notes's opening song by Domenique Dumont

ATN5YEARS - FIVE YEARS OF LOVING NOTE 
OUT NOW

Five Years Of Loving Notes

ATN5YEARS - DOMENIQUE DUMONT - +371

The label is turning five, and it's celebrating with a 2xLP compilation of unreleased work from artists who have graced the label over the period! 
Exclusives from Tolouse Low Trax, Geena, Iueke, Domenique Dumont, Inoue Shirabe, Raphael Top-Secret and more...

DOMENIQUE DUMONT - +371

Nico Motte, Raphaël Top-Secret and Zaltan join forces on these 4 songs, each sitting somewhere between some sort of somehow aquatic dream pop and blurred visions of an eerie grunge sound, that probably never was... 
PRODUCED BY NICO MOTTE AT SYNTH CITY AND RED BULL STUDIO

18 Rays

18 RAYS - I Feel Rain

ATN037 - Radiante Pourpre - I

From Slowglide - Reigi/Haipa (ATN041)
Out April 2018 on Antinote

Pre-order it: https://bigwax.fr/fr/antinote/music/haipa-reigi
Digital: https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/atn041-slowglide-reigi-haipa

Distributed by Rush Hour

SLOWGLIDE - HAIPA

Pre-order:
Vinyl
http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=104501

Digital
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/atn043-river-yarra-lucky-boy

In 1978, Brian Eno started what would become his seminal Ambient series with Music for Airports. If he was to add a fifth volume to the series in 2018, he would probably call it “Music for Social Medias”, wouldn’t he? We’re not 100% sure that this is about to happen, so, instead, we take the lead and have Oz’s River Yarra giving his own take on Music for Social Medias (and the result doesn’t sound at all like ambient music).

At least, we might accurately call it “music from social medias”, as it sometimes feel it’s been generated by a possessed creative algorithm. Starting with the opening track, Aorsom Wislhs (whose name must have been given by a deficient Messenger chat bot), one might feel disoriented by the extremely weird and wonky lead melody. The melody of Sli Ggogg (sic) – the slow jam opening the flip side – is equally uneven; add to this the unsettling (slightly) human-sounding voice and you’re in for a trip to the Uncanny Valley.

But there’s a sense of non-human randomness infusing all of these four songs. Take the intensely mesmerizing Respiration Alternée with Elen Huynh, for example: there’s a high probability that its lyrics come from some random meditation tutorial found on YouTube, translated into French by an anxious Google Translate bot, eager to bring some (cheap?) spirituality to IRL dancefloors. 

With this debut EP, the Ozzie producer succeeds in rounding up disparate & dubious elements together in a serious way without departing from a non-serious attitude - the record even rounds off with a very “put your hands in the air” moment with Space Gekko’s ravey sirens. “Music to party on the River Yarra to” (just Google it).

River Yarra - Respiration Alternée (Avec Elen Huynh)

The opening song to R.O.K. Spy by M.B. Jones, 

R.O.K. Spy will be the first release on a new label created by Zaltan and PAM, DRAMA

Out in September 2018 via Rush Hour Distribution. Special thanks to Naulot and Cloarec for the artwork

« Recorded in Busan, Republic of Korea by former US special agent M.B. Jones, R.O.K. Spy documents both his stay in a country on the verge of a nuclear conflict and his mission there (for obvious confidential reasons, the purpose of this mission is only to be referred to in an elusive way). While most of his personal belongings have disappeared – or, more likely, been destroyed – we are very thankful for the safe receipt of a USB stick containing 7 songs recorded in Autumn 2017, alongside a drawing and a few handwritten notes. We are proud to now be able to share these with you.

In order to do so, we hastily came up with a label. The circumstances under which it was born lead us into calling it “drama”. This release is DRAMA1.

The content of this LP is a seemingly disparate set of pop-not-pop tunes, flirting with dance music on songs like the apocalyptical disco Nuclear War or the bizarre and mind puzzling boogie Pusan Perimeter. Though it is quite hard to put words on M.B. Jones’s productions (one may accurately call it an “oddball” of a record), his musical testimony may sit somewhere in-between Holger Czukay’s most narrative pieces and Arthur Russel’s most cheerful moments, sharing with these two brilliant musicians a genuine feeling of intimacy emanating from each second of his songs. The only thing that may be said without a doubt is that these 7 songs are the product of someone whose ear has been attentive and receptive to all sorts of contemporary musical genres (from trap to experimental electronic music and EDM).

It’s still not clear whether the cryptic lyrics evoke situations which already occurred, whether they are oracles, some insider’s warnings or whether they are the product of a mind in a hallucinatory state. On Poison Pill – the closing song – he is particularly ambiguous : “the CIA bought me a trip / I put the tab under my lip / They want to build a shopping mall / On the DMZ wall”. We’ll leave the interpretation to you. »
PAM & Zaltan

M.B. JONES - PUSAN PERIMETER (DRAMA1)

@domeniquedumont 's  Miniatures De Autorhythm coming out in September 2018 via Antinote

Domenique Dumont - Miniatures De Auto Rhythm - Album Preview

Pre-order Vinyl & Digital:
http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=105520
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-de-auto-rhythm

August 2018: It’s already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote’s compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air, and, again, we’re just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin (“the beginning of the end”). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It’s quite pleasant to imagine these eight “miniatures” as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles’ disciples – or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa)? There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LE DEBUT DE LA FIN

Order Vinyl & Digital:
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-de-auto-rhythm

August 2018: It’s already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote’s compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air, and, again, we’re just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin (“the beginning of the end”). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It’s quite pleasant to imagine these eight “miniatures” as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles’ disciples – or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa)? There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

Bandcamp

DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LE SOLEIL DANS LE MONDE

OUT NOVEMBER 2018

Remember that straightforward mix of EBM and synth-punk that came out on Antinote last year, wrapped in a suggestive black and gold sleeve? The lyrics were strictly not ambiguous and the music produced by Panoptique and Paula was joyfully aggressive. Broken glass, dogs barking & cats roaring: Succhiamo is back and gives us news from the scrapyard. 

The thing is, it seems that Succhiamo’s scrapyard has been animated by Bill Plympton : in place of dogs and cats, it’s a lew Pink Panther chasing a spaced-out Scooby-Doo on Dolore Dentro or Stai Male. Happily championing bad taste, the two musicians even venture into the illegitimate territories of italo-pop missed hits, shaped for lip-sync performances on Rai Uno with the nagging Que Pena. 

As we’re getting close to the middle of the record, the music gets openly punkier, climaxing with the explicitly named Desiderio Di Violenza, brushing past 200 BPM. While the inevitable silence following the last notes of Que Pena temporarily puts an end to the pleasant nightmare that is Mani In Fuoco, the figures – somehow similar to those inhabiting the world of Fritz the Cat – that Succhiamo insidiously inserts into the listener’s head don’t fade away: they patiently wait for the duo’s pulsing drum machines and the saturated synths to wake up again and set them in motion for another ride.

SUCCHIAMO - MANI IN FUOCO

“It’s not easy to be free, but it’s harder not to be”.These are the first words to Bad Woman, Céline Gillain’s debut LP on DRAMA.

I’ve never had that many difficulties writing a text for a release. There were easy ways of dealing with it actually, like isolating some of the lyrics and making aphorisms out of them that would have punctuated the text. I could have also wrote about her music with hackneyed words and glamorous comparisons with the likes of Laurie Anderson or Leslie Winer.

Maybe is it because it summons the influence of artists that have been crucial in our lives, maybe is it because of the ambition and the absolute sincerity emanating from this record, maybe is it also because of the utter contemporaneity of the record… but I feel stuck.

So I will only say a couple of things. If the idea of an LP following her debut 7″ on Lexi Disques gets you as excited as we were and still are, you won’t be disappointed by Bad Woman. The music on the upcoming album definitely is pop music, but in a disturbing, beyond « good » and « bad » taste kind of way.

It sometimes feel as if Bad Woman has been written by a former Pop diva that saw her expectations being shattered by life and now tries to make her come-back with a new album, influenced by what she believes to be contemporary pop music. The thing is, the result is a mutant blend of everything and anything that has been produced by the music industry these last 30 years, from Cher’s delirious come-back in the 1990’s to the most embarrassing moments in Dance music, and it rather sounds like a record that would have been written in a parallel universe.

That being said, Bad Woman tackles painful issues about our lives as individuals and society but with absolute elegance. After months of being the only one able to listen to it, no need to say that Zaltan & I are now extremely proud and happy to see this record coming to life. Thank you Céline for untrusting with taking care of your album.

OUT DECEMBER 2018 via DRAMA

CÉLINE GILLAIN - FIGHT OR FLIGHT (DRAMA2)

CÉLINE GILLAIN - IN THE ARENA (DRAMA2)

From D.K.'s Mystic Warrior EP on Antinote. 
Out March 2019, via Rush Hour Distribution.

Mystic Warrior EP

D.K. - MYSTIC WARRIOR

From Nathan Melja's debut EP on Antinote, Karibuni Music
Out March 2019, via Rush Hour Distribution.

Karibuni Music

NATHAN MELJA - ANGELS

From River Yarra's Frogmania (ATN050)
Out June 2019 on Antinote
Buy Vinyl & Digital: https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/atn050-river-yarra-frogmania
It's a frog's frog's frog's world / We're reaching #50

Frogmania

RIVER YARRA - TOAD CHARMER

Digital EP ==> antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com
OUT 08 November 2019

OMMA_MOJNO

Digital EP ==> https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com
OUT 08 November 2019

OMMA _ ROMANTIKA

OMMA_1905

support the artists and label! 
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/studiolo-the-90s-afro-cosmic-era-3

Studiolo is a compilation made by our long time friend and cosmic music maniac Ygal Ohayon. He plays records since many years in Paris bars and club. Also know as The Basseleen along side with Vidal Benjamin they has been seen rocking’ a fair amount of dancefloor around Paris and abroad,. Ygal worked for Versatile records as label manager for more than 10 years and is now part of the Antinote family. We all met around 2005 and quickly got a deep interest for Cosmic Sound from 70's to 90's, playing for the tribute party "Cosmic Club" among others. Ygal was also involved in the Edit du Golem serie featuring, among others, a very interesting collection of cosmic songs.

Fred DJ & Boran DJ - Cosmic Patch  (Lazy'gal Edit)

One Love for the Antinote Artists, One Love for the Antinote Supporters, Friends and Listeners. We need you, we won't die, hopefully. Nothing can hurt when love is here. e love you As usual we offer you a large spectrum of music wrapped in a One-love-Antinote vibe.

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