Antinote presents: Jaisiel, a friend from the super cool Madrid crew Ears on Earth. This is a special tune for your hot summer nights, taken from "On the Universe" EP, to be out on Antinote later this year. 

Antinote057 !!

JAISIEL - TALK TO NATURE

Hugging the bend and blowing kisses since 2012, Antinote has been a vessel of choice for lovers of left-of-centre dance music and retro-laced boogie. Covering a supremely wide range of styles, the Parisian outlet has carved out a musical lane truly its own by putting on a nonstop celebration of electronics’ inexhaustible power of enthrallment. A pledge of quality-driven curation and never-ending search for the next thrill that’s proven untiringly relevant throughout the years and opens onto its second decade of existence with equal panache. 

Toasting to its ten years splashing the game with continuously reasserted outsider bravura, label captain Zaltan has bottled some of the finest expressions out Antinote’s versatile vaults of sound to form the present “X” compilation, “ten years of loving notes and foolin around 2012-2022".

DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LA DOLCE VITA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWNE4xqnaQ

Nobody's Boy : Johnny could perhaps symbolize the sickly passion that “The Entertainer” feels for his hallucinated boy-toy angel, the lover: “Johnny”. A simulacrum of an impossible partner.

“The Entertainer” and “Johnny” are, in a way, two aspects of the same shadow. Each sees the other in himself and himself in the other, and it is this distorted, funhouse-mirror relationship that brings them together and ultimately destroys them.

The video jumps through various chronological hoops one could encounter in any tumultuous relationship: The Antichamber - The Tunnel of Love - The Wedding - The Honeymoon - The Circle of Blood - The Discoteque (Night therapy). The abject finality of this vortex continues in the final moments. BEWARE — there are sharp objects in the polenta!

"The Entertainer", played by Bernardino Femminielli, and his "Johnny", an all-boys sidekick accompanying the singer on a bizarre and demented tour of dive bars and strip clubs all around the world. An ill-fated journey beginning with pretty flowers and honeymoons and culminating in agony, of course.

Bernardino Femminielli - Nobody's Boy : Johnny (Development Hell Mix)

Bruce Falkian is a world famous contemporary artist who exhibits at the world’s most prestigious art galleries and fairs. Bruce Falkian moonlights as an agent of espionage against the Terrorism Industrial Complex. Wait… what? 

To understand Bruce Falkian we first must understand the link between image and war. In the late 1800s the precursor to the video camera was invented. It was directly inspired by guns, specifically, Samuel Colt’s Revolver. It borrowed not only its barrel mechanics, swapping bullets for exposures, but its terminology too. Load, point, scope, aim, shoot, flash. The camera and the gun, united by cordite, would go on to prove the most efficacious tools in shaping the modern world.

The 20th century was a laboratory when it comes to killing and image making, glorified through Hollywood and the Western genre. Propaganda would prove highly effective in creating and sustaining support for militaries fighting for ideological global control. Devised first in the aptly title ‘Propaganda’ (1928) by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, Advertising and Public Relations became the leading media industries, learning how to control the population through images, usually just to buy random crap they didn’t need, but other times to overthrow democratically elected politicians in foreign countries. Eventually Western Liberal Democracy assumed domination, built of course on the enslavement of all peoples and nations who didn’t fall in line with its specific ideas of living. The Red Scare inspired countless anti-leftist, anti-communist works of art throughout the Cold War, notably and most bizarre, funding the abstract expressionist movement as a non-ideological alternative to socialist realism art. When the Soviet Union fell, Western Liberal Democracy was able to promulgate its unhindered views around the world through its various media empires and actor states. Is it a coincidence that a third of the almost $85 billion dollar global camera equipment market is represented by the greatest propaganda beast the world as ever seen, the USA?

Guns are dangerous because of the obvious. Images are dangerous because we are bad at perceiving what is real (as any jump scare, deepfake, newsreel will attest to.) Videos aren’t technically real, they are only a collection of rapidly changing static images which give the illusion of movement. It’s easy for us to collectively decide that a video is real, because that’s the way our brains perceive reality. People who lead the world of media understand this which is how they are able to control us, make us invade foreign countries, vote for specific politicians, feel ugly or fat etc. However, ubiquitous as they are, it seems that the image is in crisis. It seems that we’ve run out of them. Or perhaps our understanding of an image is changing, with the aid of near instantaneous text-to-image AI technology. So what does this mean for guns. What does this mean for war? How will images be used as an aid to war in the 21st century? It remains to be seen, but Bruce Falkian will be a useful agent.

Bruce Falkian - Venezia Bienale

You! first single from Alek Lee's forthcoming album.

https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/alek-lee-you

Alek Lee is back on Antinote to release his debut LP ‘You’. Covering 18 songs and crafted in the producer’s studio over the past few 4 years, the Tel Avivian has swapped the misty aura of his first two EPs for a smoked out haze. ‘You’ effortlessly blends digi-dub, boogie, and yacht rock to
create a washed out, dub-pop sound befitting of its place of recording sat at the edge of the desert and the sea.
If Lee’s earlier works were defined by brooding downtempo beats with kids television vocal samples sprinkled amongst them, then the album hears the producer open himself up to the process of the singer-songwriter, getting behind the microphone and optimistically speaking
words of his own. But perhaps that may be put too bluntly. Fankly, Lee fluidly moves between crooning, whispers, gasps all the way to full on ballad style singing effortlessly and with ease. His newly develop vocal experiments are too supported by an impressive array of collaborators which can be found in the LP’s liner notes. These collaborations also help to mix far-flung musical styles into the LP. For instance, take Kol Hayom featuring Keren Ilan. It’s a laid-back tune that would sit comfortably beside Rita Lee tropicália Or Love To Puff You Baby featuring $hkuro, which upends Donna Summer’s bodily groove into a heady bop.
‘You’ is a testament to Alek Lee’s prolific exploration of his own brand of dub: shimmering off-beat guitars, low-fidelity beats and deep grooves. Oh and always a melodica line found somewhere amongst it. 
releases September 9, 2023

The Album was written, recorded and mixed between the years 2019-2022 at Weedwork Studios, Under the influence of ‘Zen Delay’ (Thanks to Zach Bar) and ‘Miracle Alien Cookies’ (Thanks to Benny 'Boom', 'The Green Brothers' (AKA Yaar Ha Mitzuim), 'Tootit', Aviad & Johnny 'Grand Puff' )

Alek Lee - You !

To understand Bruce Falkian we first must understand the link between image and war. In the late 1800s the precursor to the video camera was invented. It was directly inspired by guns, specifically, Samuel Colt’s Revolver. It borrowed not only its barrel mechanics, swapping bullets for exposures, but its terminology too. Load, point, scope, aim, shoot, flash. The camera and the gun, united by cordite, would go on to prove the most efficacious tools in shaping the modern world.

The 20th century was a laboratory when it comes to killing and image making, glorified through Hollywood and the Western genre. Propaganda would prove highly effective in creating and sustaining support for militaries fighting for ideological global control. Devised first in the aptly title ‘Propaganda’ (1928) by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, Advertising and Public Relations became the leading media industries, learning how to control the population through images, usually just to buy random crap they didn’t need, but other times to overthrow democratically elected politicians in foreign countries. Eventually Western Liberal Democracy assumed domination, built of course on the enslavement of all peoples and nations who didn’t fall in line with its specific ideas of living. The Red Scare inspired countless anti-leftist, anti-communist works of art throughout the Cold War, notably and most bizarre, funding the abstract expressionist movement as a non-ideological alternative to socialist realism art. When the Soviet Union fell, Western Liberal Democracy was able to promulgate its unhindered views around the world through its various media empires and actor states. Is it a coincidence that a third of the almost $85 billion dollar global camera equipment market is represented by the greatest propaganda beast the world as ever seen, the USA?

Bruce Falkian

Bruce Falkian - Propaganda 95

DOMENIQUE DUMONT - COMME CA

D.K.- LICENCE TO DREAM

SYRACUSE - LOVE

SYRACUSE - VAPEURS D'ÉQUATEUR

1 - D.K. - EVENING SHADOWS

RAPHAEL TOP-SECRET & NELSON BISHOP - CHEKEMA

SUCCHIAMO - SUCCHIAMO

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)

@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

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

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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