Artist: @Blindsmyth
Title: All That Fiberglass (album)
Label: Connaisseur Recordings
Release Date: February 18th, 2022
Catalog No: CNS034LP

Stream & order: http://connaisseur.fanlink.to/cns034LP

A musical globetrotter, Simon Schmidt, also known as Blindsmyth really broke onto the scene back in 2018 with his debut album, ‘Blind’, on his Berlin based home label Cosmic Society. The album was designed to tell a story, like a collage of emotional and musical moments in his life. It was followed by a signing to Diynamic in 2019 with ‘Frozen’ which dabbled in organic beats and hypnotizing vocals, in true Blindsmyth style. His sound has been said to resonate with DJ Koze, Moderat, Bonobo, Burial and Four Tet, however, always remains to be niche.
He first appeared on Connaisseur Recordings in 2020, with his single “Gryllidae’, a quintessential summer track. He followed this with his noteworthy remix for Kollektiv Turmstrasse’s 10th Anniversary release ‘Rebellion der Tr umer’ for their track ‘Was Bleibt’ showcasing his capabilities in the studio. This remix was no doubt a taste for what was to come with his 2nd album ‘All That Fiberglass’ in February 2022.
With a strong sway toward live organic sounds, ‘All That Fiberglass’ has a warm analogue feel. A lot of the album was created with field recordings, his self-built instruments and hardware along with the manipulation of his own voice. Its concept? Social criticism on the challenges an artist has nowadays with the digital world. The duties, but also the distractions.
Blindsmyth has managed to create a visceral feeling which is ingrained into every track: a figurative living, breathing audio organism that goes beyond the studio, and into the tangible. Opening with the melancholy of ‘Transhuman’ lush emotional tones set the scene perfectly and is one of many softer moments that allow the album to breathe. The single releases from the album showcase Blindsmyth’s up-tempo side experimenting with ‘Remember The Days’ which benefits from clever breakbeat percussion layers and a strong lyrical content. Keys melt into the words for cosy warm up vibes, and the listener is reminded of a sound that dominated clubland in the late ‘90s, becoming an inspirational genre for many young producers.
The midsection of the album is an audio ocean of deep emotion from the wistfulness of ‘A Musical Hug’ through the edgy Burial-esque Garage beats of ‘Connection Error’ towards the oriental ambience of ‘Emotion Per Byte’, everything flows naturally.
The second single due to be released just before Christmas is ‘Hack Into Your Soul’.

Its up-tempo Afro feel neatly juxtaposes those deeper moments with warm key and vocals. A secret weapon for the early morning floors that has a strong emotional content and bags of personality. Keeping the energy high on the album is ‘Delete Your Cloud’, which takes a powerful tribal path with intricate drum programming before the penultimate cut, ‘Digital Choral’ acts as analogue cleanser, before the finale ‘ berfahrt’ which gloriously plays out in widescreen technicolour.
The final single and title track ‘All That Fiberglass’ acts as the most dancefloor-focused cut on the album. Icy keys and vocoder vocals give an edgy and energetic peak time sound, a highlight of his recent live shows. The full vocal also showcases Blindsmyth’s song writing abilities and his development as an artist.

Überfahrt (Snippet)

*moods*
  compiled by Lara Potthoff 
  TOPzen, Gent/Belgium
 
  www.topradio.be

  Every thursday  8 pm CET
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Playlist
26.05.2022


glow - Coolmix
Cloudy - Corrado Saija & Giorgio Presti	
Pièces froides: II. Danses de travers, 2. Passer (TWO LANES Rework) - TWO LANES
Hollow - Maltex
01 - Rising - Extatica	
unconditional-love - Rosary			
Gymnopédie No. 1 (Dominik Eulberg Rework ) - Dominik Eulberg
Wasting Time - Arutani
Exile - Kanafoste
Gnossienne No. 5 (French 79 Rework (FRAGMENTS / Erik Satie)) - French 79	
Wonders - Ori
Avant-dernières pensées: I. Idylle (Snorri Hallgrímsson Rework - Snorri Hallgrímsson
Opa - Til Kolare		
bridge - Coolmix

*moods* by LARA POTTHOFF @ TOPzen 26.05.2022

Danke an die Veranstalter und alle die mit mir die Musik gefühlt haben. Es war großartig! :)

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Coming off of Kippo's 2 huge UK festival performances, Love Saves The Day and Boomtown, and AU/NZ tour, Oddsox is the banger for the after Boomtown feels and Kippo got this one to a tee. For fans of Two Shell and Four Tet.
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Our fourth podcast comes from one of the newest Oleeva family members, @Didacte.  He has provided us with 91 minutes of exceptional music and was kind enough to answer some of our questions. Enjoy!

- Tell us about yourself please Adrien, who are you, what you do and why you do it? 

"Adrien, french guy living in Spain, Madrid. 3 things constantly in my life for many years now: Spirituality, Mathematics and Music. 

Spirituality as I love to experience life in various ways, to expose myself to my fears, to loneliness, to silence, to the unknown. Not waiting for the storm to pass, but learn how to dance under the rain. I try to meditate constantly, to be somehow in contact with the true nature of things, sensations and relationships.

Mathematics as this is what I studied, many years, and what I do everyday, building predictive models for a spanish company. My rational and analytic self, at the same time really far from the intuitive insight of spirituality, and really close to it, as mathematics teach the brain to open itself to the perception of bigger spaces, to more dimensions, and to create solutions from a huge list of possible ingredients. 

Music, well I have been playing the piano and the guitar for more than 10 years, and also drums in some rock bands. I . Totally. Deeply. Love. Classical music. Working for months on a piano score written hundred years ago by a special man, and progressively understand the journey and the emotions he tries to communicate, is an incredible feeling. A connection to something immortal, beyond words. I love how surprising can be classical music. How in one move you can go from euphoria to melancholy. With one finger move. And now I am stuck in the infinite liberty of electronic music. It feels like painting the atmosphere. I used to use organic sounds as obviously it is way easier for our body to absorb organic waves and vibrations. It reaches the soul more easily, naturally.

In all the different steps of my life, music was with me, in France, in India, in New zealand, in Spain, with my family, alone. And not necessarily melodies. Not necessarily instrumental. Any evocative sound. As Victor Hugo said, Music is a noise that think."

- Tell us more about the mix, how you put it together, and what music is in there? 

"I was reading Alan Watts on that day, so I decided to start with his words, and Nuage, a track I made 8 years ago from a merger of a piano improvisation and notes of a Pad I used to meditate. Then it all started to accelerate, to become more intuitive, from the urgent need of a stable minimal groove, to the call of mystical atmospheres. Predictability to give strength to the unpredictable. Dirty kicks to summon cleaner ones. And piano drops as fresh air injections. The vocals I used basically came from Alan Watts and Mirra Alfassa, the mystical french woman who built this unique place called Auroville, in India. I used their word to refocus when my mind was traveling too far, and also to give some perspective to the sounds, and to the inner adventure that music can be."

- Please tell us what the future holds for you, or at least, what you hope that the future holds.

"For my future, I want variety. To feel life as a continuous music, and dance while it's playing. Musically, in the short-term I want keep learning technical aspects of production, to gain more freedom, to have more ingredients available. In the mid term I want to work more on improvisation, instrumental improvisation (mainly piano) and hardware improvisation. All together, to be able to capture the essence of some short and concrete moments, in one shot. Raw, pure, organic, imperfect and sincere music. And more globally, I want to try to live differently at one point. To stop stifling what I have inside. Create real and honest bonds with some people, take the time to feel the time, to get back to a natural rhythm, and from here, unleash creativity and hopefully absorb wisdom.
Oleeva is the key"

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