Apt E Vol 2 featuring Wetman and Sword of Thorns

Vinyl available worldwide now via Lobster Records and select fine vinyl retailers! 

https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/wetman-sword-of-thorns-apt-e-vol-2?_pos=2&_sid=4440843c5&_ss=r

US vinyl and digital available via Bandcamp

https://apte.bandcamp.com/album/apt-e-vol-2

Apt E Vol 2 Premieres

Live and in Studio recordings from the Apt E DJs and their many aliases

Mixed by Apt E

Apt E Vol 1

@AptE is a record label, party series and DJ duo founded and operated by Cameron and Maxwell in Seattle, WA. Launched in 2017 hosting underground parties in off-the-beaten-track locations around Seattle, they pride themselves on booking entirely local line-ups providing a platform for marginalised communities and have formed an exciting dancing community.

Our mix series was always formed to showcase the full spectrum of influences of its contributors and Apt E deliver exactly that, something totally different to our current catalogue but perfectly fitting for a sunny Monday. Downtempo into ambient Jungle - cuh’mon!

www.earfulofwax.com/blog

EARFUL OF | Apt E

OFF99 Presents: Apt E

Apt E returns with a pair of lengthy cosmic transmissions from Seattle-based electronic outfit, Tape.

A - Escape Your Shape wades through swampy guitars and modulated jitters before entering a boundless collage of stretchy, acid-bound funk wahs and spacy rhythms launched toward the horizon. Along the way, shifting shapes, dancing chords and washed out motifs swirl around until they’re released into the ether, only to elegantly reenter orbit before dematerializing once more. The jam rebounds one final time, wringing out the final traces of euphoria, before landing gently after the nearly 12 minute long trip.

B - Flip Your Trip hits the ground running; relentless drums take off in tandem with deep analog modulations as higher frequencies slowly creep onto the canvas. Frenzied electronics emerge from underneath blankets of delay while sweeping atmospherics expand and contract with the heavy tides of guitar and droning bass. The vortex erodes to a sticky whirl before drifting back to the surface, entering and exiting a series of cosmic passages until finally being abducted by an arpeggio vacuum and fully melting down after 14 minutes.

Written and recorded by Tape in Seattle, Washington, 2020

Tape is:
Cameron Kelley
Maxwell Washburn
Taylor Edmark

Mixed by Alex Markey.

Limited to 300 uniquely hand stamped copies.

Launches Nov 1, preorder available now!

US:
https://apte.bandcamp.com/album/apt-e-vol-3

EU:
https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/tape-apt-e-vol-3

Apt E Vol 3 Previews

Third Tuesday's on @internetpublicradio 
@apte is a record label, party series, and DJ duo based out of Seattle, WA.

~What is the inspiration and vision behind Apt E?

Apt E has always been driven by a freewheeling sense of artistic expression beyond outlets exclusive to music. A strong friendship in which we co-enabled each other’s off-kilter concepts and senses of humor catalyzed our growth through shared experiences in our community. Apt E was born as an outlet to share our visions, which manifest as conceptual pieces across sonic and environmental mediums.  

~Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix and your process?

Color, texture, inward observation, music that moves us and grounds us, favorites old and new taken from curious corners of our collection. 

It’s difficult for us to properly verbalize how these tracks come together or from where. We are constantly sharing music with one another and feeding off of each other’s energy. We both share a strong sense of what this mix is and where we wanted to take it but neither of us know how to put that down on paper. Our process is very organic and stems purely from our adoration for sounds musical and otherwise. 

~If resources weren’t an issue, what is your biggest dream for Apt E, if you could make anything happen?

Funding a full production (carbon neutral) vinyl plant locally would be a priority, plus a handful of loft/gallery/warehouse art spaces locked down in Seattle would help ensure the underground a future here. If our resources truly were not an issue, the entire world would be a space that shares the same strength in community, equality, and expression as we do in our dedicated underground spaces. Until then we’re starting small and taking it one step at a time. 

~Any exciting things coming up Apt E or as individuals?

The vinyl for our third output, Apt E Vol 3, has finally been delivered. Hear it Nov 1st at apte.bandcamp.com :)

Our Tomorrow w/ Apt E (Seattle)

Apt E steps into the world of psychedelic komische music with two long-form jams conjured up by the Apt E Band, Tape. 

Available everywhere now!
https://apte.bandcamp.com/album/apt-e-vol-3

Worldwide at
https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/tape-apt-e-vol-3?_pos=1&_sid=9ab4e9013&_ss=r

Tape - Escape Your Shape - Apt E Vol 3 available now!

DJ set recording from 1:30-3am at a winter underground soiree hosted and supported by a very kind community in BC 

thanks for having me! enjoy

recording mastered by Alex Markey
photo: IG @ sunatnight.art

tondiue at Dolly

Line and room recording from Apt E's closing set at The Lodge; a weekend-long retreat held annually, deep in the mountains of Central Washington. This recording picks up right where the OFF99 cats left off, beginning around 10:30am and wrapping up sometime past 4pm... Endless love to all the party people who kept it rolling into the afternoon. Truly the best party around, and an honor to close out Apt E style. See ya next time!

For domestic appointments to rock your spot, please contact apt.everyone@gmail.com

Photo by Markel Uriu

Tenacious E @ The Lodge 2022

Streets 1:10 visualizes a society pushed past the limits of consumption. Aliens - which, as it turns out, look a lot like the little green beings we've always imagined them as - have completed their first successful landing on a distant blue planet. "We come in peace!" they exclaim after transcribing the local language... unfortunately they're too late to help. Those still living on the planet appear to be subsisting off of round pieces of phonographic plastic that survived societal breakdown.

Artwork by Ruben Griggs

TASCAM DR-05

E#1 - Streets 1:10 - The Visible Leftovers of Our Consumption

RX-0 Banshee dreams of a future where things are "just fine." A future that is not a glistening utopia, nor a cyberpunk hellscape. A future where our day to day problems may still exist, but we are equipped with the resources and community necessary to face them head on. A future where the impending threat of development and displacement no longer haunts us. A future that we can share, and celebrate. A future that's ours.


Artwork by Ruben Griggs

E#2 - RX-0 Banshee - Dreaming of the Future

E#3 - Rat Frames - DR0000_0031

The rain is finally falling. It's almost like you've been waiting your entire life for this moment. So has everyone else.

E#4 - tondiue - sweet scent

Forbidden Zone slips and trips through The Space Between; the Nooks and Crannies of our world which humanity both fears and reveres.

Artwork by Smelku

E#6 - Forbidden Zone - The Space Between

Unmastered line & room recording from a very special set at The Lodge, August 17, 2019 22:30 - 00:30

For the fifth year, a handful of campers ventured deep into the Washington wilderness for a weekend of explorative electronic environments with a heaping helping of heavy hanging. Sandwiched between heavyweights T.Wan and Mystery Contusion, Apt E straps on the worm-vision goggles and dives in.

Photo by Valerie Calano

Apt E @ The Lodge

Snippets of Apt E Vol 1 

A 12" VA compilation featuring tunes from Seattle heavyweights Eve Defy, Flora FM, and 'nohup'. 

Vinyl and digital available now at
apte.bandcamp.com 

A1 - Eve Defy - Making Music
A2 - Flora FM - Plastic Pulp
B - 'nohup' - Substance P 

@evedefy
@florafm
@miseryconfusion

Apt E Vol 1 Previews

The first installation in the Apt E catalog. A compilation of boundary-pushing breaks and electro from Seattle heavyweights Eve Defy, Flora FM, and 'nohup'. Every record is handstamped with a different set of vintage ink stamps.  

Available via bandcamp https://apte.bandcamp.com/album/apt-e-vol-1 or your favorite online record retailer

Vol 1

Flora FM - Plastic Pulp(Out Now)

Walkie Shiitake steps into the Environmental Nexus, where textures of everyday life become indistinguishable from the objects associated with them.

Artwork by @Smelku

E#7 - Walkie Shiitake - Toad's Tools

Available now! 

Vinyl and digital available exclusively from the Apt E bandcamp:
https://apte.bandcamp.com/

The second installment of the Apt E vinyl series comes courtesy of two luminous enigmas of the Seattle scene, Wetman and Sword of Thorns.

Staking claim on outside tracks A1 & B1 is Wetman, co-owner and operator of @vivid-recordings

A1 - I Can't Stop is a dense and steamy masterclass of morphing breakage delivering ecstatic release by means of perspiration. It's not that Wetman doesn't WANT to stop. It's that he CAN'T stop.

B1 - Wine is a searing journey inwards — a stunning aural hallucination from elsewhere designed to summon even the stiffest of bodies to the mind's dancefloor.

Bearing Seattle's footwork torch, Sword of Thorns lands on inner tunes A2 & B2.

A2 - Misidentified bounces into your heart with its galloping low-end flavor of funky drum workouts. Don't get mistaken for someone who'd be outside smoking when this one gets dropped. 

B2 - I'm Still Dancing closes out the record with a buoyant groove beamed to Earth from the skies above. Elegant heads-down broken beat that effortlessly floats into the horizon. One for the after's afters. 

Mastered by (the legend) Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven. 
Limited to 300 uniquely handstamped 12" records.


NON-US BUDS: Due to the ongoing public health emergency, we've yet to get set up with an international distributor. Hang tight! It's important that we get some of these copies outside of the states as soon as we can.

Apt E Vol 2 Previews

Available worldwide now via Lobster Records and select fine vinyl retailers! 
https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/wetman-sword-of-thorns-apt-e-vol-2?_pos=2&_sid=4440843c5&_ss=r

US vinyl and digital available via Bandcamp
https://apte.bandcamp.com/album/apt-e-vol-2

B2 - Sword Of Thorns - I'm Still Dancing

B1 - Wetman - Wine

A2 - Sword Of Thorns - Misidentified

A1 - Wetman - I Can't Stop

Welcome

Apt E is a record label, party series, and DJ duo based out of Seattle, WA

Apt E Vol 3 available Now!

Past:
2/29/20: Apt E presents Leap Day with T.Wan

1/11/20: DJ Bubble @ Pony

9/20/19: tondiue and 'nohup' as 2POC @ Kremfest

8/17/19: Apt E @ The Lodge 

7/11/19: Tondiue @ Kremwerk - Closing set for Lone

6/21/19: One Single Beam @ Audible Bicycle Day Year 12

6/14/19: One Single Beam @ Turbo Sessions 1

5/24/19: tondiue & Rat Frames w/Tech Startup @ Timbre Room

4/27/19: RX-0 Banshee at 13th Annual Alder Arts Walk, Tacoma

2/23/19: Apt E pres. Eve Defy, 'nohup' and Flora FM w/ DJMC @ Location TBH

1/31/19: RX-0 Banshee & Streets 1:10 @ Nacho Borracho with DJ Explorateur

10/13/18: Apt E pres. DJ Having Sex and Paris Siris @ Location TBH

7/26/18: Apt E x Vivid Pres. The Splash Mountain EP Launch Party @ Timbre Room

6/8/18: Apt E pres. Simone

1/6/18: Apt E Brings You Underground with Raj and Succubass

8/5/17: Apt E pres. Midnight Migration 35

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