DFA Archived Selections (2018-2020) created weekly as an alternate history of new release Friday - part 3

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NTS Radio // SNO

Ἑλένη 2

DESCH

Stop&Go

Stop & Go (Original Mix)

Dreamer

Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (Single Version)

Hondo

Hondo agujero

Saints & Sinners

Pure Shores

Workingman's Dead

New Speedway Boogie (2013 Remaster)

Never Twice

Stanyan Street

Obaa Sima

Bome Nnwom

I Love Your Glasses

Cigarettes

Aroo

Ghana Baby DJ

Brainchild of Multi Culti A&R, Sascha Funke and Niklas Wandt were introduced by Dreems, who charted a course for the seasoned Berlin-based producer and funky multi-percussionist and singer. 

Wandt was just about to enter the scene forcefully with his collaborative 2LP with Wolf Müller and the debut single of his band Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge. In the icey cold of his warehouse rehearsal space, Funke had him record a variety of slapped, bowed and scratched percussions (congas, talking drum, prepared cymbals played with a bass bow) over his tracks. These first efforts were later expanded into joint sessions at Sascha's home studio and, within a few weeks, the journey reached it’s destination: Wibe strasse, Deutschland.

At first glance, they seem an odd couple: a techno veteran of almost thirty years meets a side-burned upstart socialized in Free Jazz and Krautrock. but the shared sonic influences come through in the hypnotic, dubbed-out sound, perhaps rooted in the close connection the two share to the Rheinland region in West Germany, Funke as part of the Kompakt family and Wandt by origin and socialization in the Cologne and Düsseldorf music scene centered around the Salon des Amateurs. Regional flavours, global appeal. Multi Culti, promoting local collaboration, one freaky record at a time.

Wismut [MC043]

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Sascha Funke & Niklas Wandt - Lobotomie

Neon Death EP

SHE Spells Doom - Afterlife II

Joro

produced & mixed by Dyani
artwork by Dyani

Airborne

Anna (Flowers Won’t Grow)

Blood Transfusion

Due West (Lafawndah Remix)

Bjørn Torske/Prins Thomas Remixes

Geckos (Bjørn Torske Version)

Start, Restart, Undo

Motorway

I Feel Alive

Colder & Closer

WHAT WE DREW 우리가 그려왔던

MY IMAGINATION 상상

MY IMAGINATION 상상

Maki / Mishima (Mule Musiq 242) Snippets

The Weird Venom Remix EP comes with no shortage of what its name implies...

Featuring remixes by Aryu Jassika (SWAK Catalog), Saint Deepthroat, Ekiti Sound (Crammed Discs)
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released May 14, 2020

Produced by,
Aryu Jassika
Saint Deepthroat
Ekiti Sound

Vocals, BŪJIN
Cover Art by Elijah Ndoumbé
Mastered by Dom Lennon
& Jumping Back Slash

Bujin - Weird Venom (Aryu Jassika Edit)

This Is Marijata

We Live In Peace

When J (LOS PLANETAS) urged his friend Ana Fernández-Villaverde, a painter up to then, to write her own songs, little did he imagine what he was starting. It was 2005 and she had bought her first guitar one year before.  Suddenly LA BIEN QUERIDA revealed herself as one of the brightest musicians to appear in recent Spanish indie-pop. Her demo, recorded in 2007 with the help of Horacio Nistal, made everyone who listened to it, and there were a lot of people who listened to it, fall in love with it. Her myspace page, with nearly 125,000 listens, is one of the most visited pages for a new artist. Her songs were simple things (with her on guitar and some minimal arrangements) but with a disarming beauty, fabulous poems about falling in love and out of love that follow the line of LOS PLANETAS without noise, the emotional intensity of SR CHINARRO without irony, the sweetness of LA BUENA VIDA or CLAUDINE LONGUET without the languor, the romanticism of FAMILY without the techno-pop costume. It was chosen best demo of the year by Mondo Sonoro and highlighted by Rockdelux. One of the most excited people was Antonio Luque (SR CHINARRO), who lent a hand as the band in a series of concerts in Madrid at the beginning of 2008.  The most popular girl ended up signing with Elefant, who finally have the privilege of releasing her first album.

“Romancero”, with 7 songs already known from the demo and 5 new songs, is one of the most awaited discs of recent years and it’s not exaggerating to say that it’s going to be one of the most important ones of the coming years. Ana went to David Rodríguez (BEEF), for the production, with the idea of distilling the marvelous production of LA ESTRELLA DE DAVID (David’s solo project) with clean sounds more fitting to the friendly environment of her melodies. The result is that Ana’s songs take on a unique artistic dimension with David’s inventive sound, and he shines like never before domesticated in the naturalistic beauty of Ana’s songs.

The album therefore has two sides: one the one side are Ana’s precious melodies, self-sufficient with their formidable lyrics, sincere declarations and mature reflections that reflect the always interesting and exciting paths of falling out of love, of frustration, of fear, the uncertainty and euphoria of love.  On the other hand you can also enjoy David’s superb work on the production and his personal arrangements, as peculiar and bizarre as ever. Always looking for the difference with the combination of such disparate elements that only he is able to imagine, but later they come together as if they were meant to be. And they have an admirable subtlety that doesn’t get in the way of the songs. It’s the vision of a privileged artist that ultimately increases the beauty of the songs in a surprisingly perfect fit and without taking away any protagonism from what is really important, which is Ana’s voice and lyrics.

In the end this all moves toward THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, not so much because of the sound but definitely because of the spirit, the quality and because of its personality. “Romancero” gets close to the level of “69 Love Songs” because it shares its dead-on combination of poetic sentiment and artistic individuality. They are songs that are dressed subtly eccentrically and originally without losing their ability to express feelings. And they do so in an intelligent, sincere and moving way. They are songs that drive into the heart and make a space in the head with apparently simple melodies, although the harmonies are not obvious at all and the arrangements even less so. It’s a work of art in its purest form, capable of communicating the most moving emotions through its beauty. Without a doubt, “Romancero” is a landmark album.

Romancero

De Momento Abril

Approximations of brooding Gqom to Techno strung through a continuum of intergenerational trauma.

Bujin - Weird Venom (Aryu Jassika Edit)

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