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2018

Choons August 2018

Summer is coming to a close.... this one took a little more curating than usual. As ever there is a plethora of tasty sonic morsels out there, but getting them into the right playing order to give you maximum pleasure on the ride was a challenge.
I hope you (faceless internet entities) enjoy my offering to the void and if you do please share with people. Some of the folks on here are pretty unknown so every little helps!

August 2018

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Something calm

"'I Fell in Love' is a lush and emotive tune, one whose airy melodies and icy structure mirrors the group's "Scandinavian surroundings of native forests and snow," from which Gidge is said to gather much of its inspiration. Spanning over six minutes, the track moves at a patient pace, gradually adding melodies and new layers of miniature percussion to the song's somber bounce as it builds towards its climax."
- Glenn Jackson, XLR8R

Order our debut album 'Autumn Bells' here:
https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-bells

Download 'I Fell In Love' for free over at XLR8R:
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/05/i-fell-love

Autumn Bells

I Fell In Love

Gidge - I Fell In Love

from the album 'dropped pianos', available 10/10.

Tim Hecker 'Sketch 5'

Track taken from the new album 'Dropped Pianos' released through Kranky.

Fluid Radio review:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/10/dropped-pianos/

Tim Hecker - Sketch 4

Initially being released as a limited 12" vinyl edition on Record Store Day 2017, it will be re-released on vinyl, CD and digital formats on June 16th due to popularity. Pre-order 'Umbrella' on EP/CD/DL: http://phonofile.link/umbrella

Worlds collide as the iconic Penguin Cafe and Japanese producer Cornelius' mutual admiration for one another led to them joining forces for this four-track Umbrella EP.

The pair crossed paths in 2012 when Penguin Cafe were touring in Japan, and Cornelius’ band Saryu Saryu supported them in Tokyo. Since then they decided to seize the opportunity to work together, and have reworked and reimagined existing tracks of their own, alongside two new Penguin Cafe songs.

“Meeting up with Cornelius in Tokyo felt like such good fate we kind of had to do something together. And this two-way remix worked great as we could work from different sides of the planet but still end up with something by us both. His electro vibes inspired us not just with Birdwatching but also Dull Sun and it's a path we carried on down with the new album.... so glad we did that.” — Arthur Jeffes

“I was listening to Penguin Cafe since high school so was excited to be able to collaborate with them.
When I went to see their show in Tokyo I was surprised that they performed Bird Watching at Inner Forest. It was an honor for me. If there is a chance to collaborate again, I look forward to that day.” — Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius)

The complimentary sounds of Penguin Cafe on piano and strings, merged with the electronic soundscape of Cornelius, form this special collaborative piece.

Umbrella EP

Buy 12"/CD/DL

Penguin Cafe - Solaris (Cornelius Mix)

Analog Dialog

NUMBER 6 feat O. Jourdan

Number 6 feat O. Jourdan (Hushpuppies)

@perel-music

Perel - Die Dimension 
Debut single out now on DFA
LTD vinyl pressing feat. Jayda G & Massamiliano Pagliara

Buy digital/vinyl here: http://smarturl.it/DieDimensionSingle

Perel - Die Dimension

A Humdrum Star

Bardo

DJ Koze exists both above and beyond club culture as we know it – his albums and remixes flying free from genre and trend – and symbiotically woven into its heart. Yes, he always abstracts and weirds out the principles of house, techno, hip hop, pop, psychedelia, exotica and so forth, but he does that because he understands them. And when it comes to club-demolishing tracks, he understands those principles as well as just about anybody on earth.

Thus he could create an enduring club tune like 2015's “XTC” that is strange, contemplative, even disturbing, bore little relation to anything around at the time, yet still got bodies moving and sweating better than way more obvious techno bangers. And thus the knock knock album, which melts a million genres and none into one another, can comfortably include “Seeing Aliens”.

“Seeing Aliens” unquestionably is a banger, its bass riff snaking around your body like a python, its high-drama strings, pianos and outbursts of noise designed for maximum crowd pressure release. But, again, it sounds like nothing else, and its dynamics and twists unfold over eight and a half minutes in ways that will mess with your head every time no matter how many times you hear it.

The exclusive b-side track, “Nein König Nein” (“No King No”!), meanwhile, is slightly gentler on the face of it: it's less about sonic pressure, more about hip-shaking syncopation. But it too tells strange fairytales in its peculiar and brain-tweaking accumulation of detail, and though you'll hear archetypal sounds from the heart of house and disco in it, every last one of them becomes new and otherworldly.

Pampa030

DJ Koze - Nein König Nein (Pampa030)

As of yet unreleased track. ©Unseen 2017

Goldmund - Pavane

aAirial - Outlet

Stimming x Lambert recorded an album together: EXODUS. To be released on KRYPTOX, a brand new label from Berlin, on 9th of march 2018. You can preorder the album already: https://stimmingxlambert.lnk.to/EXODUS

Video Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LbBCrp4s-Y

Tourdates: 
13.03. London - Corsica Studios
14.03. Dublin - Sugar Club 
17.03. Istanbul - Salon 
21.03. Berlin - Berghain Kantine 
22.03. München - Ampere 
23.03. Hamburg - Molotow

http://kryptox.org/

Stimming x Lambert - Edelweiss

Night Cruising

[Premiere] Güero - Night Cruising

Heavy Rotations Vol 1 is Maeve's first long player. Releasing a
compilation has long been an ambition of the label, however time was the
key component in producing a record we could all be proud of. The best
laid plans can often fall by the wayside, having a clear idea of what
you want to achieve with a record like this changes constantly as you
collect the pieces of the puzzle and try fit them together in a way that
makes sense.

As well as the label founders we started by also inviting friends that
had already released on Maeve, to contribute to the compilation. This
was a good starting point as each of those artists are all quite
different from one another so we felt it could produce some interesting
results. There was no brief, just a blank canvas to contribute something
they felt belonged on the label. It was also super important for us to
use this record as a platform for lesser known artists to showcase their
work.

So after 2 years of planning we finally have an 11 track compilation
together which will be delivered as a triple vinyl in early June. It is
a record that developed and changed a lot over that period but now is
something Maeve is very excited to share with the world.

On May 19th we will launch the record at Funkhaus Berlin with a line up
compiled of those who contributed to the compilation.

Artist: Various
Label: Maeve
Title : Heavy Rotations Vol 1
Catalogue : MaeveLP01
Format: Vinyl, digital
Release date:
Digital: 08/06/2018
Vinyl: 08/06/2018

Track list :

A1. Mattheis - PT4

A2. Aera - Glass Channel

B1. Isolée - No Let

B2. Dokumn - Come for You

C1. Ed Davenport - Mendocino

C2. The Drifter - Three Words Max

D1. Human Space Machine - Mitochondria

D2. Oliver Deutschmann - The Infidel

E1. Mano Le Tough - An Hour In The Morning

F1. Nathan Jonson - There's A Pink In There

F2. Kev Sheridan - Samhain

E1. Mano Le Tough - An Hour In The Morning (192kps)

Exclusive Cornucopia 'Forever Gone'

Mysterious project Cornucopia releases its sophomore EP, 'Forever Gone' on Canada based label microCastle. The EP's title track, a 11:34 minute voyage into the depth of organically sounding spheres, shines through its consciousness of combing transcendental soundscapes with nature and therefore perfectly fits the label's musical philosophy. After an almost three minute build-up of diverse spherical elements 'Forever Gone' then introduces the congas, which in combination with the aforementioned spherical soundscapes form the body of the track. But just as you expect to be carried to the end of the track 'Forever Gone' closes in for the final chapter as the bass line sets in.

Cornucopia's EP 'Forever Gone' will be released on July 27th, 2018 on microCastle.

Buy the EP here:
https://www.beatport.com/release/forever-gone/2333668

Artist & label information
Cornucopia: www.facebook.com/thisiscornucopia // @cornucopiaofficial
microCastle: www.facebook.com/microcastle // @microcastle

Visit & follow Torture the Artist at:
www.torturetheartist.net
www.facebook.com/torturetheartist
www.instagram.com/torture_the_artist
www.twitter.com/TorturingArt

Forever Gone

Buy here

EXCLUSIVE: Cornucopia - Forever Gone [microCastle]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-melly-shrubbery

After a successful detour under the moniker of DJ Après Ski over a year ago, Dublin-based producer @melkeane returns to @majorproblems in his main guise with 'The Beds' - a richly hued slice of soothing electronic hoodoo that'll have you regaled from start to finish.

Melly - Shrubbery [Major Problems]

Get it here: http://smarturl.it/ADID034

„It's Summer. Here's our Summer Sampler 2018. Enjoy!“ Leeeeee.


Track listing:      
Digital: (03. August 2018)
1: Facundo Mohrr, Valdovinos - November 
2: Jamie Stevens,Joe Miller - Wanderjahr 
3: Life Less Ordinary - Moments (YokoO's Soft Retouch)   (DIGITAL ONLY)
4: Sébastien Léger - Blowfish
5: Rowee - Butterflies
6: Volen Sentir - Arrival
7: Jonas Rathsman - Nazca
8: Leo Grünbaum - Beast In The Dark feat. Luke Temple
9: Mark Finkel & Viki Makrianis - Anyone Who Had A Heart (GHIZ Retouch)

Vinyl: (31.August 2018)
A1: Facundo Mohrr, Valdovinos - November 
A2: Jamie Stevens,Joe Miller - Wanderjahr 
B1: Sébastien Léger - Blowfish
B2: Rowee - Butterflies
C1: Volen Sentir - Arrival
C2: Jonas Rathsman - Nazca
D1: Leo Grünbaum - Beast In The Dark feat. Luke Temple
D2: Mark Finkel & Viki Makrianis - Anyone Who Had A Heart (GHIZ Retouch)

Connect with All Day I Dream
https://soundcloud.com/alldayidream
https://www.facebook.com/alldayidream/
https://twitter.com/AllDayIDreamOf
https://www.instagram.com/alldayidreamintheclouds/

Sébastien Léger - Blowfish

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-patricia-early-stages-of-something

‘Early Stages Of Something‘ on @nona-rec strikingly evokes the constantly evolutive, WIP-friendly feel of @patriciaaa's compositions; recorded in single takes and as little retouched as possible – allowing him to “view mistakes that, in the past I would’ve edited out, as unique events in a song that only happen once.”

Free Lunch

Patricia - Early Stages Of Something [Nona Records]

Aleksandir is next up for Church with a seven track mini LP
Release date 31st aug 

Aleksandir:
https://soundcloud.com/dialogg

Church:
https://soundcloud.com/churchuk
https://www.facebook.com/churchofficial

Order

PREMIERE: Aleksandir - Contrails [Church]

New album coming up September 21st
https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/inner-river

Inner River - First Currents

Buy - https://www.zrecords.ltd.uk/new-releases

One of the standout tracks from Joey Negro’s Produced With Love album and a firm favourite of Gilles Peterson, "Distorting Space Time" gets the full remix treatment.

Kicking it off is Chicago legend Ron Trent, who provides his own take on the original funked out, Arthur Russell flavour, moving it into deeper, more housed up territory.

Fouk bring their hazy, jazz tinged style building the remix around those warm Rhodes chords, shuffling rhythm and low pulsating bassline. 

Joey Negro adds his own new Space Funk remix featuring Kaidi Tatham on keys which is a deep, jazzy broken beat groove with extra vocoder solo from Sunburst regular Tony Remy.

ZR SHOP

Joey Negro - Distorting Space Time (Fouk Remix)

Buddy Love - Sorry That I'm Drifting

German Jazz quintet Fazer (@fazerfazerfazer) readies the release of their latest 12“ "White Sedan" equipped with remixes from Glenn Astro, Hodini, and Werkha.

The original track was built on the "Guaguanco", a traditional latin rhythm that is closely tied to dance. Here, Glenn Astro and Hodini dub it out in a nice and chilled out session that calls to mind early 2000s Downtempo Electronica. The duo previously released an LP on Apollo Records which was essentially a split track list, so this remix is technically their first proper collaborative effort, and the result is promising!

Preorder 12": http://ow.ly/DcxG30lwIfh

White Sedan

Preorder 12"

Exclusive Premiere: Fazer "White Sedan (Glenn Astro & Hodini Remix)"

Taken from 'Veriditas' LP by Helios out August 31, 2018.

Order 'Veriditas' at: goo.gl/HgW7fX
Or at the retailer of your choice: Ghostly.lnk.to/helios-veriditas

Veriditas

Helios - Even Today

Swedish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Menke, who recently released her debut EP Till Havet via Size/Cosmos, will release a remix of her track ‘Nattskärran’ from acclaimed German electronic producer Christian Löffler.

Using Menke’s hushed melancholia as a backdrop, Loffler injects ‘Nattskärran’ – a stunning interpretation of Karin Boye’s poem of the same name – with deep house beats and underlying synth lines, a far stretch from Menke’s more folk-tinged music.

Speaking about the track, Loffler says: ‘Nattskärran’ moved me from the first second. Instantly I knew that the darkly emotive Scandinavian timbre of her voice aligns with my artistic world perfectly."

Inner River - First Currents

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