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BAKK018 | Tala Drum Corps - Carillon (w/ Haron Remix) (12inch)

Distribution/vinyl: https://clone.nl/item65532.html
Vinyl/digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/carillon-w-haron-remix

High class, no fuss drum trinity. 
Two Tala Drum Corps tracks with an elastic remix by Haron.

A — Tala Drum Corps - Rattlesnake
B1 — Tala Drum Corps - Carillon
B2 — Tala Drum Corps - Carillon (Haron Remix)

Music: @taladrumcorps @wivah
Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Mike Kokken

Carillon (w/ Haron Remix)

Out now

BAKK018 | Tala Drum Corps - Carillon (w/ Haron Remix)

Crazy inside, I'm crazy by nature/
Chasing the light, not chasing the paper/

...

Find this track on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/chasing-the-light-single/id807430051

Find The SAME:
http://www.facebook.com/thesameofficialpage https://soundcloud.com/the-same-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYgI_VrU8fQ (MUSIC VIDEO)
https://soundcloud.com/the-same-5

MGM Records:
http://www.mgm-records.com
http://www.facebook.com/mgmrecords
http://www.youtube.com/user/MGMtunes 
https://soundcloud.com/mgm-records-label

...

This music was created in peace

iTunes

The SAME - Chasing the Light

BAKK019 | Werfol - Flubber (12inch)

Vinyl/digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/flubber
Distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item68453.html

Werfol debuts on BAKK with a stunning and diverse four tracker. Originally from Kaliningrad, Danil Inyushkin cooks up his meticulous electro with a dash of trap inspired sounds and a sprinkle of Avantgarde techno. His mad mix of styles is sonically unique, hard to pin down, and will challenge any dance floor. 

A1 — Flubber
A2 — Your Wife
B1 — Hypothesis
B2 — Cricket

Music: Werfol (Danil Inyushkin) @werfol
Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Graphic design: Mike Kokken
Text: Thomas van Linge

BAKK019 | Werfol - Flubber

The Album is out on January 27

Pre-order: ffm.to/choralfeeling

Credits
Written and produced by Job Oberman Including the voices of 30+ friends 
Artwork by Bob Verhoeven
Text by Gregory Markus
Mastered by Sjoerd Oberman

Choral Feeling

Buy/Stream

Oceanic - Choral Feeling (previews) - Nous'klaer LP 007

Markus Kenel - Bolorma (Nico Stojan's  Lee Thomson Remix)

Little tribute to one of my recent favourite cartoons, Netflix's "Bojack Horseman". 

Feel free to download and listen or play. If you want a wav/flac then drop a comment.

Patrick Carney (of The Black Keys) - Bojack Horseman Theme (Feedback's Horsing Around Beat Flip)

BAKK020 | V/A – xoxo [3x12inch]

Distribution: https://clone.nl/item75159.html
Digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/xoxo

This concluding release contains a selection of the many artists that took part on our label — from the first demo until the last drop of ink printed. 11 years, 11 tracks. Thank you all for tagging along.

xoxo

A1 Legowelt - Bos Ochtend Mist
A2 Aurora Halal - Spiral
B1 Antenna - Break Flute
B2 SFV Acid - UrbanFury128

C1 M.S.L. - Hydrolic
C2 RAFF - Radiant
D1 Tala Drum Corps - Gargoyle
D2 GEN-Y - SkyStalker

E1 Oceanic - Dala
E2 Don't DJ - nos(e)care
F1 Haron - De Papaverparade

Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Ruben Verkuylen

xoxo

BAKK020 | V/A - xoxo [BAKK020]

Plafond 8 — Ekolali / Tala Drum Corps (LP)

Vinyl/digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-8
Vinyl/distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item75975.html

A Ekolali — Totem Mollusca (14:45)
B Tala Drum Corps — tokyo subway (16:06)

Plafond continues, taking center stage after the mother label BAKK ceded. Here, two long-time collaborators, Ekolali, originating from Sweden, and Tala Drum Corps, from the Netherlands, await their returns. The former reappears with a characteristic approach earlier heard on 'Doggerland'. The latter did multiple dance releases yet now debuts for this series, expanding on his stylistic spectrum. 

Despite shared tempo, the energies of the track are each of their own. Pulsating with energetic urgency, Ekolali, towards hypnotic movement, Tala Drum Corps. 'Totem Mollusca' shoots for the sun, like a budding landscape, yellow rays, waterdrops – kraut-inspired yet club-like without seeking a climax. 'tokyo subway' has a marimba-ridden, timeless feel – a clock-ticking, crude atmosphere, as a dream long passed, slowly ascending. 

Known for its two-sided, two-songs format, Plafond offers two artists or artist combinations the freeform room for exploration and elongation of their respective sound and practices. This is the eighth in the series.

Music: Mattias Lagerkvist @ekolali / Tijmen Lohmeijer @taladrumcorps
Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Mike Kokken and Ruben Verkuylen
Words: Luke Cohlen @lukecohlen

Plafond 8

BAKKPlafond8 | Ekolali / Tala Drum Corps (LP)


Robert Hood "Minus"
Flying Rhythms "Home Away"
Moebius & Plank "Two Oldtimers"
Broadcast "The Playing Fields"
Broadcast "Peter The Painter"
Silver Apples "Dust"
-HISHAM AKIRA BHAROOCHA (TRIO) LIVE -
Broadcast "The Infinite Self"
Flying Rhythms "Doragon Balls"
Arthur Russell "You Can Make Me Feel Bad"
Sanso Xtro "Fountain Fountain"
Jean Guerin "Triptik 2"
Parson Sound "A Glimpse Inside The Glyptotec-66"
-HISHAM AKIRA BHAROOCHA (TRIO) LIVE -
Terry Riley "A Rainbow In Curved Air"
Moebius & Beerbohm "Dopplerschnit"


Moebius & Beerbohm "Doppelschnitt"

Here at Stavroz headquarters, we have some robots lying around. One of them is an awesome saxophone player, the other one knows how to handle the flute like a champ. So we put them together on the street. We didn't get many dimes, cents, euros or dollars, but everyone was in for a little street party! 
So here you can hear what happened that day + very soon you'll be able to buy it online, the guys at Wired Rec are so kind to share it with the world!

Buy this track

Stavroz - Robot Street Musicians

Plafond 4 — Ulla Straus / Oceanic [LP]

Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item57897.html
Digital: bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-4

A1 Ulla Straus — I Forgot to Take a Picture (12:03)
A2 Ulla Straus — Becoming Warm (6:24)
B Oceanic — Three Sides Of A Shell (19:21)
 ↳ 1. Aperture 
 ↳ 2. Columella
 ↳ 3. Sea If You Can Hear

The fourth Plafond sees fine-crafted contrasting pieces complement each other in courtesy of Ulla Straus and Oceanic. Along the wide arbitrary landscape of listening or 'ambient' music, it is a delight to have two artists, separated by the vast Atlantic, contributing quite opposite interpretations of such to the series. Perceptual time feels as a recurrent theme which binds them, albeit in a whole different modus operandi.

In her iconic tactile productions, Straus excavates levels of advanced musical complexity in the seemingly most simple. Throughout two tracks her crude and beautiful technique riffles, compositions that remain prone to the transient, combining field recordings with morphing saxophone and guitar. This is deeply evocative music that turns its recipient into a mode of contemplation. ‘I Forgot to Take a Picture’ breathes melancholic romanticism, ‘Becoming Warm’ feels lorn yet hopeful. Pastoral haze over a rouge-tainted barren, the crackling insides of a wooden forest house. Picturesque and minimalist, Pennsylvania’s Straus manages to temporarily stop the sand from gravitating downwards.

Oceanic antagonises Straus with the triptych ‘Three Sides of a Shell’, recalling different emotions adhering to the fourth dimension. As a performing artist, Oceanic masters the element of suspense. Here, over the course of nineteen minutes, a three-note sequence is explored within the producers imaginatory, chapterised, providing moments to navigate through his fictitious galaxy. Stuttering melodies across azure waters, synthesised bleeps as flickering stars over a moonlit mountain pass. Oceanic’s music feels advanced through actively incorporating contemporary futurism, whilst never losing the glacial glance that is so familiar to its early nineties foregoers. It is as if listening to ‘Three Sides...’ heightens the senses, towards possibility, innovation even, triggering illusions of time dilation, shattering the hourglass.

Comes in hand printed dreamy, pink sleeve, including Obi-strip, by the BAKK Innerspace Ink Station.

Music: @ullastraus / @oceanicocean
Design: Mike Kokken and Heer Badoux
Words: Luke Cohlen (@lukecohlen)

Plafond 5

BAKKPlafond4 | Ulla Straus / Oceanic (LP)

Plafond 6 — Cucina Povera & Haron (LP)

Vinyl/digital: bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-6
Vinyl/distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item59834.html

A	Cucina Povera & Haron — Riffittelyä (21:43)
B1	Haron — Maandag, Spiegeldag (6:47)
B2	Cucina Povera — Ajatus (9:26)

Plafond enters its second decade with Cucina Povera and Haron fusing the folkloric and futurist. Maria Rossi and Haron Aumaj (real names) honour musical cinematism on ‘Riffittelyä’, which slowly unfolds during a twenty-two minute trail of exploration, angst and redemption. Meddling voices pinch through an aural mist, Kubrickesque strings impend and cathedral organs relevate. Most striking is the compatibility of Rossi’s tangibility and Aumaj’s computerisation, seamlessly forming a renewed dynamic, as granular as it is loose in texture.

During this unique first collaboration it can be quickly forgotten both artists have highly distinctive styles. We are reminded of these singularities on the other half of the record, featuring two solo works, both rich yet contrasting in their colour and emotion. On ‘Maandag, Spiegeldag’, Aumaj sketches in orange chromatics, a featherweight composition that feels far away from the greyscale fragility that Rossi portrays on ‘Ajatus’. Showcasing two minimalist artists catapulted by their stunning debut albums, this sixth Plafond keeps the listener in constant awe, pointing us to the endless potential of spontaneity.

Comes in Pantone printed outer sleeve with deep red and yellow topped with a silk screened black and a soft pink inner sleeve, wrapped in a dreamy blue Obi-strip printed with white and black, by the BAKK Fuzz Factory.

Music: Maria Rossi @cucinapovera / Haron Aumaj @wivah
Mastering: Wouter Brandenburg
Design: Mike Kokken and Ruben Verkuylen
Words: Luke Cohlen @lukecohlen

BAKKPlafond6 | Cucina Povera & Haron (LP)

After releasing Oceanic’s 2017 live recording at the end of 2018, De School’s home imprint De Nieuw returns with four club-ready interpretations of Oceanic’s concert on modular synths and strings. First up is Oceanic’s take on his live recording, turned into the perfect fit for his halftime DJ-sets and a much-asked track ID. This track found its way to De School regulars upsammy and Pariah who have each created their own version.

Both are basement ready: a dub-inspired trip from Pariah’s side while upsammy performed her melodic magic on the string hook of the original. Closing off is Oceanic’s Beat Tool: a stripped-down drum workout that focusses on the percussion, the strings still echoing in the background. Together these tracks represent different visions of the original, both suitable for clubs in the future and home play today.
credits
released May 15, 2020

Mastering: Ten Eight Seven
Design: Edwin van Gelder (Mainstudio), Jeremy Jansen

Oceanic - Live At De School Club Versions (De Nieuw 02)

BAKK017 | GEN-Y / G.F. - The Third Mind (12inch)

Distribution/vinyl: https://clone.nl/item60772.html
Vinyl/digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-mind 

GEN-Y debuts on BAKK with a release that hits every corner. Four refreshing tracks that dabble in familiar styles without a single concern for tradition. Packed with three tracks by GEN-Y solo and one as G.F. together with Paule Perrier. Whether you like acid breaks, snappy electro, dreamy psychedelica or ghetto house with a twist, GEN-Y got you covered. Comes freshly served in screen printed comicly radiant artwork by the BAKK Catharsis Company.

A1 — GEN-Y - Cosmic Desert
A2 — GEN-Y - Earth #4
B1 — G.F. - Sugarbaby
B2 — GEN-Y - Drunk On Ya Lips

Music: @jinge  @user9603080666
Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Mike Kokken, Ruben Verkuylen
Text: Thomas van Linge

The Third Mind

BAKK017 | GEN-Y / G.F. - The Third Mind

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Swallow A Party LP

Tracklist

A1. Swallow A Party
A2. Step Snakes
A3. Never Done
B1. Technicolour Memories
B2. Mist In Tide
B3. A Window Drifting
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yeyeh founder Pieter Jansen has now conjured up another unlikely but inspired joint album, this time featuring award-winning free-jazz vocalist https://soundcloud.com/greetjebijmakwintet and leftfield house, techno and ambient producer https://soundcloud.com/oceanicocean.

The project has its roots in a chance meeting between Jansen and Bijma, a legendary figure on the Dutch jazz scene who in 1990 became the first woman to win the country’s top jazz accolade, the VPRO/Boy Edgar award. Apart from having previously worked with the likes of Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman), Jasper van ’t Hof, Han Bennink, Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker and her own solo projects, she’s in a league of her own.

Jansen is a big fan of Bijma’s 1996 heavily electronic collaboration with Jasper van’t Hof and Pierre Favre, Freezing Screens, and was with the friend who first introduced him to it when he bumped into Bijma. 
Excited to meet someone who had made one of his favourite records, Jansen took the opportunity to ask Bijma if she would be interested in working with young electronic music producers. To Jansen’s delight, Bijma quickly agreed.

Weeks later, Bijma stepped into the studio with Oceanic, a rising star of the Dutch electronic underground whose releases as Oceanic for Nous’klaer Audio and BAKK Plafond revolve around mechanical rhythms, opaque ambient textures, minimalist melodic movements and effervescent electronics. The pair quickly connected on an emotional and musical level, with Bijma taking her cues from Oceanic’s electronic sounds and rhythms, and Oceanic drawing inspiration from Bijma’s dexterous, mind-bending and otherworldly vocalizations.

After two hugely productive days, the cross-generational duo had completed a couple of mesmerizing songs – breathlessly haunting album opener “Swallow a Party” and chilly ambient closer “A Window Drifting” – and recorded several hours or improvisations that Oceanic later edited, layered-up and re-modelled.

The results are little less than spellbinding. The range and versatility of Bijma’s vocalizations is breathtaking, while Oceanic’s music – which cleverly incorporates the free-jazz singer’s vocal notes, tones and proclamations – swings between becalmed beauty and breathless intensity. 

Some of the set’s most striking moments are those where Oceanic re-contextualizes Bijma’s varied vocal sounds with the dancefloor in mind. On the pulsating “Technicolour Memories”, up-tempo “Step Snakes” and hypnotic “Never Done”, Bijma’s scat outbursts not only ride Oceanic’s rhythms, but also form part of the densely layered percussion tracks beneath. 

Like the release’s more downtempo and ethereal moments, these hybrid organic-synthetic compositions defy easy categorization, offering a unique brand of alien electronic/acoustic musical fusion that lingers long in the memory.

Artwork & Design:
Nol.one & Wimswim

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Swallow A Party LP [yeyeh003 snippets]

Preorder digital & vinyl: https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/album/eversines-plooi-w-oceanic-remix

Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/Eversines-RDS-Plooi-12/release/15420267

2019 was the year of breakthrough for Amsterdam-based talent and De Lichting staple Eversines. Continuing on his ascension, we’re chuffed to welcome him to the fold with ‘Plooi’ – a stupendous mini sonic odyssey of sorts, taking us from vaporous skylines to brightly hued seascapes. Both captivatingly melodic and kinetic to the full, the four tracks composing the backbone to Eversines’ new jaunt into elegiac dance territories work their magic in the gap betwixt zen-like atmospherics, velveteen acid, sun-bleached electro and chiseled breaks that step up to the plate.

Whilst the OG version of ‘Plooi’ eases us into a shape-shifting environment, swinging the pendulum between nu-age infused / Sino-flavoured harmonics, lysergic bass phrasing and muscular breaks straight out the UK rave scene’s heyday, the remix from De School resident DJ Oceanic alters the original into a subaquatic dub weapon, navigating its way across frothing and bubbling synth lines to emerge in geysers of thermal bleeping and rhythmic outbursts. A more jacking affair, ‘Efbol’ carves out a lane of its own in between angular techno and playful, retro-laced electronica a la KLF meets James Holden in his ’Idiots Are Winning’ days. Completing the set on a more understated note, ‘Missing’ in collaboration with RDS promises to fill your headspace with thoughts of beauty and quiet. Merging FX-dipped piano chords, laid-back junglism and heavily verbed-out envelopes to form a well unique piece of ambient lushness, Eversines ushers us into a world of vibrant musical rapture, nestling away from standardized tropes and patterned behaviours.

Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Cut at The Exchange.

Eversines - Plooi w/ Oceanic Remix (OYSTER27 - Snippets)

Music label, based in The Hague.

BAKK then, now Plafond.