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To celebrate the year that was 2014 I am giving away a special remix. I guess Pachakuti was my first ever exposure to Andean music - when I was about 8 years old the group came to do a workshop in my primary school. As it was a bit of something special in my little town in the north of England, we bought the CD. This week I found it just this same gem gathering dust at my parents house and decided to give it a 21st century edit.

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So, andino, english, roots, remix! Looking back to look forward! Here's to Pachakuti and here's to 2015.

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Pachakuti - Agua Clara (El Búho Remix)

1-Island

First track from an upcoming album inspired by Shpongle's take on a chilled and down tempo approach to Psytrance with multi-continental influences. 

This is the full version with an extra part of an intro 

138 BPM
G Phrygian 

production notes:
This started out with a narrative I wrote for the track about a lone figure that awoke without memory in a cave that appeared to be sentient, and inhabited ravers entranced by strange relics. The usual psychedelic trope stuff. I recorded the vocals myself, and used them to inform the initial arrangement of the track. It became evident that the story would result in a evolving and winding musical expedition. However, my voice really didn't suit it. So I used elevenlabs to generate a new AI version of the vocals - that are used here. Later I stripped most of the vocals out, however the story they informed is now the song.

Each track I make offers new challenges.. here I really wanted to shift genres and sounds a lot. It sounds quite basic, but there's a lot going on here from a bassline that absolutely isn't traditional psytrance (although the base pattern is inspired by "Robotoised" by Quirk), to shifting from saw bass, to square wave, to switching the whole thing up in to a Brazil-inspired shponglised breakdown - considering I had no knowledge of this musical style, let alone how to produce it. However the real challenge was finishing this track. The arrangement has been 'complete' for months now with me tweaking and trying to polish it up enough to release it. 

I also decided to make this a multi-part song. Again, inspired by Shpongle albums where tracks eb and flow between each other. Part 2 of this isn't included here, but I hope I can make it become a full mixed album. Something for later.

Deep & Hypnotic

deep & hypnotic (full version) - 138 bpm G

By using a sonic timetravelling device, SiebZehN managed to get back to the point in time when Miko and Rainer were stranded in spain. Luckily, by the electronic devices communicating with acoustic instruments, they managed to get into the same timeline again. This had to be celebrated, by making music of course.

This is the result :D

Stranded In Spain

Today marks the dawn of a new era in the politics world and 2016 saw monumental shifts in how the world is shaping up for the future. Inspired by a atmosphere of desperation, frustration and a lack of hope we went to music to seek solace, inspiration and a reminder of the incredible things humans are able to do if they are open minded, work together, cross borders and get creative.

Mare Insularum translates as Sea of Dreams and also the name of one of the moon's many seas. In line with our collective, Shika Shika's, vision, the album not only showcases music that blurs borders and genres, seeking inspiration from past and present, but also music that offers hope, escape, inspiration...

Despite these shifts and the apparent slide into a dangerous new world, at Shika Shika we also believe 2017 is going to be a year of resistance and of hope in every corner of the globe. We believe in the power of music and we believe in the power of collaboration. 

We want to say thanks to all the artists for contributing new tracks, edits and pieces directly written for this compilation.

You can download and support Shika Shika, if you are able to here:
https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/track/grupo-naidy-el-botellon-nicola-cruz-remix

Mare Insularum

Grupo Naidy - El Botellon (Nicola Cruz Remix)

Meadow High

Don't step back for the new day rising
On the run, trying to find my way in

What can be described if it meets my eye?
For all I've wanted is to shine as bright 
Am I narrow minded if I can't see what is mine?
To me she smiles

On the Wall

Her eyes are closed, but fully aware
I hear them breathe
Just an echo in the night
Hear them weep, hear them cry

I can't get rest from the rain
Naked and swollen, I won't get red in the sun
Even sweeter to make them wise men proud
In the clouds embrace me in your arms

My sweet delight
I'm blinded by the crystal light
A crack in the sky, was it too much for my naked eye?
It's the nature of her kind
Come with relief and leave with a sigh

Recorded at Jyväskylä and Tampere with Tino Virtaniemi and Vesa Ronkainen. 
Mixed and mastered by Vesa Ronkainen.

A Flood Delayed

On The Wall (including - Meadow High)

Up from the Dust

Lele Yane (feat. Irina Mikhailova)

There, I've been a while
Isn't everything like you remembered?
A bloom ongoing, if you will
Stands uneven, still

Apart from the show, what did you know?
Am I like the rest, I wonder?

When the sun won't rise 
you feed on me but I won't die
I won't question, I won't let it show
Am I dumb if i got to know?
What went past my eyes?
What fell beneath the ice?

Who's lying next to you?
Who's there always beside you?
Angel who fell down,
raped by the sullen ground

So let it be the faith of a restless head
Stunned by the cover, the shades of my debt
Does it go away when it eats my head?
Yours I am truly to shed my skin
And yours is the fire, the beautiful breeze
A calming voice
Restless I am
Yours is the fire, the beautiful breeze
Yours is the fire, the beautiful breeze

Once again I fall down
To be raped by the sullen ground

  

Vocals, guitars, composition and lyrics by Kalle Mattila
Recorded by Tino Virtaniemi and Vesa Ronkainen
Mixed and mastered by Vesa Ronkainen

Sullen Ground

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Guitare: Zenko Yako
Image featured: Hadra Altervision Records

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