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LIES-169
Steve Summers-Of Unknown Origin
from the upcoming "Generation Loss" 2xlp
to be released June 2021

Generation Loss

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Steve Summers-Of Unknown Origin (LIES-169)

Memories of lumbering machines making their way toward a horizon as far off as the end of a summer day.

A track from the album-in-progress "Mer Rouge, Louisiana".

Photo: "1968 Rice Harvest", by Henry Tilbury, Jr.

Harvesters At Sunset

the prayer 'Gebet gegen die Arbeit' was written by Michael Stein in 1998

https://www.surfpoeten.de/jobs/gebet-gegen-die-arbeit/

bronko taubenheim - gebet

LER 1029: Influenza Prods. - Mémoire 

After a tonne of delays, we’re resurfacing with a compilation of music from Italy’s original “homewave” band the ‘Influenza Prods.’
 
Bruno De Angelis and Giovanna Gulinello unwittingly met in London in the late 70’s, after being introduced by a mutual friend. Although, it wasn’t until Bruno rescued Giovanna from an awkward date that the pair became a couple. At the time, music was just something they did for fun. Bruno already had an acoustic guitar and G bought a bass. Those were the days when you could start a new band, whether you could play or not, and new independent labels were springing up. Rough Trade Records was literally around the corner.

In 1981 the pair moved back to Italy and found an apartment in Rome. It’s here that they began to focus on their music and where they started ‘recording’ their tracks. First, they would lay down the rhythm, maybe add the Gigster (the name of their “cheap drum machine”), the bass, and then, as they made a copy of the first cassette onto a second cassette they would add guitar, more synth, or both at the same time. After that, it was not unusual to copy from the second cassette back into the first cassette adding even more “stuff”.
 
As with many artists during the early 80’s, the Influenza Prods’ sound was the direct result of the accessibility of emerging electronic instruments and the recording equipment available to them. The duo’s homespun recordings found a web of admirers in the unofficial distribution of tape trading and mail-art scenes. Despite the DIY ethos and the fact that most tapes were handmade, the Influenza Prods still managed to ‘release’ three albums which comprised of the Greatest Tits (1983), Cheek-A-Bomba (1984) and Quasi Solo (1985). Bruno and Giovanna were sadly subjected to serious family problems, including the loss of loved ones in their lives and eventually parted ways. However, to this day they remain close friends who keep in touch regularly.

Compiled by: Chris Bonato & Bridget Small

Design: Lewis Fidock & Bridget Small

Mastered by Dan Elleson

Distribution directly in the Antipodes, or via Rushhour for the rest of the globe

Mémoire

Anduma a Pe'

Leftovers

Rocking Gertrude

All those spirits, those walks of life, all those sound journeys between worlds, between continents. Australian duo KXB is back at R.i.O., bringing a follow up to their first record “Areas of Uncertainty”, released in 2023. This time an exquisite collab. With filmmaker and vocalist Thrush, member of the feverish band Concentration. The duo from Melbourne, and the singer from Berlin bring a collection of tracks, dubs and versions - written and produced over the last two years with the tape format in mind. Inspired by fabled underground cassette labels like New Zealand-based late 1980ees/ early 1990ees sensation Xpressway and mixed continuously as a nod to 90s jungle bootleg mixtapes like the Yaman tapes by LTJ Bukem, DJ Hype, Randall, or Peshay. Distinctive vocalist Thrush travelled South, and spent two sweltering afternoons with KXB in Melbourne, doing free-spirited improvisations in the studio, that were later pieced together into the resulting album. 13 variations in sound, in which Thrush's lyrics explore chasmic spaces and energies common to both Germany and Australia. Her voice dances partly on trip hopping rhythms and indie-tronics, while technoid vibes, alternative house zones, and vivid trips into kosmische top the collaboration off. A piece of art formed by a clique of like-minded souls – gathered their walks of life between worlds into explorer music of unexplored districts.

BANDCAMP

KXB & Thrush - DRIVING THROUGH A TUNNEL THAT IS FILLING FROM BOTH ENDS (Snippets)

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Nachti XX
Label: Nachtdigital
Catalogue No.: ND20
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Format: 2x 12inch Vinyl

Tracklist:
A - Giegling (25:36)
B - KLM (14:04)
C1 - Pandt (09:57)
C2 - Cologne Tape (04:44)
D - Nachti (24:00)

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Nachti XX

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Nachti XX (Preview) - C2 - Cologne Tape

a bit of my recording pre-history ca '83. a friend loaned me a macintosh computer with an interesting speech program for a weekend, and covering the willie dixon song "i've got my mojo working" seemed the next logical step...

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For LER 1023, we've put together a collection of recordings taken from the elusive Berlin band I.A.O., spanning their third phase from 1988 to 1995. Phase III commemorates the bands final line-up of three members; Achim Kohlberger, Ralf Östereich and Carsten Zielske. The sounds on this retrospective vary widely, however, link with threads of melancholic sequences, angular jamming and a focus on electronic soundscapes.
 
The tracks are pinned against a backdrop of political and social unrest in Berlin at the time. Two different cities had become one with the fall of the wall, driving a bubbling subculture attempting to reunite the capital. Seemingly irrelevant to what I.A.O. was producing, these territories dance parallel to one another. In the late 1980’s, Achim Kohlberger of the band and partner Dimitri Hegemann, were orchestrating ‘Atonal Festival’, these days known as Berlin Atonal. Soon after, they set-up of one of the first techno clubs in the world - UFO, today known as Tresor.
  
I.A.O. cites the cast of personalities they would come across in the clubs and pubs as influential in their songwriting, artists, outsiders or the ‘general dropouts.’ However, the works of IAO far resemble techno music. Phase III’s opening track Gospel IV introduces the band with their patience and restraint, synthesizers work to reveal folding melodies. The downtempo voyage continues with Marshmallow Girls, an insight into the band’s sensitive observations and hazy imagery. All Is Bliss presents a vocal mantra cooperating with nagging bass lines and euphonic percussion. Meanwhile, two instrumentals Love and Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Little Star  both typify and defy timeless dancefloor paradigms. The compilation signs off with Ferns, binding the icy yet bright tones found throughout.

Phase 3

Feel The Forgotten Sense

Another Paul Oakenfold remix of a Happy Mondays track.

Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (Think About The Future Mix - 7'' Edit)

From our studio to your desktop and out to your speakers. All tracks now re-improved with applied 'less=more' sonic wizardry.

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Sonne (Dub)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudE4dcVDP4

Bruch - Chemical Pt. 2 SOS Tape

Taken from the album 'I, Mustard Mitt' (ALT61).

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Pheromoans - (I'm A) Paper Towel (ALT61)

Taken from the album 'Drug of Choice' out 12/02/21.

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Cube - Neighbor (ALT63)

VED - The Embrace Of The Oarfish

Pre-order Raudie's debut album here: https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/now-the-spark-has-flown

Begin, a spark, ladybug, windowsill, notes app, eye, tap and touch, the ticking clock, somehow new, pleasure, distance, mud, patience, time, mystery, the flow, spirit, the phone, helixes, black tassels, Botticelli, Roman Bust, naïveté, Kronenbourg 1664, splinter, messages, salt, pepper, cherub, train, lake, Latvia, Airbus A380, Gare du Nord, memes, the planets, foolish, tender, summer, tears, romance, love, process, mirrors, blame, reflection, poems, sentences, pen, boy, man, ?, hourglass, exploding, hot, cool, dagger, death, life, the middle part, witness, hands, 10 fingers, hours, minutes, seconds, feel it, loser, blind, future, past, present, loneliness, friction, kismet, fiction, darkness, forever, Sisyphus, stuck, transience, change, constant, gilded, mountains, heavens, Venus, adore, doors opened, end.

All songs written, performed and produced by Raudie McLeod
Using a no-brand electric guitar, Nord Drum 3p, Korg Wavedrum, Shure SM58a, Ableton Live 10 and his voice

Mixing and mastering by Joseph Buchan.

Raudie and Super Utu operate on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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