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Selections // 16th February

out now on @YoungTurks - limited vinyl release, digital hopefully dropping in the new year.

Sampha - Plastic 100 (Batu Remix)

Buy: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/challenge-me-foolish

Mike Paradinas returns to his µ-Ziq moniker after five years. Inclement is a lumbering, spooky, peak-time Paradinas melody from 1998, it's arpeggios intertwining to make more than the sum of it's parts.

From the album "Challenge Me Foolish" out 13th April

Challenge Me Foolish

Inclement (from the album 'Challenge Me Foolish" 13th April)

Full stream of Frank Bretschneider's dubby "Elastik," a track from his forthcoming album 'Lunik,' out February 16 on Shitkatapult. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2018/02/premiere-hear-a-dubby-cut-from-frank-bretschneiders-new-album/

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Lunik

More info

Premiere: Frank Bretschneider - Elastik

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

As we approach our 5th Birthday we revisit a classic track from the catalogue that’s only ever been available on vinyl.

HOUND5TOOTH: FIVE YEARS

Lolita (Dub Mix)

Spotify

Special Request - Lolita (Dub Mix)

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton album: @AnswerCodeRequest - ‘Gens’ (OSTGUTCD42/LP28), out February 23, 2018. All album info here: http://ostgut.de/label/record/211

Catch Answer Code Request on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/answer-code-request/dates

Listen at
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1sOrvtzFKysvSTYxq15R6b
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/gens/1333506695
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/de/album/57109102

Buy this track / album at
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/gens/2195635
Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/94140-answer-code-request-gens
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/gens
Clone: https://clone.nl/digital/item3678330.html
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/answer-code-request-gens/3644172-02/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/932952/ab-intus

Gens

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Answer Code Request | Ab Intus

Lucrecia Dalt - Tar

Learn more: https://smarturl.it/rvngnl47

Taken from Anticlines.

©2018 RVNG Intl. / https://igetrvng.com

Anticlines

Lucrecia Dalt - Tar

It's real!
Faceshopping!
I'm real when I shop my face!

Delighted to share this song with you- created with my darling of inspiration CECILE BELIEVE!

Stream & download: http://futr.cl/faceshopping

Spotify: http://futr.cl/faceshoppingSP
Apple Music: http://futr.cl/faceshoppingAM
YouTube: http://futr.cl/faceshoppingYT
SoundCloud: http://futr.cl/faceshoppingSC

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Website: http://msmsmsm.com/
Facebook: http://smarturl.it/SOPHIE-FB
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Twitter: http://smarturl.it/SOPHIE-TW
Soundcloud: http://smarturl.it/SOPHIE-SC

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SOPHIE — Faceshopping

Special Request returns via Gerd Janson & Shan's studio, as they completely re-build both Brainstorm and Make It Real across four frenzy-inducing incendiary versions custom made for sending the rave over the edge...

https://houndstoothrecords.lnk.to/specialrequestremix 

Cut & Mastered by Matt Colton @ Alchemy. Manufactured at Optimal-Media, Germany.

Special Request X Gerd Janson & Shan

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Special Request - Brainstorm (Gerd Janson & Shan House Mix)

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