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Foolish Pride...

Unofficial Remix of Jan Garbarek - Rites.

Since my very young age I have always appreciated the work of Jan Garbarek - and it's while listening again recently to one of his song released in 1998 - that the desire to put this classic into a new dance version came to me.

Free Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/xkyxh95716gdaqg/Jan+Garbarek+-+Rites+%28Victor+Mille+Remix%29+Radio+Edit.mp3

More on Jan Garbarek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Garbarek
http://www.garbarek.com/

https://www.facebook.com/victormilleofficial

Free Download

Jan Garbarek - Rites - Victor Mille Edit

Crew Download

Mizan - Looking For (Nick Monaco Edit)

Peter Baumann – Dancing In The Dark (Snippet)

Peter Baumann – Ordinary Wonder (Snippet)

Peter Baumann – Searching In Vain (Snippet)

In 1981 the Düsseldorf band Die Krupps (Jürgen Engler, Bernward Malaka, Ralf Dörper) released a seminal album which wrote its own chapter in the history of music: the “Stahlwerksinfonie” (Steelworks Symphony) was a near thirty-minute musical monolith of metal and guitar sounds with scattergun saxophone and shouts, held together by a monotonic bass line and stoic beat. The “Stahlwerksinfonie” proved a worldwide sensation, a nucleus of EBM and industrial rock. It stood as a direct descendent of Cluster's early works, although Krupps mastermind Jürgen Engler was as yet unfamiliar with the output of his purported antescedents. 
35 years later, a new version is upon us: the “Stahlwerkrequiem”, recorded with Engler's kindred spirits Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru), Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier (Faust), Pyrolator (Der Plan) and US postrock musician Scott Telles. 
Out June 24, 2016. CD/vinyl/digital
http://www.bureau-b.com/Krupps.php

Die Krupps – Stahlwerkrequiem (snippets) Out June 24, 2016

The APM Music catalogue of late 80’s and early 90’s corporate Muzak is a huge vault of Vaporwave-ready samples, waiting to be pitched, chopped and skewed.

www.hipsthetic.com/the-vaporwave-sample-ready-80s-90s-muzak-vault/



Ambient Muzak (85-95)

Rolf Trostel is a protagonist of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). On his first album “Inselmusik” (1981) he explores the sonic possibilities of the recently introduced PPG wavetable synthesizer. The music is based on live performances from the late 1970s by Trostel and the legendary Krautrock guitarist Günter Schickert. CD/vinyl/digital. Out Aug 5, 2016

Rolf Trostel - Inselmusik (1981) (snippets). Reissue out Aug 5, 2016

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/03/premiere-hear-a-new-planningtorock-remix/

@evvol
@planningtorock

More info

Premiere: Evvol - Sola (Planningtorock Remix)

Bye Bye Blackbird - Martha Wainwright

Rolf  Trostel's second album "Two Faces" was released in 1982, only a year after his debut, "Inselmusik". While "Inselmusik" was intended as a basis for live perfor­mance, Trostel composed and produced the five instrumental tracks on "Two Faces" exclusively for this album. The music is clearly a product of the Berlin School, yet is more sophisticated and varied than its predecessor. Out Aug 5, 2016. CD/vinyl/digital

Rolf Trostel — Two Faces (snippets) Reissue from 1982. Out Aug 5, 2016

Rolf Trostel is a protagonist of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). Electronic Pop was the musical goal on Trostel's third album, which was released in the same year as its predecessor "Two Faces". "Der Prophet" is the culmination of this phase of Trostel's oeuvre, which was tightly coupled to the PPG Wave Computer. Out Aug 5, 2016. CD, vinyl, digital 

Rolf Trostel - Der Prophet (1982)(snippets). Reissue out Aug 5, 2016

01 Volare

Having played his way through the 1970s in various rock combos (Medusa, Nine Days' Wonder), Michael Bundt embarked on a solo career in the latter part of the decade, going on to release three albums which saw him explore the vast potential of electronic music. Delightfullly varied and typical of his willingness to experiment, his music orbits around Krautrock, Berlin School electronica, space-futurism and synth pop. "Electri City" was his last album. Reissue out Sep 16, 2016. CD, vinyl, digital

Michael Bundt – Electri City. Reissue from 1980. Snippets. Out Sep 16, 2016

From Ben Chatwin's debut record on Ba Da Bing, Heat & Entropy, out July 29th.

Ben Chatwin "Inflexion"

Title : Happy Ending                  
Artist : okamotonoriaki
Label : mü-nest                          
Cat # : mnc016
Release Date : 28 July 2016
Purchase CD: 
Linus Records (JP) http://www.linusrecords.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=8601
Norman Records (UK) https://www.normanrecords.com/records/160080-okamotonoriaki-happy-ending-
n5MD (US) http://n5mailorder.com/release/2695&zenid=6647590b657fc3291bbb019d2972e0fc/okamotonoriaki-happy-ending

Tracklisting
01. Escaper 02. Dogsled 03. At The Window (w/ Cuushe)
04. Here And There 05. Citylights (w/ Aki Huang)
06. Polaris 07. Tokyo (w/ Flica) 08. Snow Day
09. Rooftop Paradise (w/ Polar M) 10. Happy Ending
(total time: 48 minutes)

Critically acclaimed Tokyo-based audio-visual artist, okamotonoriaki, is back with his long-awaited 3rd solo album - “Happy Ending”, an emotional album that took 3 years to craft, capturing stories and moments about lost and loneliness with his unique style of unconventional pop music.

While those details that define okamotonoriaki’s previous albums - beautiful piano notes, delicate melody lines, and layer after layer of masterfully crafted beat programming, still intact, more fresh elements have been carefully instilled into this new album. The unconventional arrangement that pushes the boundary of pop music, the astonishingly detailed and varied sound palettes, and the musical chemistry through collaboration, all contributed to this breathtaking new album that allow us to see the new side of okamotonoriaki.

In this 3rd album, okamotonoriaki collaborated with Tokyo’s dream-pop darling, Cuushe, in “At The Window” - a melancholy track that tell the story of a woman’s endless wait for the homecoming of her astronaut lover. Malaysian singer-songwriter Aki Huang also lent her enthralling vocal in the spellbinding track “Citylights”. Critically acclaimed Malaysian electro-acoustic outfit, Flica, and Kyoto-based prominent guitarist, Polar M, both joint-force with him to create some of the finest moments in the album.

“Happy Ending” is mastered by none other than Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, with Tokyo/Berlin-based design house - The Simple Society, at the design helm.

Happy Ending

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HAPPY ENDING / okamotonoriaki (album preview sample)

Veteran Erased Tapes recording artist Peter Broderick set to release new studio album 'Partners' on 19th August 2016.

Order it on LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP088

In an email to Robert on February 3rd 2016: 

Dear Robert.

There’s a lot I’d love to tell you about this music.

The inspiration really came when I decided to learn to play John Cage’s In A Landscape on the piano . . . I listened to a recording I had over and over again, five seconds or so at a time, picking out every single note. Then cross referencing what I’d learned with other versions of the piece as well as the original score. The feeling of playing this piece really brought me close to the piano again, and brought new life to my own piano songs.

Beyond Cage’s music, his life and practice have interested me more and more, after having read about his love for foraging wild foods and using chance operations to compose music, in a sense taking his ‘self’ out of the music. I love his so-called ‘mesostics’ and began to write several poems using that method, around this phrase:

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When it came time to record in the studio, I rolled two dice to decide how many poems to read. I rolled 5. Then I assigned a number to each poem and rolled the dice to see which five poems would be read and in which order. That’s the first track Partners, which is also the last word of the last poem I selected through this chance-based process. Track two is my version of In A Landscape. I love playing that piece so much. Carried  is a piece I wrote in Berlin which I’ve played live from time to time. There was a soft vocal loop playing out through an amplifier in the room while I played the piano.

Under The Bridge is my first ever chance-based composition, written by assigning different numbers to different notes and then rolling dice to decide in which order to play those notes. Conspiraling is another piece I’ve been playing for a while. Actually a version of this was recorded in the session that became ‘How They Are’, but it didn’t quite feel right. I like to pretend my voice is like a synthesizer in this song. Then there’s Up Niek Mountain which is a piece I finished composing while in residence at a farm in the Netherlands back in 2010, and is named after one of the family farmers there, Niek, who passed away shorty after I was there. We miss you Niek. The last song is a cover of Brigid’s Sometimes. Brigid to whom I dedicate this recording.

And then there’s Tucker, Mr. Martine, who agreed to record this album without me ever hearing the mixes. We talked about all the sounds and he set up several devices with which to manipulate the sound live, as it was being recorded and mixed down to tape. Francesco also agreed to master the record without me hearing it. I like to imagine maybe one day, five or ten years from now, I’ll walk into a café or roadside diner and hear it for the first time, playing as background music while people eat.

OK surely that’s enough for now! Sorry for blabbing, Robert. Your support has really meant a lot to me. I’ve loved having you in mind while working on this project, knowing it could very well have a home on your sweeeeeet label. Hope all is well.

With love,
Peter

Partners

Carried

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Peter Broderick - Carried

2012-2013 / hakobune (SRCD059)

mizunara *looping around the forest i thought i remembered (constellation tatsu)
whispering in their presence *whispering In Their Presence (sunshine ltd.)
part 3 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)
recalling my insubstantial thoughts *recalling my insubstantial thoughts (tobira records)
letter forgotten *the cowboy across the river (constellation tatsu)
part 6 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)
until you wake up in the morning *the still life of reverie (fabrica records)
This Wasn’t What I Thought *the cowboy across the river (constellation tatsu)
kusunoki *looping around the forest i thought i remembered (constellation tatsu)
part 10 *nebulous sequences (voxxov records)


produce : Takahiro Yorifuji
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Fábio Petry
art direction : Ken'ichi Itoi

(p) & (c) : 2016-8-18 / shrine.jp

manufacturing : shrine.jp


this wasn't what i thought / hakobune

DOWNLOAD: http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/album/hey-there-lonely-boy-feat-coco-owino

Produced by Itai Shapira and Todd Simon 
Recorded by Itai Shapira and Todd Simon at Market Street, Sound Spot, Manifest and Nu Fi Studios 
Mixed by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music Productions.Mastered by Paul Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering 

Lead & Background Vocals: Coco Owino 
Synth Bass, Programming, Guitars: Itai Shapira 
Synth Bass, Trumpet, French Horn, Flugelhorn:Todd Simon 
Hammond B3, Wurlitzer: Quincy McCrary 
Drums: Blake Colie

released 13 December 2011 
Originally Recorded by Ruby & The Romantics (1963) 
Originally Written by Earl Shuman and Leon Carr 
Label: Universal

Hey There Lonely Boy feat. Coco Owino

DOWNLOAD: http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/les-fleurs-feat-boston-fielder

Produced by Itai Shapira and Todd M. Simon
Written by Charles Stepney and Richard Rudolph


Boston Fielder
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Vocal Arrangements

Itai Shapira  
Bass, Synth Bass, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano & Rhodes

Todd M. Simon  
Trumpet, Flugelhorn & Glockenspiel

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Viola & Violin

Blake Colie
Drums

Recorded by Itai Shapira at Manifest Music
Mixed and Mastered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music

Originally Recorded by Minnie Riperton on the album Come To My Garden (1970)

Leon Dale:  Photography  •  Boston Fielder:  Cover Art Design

Les Fleurs feat. Boston Fielder

DOWNLOAD HERE: www.thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/walk-on-by-feat-noelle-scaggs

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the first single from Vol. 2, featuring one of our favorite singers from Los Angeles,  Noelle Scaggs ( of the band FItz & The Tantrums).  

This isn't our first collaboration with Noelle... 

Our very own Todd M. Simon inked a new Rock Steady arrangement of James Brown's "Think (About It)" for The Lions back in 2007, which featured Noelle on vocals.  Noelle has also graced many other collaborations on her own, including Quantic (aka Will Holland) and Dilated Peoples, as well as being the featured lead female vocalist in the L.A. funk and soul outift The Rebirth .

This version of "Walk On By" is an extrapolation of the original Dionne Warwick version, mutated with the stylings of Isaac Hayes rendition and finally given a "decoded" Lovers Rock backbeat.  This was quite the undertaking, and Noelle did a great job invoking the classic women of soul from the 60's era to give this version a refreshing-yet old school feel.

Burt Bacharach and Hal David (R.I.P) were a great composer team, penning many a classic hit including "I Say A Little Prayer For You" which is also slated for a Decoders vol. 2 release later this year.  We hope that we did justice to their vision with our version of "Walk On By".

The strings were recorded by San Diego native, Thomas Lea.  Thomas is the latest addition to the Decoders production team, and you can hear his lush string arrangements on upcoming releases from Rhye & Quadron.

The official release date for the single is tuesday, October 16th.  It will be made available on itunes, amazon and bandcamp for download.

We hope you enjoy it and please share if you feel it!

The Decoders


Also, in case you haven't seen it, please check out our new EPK, which is an introduction to the project and gives a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes in the studio!  View it here on our new website (www.thedecodersmusic.com), where you can also purchase exclusive T-Shirts via our Insteegram store!

CREDITS:

Produced by The Decoders

Noelle Scaggs 
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals & Vocal Arrangements

Itai Shapira 
Bass, Guitars, Dub FX, Keys, Timpani, Additional Vocal Arrangements

Todd M. Simon 
Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Dub FX, Horn Arrangements

Adam Berg
Rhodes, B3, Additional Vocal Arrangements

Tracy Wannomae
Tenor, Alto Sax, Flute

Thomas Lea
Violin, Viola

Blake Colie 
Drums

Engineered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Additional engineering by David Burris at Manifest Music
Mixed by Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Mastered by Adam Berg at Manifest Music

Originally Written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David.  Originally recorded by Dionne Warwick (1964)

Farah Sosa: Photography • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design



BIOGRAPHY:

The Decoders are Los Angeles-based production team Itai Shapira (producer/engineer & studio/live musician) Todd M. Simon (trumpeter/arranger for Mayer Hawthorne, TV On The Radio, The Lions, Quantic, etc.) and Adam Berg (Grammy nominated producer/engineer), with heavy contributions from Quincy McCrary on keys (Mayer Hawthorne) and Blake Colie on drums (The Lions of Stones Throw Records) . They just released their first installment of modern-Jamaican Lovers Rock-inspired versions of soul classics they dug up from the vaults of the Music Sales publishing catalogue.

In this first batch, Shapira and Simon have deciphered some Earth, Wind and Fire, Minnie Riperton and even one from Ruby and the Romantics! The project is overseen by the songwriter and producer behind many of Minnie Riperton’s hits - Richard Rudolph.

The Decoders have enlisted the help of vocalists Sy Smith (Macy Gray, Foreign Exchange) original “Baby This Love I Have" songwriter and legendary producer Leon Ware (Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Maxwell), Coco Owino (of Quadron), Kevin Sandbloom and Boston Fielder (of Muthawit).  Miguel Atwood Ferguson (Suite For Ma Dukes, Brainfeeder) also makes a guest appearance on the new single "Les Fleurs"

Volume 2 features guest vocalists Noelle Scaggs (of Fitz & The Tantrums), Raul Midon, Alex Isley and many more... 


Walk On By featuring Noelle Scaggs

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE: http://thedecoders.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-black-gold-of-the-sun

Riding on the heels of their 1st single off of Vol 2 (Walk On By) with its orchestral soul arrangements, the 2nd single from Vol 2, Rotary Connection's "I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun, is an ode to the beautifully epic orchestral arrangements of producer Charles Stepney.  

But this time, The Decoders have decided to venture into the Brazilian repertoire, incorporating Samba and Jazz elements into the group's psychedelic soul arrangement.  

This version features Adrian Younge's "Venice Dawn" vocalists Loren Oden and Brooke De Rosa on vocals, as well as Jungle Fire's Steve Haney on percussion and Brazilian musician Quetzal Guerrero on percussion and berimbau.

The artwork for the single is an original painting by Los Angeles based artist Michelle Robinson.  Michelle's work has been praised by Cee-Lo Green, among others.  For more info, check out her website here: http://www.michellizm.com/


CREDITS:

Produced by The Decoders

Loren Oden
Lead Vocals, Background Vocals

Brooke De Rosa 
Background Vocals 

Itai Shapira 
Bass, Guitars, Synth, Vocal Arrangements 

Todd M. Simon 
Trumpet, Horn Arrangements 

Adam Berg 
Piano 

Tracy Wannomae 
Saxophone

Thomas Lea 
Violin, Viola 

Steve Haney
Percussion

Quetzal Guerrero
Berimbau

Blake Colie 
Drums 

Engineered by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Additional engineering by David Burris at Manifest Music 
Mixed by Itai Shapira and Adam Berg at Manifest Music 
Mastered by Adam Berg at Manifest Music 

Originally written and recorded by Rotary Connection (1971) 

Michelle Robinson: Original Artwork • Anthony Valadez: Cover Art Design



I Am The Black Gold of the Sun

Inquiries: ✉ info@bureau-b.com ✉

Bureau B is a Hamburg based label which releases past and future classics unearthed from genres including (but not limited to) electronica, avant-garde, Kraut(rock) – a colourful spectrum of diverse, yet contigiuous musical genres. Applying the expertise deployed in trawling the archives, Bureau B has gone on to champion new and contemporary acts with similar musical sensibilities to their pioneering antecedents.