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Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’s occasional vocal collaborator Alison Skidmore who also appeared on 2012’s ‘Luxury Problems’. Between these two points ‘Faith In Strangers’ heads off from the sparse and infected ‘Violence’ to the broken, downcast pop of ‘On Oath’ and the motorik, driving melancholy of ‘Science & Industry’ - three vocal tracks built around that angular production style that imbues proceedings with both a pioneering spirit and a resonating sense of familiarity. Things take a sharp turn with ‘No Surrender’- a sparkling analogue jam making way for a tough, smudged rhythmic assault, while ‘How It Was’ refracts sweaty Warehouse signatures and ‘Damage’ finds the sweet spot between RZA’s classic ‘Ghost Dog’ and Terror Danjah at his most brutal. ‘Faith in Strangers’ is next and offers perhaps the most beautiful and open track here, its vocal hook and chiming melody bound to the rest of the album via the almost inaudible hum of Stott’s mixing desk. It provides a haze of warmth and nostalgia that ties the nine loose joints that make up the LP into the most memorable and oddly cohesive of Stott’s career to date, built and rendered in the spirit of those rare albums that straddle innovation and tradition through darkness and light.

Missing

Faith In Strangers

How It Was

On Oath

No Surrender

Science And Industry

Tanafur | تنافُر

taken from Mirt / Ter - Bacchus Where Are You? (LP/CD/DL)

Mirt / Ter - Morphing

Full album available via Bandcamp
https://mirt.bandcamp.com/album/decaying-land

10 Decay In Full Glory II

Taken from the 'Dagger Paths' E.P. 

Released on 12" vinyl via Dense Truth and CD via No Pain In Pop.

Buy at www.forestswords.co.uk
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Miarches

The Grids compilation opens up a new chapter in @outlineslabel activity. After a series of cassettes dedicated to a specific idea, the grids aims at presenting some potential directions that outlines could take. By emphasizing this artistic diversity, we constantly strive to keep it in the spirit of aesthetics developed in the groove series. As the title of the compilation indicates, it is all about creating a wide panorama of the possibilities for the label. 

Avtomat is one of the representatives of the Polish @oramicspl crew, which promotes women, LGBTQ+ and non-binary artists moving beyond heteronormative ideology. His A Mess is a grainy and vibrating construction surrounded by a layer of coldness.

#footwork #juke #experimental #avtomat #bass #synth #grime #electro #ciezkibrokat #wmocynocy #outlines #poland #polska #wixapol #uptempo #percussive #harddrum #hard-drum #postclub #hybrid #oramics #industrial #sub #moody #dark #choir

Grids 1

Avtomat - A Mess

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Here's a ballroom track for the hard times for the LGBTQ+ community in Poland, featuring a conservative Polish MP, Krystyna Pawłowicz, commenting on how LGBT relationships are unproductive and the state cannot sanction them. LET'S VOGUE THROUGH IT TOGETHER!

The track is part of Total Solidarity, a charity compilation we've released with @oramicspl in cooperation with @psychicwarfare and Berlin's Uferlos Studios(mastering). I was also responsible for the artwork. Proceeds from the compilation go straight to LGBTQ organisations in smaller Polish cities, where homophobia, biphobia and transphobia are the hardest to endure. Please, buy the whole compilation if you can.

#charity #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #ballroom #experimental #avtomat #bass #synth #grime #electro #ciezkibrokat #wmocynocy #outlines #poland #polska #wixapol #uptempo #percussive #harddrum #hard-drum #postclub #hybrid #oramics #industrial #sub #moody #dark #feat #politics #newyorkhaunted #totalsolidarity

Total Solidarity

Avtomat - Ignorance Ha

one of the tracks that were contributed to VA - TOTAL SOLIDARITY - benefit compilation for grassroot LGBTQIA+ organizations in Poland.

@rodaspl
@babymeelo

Please, support and buy:
http://oramicspl.bandcamp.com/album/total-solidarity-benefit-compilation-for-grassroot-lgbtqia-organizations-in-poland

compilation: @oramicspl 
artwork: Avtomat Design 
mastering [Court Cases]: @iamsuwal

VA - TOTAL SOLIDARITY

Rodas & Baby Meelo - Court Cases

A1 King Garbage - Pins & Wheels

Velmondo - Moon Gazing
A1. Moon Gazing (Drone Version)
A2. Mukkuri
B1. Cova Foradada
B2. A Trenc D'alba
B3. Llums

Written and Produced by Velmondo
Artwork by Marc Miró

Release date: December 12, 2019

Pre -Order here: https://bit.ly/2OQMQVA

© 2019 Hivern Discs

Moon Gazing

A Trenc D'alba

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Velmondo - A Trenc D'alba

Drop Location

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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