One year on from their debut, Rainer Veil explore deep, brittle rave variants on their 2nd EP for Modern Love. The five tracks of 'New Brutalism' are a product of their Northern environment, making pointed reference to the kind of deep-rooted rave heritage documented in Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' soundtrack through a prism of angular, vulnerable club music. Conceptually, It adopts a similar perspective on British nightlife to Burial or Lee Gamble, surveying the 'floor as if during an out-of-body experience or through closed eyes from a corner of the club at 5am. Opening track, 'UK Will Not Survive' captures that sensation beautifully with its tape-saturated layers of wistful vocal, woody 2-step and daubs of Reese bass, whilst 'Three Day Jag' isolates that curious blend of hedonism and introspection innate to early UK 'ardcore, albeit without the narco-sweats. Closing number 'Run Out' doffs a cap to grey building sites and strobe-lit clubs alike, channelling diffuse field recordings and half-heard breakbeats with a bleary-eyed, tired and emotional quality.

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A2. Aiwa - M Carlo S

White on White is an absorbingly dynamic, multi-layered album of improvisations by Primitive World made on the seminal PPG Wave synth, inspired by the work, life and theories of the great, if forgotten, British constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958): a radical, gender-bending British Jewish lesbian and innovator of non-figurative art who was a then-contemporary influence on Piet Mondrian, with whom she worked alongside from the late 1920s as part of the Abstraction-Creation artists association in Paris, until the Nazi’s forced her from mainland Europe back to England, where she settled in the far west of Cornwall.

White On White forms a follow-up of sorts to Willis’ Ascention [2015] tape, and perhaps more aptly, leads on from his and Natalizia’s reworks of Daphne Oram - arguably another overlooked, British female pioneer of her field - which are collected on their Walls album, Sound Houses [2014]. There’s little doubt that this is some of Willis’ strongest solo work, which can be attributed to the fecund inspiration of Moss's work, life and theories, as well as his access to a prized arsenal of rare vintage synths.

Titled after the Moss piece which adorns the LP’s front cover, White On White forms a welcome first introduction for many to Moss's “work, life and theories” thru a combination of visual representations - photographs of the artist and her work - with text by Lucy Howarth, curator of Moss's recent exhibitions at Museum Haus Konstruktiv exhibition (2017), the touring Tate display (2013-15), and of course the music itself, which seeks to describe Moss's mathematically sound geometries and evocative aesthetics thru its lattice of unique, free-floating timbres and spatialized rhythm patterns.

White On White is thus a direct result of the artist immersing himself in Moss's oeuvre, or what is left of it (most of her pre-WWII output was destroyed in the war), with results strongly reflective of the austere clarity and modernist structure of her works, from her syncopated line drawings modelled in the helixes of Double Lines, to the rotating perspectives of her 2D-into-3D metal sculpture manifest in the illusive, Peder Mannerfelt-like designs of Matrix of the Visible, whereas the closing 9 minutes of perilous abstraction recalling Wendy Carlos’ Clockwork Orange OST in Man Guessed at a Spiritual Meaning and Imposed a Moral System both literally and metaphorically serves a sort of unsentimentally elegiac, enigmatic lament for the artist’s neglected status, which even now prompts a scratch of the head by people who should be aware of her work.

Released by:
Ecstatic Recordings

Release date:
08 February 2018

PRIMITIVE WORLD - FRACTIONS OF THE ABSOLUTE [ELP033]

Classic ’60s surf-rock channeled into hazy ambient zones... 

LA's Jake Muir constructs a poignant sound world crafted from samples of a well loved American pop group smudged with aqueous field recordings made everywhere from Iceland to the beaches of California. 

In nine succinct scenes, the results loosely limn a wide sense of space and place with its fading harmonic auroras and glinting, half-heard surf rock melodies rendered in an abstract impressionist manner that suggests a fine tracing of in-between-spaces, perhaps describing metropolitan sprawl giving way to vast mountain ranges and oceanic scales. But for all its implied sense of space, ultimately there’s a paradoxically close intimacy to proceedings which feels like you’re the passenger in Muir’s ride, and he patently knows the scenic route...

A1. High Tide
A2. Lapis Lazuli
A3. Shoal
A4. Yaupon
A5. Peacock's Tail

B1. Green Eyes
B2. Buoy
B3. Drifter
B4. Lanterns Below

Limited edition of 300 copies pressed up on clear vinyl. 
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at D&M Berlin.

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Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle (sferic003) [Preview]

From way of Berlin we are very pleased to welcome the 6 piece psychedelic outfit of 2Morph.

Perhaps unknown to many, this group of friends (father & son included) have spent the past two Summer’s travelling the wilderness of Europe in their bus - winding through the hillsides & mountain tops, beaming out their live band freak-outs for select village goers.

This 50 minute cassette of 100% OG material, hauled back from their recent trip to the mystical land of Panaceum (a hidden valley in Germany rumoured to house the elixir of life's ails) is naturally well soaked on a Krautrock tip - with psychedelic hymns & hypnotic percussion, detaching from the linear plane. 

Float down stream & let your mind wander outwards to the healing sounds of 2Morph.

Available now via the Online Store & select stores worldwide.

Big thanks to Corey from Sleep D for the mastering & Max Graef for opening the door.

GMT25 2Morph - Panaceum (Snippets)

A PVC 7" made for our Good Morning Family Jam at Acud Macht Neu in Berlin on 27/07/19.

Features the tracks "Magnolia Shade" by Innsyter & an edit by 2Morph taken off their recent release titled "Panaceum".

Only 30 copies made!

Purchase here:
https://www.goodmorningtapes.com/collections/vinyl

Innsyter / 2Morph - 7" Sampler (Snippets)

Echium - Considered Instances

Taken from Sick Universe Demands Sharing, the debut of Wilted Woman and Christoph De Babalon's collaborative project, SUDS. To be released February 14th.

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SUDS - Trauerweide

New album available here: https://datassette.bandcamp.com/album/void-fill-product

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When I'm Gone (w/ Mücha) [Album Out Now]

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What influence does living in a world without silence have? In human society, experiencing silence has become a rare and special thing. When was it that this happened? All day we are connected to technology and even in the deep of night cannot find silence. Even in the world of music, where is silence? Music is defined as the arrangement of sound and silence, but in today's music where is the silence? We are living in a world devoid of silence.

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