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.

Negative Space

Emmet's notes!

1. Frankie Laine - Rocks and Gravel
Atmospheric 1959 reworking of "Early in the Morning" by Franie Laine with Alan Lomax's adapted lyrics. Real deal version of this on Lomax's Parchman Farm Prison Recordings Vol. 1
 
2. Evelyn Freeman conducting The Exciting Voices and Orchestra - Water Boy
Pure heat on the flip on the "Didn't it Rain" 7".... seek out all Evelyn Freeman recordings.
 
3. Frank Minion - Watermelon
Mr Minion pounding the streets of New Orleans selling his wares. Very elusive record on the amazing Bethleham label. Thankfully available as a great double sider reissue 45
 
4. Don Rondo - Quiet Girl
His official Jubilee Records biography says that the first audience Don Rondo sang to was 300 cows and two feed men.
 
5. Donald Jenkins and The Delighters - Elephant Walk (Native Girl)
From the jungles of Southside Chicago to the dancefloors of Belgium.
 
6. Bop A Loos - South Parkway Mambo
The inspiration for Andy Capp's (Lynford Anderson) Pop-A-Top sound that briefly swept Jamaica in the late 60s.
 
7. Ruth Brown - One More Time
The Queen of Rhythm & Blues… one of my favourites from her. This record goes for pence.
 
8. Marv Johnson - Baby Baby
Fantastic double sider 7" from Berry Gordy's first signing to Motown. When Gordy first started Motown he didn’t have the money to release records himself so struck a deal with United Artists where they would release and distribute Motown releases.
 
9. Soul Bros - Soho
Used to be a big Spider John spin back in the late 80s. This always takes me back to those brilliant days of my youth.
 
10. Jackie Opel - Turn to the Almighty 
The patron saint of Barbados and godfather of Spouge. Alternative take which came out on Top Deck a few years back
 
11. Marv Johnson - Don't Leave Me
Found this for 50p a few months back and have been playing it solidly since. Beautiful heart rendering tale of the insecure lover.
 
12. The Cleftones - Some Kinda Blue
Popcorn Soul Perfection! Managed to get a copy of this 1963 beauty recently and play it over and over
 
13. Nana Mouskouri – L’eau Qui Dort
Yes Nana! Stunning version of Still Waters Run Deep from one of a series of French Eps she did in 1963
 
14. Jimmy Breedlove – Guardian Angel
The original of this on Okeh always goes for too much money.. as much as I love it, more than happy to just have it on a Stardust bootleg. Jimmy used to be a backing singer for Atlantic records.
 
15. Lorne Greene – The Search
From his brilliant LP The Man.  Watching Battlestar Galactica and Bonanza growing up, we never knew he was massive on the Popcorn scene
 
16. Milt Grayson – Wayfarin’ Stranger
A traditional American folk song done by everyone from Duane Eddy to Ed Sheerhan. Milt Grayson’s is the best version by far, on a great double sider 45 that goes for £££££££s
 
17. Ronnie Savoy – The Big Chain
The prisoner of love… first heard this via Lucky Cat a few months back

K.N.Y.X. R.A.D.I.O. – Emmet Keane – Popcorn Mix 2

Off "Punctuations Of Joy And Despair" album by Nuances.

Nuances - Together We Lie

Pre-order ISLE002 here >> https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/releases

For their second release, 12th Isle proudly fling 'Blubber Tottum' into the waxen sonic abyss for your full listening pleasure. The inaugural LP drubbed from the Glaswegian machines of Cru Servers is perhaps best framed as what it would sound like if early life took its first steps out of the primordial gloop, dragged itself ashore, decided to make dance music and discovered they had a knack for it. It dangles precariously in the fault lines between discordantly melodic rhythm tracks, steadily paced chaos and swamp-soaked bass oddities. Laden with eerily familiar samples yet always in a world of its own. 

"Cru Servers did my head in" - JD Twitch (Optimo)

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Cru Servers - Blubber Tottum LP (ISLE002)

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]

A cult Italian new age, ambient cassette from 1992 that offers reverberating balearic electro-acoustic guitar riffs with entrancing, metallic new age synths. Remastered and reissued by @hybridesentimento.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/04/16/cabaret-du-ciel-falasama-exposure/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/cabaret-du-ciel

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Cabaret Du Ciel - Falasarna Exposure (STW Premiere)

Written by Berlin-based producer Linus Nicholson, aka Ausschuss, 'Room1' is a decidedly sci-fi take on electroacoustic experimentation — a grainy exodus into wistful neoclassical compositions and data-moshed found-sounds. At times the EP calls to mind Mica Levi’s Under The Skin soundtrack with its icy and foreboding soundscapes. Opener ‘Drown Later’ begins with caustic splashes of ambience, skittish percussion swaying to and fro lazily. Then there are tracks like ‘Blinding Partner’, a looming and sinister presence full of windswept drones and howling incantations.

With the release due on November 2nd, the Milan-based label generously offered up an exclusive preview of title track, a head-spinning mesh of granulated chimes, undulating low-end and gravelly atmospherics. 

Read more: http://straylandings.co.uk/news/premiere-ausschuss-haunter-records

Room1

Premiere: Ausschuss - Room1 [Haunter Records]

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Cardmoth - The rays through the clouds

Les lectures répétitives des mêmes types de poèmes lors des funérailles, des mariages, et des commémorations suggèrent une sorte de traversée du désert, mais je soupçonne aussi que tant que la poésie tiendra au moins cette position d’arrière-garde, elle conservera la possibilité d’avoir un rôle social et politique plus large, au-delà du monde raréfié de la poésie elle-même… » Rupert Clervaux. 

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