beginning could becrawling out of the Mystery Of Bomarzo LP - dance macabre style

https://soundcloud.com/professional_music
Buy Release: https://professionalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spf-50-sumimasen
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_k1h7nalMPs

Brooklyn, NY - Label head SPF 50 returns to Professional Music with a five-track EP of propulsive, dub-infused material. This record delves deep into our moody, atmosphere-driven take on the dance floor, undulating between straight four-on-the-floor energy, heavy breakbeat science and euphoric ambience. Swung layers of rhythm gel with misty chords and 808 bass pressure, riding the line between 2-step excitement and hypnotic, long-form arrangements. This is introspective body music, steeped in the sonic worlds of UK bass, looped 90’s techno and grainy dub.

Tracklist: 

A1. Memory Signal
A2. Salon
B1. Breakout
B2. Looking for Lost Cats
B3. The Four Seasons

Sumimasen

Memory Signal

PREMIERE: SPF 50 - Memory Signal [Professional Music]

Mori Ra_Gaia Edits

Mori Ra strikes back at MM Discos with “Gaia Edits", after the successful release back in May on the label of the “portuñol” duo, Da Silva and Dj Katah welcome again Osaka’s best record collector with 4 new high quality editions. 

Staying loyal to his eclecticism, Mori Ra approaches this time a lil more to the dancefloor by doing a more hedonistic work than his previous release on “MM Discos” , an exuberant “disco-no-disco” exercise mixed with ethnic references, wicked percussion, charming marimbas and an endless of psychedelic elements. 

A record done for the soul; spiritual, mystic, highly addictive and 100% danceable. A very special release where the Japanese artist has involved his son who helped with choosing the sound source for this record.

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Gaia Edits

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PREMIERE: Mori Ra - Penguins Repair

Seventeenth episode of our fortnightly show on Radio Vilnius.

https://radiovilnius.live/

Circus Operandi Radio Vilnius Episode 17, January 27th 2022

Timo Kaukolampi, frontman for Finnish electronic rock group K-X-P and tireless sonic wanderer, is releasing his second solo album on Optimo Music. Exquisitely rendered, shadowy, curiously claustrophobic and even occasionally paranoid, Inside The Sphere is an album wholly deserving of its name.

A sense of paranoia is one of the threads through this glittering, winking electronic maze. Partly influenced by his brush with a serial conman, Kaukolampi says “I came up with this metaphysical concept of the “sphere”. When you are manipulated you are ‘Inside The Sphere’. It’s like this dome of ‘undue influence’ that you don't know exists around you. It's a bit like the inside of a cult.” Here, heady, swirling soundscapes threaten to engulf you, threaten to unduly influence you. ‘Chrystal Desert’ builds to a slow-motion climax, queasy vocal processing on ‘Ee-Nni-Aa-Ssa’ becomes almost chant-like, and the sparse polyrhythms, in Kaukolampi’s words, create an “eternal… hypnotic groove”.

Indeed, it’s amazing the effects achieved with a few sparse electronic textures, the odd smattering of studio trickery, and two or three well-placed synthesizer parts. Though the result might sound ostensibly simplistic, Inside The Sphere is an album of reduction rather than addition. The rhythmic and textural scaffolding is based around what’s not there, rather than what is. Kaukolampi says “I think I scrap like 90% of the material I record… this music is concentrated from a huge amount of music.” Take ‘VCS3’. At first listen, it seems forged from a few synth lines and a simple percussion part - so far, so simple. But listen closer, enter the sphere, look behind the mask - notice the slightly detuned drones, the chattering percussive textures, that distant swell of bass, the way the central fugue shifts and mutates somehow statically, like a barber’s pole.

Might we be listening to an album within an album, a more complex song cycle hiding within the folds of an ambient electronic album? This ties in with another of Kaukolampi’s thematic frameworks - that of the mask. He references Oscar Wilde’s quotation that “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” As well as the cover (designed by TAL aka Tuomas A. Laitinen), the act of concealment, camouflage, and disguise can be readily heard in the “Subliminal world without words” created by the strange pseudo Latin language in ‘Ee-Nni-Aa-Ssa’, the breath sounds in ‘The Mask Of Sanity’ and the eerie vocal processing that haunts the album, part broken radio broadcast, part alien transmission. The “long periods alone” Kaukolampi spent with the record (in part aided by the pandemic) clearly paid dividends. This is nuanced, patient music.

Inside The Sphere is not a one-note album. For every moment where a clammy ambient space enters, a buttery analogue bassline is there to fill it. This clash seems to be the album’s engine room, its power supply. Timo references devotional and choir music as an influence on this album - in particular field recordings made by Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer in the album Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang / Windim Mabu - and it’s possible to hear this in the stark but almost elegiacally exultant melodies strewn through the tracks. The paranoia and foreboding is tempered by these headier aspects. Kaukolampi mentions “empty and hollow spaces” in relation to several of the songs. Perhaps this is the very space behind the mask, where outward disguise merges with inner reality. Perhaps inside the sphere is not always such a bad place to be. 
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releases June 9, 2023

OM LP 26 - Kaukolampi - Inside The Sphere album (vinyl / digital album)

This song was made originaly by me back in 2014. I just changed the drums and level the sounds a little bit.

Charlois is proud to present the Summer cult hit of 2016 by OTTO, a new project of Alexander Arpeggio and Cid Hohner. Weirdo German Organ tracks, specially made for the Disko. Tanzen!

Release date: September 13th

OTTO - Delirieren

Der Kongress, System - AT Edit

https://primaedizioneedits.bandcamp.com

System (AT Rework)

TFGC015
Mogul 4
12"

Tracklist:

A1 - Stabil Elite - Snack Jam
A2 - Phaser Boys - Tennis Camp
B1 - Wolf Müller - Der Vogel aus der Unterwelt
B2 - Aiwo Posse - Your Love

TFGC015 - A2 Phaser Boys - Tennis Camp

“It’s not easy to transform a jam into a proper tune that haunts forever. The two Glaswegian friends MR TC and Lo Kindre are in possession of that special skill that can transform spontaneous tuned-in music into something significant without losing the gut feeling along the way.

As solo artists they have released on labels like Optimo Music, 12th Isle and Against Fascism Trax, and together released 'The Storm EP' in late 2018 on Vienna's Neubau. Now they continue their collaborative work on PHASE001 – an EP that also marks the launch of their own label that listens to the same name. The start-up brings four analogue tracks that courageously link cold waving synth-shocks, neon-light nonchalance and haunted spoken words; deep hypnotic musical witchcraft that peels itself out of the history of dark electronic music with a pulsating and haunting atmosphere.” 

- Words by ML

released late August 2019 

Recorded and mixed in Glasgow by MR TC & Lo Kindre 
Artwork by Andrija Čugurović
Mastered by Curved Press 
Vinyl Distributed by Rubadub

PHASE001

MR TC & Lo Kindre - PHASE001 (Preview)

Fragments Compilation

John Talabot - Progreso (Digital Only)

When it came to making big decisions, he always sat on the fence. He preferred to play it safe and not upset the apple cart, but sometimes that backfired. Those around him urged him to take risks, to occasionally listen to the devil on his shoulder but politeness always reared its head. 

In September, Inside Out Records welcomed Hivern Discs alumni Steve Pepe to the family for his off kilter LP Vivere in Diagonale. As a follow up to the release the label has enlisted a host of producers to put their own spin on several of the tracks off the release, bringing their own unique textures and flavours to the table. Reinterpretations come via label mates Stevie R and Parisinos, Salon des Amateurs mainstay Tolouse low Trax, Ninja Tune producer Lamusa II, Huntleys + Palmers affiliate nICo and Macadam Mambo & fellow Hivern Discs collaborator Eva Geist who delivers an acoustic, nostalgic rework of 'Il Diavolo'.

PREMIERE: Steve Pepe - Il Diavolo (Eva Geist Remix) [Inside Out]

Sublabel of https://soundcloud.com/pinkmanrecords

OTTO - Delirieren

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