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© + ℗ 2007 by Misel Quitno
Mastered by Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Cover design by Ehstrawlogy Produkte

MISEL QUITNO - SLEEP OVER PIECES VOL. 1
Misel Quitno is another moniker in Dimitri Grimm’s name-arsenal. Mainly known for his elaborate ProgHiphop JazzElectronica-productions as ‘Dimlite’, Grimm here skips on drawn-out arranging, on sampling bits off other people’s records and also renounces to fulfill any noble purposes. The album, described by the artist as ‘drafts… the score to an imaginary film, shot on Super 8, or a sample library, done for the pure fun of it’, is a mixed bag of tricks, kept together by a dry and minimalistic aesthetics. The wafting synths, the knuckles knocking on wood, the layered guitars and the Tubas indeed might have worked as the backdrop to a 1960’s avant-garde romantic psycho-tragicomedy. And looking at the man’s working methods, who knows when Grimm will also tap into making the corresponding films to his Misel Quitno-escapades ‘for the pure fun of it’..

Sleep Over Pieces, Vol. 1

Misel Quitno - Tadd's Children Lost In Coutances

Taken from the album A Year With 13 Moons, available February 9 (UK/EU) / February 10 (US) on LP | CD | DIG 
Pre-order now: http://bit.ly/jefrems

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love After Love

Mindflight 2 (w.Mndsgn)

SOKIT To Me Baby is available on UNO NYC
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Paranormal

Pun Collins 
World Wide Wave
Dirty Tapes 2017
Video Directed by Paris Group International
https://vimeo.com/121280991

@pun-collins
https://dirtytapes.bandcamp.com/album/dt013-pun-collins-world-wide-wave

VIDEO

PUN COLLINS - Rove (feat. Sham Baron)

New full-length 'Perception' out 04.07 LR cassette + digital, cover art by Ahnnu.

Ahnnu - The Racer

Title track from Leafcutter John's new album, Resurrection(Pathway009)

A panoramic sound world of drifting vocals over a densely-processed terrain of mud-caked percussion and guitar, Leafcutter John’s new solo album, Resurrection, is a characteristically unique blend of the electronic and the acoustic, the hi-tech, the human and the homemade.
Resurrection is the sixth Leafcutter John album and his first solo release since 2006’s The Forest and The Sea CD/LP(Staubgold). In the intervening nine years, John has toured from Vietnam to Venice, appeared live with Beck Hansen and Imogen Heap, and provided the score for Crow, a major theatre project by Handspring (creators of War Horse). 

During this time, John has also maintained his permanent role as the unpredictable, electronic antagonist in Polar Bear, the twice Mercury Music Prize-nominated, genre-defying jazz band.
This new record marks fifteen years of releases by Leafcutter John. Born John Burton in Wakefield (Yorkshire, England), his highly original musical voice was first spotted by Mike Paradinas, label boss of Planet Mu Records. Over the course of his first three albums (2000-2003), John established and developed his idiosyncratic London-based studio, and his skills as an inventor of unusual instruments and extraordinary music software.
Resurrection begins with the sound of a single bell, in homage to one of John’s major influences, Bernard Parmigiani’s De Natura Sonorum (1976). From there, the album unfolds over five cinematically varied tracks, “like floating above a world in constant flux,” in John’s own words. In fact, aerial photographs of the Japanese tsunami of 2011 were a direct inspiration for the record.
“I would create complete, fully-formed compositions,” says John, “then later, I’d come back to them, playing the part of
the destroyer, scraping and smearing away elements, weathering, piling up and re-ordering them, as if they’d been hit by a natural disaster.”
Not content with the usual tools available to the electronic musician, John has created innovative new systems and techniques for both live performance and production. This includes a light-controlled instrument that allows him manipulate his live sound through gesture, flickering candles, flashing torches and pyrotechnics. For the track “Gulps,” John coded special software to layer huge swathes of sound. Using a recursive system, he created 7.1 billion layers of a recording of the North Sea, one for each human alive on the planet at the time of writing.
Featuring a guest appearance by Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet), “Gulps” is a poignant demonstration of John’s
approach: Hutchings’ intimate clarinet is gradually engulfed by a (literal) ocean of sound. This is sculptural sound design
where technological innovation is always at the service of the emotional impact of the music: deeply human at its root, and
mind-expanding in its ambition.

Desire Path Recordings
www.desirepathrecordings.com | leafcutterjohn.com

Credits
Written and produced by Leafcutter John, with Varpu
Kronholm playing additional percussion on “I Know You
Can” and Shabaka Hutchings playing Clarinet on “Gulps.”
“Endless Wave” contains elements of “Forest Of Spades” by
Strings Of Consciousness, used with permission.
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography by Max Baillie
Design by Chris Koelle, Leafcutter John, and Varpu Kronholm

Distributed by Revolver

Leafcutter John - Resurrection

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