Artist: Chris Coco & George Solar
Title: Island Vibrations 
Format: Vinyl LP
Label: Disappear
Catalogue Number: DSPPR060
Release Date: 18 August 2023


The story:

Balearic DJs Chris Coco and George Solar started making tunes together a couple of years ago after a chance meeting at Ibiza Sonica radio followed by some deep chats about dub and the future of chill out music.
After a string of singles they decided to make an album based (loosely) around various rhythms for the basic inspiration. George, who is also an accomplished percussionist, made a list - Nyabinghi, Guaguanco, One Drop etc - and Chris added one of their own - Algaroba. 
The basic rhythm tracks were recorded in Ibiza, mostly drums and percussion, naturally, with a little added bass from Fly, who also, fortuitously, is the sign writer who made the cover image.
Various elements were added in Ibiza, Buenos Aires and London, and, after some digital wrangling an album of beautifully organic downtempo delights finally took shape.



Basic rhythm section tracks recorded by Michael Alcaras at Spaceship Studio S’Argantera/Ibiza 2021

Basic demo recordings for LEO RISING and NA BAIA at Palmtree Bubble, San Joan/Ibiza

Leo Silcan Charango tracks recorded in Buenos Aires/ARG (gracias Fernando Sanchez/Jin Yerei)

Main mixing facility & add. recordings: Light House, London/UK, engineered by Chris Coco

Produced somewhere between Chris Coco & George Solar
Mastered for Vinyl by Danilo Braca in Brooklyn, United States
Cut by Henry at VP in London

George Solar uses Volt Shakers & Meinl Percussion.
Chris Coco wears mañana jumpers.
Ibiza is a beautiful island.
The universe is ever expanding.



Vinyl running order & credits
SIDE 1

01 GUAGUANCOCO

Leo Silcan - Charango
Nick Cornu - Guitar
Mike Alcaras - Drums
CC: Keys
GS: Percussion

02 RUMBA SOLAR

Antonio Blakstad - Keys
Mike Alcaras - Drums
Fly Harper: Bass
CC: add. Keys, add. Bass
GS: Percussion & sonics

03 NA BAIA

Leo Silcan - Charango
Mike Alcaras - Drums, Synth treats
CC: Keys, Bass, Timpani
GS: Percussion & sonics

04 HOLY RISING

Louis Vann Johnson - Vocals
Samantha Whates - Backing Vox
Mike Alcaras - Drums
CC: Keys, Bass, Guitars
GS: Percussion

SIDE 2

01 ALGAROBA


Nick Cornu - Guitars
Mike Alcaras - Drums
CC: Bass, Keys, Vox
GS: Percussion

02 COMO EL SOL

Carlatwiin - Vox
Nick Cornu - Guitar
Fly Harper - Bass
Mike Alcaras - Drums
CC: Keys, Claps
GS: Percussion, Vox

03 HOOK & LINE

Mike Alcaras - Drums
CC: Bass, Keys, Synbass
GS: Percussion

04 PINK SUN

Nick Cornu - Guitars
Mike Alcaras - Drums
Fly Harper - Bass
CC: Keys & Synths
GS: Percussion

Chris Coco & George Solar - Island Vibrations

https://linktr.ee/lehto_music
https://linktr.ee/tristandeliegemusic

After releasing their album 'Transatlantyk' in 2020, David Hanke aka Lehto (fka Keno) and Tristan de Liège team up again for their new song 'Ahead Of Us'. While Hanke released his collection of remixes and one offs at the end of 2021, Tristan de Liége released his new album 'Refractions' in June 2022. 'Ahead Of Us' sees them both again in the depths of downtempo, weaving together Kalimbas, Rhodes, Synths, vocal bits and crisp drums to a wonderfully soothing theme. In 2021 they also started working on their new project, The Golden Shadow, a project merging their love of spiritual jazz with a contemporary electronic aesthetic. Hanke's first Lehto album 'Between All Days' will also be released in late 2022.

Ahead Of Us

Island Vibrations

V1.1 Guaguancoco

V1.2 Rumba Solar

V2.1 Algaroba

Antidote session by @jovile_sibile & @domas_yra_mauras is finally on Soundcloud! Close your eyes to listen - you might see more.

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Full episode with tracklist on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjzIimkrooY

Special thanks to @antidotecommunity for producing this visual masterpiece. 
Filmed at the open-air museum Europos Parkas, exhibiting over 100 works created by artists from all over the world. 

—

“We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.” Ram Dass

Sibilë & Mauras | Antidote Community | Live DJ Set

Having temporarily expanded into a transatlantic ensemble, Hess Is More is once again back where it started, as Danish artist Mikkel Hess’ solo venture through the borderlands of pop, electronic, jazz, and experimental genres.

'I Love My Life (Again and Again)' →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

With Hess in full control of the process, what has returned to the fore is the personal edge, the subversive lightheartedness that runs so much of his early work.

It’s in this vein he now introduces the single ‘I Love My Life (Again and Again), officially out on December 8th.

“I Love My Life/I Fuck My Wife/Again and Again”

… Hess intones, the words drifting gently above an innocuous little drum machine beat. This is Hess cruising through the age of anxiety without a care in the world, poking at us, at our sublime seriousness. There’s a bit more to it, but we’ll let you figure out the rest.

The track is written, performed, and produced by Hess himself. The drum track is programmed on an old CR8000, and the main riff is played on a Bass VI, a bass/guitar hybrid famously employed by George Harrison. Some joyous Moog synths in the mix as well.

The album is scheduled to come out in April 2024 on Music For Dreams.

Hess Is More has spent recent years immersed in the critically acclaimed theatrical concert slash art installation known as Appolonian Circles, performing here as an ensemble. The project is still active, with the next shows being played at National Sawdust in New York in January 2024.
Hess Is More is also planning a tour coinciding with the release of the album in April 2024.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

Connect with Hess Is More
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fFTIIHpCj2a0Xv5Xls50Q
FB : https://www.facebook.com/hessismore
TW : https://twitter.com/hess_is_more
YT : https://www.youtube.com/hessismore
IG : https://www.instagram.com/hess_is_more/

Connect with Music For Dreams
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/musicfordreams
FB : https://www.facebook.com/musicfordreams
SC : https://soundcloud.com/music-for-dreams
YT : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8HNI0C0QGdOoHWrTqhVWA 
IG : https://www.instagram.com/musicfordreams/
X : https://twitter.com/musicfordreams
BC : https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/
Home : https://musicfordreams.dk/

Hess Is More - I Love My Life (Again and Again) - s0782

The Camel Princess Mix - mixtape by Sami Daik for Praia Irmão - Costa da Caparica

Purveyor of fun & quality grooves. .
Following a passion for discovering hidden gems from all corners of the world, Sami explores a vast musical spectrum navigating towards the deeper side of things.
He currently holds weekly residencies at London's Isabel & Louie and a monthly this Summer 2024 at Paria Irmao in Costa da Caparica (PT).
With a love for day time sets, expect from Sami groovy ambient, stripped out slow balearic chuggers, funky nuggets, cosmic disco & all sorts of afro-latin sounds... A fresh and exciting musical experience by @sami_daik at Praia Irmão.


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Disclaimer:

We do not intend to make money or infringe copyrights with this mixtape. For promotional purposes only.

Praia Irmão - Sami Daik

Floating Lands v2

Days After TRIP

Exhausting

Taken from the 12" Dream Baby Dream/Cashback with remixes by Four Tet and Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas. Out now!

Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Cashback (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas remix)

I played a fantastic festival called Cascadia this past weekend. So many talented, amazing, beautiful, generous, and far out heads gathered up in the mountains above Granite Falls, Washington and connected. I don't really have words to describe how amazing it was, but swimming in the river, the mud pool, the swimming hole, the perfect sound systems, the wonderful music, the delicious food, the stars, the rain, the sun, and the dancing! The dancing may have been the best.

I hosted a Play Live! Seminar and then brought my things over to the Forest stage backstage area with Tait, and we walked in on Megan having an awkward moment with the fabric meant to stretch around the table for my spaceship to play live on.
She was worried about a section of the fabric which was the other way around - shiny side up. We smiled, and assured her it wasn't important.
But Megan actually made like she was going to rip up the fabric and flip it around to make it "perfect."
Tait and I stopped her and explained that it was dark, and there was no way anyone would be like "Oh dude, look at the table cloth and that weird shiny patch!"
So we agreed that it was already perfect, and I joked about writing a song called "Shiny Tablecloth" and playing it that night in my set.
I did.
When Tait heard the words I had looped and mangled as they slowly became untangled he laughed so hard he fell out of his chair.
People were all "Dude, are you ok?"
Well... sadly Megan missed this moment. So I spent some of today playing it live into my reel to reel deck until I got a mix I was happy with, and here it is.

This is for you, with love, from me.
Enjoy it, have fun, and don't sweat the things that don't matter at all. "Perfection" is a state of fear... even a diamond is made more beautiful by it's flaws. Perfect is being in the present tense, as often as we can be. Here and now.
I love you.

Don't Sweat It - Sunshine Jones' STCDMAAB Live Mix

Hôtel Costes Presents... continues its Studio HC project with the ‘On Met Les Voiles’ LP by Les Coeurs Brisés.

For the fourth long player in the Studio HC series Hotel Costes Presents... introduces a new collaborative guise from some of the key figures from the project, namely Adrien De Maublanc, Adrien Boisseau and Julien Quentin who here form Les Coeurs Brisés.

The project was born out of heartbreak as Boisseau and Quentin both
suffered breakups just before hitting the album was due to be recorded, the result is a raw, emotionally fuelled long player much of which was captured in the moment with one take and embraces all the technical glitches, grounding noise, unexpected quirks and nuances that come with recording on the fly.

‘On Met Les Voiles’ sees the trio once again exploring a modern classical/jazz meets electronic aesthetic, ranging from delicate keys on closing cut ‘La Haut’ through to the more electronic leaning styles of ‘Dans La Tempete’ and its swirling bass line and ‘De Bon Matin’ with its bumpy breaks, choppy bass stabs and airy piano lines.
The artists also explore more glitched-out ambient leaning styles on tracks like opener ‘Tout Doux’ title-cut ‘On Met Les Voiles’ and ‘Et Plonge’ which lay focus on textural synths, modular whirrs, minute percussive flutters and stunning intricacies from the organic instruments. Once again Studio HC delivers a forward thinking take on classic influences.

Hotel Costes presents...On Met Les Voiles

On Met Les Voiles

DJ, producer, broadcaster, journalist, musician.
contact : chris@chriscoco.com

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