Cog Shift EP

Oracle

The award winning and Gilles Peterson-approved Danish supergroup Kalaha returns with their first release in almost two years: the EP 'Mama Ngoma'. 

The EP is first and foremost a tribute to West African traditions like Highlife and Afrobeat but mixed with the dance floor appeal of contemporary electronic music. 

The backbone of the band comes from the outrageous drumming of Emil de Waal, who's improvisational attitude is known to astound audiences around the world, alongside the finely balanced guitar of Niclas Knudsen, who has been studying and refining African techniques for more than a decade now. 

On top of this, the two highly regarded electronic producers and synth wizards, Rumpistol & Spejderrobot, take the band to new musical hemispheres by adding layers through extra-terrestrial synths, analogue effects and spaced out samples. 

The electronic aspect of the EP is further expanded with two remixes from NYC-based MALAKAI and Danish rising star Bwoy de Bhajan. 

The EP is accompanied by an animated video directed by the group's art director Zven Balslev, and in the spring of 2019 follows an entire album titled 'Mandala'. 

Track by Track 

The EP kicks off with the catchy and highly danceable 'Mama Ngoma', which combines African mud huts with epic science fiction. We then reach the hypnotic horn attack of 'Cape Star', featuring wonderful guitar work from Knudsen, before the West Coast inspired 'Malaika' leads into an outro that’s like Talking Heads, if David Byrne was replaced by a Speak&Spell computer! 

Fourth track and first single 'Dragon Jenny' shows the band in more mellow and reflective territories without losing their groove. The track has already received airplay around the world. 

To finish things off we're proud to have the NYC-based producer MALAKAI present his dubsteppy anagram remix of 'Malaika', before rising star Bwoy de Bhajan spoils us with his minimalistic take on 'Cape Star', reminiscent of some of Shackletons earlier percussion-driven work. 

The EP has had early support from The Rust Music (US), Jay Scarlett (DE/Sound Supreme/Puls), Mathieu Schreyer (US/KCRW), Descroix (DK/Iboga), P8 Jazz (DK), The Slow Music Movement (UK), Dancefloor Mayhem (US), Synths of Eden (DE), Pouled'or (DE), Radio Prun (F), Mantra Radio at CITR FM (CAN), Dubmission (US), Heartbeats (DK), O Dominio Dos Deuses (PT), Hakan Tamar (TU) & Mushpost Radio on WAXX.FM (US/James Cook). 

QUOTES ABOUT KALAHA: 

"Truly enlightening and inviting" - Mike Stukes / Mystic Vybes / WHCR 90.3 FM (US) 

"What a great EP. Nice work" - The Slow Music Movement Radio Show (UK) 

“Brilliant Album! Very tropical again!” – Gilles Peterson / BBC 6 / Worldwide FM (UK) 
“Kalaha transport fans into another world” – Earmilk.com (US) 

“A dance hall in outer space” – Jazz Special (DK) 

“A wide tapestry of colours that will fill the palette of choice sound selectors. Big on cultural essence & bass rhythms.” – Jay Scarlett / Sound Supreme, PULS Radio (DE) 

“Truly a genre bending performance in the best way possible, music from the future, a flashing stage, and an absolutely mental drummer” – Pouledor (DE)  

“Kalaha never chose the easy solutions. With humor and understanding the four inventive musicians put their tracks on fire.” – Jazznyt.com (DK) 
credits

Mama Ngoma

Malaika (MALAKAI anagram remix)

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Gradient Moon

Heres a fun one with some samples from my cajon playing and from one of my favorite humans Jim Carrey! 
Mastering by @Ovoid 
Album Art by mee:D

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Imagining Ghosts

Street Ritual has long held a reverence for the hard and heavy sounds of the electronic fringe. Like a special language spoken by only the devout, it is these kinetic productions that continue to ignite our love affair with bass music as musicians from scenes new and old twist the byzantine sounds of the underground into increasingly provocative incarnations with each new release. 

A tribute to the rebellious and wild — to the low-end fanatics and shadowy seekers among us — Street Ritual presents the ‘Hard & Heavy’ Compilation.’ Capturing the essence of our unflinching musical aesthetic through twelve acts of seditious bass, our Summer 2020 VA pulls from the realms of halftime, dubstep, drum and bass, neuro, and the endless dark spaces in between to offer a glimpse of the next frontiers of hard and heavy electronica.

Bandcamp: June 25, 2020
All Platforms: July 3, 2020

Follow → @quaczar702

Artwork by Matik
Mastering by Ovoid

Hard & Heavy (VA)

Lifeform

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QuaCzar - Lifeform

Pushloop - Matador
Dubamine - Rooted
Ternion Sound - They're Coming
Truth - Jade Helm
The Widdler - Calamity
Kryo - Swamp Ting
TRUTH - Seeing Things
MikRodot - Praise
Enigma Dubz- Steppas
Teffa - Hostile Worlds
!sded - Flowdan - Welcome To London (isded remix) x  Ternion Sound - Yellow & Grey (ColtCuts remix)
Distinct Motive - King
Dokter - Temple
Chief Kaya - Classic Edition
Opus- This Damn Feeling
Angelic Root- Shimmer
Ternion Sound- Hopeless x The Widdler-Horror Show Style (Bootleg)
Oxossi- Dark Passenger
Juss B- Sandman
Numa Crew- Skankers Chant
Isded- Monotone Drone Strike
Truth- Trenchtown

THE KRAFT

Vivacious Splatter by https://soundcloud.com/language47 is a psychedelic journey through glitchy, wet, melodic soundscapes of ever increasing intrigue. Dive in and immerse yourself.

Langwidj - Place Of Solitude

Langwidj - Synaptic Transmission

Langwidj - Thoroughly Diminished

@wiseyoungfool

Download the track here:
https://wiseyoungfool.bandcamp.com/track/cathode-ray-tube

wiseyoungfool’s ever-evolving brand of texture blends and harmonic atmospheres has steadily matured into a unique style of composition, and his latest single, “Cathode Ray Tube”, shines a ardent light onto his newest developments in sound. Eschewing force and impact in favor of smooth, velvet arrangement, the song follows a multi-rhythmic drum shuffle underpinning rising and falling chord progressions. Elements of jazz, garage, and neuro synthesis fuse into an eclectic jam across the inner workings of wiseyoungfool’s songwriting and production warchest, bringing the track in line with the attitude of his previous Rust releases, such as Denizens and Bridges. If you’re looking for a scintillating stereo saunter to accompany any manner of relaxed affair, look no further than “Cathode Ray Tube”.

Production, engineering and artwork by Brian Lynch [wiseyoungfool]

Cathode Ray Tube

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Wiseyoungfool - Cathode Ray Tube

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photography and design by by Joel Potter.