RA Sessions- DARKSIDE - Paper trails

Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar Remix)

Supported by Baikal, Nico Stojan, Sebo & Madmotormiquel, Art of Tones, Agents of Time and many more

⊙ Vinyl: http://bit.ly/2fayAb9
⊙ Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1rNjcfZ
⊙ Itunes: http://bit.ly/1yBel7w

Beatport

Jacob Groening - Hangover

!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

Getting Old

Felix Laband - Getting Old

Here's a rework i did for my brother @VanHai few years ago for his first album called "Intimacy"... this out on vinyl for the first time as the opener for the Future sounds of jazz 13!
:)

Bandcamp

Van Hai "Dernier amour" Ripperton's No Love Lost Reshape

DARKSIDE is playing LIVE at Music Hall of Williamsburg on December 1st:
TIX here: http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/76365/

DARKSIDE - A1

Oceanvs Orientalis' third EP "General Tales of Ordinary Madness".
 
All tracks of the EP are accompanied by Idil Meşe's soft as summer rain vocals and lyrics rhyming on stories of streets.
 
The EP will be released under Kanto Records label, the newly established contemporary platform focused primarily on experimental music and the arts, founded by Oceanvs Orientalis himself.
 
Featuring many esteemed musicians such as Ilhan Ersahin, Idil Mese, Hasan Gozetlik and Ali Ceyhun Kartalsuna, "General Tales of Ordinary Madness" EP consists four tracks, recorded over a year in New York and Istanbul.

Vinyl version will be available 15/11/2017!

General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Oceanvs Orientalis feat. İdil Meşe - "Postwar"

Saschienne - Grand Cru

The secret gem of Space Disco vibes, Ichisan will be releasing his new EP 'Megla' via Kanto Records. First track of the EP, Megla is some sort of an instrument showcase by the Slovenian producer, who used his analog synthesizers deftly to accompany the funk-house strumming of his bass and electric guitars, both played by the artist himself.

Veter (The Wind) is a five-minute-long journey into the depths of unique and captivating musical mind of Ichisan, daring to be simple yet invoking majestic feelings. Third and fourth track of the EP, Planica and Yassa are more dancefloor oriented tunes that beam with positivity and energy, both have the potential to become anthems of the summer and beyond. 

Arranged, recorded and mixed in Ichisan’s own studio in Ljubljana, the EP 'Megla' is brimmed with phenomenal beats that would not disappoint even the pickiest ears.

Ichisan - Megla

Explorers

Voyage

Hello, this is new EP Angst, out today

Tracklist:
A1 - Wit(z)
A2 - Hiathaikm
B1 - Angst
B2 - Nwia
B3 - Hithaikm (Hugo Bocca Remix)

Angst

More than 30 years in business, over 800 catalogue releases, over 8000 songs + remixes and still going strong!! Compost is one of the most prolific, highly acclaimed and in demand indie labels in Europe. Compost and its sublabels Compost Black Label, Compost Disco, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings and rumpelmusig standing for quality music, a sophisticated mixture of electrifying disco, house, techno, soul, jazz and a little bit of pop. XLR8R wrote: "...top address where electronica meets musicality". Besides internationally respected artist like Robert Owens, Trüby Trio, Koop, Beanfield, Christian Prommer, Felix Laband, Karma, Ben Mono, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Marsmobil, Eddy Meets Yannah, Sepalot, Alif Tree, Shahrokh, Wigald Boning a.o. the label is also well known for its praised compilation series V.A. "Elaste" (Vol.1-4), "Future Sounds Of Jazz" (Vol.1-14), "Partykeller" (Vol.1-3) or "Glücklich" (Vol.1-5). Like Gilles Peterson once said: “With great pleasure I pronounce Compost the most consistent and forward thinking record label of continental Europe.“

Felix Laband - Getting Old

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