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moodorama "Mind Traffic"

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Artist:  Felix Laband
Album:  The Soft White Hand
Catalog No.:  CPT605-1 / -2 / -3
Format:  2-LP incl. download / CD / digital
Barcode / Format:
673794260518 > 2-LP incl. Download
673794260525 > CD
673794260532 > Digital

Tracklisting:
1. “Dreaming In Johannesburg (04:30) 
2. “Prelude” (04:59)
3. “Derek And Me” (05:49)
4. “Death Of A Pervert” (05:31)
5. “We Know Major Tom's A Junkie” (06:00)
6. “They Call Me Shorty” (06:25)
7. “Go To Sleep Little Baby” (05:46) 
8. “5 Seconds Ago” (04:27)
9. “7 Rise 7 House” (02:40)
10. “Borc Love” (02:55)
11. “Dreams Of Loneliness” (03:39) 
12. “Requiem For The Lord” (03:47) 
13. “Snug Retreat” (06:09)
14. “Death Of A Migrant” (07:20)

Felix Laband’s The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story.
Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband’s first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015.


In The Soft White Hand Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records – Thin Shoes in June (2001), 4/4 Down the Stairs (2002), Dark Days Exit (2005) and especially Deaf Safari which reached deep into the South Africa scene and its political culture to inspire its vocal and music sampling. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album’s creation – an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like “Death of a Migrant” – is perceptible in Laband’s desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life.
“For this album, my source material became almost autobiographical as opposed to African statements I’ve worked with previously,” says the artist. “I have sampled a lot from documentaries from the 80s crack epidemic in impoverished African American communities and
believe my work speaks unapologetically for the lost and marginalised, for those who are the forgotten casualties of the war on drugs. In the past, I have had my issues with substance abuse, and I know first-hand about the nightmares and fears, what it feels like to be isolated and abandoned.”

LINKS:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Felix-Laband-18041251748/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/felixlaband
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband
Bandcamp: https://felixlaband.bandcamp.com/

Felix Laband - We Know Major Tom's A Junkie (Snippet)

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Monk Dub (Abstrakt Sonance Remix)

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Artist: Inkswel & Colonel Red
Album: Holders Of The Sun Remix EP
Catalog No.: CPT602-1 / -3
Format: 12" / digital
Barcode / Format:
673794260211 (12”)
673794260235 (digital)


Tracklisting:
Side A
A1. “Hold On 2 It” (Moodymann Remix) (06:08)
A2. “Make Me Crazy” (Potatohead People Remix) (02:56)

Side B
B1. “Cruel Mistake” (Moodorama’s Weird Mistake Remix (04:03)
B2. “Cruel Mistake” (Moodorama’s Deep Rise Remix)” (05:03)
B3. “Make Me Crazy” (Potatohead People Remix Instrumental) (02:56)

Info:
Remixes by Moodymann, Potatohead People, Moodorama. 
Kenny Dixon Jr. acuminates it deep and groovy, well, it’s his holy trademark sound. Potatohead People from Vancouver have been championed by Soulection, Nightmares on Wax, Questlove, Big Boi a.o. and have releases on Jellyfish Recordings, or NY label Bastard Jazz. The duo has worked with artists such as Moka Only, Kaytranada, Pomo, Phife Dawg a.o. 
On top Moodorama’s remixes are trippy dubby jams. Moodorama have a long recording history, starting in the 90s on Stereo Deluxe, but even before that Martin Sennebogen was the DJ and co-producer of Knowtoryus, the legendary first hip hop outfit on Compost.

Inkswel & Colonel Red - Hold On 2 It (Moodymann Remix) (Snippet)

Inkswel & Colonel Red - Cruel Mistake (Weird Mistake Moodorama Remix) (Snippet)

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RELEASE DATE 2023-04-07
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Release info:
"'Psycho-Acoustic Principles For The Dancefloor' is a record emancipated from the overload of information that led me spiralling into a schizophrenic over-thinking lately in my music. 'Outsider' has a pureness of confidence which celebrates the last 10 years of isolation away from the European scene, while contained just under its surface is a sense of melancholy which points to the paradox within myself. I believe effective dance- music plays with these human paradoxes, and in a time when the mask of confidence is amplified and commodified, music should tease out the human truth. I hope this record captures something essential which goes beyond the structural. If possible, I hope that it breaks down barriers and preconceptions as it delivers roses and intimacy into a place which allows the spirit to sing."

More About Frivolous :
From the wilds of British Columbia to the beating heart of Berlin and back again, Daniel Gardner’s journey through music has been all his own. To call his style idiosyncratic would be a disservice, for his is a sound that feeds off the world outside his studio as much as it comes from within.
Through his formative years discovering music in a remote location detached from the ebb and flow of cultural movements, Frivolous took shape as a distinct proposition inspired by the European minimal explosion but defined by bold strokes of playful ingenuity, both in his sound sources and the way in which he deployed them. This first came to light on Andy Vaz’s celebrated Background imprint; a label as concerned with funk and imagination as it was with glitchy production ethics. Likewise appearances on Karloff and Proptronix gave the perfect platform for Frivolous to indulge in his love of irreverent sampling and heart-wrenching melodies, as dizzying arrangements of found sounds and dusty rips filtered fed into a tonic that was equal parts humour and emotion., not to mention eminently danceable.
  
As his confidence grew and steady European bookings gave him the chance to focus ever more on his craft, Frivolous’ own voice started to creep into the tracks, while his home made instruments became a key talking point in a scene that was becoming riddled with characterless laptop botherers. Out of this phase of his career came the Midnight Black Indulgence LP on ~scape, an album steeped in warm tones and oddball pop while still rooted to the fundamentals of house. The stylistic progression from here to 2011’s Meteorology was a smooth one, even as the graduation to Luciano’s techno empire Cadenza marked a serious ramp up in exposure and time on the road for the boy from BC. In a swell of widespread acclaim Frivolous took his live show far and wide for a good two years, living something of a vagabond existence while based around various parts of Europe.
After that rollercoaster, a decade spent in his native BC provided the necessary decompression before returning once more to Europe in 2022. Now having completed an MA in Music, Daniel Gardner aka Frivolous is once again calling Berlin home as a stream of fresh material reflects a new perspective both musical and experiential. While there may be no clues as to what comes next, the notion is reinforced that he will always do things his own way, and the results will always sound unmistakably like Frivolous."

- Richard Marshal

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Psycho-Acoustic Principles For The Dancefloor EP

PREMIERE: Frivolous - Prograss (Original Mix) [Compost Records]

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Artist:  Frivolous
Release:  Psycho-Acoustic Principles For The Dancefloor EP
Cat.No.:  CPT616-3
Barcode / Format:  673794261638 (Digital)

Tracklisting:
1. Outsider (5:59)
2. Mo Ether (Live Version) (5:44)
3. Pandora's Trash (Macdonald's Parking Lot Mix) (5:12) 
4. Prograss (4:09)

Info:
'Psycho-Acoustic Principles For The Dancefloor' is a record emancipated from the overload of information that led me spiralling into a schizophrenic over-thinking lately in my music. 'Outsider' has a pureness of confidence which celebrates the last 10 years of isolation away from the European scene, while contained just under its surface is a sense of melancholy which points to the paradox within myself. I believe effective dance- music plays with these human paradoxes, and in a time when the mask of confidence is amplified and commodified, music should tease out the human truth. I hope this record captures something essential which goes beyond the structural. If possible, I hope that it breaks down barriers and preconceptions as it delivers roses and intimacy into a place which allows the spirit to sing.

Links:
Instagram:  www.instagram.com/frivolous_live/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Frivolouslive
Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/3YlS5XmI6AzoEPSLe0tCZj Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/frivolous
Discogs:  https://www.discogs.com/artist/51765-Frivolous

Frivolous - Mo Ether (Live Version)

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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.“