Taken from Fresh Water vol. 2 > https://fanlink.to/freshwatervol2


Disco Puppet aka Shoumik Biswas is a musician and visual artist. His sound is characterised by its irreverence towards the stylistic and procedural dictates of genres and their purists. This stems partly from ideology, but mostly from a tendency to get easily bored.
 
https://www.instagram.com/discopuppet/
https://discopuppet.bandcamp.com/

Disco Puppet - Coucou

Taken from Fresh Water vol. 2 > https://fanlink.to/freshwatervol2

Badie_a (Aditya Bharadwaj) is a visual artist and designer based in Bengaluru. He’s been a behind-the-scenes participant in Consolidate activities for the past few years. You might have seen him play the bird in Disco Puppet’s production of Aranyer Din Ratri, or seen him at one of our live shows, adding to the chaos.

https://www.instagram.com/badie__a/

Badie_a - Black Gold

Taken from Fresh Water vol. 2 > https://fanlink.to/freshwatervol2

Aniruddh Menon makes music out of Bengaluru, working with a lot of extensively warped samples and low end drenched hip hop beats.

https://www.instagram.com/aniruddh.menon/
https://soundcloud.com/aniruddh-s-menon

Aniruddh Menon - Porkfat

Taken from Fresh Water vol. 2 > https://fanlink.to/freshwatervol2

K.O.K.O. is the solo project of Gurgaon-based electronic musician, vocalist and producer Anukool Raman. He is also known for his work with Signal W.

https://koko94.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/k.o.k.o.inc/

K.O.K.O. - To Sophie

For free download: https://consolidate.bandcamp.com/track/peach-tree-since-july
We really had fun last July.
Artists: Skippy, Maitreya Mer, Musharraf Shaikh, Pardafash, Disco Puppet and Aniruddh Menon.
Mixed by Disco Puppet
Mastered by _RHL
Cover art: Suren Makkar


Consolidate 2016

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Various Artists - Peach Tea Since July [Free DL]

Zubin Aroz - Because Dreams

Worm's Cottage - Borokhun

Oceantied - Ice & Fire

Pardafash - Aja

Aniruddh Menon - Ugh

_RHL - Dard (Happy New Year)

The very first draft of this compilation was being workshopped by the end of June, 2019. The world was in a precarious place then too, but by the time we had arrived at an LP ready for release it was being plunged headfirst into a new era. The abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir, followed by the attempted re-writing of India’s citizenship laws had spawned the first sustained wave of protests in India since Prime Minister Modi and his NDA government had assumed power in 2014.

So we stayed its release, feeling that maybe this was not the moment for a compilation that dwelt so heavily on the interior lives of artists. Then, before any of us could catch our breath, the new year brought in its own fresh wave of disasters and a global pandemic. Now, as we watch the shock doctrine be applied in its crudest form all around us, the quaintness of this compilation has taken on new meaning.

What started as an exciting first step in our plans for the new decade is now a time capsule. Those moments in the album that seemed wary of the future now sound like moments of premonition. The silly and fun parts are welcome reprieve to the mood of the planet nowadays. But the album is underscored by an unawareness of just how much the world was going to change.

The 12 track FRNDS & FMLY ’20 offers a broader sonic palette compared to our first compilation (F&F’16) cutting through genres, mood and intent. While the label regulars follow their own tangents, new recruits in Flekke, Jevan Antony, Akrti and Murane Athma x Aniruddha Prabhu further expand the sound of  Consolidate.

Blindnight - Fat Knees

Pardafash - God Promise

Disco Puppet - Rakkhosh

_RHL - Aye Mere Mere

Toys  for a Coma - AMMØ

Phatcowlee - System Error

Aniruddh Menon - Pearly

Zubin Aroz - Fearless Surfer

Jeevan Antony - Birdie

Flekke - Averse

Fresh Water is a new compilation series that we are launching to mark 5 years of our label. We wanted to celebrate it by putting out more music between our full-length releases without worrying too much about traditional release formats or the ancillary work that goes with it.

Some of the songs within are indicators for the tangents our artists are on, others are one-off experiments, sketches and some leftovers from the back catalogue.

Vol. 1 features music by Kambalalala, Disco Puppet, zthtx, YNZN.P and _RHL.

The artwork was illustrated by Shoumik Biswas and designed by Suren Makkar

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