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La Rama Records is proud to present four fresh feelers from our friend Bunzinelli. These tracks have weathered the storm of no-fun to provide joy and elation for the living to come... psychedelic feelings to help it all fall back in to place. Bunzinelli has been personally involved in serving sonic treats to the world via his label and mix series Chambre Noire. He was also part of the team behind Cosmic Tones which in 2019 released 'Montreal Pleiades' featuring his first musical outing alongside local major players Priori, Dust-e-1, URA, Temple's M. Salaciak & R. Weng (the wizard behind our first release as Dj Medallion).

You can trust in this one, to be shared far and wide.

Music by Peter Bunzinelli.
Mastered by Cristobal Urbina.
Artwork & design by Luca Lozano.
Manufactured & distributed by La Rama Records Montréal.

Godspeed

Bunzinelli - Godspeed (La Rama Records) LARAMA002

He got away with murder most of the time; all he had to do was get on the charm offensive and any negative feelings towards him seemed to disappear. Some would say it was a skill, one perfected through years of practice - sometimes he could wriggle out of situations with just a smile and a wink. It was inevitable that at some point he wouldn't get off so lightly, a time would come where he'd overstep the mark and the world would come crashing down around him.

For the second release on his Dynamics Of Acid imprint MOY joins forces with mystery man Zodiac Childs for a split EP that explores the pair's shared love of electro, breaks and hardcore. Separately the pair have notched up EPs for Nocta Numerica, Batrachian, Exalt Records, Further Electronix and their own labels, and now they're coming together to each share an original cut backed up by a remix of one another's work. Packed full of anthemic melodies, acid madness and thunderous bass, the four tracks showcase the synergy between the two artists and their knack for capturing the euphoria of the 90s.

PREMIERE: Zodiac Childs - Overstep (MOY Remix) [Dynamics Of Acid]

SETR008 V.Ö. 14.10.

A) TIFFY L’AMOUR - FOLLOW ME (FREY & MENQUI Glockenspiel) 
B) DIE GESUNDEN - Filmmusik (FREY & OTTER Dive)

Serious Trouble label presents a mind bending record that brings together forward thinking jams from the early 80’s into present time with reworks of Tiffy L’Amours’ „Follow Me“ and „Film Musik“ from Die Gesunden. Both received an editorial treatment by Benedikt Frey, Menqui & Philipp Otterbach. With kind allowance by the original composers this 12“ marks the editorial spirit of Serious Trouble and waves tribute to moist cellar jams.
The A-Side „Follow Me“ Rework by Frey & Menqui is a wild extension of the original which gently adds a weird drummy cowbell intro before it introduces the chanting eccentric original. That got enhanced with an extra electronic bass recording and relooped cut & phrases emphasing you to hit the bell just one more time.
On the flip side „Film Musik“ Frey & Otterbach dived into the artists main motive and layerd it with a lyra, sh101 and external drums in an 8 hour session. It respectfully keeps the spirit of the playful original. In comparison to that though they managed to built a seamless endless „escheresque" staircase to mad mountain. An Immortal Acid exploration.

Die Gesunden & Tiffy L'Amour Reworks (Benedikt Frey, Menqui, Philipp Otterbach)

@freybenedikt RIO09 // 11.18.2022 // Distr. One Eye Witness

When British Airways got privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange, somewhere in Canada the first Starbucks outside of the US opened, and the Walt Disney Company signed an agreement with the French Prime Minister to construct Disneyland Paris. In the sky above southern Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern Somalia, and the Atlantic Ocean a hybrid solar eclipse materialized for 7.57 seconds, whilst Margaret Thatcher performed for 45-minutes on Soviet television. Some days later, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Diego Maradona wins his first Italian soccer championship with Napoli, and Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. In the mists of the world's first conference on artificial life at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, and Prozac gets approved for use as an antidepressant in the United States. Much give way for the future, down there in 1987, the year that marks the title of Benedikt Frey’s freshest mini album, out into the world on R.i.O., the label he runs with some pals in the North of Berlin. It’s a dubby melancholic conqueror, wistfully, repetitive, drilling, absorbing, spooking. It makes you dream. Not particular of the year 1987. But it’s all there: The Red Square, the untouched land of the Val d'Europe, Diego on fuego. Six dark-ish tracks in trance, melancholic dub, downbeat heaven, journey music depths, all full of light and yet so dark. Futuristic dramas linked to a speculative past. In our dreams all might look different. The eclipse may last 27-minutes. You meet Neuromancer cyberpunks and blade running Ghost dogs, all taught to hack by Phrack. Cristal clear melodies, sampled voices, and veiled basslines, analogue scopes, and digital ropes, longing for a past that storm into the future. A time where deep listening widens the acoustics into infinity, while neon glows charm the light smog. Benedikt Frey been down there. Or maybe not. His latest music tells stories from the bygone, vested with the forthcoming. Come in and look out. There is nothing to see, yet so much to hear. ML

A1) Phrack 5:55
A2) Trencher 6:15
A3) ORI 3:38
B1) Attitude 5:45
B2) Dummy 5:43
B3) Steam 5:30

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

1987

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RIO09 Benedikt Frey - 1987

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🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

[free] alternative rock x grunge x nirvana type beat (prod. ranoch)

Two years on since his BR debut in Berlin, our attention is drawn once again to Benedikt Frey and his Lopasura (Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain) imprint. Since its 2012 formation, Lopasura has housed Benedikt's own releases. Following on from the Connect Four compilation by Drvg Cvltvre, Mark Forshaw, The Acid Mercenaries and Benedikt himself, he now returns with the label's fourth release. Out of the Fog showcases a trio of analogue-laden techno mastery. The title track opens proceedings fittingly. Acid low-tessitura chords hiss continuously underneath while siren synths whir in and out in their grandeur, peaking to symphonic effect before fading back into the dark. A sense of drama that encompasses Love, Pain, Sunshine & Rain comprehensively.

Catch Out of the Fog creeping out of the shadows on 21st April via Lopasura.

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Benedikt Frey "Out of the Fog" - Boiler Room Debuts

Full stream of Benedikt Frey's haunting "Private Crimes," a cut from his new album on ESP Institute. 

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/09/premiere-hear-a-haunting-cut-from-benedikt-freys-debut-album/

@freybenedikt
@esp-institute

[ESP048] Artificial

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Premiere: Benedikt Frey - Private Crimes

SANSIBAR – Home
“Home” is an atmospheric electro – romance full of love and longing chords and pads - on top of body poppin’ beats and laser stabs. Sansibar shows again (in his effortlessly elegant way) how to connect the body, the mind and the soul – and from the moment the drops of acid start meandering with that gentle 303 bass line we know we are in for the real bodywork, in which all elements are in motion, independently but in togetherness.

Sansibar - Home

Needs not-for-profit turns its focus to raising funds and awareness for environmental causes with NGO, Cool Earth. D. Tiffany contributes to their latest EP with the mesmerising breaks cut, ‘Sun Trip’...

Read more: https://dj-m.ag/2wg2vVn

NEEDS 006 In Aid of the Environment (Needs)

Premiere: D. Tiffany ‘Sun Trip’

Its a dream come true to be releasing this track with @r-srecords as part of the RV Trax Vol.5 compiled by label founder @Renaat

Pre-order here! https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rv-trax-vol-5

RSRV05

Oracle

Optmst - Oracle [R&S Records] RSRV05

Following a stellar release on MCR imprint Jerk It, Swedish producer Bobo joins Gestalt Records with with a split album of 10 tracks spread over two installments. Breaks, bass and ambiance unlimited.

@bobo-102
@gestaltlabel

Buy:
https://gestaltlabel.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Bobo - Hope [Gestalt]

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/shadow

Jungle flavours run rampant through CKNOWEP26. This time Frey (aka the prolific Benedikt Frey) joins us to lay down 3 jungle infused rhythms. Title track 'Shadow' and 'D.Y.S.' expertly blend complex drums and morphing synthesis with the haunting and recondite vocals of Nadia D'Alo on the A-side. PI rounds off the record with a more familiar jungle outing but is by all means as unique as the rest of the record. One for the heads, inside! Available 10 August 2020.

Clone - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Clone
Deejay - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Deejay
Horizons - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Horizons
Cold Cuts Hot Wax - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-CCHW
Lobster Records - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Lobster
HHV - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-HHV
Decks - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Decks 
Juno - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Juno
Bordello - https://tinyurl.com/CKNOWEP26-Bordello

Buy @ Bandcamp

CKNOWEP26 | Frey - Shadow [12"]

“The word ‘Isolation’ undoubtedly has a new weight to it. For any person, within communities, it has the ability to starve us of something essential OR positively recalibrate an individual whose introspection can lead to creation. The title & concept of this release is simply an acknowledgement of a creative process in which going inwards can lead to the discovery of something unique.

We as people move alongside technological advancements & this has the power to ‘connect & isolate’. Our personal relationships with one another also take on new forms as our tools for communication change. This inspires creative action. The human response to modern devices can result in surreal and unfamiliar expressions. In terms of music, our instant access to information from the past & engrained intuitions lead us to revisit atavistic rhythms of the past & reinterpret them with new sensibilities. We create music from the ‘Now’ that traverses the ‘Past’ with sights set on the future!

Bonds created from this expression can withstand and even strengthen even when inter-continental physical distance is imposed - forcing us to look inward to investigate the true depth of relationships forged out of creative expression. Rhythm has been used for millennia to locate the deepest parts of the soul & to re/connect spirits - this is true also in the modern age. Certain feelings cannot be expressed via digital text-communications nor with words alone; Music is the answer. Connection through disconnection.

Out October 2nd 2020.
Pre-order - https://linktr.ee/potatoheadz.records

Sedgwick FB - www.facebook.com/sedgwickAU/
Sedgwick SC - @s-e-d-g-w-i-c-k
Sedgwick IG - sedgwick.sound

Mastering by Corey Kikos @ Herbal Mastering
Graphic Design - studiobalcony.com

PHZ004 Rhythm and Isolation

Rhythm and Isolation

PHZ004 - Rhythm and Isolation (Snippets)

There was no sign of life. Looking around he could see little indication that there had ever been anything or anyone on this long forgotten planet. In the middle of the galaxy it floated silently, unobserved through the dense black of night. As he walked upon the surface of the great orb he watched as his feet sunk softly into the sand beneath - this was what he was looking for. The prized element X - it had been sought by science for many years but now he would be the one to bring it home. 

Adam Pits delivers fast paced, cosmic, tech infused bumpers on Haŵs, a record label which is setting out a statement of intent for the new year with a super EP featuring remixes by Priori and Central. This one has a big gold stamp from us.

Element X

PREMIERE: Adam Pits - Element X [Haŵs]

https://www.discogs.com/fr/Cignol-Overview/release/17249380

Cignol's debut on Nocta Numerica (Vinyl / Digital)

Pre-order your copy here (Limited edition of 300):

Bandcamp: bit.ly/3s2lU7Y
Syncrophone: bit.ly/2YcwfAD

Juno: bit.ly/3phlbhF
Clone: bit.ly/2KQqFRs
Deejay: bit.ly/3c4vDoS
Redeye: bit.ly/2YqewG9

EP EXPECTED FOR FEBRUARY 2021

Catalog number: NN019
Title: Overview
Artist: Cignol
Distributed by Syncrophone (Worldwide)
Artwork: Christophe Le Gall
Mastering: MA Spaventi

A1 - Overview
A2 - Set To Sync
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B1 - Somewhere In Your Mind
B2 - Memory Minor

Cignol - Somewhere In Your Mind

Music For Your Mind
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BANDCAMP 👉 https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com

2024 DATES COMING SOON ッ

+ swimming zone
+ @riolabel @initinit
+ @spunoutagency 

05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
07.06. KuH Festival, Bad Wildbad
31.05. TBA, Düsseldorf
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
09.02. LAF, Pforzhyme
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

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29.12. Karmakoma, Belgrade
16.12. Sables Mouvants, Madrid
18.11. The Love Inn, Bristol
17.11. The Carpet Shop, London
11.11. Epicentar, Skopje
08.09. Arkaoda, Berlin
28.08. Dolphins @ Warning, Berlin
23.08. Dolphins @ Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt 
13.08. DT Camp, Lithuania
14.07. K&H Festival, Bad Wildbad
03.06. Renate, Berlin
14.05. Doka, Amsterdam
01.05. X, Berlin
21.04. Control Club, Bukarest
10.03. Sameheads, Berlin
02.18. Barcelona, Colectivo Secreto
02.17. Latvian Art Academy Carnival, Riga
01.13. OHM, Berlin

played at venues like: Rex Club, Fabric, Tresor, Berghain, Panorama Bar, Boiler Room Stadtbad Robert Johnson, Circuli de Bellas Artes, De Marktkantine, Pacha Ibiza, Signal, Peacock Festival, Nuits Sonores Festival, Opium, About Blank, Nitsa, Elysia

CKNOWEP26 | Frey - Shadow [12"]

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