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This performance was part of Culte Agency's showcase at Murmur for Amsterdam Dance Event 2021.

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Culte Agency x ADE w/ Le Motel @ Kiosk Radio 14.10.2021

Crammed Discs' monthly guest is Samy Birnbach aka DJ Morpheus. He plays a mix which showcases some of his favourite tracks released in the 90s and early 00s on Crammed electronic music imprint SSR (and other sublabels). 

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Outsiders: Crammed Discs w/ DJ Morpheus (SSR mix) @ Kiosk Radio 20.12.2021

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Midnight Voodoo invited Monstera Occulta for a guest mix during their monthly show on Radio Alhara.

For the occasion, it will be a one-hour trip in an orientalist world, with Arabic, Turkish or even Armenian sounds dedicated to the world of belly dance.

Tracklisting :

Ensemble Aït El Khedir - Les Pierres d'Agadir
Adamian et son orchestre - Nagat Essaghira
Kemal Rachid - Le Chat du Shah
Esin Engin Orkestrası - Aç Aç
Hasan Hür - Nazlim
Hassan Abou Seoud - Assouan
Mustafa Kandıralı - Atina Kasap Havası
Saffet's Oriental Orchestra - Hidzaz Gazel
Eddie Mekjian - Kurdish Bar
Zeinab Shaath/Chris Kalogerson & the Ensemble Sarqi - Shat Eskindria
Claude Ciari - Yam El-Abaya
Mohammed El-Bakkar - Raks El Nile
Naif Agby - Rouh Rouh
Ibrahim Ashmawi
Mustapha Anwar - Zinek Ouel Gossa
Amal - Sallem Aley
Mohamed Abdel Wahab - Habibi Lasmar
Unknown Artist - Layali Masr


 

MIDNIGHT VOODOO w/ MONSTERA OCCULTA @ Radio Alhara 24.03.22

As the Crammed Discs label turns 42 this year, we’re using the opportunity of this not-round figure to turn the spotlight on certain folds of our catalogue which have now somewhat receded into the shade. We’ll be rediscovering some electronic music trends we explored during the ’80s and ‘90s by digitally releasing around 250 tracks which only ever came out on vinyl (or on now-deleted CDs). These digital reissues will be rolled out over the next 18 months (see details at the bottom).

We’re be introducing the series with an appetizer: the Rare Early SSR Electronica EP, containing five tracks which depict the inception of our SSR electronic music imprint, in the late ‘80s.

The story in a nutshell: as soon as the first wave of Detroit techno hit Europe, and playful, sample-based electronic dance music started emerging in the UK, we were excited by these new combinations of sounds, and started our SSR division in 1988. These early days of SSR saw the advent of a Belgian-Norwegian axis, when a handful of young Norwegian musicians & producers came to Brussels (in connection with Bel Canto, the electro pop band then signed to Crammed), and rubbed shoulders with central Crammed Discs figures such as Minimal Compact singer Samy Birnbach (later known as DJ Morpheus), label boss Marc Hollander, and Vincent Kenis (Marc’s former associate in Aksak Maboul). A series of hybrid electronic EPs were spawned, blending early techno stylings with flavours from around the world.

SSR (and sister sub-labels Language and Selector) would then go on to release over sixty albums and dozens of EPs, exploring a variety of styles (from house and techno to downtempo, ambient, broken beats, drum’n’bass and hip-hop), with artists including Carl Craig, Snooze, Juryman aka Ian Simmonds, DJ Spinna, 4hero and Tek 9, Bleep aka Biosphere, Telex, DJ Morpheus and many more.


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Rare SSR Electronica 1989-91 (Crammed Archives 0)

PREMIERE: Alegria - Danger (Crammed Discs)

Bon Public - Magma Cider Mixtape

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/acid-arab
Track: Döne Döne
Label: https://soundcloud.com/crammed-discs
Format: Limited Edition Pack (Only with Album pre-order) T-Shirt + 2LP, CD, Digital
Release date: 30/01/23

Emerging ten years ago from the transcultural cauldron that is Paris, the mighty French-Algerian collective was born from the encounter between Pierre-Yves Casanova, Nicolas Borne, Hervé Carvalho, Guido Minisky and Kenzi Bourras. With their intoxicating blend of sharp Western electronic music with Eastern sounds & vocals, they’ve been putting worldwide festivals and club audiences under a spell.
Aiming at creating a space for Arab culture in the world of contemporary electronic music, Acid Arab patiently honed their style through their numerous collaborations and their constant travels all around the Mediterranean and beyond.
After releasing several EPs (the Collections series) on electronic music label Versatile, they signed with Crammed Discs and released their impressive debut album ”Musique de France” in 2016, followed by ”Jdid” in 2019. The band have performed hundreds of shows in over fifty countries on four continents.
Acid Arab’s eagerly-awaited third album comes out in early 2023. Entitled ” ٣ (Trois)”, it consists of a collection of serious dancefloor bangers, which will also be providing delightful intimate listening experiences, thanks to sophisticated production and to intriguing, diverse performances by eight guest vocalists from North Africa, Syria & Turkey, including a.o. Cem Yldiz, Sofiane Saidi, Cheb Halim & Rachid Taha.
From Algerian gasba, Anatolian trance, synthetic dabkeh, bionic raï and many more, Acid Arab have incorporated and invented a spectrum of styles, breaking boundaries between genres. Their sumptuous new album sees them pushing the envelope and further expanding their musical territories.

(٣ is the symbol for the figure “three” in Arabic).

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PREMIERE | Acid Arab feat Cem Yildiz - Döne Döne [Crammed Discs] 2023

Todorecto Records is a Brussels label with an Art Nouveau aesthetic. Each project of the label is born from a vegetal inspiration. The label wants to develop hybrid music, moving between musical movements, metamorphic with an identity always in connection with its locality. The label was born out of the desire of DJ Lux18 and Antoine 80 to bring a new point of view to the Brussels electronic music landscape. This will be done by an alliance of local and international artists, where the cultural link operates through the different creations. Very inspired by the UK scene, Todorecto wants to go fast, or slow but never in half measure. This rhythmic bias is becoming, according to them, preponderant in the renewal of the approach to clubbing. The two lads mainly come from the party scene, so they have a will to feed it , but not only that... The label hosts a show on Kiosk Radio with a different relationship to listening and perception of sound.

Todorec Show w/ Dj Takeaway @ Kiosk Radio 03.03.2023

Lagos and London-based @ekitisound blends Afrobeat, house and jazz-infused hip-hop on his fusionist second album, ‘Drum Money’ for @crammed-discs

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-ekiti-sound-ku-ise

Drum Money

Premiere: Ekiti Sound ‘Ku Ise’

Ce mois-ci, Audrey et Benjamin d'Aquaserge sont passé.e.s sur la planche à mixer de Bénédicte Schmitt aka Bénélabo pour revenir sur l'enregistrement et le mixage du dernier album en date : La fin de l'Économie

Sur la Planche à mixer de Bénélabo avec Aquaserge

TTT SHOP

Coni –  Imaginarium Essai

More info: : http://www.factmag.com/2015/12/15/eaves-gorilla-purple-tape-pedigree/

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Eaves - GORILLA - Movement 2

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1.	Soundwalk Collective – Last Beat (Beginning) [ARMA, 2014]
2.	Prototype 909 – Understand [Sonic Records, 1995]
3.	Pink Floyd – Sorrow (Live) [Melodiya / EMI Records, 1987]
4. Roman Kartsev & Victor Ilchenko - Pervoe Sentyabrya [Melodiya, 1988]
5.	?aka ?aka - 000300 (Original Mix) [Opal Tapes, 2013]
6. Coil - A White Rainbow [Eskaton, 1999]
7. Area Forty_One - Isolated Soul (Original Mix) [Delsin Records, 2014]
8.	Public Enemy - The Rhythm, The Rebel (Acapella) [Def Jam Recordings / CBS Records, 1988]
9. Killawatt - Onslow Road [Osiris, 2015] 
10.	Erhan Oku - Kvart (Original Mix) [Complex Textures, 2014]
11. The Art Of Noise - Donna [ZTT Records, 1983]
12. Pete Namlook - Throbbing Modulating Beat [Fax +49-69/450464, 1998]
13. Klaus Schulze - Blanche [Metronome, 1977]
14. Fennesz - Liminality (Original Mix) [Editions Mego, 2014]
15. Two Lone Swordsmen - As Worldly Pleasures Wave Goodbye... (Original Mix) [Warp Records, 1998]
16. Eroht - Weite (Original Mix) [Savvy Records, 2014]
17. Soundwalk Collective – Last Beat (Ending) [ARMA, 2014]


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"Onze danses pour combattre la migraine" has just been reissued on vinyl. This seminal album was recorded in 1977 by Crammed founder Marc Hollander with Vincent Kenis (a.o. producer of the Congotronics series), and originally released on Marc Moulin's ephemeral Kamikaze label.

In the spring of 1977, two young Belgian musicians who call themselves Aksak Maboul (Hollander & Kenis) set out to record an album in which they playfully fused and deconstructed all kinds of genres to create their own musical world. Three years later, Hollander founded the Crammed label. 

Leapfrogging over style & genre boundaries, they took in elements of rock, electronics, jazz, early 20th century classical, imaginary African & Balkan music, American minimalism, and even proto-techno (as in the surprising track 'Saure Gurke', which foreshadows some characteristic Detroit techno riffs by a good ten years).    

"Onze Danses…" became a cult album, and can retrospectively be viewed as a manifesto for the Crammed aesthetics, a blueprint for some of the directions which the label went on to follow during the next few decades.

Following the recent release of the band's 3rd album (the 'lost' avant-pop opus "Ex-Futur Album", which came out 30 years after having been recorded), Aksak Maboul have been playing live again, with a renewed line-up.

Aksak Maboul - DBB (Double Bind Baby)

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