Shimmering stars... Im being transported;)

Dawn of Midi

1.Mysterious rook moves 2.Elisabeta  3."Nothing is as healing as the human touch" 4.Choose your colour / Gipsy dark 5.Bad Bishop 
First you will learn when, where and why to move the rook after castling. Then comes a trippy Romanian pastoral epic dedicated to our favourite chess grandmaster, Elisabeta P, followed by a nostalgic tribute to Albatros based on Bobby Fischer's last words. From there we keep it oriental, like the origins of chess. Here is a gypsy charade that was commissioned by and firstly performed at the Evicted Women Fashion Parade 2013. In the end, although Bach might not agree, we do not hesitate to exchange the bishop for a knight.
Artwork by Acme
Master by Alin Zăbrăuțeanu

elisabeta

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Remix of Philip Glass 'Houston Skyline'

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Dawn of Midi - Lapse

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A new album of live recordings from recent concerts all over the world

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Dawn of Midi - Gravity

Buy 'Leads'

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A new album of live recordings from recent concerts all over the world

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Dawn of Midi - Leads

Our last collaboration with the legendary sax player and its extravaganza remixes.

BABA - BARIS K EXTENDED DUB

1. The Shady Daze - Love Is A Beautiful Thing
2. Joel Gion - Night of the Living Deadbeats
3. White Fence - Wolf Gets Red Faced
4. Ty Segall - Caesar (7" Version)
5. Rowland S. Howard - Dead Radio
6. Some noise
7. On Dead Waves - Blue Inside
8. The Byrds - I Trust

TAPE #2

Our remix of The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble's "Pretend" feat. Emika. We like to think of it as a foray into techno :)

The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - Pretend (Soul Clap Remix)

Dj-set recorded live on a sunny afternoon, outside the infamous Mother in Kødbyen, for the annual anniversary party.  Sept 2018 Copenhagen. Enjoy.

For promotion only!

Live @ Mother Anniversary sept 2018

Acid Arab disco set at Cafe Bosna during Summit LA18.

Cafe Bosna @ Summit LA18 ~ Acid Arab Disco

Balkan Taksim — Anadolka (Karpov Not Kasparov Remix)

Karpov not Kasparov has remixed Balkan Taksim’s recent single ‘Anadolka’

This is a hypnotic 80s disco-revival flavoured rework of the balkantronica produced outing, courtesy of 80s dancefloor maestros duo Karpov not Kasparov. Here, Balkan Taksim's Carpathians' roots beats are placed over a bed of warped disco grooves, allowing their cruddy rhythms to see a new lease of life.

This remix best represents the explosion of colours that Balkan Taksim evokes through their music and live shows, which saw them appear on the bill of several summer festivals across Europe. Without overwhelming elements that made the original so endearing, Bucharest based duo Karpov not Kasparov has fleshed out the track with dance-skeletal framework and an oldschool 70s warm, floaty atmospherics.

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Anadolka: The Remixes

Balkan Taksim — Anadolka (Karpov Not Kasparov Remix)

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The arrival of new Kasper Bjørke material is always something of a red letter day for serious music fans. His return to hfn music for the next stage in his musical journey makes total sense; after a couple of years making (beautiful) ambient music on Kompakt, it’s time for some of the signature beat driven music, that we have been craving. 

Water is the first single taken from ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, the forthcoming double EP to be released in the fall and features Toby Ernest who also featured on his 2014 album After Forever on the single ,Rush’.

Toby returns on the slow burner ‘Water’ with a gloomy performance that describes a relationship gone sour with an almost surreal and self-destructive twist. It connects a soulful, sexual vibe with the distinctive, rich sound of a lush Bjørke production.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Water feat. Toby Ernest

Kasper Bjørke - Water (feat. Toby Ernest) [CLIP]

There is no planet b. Support FridaysForFuture. Released on Listen to Berlin - Unexpected Sounds Compilation.

There Is No Planet B

Taken from the album 'Dysnomia', released worldwide on June 1, 2015 through Erased Tapes.

Order it on 2x LP, CD and Download here:
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iTunes here: snip.ftpromo.net/dawnofmidi
Bandcamp: dawnofmidi.bandcamp.com 

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi made up of double bass player Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi abandon improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”

“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

TRACKLIST / CREDITS:

1. Io 2. Sinope 3. Atlas 4. Nix 5. Moon 6. Ymir 7. Ijiraq 8. Algol 9. Dysnomia
Written by Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni.

NORTH AMERICAN PRESS:

“Stellar… at a loss for words” – Spin
“Something totally unprecedented” – Pitchfork
“Perverse in a good way” – The New York Times
“Brain-bending, seemingly impossible” – Rolling Stone
“Moving and addictive...a feat of innovation” – Interview Magazine
“A mysterious, vital sound with a pull all its own” – L.A. Times

MORE INFO:
www.dawnofmidi.com · www.erasedtapes.com


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Dysnomia Album trailer: https://vimeo.com/dawnofmidi/dysnomia

Dawn of Midi - Nix (Dysnomia)

Algol (Dysnomia)

Channelled madness – the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating into their most mesmerising work yet

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”
Having met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006, bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi found their original rapport through late night tennis matches on the campus court. The chemistry they founded there eventually led them back indoors to improvise together; something they did in total darkness to deprive themselves of all their senses except the crucial one – their hearing.
The manner, by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music, has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio’s critically acclaimed live shows, a test of endurance and trust that involves performing their hand-looped acoustic minimalism note for note, just as the compositions were recorded. Dawn of Midi’s sets are as energetic and rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ-set, mesmerising fans in the same way the group’s favourite experimental and electronic acts have for decades.
The album was recorded to 2-inch tape at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, New York - a former church that was purchased and transformed into an analogue recording playground by the great engineer Henry Hirsch. Once the band visited the studio and met Henry, an expert in analogue recording equipped with a vintage Helios console, 16 and 24-track tape machines and a superb collection of microphones, it was obvious they had to record there; it was miles ahead of anywhere else they had visited. Rusty Santos then mixed the album to make sure it would hit as hard as the group’s favourite electronic albums do in spite of it being entirely acoustic.
“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

Dysnomia will be released worldwide on June 1st, 2015 through Erased Tapes – available on 2x LP, CD and Download.

Dawn of Midi - Lapse

Dawn of Midi

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