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Decius Vol. I

Quick Reliefs

https://strapontin.bandcamp.com/album/acid-straps-vol-2-ep

Strapontin & Zillas on Acid - Acid Straps vol 2 EP 

1 Dial Up
2 Reading The Comments 
3 Another Job
4 In Your Mind

Strapontin and Zillas On Acid are back with a second red hot collaborative EP. Let them tell you all about it….

After completing Acid Straps Vol. I, we knew we had to delve ever deeper into the shared Strapontin-Zillas (Strapozillas?) universe–harder, weirder, wilder. Work commenced as before, with music volleyed across the Atlantic via the information superhighway. Particular yet universal themes emerged with “Dial Up” (modern [mis]communication), “Another Job” (the perils of labor), “Reading Comments” (distraction and the social mediated life), and “In Your Mind” (quick fix platitudes via the self-help industrial complex). 

A chance planetary alignment brought the three of us together IRL in Brussels this past summer to put the finishing touches on the EP while we were all incarnated–TOGETHER–in the same physical space. It’s this raw PHYSICALITY that informs the more focused final release, which we hope will translate to you, the listener, as you carefully experience… Acid Straps Vol. II.

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on March 3rd 2023.

Dial Up

OMDD 48 - Strapontin & Zillas On Acid - Acid Straps Vol II  EP

Tributing the classic John Maus track Bennington. Where the recently founded Berlin based duo @lagroovemachinemusic devoted themselves to what they do best and created a sensational electro synthwave banger

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La Groove Machine - This Girl (Bennington Edit)

V/A - EDF (Electronique De France) (Forthcoming August 26, 2024)
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Label: Les Yeux Orange

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EDF (Electronique De France)

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Flegon - Rag Champions

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Jungle Frenzy (RFX Edit)

Birth Of A Smirk

Birth Of A Smirk (feat. Lias Saoudi)

Gigi Testa - Sichuan (Vinyl, 12")  (Released November 1, 2024)
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Label: Rush Hour Music [RHSTOREJAMS 026]

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Gigi Testa - Dragon Temple

Flying Dutchman

Cockring D'Amore 001

CockRing D'Amore - Hop On Down To Petland (Massimiliano Pagliara Rework)

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https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/atn043-river-yarra-lucky-boy

In 1978, Brian Eno started what would become his seminal Ambient series with Music for Airports. If he was to add a fifth volume to the series in 2018, he would probably call it “Music for Social Medias”, wouldn’t he? We’re not 100% sure that this is about to happen, so, instead, we take the lead and have Oz’s River Yarra giving his own take on Music for Social Medias (and the result doesn’t sound at all like ambient music).

At least, we might accurately call it “music from social medias”, as it sometimes feel it’s been generated by a possessed creative algorithm. Starting with the opening track, Aorsom Wislhs (whose name must have been given by a deficient Messenger chat bot), one might feel disoriented by the extremely weird and wonky lead melody. The melody of Sli Ggogg (sic) – the slow jam opening the flip side – is equally uneven; add to this the unsettling (slightly) human-sounding voice and you’re in for a trip to the Uncanny Valley.

But there’s a sense of non-human randomness infusing all of these four songs. Take the intensely mesmerizing Respiration Alternée with Elen Huynh, for example: there’s a high probability that its lyrics come from some random meditation tutorial found on YouTube, translated into French by an anxious Google Translate bot, eager to bring some (cheap?) spirituality to IRL dancefloors. 

With this debut EP, the Ozzie producer succeeds in rounding up disparate & dubious elements together in a serious way without departing from a non-serious attitude - the record even rounds off with a very “put your hands in the air” moment with Space Gekko’s ravey sirens. “Music to party on the River Yarra to” (just Google it).

River Yarra - Respiration Alternée (Avec Elen Huynh)

https://basicspirit.bandcamp.com/album/heart-sphere-e-r-emergency-relief-ep

Birth Of A Smirk (feat. Lias Saoudi)

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