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Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 113
Release Date: 4 June 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Jade

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record “Jade”, Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP “Lack” in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice.

Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, “Jade” is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, “Jade” speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving.

“Jade” comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing’s own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. “Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs. “Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece “Let,” she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: “I take my bath in the ocean.” We are not just consuming Daijing’s story; we are being invited to join her in the water.

The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani & design by NMR.

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Jade 玉观音

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File under: Slow Voodoo / Urban primivitism / Queer Rallentato

Contemporary singer Anna Clementi meets the Alien Alien.
Together they cross boundaries for a visionnaire timeless anthem: NO G.D.M., the cult song by German electro pioneer Gina X.
Originally released in 1979, it's a sublime portrait of the British dandy icon Quentin Crisp, one of the fathers of the queer culture.
Anna Clementi and Alien Alien dig to the heart of voodoo: summoning, obsession, hypnosis, slow ritual dance. With an unpredicted twist, which leads the scene to another level.
The dub version by Hugo Sanchez leads the track even more towards the essence of funk: obscure tribal percussions, revealing a noir soul.

Catalogue: ROCCO08
Release Date: Spring 2014
Release Format: Digital
Digital Distribution: GROOVEATTACK (Berlin)
Artwork: Leopoldo Villegas http://mrleopold.blogspot.it/

Track listing:
NO G.D.M.
NO G.D.M. (Hugosan Dub)

soundcloud.com/roccodisco
roccodisco@gmail.com

ANNA CLEMENTI & ALIEN ALIEN - NO GDM (Original)

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AH! KOSMOS is the moniker of Istanbul-based producer and instrumentalist Başak Günak. Her debut EP called FLESH has been released in her native country via Turkish label Müzik Hayvanı back in 2013. Along the release of her first full length BASTARDS in April 2015, Denovali Records will provide a re-issue FLESH, available for the first time on a world-wide scale and on the vinyl format.

Echoing and bouncing off the surfaces, the nuanced metallic droplets of synth-triggered sound interacts with moody sustained cluttering down-tempo beats and unholy choral voices over the trio of ambience on this three-track EP FLESH. From the mysterious catacombs and imagined otherworldly terrains of Istanbul, oozes the enlightened cosmic union of analog and electronic.

Supporting the likes of DARKSIDE, James Holden, Kiasmos, Two Door Cinema Club, Emika, Daddy G (Massive Attack) in her hometown Istanbul, AH! KOSMOS  performed at remarkable festivals as Rock’n Coke, Babylon Soundgarden, Venice Electro Festival, Budapest Punkurica Festival, Piknik Elektronik in Brussels, Tokyo Electronic Music of Arts Festival and CitySonic Festival in Mons.
Başak Günak has also composed and created sound design for contemporary dance and plays, short-flms and site-specifc performances / installations in several art spaces including Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Prague Signal Festival, 18th and 19th Istanbul International Theater Festival (IKSV), ARENA Theater Festival Nürnberg and Venice ElectroFestival. Recently, she has been invited to the highly coveted Red Bull Music Academy 2014 Tokyo as a participant.

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MAG.LO & O_SUPER - NEVER (renee yung remix)

Single taken from "Án Mynda - EP"  available everywhere now
Bandcamp: https://alekfin.bandcamp.com/album/n-mynda-ep
itunes: http://bit.ly/ALEKFIN
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/3ZW9tqE8MQ2af9wtOiDP5r

Written, recorded and performed by ALEK FIN
Mixed in collaboration with Jason Sharp
Mastered by Dave Cooley for Elysian Master
Artwork by Alloy Studio
Copyright 2015 ALEK FIN

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Julien Marchal - X (eeph Remix)

Taken from nonkeen’s album ‘the gamble’ released 05/02/16
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Opalescent was recorded in 1999 and originally released in 2001.
It has been re-mastered for its first vinyl release this August 2016.

Cold Out There (2016 Vinyl Remaster)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/08/secret-school-heal/

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Olaf Stuut & Marlon Penn - Maze (Floex Remix)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2017/02/mindgroove-the-sailor-and-the-mountain-feat-manuel-obeso/

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The sailor and the mountain

Download: Mind Groove - The sailor and the mountain (feat Manuel Obeso)

Don't owe me a Thing

A bit of a mad one I put together at the beginning of the year. Props to Madrona Labs for their incredible plugins.

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My first release as "Deer" after switching from my unwieldy earlier "random noise productions". originally appeared on the netlabel Ekwal in 2006. Mastered by John McCaig @ Panicstudios.  track 4 re-released on 12" by Giegling Schallplatten.

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