Many thanks to Andrew Weatherall & Timothy J Fairplay.
May the whole world get dubbed out.

Group Rhoda - King (Asphodells Remix)

MEXICO COMP

A2. Antonio Zepeda Y Eugenio Toussaint - Viento De Lluvia

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Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot is, in many ways, as pure DFA as anyone else. He’s been here since before the beginning, a centrifugal force pulling everyone together, an anchor of no-nonsense style and humor that is as core to our being as the fucking lightning bolt.

We’ve put out a lot of Shit Robot records. They’re all great. But it’s been a minute since the last one. (Life happens.)

Earlier this year, the drought ended when Marcus sent us some demos he’d been toiling away on in the attic. We loved them immediately. They were raw and rudimentary tracks that felt completely unbothered with where they might fit in and what year it was. They were sharp and smart, the sound of the party where we wanted to be.

He went to Al Doyle’s place in London to finish them off, and then James mixed everything here at DFA. Bob mastered it in Chicago. Somewhere along the way, Suzi Horn from Prinzhorn Dance School and Mutado Pintado from Warmduscher added two incredible vocals as only they could.

It’s 5 Songs, both the name of it and the thing itself. Nominative determinism. 5 complete belters.

Credits:
Marcus Lambkin: synths, drums, and vocals
Al Doyle: additional synthesizers
Kenny Space : electric bass

Recorded at the No Hassle Castle in Riet by Marcus Lambkin and RAE in London by Al Doyle
Additional recording at DFA Studios in Brooklyn by Korey Richey
Mixed by James Murphy for the DFA
Mastered by Robert "Sparklebear" Weston
Photography and hair by Mary Lambkin
A DFA Design product

5 Songs

Breathe (Looking At Gibraltar) (feat. Suzi Horn)

"Morningside" is out October 27 worldwide through DFA.

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You’ve heard Stuart Bogie before because he’s played saxophone, clarinet, and flute on a lot of records. TV On The Radio, Foals, Sharon Van Etten, Beth Orton, Alanis Morrisette, Taylor Swift, Run the Jewels, the list goes on and on and on.

We connected with Stuart during the early clutches of COVID through Korey Richey, DFA house engineer and LCD Soundsystem band member.

Stuart had been cooped up in the apartment that he shared with his partner, Karyn, and their family. Bored and seeking some relief, he started playing clarinet on Instagram Live every day for his friends, eventually soliciting drones and other sounds from others that he could play along to.

Korey knows Stuart, and so he asked James if he had anything lying around. Uncharacteristically, James said yes. The first was a drone of treated piano made in the 90s. The other was a long, similarly droning, though slightly darker organ piece made for a fashion show in the mid-2000s. Stuart played over both in separate sessions, improvising these beautiful, delicate clarinet runs for the sheltered, live-streaming few.

We listened back to the recordings in the office and couldn’t shake how great they were, a decompressing balm to the heaviness of the persistent world ending. They deserved a more meaningful existence than that of a shitty MP3.

So, Stuart came into the studio here and recorded over each drone again. This time Korey ran him through a stack of KORG delay units that stretched and smeared that clarinet into each drone until they were one delirious whole. Each recording clocked in at roughly 20 minutes - perfect side-long lengths. It all fell into place so naturally.

“Morningside,” produced by Korey and James, mixed by James, and mastered and cut by Bob Weston, is the result of this long, serendipitous journey. It’s out October 27.

A final, but important note: the cover features a detail of a photograph called “The Burial Vault” by Gregory Crewdson, taken from his recent series “Eveningside.” (The full photograph is featured on a printed insert inside the record jacket.) A few months earlier, Gregory was finishing what would become “Eveningside” and asked James (a friend) if he might, y’know, have any music lying around. A video was being made about the new work and music was needed. James sent these tracks, which evidently sort of stopped Gregory in his tracks. The symbiosis was so natural that Stuart also finally found the title he’d been searching for (until that point, we’d been calling the record simply “Clarinet and Delay.”) You can view the film and a bit more back story here on Gregory’s Substack.

Morningside (Clip)

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Following releases from disco mastermind Folamour, Too Smooth Christ and Toy Tonics affiliate Felipe Gordon, French imprint Noire & Blanche (@noirblanche) features six tracks on their 'Various Artists Vol. 2' compilation. @northoftheisland

Various Artists Vol. 2

Kit Kat

North of the Island - Kit Kat [Noire & Blanche]

Maximum Joy - Silent Street/Silent Dub [1981]

Mit Schaum (edit)

A1) Ted Milton – Love Is Like A Violēnce ‎​
A2) Ted Milton – It’s Only Recently That Stalins Have Begun To Roost​

AA1) Blurt – The Ruminant Plinth​

Blurt are perhaps the act who have played live at Optimo more than any other. Active for close to 40 years they are one of the UK’s all time great acts, phenomenal live and on record and supremely underrated.

Blurt mainman Ted Milton is a living legend. Now in his 70s but more vibrant on stage than most artists 50 years his junior, he is a man of many talents; artist, poet, musician, performer….

In 1984 he released a solo 12”; “Love Is Like A Violēnce”, a no doubt accidental dancefloor gem completely out of kilter with any other music of the era that now makes total sense in 2017. Dubbed out stabs, programmed rhythm, trademark sax squeals and a more subdued than normal vocal that is strangely reminiscent of Vincent Price. Thee definition of a cult classic and much in demand, side A of this 12” presents the A and B side (the equally outre “It's Only Recently That Stalins Have Begun To Roost”) of this mighty 12” on one side of vinyl.

“The Ruminant Plinth” is but one of multiple classic tracks in the Blurt catalogue and is a long, long time personal favourite that takes pride of place of the other side. Tribal hypno rhythms, chicken wire guitar, sax and Milton’s voice on fire, this was a genuine party starter on the Optimo dance floor on Sunday nights in Glasgow. So louche it should probably be banned.

12” vinyl release in full picture sleeve designed by Glasgow artist Andrew Beltran.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on January 19th 2018. Distributed by Kompakt.

Optimo Music 39  - Ted Milton / Blurt - Ruminant Violence 12" EP  (sampler)

Belgian label Stroom release mystifying melancholic pop from forgotten Japanese songstress Sonoko.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/12/15/premiere-sonoko-aoi-tori-dai-go-maku/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/aoi-tori

Les Anges, Les Bonheurs

Listen on Youtube

Sonoko - Aoi Tori (Dai Go Maku)(STW Premiere)

Anatolian Weapons feat. Seirios Savvaidis - "To The Mother Of Gods"

Anatolian Weapons, the project of Aggelos Baltas (Dream Weapons, Fantastikoi Hxoi), makes its Beats In Space Records debut with To The Mother Of Gods. A hypnotic journey through the psychedelic folk music of Seirios Savvaidis, To The Mother Of Gods testifies that music, through repetition and drone, can take us outside ourselves to a liminal space beyond thought and rationality.

available now - smarturl.it/bis037

To The Mother Of Gods

Anatolian Weapons Feat. Seirios Savvaidis - To The Mother Of Gods

Pre-order Raudie's debut album here:  https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/now-the-spark-has-flown

Begin, a spark, ladybug, windowsill, notes app, eye, tap and touch, the ticking clock, somehow new, pleasure, distance, mud, patience, time, mystery, the flow, spirit, the phone, helixes, black tassels, Botticelli, Roman Bust, naïveté, Kronenbourg 1664, splinter, messages, salt, pepper, cherub, train, lake, Latvia, Airbus A380, Gare du Nord, memes, the planets, foolish, tender, summer, tears, romance, love, process, mirrors, blame, reflection, poems, sentences, pen, boy, man, ?, hourglass, exploding, hot, cool, dagger, death, life, the middle part, witness, hands, 10 fingers, hours, minutes, seconds, feel it, loser, blind, future, past, present, loneliness, friction, kismet, fiction, darkness, forever, Sisyphus, stuck, transience, change, constant, gilded, mountains, heavens, Venus, adore, doors opened, end.

All songs written, performed and produced by Raudie McLeod
Using a no-brand electric guitar, Nord Drum 3p, Korg Wavedrum, Shure SM58a, Ableton Live 10 and his voice

Mixing and mastering by Joseph Buchan.

Raudie and Super Utu operate on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Breathe (Looking At Gibraltar) (feat. Suzi Horn)

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