DC Promo Tracks #886: "Frozen Touch" by Greeen Linez is part of the release "Secrets of Dawn" on Diskotopia @diskotopia @greeenlinez  

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DC Promo Tracks #886: Greeen Linez "Frozen Touch"

Greeen Linez is a collaboration between Chris Greenberg (from the British electronic pop band Hong Kong In The 60s) and UK-born/Tokyo-based DJ/producer A Taut Line (aka Matt Lyne, co-founder of the Diskotopia label). The project combines the ‘90s dance music and R&B that soundtracked Chris and Matt’s childhoods with the ‘70s/’80s jazz-funk and synthesizer soundtracks that they have obsessed over in the years since. All of this is filtered through the cocktail of retro pop, fusion and supermarket muzak that Matt has been exposed to during his time in Japan. Their debut album Things That Fade was released in summer 2012 on Diskotopia, receiving positive reviews in many highly regarded publications, as well as support from internationally famous DJs and producers. Greeen Linez did not start out with the intention of doing remixes, but following the release of their debut EP in 2011, they were approached by various artists they liked and respected, and so could not resist the opportunity to work with them. The duo’s approach to remixing varies greatly, depending on the material they are working with, but their aim is always to add some of their particular sound and atmosphere to the tracks, while remaining true to the spirit of the original music.

01. Magic Touch feat. Fatha Green - Nothing More (Greeen Linez Mastermix)* 
02. Sorcerer - Cobra Coven (Greeen Linez Remix) 
03. Mau'lin - Function Open (Greeen Linez Remix) 
04. Especia - Umi No Sati (Greeen Linez Remix) 
05. sauce81 - All In Line (Greeen Linez Remix)* 
06. Mi Ami - Bells (Greeen Linez Remix) 
07. Seahawks - Oceans Of Space (Greeen Linez Aquatic Rush Remix) 
08. 9dw - Funky Magician (Greeen Linez Remix)* 
09. BD1982 - Outside The Tunnel (Greeen Linez Remix) 
10. Darkhouse Family - Sticky Trees (Greeen Linez Remix) 
11. Greeen Linez - Hibiscus Pacific (Dance Mix)* 
*Exclusive track for this compilation.
Format : CD (no digital download)


Greeen Linez - Remixes (digest)

New track, featuring @rampooawa, from the 2nd Greeen Linez album, "Izu King Street" - out August 4th, 2014 on @Diskotopia.

Dreams In The Mist (feat. Awa)

From the 2nd Greeen Linez album, "Izu King Street", out August 4th, 2014 on @Diskotopia - check out the video by @atautline and Amuseum Filmworks here: http://vimeo.com/103048949

Windswept

Tracklist: 
01. Born To Love Intro
02. Rabit - Double Dragon (Logos Remix) 
03. Nile - 3 In Tha Mornin'
04. Actress - Purrple Splazsh
05. Loops Haunt - IIHX
06. Clap! Clap! - Sahkii (Xirhuu)
07. Model 500 - Psychosmoatic (Edit)
08. Karunesh - Lightdance
09. Nochexxx - Savage Herald
10. Miles - Plutocracy
11. Moiré - Attitude
12. Sudanim - The Link
13. Al Dobson Jr. - Outernational
14. Midnight Funk Association - Firescratch
15. Andy Stott - Posers
16. Uppers International - Aja Wondo


Download coming soon.

444-M1x: #04 A Taut Line

Run From The Light 

Near Water

L-Vis 1990 Diskotopia Mix (Japanese Fourth-World 80-87 Special)

Clips from DSK036: A Taut Line - Distraction Provisions released worldwide May 5th

Artist: A Taut Line
Title: Distraction Provisions
Label: Diskotopia
Release Date: 5th May 2017
Cat: DSK036
 
1. m15ntet
2. Purest Health2
3. Hatsudai
4. Arriving at the Lake
5. A Perpetual Medium
6. Carbon Joy
7. The Soft Touch
8. Natural Lawson
9. Hyacinthoides
10. FebruarySnow
11. Intertransmission
12. Estado Encontrado

Following on from last year's SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL presents the RaggaPreservationSociety EP, the first Diskotopia release of 2017 is the 3rd solo album from label co-founder Matt Lyne under his A Taut Line moniker.
 
More familiar to some as one half of Greeen Linez, Matt Lyne has also been producing very different sounds as A Taut Line for well over 10 years now. Distraction Provisions is his 3rd album release after 2013's Nitriding Portrait and 2015's Mutual Prints.
 
Initially not made to evolve into an album, the early workings of this collection were emotional reactions to the bleak social and political situation that unfolded throughout last year, and you can hear expansions of some of the more listenable of these sketches on tracks like Estado Encontrado, m15ntet and Arriving at the Lake. However, as desolate as some of the moods are on here, last year was one of intense mixed emotions as Lyne's first child was born, and there are also moments of sheer beauty, joy and redemption on this album too – the lush-yet-grainy pad-wash of A Perpetual Medium and the luminous tropicália syrup-tech of The Soft Touch being two examples that reflect that.
 
As residents of Japan are particularly aware, when two tectonic plates, or warm and cold air masses collide, there are very adverse results. When conflicting temperaments clash here, the product is the brutal choler in tracks like Purest Health2 (originally titled: A Taut Line in a Lairy Stress) and the weird dismantled hardcore-dying-at-samba-parade mess of Intertransmission.
 
Other notable tracks include the bleepy rave-tempo chalk dust electro number Hatsudai - although made as a tribute to those in the underground tirelessly keeping the declining Tokyo club scene alive (in the face of it being asphyxiated by industry players self-congratulating their own relentless mediocracy) - curiously illustrates an unexpected sense of optimism, albeit murky and dripping in paranoia, that does stealthily lie in places throughout the album. This same optimism can be found in the locked middle section of FebruarySnow, even though frozen in the centre of metallophone-led icy dub-techno melancholy.
 
But how to characterise the album as a whole in one effective soundbite? As Philip Sherburne wrote in Spin Magazine in 2013 of Nitriding Portrait - "What kind of music is this, exactly? Half a dozen listens in, and I’m still not entirely sure." - although Distraction Provisions has amalgamated mutant remnants of house, jungle, jazz funk, industrial, and new age 4th world neo-classicisms, once again, we're still not entirely sure either.

Distraction Provisions

A Taut Line - Distraction Provisions

Exclusive new track available on the pay-what-you-like @Diskotopia digital compilation DSK F/W 2018-2019 (https://diskotopia.bandcamp.com/album/dsk-f-w-2018-2019-free-compilation).

DSK F/W 2018-2019 Free Compilation

Dawn Without Red

Lullaby

Tokyo based electronic music record label and events collective run by A Taut Line and BD1982 with Am Rhein.

http://diskotopia.com/