Enchanted Oasis

Out on 2LP/CD/digital April 26, Someone Like Me is a humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments that unites real people in the pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred spirits rendered sheer beauty in the process. Custom pressed folk songs of love, loss and the lord saviour. 

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury, the collection simultaneously honours the fleeting amateurism of hobby musicians. With their one shot at tangible vinyl, freshman Lynne Ann Kingan realised her loose bubblegum rocker on campus time, while U.S. Navy recruit Fred Potts cut his unconditionally serene ballad remotely stationed on a Spanish naval base. Spartan production continues to reign with Jon Betmead’s hair-raising gospel, howling into infinite space, and Goldrust’s stripped back garden hymn.

Throughout the hour-long reflection, faith has an intermittent yet revelatory presence, most overtly with the divine choral soul of Seventh-day Adventist quartet Remnant. More subtly, Gary Ramey and Jim Kennedy both turned to song in their spiritual quests, offering their all to a universal power. An irrefutable compilation cornerstone, the National Office For Black Catholics showcased Charles Murphy’s lionhearted account of the Black experience at a 1971 concert. Five years earlier, high school seniors The Superwomen would use their hauntingly angelic harmonies to address racial inequity with a breathless take on ‘Lowlands’.

Reaching the furthest corners, Someone Like Me secures the inaugural licence of three homespun masterpieces. Discovered by fluke in the digital haystacks of Youtube and Soundcloud, Jim Huxley’s bedroom pop earworm melds peacefully into Charlie Webster’s synthesized reverie. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s John Agostino introduces us to the bizarre world of tax scam records, with the artist only now learning that his tender psych-folk demos were leaked via a 1977 bootleg.

Compiled and lovingly restored by armchair digger Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring/The Green Child), Someone Like Me pays due service to seventeen rarefied journals of truth and devotion. Adorned with visual artist Chris Fallon’s figure and flora dream extractions, the uniting songbook is further detailed by expansive track-by-track liner notes and a forward from San Franciscan poet Rod Roland.

Charles Murphy - The Foot That's Holding Me Down (ES031)

Release date March 4th, 2024 
Distributed by Sound Metaphors

In times where fantasy worlds are endangered, Saturns Drive creates his own. ‘Next Stop Nebula’ merges oceanic slide guitars and early synth digitalism with 90s inspired rhythms to get any sailors ship sailing.

Saturns Drive is a Berlin-based music project created by Elfy, a producer and DJ from New Zealand who draws inspiration from early sci-fi, exotica and library music, cosmic disco synthesizers, italo grooves and arpy electronics. He has recently been featured on the track "Parallel Panorama" by Saeko Killy and performs regularly along with other artists from Berlin's music community.

All tracks by Will Rattray. 
Except:

Drums:
Sophie Lawler - Dormer - Tracks 2,7
Micheal Drummer -  Track 4

Vox: Anna Kukatova - Tracks 1, 3, 8 
Jelena Mirceta - Track 7

Pinball Vox: Nick Petricevic
Bass Synth + Arp: Danny Brady - Track 7

Congas: Mauro 'Roadrunner' Retamales - Track 6

Mixed by Will Rattray
Mastered by Ruy Mariné at Dub Plates & Mastering
Artwork by Alicia Carrera
© LíO Press 2024

Saturns Drive - Next Stop Nebula (LIO001)

bronko taubenheim debut lp  'kollektion'


https://copyshop.bandcamp.com/album/kollektion

bronko taubenheim - kollektion (snippet)

@amkarahoi
@minereed
@prpluncl
@patienceimpatience

Artwork: Susumu Mukai
https://www.instagram.com/zongamin_uk

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine conjures ghosts of 90s chill out tents, aqueous ambient, exploratory turn of the century IDM and echoes of jammy dub. Amkarahoi is named for a remote region of Eastern Siberia an intimidating car and boat journey from the nearest city - several songs are named after rivers - and the record was borne from a largely improvised show in Saint Petersburg, later overdubbed and mixed down in the studio. The combination of heady, melancholic synthscapes, unexpected samples and the loose, spontaneous nature of it’s genesis make for a unique, compelling proposition.

Amkarahoi is Nikita Chepurnoi and Sergey Dmitriev. Chepurnoi has released records as Minereed on his own Echotourist imprint, and as part of The Patience and Copacabana on Hair Del. Dmitriev has made music as Purple Uncle for Echotourist, Hair Del and Nazlo. They’re currently based in Armenia (Dmitriev) and Europe (Chepurnoi).

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine (IMPTNC08)

PURPLE REED

PREMIERE | AMKARAHOI - DJEGDA [IMPATIENCE]

Please welcome TM Solver to our RIOCAST series.

Thomas who is responsible for the 10th release on R.i.O. gave us the permission to release his live recording he played on our Labelnight at Arkaoda back in 2022. Read the full interview at --> riolabel.com/riocasts

Listen to the Album: https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/tm-solver-subtraktiv-additiv

RIOCAST12 TM Solver - Live at Arkaoda

Dear old Brian. Purveyor of the finest African tracks put to tape. Awesome Tapes came and fair to say he conquered... This is a live cut from the other night, the first 90mins at least.... With a from the heart intro from Guido Möbius...

https://soundcloud.com/awesometapesfromafrica

Cheers to both of you...

www.sameheads.com

Basement parties

Awesome Tapes - My Friend Calls it K-Jazz @ Sameheads 24.02.24

Wonderfully Japan-loaded MFI 32 by music-lover PHONON, who's part of @communityvibes. 

He was recommended to Music for Indoors by @internationalb who was responsible for the great MFI 20 in our series! www.soundcloud.com/ecoutesauvert/music-for-indoors-20-international-bauer-konstanz

While PHONON's main interest lies in the early House sounds that once lit up Chicago and New York, he’s also always on the hunt for lesser-known records of different (brain-)danceable genres. 

This mix is the result of amazing hours @jan-abekrfcce spent in Japanese record shops during which Phonon mainly rummaged through boxes of domestic productions from the 80s and 90s.

Here some words from him, MFI / EAV asked him to share:

"I grew up in Singen (southwest Germany near the Swiss border) to the sounds of the Flamenco and Brazilian Guitar as well as Jazz - my father was a guitar and music teacher. I learned to play the trumpet and the drums (nowadays I turn to Synths and Drum machines.)  I have a thing for synth - Early Roland Pad sounds are my favorites.

In the context of music I like to research and understand historical contexts and roots and I try to translate that into my mixes. I started my collection with late 1980s House Music, loads of which I found when I studied & lived in NYC. 

I also lived in Milan for some years and return to Italy more than once a year. After that, I was in Leipzig. When traveling, I always try to find and bring back some special records, which might not be easily found back home."

Phonon lives nowadays in Berlin since 2019, although he travels and works remotely a lot. He has put up nights and DJed at Paloma, Beate Uwe and Bars. He also plays in Freiburg, Konstanz and countries where he spends time traveling/working remotely like in Italy, the US and Japan.

Paradise Mirage is a series of events and radio appearances that he organizes, dedicated to the early days of clubbing in the spirit of NYC and Chicago. www.paradise-mirage.com

www.instagram.com/ac_phonon
www.instagram.com/communityvibesproject

Artwork by Miriam & Phonon

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Music for Indoors 32 - PHONON (Community Vibes - Berlin)

1 AR Kane - Long Body
2 Robert Fripp - 1985
3 Suns Of Arqa - Thunder Bolt, Dark Void
4. Thomas Bush - Thirsting
5  Armando Velasco - Una Vez
6 Steven Brown & Benjamin Lew - Moments
7 Vistas Fijas - Gotas 
8 Slowfoam - Somniferous, Like a Piquant Crescent
9 Bill Laswell - A Screaming Comes Across the Sky
10 Alpha & Omega - Rastafari
11 Suns of Arqa - Shamanism Skank
12 Trystero - Suburra

'Mani' #4 w/ Prins Emanuel 2024-03-21 @ Lyl Radio

Sink into some downtempo sounds; tease nostalgia with obscure, experimental and retro blends of 80s synth-pop, wave and post punk; or simply immerse yourself in some 'real bathtub trippers’ with Bristol-based selector Tilly. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/tilly/episodes/tilly-1st-april-2024

Tilly w/ Andrea Ida 010424

Saeko Killy is a Berlin-based DJ, vocalist, and producer. She has been active in the Tokyo scene as a DJ. After moving to Berlin in 2018 Saeko found herself in the orb of Club Sameheads, where she became known as a DJ and live performer. After releasing her first EP "Dancing Pikapika" with the label Chill Mountain from Osaka in 2021, followed a Jam session during the pandemic lockdown, resulting in the album 'Morphing Polaroids' produced by soFa elsewhere being released with Bureau B in 2023.

@killy44

LIO Press mix #21 ~ by Saeko Killy · 'Blooming Blues'

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

Distribution queries:

Australia | info@noiseinmyhead.com.au
Rest of the World | www.wordandsound.de

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