wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/blush

Here's 'Blush' - the second single and title track from Facta's debut LP, out on 2nd April. 

Recorded unusually quickly over a short stint in early 2020, the record is the product of a period of refreshed and unfussy creativity. It’s an innovative and distinctly contemporary album that moves a good few steps beyond the artist’s work to date - loosely rooted in UK dance music but taking added influence from ambient, modern classical, dreampop, Balearic, folk music and beyond. The result is a lush, ornate record populated by aqueous pads, bleeping arps, wandering melodies and sparse broken rhythms; acoustic instruments that play out alongside FM synths, all processed with a pristine UV sheen inherited from modern pop music.

Facta - 'Blush' (forthcoming WSDMLP002)

TemeTape2
Side A. Peverelist B2B Simo Cell
Side B. Low Jack B2B Simo Cell

Bassbin dons Low Jack, Simo Cell and Peverelist do a triple tub rinse out for Simo Cell’s Temet, mixing up 90’ of grime, UKF, breakbeats, and mutant bashment business with inexorable flow.

On the A-side Pev & Simo turn the timeline from early ‘00s to 2020 inside out, running killer drums and duppied sound designs from the early heyday of dubstep, thru the infectious percussions of UKF, to grimy breaks and technoid twiss-ups, including no doubt at least one of Pev’s own zingers up in it. With the flipside Low Jack and Simo bring the tempo down a few gears to work around slippery dembow and dancehall patterns, shuffling up recent gear off Livity Sound with late ‘90s ragga instrumentals, proper, and at least a few of Low Jack’s bashy, dare-to-be-different edits for the meanest sort of clipped dancehall pressure.

Both mixes are taken from dj sets recorded live at Trempolino in Nantes during Simo Cell's residency with Peverelist and Low Jack (between 2018 and 2019). Props to Phil and Tom for joining, U R LEGENDS.

Visual by DR.ME Studio / 300 copies available / Tracklist and digital download included / Review by Boomkat

Props to Tom & Phil, U R LEGENDS !

Excerpts from TemeTape2 -Low Jack/Peverelist/ Simo Cell - OUT NOW

‘Vision Quest’

a small space between two thoughts, opening, slowly. 

wyckoff and summerfield, cold streets, warm dances.

finding myself, in the jungle, in my mind, in you. 



Release Date: 7/7/21
Format: 12” / Digital
All Songs Produced by Robin Lohrey 
2017-2018 in Ridgewood, NYC 
Keyboards on ‘Life Goes On’ by Will DiMaggio

How do one really count the steps in a journey? There’s the movement itself, your balance, pacing and gait; there’s the world you pass through, and the vistas that stretch out before you; but from the moment you embark to the moment you settle in place, the trip is an experience in passing through. Looking back at the path taken, the horizon stretches out from your route on both sides, a million possibilities shifting around your chosen route.

Ronan’s journey has seen him move between Boston and New York, Washington State, Bogota, and most recently Mexico City. Rarely in one place for too long, his energy and enthusiasm for his craft carry that same roving sense of adventure, whether in his own expressive productions welding hyper-speed techno and classic hardcore into a dynamic whole, or through his Eternal Ocean imprint, which has notched a string of impressive releases from close friends and like-minded producers. Throughout, a sense of wide-eyed wonder and joy is the constant, an awe for its ability to transport and transcend, to become a calling in its own right, through sound and soul, a grounding force that becomes the guiding path through the world. 

It’s that sense of possibility that dominates the sensibility of Vision Quest, Ronan’s second outing on Eternal Ocean, a four track offering recorded in Ridgewood, Queens just before he headed west in 2018. The tracks echo this awareness of a road stretching out before him. These are tunes about the journey, best exemplified by the snaking routes and pathways they pull the listener through: half-time breakdowns, sudden vocal stabs, hard-left turns and sudden shifts of tempo. Where previous Ronan EPs found their strength in meticulous mixing and track-craft, these embrace technique and arrangement as means to an end, resulting in lyrical, ever-evolving tunes that show an artist embracing the time given to create worlds unto themselves.

Opening with a lush ascending arp, “Call of the Wild” sends it into full-time rave mode, a ragged break workout that feels like the perfect opening (or closing) a moment of wide-eyed reverie perfectly embodied in that first sub rush over the cliff, before the A2, “Ripples,” flips the script, turning the record towards the inner zone; a contemplative, thumping dub cut that’s equally at home as a 10pm staple or a peak-time curveball, calling to mind the richest dance-floor dub of early Moody Boys or a more organic contemporary to the work of Russian downtempo explorers like OL.

On the B-side, a similar pairing of banger and breather starts up with “Sea Cave,” another twisted break workout shot through with synth risers and one-shots shared by the best releases on Warriors Dance, before pulling the listener down a rabbit hole, layering dense pads and liquid leads that wash the dance out and hang it out to dry on the refrain. The record closes in full-meditation mode with “Life Goes on,” a last cut for the night, a slow-dance for everyone who made it to the last track, laced up by Will DiMaggio’s ever-expressive keyboard work.  

Shot through with moments of repose and longing, memory and hope, Vision Quest runs like an open question: how can one find a way to talk about a record that makes as much of the journey through it as Vision Quest does? Where do we find ourselves now? Where are we heading? Like the record itself, we can’t play it backwards, but we can play it again, even if there’s only one first listen.

- Daniel Creahan

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Ronan "Vision Quest EP"

The next thing I knew, I was "exiting"
But it felt like my presence there had been a return
Without ever any away

Outside we had all already been 
Thrush eggs

Exits Exist

This track is part of the upcoming album, "Impression du Domaine de Mounoy,". Dedicated to the owners of the aforementioned holiday park. The tranquility, beauty, and friendliness of the estate are unparalleled, as is the hospitality of the owners.

Impression du Domaine de Mounoy

Twinkling Stars

a three sided record telling the story of a man driven to madness as he navigates a temporal loop of cosmic proportions

B6. By stars benign.

The pieces were lined up on the board, mysterious figures which stood tall and mighty atop black and white squares. Onlookers gathered to watch the two men play in the heat of the afternoon. They sat perched beneath a tree surrounded by a small crowd, the sound of the city echoed all around with an intense rumble as they prepared to engage in a battle of wit. This was chess, a dangerous sport for the uninitiated, one in which it was easily possible to lose your head and control. Dust billowed from the ground as the clouds rolled in, the game had begun. 

Plebeian is set to release a new EP via Molten Moods, an oddball affair which is destined to cause chaos in dark basements and smoked out rooms. It comes firmly stamped with our seal of approval, as does Molten Moods as a label.

Chess

PREMIERE: Plebeian - Chess [Molten Moods]

DBA10.01: VARIOUS ARTISTS - 10.01
FT. RROXYMORE, TYLER DANCER, KERRIE, KAMAU, GENERAL LUDD, M GUN, JAYSON WYNTERS, BRASSFOOT, LURKA, KAREN GWYER, MR. BEATNICK
BUY: http://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop/

10.01 LURKA - CLEAN

"It was then, floating in the passivity of induced consumption, in which it became clear that this functional mechanism of time was but a codified drift. With our particular indifference to an imposed rationality, all semblance of alterity had been lost".

As we take a step back from what we knew as "club" music; Thodén's debut album, This Codified Drift, takes us on an emotional sonic journey through ambient experimentation and refined electronic sound design.

@thodenmcr
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Release date: 25.01.2021
Pre-order: https://electromngr.bandcamp.com/album/this-codified-drift

Music composed & produced by Thodén
Additional voice-over by Lise Perrier
Voice-over text written by Aurélie Vivarié
Sculpture by Thomas Viers & Maxence Alfandare (Niveau Zéro Atelier)
Photo by Olly Geary
Art direction & cover design by Yanni Caloghiris

This Codified Drift

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EM004 — "This Codified Drift" by Thodén

Another self-release to rub salt into our club deprived wounds

Wharf

Pressure Dome emerges from the testbed with a galvanized collection of experiments in hybridity and rhythmic fragmentation. 

Mechanically twisted dancehall sonics, tough club steppers and euphorically charged electronics combine to form an ionized trajectory of uniform motion. A bouncing and fractious ode to the wavelengths of machine pressure. 

Wanting to give back to the city we live in and one that inspires so much creativity in those fortunate enough to access opportunity, all profits from PDCOMP003 will go to Community Care Package, a free food delivery service, for anyone who can't get out or afford fresh fruit and veg during the current pandemic. Thereafter, profits will go to Caring in Bristol, a homeless charity providing services and shelter for those most in need.

@dj_mish | @mcgrgrmusic | @private_planet | @jurango | @suzemusique | @idoplumes | @delay-grounds | @pluralist | @outsiderspeaks | @are-human-resources | @mistareez

PCOMP003

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PDCOMP003 - Various Artists [clips]

A label run by @jacquestorrance + @olly-geary

Monthly on Rinse France

info (at) electromngr (dot) com

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Past Showcases :

16.11.24 at Backsteinboot, Berlin
21.09.24 Music IRL at Cahier Central, Paris
10.02 — 02.06.24 Exhibition at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart
01.03.24 at Le Tony, Paris
30.11.23 at Cahier Central, Paris
06.10.23 at Le Sample, Paris
08.10.21 + 09.10.21 at La Station, Paris
29.01.20 at Paloma, Berlin
23.11.19 at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart

EM004 — "This Codified Drift" by Thodén

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