Funkycan aka Am Kinem | 26.03.2021

Temple Of Glendor - Return Of The Ambassador(excerpts)

Five years after his critically acclaimed debut album Throwback, Glenn Astro returns with his deeply personal album Homespun, releasing on Tartelet Records this October.

Marking a change in course from his first release on Tartelet Records, Glenn Astro is set to showcase his sophomore album Homespun, a testament to a visionary artist who has come into his own. 

Made up of ten tracks spanning 45 minutes, the record twists and turns between electronic meditations, soulful vocals by Ajnascnet, and futuristic electro, carving out a world of spacey eclecticism that is as nostalgic as it is experimental.

“This album is in all facets different from the first one, which was a deliberate decision. No vintage sounds and references, no sampling, combined with futuristic sound design and song structures. Less obvious references, more everything else. I tried to keep it as current and intuitive as possible,” he says. 

Known for his chunky beats and fuzzy textures, Glenn Astro was a key figure in the wave of MPC-heavy house music that spread like wildfire between 2013 and 2015. Since then, he has released on labels such as Ninja Tune and Apollo, leaving a distinctive signature on everything he touches. 

But Glenn Astro has quietly been crafting a new sound for himself. Sometimes taking detours – morphing into his dark alter ego and experimenting with artist collaborations. The sound of Homespun is a culmination of several years of reflection and artistic development – however, the album itself was produced in less than three months. 

“I set myself an ultimatum to finish the album within three months. If I didn’t make it, I’d have to rethink my career path and keep music as a hobby. If it wasn’t for this album I’d be selling home-assembled ballpoint pens now,” he says.

On the introspective first single and album title track “Homespun,” Ajnascent’s vocals lend a sincerity to the melancholic production. “It’s about the regret of not taking chances and giving in too much, but also about taking responsibility and being honest with yourself. Homespun is a nod to nostalgia and a desire for simplicity and prudence, being equally the culprit and the cure,” elaborates Ajnascent. 

On “The Yancey,” an homage to J Dilla, Glenn Astro paints his vision of contemporary dance music with shimmering melodies, deep ambient soundscapes, and advanced drum programming. “Moreira” and “Look at You” feel like spaced-out electronic funk hybrids, while “Taking Care of Business” goes back to the future with Glenn Astro’s take on jungle. Other tracks such as “Mezzanine,” “Slow Poke Flange,” and “Viktor’s Meditation” provide the finest dubby electronics. 

Out on September 16th, the first single “Homespun” comes accompanied by a video featuring the notorious Copenhagen-based graffiti artist and activist Spyo. The video provides a glimpse into a parallel, nonconformist society and subculture in the Danish capital, where urban exploring and daring quests for artistic fame is a way of life. 

Homespun will be available on vinyl and digital platforms 23rd October 2020.

Homespun

:: Glenn Astro - Homespun LP (snippets)- Tartelet Records 2020 ::

Order: https://gerryfranke.bandcamp.com/album/morphology

Gerry returns with more bedroom engineered excursions through rock, blues and interplanetary percussion music. Mind morphing sale tactics by one of the last true guitar heroes among us.

¡Intenta comprender la naturaleza pero nunca interpreta una obra de arte!

Morphology

TAX12007 - GERRY FRANKE - “MORPHOLOGY”

Paingel went to México and came back with a bigger toe!

Sound and cover: Paingel / @kurikju

#49 Paingel - Mixico

Employee and Beatbude present: “Hold Music Vol. 1”. Written and produced by Max Graef and limited to 267 copies, this record is your gateway to success. Just pick a mood and let Employee do the rest!

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Also dial +49 30 6293 2695 and enjoy the snippets over your phone!

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“Great stuff! I feel more successful and dynamic already!” ~ Jazz Dis-junction

“Geiler Scheiß, gefällt mir auf Anhieb!” ~ Retrogott

“Legend!” ~ DJ Gardener

“Some great moods in there and very diverse, nice body of work!” ~ Sleep D

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Mastered by Corey Kikos (The Herbalist) at Herbal Mixing & Mastering.

Distributed by Rubadub, Glasgow.

Hold Music Vol. 1

Employee - Hold Music Vol. 1 (Snippet)

Buy now: https://taxfreerecords.bandcamp.com/album/phyton

Craggy interdimensional pop hits by Yosa Peit on this transcending debut LP. Perfect time to invest. Brought to you by Tax Free Records and Termina.

Phyton:

Home is not a static place. It is shifting, bubbling, and precipitating. It is alive with impulse and forgotten by expectation. Vines run their improvised course over pillared relics, and we breathe deeply. We find this place by listening: held between the two inventive hands of producer and singer Yosa Peit, music is a home of in-betweenness, the stirring of promise in damaged lands.

“Phyton” turns “plant,” “tree,” “creature,” “child,” and “descendant” into synonyms. It comes from “phúō,” i.e. “to generate, to grow, to spring up, to be by nature.” Phyton is the buoyant energy between idea and object, between infant and seedling, between wolf and granite. In the hot sun and dizzy storms of a changing climate, it grows up, out, around, and away. It is the mind’s own flowers, crimson and creaturely. On this striking debut album, the GPS of fancy leads Yosa through the colorful terrain of an interspecies garden. Phyton is both the search and the place itself; it is the sound of Yosa playing her own way home, investigating how “phyton” links child and plant, descendant and tree.

Each track is the raw material of impulse and circumstance: the curling of the fern, the seed leaf (I) turning to true leaf (II), the whip of the serpentine, the infrasonic rumbling of elephant communication, new stars shot through sky and time, thoughts exchanged between cell-phone-tower palm trees. A woman’s voice, soulful and digitally filtered, sings a process of becoming against the rising sirens and ticking time bombs of social change. In the thick texture of intuitive whimsy, Yosa ties a tattered world to its unlikely fertility.

- Annie Garlid

Phyton

TAX12008 - YOSA PEIT - “PHYTON”

Trust = Success. 

Karl Neumann
Gerry Franke
Konstantin Grismann
Max Graef
Valentin Handrick
Georg Seibt

Original Music written, recorded and produced by 2Morph in Warnitz.

https://taxfreerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ii

Für Kuki und Andi.

HATE3 - 2MORPH - “II”

hour two: @funkycan 's magic guest mix!

listen to the first hour here: https://soundcloud.com/glenn-astro/12-basic-instructions-15-w-glenn-astro-funkycan-aka-am-kinem

(2/2) Basic Instructions #15 w/ Funkycan aka AM KINEM - guest mix

Great recording from TAX FREE VS ACE TONE broadcasted live on CASHMERE RADIO 17.10.2020 by DJ YUMI from NYC!

DJ YUMI - “MIXTAPE”

Two strategies to skyrocket your business by Ferdinand Domes (@frdnnd).

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Temple Of Glendor - Return Of The Ambassador(excerpts)

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