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Steep Dreams Remixed

Erothyme - Soo Maany Staars (KiloWatts Blueshifted Remix)

My Soul Feels Free When I Walk  In Dusty Clouds

Zebbler Encanti Experience - Perceptronium (Sacred Sound Remix)

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Ode to Frahm

Gravitational Interaction

The award winning and Gilles Peterson-approved Danish supergroup Kalaha returns with their first release in almost two years: the EP 'Mama Ngoma'. 

The EP is first and foremost a tribute to West African traditions like Highlife and Afrobeat but mixed with the dance floor appeal of contemporary electronic music. 

The backbone of the band comes from the outrageous drumming of Emil de Waal, who's improvisational attitude is known to astound audiences around the world, alongside the finely balanced guitar of Niclas Knudsen, who has been studying and refining African techniques for more than a decade now. 

On top of this, the two highly regarded electronic producers and synth wizards, Rumpistol & Spejderrobot, take the band to new musical hemispheres by adding layers through extra-terrestrial synths, analogue effects and spaced out samples. 

The electronic aspect of the EP is further expanded with two remixes from NYC-based MALAKAI and Danish rising star Bwoy de Bhajan. 

The EP is accompanied by an animated video directed by the group's art director Zven Balslev, and in the spring of 2019 follows an entire album titled 'Mandala'. 

Track by Track 

The EP kicks off with the catchy and highly danceable 'Mama Ngoma', which combines African mud huts with epic science fiction. We then reach the hypnotic horn attack of 'Cape Star', featuring wonderful guitar work from Knudsen, before the West Coast inspired 'Malaika' leads into an outro that’s like Talking Heads, if David Byrne was replaced by a Speak&Spell computer! 

Fourth track and first single 'Dragon Jenny' shows the band in more mellow and reflective territories without losing their groove. The track has already received airplay around the world. 

To finish things off we're proud to have the NYC-based producer MALAKAI present his dubsteppy anagram remix of 'Malaika', before rising star Bwoy de Bhajan spoils us with his minimalistic take on 'Cape Star', reminiscent of some of Shackletons earlier percussion-driven work. 

The EP has had early support from The Rust Music (US), Jay Scarlett (DE/Sound Supreme/Puls), Mathieu Schreyer (US/KCRW), Descroix (DK/Iboga), P8 Jazz (DK), The Slow Music Movement (UK), Dancefloor Mayhem (US), Synths of Eden (DE), Pouled'or (DE), Radio Prun (F), Mantra Radio at CITR FM (CAN), Dubmission (US), Heartbeats (DK), O Dominio Dos Deuses (PT), Hakan Tamar (TU) & Mushpost Radio on WAXX.FM (US/James Cook). 

QUOTES ABOUT KALAHA: 

"Truly enlightening and inviting" - Mike Stukes / Mystic Vybes / WHCR 90.3 FM (US) 

"What a great EP. Nice work" - The Slow Music Movement Radio Show (UK) 

“Brilliant Album! Very tropical again!” – Gilles Peterson / BBC 6 / Worldwide FM (UK) 
“Kalaha transport fans into another world” – Earmilk.com (US) 

“A dance hall in outer space” – Jazz Special (DK) 

“A wide tapestry of colours that will fill the palette of choice sound selectors. Big on cultural essence & bass rhythms.” – Jay Scarlett / Sound Supreme, PULS Radio (DE) 

“Truly a genre bending performance in the best way possible, music from the future, a flashing stage, and an absolutely mental drummer” – Pouledor (DE)  

“Kalaha never chose the easy solutions. With humor and understanding the four inventive musicians put their tracks on fire.” – Jazznyt.com (DK) 
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Mama Ngoma

Malaika (MALAKAI anagram remix)

Visionary Shamanics is happy to present another epic psychedelically downtempo dubtastic shamanic psybass tribal multicultural ethnic trip in: 

VISIONARY WORLDS 2
Released December 5, 2018 

Visionary Art - MARTIN HAWK 
Mastering - DIGITALX 
Shamanic Poetry & Compiled By MYSTICAL VOYAGER (UK)

Visionary Worlds 2

How To Human

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SubRoot & Rhizomorphic - How To Human (Visionary Shamanics)

Comfortable Corner Collision

The 3rd track from DeathMomenT new EP - Biomorph.

Biomorph

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DeathMomenT - Biomorph [Mindspring Music]

An expression of the deep devotion I feel to my art and the people here on planet Earth <3 <3 <3

Devotion

Down at Panther Crick, if you know where to look, you just might find the secret waterfall.

Featured musicians:

Joshua Gerald
- Lead vocals
(Nov 2019 in Yolo, CA)
- steel tongue drum, dumbek, backing vocals
(June 2019 in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA)
- bansuri
(July 2019 near Umpqua Hot Springs, OR)

Bobby West
- Backing vocals, car hood hand drumming, finger shot shaker
(June 2019 in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA)
- Overtone vocals, more backing vocals
(Feb 2020 in Longmont, CO)
- Korg Monologue
(Jan & Feb 2020 in Longmont, CO)

Source notes:
- This track started while camping in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA. There was three minutes of space left on the SD card in my Tascam DR-40, and Joshua and I challenged ourselves to use that limited window of time to come up with the basis for a new track. Shortly thereafter, that series of short recordings was pieced together with my laptop plugged into the car speakers, while we drove through Oregon on the Erothyme Summer 2019 Pacific Northwest mini-tour.
- The waterfall audible around 3:07-3:48ish was recorded in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, WA.
- In the intro you can hear campfire crackles. The sound of the same campfire being put out with water appears 2:08-2:14ish.
- Joshua's lead vocals were recorded in a car, on the way to catch my flight home at the end of my Autumn 2019 tour, making this recording basically the last thing I did on the west coast before the pandemic.

Panther Crick (feat. Joshua Gerald)

It is advised that you keep your arms and legs inside the portal at all times!

Split Rock Portal

"There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby, and invisible..."
- Maria Sabina

Featured musicians:

Jessica Borth
- Violin
(Jan 2020 in Boulder, CO)

Bobby West
- Overtone vocals
(May 2019 in Boulder, CO)
- Hang drum
(Aug 2019 in Gunbarrel, CO)
- Korg Monologue
(Jan 2020 in Longmont, CO)

Source notes:
- Initial snare drum made by hand drumming on a cluttered coffee table
- Singing bowl hits were recorded with a phone, sent to me as a text message, and re-recorded out of my phone speaker into a studio mic, then cleaned up in the demo version of Hit'n'Mix Infinity.
- Some of the grinding bass textures were created from a recording of a Theragun massage tool.
- The overtone vocals were originally recorded for a different track, before this one existed!

Tale of the Misty Veil (feat. Jessica Borth)

Few things could be so clarifying,
so grounding, or so expansive,
as time spent appreciating
the vast looming mystery
of the stars with whom
we share this Cosmos.

Featured musicians:

Bobby West
- Korg Monologue
(Sept 2019 in Boulder, CO)
- Overtone Vocals
(Feb 2020 in Longmont, CO)

Source notes:
- shimmery texture created by running one of ILAS's guitar parts from Steep Dreams through Audiobulb AMBIENT-v4.
- harmonic 7ths are awesome.
- this track was written in a different key and then slowed down.
- extended ambient outro made possible by Paulstretch.

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-- ..- ... .. -.-.

Soo Maany Staars (Redshifted)

An old recording of an old song from an older time.

There And Back Again

Erothyme was born on planet Earth and has been making the jams since, like, forever, man! His sound is a majestic blend of overblown hyperbole and meaningless adjectives that actually have nothing to do with music. His tracks land in your ear like a dolphin gracefully diving into the surface of the ocean after doing a triple backflip in front of the setting sun. Erothyme founded the Perpetual Victory Machine at the beginning of time because he knew it was good to be on the winning team. Some people think that Erothyme doesn't be like he is, but he do.

For bookings: erothyme@gmail.com

Some praise for the 2014 full length album, Circadia:

"Really lovely, spacious, thoughtful, intelligent, subtle, atmospheric, emotional, tender, delicate, wonderous electronic music"
- Bluetech

"... leaves the listener blissfully lost within multiple layers of melodies, reverberated vocals, live instruments and gentle grooves that are all covered in well thought out electronic soundscapes...
‘Circadia’ is certainly a milestone in the new wave of downtempo electronic music & is a highly recommended listen for people of all ages and musical backgrounds."
- Dekompress.net

"... a quality of composition almost unequalled... dreamogenic feeling... an invitation to fly away from one's sofa to the skies and tickle the clouds, to go for a walk in the greens somewhere, to watch closely a colony of ants at work from a high-placed branch... To all lovers of tranquillity: add it to your best-of folder... "
- La Mojoteque

"Long-haired grass hymns sipping rays of sunlight in the Rockies."
- Skogsgospel

"I love this music! We had it playing for first daughters birth!﻿"
- youtube comments

Soo Maany Staars (Redshifted)

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