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The EDWIN Music Channel celebrates its 100th mix with an exclusive limited edition tape release, featuring ten three-minute-long tunes by former hosts including @sapphire-slows, @robert-bergman, @detlefnet, @ana-helder, @iambruce, @iueke, @lippie, @strike_a_posse, @aylassubs, @iamkabuki and @fantastictwins.

№ 100 - Various Artists

Exclusive: Superpitcher - Lush Life feat. Fantastic Twins

He’s back. He’s back with some lush music. He’s back with his Lush Life single. Aksel Schaufler alias Superpitcher, a Kompakt mainstay, the co-label head of Hippie Dance, one part of the Pachanga Boys and known as the ambassador of the golden rave days, debuts on the Live At Robert Johnson label with a two tracker as golden as the twelve ravey chapters he’s put out on his own label. Lush Life, the EP’s eponymous track, features French-Berliner Fantastic Twins’ for the vocals, and comes in as Superpitcher-esque on the one hand and quite different on the other. The almost ten minute lasting track is probably a typical Superpitcher feature, what is new though, is the selection of sounds and the result in general. Aksel created an utterly atmospheric take, which flows by as fast as the rave-days, and takes its listeners back to the days when Francois K delivered dubby House music takes per excellence, just like Superpitcher does now himself. Peaceful almost spiritual and endearing are traits that describe the emotional components the track evokes in its listeners with a Julienne Dessagne, Fantastic Twins real name, delivering those charming vocals that hunt you through the night and over the floors.

Superpitcher's single Lush Life will be released on Live At Robert Johnson on February 18th, 2022.

Buy the EP: https://liveatrobertjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/lush-life

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Lush Life

Lush Life feat. Fantastic Twins

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EXCLUSIVE: Superpitcher - Lush Life feat. Fantastic Twins [Live At Robert Johnson]

The Twins - You've Got A Twin In The Attic (You Lunatic) EP.

A1) You've Got A Twin In The Attic (You Lunatic)
AA1) Water Coaster
AA2) Love Monarchy 

It has been all quiet on the Optimo Music front recently while energy has been devoted to the launch of Optimo Trax but do not fear, there are a plethora of scintillating releases in the pipeline for 2014.

First up is a stormtrooper of an EP from The Twins. We first met The Twins when they were hanging out in Glasgow before they were twins and were simply known as Julienne Dessagne. By the time our paths had crossed in various European capital cities they had fully developed their Twin like tendencies. A mutual appreciation was born and out of that came the suggestion that The Twins might make a record for Optimo Music. The resulting three tracks far exceeded our wildest expectations and we are incredibly proud to be presenting this Twins magnum opus to the world. Haunting, forceful, transcendent music with spine tingling vocals this EP has perhaps a tad more dancefloor capability than many Optimo Music releases but is also a record equally capable of giving your ears a lot of loving at home. 

It was hard to pick one track to showcase the EP but this one is the one that has perhaps been tested out on the dance floor the most and always results in people clamouring to know what it is. The kind of track that completely changes the atmosphere in a club and often results in spontaneous cheering, it has been mixed to perfection by The Twins ally, Superpitcher who will be releasing their debut album on his and Rebolledo's Hippie Dance label.

Expect Twins live shows in 2014.


This will be released on a three track 12" and digital on March 17th 2014. Distribution by Kompakt. 

The Twins - Water Coaster (from Optimo Music 022 12" EP)

For a while, the Pachanga Boys tried to teach The Twins a few valuable lessons in the proper conduct of human behavior and there were times when they did behave.  Once, the Twins aka “The Truly Fantastic Dessagne Twins From Saint Etienne” even sat still enough to narrate the Story of The Boys’ musical adventure “We Are Really Sorry”. But The Boys were not convinced that the world was ready for the onslaught of such a tormented split soul.  They locked The Twins safely away in the Hippie Dance Dome. But one day, The Twins miraculously escaped and ran off on their four little legs into the woods and started sharing their most twisted of tales to the world.  Loud and clear.  Oh dear! Who let The Twins out?

"Who Let The Twins Out?" by The Twins, Hippie Dance 05, 2013.

Who Let The Twins Out ?

The Twins - B2 Trulywood (Odyssey)(2013)(SNIPPET)

For a while, the Pachanga Boys tried to teach The Twins a few valuable lessons in the proper conduct of human behavior and there were times when they did behave.  Once, the Twins aka “The Truly Fantastic Dessagne Twins From Saint Etienne” even sat still enough to narrate the Story of The Boys’ musical adventure “We Are Really Sorry”. But The Boys were not convinced that the world was ready for the onslaught of such a tormented split soul.  They locked The Twins safely away in the Hippie Dance Dome. But one day, The Twins miraculously escaped and ran off on their four little legs into the woods and started sharing their most twisted of tales to the world.  Loud and clear.  Oh dear! Who let The Twins out?

"Who Let The Twins Out" by The Twins, Hippie Dance 05, 2013.

The Twins - B1 The Backlash Blues Of The Twins (2013)(SNIPPET)

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/12/fantastic-twins-the-new-you/

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A few words from Hippie Dance:

"Hippie Dance wishes you Merry Crystals and a Happy New You. We will be celebrating half-a-dozen years of existence in 2017, releases from Fantastic Twins (formerly known as The Twins), Superpitcher, Rebolledo, Pachanga Boys, and new exciting stuff from the You And Your Hippie Friends sub-label can be expected during the year. A little taste of it is "The New You"...

"Now that the year 2016 is nearly behind us. Now that we know more than ever that we are the inhabitants of a planet gone completely loco. Now that we carry the deep knowledge that nothing is as simple as it used to be back in the days on the fruitful prairies of naïve and loving co-existence void of existential crisis. Now that we have self-helped ourselves into self-loathing—we bring you from the hands of the Fantastic Twins, "The New You"! Be calm citizens of the now! It's not a conspiracy, it is not a devious trick of terrorism, it is (sorry) not a quick fix either to end the onslaught of your self-esteem demons. It is a gratis gift with love from our Hippie Dance universe where there is still hope and excellent music in abundance to be found. "The New You" is a strong and truthful journey of ethereal sound and a vivid reminder that whatever happens around us, no matter the fear and confusion that are dished up on our daily plates, the power lies within us to take that very important last step to discover the new in each of us. Musically "The New You" cleverly creates the sense of a pending announcement of a new personality that might reveal itself; and yet, in the end one is confronted with the fact that "The New You" will always remain evasive. The magic lies in the journey itself and even though you might never meet and shake hands with "The New You," may you receive this profound and touching message with open minds and hearts and take it with you into 2017 as a mantra of action. Rip up those new year's resolutions and celebrate the talented Fantastic Twins and half-a-dozen years of HippieDance: Merry Crystals and a Happy New You!"

[via XLR8R]

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Download: Fantastic Twins 'The New You'

The Twins - A1 Trulywood (2013) (SNIPPET)

A Very Nice Combinado Volume Dos (YAYHF 03)
Coming out on You And Your Hippie Friends on 27th January, 2017.

Having turned quite a few heads with the first instalment “A Very Nice Combinado Volume Uno” (YAYHF 01), Hippie Dance sister label YOU AND YOUR HIPPIE FRIENDS plows forward ever, backwards never on the latest 12” selection A VERY NICE COMBINADO VOLUME DOS, with exclusive tracks from KASPER BJØRKE, PAULOR, FANTASTIC TWINS, ZOMBIES IN MIAMI and ROMAN FLÜGEL remixed by PACHANGA BOYS. 

Again a powerful combination of established and upcoming artists, this latest offering shares the predecessor’s thirst for adventure: after opening with the dustbowl belter LA RACE from PAULOR – a raw, slightly psychotic rocker spiritually akin to the beat contraptions of label head Rebolledo, we’re quickly shuffling towards PACHANGA BOYS’ hypnotic NEW BLAZER EDIT of the excellent ROMAN FLÜGEL cut DEO, followed by the echo-drenched vocal jam MOTHER FUCKING TWINS from FANTASTIC TWINS (aka The Twins). Danish luminary KASPER BJØRKE presents a soaring disco anthem with CHOIR OF YOUNG RAVERS that will bathe any dance floor in starlight, while Mexican duo ZOMBIES IN MIAMI closes the dance with the trippy FLASHBACK MANTRA, a cultist ritual turned neo-tribal club incantation.

A Very Nice Combinado Volume Dos

Holiday

03. Fantastic Twins - Holiday

A1. Shake It / A2. Hey / B1. The New You / B2. Time Science 

FANTASTIC TWINS @fantastictwins, the solo artist formerly known as The Twins, has always carried an air of transmutability - not only in a name creating its own hall of mirrors, but also in a constantly fluctuating sound, from the first spoken word interludes recorded as The Truly Fantastic Dessagne Twins From Saint-Etienne (for the Pachanga Boys’ infamous “We Are Really Sorry” album) to myth-building solo releases on Hippie Dance and Optimo Music, as well as style-bending remixes for La Mverte Vs Capablanca, Moscoman and – most recently – fellow Hippie Dancer Rebolledo. 

Following the echo-drenched “Holiday” on “A Very Nice Combinado Volume Dos”, the project from Julienne Dessagne has embarked on yet another transforming journey, leading to the latest outing with the well-suited title THE NEW YOU. Its four tracks prove Dessagne’s ongoing commitment to an open sound aesthetic that works the techno blueprint from the inside out, mutating from foreboding, post-industrial landscape to dazed interzone opera in a heartbeat. 

Uncanny rave polaroids from last night’s ill-memorized peak floor flash up on opener SHAKE IT’s mental screen, while follow-up HEY tries to herd its nervously rushing percussion to no - albeit banging - avail. The title track slowly implodes in reverse, pitting Dessagne’s obsessing, molting vocals against a stubbornly no-wave-ish synth bassline and octave-hopping freeform keyboards blown to gaseous smithereens. Post-punk closer TIME SCIENCE kicks into motion with a confused diary entry turned subconscious commentary – while the psych guitar gently weeps all over the neatly arranged furniture. Welcome back, newcomers!

http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/the_new_you
Fantastic Twins FB: https://www.facebook.com/thetrulyfantastictwins/
Fantastic Twins SC: https://soundcloud.com/fantastictwins
Hippie Dance FB: https://www.facebook.com/hippiedancerecords/

The New You

Fantastic Twins - "The New You" EP (SAMPLER)

A1. Préambule 
A2. Cordée
A3. Jeu de glissades 
A4. Construire un igloo 

B1. Ivres de fatigue 
B2. Réveil bizarre 
B3. Bataille 
B4. Tableau final 

First 300 copies come in blue-white-marbled vinyl.

Pre-order link - https://www.kompakt.fm/releases/obakodomo

Optimo Music is delighted to release a first album by Fantastic Twins (formerly known as The Twins). We’ll let them tell you the story behind this inspired and beguiling record - 

Obakodomo (Au Balcon Du Monde) is a soundtrack I created for a piece of contemporary dance, performed by two dancers for a young audience from the age of 4. It is the story of an imaginary journey in Antartica where two explorers go on an adventure. They encounter a colony of penguins and will progressively learn to understand their habits and respect their environment. Essentially, Au Balcon Du Monde is a metaphor of how to exist next to each other, how to share a territory, how to learn to live together and share resources. 

The scenography and stage accessories were designed in a minimalistic and non-obvious form to leave all the space for imagination. The penguins were made of translucent material to provide light effects and were programmed to move in a swaying motion, allowing interaction with the dancers and the music. LED system could be wireless piloted. 

With the soundtrack, I wanted to create an atmosphere that would immediately transport the children into this terra nova - a poetical space, like a cold sphere, where the strange meets the frightening and the playful. Translating the immense vs the small, the far-off vs the near, the collective vs the individual, the strange vs the familiar or the cold vs the heat. My intention was to follow the thread of the story in a narrative, yet non-caricatural way. Music for children doesn’t have to be “childish”. Children love to be scared or even just challenged. They love to love and react instantly to what they hear through their emotions. Ultimately, the soundtrack aims to provide different levels of “reading” so that it becomes something more universal. So we, adults, just have to accept the invitation.

Footage from the original dance play “Au Balcon Du Monde” by Les Ballets Contemporains de Saint Etienne, performed in 2015 and for which Fantastic Twins created the soundtrack - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Mr38Upj18

Vinyl Album (and digital) released on October 20th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM 12 LP - Fantastic Twins - Obakodomo (sampler)

Frozen Dreams in Candy Paradise - Fantastic Twins

Following 20 years of TOTAL and Pop Ambient, Kompakt introduces a new annual series, Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1 (out March 29, 2019). 

Enjoy "Pilgrims" from Fantastic Twins.

Pre-order Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1 
https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/VelvetDesertMusicVol1SD

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Fantastic Twins - Pilgrims

Fantastic Twins - Lost In Germany EP

A1) Why Are You Here? - 8.04
A2) Wrong Place Wrong Time Wrong People - 8.15

B1) Fur Stunden Lang - 7.42

The fourth AF Trax release is a three track EP from our long time ally The Fantastic Twins, who has the following to say about her EP - 

This EP is a small collection of works I crafted over the past couple of years in the process of working on my live show. I have been performing versions of these tracks countless times and yet never played them twice the same way. To me, they have been material in constant motion, so shaping them into a “finished” form was a risky challenge. Something I was also wary of - would it mean they would become set in stone? Would it mean I’d have to somehow “rationalise" the music - via the mind - as opposed to letting it run into the wildness of its physical live experiences? 

Whilst editing these tracks into a format that could be released, I realised that instead of shaping them into the mould my mind first intended to give them, I could in fact use the power they revealed each time I performed them to an audience and inject some of that energy - as much as it is possible to capture and recreate it in the studio - back into this EP. Then of course, it meant letting go on things I usually like to control more, and better. 

But isn’t it the power of music to let it take you where you didn’t plan to go? And how incomplete would the music be if our inspiration didn’t feed off the collective experience of dancing to music together? I’ve lost myself (and my twins) many times throughout the process - not only on German soil - I have sometimes landed in the wrong place, but I may have found one answer yet in the form of another question. Why are we here if we can’t dance?

That reminds me of the words of Pina Bausch “Dance, dance or we are lost”. Lost in our internal struggles as individuals (or imaginary twins). Lost in a society where our relation to the other is often marked by fear, power or violence. We feel the need to resist. Yet nowadays, taking a political stance as an artist is too often being instrumentalised as another tactics or accessory to gather more popularity, reducing the political message to nothing else but a branding attempt. Isn’t it anyway the power of capitalism to assimilate everything, even contradictory or once-upon-a-time subversive voices? All to end up on a “Rave” or “Feminist” H&M t-shirt. Slogans that have been emptied of their initial force and substance, now replaced by their commercial value. I strongly doubt that more empty words poured in vain on social media will help us much. But, like Pina Bausch, like JD Twitch, I have always firmly believed in dancing as a physical, social and fundamental act that leads us to share a common space with others and embrace otherness. Standing together, dancing together when everything else forces us to divide. 

May the music on this EP be, I hope, a possible answer to its own title.

All label profits will be donated to Hope Not Hate (www.hopenothate.org.uk) which campaigns to counter racism and fascism.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on April 12th 2019. Distributed by Kompakt.

AF Trax 004 - Fantastic Twins - Lost In Germany 12" EP (sampler)

Microdosing is a series of compilation 12”s selected by Julienne Dessagne aka Fantastic Twins, and designed in collaboration with French visual artist Geff Pellet. Microdosing is a collective experiment aimed at helping you fighting back your modern obsession with happiness. You may deserve a nice day but the day does not need a nice you, nothing should be forced, everything is permitted. 

Microdosing will provide you with sonic healing weapons on regular basis and at irregular dosage. Those doses will favour psychedelic social techniques against self help tyranny, creation over soma, provoking over numbing, our outer-selves over our inner-selves. 

Microdosing refuses the fatality of the pleasure principle. Life is a struggle, time to embrace it. 
<3 
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Fantastic Twins presents: Microdosing Vol. 1 

Manfredas, our anti-guru, leads through his illuminated trip, your daily intake of non-conformity. The sitar becomes irresistible trance, opening the door to Bozzwell’s jolt of adrenaline. It is the power of ‘Mind Machine’ - give up, give in. 

Autarkic’s ‘I quote myself’ does exactly what it says. A firm statement of individuality. No soothing sugar nor flattering salt sprinkled on top, detuned pianos making sure you do not get as comfortable as to be numbed. 

Fantastic Twins reverses the common narcissistic discourse (when surface meets void). The bill is high when one artificially connects to nature. Never forget that pigs will always like mud and wasps will always sting. 

It’s only after a third hit that DMT kicks into your system. Close your eyelids and meet Naum Gabo’s ‘Raze’, where sound, geometry and colour spell F R E E D O M, psychedelia as an anarchic art form. You are in your own center, a place so often famed yet so rarely visited. 

Coming down, Smagghe & Cross will drag you into the black hole where flowers don’t grow. ‘Song For Noddy’ ties the rope around your neck, better live dying than die trying. Fantastic Twins’ voice is just a medusa calling in for more victims. As Current 93’s David Tibet once sung “This ain’t the summer of Love. This is the night we ride”.

Microdosing Vol. 1

Microdosing Vol. 1 [MDSG001] SNIPPETS

Microdosing boss @fantastictwins takes us on a hypnotic trip through chugging drum patterns and moody synth lines.

Part of our 2019 charity Advent Calendar in aid of War Child.

Download & Donate: http://bit.ly/Day20_FantasticTwins

All money raised through Bandcamp sales goes directly to War Child, so please give generously.

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Day 20: Fantastic Twins - Pulse Low

Written & Performed by Fantastic Twins. 
Produced by Cosmo Vitelli 
Mp3 128 kbps

Taken from "Bongo Beats & Bankruptcy: The Sound of I'm a Cliché"
Out 27.03.2020 // 3LP & Digital 
Preorder: https://fanlink.to/bongobeatsbankruptcy

A1. Orestt - Luddisme
A2. Awkward Corners - In Slow Motion (Sunju Hargun Edit)
A3. Volga Select - Spione
B1. June - Perspective 4000
B2. Coy - La Cantine Du Vatican
C1. Rouge Mécanique - Skate & Distort
C2. Benoit B - Cosmic Music Style
D1. Fantastic Twins - Read My Palmer, Laura
D2. Oliver Decrow - Opus Pistorum (Dunkeltier Mix)
E1. Cosmo Vitelli - The Horse Incident (Ft. Andrew Claristidge)
E2 Odopt - Annpala
F1. Krikor - We as one in the S.D.T
F2. Linja - Xanadu

Bongo Beats and Bankruptcy : The Sound of I'm a Cliche

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Fantastic Twins - Read My Palmer, Laura

Buy/stream: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/VelvetDesertMusicVol2SD

With Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, curator Jörg Burger has intensified his vision for this new series of compilations on Kompakt. The music he’s collected here has a unique vibration, perhaps an audio equivalent to the legendary ‘acid Western’ films of the 1960s and 1970s, when the wild frontier logic of the western met the consciousness-altering psychedelia of the counterculture.

‘Velvet Desert Music’ is Burger exploring possibilities: what happens when you extract the essence from genres as diverse as spaghetti Western soundtracks, moody lamp-lit pop, downtempo, Krautrock, minimalism, classic ‘60s psychedelia, and more, and let their scents intermingle, Des Esseintes-style?

On Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, Burger welcomes back old friends - Fantastic Twins, Sascha Funke, Paulor, Rebolledo, Superpitcher, The Novotones – and also introduces some exciting new names, such as Golden Bug and The Limiñanas, Mount Obsidian (aka César Urbina / Cubenx), and Lake Turner. Marcus Schmickler’s Pluramon project appears, remixed by Burger, and Michael Mayer makes his first appearance with “Not So Far Away”.

The ultimate strength of Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, though, is its seamlessness; you’re encouraged to press play, sit back, and listen to the album unfurl as a whole. Much like one of Kompakt’s other compilation series, the legendary yearly Pop Ambient collections edited by Wolfgang Voigt, Velvet Desert Music builds its own psychological environment to inhabit. And as you dig deeper into Velvet Desert Music Vol. 2, the music takes on synaesthetic turns, the textures all swirl together, igniting the senses.

Each of the artists share with Burger himself a production style that echoes the cinèma pour l’oreille (cinema for the ear), with luscious sweeps of tone and melody opening out to reveal new vistas, new terrain for the attentive listener. When listening to Velvet Desert Music, think widescreen, think broad brushstrokes, think boldness but with sensual detail. It’s the new frontier music.

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Fantastic Twins – Between The Dog And The Wolf

He was no longer able to live in society or speak with people. Complete self-absorption, thoughts only about yourself.  He felt an outcast and antisocial and have nothing to say to anyone, anymore. Especially to unwanted guests.
In the shadow of global madness , Tel-Aviv's finest Garzen Records are doing it's best to keep serving some family matters, mental gatherings and psych tunes.
This compilation is a new project that brings together and connects between musical edges and beloved artists.

Artist: Fantastic Twins
Track: Unwanted Guest
Label: Garzen Records
Release date: 10/07/20
Format: Digital
Purchase: https://garzenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/garzen-compilation-1

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