SOS MUSIC VOLUME 2

speedwalking

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Cast Remixes Part II

Heathered Pearls - Pain Tolerance (Kyle McEvoy & wowflower Remix)

Maude Vôs (@maudevos)is an LA-based electronic artist with several notable label releases and remixes to her credit. Maude’s creative locus is rooted in psychedelia, atonal percussion and found sound experimentation. Inspired by polyrhythmic traditions and world influences, her works echo distant cultures while remaining true to vintage electronic production techniques. Maude is a consummate experimentalist with a distinct musical voice that is brought to bear in both the studio and on underground dance floors. She has produced for vocalists, film shorts, art galleries and fashion shows while putting out her own albums and remixes. Maude holds a dual degrees in Media Music and Recording Technology and has worked teaching audio production to young women and at-risk youth. She has held a job in audio technology, routing and optimizing studio spaces for clients. Together with fellow LA-based artist @MarieNyx, Maude founded @delusional_records in 2021. Focusing on underground electronic music, the label heavily focuses on women, non-binary and hardware artists. 

This is year 10 of Maude’s annual Valentines Voyage Mixtape. Year after year Maude shares a Valentines Mixtape that taps into the heart space. These mixes are not about genre or BPM but rather a mood and the depths that love and togetherness hold. This mix offering is a ritual of love that she shares with her community in hopes of communal growth and expansion. Maude has chosen to release this mix on LOP because of their shared ethos in visibility, accessibility and inclusivity(AND she has a deep love and respect for the work that @Joeygmixes is doing for the community.)

LOP GUEST MIX SERIES 011: MAUDE VÔS (MAUDE'S ANNUAL VALENTINES VOYAGE)

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

[english below]

"Leap of Faith" to utwór z nadchodzącego albumu Uwdara - "Broken Planet".

Preorder  kasety rozpocznie się 1.04 o godz. 9:00 na superkasety.bandcamp.com 
Nakład limitowany 100 sztuk. 

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Info:

Uwdar (czyli 1/2 duetu ETNOBOTANIKA) prezentuje album Broken Planet. Wydawnictwo kasetowe oznaczone w naszym katalogu jako SPRK004 to coś absolutnie wyjątkowego. To co pierwsze rzuca się w oczy to sam wygląd kasety. Postanowiliśmy nieco zaszaleć i po raz pierwszy zrobiliśmy kasetę typu full print, a ponadto na dwóch stronach kasety znajdują się dwie różne grafiki w rożnych kolorach, które dzięki efektowi przezroczystości nakładają się na siebie. Do kasety dołączona jest także wkładka z czterema dwustronnymi panelami wypełnionymi zdjęciami, które przedstawiają inspiracje dla tego albumu. Projekt kasety w oldschoolowym stylu współgra z muzyką, która nawiązuje do złotych czasów breakbeatu, jungle i trip-hopu. Dobrze znanym breakom towarzyszą nostalgiczne, syntezatorowe melodie, za które tak polubiliśmy ETNOBOTANIKĘ i oczywiście sample. Jest tu sporo gitarowych wstawek umiejętnie wyciętych ze starych polskich punkowych kaset, ale też echa głosów z VHS (np. klasyczny dialog z Serpico, Beavis i Butt-head!) czy wycinki audio z gier komputerowych z epoki (Tony Hawk Pro Skater). Jeśli pamiętacie czasy pirackich płyt CD i kaset, gdy królowały albumy Prodigy i Westbama, jeśli godzinami giercowaliście we wspomnianego Tony'ego Hawka czy Wipeouta, to ta kaseta zapewni Wam niezły nostalgia trip! Rzecz jasna nie jest to tylko odtwarzanie tego co było kiedyś. Uwdar sięga po oryginalne breaki i przetwarza je na swój wyjątkowy sposób tak, że cały czas mają taneczny potencjał, ale albumu jako całości, między innymi dzięki licznym skitom, interludiom i zmianom tempa, świetnie słucha się w całości. Z tego wszystkiego wyłania się coś jeszcze - opowieść o "Połamanej Planecie". Czy to komentarz do czasów, w których żyjemy lub kondycji nas wszystkich jako ludzkości? Przekonajcie się sami!

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ENG:

Uwdar (that is 1/2 of ETNOBOTANIKA duo) presents Broken Planet album. The cassette release marked in our catalog as SPRK004 is something absolutely unique. What strikes at first sight is the very look of the cassette. We decided to go a little crazy and for the first time we made a full print cassette, moreover on two sides of the cassette there are two different graphics in different colors, which thanks to the transparency effect are superimposed on each other. The cassette also comes with an insert with four double-sided panels filled with photos that represent the inspiration for this album. The cassette's old-school design works in tandem with the music, which harkens back to the golden days of breakbeat, jungle and trip-hop. Well-known breaks are accompanied by nostalgic, synth melodies for which we liked ETNOBOTANICA so much and, of course, samples. There are a lot of guitar interludes skilfully cut from old Polish punk tapes, but also echoes of voices from VHS (e.g. a classic dialogue from Serpico, Beavis and Butt-head!) or audio clips from computer games of the era (Tony Hawk Pro Skater). If you remember the times of pirate CDs and cassettes, when Prodigy and Westbama albums reigned supreme, if you spent hours playing the aforementioned Tony Hawk or Wipeout, this cassette will give you a nice nostalgia trip! Of course this is not just a recreation of what used to be. Uwdar takes the original breaks and transforms them in his own unique way so that they still have dance potential, but the album as a whole, thanks to numerous skits, interludes and tempo changes, among other things, is a great listen. Something else emerges from all this - the story of "Broken Planet". Is it a commentary to the times we live in or the condition of all of us as humanity? See for yourself!
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credits:

Gfx & music: @uwdar
Mix & mastering: @stachy

Broken Planet

Uwdar - Leap Of Faith

TV, Junk Food & Bed

naive mainstay ELLES releases her debut album “A Celebration Of The Euphoria Of Life” on May 27th - it's the first LP on naive and marks the 5th anniversary of the Lisbon label. Across the album's eleven tracks, ELLES writes a story through a conceptual arc that follows her (and all of us) from leaving the office on a Friday and entering the cathartic process of going out clubbing and its ramifications. Weaving personal reflections with collective experiences, it tells the ultimate tale of nightlife as a continuum of blissful resistance using beautifully programmed beats and melodic incantations, all narrated by sensitive, synesthesic lyrics and vocal mantras. 

On the album ELLES says: 'A Celebration Of The Euphoria of Life is the story of a night out and all the nights out. Written largely when all the pubs and clubs were shut, it’s a love-letter to those vital communIty spaces for finding your people and pleasures and also about personal healing, processing life and discovering moments of clarity amidst the noise. An open-hearted tribute to the joyful and sometimes bittersweet abandon of the craic and all it’s given me

.' Carefully sound-designed experimental dance music meets infused breaks and acid in the opening tracks 'out of office', 'hope' and 'out 2 4get' , silky yet raw vocals punctuating them, reminding us of prime Cosey Fanni Tutti with post-punk sensibility. ELLES muses over the repetitiveness of our daily routine and misunderstandings with her love interest while poetically reminding us that hope is our only anchor. 'i think i feel sumthing' brings us a peek into rave languages through an Orbital-esque lens, with rave stabs and euphoric piano riffs showing us a spark of chemical-induced optimism as ELLES sings 'anything is possible' over chopped breakbeats. 'coming up is such sweet sorrow' takes it deeper, translating an altered state of consciousness lit by flashing strobes, with lush harmonic strings and vulnerable lyrics like 'i wanna see all my friends at once, i wanna hug my mom, i wanna go home' - grounded by the certainty that 'this too shall pass (...) we'll come out the other side with lessons in love'. “anthem” takes us through snapshots of club romance via glacial synths, dreamy vocal detailing and serotonin-glazed ecstatic pianos, lifting the UK-garage infused song to its anthemic promise. 

‘toilet talk', perhaps the trippiest sonic sculpture of the LP, tells us about the all-familiar moment of sisterly bonding with new friends you just met in a club toilet over a disorienting, grime-referencing instrumental. 'dry ur tears' throws us back into garage-tinged territories with intricate vocal chops and harmonies as a base for a lyrical exploration of inebriated self-inspection and deep reflection. 'candyflip 69' dazzles us with the artist's range, effortlessly fusing Balearic, rock and a touch of Simple Minds. 'sex' brings authentic electro energy with an honest yet bold take on pleasure - Miss Kittin style. 'afterglo' closes the album with an unforgettable, instant-classic chord progression, dreamlike bassline and hair-raising vocals that promise to show us a place where 'the view is just amazing'. You can't help but think that the inebriating images painted in this album are the amazing view that ELLES mentions. 

The full album will be released digitally 27th May 2022 on all platforms with the vinyl 12" to follow shortly in mid July.

credits
music written, performed and produced by ELLES
artwork by Shcuro
mastered by Ten Eight Seven
digital distributed by Sequence
vinyl distributed by Unearthed Sounds in cooperation with Lobster Records

pre-order: https://naivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/elles-a-celebration-of-the-euphoria-of-life

NAIVE017 - ELLES 'A Celebration Of The Euphoria Of Life' LP (preview)

New Single Out now 

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First, I heard colors.
Including Pye Corner Audio remix.

Artwork : The Designers Republic

 "First, I Heard Colors" unfolds an electronic ritournelle that could be the end title of your supernatural summer soundtrack. As a specialist of early 80s horror synth soundtracks himself, sound sorcerer Pye Corner Audio transforms the piece into an haunted acid beauty & beast.

New album 
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
Out this Fall.

Spacetime Drift

Field Works