---> @gratts

Belgium born, Berlin based DJ Gratts has spent the best part of two decades lugging bags of excellent records around. First biting the bug for good-time house, techno and disco in the late 90s, he honed his craft as part of the We Play House gang throughout the following decade, and began pushing out of his homeland around the 10s.
In keeping the heart of the music in mind, Gratts ensures the feet are always engaged. Genres aren’t important, though: no matter what’s spinning, it’s all about the uplift, the heart and the freedom. 
Especially for the Tiella Sound series, he pressed play one morning and recorded a one-take vinyl mix at his musical home in Berlin-Kreuzberg, The Consulate.

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MIX SERIES ARCHIVE

Tiella Sound Mix 035: Gratts

Wonderful World of Oddities

Linkwood - Hi-Vis Blues

Freda & Jackson EP

Ken Oath slip on their moon shoes for a joint venture with Freda & Jackson, pressing up four cuts that will have you slipping the surly bonds of earth and dancing in the skies. Loaded with basslines heavier than a neutron star and well-chopped breaks, produced with a dubwise ear for space, this is some of the duo’s finest material yet.

A1 - Kendama
A2 - Cubone
B1 - Platform22
B2 - Slo Mosely

Out January 25th!
Aus distribution by Ken Oath, rest of world through Rubadub.

Freda & Jackson - Freda & Jackson EP(KEN010 | Previews)

D.K. @ Red Light Radio 05 29 2019

Jacques Charlier is primarily known as a visual artist, which obscures the fact that he’s been actively multi-disciplinary for the entirety of his career. Born in 1939 in Liège, Belgium, his interest in all forms of art began at a very early age when he aspired to be a poet, writer, musician, comic book artist, actor, and movie director, and in his own eccentric way became all of these things.

In the 1970s, inspired by the minimalist sounds of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, John Cage, and Meredith Monk, Charlier armed himself with a custom guitar, and sound modulating effects and started experimenting on his 4-track. He performed psychoacoustic pieces in Liège, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Milan and Düsseldorf, and in the inimitable performance art video “Desperados Music”, filmed by Paul Paquay in 1979 for Belgian television. Charlier hit a creative stride in the 1980s, recording off-kilter tunes influenced by everything from post-punk, EBM, Yé-yé and psychedelic rock. Similarities reside in the catalogs of Belgian labels Crammed Discs and Les Disques Du Crépuscule, yet even with these genre-bending precedents, Charlier’s music is idiosyncratic to the extreme. In 1984 and 1987, he self-released two cassettes incorporating synth, drum machine, his custom guitar, and vocalist Martine Doutreleau on occasional duets.

This limited edition 7” single offers the previously unreleased jangle/darkwave jam “Kiliwatch”, backed with “Loulou”, a scorching psychedelic oddity from one of Charlier’s original cassettes. It precedes the upcoming double LP compilation of Charlier’s music, and is the perfect introduction to his curious and complex artistic vision.

Co-release with Musique Plastique

Limited to 150 copies, only available via Séance Centre and Musique Plastique. 
Release date: January 10th 2020
PRE-ORDER HERE: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/jacques-charlier-kiliwatch

Jacques Charlier - Loulou (MP007 / 20SC)

We're easing into 2020 with this first mix by the Prins of Malmø. Emanuel is not only a fantastic DJ who tastefully weaves together all sorts of genres, he is also a great producer with an array of releases on imprints such as Music for Dreams, Nosejob and his very own Fasaan Recordings. His taste is wild and undefinable, but he is surely incredibly knowledgable and so his mixes always have that special signature of somebody who knows what they are doing. For 5918mins., he puts together recent finds, a lot of which he told us were CD-only (a natural development it seems with digging moving more and more into the digital realm since the reign of Discogs). We hope you enjoy this first episode, see you every two weeks from now!

Prins Emanuel

We're back with an hour long Forecast from London based party planner and all round good guy Inner Totality. He's been putting on shindigs with consistantly fantastic line-ups for quite a wee while now and it just so happens that he's also real good at piecing together musical bits for your listening pleasure, much like the one we're offering up here. It's seen us through some of the damper parts of Glasgow's month of vertical rain and we're pretty certain that whatever the climate is like where you are that you'll get something out of it too. Dive in and enjoy!

PS. It features some music by the man himself that will come into tape-shaped fruition on the brand new label 'Selkies' this April.

Forecast 045: Inner Totality

A drop of liquid love, direct to you from Geneva's own @joosyjoose.

Tracklist: mmarzmix.com/074

mmarz 074 | joosy joose: liquid deep

Our new residents from Natural Positions give an excellent kickstart to their series. Their first mix by Ramos is filled with ambient, as well as more uptempo beats. Percussive global sounds can be heard throughout the entire mix, unlike anything we’ve had in our collection of mixes so far. Serves perfect for easy listening on a good audio system!

Artist: @naturalpositions

Natural Positions w/ Ramos

Die P (30/11/20)

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Linkwood - Hi-Vis Blues

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