L.O.A. - In Your Cities, What About Feelings?
Label: Forever Now
Format: Cassette
Release Date: 16 March 2018

For the second installment of their Forever Now, Dave Saved and NPLGNN worked together as L.O.A on a mixtape made chopping and screwing a lot of CDs containing live recordings of parties held in Naples roughly between 2001-2003 by one of the most iconic promoters crew of the city at that time called “Angels Of Love”. 

Coming from the pill smiling tribes movement of the early '90s, around '94 AOL start to bring in Naples a lot of house icons like Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Masters At Work, Kenny Carpenter etc. building a scene that was so routed in the city, especially in the suburbs and province, to become almost a kind of sub-culture involving also fashion etc.

With their meticulous work the two Neapolitan heads rearranged a lot of samples in a new sonic broken collage. More relevant here turns out to be not the music in itself but the moment that particular sample represents. 
It's a work of excavation into a sub-culture of Naples. Overpitched voices, oversatured drums and a not specified amount of Fxs to give a new born to the memory, trying to face what we can call "traditions" to give new oblique directions. Past and present suspended into a contemporary oroboros of k-holing fantasia. 
Doesn't matter where you were at that time or what you were feeling, it's the 00's dancefloor black hole, the millenium bug of those emotions, re-emerged in our days frozen now and forever.

L.O.A. - In Your Cities, What About Feelings?

NPLGNN - Forever Till No More
Forever Now 004
Cassette + Digital 

"Forever Till No More it's an intimate recording moved from a ripped youtube video where an unknown person is answering to a self-questioned question “Are you anybody favorite person?”.

The track is a chopped and screwed 11 minutes version of the infamous record within Naples progressive rock era called Milano Calibro 9 by Osanna.

How we live our inter-personal relationships and how we connect between each other in the era of decay of truth?

From Distorted squashy kick drums bumping as hearts, passing thru stretched and granulous strings to joyfull and vaporous bells the player it's a trip thru the vast spectrum of exchange of emotions between humans."

Music recorded by Giovanni Napolano between May and June 2017

Artwork by Davide Salvati
Photos by Stephane Charpentier

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