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Tripped-out, leisurely house and breaks comprises the next drop on Haŵs. Perth producer Guy Contact takes the reigns for ‘Euphoria Simulator’, a 6-track EP radiating with all the charm and optimism of a liberated future. The eccentric ‘Whip Crack Cowboy’ takes the camaraderie of country twang into a colourful new world, mediating psychedelic guitar strings into harmony with synths and a cathartic house beat. TIP!

Buy: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/euphoria-simulator

https://soundcloud.com/guycontact
https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic

Premiere: Guy Contact - Whip Crack Cowboy [Haŵs]

https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies

For the 17th release on the label, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

‘Clear Skies’ comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

Distributed by Subwax.
Artwork by Stewart Armstrong.
PR text by Emily Rose Howard.
Mastering by Curved London.
Pressings by R.A.N.D.

𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐅𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 ➟ Solar Suite - Clear Skies

Buy EYA017

Premiere: A2 - Sohrab - Out Of Touch [EYA017]

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zs7nWfv-UV4

Label: Haŵs
Artist: Solar Suite
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Cat. Number: HAWS017
Release Date: August 12th, 2022.
Support it: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies

For the 17th release on Haŵs, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

Solar Suite's ‘Clear Skies’ EP comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

Haŵs
https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/haws_music

Solar Suite
https://soundcloud.com/solarsuite
https://www.instagram.com/solarsuite

Listen to YouTube

PREMIERE: Solar Suite - Tasman Transmission [Haŵs]

Solar Suite - Clear Skies EP
BUY LINK: https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/clear-skies
Label : Haŵs (https://soundcloud.com/hawsmusic)

For the 17th release on our label, Naarm-based DJ/producer Solar Suite explores the playful liminality of dusk and dawn, taking locked grooves and prog sounds as the tools to transform the strange into something exhilarating.

‘Clear Skies’ comprises 3 high-nrg club-ready tracks and 2 slow chuggers to balance out the up-tempo rhythms, all with dedicated circumstances to be plucked out from record bags and presented to a willing crowd. The only question left: what occasions personal to the selector will they rear their heads?

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Solar Suite - Still Life

Buy USR031

Premiere: A1 - Wedding Acid Group - Transference Of Energy [USR031]

@tondiue 

"Word to the Centipede"

Available August 16th 

https://kelproots.bandcamp.com/album/word-to-the-centipede

all tracks written and produced by tondiue
mastered by @dub-4mt
artwork by Lily O
mix consultations by Madi Levine and Erfan Hajy

tondiue - Word to the Centipede [previews]

@slushrecordsuk

Pre-order vinyl & digital:
slushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pulsation

Slush Records are back for their second outing, remastering and rereleasing Sedona’s highly sought-after 1995 track, ‘Pulsation’. A portal to the underground of the ‘90s, Sedona’s original mixes and the remix from Robert Vaughan, fuse progressive house, trance and breakbeat, each oscillating to their own unique frequency. Not stopping there, Slush Records enlist the expertise of Seoul-born, Amsterdam-based Naone for a mesmerising new remix that harnesses all of that early ‘90s energy, with a fresh dynamism.

Tracklist: 
A1 Pulsation (Ascending)
A2 Pulsation (Naone Ice Breaker Remix) 
B1 Pulsation (Test Tube)  
B2 Pulsation (Sinister)

Curated by Lora Mipsum 
Mastered by Justin Drake 
Distributed by Prime Direct Distribution 
Design by Jek & DAYS

Pulsation (Naone Ice Breaker Remix) - Sedona | Slush [2024]

Pre-order:
kelproots.bandcamp.com
@tondiue
@kelproots

Mastered by @dub.4mt
Artwork by Lily O. 

Kelp Roots, the latest label concept from Seattle’s tondiue, broadcasts a new wave of aqueous, afrofuturistic dub transmissions from the Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest.

The platform’s initial departure, “Word to the Centipede”, finds tondiue emerging from a season of electroacoustic drone and nu-kosmische live performance, while guiding this energetic, freeform sonic practice into a 5 track journey of in-the-club and on-the-couch headtrips.

On the release’s leading single, Chickadee, tondiue peers through a veil of mist at one of the city’s many scenic outlooks; searching for and finding the ethereal, tectonic pulse of psychedelic dub history, and channeling this essence into a slab of organic, coastal soundsystem pressure.

Word to the Centipede releases August 16th on Kelp Roots

pi premiere: tondiue - Chickadee (Kelp Roots)

Written and produced by Dmytro Avksentiev.
Mastered by Tangible Air.
Design by Gerardo Corizzo.
Stickered cover.
Distributed by One Eye Witness.
Vinyl only.

https://differenttimesmunich.bandcamp.com/album/koloah-night-shift

https://soundcloud.com/koloah
https://soundcloud.com/differenttimesmunich

PREMIERE: KOLOAH - Pusher [Different Times]

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Limo Trax Blue
Label: Limousine Dream
Cat No: LTRAX-01
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1. Just Jam & Jive Talk - The People's Elbow
A2. Redshift - Whateva
B1. Sakro - Vocalistic
B2. Turnero - Gimmicks

Limo Trax is born! A home for hot one-off nuggets from both seasoned producers and shining new lights of the underground. These have all been played heavily by Gene and now you can too. Enjoy our first platter - Limo Trax Blue 🍸

Various Artists - Limo Trax Blue (LTRAX-01)

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Kulture Galerie Volume Three
Label: Kulture Galerie
Cat No: KGV003
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 

A1. Rambal Cochet - Beijing Balearic Riot
A2. Doc Sleep - Deep Breath
A3. The Jaffa Kid - SH Holo
B1. Jack Bags - Molise Chicago 
B2. Undsidedly - Sol Container
B3. Mesmerist - She Looked Back 

Kulture Galerie returns with its third various artists record featuring Doc Sleep, Rambal Cochet, The Jaffa Kid, Mesmerist, Jack Bags and Undsidedly.

The multi format label run by Filippo MSM (of Metropolitan Soul Museum) is back with its 7th release overall, this time on wax. This new collection continues to show Filippo’s predilection for music with non straight forward drum patterns and moody melodies.

Volume Three is a well thought mix of styles, spanning to and from two Trance oriented tracks from Rambal Cochet and The Mesmerist through the broken techno of Doc Sleep, Jack Bags’s all analogue Acid House track, The Jaffa Kid’s uncompromising Drexcian’s Electro and Undsidedly dreamy’s own take on the genre.

Various Artists - Kulture Galerie Volume Three (KGV003)

@tondiue leads the first release on Kelp Roots with an all-encompassing harmonic drone vision of brackish dub and estuarian chillout

available now on Kelp Roots

https://kelproots.bandcamp.com/album/word-to-the-centipede

tondiue - Mind [Kelp Roots 01]

AR008: @simictacoma - An Introduction to Frost EP
A1. Third Dream
A2. When the Foot Falls
B1. An Introduction to Frost
B2. An Introduction to Frost (Apt. E's Glacier Dub)

Label: @accessoryrecords
Pre-order from KMA60 and most vinyl retailers: https://www.kma60.com/release/1725975330/simic-an-introduction-to-frost

PREMIERE: Simic - An Introduction to Frost (Apt E's Glacier Dub) [Accessory Records]

Recorded live on April 15th 2023 at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center, Wallingford, Seattle. 

tondiue - electronics, sampler, effects
Lori Goldston - cello
Sue Ann Harkey - prepared 12-string electric guitar 

Room and Line recording captured by Mell Dettmer
Mixed and Mastered by IVVY aka Madi Levine
Flyer and Album Artwork by Bug Bus Piano 

"It's an honor to call Lori and Sue Ann my friends and collaborators, and a great pleasure to present this recording of our first performance in trio at the lovely Chapel Performance Space in Wallingford. 

Lori and I met on Galiano Island BC after sharing a bill at the wonderful Active / Passive festival in 2022, and quickly got to discussing potential collaborations. I have been a fan of Lori's work for years; growing up as a drone-obsessed noise-head, my everyday life on the grey eastside of Lake Washington was heavily soundtracked by Earth- most notably the 'Angels of Darkness' records featuring Lori, which catalyzed my fascination for the expansive and historic essence of Puget Sound music, to which Lori certainly is no stranger, as a key player on Nirvana's Unplugged sessions and many other storied and up-and-coming Seattle acts. Performing alongside Lori and witnessing her solo performances has been nothing short of musically enlightening, opening my mind and ear to the resonant truths found within improvised music. 

While Lori and I discussed our current inspirations and musical draws, I couldn't help but express my love for the musical and spiritual work of Don Cherry, to which Lori said, 'oh! well, if you like Don's music, you should really meet my friend Sue Ann, she was in a band with him'. 

Sue Ann Harkey's creative prowess in the 1980s Seattle and New York undergrounds cannot be overstated. As head of the multi-media cassette label and creative print outlet 'CITYZENS FOR NON-LINEAR FUTURES' (CNLF), Sue Ann and co. produced 14+ hand-painted cassette tape albums, 2 full length LPs, a number of journals, novels, and live improvisational art-music performances from 1980 on, all of which often featured elaborate handmade liner notes, print work, photography, graphic designs and collages created by Sue Ann. Primarily based in Seattle, Sue Ann's free flowing stream-of-consciousness unit and CNLF's torchbearing musical outlet 'Audio Let(t)er' caught the attention of New York avant-garde giants such as Don Cherry, Denis Charles, and John Zorn. Recorded during an eastcoast stint was the album 'It Is This It Is Not This (Neti-Neti)', featuring Sue Ann and Sharon Gannon, joined by Don Cherry, Denis Charles, and David Life. Free Improvisation in its purest form, each track was recorded in a single take and cut straight to wax. The result is a quite literal snapshot of a scene bursting with uninhibited creative expression, and a profound cultural link between Seattle and New York's free avant-garde cultures; described by future Rolling Stone and NPR writer Ann Powers as a 'philosophical and musical stew different than any other aural communication in Seattle.'

Today, Sue Ann's fabled 12 string guitar comes prepared with rods, discs, crystals and screws to elicit rich harmonic overtones truly unlike anything I have ever heard before. Upon the initial meetings and rehearsals, I immediately knew that this was a collaborator, mentor, and friend whose energy and inspiration felt like something I had been searching for for a long time. 

It's been an honor to make music and spend time with Lori and Sue Ann, two veteran experimentalists and creative giants whose work has echoed throughout the pacific northwest's underground for decades. In the past 19 months we've played music together in a handful of spaces from backyards to post-industrial sites; Look forward to more performances and a soon to follow studio album. 

Thanks!"
Cameron

PREMIERE: Simic - An Introduction to Frost (Apt E's Glacier Dub) [Accessory Records]

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