Selections from the upcoming debut album by Auckland, New Zealand singer, producer, and musician, Akim Heinicke Waengler – out now on Fresh Selects: https://fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Made up of deeply personal works written in his late teens and early 20’s, Akim describes the album as "a collection of multi-dimensional journal entries. Each track captures emotions, thoughts and events of my life in a sort of kaleidoscopic audio image."

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby & LAPIS
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

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FSX-040: LAPIS 'Third Person You' [selections]

This playlist will be Volume 1 of an ongoing series of top music picks brought to you by going_sumwhere. 

This playlist will include a wide variety of music styles ranging from Ambient, Lofi Hip-Hop and Underground/Experimental Rap to Electronic, Jazz and even some Alternative. Please enjoy and share this playlist with others if you like what you hear! Thanks for listening. 

-going_sumwhere 🙂

TOP PICKS PLAYLIST VOL. 1

Ambient Complex

neo soul

Ambient Beauty

Lo-Fi

'Bout You (Tall Black Guy Remix)

Rainy Milo https://soundcloud.com/rainymilo
Website: www.rainymilo-official.co.uk 
Twitter: twitter.com/RainyMilo 
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/RainyMilo
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RainyMilo 
Rebel Management: info@rebelmgmt.com

Tall Black Guy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SirTallBlackGuy
www.facebook.com/TallBlackGuyProductions

Pre-Order Album Here 

Rainy Milo - 'Bout You(Tall Black Guy Remix)

As a thank you to my fans, I thought that it would be a good time to put up a track that a few have been asking for. Good things come to those who wait! 

Enjoy, 

TBG

(only a limited 1,000 copies are available) 

Tall Black Guy - Sade's Taboo(Sweetest Taboo Blap-Up) 83bpm

'Akousmatikous', out now on Brainfeeder: https://srjl.lnk.to/akousSo

Akousmatikous

Always on my Mind

From the LAPIS/JUICEB☮X maxi-single in the Fresh Selects Remix Series – out now: fsxrs.lnk.to/lapis-juicebox

The previously unreleased instrumental version to "Why am I still scared to share?" from 'Third Person You', the debut album by New Zealand-based multi-talent – Akim Heinicke Waengler, aka, LAPIS: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Written, Produced & Recorded by LAPIS

LAPIS - electric guitar, bass, synthesizer, percussion, programming
Elias Dobbyn - live drums

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Illustration by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-RS-2204 © 2023 Fresh Selects. We're not scared to share.

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FSX-RS-2204 maxi-single

LAPIS "Why am I still scared to share? (Instrumental)"

Had some fun.  Something to ride down the FDR to on a late night with the top down, reflecting on life.. like  Rocky in that one scene after Apollo died. Word. 

My outros have outros. 



HURRY UP N BUY W/ VOX

Inhuman Nature

https://apothedog.bandcamp.com/album/fruit-stand

1.strawberī
2.peach
3.clementin
4.kiui
5.mangō
6.lyme
7.lemon
8.banana
9.kumquat
10.dragonfurūtsu
11.apple

"fruit stand" tape.

Airplane Mode was premiered by The Fader: http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/21/soulection-sasha-marie-airplane-mode

Airplane Mode is what you want to listen to when you feel the need to disconnect and focus on self. Music inspires me; it gives me the ability to create, to dream, to focus and to relax. I like to get lost in the music I love without interruption from everything else that is going on. I've compiled a list of songs that do that for me and I've mixed them together. This mix is for the artist, the musician, the student, the traveler and anyone else who just wants to get away for a moment.

Memrise - Frank Ocean
Don’t Mind Me (feat. Whoarei) - Nosaj Thing
The Thought of You - Zuper
Wilhelms Scream - James Blake
Secrets - Louis Perpetual
The Journey - Tom Misch
beautifulaccidents  - Flying Lotus
Smiles & Frowns - Sango
Tea Leaf Dancers - Flying Lotus
Flowers (Instrumental) - Madlib
From Time, With Time ft MoRuf - Jesse Boykins III
Juss Know (feat. Travis Scott) - PARTYNEXTDOOR
One Step Back - Galimatias & Joppe feat. Goldlink (Gravez Remix)
Want You Back - El. Train
Runnin’ - Workers
Sun Sun - Jengi Beats
Hollywood Nights - J-Louis x Teddy Walton
Sleep Sound - Jamie xx
Special Affair - The Internet (E.Doza Remix)
Hey Mami - Krs x Masego
Sunshine - Kayloo x Loowood
Finest Dope - madbliss x rndysvge
She Lives in My Dreams LSD - Whoarei
Lonely Town feat. Dirg Gerner - Flako
Percebi O Quad - Haan808
Origami - Lately, I’ve Felt Unusual
1, 2, 3 (Swindail Edit) - Dabow
Your highness Ft. Monte Booker - Jarreau Vandal
Too Late - Cavalier
Space Message - Silo
Female Energy - prod. AzZi x Wilough
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead
Advice to the young - Marina Abramovic(excerpt from interview)

artwork: Andre Power
photo: Sasha Marie 

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Airplane Mode 001

Sophomore project from Ol' Dirty

@Isaackidwell

•MixedByAk

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Soft Focus Radio 50 / Like Guest Mix

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Soft Focus show broadcasting live on Basso Radio every other Sunday from 8 PM till 10 PM (EET / GMT+2).  Worldwide via www.basso.fi/soitin

We felt that 50 shows is something to celebrate. We wanted to have something special and lucky for us Like from Pac Div helped us with that. At the end of the show you will hear a 30 minute seamless mix from the Grammy nominated producer, nothing but original tracks. HEAT! 

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Cover photo by MATTI KESKI-KOHTAMÄKI

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Soft Focus Radio 50 | Like Guest Mix

Preview "Spirit Center" from Raw Spirit Jewels by Ohbliv.

Raw Spirit Jewels is Ohbliv's first full length album since last year's release of MindGarden.  This tape includes twenty "Spirit Jewels" on a Sapphire blue cassette and is a limited edition release of 250 tapes.  The first one hundred orders will receive a bonus 5x7 postcard of the album artwork (illustrated by Jefferson Harris) signed by Ohbliv.  Orders made exclusively through thrashflow.com will also receive a digital download card and die-cut Thrash Flow logo sticker included with the tape.

Purchase here: thrashflow.com/products/ohbliv-raw-spirit-jewels-cassette-dl-card

SIDE A: 

01 Spirit Center
02 Gather The People
03 Entering The Meditation Temple
04 The Aim Is Love
05 Green Tea Lift
06 World Relations
07 Offset
08 Cutaway 
09 Right The Wrongs
10 The Lonely Ones 

SIDE B:

11 No Moor Games
12 Mourning(Miss You)
13 Never Drift Away
14 Sorry Not Sorry
15 Glutton For The Funk(Too Much)
16 Bring Out The Best
17 From The Cosmic Yoni
18 Charismatic Static
19 Yes, No, I Love You 
20 Give Thanks

TF-005
Artwork, Layout and Design by Jefferson Harris
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Sight | Sound | Thrash | Flow

Ohbliv - Spirit Center

whereyo ankh? [vertiqua]

24 blessed 
s/o Jet Age 
s/o https://soundcloud.com/vertiqua

happynappyassbirthday[Vertiqua]

i love a girl, and she loves a girl

Sink

Three, raw, unmastered ambient tracks made in Detroit, January 15th, 2015.
I hope these can ease a little bit of the pain, anxiety, frustration and pressure I'm sure we've all been feeling this year. 
I believe there is still love.
<3 Shi

 



WYWS150115#02

composed & performed by aidan peterson

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Falling

stream/download

falling

This is a rare recording of folkloric free jazz soul music by Sam Gendel.
Listen if you want to view paradise.

Sam Gendel - Pure Imagination

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar full-length album on ltd cassette and world wide digital June 15th

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - BOA

Music for Saxofone & Bass Guitar album out June 15th on cassette and world wide digital via Leaving Records

Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes - THEEM AND VARIATIONS

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anne/1427808233?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/19FD6RN5K3xYFThAHM4fGy?si=0hUO0rFVQAigvSPTvJL_4w
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv182

Joseph Shabason
Twitter https://twitter.com/JosephShabason
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/josephshabason/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/josephshabason

Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Forest Run"

The Anne EP is the afterword to Joseph Shabason’s acclaimed 2018 full-length Anne through which he examined and processed his mother’s struggle with Parkinson’s disease.  Employing a small supporting cast that includes vocalist Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and guitarist Thomas Gill (Owen Pallett), Anne EP spotlights the Toronto saxophonist as he builds empathic tropospheres of woodwinds and synthesizers, deepening the sentiment established by the EP's companion album, which was released in November 2018.  The detail and idiosyncrasy beneath the material's dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen, elevates Shabason's work far beyond mere aesthetic exercise, cementing jazz, ambient sound design, and new age revivalism into a timely new genre all his own.

Tour with Jessica Pratt:
May-09-Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
May-10-Chicago, IL Sleeping Village
May-11-Pittsburgh, PA The Warhol
May-12-Toronto, ON The Garrison
May-13-Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
May-15-Boston, MA Great Scott
May-16-Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle
May-17-Washington, DC Miracle Theatre
May-19-Brooklyn, NY Park Church Co-Op

Anne EP

Joseph Shabason - "Broken Hearted Kota"

Sun's Bossa

A beat a night for 25 nights in dedication to Seba Jun.

Night 7. Something a lil more rugged.

Enjoy.

Night 7

The debut single from LAPIS – a singer, musician, and producer from Auckland, New Zealand

Maxi-single with instrumental and single edit out now: freshselects.bandcamp.com/album/blue-in-orange

"I recorded the first version of this song in 2013 when I was turning 18. I came back more than once over the next 1-2 years. 

At the 2:57 mark I back come in to look back on what happened from a different perspective. In doing so I was able to process the story, that period in my life again, on a deeper level. 

At 2:57 it is like a reality check.. “Shit, this is what was really going down..” And the rest of the song – with the extended dance section and the darker tone – is really a grieving process, both for what was, and the dreams that never really were – the dreams of idealised love that never held any water. It is also a catharsis and transformation, of the pain and confusion. 

This reflective and retrospective process, captured as ‘Blue in Orange’ allowed me to tie this up and move on –> from blue into orange!" 

~

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040-01 © 2020 Fresh Selects.


"Girl, I left you a note, 
What it said - I don’t even know 
But can't you reply? 
Even if you say no...

Girl, I left you a note, 
What it said - I don’t even know 
But can't you reply? 
Even if you say no...

See my rap game counting down, all along, all alone..
See my rap game counting down, all along, all alone.. 
See my rap game counting down, all along, all alone.. 
See my rap game counting down, all along, all alone..

Ooh, ooh, ooh, my love 

Girl, I left you a letter
What it said - I didn't know better.
What I wrote - down I blush, 
Now when I think about it.

Girl, I wrote you a play, 
Starring me and you in the way, 
In which I thought it should be. 
But I didn't give you no say..."


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Third Person You

LAPIS "Blue In Orange"

The A-side to the second single from LAPIS's debut album, 'Third Person You' – out now on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040-02 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

“Oh, you either wait or leave...
Sometimes you stay to please...”

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LAPIS "So"

The B-side to the second single from LAPIS' forthcoming debut album, 'Third Person You' – out now on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040-02 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

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@freshselects

LAPIS "10210"

A selection from the debut album by Auckland, New Zealand singer, producer, and musician, Akim Heinicke Waengler – out now on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Made up of deeply personal works written in his late teens and early 20’s, Akim describes the album as "a collection of multi-dimensional journal entries. Each track captures emotions, thoughts and events of my life in a sort of kaleidoscopic audio image."

Vocals by Nikolai & LAPIS
Instruments by LAPIS

Written by Nikolai-Rayne Talamahina & Akim Heinicke Waengler

Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

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@nikolailovesyou
@freshselects

LAPIS "Andalusia" (feat. Nikolai)

A selection from LAPIS's debut album, 'Third Person You' – out now on Fresh Selects: fsx.lnk.to/third-person-you

Written, Performed & Produced by LAPIS

Mixed by Zac Hornsby
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

Artwork Designed by Tawfiq Mardini
Painting by Akim Heinicke Waengler

Executive Producers: Kenny / Fresh Selects & LAPIS

FSX-040 © 2020 Fresh Selects.

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@freshselects

LAPIS "Rum Within Gold"

TNGRM003: Moodprint - Storyboard ep

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☐ 1: Storyboard (Original)
☐ 2: Prophet (Original)
☐ 3: Lucy (Original)
☐ 4: Storyboard (Full Crate Remix)

▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲

Get it at iTunes, Juno, Boomkat, Deezer, Amazon...

https://soundcloud.com/moodprint
https://soundcloud.com/fullcrate

Storyboard

iTunes

Moodprint - Storyboard (Full Crate Remix) [TNGRM003]

was on an ep i deleted off bandcamp. still feelin this track tho.

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