23.07.2020 - driven proto-trance vibes

Boom Boom Ju - Improvisation n°8.2

Inspirations: Hot Milk (by Snail’s House)

Matcha Latte

ENERGIUM_ Eternel evolution

As he walked through the long grass he made sure to pay special attention to the peace and quiet which hung prominently in the air. There was not one sound to be heard in the park, all of the people had gone home for the day and now he was blessed with the opportunity to walk in solitude between the tall trees and the shadowy groves. He took in the nuances of the environment, the small things and the beauty of the individual flowers and greenery amidst what was a celebration for the senses. This was paradise. 

Invisible Inc. will be celebrating five years this May, a wonderful feat for a small label which has punched well above its weight having released some truly stunning music in recent times. The next release on the label is a celebration of the clubbier side of the imprint, this track is from Puma & the Dolphin, a slow moving textured affair for the discerning dancer.

PREMIERE: Puma & the Dolphin - Nuances [Invisible Inc.]

@Esso-Ess - Lost Boys
Label - @VisceraMusic

♫ Info + Buy ♫ - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/essoess-lost-boys-viscera/

All profits raised donated to charities supporting the NHS - support the full release here - https://visceratransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/galactic-service-broadcasting-001

Galactic Service Broadcasting Vol. 1 (MP3)

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PREMIERE - Ess o Ess - Lost Boys (Viscera)

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If God again let us naked into paradise, our nudity would amaze us with a completely fashionable style.
Friends, it is time for a finish. Here’s the seventh and last chapter of the festivities that Uncanny Valley crew put together for this 50th catalogue number. Once again, the mighty graphics wizards Doppeldenk from Leipzig provided a delightfull artwork. And once again, you’ll get a record that sports a kaleidoscope of dance music from Uncanny Valley veterans and newcomers. This time with the emphasis on bright and positive timbres which can be associated with the colour yellow. 
Our pick up was Panthera Krause who provides the subtle but euphoric THE NAKED NOW, a House music lesson that's bubbling under the surface. Check all snippets here: https://clone.nl/item60302.html

Artist: Panthera Krause
Track: The Naked Now
Label: Uncanny Valley
Format: 12", Vinyl
Release date: 08/07/20
Purchase: https://uncannyvalleyrec.bandcamp.com/album/yellow-cuthead-massimiliano-pagliara-d-rerstuben-panthera-krause-daniela-la-luz

https://soundcloud.com/panthera-krause
https://soundcloud.com/uncanny-valley-dresden

Uncanny Valley 50 YELLOW

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PREMIERE #1064 | Panthera Krause - The Naked Now [Uncanny Valley] 2020

Producer Plastico has been experimenting and playing for a long time, with a unique sound. Now he lands on Melómana Records with Ghetto House, an album consists of four original tracks and a remix of the great Alejandro Paz. The album, oriented to the dance floor, is presented with the firm intention of giving a necessary and demanding twist to the dancefloor. The whole of this album is the summary of many days fiddling with exceptional analog synthesizers, until finding a sound full of color, organic and meandering, which manages to filter through each pore of the skin until we are completely electrified. Each track gets the listener out of himself, open his mind and light the flame of hope, in a world where it seems that he has lost all idea of the future. And more, in a situation like the one we are experiencing, such an album is a breath of fresh air. Plastico tries to transmit his particular personality and vital project in this deep and personal Guetto House, timeless and full of strength, to which we will go over time trying to decipher that magical and complex mechanism that manages to transcend all the expectations of dance music.

https://soundcloud.com/melomana-records

PRÉMIÈRE: Plastico - Otra Vez [Melomana Records]

buy there : https://dreemsdreems.bandcamp.com/album/shark-water

https://soundcloud.com/dreemsdreems , the Multi Culti co-commandor, rebounds onto https://soundcloud.com/letempsperduonline for the first time since 2016. A lot has happened since then, for both the label and the artist. Each growing, developing and coming into bloom . However there still remains the initial connection that brought them together in the early stages of both of their ’sonic-journeys’. That connection - a desire to explore the unknown shoulder to shoulder - continues in this next chapter. 

The catalogue number LTP0700 suggests that these songs sit somewhere on the dance floor, most likely at the epicentre of a gathering, aired out at 7am - when the consciousness sets adrift from the body and life ‘under the sea’ suddenly seems all too plausible. 

The ‘Abyss Mix’ revisits one of the more tough-edged tracks from the Dreems catalogue, reimagined with the application of archetypal soundtrack sounds. Don’t be swayed by the choice of theme here - it’s intention is to make you feel mystery and threat in equal measures. 

Die Orangen appear from the depths, steering the 9 minute groove into the eye of the storm. With a few twists and turns they manage to slide in tropes that at the same time feel disparate and cohesive. Shoe-Gaze-Funk-e-Industralia ? Caution - don’t paddle out to this one at dusk or dawn.

The synced rhythm of modulated drum grooves washing up against diaphanous chords in ‘Dolphin Communion’ play the perfect underwater backdrop for the poetry and words of John Sea Lilly, the highly regarded marine scientist and botanist, turned electronic music councillor. 

At last and at least not the last from this man - Inigo Vontier - a remix that weaves mucho fun and enough funky funky weirdness to satisfy any weird funky funky enthusiast to the core. His ‘Mushroom Mix’ gives the package a deft organic touch - surf ’n' turf they call it in Australia.

Shark Water

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PREMIERE : Dreems - The Dolphin Communion (Iñigo Vontier 'Mushroom House' Remix)

The bar was lined with shot glass after shot glass, each one emptied quickly by the raucous crowd that had set up camp there since doors opened. It was barely past lunch but many were already half cut. Over excitement had got the better of them, or perhaps they'd simply forgotten how to handle their drink after so long spent in lock down. But a few wobbles and several empty wallets didn't matter, it was the weekend and they had no prior engagements to attend to, except for those that involved a full glass... 

After their sole release from 2004 was re-upped by none other than Solomun, French duo Kimshies decided to return to the studio last year after a 15 year hiatus. After two releases last year they make their debut on Mexico's Duro, the label run by Theus Mago AKA Bufi, with two original cuts that get the rework treatment from an all star cast. The distorted synths and acid lines of title track ‘Fucked Up Mama’ are twisted into new forms by Life & Death and Disco Halal label mate Autarkic, Belgium's Cabaret Nocturne and La Dame Noir alumni Arthur Johnson who offers up two takes; a driving upbeat re-imagination and a gritty analogue version.

Kimshies - Fucked Up Mama (incl. Autarkic, Arthur Johnson, Cabaret Nocturne Remixes)

PREMIERE: Kimshies - F****d Up Mama (Arthur Johnson Remix) [Duro]

@MiddleSkyBoom - Don't Stay Negative
Remix by @AlvaroCabana (Stripped Version)

Label - @InnisfallenRecords

♫ Info + Buy ♫ - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/middleskyboom-dont-stay-negative-alvaro-cabana/

PREMIERE – Middle Sky Boom – Don’t Stay Negative (Alvaro Cabana Stripped Version) (Innisfallen)

buy there : hippiedance.bandcamp.com/album/jacques-bon-reworks

"Wonderful tripped out acid version of this overlooked gem from the one and only Brigitte Fontaine. Let’s never forget: Ah Que La Vie Est Belle! This is a digital pre release, 12” will drop in September including an additional French classic. Stay tuned. Peace & Love"
Hippie Dance

PREMIERE : Brigitte Fontaine - Ah Que La Vie Est Belle (Jacques Bon Rework)

Right in the middle of Kubebe's FM jungle, we found a river full of pure love juice. After busy nights getting high following Sakamoto and Kitano tracks, the french ginger musician, producer and Dj is now giving back his best floating times on reggae backyards. Here are the flowers. Feel free to feed them with moonlight, souvenirs and dreams.

https://soundcloud.com/nicolakubebe
https://soundcloud.com/vonparty
https://soundcloud.com/calypsorecs

PRÉMIÈRE: Kubebe - Haria (Thomas Von Party's Collapsing Lifestyle Remix) [Calypso Records]

@alf_champion - Non est Rediens
Label - @ombrainternational

Release date - 18/09/2020

♫ Info + Buy ♫: https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-alf-champion-non-est-rediens-ombra-intl/

PREMIERE - ALF CHAMPION - Non est Rediens (Ombra INTL)

@Volta-Cab - Vertical Monopoly

Label - @This-is-Avacha

Release Date - 19/09/20

♫ Info + Buy ♫ - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/premiere-volta-cab-vertical-monopoly-avacha/

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PREMIERE – Volta Cab – Vertical Monopoly (Avacha)

Moscow duo Odopt debut on the label with an EP of discordant, darkroom bangers for the end of days. Following acclaimed releases for Born Free, Discos Capablanca and Hivern. Ivan & Grisha – former residents of the infamous Denis Simachev Bar who glided aboard the Salon des Amateurs, Sameheads, Opium, Golden Pudel, 20:44 caravan with ease – present a 4 tracker of propulsive techno-house chamber music for these modern times.

Starting with A14 their nefarious, sonic industrial funk is on max. Samples reverberate around a dystopian shell, before playful tonalities swirl you higher. As hands to the sky as Odopt will ever witness. There is true beauty in the night.

A dense atmosphere prevails Keylat, it’s darker EBM variations jack the master; voices scattering over schematic, metallic melodies before percussion is tamed, fading to a soporiphic realism.

Rolling, squelchy, acid, we embrace Sample Commerce Shot. Bending, growling, dive-bombing limbs and minds, its sleazy pursuit hard to resist as cavernous flashes lung from neo arpeggios to lock you in the groove.

Holy Motor$ the perfect finale. Brooding, virulent, hulking. A monage of momentum, menace, machine music; its haunting nervy bass for the slaughter. Take my hand. Let’s walk. Most likely we’ll laugh in the next life.

https://soundcloud.com/odopt
https://soundcloud.com/emotional-especial

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PRÉMIÈRE: Odopt - Keylat [Emotional] Especial]

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sam., 27 avr. 2019 /
Anarchy At The Bar - Hugo Sanchez - Lola Kola at ​Coropuna / Rome, Italy

mer., 17 avr. 2019 /
Listen! Festival 2019 at ​Horta Gallery / Brussels, Belgium

sam., 23 févr. 2019 /
Megatron: Front De Cadeaux at ​Opium Club / Lithuania

sam., 19 janv. 2019 /
Liquid /w. BNJMN, Simple Symmetry, Housemeister & More at ​Salon Zur Wilden Renate / Berlin, Germany

The origins of Front de Cadeaux can be traced back to a dating site for bears, some ten years ago. After Maurizio had spotted a Felix Kubin poster on one of Ugo's pictures, the two started chatting. Very much intrigued, Ugo invited Maurizio, who lives in Brussels, to play at a festival he organised in Rome. Shortly thereafter Ugo made Maurizio a resident of his Subwoofer night, one of the first bear parties in Europa that existed outside of the mainstream bear realm.

The two bonded over food of course, over their belief that dance culture is rotting from the inside, and even more over slow, heavy electronic music. You have to picture it: a flat in Brussels, a table with empty bowls and bottles, thick smoke and these two daddy dj’s listening to stacks and stacks of UK rave and breakbeat records on 33 instead of 45 rpm. Testing how deep and sexy these garbage records sound at a pace the bears can actually follow without dropping dead – Ugo & Maurizio baptised it ‘supreme rallentato’.

During those early encounters, their decade long dj experience merged into one, just like their vision that dance culture urgently needs a revolution. To them that means playing 90 bpm in a club at 3am whilst the promoters are shitting themselves, showing everyone that the body follows the groove, and not the bpm, a capitalist and macho construct that’s making crowds go numb instead of making them dance.

Around 2013, they officially started collaborating as Front de Cadeaux, referring to the Italian way of pronouncing Front 242, the Belgian EBM legends. “Le pédé BPM” (the bpm gay), their first release, followed one year later, with a Fabrizio Mammerella remix that kind of became an anthem in some circles. It's at the same time a celebration of their love for a slower groove as it is a queer manifesto, dissociating themselves from the mainstream gay culture in big cities, dominated by a horrible attitude and bad taste both in music and style. Second single “Infodrogue” came about after the drug line Maurizio worked at, stopped operating after midnight. Backed up by a bubbling bassline, it's telling the sad tale of a junk calling in and no-one answering. The references to culture and real life are everywhere, be it in the track titles of later releases – “Ouvre ta bouche” is a joke about Kate Bush, “Cogitate” a hommage to lsd wizard John C. Lilly – or their sound, which is impregnated by psyche music, mushrooms, dub, triphop and space rock.
Coming hot on the heels of the collaboration ep with long time friend Fabrizio Mamarella earlier this year, featuring their two oldest singles appearing on vinyl for the first time, came Front de Cadeaux’ new 12” on EMET records. “We slowly rot” is a manifesto and an epistemological breakdown of standard, empty club music, for in order to reconnect with what it should be about, our whole idea of dance music has to be deconstructed. As Front de Cadeaux militantly puts it: “every act of the human being is about transformation through destruction”.

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