Polymer Pyramid

Psssh 002

La Nota

Watermark went through loads of different incarnations before it ended up how it did on the vinyl release in 2012. I was never happy with it.

The vocals were there as a place holder, until i found something I could use to fill the space.

This is a very rough early version with way too much reverb, badly EQed beat and an abrupt end. So apologies for that, but I thought people might find it interesting.

Watermark (early demo version from 2010)

Boo's Mood

http://theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/mark-e-the-day

For all the wonderfully subtle shell-breaking he did on his full-length, Mark E falls back on old, slow habits for his new single, “The Day.” And welcomely, we might add. Pitching things down to a basement lounge floor crawl, the Midlands DJ/producer wraps his always chugging kicks and snares in serpentine synth-bass, jazzy, tripleted hi-hats, and moaning, wordless soul vocals. Its grasp is tantric—hinting coyly at ecstatic release, but never fully delivering. For the vinyl junkies that bought STONE BREAKER and missed out on it the first time around (it was absent from that version), this release should be a no brainer.

And the oft imitated, never replicated Prins Thomas shows up on the flip for a (naturally) eleven-minute revamp of “The Day,” livening up the bass and drum patterns, adding in strings, piano, guitar, organ, and ending up with something that totally could have emanated from a Camaro at some point in the early seventies. (Albeit, one owned by someone with interest in eleven-minute instrumentals.) It even has a fade out!

Mark E - The Day (Prins Thomas Remix)

@Nick-Hoeppner returns to Ostgut Ton after last year’s ‘Folk’ album and a split release with Fort Romeau (Cin Cin, 2015). The ‘Fantastic Planet’ EP sees him collaborating with Japanese DJ and producer @Gonno on three bouncy, club- enabled tracks, steeped in early 90s House and UK Electronica vibes.

More information: http://ostgut.de/label/record/177