EQUILIBRIUM

2016

February was a good month! Not only did we defy ghostbusters II and survive valentines day (actually scrap that... surviving corporate love day any year is an achievement) but 2016 is a leap year! This of course means that everybody gets an extra guilt free day to do with what you please, unless of course it happens to fall on a monday and then all plans of gleeful abandonment are accompanied by the inevitable New Order soundtrack. Damn!

On the plus we have a whole bucket load of cracking new music to pour into your lugholes.

Gold Panda is back with new track Time Eater, which sees a continued love affair with the orient, as well as new material from the likes of Detroit Swindle, Pedestrian, Com Truise and Leon Vynehall to name a few.

We also get more new material from Nils Frahm's latest collaborative project, Nonkeen on the mighty R&S as well as a rare remix from none other than Boards of Canada, which is rather lovely to say the least. Plus of course a broad selection from old favourites and new gems.

Happy listening


Words: Jacob de Berker
Artwork: Jam Mustafa

BeExposed : Sunday Session - February 2016

Boba for Life

No Beat Radio can be heard on CIUT 89.5 fm, Wednesdays from 9pm to 10pm.

To hear the complete show check out
www.ciut.fm/shows-2/music-shows/no-beat-radio/

Show theme: Time and Dreams

Show special: Gates' 'Palace of Mirrors' release at Soybomb, Sunday March 6, 2016. https://gatesritual.bandcamp.com/album/palace-of-mirrors 


March 2 2016 - NBR Selected Sounds

[p*dis] distribution sampler for March 2016

p*dis sampler 2016.03

watch the video: http://youtu.be/D1sZ_vwqwcE

worlds out now
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Blind Jacks Journey presents
The Return Trip Vol.4

Double Mint Ice Cream 12" Vinyl
444 Limited Issue Release

5 Trax on wax feat Heko, Gnork, Oddnipp!
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A1. Heko - Melrose Frames
A2. Heko - Ethereal
B1. Gnork - Out There
B2. Gnork - Piano Trip 93
B3. Oddnipp - Trip 4


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01. Heko - Plat du Jour (Kid Who's Voodoo Acid Adjustment)
02. Heko - Plat du Jour
03. Gnork - Planet EE 4 Love
04. Schmitt Trigger - Bethesda Bison (Gnork's secret unreleased remix)
05. Oddnipp - Trip 10

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Melrose Frames (Ltd mint 12" vinyl)

Man Without Country's version of @royksopp's 'Sordid Affair' 

The band will play this on their upcoming UK tour starting on 19th February. All dates & tickets at http://manwithoutcountry.com/live.html 

19/02 The Ruby Lounge, Manchester 
20/02 The Rainbow, Birmingham 
21/02 Plug, Sheffield 
22/02 Broadcast, Glasgow 
23/02 The Cluny, Newcastle 
25/02 Bodega, Nottingham 
26/02 Norwegian Church, Cardiff 
28/02 Oakford Social, Reading 
01/03 Boileroom, Guilford 
02/03 Portland Arms, Cambridge 
03/03 Joiners, Southampton 
04/03 Birthdays, London 


Romanek

Sordid Affair (Man Without Country Version)

Artist: Trashlagoon
Title: Ama Dablam (Microtrauma Remix)
Label: Traum // KTLG: Traum V186
Release: 02. March 2015

With Microtrauma one of the top artists on Traum return here with a remix. They have chosen the most complex and surreal track of the EP "Ama Dablam" and have transformed it into
something leaner still electrifying, bold, stark and visceral.
Their percussive energy is unparalleled and here at its best. 
It is in tune with a harmonically complex and coherent musical torso that acts graceful as well as muscular. This remix should embrace the dancer with its kinetic catchiness.

Support us and Buy it!

Trashlagoon - Ama Dablam (Microtrauma Remix) // Traum Schallplatten

DEBUTS / OCTOBER 24, 2015
Fort Romeau “Untitled”
 


Today’s Debut runs in tandem with the exciting news of the launch of Cin Cin. The label, headed up by Fort Romeau and Warm’s Ali Tillett, will host an ongoing series of split 12″s featuring friends old and new, in the spirit of collaboration.

With the A-side of opus number #001 (split between Fort and Nick Höppner), “Untitled”, Fort gives us the first taste of what Cin Cin has in store for us. This dreamy techno 909 track is completed with choral panning synths, keeping us guessing for what Höppner’s input will be on the flip.

Fort Romeau "Untitled" - Boiler Room Debuts

UNITED CRUSHERS, out March 4, 2016 / Pre-order Now!

CD/LP: http://smarturl.it/UC_preorder
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Polica_UC

TOUR: http://thisispolica.com/tour.php

POLIÇA - Lime Habit

single from iamamiwhoami's second live album CONCERT IN BLUE
performed and recorded in April 2015
http://towhomitmayconcern.cc/releases/twimc005

watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqJCco1WE8

available in exclusive digital and physical formats from the TWIMC SHOP http://shop.towhomitmayconcern.cc/collections/iamamiwhoami-concert-in-blue

CONCERT IN BLUE

the deadlock

WANT

iamamiwhoami; the deadlock

Title track from my new EP on Live At Robert Johnson out Jan 15th!

Vinyl here : http://bit.ly/1mNYtgA.

Secrets & Lies

Thug Passion

From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

Order EARS
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Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

Within The Same Distance

Mirror Signal - All Along (Medi Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/pedestriansound’s next EP marks the first release on the producers new Dama Dama label with compatriots Maribou State. With each side of the 12” vinyl divided into a ‘day side’ and a ‘night side’, i-D are excited to share the darker side of the release with Torn Blue.

http://i-D.co

Premiere: Pedestrian - Torn Blue

SeeSaw (Club Version)

Jamie xx + Four Tet + Romy - Seesaw (club version)

DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Bognya (Clap! Clap! Remix)

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/gz5pqt
Bandcamp: http://hyperurl.co/vo3n6n
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/qypau1
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

Taken from 'NoGeo' LP by Logan Takahashi, out April 15, 2016.

Pre-order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/nogeo
Or at the retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/nogeo

NoGeo

Logan Takahashi - Cella

2007-2008 / hakobune (SRCD055)

the straight road *sense of place (u-cover records)
pastoral 463 *sense of place (u-cover records)
waiting offshore *sense of place (u-cover records)
the july skies followed us here *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
and the sunlight transcends *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
realization at dusk *wandering toward what was unsaid (u-cover records)
melting reminiscence *melting reminiscence (waterscape records)
yukidaruma *melting reminiscence (waterscape records)
fleeting reference *we left the window open sometimes (symbolic interaction)
nullity and rumination *we left the window open sometimes (symbolic interaction)
sothis *split with david tagg (install)

produce : Takahiro Yorifuji
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi
photo : Fábio Petry
art direction : Ken'ichi Itoi

the july skies followed us here / hakobune

(Excerpt) Recorded Live on February 27, 2016 at Character Projects (Highland Park, CA.)

Carla Bozulich: Vocals, Bass, FX
Devin Sarno: Bass, FX

Photo Credit: Kelly Norris Sarno

Carla Bozulich + Devin Sarno (Live at Character Projects 02.27.16) Excerpt

Taken from the album Transliaciya, released on Preserved Sound April 1, 2016. Check out the album at: https://preservedsound.bandcamp.com/album/transliaciya

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