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Dugong's pristine, pastoral ambience makes its way onto the Berlin-based Pace Yourself imprint.

'Horizons Sauvages' is out March 29th on Pace Yourself.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3bZaiNe

@deejaydugong
@paceyourselfrecords

Premiere: Dugong - Loire [Pace Yourself]

@iota_music & @kia-sydney

Purchase on Bandcamp >> https://traumgarten.bandcamp.com/track/kiota-weird-melon

🌐 www.traumgarten.world 🧚‍♂️

Kiota — Weird Melon

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Swallow A Party LP

Tracklist

A1. Swallow A Party
A2. Step Snakes
A3. Never Done
B1. Technicolour Memories
B2. Mist In Tide
B3. A Window Drifting
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yeyeh founder Pieter Jansen has now conjured up another unlikely but inspired joint album, this time featuring award-winning free-jazz vocalist https://soundcloud.com/greetjebijmakwintet and leftfield house, techno and ambient producer https://soundcloud.com/oceanicocean.

The project has its roots in a chance meeting between Jansen and Bijma, a legendary figure on the Dutch jazz scene who in 1990 became the first woman to win the country’s top jazz accolade, the VPRO/Boy Edgar award. Apart from having previously worked with the likes of Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman), Jasper van ’t Hof, Han Bennink, Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker and her own solo projects, she’s in a league of her own.

Jansen is a big fan of Bijma’s 1996 heavily electronic collaboration with Jasper van’t Hof and Pierre Favre, Freezing Screens, and was with the friend who first introduced him to it when he bumped into Bijma. 
Excited to meet someone who had made one of his favourite records, Jansen took the opportunity to ask Bijma if she would be interested in working with young electronic music producers. To Jansen’s delight, Bijma quickly agreed.

Weeks later, Bijma stepped into the studio with Oceanic, a rising star of the Dutch electronic underground whose releases as Oceanic for Nous’klaer Audio and BAKK Plafond revolve around mechanical rhythms, opaque ambient textures, minimalist melodic movements and effervescent electronics. The pair quickly connected on an emotional and musical level, with Bijma taking her cues from Oceanic’s electronic sounds and rhythms, and Oceanic drawing inspiration from Bijma’s dexterous, mind-bending and otherworldly vocalizations.

After two hugely productive days, the cross-generational duo had completed a couple of mesmerizing songs – breathlessly haunting album opener “Swallow a Party” and chilly ambient closer “A Window Drifting” – and recorded several hours or improvisations that Oceanic later edited, layered-up and re-modelled.

The results are little less than spellbinding. The range and versatility of Bijma’s vocalizations is breathtaking, while Oceanic’s music – which cleverly incorporates the free-jazz singer’s vocal notes, tones and proclamations – swings between becalmed beauty and breathless intensity. 

Some of the set’s most striking moments are those where Oceanic re-contextualizes Bijma’s varied vocal sounds with the dancefloor in mind. On the pulsating “Technicolour Memories”, up-tempo “Step Snakes” and hypnotic “Never Done”, Bijma’s scat outbursts not only ride Oceanic’s rhythms, but also form part of the densely layered percussion tracks beneath. 

Like the release’s more downtempo and ethereal moments, these hybrid organic-synthetic compositions defy easy categorization, offering a unique brand of alien electronic/acoustic musical fusion that lingers long in the memory.

Artwork & Design:
Nol.one & Wimswim

Greetje Bijma & Oceanic - Swallow A Party LP [yeyeh003 snippets]

@parris_dj
@parris_dj
@parris_dj

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com

Polychrome Swim

TTT BANDCAMP

Parris - Harajuku GIrls

Artist: @london-modular-alliance
Title: Stray EP
Label: Cultivated Electronics Ltd
Catalogue No: CELTD04
Format: Vinyl
Released: 1 February 2021

Track Listing:
A1. Stray
A2. Bitter Taste
B1. More Than a Number
B2. More Than a Number (Sync 24 Remix)

London Modular Alliance make their CE debut with the ‘Stray EP’ for Cultivated Electronics Ltd (CE’s vinyl-only sister label) in February.

London Modular Alliance is a collective that lies somewhere between a shop and a cult.  From their base in the former industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick, London Modular have been designing their own cases, working out practical ways of chaining multiple synths for live performance, selling units from their shop front, and taking themselves on the road to run workshops and gigs.  From the lazer-lit confines of sweaty clubs to the hushed environs of Tate Britain and the V&A, they fill spaces with the whoosh and sweep of man co-operating with machine, bringing the dynamics of dance music to the ideals of modular synthesis, and forcing anyone with ears to acknowledge the potency of the format once more.  With them, the sound of the future has returned.

The EP includes three intricately crafted modular Electro tracks from LMA, featuring soaring melodies and dappled beats that manage to extract depth and soul out of machines, alongside a punchy remix by Sync 24 that delivers a tough metallic groove to close the release.

Pre-order through Clone: 
Or CE’s Bandcamp page: https://cultivatedelectronics.bandcamp.com

Stray

CE LTD 004 - London Modular Alliance - Stray EP

Out now > https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sockethead-harj-o-marj-y11th

Sockethead - Harj-o-Marj - Y11TH - YOUTH

A demented, brain-melting bass mutation from rising nu-school talent Jabes.

'klunk002' is out now on klunk.

Buy: https://jabes.bandcamp.com/album/klunk002

@jab_es
@klunkrecs

klunk002

Premiere: Jabes - Clown Tool [klunk]

Forced to pause the events in the spring, our restlessness has manifested itself in the form of a debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.

We chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.

@kincaidofficial
@nadia-lily-sarah-anderson 
@wearekiarascuro

Kincaid Ft. Zaa Zaa - Pages (Accidental Meetings)

DBA10.02: VARIOUS ARTISTS - 10.02
FT. SCOTT FERGUSON, RAVEN CRU, THE ROOM BELOW, MR. G, JAY L & SEMTEK, PABLO R. RUIZ, HALVTRAK, MINOS, WHEELMAN, HOLLIE & MIDNIGHT SNACC
BUY: http://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop/

10.02 THE ROOM BELOW - BASSIKA

Hailing from Plum Plum Paradise
Relax yourself for juiciness of the peach
... the ultimate reward
Peacefully lust in liquid tranquility
mmm yes...
Splash splash on me

@maara

Written and produced by Maara Luisa Dunbar
Mixed by Francis Latreille
Drawing by Tea Strazicic
Design by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Distributed by One Eye Witness
NAFF 2020

Bandcamp : https://naffrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ultimate-reward

Maara - Ultimate Reward (Clips)

Hailing from Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Gacha Bakradze (@gacha) is one of the national scene’s leading electronic music exponents. He returns to Lapsus Records with his new album 'Obscure Languages', his second release for the Barcelona label.

Following the superb LP 'Word Color' [Lapsus Records, 2018], which appeared in several ‘album of the year’ lists for publications such as Pitchfork and XLR8R, the prolific producer now presents 'Obscure Languages'. This new piece of work could well be described as a sound continuation from his previous album and maintains a powerful narrative at its core.

‘Obscure Languages' delves into the world of cinematic soundscapes, replete with microscopic details and fragments that showcase a luscious IDM style audio palette, laced with ambient, avant-techno, bass and sound design.

Obscure Languages

Gacha Bakradze - Obscure Languages [LPS26]

LIES-162
Benedek-Doodat
from the upcoming "Mr. Goods" lp
to be released December 2020

Mr. Goods

Buy direct

Benedek-Doodat (LIES-162)

Artist: Louis Marlo
Track: U.F.O's Over New York
Label: https://soundcloud.com/felt-sense-recordings
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital
Release date: 18/01/21
Purchase: https://feltsenserecordings.bandcamp.com/album/who-wants-alchemy

The third outing on Felt Sense Recordings once again comes via label head Louis Marlo. Quality over quantity is FSR's approach, nailing each release with a blend of high-grade dance music. FLTSNS003 is no exception.
Who Wants Alchemy? straddles Electro, IDM, and Techno across the 5 track 12". Sliding 808's, glistening melodies, and process-driven electronics - all rounded off by a stellar remix by 2020's man in demand, Lou Karsh.

Who Wants Alchemy?

YouTube

PREMIERE #1395 | Louis Marlo - U.F.O's Over New York [Felt Sense] 2021

APPX:04

@blacksnakewhip - t( -_- t )

Tracklist:
01 Pop Msuik
02 Natures bezt
03 Scratch!dvd
04 5thelem

All profits to be donated to www.rainforest-alliance.org

Releases February 1, 2021

Music written & produced by Lawrence Fergus Goodwin
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

t( -_- t )

digis & lathes

APPX:04 – Black Snake Whip - t( -_- t ) (previews)

A1 Mr Smiley

The jelly was soft and malleable, it flexed and danced beneath the glow of the warm strobe. The wall illuminated the empty room, a golden throbbing glass case within which the spongy substance weaved and wandered. This was lava and the onlookers were mesmerized by it's complex shape and wonderful flexibility. It throbbed and bounced from side to side, soft yet powerful...

Gramrcy appears on a new compilation set for release by Hot Concept. The release is in aid of a great cause called habibi.works, a charity and institution designed to help and support refugees on the ground in Greece. The compilation itself is stellar and also features music from the likes of Yr Lovely Dead Moon, Discovery Zone and more.

Hot Compilation

PREMIERE: Gramrcy - Throbbee [Hot Concept]

@reptant_the_lizard's debut release on Die Orakel is an n-dimensional array of five seriously electro flavoured composites on vinyl (and digital, that is). The Melbourne based producer starts off quirky, fast-paced and slightly acidic, skillfully swerving into the laid-back leftfield of mid-to-late 90s UK IDM. At either tempi, The New Adaptive Lacerta is a truly sublime and modern classic EP.

A1: Ultra Violent Light 
A2: Skatter Tek 
B1: Sticky Feet 
B2: Absorption 
B3: Metachrosis

Written and produced: Reptant
Mastering: Lopazz at Mixmastering.de
Lacquer cut: Daniel Krieger at SST
Artwork: Orakel Studio
Cover photo: Neven Allgeier
Words: Patrick Raddatz

Label: Die Orakel
Catalog: ORKL-16
Format: 12" vinyl, digital
Distribution: One Eye Witness
Release: Fri 19 March 2021

The New Adaptive Lacerta

Reptant – The New Adaptive Lacerta

Remix of "Barbajia" by Seagit Arc, available on Antimateria Sonora
https://antimateriasonora.bandcamp.com/album/seagit-arc-half-emotion-remixes-as008

Barbajia (Tristan Arp Remix)

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-kombe-harbin/

@Subject-To-Restrictions see out the last gasps of the colder quarter of the year with 'Winter Restrictions Vol. 1', an eight-track compilation featuring seven Swiss producers close to the label.

Winter Restrictions Vol. 1

Kombé - Harbin [Subject To Restrictions]

@keplrr

With a glimmer of optimism on the horizon, we’re delighted to announce our second V/A compilation Psycho/Soma - the first of many exciting releases for 2021.

12 tracks to move body & mind, spanning a full spectrum of UK club music - from introspective, tripped-out rollers to intense percussive workouts and frantic 160(ish) action.

Stream/Buy 'Full Contact' now - the full compilation drops 02/04.

Psycho/Soma

Keplrr - Full Contact

Blending cross genres electronic music in glitch provocative way. Based on trials and errors comes with improvements, with the intention each piece of song or a set of mix is taking you on an assortative adaptation.

05issue

Glitcha Nika