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D.K. (@d-k-music) returns to Good Morning with "The Ancient Kingdom", with a 5 track EP of original productions that follow on from his highly praised 2019 EP titled 'The Goddess is Dancing'.

Previously released as a limited run cassette, the release is now available as a vinyl 12". 

Shifting mood & tempo, whilst continuing to explore his ancestral roots, the "Ancient Kingdom" delves deeper into D.K's work/vision around ritual music.

Mastered by Krikor Kouchian

Available now via our online store, with distribution kindly courtesy of Boomkat.

GMV08 D.K. - The Ancient Kingdom 12" (Snippets)

We are very pleased to welcome 'X or Size' (Josiah Wolfson) to the Good Morning commune.  @xorsize

Currently residing in New York City, Josiah owns the incredible esoteric vortex that is Aeon Bookstore - where by chance we first met a few solar cycles ago. (https://www.aeonbookstore.com/)

During that visit to Aeon (just like the open hearted & friendly soul that we've come know) he kindly gifted us with a cassette of his own original productions - painstakingly & mindfully crafted over many years, of which we are very excited to present to you now, alongside some of his newly conceived pieces of grand(heart)expansion.  

Some honest words below from X or Size on this amazing EP....

"Covert ID consists of 7 tracks spanning 7 years, 7 planetary bodies distinct in climate and chemistry but all spun around the same sun, the core of which comes from the search for a specific sound sensed in adolescence, a sound which began to meet its potential around the start of this period.  This time was marked by a series of transformational events, starting with the end of a band and leading up to the founding of Aeon Bookstore in New York City.  Alongside those events these years were marked by a time of deep personal realignment, including a strongly rekindled interest in Eastern Mysticism that had been fostered at age 14, a return to visual art practice left dormant (culminating in the creation of the collage which adorns the cover), as well as the discovery of the dance floor and the revelation of liberation that came from it.  In some ways a debut, with very limited releases under various names more than 10 years in the rearview, this was a period of total rebirth and regeneration, a stripping away of expectations more closely situated with the childlike curiosity that first came about with the purchase of a 4 track and drum pad at age 11, the 4-track being the ideal space to escape the alienation of youth and a world all too real for an already oblique mind.  

That foundational feeling is distilled here through an anomalous approach that has developed naturally since then and which is rediscovered and realigned each time within the act of creation itself.  An array of analogue elements are foraged to form a loose lattice which congeals at its own pace through musical practice as a daily method of meditation, sculpting around the pulse of a work-in-progress as a form of centering on a kind of breath, informing and informed by the pursuit of peace, presence, and personal growth. This runs through the course of the work, as the tape opens with a piece that was initially conceived in a moment of purest bliss only to be refined throughout a period bleakly bedridden by injury, with all energy focused on sound as both escape from and expression of existential acceptance.  That balancing act reached its peak in the title track, first formed in the face of lockdowns and worked on bit by bit each day for several months as the dread in the air would dissipate and rise again, on the one hand embracing the harsh reality as a platform for reflection and on the other hand allowing this as the only space to remain free from it's baggage. These pieces were all cauldrons of self-discovery and self-recovery during times of great upheaval and ecstasy, a pivot point to be lost and found through hypnotic sublimation, finding root for regeneration in repetitive rhythm and a means for mystery in the minutiae which orbit the origin.  An exercise in focus, and exorcism of attachments, X as the unknown, cut to Size but always allowing for either/or, one foot on earth the other in the aether." 

The 'Covert ID' EP is available now on cassette via our online store & coming soon to our supportive stockists.

Cover Artwork by Josiah Wolfson

GMT41 X or Size - Covert ID (Snippets)

We are very pleased to welcome back 'Full Circle' (Alexis Le Tan & Joakim), our admirable psychonauts from Knowhere.

Like any good stimulant, this mixtape comes on fast, picking you up swiftly and taking you away to outer realms of an imaginary dance floor odyssey.

Filled with some of their own hazy hypnotic edits of sun baked discs, this mix continues on in similar vein to their highly praised & now sort after 'Trip to Knowhere' cassette from last year....recorded in true space commando style, live in one take at Full Circle HQ.

Needless to say, this tape is gonna fly out the window, so be quick its a good time guaranteed.

Available now via our online store and coming soon to Boomkat, Out of Joint & Commend.

GMT44 Full Circle - Back to Knowhere (Snippets)

We are very honoured to open our circle and join hands with our UK based travellers, Pataphysical. @pataphysicaltransmission

Kindly introduced to us by the friendly crew at @12th-isle, who released their amazing debut album 'Periphera' a year ago, these masters of modern ambience gift us with another selection of sonic mind travellers.

"These are tracks we developed between 2013-2021 and have featured heavily in our live performances, evolving over the years. The live show is the core of our project, creating specific listening environments for the experience of imaginary solutions and possible worlds. We've taken this to marshes, forests, woods, quarries and churches, sometimes with big audiences, sometimes just with a handful of close friends. Recent events forced us to take a pause from live performance and gave us time to compile this record, which reflects the range of moods and tones that feature in the shows. Hopefully we'll be able to return to performing soon. In the meantime we hope you enjoy the sounds. "This world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.” - Pataphysical

Available now via our Online Store & coming soon to Boomkat, Out Of Joint & Commend.

GMT45 Pataphysical - Hapticality (Snippets)

@holloway-95 blends dubstep pressure with nimble beat patterns on the ‘Odysseys’ 10” for @earfulofwax. Hear ‘Chat Bad’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-holloway-chat-bad

Premiere: Holloway ‘Chat Bad’

Ashes

Cross over and turn
feel the spot don't let it burn
we all want we all yearn
be soft don't be stern

lullaby
was not supposed to make you cry
i sang the words i meant
i sang

Low - Lullaby

ssaliva - no

-In memory of Mathieu Trudel.
-From the EP "Velocity" (2016)

Where is Mawt

Warmth's new album ambient 'Home' is the first vinyl release on Archives. Comes in a Double Vinyl with pictures by Alexander Kopatz. Also on Double CD with each one of the original pieces revisited by talented artists, including: Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.

Written and produced by Agustín Mena.
Remixes by Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
ARCHIVESCD21 | 2017

Buy CD/Vinyl/Dig

Warmth - Waves (Purl Dub Remix)

produced by: @holloway-95
label: @all-centre-504822953
release date: October 19th, 2018
link: https://allcentre.bandcamp.com/album/holloway-agar-oud

Agar Oud

Holloway - Gubbins

Hideki Umezawa + Yoichi Kamimura  - re/ports

https://ftarrilabel.bandcamp.com/album/re-ports

1. re/ports (40:19)

label - Ftarri 
date - 2019.10.20 
price - 1,800 yen (+ tax)
edition - 400

All compositions and recordings by Hideki Umezawa + Yoichi Kamimura, 2016-2018

Drawing -  Yoichi Kamimura
Design - Tadao Kawamura 
Mastering - Makoto Oshiro
Text - Tomotaro Kaneko
Translation - Hojo Tomoko

Hideki Umezawa + Yoichi Kamimura  - re/ports (excerpt)

D.K. (@d-k-music) returns to Good Morning with "The Ancient Kingdom", with a 5 track EP of original productions that follow on from his highly praised 2019 EP  titled 'The Goddess is Dancing'.

Shifting mood & tempo, whilst continuing to explore his ancestral roots, the "Ancient Kingdom" delves deeper into D.K's work/vision around ritual music.

Available now via our online store, with each cassette containing a digital download code.

GMT34 D.K. - The Ancient Kingdom (Snippets)

Fergus Clark - Folk Special (12/9/20)

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 29th  September, 2020.

O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover (Final Image, 1987)
Dark Arts - Egeria II (STOOM, 2020)
Waka Wakah - Waka Wakah (Reliant, 1985)
Matthew De Gennaro - Impromptu on a Hangover (Soft Abuse, 2020)
Anna Homler - Almost Beautiful (Präsens Editionen, 2019)
Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers (Ninety-Two Happy Customers, 1983)
ESP Summer - Your Hands (Karina Square, 1995)
Jean-Marie Mercimek - Nocturne 2 (Aguirre, 2020)
Nailah Hunter - White Flower, Dark Hill (Leaving Records, 2020)
Aine O’Dwyer - We Plough the Fields and Scatter (MIE Music, 2015)
Yuko Kono - Fragment (Self released, 2020)
Leven Signs - Rumi (Cordelia, 1985)
Psychic TV - The Orchids (Some Bizzare, 1983)
Tarawangsawelas - Kecemasan (Morphine, 2017)
Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden (Mute, 1996)

NTS Radio - September 2020

We return with Volume Two in our "All Welcome" vinyl series celebrating the magical output of six key members from our diverse family - Jonnine, XVARR, Vera Dvale, D.K., Georgia & DJ Trip Advisor (aka Mika Snickars).

Limited copies now available for pre-order  via our GMT Online Store (shipping last week of November), with Boomkat kindly distributing copies to our ever-supportive friends abroad.

Big hippy hug to... @HTRK @snickars-records @georgiasounds @xvarr @d-k-music @eravale

GMV07 Various Artists - All Welcome Volume Two

upsammy - Bend - Dekmantel - DKMNTL087

a1. Flutter
a2. Spat
b1. Worm
b2. Metallic

vinyl & merch: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/upsammy-bend
digital: https://upsammy.bandcamp.com/album/bend

Following 2020’s debut album ‘Zoom’, upsammy returns to Dekmantel with a dualistic four-tracker called 'Bend', incorporating familiar sonic palettes and novel paths carved out in times of isolation.

Where Zoom channelled upsammy’s conceptual depth, Bend leans into artistic intuition, juxtaposing the floral and martial, propelling along her signature sound of textured electronica. Lilac chimes rise and fall along the melodic Flutter and Metallic, while the sinister creeps from Spat and Worm’s spacious cracks. All in all, Bend discloses upsammy’s versatility yet again, ever-shifting as the ambiguous modernity she continues to wander - an artist able to shift through the complexity of modernity with rare grace.

DKMNTL087 // upsammy - Bend

Introducing @Saphileaum, a kind, gifted earth spirit, transmitting his cosmic energy out of Tbilisi, Georgia.

'Transpersonal Experience' is a state in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, cosmos.

It is a beautiful expedition where you lose yourself in order to become one with all the existence. To meld with the whole and dance with it, all in sync.

"My Grandfather, who played a grand role as one of the Masters in my upbringing, introduced me to Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Nizami Ganjavi, Saadi and other Persian philosophers and poets. Basically the whole Sufi poetry, teaching, vision and being is the major and vibrant source of a dancing inspiration for the album."

Much like Saphileaum's forementioned inspirations, 'Transpersonal Experience' has an instant transcending effect on the listener - invoking a sense of clear focus & tranquility, yet subtly pulsing with the tribal rhythm of dance. It's the perfect mood enhancer.

Mastered by Krikor Kouchian

Now available on cassette via our Online Store.

GMT40 Saphileaum - Transpersonal Experience EP (Snippets)

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GMT41 X or Size - Covert ID (Snippets)

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