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Cover design by Philip Marshall. Mastered by Jack Callahan.

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Jean-Louis Huhta - NO WAR

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Not a dedication. A declaration. There are people you name — then there are those who name you. Try to cage her and you bleed. Try to resist her and you crash. Worship isn’t asked, it happens.

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A1) Muslimgauze - Untitled 1985 5.36
A2) Muslimgauze - Untitled 1985 (Victor Shan & Gerd Janson rave mix) 6.26

AA1) Underspreche - Flowers From The Lake 7.13
AA2) Underspreche - Naked - 7.27

Digital only bonus - Muslimgauze - Untitled 1985 (Victor Shan & Gerd Janson morning mix) 6.35

A side by Bryn Jones. Recorded 1985.

AA side by Underspreche. AA1) Featuring Pola Salama and Furaha Mwanamamisi. Samples taken from 'Mukunguni' (℅ Honest Jon’s), recorded and produced by Sven Kacirek and Stefan Schneider.

Another split EP on Optimo Trax. This is getting to be a habit!

There's a bit of a story to Side A. In 1996, JD Twitch released a 12" by Manchester's Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze on his then label Pi Recordings. He also, along with a friend, arranged Muslimgauze's first and only Scottish live performance (attended by 6 people). Around that time, Jones, sadly no longer with us and one of the most prolific musicians ever to exist sent Twitch multiple CD-Rs of unreleased material, including the track featured here. He said he had made this track in 1985, and there is no reason to doubt his word although also no way to prove this is true, but we are going to accept his word for it which means that it could be said Jones pre-empted UK Hardcore around 5 years before anyone else. This is made all the more remarkable by the fact that he never used samplers but rather worked extensively with tape loops. The track has been very slightly edited by Twitch to make it a little more club playable. Twitch called in German breakbeat expert and all round tip top producer Victor Shan to remix it and Gerd Janson then asked to join the party too. They turn in a modern twist on UK Hardcore / Rave (via Deutschland) with hoovers set to stun. They also did a more late night hoover free mix which is only available digitally.

On the AA side, we are delighted to welcome the debut release from yet more mysterious Italians; the male/female duo that is Underspreche. "Flowers From The Lake" is based around a sample taken (with permission)  from field recordings of the Mukunguni tribe in Kenya and released by Honest Jon's Records. It weaves it into a deeply psychedelic techno track with an extended mind warping outro. Underspreche also give us "Naked" an exquisite hypno techno track that while clinical and precise manages to exude a feeling of warmth so often missing in modern techno.

Four track 12" EP (and digital release) released on January 15th 2016. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub.

Optimo Trax 018 - Muslimgauze / Underspreche - Split EP 12" (sampler)

Release date: September 29th
Pre-order: https://lullabiesforinsomniacslabel.bandcamp.com/album/l-szl-hortob-gyi-transreplica-meccano

Hungarian composer and musicologist László Hortobágyi, took his first expedition to North India in the late 1960's to record music, study philosophy and learn traditional instruments such as the rudra-vina, sitar, surbahar and tabla. These ongoing trips heavily influenced his musical style and much of his recorded work. LFI is happy to announce the reincarnation of one of his most illustrious works, Transreplica Meccano originally released by Hungaropop in 1988. 

As a child László fantasised about interacting with otherworldly muses and imploring them for the hope and guidance he yearned to escape the intellectual bareness of his surroundings. His early feelings of alienation combined with the almost sensual pleasure he remembers from these interactions, influenced and helped shape his life long musical journey.  In 1980 he established the musical society called Gáyan Uttejak Mandal. It was named after the Hindu-Moslem musician's society founded by Navraojí Kabrají in 1870 (it was the school of the great musicologist, V.N Bhátkhánde).
The society expanded throughout the 1980’s with an archive of oriental music, to be considered unique and unrivalled in Eastern Europe, which has operated parallel to the Gáyan Uttejak Studio and the Gáyan Uttejak Orchestra. The members have made it their duty to practice and study the world heritage of traditional cultures. 

The remastered and revised edition of Transreplica Meccano is reborn after 31 years.     László weaves a tapestry of sample based magic, transcribed from travels across the orient, transporting the listener to a fascinating world of archaic musicality. His sound palette is rebuilt and restructured using PCM morphology and FFT spectrum analysis as well as virtual overtone, processing synthesis software he developed in 1988. 
The new live program's repertoire is based on the classical Indian instrumental technique of the Gáyaki-Ang and the Tablá-tárang polyrhythmic structure and is mixed with his developed sound morphology of the granular systhesis technique according to his original 'computed memesis of music' concept. The result is an incredible amalgamation of musical worlds, allow yourself to be immersed in a truly unique dialect.


L. Hortobagyi : ibm-pc, sampler, been, synths, tabla, sitar, vocoder
Nora Hortobagyi : voice, strings

P. Radvanyi : Sygnus modular-synth (on Cathedral of Reptiles)
Toto : bass
Goezi : pozauna 
Chipy : flute
(on Nono-bol)

Recorded in the Gayan Uttejak Studio, Budpest. 1986 
Remastered and revised by L.Hortobagyi in 2006

László Hortobágyi – Transreplica Meccano (LFI009) Preview

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Friday 28th June sees Lena Andersson releases their album 'Söder Mälarstrand', a left-of-leftfield flurry of avant-guard punches with a coarse textural grain.

Söder Mälarstrand

Lena Andersson - After 88 Years [Raster]

Aseptic Stir (@as_care) is a new project of the Berlin-based artist Alexandra Zakharenko, whose debut on Klammklang is an examination of sound by means of bodily practices. In ‘Year of Detachment’ she presents the intimate diary of self-study that transcends boundaries and exposes vulnerability through music, voice and movement, creating a subtle medium for desires to emerge.

Woven from drones, hisses and noise, her album seemingly mimics heartbeats, echoes pulsing blood and rustlings of skin. It’s a continuous journey through the body to the transmutation of the libidinal into the liminal. Reflections on corporeal processes and movements, that express the inner self, appear to be so close to flesh and blood, you could hear emotions and desires boiling.

Deeply immersed in overcoming the rift between mind and body, Aseptic Stir shows the ability of the latter to speak so clearly and unequivocally as no one verbally could. A thought always precedes a phrase, but it’s unable to predict actions of the Other. That’s exactly what ‘Year of Detachment’ does by establishing communication between sense and eroticism, revealing what is hidden to the consciousness.

asepticstir.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-detachment

Year Of Detachment

Aseptic Stir – Year Of Detachment (Klamm19)

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