Release date November 29th
Handmade Records unveils the debut release of mR. Mahaj & The Birdhunter, a quizzically named group from the Barbary Coast, San Francisco - but not really because that’s a seedy red-light district of days gone by. Yet such a setting is fitting in context to the storyline their music evokes on this single's two songs, “Ownlight” and “This Freak".

The first track, “Ownlight,” lurks about with a reverberating kick, funky guitar licks, tough technoid rhythms, and spooked out vocals. Jay Tripwire’s (Poker Flat) remix darkens things up a bit while stripping itself down into a late night experience, taking the form of the deep and spacial grooves he’s known for. Upping the funk for the second track, “This Freak” features more playful guitar lifted by ‘80s inflected synths, groovy bongos, and similarly eerie vocals, this time run through a vocoder. Los Angeles’ Dance Spirit revamp the original in their Flashback Remix, turning it into the kind of menacing and twisted, but beautifully fringe tech house expected of artists from the Superfreq label camp. Hailing from the opposite coast, New York based Braulio Motus is a label familiar. He rounds off the “This Freak” trilogy in a dirty, psychedelic trip that's laced with atmosphere as it rides a wave of distorted synths and taxed out vocals. Handmade Recordings goes from strength to strength and this single is sure to please shady characters across the globe as well as those who call a favorite late night haunt 'home.'

Label and Artist Links:
www.handmade-recordings.com
www.soundcloud.com/handmade-recordings-com

mR. Mahaj & The Bird Hunter - Ownlight

Copy of Originals first drafts off the top

best one takes 
I luvs ya matt 
ya troubadour
aye Eric Payne 
Alex, good phun

Originals first drafts off the top

Ownlight (Original)

Ownlight (Jay Tripwire RMX)

Release date November 29th
Handmade Recordings unveils the debut release of mR. Mahaj & The Birdhunter, a quizzically named group from the Barbary Coast, San Francisco - but not really because that’s a seedy red-light district of days gone by. Yet such a setting is fitting in context to the storyline their music evokes on this single's two songs, “Ownlight” and “This Freak".

The first track, “Ownlight,” lurks about with a reverberating kick, funky guitar licks, tough technoid rhythms, and spooked out vocals. Jay Tripwire’s (Poker Flat) remix darkens things up a bit while stripping itself down into a late night experience, taking the form of the deep and spacial grooves he’s known for. Upping the funk for the second track, “This Freak” features more playful guitar lifted by ‘80s inflected synths, groovy bongos, and similarly eerie vocals, this time run through a vocoder. Los Angeles’ Dance Spirit revamp the original in their Flashback Remix, turning it into the kind of menacing and twisted, but beautifully fringe tech house expected of artists from the Superfreq label camp. Hailing from the opposite coast, New York based Braulio Motus is a label familiar. He rounds off the “This Freak” trilogy in a dirty, psychedelic trip that's laced with atmosphere as it rides a wave of distorted synths and taxed out vocals. Handmade Recordings goes from strength to strength and this single is sure to please shady characters across the globe as well as those who call a favorite late night haunt 'home.'

Label and Artist Links:
www.handmade-recordings.com
www.soundcloud.com/handmade-recordings-com

This Freak (Original)

This Freak (Dance Spirit's Flashback Remix)

This Freak (Braulio Motus RMX)

Alex & cate 'been a really long time' 10 9 11 11 33 AM

The lyric was first inspired by “ Norwegian Wood” the film - I a few translations from a few scenes -“ be a good boy and shutup”
“if I have left a wound in you it is not only your wound it is mine as well “ the poem the words to this song emerged from these lines and the scenes and my own grief - this a requiem -that fits every loss before it and after - always.

The loss of a beloved

01 TearJERKyawn

PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND- A TWO PEEP BAND NEVER GOT OFF THE GROUND DUE TO OUTSUDE CIRCUMSTANCES.. LOVE ALLWAYS 

13 NOSTALGIA

A SONG PERFORMED AND COMPOSED in collaboration with each other
A catelysteleven and Matt Poweel in 2004-05 
band title 
PrinceWilliamSound

LET'S PRETEND

Handmade Recordings is a San Francisco-based label embracing a DIY ethic and its city's history of mixing and matching electronic music styles. The label had its beginnings within the Subculture parties dating back to the year 2000. These parties were known for booking DJs of differing styles, with house, electro-influenced sounds, and techno all sharing time in the booth. As the label developed, its founders strove to capture this diversity, mix it with an old school aesthetic, and apply it to a digital label. With almost monthly releases issued for over a year, Handmade Recordings is on its way to becoming an established staple of the west coast house music scene.