As the settled dust lay bare on the road to uncertainty. Out of the mud the Planet Sundae label springs back from a two-year hiatus, presenting the feverous Florentine ..... DJ Blasy for its next cone.

Quantasoma is inspired by The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard. Set in a future where the ice caps have melted and the rising oceans have submerged so much of the inhabited world. A new nature has formed here, and cities have become primeval swamps. Humans are now in rapid decline as giant lizards, dragonflies and insects thrive.

The music on this record looks to describe this new world, and unlike the book where the story is told from a human perspective, the point of view here is shifted to the eyes of nature. What for humans is a dystopian future, for the natural world it is an insignificant change. Emotionless and detached, these processes carry on regardless of what is happening, like photosynthesis in the quantasomes.

This release comes in a full-colour artwork by Berlin-based artist Olya Bazilevich with the vinyl on a limited run of 150 copies. The digital release is fitted with a bonus track.
credits
releases April 15, 2021

All tracks are written and produced by Filippo Blasi-Foglietti.
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut, Berlin. Dressed at Mother Tongue in Verona, Italy.

DJ BLASY - QUANTASOMA - 15.04.2021

A little over a year in and we’ve begun to see the beginning of the end. But we’re still living in a long distance relationship.

We’re psyched to share with you Post Sonics - Long Distance Relationship Vol. 2, the second volume of top notch tracks from Post Bar residents and frequent guests.

Samo DJ - Storm

Konk - Your Life (Ryan Powderly Remix)

Aah, we’re so hyped to tell you that Amsterdam-based DJ/producer and De Lichting member Nathan Kofi (fka Nathan Surreal) made the newest United Identities podcast where he gives us a masterclass in eclecticism by seamlessly blending music by Archie Shepp, Mykki Blanco, Nikki Nair and many others. 

Tracklist:
Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Kittin Intro
SIR E.U – Ion wanna do it right now [prod. TOOTH CHOIR] 
Jon Doppler – Computational Flan
Archie Shepp – Song For Mozambique
Mark Pritchard – Heavy As Stone
Persian – Drift
D Base – Dreaming
Bizarre – Any Day
Mykki Blanco – Fuck Your Choices
Nicola Cruz – Se Pone Caliente
Rhyw – Bee Stings
Nikki Nair – Lemma [forthcoming]
Year Unknown – Timer
Nikki Nair – XXX [forthcoming]
Joy Orbison – red velve7
Banbwoi – Eskimo
Manmade Deejay – Pane
Teams – Isolation
HVL – Hola Drive
Rubio – A Minute Of Your Helltouch
Galcher Lustwerk – Bansby
Jb Rose – Wake Up (King Britt Underwater Scuba Mix) 
Two Shell – End Of The Party
Nathan Kofi – Candy Girl [forthcoming]

Nathan Kofi - United Identities Podcast 019

A1. Crux
A2. Neverland
A3. Funclub
A4. Humid Gathering
A5. Shadow Of The Rock
A6. Heroes Show Up Late
B1. Gamelion
B2. Sundance
B3. Ancient Tape
B4. Time 2 L

Despite productions appearing here and there since 2015, Yuzo Iwata has kept a relatively low output. Contributing tracks to compilations and releasing singles under aliases Fabio Lazaro and Almost East, Iwata is also affiliated with Junki Inoue’s recent SAISEI label, editing pioneering early Japanese techno from the likes of Suzukiski and COLOGNe for rerelease.After ‘Acid House’ appeared on the Butter Sessions Come Together 12” in 2020, the label now play host to Yuzo Iwata’s first ever full length. The 10 tracks span a wide variety of tempos and show a consistent approach to unusual sound design first evidenced in Iwata’s RA Mix of the Day for Clubberia (100% originals recorded circa 2017).

Kaizu unfolds with dense environmental ambient textures before ‘Neverland’ takes us into broken dancehall rhythms and acid-tinged dub. ‘Funclub’ is reminiscent of Japanese video game soundtracks and 80s fusion whilst further into Side A the balearic energy continues to captivate, closing with the beautiful ‘Heroes Show Up Late’. This short piece is built around a looping vocal sample and shuffling drum work that all come together perfectly. There’s even a trace of Brazilian MPB influence at play with the vocal/synth interplay. It’s Iwata’s knack for percussion that is most evident across the album however, with Side B opening cut ‘Gamelion’ taking an Indonesian inspired approach to modern techno. It runs in a similar vein to Komodo Kolektif’s work and might be the dancefloor highlight of the whole LP. ‘Sundance’ follows with more Japanese motifs, recalling Haruomi Hosono’s F.O.E project. Another strong rhythmic workout suited to the floor. The environmental ambient textures return with the closing piece ‘Time 2 L’, strings, bird calls and droning synthesiser winding down the proceedings. Letting us know it’s time 2 leave?

Kaizu

Yuzo Iwata - Kaizu (BSR035) LP snippets

Millennial Nostalgia

Seeing Is Believing

Out July 2017.
The best thing about running a label is releasing the music, not writing about it. So here you go: Strange Worries. 4 songs by our group Maizena. Listening music for your listening pleasure. Pretty down to earth I guess, but perhaps dreamy to some of you. Thanks a lot for listening, this wouldn’t be this fun without y’all.

HELP010 · Maizena · Strange Worries

Marley Swain MFB

Forthcoming on Going Good: 

Going Good pair up, once more, with Detroit's Todd Modes (1/2 of Cosmic Handshakes) for a 4 tracker of discoid motor city music. 

Featuring a plethora of international and local Detroit musical talents and movers (including our very own Tokyo connect - Yoshinori Hayashi), the 'Serpent EP' is not typical of the majority of sonic output from the city. Eschewing techno archetypes and operating within a distinctly 'live' group scenario, Modes and his crew offer us an organic 4 tracker steeped in ritualistic studio jamming and mixing, explosive live percussion, whispered chants and vocals, heavy dub stylings and jazz infused keys work graced with blasts of skilful saxophone and a feeling of hazy smoked out groove that only a lifetime of digging $1 thrift store disco not disco 12"s and basement mixing sessions can lead to.

TRACKLIST: 
A1 - Serpent
A2 - Rain Rituals 
B1 - Time Layers 
B2 - Shedding Skin

Release date: December 2020 / January 2021 TBC. 
Distributed worldwide exclusively by: GGHQ Distro. 
Info: goinggoodrecords@gmail.com

GOOD-16: Todd Modes 'Serpent EP' (Snippets)

Mixed Signals is proud to shed some light on Doctor Wize’s mercurial dance moves from the 90s with the release of this 4-song compilation EP by Corps of Discovery.

One balmy night in Florida, sometime in the mid 90s, psychologist and electronic iconoclast Doctor Wize (Dennis Weise) and his then wife Czara (Sarah Younger) had a revelation while watching a documentary about the Lewis and Clark expedition of the Pacific Northwest. The name of the exploration party was Corps Of Discovery. The couple were looking for a name for their nascent electronic dance unit, and the idea of setting off on a sonic adventure into uncharted territory fit perfectly. 

Ra (Raul Areallno) and Angel (Peggy Powers) joined Wize and Czara on their trip, rounding out the voyage. The group travelled between psychedelic house, day-glo techno, mutant trance, bent jungle, and out-there electronic mantras. No stranger to outlying musical forms, Wize had already self-released two, now legendary sui generis solo records Valhalla and Consciousness Program. Before that he cut his teeth playing with The Wailers in Jamaica, Gong in Europe, and even played on Herbie Hancock’s Rock-it. The music world is starting to wise up, beginning with the 2018 Finders Keepers retrospective compilation, Wize Music. This new release adds another pin on the map, tracing another region of Wize’s unparalleled aural journey.

Limited Edition of 100 with risograph printed artwork. Regular Edition of 200 with disco sleeve and sticker.

Tracklist:

A1 Net Surfers (DJJB Mix) [3:59]
A2 Loving Java Scripts [5:15]

B1 Eye Opener [7:11]
B2 The Yogi And The Fish [8:00]

Release by Mixed Signals

Purchase digital here: https://corps-of-discovery.bandcamp.com/album/corps-of-discovery

Corps of Discovery - Loving Java Scripts (MS08)

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HELP010 · Maizena · Strange Worries

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