new album by Henrik Schwarz together with Amsterdam high end string quartet Alma Quartet. The story of CCMYK is the story of chance, communication and control. In 2013, after performing with the Dutch Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam, Henrik was approached by Marc Daniel of the Alma String Quartet. In 2015, Henrik invited the four players to his studio in Berlin, where they began a series of improvisations. Henrik would suggest a musical phrase, and one of the Alma Quartet would play in response, with another then taking up the idea: highly trained classical musicians recording like a jazz band. Schwarz would record, replay and respond to their classical phrases with his own electronic production. These half hour jams would then be taken home by Henrik. There, he would edit them down, sculpting their form into coherent tracks. During this process he added electronic melodies and beats, even inviting the players back to respond again, thus building and refining these variations on a theme until the songs were fully formed. 
Though based on free improvisations, CCMYK is not a record of bumbling jams. Rather, it's a record of startling density, control and emotional complexity. It opens with the  ourish of strings: a looped violin, a plucked double bass, interwoven with subtle electronic effects. Throughout the album, piercing melancholy and graceful tension merges with  ashes of radiant joy. Dynamic, driving soundscapes like CCMYK3 sound almost ready for the club, while Happy Hipster's Spring-like verve turns into full, dazzling and almost sorrowful Summer, a tonal shift of which any composer would be proud.
This is the sound of open conversation between piercing intellects, taking their individual instruments and musical backgrounds to create a universe of sound. Perhaps this is the meaning of the album title: three primary colours and a key that combine to bring any image imaginable to life. For the live show, Schwarz has even reimagined the building blocks of both a club and an orchestra. Instead of a conventional loudspeaker, he has remade a cello to amplify his electronic effects. In place of a metronome, the group will look to an automated needle on a display, directed by Schwarz, keeping time with the sensitivity and feeling of a conductor.

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Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK - 192k

Henrik Schwarz. Leave My Head Alone Brain (Mix 3)

ElPeche is a São Paulo born, London raised artist who’s influences range from the classics of Brazil’s Tropicalia movement such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, to the Northeastern Brazilian Alceu Valenca, through to European electronic music artists such as Nicola Cruz. He has been producing music for the past 4 years and has recently released a number of edits and originals both independently and through TTR. His first EP with TTR was “Calorzito - EP”. 

Rosas Bandidas is the second ElPeche release on TTR and brings the collaboration of Artéria FM with poetry and vocals. The track came together through an overseas production process, the vocals were recorded in São Paulo and came together with the production in London during the past months. 

Remix by https://soundcloud.com/s_paniol

ElPeche - Rosas Bandidas (Tropical Twista Records - 2017)

ElPeche (Feat. Artéria FM) - Rosas Bandidas (Spaniol Remix)

The label debut EP from Emorine, 'Pacharán' is a tremendous example of the slower BPM deep house and tech grooves for which the Berlin-based artist is becoming known. 2 outstanding originals are supplemented with a pair of remixes from label-favorite Matt Dwellers and newcomers Ohxalá.

Artwork by Amir Daäna
Mastering by Stoertebeker

Pacharán

Emorine - Pacharán (Ohxalá Slow Edit)

CC + TTR - MVNDIVAGANTE vol.1 

De uma forma sinérgica e natural, as netlabels brasileiras Tropical Twista Records (@tropicaltwistarecords) & Casa Caos (@casacaos) têm suas histórias entrelaçadas por similaridades e simpatia mútua — somos labels irmãs. Como primeiro resultado dessa intersecção/colaboração, entregamos, feita a quatro mãos, a compilação "Mvndivagante": uma expedição sonora com 16 faixas, reunindo intuitivamente artistas que interpretam, reinventam, questionam e deslocam significados de suas próprias experiências com o mundo.

Mundivagante é uma palavra que vem do latim “mundi” (“mundo”), e “vagus” (“viajante”), logo, um viajante do mundo. Acreditamos que por trás dessa interessante palavra escondem-se muitas nuances de significados; basta ver que o "mundivagante" não é somente aquele que tem a oportunidade de viajar (fisicamente) o mundo todo, mas também aquela que tem interesse em se banhar e nutrir de outras culturas e se aproximar delas; culturas tão diferentes e tão próximas a nós ao mesmo tempo.

Para nós, mundivagante é aquele que tem a vontade inerente de ser do mundo e de que o mundo seja parte essencial dele. 

Com amor e som,
Casa Caos & Tropical Twista Records
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Ouça o vol.2:
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Créditos: Capa: Rafael Johnson (Ibu Selva)
                www.facebook.com/IbuSelva
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                Masters: Luisa Puterman 
                soundcloud.com/luisa-puterman
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In a coacting and natural way, the Brazilian Tropical Twista Records & Casa Caos netlabels have their stories intertwined by closeness and mutual sympathy - we are sister labels. As a first result of this intersection and/or collaboration, we present the ‘Mvindivagante’ compilation: a 16-track sound expedition, intuitively bringing together artists who interpret, reinvent, question and displace meanings of their own experiences with the world.

Mundivagante is a word that comes from the Latin ‘mundi’ (‘world’), and ‘vagus’ (‘traveler’), thus, a traveler of the world. We believe that behind this interesting word are hidden many nuances of meanings; it is enough to see that the ‘mundivagante’ is not only the one who has the opportunity to travel (physically) the whole world, but also the one that has interest in bathing and nourishing of other cultures and approaching them; so different and so close to us at the same time.

In this way, “Mvndivagante” reflects the inherent will to be of the world and that the world is an essential part of it.

With love and sound,
Casa Caos & Tropical Twista Records
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Listen to the second volume: 
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Credits: Artwork: Rafael Johnson (Ibu Selva)
                              www.facebook.com/IbuSelva
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                              Masters: Luisa Puterman 
                              soundcloud.com/luisa-puterman

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NILLO — El Afronauta

track by soundcloud.com/prizma-9 <3
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In December 2018, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 70. Designed to prevent the repetition of the horrific human rights violations that had been committed during World War II, this landmark document has been ratified by the majority of countries. Up to now it seems that the UDHR has fallen on hard times; that's certainly not perfect, and somehow it is important to point out that emphasises individualism over community. Don't deceive yourself, UDHR remains as significant today as it was in 1948. However, reflection becomes easier when we realize that the saddest chapters of human history are ultimately derived from the ideology of domination.

Given its unique rational nature, only the individual is able to use reason to perform an act. Going further, we should understand why our interests often prevail to the detriment of the interests of other species. In fact, if we exam closely, we're always reclaiming the world as our own. Sometimes it made us drift from a tender-hearted logic.

Hovering over these aspects, the compilation MUX in its fourth edition put us through the wringer! Have you ever noticed or had the feeling that social solidarity is more and more undermined? The drama of the modern human which causes individuals to become commodities of exchange such as capital goods. It resumes every morning, but always with the decentralized, crooked, fragmenting self. In contrast, even though we still do not have a fair and peaceful world, we have to believe that there will be regeneration. There's a smell of good years coming, our hopes are placed in some future ahead. We want to believe.

Beyond this duality, under two parts - [a] & [b] - MUX vol.4 put together a wide spectrum of artists that prepared tracks with a semblance of freedom, faith, dignity. Undoubtedly, an "ethereal, humanoid and dancing" facet guides this sonic miscellany, where judgements of value aren’t fit and nothing feels the same as it did. It call us to take our emptiness away, to eradicate the dark selfishness that still inhabits our hearts.

In the endeavor of progress we are beings in constant evolution, without the knowledge of ourselves there is no inner transformation. <3

Credits\

released December 17, 2018

Artwork\ jnth <3 
www.facebook.com/allanjnth 
www.instagram.com/jnth/

Master\ André Torres @ RD Studio, Brasília - DF <3 
www.facebook.com/andreh.torres.br 
bash.br@gmail.com

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Marcelo Berges — Las Maquinas Ancestrales

Nômade Family is a collective of talented healers, artists, and musicians from around the world that express their knowledge through art and music, and we are very proud to share it every week with you!

Born in the Andes, Quixosis is a retro-futurist producer that grew up in the villages and mountains around Quito, Ecuador. After learning viola, guitars and keyboards, he staked into the world of analog-electronic music. His projects are made using only analog machines and magnetic tapes, with tracks that mix a variety of modern rhythms with sounds from Latin America. 

We’d love to see the family grow, if you want to join, share your creations to music@nomadetulum.com
Let’s keep inspiring each other!

Nômade by Quixosis

˜”*°•.˜”*°• Moving between the clouds, the sun rays and the water drops, this podcast by Nikol (@nletshare) is a captivating rainbow of sounds and textures, a delicate bliss made of mist •°*”˜.•°*”˜

Artwork by Möstros: https://www.instagram.com/mostrosinside/

Undersound Mixtapes Vol 047_Nikol

01 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK4

CCMYK

02 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK8

03 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK9

04 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK1

05 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - CCMYK3

07 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - HappyHipster

Internationally renowned music producer and composer Henrik Schwarz is known for his eclectic musical approach to composition and sound design. As a producer and performer, he has successfully maintained a balance between electronic music, classical and jazz, and between energetic, highly charged dance sets at huge Techno events and concert performances in seated auditoriums.

07 Henrik Schwarz & Alma Quartet - HappyHipster

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