März 2018

I'm a really good person

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Face B track of my first tape available on bandcamp 

Thanks to the most fabulous DUNE arpeggiator ever ..

https://oklou.bandcamp.com/album/oklou-first-tape-splash-tape-limited-edition-release

defeat

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way
2/24/17(LP / Digital)

Nico Niquo returns to Orange Milk with the synthetic ambient masterpiece In A Silent Way. The work contains slowly evolving compositions and sound meditations based around the palette of modern grime music minus the percussion. In the songs “Arbo Arco” and “He Loved Him Madly” the grime theme is most present, with droplets of synth and bass rising and melting to suggest invisible kick drums underneath. “Rendered” and “In A Silent Way” begin with simple arpeggios that build to intense climaxes, while closing track “Aa-m” is an almost ASMR-inducing meditation.

Music by Nico Callaghan. Tenor Saxophone by Joseph Buchan. Mastered by Simon Lam. Visual art by Keith Rankin.

In A Silent Way

Nico Niquo - In A Silent Way

Whities 010 - Coby Sey
Release date - 7th April 2017
Buy - whiti.es/

A1 - Active (Peak)
A2 - All Change
B1 - Vestry
B2 - Seed (Our Cells Meet)
B3 - Ticket

Artwork by Alex McCullough
 Distributed by Rush Hour

Thanks to Coby, Alex, Kwes, Tic and Matt!

010 - Coby Sey: Active (Peak) / All Change / Vestry / Seed (Our Cells Meet) / Ticket

World In Action

Helm – Blue Scene

Pre-Order here:
https://www.fatbeats.com/products/v-a-as-10-mais-boogie-vol-1-lp-gold-vinyl
https://fatbeatsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/as-10-mais-boogie-vol-1

What exactly is Boogie? Is it a genre, an era, a style? Colours, clothes, textures are all part of its make up. For me, Boogie is the "top shelf" music of the 80's. Anything from this era that brings along Moog synths, vocoders, DX7s, or triggered Oberheim drum sounds, is Boogie!

Brasil has a huge archive of underground dance-floor heat. Different styles of music ranging from Macumba to Samba, MPB to Pop, Electro to early Hip Hop, were all stung by this Brasilian "Boogie Bug", cleverly orchestrated by geniuses of the style; Robson Jorge, Lincoln Olivetti, Junior Mendes, Mister Sam, Sergio Sá, to name a few, were the backbone of uncountable projects by big names of Brasil´s pop and underground music scene during the 80´s.

This compilation brings together a bunch of non-obvious "compactos" (33 RPM 7" singles), most of them, promos, which never saw the light of record store shelves, but instead sat for years in the dead-vaults of radio stations or ended up in sebos, flea markets, church basements to junk yards.

I´m excited to put together this eclectic selection inspired by the finest in brasilian 80's music. Even after so many years, Brasil's  most obscure boogie gem is yet to be found on a long diggin' session thru thousands of records full of weird looking haircuts, somewhere near São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. 
This project is dedicated to all the "Boogie Heads" doing what they do best, keep searching!

B3-Macaco Pesado - Newton Drinck Water

Flight Facilities — Need You feat. NÏKA
Stream & download: http://futr.cl/NeedYou

Spotify: http://futr.cl/NeedYouSP
Apple Music: http://futr.cl/NeedYouAM
iTunes: http://futr.cl/NeedYouIT
YouTube: http://futr.cl/NeedYouYT
SoundCloud: http://futr.cl/NeedYouSC
Juno: http://futr.cl/NeedYouJN

NEED YOU

Stream

Need You ft. NÏKA

Spotify

Mihalis Safras & Green Velvet - Shmash

"Soft as Snow employ a chunky and granular bass that slithers like a deadly python between their stuttering rhythms." – The 405

Watch the video for 'Pink Rushes' here: https://youtu.be/_b4FQ1ToKFY
 
Taken from our upcoming debut album 'Deep Wave', to be released 6th April via Houndstooth
 
Buy/Stream: https://houndstoothrecords.lnk.to/softassnow

Pink Rushes

Justin Swinburne (part of @18plus18plus18plus alongside Samia Mirza) has announced his first solo mixtape as jj18. 

WATCH THE VIDEO > https://youtu.be/QO-WS-IFZC8

jj's prayer will arrive on March 23 alongside a 48 minute visual. jj's prayer is as political as it is personal - spanning themes of disaster fantasy, the presence of avatars in today's social spheres, identity, and co-dependency and the realities of being alone.

While 18+ was a project that touched on the relationship between two people, jj18 is about an individual attempting to piece together their own narrative of identity in an increasingly fragmented world. To coincide with this announcement, jj18 is also sharing the first single and visual from the mixtape.

jj's prayer

better days

DOWNLOAD

jj18 - better days

It's Been 2 Long [I'm Blue x Tell Me x Kissing You Mash Up]

Appears on Physically Sick 2, released March 6, 2018

Physically Sick 2 is a charity compilation by Allergy Season and Discwoman curated by Umfang, Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, and Physical Therapy. 100% percent of profits from the compilation will go to the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. Out Tuesday March 6th, 2018 and available exclusively through Bandcamp.

https://physicallysick2.bandcamp.com/

Terracotta [Allergy Season]

Merlin Nova’s debut EP, Protect Your Flame celebrates determination and life.

A vast and colourful human emotional landscape that explores sounds ability to excite visualisation. Each track is a scene to exist within. 

Vocal delivery, stripped back instrumentation and use of sound effects convey a state of being as efficient as possible. This way of making music evolved out of her weekly radio show Nova Waves, which broadcasted from Subcity radio, on the show Merlin would create music, soundscapes and use sound effects to build imagined worlds. It was not until she was asked to DJ at Subcity’s 20th Birthday Exhibition, ‘pure radio sex’, that she chose to combine her own soundscapes, poetry and song thus beginning the assemblage of this music.  This EP is the first taste of a world with much to explore.

Buy direct here:
http://blankeditions.bigcartel.com/product/merlin-nova-protect-your-flame-ep

Merlin Nova - Protect Your Flame

written and produced by @oklou93 ♡ 
Additional production by @bokbok
mixed by @lilkrampf with additional mixing by Stephane " Alf " Briat
saxophone performed by Jeremy Powell 

buy or stream The Rite Of May now:
www.smarturl.it/theriteofmay ♡

artwork photo taken by oklou

The Rite Of May

Oklou — Samuel

UK record label based at fabric, East London. Run in part by Rob Booth (Electronic Explorations)