A1. Break At Home 1

A2. Break At Home 2

Angelo Ioakimoglu — The Nireus Years (1995-1997)
Format: LP/Cassette/Digital
Cat.No: ITL007
Release Date: 1st June 2018

Tracklist:
A1. Easter theme - 5:35
A2. Kuwahara ride - 3:20
A3. u220sax2 - 5:53
A4. slide break - 2:05
B1. Alonissos - 3:44
B2. 77 bus trip - 5:05
B3. 550vortex - 5:46
B4. matrix4b - 3:50
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Into the Light continues its journey to unearth and update overlooked Greek music. This time focuses on a smooth, warm, youthful yet intelligent work that finds effortlessly its place in the tiny Greek electronic scene of the mid 90's.

"The Nireus Years" is a rare selection of eight unheard home recordings produced between 1995 and 1997 by the then 16-year old Angelo Ioakimoglu in Athens. The album encompasses his most special productions ranging from bucolic new age to dubbed out midi electronics, jazzy r&b to Mediterranean ambient trance!

Angelo was born and raised in Zografou area of Greece's capital in 1981. It was there where his father had a typical 80's electronic lab and it was that specific environment where Angelo spent most of early childhood. A first attraction for electronic musical equipment was developed that very soon became a passion for hunting down used pieces of gear soon to form the basis of his well equipped bedroom setup.

During his teens, his connection with music was either practicing the piano at home or listening to the most recent dance hits at his uncle's place who happened to be a professional DJ. Big part of Angelo's demos around that period is driven by those two aforementioned worlds. But there were moments of escape. Moments where the music went for the unexpected. Leaving the producer following a solitary path where he could express his teenage dreams and fantasies...through extensive midi programming, live keyboards mimicking string, brass and steel instruments and sampled portions of his live percussion burst.

Angelo's work, which can sometimes seem naive or surrealistic, is supported by his unique and surprisingly energetic approach, one that gives us the courage to continue something different.
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All tracks written and produced by Angelo Ioakimoglu.
DAT and cassette transfers by Angelo Ioakimoglu. 
Executive producer: ilias Pitsios 
Mastered by Analogcut Mastering
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour
Layout by Tilt

©  INTO THE LIGHT 2018
http://intothelightrecords.gr/

ANGELO IOAKIMOGLU - The Nireus Years (1995-1997)(ITL007)

D.E. — Giant Step
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: ITL008
Release Date: July 2018

Tracklist:
A. Giant Step (Club Mix) - 5:15
Programming, keyboards - Akis Daoutis
Mixing by -  Akis Daoutis, Manos Govatzidakis  
Recorded at - CMRC Studios, In Studios (Athens, 1992)

B. Giant Step (Demo Version) - 5:35
Programming, keyboards - Akis Daoutis
Mixing by -  Akis Daoutis, Vangelis Katsoulis
Recorded at - Vangelis Katsoulis Studios (Pallini, 1989)

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Into The Light's offering for this summer is a special maxi single by D.E., the early 90's dance project of Greek composer AKIS! A side includes the lost Aegean club hit “Giant Step” while B side features it’s crazy demo take counterpart! 
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Written and produced by Akis Daoutis
Executive producer: ilias Pitsios 
Mastered by Analogcut Mastering
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour
Layout by Tilt

© INTO THE LIGHT 2018
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D.E. - Giant Step (ITL008)

FREE LEVEL — Blue Grass EP
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: ITL009
Release Date: December 2018

Tracklist:
A1. Blue Grass 1 - 5:00
A2. Little Fox - 2:44

B1. Blue Grass 3 - 6:56
B2. Sun - 4:23

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‘Blue Grass Ep’ contains four super rare recordings of a phantom Greek musical-duo called ‘Free Level’ which was formed in Athens, Greece between 1983 and 1984. The musicians behind this project were composer and keyboardist George Theodorakis and ex-Sharp Ties’ guitarist and founding member Petros Skoutaris - both young veterans of the Athens music scene in the late 70’s/late 80’s.
Into the light proudly picks four utterly spellbinding highlights of this totally unheard material. More specifically, the ep offers two long instrumental tales and two somewhat personal songs that all together share the same syncretic blend of European and Southeastern nuance. Swaying rhythms, obscure but hilarious lyrics, pitched up Jean-Luc Ponty influenced basslines and proto-dreampop experiments by one of Athens' most promising but short collaborations from the early 80's. Immerse yourself!
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Written and produced by George Theodorakis and Petros Skoutaris
Executive producer: ilias Pitsios 
Mastered by Analogcut Mastering
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour
Photography by: Antonis Pitsios
Layout by Tilt

© INTO THE LIGHT 2018
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Blue Grass EP

FREE LEVEL - Blue Grass EP (ITL009)

DIMITRIS PETSETAKIS — On Shores
Format: LP/Digital
Cat.No: ITL011
Release Date: April 2019

Track listing:

1. Clearance (Part II) - 3:24
2. Pythia's Dance - 3:25
3. Violated Asylum - 4:29
4. Childhood's End (Movement II) - 9:57

5. Like A Knife - 4:04
6. Fading Slow - 6:16
7. Nearxi (Minimal Marimba Edit)- 5:37
8. On Endless Shores - 4:10

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Buoyed by the success of "Endless", their 2015 primer on forgotten electronic explorer Dimitris Petsetakis, Into The Light Records has worked with the Greek composer to compile a follow-up album that takes an even deeper dive into his archive of previously unreleased material. Like its predecessor, "On Shores" draws on music recorded in the 1980s and early ‘90s. It contains just two previous released tracks, the humid “Clearance (Part II)” and poignant “On Endless Shores”, both of which first featured on Petsetakis’s cult 1991 album "Missing Links". 

"On Shores" offers another unparalleled insight into the picturesque and atmospheric soundscapes created in the Piraeus-based composer’s basement studio using a mixture of electronic and acoustic instruments, a wide range of global influences and a keen interest in both minimalism and new age ambience. Listeners will encounter a range of stunningly beautiful and beguiling compositions, from the creepy, slow-burn exoticism of “Pythia’s Dance” and rhythmic, otherworldly escapism of “Violated Asylum”, to the gentle bliss of “Like a Knife” and sun-bright joy of “Nearxi (Minimal Marimba Edit)”.

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Written and produced by Dimitris Petsetakis
Executive producer: ilias Pitsios 
Mastered by Sergey Luginin
Photos and Layout by Kostas Chritis.
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour distribution

© INTO THE LIGHT 2019
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DIMITRIS PETSETAKIS - On Shores (ITL011)

Recording of Angelo Ioakimoglu's live performance for ADD Festival (Ellinikon Old Airport, 25 May 2019)

Angelo Ioakimoglu Live@ADD2019

PETROS SKOUTARIS — Tropika EP
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: ITL012
Release Date: June 2020

Tracklist:
A1. Tropika - 5:08
A2. Attica - 4:02

B1. Yusurum - Part I (ft. Manos Skaramagkas) - 6:58 
B2. Yusurum - Part II (ft. Manos Skaramagkas)- 7:14

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Last year Into The Light delved deep into the unreleased archives of Free Level, a collaborative project between Greek composers George Theodorakis and the late Petros Skoutaris. Now the label presents a blissfully sunny and gorgeously life-affirming EP of rare solo tracks from Skoutaris that were recently discovered on a forgotten CD-R.

Petros Skoutaris first rose to prominence in 1981 when the band he formed, new wave and ska fusionists Sharp Ties, sold 50,000 copies of their debut album “Get That Beat” on the back of the title track becoming a hit single all over Europe. A year later he quit the band, re-emerging in 1984 as the co-owner of now legendary Athens nightclub “Graffiti’’. Up until his unexpected death in 2004, Skoutaris appeared as a guest guitarist on a wide range of records – Pavlos Sidiropoulos’ classic album “Zorba The Freak” included, while also pursuing collaborative projects such as 667, Dubient and Free Level.

The tracks featured on this posthumous solo release were recorded in 2000 and were originally intended to appear on an album that never materialized. They offer a neat snapshot of Skoutaris’ chameleon-like musical nature and the layered melodic intricacy of his trademark guitar playing. This latter feature is particularly evident on “Tropika”, a dreamy but up-tempo affair that sits somewhere between Pat Metheny’s breeziest moments and mid-1980s alternative synth-pop, and the becalmed, Flamenco-influenced sunset bliss of “Attica”. 

Skoutaris’ life-long love affair with reggae culture comes to the fore on the two-part “Yusurum”, a wonderfully intoxicating, NYC dub-funk influenced affair that was written, arranged and co-performed by his friend and fellow Athens synth-wave scene survivor Manos Skaramagkas. Like Bill Laswell’s work as Material, both versions of “Yusurum” incorporate extensive use of Indian style percussion and instrumentation, as well as hallucinatory effects and some of the warmest, weightiest bass known to humankind. It’s a mind-altering trip from an overlooked, little-known Greek master and his equally talented mate.

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A1, A2 composed and performed by Petros Skoutaris
B1, B2 composed by Manos Skaramagkas and performed by Manos Skaramagkas and Petros Skoutaris.
Recorded at the Doc's studio in Athens around 2000
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut 
Back cover art by Petros Skoutaris
Licensed by Akis Skoutaris
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour

© INTO THE LIGHT 2020
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PETROS SKOUTARIS — Tropika (ITL012)

GIANNI BREZZO — Traditional Heart 
Format: LP/Digital
Cat.No: ITLIntl06
Release Date: March 2021

Track listing:

1. Adult Ship 
2. Excited 
3. Mental Shower 
4. River 
5. Henry
6. Hickup 

7. Moof! 
8. I Told You
9. Gwing 
10. Brem Bo 
11. More Hours 
12. The End Of 

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Traditional Heart“ is the second album by Gianni Brezzo - the band or the studio project – of the Cologne-based musician Marvin Horsch. 

The title is by no means to be understood in the sense of an authenticity pathos à la love in times of Tinder, but addresses the process of musical production itself. 

Says Brezzo: “This time the process of making music was more important than the product. Not to allow even a thought regarding the effectiveness of the music; pick up the instrument on impulse and put it away again; record again. Finding a rhythm during the process. At home.”

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Written, produced and mixed by Marvin Horsch
Mastered by Sergej Luginin
Artwork by Jens Roth and Klaus Stille
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour 

© INTO THE LIGHT 2021
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GIANNI BREZZO - Traditional Heart (ITLIntl06)

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