Mori Ra strikes back at MM Discos with "Gaia Edits", after the successful release back in May on the label of the "portuñol" duo, Da Silva and Dj Katah welcome again Osaka's best record collector with 4 new high quality editions.

Staying loyal to his eclecticism, Mori Ra approaches this time a lil more to the dancefloor by doing a more hedonistic work than his previous release on "MM Discos" , an exuberant "disco-no-disco" exercise mixed with ethnic references, wicked percussion, charming marimbas and an endless of psychedelic elements. A record done for the soul; spiritual, mystic, highly addictive and 100% danceable.

A very special release where the Japanese artist has involved his son who helped with choosing the sound source for this record.

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https://hotaruedits.bandcamp.com/album/ginpa-hotaru-edit

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Ginpa (Hotaru Edit)

During the late 2010s, music lovers around the world began obsessively listening to increasingly esoteric albums on Youtube. More often than not, they’d leave the browser on autoplay. This was how Facundo Arena, the composer and producer behind The Kyoto Connection, discovered the technonaturalistic pleasures of Kankyō Ongaku (environmental music), a distinctly Japanese interpretation of European, British and American minimalist composition and ambient music. “It was a kind of algorithmic magic,” he says. 

Upload by upload, the utopian music of Hiroshi Yoshimura and his 80s Japanese contemporaries transported Facundo back to his childhood. When he was five, his father placed him in karate lessons and began watching martial arts movies with him. From those early experiences, Facundo became fascinated Japanese history, tradition, and culture, particularly that of Kyoto - the cultural capital of Japan. Kankyō Ongaku reminded him of hearing the sounds of Japanese folkloric instruments as a young boy, and suddenly, the way the influence of Japan had manifested in his music made sense. “I had the sensation that for many years, I’d been doing something similar to the style,” he explains. 

Inspired, Facundo used an iPad and an old Akai cassette deck to record Postcards, his homage to Japanese minimalism and Kankyō Ongaku. By this stage, he was twelve years deep with The Kyoto Connection, the musical project he launched in 2005 in his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Over that late 2000s and 2010s, Facundo, later on joined by collaborators Rodrigo Trado (drums) and Jesica Rubino (vocals, now his wife) released numerous D.I.Y albums. Project by project, they followed the threads between 80s synth-pop, ambient, new age, house, techno and acoustic composition. 

Postcards introduced The Kyoto Connection to listeners around the world and brought Facundo into our orbit. During Argentina’s covid lockdown, Facundo received a set of soundscapes recorded in Kyoto by the Japanese musician and sound designer Masafumi Komatsu. Over several insular months, he decorated them with synthesisers, samples and subtle rhythms, creating The Kyoto Connection’s next album, The Flower, The Bird and the Mountain to be released via Isle Of Jura offshoot Temples Of Jura.

Ostensibly made up of twelve distinct tracks, listening to The Flower, The Bird and the Mountain feels more akin to spending calm, meditative time in twelve specific environments. Although the foundations they rest on are recordings made in geographic locations around Kyoto, Facundo has yet to visit Japan. As a result, the landscapes he paints sit somewhere between fiction and fact, richly pictorial sonic imagination juxtaposed with echoes of reality. Regardless, as his bubbling melodies and glistening synthesisers glide against Masafumi Komatsu's recordings, Facundo guides us into a blissful zone of tranquillity well worth spending time within.

Pressed on heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl with sleeve design by Bradley Pinkerton.

The Kyoto Connection - A1 - Memories From Japan

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Membre du collectif Sable mouvant et résident chez Fauve Radio sous l’étendard du Frrrr Sound System, Youps nourrit ses sets de musiques provenant des 4 coins du globe. Sa selection oscille entre groove soul afro-caribéens, house transpirante des 90's, vibe italo, rythmes orientaux et perles synthpop.

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Born and raised by CBS/IntergalacticFM's database, LeonxLeon started his machine with several various on Red Laser Record (UK) from 2013 mixing acid, italo and disco influences, to later in 2015 release his own take of "Funk Makossa" on Cerrone's new EP. Playing live sets and DJing all around Paris & Europe with the infamous Les Yeux Orange crew, he released EP's on Mancunian inprint "Red Laser Disco" and Parisian label "Cracki records" in 2019 with "Rokanbo", dancefloor melting Acid-Zouk mixture.
In 2022 be ready for his new EP on Cracki Records, blending even more genres and sounds.
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ALALA 001 - LeonxLeon 27.01.2023

terminal lucidity

The Fairy Ball

Backseat

Written, produced & recorded by Inre Kretsen Grupp. 
Mastered by Darren Ziesing. 
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz

In stores 18th of October 2019.

After a two year hiatus, Fasaan returns with an EP from the local one-man-band that is Inre Kretsen Grupp. Gems of carefully melted down new wave, dub, AOR, ambient and boogie sit confidently together on this EP that makes the debut of keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Martin Blomberg.

A-SIDE 
1. Loggia
2. Campo Santo

B-SIDE 
3. Dorisk Ordning
4. Dubbad Dougong

Inre Kretsen Grupp – Loggia

Written, produced & recorded by Prins Emanuel 2019-2020 at SingSang Studio.
https://fasaan-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/gli-ornamenti

Mastered by Darren Ziesing
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz
In stores 31st of August 2020.

Life is full of wonder and excitement. Now it is also filled with the 14th release on Fasaan Recordings, produced by one of its founding fathers: part-time fruit picker Prins Emanuel. 

Gli Ornamenti comes in three different versions, which is nice. The U20 Mix is all about that sweet Roland U20 and offers us many of its decorative sounds. 
The Maximal Minimal Mix is the one to go to when you don’t want a lot of different stuff, but what you want you really want a lot of. 
The Ambient Mix is perfect to play while inspecting the grass growing under your apple tree. This is a good 12-inch single for the industrial balearic summers ahead.

Words by Simon Eliasson

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Prins Emanuel - Gli Ornamenti... (Maximal Minimal Mix)

Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980​-​1989 out March 26  http://bit.ly/OzEchoes

Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio archives and irrationally abandoned studio sessions, as Steele Bonus sequences a 10-track compendium of drone pop, psyche-electronics and agitated tape cut-ups.

From the Sydney cassette network, The Horse He's Sick returns with an industrial car crash, alongside Wrong Kind of Stone Age’s pagan cacophony and primal riddims. M Squared dynamo Patrick Gibson appears in both Height/Dismay and Mr Knott, his respective studio-as-an-instrument collaborations with Dru Jones (Scattered Order) and ex-Slugfucker Gordon Renouf - the former’s worn out apparition hails from an instantly deleted 1981 7”, while Mr Knott entrust one of the compilation’s five previously unreleased tracks.

Matt Mawson represents Brisbane music media-printed matter collective ZIP, as Adelaide’s Three D Radio grants access to their vaults of live-to-air recordings and aspiring demo submissions, rescuing the slap-happy punk-funk of The Frenzied Bricks and Jandy Rainbow’s prodigious beginnings in Les Trois Etrangers and Aeroplane Footsteps. Synchronously in Melbourne, Ash Wednesday (Karen Marks, The Metronomes) leads Modern Jazz’ improvised proto-techno and EBM pioneers Shanghai Au Go-Go home record their sardonic synth-wave.

A cherry-picked cast of unusual suspects, Oz Echoes’ unfamed artist and non-band narratives are detailed by track-by-track liner notes with rarely published archival visions and artwork from Video Synth, prompting further rabbit hole ventures into this golden era of creative risk-taking and instant action.

Wrong Kind of Stone Age - Ravi Dubbi (ES018)

Isle Of Jura is a record label from @jura_soundsystem focusing on reissues of forgotten musical gems. A sub label, Temples Of Jura caters for original artist material. The labels have an eclectic approach to musical output with Vinyl distributed worldwide by Rush Hour.

“Art is magic. Creating music is like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, you are producing something out of nothing. A thing now exists in the world that was not there before”.

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