Life is a snowflake
a free-falling star
a fragile reminder
of all that we are
born of a raindrop
laced by the breeze
spinning through space
dancing through trees
a diamond of light
a gem in the sun
a journey of hope
a new life begun

© Charles Gluigna


The dawn of the new year brings stunning albums, releases, and remixes featuring Birds Ov Paradise, Gacha Bakradze, Shinichi Atobe, Shaded Explorer, Earthen Sea, Primal Code, Jacque Greene, DJ Python, Jonathan Fitoussi /Clemens Hourrière, and Datassette. Tracks are listed in no particular order.

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Favorite Releases from January 2022

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2021 and another year done… omicron surging through my veins as i write this. Man, every year we ask the team to send us their tracks at Halloween and every year we’re chopping and changing moments before launch. But that’s how it’s gotta be and that’s what’s so vital about this series, now in its 12th year. This never gets more relaxed. We should probably be spending this time of year chilling out and reflecting on what’s coming over the horizon but vinyl lead times already got us making records for July. It’s like the digital and the physical world are pulling further and further apart. 

We hope you love this compilation as much as we do. Thanks to the artists and everyone involved in getting this together. Special shout out to Scott Pilgrim, Leo Martin, Issac Larose and Emmanuel Mauriès-Rinfret  for their images and code. Cameron Morse, Abdullah Al Wali, Albert Carter Philips and Jennifer Metcalf. We don’t shout out the team at the label enough. 

So, come back daily to hear this 14 track compilation from across the roster build out and give a hint of where things are going in 2022. 

Love from LUCKYME®.

LuckyMe Advent 21

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Jacques Greene - Leave Here

Preorder Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
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One Eye Witness:
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Discogs: 
https://www.discogs.com/release/21614911-Primal-Code-AI-Calculator

Out 28.01.2022

Up next in our main series are Milan-based dub techno outfit Primal Code. With a solid back catalogue comprising releases for Hypnus Records, TGP and Konstrukt, the Italian duo have honed their skills to impressive effect over the last few years, forging a sound signature thoroughly engaging on both body and cerebral levels, and now punching in on KOC to breathe further hard-hitting opaque heat into the collection.

Putting things into gear, “AI Calculator” propels us across dim-lit streetscapes and murky subterranean entrails, pared-down to a minimal array of modular signals, subtle machine inflections and particularly acute rhythmic progression. Steering the original into further pumped-up, DJ-friendly territories, NAFF affiliate Priori drops the hammer badman style, bringing forth the racing muscular bass and squelchy machine talk on loop mode to keep everyone on their toes from start to finish.

Flexing a different kind of acidic swagger, “Autopilot” pulls out the weird extra-terrestrial jazz tropes and whirling dynamics for a round of proper otherworldly bop in the outer-space. Last but not least, “Mainframe” rounds off the release on a more openly experimental note, letting the loops, envelopes and textures float in a haze of half-controlled abstraction. The result evokes something of an immunocompromised Rubber Johnny getting glazed as he weightlessly drifts off from a galaxy to another, and into another world completely.

Primal Code - AI Calculator w/ Priori Remix (OYSTER32 - Snippets)

DJ Python's first solo record since the release of the critically-acclaimed album Mas Amable.

it's too nice to just have your thoughts float in the space of your head
endlessly forever

and you don't have to decide
which
you focus on
unless you want to

i got a stone to skip
6 times across the water
on the river i grew up
by

now i like
to get the heaviest
rocks
and the lightest
ones
and drop them in the river
to see which
sink
most beautifully

I have no interest
in saying the right thing anymore

just the true thing

Written and Produced by Brian Piñeyro
Artwork by Jack Anderson
Mastered by Anne Taegert @ Dubplates and Mastering

"Angel" is taken from DJ Python "Club Sentimientos Vol 2.'
PREORDER: Vinyl 12"/Digital
https://djpythonnyc.bandcamp.com/album/club-sentimientos-vol-2
Out January 21st, 2022
INC-017

DJ Python 
https://soundcloud.com/worldwideunlimited

inciensorecs.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/inciensorecs
Incienso.nyc

DJ Python - Angel [INC-017]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-shaded-explorer-selva/

Naarm/Melbourne-based @MirrorTapes launch their label project with 'Mirror Tapes Worldwide', a 12 track collection of material from artists across the globe that eludes to the kinds of goodness yet to come on the new label, including a track from Shaded Explorer (@emanuelepertoldi).

Mirror Tapes Worldwide

Selva

Shaded Explorer - Selva [Mirror Tapes]

Full stream of Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière's "Vague," taken from their LP Möbius on Obliques / Transversales Disques, out January 28.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@jonathanfitoussi

Möbius

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Premiere: Jonathan Fitoussi / Clemens Hourrière - Vague

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