Kulku return to Phase Group with the release of their new album 'Reset To Be'

Formed in Berlin at the turn of the millennium, Kulku have evolved as a highly unique and free-formed collective of musicians that make trance-inducing, jazz-entwined, percussive and soulful (mostly) acoustic music that takes cues from the rhythmic propulsion of Jaki Leibezeit’s Can, the street-folk of Moondog, the minimalism of Steve Reich, and the droning rock n’ roll of the Velvet Underground, forming a sound that they themselves have coined ‘No-Age Krautrock’. 

Following on from last year’s sold out debut LP ‘Fahren', 'Reset To Be’ offers 5 new songs across 2 sides of vinyl. This is a record that perfectly showcases the unique identity the band have been developing over the past 20 years, a sound crafted through experimentation and innovation with primarily acoustic instruments; droning harmoniums, repetitive and phasing xylophones, timpani, cello, scrap metal and woodwind reeds, all sitting alongside soulful saxophone and the voice of frontman Andreas Riska, singing in both German and English. 

‘Reset To Be’ is a truly special offering that we’re proud to be able to share with you on Phase Group, and the album will be available at the beginning of 2024 on vinyl and digital, with distribution via Rubadub. 

Pre-order will be available tomorrow at the Phase group Bandcamp page to coincide with Kulku’s homecoming concert of their Reset to Be Tour at Urban Spree on the 29th of October.

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

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Kulku - Reset To Be (Preview)

LIES-201
Women's Hour-Agitated Slumlord
from the upcoming self titled 12 track lp
limited to 300 copies
to be released November 14th 2023

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Women's Hour-Agitated Slumlord (LIES-201)

Trystero comprises Scottish/Luxembourgish producer Thomas Lea Clarke (aka MR TC) and Low Bat, otherwise known as one half of the formidable duo Jean-Luc. Their debut album, Sfumare e Vedere, was conceived over three days aboard Urban Boat, a 1960s barge transformed into an arts and performance space. Moored along the river just outside of Paris, the duo embarked on a joint residency, discovering their complementary creative energies and a mutual passion for all things strange and psychedelic.

As frontman, Low Bat is a fire-powered poet, his unparalleled stage presence resonating through Trystero's music. The French native and fluent German speaker has a natural flair for languages. For this project, he sings in a combination of Italian and English about love, loss, and class struggle, constructing surreal wordplay about pelicans and puttanesca. Meanwhile, Clarke's drone-lead electronic accompaniment takes its cues from sizzling acid, 1990s snap rhythms, post-punk, krautrock and shoegaze. Firmly rooted in these tripped-out genres, Trystero journeys to entirely new cosmic dimensions.

Sfumare e Vedere

Suburra

Trystero - Suburra

Anthem Massive 12-Old Track Remake

Premiere of the track "Verkehrsinfrafraktur" by the Berlin based duo Inkasso, taken from their upcoming release on k​ä​fTen label.
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Artist: Inkasso @kashual-plastik // www.inkss.biz
Track: "Verkehrsinfrafraktur"
Title: "Dubiose Gestalten"
Label: @kaftenrecords
Format: 7" + DL
Mastering by Robert Elster
Artwork by @towlie
Release date: February 2, 2024
Pre-order: https://kaften.bandcamp.com/album/inkasso-dubiose-gestalten-k-ften015
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Premiere: Inkasso - Verkehrsinfrafraktur [k​ä​fTen015]

BUY VINYL: https://ike-yard.bandcamp.com/album/1982
Dark Entries flashes back to the grimy streets of New York City circa 1982 to bring us an unreleased album from cult outfit Ike Yard. Comprised of Stuart Argabright, Michael Diekmann, Kenneth Compton, and Fred Szymanski, Ike Yard sits between the sinewy proto-body music of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the shattered grooves of their No Wave peers in New York. The band’s initial run was short but blinding. They released an EP for Les Disques du Crépuscule in 1981, which was followed by their legendary self-titled LP for Factory in 1982. They disbanded within a year, frustrated by the slow pace at which the industry was able to release their increasingly challenging music. 1982 features 10 tracks which likely would have become the band’s second LP - only four of these songs have previously seen release on 2006’s 1980-82 Collected via Acute Records. Following the release of Ike Yard, they continued down their tortured path of hybrid electro-acoustic music with an arsenal of now-classic analog instruments, including the Korg MS-20 and the Roland TR-808. Skittering rhythms teeter on the verge of collapse while seasick synth warbles threaten to push us overboard. Electronic washes devolve into waves of feedback. Sneering basslines threaten dancers to move, but how can the body obey? This is dangerous music, gliding along the brink. The album features a live photo of the band by Makoto Iida and includes an insert with liner notes from Stuart Argabright. 1982 is essential for fans of post-punk and caustic electronics from Liaisons Dangereuses to Beau Wanzer.

1982

Ike Yard - 1982 PREVIEW CLIPS

Artist: Acrelid
Track: Right There 
Label: https://soundcloud.com/dancedatarecords
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital 2XLP + Rave-Zine
Release date: 27/02/2024
YouTube: https://youtu.be/BghCAtSWWxc

“Illegal Rave Tapes” is the first ever wax treatment for Acrelid, courtesy of Dance Data Records. Originally comprised of 134 tracks, this distilled collection is a snapshot of John Lee Richardson’s archive of music from between 1999-2012.
Since the ripe age of 12, he’s been drawing inspiration from the UK rave scene in the 90’s that he found himself in. That spark was the beginning of a lifelong obsession. He set out to capture the essence of what he felt and saw surrounding him during that time; whether it was via recording loops out of a playstation 1 to cassette / CD or borrowing any other gear he could get his hands on / that people would lend him.
What’s less important than all the gear he used are the sounds he captured with them. “Sinister beats” that all share a driving quality of rhythm, spanning across smudged influences from jungle to acid and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop transmissions. It’s clear from the tunes that this is someone who’s clocked 1000’s of hours tinkering and refining his sound, and who has squeezed every function out of his machines, just for the fun of it all. Having seldom released music since the 90’s, John’s been waiting for the right moment to share it with the world, and this collection has very much been worth the wait."

Words by Jesse Sappell.

*** Win an exclusive 'Illegal Rave Tapes' Lore Pack ***

Each DDR003 Lore Pack contains:
1x National Raver Newspaper (56 Pages)
1x Illegal Rave Tape Magazeen (12 Pages)
1x Confidential Document (13 Pages)
1x CD Version (Gatefold Sleeve)
1x Cassette Version (C70)
4x Postcards
1x Sticker Bomb Set (84 Stickers)
1x Holographic Sticker Set (22 Stickers)
3x Flyers
1x Badge Set (10 Badges)
1x A2 Poster (Double Sided)
1x A3 Poster (Double Sided)

How to enter:

Buy the 'Illegal Rave Tapes' VINYL on Bandcamp.

For 2x entries:

- Follow DDR on instagram: instagram.com/dance.data
- Share the release on your story and use hashtag #DDR003LorePack

PREMIERE | Acrelid - Right There [Dance Data] 2024

We're very happy to announce the premiere of @poly-chain's contribution to the @die-orakel 'Braindance' compilation. Her track 'Turbulent' is also part of the 4-track vinyl release and can now be pre-ordered via Bandcamp now. Official release is 16 February 2024

Braindance

Turbulent

Premiere: Poly Chain – Turbulent

Mother - Live ’23 (FELTCS004)
 Release Date: 6th March 2024

A - Live at The Old Hairdressers 

B - Live at La Chunky

Side A was recorded live at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow on 22nd April 2023

Side B was recorded live by Murray Collier at La Chunky in Glasgow on 2nd June 2023

Design by Fergus Jones & Marie Øst Vejbæk
 J-cards printed by Sunday's Print Service in Glasgow 
Distributed by Rubadub

Live '23

Mother - Live '23 (FELTCS004)

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@marcosegato
A pleasure to hear this mix by La Serpiente (Marco Segato). We’ve been in touch years back when I was booking the first Zaliva-D European tour.  Marco brought Zaliva-D to the, now permanently closed, Macao in Milano.  His journey in life brought him recently to Amsterdam. 

Marco Segato is a sonic explorer, producer and live performer currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He's the co-founder of Rete Neurale Milano E.S.T. - an event born in the infamous Milanese multi-cultural space Macao - and curator of the mix series Empty Signal Transmission. He has been a Red Bull Music Academy alumnus in 2016 in Montréal (Canada) and graduated in Audio Production at SAE Institute Milan in 2017. During the last years Marco released his music under four different monikers: La Serpiente, MS, Narvalos (with Alessio Costantino) & eoobe (with Elina Tapio). Across these projects his sound maintains a sense of mysticism brewing with eerie tension, influenced and incorporating sounds of broken beats, post-industrial experimentations, and ritualistic elements to conjure psychic immersion. He produces and performs live sets with a combination of analogue and digital hardware, with a sonic outcome that is always saturating the mind with extra-musical ideas.

Knekelhuis # 111 - La Serpiente

Things to look forward to:
Qeta/BufoBufo split ep -8 tracks.
Kulture Galerie EP-4 tracks
Brokntoys 7inch-2 tracks.

Plus compilation appearances;-)

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The Jaffa Kid/Qeta

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