Sunday 12 09 18

Move D - The Incorrigible Heartthrob

@hymnshymns

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A1. Hymns - Water Acid

Out now

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DJ Normal 4 - Return Of The Hooligans (RA NEW TRACKS)

Buy/Stream: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/PopAmbient2019SD

Boum Boum Boum! 25 years of KOMPAKT. When a record label still thrives after a quarter of a century thanks to a focus of what was expected to be a short lived music phenomenon called TECHNO, then it stands to prove two things; that it techno has taken its place amongst serious, multilayered musical genres like rock’n’roll, pop and folk music. And that KOMPAKT has never been only for techno, but KOMPAKT stands as a broad-minded, genre-defying entity that has set out to cross-pollinate all kinds of musical inventions within the realm of electronic music. Through its course, KOMPAKT has sent “Around The World”, all kinds of sub-genres, concept series and crossover adventures based on the non- negotiable 4/4 beat. And back again.

Without a doubt, the 100% kickdrum-free POP AMBIENT series is the most endearing and enduring concept that I have had the pleasure to curate. From the start, I felt there was a strong need to add a certain pop- elegance - ensouled by discourse as much as hedonism - to a sound that was recognized as “Chill Out” music that could be heard in seedy techno club back rooms and forgotten festival areas. Over the years, I like to imagine that POP AMBIENT has crystallized into a highly recognizable trademark sound and a multi-facetted musical universe of its own.

So once again, I had the pleasure to put together this year’s edition by plowing through an ocean of sonic jewelry that had been submitted from all over the world by new and old friends. The task was clear: for this special edition, I must create a homogenous listening experience that would both appeal to our trusting followers, to continue our tradition while integrating new micro facets , variations and influences from neighboring musical universes as possible. Obligatory while being innovative. Conspirative while being cosmopolitan. Albeit the headline “Ambient” might sound a little too humble for a compilation that encompasses aspects of neo classic, atonal music and the most beautiful aural kitsch imaginable, it still helps as a necessary means of orientation in the best possible sense. Same goes for another dear tradition: Veronika Unland’s abstract-floral cover design that keeps on pleasing our sore eyes year after year.

Although each and every POP AMBIENT edition doesn’t shy away from diving into the relevant question of “What is contemporary discourse music” – in the end it all boils down to that elevated moment where all theory dissolves into ambient air, into a higher state of cosmic bliss. POP AMBIENT is sacral music for non-believers.

Wolfgang Voigt Cologne, October 2018

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Thomas Fehlmann – Karenina

Gilles Peterson presents a very special 3-hour mix dedicated to the recently departed trumpeter Roy Hargrove.

"Roy Hargrove is one of the greatest, a real pioneer, a real soldier of Jazz. Rest in Peace" - Gilles Peterson

A prodigious talent whose star rose in the early 1990s, Roy Hargrove recorded and performed with a whole host of artists including Erykah Badu, Common, D'Angelo, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Jackie McLean and Oscar Peterson.

Roy Hargrove's life mission was the to spread the jazz message and succeeded. He departed on 2nd November 2018 at the age of 49, and Gilles Peterson pays a special tribute to the talents of the man with a 3-hour mix exploring the sounds that he brought to the world.

Gilles Peterson Roy Hargrove Tribute MIx

AH IOU - Panic Station_Japan 1984_D.S.edit 181208

Taken from Brother Nebula’s EP Going Clear on Nick Höppner’s Touch From A Distance, out February 8.

Pre-order: https://touchfromadistance.bandcamp.com/album/going-clear-ep

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@brothernebula

Going Clear EP

More exclusive music

Premiere: Brother Nebula - Sky Walking

VA002
London label Rodeo follow up last year’s debut release with VA002: a breakneck tour of warped house, club-ready electro and euphoric breaks from some of their favourite producers on the planet right now. 

Loïcc – Heal
‘Heal’ sees Loïcc conjure a masterclass in slow-burning melodic electro – one equally suited to closing the club as giving the dance floor a euphoric breather mid-set. Head to Rodeo’s Bandcamp to pick it up as part of an 8-track ‘pay what you want’ release.

Get it: https://rodeo-records.bandcamp.com/album/va002
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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/loicc

Premiere | Loïcc | Heal

Cover by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Bubble Chamber booklet included!

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Gentrified Underground presents an interdisciplinary project
tackling the sonic fiction & afrofuturism of Drexciya. 
Thought as an extension to the Bubble Chamber exhibition happening at Mikro & UP STATE Zürich, GU releases a 2x12 vinyl compilation and a booklet with contributions by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Charlie Mills, chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White, Gentrified Underground, Maïté Chéniere and tracks by Xor Gate (Gerald Donald), Shawescape Renegade, DJ Dijital, Plant43, The Exaltics, Kuldaboli, Iko, Tom Ware, Luz1e and Sansibar.

The goal of this compilation is to showcase the reach and influence which Drexciya had through generations of electronic music producers and also link them together with compositorial predecessors from the early 80s. The musical timeline on this compilation starts from 1982 and reaches its contemporary end in 2019.

"More than twenty years after their first release, the sonic
fictions produced by Drexciya, the Detroit based electronic
duo founded by James Stinson and Gerald Donald at the
start of the 1990s, continues to enthral contemporary
cultural practitioners. By reimagining the Transatlantic
Slave Trade as a fiction of enforced mutation, the Drexciya
mythos opened, and continues to open, a speculative space
for the reimagining of the posthuman condition, and for
questions of becoming, origin and mutation in relation
to capitalism, finance and futurity." - Kodwo Eshun

The booklet contains unseen and unreleased Drexcyan drafts by Abdul Qadim Haqq, an interview between him and GU, contemporary art contributions by chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White and Maïté Chéniere and an academic essay by Charlie Mills.

D2 Sansibar - Cyberdine Systems

In celebration of International Womxn's Day 2020 all proceeds from this release will go directly to the following organisations;

-VDAY www.vday.org
-The Society of Gynecologic Oncology www.sgo.org

Purchase via our Bandcamp www.radiantlove.bandcamp.com

Special thanks to all the artists involved in this project and VASE for mastering.

Artwork by Byron & Brandi

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Sansibar - Plastic Flight

Melancholy Electro killer from the Error 502 debut 12" released on Ritual Poison sibling label Batrachian.

Heads deep into the murky inter zone where electro, braindance and breakbeat merge.

https://ritualpoison.bandcamp.com/album/error-502-ep

Wisdom Track

A1 Bufo Bufo 'Metal's Winning' - out 14/9 on Furthur Electronix

Its a dream come true to be releasing this track with @r-srecords as part of the RV Trax Vol.5 compiled by label founder @Renaat

Pre-order here! https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rv-trax-vol-5

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Oracle

Optmst - Oracle [R&S Records] RSRV05

The sixth release on InterGraded by EM+STAV. (@em_stav)
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton @ Metropolis. Vinyl and Digital out July 3rd.
Buy/download/stream here: smarturl.it/INTGRD006

Move D - The Incorrigible Heartthrob

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