Nocturnal Sunrise(Dreamtime Edit)

Ott - Mir - 07 The Aubergine of The Sun

PURE TRUST - Nicoletta

🔥🎶 LET ME BE YOUR FIRE – BIVERDOGIN 🎶🔥

A sonic ritual where cultures, decades, and machines collide.

This album is built on Lik Thung-inspired arrangements, reimagined through the lens of Berlin-style 1970s electronic foundations. Vintage drum machines, raw patterns, and hypnotic repetition form the backbone, while melodic structures drift between tradition and futurism.

🌏🔥 Roots meet circuits
What once was acoustic and regional is now filtered through analog pulses, dusty rhythms, and mechanical breath. The result is not nostalgia — it’s transformation.

🌀🥁 70s drum machine DNA
Cold, minimal, and obsessive beats echo early Berlin experiments, but they are bent, broken, and reassembled into something warmer, more human, more dangerous.

✍️🖤 A collective signature
This record carries the unmistakable fingerprint of the collective:
– no genre obedience
– no clean borders
– only intention, texture, and fire

It’s not retro.
It’s not world music.
It’s not electronic in the usual sense.

🔥🎧 This is a hybrid language
Made for late nights, deep listening, and minds that like to wander off the map.

Press play.
Let it burn.
Let it move you.

🔥🔥🔥

let me be fire

Midnight Tension

Birds of Paradise | Riding the Froth | 2016 | Addictech Records
Art by: Andy Thomas - www.facebook.com/AndyThomasDigitalArtist/

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Trade Winds

Originally conceived as a preview of my début album, these tracks have gelled and taken form of their own... (re-uploaded due to accidental deletage...) 

Dimension Extension

https://soundcloud.com/shanti-planti
https://www.facebook.com/shantiplanti
https://shantiplanti.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-code-iii

Back To Bassics

Absolute pleasure remixing this supergroup. Produced in between Copenhagen and Berlin, here's my minimalistic take on Kalaha's "Cape Star"!
Enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/kalahamusic

Mastered by Antony Ryan. 
Artwork by Zven Balslev. 

Kalaha is: 
Rumpistol: Synths, kalimbas & electronics 
Spejderrobot: Electronics 
Emil de Waal: Drums, percussion & electronics 
Niclas Knudsen: Guitar & talkbox. 

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The award winning and Gilles Peterson-approved Danish supergroup Kalaha returns with their first release in almost two years: the EP 'Mama Ngoma'.

The EP is first and foremost a tribute to West African traditions like Highlife and Afrobeat but mixed with the dance floor appeal of contemporary electronic music.

The backbone of the band comes from the outrageous drumming of Emil de Waal, who's improvisational attitude is known to astound audiences around the world, alongside the finely balanced guitar of Niclas Knudsen, who has been studying and refining African techniques for more than a decade now.

On top of this, the two highly regarded electronic producers and synth wizards, Rumpistol & Spejderrobot, take the band to new musical hemispheres by adding layers through extra-terrestrial synths, analogue effects and spaced out samples.

The electronic aspect of the EP is further expanded with two remixes from NYC-based MALAKAI and Danish rising star Bwoy de Bhajan.

The EP is accompanied by an animated video directed by the group's art director Zven Balslev, and in the spring of 2019 follows an entire album titled 'Mandala'.

Track by Track

The EP kicks off with the catchy and highly danceable 'Mama Ngoma', which combines African mud huts with epic science fiction. We then reach the hypnotic horn attack of 'Cape Star', featuring wonderful guitar work from Knudsen, before the West Coast inspired 'Malaika' leads into an outro that’s like Talking Heads, if David Byrne was replaced by a Speak&Spell computer!

Fourth track and first single 'Dragon Jenny' shows the band in more mellow and reflective territories without losing their groove. The track has already received airplay around the world.

To finish things off we're proud to have the NYC-based producer MALAKAI present his dubsteppy anagram remix of 'Malaika', before rising star Bwoy de Bhajan spoils us with his minimalistic take on 'Cape Star', reminiscent of some of Shackletons earlier percussion-driven work.

The EP has had early support from The Rust Music (US), Jay Scarlett (DE/Sound Supreme/Puls), Mathieu Schreyer (US/KCRW), Descroix (DK/Iboga), P8 Jazz (DK), The Slow Music Movement (UK), Dancefloor Mayhem (US), Synths of Eden (DE), Pouled'or (DE), Radio Prun (F), Mantra Radio at CITR FM (CAN), Dubmission (US), Heartbeats (DK), O Dominio Dos Deuses (PT), Hakan Tamar (TU) & Mushpost Radio on WAXX.FM (US/James Cook).

QUOTES ABOUT KALAHA:

"Truly enlightening and inviting" - Mike Stukes / Mystic Vybes / WHCR 90.3 FM (US)

"What a great EP. Nice work" - The Slow Music Movement Radio Show (UK)

“Brilliant Album! Very tropical again!” – Gilles Peterson / BBC 6 / Worldwide FM (UK) 
“Kalaha transport fans into another world” – Earmilk.com (US)

“A dance hall in outer space” – Jazz Special (DK)

“A wide tapestry of colours that will fill the palette of choice sound selectors. Big on cultural essence & bass rhythms.” – Jay Scarlett / Sound Supreme, PULS Radio (DE)

“Truly a genre bending performance in the best way possible, music from the future, a flashing stage, and an absolutely mental drummer” – Pouledor (DE)

“Kalaha never chose the easy solutions. With humor and understanding the four inventive musicians put their tracks on fire.” – Jazznyt.com (DK)

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