Kingdoms Essentials

The gravitational pull of the moon lets the water flow gracefully. Way off past awareness, in and out of reach like a half remembered dream.

Konstrukt. An electronic music label maneuvering below sea level. Hear the heart pulsating.

Track listing:

A1: Svreca & Retina.it - Avenza
A2: Svreca & Retina.it - Aquatermae
B1: Nuel - Luna
B2: Nuel - Uniforms

Release date : 31/03/17

Tracks A1 and A2 written and produced by Svreca & Retina.it 
Tracks B1 and B2 written and produced by Nuel

Artwork by Hendrik Simons.
Cat. No. KONSTRUKT005 – all rights reserved.
℗ & © Konstrukt 2017
Worldwide distribution by Triple Vision.

Svreca & Retina.it I Nuel [KONSTRUKT 005]

Track made with Lisa Möller, she wrote this beautiful melody, I composed the track.

Korridor & Æris Metri - Eryon

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Léah Lazonick - Movimenti della Luna D'Oro 

Next up on Francis Harris's newly-founded record label Kingdoms comes something very special from Brooklyn-based film composer, songwriter, producer and performer Léah Lazonick.

Movimenti della Luna D'Oro (‘Movements of the Moon of Gold’ translated from Italian) is a four-track EP from one of the most exciting musicians and performers around - a beautiful quartet of contemporary classical music with a twist.

Lazonick is something of a polymath, having composed and conducted orchestral and electronic scores for short films and commercials as well as being a classically-trained pianist. She already performed on black light smoke's 'Morning Comes' and Glory Club's 'Trigger Me Out', both released on Scissor And Thread.

Lazonick is also a connoisseur of analog synths and vintage drum machines, and will release a second EP focussing on these passions during the course of 2018. Here we are treated to three luscious works for piano and string quartet, written for a one-off performance at Studio OFF Interarts, an art gallery in Montreal. The piece was performed in a forest-like immersive environment, and was originally called In a Forest (A Piece in Three Movements). Lazonick performed the piano parts along with a string quartet she had assembled for the performance/ recording.

Lazonick explains:
“As opposed to most of the other songs/compositions I have written, I have no concrete sentimental story behind writing this piece. The motivation, inspiration and overall idea behind composing it was of a more technical nature; attempting to relay the music in my head at its purest form, without any compromises, by primarily making use of melodic and harmonic dissonances whilst still keeping the content captivating, musical and continuous.”

The EP is rounded off with a remix track by the much-lauded Petre Inspirescu - the Romanian producer who has credibly and respectfully managed to balance his passions for house and classical music. This deep and evolving remix gives a glimpse into the breadth of creativity this artist represents, and suggests that Lazonick’s career will be anything other than predictable. Very much a record to sink into, and a name to keep an eye on over the coming months.

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16 Feb 2018

A1. Movimento I Luna Scura
A2. Movimento II Mezza Luna
A3. Movimento III Luna Piena
B1. Movimenti della Luna D'Oro (Petre Inspirescu Remix)

Léah Lazonick - Movimento I Luna Scura

Full stream of Plants Army Revolver's "Oroqen," taken from their forthcoming EP on Mental Modern, out June 21.

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"The record embodies my story of duality within the context of identity, insomuch as the idea that every person has a deeper layer we don't show on the surface."

We all know that words are not often able to articulate the deepest feelings buried somewhere in our minds. Sophia Saze the DJ and producer from Tbilisi, Georgia has a lot of those emotions about which she composed a sonic book as her debut album on Kingdoms. 'Self Part 1' is the first segment of the album.

Living in Brooklyn, New York, she chose a home to settle after a lot of moving around. As her parents were political refugees, her life has always been riddled by new places of living, which made it hard for her to define her own identity. Musically, those struggles are manifested in the various musical influences that shaped her special style and thus Self Part 1. Coming from a classical musical education, she soon got entangled with electronic dance music where she rapidly made it up to a thoroughly self-assured name on the scene. Just 1,5 years ago she released her kickstarting EP Solace on Dusk & Haze, her own label she established at he same instant. With remixes by Umwelt and Benjamin Demage the EP thrilled the international dance music press around Groove-Magazin, Dj Mag and Mix Mag, along airplay on BBC Radio 1 and NTS Radio. Also her track 'Fall' appearing on Get Physical's Words Don't Come Easy Compilation left some serious impressions.

Renouncing from this rather dancefloor orientated matters, she now managed to create an Ambient-kind of album, yet defying any categorization. For 'Self Part 1' she paused: took a deep breath and looked inside her mind and soul. Then she transferred the bundled emotions into these fourteen tracks, mainly within a sleepless 48-hours studio session. Processing raw field recordings and samples that relate to her childhood, such as from soviet cartoons and VHS recordings from her family make a well seasoned and personal storytelling. The tracks itself are short but on point, considering the whole piece as a concept album that needs to be listened at once all the more, or as Saze points it out:
"I feel that the element of patience is somewhat of a lost commodity in our generation, I wanted to reiterate the idea that if you don't have the willingness to sit through the whole thing, then you're not really stepping into listening to it with the right mindset to begin with."
The sounds in 'Self Part 1' paint pictures of underwater worlds with a density of noises and soundscapes that consist of all manners of samples and distinct crackles from her machines. Nothing is still, liquid like raindrops falling from cloudy skies the tracks cover the listeners souls. Slight edges of beats are sometimes shimmering through, then going under again in thoughtful and melancholic layers, strictly held in minor. The feel meanders between ice cold harmonies and touchingly warm sound-design.

kds009, June 16th, 2019, Cassette & Digital

A1. Sophia Saze: Salome (სალომე)
A2. Sophia Saze: Bare
A3. Sophia Saze: Tsminda (წმინდა)
A4. Sophia Saze: Punches
A5. Sophia Saze: Howl
B1. Sophia Saze: Flower
B2. Sophia Saze: Orbits
B3. Sophia Saze: Volk (волк)
B4. Sophia Saze: De Dios
B5. Sophia Saze: Torn
B6. Sophia Saze: Safe
B7. Sophia Saze: Kera (კერა)
B8. Sophia Saze: Mirror Mirror
B9. Sophia Saze: Aliens

Sophia Saze - Tsminda (წმინდა)

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Fleeing her Soviet ruled home of Tbisili at a young age with her parents, Saze grew up as a nomad living in Russia, France, Canada and the USA before finally settling down and pursuing a career in NYC. A classically trained musician and dancer, before long the Georgian turned her back on corporate life to pour her heart and soul into the arts. Becoming a diligent and versatile electronic music producer, DJ and live act, Sophia Saze is as comfortable sculpting intricate and atmospheric productions in the studio as she is decimating dancefloors with robust Techno and frenetic Breaks. 

Reflecting on her turbulent life and how it’s formed her own identity, Saze composed her aptly titled debut album, ‘Self’. Released on cassette in two instalments, ‘Part I’ dropped in June and was critically acclaimed with support from the likes of BBC 6MUSIC’s Tom Ravenscroft, Mixmag, DJ Mag, XLR8R, Resident Advisor, Future Music, Attack Magazine, TRAX, Tsugi, Ransom Note and Groove Magazine, with the latter drawing a
parallel between hers and Burial’s music.

Completing the journey, ‘Part II’ meanders through genres like Ambient, Hip Hop and Breaks, and features very personal insights including handpicked samples from Soviet television shows and VHS cassette recordings from her childhood.
Hidden allusions of her classical music education bring up distant memories and melt together the organic but thoroughly electronic ambience. Crackles, hushes and hisses are elaborated so well that the record virtually gushes over the ears like mountain torrents. It appears peaceful and quiet, then rousing and it is sparked with bewildering sounds. It lets scattered beats arise from the thicket and drown again in streams of noise. But in the end, especially the haunting seriousness of the album is compelling.
As a concept album, ‘Self’ consists of short and precise tracks mixed together, signifying a proper way to redefine a musical work in the modern age.

Mixed by commended Kingdoms label head Francis Harris, Sophia Saze’s detailed sound-design is brought to the front for an illuminating listening experience.

Sophia Saze - Mtvare (მთვარე)

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Francis Harris’ Brooklyn-based label continues to release adventurous new music, blurring the boundaries between jazz, contemporary composition, ambient, and electronic music. Next up on the label is Lights Fluorescent - The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons. 
Made up of Dave Harrington (Darkside) and Benjamin Jay (Benoit & Sergio), "The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons" blends lopsided guitar loops and synth washes amid acres of reverb, while its vocals ascend toward violet altitudes. 
The single is also the title track to their upcoming debut album on Kingdoms.

The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons

Lights Fluorescent - The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons

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Made up of Dave Harrington of Darkside/Dave Harrington Group and Benjamin Jay of NDF/Benoit & Sergio, Lights Fluorescent is, as the two describe it, an ‘experiment in the spaces between song and texture, idea and reference, past and present.’ On their debut album, The Oldest Sons Of The Oldest Sons, the duo develops an atmospheric, slant-pop sensibility that lists toward the experimental tendencies of improvisational and ambient music.  


The result is a set of songs meant to be lived with. Entirely percussion-less, recordings drift on a tenderness of guitar, revenant feedback and vocals of autumnal intimation. Space Metal and July 9th process layers of bespoke noise and washed out chords to tarry with integral depth, light, and shadow, while Hotels distills country-western longing into its nth dimensional essence always unrequited. 

From within these sonic panoramas, vocals emerge more as watercolor traces than coarse etchings. They aim to capture evocative, lyrical intensities, eschewing the solace of the literal. As such, the album favors 'the gestural, the implicit, and the miniature over the more adolescent urges of grand narratives and epic.’ These preferences map onto the album in all of its moves. J Girls reveals a hint of story buried, like its context, deep in whorls of feedback. Fleeting images of monuments, cathedrals, or epitaphs on tracks like Palace Walls or Small Sacrifices speak to a sense of memory and community paradoxically ungrounded by the material instantiations meant to keep things in place.

Lights Fluorescent - Our Earlier Years

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A key player in the New York scene and boss of her own Dusk & Haze label, it was Francis Harris' Kingdoms that initially released Sophie Saze's standout two-part album, and that is where this forward looking package of highly original remixes lands. 
First up is German artist Roman Flügel, who’s responsible for a myriad of musical aliases and just as many different sounds. Here he is in experimental electronic mode and reworks 'Cure' into an elongated groove with twisted synth lines layering up over the shimmer, shadowy beats. It's a ghoulish track with a creepy atmosphere. 
Swede Anthony Linell makes tripped out, heady techno on Northern Electronics, always with a stylish aesthetic. That continues here as he reimagines 'Aliens' as an absorbing cosmic soundtrack. Supple, rubbery drums bubble down low while broad pads and astral motifs colour the airways above and sink you into a state of trance. 
New York beat maker and Blueberry Records boss FaltyDL then steps up with a remix of 'Self'. It is a typically off-kilter groove that seems to float on post-jungle drums while distant synth details make for a dreamy atmosphere. 
Closing out this killer package is Saze's original track 'Dreams', an intense techno cut where coarse textures peel off the industrial clatter of the drums.

Sophia Saze - Aliens (Anthony Linell Remix)

@Norite's co-founder @ForeignMaterial releases "The Quest EP" on his own imprint. Monument premieres @ASacredGeometry's fantastic remix of track "Of Flesh And Duty" from the release, that is out on November 29th.

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MNMT Premiere: Foreign Material – Of Flesh And Duty (A Sacred Geometry Remix)

Combe - Lost In Time

The 497th installment of @DarkScienceElectro was mixed by @ricardoeee

Ricardo E is a 28-years old DJ, graphic designer, and vinyl collector, currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He started playing records at parties around 2014. 

Skee Mask - Muk FM
Pollon - Lost Souls
Japanese Telecom - Beta Capsule
Stingray - The Sadist (Heinrich Mueller Remix)
Simulant — New Machines
I-F - Secret Desire
DJ Overdose - W SPEPS28+
Morah - Cold Water In My Glass
Grischerr - Captain Ac(h)ab
Sync 24 & Alienata - Confused
Train To Eltanin - Unexpected Store Exception
TCMF - Real Girls
DJ Stingray - Solitude
214 - Soapdish
Go Nuclear - Machine Learning (Detroit’s Filthiest Remix)
Ultradyne - Carbon Based Lifeform
Dopplereffekt - Rocket Scientist
The Neon Judgement - Fashion Party
Eoism - Odissey One
Ekman - End Title
BS-1 - Genetic Waste
RNXRX - Cybele
Kuldaboli - Sálinni blæðir út (feat. Djöfullinn Sjálfur)
The Exaltics - 8000 Miles High
Pyramid Of Knowledge - Son Of Edjo
DJ Stingray - the Sadist III
M-Twelve - All The Things

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Dark Science Electro presents: Ricardo E. guest mix

Monday Off mainstay Cory James returns for a meditative and shadowy EP that tenderly unfurls with the haunting and melodic "Avila," followed by the subtle psychedelic skittering of "Bubble Nebula." The core motifs of "Bubble Nebula" are then re-worked throughout the wave-like ebb and flow of "Bubble Nebula Eyes Down," and Italy's Ruhig remixes the release's title track into a pounding workout of shifting grooves and tensile atmospherics.

Mastering: Artefacts Mastering Studio
Artwork: Liza Shutova
Exclusive distribution worldwide: Ready Made Distribution

Walls Of Avila

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B2. Cory James - Avila (Ruhig Remix)- Monday Off MOFF007 (Snippet)

The theory is as follows: use 1 track from the year I was born and until now. 

John Foxx - Mr No
Kraftwerk - It's More Fun To Compute
Warp 9 - Nunk Instrumental
George Kranz - Trommeltanz (Dub Version)
Imperial Brothers - We Come To Rock (Instrumental Dub)
Paul Hardcastle - 19 (Destruction Mix)
Information Society - Running (Vocal Remix)
Model 500 - Electric Entourage
808 State - Flow Coma
The KLF - 3AM Eternal (Blue Danube Orbital)
Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia (Instrumental Edit)
LFO - What Is House? (LFO Remix)
Biosphere - Chromosphere
AFX - .215061
The Future Sound of London - Omnipresence
Autechre - Eutow
Andrea Parker - Melodious Thunk
Adam F - Metropolis
Jonny L - Wish U Had Something (Remix)
Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Sequel
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out in The Country
Rhythm & Sound - No Partial
Squadra Blanco - Squadra Blanco
Lab Rat XL - Lab Rat 6
Der Zyklus - Biometric ID
Pendle Coven - Artificial Root
D'Arcangelo - Doped Beat
Aleksi Perälä - Lagrange Point
The Bug - Skeng
Jamie Vexd - Radiant Industry
Monolith - 22 Livingstones
Om Unit - The Timps
Cygnus - Newmark Phase
Jon Brooks - Please Drive Carefully
The Exaltics - SL-W D-WN
Redshape - Paper Blades
Versalife - Shine Eye
Evigt Mörker - Vem
Solitary Dancer - Lady Pimp
Skee Mask - Slow Music
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2020

2020 05

Full album → https://bit.ly/30rUdte
Artist: Falling Echoes
Title: Transient Process 
Remixes: Rismu, A Thousand Details & The Plant Worker
Format: CD
Catalogue: DREACD 45
Artwork: Yvonne Cilia

Tracklis:

01.Additional Choice
02.Wrong tape
03.Random action 
04.Transient process 
05.Spoted 
06.Collapse 
07.Heaven criminal 
08.Random action(Rismu remix)
09.RRandom action(A Thousand Details river raid remix)
10.Addition choice (A Thousand Details deconstruction remix)
11.Addition choice (The Plant Worker remix)

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Falling Echoes with remixes from Rismu, A Thousand Details & The Plant Worker

Artist: Various Artists
Title: kumugyĭ
Reference: LR058
Format: Digital
Release Date: 13/01/2020

Bandcamp: https://lettrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kumugy-digital-lr058
Beatport: TBA
iTunes: TBA
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/kumugyi/4907877-02/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/title/1500462/kumugyi
Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.fr/albums/B08RRSBFX7
Clone: https://clone.nl/digital/item4907877.html
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zGoBH7Ey24cuaUN0SvY9K
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/196678192
Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFlZesO7I14uTmmSDnxOl7APfTMOgheqQ



01 Sanjib - Serrena
02 Oreste - She
03 Varell - Burn The Shadows
04 Data Domain - Soul Hunters
05 Vardae - Mantra
06 Sanjib - La Contemplation Des Tribus
07 Adhémar - It Has To Be Dark To See The Stars
08 Autumn Tale - Liquid Reminiscences
09 Cirrus - Blue Sahara
10 Diapasøn - Planet Rhythm
11 RTNH - It Seems Like I Have To Dance Alone
12 Faco - Lutto
13 Raiju Manah Ft Private Grief - Skyline
14 Spectral Perception - SP021


Mastered by Vincent Villuis at Ultimae Studio (ultimae.com/audio-mastering/).
Cover photography: Philippe Fontana.


"kumugyĭ" means "5" (for 5 years of Lett Records) in Aka-bo language. Aka-bo was an Andamanese language who has now disappear.

Lot of love to all the artists who appears on this celebration.

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02 Oreste - She

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