Probe 6-8

Continuum (Barker remix)

Front De Cadeaux - Sad Is Fashion

Release Date: 23 February 2022

On their way from Roma to Brussels, Maurizio and Ugo AKA Front de Cadeaux (F2C) made a little stop in Paris to slow down the beat at Antinote.

We are thrilled to come back after a little break with the first EP from these two big boys on the label. For our first release of 2022 we offer the double smasher "Sad is Fashion" and "Trans Emois", two heavy and slow club weapons. These two rockets will please techno and trance heads as well as bass, dubstep lovers.

Antinote have been fans of F2C since their collaboration with Lexidisques in 2016 and of course their limited edition hit "La Ketamine” which was released 2 years laters by Emet.

Hope you'll enjoy the very simple style and straight to the point club music as much as we do as there is more to come from Front de Cadeaux on the label later this year.


Tracklist:
A. Trans Émois feat. Rodion
B. Sad Is Fashion

SAD IS FASHION EP

Sad Is Fashion

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BLUSH

Seven (feat. Tony Njoku)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/pop_ambient_2023

A contemporary product of relentless capitalism has been a trend called slowness for several years now. In order to counteract the perceived fast pace of the times in which we live with a little deceleration, sustainability and relaxation, phenomena such as Slow Food, Slow Travel, Slow Fashion or even Slow Cruising, the tourist sailing of the world's oceans with somewhat smaller cruise ships "away from the mainstream", have been introduced into the world. 

That slowness is more than the opposite of speed, that elements, things, sounds that move as if in slow motion unfold a special power, precision, aesthetics and beauty, doesn’t need to be explained twice to ambient musicians. The 23rd edition of the Pop Ambient compilation, compiled as always by Wolfgang Voigt, is no exception, but instead provides the proof. Already with the first tracks of Leandro Fresco/Thore Pfeiffer, Gen Pop (Burger, Pfeiffer, Würden), Morgen Wurde feat. Tetsuroh Konishi and Max Würden up to Triola's gloomy and melancholic "Kupferblüte", the feeling of a slowness and calmness not experienced before, of an exceedingly lively standstill, creeps over us. A mental state that resembles dreams, in which we follow strange events as if paralyzed, yet awake and sensory. 

The Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv, an association of experimental artists Annie Bloch, Stefanie Grawe, Joel Jaffe, Alex Linster, Luis Weiß, Moritz Riesenbeck, Lukas Schäfer, Emily Wittbrodt and Max Würden, is represented for the first time with two contributions on Pop Ambient. The two works, the fragile "Bolzano Sessions IV" and the rather light-flooded "Bolzano Sessions V" (only available on CD and in the digital version) nestle perfectly into the musical whole of this year's compilation, not only in terms of their majestic leisureliness. 

In Jens-Uwe Beyer's "Nero", melancholic guitar chords reduced to the bare minimum are carried away by the wind like leaves, the reverberation holding the last note so long that it almost comes to a stop in the ear. If you like it synesthetic, look at the once again ravishing cover artwork by Veronika Unland right at this moment. Colors and shapes in which there is both everything and nothing to discover. Both feel equally right. 

The final third of Pop Ambient 2023 begins with Reich & Würden's herbaceous "Receiver," a track so dignified and carried by pads reminiscent of the sound of bagpipes that it would have perfectly punctuated her majesty the Queen's 8-hour funeral ceremony - a wonderful example, by the way, of the spiritual confluence of deceleration and precision that eventually turns into trance. 

The slowness is joined by togetherness at the end: Pop Ambient veteran Joachim Spieth cooperates with American sound artist zakè on his literally weightless "Air", Thore Pfeiffer co-produced the wonderful "Instinct" with Scottish brother duo Andy and Mike Truscott aka Kinbrae. California duo Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox aka Blank Gloss close out the vinyl version with the yearning "Down At The Heel," while that honor falls to debutant Ümit Han on the Pop Ambient CD. "Sieg über das Ungute" (victory over the unpleasant) in all its beauty brings us painfully back to reality.

Pop Ambient 2023

Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer - Sonne

For Viscera 095, London-based duo Metropolitan Soul Museum (MSM) take the helm! 

Consisting of Nick (formerly of Mock & Toof) and Filippo, the pair met in 2012 when Filippo sent music to Nick's newly born Teng imprint, and they have been working together ever since. They have been making constant waves with their melodic tracks which have landed on various labels including Public Release, Rawax and Gestalt Records, and are always well received throughout the cosmos. In addition to producing music, they also run the Kulture Galerie label and mix series, which we're sure most of you are aware of.

MSM's music is characterised by energetic grooves, laser synths, and analogue drum machines, and today's mix shows why they are a force to be reckoned with.

Enjoy! 

For more news on MSM, check out their latest release with Pr0gramma! 
"This 6-track collection is a cauldron of paradox."
https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control

And Kulture Galerie, Metropolitan Soul Museum's label and mix series. 
"A new label that kicks off with a various artists offering which lays out is sonic mission in clear and compelling terms."

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/abdul-raeva-gene-kulture-galerie-vol-1/914222-01/ 

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Metropolitan Soul Museum | 095

Alles fühlt

Alles fühlt (Stefan Goldmann Remix)

having fun with friends playing very diverse records for the warm-up of the celebration at Vila Štvanice

vik & friends - warm-up @ Vila Štvanice 20.01.2023

TFGC022 - Mekine U Teksi - Steppenroboter versus Transeuropa

Evocative and spooky contemporary prog. Mekine U Teksi has absolutely nailed it to fetishist levels. It sounds like the synths were certainly the only thing keeping the castle warm the night this was recorded.
The whole record is made even more unnerving by the fact that the 4th track doesn't exist... scary!
Words by Mark Cremins

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TFGC022 - Mekine U Teksi - 07 Leiblichhaft

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