Glue

Deemkeyne, Glue (Moodeep Rmx) [Superordinate Dub Waves]

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Anchoret - Stuttar (Soela Remix)

Sensei Hanzo (SXDNS065) needs no introduction amid the so-called Indie Dance/Dark Disco scene. With recent well-received appearances on Melomana, PlayPal, Sonido Moderna, and ODD Pleasures, the owner of the beloved-by-all Belly Dance Services is back on the Mexico-born Spain-based outlet Bonkers with his brand-new endeavour: “Frequent Habits” comes with his characteristic hard-to-pigeonhole mosaic of soundscapes featuring complex percussive elements combined with an acid and rebel attitude. An insightful concoction triggered by his incredible multi-cultural background and fresh influences. On the remix duties, the EP presents none other than master Balam (SXDNS048), the powerful Brazilian duo Moozeic, and Ludviq, the label honcho himself. 

 

If the original of “La Chapelle” supplies the full-pack of Hanzo’s aforementioned “hard-to-pigeonhole mosaic of soundscapes featuring complex percussive elements combined with an acid and rebel attitude”, Moozeic’s interpretation, premiered here, delivers a smoothier and more psychedelic take and brings the theme a shard of House-Music-infused gait. 

You can find (and buy) this and other music pearls on the Bandcamp page of the label: https://bonkers.bandcamp.com/

Follow @nickhanzo, @moozeic and @bonkersmsc, peeps!

PREMIERE588 // Nick Hanzo - La Chapelle (Moozeic Remix)

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

With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini / Tears of Blue - Tuning The Orchestra

rainbow lovers

Ocala

My Dreamy World

Traumprinz - N.Y.  Diva Has Been Set On Fire (Raumprinz Apollo11 Bootleg)

To celebrate Moodfamily’s 10th release, we return to our beginning.

AMyn resurfaces with an excellent 5 track EP 'Keeper of the Groove' as he explores the outer reaches of the strict rhythmic and melodic boundaries imposed in contemporary techno.

AMyn creates, on the thin line between dissonance and in tune, a wonderful tale of dreadful melancholy.

www.moodfamily.net

Shall Dissolve

AMyn - Shall Dissolve

mule musiq 214/mule musiq cd 57
2lp&cd
distributed by kompakt

a2 subsurface

Available with 'Name Your Price' or 'Free Download' option, please check the link below:
https://www.etokarecords.com/track/the-art-of-dining-alone
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'This track introduces you to loneliness in its different forms.
Radio conversations that you hear are fragments from reports of 1962-77, USSR chronicles of space launches. Tests of loneliness and silence in space.'

Official Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8dCwUahBg

Released October 1, 2018
Available exclusively at Bandcamp only.

Artist info:
Anton Lanski
soundcloud.com/antonlanski

Mastered: Nikos Fragomanolakis
www.deepsoundsmastering.com

The Art Of Dining Alone

EKAR048 / Anton Lanski - The Art Of Dining Alone [Free Download Link in Description]

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Demo submission: 
We receive a lot of demos every day. Please understand that we are unable to listen to everything. Send your private soundcloud link to: label@kompakt.fm.