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Obscure Electronic 2024

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.

LUCIFER - KOMPAKT

Cow Farmers Farmer

T̸E̸C̸H̸N̸O̸

The Rough Guide To Italian Avant-Garde Underground // Minimalism, Experimental, New Wave, Noise - 6

Tech House

"Procellous" (Arms & Sleepers Remix) off of Caspian's upcoming EP Hymn For The Greatest Generation out 11/11/13 on Triple Crown Records

Buy on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hymn-for-greatest-generation/id726656004

Official Site - http://caspianmusic.net/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/CaspianTheBand
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Caspian_


Caspian - "Procellous" (Arms & Sleepers Remix)

Close Your Eyes

Close Your Eyes (Extended Mix)

Emmanuel TOP - Climax V 1.1

Problemi d'oggi

Attività, pt. 2

Attività

Problemi sociali

Non mollare

Azione sindacale

The Tiny Space Within Your Heart

Try bonjour

Try Bonjour

Stillhead Try Bonjour [clip]

Diraliavoid

A symphony of discourses unfolds amidst the kaleidoscopic realm of obovoids and ivivoids. 
The spiraling tapestry of dialectics, flows with the currents of Spiralian thought, and invites the seeker into the boundless expanse of cognitive rapture.

artwork by Takayuki Tominaga

Diraliavoid EP

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Obovoid

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Edmondson - Vanarama Bar

Bandcamp: https://birdsnake.bandcamp.com/album/birdsnake-begins
'Naarm's groove merchants Birdsnake are crafting a name for themselves as one of the most entrancing acts in the local scene. They provide a free-flowing sensory experience that seamlessly combines acid jazz, psychedelic funk and down tempo grooves. The band's immersive live show is a blend of dubbed out rhythms and percussive textures that pull audiences into transcendental, droney realms.

On their journey exploring hypnotic soundscapes, Birdsnake's debut EP promises to deliver the same electric energy and airy melodies that people have come to love from their live shows. Tilting towards an electronic palette, Birdsnake Begins is a flavorsome and varied body of work showcasing the group’s love for synthesizers and pulsating beats. This release marks not just the birth of a record, but also the crystallization of the band's evolution thus far. Listeners can expect a meticulously mastered record that explores the marriage of digital and organic sounds. This record is an auditory treat for both seasoned listeners and new explorers of the Birdsnake universe.'

Bandcamp

*PREMIERE* Birdsnake - Phlusta

Bringing Gifts of Vibrations to your Soul The Crow
Image by Brittney Potter.
www.brittneymonster.com
Music Mastered by Ross Pallone
https://www.rosspallone.com/bio

Gifts of the Crow

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

Modular Clouds In Rome

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Modular Clouds In Rome

Contemporary Lullaby

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini / Tears of Blue - Contemporary Lullaby

Open Sky

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Open Sky

Golfo Mistico

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Golfo Mistico

Panorama

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Panorama

Samba

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Samba

Sara Landry, Alex Farell - Prisoner

John Lemke live at Radialsystem on 26 April, 2014 in the frame of Denovali Swingfest Berlin.

Special thanks to Carlo Grippa for the great sound and to John Lemke for editing this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
http://denovali.com/johnlemke

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John Lemke @ UM:LAUT - Traveller Swingfest Edit (Live)

Live performance using Ableton Live's Looper.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/b4bb13'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Impromptu No. 1

Free Download

Svarte Greiner - Knive (2017 re-issue) coming oct. 6th. on Miasmah

11 years since it´s inception, the surreal and darkly romantic Knive still sounds like a mystery and something that´s hard to pin down. Svarte Greiner´s debut album feels like a trip into the forest at midnight, with all the sounds and impressions that comes with it. Spiritual, horrific and fragile in essence, it´s melancholic core is hard to shake off, and feels as present today as it did back then.

While starting off the sub genre of “Accoustic doom” back in 2006, it´s difficult to say what else to name it now, with it´s inspiration and elements from countless genres. The record flows through the dissonant cello´s and washed out vocals of “Ocean out of Wood” past the introverted church organs of “The Black Dress”, distorted guitars and wooden beats of “The Dining Table” to the operatic finalé of “Final Sleep”. Everything scattered with field recordings from crows, branches, walking, sleeping, rain, wind and who knows what. Knive stands on many feet, wherever they may be.

Erik K Skodvin´s path as Svarte Greiner have since been dwelling more and more into this world, picking each element apart to focus on them, stretching them out or cutting them down, looping, experimenting and flooding with reverb - trying to make time stop and night fall. But for now a re-visit to where it all started seems appropriate.

Knive

Svarte Greiner - Ocean out of Wood

Prod by https://soundcloud.com/internet-boi 
Mixed/Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/demxntia
Lyrics:
You find your way inside my head 
Like a song that plays over and over again
And I can't seem to get you out the background
Oh no, now i'm falling into pieces
I can't believe how we ended up like this
It's really beautiful, It's so precious
How you brought my heart to a new dimension

And the moon was watching over us that night
Could I stay forever I hope that when I close my eyes
You'll be there when I open them tomorrow
But am I thinking way too far again?
No i'm just being myself, I never wanna play pretend
Cuz I love you with everything I have
So do what's best for me, baby can you do that?
I always let my feelings get the best of me
So when the time comes could you take care of me?

Cuz the moon was watching over us that night
Could I stay forever I hope that when I close my eyes
You'll be there when I open them tomorrow
But am I thinking way too far again?
No i'm just being myself, I never wanna play pretend

So baby tell me where I am, cuz i'm stranded here in this place
But you come save me again, and I find my heart in a new dimension

You find your way inside my head 
Like a song that plays over and over again
And I can't seem to get you out the background
Oh no, now i'm falling into pieces
I can't believe how we ended up like this
It's really beautiful, It's so precious
How you brought my heart to a new dimension

To A New Dimension (prod. internetBoi)

Oblack founders Los Pastores join Davide Zeta’s Decay Records this July with three original cuts and Matt Tolfrey and Igor Vincente remixes.
Valencian duo Los Pastores have been releasing material on Djebali, Roush, Deeperfect, Sanity and Inmeru over the past few years, as well as their own Oblack record label. Now, the duo joins the likes of Jay Tripwire, Carlos Sanchez and tIJN with their ‘Reminder’ EP on Decay Records.
Title track ‘Reminder’ kicks off the package with a a plethora of metallic sounding effects which ebb and flow through the record alongside a heavily reverberated snare and delayed, filtered vocals. Leftroom founder Matt Tolfrey then opts for a faster paced take with snappy claps and a dark modulated bass before ‘Challenger’ presents lo-fi drums and choppy vocals combined with underpinning pad swells to keep things atmospheric and tension building.
Igor Vincente follows with his take on ‘Challenger’ following early support from Jamie Jones at Time Warp earlier this year. Vincente’s upbeat approach to the track brings a thundering kick supported by prominent bass that rumbles throughout ahead of ‘Cap Down’ which offers organic percussion, and sharp chord stabs to close the release with a high-octane energy.
Los Pastores ‘Reminder’ EP is out on Decay Records on 27th July 2018.
Tracklist
1. Reminder (Original)
2. Reminder (Matt Tolfrey Remix)
3. Challenger (Original)
4. Challenger (Igor Vicente Remix)
5. Cap Down (Original)

Reminder - Los Pastores(Matt Tolfrey Dub Mix)

Cap Down - Los Pastores

Out now on vinyl & digital release - https://lnk.to/RBL056

Rising talent Tibi Dabo, aka Max Guardans, brings his distinct and eloquent production to Rebellion this Summer with two tracks that will set dance floors alight across the globe. 

Title track La Dorada creates a brooding atmosphere with synths that weave together over industrial drum pads and an intricate, twinkling melody that descends into a crescendo of percussion. No Mantra adds a touch of elegance, with sparkling drum patterns and dreamy keys. Tibi Dabo ​explains that the title track is also the “the name of my childhood home near Barcelona”. By connecting his music and his hometown, or “safe space” as he calls it, he says he “can personally feel a close relationship between the two”. 

Tibi Dabo emerged on the scene with his first release Ende, picked up by Sasha and signed to his renowned imprint, Last Night On Earth. Having made the move from his home of Barcelona to the musical mecca of Berlin, Tibi Dabo creates infectious soundscapes that showcase his ability to conjure up music that plays out an abstract story. Having received a coveted Essential New Tune spot from Radio 1 tastemaker Pete Tong, and now signing to Damian Lazarus’ label, Tibi Dabo’s star is set to rise as he becomes ever-bold in his musical output.

La Dorada

Tibi Dabo - No Mantra

Face To Face EP

Face To Face (Enter The Rave Rework)

Dihue (Original Mix)

Speicher 93

Grey

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