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Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 113
Release Date: 4 June 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Jade

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record “Jade”, Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP “Lack” in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice.

Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, “Jade” is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, “Jade” speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving.

“Jade” comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing’s own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. “Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs. “Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece “Let,” she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: “I take my bath in the ocean.” We are not just consuming Daijing’s story; we are being invited to join her in the water.

The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani & design by NMR.

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Jade 玉观音

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File under: Slow Voodoo / Urban primivitism / Queer Rallentato

Contemporary singer Anna Clementi meets the Alien Alien.
Together they cross boundaries for a visionnaire timeless anthem: NO G.D.M., the cult song by German electro pioneer Gina X.
Originally released in 1979, it's a sublime portrait of the British dandy icon Quentin Crisp, one of the fathers of the queer culture.
Anna Clementi and Alien Alien dig to the heart of voodoo: summoning, obsession, hypnosis, slow ritual dance. With an unpredicted twist, which leads the scene to another level.
The dub version by Hugo Sanchez leads the track even more towards the essence of funk: obscure tribal percussions, revealing a noir soul.

Catalogue: ROCCO08
Release Date: Spring 2014
Release Format: Digital
Digital Distribution: GROOVEATTACK (Berlin)
Artwork: Leopoldo Villegas http://mrleopold.blogspot.it/

Track listing:
NO G.D.M.
NO G.D.M. (Hugosan Dub)

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ENGLISH:

WAY OF LIFE is the new artistic statement from MODUS VIVENDI MUSIC GROUP, a collaborative album that brings together twenty-one visionary talents from the international electronic music scene. From the hypnotic nuances of minimal and the sophistication of melodic house, to the unmistakable energy of tech house and the power of techno, this work is a sonic journey that reflects the diversity, character, and evolution of today's dance floor.

Each track is a sample of the label's musical DNA: avant-garde, authentic, and designed for those who experience electronic music as a true way of life. This release brings together the unique sensibilities of artists such as ÆTHER, ALFONSO TARAZAGA, DJ THE MASK, DJAVI, DPACHECO, ENRICO MOLIVER, GATIS VILINSKIS, J-NEO, JAIME MUD, JAVI SPHERE, JAVI VALLE, JOSE OLIVARES J_OFF, KXAFEIRO, LUISSOTECH, M.DE RAMON, MARKO LEANDRO, MOLYNN, MOP AUSTIX, PABLO CARRASCOSA, PICAZZO (ES), and RONIE LECAMP.

WAY OF LIFE is not just an album, it's a manifesto: an invitation to discover new electronic landscapes, to connect with the global pulse of club music, and to celebrate creativity without borders. Perfect for both club sets and deep listening sessions.

ESPAÑOL:

WAY OF LIFE es la nueva propuesta artística de MODUS VIVENDI MUSIC GROUP, un álbum colaborativo que reúne a veintiún talentos visionarios de la escena internacional de la música electrónica. Desde los matices hipnóticos del minimal y la sofisticación del melodic house, hasta la inconfundible energía del tech house y la potencia del techno, esta obra es un viaje sonoro que refleja la diversidad, el carácter y la evolución de la pista de baile actual.

Cada tema es una muestra del ADN musical del sello: vanguardista, auténtico y concebido para quienes viven la música electrónica como un verdadero estilo de vida. Este lanzamiento reúne la sensibilidad única de artistas como ÆTHER, ALFONSO TARAZAGA, DJ THE MASK, DJAVI, DPACHECO, ENRICO MOLIVER, GATIS VILINSKIS, J-NEO, JAIME MUD, JAVI SPHERE, JAVI VALLE, JOSE OLIVARES J_OFF, KXAFEIRO, LUISSOTECH, M.DE RAMON, MARKO LEANDRO, MOLYNN, MOP AUSTIX, PABLO CARRASCOSA, PICAZZO (ES) y RONIE LECAMP.

WAY OF LIFE no es solo un álbum, es un manifiesto: una invitación a descubrir nuevos paisajes electrónicos, a conectar con el pulso global de la música de club y a celebrar la creatividad sin fronteras. Perfecto tanto para sets de club como para sesiones de escucha profunda.

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Last month we made a mix for our friends and great tastemakers over at Ransom Note. Well the label's next EP is out very soon, so it made sense to premiere one of the tracks, plus the record instantly caught our attention ! The EP is a four tracker by London-based producer @hereticuk, including a remix from Marlon Hoffstadt. After releasing music on various imprints such as Relish, Days of Being Wild, Nein and My Favourite Robot, Clerkin shows how versatile he can be as a producer here, delivering his most atmospheric and well crafted work. Dope !

Serenade EP

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A1) End Of Times
A2) Serenity

B1) Heart Control
B2 ) Darkness Falls

Digital bonus - End Of TImes (dub mix)

Optimo Music is delighted to continue its fruitful relationship with The Golden Filter with the release of this fantastic 4 track 12” EP.

We always prefer our artists to speak for themselves and avoid bullshit PR hype so here is what they have to say about this EP - 

We’re quite agnostic, and unreligious, but if there is any vibes associated with the EP (and maybe all of our music) it is very Buddhist in its ideas. Mindful. Aware of impermanence.

The whole EP is about being with the one(s) you love when everything else around you breaks down. Looking inward, with pure love, in the hope to radiate outward, rather than pushing for a fight, or running away. Recorded, written, and produced in isolation by Stephen and Penelope on our own in East London Studio space.

The EP starts with the song “End Of Times”  which is a dramatic, Shangri-Las influenced take on feeling powerless in a chaotic world, but still high on love. Happiness can be found in analog reverb. This is followed by “Serenity”, a hard and tranquil meditation of past + future.

Side 2  leads with “Heart Control”, with a slight nod to Pink Floyd.  A nine minute plea to ourselves to keep it all focused and under control… The EP closes with  “Darkness Falls”. The lyrics for this came from an apocalyptic dream that Penelope had, and wrote down in the morning. the music is 100% purely modular, er, except for the tiny bits of guitar at the end.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on November 10th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt. There will also be a limited edition 12" of dub mixes of the track End Of Times released early December.

Optimo Music 40 - The Golden Filter - End Of Times 12" EP (sampler)

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Jackmate & the Missing Linkx - Täterätä - Taken from PAMPA002 - OUT MARCH 2010!

Jackmate & The Missing Linkx - Täterätä

My first release as "Deer" after switching from my unwieldy earlier "random noise productions". originally appeared on the netlabel Ekwal in 2006. Mastered by John McCaig @ Panicstudios.  track 4 re-released on 12" by Giegling Schallplatten.

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Barnt, in his new EP called ARIOLA, is testing the ingredients of pleasure. No romanticism, no reference, no genre-attidude. Practicing his vicious dancefloor trickery on how to provoke precise physical reactions by clearly calculating frequencies, which stimulate to dance. At the same time all of this is super loony, theatrical, overexposed, anti-technocrat and delicately decadent. In an air of shamelessness Barnt's extracts of euphoria associate for curious liaisons and eminent effects.

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Enjoy the EP and please support us by picking the EP up on vinyl or digital from the below shops.
12'' Vinyl: www.kompakt.fm/releases/ariola
DIgital: www.juno.co.uk/artists/Barnt/

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