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LOEUVRE STORE PLAYLIST: EPISODE 24 - 08.15.21

I’m Not The Person is the third single from the upcoming DJ Pitch album It’s Not What What You Said It’s Because You Spoke, releasing on Edited Arts this summer.

I’m Not The Person is a painstakingly beautiful jam, a broken and reimagined love ballad presented in beautiful melodic and melancholic bliss with it’s soft crashing cymbals, low-key glitching, and an iconic vocal.  

After a handful of EP’s self-released and on his own label It’s Not What What You Said It’s Because You Spoke, is DJ Pitch on holiday for the first time.

DJ Pitch is the architectural mastermind behind 2 outstanding UK labels, TT and All Centre.

DJ Pitch - I'm Not The Person (Song With David Byrne)

maybe this song won’t leave you
maybe this song believes you
and maybe i have fun too
and maybe i could sing too

sing too,
sing too,
sing too,
sing
sing too,
sing too,
sing too,
sing
sing too,
sing too,
sing too,
sing, sing, sing, sing

Artwork by DOSS©
Photography by Alex Lee
Mixed & Mastered by Gabriel Schuman

www.doss.world

It’s the music ♫

Strawberry

Download & Stream: https://push.fm/fl/deft0ni

2.000 followers on Soundcloud were like a wet dream for me just not long ago, I can't believe I just reached this goal. To celebrate I decided to twist things up and get my old guitar from my metal days back out and cover one of my all time favorite songs by deftones. First time I ever upload something with my own vocals and you have no idea how much this means to me. Hope you like it 💞

Mixing and mastering by @stfknmichael

Download & Stream

Be Quiet And Drive

It Sings To Me

Windows

Windows (No Rome Remix)

bandcamp https://lovefear.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-the-caim

Journey To Dead Father

V/A - Kikommando
Label: PAN / Hakuna Kulala
Cat.No. PAN 124 / HK029
Format: DL / Book
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Kikommando
Video: bit.ly/3i2EgSg

A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans. As a ‘food of soldiers’ offering maximum energy for minimum funds, the eponymous mixtape, video series and book project is an equally nourishing and ambitious proposition. It all began in the East African summer of 2018, during a two-month residency at the Nyege Nyege label and collective’s villa, in collaboration with their sublabel Hakuna Kulala. Producer and PAN artist Simone Trabucchi (aka STILL) opened the door to his temporary studio in the city and a crucial cross-cultural collaboration was born.

“The intention was to record as much as possible,” Trabucchi says about KIKOMMANDO’s musical showcase of eight Kampala-based artists, coming from the spectrum of musical influences, crossing trap, drill, cut ups, kuduro, electro, smooth jams—the list goes on. In creating a sonic space to support the expression of its featured singers, poets and emcees, the mixtape ties countless styles and flows into a single snapshot of a particular part of the Kampala music scene, at a particular point in time. The invective of rapper and street legend Blaq Bandana’s “Nkwaata” is laid over a spare and brooding ambient. Kampala Unit trumpet player and first-time singer, Florence, rolls a thick melodic texture through the organic clicks, knocks and atmospherics of “Bae Tasanze”. Jahcity’s unique lyricism combines a personal take on traditional music and soulful-reggae with a jerky, wobbly collection of drops and donks.

Meanwhile, Ecko Bazz applies his grimey vocals and rhythmic, introspective words to lead single ‘Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) at a particularly pertinent moment of self-reflection. “I was trying to listen to the voice inside myself and wanted to achieve a higher level of understanding of things, life,” he says about the themes that he felt inspired to explore with Trabucchi at the recording desk. The accompanying video, shot on a rooftop in the Kampala neighborhood of Ggaba, is one of a series of slick and high-definition films complementing each one of the KIKOMMANDO tracks. These also include contributions from Ugandan emcee and key Hakuna Kulala member Biga Yut, don dada of the GabaGaza gang Swordman Kitala (with Omutaba on percussion) and South Sudanese poet and singer Winnie Lado.

Also accompanying a ‘visual mixtape’ of moving images for each song on KIKOMMANDO is a recording diary of sorts, where Trabucchi compiles a vibrant collection of pictures, colours and textures reflecting the its heterogeneous sonic palette into a book. Together this multifaceted, interdisciplinary project showcases, what Lamin Fofana’s liner notes describe as, “amazing originality, complexity”, while “embracing dissonance”.

Trabucchi’s personal take on a kind of ‘digital dancehall’ defined the sound of his ground-breaking rumination on Italy’s colonial history on debut STILL album, I, in 2017. KIKOMMANDO is a different proposition entirely, where he finds new ways to complement the personality and skills of its contributors sprung from a constant stream of visitors arriving at the Nyege Nyege Villa’s makeshift studio. “It was a dialogue,” stresses Trabucchi, who has always preferred collaboration as a means to escape branded and stereotypical identities, while creating something new. “I created the musical platform to make the singers confident, and challenged them at the same time. Working together accelerates ideas and reveals that nothing is your invention alone. That’s why KIKOMMANDO is a mixtape to me, and not an album.”

The mixtape is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by NMR. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11 & 12 mixed by Ville Haimala. Tracks 5, 6 & 8 mixed by Lorenzo Dal Ri.

@hakunakulala

KIKOMMANDO

STILL, Biga Yut, Florence - Ntwala (PAN 124 / HK029)

True Love

shade

grouper 'unclean mind'

⫘⫘⫘ ⫘⫘⫘ ⫘⫘⫘ 
/sɪn(d)ʒ/ -(stay ^ awake)

𖣥𓄒𓄒𓄒𖣥

/steɪ/ /əˈweɪk/ - < singe >
𖤝𖤝𖤝 𖤝𖤝𖤝 𖤝𖤝𖤝

LOEUVRE STORE PLAYLIST: EPISODE 24 - 08.15.21

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