FEEL MY BICEP PLAYLIST - Part 1

Playground In A Lake

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Tom VR - Soared Straight Through Me

»Tides« marked a radical change in direction for Arovane. After Uwe Zahn had made a name for himself with cutting-edge IDM rhythms and slick ambient textures on a slew of releases, his sophomore album saw the prolific producer opt for a sample-based approach that resulted in a more organic sound and laid-back downbeat grooves. Having reissued Arovane’s seminal »Atol-Scrap« as a double LP in 2021, the Berlin-based Keplar label now makes »Tides« available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 2000 through the legendary City Centre Offices. The new version has been remastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering and comes with a brand new cover artwork. It shines a new light on a release for which Zahn quite literally ventured into previously unknown territory — »Tides« is an album that emits a timeless, quiet calm and nonetheless stays constantly in motion.

»The idea for the album came to me after a vacation in France«, says Zahn. Inspired by the landscape, especially the coastline and the sea, he made field recordings throughout his trip that were also used on the record, giving it its sensual feel. The foundation of the album however, the loose yet gripping grooves at the heart of every track, result from Zahn working extensively with samples. »I wanted to make use of drum sounds and small excerpts from old jazz vinyl records«, he explains. He maintained the unique sound signatures and rhythmic flutter of the source material while building intricate beats with them. Most of the material was culled from the record collection of Christian Kleine, whose spontaneous guitar improvisations over the first musical sketches were recorded and edited by Zahn and can be heard on four tracks. Also employing the occasional cembalo or spinet sound, he worked with a hardware sequencer and a delay to integrate the different, discrete elements into nine tracks that feel both dense and light at once. 

What’s astonishing still 22 years later is how spacious »Tides« sounds. This is due to the fact that Zahn not only paid close attention to the sonic idiosyncrasies of his source material, but also to what happened in between those sounds. »Mark Hollis’s solo album was a huge inspiration at that time«, says Zahn. »What I find fascinating about it until this day is how silence and the subtle hiss of the mixing boards were being used on that record.« Silence was also an important stylistic element on »Tides« and adds greatly to the overall atmosphere of an album that with the appropriately named »Theme« immediately sets the mood with intricate spinet melodies: Zahn opens a door for his listeners and invites them to follow him to see a specific part of the world through his very own lens.

As a whole, the album mirrors Zahn’s trip that took him along the steep cliffs on a foggy day (»Seaside«), to an abandoned house in which he found old maps (»A Secret«), along the coastline during a long car ride (»Deauville«), to a sleepy village and the slowly moving sea (»Tides«) and finally back home to his native Germany where he started reflecting upon his experiences, ultimately deciding to translate them into music (»Epilogue«). »Whenever I listen to this album now, the images and memories it evokes are incredibly vivid and vibrant«, he says. It’s not hard to see — or rather hear — why. »Tides« may have been a deeply personal project, but it effortlessly evokes universal feelings by (re-)building an entire world in the course of only a few pieces of music.

All tracks composed and recorded by Uwe Zahn.  
Originally released on CCO in 2000.  
Remaster and cut by Kassian Troyer @ D&M.  
Cover art by Jim Kühnel based on a photograph by Uwe Zahn.   
Text by Kristoffer Cornils.

Tides (2022 Remaster)

Arovane - Tides (2022 Remaster)

Fortuna is the 5th track of the upcoming 'Slo Mo' cassette by Milan W. (JJ005)

Music by Milan Warmoeskerken
Published by Jj funhouse, 2014
www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj005
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Milan W. - Fortuna (JJ005)

Until We Return

Enjoy this first listen from The Orb's upcoming brand-new album 'COW / Chill Out, World!' which is due October 14, 2016 on Kompakt.


COW / Chill Out, World!

out October 14

The Orb - 5th Dimensions

From the new 12inch with remixes from Biosphere and Klara Lewis. Out now on Smalltown Supersound. 

Purchase the release here: smarturl.it/sts32512

Carmen Villain - Borders (Klara Lewis Remix)

"Only Once Away My Son" by Brian Eno with Kevin Shields

Listen to this track and many others at adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Brian Eno with Kevin Shields - Only Once Away My Son

Dance Four

Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties

Banteay Srey

from the album ~~~
https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/-

Ana Roxanne is an intersex Southeast Asian musician based in Los Angeles. Born & raised in the Bay Area to immigrant parents, Ana's love for music and singing began through her mother's cd collection of 80's/90's R&B divas. Raised in the catholic church, she became a devout choir nerd and found any opportunity to sing, whether for religious mass, the jazz ensemble of her catholic high school, or karaoke at family gatherings. Her commitment to singing led her to a brief stint at a vocational jazz program in the cornfields of the midwest; in a remote town of 7,000 people, she began a formal study of jazz and classical music. During these years she would tour with her jazz and chamber ensembles to beautiful old cathedrals in nearby cities and became enamored with the sacredness of choral music, as well as the enveloping sound of harmony. 

A near death experience, too, served as a connection between music and spirituality, and music as a healing art after facing tragedy. 

In 2013, Ana was also fortunate enough to spend a few months in Uttarkhand, India where she met an incredible voice teacher who introduced her to classical Hindustani singing. Living and studying with this teacher deeply impacted her outlook on the voice as art. It was there that she began to see the singer - the Diva - as a symbol of divinity; that the unique power of one's voice comes from the vulnerability of using the body as an instrument. Be it romance, love, or worship of a deity - in order to access such depths of emotional expression, one must be willing to be intensely vulnerable, lay one's heart in the open air, expose what is kept hidden. This brief study was the catalyst that led her to finish her music study at the experimental Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she began to combine all of these influences into her current self-titled project. This album ~~~ was created during her last years residing in the Bay Area, a tribute to the great musicians who inspired her and the landscape where she spent her formative years. 

In addition to the worship of R&B and pop divas, Ana's current practice explores themes of gender & identity. In October of 2018, she decided to come out publicly as intersex, and is dedicated to being a voice for her community and speaking out about social justice for intersex youth.

Ana Roxanne - Nocturne

DJ Sprinkles, "House Music is Controllable Desire You Can Own."
First released in "Enjoy the Silence: Part 2 of Mule 5th Anniversary Release." Japan: Mule Electronic, 2009, MED16[JP]/MECD15[EU] 
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Zz5HWN9RhiX5ZgfBG9Fnc
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An ambient reworking: from Comp x Comp, released January 5, 2019
https://comatonse.bandcamp.com/track/music-is-controllable-desire-you-can-own

Midtown 120 Blues

T. Thaemlitz - DJ Sprinkles - House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own (preview)

Track from the album "People on Sunday". Released on 13 November 2020 via The Leaf Label

People on Sunday

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Colliding Wind

Tragic Selector, 'A Dialogue With Gravity' (2021). Courtesy Concentric Records, Berlin.

BUY LINK: https://lesdisquesbongojoe.bandcamp.com/album/la-ola-interior-spanish-ambient-acid-exoticism-1983-1990

Taken from album: LA OLA INTERIOR: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990
Label: Bongo Joe Records (https://soundcloud.com/bongojoerecordshop)
Release date:  4 february 2021
Format : Double Vinyl (incl. special ed. Blue vinyl) w. full colour booklet liner notes + CD + Digital

Malagueñas 2 is the second single release from Bongo Joe's exploits into the history of the Spanish electronic underground: LA OLA INTERIOR: Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990. The compilation features 20 tracks selected from a fertile period of electronic music production and experimentation in Spain, which shines a light on a tape culture movement and buoyed by a fetish for an exoticism of Asia and Africa.

Made in 1990 in Tenerife but left to the archives and untouched, until now, Malagueñas 2 is an intense rush of electronic hypnotism and was discovered by compiler Loïc Diaz Ronda:

"I knew Javier Segura was influenced by acid folk in his first attempts and also that the Canarian Islands are the Spanish threshold to Africa, so I knew there had to be some tracks... Finally, I landed by chance on his youtube channel and discovered a bunch of unrealeased tracks from the early 90's. Among them, there were two versions of Malagueñas. Malagueñas 1 was a track with vocals. Malagueñas 2 was the instrumental version and it blew my mind as soon as i heard it. With its complex sound layers and its hypnotic pulse, the track had this Andalucian / Arabic flavour. It has only been listened to 10 times on youtube! Javier told me he loved this track immensely"

LA OLA INTERIOR COMPILATION
With the Spanish recordings and philosophy of the 'musica discreta' (Spanish ambient) movement overlapping the premise and manifesto of Brian Eno and Jon Hassell's Fourth World, compiler Loïc Diaz Ronda wanted to carve out deserved spaces for the artists involved, as key components within the history of experimental music. This 'post movida' selection features some cult and pioneering artists like Finis Africae, Suso Saiz (Music for Memory) and Miguel A. Ruiz but the majority of artists featured are generally unheard of in Spain or beyond. The album includes two tracks discovered and released for the first time ever (Suso Saiz's Horizonte Paseo & Javier Segura's Malagueñas 2), a handful of digital and vinyl exclusives and provides the musical backdrop to a scene that went under the radar, whilst simultaneously to the east, on the white island of Ibiza, another much publicised revolution, was well underway.

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PREMIERE : Javier Segura - Malagueñas 2

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Next ==> 13/09@ La  Rotonde Stalingrad, Paris
               26/09@ Burger Disco Club, Athens 
               27/09@ Rokfor, Patras
               04/10@ La Démarrante, Annecy
               18/10@ Boom Boom Villette
               31/10@ La Rotonde Stalingrad
               13/12@ La Rotonde Stalingrad


Past Gigs : 
Paris => Cabaret Sauvage, Trabendo, Rex Club, Badaboum, La Java, Mazette, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, La Prairie Du Canal, Petit Bain, Nexus, La Madrague Festival, Palais de Tokyo, La Rotonde Stalingrad, Silencio, ZigZag, La Clairiere, Wanderlust, Nuits Fauves, Double Vie, Pamela, Virage,  Le Monseigneur etc...

France => Calvi On The Rocks, Cabourg Mon Amour, We Love Green, Sarcus Festival, Tres cool Festival-Deauville, Highfive Festival-Annecy, Briques Rouges Festival-Lille, Bains Numeriques Festival-Enghien, Macadam Nantes x2, Lieu Unique Nantes, Le Sucre Lyon x3, Le Terminal Lyon, Le Petit Salon Lyon, Iboat Bordeaux x3, Chapiteau Marseille, 1988 Live Club Rennes, Gare Saint Sauveur Lille x2, Ostra Nancy, Grenoble Campus, La Bobine Grenoble, Angers, Nuit Blanche Saint Denis etcetc...

Europe => London x4 , Manchester x3, Leeds x2, Edinburgh, Berlin x3, Hamburg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm x2, Copenhagen, Geneve x4, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Zurich x4, Bern, Lucern, Madrid x2, Ronda, Barcelona x3, Porto, Prague, Skopje, Milan, Rome, Liege, Istanbul, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest x2, Vilnius x2, Palanga, Belgrade, Zagreb, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow etc...
RoTW ==> Mexico City x2, Guadalajara, Leon, Merida, San Miguel De Allende, Queretaro etc...

PREMIERE : Javier Segura - Malagueñas 2

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