“(…) ALFOS pilot, Sean Johnston, has a ton of music to about to land. The most balearic of which is an E.P. for Le Temps Perdu. Released under the moniker A Mountain Of Rimowa** the record packages 4 originals, plus a remix by the NYC team of Justin Strauss and Max Pask. Each of the tracks bears a recognizable sample, or recreation there of, spanning the genres of soul, post-punk, and house. But these aren’t edits, or even “radical reinterpretations”. More affectionate nods. Since the borrowed bits aren’t core to the tunes. They aren’t the hooks. More an anchor, a leaping-off point. Sometimes only really evident in the intros and outros. Perhaps deliberately acknowledging the past while reaching for, and returning from, the future. No More takes a line from a soulful chart hit and kinda uses its sentiment – of love and understanding, an end to all wars – as its stance. Re-contextualizing these Shoom favourites in a purely electronic setting. Raining down racing arpeggios and anthem-ic piano. The production betraying its author`s love of Italo and synth pop. Joker replays a section of treated post-punk guitar / ambient isolationist dub. Using it to build a buzzing forceful throb around a skipping motorik rhythm, bleeps and a New Order-esque b-line. Brothers And Sisters In The West on the other hand bases its bass riff on that of an instantly recognizable 80s house classic. The new beat / EBM-flavoured Brothers And Sisters In The East is punk funk, whose bottom-end is hulking, muscular, Paul Simonon-like, while its guitars chop and change between tense and nervous Psycho Killer strum, and angular Mick Jones London Calling shapes. The beat like a machined Barkays` break. Pounding, but not pulverizing. Its echoed rimshots eventually escalating into an intense saber rattle.

**A Mountain Of Rimowa is a reference to the life of the “jetset” DJ, and high-end luggage. It is not – as I imagined – some occult Lovecraftian location. Then again, maybe it is.”

https://banbantonton.com/2020/08/21/looking-for-the-balearic-beat-august-2020/

The Decline and Fall of A Mountain Of Rimowa

A.M.O.R. - No More (Each Other Mix)

📍Odesa born 🇺🇦 Berlin based dj and producer

JC, es un reconocido videocreador y dj de las Rias Baixas. Comenzo a pinchar hace diez años en el Bolboreta Club, local da ciudad de Pontevedra en el que se mantuvo varios anos como dj de referencia. Desde entonces ha pinchado en diversos locales, como el Underground en O Grove, Blend en A Coruña ou o Real 10 en Pontevedra. Ademas, ha participado en eventos como el Boa Vila Pride (fiesta organizada por el Concello de Pontevedra para celebrar o Día do Orgullo Gay), o Zero Rock o el ya célebre After Party del festival Cultura Quente en Caldas. A lo largo de este tiempo JC supo adaptar sus sesiones a nuevos horarios, ofreciendo sesiones vermú o sesiones de tarde en diversas ciudades. Su trabajo non es una cuestión de estilo, si no una cuestión de sensaciones, e viene definido por la luminosidad, e un aura agradable que invita al movemiento. 

JC traslada su pasión por música a su labor como director creativo y realizador de el Espejo Mágico Producciones, una empresa dedicada principalmente al eje audiovisual, donde la música que acompaña a las imágenes es parte fundamental y referencial de su trabajo.

More info [ https://linktr.ee/_grid.off ]

next gigs in the Czech Republic/Brno:

9.8.25 - Bday / Na Dráze 2
29.8.25 - Chillin'Trojka / Café Trojka
13.9.25 - Trippy Listening Session / Anoda+ Lounge Bar

🎧 Dj & Producer [ techno . acid . break . triphop ]
◼️ Mångsidig Records Label Owner
✒️ Visual Graphic Artist / Brno

❞𝙀𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 - 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 - 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 - 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙨.❞
/ 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙸𝙳𝙼 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟶

Idea of Electronic Music fascinated him when he was 17 yrs. old (2000). Browsing the internet helped him to discover the first contacts with this kind of music. At the beginning He tried to compose music in trackers etc. 

He spent a lot of time trying to find interesting sites related to electronic music. Thinnerism (era of netlabels) and Epitonic was the first spot where He could listen to tracks from Benfay, Christian Bloch, Curse, Eloi Brunelle, Paul Keeley, Pheek, Mateo Murphy and more & from Epitonic - Morgan Page, Denver McCarthy, Readymade, Ben Neville, Dark Boogie, Sutekh.

In 2003, He listened many various sets, finded tracklists but wanted more informations about releases. There happened changes in his production. The style which he enjoyed and took root in it was "minimal". 

Therefore he love details in electronic music connected and oscillates between styles like techno, rave, acid, break, disco, newave, synth. Some samples of his work you can listen on this web. He started djing in 2005 when he bought his first vinyls (It was pleasure time).

Rivendel is part of scene - predominantly formed in Brno / Czech Republic. In past he was promoter of Le.Clic:Electronique and the resident of Clickinq. During years he passed such parties as Kl:ka, Magion (Fleda), Bubbles, Clicktime and open airs: Shotgun Festival (@shtgnfestival operated by @mooris), Hrachovka, Suncastle, DanceValley (Drahany by @carl-king), Rosnička (@festivalrosnicka). He participated in Perpetuum's Electronic on tuesdays & Café Sklenick (era of Click Joe matador alias Pepi Muah aka møreti @twomoretime) and era of Vibe (now defunct but pleasant time in the beginning. Nowdays surfing the waves of bar Anoda+ (@anoda-bar) or Pul.Pit club.

His love to the electronic music is ploughed by playing with synths, sampler & MIDI controller for new founded label Mångsidig Records (@mangsidigrecords). The other possibility how he can express his sound feelings everytime. 

Actually he mainly plays in club scene of Brno (under enthusiast group Inkwell Tone w/ @7om45) in various sound colours which electronic music gives with his combined dj live set (composition of various tracks, parts, synthesizers or samplers & finger drumming - all it transformed into a story).

PLAYED WITH:
Christian Löffler (DE), Reznik (Keinemusik, DE), Yotto (Anjuna), Coco Cole (UK), Mike Väth (DE), TIGERHEAD, 16BL (Anjunadeep, NL), Deniz Bul (Fckng Serious, DE), M.I.A. (substatic, traumschallplatten/trapez), Pig&Dan, Deetron, Rone live (FR), Enrico Sangiuliano, Tomash GhZ (flori de tei), Jacek Sienkiewicz (recognition, cocoon), Murcof (The Leaf label, Static Discos), Marcel Freigeist (Berlin), Christopher Just (Austria), Crazy Sonic (Austria), Orbith, Elektrabel (live), Nipp (live), Tibor (sk), Milosh&Skank (leporelo.sk), Face (Myclick), Diome (vivacity.cz), Subsist (leporelo.sk, klika), Machine Funck (live), Clara Bailar (partysan.net), Midi lidi, Himalayan Dalai Lama, Monotype (techno.cz), Lillou (roxy.cz), Insect Elektrika (live-act), Clubfoot (uk),  Click Joe (magion), Vik (perpetuum.cz), Kaisersoze aka Aleph, Mooris (shotgun, dynamic line), Peter Wünsch (Restart), Sonority (live), Mindhole (live), Joshek, Ambitech (live), Romano Porni, Trick, Funk Halen, Orbith, T.C.O. (wazzotic records), Ala (klika), Funk Halen, Carl King (clickinq), Unclean (cryoworks.com), OBRaZ, Miniman, D!Rock, Peter Pea, HaWran, Deepers, Pdch, Jörg Hartner, Skaph, Mike Corner, Ecco, Darren Wilkinson, Othervision, Fly, Saddan, Andrei, Anna Kayuda, Othervision, Upgrade, Kema, Eva Porating, Alan Wood, GlitchGoose, James D, Carl W, Ana Mi, Treto (SK), Tom Holič, HRTL, White Aura, Axona

A.M.O.R. - No More (Each Other Mix)

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