Once upon a time on planet [-M-E-L-M-A-K-] two teenagers visiting their grand parents at their village compound were blissfully sleeping late in the morning when a LOUD BANG!!! made them jump off their beds.

The bewilderment quickly grew into confusion of how was this possible and then into respect. It appeared to be a soviet era polish made vacuum tube TV set thrown out the window of the 2nd floor of the house. Grandfather was doing the spring cleaning of the house, obviously, the Balkan way - almost meeting the criteria to qualify for Valhalla!

The old cathode ray tube usually being under pressure as a technology were famous to make a loud violent and deeply sounding burst when broken that it reminded us a heavy drum machine and the almost perfect and most brutal and deep and powerful bass drum we have ever heard.

So, us... being techno freaks by that time and fascinated by the idea of techno music inspired and recreating the heavy industry and machinery in an auricular way - we took a field recorder, found another old TV set of the make and.... threw it out the window... while recording all the sounds coming out of the impact :)

Later dissected and re-looped and re-worked through sampling here's a record that's been years overdue in the making.
credits
releases July 30, 2024

Mastered by Marco Pellegrino @ Analogcut Mastering, Berlin, DE, Earth

Design & artwork by Aleksandra Grunholz @studiochaotyczne.com

© & ♡ 2024 [-M-E-L-M-A-K-], Lukovit & Kyustendil, BG, planet Melmak

Topaz-23

(LKVBHR-8) Topaz-23 (12" EP preview)

[-M-E-L-M-A-K-] is a psychedelic and techno experimental music label set up for the first time around 2000 in North-Western Bulgaria. In the last years the label is becoming operational again but based in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, soaking dub-techno inspiration from the Osogovo and Lisets mountain ranges.

A bunch of electronic fans in our early teenage-hood, we just have massively discovered rave, techno, psychedelic/goa trance and downtempo alchemy. During the years we formed a small creative group identifying itself as the purely electronic fan club - The Luk-O-weed Crew or G.T.N.D. Mob.

Take a trip to planet [-M-E-L-M-A-K-]! And the local carrier to take you on a dreamy, spacey but yet mellow groovy flight is known as “Charter Murphy”. Since he started creating music the 4/4 format was already too limiting for him. “He is always striving to slip-in between two steps of the sequencer…” as his fellow Melmakian “ddx” said once. Since his early teenage years Murphy was producing music on his personal computer. He was also part of the Kyustendil based organization “Collapse DJs” responsible for the biggest techno parties in town.
Later, for more than 10 years, he was dedicated to working in the social sphere with homeless young people so he didn't have much time to continue his hobby, but now he has also been reactivated by the Melmakian space signals and this with aplomb.