SAH - Intimacy
BUY LINK: https://reellongoverdub.bandcamp.com/album/intimacy
Release date: 6 august 2021
Label: Reel Long Overdub (https://soundcloud.com/reellongoverdub)

"Through the gutters of the lovers
I move into you
Forget about all the others
Finally together, as we always were" 💖

Intimacy is the debut full-length from Leeds-based twin producers, SAH. Exploring various intensities and incarnations of closeness, it will help us process and exorcise our shared experience of isolation and distance, of late.

In their own words: “This album is a collection of sounds and feelings based on our own personal meditations over the concept of true intimacy. Whether the intimacy is an attempt to become closer to a lover, a friend or some form of higher power many of us seek true intimacy within every single breath of existence”. ✨

The eight tracks draw inspiration from the diversity of global religions, making references to African spirituals, American Gospel, Spiritual Jazz and Islamic Folk. It aims to “create a transcendent listening experience” that breaks free from dogma and organisation to embrace a higher, more holistic form of spirituality – a power that it is hoped will serve as a positive force in fragmented, depressive times 🌞

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PREMIERE : SAH - Call To Prayer

Catch92 - Wake 
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Release: 28.01.22

Buy/Stream: https://ffm.to/wake_single

Wander EP

Catch92 - Wake

He held a hollow gaze from the window, looking out over the world and the delicate unease of humanity. Here in his room he was safe from harm and could not be threatened or touched by the venomous poison of civilisation. He was quite happy up here, surrounded by technology and buzzing wires. For this was his den, his original cell, in which he was able to make wild, magical things happen. The very connection of others depended on him and his choices when pressing each button. He could foil it all...

Projections release a new EP on their own imprint Ritual Release. The pair have a stunning legacy in dance and electronic music having released a plethora of material over the years - their latest outing is very special indeed. The release comes with a remix from Khidja.

PREMIERE: Projections - Original Cell (Khidja Remix) [Ritual Release]

tower is a track with a contemplative vibe, it's electronic music for traveling. low bpm, pulsating bass and ambient music inspired synths.

Tower

Hypnotic and uplifting sounds from Milan.

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Among the students is a little girl who wears glasses. She set them down on a chair before the class started, the way I used to when I was her age and taking classes with Madame Dismailova. You don’t wear glasses when you dance. I remember that when I was with Madame Dismailova, I would practice not wearing my glasses during the day. The shapes of people and things lost their sharpness and everything was blurry. Even sounds became muffled. Without my glasses, the world lost its roughness and became as soft and downy as the big pillow I used to lean my cheek against before going to sleep.

Franz Kirmann returns to Bytes for his stunning sixth solo album, Forget Me Not, travelling inland to explore buried emotions of longing and loss. The music of Forget Me Not is drenched in blurry melancholy, with fragments of melodies and disembodied voices reaching out through dense, textured clouds of sound, perfectly demonstrated by 'Your Tenderness', the track premiering on R$N today.

A meditation on past mistakes, past love and the passing of time, the compositions on the LP are akin to paintings, layered and still, the slowed-down voices from the deconstructed songs echo through heavy reverberation, becoming distant and sepulchral, evocations of a distant past. The melodies, half erased, become almost subliminal.

Kirmann cites My Bloody Valentine as a major influence on his work, but also artists from the British experimental label Touch, such as Fennesz for his work on granular sound and similar melancholic-centric productions, or Philip Jeck for his use of old records to conjure otherworldly musical textures.

Extract from from Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano.

PREMIERE: Franz Kirmann - Your Tenderness [Bytes]

Cafe De La Jungle - Tuvan Spirits (incl. Tolouse Low Trax Remix)
BUIY LINK: https://dansledesert.bandcamp.com/album/tuvan-spirits-incl-tolouse-low-trax-remix
Label: Dans le Desert (https://soundcloud.com/dans-le-desert)
https://soundcloud.com/cafe-de-la-jungle

Cafe de la Jungle returns with Tuvan Spirits EP for Dans de la Desert, exploring further his fascination with shamanic practices in highly dynamic sound environments.

While his excellent debut Dancing with Cicadas was rife with dangerous and mysterious rhythms, the Kraków-based producer takes a more laid back approach this time. Built around cavernous ambiance and bass notes played with such grace they paint a picture of a dance ritual so subtle, it’s visceral and highly narrative at the same time. While the bass ballet of “Kus” opens the record in a beautiful and stoic way, its followup—the percussive “Chas”—takes on a playful approach as it’s juxtaposing throat singing samples with jaw harp-like one off sounds bouncing off skittery beats. “Kysh” on the other hand puts Zajac’s mastery of modular sculpting to such a high that you might change your opinion about Italians being the masters of dubby, ambient techno you can drown in.

To top off the EP in a spectacular way, Cafe de la Jungle invited Toulouse Low Trax who turned “Kysh” into his trademark mechanical style, achieving a fascinating combination of off-kilter clockwork precision and long-forgotten folklore of unknown lands.

PREMIERE : Cafe De La Jungle - Chai

This album explores a kind of cosmic ambience, open field yet highly attuned to far reaching worlds, spaces, feelings and yearning for freedom of awareness in a deep sense.

Celestial Joy 

The dialogue with the heavens  
A milk to imbibe from luminous space 
The love of a universe that gave birth to itself
to the vast and endless streams of lights and consciousness
to a music that soars in rivers of ecstasy
to the infinitely small and the infinitely great
The throat of a goddess emitting streams of stars as song
The expanse that rages out beyond hope of grasp
The naturalness that holds aloft deep hope AND humble humour of heart

Alma

Maddrigal

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