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Catalog #: GN64
June 10, 2022
LP+DIGI

Smoke Point is a duo composed of Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory). With their self-titled debut LP on Geographic North, the Los Angeles-based duo takes a captivating cruise through heady ambient drifts and ruthlessly rhythmic loop dreams.

Foote and Caswell first teamed up to create a series of improvisational atmospherics throughout a multi-room art gallery. The pair conceived of a sprawling, dynamic experience with tones, rhythms, and textures that varied from room to room, yet were inextricably tuned and melded together. Visitors could serve as a sort of human crossfader, moving through the gallery and dialing up or down aural aspects as they pleased. And although the collaboration came together to create music for a specific physical space, the concept was never fully realized until what is now the duo’s first record. 

Smoke Point brings five extended, cruise-controlled exercises that calmly violate the Venn diagram's overlap between boundless dance music and unfathomable ambiance. But beyond the boundaries of an album as a set of songs, Foote and Caswell cracked things wide open and recontextualized the album as an actual DJ tool onto itself; ambient leaning and melodically focused. To achieve this, 'Smoke Point' offers a bounty of loops in the form of endless locked grooves on the vinyl edition and brief but equally utilitarian snippets on the digital edition of the LP.

Smoke Point

Smoke Point - "Waterwheel"

aimless voyager

Errorsmith & Mark Fell - Protogravity
Format: 12" / DL
Cat.No: PAN 64
http://p-a-n.org/release/pan-64-errorsmith-mark-fell/

Errorsmith & Mark Fell - Protogravity (PAN 64)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCyGiwmqNXA
Buy it now @ https://dogandfox.bandcamp.com/track/who-gets-the-cows

Who Gets The Cows?

"////" by Second Woman from "LP2" due out April 2017 on Spectrum Spools.

"////" by Second Woman

This is what it sounds like inside my head...

Strings Mixtape 1
Lucinda Chua x Alex Epton – Swan Lake 1
Douglas Dare – Whelm
Alex Epton – Then
Tierra Whack – 4 Wings
John Tavener / Steven Isserlis – The Protecting Veil III
Tayfun Erdem – Overtune
Claude Debussy – Beau Soir
Ravel / Beaux Arts Trio – Piano Trio III
Tirzah – Devotion (feat. Coby Sey)
Mansur Brown x Lucinda Chua – Slow Jam
[Cello interlude]
[Marianna voice memo]
Suokas - Skygger
Oneohtrix Point Never – Manifold
Alex Epton – Emilios Blotto
Lucinda Chua – Meditations On A Place
[Emily voice memo]
Joe Summers x Lucinda Chua x Zoe McPherson – Rooftop Clip
Lucinda Chua – Gentler

interlude : Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio, Voices, Impressions
[Black Phillip speaks]

Strings Mixtape 2
Bud Powell - Dance of the Infidels
Shabaka Hutchings - What’s the Orbit of Your Navigation?
Wiki - Stairwell Freestyle
Gwilym Gold, Dave Okumu & Dan See - Mode
Skúli Sverrisson & Óskar Guðjónsson - Fragments
Lucinda Chua - Until I Fall [demo]
Ennio Morricone - Intervallo II [from Veruschka]
Dean Blunt - As Long as Ropes Unravel Fake Rolex will Travel
[Eliza Legzdina - Pop-Eye]
Talk Talk - The Rainbow
[Charlie Fox, Lucinda Chua - Wolf Choir]
[Chloë Sevigny in Surface by Michael Cleary]
Lucinda Chua - Feel Something [voice memo]
Ratkiller - Unapologetea Part 1
Arthur Russell - Our Last Night Together
Ricky Eat Acid - This is as Close to Heaven as I Get
Nina Simone - Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair
Mansur Brown - Mashita
Lucinda Chua - Contamination for Voice [from Worst Gift]
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Lucinda Chua - Whatever It Takes [Live at Laylow]
Ratkiller - Unapologetea Part 2
Ennanga Vision - New Sunshine
Benjamin Clementine - Phantom of Aleppoville
Yo Yo Ma - Cello Suite No. 6, Sarabande by Bach
Lucinda Chua - An Avalanche [for Strings]

Strings Mixtape 3
Cooly G - Love Dub
Vesce - Zender 
Lucinda Chua - Feel Something
Slum Village - And I Go
Photay - Outre?
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Bing & Ruth - Put Your Weight Into It

Strings Mixtape 4
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Heron Dance
[Arvo Pärt interview]
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today
Ennio Morricone - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri
Lucinda Chua - Somebody Who
Oneohtrix Point Never - Explain
Cham Pang - Bella V
Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2
Suokas - Subsekvenser
Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor
[Nina Simone interview]
György Ligeti - Sonatina for Piano, 4 Hands II
Burial - Young Death
Arve Henriksen - Blue Silk [live]
[Frank O'Hara interview]
Yves Tumor - Limerence
CY AN - NOWKNOWING(H)
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music [excerpt]
Frippertronics on Midnight Special 1979
Pablo's Eye - I Have No Other Compass
Lucinda Chua - Semitones

Strings Mixtape 1 - 4

"Ride" is a new track from ELLLL, who's set to continue her prolific 2019 run with the striking new EP ‘Glisten.’ Fresh off releases on Glacial Industries and First Second, the Irish-born, Berlin-based shapeshifter takes a creative turn here, setting aside her bassy excursions and techno flirtations for something much more cinematic in scope. Rich in melody, this record finds ELLLL taking an orchestral approach, weaving together piano swells and delicate strings to create a truly immersive listening experience. 

All music by ELLLL.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de disseny.
Photograph by Claire Cichy.

Glisten

ELLLL "Ride"

to whom it may concern...

its too beautiful to embrace change and to challenge urself to find something meaningful in it... i love my friends and love is deep :') i want them to know that always... but sometimes i get busy and overwhelmed n im not the best at saying how i feel always... just want to sit around and talk and feel understood together w someone who you like or u find interesting.. thats the best :) and if the day is nice or if the day is not nice but ur inside and its cozy.. thats too wicked. and ur making a soup and eating it together... just with the stuff in the kitchen.. dont even go out to get ingredients.. no need to follow a recipe.. cause ur grandma taught u to cook w the "sazon" (cooking by tasting w as u go on adding diff ingredients and spices.. no recipes. .. u can only really cook if u can freestyle in the kitchen she said).. and then u think about how ur grandma taught u that.. and your w someone in the kitchen making something together.. and then u taste it and it warms u up and ur like damn this is fire.. thats what this and i think maybe what "its all" about... thank u for taking time to read this and i hope you enjoy the album...

kiss u...

brian

'ADMSDP' is taken from DJ Python's "Mas Amable" LP
Vinyl 12" / Digital / Cassette
Out now: https://incienso.ffm.to/djpython_masamable

Written, Produced, and Mixed by Brian Piñeyro
Vocals on 'ADMSDP' courtesy of LA Warman
Mastered by Chris "CZ" Wang
Cover Photo by Lazaro Rodriguez

DJ Python
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Incienso
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DJ Python - ADMSDP (Feat. LA Warman) [INC-008]

Blazer Sound System / CS + Kreme - Tanka Riddim / Crushed Cream 10"

Parallel pairings from NYC and Melbourne. Long drip-feeding insane productions via their NTS Radio residency, Blazer Sound System materialise 'Tanka Riddim'. The slow burner menacingly slithers like a serpent coiling its prey; its victim praising the reality-dismantling guitar delay and exuberant roots of the afterlife. CS + Kreme’s flipside mystics summon 'Crushed Cream' from the forest floor. Neck-snapping hypnobeat that was seeded between their dual Total Stasis initiations - the prelude to an untouchable streak on The Trilogy Tapes. White label 10” with hand stamped motifs by Thomas Jeppe.

B CS + Kreme - Crushed Cream 4:38 (ES014)

Howie Lee - Birdy Island
Taken from the album Birdy Island, out now
LP/CD/Digital - Mais Um (MAIS042)

"At once fine-grained and expansive, Lee’s work combines traditional Chinese music and historical references with wild electronic experimentation" 
7.6 in PITCHFORK 
"Birdy Island is Lee's most organic work" RESIDENT ADVISOR

Swirling layers of OST-style sound design, dreamy choir vocals and traditional Chinese folk combine across eight dynamic and transportive tracks on Birdy Island, the latest album by Beijing-based producer/artist, Howie Lee, due out in April 2021 on Mais Um.

Fresh off the back of several high impact, club-centring album releases on Maloca, SVBKVLT and his influential, Do Hits label, on top of remixes for artists including Lawfawndah, Charlie XCX & Sophie, Lee presents his most organic and expansive project to date.

Written, produced and recorded entirely by Lee at the back end of 2018 (with the exception of the album’s resident four-piece choir made up of rising Beijing artist, Fishdoll, Shanghai singer/producer, Yehaiyahan and West by West, with Lee himself also included), Birdy Island’s almost exclusively acoustic yet broad sound palette threads continuities between ceremonial Taoist music, early Buchla synth experiments, and FWD>> nights at London’s Plastic People.

“This album just came very natural. It was all recorded little by little. Layer upon layer. The approach was to just record. I had all these instruments around me and I just thought, i’m gonna play and keep playing”.

Howie’s latest offering is as enchanting as it is boundlessly imaginative. “I’ve always had this concept in my mind about making an album based around an island”. Loosely based around Lee’s own long-formed concept of a floating Sicilian theme park, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits, Howie remarks: "Birdy Island to me is a palace in the clouds and the birds are worshipped like Gods. Not like a western God though.” Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa (in the 1986 film Castle In The Sky), Lee’s Birdy Island has been built by a Chinese investment company seeking to re-sync our relationship with the spiritual and natural world after years of economic collapse and degradation, and who invite Howie to compose the park’s soundtrack. Inside Birdy Island’s 30-minute gallery of collaged sound, Lee draws on a wide history of traditional pan-Asian music, filtered through his unique lens of contemporary electronic production.

From playful percussion to child-like wonderment, the album title track and first single off Birdy Island combines Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith-esque synths with rattling bells and AI-manipulated birdsong to saintly effect, with Lee’s four-piece choir invoking an almost devotional chant, accompanying Lee's ethereal and bright production.

Arranged and mixed by Howie Lee
All instruments by Howie Lee (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments)
Choir vocals by Howie Lee, Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll and West by West
Artwork by Coldass 
Design by Tristan Manco 

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Howie Lee - 鸟岛(Birdy Island) [Taken from the album 'Birdy Island', out now]

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Howie Lee - 鸟岛(Birdy Island) [Taken from the album 'Birdy Island', out now]

Mais Um

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