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A Colourful Storm with Moopie & Andrea Zarza Canova - 24 Mars 2022

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Big or profound sensations from small gestures which are carefully arranged. Using a mixture of sacred and profane, or classical and prosaic sound sources, knitted into intricate, fleet-footed compositions that virtually spring into the ear. Profondo Rosa is composer Ailin Grad’s first vinyl album following years embedded and loved in the Argentinian experimental music scene, with past treats on labels Krut, Sun Ark, Orange Milk Records and her own label Abyss, devoted to ‘connecting Latin Juke with the world’.

There’s a playfulness at the heart of Profondo Rosa that’s immediately charming, with a sense of scale and spatialisation in the sounds being toyed with, exploring the strange pleasures and satisfaction in her approach to delightful and fresh feeling sound design. Aylu is known to be as likely to deploy the sound of a finger click, a fizzy drink being cracked open, or a fly buzzing past the ear, as she is drawn to sampling gorgeous strings or instrumentation. Her debut album for Mana constantly builds territories that tug at your heartstrings and then have you grinning five seconds later. This versatility and acceleration has often resulted in her music being compared to footwork, alongside collaboration with other producers experimenting in that sphere; in 2017 she and Foodman put together a dizzying hour of sounds for NTS.

Her miniaturisation of rhythm and ringtone-like sample size could also bring to mind SND circa their warmer softer glitch Tenderlove phase, or perhaps the approach that Teenage Engineering take to designing tools for music making. Each are deriving pleasure from small and satisfying shapes, as well as advocating an object-oriented philosophy and minimalisation in their work that sidesteps a draining of colour. Sound is fun, and in Profondo Rosa it sounds like Aylu has that at the forefront of her mind.

Her hyperreal sound and its link to the languages of electroacoustic or computer music are clear, but she outmanoeuvres many of the overly-academic and formless examples of those genres. Profondo Rosa’s skeletal assembly of objects becomes tunes in an elegant, almost understated way; tactile elements quickly combine and roll into deeper and persuasively emotional places. These compositions give off an air of being very free, very experimental, despite being meticulously artful and studied arrangements on precise and nimble coordinates.

released October 4, 2022

Artwork by Roberta Di Paolo
Typography by Gustavo Eandi
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer @ Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

Profondo Rosa

Aylu - Lilla

Amazing new mixtape put together by Andrea Zarza & Matthew Kent from Mana Records....Its up there as one of the best mixtapes we've ever released!

The cassette is available now via our Online Store
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GMT60 Mana Records - 'Vessels In July' Mixtape (Snippets)

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (23.08.2023)

Artist: @callumduff

Wizrad @ Radio TNP 23.08.2024

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Wild soundscapes from Benedict Drew, an artist splitting his time between installation art and music that hums and spills over with vivid material encounters; sounds are slurpy, runny, fizzy, spongy, hard as rock.

After digital releases, a tape for patten’s Kaleidoscope label, a musical score to accompany his De Re Touch video art project commissioned by Transport for London’s Art on the Underground, and many active years in London’s experimental music scene through work with the London Musicians’ Collective, Ninja Tune, and live collaborations with Rhodri Davies, Chris Watson and Sachiko M; Crawling Through Tory Slime is Drew’s debut long-playing record. Music on each of the record’s faces bleeds together continuously, recalling long improvisational sets, floor-sucking dub-wise, psychedelia, plunderphonics, and tight GRM-era electronic sound design pieced together with drum machines, cloudy synthesiser, bits n’ bobs. There’s a certain English charm, humour and taste for cheap science fiction and cobbled-together escape routes out of reality that follows a lineage set out by artists like Jeff Keen or Bruce Lacey, reset for the exciting horrors and delights of contemporary life.

Benedict Drew’s solo exhibition The Trickle Down Syndrome runs from June to September at the Whitechapel Gallery, designed over the same period as the LP and "drawing on wide-ranging references, from the stage sets of classic Hollywood cinematographer Busby Berkeley to the Surrealist worlds of artist Max Ernst".

Mastered and cut at D&M. 
Distributed by Honest Jons, London.

Benedict Drew - Crawling Through Tory Slime (excerpts)

Mix Ulldeter
Mastering @nicksinna
Art @dasychira


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Sempre que ho recordo torno a estar sol
D’una sola cosa en pots estar segur
Que jo ho faig tant bé com puc
Vull ser pròxim a tothom i no ho aconseguexo
Vull tocar-ho tot i ho vull probar

Cal anar descalç a la vora del riu
Sempre he somiat en un lloc magic
Ja no somio s’ha acabat, ‘no magik’

El talent no és per sempre
No és per sempre 
Mira a una banda
Mira a l’altra banda
A una banda els morts
I a l’altra banda els ports
A una banda els morts
I a l’altra banda els ports
A una banda els morts
I a l’altra banda els ports

Entro a la ciutat no és nomes una ciutat

Sempre que ho recordo torno a estar sol
Miro a la pantalla i em sembla que ja no
Que estic a prop i ja ho tinc tot
Vull ser pròxim a tothom però crec que es impossible
Vull tocar-ho tot i ho vull probar

Peixos EP

Ulldeter - No+Magik

A taste of new material from the mysterious Giegling affiliate.

Download and tracklisting: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/podcast-601-sa-pa

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XLR8R Podcast 601: Sa Pa

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Rain, spit, ice, neon, mercury, arcing electricity, plants, steam, soil, and dust; this is dream music from Sa Pa. Following up on his 2015 debut 風物詩 [Fuubutsushi], In A Landscape provides rich content for fantasy and the fertile imagination, establishing a rich terrain of visual, poetic, and abstract sound that draws on techno and dub ambient.

Somewhere between pastoral impressionism and cyber-noir, its surface evokes the tensions of a fluctuating, fizzing atmosphere, pictures emerging and dissolving in the mind’s eye. Thick layers of field recording - some salvaged from a recorder lost in Bassiani during the police raid last year and recovered in January - flood tracks fabricated from erratic, oddly distanced rhythm.

The sensation whilst listening is not unlike hearing the world from a place within the body; swimming in the bloodstream, cutting through the turbulent landscape secure in a metal tube.

Or being over-exposed to lushly textured environments with the anatomy far receded; an out-of-body experience where subtler senses are heightened and the landscape begins to take on surreal qualities.

released October 18, 2019

Art by Matthew Kent and Gustavo Eandi
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Mike Grinser @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

In A Landscape

Sa Pa - Ripsketch

420 soon
https://lustwerkmusic.bandcamp.com

420 - Untitled 15

Mana is a record label established in 2017 by Andrea Zarza, curator at the British Library Sound Archive, and Blowing Up The Workshop founder Matthew Kent. 

Publishing works with an archival and contemporary sound, Mana is a platform redrawing narrative boundaries and perspectives through a playful, radical and unexpected approach.