this track is truly amazing, i get goosebumps thinking of those old sample records with wizard audio books.......

Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

She was gracious and elegant, dancing softly before them all as they watched onwards with jealousy and glee. From time to time she would vanish into the smoke and the fog, only to emerge more radiant and glowing than before she had disappeared. This was all part of the magic, all part of the allure and the intrigue of such a beautiful display. She caught each onlookers eyes, longingly taking them in before whispering softly "can I be your geisha?" It was enough to set the whole damn world on fire, at least for an evening anyway. 

Naomie Klaus is set to release a new tape via Bamboo Shows, a meandering, odd assortment of synth, new wave and electronic sounds which touch upon pop. It's whimsical and weird, wonderful and wild.

A Story of a Global Disease

PREMIERE: Naomie Klaus - Can I Be Your Geisha? [Bamboo Shows]

20 Minutes That You Can't Have Back

Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

Arthur Russell - Home Away From Home (Andy Stott Refix)

Curated by Palmbomen II & Betonkust
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio

MDM P

Palmbomen II - In Bath With A Salmon

Objekt — Cocoon Crush
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 97
Release Date: 9 November 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2xhO0kR / bit.ly/2OvxYuv

PAN welcomes back Objekt for Cocoon Crush, his first LP since 2014’s Flatland. Over the past four years Objekt has continued to challenge conventions with his club output (the Objekt #4 single release and the Kern Vol. 3 mix CD for Tresor), while maintaining his reputation as a DJ who deploys impeccable technical finesse in crafting elaborate narratives from a diverse and challenging palette of electronic music. 

Written between 2014 and 2018 in Berlin and on the road, Cocoon Crush once again sees the producer jettisoning the functional requirements of the dancefloor. Marking a further evolution from the youthful exuberance of Flatland, Cocoon Crush explores a more introspective side, with themes of human interaction resonating throughout the record as it ruminates on a spectrum of complex moods rooted in 4 years of sometimes turbulent personal experience. 

Cocoon Crush represents an aesthetic departure from Flatland’s largely synthetic tonality, drawing from organic source material and natural textures to illustrate perplexing and unfamiliar sceneries in photorealistic detail. In Cocoon Crush, Objekt diverges further still from his musical influences to craft the purest manifestation of his own musical personality to date: an intriguing and enigmatic album whose reference points are hard to pin down, in which ghostly synth passages weave through mind-bending, weighty drums, and ASMR-triggering foley collages scrape and sparkle. Through meticulous sculpting, Objekt traces a rich and impressionistic journey through claustrophobia, hope, guilt, anxiety and joy, nested in layers of sonic detail which reward with every listen. 

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Kasia Zacharko, and layout by Bill Kouligas.

@keinobjekt
http://p-a-n.org

Cocoon Crush

Objekt - Secret Snake (Single Mix)(PAN 97)

Recorded at Office du Pain, 2019
Mastered by Kris Jakob (Linear.ms)
Photo by Johanna Bieber

Das Kinn

Das Kinn ( MDM#5 )

Buy: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-129-doxa-sinistra-universo-selected-works-1982-1988

Mannequin Records presens a double-LP compilation of the Dutch industrial-experimental heroes Doxa Sinistra. Preciously selected by the expert ears of Frank Brinkhuis, head of Trumpett, Universo spans from 1982 to 1988 through their entire discography

A favourite of Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin.

release date: October 19, 2020

Graphics by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2020.
Mastering by Rude 66, Amsterdam, 2020.

Universo

Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger

Taken from the album On Feather and Wire released as Vinyl and Digital.

Rivet 'Mag Mich' (EMEGO 293)

Written, recorded and produced in 2016 with Jemma, Joel, Laurie and Ruth at Green Door Studios, Glasgow

Engineered by Emily

Épater

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

No demos

🗓️ Mannequin Records showcases
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Distro > http://www.rushhour.nl

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Juno http://bit.ly/1hZtSIH
Boomkat http://bit.ly/MBEvCM

Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger

Mannequin Records

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