RA New Tracks: June 2018

June'18

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Mannequin Records #3 x Berlin Community Radio
Tuesday 20th March 2018 8-9 pm

Mannequin Records #3 x Berlin Community Radio

https://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-097-nexda-words-and-numbers-lp

Mannequin, Emotional Rescue and Blowpipe come together to release the music of Dutch post-punk, industrial outsiders Nexda, by releasing a collection of music drawn from all their single and EP vinyl releases, to offer a compelling album.

Taken from two 12” EPs, a split 7” and a flexi 7”, all released in 1982, the music within "Word & Numbers" captures striking compositions, part of, but some way removed from their contemporary post-punk bands coming out of the Dutch “Ultra” scene of the time.

Developing out of a series of concerts in Amsterdam, Ultra expanded to Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Haarlem, with artists and musicians creating their own work spaces and studios. Driven by the DIY mentality of the punk movement, this uniquely Dutch take on the post-punk ethos embraced avant-garde thinking and experimentation that disseminated in ideas and from that, sound.

Coming from Haarlem, Nexda – consisting of Ivo Schalkx, Karin Hueting, Martienden Nijs – played music on handmade drums, metal, organ, saxophone and voice. Releasing a series of cassettes on their and Wim Dekker (Smalts, Minny Pops) Studio 12 label, the latter’s link with Wally Van Middendorp’s Plurex label, resulted in the release of Nexda’s two EP – 246, 121 and 657 (PLUREX 0026) and Second (PLUREX 0031) - with artwork of Ivo Schalkx, are included here, both in their entirety. 

Capturing the bands’ heavy percussive backdrop, raw, dub baselines contrast with questioning, mainly spoken word lyrical poetics, saxophone underplay and occasional Pablo-style melodica. The avant nature of the music is apparent and enticing, where experimentalism and artistic expression was sought over commercial success and technique and song form were less important than the process of exploring ideas.

The none-descriptive titles match song structures that jettison the traditional verse, chorus, verse; weaving across the 8 songs so that they can be heard as one, as much asshort bursts of individual statements.

Tracklist

1 Twofourtysix 
2 Untitled (Studio 12 7'')
3 Fivesixtyeight 
4 Threeseventyfive 
5 Onetwentyone 
6 Foureightynine 
7 Sixfiftyseven 
8 Untitled (Flexi 7'')

Mastering by Rude 66, 2017, Amsterdam.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani, 2018, Berlin.

MNQ 097 Nexda - Words and Numbers LP

https://mannequinrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mnq-122-giant-swan-high-waisted-12

Giant Swan are debuting on Mannequin Records through the Death of the Machines serie, the dancefloor/experimental oriented side of the label, dedicated to new artists.

Robin Stewart & Harry Wright team up to create an acerbic marriage of energised, aggressive dance music, quaking bass and hypnotic electronic noise. Across a table of machines and pedals, incorporating abused guitar and liberal vocal manipulation, Giant Swan create a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating energy delivered with telepathic intricacy.

Tracklist

A1 The Rest Of His Voice
A2 Architectural Hangover
B1 High Waisted
B2 Palm

Mastering by Rude 66, Amsterdam 2018.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2018.

MNQ 122 Giant Swan - High Waisted 12'' (Death Of The Machines)

Remco Beekwilder kicks of EMERALD with his Nightlife EP. Humbly pushing his vision of electronic music whilst trying to stay loyal to the rave. Four to four edge signature sound cuts.

Limited available high quality (140gm black 12") vinyl copy of EMERALD 001. Comes with additional stickers!

https://emerald.bandcamp.com/album/nightlife-ep

All tracks written and produced by Remco Beekwilder
Cat. EMERALD001 – All rights reserved
© EMERALD 2018

Remco Beekwilder - Packard Plant

Order the vinyl here: https://bit.ly/2l04PtY

Giant Swan are debuting on Mannequin Records through the Death of the Machines serie, the dancefloor/experimental oriented side of the label, dedicated to new artists.

Robin Stewart & Harry Wright team up to create an acerbic marriage of energised, aggressive dance music, quaking bass and hypnotic electronic noise. Across a table of machines and pedals, incorporating abused guitar and liberal vocal manipulation, Giant Swan create a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating energy delivered with telepathic intricacy.

Tracklist

A1 The Rest Of His Voice
A2 Architectural Hangover
B1 High Waisted
B2 Palm

Mastering by Rude 66, Amsterdam 2018.
Graphic design by Alessandro Adriani, Berlin, 2018.

High Waisted

Giant Swan - The Rest Of His Voice

Meuko! Meuko! 
'鬼島 Ghost Island' EP (DN013)w/ remixes by Dutch E Germ & GIL
Format: digital / limited edition CD  
Release Date: 6 July 2018
@meukomeuko

Dreamscape:

The fog, snow, streets … everything had only altered slightly from my memory yet I perceived this world as one that might be a couple years, or even a few centuries, into the future. I was amongst a group of futuristically dressed children, school dropouts turned street dwellers, who had just run away from their homes, and I seemed to be one of them, wearing dark sailor clothes, with black hair just past my shoulders.

We had been hiding for quite a while in the white stairwell of a newly built building, uninhabited since its completion. The children set up a den in the stairwell, equipped with a TV and video games. I had somehow become their leader, directing the others where to safely spend their nights. These children were not afraid of the darkness in this world.

One young girl even managed to communicate with rabbits living in the snow. She often hid in a corner of the stairwell, listening to an old yellow cassette player. The girl believed the sound she heard was a gift from the ancestors – music had vanished in this world, you see. She would listen to recorded lectures and pray in the temple left by her predecessors.

Eventually the hideout was discovered by the building’s construction workers when the children were returning from their scavenging mission, so we were forced to leave and seek new shelter. Once again we retreated along the bustling streets, where neon lights were beaming everywhere, and creeping smog rendered peoples’ faces lost and helpless. Elder street vendors were selling every last bit of their wares, hawking outmoded objects of their forefathers. Finally we arranged some cardboard boxes in an alley, just for one night’s sojourn. We knew it was still a long road ahead. That night felt like a year.

Another morning we were driven out from previous night’s hideout, as we had become accustomed to, and while out scouring the streets for food the girl stumbled upon a forgotten temple. A dense fog hovered in the air, as if the place was high up in the clouds. The temple was too crammed with dark painted bronze figures of canine deities for her to even find a way in. She sensed from these figures, a time of strife and warfare harkening back thousands of years, a time when mankind destroyed the earthly body of Buddha and the Gods. These sacred bodies had subsequently been sold and dispersed throughout the world for thousands of years. This temple had become the haven for these anthropomorphized animal figures since then.

Realizing she had in fact lost consciousness, the girl awoke to find the temple floating among the clouds, an island in the sky. Only then did it dawn upon her that humanity will inevitably return to its primal state among the ancient forests, and that the temple suspended in the heavens contained the ghosts of humanity.

鬼島 Ghost Island

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Meuko! Meuko! - 眾神廟 The Temple

This June The Corner welcomes PTA - a new collaboration between Physical Therapy & Ambivalent. 4 tracks of wall-shaking warehouse techno with a rhythmic percussive groove, summoning the 90’s but completely fresh in it’s sound. Perfect to be played out in black boxes for all hours everywhere!

PTA - PTA1 (COR18)

COR-18 A1 PTA

For the next R.A.N.D. Muzik comp Leipzig’s Qnete, Interviews and Stanley Schmidt team up with Melbourne local Rudolf C.
Breakbeat music from house through to emotional drum and bass..

Artists: Various Artists
Title: RM12002
Premiere Artist: Qnete
 Track Title: Copa Copa
Label: R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings
Cat #: RM12002
Release date: 26.06.2018
Format: Vinyl 12" 

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@qnete

RM12002

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Shite Premiere | Qnete - Copa Copa

Raw Culture for its 2nd birthday is so proud to introduce its little sister: GHETTO CULTURE.
Ghetto Culture is a series of releases inspired by ghetto house sound, techniques and feelings but reinterpreted in a modern way.
This first release is signed by Ghetto 25, the punk connexion between two mysterious french artist with only purpose of making unintelligent tracks for unintelligent people. Footwork, hard twerk and champion league are their only goals for next seasons.
The EP includes a remix delivered directly from Chicago's ambassador of ghetto sound : PAUL JOHNSON.
This series of releases will include a little fanzine with an exclusive interview to the master PJ , some exclusive art work from the french duo and some other gems.

The release will be available from the start of September in a limited series of 300 hand stamped vinyl + fanzine.

Pre-order: https://rawculture.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-are-a-dj-sucks-my-dick-bitch-a-c-a-b-ep
Preview: https://soundcloud.com/raw-culture-recordings/gtcltr001-ghetto-25-if-you-are-a-dj-suck-my-dick-bitch-eppaul-johnson-remix300-vinyl-fanzine
Worldwide distribution: distribution@wrong-hands.com
Mastered by Giovanni Inglese at Space Echo Studios
Logo design by DoubleEmme

Ghetto 25 - Funky Beach (Paul Johnson's Ass Bouncing Remix)

Get it here 

https://westcoastgoddess.bandcamp.com/album/a-cure-for-melancholy

A Cure For Melancholy

At long last! We’re delighted to present a hypnotic time-capsule courtesy of Dissmentado aka Ismael Pinkler from Carisma and Kompakt collaborator, Máximo Graesse Bondino. 

Recorded during summer trips in Buenos Aires and spending autumn in Tromso, Norway between 2006 - 2010, Maximo and Ismael met several times during that period and used friends houses and studios to produce a long list of material, selecting later the best of it for this compilation.

The tracks are long and slow, with deep and moving beats and long background sounds dedicated to warm up dreamers and after hour survivors. 

The elements develop their movements in a relaxed way through the tracks creating a loose feel. Every beat was played with their hands and there is no arpeggiated melodies to remind you where the ground is.

The release is complemented by a beautiful painting by the supremely talented Glasgow-based artist, Rosie McGurn     
 
Out on August 17th via Kompakt.

The TT

H+P030: Dissmentado ~ The TT

Listen / order: https://K7.lnk.to/DJKSeinfeld

!K7 announce new DJ-Kicks curated by DJ Seinfeld The next instalment of the series is set for release on CD, LP and digital on 13th July, 2018.

The first chapter of Armand Jakobsson’s musical career has been nothing short of remarkable. After establishing himself with rough but emotive house as Rimbaudian and jungle as Birds of Sweden, he unveiled his DJ Seinfeld alias to the world, first with underground hit single ‘U’, then with his Time Spent Away From U album on Lobster Fury in November 2017. It was a post break-up love letter to the dance floor with heart-on-sleeve emotions colouring the dusty and analogue house grooves. Acclaim came in from far and wide, with everyone from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork fawning over its heart swelling nostalgia and melancholic immediacy.

Since then, Jakobsson feels “everything around me changed beyond recognition, people and places I relied on for stability and comfort were no longer the same,” and so it has been a time in which he has had to find himself once again. Musically that means diversifying, and as such the Swede has veered into jungle, breaks and electro, as well as plenty of rough edged house, and continues to serve up electrifying DJ sets across the world.

Jakobsson approached his DJ-kicks with the intention of representing all the things that made him fall in love with dance music more than a decade ago, as well as showing some of the progression that has occurred in that time and “reflecting the simultaneous fear of leaving something safe behind as well as the excitement of venturing into unknown territories, musically and emotionally.” In order to make it as personal as possible, he called upon the many talented people around him making music. They returned with an enthusiasm that reminded Jakobsson of his own early passion, and in turn invigorated him and the whole process of assembling the mix. It was finally recorded at Inkonst club in Malmo because, recently back from years in Barcelona, he has not yet set up a studio in his hometown.

The mix opens with a pensive ambient piece that was written around the time of the album. “Having it be the first track was kind of a nice way to sign off from the album, but also to connect the story from that part of my life to this one,” says Jakobsson. From there, smooth deep house from Andras, Fantastic Man and Rudolf C slowly awakens your dancing spirits, Jakobsson assumes his Rimbaudian alias for some trippy slickness, and the exclusives come thick and fast from the likes of Australians Roza Terenzi and Sleep D. Next to well established artists like FaltyDL and Project Pablo are lesser known names like Chela Una and Mor Elian, with two more of Seinfeld’s own tracks taking the aliases in new directions but helping to tie the mix together.

Musically things remain colourful, with slippery electro grooves, more cosmic synth work and dusty broken beats all ensuring a steady dance floor pulse remains but never at the expense of a real sense of charm and character. This is a mix that glides effortlessly from start to finish; from rushing highs to dark and driving lows, with a gamut of emotions and standout tracks all seamlessly fused into one storytelling whole.

DJ Seinfeld’s DJ-kicks is not only a testament of his characterful DJ skills, but also a complete artistic statement that showcases his unique vision of dance music.

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Mor Elian - Sci Si

MNQ 034 VARIOUS - THE END OF CIVILIZATION LP

Mannequin has the dual and parallel aim to unearth hidden or unpublished gems, running along a road that starts from the period of reference for this kind of music (late 70s – mid 80s) and comes to nowdays, with a vision deeply influence by Factory Records / 4AD labels. 

Catching the same spirit of such great labels, we asked to the italian synth wave princess Mushy to create a compilation starting from a tabula rasa. The mission was hard. Following her tastes and heart, she had to select a dozen of new bands from all over the world with unreleased and unique for this project tracks, picking up the title and realizing the graphic design and artwork. The full process of "The End Of Civilization" took almost 1 year but the result was touching us ￼deep into our soul. 

Mushy began her career crafting noise bursts and aggressive oblique instrumentals before, in her newest form, blooming into a beautiful, epic and heart-heavy icy synth sound, having both "Faded Heart" (2011) and "Breathless" (2012) as album of the week at Rough Trade. "The End Of Civilization" perfectly represents her double sided synth-wave / kraut-psychedelic soul. Every track she selected for us is an absolute highlight, moving from the analog minimal / cold wave sounds of Police Des Moeurs, ASSS, The Circa Tapes, TEEEL and Rosemary to the tempestuous post punk and psychedelia of Deathday, The Murder Act, Phosphor and The Strange Forces, ending with spectral cold folk of Tablets and The Long Wives. 

- Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl 
- Digital distribution by The Orchard 
- Exclusive unreleased tracks 
- Artist Selection and graphic design by Mushy
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Deathday - After Dark

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