A track from the album 'New Reality' out now on Constellation Tatsu.

Ecovillage - When I Was A Boy ft. X.Y.R.

Dub Sur Les Tropiques

a blend of mostly electro/ industrial /experimental sounds with recent producitions from Beirut,Kairo,Manchaster,Belgrade,Tel Aviv... hard electronic,deep bass and very Middle East influenced, with great artists such Susu Laroche,Black Seed,Sindy Chamoun,Dirty Lanes Take,King Roman,Amram Solar,Borderlands,Tapan,Abdulah Miniyawi,Aya Metwalli....

WEE WAA - Black Orient Special Edition # mix tape

“This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.” 
 (Don Draper, Mad Men)

Call Back Carousel is an audio time-travelogue, a slideshow of the mind’s eye - projecting Kodachrome memories directly into the listeners’ mind by means of sound alone. It is a way of travelling without ever having to leave the home. A vicarious vacation for the imagination. Pure audio escapism.

Each episode is based on a found tape of a pre-recorded slideshow commentary. Most of these tapes were made by amateur tape recording enthusiasts and hobbyist photographers of the 60s and 70s. Their recorded commentaries would at one time have been used in conjunction with a sequence of 35mm slides but only the taped voices now remain. The recordings themselves come from my own archive of found reel-to-reel tapes that I have collected over the past twenty years.

Scotland, 1971

Moonlit Planetarium

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Okokon - Goat

From the album "Un peu de l'âme des bandits", vinyl reissue out on Jan 26 2018

Un peu de l'âme des bandits (re-mastered)

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Aksak Maboul - Modern Lesson (remastered)

Taken from the album "Plus" out on Morr Music Nov. 2018. Pre-order the Lp/CD: https://anost.net/en/Products/System-... Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xAJtcI iTunes: https://bit.ly/2xsmvoS Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2O0Uu1d Follow System: Facebook: https://bit.ly/2pmf2mS

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Stille

System:  Stille

One of the best discoveries we ever made, hands down. We're selling our VG(+) copy with the stamp on the sleeve. It won't keep anyone from playing this all day long. Don't sleep

"Gitana Morena" 7" By Lili On Cabana Music France, 1986  👋

Susumu Yokota - Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade

M.RUX: Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out, how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments in the "Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke“ until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to ‘Lacky’ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his „In the Hold“ (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

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M.RUX - Faradai

For bookings: meagreresource@hotmail.com

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Entr’acte and Canti Magnetici. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.

Scotland, 1971

Mark Vernon

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