019- Frans Æmbient (@kashual-plastik)

Frans Æmbient is the brainpower behind the Kashual Plastik label. A label whose output has consistently been impossible to predict, yet always killer. Alongside the label Frans host the cult radio show Plastik Universe on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio.  

For the podcast, Frans has carefully weaved together a journey into the sonic abyss, fusing an hours' worth of Lo-Fi oddities, Acoustic ambience and wacky Indie Rock.

Continous Movement 019 - Frans Æmbient

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Heads Radio Show 0068 Kashual Plastik

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Iris DJ-Set at Arkaoda (2021)

Drawing the night in around his private, unnerving vigil, Ellis Swan returns to Quindi Records with an album of cracked beauty and haunted balladry. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter debuted on the label last year with a collaborative project called Dead Bandit, a vividly produced instrumental set in thrall to the badlands and a laconic, languid Americana.

Under his own name, Swan records intimate, poetic songs in a stark fashion, so fragile they might disintegrate in between your fingers were you to pick them up. He draws the microphone close to pick up every whisper and drags the music through layer upon layer of tape fuzz, leaving room for atmospheric impressions which loom out of the walls like the ghosts of past misdeeds. These pieces play on the natural distortion and delirium which occurs at the farthest end of the night – the hour before dawn might hope to break the veil of darkness.

Swan’s is a hauntological sound, but like the late Israeli rockabilly icon Charlie Megira his process strikes a spooked tone past revivalism and out of time or place. The only anchor which places Swan anywhere is the subtle presence of Katherine Swan providing lyrics to ‘3am’ and lyrics and backing vocals to ‘It Could Be Worse’.

The impression cast is of one man and his guitar, but there are other textures tucked into the music – the muffled murmur of a drum machine or a low frequency organ hum, some desolate piano, other treated percussive impulses which might well have been the work of incidental sprites while the four-track was rolling.

There are fuller cuts like ‘Evening Sun’ and the title track ‘3am’ which play with structural dynamics and creep out of the shadows a touch, while passages of plaintive, instrumental unease such as the hypnotic, mantra-like ‘Chinatown’ protract the space between songs. ‘Swing’ lolls between moments of bottomless silence and a discernible, rickety funk, and ‘Puppeteers Tears’ teases out a buried drama. But primarily, it’s the light touch of ‘Horses Bones’ and tin can tenderness of ‘She’s My Sweet Summer Storm’ which spell out the spellbinding character of 3am; a singular creation fusing the best qualities of folk, blues and Americana with a fearlessly experimental sound palette.


All tracks were written, recorded, and performed by Ellis Swan, except for ”3am" lyrics written by Katherine and Ellis Swan, and "It Could Be Worse" lyrics written by, and additional vocals by, Katherine Swan.

Mastered by MA Spaventi. Manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik. Distributed by Word and Sound GmbH.

Layout by JDN.

QUI006.

C+P Quindi Records 2022.

Special thanks: Jolene and Joseph.

Quindi's special thanks to LEDX.

[QUI006] Ellis Swan - 3am PREVIEW

Previously unreleased recordings of 1988 & 2008.
Out on ltd 12" LP (150 copies)  & digital on 09.02.2024
Distribution by Japan Blues - tad@japanblues.com

Guenter Schickert - guitar, snail horn
Udo Erdenreich - bass, hurdy gurdy, bell, jaw harp, percussion
Mirko Olostiak - megaphone

Jabbering people, a dry bassline, nagging punks, the bassline again, a dry cough, the U-1 passes by a guitar starts weeping: welcome to Schickreich, a rare recording of a super group that cut short into a duo. Comprised of bass, hurdy gurdy, Jew’s harp player, DJ, Intermedia-artist Udo Erdenreich, and Berlin’s cosmic kraut legend Günter Schickert. They were bandmates in Ziguri and played since the late 1980s off and on as Schickreich. Marmo now brings to life an album that uncovers two wings of their manifold musical explorations.

The A-Side, “Die Zukunft ist den Kindern und den Narren“, is an epic live recording from Easter Sunday 1988, when Schickreich first performed at Das Arschloch, an open-air pit at Kreuzberg’s Oranienstr. 1 / Manteuffelstrasse 43 at Berlin’s Görlitzer Straße underground station. At that time, the pit was a regular venue for concerts, performances, happenings, and other events of art. Free and outside was the slogan. The duo performed an improvised show alongside the megaphone shouting of Mirko from the Irren-Offensive, a 1980 formed association that served (according to the statutes) "the self-help of current or former psychiatric inmates" and "works toward creating understanding of madness and finding new ways of living with madness." The group's friend Uschi Schröder, at that time cultural manager in Berlin's underground culture, recorded the unique show with her cassette recorder, walking around in the pit, absorbing music, bypassing city noise, and the talk of the audience. After 35 years in deep sleep, the unique cultural document gets published for the first time. It brings all that Angst, that revolutionary Geist, that anarchy, West-Berlin had to offer for a brief period. You hear them shouting for free madness over low hanging bass figures and stretched guitar echoes. The audience is part of the show, children talk while strange drones appear just to disappear again.

The B-Side features a totally different musical universe of Schickreich. A meditative one, recorded 2008 by Günter Schickert while playing live to an audiovisual show about the cultural heritage of Tibet called Tibet Rediscovered. Two eight- to 16-minute-long tunes run by the names “Kang Rinpoche” and “Mapam Yu Tso”, featuring Günter Schickert playing his famous snail horns, while Erdenreich adds gentle bell tones, jaw harp frequencies and percussion on the flight. They are documenting an inner voyage into Schickreichs deep layered telepathic zones, where both artists speak in tones to each other, imagining the mountain regions of Kang Rinpoche and the nearby clear waters of high-altitude lake Mapam Yu Tso as a spiritual musical galaxy of their very own. Gently played, with long meandering tones in the spirit of Pauline Oliveros, unfolding a mystical story ark for friends of trance-portive music. Manufactured with snail horn, guitar, hurdy gurdy, bell, jaw harp, percussion, and two inspired spirits, that trust each other’s visions deeply. Free music for free zones.

Three recordings, two different atmospheric longings, created by two individuals of West-Berlin’s free agitating cultural zone, that followed their very own artistic path, never coping with the current, ever listening to their peculiar heartbeat, that pumps deep down in their psychedelic souls. Günter Schickert, Udo Erdenreich, Schickreich in eternity.

PRE-ORDER

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A 90 minute excerpt from one of DJ Sotofett's regular Wania nights at Tresor. This 100% vinyl set where few tracks rest longer than 2 minutes features plenty of classic US and Norwegian Techno as well as several upcoming Wania releases.
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TRACKLIST
01. Digital Boy - Percussion Mix
02. Diego - Me Fragments (Heiko Laux Remix)
03. Steve Stoll - Model T (Aux 88 Remix)
04. Joint Venture - Stand Up
05. Ronny Nyheim - Multisensory Integration
06. Skatebård - 2002-8
07. OJI - Esteban
08. Juan Atkins - Move Mix
09. Unknown / White Label
10. Ismistik - Rezfun
11. DJ Sotofett & LA 2000 - (WANIA mk1)
12. El Rakkas - Extremely Cheap & Effective (Pomassl Remix)
13. Phil Asher - Find Myself
14. Paperclip People - Reach
15. Unknown / White Label
16. Gregor Tresher & Monika Kruse - Panchakarma
17. Floorplan - Phobia
18. Unknown / White Label
19. Substance - Countdown
20. Unknown / White Label
21. Illumination - Hope To God (MO Driven)
22. Unknown / White Label
23. K-Hand - The Tunnel
24. Unknown / Naked Music
25. Locked grooves from WANIA mk2 + Abuser USER 01
26. DJ Sotofett & Ronny Nyheim - (WANIA mk2)

Live at Tresor is a new series highlighting selected DJ set recordings from the basement and Globus floor.

DJ Sotofett | Live at Tresor - Oct. 28 2023

We are welcoming Nikolaos alias Habiba Wine on Radio REMI. Recorded at Montezuma Café.

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Radio Remi 007 - Nikolaos (Habiba Wine)

Mastered by CGB @ Dubplates & Mastering

Distributed by Safe Distribution (Orders go through www.safedist.ro or via e-mail: actsafebesafe (at) gmail (dot) com.

March 2018

NH4.Slik Preview

Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Jnr imprint are back with their second release of the year, this time inviting rising London based star Third Son into the fold. The Polymath label boss has been causing quite a stir in the house music scene with releases for 17 Steps, Skint and TERR’s Clash Lion as well as clocking up remix credits for among others Marc Romboy and Maya Jane Coles (under her Nocturnal Sunshine alias).

Third Son
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thirdsonuk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thirdson.polymath/

Accidental Jnr
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/accidentalrecords-1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/accidentalrecords/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/accidentallabel

THE BRAIN NAMED ITSELF

PREMIERE: Third Son - The Brain Named Itself (Accidental Jnr)

New club music by Central (B-side feat. DJ Sports)
Out Early Oct 2020.
Distributed by Safe Distribution.
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NH7.LOOP Previews - Central (feat. DJ Sports) -  Aeronautic EP

This is our presentation of the Alterazioni Video/Giovanni De Donà project "Photons (2005) Sympathy for the laser”, supervised by Markus Gühr. From the linear notes: "under the supervision of Markus it was possible to trigger the laser through a drum machine in order to control these bursts and use them as rhythmic units...The B side features Chris Mitchell with a bass influenced interpretation using parts from the session."@kooeditions

Tracklist 1. Heavy metal music for laser 2. Monsters from the ID 3. Waterlaser 4. Motorlaser 5. Interpretation 4 (feat. Chris Mitchell) 6. Interpretation 1(feat. Chris Mitchell) 7. Interpretation 2 (feat. Chris Mitchell) 8. Interpretation 3 (feat. Chris Mitchell)

https://kooeditions.bandcamp.com/album/photons-2005

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/alterazioni-video-photons-2005-sympathy-for-the/807679-01/

Alterazioni Video/Giovanni De Donà project 'Photons (2005) Sympathy for the laser'

Open canvas. Joy for free expressivness. A jump into the unknown. Cross-genres psychecedelic, political, sensations-based discographical ventures. 
Contact : marmosound@gmail.com

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