Questing w/ Zakia - NTS - 4

Foamplate Selekky

Artist: Memotone
Title: Luaka / Sidewise Dub
Label: Diskotopia
Release Date: 15th March 2019
Cat: DSK046

1. Luaka 
2. Sidewise Dub

Diskotopia continues the momentum of 2019 with a bracing and weighty single from Memotone; the Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer William Yates. Previously releasing music on labels such as Black Acre, Bedouin and Project Mooncircle, Memotone performs live with a full hardware-based setup and also records under different aliases such as Halfnelson. For his debut on Diskotopia, Memotone serves up two broken dubwise abstractions that glisten brilliantly like gemstones mined from the label’s existing subconscious. Yates notes that “organic growth” was a driving force in the creation of these two pieces, and the twisting nodes of the venation storytelling unfurl like entwined vines and branches.

Leading off with ‘Luaka,’ Memotone melds modern and classical instruments together in a sultry Fourth World fusion that takes its cues equally from Tarkovsky cinema as it does from Asian minimalist composition. Synthetic atmospherics, submerged spring-reverb percussion, no-wave bass and funk clavichord playfully interweave, whilst the textures and timbres of clarinet and guzheng create lingering drones and droplets, like a moisture left hanging in the air. The result feels like an illusory Kitaro-inspired Jon Hassell, Labradford and Dabyre collaborative portrait of a Sino-tropical known unknown. A mesmerizing and welcome seven-minute-thirty-four-second deliverance from our collective material existence.

Drawing inspiration from classic 60s and 70s Jamaican productions, ‘Sidewise Dub’ is a prime demonstration of how Memotone can utilize his mixing desk as an instrument to forge a shimmering chamber of soundsystem microstudy. Fractal dub chords ricochet while modulated hi-hats ping like the propellers of lost airships coasting through the Bermuda Triangle; all the while awash with undulating pads and heaving sub bass. Forlorn synth melodies chart a path through these torrential sonics that are certain to leave residue long after dissipation.


Stream clips:
https://soundcloud.com/diskotopia/memotone-luaka-sidewise-dub/s-HL8Dy

Download mp3s/wavs:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ohJhtPz8jCrDJ57egSnkeKF9Oo-Fbm7W


https://diskotopia.com

https://memotone.co.uk

memotone - Luaka/Sidewise Dub_DISKOTOPIA 046

Amadou Tilo

Lemene Kuru

Rips
- 2.5mm Flex
- Hydrochloric

Available now via Bandcamp and other stores.
https://9rips.bandcamp.com/album/rips-25mm-flex-hydrochloric-plantpower008

Digital Release: Friday 1st October 2021
Vinyl Release: TBC Early 2022
*The test press for this release has already been made but due to delays at the pressing plants, it wont be fully pressed until early next year. So we're releasing the digitals first, as to not hold up the release schedule any further, and the vinyl when its ready.

@9rips

Rips - 2.5mm Flex / Hydrochloric [PLANTPOWER008]

Whispers / Underhand

Whispers

Panix - Mobbed EP
- Rudeboy Edit
- G Shuffle
- Mobbed
- Sensimilla

Available from Bandcamp and other stores.
https://panix-dub.bandcamp.com/album/panix-mobbed-ep-plantpower009

Digital Release: Friday 5th November 2021
Vinyl Release: TBC Early 2022

*The test press for this release (and 008) has already been made but due to delays at the pressing plants, it wont be fully pressed until early next year. So we're releasing the digitals first and the vinyl when its ready, to not hold up the release schedule any further.

@panix-dub

Panix - Mobbed EP [PLANTPOWER009]

Makiyaj

Tes idées

The 9th release on Foamplate's imprint 'Plantpower' comes from Panix. A combination of 2-Step & Dubstep.

▼ GENRE:
#dubstep

▼ CAT NO.:
PLANTPOWER009

▼ FOLLOW Panix:
https://www.facebook.com/panixdubreco...
https://soundcloud.com/panix-dub
https://www.instagram.com/maxy.panix/

▼ FOLLOW Plant Power:
https://www.facebook.com/PlantpowerRe...
https://soundcloud.com/plantpowerrecords
https://www.instagram.com/plantpowerr...

Mobbed EP

Premiere | Panix - Sensimilla [Plantpower]

1986 - 1987 - 1988

Massu

Gaïndé

Domou Gaïndé Ndiaye

Memotone - Diskotopia 046 - Release March 16th 2019

www.memotone.co.uk

02. Sidewise Dub DSK046

01. Luaka DSK046

Tony allen live

Black voices (Commodore Ballroom Vancouver)

Digital available for purchase via Bandcamp
https://plantpower.bandcamp.com/track/undo

Undo

A.K.A: O.G. Jigg

For Bookings (Full Live Set or DJ) email: will@memotone.co.uk
Releases with:
THE TRILOGY TAPES
Patience/Impatience
Sahko Recordings
Accidental Meetings
Termina
@Diskotopia
@BastakiyaTapes
Black Acre


WEBSITE: www.memotone.co.uk