'Kulture Galerie' Radio series

2021 Releases

2022 Releases

We are pleased to welcome Metropolitan Soul Museum to Pr0gramma! Smooth Machine Control is a gritty smooth melodically atmospheric 40 mins of unique dance canvas. This 6-track collection is a cauldron of paradox. Sumar’s Table opens the album with a simultaneously frightening yet infectious groove - kicks and basslines are still man’s best friend. No 18 melts these elements down into a lethargic brew of near lucid quality. King Kong is a wakeup call. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel. This conscious, high saturation trip of driving basslines and veiled chords is offset by a lighter pallet of sharp percussive echoes and brighter melodies - a unique fulcrum point for the album. Smooth Mission Control, Small Pleasures, and Electric Bateaux continue this dance of atmospheric dream-like harmonies, absolutely no-nonsense rhythms, and catchy licks. Rounding out the album, it somehow feels like it belongs equally to the annals of electronic dance music as well as solidly to the present day – just another duality.

Smooth Machine Control - Mini LP is out on pr0gramma 03/03

Smooth Machine Control - Mini LP [Pr0gramma]

Here is the recording of our very first 'Kulture Galerie' show on Refuge Worldwide with the one and only @m50

Metropolitan Soul Museum's Kulture Galerie - m50 [Refuge Worldwide]

@adam-stromstedt delivered his own Kulture Galerie mix for our show on Refuge Worldwide. Here is the tracklist! 

Artist - Title - Label - Year

Moddie - CPN - Control Freak Recordings - 2020
S. E. Berlin - Toninas - Source Records - 2002
Linkwood & Foat - Sa Talaia - Athens Of The North - 2020
Planisphere - Beat Down The Bad - Black Key Records - 2021
Beijer - Idiopathic Brain Modulations - Ullis Tapes - 2016
Robert Lippok - 6 a.m. - Source Records - 2002
Leifur James - Red Sea - Night Time Stories - 2018
Momma Gravy - Blue String Pudding - Pork Recordings - 2001
Carmel & Salomo - EBS Theme - R.A.N.D Muzik - 2020
Dust-e-1 - Hutchin - DustWORLD - 2020
Hamatsuki - Erius - Plusto’s Plan - 2020
Moon II - Leftie (At Heart) - Frank Musik - 2020
Adam Pits - Element X 1 - Haŵs - 2020
Brother Nebula - A Snake in Paradise - Legwork - 2020
Planisphere - Mind Over Matter - Black Key Records - 2021
Voices From The Lake - ST (VFTL Rework) - Prologue - 2012
Heron - Lost In Dust - Meandyou - 2013
Hakimonu - Cadence 1 - Hakimonu - 2010
Petre Inspirescu - Delir 4 - Mule Musiq - 2015
Wayne Snow - Cooler - Tartelet - 2017
Einzelgänger - Panameraicana - Spectrum Works - 1999
Lootbeg - We May Never Lose Again - Hidden Assets - 2020
LK - Untitled - Micronesia - 2017
Dwig - Way To Paradise - Dwig - 2017
Shanahan & Lynch - Ask - Micronesia - 2017

Kulture Galerie 003 - Adam Stromstedt [Refuge Worldwide]

Metropolitan Soul Museum invited Timo Deeprhythms on their latest Kulture Galerie show, for the first time on their new home Threads Radio. You will enjoy a 2 hours free flowing set ranging from downtempo to abstract, left-field, ambient, chill-out ad bass.

This is probably pretty accurate minus a track or two

01 Resting In Jupiters Garden - Unknown Mobile
02 Avocado Conception - Fantastic Man
03 The Sound Of Hope Played Backwards - Remotif
04 Cantamilla - Tranquility Bass
05 Things You Do For Love - APIENTO
06 Lifted - HOVE
07 Aetherius - Stellar Sofa
08 Theme From Nowhere - Mark Barrott
09 The beginning....The End - Shape Changer
10 Amaranth - Thunderground
11 104 - Gerd Janson, Philip Lauer, Mark Barrott
12 Ichmimoku - Mark Barrot
13 Let Go - Bufiman 
14 Orbis Tertius - Hashman Deejay
15 Number Games - Rhythm Based Lovers
16 Andys - Booshank
17 A Recurring Nature - Adam Pits
18 Slog - Cap'm Stargazer
19 Ya Zdes - (Tripmastaz?) CCCP edits 1
20 Celestial Body (Venus Mix) - Abdul Raeva
21 Water Loop - Weird Weather
22 Ultralush - George Earnest & Der Opium Queen
23 Scorpion featuring Lucky Pereira - Forest Drive West
24 S.O-S.A - YUF-O
25 Ceviz - Konduku

Kulture Galerie 004 - Timo Deeprhythms [Threads Radio]

Various - BRAN002 12" 
(Vinyl only)
PRE-ORDER!

A1. Uabos - East Vision
A2. Herzel - Transformation
B1. Flute Power - Discothalia
B2. Metropolitan Soul Museum - Former Glory

Artwork by miguel witzke pereira
Mastered by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies!
Distributed by @BordelloAParigi

A1 East Vision by Milanese’s finest Uabos uncovers an extraordinary musical experience with a lot of twists and twirls that are skilfully crafted. Constructed of mouth-watering synth textures and dusty melodic samples that hover over the rolling bass engine, Uabos surely delivers a dancefloor killer.

Herzel’s Transformation as the A2 track adds deep blue melodic depth on top of icy rhythmic pattern. It tickles the senses as sharp leads and powerful kicking stabs appear above the grinding bass line, providing mesmeric effect.

Flute Power’s Discothalia heats up the B side. Lush breaks and ripples meet a cloud-bursting bass line, intertwining with the ethereal vocal traces that unveil throughout the composition and into infinity.

Metropolitan Soul Museum in the closing B2 track Former Glory introduces a delicately structured musical narrative that has blocks of steady rhythmic percussion accompanied with unforeseeable melodic samples and tender vocal cut-ups.

Various - BRAN002 12" (PREVIEW) PRE-ORDER!

SlothBoogie Presents: Dancing With Friends Volume 2

Metropolitan Soul Museum - Four Dancers

Kulture Galerie 001 - Metropolitan Soul Museum [Bloop]

Kulture Galerie 002 - Herzel [Refuge Worldwide]

Kulture Galerie 005 - K Dallas [Threads Radio]

A1 East Vision by Milanese’s finest Uabos uncovers an extraordinary musical experience with a lot of twists and twirls that are skilfully crafted. Constructed of mouth-watering synth textures and dusty melodic samples that hover over the rolling bass engine, Uabos surely delivers a dancefloor killer.

Herzel’s Transformation as the A2 track adds deep blue melodic depth on top of icy rhythmic pattern. It tickles the senses as sharp leads and powerful kicking stabs appear above the grinding bass line, providing mesmeric effect.

Flute Power’s Discothalia heats up the B side. Lush breaks and ripples meet a cloud-bursting bass line, intertwining with the ethereal vocal traces that unveil throughout the composition and into infinity.

Metropolitan Soul Museum in the closing B2 track Former Glory introduces a delicately structured musical narrative that has blocks of steady rhythmic percussion accompanied with unforeseeable melodic samples and tender vocal cut-ups.

Various - BRAN002 12"
(Vinyl only)
PRE-ORDER! https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/various-artists-bran002-ep

https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum
https://soundcloud.com/branrecordlabel

A1. Uabos - East Vision
A2. Herzel - Transformation
B1. Flute Power - Discothalia
B2. Metropolitan Soul Museum - Former Glory

Artwork by miguel witzke pereira
Mastered by Michael Lawrence at Bladud Flies!
Distributed by BordelloAParigi

Various BRAN002

PREMIERE: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Former Glory [БРАН]

Taken from Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum's EP Modulearic on Polymath, out October 15.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@thirdsonuk

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Premiere: Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum -  Modulearic

The 'Fairlight House EP' is the result of distance work between Macedonia and London during last year's lockdowns and features 3 stompers. The EP lands on Third Son's own @polymathlabel

@herzel
@metropolitan-soul-museum

PREMIÈRE: Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum - Fairlight House

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/herzel, https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum
Track: Deephour Dimension
Label: https://soundcloud.com/polymathlabel
Format:  Digital, EP
Release date: 15/10/21
Purchase: https://polymathlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fairlight-house-ep

They are building a house, half a block down. And I sit up here, with the shades down. Listening to the sounds, the hammers pounding in nails, thack, thack, thack, thack. And then I hear the birds, and thack thack thack, and I go to bed.
Charles Bukowski makes poignant poetry out of seemingly mundane things. It’s simple and considered as much as it is dark. The Fairlight House EP has the same appeal. Simple ideas that communicate with one another. The title track opens with strong drums and hypnotic arps. The bass enters and the track slowly builds towards the main synth line, reminiscent of the Fairlight CMI digital synthesiser.
Modulearic passes around motifs with just the right amount of space between them, offering tension and release throughout. Deep bass hits, swirling synths and strong drums make this one ideal for late nights and dark rooms.
The closing track Deephour Dimension gives the listener more open melodies and hypnotic background synths, this time with a broken beat backbone.

YouTube

PREMIERE | Herzel & Metropolitan Soul Museum - Deephour Dimension [Polymath] 2021

Metropolitan Soul Museum has invited the upstate NY based artist Aspetuck as their 6th guest for the Kulture Galerie show. Aspetuck has just self released the “Half Light Half Dark” album as well as series of ambient mixes named “Music For New Parents” to celebrate the birth of his first child. In his Kulture Galerie show Aspetuck takes us on a 2 hours sonic journey through unconventional electronic music and more. Sit back and relax.

@aspetuck

Kulture Galerie 006 - Aspetuck [Threads Radio]

Join Metropolitan Soul Museum for the grand opening of the Kulture Galerie release series in 2022.

Kulture Galerie is London-based duo Metropolitan Soul Museum's mix series, live every 2 months on Radio. The show's concept is to give an opportunity to the artists invited to select non-club / home listening music where a variety of influences and cultures and different dichotomies of the same form of expression. The various artists releases that will follow each year, will include 6 original tracks from the 6 artists involved in the shows.

'Kulture Galerie Year 1', out on a limited number of CDs distributed by Lobster Distribution and mastered by Nerang and Gestalt's Nørus, includes 6 non genre specific tracks from the first 6 guests: MSM's partner in crime Herzel (Hivern Discs, Uncanny Valley), Echocentric Records's boss Timo Deeprhythms, prolific US producer Aspetuck, Lyssna Records' main man Adam Stromstedt, Regelbau's affiliate K-Dallas under his Exo Ghost moniker and finally an original track from Metropolitan Soul Museum.

You are all invited to grab a copy of 'Kulture Galerie Year 1', out in 2022.

VA - Year 1 [CLIPS]

There were strange ghouls and mysterious ghosts which haunted the streets at night. They left no trace by the light of the morning yet beneath the shadow of darkness they acted as reapers and villains, picking up lost souls. 

It was hard to say where they'd come from and how they'd found themselves to be in this world. They seemed to float faintly between the cobbled streets, leaving behind a cold chill in the dense fog of the midnight. 

Were they some kind of strange magic? Were they simply an illusion of the mind? Something we might want to believe in rather than a fact...?

Metropolitan Soul Museum have fast become a duo to keep an eye on - their music is distinctly innovative, drawing upon elements of krautrock and leftfield electronica. This time they offer up a collection of house based music for Public Release on an EP called 'The Pleasure Principle'. It's a strong EP.

The Pleasure Principle EP

PREMIERE: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Reapers [Public Release]

@aliendan

Metropolitan Soul Museum’s mix series Kulture Galerie is opening for the second year. The first mix of 2022 comes from the talented US DJ and producer Alien D, already member of Sweat Equity and Dekalb Works. Check out this 2 hours journey of emotional music, with ‘plenty of guitars’.

Kulture Galerie 007 - Alien D [Radio Alhara]

Metropolitan Soul Museum land on Polymath with a new EP. The two-track package features off-kilter and emotive sounds perfect for hazy early mornings. "Idyllic Metropolis" will be released on the Third Son run record label on the 25th of February.

Buy: https://www.beatport.com/release/idyllic-metropolis/3643958

https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum
https://soundcloud.com/polymathlabel

Premiere: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Idyllic Metropolis [Polymath]

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLypdVb_SuSmL_C21MgXo2Q
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31NT4Oq48gcKdmttAFbx23
Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/170732496230
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/MutantDiscoRadioShow
Twitter : https://twitter.com/LeriAhel
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mutant-disco

Taken from "Metropolitan Soul Museum - Idyllic Metropolis EP (Polymath)". Out February 25th 2022.

Artist social media:

https://www.facebook.com/metropolitansoulmuseum
https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum

Label social media:

https://www.facebook.com/polymathlabel
https://soundcloud.com/polymathlabel

Idyllic Metropolis EP

PREMIERE : Metropolitan Soul Museum - Dusk (Polymath)

For March, the Kulture Galarie show features Foans. Strap in for two hours of deep-funky grooves, to keep your ears satisfied.

@foans

Kulture Galerie 008 - FOANS [Threads Radio]

Kulture Galerie 009 - Nesa Azadikhah [Threads Radio]

Tenth chapter of our Metropolitan Soul Museum's #kulturegalerie show with Bienvenue Recordings’ boss Gene Tellem. Check out these 2 beautiful hours of music, live on Noods.

@genetellem

Kulture Galerie 010 - Gene Tellem [Noods Radio]

We have invited Rashida Prime & 1309ESO aka @abdulraeva to join our Kulture Galerie series with 2 hours of extra dimensional melodies.

Kulture Galerie 011 - Rashida Prime & 1309ESO aka Abdul Raeva [Radio Alhara]

Check out our latest @msmkulturegalerie show, out on Radio Raheem. We were joined by the one and only @coraldds with a 2 hours long sonic futuristic journey.

Kulture Galerie 012 - Coral D [Radio Raheem]

For the next premiere on Viscera, Metropolitan Soul Museum produce some gritty cosmic melodies for Pr0gramma! Out march 3rd. Don't sleep! 

https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control

@metropolitan-soul-museum

PREMIERE | Metropolitan Soul Museum - King Kong [Pr0gramma]

For the 13th episode (that went out on Radio Raheem) we invited our friend @norusmusic - who’s doing the mastering for our @kulturegaleriemsm with his @somnumstudio . He promised us 2 hours of jazz and delivered just that.

Kulture Galerie 013 - Nørus [Radio Raheem]

https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum
https://soundcloud.com/pr0gramma
🛒 https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control
🔊 https://youtu.be/FsR4B1UxbQw

Smooth Machine Control is a gritty smooth melodically atmospheric 40 mins of unique dance canvas. This 6-track collection is a cauldron of paradox. Sumar’s Table opens the mini LP with a simultaneously frightening yet infectious groove - kicks and basslines are still man’s best friend. No 18 melts these elements down into a lethargic brew of near lucid quality. King Kong is a wakeup call. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel. This conscious, high saturation trip of driving basslines and veiled chords is offset by a lighter pallet of sharp percussive echoes and brighter melodies - a unique fulcrum point for the album. Smooth Mission Control, Small Pleasures, and Electric Bateaux continue this dance of atmospheric dream-like harmonies, absolutely no-nonsense rhythms, and catchy licks. Rounding out the album, it somehow feels like it belongs equally to the annals of electronic dance music as well as solidly to the present day – just another duality.

PREMIERE: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Small Pleasure [pr0gramma]

DC Promo Tracks #1099: "Smooth Machine Control" by Metropolitan Soul Museum is part of the release "Smooth Machine Control" on Pr0gramma @pr0gramma  

Buy from: https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control 
 http://pr0gramma.com/

More Promo Tracks: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo

DC Promo Tracks: Metropolitan Soul Museum "Smooth Machine Control"

Exclusive: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Sumar's Table

British artists Nick Woolfson and Filippo Rocco are Metropolitan Soul Museum, a duo that’s been releasing music with a partly deeper touch as well as broken and heavily hitting basslines, sometimes more atmospheric, more experimental and more ambient-like to then strike with a club-oriented take knocking people off their dancing shoes. For the latest mini-LP, Smooth Machine Control. Filippo and Nick have gathered six tracks of the artists’ current musical being picking up on the before mentioned to come up with a versatile yet coherent release. The mini-LP kicks off with Sumar’s Table, or in Metropolitan Soul Museum’s style, with a broken bassline that one would assume to be found in genres like Bass but in this case can be rather ascribed to Minimal taking a deeper twist. The latter is evoked by the deep synth-line. However, Sumar’s Table captivates listeners due to the implementation of bleeps and beeps, little freaky futuristic sounds that twirl and curl in the track's arrangement and turn the track into a voyage through electronic music’s more experimental side. 

Smooth Machine Control is out on Pr0gramma.

Buy the EP: https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control  

Artist & label information
Metropolitan Soul Museum: https://facebook.com/metropolitansoulmuseum // @metropolitan-soul-museum // https://instagram.com/metropolitansoulmuseum
Pr0gramma: https://facebook.com/pr0gramma // @pr0gramma // https://instagram.com/pr0grammamusic

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Smooth Machine Control

Sumar's Table

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EXCLUSIVE: Metropolitan Soul Museum - Sumar's Table [Pr0gramma]

https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control

We are pleased to welcome Metropolitan Soul Museum to Pr0gramma! Smooth Machine Control is a gritty smooth melodically atmospheric 40 mins of unique dance canvas. This 6-track collection is a cauldron of paradox. Sumar’s Table opens the mini LP with a simultaneously frightening yet infectious groove - kicks and basslines are still man’s best friend. No 18 melts these elements down into a lethargic brew of near lucid quality. King Korg is a wakeup call. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel. This conscious, high saturation trip of driving basslines and veiled chords is offset by a lighter pallet of sharp percussive echoes and brighter melodies - a unique fulcrum point for the album. Smooth Mission Control, Small Pleasures, and Electric Bateaux continue this dance of atmospheric dream-like harmonies, absolutely no-nonsense rhythms, and catchy licks. Rounding out the album, it somehow feels like it belongs equally to the annals of electronic dance music as well as solidly to the present day – just another duality.

Metropolitan Soul Museum - No 18

Metropolitan Soul Museum are proud to host on their next Kulture Galerie show on Milan's Radio Raheem a Detroit and Global legend: John Beltran. His early work on Carl Craig's seminal Retroactive imprint sculpted a Detroit classic with hints of Derrick May, world music, and Jazz vibrations. He followed up in 1996 on Peacefrog with arguably one of the most sought after techno classics "Ten Days of Blue," which is still John's most successfully licensed music with songs like "Collage of Dreams" being used in the Miramax film Human Traffic and the HBO hit Six Feet Under.  

The London based duo is a huge fan of John's music and can not wait to share what he has in store for Kulture Galerie, both as a mix series and as a label....

Kulture Galerie 014 - John Beltran [Radio Raheem]

For the 15th instalment of the Kulture Galerie series we are hosting Berlin based and US born natebytheway. This incredible under the radar talent will soon join our label’s roster with some super fresh productions. For his first Radio Raheem show he delivers a soft and warm mix of some soul, hip hop and boom bap tunes to help get ya in the mood. We hope you enjoy listening to his selection for KG.

Kulture Galerie 015 - natebytheway [Radio Raheem]

Kulture Galerie's next guest mix comes from De Lichting's own Nathan Kofi: the mix is a beautiful blend of obscure and emotional electronica. Look out for Nathan and RDS' track out on our next vinyl in winter, part of yet another stellar group of tracks.

Kulture Galerie 016 - Nathan Kofi [Radio Raheem]

"MSM's latest Bleu EP is a collection of 4 original tracks coming from the duo’s deeper and harder musical imagery The EP showcases a futuristic mix of rough drum machine grooves, relentless 303 lines and hypnotic synths. The result is the perfect fit for Rawax’s vinyl series. "

Artist: Metropolitan Soul Museum
Title: Bleu EP
Label: RAWAX - @dbh-music
Format: 12"

Tracklisting:
A1. MSM - Deeh
A2. MSM - RRR
B1. MSM - Bleu
B2. MSM - Fiamme

Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com

MSM - RRR [RAWAX]

Spell PETS backwards to get STEP. Spell STEP forwards and you get PETS going back to basics. STEP is the new vinyl-only label from the founders of PETS – Catz n Dogz – with a focus on the rawest forms and root functions of dance music. STEP searches for the fundamentals with under-the-radar house and techno that’s not afraid to be rough around the edges. It’s all about the music.

Format: 12" 
Cat: STEP 020 

@step-rec @pets_recordings

Check it on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/956896

Travellers EP

Alieno Latino

Alieno Latino [Step Recordings]

https://soundcloud.com/msmkulturegalerie

pr0gramma
Polymath
БРАН
Slothboogie
Yellow Island Records
Lyssna Records
Public Release
Cuore Records
Bosconi Records
a friend in need
Gestalt Records
Echocentric Records
Monologues
Super Tuff Records
Taste Rec.
Lima Express
Step Recordings
Beats Of No Nation
Dionysian Mysteries
Rawax
Normals Welcome 
Trunkfunk Records 
Toy Tonics
MSM

Say hi to Filippo & Nick: metrosoulm@gmail.com

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