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Andy Stott - Luxury Problems

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Luxury Problems

Andy Stott

andy stott - luxury problems

Produced slowly and meticulously over the last 12
months, these seven tracks are the closet thing we've
had to a new album from Andy Stott since the release
of his debut full-length Merciless five years ago.
Taking influence from an array of seemingly incoherent
noises, from the indefinable and unforgettable mindtricks
of Arthur Russell to the slowhouse of Kassem
Mosse, from the alternate VHS realities of James
Ferraro and Jamal Moss to the Linn Drum classics of the
vintage Prince era - these seven tracks create their own
pace and agenda, largely shying away from the
dancefloor in favour of something more complex and
hard to define.
Following on from the tribal malfunctions of opening
intro Signature, New Ground heads into a chasm of
layered loops, creating a decimated and re-wired funk
template coloured in with frayed percussion and
dislodged vocal samples. North To South starts off from
similar ground but adds a shuffling vibe at a deceptively
intoxicated 110 bpm.
Intermittent is something altogether different, taking
perfectly formed Boogie templates and screwing with
them until nothing quite fits, brittle elements floating in
and out of time yet somehow keeping it together,
before Dark Details delivers the most dancefloor
compatible six minute stretch of the set, all clanging
stabs and dense percussion, somewhere between
Shackleton and Bam Bam.
Execution and Passed Me By end things off on a slowed
down tip, the former deploying an anaesthetised and
padded 4/4 template sunk deeper into the abyss by
deformed, time-stretched vocals, the latter ending off
proceedings with a more delicate palette, letting go of
all that pent-up emotion with nothing but that rumbling
low-end and some strings for company.

Signature

New Ground

North To South

Intermittent

These remixes are exclusively available to purchase at Bleep::: http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=33954

Original songs taken from Holy Other's debut EP 'With U' available everywhere that sells good music. 

Holy Other - Know Where (Andy Stott Remix)

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ARTIST: Daphni
TITLE: JIAOLONG
CAT#: JIAOLONG005


Tracklisting:
1. Yes, I Know
2. Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix) 
3. Ye Ye 
4. Light
5. Pairs
6. Ahora
7. Jiao
8. Springs
9. Long 

All tracks written and produced by Dan Snaith except Track 2 which appears courtesy of Analog Africa (www.analogafrica.com).
Artwork by Jane Eastlight

Release dates:

UK/EU/Australia - October 8th on JIAOLONG RECORDS  - digital, CD, and 2x LP
US/Canada - October 16 (physical) + Octobber 9th (digital) - MERGE/JIAOLONG  
Japan - October 3nd - Hostess/JIAOLONG  digital + CD

03 Ye Ye

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Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

01-Numb

02-Lost and Found

03-Sleepless

04-Hatch the plan

05-Expecting

06-Luxury problems

Summertime sadness
I feel India in my bones
I  can smell sunlight
I can feel the highline
Bless me
Gods bless me
Goddess Of forbidden love
I am she
I keep one white candle
Maintain
Purity ... Purity

Show me the way to your hiding place
I think I wanna go go there
Hooo hoo
Show me the way to your hiding place
I think I wanna go go go go there
...go to church if you scared

I lay formless
Hands tied in my sheets
Star signs say I'm rare
Chosen
By who
I I I I I
I wonder who's watchin
Who's wing I'm under
Sweep me up and ill go
No questions take me
I'll go!

Show me the way ...

Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea
Yea yea yea

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06-Luxury problems

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