Extended

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Movement (feat. Paul St Hilaire)

Taken from Polygonia's EP Bloom on Sure Thing, out March 8. 

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Premiere: Polygonia - Dreaming Trees (Forest Drive West Remix)

For the first time in more than a decade, Paul St. Hilaire (AKA Tikiman) presents a solo album – 100% Tiki. 

Over his 30-plus year career, St. Hilaire has become one of dance music’s quietly legendary figures. Born and raised in the Caribbean island Dominica, he moved to Berlin in 1994 and has lent both his voice and his musicianship to some of the most iconic electronic music from the German capital – and beyond. Renowned for his collaborations with Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus (AKA Rhythm & Sound), he has also appeared on records with Deadbeat, Rhauder, Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers and Stereotyp (G-Stone Recordings), amongst others. 

However, few know the extent of St. Hilaire’s compositional and technical mastery. From his home studio in Kreuzberg, which includes an extensive collection of vintage hardware, self-built instruments and notebooks scribbled with endless lyrics, he has created a vast archive of material spanning ambient dub, avant-jazz, lush techno and lovers rock. 

Tikiman Vol. 1 is a heady, downtempo tour de force of patois metaphors on education, displacement and personal vs. global histories, as is evident on slippy album opener “Bedroom in My Bag”: Mister, mister / Where are you going? / I’m heading for a faraway land / What are you having in the bag in your hand? / Help us to understand / He said, I’ve got my bedroom in my bag. 

Overall, the album’s lyrics reflect on life between Berlin and Dominica, specifically St. Hilaire’s hometown of Grand Bay, where he has worked with various musicians famous for the island’s different genres of carnival music. St. Hilaire himself always favoured the island’s more “discrete” music, developing a sonic synergy between two different geographical strains of groove and minimalism, and combining them with foundational Caribbean mixing techniques, which provide the basis for his songwriting and distinct baritone. 

Tikiman Vol.1 offers a rare insight into St. Hilaire’s complex artistry, from the eyes-down grooves of “Little Way” and the guitar-heavy digi dancehall experiment “Keep Safe,” to the subtle hypnosis of “Ten to One” and the softly crashing synth waves of closer “Three and a Half”, evoking not only beaches but also coasts and borders. It’s a fitting expression of both the breadth of St. Hilaire’s work, as well as his history as one of the few black, Berlin-based artists who, despite remaining largely overlooked, has influenced the city’s electronic music culture since its beginnings. 

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Kynant Records was founded in 2015 by Richard Akingbehin, a British-Nigerian radio programmer (Refuge Worldwide), music writer and DJ. Originally specialising in deep techno and featuring artists such as Cio D’Or, Terrence Dixon and Donato Dozzy, Kynant has since launched a sub-label Kynant EX which focuses on ambient, dub and experimental electronics. 

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Distributed by N.E.W.S 
Mastered by Stefan Betke 
Artwork by Grant Gibson 

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Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

D1 Paul St. Hilaire - In Door

www.youtu.be/NOQNf8ePiN8

Video by Pfadfinderei.

Snippet of the upcoming release: "Modeselektor presents Modeselektion Vol. 03" on Monkeytown Records, out June 27, 2014.

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Modeselektion Vol. 03 - 02 Nosaj Thing  "Dy" (MTR045) Out June 27, 2014

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this edit is downloadable via hypeedit.

As always: I do not own any rights of this song or the artowrk, if you want it to be removed, lemme know and it will be gone again. <3

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Automatic - Too Much Money (Benedikt Frey Edit)

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Nous'klaer Audio prepare to release the much-anticipated album from French-born and Ecuador-based producer Nicola Cruz...Our pick is ‘Telepathine‘. Complemented by the perfect dose of beta-carboline alkaloids, the track kicks off with deeply distorted murmurs of mangrove movements and neo-idyllic soundscapes, morphing into a delirium of breaks, ecstatic chants and crystalline trance atmospheres, whisking listeners deep into a network of earthen mounds and buried roads in rainforest area of Ecuador.

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Telepathine

Nicola Cruz - Telepathine [Nous'klaer Audio]

We always knew we would return to this project because Brutalism remains a profound part of our lives, something we cherish deeply. Inspired by the photographs we have been capturing for a new book, the music emerged effortlessly. Documenting these buildings feels instinctive; this is where we belong.

Our unwavering fixation on symmetry, synchronisation, and repetition endures, but this time we believe the music reveals a more emotional depth. That is the direction we have been moving towards. Some things simply take time, yet this album seemed to take shape of its own accord.

Join us as we walk through these modern day cathedrals, monuments to the people.

My Brutal Life 2

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MEGA MEGA MEGA (DJ-Kicks)

Acid Bells (Martyn Mixes)

Acid Bells (Martyn's Bittersweet Mix)

My remix of 'Phi', from Max Cooper's excellent 'One Hundred Billion Sparks'.
Was a lot of fun to work on this track.. the album and other remixes are all worth checking out too.
https://maxcooper.net/one-hundred-billion-sparks
https://maxcooper.lnk.to/OHBSremixed