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Anthropos Festival 12019

We're back with two new huge psybreaks tracks! Turn it on and turn it up!

First up is 2 Million and Counting, a complete rework and remix of the lead track from 1 Million Monkeys, our first release on the legendary Broken Robot Records. We opened our last set at Noisily with a very early version of this track, to a packed Liquid stage on a Friday afternoon a couple of summers ago. The track starts with an epic build up and the point when the bass kicked in and the crowd went nuts was one of our all time favourite moments on stage! Many hours in the studio later we're super excited to finally share the finished version of this track with you.

The second track on this double A side is Are You A Hippy? Like the last, this track mixes things up, with a bassline that shifts gear and a lead line that morphs as the track builds. Old school psy vibes mesh with trippy psybreaks to create something new in psychedelic music. Written in the studio a while back we've not had the chance to play this one out much (for obvious reasons) but this is guaranteed to smash any psy dance floor!

This EP will be available on all major streaming sites a few weeks after release here, but buying on Bandcamp gets you early...  more
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released October 29, 2021

All tracks written and produced by Will Bolam & Mike Connell

Mastering and additional mixing by Phil Brainiac

Are You A Hippy

Robot Arms

Robot Arms (Original Mix)

Hot on the heels of our last EP we're delighted to present our latest release. Something a bit different, but still very much representing the psybreaks sound, Flow is a 2 track EP featuring a new track by us and a remix by the super talented Incredible Science.

Our original is first up. Flow opens with an ethereal guitar riff and slowly builds as psychedelic sounds interlace with acoustic instruments, while a pumping bassline underpins the groove. It's still dancefloor friendly psybreaks but showcases a softer side to the Monk3ylogic style.

The second track on the release is a remix by a new psybreaks artist that we're really excited to be working with having been a big fan of the music he's released over the last year!

Incredible Science is a music project of Okan Çalışkan. He announced his arrival on the scene in style with his debut release coming on the mighty Nano Records in 2020, aftering winning a remix contest for Killerwatts (Avalon & Tristan). Then in 2021 he released his first album, Sense Of Being, on Mystic Sound Records.

Incredible Science creates worlds that are full of unearthly interactions and a deep sense of psychedelic flow. You can hear this as soon as you listen to the remix, with swirling effects and new elements backed up by crisp production, reinterpreting our original into something absolutely unique, but still a fusion of psytrance and breaks.
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released December 3, 2021

Original track written and produced by Will Bolam & Mike Connell
Remix additional production by Okan Çalışkan

Mastering and additional mixing by Phil Brainiac
Artwork by Okan Çalışkan

Flow (Incredible Science Remix)

Flow

Soul Circus (Landswitcher Remix)

Shanti Planti is proud to present its second official release, “Lostwithiel”, by the burgeoning musical force, Akasha Experience. This otherworldly opus has been immaculately intentioned, for the listener to have an utmost purifying and exalting experience. Ultimately culminating and aggrandizing the deification of Dub, the extrasensory entities behind these sacral sounds humbly wish for you to join them, in further discovering worlds uncharted, exploring the luminiferous æther and their channeling of ineffable, electronic Esoterica. This five track EP is brimming with loads of levitational frequencies, misty-eyed musings and an indescribable cadence that epitomizes each vibratory vista; including a reconfiguration by the up-and-coming Parisian duo, Land Switcher.

Welcome one and all, to Cirque du Cosmique! Look deep within your mind and see manifest a display of glorious grandeur. Our first destination, on our journey towards Nada Brahma, is at the lucid locale known as, “Soul Circus.” It is verily evident that this track was meticulously crafted and has the sole purpose of facilitating heightened states of consciousness, with its inward spiraling rhythm and metacognitive melodies. Multiethnic instrumentation graciously inundates this phonic pageantry, as glitches of gypsy likeness and an aerial aesthetic fill the space between notes. An initiatory composition of this magnitude is guaranteed to set your feet ablaze and soul aloft!

Opening with a sample of an anecdote about dimethyl dreamtime, by Ethnopharmacologist and legendary shamanic scholar, Dennis McKenna, “Shanti Planti,” is an East-meets-West, culture-bridging mantra. An uprooting bass and squelches galore beautifully complement the mellifluous structure of this tune. However, the most propulsive element to this track has to be the romping, tribal percussion and tidbits of tasty tablas, talking loquaciously. The interface of acoustic and electronic implementation is seamless, and the overall vibe of this track will have listeners enamored with Indra’s Net of Jewels.

The title track, “Lostwithiel,” starts very hazy. It is easy to imagine the picturesque, verdant Cornish landscapes that inspired these serene soundscapes. From the first note, one will understand that this song is optimal, for introspection. As a hang drum gently ensues, exuberant emanations of blissful beats swell. This song is ripe with repose and refinement, as the auditory architecture shines above all and was built to uplift Spirit and stimulate neurotransmitters. It is only natural that this magnificent Ethno-Dub gem would share the same name as the EP.

Land Switcher’s remix of “Soul Circus”, is this EP’s penultimate tune. These lads are gaining quite a reputation, at such a rapid pace, and rightfully so. They always seem to lace their manifestations with a certain, potent psychotropic proponent. Whether it’s their sagacious sound design or ever-evolving methods for production, Land Switcher is all about making a lasting impression. In this remix, they exemplify their various techniques, by echoing motifs of cascading synths and a reverberating blasting of bass. It is nice that this EP provides an albeit different approach to hearing one’s “Soul Circus.”

The final installment is a reincarnation of Quanta’s tune, “Quazilimbo.” This rework is a pristine example of that classic, iconic Psychedelic Ambient-Dub sound, being consciously preserved, yet genuinely modified. It features mesmeric melodies, celestial chants and a groove that germinates throughout the duration. These are those heartbeats that cannot be contained and are just bursting with brilliance. An overwhelming feeling of surreal significance is deeply implanted and these cryptic codes need no demystifying, they’re omnipresent. This tune is accentuated by exotic overtones and a strong presence of Asiatic woodwinds, which flutter to soaring heights.

Akasha Experience and their Shanti Planti collective are only just beginning to emerge and consolidate. Their amelioration is imminent and soon will take full form as an incredibly innovative and imaginative vanguard, of likeminded folk and sonic sages. They all embody a passion for manifesting beautiful music that is unparalleled, as everyone taps into the Universal wellspring, of primordial vibration.

~ written transmission by Anthony Della Croce ~

Akasha Experience - Lostwithiel

Akasha Experience - Shanti Planti

Akasha Experience - Soul Circus

From my debut album 'ILK', now available from Bandcamp:

https://badtango.bandcamp.com/album/bad-tango-ilk

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Bad Tango - Dawn of the Scarlet Cyclone [OUT NOW!]

Ahead of our album release planned for late 2021, we're excited to present two new psybreaks tracks.

First up is Biosphere, a brand new full on psybreaks track written remotely during lockdown, and a taster of what to expect from our album. The second track on the EP is This World, a track that we've played many times in our live sets (remember them!?), but freshly mastered and sounding better than ever.

You can download and stream our EP from BandCamp, as well stream from all major services, and watch on YouTube.

Released February 26, 2021

All tracks written and produced by Will Bolam & Mike Connell

Mastering and additional mixing by Phil Brainiac

This World

Biosphere

Bristol based duo Monk3ylogic are pioneers of the psybreaks sound, fusing elements from breaks, techno and psytrance to create cutting edge dance music that has evolved continuously since their debut in 2009.

Equally at home on stage as they are in the studio, Monk3ylogic’s Ableton based live sets have been destroying dance floors across the UK and beyond, performing at Glastonbury, Boomtown, Arcadia, Tribe of Frog, Illuminaughty, Sunrise, Elixir of Life, Eden and Nozstock to name but a few.