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Slacks

Overflow

Monster

This tune will be available as a free download shortly. Atm it is being used in a collab with an emcee. If u like my work, i would really appreciate it if you took a copy of my album off my hands. It will be the second greatest album you'll buy this year. Number one is coming out later this year in the form of street bangerz. Anyways enough with the promo stuff. Enjoy : http://shop.coldbusted.org/album/music-beyond-belief

Sixfingerz - The Love for the Sound

Limbo 2

Taken from the debut album 'I Am Machinery'
Released 25/11/13

Buy the album from:

iTunes UK (bonus track version) - bit.ly/1fSAwxV
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Juno Download - bit.ly/Hcz4YY

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debukas.com/
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He’s a one-man synth orchestra, that Debukas. Those beautiful layers of yearning vocals, the Detroit strings, the coruscating hi-hats and drums that speak of years at the altar of house and techno’s venerated gods. I Am Machinery is somewhat apt.

Debukas was born in 2011, though the seeds of it were sewn much earlier. Echoes of its influences go back to Gary Numan singles, teenage forays into the world of Junos and Casios, 808 State and early Warp, Transmat and Metroplex, Arthur Russell and Gino Soccio. It’s all there in the primordial Celtic soup that comprises Debukas.

John Clark was born somewhat earlier. You may or may not have heard about some of his previous exploits. He had a brief dalliance with pop infamy in Japan. There was a series of bands large and small and collaborations so brief John is still not sure they really happened.

I Am Machinery is one of the most complete electronic albums you’ll hear this year – or any other, for that matter. Those years spent toiling in bands has given him a mean ear for the killer hook, just as the hours spent in Rubadub Records in Glasgow provided him with the inspiration.

This is neither house music nor techno, though you can certainly dance to it. Debukas has taken the basic building blocks of those genres and somehow repurposed them to produce music that is vocal-based without featuring formal songs (it feels at times as though he’s sampled himself from some obscure found-sound album). When he hits his stride, you can almost imagine – in some far off, alternative universe, maybe – Debukas on Top Of The Pops performing, say, ‘Some Days’.

If you’ve been lucky enough to come across his EPs for 2020Vision, you will have heard and appreciated his unique style; it sounds like nothing else on the roster yet fits perfectly among it all. I Am Machinery is a step further; a step forward. The sound has received a slight polish though one that comes from confidence in a sure direction rather than songs with a needless sheen. And here’s confidence for you, some of the best material from the EPs has been ditched so the album has a flow, as if all of these songs were conceived to only live together communally on I Am Machinery, like brothers and sisters, or even prisoners (of soul).

On ‘Tape Symphony’, one of the newest songs, Debukas woos us with some white soul, edged with those glittery synths and an unrelenting bass figure. ‘Hold Back The Sea’, technically just a simple house groove, is imbued with his trademark multi-layered vocals which rends it startlingly and unintentionally similar to Frankie Goes To Hollywood – bizarrely, I know, but it just totally works.

I Am Machinery is that rare thing: a great electronic album. It’s where man meets machinery and they have some right old rumpy-pumpy in front of everyone. This is Debukas’s lovechild. Plug in, tune in, blast off.

Words - Bill Brewster

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Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Get the limited edition 12" exclusively on Record Store Day 2015.
Order the album on 2xLP/CD/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Or order the album DL via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2007, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Looped

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Kiasmos – Looped

"Rumor" will appear on our forthcoming digital EP, "Lover", available 3.31.14.

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Rumor

Electronic innovator Max Cooper steps up to Atomnation with one of his standout remixes.

https://atomnationrec.lnk.to/EveMaxCooperRemix

Cooper is someone who combines his academic background and science PhD with high concept electronic music-making. He has worked with machine learning specialists, often uses video to enhance his music and is someone who brings personal emotion as well as technical skill to his work. It comes on his own Mesh label as well as Fields and most recently in the form of his acclaimed Unspoken Words album back in March.

His take on Awe Kid's 'Eve' is built on breakbeats that float through space. Plunging bass dives down deep as the celestial ambient pads float up top. There is tension in that duality that tugs at you both emotionally and physically as well-crafted synth patterns unfold in their midst.

This is a heady, pensive track that is perfectly suited to those late-night moments on the dance floor and compliments Awe Kid's lush debut LP 'Body Logic' that was released in April this year.

Awe Kid - Eve (Max Cooper Remix)

If you download these mixes to listen to later, please pop back here and click the remixers you're into some love for their work before the 26th of May. The remixer with the most heart then wins a Keith McMillen controller and some Plaid swag, http://tinyurl.com/myannzy The original version of Tether can be heard and played with via Jono Brandel's web app, http://tether.plaid.co.uk and is included on our album, Reachy Prints, http://warp.net/records/plaid/new-album-reachy-prints

Tether [Ion Driver Remix]

Coda

Gaivotas

Erased Tapes 17

Quasar

Looming (MindsEye Trailer)

Looming (HDT Remix)

Death Peak

Peak Magnetic

It all starts with the sound of the surf, the cry of seagulls and the blowing morning wind from Claudio Gasparini. Its history is steeped in beach romance. You find yourself sitting on the rocks, breathing deep salty sea air, and drowning in your thoughts. Time will pass quickly, though the first track will last only 10 minutes. Next, there will be no less melodic producer Khlev with the track «Ahafia», named in honor of his beloved wife. The track will add some dynamics and development to the compilation. This is a very sensual and melodic techno. After that, we will hear a story from Bitter-Suss, which will heat up the compilation degree to the limit with its dark tech house, which is on the verge of techno. Well, at the end point we will meet the arriving Matija, who as usual will surprise with a kind of minimalistic groove and some fascinating Eastern things, and then smoothly dissolve, leaving only positive emotions and the desire to learn about him, as a musician, more. Have a nice trip.

Produced by Claudio Gasparini (@claudiogasparini), Khlev (@khlev), Bitter-Suss (@bitter-suss), Matija (@matijaweiss). 
Design by Thomas Carmody (@thomascarmody). 
Photo by Velizar Ivanov.

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