"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 [...] 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙠𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙠𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜. ‘𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙩’ 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙗𝙮𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙢." – Bleep

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences of Exotica records from the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies ("Magische Time"), mumbling chopped up syllables ("Seelnatrax") or reciting a Shakespeare quote ("Bakelit") - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s, they seem almost mystical to me like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. 
"I also take a deep bow to „Lacky“ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his EP "In the Hold" (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he was especially famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems.

Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice already to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

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M.RUX:  Vermonische Melodien [Pingipung 069]

2020-03-02

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M.RUX - Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020

Press contact: Andrea Wienck andrea@pingipung.de

„What an unusual record M.RUX’s Vermonische Melodien is. The instrumentals here have been made entirely with synthesisers built by Vermona, a company that operated in the former East Germany and fell with the Berlin wall, and the vocals are largely produced by a combination of an IBM 704 - the world’s oldest piece speech-synthesis hardware - and a variety of vocoders. When combined at M.RUX’s behest this strange array of equipment produces a kind of kitschified kosmische sound that is curiously charming. ‘Bakelit’ sounds like Delia Derbyshire trying to make music for an episode of The Clangers where they take a trip to some place warm.“ - Bleep 

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out, how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments in the "Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke“ until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to ‘Lacky’ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his „In the Hold“ (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs

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Vermonische Melodien [Pingipung 069]

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delicious

When I find my voice

Since the year 2008, the two artists have been traveling through the Polar regions of Europe in a motor home, aiming for the northern Norwegian territory of Finnmark with its eight seasons. 

During the course of their artistic voyages of discovery, SpringerParker have observed and studied the region collecting photos, sound recordings and stories for their archive – memories which the artists have now embedded in contemporary music, compositions on landscape, the environment and the people.
 
All of the field recordings woven by SpringerParker into their music have been lifted from the aural archives they have compiled on their travels and are intimately connected to the theme of each piece. Hence "Arctic Flowers" features recordings of thawing permafrost in Knivskjellodden on the Magerøya peninsula, as well as the Gulf Stream climate catalyst where it ends in the Porsanger Fjord. On "Mørketid", or "Polar Night", the dark season which lasts for several months as the sun stays beneath the horizon, SpringerParker deploy recordings of a snowstorm which engulfed them all of a sudden. They affixed contact microphones to wooden Lavvus structures, the traditional tents of the indigenous Sami people, to record this force of nature.
 
For the centerpiece of their composition, the so-called "Libretto", they enlisted the services of opera singer Lilly Jørstad from Russia, but now living in Tromsø. To create the typical unison of word and song as found in opera, for example, the artists asked the vocalist, 24 years old at the time, to put the noteworthy temperature readings of the region into song, using names of places and data provided by meteorological institutes for recent times.
 
The topic of climate change was one of the main reasons behind SpringerParker approaching the Goethe Institute with this project in 2007. They read an article in the New York Times reporting on plants in Greenland and Norway which had metamorphosed into flowers due to climate change and information still present in their genetic composition. A fantastic story in the eyes of SpringerParker, for whom memory is a motif to which they often return in their works.
 
When SpringerParker and Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons) 2009 were interviewed and filmed by Norwegian television on the subject of climate change and apocalyptic scenarios, they agreed that this is not the time to see everything in the blackest terms, although it is patently obvious that something is wrong out there - you don’t need to be a scientist to recognize that.
 
"The more time we spent in Finnmark and got to know its people, the more this arctic region of Norway seemed to us like an island with its own rules and principles. Our compositions represent a symphony for this region, based on our experiences and memories. Dedicated to the people carving out an existence there, in the face of extreme climatic, industrial and social upheaval, right now and in the future."
 
"There Are Places In Our Heads One Can Travel To" was written as a contemporary dance opera and premiered in its earliest form at the "Barents Spektakel" in February 2011. A SpringerParker tour is planned with an ensemble of seven and a video show, telling their tales through Europe and North America.
 
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The rediscovery of the earliest, primeval form of musical impulses through defining worlds of experience, landscapes, peoples and their dialogues. An onomatopoeic translation of real observations, solid analyses and imaginable perspectives. Everything presented, compellingly translated in the language of music. A musical story is told through authentic fragments and the evocation of the seen, making us aware of a process which affects us all, the loss of sustainability and responsibility for our environment.  ( Stefan Reichmann / Haldern Pop )

SpringerParker - 04  Libretto

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"Inside Out label bosses Stevie R & Alex Zed offer up a dub remix of ‘Delphi’. The guys take you on a rich journey of enchanting layers that become hypnotic as synth melodies drape over rolling drum patterns. Deeply beautiful, this is music for the more intelligent listener."

Review by: Knights of the Turntable

Delphi [Remixes]

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Elijah Simmons - Delphi (Stevie R & Alex Zed Dub)

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Brick + Mortar represent the underground, the oppressed, the disillusioned, and voiceless. Fusing driving percussion, grooving bass, eclectic samples, and anthemic vocals creates a new world sound that is so fresh you truly need to hear it for yourself. Their live show is a party that erupts like a magnetic sonic volcano catching the attention of everyone in the room, drawing them to the stage full of intrigue and energy. It's hard to really put it into words. Words never do them justice. You need to experience it on your own.

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M.RUX: Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out, how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments in the "Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke“ until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to ‘Lacky’ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his „In the Hold“ (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

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my mountain

As if you're floating in and out of your dreams.

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Musical ramblings of a chaotic mind !!
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A warm spring or summers day, the sounds of the outside world floating past........

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After several EPs and edit-compilations M.RUX (@mrux) releases his first full-length album called "Vermonische Melodien". You can listen to the album & get it here: https://mrux.bandcamp.com/album/vermonische-melodien

M.RUX: Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020

Press contact: Andrea Wienck andrea@pingipung.de

"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 [...] 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙠𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙠𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜. ‘𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙩’ 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙗𝙮𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙢." – Bleep

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences of Exotica records from the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies ("Magische Time"), mumbling chopped up syllables ("Seelnatrax") or reciting a Shakespeare quote ("Bakelit") - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s, they seem almost mystical to me like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. 
"I also take a deep bow to „Lacky“ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his EP "In the Hold" (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he was especially famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems.

Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice already to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

Vermonische Melodien

Laikas

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M.RUX: Laikas

Preorder here ; https://wataj.bandcamp.com/album/santa-monica

Santa Monica is the first Maxi Single released by WATAJ Recordings. It features three tracks ready to take you with in a very hot scenarios, from sunrise to after-sunset. Claudio Brioschi aka City Strike comes out with two very deep but at the sametime nostalgic and evocative electronic-funk composition. On the B side the bonus track is a new version of the never published, so far, "Music Lovers" reinterpreted by DJ SCM aka Tony Pianola aka Enzo Conoga with his overwhelming neo-disco italo-synth style, plus an acappella on the end to stimulate every DJ life.

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PREMIERE : City Strike - Music Lovers (DJ SCM Dance Mix)

Oráculos y Oasis is my first release with guest musicians. And it was a huge pleasure that i had this opportunity. On the track Oráculos, you can hear Janosch Marti playing the trombone, he is a very good friend of mine. It brought the track on a totally different level. In Oasis, my father Daniel Fasching laid down some accordion lines, which gave that track this slight melancholic touch but still so full of joy. 

The cover art was painted and edited by IMKR.
Written & Produced by @klangdruide

KlangDruide - Oasis

We are very happy to premiere you this track by M.RUX (@mrux), an excerpt of his debut album released on like-minded Pingipung (@pingipung).

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M.RUX - Bakelit

music & final mix . Arma Ignifera @herronsound
lyrics , vocals & their pre-mix/arrangement . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh
artwork . Kristina Mills facebook.com/KristinasFineArtStudio
part of these lyrics were weaved into this song https://soundcloud.com/posse-cutz/myrh-x-liquido-raise-up

STORM
when i was a younger girl, i was already on the way

I know when you raise up, you’ll raise a storm

storm!

there aint gone be no simmerin down
babadeebop blazin all over town

i know when you raise up
you'll raise a storm
a storm!

at this rate you could irate!

to gather

Storm - Arma Ignifera & Myrh

B Alright(Instrumental)

He hadn't slept for days, though it felt more like weeks. Life had become a constant waking dream, observed through bleary heavy lidded eyes. Nothing seemed to help, he'd tried every method he could but pills, drugs and counting sheep had no effect. Days were nights and nights were days, a cycle he believed could no longer be broken. A constant feeling of being barely alive... 

Power Station boss Kris Baha lands on Emotional Especial for his debut 12" after dropping two remixes for previous label releases from Sfire and Red Axes. The producer and DJ, known for his heady club take on EBM, post-punk and EBM, has previously put out records with Bahnsteig 23, Pinkman and CockTail d'Amore, the latter imprint being the home for his debut album Palais at the end of the last year. 'Barely Alive' is a return to Kris' band roots and a step away from the club ready tracks he's become known for. Taking on remix duties are Especial regular Timothy Fairplay, the legendary Das Ding and Knekelhuis affiliate Job Sifre who provides an infectious remix that calls on his influences in electro and new wave.

PREMIERE: Kris Baha - Barely Alive (Job Sifre Remix) [Emotional Especial]

The Very Polish Cut Outs returns with a new release from a  Bartosz Kruczyński AKA Pejzaż (Landscape) known as 50% of Ptaki, representing dancefloor oriented cuts, deep house and exuding the scent of approaching summer.
Kiedy Jestes Blisko (When You Are Near) a magnificent example of a tribal deep house, romantic but clearly and categorically indicated by this chic bass line, make you want to get a walk on the beautiful beach with a cocktail in one hand and your beloved's hand in the other, while you both enjoy the sunset.
15 mixes 12" record out March 27th, pre- order here: https://asfaltshop.pl/product/15160-pejzaz-blues-lp/

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PREMIERE #859 | Pejzaż - Kiedy Jestes Blisko [The Very Polish Cut Outs] 2020

The favela glistens with sound, summoned by the collective energy of people chasing pleasure in all ways they can. Up narrow streets coated in patches of flickering light and smells of papaya and hot coals, he walks towards the top of the hill in pursuit of a party, mentioned by whispers in the city below. Stray dogs linger around the huddled groups of children that surround Escher-esque stairways coated in exploding colours, whipping and winding without consideration for uniformity. As he nears the summit, the rumble of tribal rhythms call him forward. Vá com Deus. 

Parisian label Lumière Noire gifts us with their latest release, a remix EP of Iñigo Vontier’s 2019 album ‘El Hijo del Maiz'. The EP features 4 mind-melting tracks, with each DJ expanding upon the electronica-influences of the original by adding heaps of their own flavour. Nicola Cruz’s remix of ‘Bo Ni Ke’ adds a Latin twist along with some Middle-Eastern elements, rolling South American percussion and squelchy synths that create a track that is hypnotic and otherworldly.

El Hijo Del Maiz Remixes EP

PREMIERE: Iñigo Vontier - Bo Ni Ke (Nicola Cruz Remix) [Lumière Noire]

One night at the party written by Chris Greaveslord
bass.P.B. In the early '90 we're Áches&Pains, playing on the street. On the picture Chris on the left with the banjo and the black top hat for the money. Me on the right with a verry cheap guitar, one of the best I've ever played. Noordwolde begin jaren '90

One Night At The Party - Aches&Pains

M.RUX: Vermonische Melodien
LP / digital
Pingipung 069
MAR 6 2020
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Press contact: Andrea Wienck andrea@pingipung.de

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies (“Magische Time”), mumbling chopped up syllables (“Seelnatrax”) or reciting a Shakespeare quote (“Bakelit”) - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s. They seem almost mystical to me. Like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out, how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments in the "Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke“ until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album. "I also take a deep bow to ‘Lacky’ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his „In the Hold“ (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he had become famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems. Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.

Vinyl / Download

Seelnatrax

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14.09.19 Deaf Music / Mallorca / ESP
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16.08.19 MS Dockville / Hamburg / DE
10.08.19 3000Grad Festival / DE
01.08.19 Garbicz Festival / PL
28.07.19 Habitat Festival / DE
27.07.19 Detect Classic Festival / DE
26.07.19 SOS Festival / Biesenthal / DE
21.07.19 Melt Festival / DE
20.07.19 Am Bach Festival / CH
19.07.19 Däensn / Tübingen / DE
29.06.19 Fusion Festival / DE
23.06.19 Hoppla Festival / Basel / CH
19.06.19 Monticule Festival / FRA
15.06.19 Cri De La Mouette / Toulouse / FRA
01.06.19 Mute / Leipzig / DE
14.05.19 La Horde Cruise / Paris / FRA
11.05.19 Kater Blau / Berlin / DE
04.05.19 M.ensch Meier / Berlin / DE
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