Many Use Me's...

In celebration and anticipation of Finders Keepers Records' 100th release and the FIRST EVER release of Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier's full instrumental soundtrack to Les Chemins De Kathmandou the label presents this only official upload of the rare cassette mix-tape HISTOIRE DE MELODY VANNIER mixed by Andy Votel in 2006 (using all original vintage VANNIER vinyl) for the occasion of the first ever live performance of Histoire De Melody Nelson / L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches at the Barbican Centre in London in the same year.

Andy Votel - Histoire De Melody Vannier

Zdeněk Liška 
Ikarie XB-1
Finders Keepers Records (FKR092)

Release date - 15th February 2019

Liška, the Czechoslovakian word for fox. Beguiling in its beauty, cunning in it’s charm. Said to be one of the most intelligent animals on the planet its global family consists of thirty-seven varieties; all of them recognised, respected and feared for their persuasive, creative, resourceful and elusive nature. The Liška we will talk about today is no exception to these hereditary rules and within the grooves of this record Finders Keepers present an “elusive” musical artefact that best exemplifies every facet of this composer’s animal namesake.

Had he not been born in the small Bohemian town of Smečno in the early 1920s the story of The Fantastic Mr. Liška might have well taken a different course. Alternatively, fettered by the hampers of communism, this lifelong resident of Czechoslovakia would never quite find his seat at the same table as the likes of John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Michael Nyman and Stanley Myers, nor drop enough phonographic breadcrumbs to track his legacy. But having waited patiently behind the borders of the wider landscapes of international cinema, Liška’s musical brood, spanning multiple stylistic decades and generations, has now started to walk proudly amongst his would-be, latter-day compeers. In an era where music lovers have almost become immune to adjectives like “lost”, “rare” and “unreleased” in a climate where previously lesser-known off-kilter master composers such as Vannier, Kirchin and Axelrod have become widely revered, it is perhaps the perfect time for discerning listeners to advance above the feeding trough and seek out this truly pioneering and revolutionary Eastern European composer. Rivalled only by the likes of Krzysztof Komeda and Andrzej Korzynski in Poland, alongside Alexandr Gradsky in Russia, and often splitting workloads with fellow Czech composers like Luboš Fišer, Zdenek Liška’s filmography of over almost 300 fully formed movie scores virtually eclipses the achievements of these socialist era luminaries. Respected unanimously in both Czech and Slovakian by studio bosses, producers, directors and actors alike Liška is widely known for his ability to take the existing energy in a reel of film and literally change the polarity to suit his own interpretation while maintaining the full support from his “client” who would in-turn end up working under this composer’s creative direction. Not only was Liška a genius of emotive orchestral and coral composition, his grasp on small group arrangements and intimate, minimal scores set him above the competition. By utilising primitive sample techniques by “looping” a films existing ambient noise, or rearranging found sounds and dialog into subtle melodic arrangements, Liška would independently develop his own techniques which had simultaneously become known in Paris as musique concrète. It is a direct extension of these experiments that saw Liška also draw parallels with Walter Branchi (Ennio Morricone’s main electronic sidekick) in Italy as well as Daphne Oram in the UK, making Liška a relatively untravelled pioneer of early electronic composition and sound design due to his unlikely global environment. Imprisoned, preserved or reserved; time has been kind to Liška’s music.

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Ikarie XB-1

The Dark Star

Zdeněk Liška - The Dark Star

Susan Christie
Paint A Lady
Finders Keepers Records (FKR007)

Release date - 15th February 2019

A mythical and misplaced masterpiece of lost soft rock and acidic folk funk by a one-hit wonderer lost in the wilderness for four decades. From the producer of Margo Guryan, writer behind Wool, Gerry Mulligan collaborator, Tarantino soundtracker and Wendy & Bonnie confidant, Paint A Lady now emerges from folkloric obscurity, to bring a wash of soft psychedelic colour to your vinyl collection and quench the repeat requests of a thirsty new found audience waiting for the rain.

Within certain record collecting circles, especially those who gather under the umbrella that covers fragile niches like “acid folk” and “soft rock”, it’s difficult to imagine a time when the legendary Susan Christie album didn’t exist. When Finders Keepers Records first shared the unheard 60’s songs like Paint A Lady, For The Love Of A Soldier and Echoes In Your Mind with a wide-eyed audience thirsty for organic soul and festival friendly acoustic funk, Susan’s new found fan base instantly felt like they had known these songs all of their lives, and with a single needle drop we saw the birth of what could rightfully be described as an “instant classic”. Which is why it’s hard to believe that the music on this lost 60s acetate was only pressed 12 years ago. As our lucky seventh release in an international discography that now surpasses the 100 mark (and one of a small clutch of English language recordings on the label) Paint A Lady has slowly become one of our most requested re-releases, and with this 2018 edition it is technically accurate to say that this pressing is the first-ever reissue of this elusive and essential LP.

The oft over used term mythical applies to this album on many levels. Perhaps it’s the woozy nostalgia found within the pop craft of Paint A Lady that has led to false rumours that original 1960’s copies used to exist on the collectors market, or the bizarre claim that songs like the head-nodding title track, and the acid-drenched sound effects on Yesterday Where’s My Mind were just a product of a contemporary studio band trying to create a fake folk funk red herring. As a result Susan Christie and her producer and husband of 40 years, John Hill have happily taken the repeat phrase “unbelievable” as a compliment to their songwriting skills and foresight. In all fairness, with a decade to ponder, the original 1969 song titles alone do seem custom-built for the nostalgia market… No One Can Hear You Cry might lament the unrequited yearning for a record deal which never quite followed Susan’s won one-hit wonder novelty hit I Love Onions; similarly When Love Comes might allude to the subsequent 35 year wait for the right label to eventually come along. Echoes In Your Mind and the aforementioned Yesterday… could easily allude to the haunting melodies that sat in the can on John Hill’s studio shelf while his projects for Margo Guryan, Wool and Pacific Gas & Electric sat proudly in record racks before benefitting successful French cover versions or making their way on to Quentin Tarantino soundtracks. The track Paint A lady itself, complete with it’s future-proofed sample-worthy rhythm section, seems like the perfect title for a mock rock pseudo psych contender – at which point you eventually step back and see the bigger picture. These guys were simply one drop too far ahead of their time; a family force of experimental pop perfection that late 60’s America simply wasn’t ready for. It is just over 12 years since champion record rustler Keith D’Arcy (who you’ll meet on the inside sleeve) stumbled upon one of the original acetates that led to the final release of Paint A Lady, and it’s almost a longer 50 years since Susan and John added their final touches to these recordings which tragically went into hibernation for over four decades.

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Paint A Lady

Susan Christie - Paint A Lady

Suzanne Ciani
Flowers Of Evil
(Finders Keepers Records, FKR099)

As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of “modernité” (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the eeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exempli ed in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).

In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major lm soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless… Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and icks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/ electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically re ective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.

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Flowers Of Evil

Suzanne Ciani - Flowers Of Evil (Excerpt)

Recognised as a mystical withdrawn masterpiece created by Irish electroacoustic pioneer Roger Doyle, the album Thalia's short-lived existence on CBS Classics was deemed a commercial failure in the eyes of blinkered major label suits but would further cement Doyle's contemporary concrète credentials - paving the way for a multi-disciplinary genre-bending career at the forefront of independent Irish music and earning him a coveted spot on the indispensable Nurse With Wound List.  With only 200 copies rumoured to have survived the CBS cull, Thalia has become an elusive and highly sought-after feather in the caps of collectors of both outsider electronics and avant-garde tape manipulation, and has long since been respected as one of the most important records in either field to emerge from the Emerald Isle.

Roger Doyle - Thalia Part 1(Excerpt)

We put together a fun package of Bottled Sunshine for your entertainment: A Bandcamp-only compilation of 20 exclusive Yacht-Disco Edits by our favorite and smoothest modern reworkers. The vibes will take you on a virtual holiday straight into a tropical sunset…Just Fly away with us!

Original Sample: Scott Hirsch - No No

Compiled by Dj Supermarkt.
Final mastering by Jan Fabritius
Artwork by Dennis Ratzlaff/Typoindex

released May 1, 2020

Saltywax - Back to California [Too Slow To Disco]

A. R. Luciani
Elettroencefalogramma
Dead Cert (VCR014)

In the widening realms of uncovered European outsider art and maligned musical enigmas, the composer most commonly known as A. R. Luciani, along with his indeterminable and mostly uncommercial discography, continues to exist on the extreme outer limits. Despite his unwaning commitment to the Italian production music for the TV and film industry his work remains mostly undocumented in recent excitable books and documentaries.  Meanwhile his advancements in contemporary music, tape music, neo-classical, jazz, electroacoustic and counterpoint composition remains confided to the educational sector while his vast historical concert work remained exclusive to this discipline. If it wasn't for continued interest of owners of library music labels in the early 1970s it is doubtful that we would ever even hear the truly unique music of this Sicilian born (Florence raised) polymath who would eventually share anti-release schedules with the likes of Alessandro Alessandroni and Daniela Casa. For this reason, unlike many indispensable library legends of the era, it's arguable that Luciani should be considered a library musician at all, rather an independent, highly educated, experimental musician who happened to make library records. Library music clearly needed Luciani, rather that Ricardo relying on RIA's gravy train like many disposable artists of the gilded golden era, which is why this first-ever collection of his music, represents just the tip of an iceberg in a very deep ocean. 

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Elettroencefalogramma

A. R. Luciani - Battery Farm

...AND THEY SAID IT SHOUDN'T BE DONE !!!!

Andy Votel's Midlfe Crisis Disco Mixtape

Our exclusive interview with Miles Davis’ son Aaron and his nephew Vince Wilburn Jr. as they discuss life on the road with Miles and the making (and re-making) of RUBBERBAND.

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Andy Votel - Misuse Me (Bill Withers Tribute)

Eivissa Beach Cafe VOL 70 
Compiled & mixed by HenrickDJ

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Eivissa Beach Cafe VOL 70 - Compiled & mixed by HenrickDJ

Tracks you may not know, but my favorite to produce, solo.
Tracklist:
1. Voicemail (Kitten &The Glitz with Felix Da Housecat LP)
2. Unreleased
3. Bloomy Sunday (Calling from the stars LP)
4. Elevate (Cosmos LP)
5. Motown (Calling from the stars LP)
6. Alles Sehen rmx for Ellen Allien (my first remix ever done)
7. What you see (Calling from the stars LP)
8. Multiverse (Cosmos LP)
9. Cosmic Love Radiation (Calling from the stars LP)
10. Question Everything (Cosmos LP)
11. Sortie des artistes (Calling from the stars LP)
12. Deep Space Station (Cosmos LP)
13. Happy Violentine Mad Professor remix (I com LP)
14. Utopia (Cosmos LP)
15. I.L.A.N.E.N.O (Calling from the stars LP)
16. Atoms (Cosmos LP)
17. Tamarin Bay (Calling from the stars LP)
18. Scanner (Cosmos LP)
19. Sunset Mission (Calling from the stars LP)
20. Last Day on Earth (Cosmos LP)
21. Time Stretching (Calling from the stars LP)
22. White Magic (Cosmos LP)
23. Only You (Calling from the stars LP)
24. Dub about me (I com LP)
25. Are you there (Cosmos LP)

My own Electronica productions mix

As featured on 'Too Slow To Disco presents - Yacht Disco Edits' 
featuring - Chuggin Edits, Yuksek, Sould Out, Salty Wax, Mikeandtess, HOLDtight & many more. @tooslowtodisco @djsupermarkt
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Pino Daniele - Keep On Movin (Twin Sun Edit)

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The Mosaic of Transformation

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Carrying Gravity

Weird times indeed! So, to brighten your day, Berlin disco guru, and "Too Slow to disco" label boss DJ Supermarkt put together a huge package of bottled sunshine for your entertainment: a compilation of 20 exclusive Yacht-Disco Edits by his favorite and smoothest reworkers, available now on Bandcamp only. 

I'm super happy and proud to be part of this very cool project alongside a great line-up of producers. The vibes will take you on a virtual holiday straight into a tropical sunset…so...share the love:)

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Get It Here

Vibes4YourSoul - Gimme More (from TSTD Yacht Disco Edits compilation Out Now)

About the full compilation on Bandcamp:

Weird times indeed! So here is something to brighten your day/night: We put together a fun package of Bottled Sunshine for your entertainment: A Bandcamp-only compilation of 20 exclusive Yacht-Disco Edits by our favorite and smoothest modern reworkers. The vibes will take you on a virtual holiday straight into a tropical sunset…Just Fly away with us!

Huge Thanks to all edit/rework legends who shared their tracks with us! We love You!

For those who buy the whole package/bundle, we have a special present: An exclusive Download of a Dj Supermarkt 1:45 hours DJ-Mix featuring all 20 tracks in full beauty.

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share to support artists and labels on friday, midnight (Los Angeles time, 9am in Berlin) to midnight. So this might be the perfect time to purchase the package, if you want to help musicians in these difficult times.

Compiled by Dj Supermarkt.
FInal mastering by Jan Fabritius
Artwork by Dennis Ratzlaff/Typoindex

#19 Dis Moi (Bilingual Edit)

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@tooslowtodisco have dropped a surprise album Yacht Disco Edits via their bandcamp today featuring the creme de la creme of the edits world. Expect choice tracks from Chuggin Edits, Mikeandtess, Dj S, Jack Tennis, S.Nolla and many more.  Check out our premier of one of the highlights of the album here from @doctor-soul1 and more info on LV online via:

Too Slow To Disco - Yacht Disco Edits (Bandcamp Only)

Hold Tight (Don't Let Go Re - Therapy)

LV Premier - DoctorSoul - Hold Tight (Don't Let Go Re - Therapy) [TSTD]

FREE DOWNLOAD! So It Goes is very excited to bring you a fantastic rework of Radiohead' track "Reckoner," masterfully remixed by rising talent Luca Cociuffo.  A deep and melancholic track, Luca's beautiful rework has already received support from artists like https://soundcloud.com/antrim and https://soundcloud.com/miromarmusic.  We hope that you enjoy!

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Many Use Me's...

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