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Jimi Bazzouka - Don't Hammer (longer version)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/lucifer_lp_dl

With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

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Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Golfo Mistico

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Hybrid Moment is a party series and community in Kyiv. To celebrate our first anniversary, we are releasing “Mutation Onset” — a compilation of tracks by Ukrainian and foreign producers to raise funds for the Musicians Defend Ukraine Foundation.

13 artists presenting a blend of different musical genres united by a dark flavor. From gloomy indie dance with catchy vocals and electronica with old school trance motifs to groovy glitch electro, classic EBM and techno.

Tracklist: 

A-Tweed, Igor Dieiev, dj_2button & Ludviq, Lvcerate, E-bony, Symonenko, Katia Stieber, Hungry Boys, Raido, Vestibular Glow, Motoblok, Clasps, Batacat.

PREMIERE: Igor Dieiev - Animalism [Hybrid Moment]

Episode IV
Я продовжую серію міксів Music Mindfulness, додаючи новий елемент — голос.
Тож давайте трішки прогуляємося, поблукаємо чи, можливо, повернемося до себе.

Цей епізод динамічніший за попередні, зосереджений на дослідженні себе через звук.
Не забувайте про своє тіло та дихання. Подякуйте собі за уважність, за те, що помітили, як відволіклися, і знайшли шлях повернення до себе.

Гарної подорожі!

Episode IV

Electribe 2S + LXR02
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Première track avec la LXR qui peut être imprévisible mais elle rajoute dla bonne texture électronique !

Excursion Sauvage

Berlin Hypnotic House XXVI

Apologies for the extended leave of absence. Bad health has clipped my musical wings a tad in 2015. Anyway, really proud to finally be able to give this a public airing, I'll let the promo blurb say the rest.

"Leftside Wobble delivers an absolute monster that has been doing some serious damage with the few jocks who have fandangled a copy. Bill Brewster dropped it in his closing Wildlife set and Chris Duckenfield has been pressing the launch button. We’re talking a warehouse vibe with an arp riffed bass, plenty of reverb and the filtered, plaintive vocal giving it that emotional depth that all the best house music has. Make no mistake, this is one heavy remix."

Due out very soon, with excellent remixes from Peza, Sleazy McQueen, and Fingerman on the package (as well as the glorious original).

Leon Sweet - Sunny Bigler (Leftside Wobble Remix)

Dap'd Out With Dap Hound

Dap Hound - (Dap'd Out) By The Pool

Israel’s hottest export follow up excellent EPs on Hivern and I’m A Cliché with a 3-tracker for the global psychedelic cult of Multi Culti.

Tel Aviv’s Red Axes are one of the most exciting new acts in dance music, with rich sound that is musical, deep, trippy and organic, while remaining precise and lethally effective in the club. The range in their sound is impressive, their talent unmistakeable. They are one of our favourite artists of the year, and this latest record is one of their best yet.

Lead track 'Waiting for a Surprise’ builds around a mid-tempo disco bassline, with tough percussion, and rugged synth stabs, but it’s the eerie and unique sounding vocals of Brazilian collaborator Abrao that bring everything together. This one is a guaranteed bomb for building up, tearing down, peak time or chilling out… an outstanding track in every sense, the kind that force trainspotters to the DJ booth to discover what’s playing. Next up, ‘Hope’ kicks off with resonant, delayed toms, adding a haunting howl and synths before dropping into a wild, clanging, carnivalesque frenzy. It’s understated, but advanced, with an interesting arrangement that really opens up in the second half. Finally, 'The Metal Bender’ slows the tempo but ups the vibe into an elated, slow-burning space-disco anthem. Fantastic stuff!

Melbourne’s Kris Baha, fresh from launching his Power Station imprint, offers a stripped down remix of ‘Waiting for a Surprise,’ with a heavy, industrial-influenced groove that wanders into the deep, dark end of party strasse.

Red Axes - Waiting For A Surprise

psychedelic cult of Multi Culti.

Tel Aviv’s Red Axes are one of the most exciting new acts in dance music, with rich sound that is musical, deep, trippy and organic, while remaining precise and lethally effective in the club. The range in their sound is impressive, their talent unmistakeable. They are one of our favourite artists of the year, and this latest record is one of their best yet.

Red Axes - Hope

The Bicep boys are absolutely smashing it at the moment.

Their last release on Aus included 'Just' and the spacey banger has been smashed on pretty much every soundsystem around the globe.

For their next release they return to their own Feel My Bicep imprint, alongside fellow Northern Irishman Hammer, for a rework of that very same banger. The 'Go' (Flanger mix) is a different edit of the track that's been causing a stir (born in the same studio session as 'Just' believe it or not) and we've got the premiere.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Bicep & Hammer 'Go' (Flanger Mix)

16 Visions Of Ex-Futur

Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul - "I'm Always Crying" by Lena Willikens

TFGC 013 - Mekine U Teksi - Postanatolische Hybride - Die Steppenroboter LP

6 Tracks
12" Vinyl.
Cover Art by Luka Kurashvili

available at our favorite record shops early August 2017.

A1 Mekine U Teksi - Emîgratîon

These are stripped-down 160mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Siren
Title: Lulu incl. remixes by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi, Siren
Cat.-No.: CPT 496-1
Format: 12" / Digital
LC 02518
Release Date: 21. July 2017

Tracklisting:

Side A:
A1. „Lulu“ (Original) (7:15)
A2. „Lulu“ (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix) (6:07)
Side B:
B1. „Lulu“ (Siren Remix) (6:47)
B2. „Paradise“ (Siren Remix) (8:04)

For their fourth release on Compost, SIREN, (Darshan Jesrani and Dennis Kane) offer up Lulu. A haunting and driven song with an emotionally lacquered vocal from Devi Mamboka. The song also features elegant guitar work from Danny Chavis of The Veldt (His twin brother Daniel sang vocals on SIREN’S first release) bass from SIREN engineer supreme Mark Dann, and percussion from Liquid Liquid front man Salvatore Principato.
The Italian disco- and cosmic pioneers Daniele Baldelli and Marco Dionigi joined forces for an extraordinary timeless smoothly grooving re-interpretation of Lulu.
“Pre nom Lulu” - German dramatist Frank Wedekind published the two “Lulu” plays “Pandora’s Box” and “Earth Spirit” in 1895. They are unique and genre shattering as they present a female protagonist with a strong voice, and one possessive of a highly sexualized and independent mind. Following up “Paradise” where their vocalist (Felice Rossner) declares: ”Sell the house, sell the car, take my phone, I’m not coming back....” SIREN again delivers another female voice, one that is confronting existential doubt head on; “Darling let’s jump...” Devi Mambouka give voice to Lulu in the song and inhabits the heroine’s indifference to bourgeois convention with graceful and sensual defiance. She begins by telling her lover to “shut his mouth and listen to me” then describes a trip they will make “losing one’s eyes, losing one’s bearings, getting free and saying yes”. The lyric heralds transformation and builds on the ideas of SIREN’s previous songs, Gauntlet, A/Way, and Paradise.
In the barren context of contemporary dance music, which seems indifferent to the ideas of art and philosophy, SIREN is going fully against the grain, drawing inspiration from lyricists like David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, and writers like John Ashbery and William Burroughs. Siren loves bands like Suicide and Bauhaus, groups that make powerful sensual songs while still bringing complex thinking to the table. SIREN feels, like Funkadelic, that you can free your mind and your ass will follow. The songs sleek production and affecting rhythms evoke a journey taken, nocturnal and urgent.

The cover art for Lulu is by NYC artist and owner of the fabled bar/gallery Lit Erik Foss. SIREN and Foss had a dear mutual friend, NYC graffiti legend SPAM (who was the bartender for every one of SIREN’s Strobe Lodge parties) and SPAM had a girlfriend named Devi Mambouka – that’s how we do. Chatting with Erik about the song Kane asked him if he had anything that might be right for the idea, and after an afternoon of looking at work – they choose the image, “a touch of class”, the back cover features an artwork from Kane – a portrait of imagist poet Hilda Doolittle.
NYC still has hardcore community of artists musicians and writers, tough minded and complex, SIREN feels grateful to engage with their collaborators and hopefully add to that storied history of art making and also to provide a motivator to get on the dance floor.

@sirensoundny
@startreeny
@dsgtnyc

Siren - Lulu (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix)

release info: http://bit.ly/1PE3apb
original release on beatport: http://btprt.dj/1NLzBlh
Cat No.: RR068 
Artist: HEADMAN FEAT SCOTT FRASER & DOUGLAS MCCARTHY
 Title: NOISE (DANIEL MALOSO REMIX)
 Label: RELISH RECORDINGS 
Format(s): Digital
 Release Date: 21.06.13
More Info here: www.relishrecordings.net/headman/noise/

Relish Recordings presents the new single from Headman featuring Scott Fraser and
Douglas McCarthy giving a taster of his artist album due later in the year...

Robi Insinna aka Headman pairs up with former Relish producer Scott Fraser of the so-called Scrutton Street Axis (along with likeminded tunesmiths Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay who all work in the same basement studio) and Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy who provides vocals.

Noise is a fierce and prickly brew of synthetic sounds, gurgling acid and heavyweight
dubbed kick drums. The vocals of McCarthy add a nineties feel as he asks over and over if you “want some noise”. Sweaty, smoky, dirty basement disco might be a good way to describe it.

As well as a dub version there are two more remixes. The first comes from Daniel Maloso of Cómeme fame. He turns the track into a more electrified, John Carpenter style version laced up with raw and frazzled arpeggiated synths and plenty of libidinous vocal cries.

The final remix comes from Sean Johnston aka Hardway Bros – a DJ partner in crime with Andrew Weatherall in their A Love From Outer Space party project. He speeds things up a little and adds a bit of retro style dancefloor darkness to ensure the package offers something for every moment of a night.

Headman feat. Scott Fraser & Douglas McCarthy - Noise (Daniel Maloso Remix)

Music to trip to. Music to meditate on. Music to upgrade your DNA. Music to get your whole family dancing. Music to teach you. Music to live by. Music to die to. MUSIC TO MULTIPLY YOUR MIND.

CULT LEAD BY @vonparty & @dreemsdreems

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