D3. Nikolay Stenski - Tale of the Old Turtle

Here is the first Selectors premiere of the year - on a more ambient / lo-fi future funk tip, track titled Ufos Over Egypt, taken from the soon to drop Mole album.  Shout out to Circus Company! 

A normally elusive creature, The Mole can be found most at home behind a DJ booth during the wee smoky hours in the midst of long, drawn-out sets. Known for his love of sonic collage and musical noodling, he boasts a long and colourful list of releases—for
labels like Perlon, Ostgut Ton, Slices of Life, Circus Company, Haunt, Musique Risquée, New Kanada, Internasjonal and longtime home Wagon Repair.

A relentless digger with an utter disregard for the structural capabilities of his living room floor, Colin is on a constant one-man mission to keep the record store industry afloat. This means, in his case, approaching music with the kind of open-mindedness and humility necessary for not only acquiring, but learning. Which might be what makes him an ideal bandmate to his friends in Modern Deep Left Quartet and Units &
Measurements. "That—or the jokes."

It's the low profile, the constant smile and a genuine love for music that make The Mole, an artist with a career spanning over 20 years, an easy one to recognise at a party. He's the guy with an ear-to-ear grin on his face, wondering why in the world he got so lucky.

[PREMIERE] The Mole - Ufos Over Egypt feat. Cristobal

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Future Chroma is an ambient duo of Stiletti-Ana and Casio G Url. They both have been playing music since they were kids and they both have always liked to create their own music instead of playing what others have composed. The duo met in 2018 when Casio G Url needed to buy a new synthesizer and couldn't decide which model to get. She came over to Stiletti-Ana's studio to try out a bunch of different synths to help her hard decision. That night they had a long jam and realized that they share a similar mind in music. The tape recorder was wired in and they recorded the basis of their first EP that was released in 2019 on Haista records.
Instead of hiding themselves and their music behind some mystic otherworldly figures, Stiletti-Ana and Casio G Url are just purely enthusiastic about playing their synthesizers and instruments and making music that they like. It's a cliché when a musician says that there was no producer or music industry head telling what to do, but honestly that never even came into Stiletti-Ana's or Casio G Url's mind that there could be someone telling them what to do to succeed. Future Chroma is doing only what they like and what they like the most are heavenly arpeggios, lovely melodies and super cosmic sounds.
In late 2019 Future Chroma packed their Nissan Micra full of equipment and drove to their secret hideout studio in the middle of Southern Finland forests. They had another really long jam and they recorded everything. Out of those sessions came the basis of their debut album called I. Finalizing a timeless piece of synthesizer music took longer than they expected and now finally 15.5.2023 the album sees the daylight. Their main influences on the record are Berlin School ambient and records made by pioneers of cosmic and electronic music such as Tangerine Dream, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Spiegel just to name a few.
But their debut doesn't sound like anything out there, because it's Future Chroma's music and it's really good!

https://soundcloud.com/futurechroma

Premiere : Future Chroma - I Rain Shelter [Haista]

This month, we take a dip in the Lake of Sweet Dreams and dance with the animals on the shore as we bring you "Afterglow In The Sky - Chapter One” by King So So.

It is not entirely clear if King So So was born on planet Earth or somewhere in the sky. Some biographies claim that King So So grew up with wolves in the deep forests of Siberia but later in his life studied taxidermy at the University of the Sky.

However, as no biography on his life is regarded as neither accurate nor based on first-hand knowledge, it is not even clear if King So So is actually a man. Some lesbian groups (note: especially in South Africa and Australia), claim that King So So is in actual fact, a woman.

Rumour has it that King So So opened the Disco in the Sky after suffering from a severe bout of depression due to loneliness and intense attacks of melancholy.

Some die-hard fans believe that King So So set himself alight in the Disco in the Sky, after an unfortunate event when a disco ball fell on his favourite flamingo, and instantly killed her. Allegedly the Disco in the Sky remains open, and around the world, fans believe that it is the only path to ultimate enlightenment.

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№ 15 - King So So

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Reconstruction Of A Heart

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https://soundcloud.com/sofaholic's new compilation 'Elsewhere Junior 1 - A Collection Of Cosmic Childrens Songs', is available now on vinyl!

https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-junior-i-a-collection-of-cosmic-childrens-songs

With Music For Dreams collectors’ series, we aim to bring you something a little out there. After eclectic contributions from Jan Schulte, Moonboots and most recently Basso, we’ve lent the slot to DJ soFa. As always, he’s been granted supreme curatorial sovereignty, and trust us, he’s held us to our word on that one. 

On this double LP, the Belgian sonic globetrotter takes us on a galactic joyride through the mystifying reality of childhood - and a trip, it is. While soFa has had a soft spot for these obscure children’s pieces for a large part of his life, the compilation itself has been 2.5 years in the making. 

That’s time spent handpicking old pieces and producing new ones with young collaborators, mostly by means of analogue synthesizers and vintage drum machines. Two tracks on here, the ones by Zahn and Oslo Karamell, are in fact creations of parent/child collaboration. 
The result is a thematically and sonically homogenous collage of cosmic children’s music. Full of synaesthetic curiosities, it immerses the listener in all kinds of creative ways, nudging you down hidden experiential pathways. It’s both hyperreal and magical, with important lessons for young and old alike in an increasingly disenchanted world.

soFa starts us off with Milo Kolarov’s interpretive exercise in sonic imagery ‘Analogue Beam’, a story about animal characters, presented to us as distinct motifs of bleeps and blitzes. Next up is the surreal jigsaw puzzle dub ‘Totti und Pippo’ by Jah Limonardi Und Die Kleine Gräfin Dubski. Here, we come bouncing on giant, iridescent mushrooms, lulled deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole by incantations of a child’s voice.
‘Der Kleine Roboter’ by Volkers Musikspiele gives us a classroom choir performing a cheerful verse about being little robots, suspended beneath the droning of an icy locomotive synth. Two layers, subverting and transmuting each other.
On the B- and C-side, our host for the hour spins us into a 16-bit midi mania straight outta the 90’s Nintendo-sphere. Palla Templouf’s ‘Ping en Keun’ evokes the ominous mood of unknown threats lurking behind every corner, while Jan Turkenburg’s ‘In Hyperspace’ takes us through uncharted galaxies searching for lost space-treasures.
Rounding off, ‘Pêle-Mêle’ twists a non-sense nursery rhyme mantra around a trudging bassline, while Thomas Natschinksi’s ‘Robotertanz’ returns to the robot-theme in a 70’s-inspired, hypnagogic space-funk-ballad. One of the few songs on the compilation that actually sounds like something out of the vast rock-pop continuum we’re familiar with.

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Les frères Figueira prennent le contrôle du PAM Club le temps d’un set qui balaye l’Afrique à travers leur propre prisme électronique. 

Article : https://pan-african-music.com/pam-club-alma-negra

TRACKLIST :
1. Babani Soundsystem - Zistwar Per Fer (Alma Negra & Céline Huber Remix) 
2. Onipa - Onipa (feat. Wiyaala) 
3. Analog Players Society - Coule Ba (J-Kriv version) 
4. James Stewart (Feat. Martha Tom & Jacob Mafuleni) - Mugara N`Dega 
5. Kampana - Tartarugue 
6. Alma Negra - Dakar Disco 
7. David Walters - Bwe Dlo (Djeuhdjoah & Lieutnant Nicholson Remix) 
8. Sugarloaf Gangsters - Chor Gway 
9. Papa Wemba - Est-ce que (Alma Negra Privat Edit) 
10. Nelson from the East - Draw Me 
11. Krewical - Mabina 
12. Danny Goliger - Monday Mango (Alma Negra Remix) 
13. Alma Negra - Back in Town 
14. Detroit Swindle - Gaule Edit 
15. Bixi - Natural

PAM Club : Alma Negra

Hello Darling - Mushrooms Project - LENG RECORDS

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https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-of-leng-records-2010-2020

In 2020, Leng Records quietly reached the ripe old age of 10 years old. To mark the achievement, co-founders Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy and Simon Purnell have compiled a special celebratory compilation featuring a mixture of historic tracks, overlooked gems, inspired remixes and previously unheard exclusives.

When founding the label, the pair wanted to represent the more chugging, mid-tempo end of the dance music spectrum – the point where 21st century nu-disco, Balearica and slow-house meets 1970s art-rock, krautrock and space disco. It’s this trademark cosmic disco-not-disco sound that dominates 10 Years of Leng, proving that the duo has rarely strayed from their sharply defined ethos.

Fittingly, the vinyl version of the compilation – a limited-edition affair which boasts a gatefold double-album and a bonus 10” single tucked inside – kicks off with an exclusive: the never-before-heard instrumental mix of Mudd and Harks’ joyous recent single ‘Susta’. Other exclusives across the collection include a wonderfully spacey and dubbed-out chunk of mid-tempo dancefloor fusion from San Francisco’s Cole Odin (‘The Numbers Game’) and, on the bonus 10”, brand new tracks from rising stars Lex and Harvey Couture.

From day one, Leng’s output has included commissioned remixes that are frequently the equal of, if not arguably an improvement on, the tracks being tampered with. That side of the label’s story is naturally represented on the compilation by a quartet of celebrated reworks: Mudd’s sleazy, mid-altering and insanely heavy ‘Slow Rave Mix’ of Tiago’s ‘The Source’, the glistening Balearic disco bliss of Max Essa’s instrumental version of Cantoma classic ‘North Shore’, Pete Herbert’s legendary piano-sporting nu-disco take on early Apiento gem ‘She Walks’, and an epic, dubbed-out Idjut Boys revision of Mountaineer’s ‘Golden Chalk’.

Elsewhere across the collection, Purnell and Murphy have chosen to showcase cuts from artists who have played a big part in Leng’s evolving story over the last 11 years. San Francisco’s 40 Thieves are represented by the druggy dub disco-meets-psychedelic rock chugger ‘Backwards Love’, while label mainstays Mushrooms Project offer up the even more psychedelic, rock-tinged headiness of ‘Hello Darling’. There’s also room for Turkish producer Ali Kuru’s inspired – and especially exotic – single ‘Luna’, and the low slung, always-rising cosmic disco heaviness of Fernando’s ‘Blue Impala’, an underground club smash for the label that first appeared in stores back in 2012.

Packed with sought-after tracks and overlooked gems, 10 Years of Leng is a fitting finale to the label’s first decade. In parts hazy, hallucinatory and heady, it deftly showcases the imprint’s refreshingly psychedelic and spaced-out take on contemporary electronic music culture. 
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Hello Darling - Mushrooms project -Ten years of Leng Records 2010 - 2020

The label Music for Dreams, initially released in 2001, is a sonic kaleidoscope of musical tones and colours. It is an exciting aural journey from label boss and founder Kenneth Bagers feeling for all things good as manifested in the diverse offsprings of the Music for Dreams label. The label has since its day of birth sold over 2 million albums and its artists have featured on more than 1000 different compilations worldwide. 

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