SoundCloud Weekly May 3rd

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Dekmantel and Patta join forces once more for another collaboration. Since 2015, the two homegrown Amsterdam imprints have collaborated on a very special release highlighting local talent. Following up on the success of the 2020 compilation, this year’s edition has a mirrored impetus, presenting a choice selection of our favourite established artists and up-and-comers based in The Netherlands. Available on a limited 150 cassette tape and digital release, the album arrives in tandem with unique merchandise items – two Patta x Dekmantel t-shirts and a hooded sweater.

For the 2021 instalment, eight purveyors and shapers of the Dutch scene have each whipped up an exclusive contribution. Launching things off, there’s De Lichting associate and Kommune founder Nathan Kofi with ‘Omdu,’ a sunburst take on classic deep house. Next up are familiar fixtures of Holland’s club-circuit, Jasmín – who dives into the world of production via 'Purl Stich Knitting' – and Cinnaman's esoteric 'Duck.' Famed for her hardware live sets, Rotterdam's Alberta Balsam offers up 'Pyramids,' a centrifuge of warbling 303 basslines and icy-sharp refrains. Flipping over to the B-side, you can find, amongst other earth-shattering tracks from Naone and Nadia Struiwigh, Garage Noord resident DJ Corridor’s 'Never,' a euphoric blend of delicate, watery melodies and flexed breakbeat. Before Mary Lake dispatches 'Back From Crete,' the hyper-glitched out melody infused with wiggy, shuddering bass.

A mixtape dedicated to club basements, dusky summer festival evenings and crowded house parties – in sum, a love note to all that we've missed in the past 18 months. While impossible to collapse into a single, definable sound, the cassette is flooded by the unmistakable flavour of dance fervour. Amping up the energy to insurmountable levels, navigating kaleidoscopic twists and turns – take it as a promise of everything that’s to come in 2022.

A very limited amount of tape cassettes are available only with each merchandise item from this year's Patta x Dekmantel collection (1 per person, first come first served). Digital copies can be pre-ordered only via our Bandcamp, streaming will be available on August 6.

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Omdu [DKMNTL x PATTA]

My contribution to De Lichting's 'drie-nul-drie' vinyl compilation.

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Acidic Rain (ft. E.M.)

Moodman-Come Together (dub techno mix)

Voices From The Lake : 05 - S.T. (VFTL Rework)

Kettenkarussell - Fusion (live)

Samuel Kerridge - GOFD

Track taken from Emptyset, debut self-titled on double LP, reissue. Available now to buy from: www.subtextrecordings.net/ SUB014

Emptyset - Completely Gone (SUB015)

A rare DJ mix from one of electronic music's chief practitioners.

RA.276 Alva Noto

Made in collaboration with @la-fraicheur in Berlin on a rotation of naps, dj gigs, getting caught in thunderstorms and more naps. Enjoy the free tunes!

Nark & La Fraicheur - No Sleep, Next Place [Free DL]

Sam Paganini b2b Zøe at Day-On Festival ADE (Amsterdam) 22-10-2016

Sam Paganini b2b Zøe At Day-On Festival ADE 2016

Full stream of DeepChord & Fluxion's "Accumulate Pt. 1," a cut from their new Transformations project.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/11/premiere-hear-a-track-from-deepchord-fluxions-new-transformations-project/

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Accumulate EP

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Premiere: DeepChord & Fluxion present: Transformations - Accumulate Pt.1

Monika Kruse @ Time Warp 2017

This is the first single from Thomas Fehlmann's upcoming LP 'Los Lagos', out September 7, 2018. 

Buy Single: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/MorrislouisSD
Buy Album: https://KompaktRecords.lnk.to/LosLagosSD

'Los Lagos’ is Thomas Fehlmann's seventh solo full-length, his 4th for Kompakt following his Berlin inspired 2010 full length 'Gute Luft'. in the musician's own words it’s about "checking the juice".

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PREMIERE: Thomas Fehlmann - Morrislouis

Release Date: 12th October

Bandcamp: https://nightdefinedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-behaviour-ep
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Artist: As Far As I know
Title: Chaotic Behaviour EP
Label: Night Defined Recordings
Cat.No.: NDWAX006
Format: 12 inch EP, 180g, hand-stamped
Distribution: vinyl-distribution.com / Wrong Hands

Description:
“As Far As I Know” is the new project by electronic music veteran Eduardo De La Calle. Under this new moniker, Eduardo is exploring the roots of Detroit electro whilst sticking to his signature sound of trippy melodies and rhythms, which we were able to experience through so many quality releases over the last decades. This first EP by As Far As I Know, which also includes a collaboration with Nathan Surreal on B2 (Fact Speak Itself), takes us on a trip back to the future and deep into the realm of sci-fi related electro, IDM, and techno. Pressed on 180g hand-stamped quality wax.

Chaotic Behaviour EP

As Far As I Know - Fact Speak Itself (feat. Nathan Surreal)

Archive // 003 - Posto Unico (Original Mix)

Fred P’s fresh ‘Perpetual Sound’ imprint continues its journey with 'Lush Culture', a split EP that finds the label head alongside like-minded soul, Deetron. 

 

‘Liquidity’ opens the EP: a slowly-bubbling, elegantly shuffling house trip that pairs liquid, deep chords with irresistible percussion. ‘Lush Culture’ finds the New York-Berlin producer in his most sophisticated mode, channeling pure early-hours dance floor ambience via a rolling, charismatic beat amid a subtle but intoxicating build.

 

Handing the reins to Deetron for the flip, ‘Sweet Science’ sees the Swiss maestro punctures the weightless mood with a heavier, stepping bassline that blossoms into a blissful analogue state that rolls on and on, mastering sublime cosmic tension with each powerful breakdown. 

 

Fred P returns to conclude the release with ‘119 Black Key Experiment’, a sparkling, ambient sign-off that explores the retro-futurist influence at the beating heart of the label’s aesthetic.

Fred P - Lush Culture

Furthur Journeys Into Electronix 2
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Lobec - 5am Nostalgia (Lobec's Stripped Back Version)

Joyhauser - Entropy (Original Mix)

A deep, futurist transmission of breaks and intelligent pads from Amsterdam-based De Lichting collaborator Eversines.

The 'Bloei EP' is out February 15th on ninih.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2FTesGS

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Premiere: Eversines – Bloei [ninih]

My track "Hunched Back" on Eduardo De La Calle's Analog Solutions.

https://clone.nl/digital/item4043813.html

Hunched Back [Analog Solutions]

What is the sound of the end? How does one acoustically convey that something is over? Computers have had a shutdown sound; movies play a melody while rolling credits and even the end of human life has a sound attached to it, courtesy of Chopin. Heatherbrae, an excellent track from Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs feels like it's a sountrack to an end of some sort. Its deliberate and sparse pacing of someone who's no longer rushing, its "I-am-at-peace" synth chords as well as casual and relaxed drumming all seem to say: "It has been a lovely experience; I laughed and i cried, I've learned and I've grown but now it's over”.

Write up by: https://soundcloud.com/slinkyslava

Thomas Gray on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/twfgray
Liam Ebbs on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/liam-ebbs-1
Analogue Attic on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/analogueattic

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PREMIERE: Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - Heatherbrae [Analogue Attic]

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After Francis Harris' third album 'Trivial Occupations' gained magnificent resonances during press and listeners - his “meandering, spine-tingling loveliness” (DJ Mag, USA) became an album of the year in several publications - here is the Remix-EP with two very special reworks.

While the left-field ambient waves of 'Trivial Occupations' still linger in the ears, Joaquin Joe Claussell and LNS tamper with the two bit more beat-driven 'Minor Forms' and 'St. Catherine And The Calm' for two new interpretations that totally break the chains.

New York based DJ, musician and producer Joaquin Joe Claussell, label-owner of both Spiritual Life Music and Sacred Rhythms Music is looking back on a list of countless works on Labels like Vega Records, Brownswood Recordings and Wonderwheel Recordings. Famous for his percussion-driven Afro-House tracks which are influenced by his Puerto Rican background, he also has a deep connection into New York’s local Jazz Scene. Claussell's Cosmic Arts Version of Minor Forms features the outstanding Jazz-pianist Bennett Paster with skillful and organic Piano lines. The track opens up with indistinct vocal chants and distant piano-tinkles alongside scattered drum hits. This moody, steady swelling beginning follows on the vibe of the original’s jazzy trumpets. As the bass, played by Claussell, hits at some point, the whole track turns into a fusion of  virtousic synth and piano melodies, underlined with excentrical drum rolls. A turn back into the lighter ambient-spheres finally ends the wildness.

"No different than how I approach producing remixes," says Claussell, "my goal first and foremost is to initiate a connection with the original composition. What this allows me to do is become intimate with the piece in a way that it almost becomes one of my own. Once the relationship is established, I then sketch out the ideas in my head - then on to the canvas - hence whatever format, whether that be DAW or Tape that I feel can most appropriately assist me in getting the job done. As it relates specifically to 'Minor Forms', I envisioned it becoming a journey that moves in 4-parts (Deep Wilderness, Morning Light, Jazzstosphere and back into the Wilderness). The ultimate goal was for the remix to become a story that continues moving through different atmospheric scenes and melodic emotions-all the while respecting the brilliance of the original story. An important part however, is that i need to feel the original composition before i entertain the idea of  agreeing to do remixes. And so, hats off to Francis Harris for creating an inspiring piece of music to begin with."

The lively breathing nature of 'St. Catherine And The Calm' is what Laura Sparrow aka. LNS is most fascinated about, so her approach for her remix was to “utilize Francis organic sounds and approach it both via hardware electronically, and using real instruments”, she says. Her Sister, Nadia Sparrow, who is a professional flutist played over the track, creating a goosebump-atmosphere, that is permeated by floating tape-delays of the originals’ piano and vibraphone. Calm and breakbeat-like drums provide the basis for this breathtaking harmonic adventure. LNS, originally keeping the spirit of Vancouver’s underground scene alive, is now at home in the Berlin’s equivalent. Not only her love for Detroit and UK-Techno during Djing, but also a great variety of musical influences mirror in her productions. On her recent releases on DJ Sotofett’s Label Wania and her self-released Recons One EP she shows off a interesting mix of short edged electro and leftfield electronica.

With almost thirty minutes playtime, Trivial Occupation Remixes leaves the impression of listening to an entire album that continues telling the story of the original.

Francis Harris - St. Catherine And The Calm (LNS R/ & Nadia Sparrow)

Title: Circling Architecture
Artist: Rings Around Saturn
Cat.No: VYG12
Release date: May 24, 2019

A1. Circling Architecture
A2. Engineered Ruins
B1. Decompression
B2. The Edgelands

Rings Around Saturn’s debut for Voyage delivers four spacious impressions of classy techno & IDM. From the swirling melodies of “Circling Architecture” to the introspective atmospheres in “Decompression” and “The Edgelands”, RAS taps into the obscure-ozone of the outer limits.

Sleeve Design: Sam Donaldson / sam-donaldson.com
Photography: Lilli Zylka / lillizylka.net
Distribution: Prime Direct / primedirectdist.co.uk

VYG12 - Rings Around Saturn - Circling Architecture

HEROIST

HEROIST (Substance Remix)

My contribution to De Lichting 'Drie' Album compilation.

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A Feeling of Ikigai [De Lichting Drie]

fka nathan surreal

part of @delichting records, de school amsterdam

bookings: tim@rhythmicculture.com

releases on: de lichting, dekmantel, analog solutions, aex (indigo area), biologic, kms, sohaso, motech records.