[Weekly Mix] 2017.02 (1)

GROUP ZERO - STRUCTURES AND LIGHT 
LP / MC / DL
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08

Friday 24th February 2017

Vinyl: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-vinyl
Cassette: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-cassette
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'Structures And Light’ is the first record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names)

“Here’s a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It’s made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication.”

Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of ‘Structures And Light’ is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio.
With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music”.
Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent.
In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored.

“Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms (‘The Fantasist’). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in ‘Pursuit’; a gentle kind of cold wave optimism.”

The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of ‘Pyramid of Light’ by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. “It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.”

“Night heals: there’s ‘pummelling repetition’ here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to ‘Pyramid of Light’s stark new-age burst.”

Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: “These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.”
Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light’ reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle.

This is music to go away from and travel to.

“It’s a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.” 

Quotes: JC, Low Profile - Belfast 2017
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Tracklisting:
1. The Glaze Over
2. The Fantasist
3. The Pummelling Repetition Inside
4. Pursuit
5. I Dream Unwired
6. Saturnine Adorations
7. Pyramid Of Light
8. Love And The Present
9. Vernissage
10: Zero Symphony (Digital Bonus Track)

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08 | LP / MC / DL
Released: Friday 24th February 2017
Mastering: Stephen Quinn – Analog Heart
Cut: Christoph Grote-Beverborg – Dubplates & Mastering
Cut: Artwork: Rinky
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com

Structures And Light

Group Zero - The Pummelling Repetition Inside

Australian duo Sonderr deliver the inaugural release on the Shall Not Fade sub-label Lost Palms with four tracks of moody lo-fi house, including the atmospheric and acid-tinged ‘Rush Hour’, out on January 27.

http://mixmag.net/read/premiere-sonderr-deliver-acid-tinged-lo-fi-house-with-rush-hour-premieres

Rush Hour

Premiere: Sonderr 'Rush Hour'

WXTFX #005
Whadup babe?! One Love! 
We're back with a EP from @realdmusic which is about to make even your darkest neighbors fall in love with you. Crispy beats served on your plate straight from our Tuna-Sandwich chef!

🔴 Out by 10th of April! Keep an eye around!
http://waxtefacts.club/index.php/wxtfx005/

Tracklist:
A1. Real D - One love
A2. Real D - Let's get back

B1. Real D - People playin'
B2. Real D - Stuck in the realness

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Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/label/971967-Waxtefacts
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Real J - Stuck in the realness EP [WXTFX005]

The debut EP 'sip', written and produced by Philadephia-based artist che, is a four-part odyssey filled with effervescent emotional synth work and propulsive rhythmic experimentation. 

With a sensibility for concrète-style sampling and analog sound sculpting techniques, che manipulates recordings of acoustic instruments and synthesizers, traversing melodic ambient and kinetic waves imprinted with unpredictable beat formulas. A multilayered study in organic groove sound melding. 

Despite the suggestion of its name, 'sip' plays more like a mini-album than an EP, with narratives internal to each song passing through irreplicable evolutionary phases. The result is breathtaking, less cinematic than cartographic or even animatronic. This is che the storyteller, che the colorist, che the creator. 

A lifelong multi-instrumentalist, che has lived long periods of his life in Ireland and the Bay Area before moving to Philadelphia, his current home. Influenced by his natural and urban environments, his father’s Guatemalan family tradition of composers and professional musicians, and his mother’s Native American culture, che builds with old, new, and future musical languages informed by a heritage of jazz, latin and classical. The result is lush, layered, and likely to surprise. 

All proceeds from this release will be donated to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

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che - the moments of salience

"My Old Man" is from Mac DeMarco's forthcoming album, This Old Dog, out May 5th, 2017, on Captured Tracks. All iTunes pre-orders come with Instrumentals of This Old Dog and instant grat downloads of lead singles, “My Old Man,” and “This Old Dog.”

Pre-Order Digital here: smarturl.it/thisolddog
Pre-Order Physical here: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/this-old-dog

Mac DeMarco

This Old Dog

Mac DeMarco // My Old Man

Boomkat - boomkat.com/products/pt3-1
Juno - www.juno.co.uk/products/happa-pt3-1/637461-01/
Bleep - bleep.com/release/78405-happa-pt31

PT/3.1

Hallucinations (PT/3.1)

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INSTAGRAM - shesMAAD
FACEBOOK - shesMAAD
TWITTER - shesMAAD

Produced by @producedbythevamp
Guitar by Jeff Matthew
Written by N. Ferguson, Ro James, R. Dunn

ITUNES

Touch Me (feat. Ro James)

@Rimbaudian 'Letters' dropping this week Friday 3rd 2017 >>> cop from all good record shops.
https://youtu.be/i6dcUcvx7nY

Letters

Buy Vinyl Now

Rimbaudian - I would do everything I did again and again

A sophomore release for Nebraska on his own Friends & Relations imprint. B-side 'Pintxos' is an upfront house tune pushed forward by a propulsive bassline and given extra character by a killer jazz-cafe piano loop.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/01/31/premiere-nebraska/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/nebraska-pintxos

Listen on Youtube

Nebraska - Pintxos (STW Premiere)

Bet She Looks Like You

Hidden Spheres comes drifting off of the sunset coast with four soothing slices of winter sun from far away islands and mountainous journeys. 

Blending loosely played natural drum patterns with intertwining and playfully positive melodies that skirt the synth-flute boundary, ~~~~~~ is an ambiguous meander across beaches, through forests, thick undergrowth up and up onto a mountain hung with fresh mist that slowly evolves into a dense fog as the suns reign comes to a close in an orange band of fading embers.

Beachy let's the night settle in amongst the shore, as the day creatures descend into their evening hideaways and the fireflies and owls take over. The washing of the sea hissing and gasping behind a slow chatter of reeds blowing in the wind.

Picking up where the first EP left off, By & Bye is a reprise from past days. Welcoming a new sun and embracing the slow rise of humans amidst the yellowing egg-like sun.

Then to finish us off is the jazz-flecked house of Movin'. All urgent Rhodes stabs, doodling bass lines and puttering lazy drums sketches. A low-lying, sleepily danced-away closer.

>> @hiddenspheres

BUY RELEASE

HAWAII007 // Hidden Spheres - By & Bye

'Providence' Out Now - 
Ninjashop / Stream / Download: https://nathanfake.lnk.to/providenceSO

Taken from 'Providence' released 10h March 2017 via Ninja Tune.

Listen to Ninja Tune New Releases on Spotify: http://ninjatune.lnk.to/new/spotify

Follow Nathan Fake -
Facebook: http://found.ee/nfake-fb
Twitter: http://found.ee/nfake-tw
Spotify: http://found.ee/nfake-sp
Soundcloud: http://found.ee/nfake-sc

Artwork by Matt Bateman http://flat-e.com

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Nathan Fake - 'RVK (feat. Raphaelle)'

Tour dates - http://smarturl.it/PatLok_Tour
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Snapchat: @pat_lok

Lyrics:
Big Ben says
3 a.m
I’m speaking
To my drink again
					
No one left to ask me
Whose face I
I need to forget
					
I said I never knew before now,
I said I never knew before
					
Turn my drink
into a crystal ball
Forget my past
Until the morning call
Turn my drink
Into a crystal ball
					
Sometime words 
don’t need to be said
Distract your heart From what lies ahead
				
I said I never knew before now, I said I never knew before
					
Turn my drink
Into a crystal ball
Forget my past
Until the morning call
Turn my drink
Into a crystal ball
					
Sometime words
Don’t need to be said
Distract your heart
From what lies ahead
		
Big Ben says 3 a.m
I’m speaking
To my drink again
					
No one left to ask me
Whose face I
I need to forget
					
I said I never knew before now, I said I never knew before
I said I never knew before now, I said I never knew before
					
Turn my drink
into a crystal ball
Forget my past
Until the morning call
Turn my drink
Into a crystal ball
				
Sometime words Don’t need to be said			
Distract your heart From what lies ahead
Fell for you hard, Ran into love,
					
I said I never knew before now, I said I never knew before

Crystal Ball ft. Claire Ridgely

Charlois present "Where is the Champion", Timothy J. Fairplay´s first full length solo album. Twelve shifting, shuffling and shimmering tracks make up this debut. Cruising the highways and byways between proto-techno, horror disco and forlorn wave, Fairplay conjures up his creations from metal and smoke. Saturated snares, clipped claps and warbling chords are dusted with distortion. And this idea of distortion, manipulation and the blurred line is omnipresent. Innocent and sinister, cruel and playful, accepted boundaries are brazenly ignored as engines growl and synthlines soar.

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Timothy J. Fairplay -  The Bronx Stasi

*Watch on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2kAcMax
*Read more: http://bit.ly/2kV6rXZ

Today's premiere comes to you from Cosmic Rhythm, a label based in the south of Italy that likes to wear it's heart on its sleeve, as opposed to dwell is animosity and shadows. "Mystic Sounds, Black grooves, Atmospheric dreamy vibes and Natural elements are the essence..." states their Soundcloud page, and after listening to their latest release by Spiritual Emphasi, it's clear that they hew as close to their own mission as any label could.

CRM03, titled Spiritualism, is an absolute flexing of Cosmic Rhythm's manifesto. The original mix of the eponymous first track serves as both an intro and a focal point for this EP. Militant snares and washed-out pads ground the track throughout, leaving tons of room on top open for the aqueous bass line to ricochet off it's melodic and daydreamy counterparts. "Spiritualism (original Mix)" doesn't feel as though its moving from any discernible point A to point B; rather it's simply meandering about it's environment, soaking up and reflecting back every bit of light and ambiance it comes in contact with.

PREMIERE : Spiritual Emphasi - Spiritualism (original Mix)

MF DOOM - Devil's Shoestring (Cody Currie's Re-jazz)

Written by Gussy, Co-produced with Strict Face. 
Mixed by Christopher Port and Mastered by Jessica Cooper. Vocal engineering by Marcus Whale.

(C) Gussy, 2016

Mornings (co prod. Strict Face)

OUT NOW:
iTunes: http://defct.de/hfstit 
Apple Music: http://defct.de/hfstam 
Spotify: http://defct.de/hfstsp

Part gospel anthem, part joyful house workout, ‘Testify’ is one of those once-in-a-blue-moon moments, a perfectly formed song with a heart that reaches out to move you. House icon Crystal Waters is resplendent, her voice in its element alongside the uplifting piano bridge and soul clap. Hifi Sean’s production ties together elements of gospel, soul and house for a truly special record with an undeniably catchy chorus that gets better with every listen.

Originally released in November 2016 on Sean’s own imprint Plastique Recordings, ‘Testify’ has grown and hooked fans organically, making the playlist at BBC Radio 2 and taking on a life of its own. Keen to maintain the DIY appeal and keep it independent, Sean has now signed it over to Defected, who are thrilled to be able to offer the record the kind of lifetime it deserves.

Download

Hifi Sean featuring Crystal Waters 'Testify' (Radio Edit)

Smooth piano loops and seductive arpeggiated synth chords paints a picture of a beautiful twilight setting. @rimbaudian (also known as @dj-seinfeld) with on EP on @tenthousandyen.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/02/03/rimbaudian-she-taught-me-how-to-love/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/she-taught-me-how-to-love

[Weekly Mix] 2017.02 (1)

Niche Music