The Norman Records podcast returns after countless (two) requests and a whole bunch of baited breath! We're massively thrilled to welcome Australian post-rock crew Tangents to the fold, who have an upcoming record called 'New Bodies' on the way. If it's anywhere near as good as their last, stringently jammed masterwork 'Stateless', then we're all on a Northern Rail hype train.

Tangents' music lives for strange contradictions: jumpy in abundance, it's also buttoned down, the band playing a sort of restrained jazz aesthetic as a tease to those who want them to give in to the climaxes and math rock catharsis. Offering hints of Do Make Say Think, Jaga Jazzist and Ex-Easter Island Head, they're perpetual but never still; in this mix by bandmember Peter Hollo, they reimagine the movements and segues of their sound, effectively remixing themselves into new, unrefined contexts. It's a blast!

Peek the tracklist below. Order 'New Bodies' here: 
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/170967/

01 - Tangents - Stents [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
02 - Icarus - Moon Palace [1998, Recordings Of Substance]
03 - Tangents - N-Mission [2016, Temporary Residence Limited]
04 - Triosk - Intensives Leben [2006, The Leaf Label]]
05 - raven - headache music #1 [2012, Feral Media]
06 - Spartak - Second-Half Clouded (feat. Lucrecia Dalt) [2010, Low Point]
07 - Tangents - Immersion (Katie Gately remix) [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
08 - Shoeb Ahmad - the orchids [2012, Mystery Plays Records]
09 - Adrian Lim-Klumpes - Caution [2017, Off-Record Label]
10 - raven - vale [2017, Art As Catharsis]
11 - Adrian Klumpes - cornered [2006, The Leaf Label]
12 - Spartak - Catch/Control [2013, hellosQuare Recordings]
13 - Shoeb Ahmad - "lope" [2018, Art As Catharsis]
14 - Tangents - Gone To Ground [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]
15 - Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth (Four Teas on English Time - Icarus remix) [2004, Domino Recording Company]
16 - Tangents - Terracotta (Jim O'Rourke remix) [2018, Temporary Residence Limited]

Tangents mix for Norman Records

Norman Records Podcast #21: Tangents ("Tangents Play Tangents")

Impresario bone grinder, Justin K Broadrick, has prepared a new album for release on Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe label as JK Flesh. Broadrick has resolutely inhabited some dark and punishing corners of the musical landscape in his three decades of music production. Whether as a songwriter, guitarist, drummer, label head, studio producer or electronic alchemist, Broadrick has defined the sublime overlap of misanthropy, noise and arson-spirited audio. Making his initial marks with grindcore and industrial bands Godflesh and Napalm Death beginning in the late 80s, Broadrick’s musical career has arched from blast-beats to head bobbing hypnosis. With a slew of recent releases from his JK Flesh moniker for EDLX, Hospital Productions, Downwards, Pi Electronics and on AnD’s Inner Surface, Broadrick has increasingly taken low-fi cerebral sound exploration into techno’s polluted ozone layer; drifting amongst violent collisions of rusty space junk and taking aim at the outmoded species below.  

JK Flesh’s 8-track double disk album for Electric Deluxe continues his assault on the failings and folly of humanity with a bludgeoning tour of dub influenced techno. A study in resolution, timber and distortion, the album’s tracks are diverse in mood and groove, but are united by the dark, porous and undulating surface texture of rippling analog treatment. Contemplation of humanity’s chances for extinction or evolution provided Broadrick with the mental scaffolding upon which the album’s inky and caustic eruptions precipitate. Titles like “Different Species” and “Super Human” on the album’s A-side betray his interest in futurist’s trans-humanist musings, while thumping garage baseline and  searing interplanetary emergency sirens anchor the tracks in Broadrick’s mastery of noise. The album is generally packed with full-form bass, percussion and machine sounds. Though tracks like the B-side’s “External Transmission” juxtapose rubbery and wiry timbers, like the best of acid, over the low-end’s boiling black cauldron. “Earlier Forms of Life” and “Macromolecules” take morose side-long glances at the dance floor, but primarily develop elegantly grime-filled grooves under the constricting spacial canopies of hyper-detailed delay and reverb. Surface detail and dusty timbers rake the listener’s ear across the minimal composition of “The Next Stage”. The albums closing track, “Homo Sapiens”, drops you into the hopelessly gigantic hull of ship, echoing with sonar, heavy machinery and dulled low-frequencies as your iron tomb cuts across the dead oceans of our planet, or, as Broadrick has spent his musical pursuit, in search of a new one. Consider yourself on notice, a limited edition version of this album, complete with booklet and laser cut sleeve, will be released exclusively over EDLX’s bandcamp.


All tracks written and produced by Justin K Broadrick
Cat. no. EDLX058LP – All rights reserved
℗ & © Electric Deluxe 2018
www.electricdeluxe.net
www.electricdeluxe.bandcamp.com

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JK Flesh - 'Different Species' [EDLX058LP]

Following collaborations with the likes of Gaika, Mumdance and Andy Stott, Israeli MC Miss Red released her debut album 'K.O.' last week. With production handled entirely by frequent collaborator The Bug, it's an intense, adrenaline-fuelled listen that lays out a blueprint for futuristic new dancehall.

Born to Israeli Moroccan and Polish parents, Miss Red's early experiences of growing up in an immigrant family and their resulting persecution have informed the writing of the album, influenced heavily by her lifelong attraction to the reggae scene in Jamaica. “Nicodemus really influenced me", she explains, "but as a girl, it wasn’t my voice, and it was listening to those '80s dancehall gyals that I gravitated towards, because they were chatting as proud girls, and from a female perspective, so it was vocalists like Sister Nancy and Lady Ann that really made the biggest impression on me."

We're very happy to welcome Miss Red on board for a 'Monday Is Okay' mix, which acts as a showcase for her love of vintage dub and dancehall.

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Miss Red: The 'Monday Is Okay' Mix

Morgue Vanguard x Doyz - "CSDB FM"
(taken from the upcoming album, "Demi Masa")
Guest vocals: Iwa K

Lyrics written by Morgue Vanguard and Doyz
Music written by Morgue Vanguard
Engineered by Jay Beathustler
Scratchworks performed by Evil Cutz
Recorded at Cutz Chamber, Bandung

CSDB FM contains a portion of:
"The Champ" performed by The Mohawks, "P is Still Free" performed by Boogie Down Productions, "Peter Piper" performed by Run-D.M.C, "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" performed by Bob James, "Laid It" performed by Ohio Players, "The Lovomaniacs" performed by Boobie Knight & the Universal Lady, "Givin' Up Food for Funk" performed by The J.B.'s, "Discotheque Soul Pt 2" performed by Ricky Williams, "Cold Sweat" performed by James Brown, "Boy, I Love You (OST Catatan Si Boy 2)" performed by Fairuz.

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