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Secret Liasons

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 Los Angeles: Critical Mass [the emerging electric underground]
Label: Mindspore Records – MSP-0004-2
Format: 
CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Future Jazz, Trip Hop

Tracklist:
00:00 1. Dove (29) & Mr. Soon - Quay-Czar (Cavestar Remix)
Programmed By – David Bianchi, Joseph Jakob*, Joseph Nugent, Kevin Crosslin
Remix – Cavestar

05:12 2. Trinity (19) – Lost Cities
Keyboards [Wurlitzer] – Roberto Antonio Chavez
Sampler, Programmed By, Keyboards, Bass – Steve Snow
Saxophone – Juss Renard
Vocals [Drum & Bass Section] – Lisa Woodward
Vocals [Dub Section] – Ia Kamandalu
Written By – Woodward, Kamandalu, Chavez & Snow
Written-By – Kamandalu*, Woodward*, Chavez*, Snow*

10:28 3. T.H.C.– Unsaid Warning
Music By, Programmed By – George Sarah
Vocals, Lyrics By – Sarah Folkman

15:53 4. Cavestar & Moore*– Say The Word
Music By, Programmed By – Kevin Crosslin
Vocals, Lyrics By – Mona Moore

21:14 5. Mr. Soon – You Are The Dream
Written-By, Producer – Joseph Jakob*

25:05 6. Zimar – Energy
Other [Words Of Energy] – Tom Hopkins
Producer – Zimar

30:05 7. Aldebaran (12) – L'Orque Epaulard
Written-By, Producer – Charles Askell, Jeff Hogan

35:34 8. Twist Top - Jangle
Written-By – Carlos Vasquez

41:00 9. Oversoul 7 – I Sing Loud
Written-By – Oversoul 7

44:21 10. TM – Kiss (DJ Hive Remix)
Remix – DJ Hive*

Copyright © – Mindspore Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mindspore Records
Compiled By, Producer – Kevin Crosslin, Kevin Lincoln (2)
Compiled and produced for K2K.

Los Angeles: Critical Mass [Full Album] (1998) Mindspore Records

i can’t feel anymore

Frozen Swan

Frozen Swan 凍った白鳥

1. improving the rawness 05:21

2. minor cybercrimes 05:05  

3. I make plans, she laughs 06:17  

4. sporty like a Supra 05:06  

5. telepathy for sluts 05:08  

6. it's okay to kill an atheist 05:09  

7. all second places 05:04  

8. modern black music 04:02  

GENDEMA - sassy things [Full album] (NO PROBLEMA TAPES)

Heart Cast Club Mixxx

Some chill breaks with some halftime. Really feel like I brought this track to life. Possibly one of my favorite projects to date.

Go Back

The storm

Rezzett LP

Sexzzy Creep

Judas In Adidas

It takes a certain brand of confidence to name yourself after three towering intellectual concepts. Note is an English term and the basis of all music. Code is the association with computers, electronics, creating something your own to add to the existing world of machines. Luv is the derivative of the word Love, a universal concept that does not need explaining. Together they create the ideal of the total or universal artwork, bringing together music, the visual arts, narrative and more into a single intoxica.

“NoteCodeLuv is an ambitious name,” he admits, “and it is something that just came to me when I was living in Toronto a few years ago. I want my music to be art, with something to say, but Notes and Coding is about details, massive music pieces, science and physics too. That means the small things, the tiny things that change everything, the detail. Just like a laboratory scientist who always keep questioning and refining their ideas. That’s what I strive towards.”

To mainstream audiences NoteCodeLuv is known for collaborating with local artists in Toronto, Lexington, and Chicago on composing music and organizing avant-garde experiences at venues and art galleries. This allows NoteCodeLuv to showcase his unique sound – dark yet light and fun, harsh but beautiful, sometimes brutal but always delicately structured.

“I don’t know why I’m drawn to dark sounds,” NoteCodeLuv admits. “It’s like when you make a movie about love,” he explains. “That’s not your life, it’s the art you have made. It’s a fiction. The music is exactly the same. Although there is nothing dark in my life, I have a facility to understand dark emotion.”

NoteCodeLuv is almost precisely as old as house music. He was born in 1989 in Moscow and discovered electronic music at the age of 16. “I was almost too shy to admit that I liked this music. It was primitive but in a serious way and I really liked that. I kept it to myself for years.” 

“I had to work again and again to find my proper sound,” he says. “The revelation came when I was listening to several artists (CINTHIE, Galcher Lustwerk, and Black Loops) over and over and I realized that my sound will come from synthesizing my life experiences, my musical talent and skill, and using these three authors as my musical mentors and guides. Together I will produce a unique deep and dark yet fun and funky playful - Speak Easy Deeper House (SEDH). It was the first rock of my building.”

"It was a precise moment when I was standing on the dark dancefloor listening to Galcher Lustwerk perform at Hot Mass in Pittsburgh in January of 2019. The music touched my heart and soul in a way that it has never before. It was then and there that I decided that I want to write music." 

NoteCodeLuv has never been a hardcore record collector, or a gig-goer, or even a clubber. ”If the music is really good I have to sit down on my own and listen”. He doesn’t even watch much TV or movies. “When I see other people’s creative work,” he says, “sometimes it overwhelms me.”

But visual art is a different matter. NoteCodeLuv is equally inspired by the impressionist style of paintings. Specifically because up close they are meaningless but from a distance they crystallize into an image. This concept of “The whole is more than the sum of its parts” is an integral component of his music. ”I love the way impressionist artists control the power over people just through the paint.” 

He approaches DJ’ing with the same meticulous way, playing uncompromising mood-driven sets which have earned acclaim. “When I go out I have to forget the technical side of the music and try to have fun,” he says, “DJ’ing can be fun, especially if I'm doing it with my close friends like NFNITI or EI. We’re friends and it’s exciting to work together. But in the end, you are playing mostly other people’s records. I prefer to play live because I feel like it's my work."

GENDEMA - sassy things [Full album] (NO PROBLEMA TAPES)

NoteCodeLuv (НотаКодKонфетка)