2023 - 02 - 01

Three tracks deep, Backtrack welcomes Takeo.K to the label with Room to Breathe.

From the outset, ‘On My Way Home’ directs a late 90’s shoegaze come trip-hop wave that's in no rush to it's destination. ‘Weird War Dub’ echoes hard-wired, industrial work from Takeo’s previous releases, weaving a tapestry that shifts listeners through jittery emotion to a state of tranquillity. The EP culminates with ‘Room To Breathe’. An introspective overtone sees moody 90’s guitar work layered against stripped back breakbeat, harking back to the melancholy of DJ Krush. The totality of his project pays testament to Takeo’s novel vision. One that is sorely missed on the West Coast. 

Produced by Takeo Kameoka.
Mastered by Lawson Ayers.
Art and design by James Jovanoski.

Takeo.K - On My Way Home

Off Duty w/ Gillielove feat. Wingnut - 25.03.23

Post-industrial intra Celtic funk: Vani-T joins me for a good 'ol bit of scat. Heart on the sleeve bizniz out 2 the ex-ravers, outcasts, weirdos, and first-timers.

We'll take your brain to another dimension, play close attention シ

@refugeworldwide @vani_t

Jank Incorporated & Vani-T: Kitchen Sink Melancholia Vol.1 | 021

Refuge Worldwide B2B Day – NM DJ &  ophélie 
https://soundcloud.com/opheliek
Refuge Worldwide (refugeworldwide.com/)
07.04.2023

B2B Day – NM DJ & ophélie – April 7, 2023

“This mix was originally recorded as a pilot for a radio show that never happened, on a radio station that never happened. But was recorded right before my second stint of running a weekly late night show on 2ser with my friend Hani. All those episodes got deleted unfortunately so this is a tiny bit of the music we played on the show. A gravestone to a radio show you never knew existed.” 

@mx-ai-music

Art by Dylan Michel

CLVIII - mx-ai

@paceyourselfrecords

BC: https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on

pi pi pi premiere: YS - Pilgrimage (Pace Yourself)

The soundsystem music and low-end hitters that move from weirdo 2 weirdo with some 7'' dancehall business chucked in for good measure.

https://soundcloud.com/hermeneiaa
https://lyl.live/show/tread-on-a-snake

Tread On a Snake (05.10.2023) w/ Hermeneia

Just time travel

part of the 'moments pass' 30 track album, coming april 10th, 2026.

does the audio have some spectral quality? fret not, that's the point.

2023 - 02 - 01

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