Bad Behavior

Bad Behavior (prod. gerard)

AOS was, initially, to be the second 12", and the third entry, in Ediciones Danza Negra's catalog. Three years went by, however, and after sorting through the challenges - financial, logistic and existential - of running an independent label in the South American context, and several iterations later, the release finally took shape: 
the fourth of our modest catalog, and the first to be recorded on tape. 

Why? What for? More-than-three years is enough time for those questions to appear, time and time again. It's enough time to cultivate the elusive humility that helps question if these records should be heard, or not. In Junn's case, we think it is. 

The problem with exoticising locality is to comodify music's origin as a shortcut for visibility in foreign markets, flags as beacons in an impenetrable ocean of music, instead of feeding back to the dynamics that birthed it. South America is inherent to the EDNA project not as a narrative crouch, but as a target: a space to occupy, 
mouths to feed, nights to agitate. AOS is precisely that, a collection of music made in Colombian soil, a signal asking for an echo from its streets and from its people, an invitation to the trance of the dancefloors that gave it its embrionary spark.  

Across 9 tracks Junn synthesizes (ha!) a sound that conjures images of a desolate and labyrinthic Bogotá, ambiguous rhythms that march in stasis while longing textures pulsate without finding the other. The tape includes revisions from fellow bogotanos Juanpablo and Lunate (the latter almost entirely responsible for the 3 year delay), who join Junn, and the choir of others who translate in audio their passing through the 
continent.

To recognize ourselves in stillness, the absence of collectivity and the danceless nights have changed the way we inhabit spaces once dedicated to sound. Multitudes dilute to form dancing silhouettes, each in their own restricted space. We remember a stuck highway to success, it's routes with no exit, and we hold in our hands the nostalgia of unfulfilled horizons. Multiple possibilities of recognition, abundance and kinship: the mirage of tomorrow. 

The straight arrow of time changes, too, breaks. After months of silence and newfound sounds, we live in a simultaneous past-present-future.The past is revitalized with ever new experience, but it carries with it the uncertainties of the future and we're mobilized by this multi-temporality. It is no longer longing and desire alone, but also paths that are untraveled and uncertain, ours after all. 

We walk between the steps we take, and amongst those that follow, through the transcendental sound that bound us to an instant, and not by the promised scenery.  

We walk because that's all that's left to do, shake off the stillness and build our present.The mirage of tomorrow vanishes and we're reflected in the uncertainty and in the presence of an infinite 
now: what do we listen to, how are we listening, with what artifacts, with whom. There are no answers, only the breaking of the questions and the renewed temporality, dense and conflictive, with tensions beyond the passing of time.  

We've carried with us a heavy and confusing tomorrow, one that misplaced our present. Maybe it's time to see, feel and listen to what we ate today.

https://edicionesdanzanegra.bandcamp.com/album/aos

https://soundcloud.com/junn_bgta

Ediciones Danza Negra 2021 
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Bogotá-Colombia 
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PREMIERE: Junn - Ambar (Juanpablo Rmx)[Ediciones Danza Negra]

Italian artist BLAKE is back on his TRITON RECORDS imprint this September with his ‘Chapter II: Black Panther’, including a remix from Orlando Voorn and a track featuring with Juan Atkins’ daughter Milan Ariel Atkins.

BLAKE has released his works on labels such as the Chicago cult TRAX Records and Rebirth Records, among the most recent. BLAKE emphasises warm sonics emanating from his tapes, samplers, drum machines, and analogue synthesisers as a producer. In 2019, he launched his label TRITON RECORDS, reflecting his in-depth knowledge of the Detroit techno scene and his mission to reinterpret that original sound while sticking to its spirit and soul.

 “This EP was conceived during the pandemic lockdown and it reflects some contradictory feelings of that period; the eagerness to return to clubs and social life together with the urgency of being more isolated and introspective while being fully immersed in the studio sessions. The result is an EP composed of different feelings and forms; a trip to Detroit’s essence with its electro, techno and piano melodies. It invites to stop and listen; it’s a call to arms of the musicians’ army for A REVOLUTIONARY ACT” - BLAKE

‘Consciousness Of The Masses’ gets the EP moving with glistening 808s, electro-tinged rhythms and acid elements spiralling above. Before ‘Black Panther’ lays down low-slung grooves, inviting piano melodies and Detroit-based singer, songwriter, and performer, Milan Ariel Atikins’ irresistible vocals.

Up next, ‘Destroy The DJ’ pays homage to the Motor City as spacey modulations balance harmoniously with the dreamy synths and floaty fx that keep you enticed throughout. To round off proceedings, legendary Dutch artist Orlando Voorn’s remix with his signature soulful style as the shimmering drums bounce elegantly with the spirited undulations and uplifting atmospheres.

BLAKE ‘Chapter II: Black Panther’ is out on TRITON RECORDS on 10th September 2021.

https://www.beatport.com/release/chapter-ii-black-panther/3447237
https://soundcloud.com/tritonrecords
https://soundcloud.com/blakeofc
https://www.instagram.com/milanarielmusic/?hl=cs

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