This is more than Deep. This deep is immeasurable. Its Cavernous

Harmonic Beats

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From Axel Boman's debut album, 'Family Vacation,' out November 11 on Studio Barnhus.

Axel Boman - Hello

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Following EPs and 12”s on Wolf + Lamb, W+L Black, Life And Death, Bang The Box and their debut on Visionquest, PillowTalk present their debut LP, ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’. As much a soundtrack to long nights as it is lazy days, there is something about the record that spans everything you want from the band: sun-splashed jams, peak-time party tunes and low-lit moments of intimacy.

The album has been a work in progress since the boys formed the group in their San Francisco studio and was recorded last year during a month at PDX Studios in Portland, Oregon, which sits overlooking the city and the gorgeous Mount Hood. It was a session that allowed the band to work communally, drawing from various ideas, as well as influences, which include the vast Americana of Bruce Springsteen, the wrought post dubstep of James Blake, the deep soul of Sam Cooke and the incendiary jazz of John Coltrane.

‘We All Have Rhythm’ is an anything-could-happen-tonight tune that you’ll want to be listening to at 11pm on a Friday; ‘Lullaby’ is the perfect dose of deepness for a loved-up 6am dancefloor; the off-kilter R&B ghetto tech of ‘4 Walls’ will fit the vibe at a woozy afterparty; and ‘LA To The Bay’ will rouse you and make you feel good the morning after as the sun comes up. This is music to suit all times, because that’s what PillowTalk is all about.

The broad nature of ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ came about because Sammy D (vocals), Michael Tello (producer) and Ryan Williams (multi-instrumentalist) pulled the record together from melodies thought up while on long plane journeys, impromptu jam throw downs in Berlin apartments and musical sketches created during long nights into early morning studio sessions sharing bottles of vodka. For instance, ‘4 Walls’ happened during a late night session, with the band throwing ideas around and with friends DOP and Navid Izadi. “We wanted to do something that wasn't a 122bpm 4/4 kick drum track, challenge ourselves musically and lyrically, so we made the song at 144 beats per minute but still gave it a soul vibe,” says Michael. The song took an hour and a half to write, whipped up in the heat and energy of the moment.

This organic way of working was what brought PillowTalk together in the first place. They formed after the three were mucking around on the baby grand piano in Ryan’s kitchen. A guitar and a Wurlitzer, some off-hand vocals, were thrown into the mix in true Doo-wop style. The EP, ‘The Come Back’, dropped on Life And Death in 2011 with their hit single 'Soft' and things started to roll.

Breakout hit ‘Far From Home’ on the ‘Far From Heaven’ EP in the same year was followed by the cheeky ‘Soul Edits’ 12” for Wolf + Lamb’s W+L Black imprint in 2012 which featured their classic remix of Bobby Hebb's, 'Sunny'. Then in 2013, the single ‘Lullaby’ backed with ’We All Have Rhythm’ dropped, giving a clear indication of how ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi' would sound: warm, lush and dreamy.

Though they’ve only been releasing records since 2011, the three have known each other for years. They met through djing parties and have been neighbors and even roommates. ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ sees them stepping into their own as a band, a statement of intent born from the highs and lows of their loves, laughs and heartbreaks thus far. 

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DJ Tennis - The Outcast feat. PillowTalk (Acoustic Version)

Floating Points — Montparnasse

Crustation were a short-lived trip-hop group with ties to Portishead and Massive Attack; their 1997 single "Flame" was a perfectly nice, totally innocuous, and mostly forgettable contribution to the drowsy downbeat catalog. The journeymen producers Mood II Swing put their characteristically light, funky touch on a club-friendly remix of the song, as they did hundreds of times during their run as New York's most dependable remixers. But Mood II Swing also had a murkier, more abstracted side; you can hear it in productions like "Move Me," "The Slippery Track," and the eerie "Inhale," which sounds like Gary Numan's "Cars" being sucked through a Teflon wormhole. But they outdid themselves on the "Borderline Insanity Dub" of "Flame," lacing a skipping, proto-U.K.-garage beat with hiccupping vocal loops and a lithe, shadowboxing bass line; the icing on the cake comes courtesy of a swirling fog of vocal harmonies that pans from speaker to speaker. Running out of phase with the beat, it lends a sense of tidal ebb-and-flow, throwing the time deliriously out of joint. The fact that Mood II Swing never produced anything else quite like it only makes this fluid, enveloping tune all the more irreplaceable. P.S.

Crustation - Flame (Mood II Swing Borderline Insanity Dub Mix)

Calm, rhythmic, atmospheric and utterly absorbing minimal music from Bakdraze (aka @gacha), the debut EP on @transfigured-time.

For more info head to: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/01/07/premiere-bakradze-quiet-loop/

Tbilisi City Guide from Bakdradze dropping soon. 

Bakradze - Quiet Loop (STW Premiere)

Ibellini - That's Right (Original Mix)  (Tuskegee / TKG003)

Enjoy Dave's first track 'Halma' off his upcoming album "Val Maira", due April 27.

HALMA is available now on: 
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Buy on iTunes

Dave DK - Halma

THE XX - CHAINED (JOHN TALABOT & PIONAL BLINDED REMIX MASTERED)

Axel Boman - Paris 2006 feat. Kornel Kovacs - Play It Down 008

Hot Since 82 - Voices 
A cheeky FREE download for the summer sun!

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Hot Since 82 - Voices (FREE Download)

"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
- Emily Dickinson

EP "Zora"  will be released July 31 on Diynamic

Zora - Diynamic

Patch Notes:

Sequencing a pair of MCOs from the ASQ-1 with woody arpeggios from the Tonesum additive voice and a bright modulated lead line from the Digiwave wavetable voice.

The 2 ‘step-time’ pitch sequencer tracks of the ASQ-1 are patched to the V/Oct and trigger inputs of a pair of MCOs. The first MCO produces a woody vibraphone style bed of sound using the ToneSum additive voice. The second MCO is mixed in on top, using the DigiWave voice to produce a bright modulated wavetable lead. With both sequences playing, the ASQ-1 keyboard is used to transpose the melodies simultaneously by pressing a key with the ‘Mode’ button held, creating interesting evolution to the simple sequences. Finally, the feedback and mix of the MFX’s Tape-Tech Echo are increased creating a washy ambience.

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Dual MCO

My debut EP 'Hold On' features Mapei, Isaac Tichauer and DJ Marky. OUT NOW stream or buy it here http://smarturl.it/olsson-hold-on

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Thin Love (Isaac Tichauer Remix)

Out now:  https://lifeanddeath.lnk.to/ExitStrategies
2LP / CD / download / stream

Watch the official video for the single 'Drug Dilling' here: https://youtu.be/25PAcJZo4xY

Berlin duo The/Das release their sophomore album, Exit Strategies, on Life And Death. The absorbing 12-tracker is the result of a period of searching that finds the new line-up of Fabian Fenk and Philipp Koller combine multiple ideas, layers, fragments and sounds and refine their distinct idea of techno tenderness. It makes for a soothing and escapist 60 minute listen that works as well at home, on headphones, as it does loud in the club.

Exit Strategies

The/Das - Loveboat (Original Mix)

J.M.F.  is Jacob Korn and Good Guy Mikesh & Filburt teaming up for a 12".
two orginal tracks plus a remix by Lauer. out on June 15th in you local record shop.
or you can buy it already in our webshop at www.perm-vac.com

Floating Points — Montparnasse

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