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Honour - U&Me (febfourteen) DJ HBK Remix
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121S3
Release Date: 14 February 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/U-Me-DJHBKRemix

Honour shares 'U&Me (febfourteen) DJ HBK Remix', the remix of previously released single 'U&Me (decemberseventeen)' from the debut album 'Àlàáfíà', which came out via PAN on November 3rd, 2023.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Miles Whittaker
Artwork by Honour

Honour - U&Me (febfourteen) DJ HBK Remix (PAN 121S3)

produced by Kissen, Special Guest DJ, Ben Bondy, & nueen <3
@kissenirl @specialguest-dj @benbondy @nueen

Tijuana Fog

Kissen 'Tijuana Fog'

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - JK

@innerinnerlife
@transatlanticrecords

BC: https://transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ilysm

innerinnerlife’s ‘ILYSM’ is about perfect moments lived and yet to come. Casting back a gaze, indulging the trembling embrace of nostalgia, the border between revisiting the past and remaining there. It’s about teenage epiphanies, the first music-induced skip of a heartbeat; breathing, whispering, feeling. The dazzle of a dream only realised in retrospect.

It’s intimate and glittery. The featherlite driftaways of ‘this reminds me of U’ and ‘if u want’ shimmer like morning light through rain-flecked windows, while Mikey Enwright’s diaristic meditations on ‘airborne’ swirl and sigh over an instrumental that sparkles as it soars. ‘what rhymes with getting by’ and ‘if life was soft’ seem wrapped in soft-spun gauze, delicate like memory. This album grapples with what’s happened and holds its head up high to what’s next. It heals and it pulls apart. It knows life is imperfect but contains perfection.
credits
releases March 22, 2024

Production & Arrangement by innerinnerlife
Artwork by Daiki Miyama
Words by Madjestic Kasual
Mastered by axemblem (f.k.a. cellvl)

pi pi pi premiere: innerinnerlife - this reminds me of U (Transatlantic)

Following the events of "Annihilation", xato presents the second part of his personal odyssey, "Irrational Fear".

"Irrational Fear" explores the dark self with intense drone recordings being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2020 and 2022, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written, mixed & mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

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'Closer', taken from 'You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire', 🔥 a collaboration between Iceboy Violet & Nueen 
 Out on 7th June, CD LP/ Digi
Available to preorder now: 
https://iceboyandnueen.lnk.to/holdmyhandthroughthefire

You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire

Closer

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Iceboy Violet & Nueen - Closer

Heith - medicine boy
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 143S
Release Date: 02 April 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/medicineboy

Heith shares ‘medicine boy’, the first single from the upcoming EP ‘The Liars Tell…’ out via PAN on May 10th.

Heith’s debut album X,wheel marked the beginning of a long journey, the start to a tortuous exploration of consciousness and spirit. The Liars Tell…, on the other hand, feels like a kind of respite, a moment of meditation and pause from the fatigue of dimension-hopping. As if the traveller dismounted their carriage and, standing puzzled on a crossroad, listened to the echoes of distant places. Occupying a liminal space and letting thousand of contradictory tales form the lyrics to one unfathomable song.

Written and produced by Heith
Flute by Leonardo Rubboli
Percussions by Jacopo Battaglia
Mixed & mastered at Tapewave Studio

Heith - medicine boy (PAN 143S)

Guitar and break from Mike Midnight's "Smiling in Slow Motion".
Mixing and mastering by Lovefear.

Slow Motion

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org

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