Jun 19

Lifted - 2
Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 85
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Buy: bit.ly/2W0yIL6 / bit.ly/30OhkwC

PAN welcomes back the Lifted ensemble for a second cross-continental adventure off the grid, simply titled Lifted 2.

Lifted’s latest release expands on the expression of improvised fusion that brought about the spectrum of styles explored on their 2015 debut album for PAN. Expansion is a key theme to Lifted 2, primarily in the musicians involved; Lifted is now a core group of Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics. Expansion also relates to musical ideas Lifted explore and the studio techniques executed.

Whereas the way they approached the idea of improvisation on Lifted 1 was framed in jazz terms, the seven-tracks on this second LP step even further into the vivid unknown. Zero boundaries for the exploratory impulse. “On this record we went a lot deeper into our kind of studio technique,” Lifted say. “We tried to cultivate the sound using the studio as a primary tool, almost a member of the group in a way.”

As with the debut Lifted LP, listening to Lifted 2 is an open invitation to experience the worldwide creative framework surrounding these artists. The collaborators for each track, whether present in the studio or online, show what a fluid and freeform exercise Lifted can be.

Max D’s international crew of Future Timers play deft roles throughout Lifted 2. Jordan GCZ and Dawit Eklund both return for ‘Lifting’ alongside 1432r’s Sami, NYC’s Will DiMaggio and Sao Paulo’s Repetentes 2008. Beatrice Dillon and Bass Clef, two highly-decorated artists from the UK underground, make telling contributions which mark the latest in a long line of celebrated creative collaborations for the pair. Further input comes via Aya, vocalist and bassist for crucial Japanese experimentalists OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre, summoned for Lifted duty to provide some striking saxophone blasts.

How do all these collaborations manifest on Lifted 2? It’s a sort of inverse process full of blind takes with the results more bruised than polished. “The song stays fluid until the end. We pile the ideas really high and then decimate them,” Lifted say. “We delete until the songs are crystallizing; lay a grid of silences to organize the tracks. The breathing spaces become definitive.”

These seven tracks adroitly weave through mood and vibe, demanding heads lock in with an initial blast of whip sharp percussive hits and contemporary no-wave blowouts before letting off steam with soothing ambient synthesis. “Black Pepper” acts as the album centerpiece, an unhinged mangle of SH101 basslines, freeform flute & saxophone and multiple percussive sources brought to order by Papich’s studio dubs. “Rose 31” edges closest to the kind of jazz fusion that inspired the project from the off, Lifted utilising the various classic instruments deployed by the greats of the game. Closer “Near Future” smartly foregrounds Motion Graphics’ stunning piano talents, gradually stripping away all other elements until all that is left are his swirling notes.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Lifted - 2 (PAN 85)

escapism

depths

WHEN DOVES CRY

más mar

Aaliyah - Rock the boat (LSDXOXO remix)

My liveact recorded at Tresor Berlin  
All tracks are unreleased and produced on analog devices 
at my Berlin studio during last year:

Kurvenschreiber - Eingang (Prcdrl techno remix )
Prcdrl - Trubel Dub
Prcdrl - Psychedelic Breakfast
Prcdrl - Lift
Prcdrl - Drmsmpl
Prcdrl - Am Wriezener Bahnhof
Prcdrl - Ausgang
Prcdrl - The Ribbed Plane
Prcdrl - The Flesh 
Prcdrl - Pulsate
Prcdrl - The Overtones 
Prcdrl - The Moog conspirancy
Prcdrl - O.Tanz
Prcdrl - Paranoic Movement 
Prcdrl - Dark Mood

Liveact PA @ Tresor Berlin - 23.08.2014

buy it here: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-marfox-chapa-quente/606104-01/

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Dj Marfox - Tarraxo Everyday

Sphera De Noumenon dives deep into his collection of warm and hazy ambient, electro-accoustics with a hint of jazz and drony soundscapes. Join the trip!

@sphera_de_noumenon

Equations Editions #2

#2 - Silhouettes Of Haze by Sphera De Noumenon

A live recording of the early hours at the Hinterland party in Neukölln's Loophole.

#4 - Hinterland by The Magic Number

Excerpts from the soundtrack to Antigravity By Chunky Move 2016

A Chunky Move work. Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move in association with Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts and Dance Massive.

Concept, Choreography & Direction: Anouk van Dijk 
Co-creator & Concept: Ho Tzu Nyen 
Visual Design:  Ho Tzu Nyen, Paul Jackson, Anouk van Dijk 
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson 
Composition & Sound Design: Jethro Woodward 
Costume Design: Harriet Oxley
Performed by James Batchelor, Marlo Benjamin, Sarah Ronnie Bruce, Tara Jade Samaya, Niharika Senapati, Luigi Vescio

Image credits: Pippa Samaya

Emptiness

SINES - Broken Heart Riddim

'5 Year Lapse is out on October 5. Pre-order here: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/5-year-lapse

M.D. James has been a fervent supporter and participant in Los Angeles’ DIY culture for years, organizing the CAMEO nights, displaying a talent for destructive DJ sets, and, most recently, unleashing an incredibly cutting, emotionally honest live set. It was the latter that led us to ask him to put together an Astral Plane release and 5 Year Lapse, a self-styled mixtape/EP, is the undeniable result. 

Recorded between Los Angeles and Maryland, 5 Year Lapse is a document encompassing the unexpected paradoxes that arise during times of self-care and healing. Comprised of both sampled and original work, it is thematically situated within a liminal personal psyche, outlining a path towards health and power that requires the invocation of trauma and perceived self-harm. 

M.D. James appears throughout as instrumentalist, voice and composer, imbuing the proceedings with an intimacy and narrative grace. Sonically, 5 Year Lapse matches a disposition towards chaos with deeply musical interjections, allying itself with humanity while retaining a deep sense of suspicion. Broken up into six passages, 5 Year Lapse is intended as a single composition, but will also be released in individual components. It will be available digitally and on limited run cassette.

Follow:
@mjddj

5 Year Lapse

Pre-order

M.D. James - Summer's End [APR116]

CARDI B- NANA (LAFAWNDAH REIMAGINING)

junk

ashanti x dj nervoso x 808 state - rock wit u (zaleel pacific state edit)

DISTANT MATTER
Dance Work by Anouk van Dijk
Music by Jethro Woodward
for Staatsballett Berlin & Komische Oper Berlin
15 Feb - 1 June 2019

https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/van-dijk-eyal/15-02-2019/787

Bounce

Varg & Coucou Chloe - I Get Lit (cause if not I think of you)

https://planet.mu/releases/koh-ft-ecco2k-whitearmor/
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/126479-felix-lee-koh-ft-ecco2k-whitearmor
https://felixleee.bandcamp.com/album/koh-ft-ecco2k-whitearmor 

Felix Lee, the producer formerly known as Lexxi and @5tarb01, Elysia Crampton collaborator and ex-organiser of the culture-clash Endless parties and its namesake NTS radio show, has signed to Planet Mu. The first fruits of his future album is 'KOH', a vocal debut from Felix, co-produced by Whitearmor with additional vocals by Ecco2k (@gravityboys)

Felix delivers his cascading verse through spiralling fx, as if in a haze of insomnia, "It's like I'm living inna daze", Ecco2k operating as a dual voice, as the delicate synths seem to shimmer back in response. "I'm the king of hearts I got missing parts"; the lyrics paint an ambigiuous picture of detachment and shapeshifting, dreamt through the lense of a petty thief; "I'm breaking thru your locks, jumper cable knots, run off with the engine block". A taste of what's to come.

KOH (ft. Ecco2k & Whitearmor)

Felix Lee - KOH (ft. Ecco2k & Whitearmor)

Mini Esco - Wonderboy 
(Halla Super Edit)
Shout out Bitsu & Yen Towers  
Life Force Energy - Coming Soon!
Posh Isolation 225

Mini Esco - Wonderboy

Taken from Earthen Sea's LP Grass And Trees on Kranky, out June 7.

Pre-order: https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/album/grass-and-trees

@kranky
@earthzone

Grass And Trees

More exclusive music

Premiere: Earthen Sea - Window, skin, and mirror

Lifted - 2
Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 85
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Buy: https://bit.ly/2W0yIL6 / https://bit.ly/30OhkwC

PAN welcomes back the Lifted ensemble for a second cross-continental adventure off the grid, simply titled Lifted 2.

Lifted’s latest release expands on the expression of improvised fusion that brought about the spectrum of styles explored on their 2015 debut album for PAN. Expansion is a key theme to Lifted 2, primarily in the musicians involved; Lifted is now a core group of Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics. Expansion also relates to musical ideas Lifted explore and the studio techniques executed.

Whereas the way they approached the idea of improvisation on Lifted 1 was framed in jazz terms, the seven-tracks on this second LP step even further into the vivid unknown. Zero boundaries for the exploratory impulse. “On this record we went a lot deeper into our kind of studio technique,” Lifted say. “We tried to cultivate the sound using the studio as a primary tool, almost a member of the group in a way.”

As with the debut Lifted LP, listening to Lifted 2 is an open invitation to experience the worldwide creative framework surrounding these artists. The collaborators for each track, whether present in the studio or online, show what a fluid and freeform exercise Lifted can be.

Max D’s international crew of Future Timers play deft roles throughout Lifted 2. Jordan GCZ and Dawit Eklund both return for ‘Lifting’ alongside 1432r’s Sami, NYC’s Will DiMaggio and Sao Paulo’s Repetentes 2008. Beatrice Dillon and Bass Clef, two highly-decorated artists from the UK underground, make telling contributions which mark the latest in a long line of celebrated creative collaborations for the pair. Further input comes via Aya, vocalist and bassist for crucial Japanese experimentalists OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre, summoned for Lifted duty to provide some striking saxophone blasts.

How do all these collaborations manifest on Lifted 2? It’s a sort of inverse process full of blind takes with the results more bruised than polished. “The song stays fluid until the end. We pile the ideas really high and then decimate them,” Lifted say. “We delete until the songs are crystallizing; lay a grid of silences to organize the tracks. The breathing spaces become definitive.”

These seven tracks adroitly weave through mood and vibe, demanding heads lock in with an initial blast of whip sharp percussive hits and contemporary no-wave blowouts before letting off steam with soothing ambient synthesis. “Black Pepper” acts as the album centerpiece, an unhinged mangle of SH101 basslines, freeform flute & saxophone and multiple percussive sources brought to order by Papich’s studio dubs. “Rose 31” edges closest to the kind of jazz fusion that inspired the project from the off, Lifted utilising the various classic instruments deployed by the greats of the game. Closer “Near Future” smartly foregrounds Motion Graphics’ stunning piano talents, gradually stripping away all other elements until all that is left are his swirling notes.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Lifted - Now More Than Ever (PAN 85)

Lifted - Total Cure (PAN 85)

Lifted - Mirror In My Room (PAN 85)

Lifted - Blackpepper (PAN 85)

Lifted - Purplelight Wish (PAN 85)

Island Explorer series #004
Island of the Gods records / Indonesia

Young Marco - All These Seas

Read more: https://electrocorp.fr/2019/06/18/wilson-tanner-ii/ 

"These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick". This is how we got introduced to the new album of Wilson Tanner. 

Wilson Tanner is the mutual project of Australian artists Andras (Andrew Wilson) and Eleventeen Eston (John Tanner). Here they release "II", a follow up to their debut full-length published in 2016. 

Through the 8 tracks, Andrew and John captured Ambient and Electronica landscapes, all recorded in 3 days, on September 2017, aboard a 1950s riverboat with weatherproof instruments. 

While listening to the LP, we instantly felt in love with the whole aesthetic and the peaceful feeling that spead throughout the tracks. "All Hands Bury the Dead" is our pickup from the release with its early 70s / late 60s electronic sound that brings back a lot of music and visual memories.

Premiere: Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead [Efficient Space]

escapists revival w/ eric north

Gloss ft. Chris McKelway & bod [包家巷]

@lemakeup

Artwork by Motoki Nakatani
Mastering by @inkmidget

Aisou

Download

Le Makeup - Aisou

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997). 

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar. 

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch. 

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys. 

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett - Are These My Memories? (ES011/BEWITH062LP)

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