Words i keep for myself (Lovely Anita Words vocals)

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Shift Work (@shiftworking) are an electronic duo who have previously released on JD Twitch’s Glasgow label Optimo Music. They debut on Houndstooth with ‘Document II’, an EP developed from live jams on outboard analogue gear. ‘Abandoned Hands’ is lean and raw, an angular bassline and indecipherable vox punctuating the relentless 4/4 kick drum and pattering percussion. ‘SBFM’ is fuller-bodied, with the modulating bassline taking centre stage, draped in loose synths and topped with a deadpan vocal refrain.

Shift Work invited remixes from their associates, and the results are impressive, with DVA Damas (@dvadamasdvadamas) dialling down the tempo and stripping back ‘Abandoned Hands’ further still, whilst Factory Floor (@factory-floor) return to remix duty on Houndstooth with a typically subtle yet infectious building take on 'SBFM'.

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Document II

Abandoned Hands (DVA Damas Remix)

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Shift Work - Abandoned Hands (DVA Damas Remix)

Underspreche - Invito Alla Danza Part 1 (of 2)

A1) The Lady Of The Knight 
A2) Vicino A Te 

AA1) Enchanting Lure
AA2) In Turbine

After a split single with Muslimgauze and a single of their own on Optimo Trax we are delighted to present the first Optimo Trax album release by Italy’s Underspreche. The album is split across two fours track EPs, released two weeks apart (and also as a complete digital album).

We try to avoid over-hyping our releases but this one is really fully deserving of the hyperbole I am about to bestow on it. Underspreche first sent me some music a few years ago and seeing them grow and develop has been nothing short of astonishing. I think this is some of the most nuanced and advanced music that Optimo Trax has ever released. There are several dance floor destroyers here but also music for more developed / leading-edge floors too, as well as some music simply designed to make one’s mind melt.  It is very rare that I listen to 4/4 music at home but this album has been a constant on my hi fi since it was sent to me.

Super advanced organic sampling, inspired vocalisations, acute psychedelic modular sequences, forward thinking drum programming, this is exactly what I hoped Optimo Trax would be about when I started the label. 

From Underspreche’s souls to yours.

In their words - 

Our idea is to make an album based on our concept of dancefloor. The entire work was inspired by the classical composition by Carl Maria von Weber called "Aufforderung zum Tanz“; we used the Italian version, "Invito alla danza”. 


We wanted to transpose the classical idea of this work (based on the Knight who invites a lady to dance in a salon of a fairy palace) to our world where the dance floor it’s a club, not so different from Weber salon in a certain way! 


Four track 12" EP released on November 18th 2016. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub. Part 2 and full digital release on December 2nd.

Optimo Trax 026 - Underspreche - Invito Alla Danza (Part 1) 12" EP (sampler)

Something had happened. But our minds were too nebulized, our visions to blurry to remember what it was. When we stopped searching for our inner and outer selves in past tenses we eventually fully realized it was the future we had to sharpen our senses for. In the things that lay upon us, things that were bound to happen, we would find shelter. That universally necessitated shelter, which we could rely on, would give us possibilities to conquer unseen grounds to walk on. Only then we would find out it was not us envisioning this new land, but the land that envisioned us, that saw us firmly walking on its unspeakable grounds, allowing us to go wherever we could imagine ourselves to go to. We fly toward grace.

Rhytch is an artist based in Berlin. When we were originally approached by the label about featuring a track from his forthcoming LP 'Baba Ganoush' it was through a friend. It was quite the introduction and the record is an exciting prospect. Ancient Future Now, a label from Cologne, are set to release it.

baba ganoush

PREMIERE: Rhytch - Glueck [Ancient Future Now]

Last years SVS residency took place in Budapest at 4DSOUND's "Spatial Sound Institute", where SVS artists from LA, NY, Osaka, Seoul, Berlin, London,Tel Aviv and Munich worked for 10 days preparing a showcase on the 4DSOUND system.
During rehersals for the Showcase, Beni Brachtel alias Bartellow (Tambien from Public Possession fame) met Gr◯un⼟ alias Daichi Furukawa for the first time in the Studio. Three tracks just appeared out of nowhere. Not a single obstacle in the way of the production. During three long nightshifts, the tracks emerged out of a continuous great vibe. Always joined by several artists from the SVS family, it became the soundtrack for a very special event. Beni San and Daichi San will play a release tour through Japan in April.
The vinyl comes with a 24"x36" poster. Artwork by Paul Putzar & Alexander Dückminor

Shiroi Uma EP

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PREMIERE : Bartellow & DJ Ground - The Beginning

Every month, I'm a Cliche, through its Edit Service, gives away as a free download mp3 an unreleased edit produced by members of the crew or beloved friends.

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Edit Service 82 - by MR TC

'Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late' , settles down to a head - nodding pace with funky bass and key melodies and live drum samples for a real earworm of a track.

LINKS:
@futureboogie
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@pontymython
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TRAKLIST:
A1. Pink Tango(Original Mix)
A2. Pink Tango (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)
B1. Time Spiral
B2.Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late

Pink Tango EP

Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late

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PRÉMIÈRE: Ponty Mython - Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late [Futureboogie]

Working with yet-to-be-discovered Scottish artists as well as established and revered acts like Justin Robertson and Tom Blip who have already graced Palms’ DJ decks, no other track summed up Paradise Palms' mission in 2017 quite like ‘I See You In The Shrubs’ by Edinburgh enigma Eyes of Others. 

A woozy, pulsing jam; equal parts of nervous energy and stoned groove - ‘Shrubs’ immediately received a cosign from Paris’ Les Yeux Orange and made its way into a highly respectable group of DJs' sets. Andrew Weatherall has since taken things a big step further and reworked ‘Shrubs’ into a sprawling 8 minute journey of his own, backed by live drums and deep sub-bass.

Available on limited edition 12'' vinyl, pre order link above.

More from Eyes of Others
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Eyes Of Others - I See You In The Shrubs (Andrew Weatherall's A Shrub From Outer Space)

Sphinx - Frieden

Chess is the thinking mans game. A game for the chronic overthinker, whether you start with the Sicilian defence or the Queens gambit, this is a game for Karpov... not Kasprov. 
Karakter have been on fine form this year and this is a gorgeous addition with a slightly off kilter and pretty wonky breakbeat track which straddles the line between new age and heater. 
Alex Pletnev has been a staple of Vilnius scene and his remix is an absolute testament to both chess and his skills as a remixer. 
Some lovely noises punctuate this track as it slowly builds with no fanfare but total intensity, listen without prejudice please because this is awesome.

https://soundcloud.com/knotk
https://soundcloud.com/pletnev
https://soundcloud.com/karakter-records

PREMIERE | Karpov Not Kasparov  - Elisabeta (Pletnev Remix) [Karakter Records] 2018

Strapontin: "This song is a poetical statement about a man who doesn't follow society's norms to find his own freedom. It refers to a kind of post-70's hippie utopia but I still find strong connections to our present time. I love the way Brigitte Fontaine & Areski both mock everything with naive and insolent attitude. Although I made it sounds darker (as actual world is), like a looped mantra dub trying to cast a spell, disenchant the blinded and rise the black sheep."

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Areski Belkacem - Depuis(Strapontin Stateless Edit)#19 - Free Download

Paradise Palms Records, located in the clouds above Paradise Palms is a label devoted to emerging electronica, loose dance music and cosmic bangers. Now celebrating their 50th release the label have been part of the music scene in the capital for 7 years, championing acts across the electronic genre on home turf and around the world.

''Edinburghs top crew'' mixmag
        
Contact: 
aaron@theparadisepalms.com