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Different house/some techno/ underground rave

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hip hop spa

Sackrai - As If

Fatima Al Qadiri: Shanghai Freeway (Taken from Asiatisch Released 05/2014) On Hyperdub 

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Fatima Al Qadiri: Shanghai Freeway (Taken from Asiatisch Released 05/2014)

Taken from a new double single 'Wanna Party / World's Mine', the debut release on @warp-records. Pre-order ahead of release early November at Bleep - http://smarturl.it/wannaparty-bleep

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Wanna Party / World's Mine

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Wanna Party (Remix) feat. Tink and 3D Na'Tee

DESIRE / UNDER YOUR SPELL

Nicolas Jaar - What My Last Girl Put Me Through Bluewave EDIT

From the album Sounds From Phantom Islands:
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands

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Taprobana

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger
Andrew Pekler - Untitled / Insect March
Alessandro Brivio - Untitled
Jake Meginsky - Vandals + Waldkautz Balz recorded by Walter Tilgner 
Mike Kitcher - Processed Snippet of "Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957" # 8
Yannick Dauby - 蛙界蒙 + Francis Bebey- Sanza tristesse
Unnamed Aka Pygmy Singer - Dikoboda sombe (Hut song solo) + Morton Feldman - Samoa
Hanno Leichtmann - Primitiva 4
Three Legged Race - Tyrant (loop) + Lieven Martens Moana - A Subtle Landscape + Knud Viktor - Images
Luluwa people of Congo - Wa Kabwala Wa Beena Luluwa + Andrew Pekler - additional sounds 
Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Gamelan & Frogs
Yas-Kaz - Psychopomp + Tor Dietrichson - The Conjurer + Asmus Tietchens - Vektor 2 R
Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon - Study VII for Samplers and Percussion + Louise Lawler - Birdcalls
Günter Sommer - Hörmusik + Jake Meginsky - Four Zopas
Native Instrument - Live at Atonal 2016 + Cluster - Rote Riki (loop)
Pierre Henry - Continuum + Adam Asnan - Rev Sets 11
Hamza El Din - Song With Tar + Yannick Dauby - A Pattern Which Connects B
Gamelan Son of Lion - Gamelan II
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Agba'a
Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (chopped and screwed)
Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger

Fourth World Problems II

The Blaze- Territory

Nicolas Jaar   I Got a Woman

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Sound From Phantom Islands
Label#: Faitiche20
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas. With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contemporary Exotica.

Phantom islands are islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. The status of these artefacts of European colonial expansion from the 15th to the 19th century oscillates between cartographic fact and maritime fiction. Sounds From Phantom Islands interprets and presents these imaginations as a quasi-ethnographic catalog of music and synthetic field recordings. The pieces on this album are based on recordings made for Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas, an online interactive map developed with cultural anthropologist Stefanie Kiwi Menrath.

Andrew Pekler: Description Of Rain (Over Frisland)

Justine Electra - Killalady (Darshan Jesrani Languorous Mix)

Mårble @ TESTFM — 31/10/2019

Paranjah

@collapse9 track from [ECH011] VA - Ten Years of Echotourism
cassettes and digital
bandcamp: tinyurl.com/y9tokpvm
iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8yre6v9

10 Years of Echotourism

Inward

Approach – Inward

@dyad track from [ECH011] VA - Ten Years of Echotourism
cassettes and digital
bandcamp: tinyurl.com/y9tokpvm
iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8yre6v9

Wintering Anthem

Dyad - Wintering Anthem

@minereed track from [ECH011] VA - Ten Years of Echotourism
cassettes and digital
bandcamp: tinyurl.com/y9tokpvm
iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8yre6v9

Headcrushing Dream

Minereed – Headcrushing Dream

Bonus track from the expanded digital release of the 2012 album Cover Versions. Available now at: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/cover-versions

Download includes 10 bonus tracks not included on the original vinyl release, a PDF of 100 unique Cover Versions album covers, and installation photos. 

Original press release text:
Cover Versions – Record-edition and installation by Andrew Pekler

For ten days, the gallery Laura Mars Grp. is transformed into a record shop, complete with records in browser bins, recommendations on the walls and a record shop clerk to assist customers. This record shop, however, only sells one record: Cover Versions by Andrew Pekler, each copy of which is packaged in its own individual album cover. 

Andrew Pekler selected 300 different covers from cheap second-hand records and, using colorful geometric elements to cover over all titles, performer's names, and label logos, removed traces of the covers' original contexts. 

The sunsets, couples in silhouette, alpine panoramas, roses on pianos, faces in close-up, and seascapes no longer serve as the packaging for easy listening, , volksmusik, exotica and light classical. Instead, the romantic, bizarre and intriguingly bland images of the original covers are free to lend their evocative powers to the record of new music they now house. 

Likewise, the principle of collage is audible in Andrew Pekler's compositions. The electronically transformed fragments of audio extracted from the original records take on a new existence as Cover Versions.

Cover Versions is a co-production between Andrew Pekler, Laura Mars Grp., Fantôme Verlag and Senufo Editions.

Organ / Instrument

Released January 2010 on Wolf + Lamb Records
www.wolflambmusic.com
BEATPORT: btprt.dj/1w4QpVj
ITUNES: bit.ly/14wQScq

