episode no. 13 of my monthly radioshow at @thfradio, played and broadcasted live from Torhaus on 12.03.21, 8-9pm. graphics by ✨BNAG ✨

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Carving Reality Radioshow #13 • 12.03.21

Eclectics release 'Let It Pass' by Statues

Essex-based trio Statues return to Eclectics with another four-track EP. There’s no change to the MO – two exceptional OGs rock up to the party, each with a +1 in the form of a killer remix.

Rotunda is all swagger and shoulders. A mid-paced beast that swaps sharp edges for a slow roll, that rocks… but gently. The synthetic bass dives deep, providing balance and ballast while the upper register takes advantage of this free reign. Zither glissandos ebb and flow while guitar lines drift in and out, marshalled into time by a neck-snapping shuffle with a sense of slow, unhurried purpose.

Showing a similar, singular focus, is Gold Suite, AKA Bali’s Joey Fitzgerald. Opening the original up wide enough to drop in a piano, acoustic guitar and lead line licks, he builds a remix that is in equal parts balearic groover and 3am mover. The result is a certified banger that will see arms raised quicker than any armed bank heist.

Lessons, by contrast, sees Statues in repose. A simple cymbal pattern leads the way as organ, strings and bass join in, laying the ground for the mournful vocal refrain “The past is a lesson”. What follows is a blissful slice of horizontal balearica pitched perfectly for these times. With the world opening its arms to us once again, this is the soundtrack for us all to sway into its embrace.

Coyote take the remix reins, their deep dub adding lift to the kick and bounce to the bass. They pare back and stretch out, filling the space with found fragments and soft sonic furnishings. The result is a very different destination, but one that still wraps itself around you like a welcome hug from an old friend. Expansive synths and tightly echoed effects ride the wave of a way-out sound without losing sight of the original.

It’s a lesson to us all.

For more info on Statues, visit: www.facebook.com/Astatuesproject/
For more info on Gold Suite visit: goldsuite.bandcamp.com/releases
For more info on Coyote visit: coyoteiib.bandcamp.com/
For more info on Eclectics visit: eclectics.bandcamp.com/music

Let It Pass

Buy ep here

Statues - Lessons (Coyote Deep Dub)

This is my most recent reggae style track, a simple collection of sounds including skanks, dub, synths and pads to add a brilliant end of summer melody to my collection. 

Jamaican Ginger Cake

Deep roots reggae with a hypnotic dub groove. Heavy bass, one drop drums, minimal textures and mantra-style echoes. A relaxed but powerful soundscape, built on rhythm and space.

Di librarian Dub

"Personal space is something I feel very comfortable sharing with anyone that’s why it is a pleasure to welcome you the listener into a place that’s very open and free. I find music constantly forming a soundtrack to the moments in my life, this moment finds me in the beautiful surroundings of Monty’s garden accompanied by her friend Lilly and my wife sipping on fine wine and eating home made carrot cake. My record selections are often decided by the surroundings and the people around me, today is no different. I’m immediately made to feel at home and the atmosphere is warm. Feelings of uncertainty and nervousness occupy my mind prior to pressing play, the moment I put the first record down everything changes. Music is my solace, my therapy and for a long time now my best friend. Realising the role it plays in my life has been key to understanding my own emotions and mental health. There’s a deeper meaning to every note played and every word spoken so down the rabbit hole we go on an adventure we seek into the collection of my heart, I’ll let you take a peek.
I hope this music moves you as it does me.
Curated with Love
Harry Charles"

Harry Charles - 06.10.19

Remix and additional production by Vlad Matei 
Bass: Reto Gaffuri Guitar: Roger Szedalik

Cosmic Shif Remixed

Bandcamp (Pre Order)

Lexx - Too Hot (Eirwud's True Rocker Version) Snippet

It’s a family affair on the second Growing Bin 7”, as Peter & Patrick Jahn @patrickjahn enjoy some father and son boogie with a smooth split release. A sunblushed moocher served two ways, this disc is designed for horizontal dancing…
Rooting around the cupboards in his family home outside Nuremberg, Patrick Jahn unearthed a dusty box of cassettes, saved for posterity but eventually forgotten. Somewhere between ‘True Blue’ and ‘Brothers In Arms’ was a faded C60 full of unreleased demos by his father Peter, recorded in the mid to late 80s. Back then Jahn Sr owned a pub club called Schrank (Cupboard to the Anglophones), with an upstairs office he used as a music studio. In amongst naïve synthesiser experiments and carefree noodling was a Balearic boogie bomb, all strolling synth bass, clipped funk guitar and seaside melancholy – like Brenda Ray on a Wim Wenders soundtrack. 
Too impressed to keep it a secret, Patrick played the cut to Carsten “Erobique” Meyer, when he was over there jamming, and Hamburg’s premier funk freak suggested this might be of interest to his likeminded hometown freak Basso. Instantly in love, the Growing Bin boss suggested Patrick provide his own version for the flipside, and so it was, reborn with percussive sway, moonlit keys and beefy bass tones for the next generation. Here’s to the Jahn family, father and son but brothers in calms… (words by Patrick Ryder)

on a note:  the original tape was not in good condition so the sound of the original version is a bit distorted at the end of the track. SInce I love it so much I can live with it. Hope you can too :) Best, Basso

Patrick Jahn - Abenteuer Überm Schrank 2020 Version (shortened clip)

PETROS SKOUTARIS — Tropika EP
Format: 12"/Digital
Cat.No: ITL012
Release Date: June 2020

Tracklist:
A1. Tropika - 5:08
A2. Attica - 4:02

B1. Yusurum - Part I (ft. Manos Skaramagkas) - 6:58 
B2. Yusurum - Part II (ft. Manos Skaramagkas)- 7:14

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Pre-order: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/tropika
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Last year Into The Light delved deep into the unreleased archives of Free Level, a collaborative project between Greek composers George Theodorakis and the late Petros Skoutaris. Now the label presents a blissfully sunny and gorgeously life-affirming EP of rare solo tracks from Skoutaris that were recently discovered on a forgotten CD-R.

Petros Skoutaris first rose to prominence in 1981 when the band he formed, new wave and ska fusionists Sharp Ties, sold 50,000 copies of their debut album “Get That Beat” on the back of the title track becoming a hit single all over Europe. A year later he quit the band, re-emerging in 1984 as the co-owner of now legendary Athens nightclub “Graffiti’’. Up until his unexpected death in 2004, Skoutaris appeared as a guest guitarist on a wide range of records – Pavlos Sidiropoulos’ classic album “Zorba The Freak” included, while also pursuing collaborative projects such as 667, Dubient and Free Level.

The tracks featured on this posthumous solo release were recorded in 2000 and were originally intended to appear on an album that never materialized. They offer a neat snapshot of Skoutaris’ chameleon-like musical nature and the layered melodic intricacy of his trademark guitar playing. This latter feature is particularly evident on “Tropika”, a dreamy but up-tempo affair that sits somewhere between Pat Metheny’s breeziest moments and mid-1980s alternative synth-pop, and the becalmed, Flamenco-influenced sunset bliss of “Attica”. 

Skoutaris’ life-long love affair with reggae culture comes to the fore on the two-part “Yusurum”, a wonderfully intoxicating, NYC dub-funk influenced affair that was written, arranged and co-performed by his friend and fellow Athens synth-wave scene survivor Manos Skaramagkas. Like Bill Laswell’s work as Material, both versions of “Yusurum” incorporate extensive use of Indian style percussion and instrumentation, as well as hallucinatory effects and some of the warmest, weightiest bass known to humankind. It’s a mind-altering trip from an overlooked, little-known Greek master and his equally talented mate.

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A1, A2 composed and performed by Petros Skoutaris
B1, B2 composed by Manos Skaramagkas and performed by Manos Skaramagkas and Petros Skoutaris.
Recorded at the Doc's studio in Athens around 2000
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut 
Back cover art by Petros Skoutaris
Licensed by Akis Skoutaris
Worldwide distribution by Rush Hour

© INTO THE LIGHT 2020
intothelightrecords.gr/

PETROS SKOUTARIS — Tropika (ITL012)

This week's session is instructed by nicer-dicer @mimi-ctw-podcasts who brings a set of slow yet extensive drills that go deep under your skin and straight into your bone.

That Mimi herself isn't only a top-notch instructor but also an expert on curating leftwing stretches from all around has the latter successfully proven with her very own series @ctw-podcasts which at this point deserves a big big shoutout. Mimi for the first hour, @onta-ht does some acoustic hot stone infusion the one after.

Auf die Matten, fertig - los

Hip Therapy Mixes

Hip Therapy #21 w/ Mimi and Onta

Dug up by Steven Hickey. Western Belter from Denis Farley. Hold tight sombreros!

Denis Farley "Pony Express" - Baroque Records 7" - US, 1984 - SOLD

Harry Winkler "Back On the Ranch" - Intersound LP - Germany, 1985 - SOLD

Operated by Kejeblos & Fuga Ronto (Ron Shiller & Tobi Schweizer)

PHI - 01 Kejeblos - The Family Mattress
PHI - 02 Lexx - Young Corner 
PHI - 03 Foster - Neon Life 
PHI - 04 Kejeblos Feat. Momo Love
PHI - 05 Bing Ji Ling/Lexx
PHI - 06 Your Song Is Good (F.O.N. Remix) / Apiento & Co. (Lexx Remix) 
PHI - 07 Fuga Ronto - Invisible Escape
PHI - 08 V/A - Uncommon Species
PHI - 09 Kay Zee - Barny
PHI - 10 Wavetest - Wrong Planet
PHI - 11 Lexx/Open Space feat. Harriet Brown - Hot Weather
PHI - 12 The Gagosians - Run For My Honey
PHI - 13 Domi Chansorn - Strawberry Moon (incl. Lexx Remix)
PHI - 14 Lexx Feat. Woolfy - Too Hot
PHI - 15 Lexx - Cosmic Shift LP
PHI - 16 Lexx - Cosmic Shift Remixed
PHI - 17 Florin Büchel - The Horizon Problem
PHI - 18 Windsurfer - The Gone Village
PHI - 19 Fuga Ronto - Greatest Treasure
PHI - 20 Windsurfer - The Gone City
PHI - 21 Ethimm - Choices (Fuga Ronto Remixes)
PHI - 22 GINA ÉTÉ & Tillmann Ostendarp - Le Bouquet (incl. Fuga Ronto Remix)
PHI - 23 V/A - Uncommon Species II
PHI - 24 Kay Zee - The Whole Shebang
PHI - 25 Melting Steine - Universal Crush
PHI - 26 Palace Pasador - Footprint Affair

Lexx - Too Hot (Eirwud's True Rocker Version) Snippet

PHANTOM ISLAND