I need the right word!... oh yes...Perfect.

now where is it going....pogoing round the room

On, shit! I just got sick!!! This music is just divine! What a trip!!!

After you pull the feathers out of your mouth from that existentialist affair, turn to page B for “Mesmerize”: This one is easier on the psyche, both majestic and gentle, with legato horns and strings massaging your mood. Neapolitan sherbet for open-airs and open ears.

So there you have it, perhaps the definitive Pampa 12”, bearing that dependable turkey logo, credited to Die Vögel, named after to the world's most populous domesticated bird. Another coop from DJ Koze and company.

PAMPA017 Die Vögel - B Mesmerize

Axel Boman broke through in 2010 with his Holy Love EP, released on DJ Koze's Pampa Records. The track Purple Drank became an instant classic in underground house music circles – since then, Boman has toured extensively while releasing original productions and remixes on labels like DFA, Hypercolour, Kompakt, Permanent Vacation and Ovum, as well as on Studio Barnhus, the label he runs together with Kornél Kovács and Petter Nordkvist.

Family Vacation, Boman's debut album, arrives on Studio Barnhus in November 2013.

“I decided to go through the vast collection of ideas and sketches I had on my computer, as a final project before I set that machine on fire and let it all go up in flames. Kind of like what Lee "Scratch" Perry did with The Black Ark in Kingston in the 70's. A friend says the album sounds like “weird Jamaican space disco" so maybe it's a fitting reference”, says Boman himself.

Axel Boman's music has also been described as "raw and playful house music drenched in oceans of soul". He graduated with a master's degree from Valand School of Fine Arts in 2010 and currently lives in the calm and peaceful Stockholm suburb Gröndal.

Axel Boman - Fantastic Piano (from the album Family Vacation, out on Nov 11)

Tilt

Calm, rhythmic, atmospheric and utterly absorbing minimal music from Bakdraze (aka @gacha), the debut EP on @transfigured-time.

For more info head to: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/01/07/premiere-bakradze-quiet-loop/

Tbilisi City Guide from Bakdradze dropping soon. 

Bakradze - Quiet Loop (STW Premiere)

Próxima B

Axel Boman - Paris 2006 feat. Kornel Kovacs - Play It Down 008

Each Moment a Diamond EP

Roland Tings - "Slow Centre"

NEW JACKSON - FROM NIGHT TO NIGHT (ACNJLPx1) / 2LP/DIGITAL RELEASE DATE: MAY 12 2017

Preorder 2LP/Digital - Newjackson.bandcamp.com

There aren’t many artists that can lay claim to having put out records on labels as divergent as Rough Trade and John Talabot’s Hivern Discs. Perhaps this is because few artists express such genuine diversity in their musical tastes and creative explorations as David Kitt. Since the turn of the decade as New Jackson he has mined a seam of driving, ghostly house to run parallel with his solo strand of ambient folk electronica. His debut release in 2011 The Night Mail on Pogo channeled early record collection heroes Aphex Twin and Orbital through to Drexciya and Projekt PM but had one foot firmly in the 21st century beaming in like some futuristic cyberballad. On the flip side Hussle Free had that mix of house and boogie sensibilities with dark and dusty synths and vocoder that would become a signature. This was followed by acclaimed releases on Hivern, Permanent Vacation, Major Problems, Apartment and most recently Cin Cin. 

His debut album set for release on All City in May was recorded in Kitt’s bedroom studio overlooking Dublin bay, its nocturnal hues very much a product of the nightshift often working on headphones with the rest of his housemates fast asleep. It takes full advantage of the scope of the LP format, ebbing and flowing between deep house club ready gems and more restrained and meditative beatless moments for the morning after. The recording process yielded many eureka moments with Kitt finally nailing sounds that had hitherto proved elusive. A key moment was getting a bank loan to buy an SP 1200 sampler - "It's a sound I've tried to get close to for almost half my life now and the only way to really nail it was to get the machine itself. It's featured on so many of my favourite records by the likes of Premier, RZA, MF Doom, Daft Punk, Moodyman and Theo” Indeed the presence of a sampler used heavily in hip-hop is no coincidence, for Kitt this record owes as much to beats and rhymes as it does to head-down club house. “My first love when it comes to samplers and drum machines is hip-hop and I've often wondered what kind of house Pete Rock or J Dilla would make. I like to think the record reflects that a bit.” 

"From Night to Night" is one end of the result of his artistic persistence. Machine love alongside crafted songsmanship is evident from start to finish - the beautifully structured pop tones of Put the Love In It and the deep vocoder boogie of Found the One sit next to the machine funk of SP2 and the atmospheric ambience of Cadaquez. There's a beautiful re-imagination of DJ Shadow in the ten minutes of the deep funk of After Midnight in A Perfect World with the LP closing out, appropriately enough, with a reworking of one of his breakthrough tracks - the epic piano house vibes of Of A Thousand Leaves. Part Larry Heard, part Pete Rock, part Arthur Russell, a deftly constructed LP of musical subtleties from a considered artist mining the creative result of a lifetime's listening and making.

Tracklist
A From night to night
Blaze all day
Put the love in it
Sp2
On solid air
Found the one
Anya's piano
After midnight in a perfect world
Cadaquez
Of a thousand leaves

New Jackson - Anya's Piano

Download/buy vinyl: https://footshooterbeats.bandcamp.com/album/strange-days-ep-famous-friends

Credits

Drums, Guitar, Keys/Synths, Samples: Barney Whittaker. 
Vocals on A2: Nat Mason.
Words during interlude: Tom Jousselin.
Vocals on B1: Hadiru Mahdi.
Vocals on B2: Tom Jousselin and Izzy Risk.
Extra Keys on B2: Jack Stephenson-Oliver.

Written, Produced and Mixed by Barney Whittaker.
Mastered by Cherif Hashizume at Cafe Music Studios, London. 
Vinyl Pressing by Curved Pressings, London. 
Artwork and layout design by Joe McCrae (joemccrae.com).

Famous Friends 2017.

Download/Buy Vinyl

A1. Bosphorus

DJ Koze returns with his second track from "knock knock", his forthcoming album on Pampa Records. “Illumination” follows the previously released “Seeing Aliens” and is the first "knock knock" track Koze has shared featuring vocals. The ever-unique Róisín Murphy becomes a cyborg funk diva on “Illumination.” "Working on a song together with Roísín is even better than not working at all,” says Koze. 

DJ Koze - Illumination (feat. Róisín Murphy) taken from the upcoming Album „knock knock“ - out on May 4th, 2018
Get It here: https://djkoze.lnk.to/KnockKnock
Pre-order Limited Vinyl Box, 2xLP or CD on our new Homepage: www.pamparecords.com
Orders at the Pampa Onlineshop will be shipped one week prior to 
(C) Pampa Records 2018 - Release date: 1 march 2018 

Dj Koze ist now also on Instagram - follow him: ww.instagram.com/djkozeofficial

DJ Koze - Illumination (feat. Róisín Murphy)

Phonica Records return with release no.6, that features three spellbinding remixes of a track that’s a classic around these parts… 

Originally released in 1994, Bob Holroyd’s effervescent, career-defining anthem "African Drug" was included on both Francois K’s 'Essential Mix' and Coldcut’s 'Journeys By DJ: Coldcut' - 70 Minutes Of Madness. So when Bob walked through our shop’s doors one day, we couldn’t resist asking to license the track and give it a new lease of life with two breathtaking remixes. And that’s exactly what we did. 

The first remix comes from the consistently trailblazing Four Tet. Clocking in at just under 12 minutes, there’s only one word to describe it – epic. Using the African samples of the original, Four Tet builds a complex, glockenspiel-esque melody that slowly morphs into a feast of hypnotic percussion, pulsating sub-bass and dizzying, psychedelic FX. Following a brief remission around the halfway mark, the melody returns, unspooling into a climactic freak-out that’s simply classic Four Tet. 

On the flipside we have rising star of T.Williams – who also gave us the first Local Action release – re-tooling "African Drug" for more leftfield dancefloors. An absorbing, off-kilter percussive intro gradually gives way to a heavy yet streamlined 4/4 groove. Ultra-modern but mindful of the source material’s timeless appeal, this is a raw, powerful version with ‘secret weapon’ written all over it.

PHONICA006 Bob Holroyd - African Drug (Four Tet Remix)

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PHONICA006 Bob Holroyd - African Drug (Four Tet Remix)

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