KIKOK says: "For me personally, this album is like a state, a feeling of yourself and the world around you after you ride a bike fast, hurry somewhere and suddenly fall, experience instant fear and pain, but then you get up, get behind the wheel and realize that there is no need to hurry and a pleasant feeling of life comes to replace the pain."

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PREMIERE⚡️KIKOK - Welcome To Your Sea [TESTFM]

LIES-043
Gunnar Haslam-Laghi Sotterranei
from the upcoming "Porte Maillot" ep
to be released January 2014

Gunnar Haslam-Laghi Sotterranei (LIES-043)

Following up from the success of his emphatic PAN releases ‘Dutch Tvashar Plumes’ and ‘Diversions 1994-1996’ in 2012, we are excited to announce ‘KOCH’ (pronounced “cotch”), the new album from London’s Lee Gamble.

Sharing some stylistic affinity with his previous records, which excavated his deeply personal history with UK jungle and rave, and techno, this new work dives even deeper to reveal a singu- lar and intimate musical vantage point, shifting to approaching music as projection, state, hallucination, an other place. In ‘KOCH’, we experience an artist constructing a future after time spent deconstructing the past.

In the music we witness such dimensional abstraction, zooming between epic macro scenery and claustrophobically close detail, disorientation and absolute focus. Rhythms fuse together and phase apart, club tracks tunnel into an anxious wilderness, with themes and textures emerging as threads throughout the record, wormholing between each track.
There is a sense of the seen and the unseen, an honest tension between music as function (for this world) and as artistic exploration (for another world) as cracks in the surface appear to reveal the odd and alien minutiae within.
‘KOCH’ represents an intimate and revelatory new phase in Lee Gamble’s practice. Producing tracks that can live and grow on their own in a club or personal listening environment, the artist’s exploratory framework creates threads of consistency and tension between disparate spaces, locations, and mental states.

The LP is mastered and cut at D&M, with artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Format: 2xLP/DL 
Label: PAN 
Cat.No: PAN 59 
Release Date: September 12th
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Lee Gamble 'Nueme' (PAN 59)

bRUNA and Wooky are two key figures in Spanish electronic music. Regulars in the line-ups of festivals such as Mutek, Primavera Sound and Sónar, where they have performed on many occasions, both have a solid recording career behind them, which has led to them becoming part of the Red Bull Music Academy and topping the best of the year lists (bRUNA’s two LP's were named "Album of the Year" in Spain in 2009 and 2013).

Both are also co-directors of Lapsus, a multidisciplinary project founded in 2004 that has established three lines of activity: Lapsus Radio, their famous program on National Radio of Spain; Lapsus Festival, the avant-garde electronic music festival held annually at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona; and Lapsus Records, for which they have already published distinguished artists such as Pye Corner Audio, Dalhous, Plaid, Etch, Kettel and Ametsub.

So it is of no surprise that the union of both creative talents would result in a split recording sooner or later. "Archives" is their first adventure together and also their personal vision of ambient music and its different branches. A further twist in the career of two unique artists.

Lapsus is also proud to announce that bRUNA and Wooky will be premiering "Archives" at Sónar Festival 2016 on June 18th along with the incomparable Alba G. Corral, who will be in charge of visual support to this really special occasion. 

The beautiful photographs that make up the artwork on the album are by Albert Miralles, Cristina Salinas and Alfons Pich, and the design was created by the studio Basora.

Now you can listen to the advance singles "track 1" by bRUNA and "Tropic" by Wooky. Vinyl, cassette, CD and digital formats are available for pre-order at www.lapsusrecords.cat.

bRUNA 'track 1' / Wooky 'Tropic' [Archives - LPS14]

Valentina

We can't say enough how much we love this New Waveish synth pop tune. Basso find!

"Intersection With Loneliness" - Ungoogleable Private Press LP - Germany, 1984

Alfons Slik - 5 +

From the album "Nie przejmuj się" released in October 2019 on Love & Beauty Music.

Grzegorz Tarwid - piano
Szymon Gąsiorek - drums, composition

Mixed and mastered by Michał Kupicz

LISTEN / BUY "Nie przejmuj się"
https://pimpon.bandcamp.com/album/nie-przejmuj-si

ALFONS SLIK - 5+

Two totally infectious sets from Decoy - the trio of John Edwards, Steve Noble and Alexander Hawkins - reunited with pocket trumpet and saxophone player Joe McPhee on the closing night of his four day residency at Cafe OTO.

In the eight years between the recordings which make up ‘AC/DC’ and their last release ‘Spontaneous Combustion’, Decoy and each of its members have been practicing individually at the very top of their form. Coming together again in such celebratory circumstances and in the good company of a fantastic crowd set the scene for a very special night. 

As they begin, Alexander Hawkins casts a needling surface between his Hammond organ and John Edwards’ loose splatters and slaps of low end bass. McPhee skitters over them with his pocket trumpet by way of introduction; Steve Noble strikes his rims in anticipation. The mood in the room is that of a rock band reformed, of a certain number of “boys” being “back in town”.

The first set sees moments of frenetic free jazz peel off into weirdo soul territory and when switched to saxophone halfway through, McPhee’s romantic lyricism is utterly beautiful. When a groove sets in, Hawkins’ B3 ascension in harmony with an ever powerful Edwards-Noble rhythm section sees the room thicken and swirl to the point of giddiness. There is one unreal part at 22:22 where we’re sure you can hear Edwards’ bass vocalising. 

Regrouped for a second set, Steve Noble’s metallic textures meld with detuned arco bass to create an unholy atmosphere, ripe for Hawkins to play out the eerier end of the Hammond. When McPhee sounds a sax motif the band catches it quickly and it’s soon wickedly morphed and stretched by each player, recurring to absurdity in a stoned out funk free for all. 

The whole recording bleeds enthusiasm and joyful imagination and is a brilliant document of an unforgettable evening. Decoy are a limitless band who play nowhere near enough. We cannot attest to them any more, Book them, buy this, go and see them if you can.  

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John Edwards / bass

Alexander Hawkins / hammond b3

Joe McPhee / pocket trumpet, alto sax, voice

Steve Noble / drums

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO by Shaun Crook on Friday 10th May, 2019. Mixed and mastered by James Dunn. Artwork and layout by Oliver Pitt. Printed in an edition of 1000. OTOROKU023CD.

ROKU023 - Decoy with Joe McPhee "AC/DC" [sample]

Everyone of us wants to live forever, but more than half do not know what they gonna do at thursday evening, we are like those passengers who have gathered so many things with us that we forgot what lies at the bottom of the suitcase, and when we arrive at our destination, we find needless things in our luggage, same with our past, we don’t remember what it was and where we squander our experiences, memories and feelings, we are just passengers here, we are just passing through. 
Greek artist June makes his debut on Mannequin Records with the 'Silver Demon' LP. The album explores a futuristic dystopian world where transcendence and oppression coexist, where claustrophobia and infinite openness coincide. A world of contrasts that is the product of the artist‘s active imagination and conscious effort to confront the subconscious.
The album was recorded using original techniques from the golden era of electronic music (late 70s to mid 80s) with an arsenal of vintage analog synthesizers, drum machines and effect processors originating from the same time period. While the aesthetics of the classic precursors emerge through the minimal, deep, dark architecture of June's music, Silver Demon prevails with the artist's characteristic originality. 10 mixes 12" record out February 6th, buy now here: https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-134-june-silver-demon-lp

Mastered by Rude 66.
Graphic design by Lee Douglas.

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PREMIERE #810 | June - The Passenger [Mannequin] 2020

From the album Nu Vision available October 9, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream: https://smarturl.it/967zgg

Nu Vision

nubo - Nu Vision

Artist: Strangers For Love
Track: Like A Libra
Label: Reach Another System
Format: 7" Vinyl, Digital
Release date: 18/09/20
Purchase: https://rasrecords.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-libra

Strangers For Love is a solo band project by Alessio Di Mezza, also known as Religius Order. He sings, plays guitar and programs a bunch of synthesizers and drum machines, all in his home studio in Frosinone, Italy. The 7" is the first physical release and forms a connection between the past and the present where all his influences from punk over shoegaze to dark wave come together. While the A-side takes you on a melancholic and in hall flooded journey of self-discovery in which nothing seems to matter, the B-side lives from screaming guitars and vocals that will bring you back to the here and now. An emotional and weird trip from hate to love and just the vehicle to write your own journey.

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PREMIERE #1199 | Strangers For Love - Like a Libra [Reach Another System] 2020

Pimpon solo // Pimpono Ensemble // Pimpono 2+4 // E/I // Wood Organization // Alfons Slik // Czajka & Puchacz // Boys Cry // G•Bop Orchestra

ALFONS SLIK - 5+

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