boom bap hancock synthetic jazz, a lazy sunday afternoon with some seventh chords and baggie

meet the band!

on left hand lead with right hand mod wheel accompaniment: waldorf pulse with polivoks band pass filter mod
on orchestral strings: jx3p and juno-60
on triple bass stack: modded x0xi0 x0xb0x, sh-101, jv-1080
on lazy drums: megacommand machinedrum & analog rytm
on semi-generative granular insanity backing vocals: my modular
space and air: re-201, eventide space

cats adjacent to synthesisers in north belfast

triple layered jx-3p, mks-50 and juno-60 for ultimate gated jazz pad glory

gotta go fast!

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Moistly trying to capture the experience of the Northern Irish countryside (which is wetter than a Quadraverb)

the campaign for real acid

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Release date: 13th February 2023

Mark Barrott is an artist that creatively speaking, never stops moving. His musical career has taken many forms. Some know him as Future Loop Foundation, the alias he used to create and perform ambient drum and bass from the mid-90s. Some know him for his Sketches from an Island albums, which he released under his own name, and others know him as the founder of the highly influential International Feel label, a label that spearheaded the bespoke vinyl movement of the 2010’s and brought DJ Harvey out of studio retirement. Barrott has spent close to four decades exploring new sonic territory and pushing the boundaries of various genres and is considered a pivotal figure in the revival of the Balearic music scene of the last decade.

Barrott’s new album, ’Jōhatsu (蒸発)’, is predictably unpredictable. Due for release this April on Above & Beyond’s new downtempo imprint Reflections, the album is a full departure from anything Mark has written before, partly because he was writing to moving picture. In 2019, Mark was commissioned by a director to write the score for their new documentary, ‘Jōhatsu (蒸発) ... the art of Evaporation’.

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is an 8-track journey through the sounds, sights, smells and sensations of traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.

Every year, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 people in Japan vanish, without a trace. These are the so-called johatsu. The “evaporated people”. People become jōhatsu for many different reasons including addiction, divorce and job loss. While some people may consider taking their own lives, others simply… evaporate. Jōhatsu refers to these people who purposefully leave the lives they knew behind.

‘Jōhatsu... the art of Evaporation’, shadowed a Japanese man as he went through this exact process, paying a contractor to help him vanish, moving from central Kyoto to Scandinavia. Scene notes from the director and shots of Kyoto at night-time, rural Japan, and Scandinavian forest-scapes informed Barrott’s musical direction for the project.

The tracks on this album are the ‘full’ pieces - those written for the longer sequences of film. The first single and opening track from the album, 'Kyoto (京都)', utilises the art of simplicity. It’s stripped back and minimal, allowing Barrott’s ambient, spontaneous production style to shine through. 

‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is a fairly air-tight representation of Mark Barrott as an artist. It’s spontaneous, it’s unexpected, it’s unrestricted and it’s a gorgeous listening experience. It’s the sound of an artist set free, without creative restraints. If music could fly, 'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' has wings.

'Jōhatsu (蒸発)' is out 17th April on Reflections. The first single ‘Kyoto (京都)’ is out now.

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Mark Barrott - Kyoto (京都)

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Some sweety bootleg i wanted to make since a long time for a perfect summer love, have fun downloading and listening it, spread the love, yo! 

Estelle Come Over JBG Bootleg (Bandcamp Download Free)

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Shaces Lou Shaces
Like george bush; highly invasive
will take command of your house
but in a way thats creative
erecting new fences and making it gated
so he can live inside
and get very wide
eating all the food you have so kindly supplied
to him as part of his deal
futile to appeal
to his better nature
or even his pet creature
a young macaw
with a beautiful waist coat
woven silk
and who speaks a tongue of Carribbean ilk
so he sits inside
eats all your pies
and chats to his bird
which will occasionally take to the sky
and frighten off any thieving magpie
cheeky enough to go for the gold
which soon becomes boring & old
and with that the bird is told
‘lets take our leave’
and so they exit
the house all wasted
without even packing their cases
such is life on the road
with Shaces Lou Shaces




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