ElectroLux vol. 6

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V.A-Alternative_0.5 _2017

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All around Kidal, the Malian desert stretches in every direction. Endless horizons of rock and sand, barren and parched. This is the southwestern edge of the Sahara, the home of the Tuareg people, and the town of Kidal is one of their main cultural centres. Fought over, conquered and re-conquered, it remains the symbol of Tuareg defiance and hope, the spiritual home of a dispossessed people.

It is also the town in which Tamikrest first came together as a group, and on Kidal, Tamikrest’s fourth studio album, the band pays homage to this place that’s nurtured them and their people.

It’s a cry of suffering and the yell of rebellion. It’s power and resistance. This is pure Tuareg rock’n’roll.

“Kidal talks about dignity,” Ag Mossa says. “We consider the desert as an area of freedom to live in. But many people consider it as just a market to sell to multinational companies, and for me, that is a major threat to the survival of our nomadic people.”

The Tuareg have always been nomadic people, their lives in motion across the desert, sometimes taking with them only the bare essentials. But for one brief moment they possessed a home after the Tuaregs rose up in 2012 and declared the independent state of Azawad in the northeast of Mali. It lasted less than a year, as first al-Qaeda conduits swept in from the north, imposing Islamist rule, and then the French military arrived to liberate the area - once again leaving the Tuareg with little or no chance for self-determination. But the dream remains, still trapped between governments and the greed of global corporations.

“Kidal, the cradle of all these uprisings, continues to resist the many acts perpetrated by obscure hands against our people,” notes band associate Rhissa Ag Mohamed. “This album evokes all the suffering and manipulation of our populations caught in pincers on all sides.”
The songs on Kidal evoke a long history. And for all the electricity, as Ag Mossa observes, “It’s very traditional if you go deeply into what I’m playing.”

Everything here is focused. Everything burns. Ag Mossa punctuates his lyrics with inspired bolts of guitar. Even an acoustic song like “Tanakra” maintains a luminous edge.

With Kidal, that blaze is roaring. Recorded in Bamako, Mali in the summer of 2016, the album was produced by Mark Mulholland (Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra) and mixed by David Odlum, who received a Grammy for his work with Tinariwen. It’s an album that’s taken two years to make, Ag Mossa says, “because we share the same difficulties of our people.” And the songs here mirror their joys, their pain and their unwillingness to accept things as they are.

There’s a raw beauty in Tamikrest’s rock’n’roll. It’s there in the driving, insistent groove that powers the songs, the lean, snaking bass lines and the guitars that twine and twist around the melodies, and the utterly natural musical blending of Sahel Africa, the Maghreb, and the West – a reflection of influences as diverse as Pink Floyd, Rachid Taha, and flamenco. Yet the Sahara, and the people who live there, is always firmly at its heart.

“This music was founded on a very precise cause, the Tuareg cause,” Ag Mossa told journalist Andy Morgan in 2013. They might be threatened on all sides, but they won’t give up, and this album celebrates who the Tuareg are, the Kel Tamasheq (“those who speak Tamasheq”), the keepers of an ancient and endangered cultural voice.

Tamikrest’s new album is the music of defiance, of hope. It’s rock’n’roll from the Sahara, the sound of the Tuareg dream, a dream that will be renewed again, in their ancestral town: Kidal.

Kidal

Wainan Adobat

Tamikrest - Wainan Adobat

Futureboogie​ open their 2017 account with a new release from ​Lizards​, the Newcastle based duo otherwise known as Lee Forster​ and ​James Hadfield​. After appearances on labels like Leng Records, Join Our Club and ​Not An Animal Records​, Lizards strut their stuff across two original tracks, whilst man of the moment ​Lord Of the Isles​ weighs in with a superb remix. The percussion driven house of ​“Tzatziki”​ kicks of the release, wrapped in warm and inviting pads and piano riffs. Shades of old school Chicago house meet sun-kissed Balearic vibes on this early morning riser, as the heavyweight bass sounds curl around the raw drum programming and illuminating keys sprinkle over the production. On ​“Aloof”​, the tempo is taken down somewhat, as a bass line wanders over a steady kick and otherworldly ambient sounds and hushed vocal clips lazily glide over the 4/4 arrangement. As the track unfurls, more melodic and percussive elements come into play, blossoming into a something quite epic and unique. With a slew of releases for quality imprints like ​Permanent Vacation​, ​Firecracker​, ​Mule​ ​Musiq​ and ​ESP​ ​Institute​, Neil​ ​McDonald​, ​AKA​ ​Lord​ ​Of​ ​The​ ​Isles​, serves up a deliciously chugging version of “Aloof”. Gurgling bass and marching handclaps are dowsed in dramatic synth sweeps and glacial tones, as the good Lord takes us on a monumental ride.

Separate Ways EP

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PREMIERE : Lizards - Tzatziki

Planet Mu are very excited to announce Jlin's long awaited second album “Black Origami”. A percussion-led tour de force, it's a creation that seals her reputation as a unique producer with an exceptional ability to make riveting rhythmic music.

“Black Origami” is driven by a deep creative thirst which she describes as “this driving feeling that I wanted to do something different, something that challenged me to my core. Black Origami for me, comes from letting go creatively, creating with no boundaries. The simple definition of origami is the art of folding and constructing paper into a beautiful, yet complex design. Composing music for me is like origami, only I'm replacing paper with sound. I chose to title the album "Black Origami" because like "Dark Energy" I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness. The willingness to go into the hardest places within myself to create for me means that I can touch the Infinity.” 

Spirituality and movement are both at the core of “Black Origami”, inspired largely by her ongoing collaborations with Indian dancer/movement artist Avril Stormy Unger whom she met and collaborated with at her debut performance for the Unsound festival – ”There is a fine line between me entertaining a person and my spirituality. Avril, who collaborates with me by means of dance, feels the exact same way. Movement played a great role in Black Origami. The track "Carbon 7" is very inspired by the way Avril moves and dances. Our rhythms are so in sync at times it kind of scares us. When there is something I can't quite figure out when it comes to my production, it’s like she senses it. Her response to me is always "You'll figure it out". Once I figure it out it's like time and space no longer exist.” 

Similar time shifting/folding/disrupting effects can be heard throughout the record – especially on “Holy Child” an unlikely collaboration with minimalist legend William Basinski. She also collaborates again with Holly Herndon on “1%”, while Halcyon Veil producer Fawkes' voice is on “Calcination“ and Cape Town rapper Dope Saint Jude provides vocals for “Never Created, Never Destroyed“.

Jlin will be touring extensively this year and is currently lining up appearances including Sonar festival. Later this year she will be collaborating in London with acclaimed UK choreographer Wayne McGregor who played her music recently on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and described her music as “quite rare and so exciting".

Black Origami

Jlin - Challenge (To Be Continued)

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MARC HOULE - SINISTER MIND LP (ITEMS & THINGS 036)

1) Don’t Think of Me
2) Sinister Mind
3) Maskatron
4) Loafers
5) Failure
6) Bassorrific
7) Dark Tom
8) Conbular
9) Paligama

Marc Houle will kick off 2017 with the launch of a new three-part album series on his own Items & Things label. An autobiographical studio project, the three albums cross several moods and styles, showing the different sides of Marc Houle, both as a person and as an artist. 

In the first album of the trilogy, entitled Sinister Mind, the Canadian artist serves up nine storytelling tracks that once again stand as a fine testament to his studio skills. This most evocative long player starts off with ‘Don’t Think of Me’, a paranoid cut with chattery claps, brooding bass and foreboding vocals that is brilliantly unsettling. 
The title cut then settles into a mid-tempo techno groove as synths thunder in the background. It is a sparse and moody affair that speaks of desolate urban landscapes. From there, ‘Maskatron’ builds the pressure with gurgling bass, alien percussive sounds and more unsettled grooves before ‘Loafers’ gets trippy with some modulating synths that burrow deep into your brain, and ‘Failure’ resets the mood with a super slow motion dark wave synth cut that has echoing vocals drifting off to the distance. 
The second half of the album marries ‘Bassorrific’'s mechanical grooves and robotic melodies with the heavy and doom laden atmospheres of ‘Dark Tom.’ ‘Conbular’ then comes over all spooky with tumbling drums and bleeping synths popping and spitting in loose limbed fashion. 
Last of all, 'Paligama' gets busy and goes directly for the dance floor, with bubbling rhythms, rubbery drums and dry hits. 

This is an album that marries sci-fi imagery with derelict metropolitan soundscapes. It is evocative and escapist and is a fantastic way to start off this trilogy.

@marchoule
@itemsandthings

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Marc Houle - Don't Think Of Me

@trudged embarks on the second expedition into the exotic lands of palm trees and blue skies with his ambient and dreamy ‘When The Rain’ EP on @shallnotfade new sublabel "Lost Palms".  Expedition two features four jams packed full of breakdowns, breathtaking soundscapes and lo-fi esque drum sequences.

PALMS002

PREMIERE : Trudge - When The Rain

La Belle Records strike again with a fantastic new EP from Golden Bug featuring a superb remix from artist of the moment Moscoman. This is a second sizzling single from the artist’s still standout V.I.C.T.O.R. album from last October.
The EP is divided into two parts: ‘Krokodil' (which comes with its own fantastically fresh and brilliantly bizarre video) and ‘Amazonia’ are from Golden Bug’s VI.C.T.O.R album late in 2016, and ‘Gomina!’, ‘Visage’ and ‘Division’ are brand new tracks made in his studio in Barcelona in recent months. ‘Krokodil' opens the EP and is a prickly, synapse firing disco-pop tune with capped up vocals, slithering synths and colourful stabs that really pop. The excellent ‘Gomina!’ is another electrifying mash up of pixelated synths, chugging drums, post-punk vocals and whirring analogue machine sounds that never sit still for a moment.

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TRACKLIST:
1. Krokodil
2. Gomina!
3. Amazonia
4. Amazonia (Moscoman Remix)
5. Visage
6. Division (feat. Diego Hdez)

Krokodil

PRÈMIÉRE: Golden Bug - Gomina! [La Belle]

’Dancing In The Smoke' Out Now -
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Taken from ’AZD’ released 14th April 2017 via Ninja Tune.

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Dancing In The Smoke

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'JENKS' IS THE TITLE TRACK FROM OUR FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM, RELEASED 2ND JUNE.

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A remix of ‘Sugar for the Pill’ from Slowdive, out May 5th on Dead Oceans

First album in 22 years available here - http://slowdive.lnk.to/slowdive

Slowdive - Sugar For the Pill (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation)

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Armand Jakobsson aka @DJ-seinfeld doesn't seem content with sitting still---not halfway through 2017 are we introduced to the multitalented producer's 5th release in as many months, under his third nom de plume no less. This outing comes under the alias Birds of Sweden, from the increasingly reliable and tactile UN.T.O. imprint (@grassochecola). UN.T.O. is hot off the heels of the well-received Dream Technology EP from Jack Roland, an acerbic collection of "dreamy electro hi-fi rave", and is showing no signs of stopping as they put out one of Jakobsson's most caustic affairs yet. The eponymous EP hones in on the producer's desire to lend his indelible touch to the world of Jungle music---across the entire EP, the breaks rush like whitewater rapids and barely leave room to gasp for air, but always with a ray of sunshine lighting the way forward.

PREMIERE : Birds Of Sweden - Alle Alle

A3. Simo Cell - Rand0m N0izes

it hit me real hard yes it knocked me down
i still got your name spilling from my mouth
you know my heart breaks when you’re not around
but you give me nightmares instead of dreams
i’m waiting on you to believe in me
oh my, even though it feels right
i’ll never get the same chance twice this i know now

oh oh mmm i’ll never forget you
oh oh mmm i’ll never let you go
oh oh mmm i could never regret you
but i won’t let you know

that it feels like
oh ah oh ah (you do it to me)
you know it feels like
oh ah oh ah (you do it to me)

the storm of your lips kicked me by surprise
i’m sitting in rain with your demon eyes
even though i’m in pain i know i’ll survive
you keep me real close then you let me go
i know it’s a game i’m your lil show
oh my, even though i stay true
i can’t say the same for you this i know now

oh oh mmm i’ll never forget you
oh oh mmm i’ll never let you go
oh oh mmm i could never regret you
but i won’t let you know

that it feels like
oh ah oh ah (you do it to me)
you know it feels like
oh ah oh ah (you do it to me)

© 2017 Candace Lee Camacho, duendita publishing [BMI]

Jlin - Challenge (To Be Continued)

Planet Mu Records