Masters of Afro ambiguity, Elite Beat are back with two short, sweet and on repeat tracks as they whimsically & musically wander through the Sahara to Eastern African realms on their jazz juiced dub camels.

Full stream of Earthen Sea's "Present Day," taken from Recollection LP on Kranky, out on November 15.

Pre-order: https://earthensea.bandcamp.com/album/recollection
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Recollection

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Premiere: Earthen Sea - Present Day

Club / Hotel Autarkic @TEDER.FM 29/10/24

TUL8TE - Wahashteeny I تووليت - وحشتيني

جنّنوني عينيه
جنّنوني عيونِك دولا
شُفتهم حنّيت
بعده ما حبّيت
بيسألوني عليه
بيسألوني عليكي لسه
أرُد أقول أنا إيه
أرُد بس بإيه


قول يا حبيبي حاسس بإيه
بعد الغياب لمّا فات يوم أو يومين
شوف يا حبيبي جرالي إيه
بسأل عليكي وعينيكي تاهوا مني فين

حسّيت بإيه
حسّيت بحيرة ولّا غيرة ولّا إيه
أيام طويلة كنا فين وبقينا فين
ده العمر من غيرك حبيبي يسوى إيه
قوليلي ليه وكلميني عن حياتك حبتين
ده بعد بُعدِك قلبي حبّك مرتين
والدنيا بعدِك حادفة قلبي بين نارين

Ezoic
حبيبي قاعد مستني
وبنار الهوى عشمان فيه
هفضَل أنا مشتاق ليه نرجع سوا
لو ع اللي فات بس إنسي
نار الفراق هتنسيه
المرّة دي مش همشي هنرجع سوا

قول يا حبيبي حاسس بإيه
بعد الغياب لمّا فات يوم أو يومين
شوف يا حبيبي جرالي إيه
بسأل عليكي وعينيكي تاهوا مني فين

Ezoic
ما تقول يا حبيبي حاسس بإيه
بعد الغياب لمّا فات يوم أو يومين
شوف يا حبيبي جرالي إيه
بسأل عليكي وعينيكي تاهوا مني فين

TUL8TE - Wahashteeny I تووليت - وحشتيني

DnD - Location (Deloco's Landing Day)

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Krokakai aka Kyle Webster is at the controls for the second Invisible Inc's digital-only release. Ranging from tribal sci-fi rave to new wave electro and then powering onwards to almost industrial sounding slo-mo techno, the machines under Krokakai's control are perfectly tuned for Invisible Inc.'s dark side. 

https://soundcloud.com/invisible-inc
https://soundcloud.com/krokakai

Out on April 22nd!

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PRÈMIÉRE: Krokakai - Bodhran Beat [Invisible, Inc.]

Good news! We'll be releasing a beautiful LP from Unknown Mobile next month called Daucile Moon. 

Daucile Moon, which follows @unknown-mobile releases on No Bad Days, Normals Welcome and Young Adults, started four years ago in Vancouver when Levi Bruce was recovering from a broken toe and collecting MIDI files he found in an old geocities archive. It was finished earlier this year in Montreal with help from Mike Silver, AKA CFCF, who added plaintive guitar to complete the album's placid and stargazing style of ambient and downtempo music.

The album takes its name from an old, obscure Canadian jazz song that Bruce describes as "pretty but also with a serious amount of melancholy," which could also describe his new record. In the vein of Pacific Rhythm label-mate Khotin's standout New Tab album, Daucile Moon comprises drowsy beats and spaced-out loops, referencing the pinnacle of early '90s chillout and ambient while infusing it with the dazed sound of Canadian electronic music in the 2010s.

Bruce's process in making Daucile Moon was long but leisurely. He took the melodies from those MIDI files and moved them over to his analogue outboard setup and then back to his computer, creating a digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel. Live instrumentation, like Silver's classical acoustic guitar stylings on "A Windless March Ouest," mingles with occasional dance music references like the subtle acid squelch of "Ravers Sojourn" or the hazy breakbeat of "Oenology."

The album was inspired by various happy memories, from sharing wine with friends ("Oenology") to a dog that Bruce met ("Simone Can't Swim"). The result is a patient and personal record that highlights the best qualities of Bruce's previous work as Unknown Mobile, with his distinct style of melody and soundscaping set free from kick drums and the dance floor. It's telling that Bruce originally sent the record, at first called Melancholic Songs For Dogs, to his parents and two grandmas—this is beautiful, relaxing music whose appeal is universal.

Daucile Moon will be released digitally across all platforms and on limited edition cassette tape available through our online store, Bandcamp, and Seance Centre on July 14, 2019.

Mastered by Nik Kozub.

Thanks for listening!

Daucile Moon

Unknown Mobile - Oenology ft. CFCF

A1. By The Light Of The Pyramids
B1. Postcards From Gortupal

In an era of boundless self promotion, anonymity is a rare and precious thing. Listening to Trevor Jackson's NTS show one night we heard a glorious piece of music by something called Elite Beat. A quick search found 10 years worth of recorded material but not a single photo or youtube clip. They had made a record with Niger born guitarist Mdou Moctar but were based in Portland, Oregon. More questions than answers but we knew we had just heard one helluva cosmic link up! 

We still don't know what they look like but we can tell you Elite Beat is a 6 piece ensemble now in their 12th year as a musical collective. Their sound is non prescribed rhythm music with an emphasis on live playing, free form expression and dubbing techniques. Players who have absorbed the plethora of global grooves from dub, Ethiopoques and Tuareg guitar music (probably the odd Dead bootleg too). They aren't retromaniacs or here to revive a genre. Just some cats from Oregon talking that universal language, fueled by laugher and a vision of the eternal. 

*To preserve audio quality, the vinyl versions have been carefully shortened*

Elite Beat - By The Light Of The Pyramids (RREP03)

@airtexture's seventh compilation reach is out next month: a 26-track epic curated by @rrose-music and @silent-servant. 

@octoocta features of the Rrose-curated side of the compilation with 'Hallway Visions', which combines off-kilter and atmospheric textures.

Out February 15, pre-order it here: https://airtexture.bandcamp.com/album/air-texture-vii

More exclusive music

Premiere: Octo Octa 'Hallway Visions'

Golden Baby – Forgotten World 1
©Forgotten World – FW1
March 15, 2019. 


https://www.discogs.com/Golden-Baby-Forgotten-World-1/release/13358737
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Forgotten World 1

Golden Baby - Graduation

Artist: Nikolaienko
Album: Rings
Label#: faitiche23
Format: LP/DL
Release: April 16th 2021

Fortunately for us, Dmytro Nikolaienko agreed to open up the jewellery boxes of his tape-loop archive for his debut album on Faitiche. What came to light was a collection of dreamy glittering gems, masterfully presented using the compositional possibilities of analogue tape machines. Some may consider a tape machine to be limited as a musical instrument, but Rings makes a convincing case with its sure-handed use of the available parameters – moving tape over the tape head mechanically and manually, cutting loops, manipulating timbre and creating noise by means of saturation. The results are eleven blurred, repetitive, rhythmic patterns that can be understood as an intervention against digital precision, as mechanical irregularities and background noise become musical events.

For those familiar with Nikolaienko’s work, his nostalgic approach here will come as no surprise: born in Ukraine and now based in Estonia, he has chosen a historical medium (that has been enjoying a renaissance for some years now) to record historical-sounding sequences. The way he manages his own back catalogue is similarly archival, documenting the chronology of his tape loops in such a way as to leave no doubt as to their advanced age. And then there are his two wonderful labels Muscut and Shukai, the latter being an archival project releasing electroacoustic obscurities from the Soviet past. Which brings us back full circle …

Nikolaienko: Ambianta I

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Elite Beat - By The Light Of The Pyramids (RREP03)

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