RA New Tracks: June 2018

Jamaica Suk explores organic, hypnotic techno in her new EP for Establishment, "Clockwise."

2. Two Moons

Dead Can Dance - Song Of Sophia (9000 Cybernetic Goth Street Version)

JT022 / Various Artists - Broken Promises Part 5

Milan based collective Just This return with their biggest compilation yet, a twelve track package featuring varied entries from label regulars and esoteric talents alike. JT022 is due for release July 13th.

Melodic fragments and melancholic harmonies spiral through ricocheting drums and marching kicks. Contributions from Skudge, Hiver, Hunter/Game, Artefakt, Pizetsky and many more combine to forge a formidable package channelling moody, hypnotic techno for darkened dancefloors.

Skudge - Blood Work

For the next R.A.N.D. Muzik comp Leipzig’s Qnete, Interviews and Stanley Schmidt team up with Melbourne local Rudolf C.
Breakbeat music from house through to emotional drum and bass..

Artists: Various Artists
Title: RM12002
Premiere Artist: Qnete
 Track Title: Copa Copa
Label: R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings
Cat #: RM12002
Release date: 26.06.2018
Format: Vinyl 12" 

@rand_muzik_recordings
@qnete

RM12002

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Shite Premiere | Qnete - Copa Copa

Autarkic - Heavy Dreamer 
https://LifeAndDeath.lnk.to/HeavyDreamer

Autarkic makes-up part of an unspoken alliance from Tel-Aviv, which is currently altering the state of contemporary house and techno music. Heavy Dreamer, the artist’s first, four-track outing on Life and Death, showcases much of what this bold movement is about, all while pushing it forward into progress.  

Ever-present tones of kraut and punk rock flow throughout the EP, beginning with Some Things To Keep, a pumping, warehouse floor-filler. Autarkic steps up to the mic, often re-amping and distorting his vocal delivery, placing it alongside finely-programmed keyboard riffs, tough drums and further psychedelia. Realistic Guru, the trippiest of the lot, is tailor-made for an early-morning DJ Tennis after-party excursion. Slowing down the pace on Powerhouse, Autarkic hints at moments of Bauhaus’ and Tones on Tail’s doom-and-dance pop, while offering-up a digital-only, stripped-down, bonus version. The title track stands as a testament to this new wave of artists, coming from the shores of Israel’s Mediterranean coastline. Bass, drums and guitar are recorded through bespoke boxes and presented through the lens of modernist club-culture. 

Life and Death 37 marks a moment in time - out June 29th!

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Autarkic - Heavy Dreamer

Eagles & Butterflies - Last Dance (Mano Le Tough Remix)Art Imitating Life 003 LTD

Swinging Flavors is BACK! After releasing material from names such as Simon Off aka Sun People, Moresounds, DJ Madd, Ticklish, Sully, Addison Groove, Itoa and Lynch Kingsley our 7” vinyl series devoted to Bass Culture and dancefloor vibes is back again with the the Sixth One aka BMRSF006. 
After having a Japan vs USA Chicago Footwork sound clash with DJ Fulltono and DJ Earl’s “Tribal Dancer”, now it’s time for an atlantic connection - in the name of Bass Music obviously. 

On the A Side you’ll find Sinistarr’s “55555”: the Detroit bass producer - with a 10yrs experience in sound design and recently appeared with an astonishing work on legendary dBridge label Exit Records - gives us a pure example of his sonic craziness with a minimal-but-high-impact work, with chopped vocal samples, magic flutes and heavy basses. 

On the B Side “55555” gets a full treatment by Philip D. Kick: Cosmic Bridge honcho Jim Coles - well known in the worldwide bass scene as Om Unit - surprisingly comes back with his iconic footwork moniker giving to the original vibes a more accentuate rave touch, with hyper speed drum patterns, amen breaks and piano notes. 

And then...surprise surprise, for the digital format it will be also a special digi-exclusive by Sinistarr “Clear Your Mind”. You will go crazy on this one! 
BMRSF006 aka Sinistarr’s “55555” will be officially out in 7” vinyl and digital formats on June, 21st 2018 via Beat Machine Records’Official Bandcamp Page - available in all the digital stores & streaming on June, 25th 2018. 
credits
released June 21, 2018 

Producer by SINISTARR 
Remixed by PHILIP D KICK 
Mastered at BEAT MACHINE STUDIO (Milan, IT)

Sinistarr - 55555 (Philip D Kick remix)

Gen Ludd - RAD-LUDD2 (Rubadub) out on July 3rd

Gen Ludd are Glasgow-based Rich McMaster (Golden Teacher, Modern Institute) and Tom Marshallsay, both of whom are a big part of the extended Rubadub family. Their music perfectly embodies the Rubadub ethos of music for heads and feet. 

After months of negotiations with our minister of finance Hillington West Snr, TAFKNAGL (That artists formerly known as General Ludd) return with four precise cuts of pure rhythm and motion.

These tracks are a message to the Ramona-toting, gymnasium-powered international dance deejay. Please be bold enough to play them... you’ll make the world a better place. We’ll give you free WAVS too.

@general-ludd

RAD-LUDD2 MP3

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Gen Ludd - Catastrophe  (RAD-LUDD2)

Enter the plain of calm

https://magicwire.bandcamp.com/album/magic-arp

@gnork - Magic Arp EP 6/7/18
MAGIC014

Gnork - Yoga On E

Introducing Charles Green on the second release of TAFKAMP's Revenge Techniques imprint. Hailing from Brighton (UK) Charles has been consistently dishing out club bangers with no remorse. Highly essential club tracks!

Bandcamp - https://bit.ly/2I8zG0M
Clone - https://bit.ly/2JWgCZs
Deejay - https://bit.ly/2yBokTE
Juno - https://bit.ly/2yvb8iU

Charles Green - Resolute (REVENGE2)

Bass Clef - Charnel House

A collage of sounds from http://www.andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/ – an interactive website that charts the sounds and histories of islands that were once found on nautical maps but have since disappeared.

Phantom Islands are artifacts of the age of maritime discovery and colonial expansion. During centuries of ocean exploration these islands were sighted, charted, and described – but their existence was never ultimately verified. Poised between cartographic fact and maritime fiction, they haunted seafarers’ maps for hundreds of years, inspiring legends, fantasies, and counterfactual histories. Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas interprets these imaginations in the form of a map of speculative sounds from 27 phantom islands around the world.

Phantom Islands (Collage)

Taken from the forthcoming Everything In Quotes "LIGHT" EP, out 3 August via Pieater/Future Classic.

Stream & download 'DTF': http://smarturl.it/CP_DTF
Pre-order Everything In Quotes "LIGHT" EP digitally and on a limited edition dual EP: http://smarturl.it/CP_LIGHT

Christopher Port - DTF

Out Now:  https://lnk.to/IPSO002-HALSM

About a year ago I launched my label IPSO. First release was a collab with Michael Mayer. We made Dogma 1 and 2, and the tracks have been in heavy rotation ever since. I remember a magical morning at Panorama Bar where we played Dogma 1. It was one of those moments we all live for, where everything fell in place. Magical.

This summer IPSO 002 is released and this time it's a collab with none other than Tiga. We spent a couple of great days in my Copenhagen Studio, and I'm really proud of what we came up with.
This is the first track "HAL" from the forthcoming IPSO 002 E.P.

Kölsch & Tiga - "HAL"

DJ OK [@OKDJS] layers thudding toms and atmospheric strings with a sci-fi sampled spoken word.

The A2 from 00AM002.

Vinyl
www.deejay.de/Various_Artists_00…M002_Vinyl__309270
www.juno.co.uk/products/the-hutc…0am002/683449-01/
www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/95150-0…02-00am002-va

Digital
https://00am.bandcamp.com/album/00am002

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DJ OK - Atmosphere

From the very first track, it’s clear that Abby Echiverri’s debut, the “Ab Initio” EP is something different and rare: a polished and fresh interpretation of electronic music that incorporates classic electro squelches with intricate broken beats and expansive synthesizer zone-outs. Although this is her first EP, Abby has extensive history as a musician, sound engineer, DJ and VJ. Her current trajectory started early in childhood when she was classically trained in violin, flute, piano and vocals, cementing music as a part of her daily life. In high school she picked up turntables and began collecting records, eventually moving to NYC to study recording engineering and perform in post-punk bands, and became a regular at Wierd and The Bunker at a very young age. Since then, Echiverri has devoted her professional hours to engineering, maintaining, and manufacturing audio equipment for studios and clubs around the world. 

This record’s name “Ab Initio” means “from the beginning” or “from first principles”, invoking a propulsive leap into the future and also perhaps including an element of the eponymous. When we asked her to tell us more about the process of creating these hardware-based jams, Abby explained: “It all stems from my own experiences on the dancefloor and wanting to recreate that for other people. I want to make music that rewires the brain: music that is challenging, yet groovy... repetitive, yet evolving. An aural psychedelic. It's a lofty goal - I'm still working on it.” If Ab Initio is one of her first steps towards that goal then we can’t wait to see what happens next.

Abby Echiverri - Nadezhda

Zibaldone III of CVX

Marx’s famous assertion that history would repeat itself first as tragedy, then as farce, seemed to come to its full predictive fruition in 2017. Perhaps––in the case of the Euro-Atlantic democratic project––as a result of our systems of governance becoming so comprehensively untethered from the ancient idea whose name they continue to use and abuse. The parasites of neoliberalism are killing the democratic host… Plutocracy is thriving…  

In this third instalment of the Zibaldone series, Rupert Clervaux’s CVX alter-ego impulsively fills his audio notebook with musical settings for those ideas––namely sortition and anarchism––that present real alternatives to the dire political landscape of our time, and for the words of some who have made it their life’s work to challenge the foundations, assumptions and presumptions of the status quo. As with its predecessors, Zibaldone III draws freely from a wide span of performance and production techniques––tapping, for what it’s worth, creative roots before they can be grouped together into a stylistic formula.

Explosive  percussions pay homage to the anarchists of Argentina; Malcolm Muggeridge syllogises the grim logic of government, power and tyranny into a mantra of dissent, driving a stream of electro-jazz drums and synths to its rapturous disintegration; a saturnine piano improvisation leads the way to clattering protest drums as David Graeber shrewdly inveighs against the absurd but sadly pervasive neoliberal illusion that creativity and ingenuity are dependent on economic incentives; then, as a dancefloor footnote, a withering Gore Vidal wryly warns against the strict conflation of artistic methods with political theories in a smartphone-produced rafter-shaker that echoes Joey Beltram’s Orbital-sampling classic… 

Ultimately though, this record is a dedication to the work of one person, a musical wreath to be laid at the grave of the great thinker (and doer), Simone Weil––tragically so young in death, but thankfully so active in the brevity of her life. Here, as a looped fragment of another late-great ‘Simone’ reminds us that change is inevitable, unfolding piano and double-bass elaborations set the stage for Coline Cornélis to recite two key excerpts from Weil’s scathing and brilliant valedictory essay, ‘On the Abolition of All Political Parties’ (1943). Seventy five years later, the farcical horror of egregious corruption, misguided referenda and prevailing post-truths surely serves to strengthen the thrust of her prognosis and prescription––both of which are as sensible as they are radical.



Music by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Coline Cornélis

With thanks to James Marrs, John Coxon, Dan ‘EZ’ Lea and Max Henderson.

Zibaldone III of CVX

Zibaldone III of CVX - Exhibit 'A' Smartphone

Raw Culture for its 2nd birthday is so proud to introduce its little sister: GHETTO CULTURE.
Ghetto Culture is a series of releases inspired by ghetto house sound, techniques and feelings but reinterpreted in a modern way.
This first release is signed by Ghetto 25, the punk connexion between two mysterious french artist with only purpose of making unintelligent tracks for unintelligent people. Footwork, hard twerk and champion league are their only goals for next seasons.
The EP includes a remix delivered directly from Chicago's ambassador of ghetto sound : PAUL JOHNSON.
This series of releases will include a little fanzine with an exclusive interview to the master PJ , some exclusive art work from the french duo and some other gems.

The release will be available from the start of September in a limited series of 300 hand stamped vinyl + fanzine.

Pre-order: https://rawculture.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-are-a-dj-sucks-my-dick-bitch-a-c-a-b-ep
Preview: https://soundcloud.com/raw-culture-recordings/gtcltr001-ghetto-25-if-you-are-a-dj-suck-my-dick-bitch-eppaul-johnson-remix300-vinyl-fanzine
Worldwide distribution: distribution@wrong-hands.com
Mastered by Giovanni Inglese at Space Echo Studios
Logo design by DoubleEmme

Ghetto 25 - Funky Beach (Paul Johnson's Ass Bouncing Remix)

Get it here 

https://westcoastgoddess.bandcamp.com/album/a-cure-for-melancholy

A Cure For Melancholy

At long last! We’re delighted to present a hypnotic time-capsule courtesy of Dissmentado aka Ismael Pinkler from Carisma and Kompakt collaborator, Máximo Graesse Bondino. 

Recorded during summer trips in Buenos Aires and spending autumn in Tromso, Norway between 2006 - 2010, Maximo and Ismael met several times during that period and used friends houses and studios to produce a long list of material, selecting later the best of it for this compilation.

The tracks are long and slow, with deep and moving beats and long background sounds dedicated to warm up dreamers and after hour survivors. 

The elements develop their movements in a relaxed way through the tracks creating a loose feel. Every beat was played with their hands and there is no arpeggiated melodies to remind you where the ground is.

The release is complemented by a beautiful painting by the supremely talented Glasgow-based artist, Rosie McGurn     
 
Out on August 17th via Kompakt.

RA New Tracks: June 2018

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