Let Me Tell You / It Takes a Fool

RH004: DART - Dawn EP
Remmah, 17 September 2021
https://fanlink.to/RH004DARTEP

A recent addition to the wave of electronic music talent emerging from Ireland, Jordan Rafferty aka DART debuts on Hammer's digital imprint Remmah. Comprised of club-ready tracks cloaked in lighter melodic tones and textures, the Dawn EP was conceived as a complete body of work that marks a statement release from the Dublin producer.  

The EP kicks off with a title track that saw Rafferty trying something different from his usual style: "'Dawn' is one of my favourite tracks I've ever produced. Throughout my life I've always been a big fan of old school trance/prog, and I took some inspiration from that when writing the track. I wanted this track to be different. It was almost a breath of fresh air writing something short, sweet and enchanted."

From there the EP focuses on more dancefloor-focused material, yet always keeps trance and prog elements close by, from the rolling bass line of 'New Age Jewel' to the subtle frog sample on 'Tree Frog'. Altogether it makes for a compelling 33-minutes of music that fits beautifully alongside the label's past releases while standing on its own as a singular work from one of Ireland's most exciting up & comers.

Tracklist:
01. Dawn
02. Lethal Dose
03. New Age Jewel
04. Tree Frog
05. Manifesto
06. No More Jam

Dawn EP

DART - Tree Frog

Peach Galaxy Girl EP 
A1 - Buttercup
PD011

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Buttercup

Clap On 2

Disco Spectrum

Lyric - Let Me Tell You (Kayrem Remix)

Lyric - It Takes a Fool

Lyric - Let Me Tell You (Dub Mix)

Cutie

Cutie (Edit)

Dang yall woke up the bear, and he only got 4 months of hibernation ooh he gonna be mad.

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Arcursid - Hibernation

Half Out

Etch

All Good EP

All Good

Taken from his 'New Atlantis' EP. Buy/Stream https://17Steps.lnk.to/NewAtlantis

In Paradise

Buy/Stream

Chrissy - In Paradise

Written, and produced by Boddika & Joy Orbison at 'The Zoo'.

Mixed by Al Green.

Boddika & Joy Orbison - &Fate

** 12" Vinyl Available For Pre-Order - https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/shes-calling-ep **

For our forth release, T4T LUV NRG present an e.p. of two beautiful songs and one evocation by label co-founder, DJ, and producer Octo Octa (Maya Bouldry-Morrison). “She’s Calling” is the third piece in Octo Octa’s two-year exploration of the connection between music and ritual, closing the loop on themes explored on her “For Lovers” ep (Technicolour, 2019) and full-length album “Resonant Body” (T4T LUV NRG, 2019). 

While many describe dance music in terms of escape, for Octo Octa and many others like her, dance music is about connection. The connections we feel on a dancefloor are transformative, but in time spent alone, dance music remains a powerful tool for connection with nature, with ourselves, and with something ineffable that feels like magic. The title track, “Goddess Calling,” captures a moment of such revelry, a result of the union of sound and ritual.  

Maya wrote the second song, “Find Your Way Home,” in early 2020, a few weeks before she cancelled her tour and headed back to the States because of the pandemic. She originally intended the title as a metaphor, the journey being internal, but the title would prove to be prescient. She made the song in order to take a trip into herself, to bring herself peace during an intense time.

Many religious and mystery traditions employ the use of uttered word formulas as a way to bring something into your life. “Spell for Nature” is Octo Octa asking in her own voice to connect with nature personified in the form of a goddess. The recording is about the moment when she saw something she knew was there all along. When she peaked behind the curtain and found something enveloping and eternal. 

Poem:
There’s a light in the center of the woods
A bright fire seen through the trees
We’re around it gazing into the flames
She’s brought us here
A bell chimes
She’s asking you to come as well
We’ve heard her voice since the beginning
And You’ve been listening your entire life
She’s calling

50% of the profits from the album will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Octo Octa - Find Your Way Home (from She's Calling EP - T4T004)

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends. 



Lyric - Let Me Tell You (Kayrem Remix)

Robert Hood - Floorplan

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