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The contemporary music festival DRUSKOMANIJA 2021 held a Saturday Dance Radio Party - a lithuanian electronic dance music event on palanga.live 📡

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“INTERNATIONAL SYNTH POLITICS in times of Covid-19” - the name of “El Chico Fuendre’s” electrified, acrobatic and rhythmical performance developed across two different sides of the continent. Bright and funky.
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DRUSKOMANIJA 2021: EL CHICO FUENDRE

An hour long trip through Armenian rock from its very soviet (and not only) roots to nowadays Armenian rock scene: psychedelic, progressive, pop and classic.

Tracklist:

Երազողները (The Dreamers) - Lorik
Երազողները (The Dreamers) - Dream with us
Arakyalner - Requiem part III
Ayas - Dareri sahmanagitz
Arthur Meschian - Epitaph
Vostan Hayots - Qashvank
Jag Bambir - Death of Kikos
John Berberian  - Flying Hyde
Harut Pambukchyan - Tarorinak Mard Ararac
Elvina Makaryan - Averak
Lav Eli - Xoteri kyanqic
The Bambir - Gzhi Harsaniq
Rozen Tal - The Knife
Dogma - Limbo
Oaksenham - Time Out
The Bambir - The Witching Hour
Side Project - Երազ (Yeraz)
High - Ory Tari (Martin Shahbazyan)
Clocker - Maybe
Ruben Hakhverdyan - Mer siro ashun

NTS radio - Panorama Yerevan - Armenian Rock Special 10th of July

Recorded live at LOW: Bill Brewster party
Mastered by @Leftie

Enormous respect to @closerconnections @low-official and @closer-lesnoyprichal

Kotki @ LOW: Bill Brewster, Closer (16.07.21)

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Nadia Khan’s sublime Port Ana EP dropped towards the end of 2020 on the Scissor & Thread imprint. It’s deep, emotional sound palette resonated with the state of the world at the time, and signalled Nadia as an artist exploring new and deeply affecting sonic territories. 
This collection of remixes brings some of those tracks into new realms, conducted by CCL and label boss Francis Harris. 
CCL bring a new rhythmic take to the tracks Rain Again and Conversation - both are augmented and embellished with deep, tripped-out beats perfectly complementing the liquid soundscapes and melodic flourishes of the originals. 
Francis Harris’ take on Conversation goes even deeper, dispensing with almost all drums or percussion until near the end of its 9 minute runtime instead focussing on the interplay of pads and an ebbing and flowing bass line.

Port Ana Remixes

Conversation (Francis Harris Reform)

Nadia Khan - Conversation (Francis Harris Reform)

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Following the success of their EPs released last year on Scissor and Thread, Frank & Tony return with another outing of deeper than deep house with a three track EP including an expansive collaborative exploration with Comatonse recording artist Will Long. 

The title track, Understanding takes a nod to 90s Chicago deep house with a slow rolling groove set against plush pads and euphoric stabs sure to send dancefloors swirling in the earliest of nights and mornings alike. 

We Begin, a dreamy trip of emotive soundscapes, kicks things up a notch with jazzy undertones but a drive meant for peak times as it unfolds in moods and grooves for ages. 

The EP then culminates with a vast rework of the same track in collaboration with Comatonse artist and DJ Sprinkles collaborator, Will Long, pushing the EP to psychedelic lengths as the essence of what we call a house groove reaches new idiosyncratic heights.  Essential.

We Begin (Frank & Tony And Will Long Wide Open Edit)

Frank & Tony - We Begin (Frank & Tony And Will Long Wide Open Edit)

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Will Long is an American artist. He curates and manages the label Two Acorns, as well as producing music since 2005, in various forms under his own name for Terre Thaemiltz's Comatonse Recordings, and as Celer for his own label and many others. 

Here he joins the perfectly aligned Scissor and Thread label of Francis Harris and Anthony Collins for the Too Much EP. 

"Too Much" is a deep cut from the same grooves as the Long Trax series," says Will Long, "a further entry for the downtrodden, the overwhelmed, and those that think change has come. A midnight meditation of intentional simplicity, strained, and on that night train."

The title track is lush, loose deep jam that combines wistful, warm pads with an insistent groove and choice samples.  

Francis Harris steps up to provide one of his signature reforms, adding a little more percussion and drive to the track, while DJ Aakmael (Greg Stewart) offers up another version that takes the track somehow even deeper, adding some additional instrumentation and raw sounds.

Too Much (DJ Akmael Remix)

Will Long - Too Much (DJ Aakmael R/)

Too Much (Francis Harris Reform)

Will Long - Too Much (Francis Harris Reform)

fka boursin is a DJ and producer out of Bristol, UK. 
Previously known as DJ Boursin, he is recognized for his deep, ambient-infused house music that explores political dimensions of clubs and identity politics.

Welcomed into the Scissor & Thread fold, fka boursin shares two cuts of deep and introspective electronic music. 

The original Listless Intertext is a hazy trip through ambient soundscapes, shuffling rhythms and half-caught conversations, drifting across a 12 minute run time that slowly evolves and shifts with time.  

"Listless Intertext is a track centred around the "failed" employment of cheap vocoder software that attempted to process explicit words and phrases across 11 minutes." says fka boursin. "Instead, the vocoder output made any words indecipherable and I was left with thematic vagueness. The final text of the track is simply a submission to its own limitations with some french thrown in."

When label bosses Frank & Tony step up for their Housebeat Dub, they keep the essential mood but introduce a thick, fat groove that works just as well in conveying the mood. 

"Our remix is a strictly dancefloor approach," says Frank, "an extended psychedelic beat rework perfect for late night, early morning vibes".


Listless Intertext (Frank & Tony's Housebeat Dub)

Up next on Brooklyn’s Scissor & Thread is the latest EP from @Snad, aka Shyam Anand (also known as Spandrel), the Berlin-based artist whose discography already spans labels like Smallville, Minibar, 20:20 Vision, Phonica AM, TerraFirm, Running Back, Cabinet, Kimochi and Dungeon Meat with remixes for names including Seafoam and Chez Damier. 

A trusted selector and producer in the underground, Snad has steadily built a reputation for deeply considered productions that balance classic inspiration with his own forward-thinking edge.

The AM Yard EP opens with its title track, a warm, hazy cut rooted in the kind of bassline architecture that recalls Chez n Trent’s Morning Factory but reshaped with Snad’s signature dreamlike touch. 

Anticip8 fanchors the release with a more direct energy, rolling, insistent and focused on the floor, balancing stripped-down drive of dusty samples wrung through his digitakt with just enough harmonic flourish to pull the listener inward. 

On the flip, The Pursuit follows in a slightly different mode, drawing on experimental vocoder techniques and filtered percussion creating a hypnotic push-and-pull that feels as intricate as it is understated.

Rounding things out, label heads Francis Harris and Anthony Collins, under their Frank & Tony alias, reimagine The Pursuit with their Housebeat Remix, extending its atmospherics into an even deeper headspace that glides effortlessly into late-night territory.

AM Yard

Snad: The Pursuit (Frank & Tony’s Housebeat RM)

The Pursuit (Frank & Tony´s Housebeat Remix) [Snippet]

camden - available on all platforms

spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/album/2Jp6bWQxeyb4519HAwS7aV
apple music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/camden/id1293849073
bandcamp:  https://mvnners.bandcamp.com/album/camden

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waking up next to someone you love

Waves crashing on some concrete rocks at the entrance of the port of Veracruz (Mexico). Microphones very close from the water.

Recorded by a MS Setup Schoeps CCM4+CCM8 in a Cinela Zephyx Windscreen (original recording is double-MS surround setup)
Recorder Sound Devices 788T
Original recording in 96kHz 24bit
Sound Ref: @L-171118T04
Same sound on Freesound (longer) https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/411509/
More sounds on http://www.felixblume.com/

Veracruz

Waves crashing on the rocks in Veracruz

Available below:
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2AJrGRA
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2nL2veH
iTunes: http://apple.co/2zp8BTw

This past summer I spent time in Gothenburg, Sweden surrounding myself with the nearby woods. The original intention was to continue crafting electronic music, however after a friend loaned me his guitar, the outcome was entirely different. Over the course of two days, I sat down and began to sketch out guitar hooks and loops, which would eventually transpire into this ep.

Artwork: Zom Kashwak
Mixed & Mastered: Ankit Chugh
Special thanks to Hanna Thorén & Jonas Torstensson

Lidkoeb

Happy Valentine's Day

(Just finished this in time, was a last minute idea!)

Did It Come True?

From "Gravity" LP Out on October 5th 
Stream / Listen :  http://smarturl.it/skence-airplane

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Skence - Airplane

Scissor & Thread is cut from a different cloth than your average dance imprint.