Scissor and Thread Essentials

A mix recorded for blue waters & summer nights, in the magic afterglow from Zero Beghe 2023 

A Beat For You - Glen Adams
Pinky - Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee
Secret Rendez Vous - Rene & Angela
Every Woman Needs A Man - Yvonne Chaka Chaka
Motor Launch 4 Hire - Back To Earth
Euforia (Residentes Balearicos Mix) - Pleasure Voyage 
Baila Chica (Vocal) - Whodamanny
First World Frequencies - Lone Saxon
Suitcase (M. Pagliara vocal remix) - Peaking Lights
Dlala Uzobona (Bhudiza)- Mafikizolo
Here's To You - Skyy
Outta Dub - Loveface (unreleased)
Blue Water - Sally Oldfield

Blue Waters, Summer Nights - Duvet Dave

DC Promo Tracks #1240: "Wa Galaxy (SF10 Instrumental Edit)" by Alex From Tokyo is part of the release "Familiar Sounds Volume 2" on Sounds Familiar @madeinsoundsfamiliar  

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DC Promo Tracks: Alex From Tokyo "Wa Galaxy" (SF10 Instrumental Edit)

A series featuring mixes by the Hum Records crew and friends.
Compiled from store records and the dj's private collection.
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Tracklist:
Midnight Gigolos - Brother Samba
Asha Puthli - Space Talk (Dimitri From Paris Remix)
Hatchback	White Diamond
Kraftwerk - Music Non Stop 
Chiemi Manabe - Untotooku
Ethimm - Emotional Men
The The - Giant 
Dubtribe Sound System - Sunshine‘s Theme (Sunshines‘s Remix)
Nikolaus Gohm - 108
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Body & Soul
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - 9 
Drexciya - Organic Hydropoly Spores
Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Garden Of Poppies
Prince - Positivity

Hum Radio 024 (mixed by M.A.L.I.K.)

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Sean La’Brooy is an Australian producer and composer cur- rently based in New York, who’s work traverses ambient, jazz and house music. He is the co-founder of Australian ambient label Analogue Attic Recordings.

With this release, La’Brooy has hooked up with the Scissor and Thread label to put out Merchant - five dreamy and versatile tracks featuring his distinct style of harmonically complex pads mixed with jazz-influenced instrumental melodies and solos.
Snow Storm starts the journey, coupling field recordings with snippets of gentle jazz lines and wandering percussion.

Cargo is the most dancefloor-oriented of the release, and locks into a driving groove early on, featuring various synth and pia- no fragments to add and flow through the track.

Pilot is a track that also finds an off-kilter groove, embellished with dubbed-out percussion by fellow Australian Joseph Batrouney and samples.

Storage too features a guest - New York based drummer Leo Yucht - who delivers a rolling breakbeat which is intertwined with live percussion, airy pads and snippets of piano to build a rich atmosphere.

The closing piece is Helipad, a dubby bassline providing the anchor for an intricate rhythm of bongos and synth to support a light-as-a-feather melody.

As Sean explains, “The purpose of this record was to create five tracks that each feel unique and distinctive from each other while still maintaining a common thread that connects them all to the same place. All my favorite records have a certain distinctiveness across each track that ties them together to create a sort of family of works. I think if you can achieve that cohesion, you’ve made a great album. With Merchant, I’ve tried my hardest to establish a unique identity while featuring 5 tracks that feel totally different at the same time. Different con- cepts, genres, tempos, instrumentation, still with a red thread to connect them all. In my mind, those commonalities are defined by a particular mood or sentiment, the use of playful melodies, and a reliance on acoustic rhythms throughout”.

Helipad

Sean La'Brooy - Helipad

Pilot Feat. Joseph Batrouney

Sean La'Brooy - Pilot feat. Joseph Batrouney

Cargo

Sean La'Brooy - Cargo

Snow Storm

Sean La'Brooy - Snow Storm

1. A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It
2. Odyssey - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love
3. Al Johnson - I’ve got my second wind
4. Secret Night Gang - Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings
5. Sven Wunder - Easy Going
6. John Beltran - Entardecer
7. Cleo Sol - Nothing on Me
8. Cesar - See Saw Affair
9. Jackie Moore - Holding Back (Breakdown Mix)
10. Harold McNair - The Hipster
11. Chico Hamilton - For Mods Only
12. Donald Byrd - Book-'s Bossa
13. Herbie Hancock - Gentle Thoughts
14. Miomatic - Step Into Our Life
15. Emilia Sisco - Trouble
16. Gary Pacific Orchestra - Soft Wind
17. Modula - Misenetta (Your Shape Is Dwelling On The Sea Surf)
18. Pale Jay - Donny In Valdez
19. Darrow Fletcher - Hope for Love
20. Jalen Ngonda - If You Don't Want My Love
21. Jose Feliciano - Golden Lady
22. Guillermo Reuter - Mr. Jenkins
23. Walter Wanderley - Os Grilos
24. Lord Funk - Corcovado
25. Stefano De Santis - Unreachable Galaxy
26. Dego - Black Is Key
27. Giovanni D’amico - More Cowbells
28. Tyler, The Creator - Find Your Wings (feat. Roy Ayers, Sydney Bennett & Kali Uchis)

RADIO.D59B / INFLUENCES #78 w/ Coba

Alex Albrecht returns with Aurora - a pristine followup to his Blue Caves transmission via Scissor and Thread in 2018. 

The Melbourne based composer and sound designer Albrecht has leans into his predilection for woozy, affecting melodies intertwined with skittering drums and snaking grooves, and Aurora brings that to the fore with six tracks of shimmering beauty. 

Spring Orchard opens the record, effortlessly merging deeply buried keys with washes of dreamlike synths, and dubby effects. 
Wildflower Walk is a melancholic affair, underpinned with a restless groove. 
The title track Aurora treads a similar path, but with a more driving approach, while an interplay between piano, guitar, and synths drenched in reverb offer a warm, enveloping atmosphere. 


Aurora is also shared here as a remix by Roza Terenzi, who entirely reworks the track with her signature club ready grooves . 

Kennett River exhibits a kind of smudged, cinematic hip hop feel, while closing track Morning Piazza showcases Albrecht’s sense of drama and pacing, producing a sublime ending to this deeply affecting collection.

Aurora

Alex Albrecht - Aurora

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Soela releases the first single from her upcoming album Dark Portrait on Scissor & Thread - Even If I Ask You Stay. 

Russian born Berlin based Elina Shorokhova has made a transition from pianist and vocalist into electronic music, balancing her ear for melody and musicality.

With this single, we get to see a very vulnerable side of Soela; "Even If I Ask You To Stay has several meanings for me. The most direct one is about an abusive relationship where you're already openly asking the person to leave, but are so attached that you want them to stay. The second meaning is with my struggle with depression. My experience is that it takes a lot of inner strength to heal from depression, and sometimes you're still powerless against the disease. So it stays with you again and again”.
 
The track itself merges a skittering rhythm, gorgeously melancholic piano and string sections with Soela's vocals that cut deep - resulting in a beautifully realized and powerful composition

Even If I Ask You To Stay

Soela - Even If I Ask You To Stay

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Soela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - Unsuitable

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DaRand Land, who hails from the post industrial confines of Buffalo, NY was one of the leading figures of Deep4Life, a cult label known for submersible oriented, yet dancefloor-friendly productions. With ambient synth-driven tones and heavy funk basslines being at the center of his sound, DaRand Land’s music often evokes an introspective quality, without losing its groove fundamental.

Following on from a number of releases on Pulp, Downbeat, Urban Imagery and the “Discover You” EP on Scissor & Thread, here is Nature Of Reality, the single taken from DaRand Land’s second album Wander Being, released on Scissor & Thread in late November 2024. 





“In particular, the single, The Nature of Reality”, says DaRand, “was written to convey a sense of what it feels like to be in a state of suspended animation. There is a natural tension introduced via the organic, swirling pad progression juxtaposed against endless vocal echoes and the low-end groove of the bassline. Thematically, I wanted to carry this forward through the entirety of the album.”

The Nature Of Reality

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DaRand Land - The Nature Of Reality

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DaRand Land, who hails from the post industrial confines of Buffalo, NY was one of the leading figures of Deep4Life, a cult label known for submersible oriented, yet dancefloor-friendly productions. With ambient synth-driven tones and heavy funk basslines being at the center of his sound, DaRand Land’s music often evokes an introspective quality, without losing its groove fundamental. DaRand’s works, which span decades on deep house labels such as Downbeat, Confluence and Pulp have been described as “uncompromising” and has afforded him a passionate following of listeners who seek a more emotive, thought-provoking brand of underground music.

Teaming up once again with Scissors and Thread - the perfect fit for his sound - DaRand Land drops an album full of crafty, trippy house for the heads. Wander Being contains 10 tracks on the double vinyl release with a pair of additional tracks for the digital release. The vibe is deep and sleek, with a rough, bumping edge. The title track sets the tone, a smattering of percussion accompanying a thick, round kick drum and Rhodes chords, giving off a classic Detroit feel. Tracks like Turn to The Music ramp up the energy somewhat, but overall the tracks sit in the sweet spot between dancefloor burners and soulful, jazzy, deep cuts. 

Noticeable is the space given to each element across the tracks - the hi-hats sparkle, the snare snaps, and the basslines roll and rumble. Add to this the magic melodic flourishes provided by the pads and synths, reminiscent of the late Mike Huckaby in places, made this whole album a thoughtful, joyful experience.

„The genesis for the Wander Being LP”, says DaRand “was a desire to return to the essence of some of my original Deep4Life productions. How was this accomplished? Principally, through the exclusive use of hardware components, minimalist arrangement, and a minds-eye approach to source the musical elements. In particular, the single, The Nature of Reality was written to convey a sense of what it feels like to be in a state of suspended animation. There is a natural tension introduced via the organic, swirling pad progression juxtaposed against endless vocal echoes and the low-end groove of the bassline. Thematically, I wanted to carry this forward through the entirety of the album.

Sean La'Brooy - Pilot feat. Joseph Batrouney

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