dingdongthing

Controler

freedumb

The new album, out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

There's not just a brutalism about Cumbernauld, the Scottish "new town" in North Lanarkshire, developed ostensibly to catch the population overspill from neighbouring Glasgow in the 1950's but also a melancholy, almost tangible banalism.  According to brothers Phillip and Peter Walker, collectively operating under the moniker of P60, the lack of any discernible activity, cultural or otherwise, has resulted in a "blank society" which practically revels in its stagnance.  "If you Google images on Cumbernauld," says Phillip, you'll notice a distinct dearth of people in the photos.  Everyone just stays at home watching tv." But look very closely and you'll notice that something is happening behind the concrete and steel facade.  

 “We got into this by default," says Peter. “Our uncle Jim, died about 5 years ago and they found all these old synths and stuff in his attic which obviously, he’d never used. Some of them were wrapped up in bin liners and bits of carpet so the rain wouldn’t get at them.  Nobody wanted them so at first I thought let's just stick them on eBay or something."

Phillip, however, had other ideas. “I used to be in a band (the equally reclusive Glasgow post-punk outfit, Knives Replace Air) which was all guitars but I knew we could do something if we applied ourselves. It’s taken 2 years to actually start making tunes we’re happy with.  Before, it was just press a key, twist some knobs and see what comes out.  We’re still not exactly Depeche Mode.”
  
It’s this rudimental, even naïve approach to their somewhat rusty analogue palette that makes P60 stand out.  As Phil says, “Most people with a few synths and a drum-machine would go, ‘Let’s make dance music’ but between us, we literally have no interest in club culture.  We’re much more interested in the voice of the instruments." 

But why P60?  “Both our names start with P obviously but in one of the binbags with all these synths was a little black box held together with duct tape and someone’s Dymo’ed ‘P60’ on it.  There’s an input and an output and we’ve had it apart but we’ve still got no idea what it does!  It’s literally a little black box that does nothing.  It seemed very apt.  We aren't going to play live or have our photos taken.  We want to stay anonymous.  In the current celeb-obsessed climate, that's about as punk as I can imagine.”  

P60 'Models' comes in a semi-transparent glassine envelope with postcard, sanding disc, tachograph, hand-stamped litmus paper and electrical resistor.  Limited edition of 300 copies.  

This is SL031, the thirty-first release on Second Language.  For more info, contact : second-language@hotmail.com





P60 - Models

"Bankrupt!" is out now! - http://smarturl.it/Bankrupt

Phoenix on Tour - http://wearephoenix.com/tour

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SOS In Bel Air (Ariel Pink's Krystal Bamboo Remix)

My new album "Deaf Safari" (CD / LP) coming spring 2015 on Compost Records

Felix Laband = Ding Dong Thing

Taken from the album 'Dysnomia', released worldwide on June 1, 2015 through Erased Tapes.

Order it on 2x LP, CD and Download here:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP068
or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/dawnofmidi

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi made up of double bass player Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi abandon improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.” 

“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

TRACKLIST / CREDITS:

1. Io 2. Sinope  3. Atlas 4. Nix  5. Moon 6. Ymir  7. Ijiraq  8. Algol 9. Dysnomia
Written by Amino Belyamani and Aakaash Israni.

NORTH AMERICAN PRESS:

“Stellar… at a loss for words” – Spin
“Something totally unprecedented” – Pitchfork
“Perverse in a good way” – The New York Times
“Brain-bending, seemingly impossible” – Rolling Stone 
“Moving and addictive...a feat of innovation” – Interview Magazine
“A mysterious, vital sound with a pull all its own” – L.A. Times

MORE INFO:
www.dawnofmidi.com · www.erasedtapes.com

Dysnomia

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Dawn of Midi - Nix

»sleepstep« is the first collaboration between raster-noton and dasha rush. the record‘s subtitle »sonar poems for my sleepless friends« describes its underlying concept – »sleepstep« is a trip through electronically alienated microcompositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere.

the stations of this journey are striving for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states – death, life, birth, grief, desire. the titles often appear to be raw sketches, fugitive, surreal short stories that rather want to break open than execute.

the musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. though electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. and though clichés are not dreaded, »sleepstep«, as a result, stays away from being cliché. the sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. a musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

dasha rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. here on »sleepstep«, she celebrates her alter ego. the cd version comes with a 32-pages booklet that also shows her photographic interest and includes the aforementioned poems written by her. furthermore there is 2 x 12" vinyl version.


07.Abandoned Beauties And Beasts

The new album, out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

There's not just a brutalism about Cumbernauld, the Scottish "new town" in North Lanarkshire, developed ostensibly to catch the population overspill from neighbouring Glasgow in the 1950's but also a melancholy, almost tangible banalism.  According to brothers Phillip and Peter Walker, collectively operating under the moniker of P60, the lack of any discernible activity, cultural or otherwise, has resulted in a "blank society" which practically revels in its stagnance.  "If you Google images on Cumbernauld," says Phillip, you'll notice a distinct dearth of people in the photos.  Everyone just stays at home watching tv." But look very closely and you'll notice that something is happening behind the concrete 
and steel facade.  
 “We got into this by default," says Peter. “Our uncle Jim, died about 5 years ago and they found all these old synths and stuff in his attic which obviously, he’d never used. Some of them were wrapped up in bin liners and bits of carpet so the rain wouldn’t get at them.  Nobody wanted them so at first I thought let's just stick them on eBay or something."
Phillip, however, had other ideas. “I used to be in a band (the equally reclusive Glasgow post-punk outfit, Knives Replace Air) which was all guitars but I knew we could do something if we applied ourselves. It’s taken 2 years to actually start making tunes we’re happy with.  Before, it was just press a key, twist some knobs and see what comes out.  We’re still not exactly Depeche Mode.”  
It’s this rudimental, even naïve approach to their somewhat rusty analogue palette that makes P60 stand out.  As Phil says, “Most people with a few synths and a drum-machine would go, ‘Let’s make dance music’ but between us, we literally have no interest in club culture.  We’re much more interested in the voice of the instruments." 
But why P60?  “Both our names start with P obviously but in one of the binbags with all these synths was a little black box held together with duct tape and someone’s Dymo’ed ‘P60’ on it.  There’s an input and an output and we’ve had it apart but we’ve still got no idea what it does!  It’s literally a little black box that does nothing.  It seemed very apt.  We aren't going to play live or have our photos taken.  We want to stay anonymous.  In the current celeb-obsessed climate, that's about as punk as I can imagine.”  

P60 'Models' comes in a semi-transparent glassine envelope with postcard, sanding disc, tachograph, hand-stamped litmus paper and electrical resistor.  Limited edition of 300 copies.  This is SL031.



I Got You In, Now Get Me Out

Intervale

Deco Nude

Kronecker Product

From the album, 'Models,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

There's not just a brutalism about Cumbernauld, the Scottish "new town" in North Lanarkshire, developed ostensibly to catch the population overspill from neighbouring Glasgow in the 1950's but also a melancholy, almost tangible banalism.  According to brothers Phillip and Peter Walker, collectively operating under the moniker of P60, the lack of any discernible activity, cultural or otherwise, has resulted in a "blank society" which practically revels in its stagnance.  "If you Google images on Cumbernauld," says Phillip, you'll notice a distinct dearth of people in the photos.  Everyone just stays at home watching tv." But look very closely and you'll notice that something is happening behind the concrete 
and steel facade.  
 “We got into this by default," says Peter. “Our uncle Jim, died about 5 years ago and they found all these old synths and stuff in his attic which obviously, he’d never used. Some of them were wrapped up in bin liners and bits of carpet so the rain wouldn’t get at them.  Nobody wanted them so at first I thought let's just stick them on eBay or something."
Phillip, however, had other ideas. “I used to be in a band (the equally reclusive Glasgow post-punk outfit, Knives Replace Air) which was all guitars but I knew we could do something if we applied ourselves. It’s taken 2 years to actually start making tunes we’re happy with.  Before, it was just press a key, twist some knobs and see what comes out.  We’re still not exactly Depeche Mode.”  
It’s this rudimental, even naïve approach to their somewhat rusty analogue palette that makes P60 stand out.  As Phil says, “Most people with a few synths and a drum-machine would go, ‘Let’s make dance music’ but between us, we literally have no interest in club culture.  We’re much more interested in the voice of the instruments." 
But why P60?  “Both our names start with P obviously but in one of the binbags with all these synths was a little black box held together with duct tape and someone’s Dymo’ed ‘P60’ on it.  There’s an input and an output and we’ve had it apart but we’ve still got no idea what it does!  It’s literally a little black box that does nothing.  It seemed very apt.  We aren't going to play live or have our photos taken.  We want to stay anonymous.  In the current celeb-obsessed climate, that's about as punk as I can imagine.”  

P60 'Models' comes in a semi-transparent glassine envelope with postcard, sanding disc, tachograph, hand-stamped litmus paper and electrical resistor.  Limited edition of 300 copies.  This is SL031.



P60 - Broken And Unbroken

The Reception

From the forthcoming compilation 'Vito Ricci - I Was Crossing A Bridge' 2015 © Music From Memory

Pre order: http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=82661

Webshop: musicfrommemory.bigcartel.com

Vito Ricci - The Bride (7:29)

Tiger Dreams (featuring Ariel Pink)

Lonerism B-Sides & Remixes

Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)

Taken from "The End of Comedy", a new album by Michael Collins and friends coming September 9th 2016 on WW.

"The End of Comedy" iTunes pre-order: smarturl.it/EndOfComedyDL

"The End of Comedy" DomMart pre-order: smarturl.it/EndOfComedyWW

"The End of Comedy" Bandcamp pre-order: smarturl.it/DrugdealerMart

The End Of Comedy

Easy to Forget (feat. Ariel Pink)

Track 6 from 'Those Who Remain' - Available from : http://straytheories.bandcamp.com/album/those-who-remain
Limited Edition Cassette : http://alreadydeadtapes.bigcartel.com/product/ad084-stray-theories-those-who-remain-cassette

Those Who Remain

Divisions

Katie Henderson / INgrooves Fontana / 818.212.2601 / katie.henderson@ingrooves.com

TAME IMPALA Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

@kleintierschaukel

It's time again, our next compilation is just around the corner. As always, we would like to express different facets of downtempo on it and present to you a sweet selection of artists, whose sound we have enjoyed recently. 

The tracks are perfect for warm summer nights, while chilling in the park or having a nice time at the lake. 

A big thank you goes out to all artists involved, our artwork wizard Kilian Van De Water and @haunted_water for the mastering.

Enjoy the sound and stay tuned!

Find the artist here:

https://www.facebook.com/kleintierschaukel/
https://www.instagram.com/kleintierschaukel_music/

Kleintierschaukel - Gedöns

Camino

@ali_dada
bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2FKhHlK
beatport : https://bit.ly/2FGYTnr
Spotify : https://spoti.fi/32GsDd3

Ali Dada - Teki (Geju 101 Sounds Better Remix)

Independent record label based in London.  2009 - present day.