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from the "Allegoria" CD/LP (NNF285) 
Not Not Fun / 2013



from the "Allegoria" CD/LP (NNF285)
Not Not Fun / 2013

REACH OUT:
www.notnotfun.com/posts/sapphire-s…ws-allegoria-lp/
midheaven.com/item/allegoria-by-…ws-cd#.VMMWfcY1dNI
boomkat.com/vinyl/844085-sapphire-slows-allegoria

Sapphire Slows "Dry Fruits"

ロンドンのレッドブル・ミュージック・アカデミーをDaisuke TanabeやAndras Foxと共に卒業し、最近ではi-Dにインタビューされ注目を集める、オーストラリア・メルボルンを拠点に活動するBecky Sui Zhen (DJネームはDJ Susan)。『Body Reset』は、前回リリースのEP『Female Basic』よりもレトロフューチャリスティックなサウンドに新しく進化を遂げた。東京・高円寺の街並みや、長野の山奥の温泉にも影響を受けて作ったという、クールなシンセサウンドと808ビートにドリーミーな歌声を乗せ、タイトル通り、体も心もリセットできそうな25分間の作品に仕上がった。

カセットは、オーダーから営業日２日以内に配送。

‘Body Reset’ sees Sui Zhen develop the music found in the Female Basic EP and move on to a new, retro-futuristic sound. This time influenced as much by late nights in Koenji, Tokyo as at an onsen/sauna in the mountains of Nagano, here Sui Zhen explores the resetting of both body and mind with 25 minutes of swelling synths, 808 beats and dreamy vocals.

Buy Cassette from http://eskers.jp/:
https://eskers.stores.jp/#!/items/544352d386b1882f5c001155

5 tracks & 25 minutes of minimal pop perfection. All cassettes come with download code with high quality MP3s of all included songs.  All orders posted within two working days.

1. Body Language
2. Still Departure
3. Labyrinth Zone
4. Period 3
5. Mega Drive


Sui Zhen – Period 3

Collocutor, FYI Chris, Al Dobson Jr, Black Classical, Group As Salaam, Petwo Evans, BodyMoves, Antoine Abayomi (Emanative) and Red Snapper's Rich Thair. Not the usual remix project but a narrative of the best collaborations from On the Corner's two years of giving space to new eclectic and forward thinking sounds.
The release will be up for orders during the pre-release party at Rye Wax on November 29th (where advance copies and promo wax will be available). 

Al Dobson Jr Vs. Collocutor  (Agama Indica Remix)

"Rett Ned" from the new album "Kem Som Kan å Leve" out April 22nd 2016

Ben LaMar Gay - Recurring Moteeth

First track from remix EP, Revisionism, out 16th September. Alongside Mikey Young (Total Control), the five tracks include remixes by Broken English Club, Shift Work, Group Zero, and Tom Furse of the Horrors. 

Pre-order Revisionism
http://smarturl.it/RevisionismEP 
Buy Zero Triptych (Mikey Young Remix)
http://smarturl.it/MikeyYoungRemix 

Girls Names on tour:
Aug 31st | Berlin, DE - Pop-Kultur Festival
Sept 3rd | Stradbally, IE - Electric Picnic 2016
Sept 21st | Gothenburg, SE - Pustervik
Sept 22nd | Stockholm, SE - Bar Brooklyn Disaster
Sept 24th | Helsinki, FI - Bar Loose
Sept 25th | Riga, LV - Nabaklab
Sept 29th | Krakow, PL - Klub RE
Sept 30th | Vienna, AT - Chelsea
Oct 1st | Brno, CZ - Fleda
Oct 2nd | Budapest, HU - Durer Kert
Oct 4th | Belgrade, RS - Elektropionir
Oct 6th | Bucharest, RO - Control Club
Oct 7th | Sofia, BG - Mixtape 5
Oct 8th | Skopje, MK - MKC

Girls Names - Zero Triptych (Mikey Young Remix)

from forthcoming reissue of 1981 LP+12" "What Is This Thing Called 'Disco'?" by Melbourne post-punk disco project Asphixiation. Check out the original 1981 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MskgOkBPRiI
Reissue on LP+12" and digital via Chapter Music on June 2, pre-order here:
www.chaptermusic.com/store/asphixiation/what-is-this-called-disco
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-is-this-thing-called-disco
Digital stores: http://radi.al/asphixiation

"What Is This Thing Called 'Disco'?"

Asphixiation - Aural Risk

03 Enfocando

Taken from 'I Can Be a Clay Snapper'
Order: https://goo.gl/3hCLGz
tak:til / glitterbeat

Hailing from Slovenia, Širom play vividly textured and (mostly) imagined, instrumental folk musics. Handmade and global instrumentation meets fearless sound exploration. 

Slovenia’s miniature, but incredibly diverse landscapes, echo through its distinctive cultural, historic and linguistic traits. When thinking about Širom’s geographical trajectories, as well as their musical ebb and flow, one has to consider the abundance of water that can be found in the individual regions where they come from. Cascading mountain stream lilt, lazy lowland river meandering and the mysteriously vanishing waters of Karst are most certainly inscribed into Samo Kutin’s, Iztok Koren’s and Ana Kravanja’s childhood memories and subsequently, their remarkable musical art. 

The band’s emergent sound oscillates between a wide array of acoustic folk sounds and contemporary post rock meditations, often drifting from improvisation to structured composition and then back. It is described by the members themselves as imaginary folk or folk from a parallel universe. “Our music creates emotional landscapes. When I was still painting every day (Ana holds a degree in painting) I was trying to paint my dreams but that didn’t work out,” Ana remembers. “I discovered that by using an abstract image I can draw nearer to what I felt in my dreams. Our music is based on a similar principle.”

According to Samo, the guiding concepts of their music-making are: “To play on acoustic instruments, to work with repetition and a common sound. Each of us can play a simple thing, but the overall result is that a complex thing comes to life. The quality of sound depends on the combination of the instruments and that’s why we modify and prepare instruments or create our own.”

As an avid sound-seeker, Samo began to develop an interest in building instruments out of everyday objects like drawers, computer boxes and other “junk” (as he lovingly calls his creations) as well as re-tooling the ones he brought back from his globetrotting adventures that have included personal encounters with local musicians in India, Morocco, Mali, Greece and elsewhere. 

Ana, who also nurtures a very personal relationship with music paraphernalia, adds: “There is a different attitude at play if you make an instrument yourself. It already tells you a story. If you buy it, it takes longer to get to know it, to tame it.”

In the little village of Lesno Brdo, tucked in the rolling hills ten kilometers south of Ljubljana, Ana and Samo organize music performances and festivals on a farm they rent, and divide their time between music making and vegetable farming. A close connection with nature is also important to Iztok who now resides in the capital city. “It’s a sort of a contact with the past but it also has its own life in the present.” 

Fearlessly textured sonic landscapes – both linked to and unbound by – the past and present, geography and tradition, the real and imagined. Hypnotic, otherworldly and epic. 

Širom’s music moves like the restless waters of their homeland. No matter how hushed or slow it may seem, it is never ever standing still. 
  
Širom are: Iztok Koren – banjo, three string banjo, bass drum, percussion, chimes, balafon, various objects // Ana Kravanja – violin, viola, ribab, cünbüs, balafon, ngoma drum, mizmar, various objects, voice // Samo Kutin – lyre, balafon, one string bass, frame drums, brač, gongoma, mizmar, various objects, voice

I Can Be a Clay Snapper

Boats, Biding, Beware!

Širom - Boats, Biding, Beware! (Čolni, Čakam, Čúvaj!)

Lo Artesanal

Santiago Martínez - Flora

from the "New Season" CS (NNF338)
Not Not Fun / 2017

TIS THE SEASON:
https://chikissecrets.bandcamp.com/album/new-season
https://midheaven.com/item/new-season-by-chikiss

Chikiss "Baby, Bye"

To be released on Luaka Bop for Record Store Day, on November 23

Panduranga Henderson "Hari Namaste"

Itsuroh Shimoda - Everybody Anyone (1974)

Tompkins Square label is excited to announce the release of Entourage - 'Ceremony of Dreams : Studio Sessions & Outtakes, 1972-1977'
3 CD / 1 LP set available everywhere March 23rd, 2018.
Liner notes by J.D. Considine, and surviving band member, Wall Matthews.

ALBUM TRAILER : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOY7gd7_1Lk&feature=youtu.be

Sampled by Four Tet, their name whispered in reverence through the decades, Entourage forged bold musical ideas on their two rare ’70s Folkways LPs. Now, collected for the first time, 30 previously unreleased tracks from their archives. Notes by J.D Considine, and by sole surviving Entourage member, guitarist Wall Matthews.

Tarbox Poltergeist (alt take)

‘Look No Further’ from Suuns new album ‘Felt’ out now on Secretly Canadian

Purchase / Download: suuns.lnk.to/felt

Suuns - Look No Further

This is the third installment of the Mansions and Millions mixtapes series which focusses on known and unknown Berlin-based underground pop acts. It features Helen Fry, John Moods, Pictorial Candi, Karolini, Chikiss, Bad Hammer, Ben & Magnus, DENA, Itaca, Martha Rose, Magic Island, Heimer, Klinkhammer, Ken Chic, WORLD BRAIN.

Martha Rose - Affliction

Taken from the forthcoming PostMap release - a printed postcard, with download code. lostmap.com/postcard-shop

Lost Map Records are delighted to announce new material by London and Manchester based spoken word artist, writer and saxophonist Angus Fairbairn AKA Alabaster dePlume. A PostMap postcard single features a remix of ‘What Do We Want’ by Teleman drummer Hiro Ama, plus a version of ‘Who Are You Asking For’ recorded live at the Total Refreshment Centre in London as part of Alabaster’s monthly development residency PEACH. Both tracks will be included on a bonus disc set to be packaged with a deluxe repressing of the wonderfully uncategorisable album The Corner of a Sphere, which is set for release February 1, 2019, after the original pressing quickly sold-out on vinyl following its release in May. Alabaster dePlume is touring widely in coming months, including a newly announced headline show at Hangar in London on Saturday, February 2 – his biggest headline show to date. 

As Alabaster explains, ‘What Do We Want’ is a song about “our refusal to include people from disadvantaged backgrounds in our society, while celebrating competitive accumulation of wealth… which implies that there is something we all want, that’s better than our general wellbeing, better than one-another. What is it?” The track’s theme about society-at-large’s fear of immigration, and refugees, is reflected in the artwork, a retelling of the poem as a sinister, bureaucratic government form.


* LIVE DATES *
THU, OCT 18-FRI, OCT 19 @ JAZZ & THE CITY, SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
SAT, OCT 20 @ GIB LAUT FESTIVAL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
THU, OCT 25 @ KALTERN POP, SOUTH TIROL, ITALY
SAT, OCT 27 @ ATELIER 201, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
FRI, NOV 9 @ KIN, ARNOLFINI, BRISTOL
SAT, NOV 10 @ LE GUESS WHO? FESTIVAL, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
SAT, DEC 1 @ WEST HILL HALL, BRIGHTON
SAT, DEC 8 @ PYMÉ THEATRE, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
SAT, FEB 2 @ HANGAR, LONDON

Alabaster dePlume - 'What Do We Want' (Hiro Ama remix)

Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love EP (with remixes from Erol Alkan & Coyote) is out now on Phantasy / Because Music.

Available on deep blue limited 12" vinyl which you can grab from:
Phantasy Webstore http://shop.phantasysound.co.uk/product/connan-mockasin-forever-dolphin-love-ep-clear-deep-blue-12-vinyl
Rough Trade http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=356145#
Piccadilly Records http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/ConnanMockasin-ForeverDolphinLoveErolAlkanCoyoteRemixes-Because-86810.html

Or download from
Beatport http://bit.ly/FDL2-Beatport
iTunes http://smarturl.it/FDL2

Connan Mockasin
http://www.soundcloud.com/connanmockasin
http://facebook.com/connanmockasin
http://twitter.com/connanmockasin

Erol Alkan
http://www.soundcloud.com/erolalkan
http://www.facebook.com/erolalkan
http://www.twitter.com/erolalkan

Buy from Beatport

Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love (Erol Alkan's Extended Rework Mix 2) [PREVIEW]

Jan Jelinek - They, Them

from "Visions of the Country" by Robbie Basho - LP+Mp3/FLAC reissue - Gnome Life Records
http://www.gnomeliferecords.com/visions_index.html

Available for the 1st time on vinyl for 35 years, and for the 1st time ever in high quality digital!

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