As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it.  

It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place. 

So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’.

Tracklist:

A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture
The Exaltics - The Past
45 ACP - Ground to Ground
Myriad - The Way We Were
Legowelt - Spring Equinox
Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts! 
Daze - Death Whirl
Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious
Underground Resistance - Final Frontier
Antenna - In August- Pinkman
Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals
Maroje T.- Acid Plan
Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital
Gosub - Blue in Blackness
Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix)
Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)

Signals from the North - Some Los Angeles Apartments - Deirdre Direktor

Signals is a record label based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 

Limted edition vinyl, cassettes & limited artwork multiples.

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