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NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is Cosmo Vitelli and Dj Sundae's radio show on NTS 2.
Berlin based selector Marius Georgescu was their guest on this one.
Check his youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9KPDqc4Gsv-YD5IL4r1CBQ

See you next month

No Weapon Is Absolute by Marius Georgescu - NTS June 2nd 2021

Vinyl & Digital:
https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/pantene

Pantene was a live performance art-pop group that existed in Berlin, Germany in 2015. Its four band members: Marijn Degenaar, Molly Dyson, Olle Holmberg, and Rahel Tierbach took a DIY approach to instrumentation and arrangement, where intergenerational low-fidelity samples collide with subversive and pithy lyrics. Using laptops, MIDI, samplers and effects units to deliver re-contextualised pieces of music, Pantene explored issues surrounding cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality with effortless aplomb.

This collection of 4 songs has been, for the past few years, sitting on Soundcloud slowly collecting plays, likes and no doubt intrigue from its listeners, as it seems since the time of upload Pantene have gone silent. Super Utu will be reissuing this remastered digi-relic on 10” polyvinyl chloride for the very first time. On side A is Don’t Touch Me I’m Dancing, a piercing retribution to seedy characters who lurk in dark corners of nightclubs. Molly and Rahel’s disaffected vocals pan “It’s a quest for satisfaction. A finger in every hole.” As if the nightclub is the playing field for some sort of sadistic sexual sport. Just Business, dejectedly examines our autonomy as individuals existing in an increasingly monotonous world controlled by capitalists. It’s the kind of work Barbara Kruger might have written if she decided to make music instead of visual art. Olle reflects “…cos everywhere you go there is another IKEA store to stock up your new life.” It’s a witty remark that would feel as much at home in a dole-wave jangle as a David Foster Wallace novel. At once extremely familiar, yet totally mentally isolating.

On the flip we hear Near To The Wild Heart. A legato, time-warped sample breathes deep and heavy beneath the reverb drenched vocals which sing “I am calm, I am cool, I wait for you. Take me all the way down, stretch it to the limit.” The lyrics float around in the back of your mind, in the exact same way the thought does that the attractive other from across the room, who’s been making eyes at you all night, might go home with you. On My Knees 2 Pray also does not falter in it’s sexually implicit/explicit vocal tango. The hapax legomenon of sultry deutsche sprache translates to “Virgin Mary, I know you see me. My knees only suffer for you.” 

While public discourse on sampling is contentious, it definitely pays to look beyond the technicalities and understand the context and contention of the creator(s). Pantene’s use of samples trounce any blatant pastiche. They re-appropriate decades old night club hits into breath-of-fresh-air political-pop songs. Perhaps you could even call them protest songs. At least we’re confident in knowing that they’ll be broadcast in institutions which were once symbols of anti-establishment, freedom and expression. Maybe they’re still like that. or Maybe not.

Words by Raudie McLeod
http://atelierutu.tumblr.com

SUPER UTU 2 - PANTENE - SNIPPETS

“It’s not easy to be free, but it’s harder not to be”.These are the first words to Bad Woman, Céline Gillain’s debut LP on DRAMA.

I’ve never had that many difficulties writing a text for a release. There were easy ways of dealing with it actually, like isolating some of the lyrics and making aphorisms out of them that would have punctuated the text. I could have also wrote about her music with hackneyed words and glamorous comparisons with the likes of Laurie Anderson or Leslie Winer.

Maybe is it because it summons the influence of artists that have been crucial in our lives, maybe is it because of the ambition and the absolute sincerity emanating from this record, maybe is it also because of the utter contemporaneity of the record… but I feel stuck.

So I will only say a couple of things. If the idea of an LP following her debut 7″ on Lexi Disques gets you as excited as we were and still are, you won’t be disappointed by Bad Woman. The music on the upcoming album definitely is pop music, but in a disturbing, beyond « good » and « bad » taste kind of way.

It sometimes feel as if Bad Woman has been written by a former Pop diva that saw her expectations being shattered by life and now tries to make her come-back with a new album, influenced by what she believes to be contemporary pop music. The thing is, the result is a mutant blend of everything and anything that has been produced by the music industry these last 30 years, from Cher’s delirious come-back in the 1990’s to the most embarrassing moments in Dance music, and it rather sounds like a record that would have been written in a parallel universe.

That being said, Bad Woman tackles painful issues about our lives as individuals and society but with absolute elegance. After months of being the only one able to listen to it, no need to say that Zaltan & I are now extremely proud and happy to see this record coming to life. Thank you Céline for untrusting with taking care of your album.

OUT DECEMBER 2018 via DRAMA

Bandcamp

CÉLINE GILLAIN - FIGHT OR FLIGHT (DRAMA2)

Following on from the deranged machine mulch of the Cru Servers we proudly announce the second record on the label to emerge from our native south side of Glasgow. Lo Kindre is the solo project of Irish/Luxembourgish bedroom producer, amateur footballer and award-winning bartender Daniel Magee. Crawling out from the undergrowth at the speed of a snail with dreadlocks this six track EP builds upon his previous venture for Optimo Music and manages to enchant in many of the same ways. Chlorophytum ticks all of the right boxes, sitting somewhere between a budding sci-fi homage, drum machine escapism and a fascination with the motorik styles of West Germany and the wider On-U continuum. Lo Kindre's sound has recently developed by way of countless hours spent twiddling with delay units alongside vintage Italian football commentary and murky casks of Tennents. It culminates here in the following six tracks. The seventh 12th Isle now ecstatically morphs from our galaxy into yours.

Pre-order

Lo Kindre - Chlorophytum (ISLE007)

vinyl comes late march

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Release Info:

Keys are Benedikt Frey and Chris Cox, the front and rear covers of a lucid narrative of an incomprehensible nature. Substance induced Hara-kiri, a human consciousness leaving it’s temporary and insignificant vessel, a motorcycle ride through the sands of a desolate Martian desert or a twisted eternity dissolved inside Pandora’s Box. These are just a few of the scenes effortlessly evoked by the epic yet somehow erotic omnibus of slow-motion electronica that is Voltage. 

In a time dominated by robotic beat and melody, this 8 part expedition away from the dancefloor may surprise, disorientate and hypnotise. Allow Keys to seal you in their infinite vacuum of flirtatious melancholia.

// Design: Omnigroup
// Mastering: Falko P. Eidner

Keys - Voltage mini LP(RIO01)

BUY VINYL/LP (180gr. + booklet)- http://melodiessouterraines.bandcamp.com // OUT FEB. 25TH 2019
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After STROOM latvian releases serie... Here's 1999's solo work of NSRD founder, Hardijs Lediņš. A soft ambient album drawing unique writing and electronic sounds. Dive into a timeless LP, going from folklore to inspired rhythmical jazz language... 

A1	Tiny Crabs - 2:46
A2	People With Candles - 6:42
A3	Quia Expedit - 5:09
B1	Drip - 4:14
B2	La Danse Binoculaire De Paris - 13:05

Juris Boiko (1954-2002) and Hardijs Lediņš (1955-2004) were the core members of  NSRD, which is best known as Latvian avant-garde, postmodern, experimental and underground music group active from 80's to 2000's. Their activities were widely multidisciplinary and they can't be considered as purely musicians since none of them had a professional musical education. Their creativity was manifested through variety of medias – music, performances and action art, visual arts, poetry, samizdat, the introduction of video art in Latvia... NSRD also made a significant contribution to the explanation of the theoretical aspects of art in the interpretation of the postmodernist movement, and developed the independent concept of “Approximate Art”. At the end of 80's, NSRD got connected and performed with several artists and musicians living in West Germany, including Indulis Bilzēns, Micky Remann and Maximilian Lenz aka Westbam and others.

Hardijs Lediņš ‎– Tiny Crabs Of Deep Waters (LP,Vinyl) OUT NOW!

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is I'm a Cliche's radio show on NTS.
You can check it live on www.nts.live and a few days after on I'm a Cliché's Soundcloud

DJ Sundae played the 1 hour on this one.

Playlist:

Silver Leaf ‎- Can We Rebuild Our City?
Brannten Schnüre - Der Kuckuck Sprach Das Kann Ich
Elodie Lauten - Sunrise
Lo Kindre - Sounder
Seti - Pryaer
Rosa Mundi - The Snow Man
Enno Velthuys - Back To Catherine
John Talabot - Les Ultimes Estacions Intermitges
Maxx Bass - Untitled
Partly Cloudy - Sunlight
Bulbous Creation - End Of The Page
Golden Ivy - Söndagsmålare
Paraf - Napunjeno Vrijeme
Brannten Schnüre - Die Stadt Als Garten
Aphex Twin - avril 14th reversed music not audio [re recorded 2009 Nagra]

No Weapon Is Absolute:
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I’m a Cliche:
www.imacliche.com
www.facebook.com/imacliche
@imaClicheLabel

Dj Sundae:
www.facebook.com/djsundae
@djsundae

Cosmo Vitelli:
www.facebook.com/cosmovitelli
@ilcosmovitelli

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE - DJ Sundae - 13-02-2019 - NTS 2

From Nathan Melja's debut EP on Antinote, Karibuni Music
Out March 2019, via Rush Hour Distribution.

Karibuni Music

NATHAN MELJA - ANGELS

Berlin based trio Keller Crackers collective likes to shape haunting esoteric sounds, in which self-built instruments dance with ritualistic synthesised rhythms, field recordings, psychoacoustic drones and poetical spoken silhouettes. This whole fantastic release is also blessed with a Tolouse Low Trax remix on the B-side as well!

https://soundcloud.com/marmo-music
https://soundcloud.com/user-866380579

Release Date : 22.03.2019

Buy here!

PRÈMIÉRE: Keller Crackers - Αιθουσες Αναμονης [Marmo Music]

More rusty and hypnotic sounds are brought by DJ soFa and his newest compilation, Elsewhere LVI. Released on Emotional Response, the 4th compilation of SoFa’s series is meant to move us to the gloomier part of his 12 track travelogue.
Lamusa II and his track Artificiale moves organic sound waves accompanying them with rhythmic shady synth pads, turning our listening journey to somewhat uneasy, yet fascinating trip across the jungle of sleazy and meditative notes.  Elsewhere LVI will come out on Emotional Response.

Lamusa II - Artificiale

Eiger Drums Propaganda strikes back on Macadam Mambo with a second opus!
After a well remarked start last year, half-Pilotwings, Louis Ebola’s project, returns with a more dancefloor tribal oriented album than the previous one which was a bit more experimental, incorporating again flutes, weird voices and dreamy elements on down beats tempos, revivaling the early New Age/Trance era to modernise it with genius…



TRACKLIST : 
A1. LA QUÊTE 1:36 
A2. THE SUN 4:30
A3. THROAT COMPLAIN 4:25 
A4. THUNDERSTRIKE 3:01
A5. ASTRAL LIGHTS 5:25
B1. INSIDE THE ISCHEMIC SYNAPSE 4:37 
B2. DISCO SOUND TO DEATH 4:09
B3. EXOTIC ABDUCTION 2:57
B4. THE MOON 5:23
B5. EIGER HAS TO DIE 2:14

MMLP4004 - "Eiger Drums Propaganda II" [PREVIEWS] OUT!

Following the comprehensive introduction Le Raccourci, Julien Dechery delves further into Sebastian Gandera’s seemingly endless archive to present Contre-Sens. Culling from various cassette albums, rehearsal tapes, demos and answering machine recordings, the two part mix collages some of the French composer’s earliest work, when the sampler was a core component of his apparatus; tender passages disrupted by moments of lunacy. Returning the source material to it’s intended form, the physical release is limited to 100 metallic silver C60s, with sleeve design from Steele Bonus.

Exclusive to Efficient Space, Commend (New York), Balades Sonores (Paris) and Skydiver (Melbourne)

SEBASTIAN GANDERA - Contre Sens (Excerpt) (ES008.5) OUT NOW

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-ce-raid-solitaire-american-sun

Last found dishing out a batch of hazed-out dubs and flavourful summer goodies on Steffi's imprint Dolly, French producer Nicolas Olier aka @conidj resurfaces this year with some big news as he will kick off his own imprint Firecamp early June with 'Transperce' - his debut instalment under the new alias of Ce Raid Solitaire.

Ce Raid Solitaire - American Sun [Firecamp]

Recorded in Montréal, Québec (April 2020) by https://soundcloud.com/emreplatz, member of https://soundcloud.com/little-tapes

“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.” Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

"A meditative collage of sounds near and dear to my heart. Started as a nostalgic love letter to home that quickly evolved into a kaleidoscopic genre-hopping experiment, flowing as chapters that carry the listener from the swamps of Louisiana to the underwater lands of Mu. I took great pleasure in putting this together, hope it induces some forgetfulness in our lonely housebound days." E. A.

Paper, pastel and acrylic by https://soundcloud.com/bunzinelli

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