ORIGINALS & REMIXS

Magnum Dopus 2

Album

Palacete (Michael Red Remix)

Order: https://fastcastle.bandcamp.com/album/silk-armor

Fast Castle level up with 5 playful bass cuts dealing bonus damage to dance-floors and bass bins alike. On "Silk Armor" Gent1e $oul shows off his skills in manoeuvring abstract soundscapes. Making use of laser-precision drum programming and rattling sub bass action, "Silk Armor" unlocks unlikely melodic hooks from twisted detuned percussion and synth sequences. Tried and tested to be a winning strategy – maybe even a new meta gameplay?

Competitive in all relevant game modes, "Silk Armor" features tools for all scenarios: The title track and "Recurve Bow", which features crucial knob twisting by FC-partner Cubemod, cruise at club-friendly (130bpm-ish) territory. "Logistica" and "Sober Ears" shape-shift at sub100, covering downtempo and dancehall scenarios, while "Geomagnetic Reversal" delivers standout bass pressure for advanced application at 75/150bpm.

As all of our Releases, "Silk Armor" features an Age of Empires II inspired Artwork. An epic "Lava World" courtesy of Jonas at 200 Kilo to close this trilogy. Printed in matt finished on a beautiful full-cover for the limited vinyl edition-of-200.

Mastering (making the bass big and hi's crisp) by Isabel at Olo Mastering. Worldwide Distro by DNP, Special UK Distro by RWDFWD.

Mastering by Olo Mastering:
www.olomastering.com

Artwork by 200 Kilo:
www.instagram.com/zweihundertkilo/

FC04 - Gent1e $oul - Silk Armor (Snippets)

Liquid Saturn

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/05/harpoon

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Michael Red - Harpoon

Pre-order vinyl

A1. 88

Civilistjävel! - The J​ä​rnn​ä​tter Remixes
 Release Date - 9th June 2023

Vinyl: rubadub.co.uk/products/the-jarnnatter-remixes
Digital: civilistjavel.bandcamp.com/album/the-j-rnn-tter-remixes

A – J​ä​rnn​ä​tter (A Made Up Sound Remix) 
B - J​ä​rnn​ä​tter (Ossia's Disoriented Dub)

Distributed by Rubadub

Civilistjävel! - The J​ä​rnn​ä​tter Remixes (FELTRMX001)

Under the influence of a mysterious ritual, @agimat_iha casted a spell able to resurrect dancefloors through its ancient depths. From the coast of Vancouver’s bay a powerful energy crawls under your skin, seeking for a wild primordial feel. A psy-tek tribe invokes the moon, in name of the unspoken night paths of darkstep.

Decadance #028 | IHA

mixed by Notte Infinita (@notteinfinita)

Aired on May 25th 2023 via Echobox Radio:
echobox.radio/shows/tetra-1/

Tetra 1 #018 — Notte Infinita [250523]

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers. 

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavor from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. Unfolding with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating and gently to assured - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. 

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on revists - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart. 

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here. 

If this is the final dance music boss, then so be it.

Release Date:  19.09.2023
Pre-order: https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers
Distribution: Rubadub

@ysystem

YS - Brutal Flowers  2 x 12" LP (PACE005)

IYA SHILLELAGH - WaterWeight (FELT005)
Release Date: 29th September 2023

Vinyl: rubadub.co.uk/products/waterweight
Digital: f-e-l-t.bandcamp.com/album/waterweight

A1 – reGenaRation 
A2 – WaterWeight (ft. How du)
 B1 – out ere as a outlaw (ft. Shifting Borders)
B2 - Scyatta

IYA SHILLELAGH is ELDON & Withdrawn

Recorded at Zig Zag Zig Studios

Mastered by GENG PTP
Cover photo by ELDON
Design by Fergus Jones
Distributed by Rubadub

IYA SHILLELAGH - WaterWeight (FELT005)

@paceyourselfrecords

BC: https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on

pi pi pi premiere: YS - Pilgrimage (Pace Yourself)

Seven suites of deep and sprawling sonic meditations built around ‘call and response’ improv sessions between Randy Raine-Reusch and Michael Red.

Initially realized over the course of a few days in Randy’s instrument museum in Vancouver BC [December, 2014] 'ERAS' is made up of processed, and sometimes multi tracked, improvisations between Randy and Michael. Through these sessions Randy would choose instruments he sensed possibilities within, and Michael then revealed and sculpted these possibilities. Both resonating, sensing sonic structures, environmental nuances, and further worlds in each other’s art, all within the moment. Being present for each other, they acted on instinct, trusting a first thought, trusting each other; committing, responding to that commitment, then mutating and letting go. Always moving forward, synthesizing and letting the living moment lead the way. 

1. Between Is Six
2. Five Names Of Peace 
3. Shifting Silence
4. Inner World
5. Unquiet Night
6. Winter Water

Out November 13
Pre Order Vinyl: https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1696331221/Randy-Raine-Reusch-and-Michael-Red-ERAS
Pre Order Digital: https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/eras

Isla 34 - Randy Raine- Reusch & Michael Red - ERAS (Previews)

@sonidoisla

BC: https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/eras

Seven suites of deep and sprawling sonic meditations built around ‘call and response’ improv sessions between Randy Raine-Reusch and Michael Red.

Slow and tempered recordings of Asian flutes, African harps, temple gongs and a myriad of obscure instruments from Randy Raine-Reusch's deep collection mutate and ebb into swirling gossamers of tone. Sonic incantations stretched and magnified further by Red's Sends. An otherworldly play between light and shadow worlds; at times idyllic and light-filled, at times dark and eerie– all engrossing. Dream-reality reconciliations weave between the spectral world of Michael Red's sound processes and the direct physicality of Raine-Reusch's playing. The tension across the pieces builds between the live playing and processing techniques, dutifully revealing a growing familiarity with collective transcendence through sound (bigger than the sum of its parts). Real-time interactive dream music.

Initially realized over the course of a few days in Randy’s instrument museum in Vancouver BC [December, 2014] 'ERAS' is made up of processed, and sometimes multi tracked, improvisations between Randy and Michael. Through these sessions Randy would choose instruments he sensed possibilities within, and Michael then revealed and sculpted these possibilities. Both resonating, sensing sonic structures, environmental nuances, and further worlds in each other’s art, all within the moment. Being present for each other, they acted on instinct, trusting a first thought, trusting each other; committing, responding to that commitment, then mutating and letting go. Always moving forward, synthesizing and letting the living moment lead the way.

The recordings were left to distill and mature for many years before the composers felt it was ready. With minimal judicious edits and a very light dusting of FXs, both careful to preserve the direct and intuitive process that permeates the recording, ERAS now emerges. 
credits

pi pi pi premiere: Randy Raine-Reusch & Michael Red - Shifting Silence (Isla)

Sad Summer is another song for my list "A little space for my art" a track full of emotions and experimental sounds, music for the heart

Sad Summer

Back2school - Sad Summer

@low-indigo 012

@synkro & @michaelred - smoke mountain
synkro & michael red - smoke mountain (@jadestatues rmx)
synkro & michael red - smoke mountain (@elimuro rmx)
synkro & michael red - smoke mountain (@self_evident rmx)

synkro played vancouver in 2010 for one of low indigo's very first events. when returning in 2016, he and label-head michael red wrote a tune together during some extra days stay. low indigo's 12th release is filled out with perfectly tempered remixs from artists all representing their own unique pockets in the growing vancouver underground landscape - jade statues, eli muro, and self evident.

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release date: august 15 2017 / mastered by beau thomas
artwork and slow video by jason mannings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hen-wvM5RoA&t=2s

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https://lowindigo.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-mountain
https://www.facebook.com/groups/203164773042442
http://www.jasonmannings.com
http://beatroute.ca/2017/08/15/video-premiere-low-indigo-smoke-mountain
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/synkro_and_michael_red-smoke_mountain

Synkro & Michael Red - Smoke Mountain

vancouver-based music producer, composer, curator and DJ

releases with: mood hut, hotham sound, isla, xpq?, new kanada, modern math, mutek_rec, subtempo, debacle, beacon sound, babel, dsms, south fork sound, king deluxe, low indigo, chapel sound, ..

label & events & studio lead for: @low-indigo
active project w/ @ultimaesuna : Oro Azul
active project w/ @napmusick : LA FE
active collaboration w/ @tsimka
ambient alias: @souns-3
@bass-c0ast music festival resident
boilerroom 2019: https://youtu.be/6KGQi6NBxJ8

founder of @lightasound
project w/ gabrial saloman: @chambers-theta
+10 years former collaborator w/ @tanya-tagaq
+10 years former curator for @newformsfestival

major influences include: dub music, soundsystem culture & origins, all nature & the natural world, water, bird songs, the unseen world, transcendence, evolution, movements towards balance & harmony, resonance, collaboration, transformation

Isla 34 - Randy Raine- Reusch & Michael Red - ERAS (Previews)

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