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Lodown Presents: Becker & Mukai "Sunshine Demagogue"

Auf Togo is the long-time collaboration between Sasa Crnobrnja and Clement Cachot-Coulom, who merge their sounds and experiences for their album, ‘Movements’ out 24th September via SaS Recordings. Inspired by the Cosmic disco sounds of the late 70’s/early 80’s, the 8-track LP skirts along the borders of electronic music, rock, funk and beyond. Through understanding and integration, the pair have come together on ‘Movements’ to present a body of work that is truly representative of their artistry.

PREMIERE : Auf Togo - Pan Con Tomate

Moody bass-driven grooves.

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Legendary NYC producers Justin Strauss and Max Pask have joined up to form a new project called Each Other, and together they've been remixing the hippest names in music and it wasn't long until influential musical impresarios Soulwax signed them for a string of
acclaimed EPs on their seminal record imprint Deewee.
It is such a pleasure and an honour for us at https://soundcloud.com/sounds-17 to have those two legends remix “A Little Bit Deeper” one of the (many) great tracks on Auf Togo's new album "Movements".
Here they manage to transform the Balearic tones of the original song into a New-York-City dance floor anthem. They artfully manage to keep the essence of the original track by making its beautiful vocals shine under this new light.
Here's what they have to say:
“This remix is personal for us. Both of us being longtime fans and friends of Auf Togo and the various projects of Sasa and JeanGa, it meant a lot to us to do this remix for them. We’re really happy with the results and hope you will be too ❤“

PREMIERE : Auf Togo - A Little Bit Deeper (Each Other Mix)

TOGETHER is the second single by THE LEMON CULT: out on Sensas across all
digital platforms on the 29th October.

THE LEMON CULT is a collective of renowned producers, composers, musicians and performers in London - brought together from their respective studios during a pandemic in search of escapism, collaboration and joy in music. 

A shape-shifting team of talented artists (keeping largely anonymous out of respect for their musical day jobs) THE LEMON CULT was created for fun - and what came out it is infused with infectious joie de vivre and togetherness. 

It’s music born out of a boring and solitary time that’s anything but – filled with life, spirit and music communality; ringing with uplifting vocals and unashamedly classic R&B and pop sensibilities.

Like its predecessor, TOGETHER, the second ever release by the collective, is a
musical reflection of the times we live in, of the need we all have to get together.

Let yourself be carried away by its beautiful voices and irresistible rhythm.

“Together” is composed by The Lemon Cult
Produced by The Lemon Cult
Mixed by The Lemon Cult
Mastered by Keith Tenniswood at Curvepusher
Vocals by the incredible BB James.

Zingy Cuts

Together

The Lemon Cult - Together

In the Spring of 2022, Lux Prima embarked on a series of single releases which will form his body of work for 2022 and next in line for release is Hurlants.

Hurlants is a poem, a tone, a soothing noise, a quality of sound.
Hurlants is also a type of wind that you need to travel really far to feel.
A bona-fide legend of a wind, to tell you the truth, this is what Hurlants is.
And it comes in two versions to give the listener the choice to listen to their favourite. One is beatless and feels like an airy dream. 
The other one carries an elusive beat to anchor that dream.

Like on its predecessors, Mount Analogue and We Shall Erupt, Lux Prima experiments here with all the tools available in his studio, digital effects and analogue synths alike, in a game of rhythms and textures, of energy and restraint. But for this, one he mainly used a peculiar machine called the Crumar BitOne.

Lux Prima is the alter ego of composer Jean-Gabriel Becker.
Aside from composing and producing music for film projects, being part of acclaimed house music duo JeanGa And George (Greco-Roman Records) and partnering with old friend Susumu Mukai as part of Becker & Mukai, he uses his Lux Prima persona to explore a more chaotic and experimental sound, where bruit and dissonance come to meet with beauty and harmony.

Hurlants was recorded and produced in a matter of hours in a spurt of creativity in the first days of the summer 2022 alongside Lux Prima's many other projects and is part of a bigger album project to be released throughout 2022. More is to come.

Hurlants was composed and produced by Jean-Gabriel Becker. 
Mastered by Keith Tenniswood for Curvepusher.
EP artwork by Lux Prima

Hurlants

Lux Prima - Hurlants

In 2019, Parisian cinema composer Jean-Gabriel Becker and Japanese composer and multiinstrumentalist Susumu Mukai embarked on the making of an album that was ultimately going to become Time Very Near. 

The album that had been their focus for most of 2019 was finally released with great acclaim in April 2020 through the strangest time in history and echoed with their fellow musicians and producers for its singularity and originality. 

Prompted by a few unsolicited offers for remixes, Becker & Mukai saw an occasion to invite their community of musician and producer friends to re-invent, deconstruct and rebuild the songs on “Time Very Near”. 

Studio mates, friends and colleagues accepted to play the game and re-arranged the pair's global grooves and clattering beats into brand new original tracks. They all contributed to make the line-up for this project read like a who's who of London's electronic music scene: 

Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, who, from his studio next door, had been a witness of the birth of the project, was kind enough to unleash his killer beats on Spice War. 
Old friend Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco fame transformed the tropical sounds of Dark Fields Of The Republic into a dance-floor ready techno workout.. 
Long-time collaborator and friend Sasa Crnobrnja (In Flagranti, Mytron & Ofofo, Auf Togo) took Time Very Near on a trip to Jamaica. Label mate AMA//MIZU stripped Tout Azimuth down to its core to rebuild it with his unique production skills. 
Dreems delivered a sweltering 19 minute version of Dark Fields Of The Republic and a shorter version more suited for a vinyl listen... 
And finally Becker and Mukai chose to don alternative monikers (Zongamin for Mukai and Lux Prima for Becker) to re-interpret their own compositions... 

Like the original album, this remix project gathers sounds and inspiration from an everexpanding palette of influences, assembled into something amorphously intangible that’s simultaneously refreshing and sharp, meandering and cosmic, futuristic but timelessly vintage and manages to expand where the original album left off. 

In a similar process, the remix album's cover is a re-invention of the original album art and will echo the collaborative collage that was created by the pair for “Time Very Near”.

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PRÉMIÈRE: Becker & Mukai - Spice War (Zongamin Remix) [SaS Recordings]

In 2019, Parisian cinema composer Jean-Gabriel Becker and Japanese composer and multiinstrumentalist Susumu Mukai embarked on the making of an album that was ultimately going to become Time Very Near. The album that had been their focus for most of 2019 was finally released with great acclaim in April 2020 through the strangest time in history and echoed with their fellow musicians and producers for its singularity and originality. Prompted by a few unsolicited offers for remixes, Becker & Mukai saw an occasion to invite their community of musician and producer friends to re-invent, deconstruct and rebuild the songs on “Time Very Near”.
Studio mates, friends and colleagues accepted to play the game and re-arranged the pair's global grooves and clattering beats into brand new original tracks. They all contributed to make the line-up for this project read like a who's who of London's electronic music scene:
Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, who, from his studio next door, had been a witness of the birth of the project, was kind enough to unleash his killer beats on Spice War. Old friend Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco fame transformed the tropical sounds of Dark Fields Of The Republic into a dance-floor ready techno workout.. Long-time collaborator and friend Sasa Crnobrnja (In Flagranti, Mytron & Ofofo, Auf Togo) took Time Very Near on a trip to Jamaica. Label mate AMA//MIZU stripped Tout Azimuth down to its core to rebuild it with his unique
production skills.
Dreems delivered a sweltering 19 minute version of Dark Fields Of The Republic and a
shorter version more suited for a vinyl listen...
And finally Becker and Mukai chose to don alternative monikers (Zongamin for Mukai and
Lux Prima for Becker) to re-interpret their own compositions...
Like the original album, this remix project gathers sounds and inspiration from an everexpanding palette of influences, assembled into something amorphously intangible that’s simultaneously refreshing and sharp, meandering and cosmic, futuristic but timelessly vintage and manages to expand where the original album left off. In a similar process, the remix album's cover is a re-invention of the original album art and will echo the collaborative collage that was created by the pair for “Time Very Near”.

Time Very Near Remixes

PREMIERE : Becker & Mukai - Dark Fields Of The Republic (Dreems Summer Shorts Version)

Buy the track and Order vinyl here:
beckermukai.bandcamp.com/

In 2019, Parisian cinema composer Jean-Gabriel Becker and Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Susumu Mukai embarked on the making of an album that was ultimately going to become Time Very Near.

The album that had been their focus for most of 2019 was finally released with great acclaim in April 2020 through the strangest time in history and echoed with their fellow musicians and producers for its singularity and originality.

Prompted by a few unsolicited offers for remixes, Becker & Mukai saw an occasion to invite their community of musician and producer friends to re-invent, deconstruct and rebuild the songs on “Time Very Near”.

Studio mates, friends and colleagues accepted to play the game and re-arranged the pair's global grooves and clattering beats into brand new original tracks. They all contributed to make the line-up for this project read like a who's who of London's electronic music scene:

Joe Goddard from Hot Chip, who, from his studio next door, had been a witness of the birth of the project, was kind enough to unleash his killer beats on Spice War, which is the first track to be shared with y'all.

In the next few weeks, more remixes will come:
Old friend Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco fame transformed the tropical sounds of Dark Fields Of The Republic into a dance-floor ready techno workout..
Long-time collaborator and friend Sasa Crnobrnja (In Flagranti, Mytron & Ofofo, Auf Togo) took Time Very Near on a trip to Jamaica.
Label mate AMA//MIZU stripped Tout Azimuth down to its core to rebuild it with his unique production skills.
Dreems delivered a sweltering 19 minute version of Dark Fields Of The Republic and a shorter version more suited for a vinyl listen...
And finally Becker and Mukai chose to don alternative monikers (Zongamin for Mukai and Lux Prima for Becker) to re-interpret their own compositions...

Like the original album, this remix project gathers sounds and inspiration from an ever-expanding palette of influences, assembled into something amorphously intangible that’s simultaneously refreshing and sharp, meandering and cosmic, futuristic but timelessly vintage and manages to expand where the original album left off.

In a similar process, the remix album's cover is a re-invention of the original album art and will echo the collaborative collage that was created by the pair for “Time Very Near”.

Pre-save the track and pre-order vinyl here:
beckermukai.bandcamp.com/

Becker & Mukai - More Eyes (Lux Prima Bonus Beat)

Becker & Mukai - Stellar Surf (Lux Prima Remix)

SaS Recordings is a record label.
We release mainly electronic-ish music.
Intriguing, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes beautiful, electronic music

Lux Prima - Hurlants

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