“Pleasure Pool are Finn O’Hare (synths, production), Andrew Robertson (vocals) and a rolling cast of Glasgow-based musicians, performers and artists. They sound like nothing else to have come out of Glasgow recently, exploring the territory between live performance and club culture through their collaborative ethos and party-starting attitude. Their debut EP, Night Scars, arrived in early March 2020 and now comes Love Without Illusion, Pleasure Pool's debut album, released on Optimo Music.
 
Largely written during the pandemic, Love Without Illusion adds layers of complexity and introspection to Night Scars' squarely dance floor-focused brew, though the record still oozes danceable energy. Open Hours is like opening a door and finding a party already in full swing, an assortment of recurring Pleasure Pool motifs – echoing, dubbed-out vocals, gorgeous, impossibly airy synth melodies, louche percussion, cowbells, rising and falling flecks of trumpet – all introduced in short order. Lick The Bag, which prominently features vocalists Chloe Charlton and Raissa Pardini, has a controlled chaos befitting its morning-after-the-night-before name. 
 
The rest of the album rides this glimmering, night-magic mood at varying frequencies, with the title track a gentle storm of grandiose walls of synth and pulsing vocal fragments. The slow and low flickering funk of album closer Zero Hours pulls all that has come before it together to end things in the woozy bliss of a walk back home in warm, gentle sunlight. 
 
Love Without Illusion is a dazzlingly complete expression of Pleasure Pool's intoxicating sound and vision. Dive on in and explore.”

Released on vinyl and digital 09/12/2022.

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OM LP 24 Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion (vinyl / digital album)

Whole EP First time digital! Find it on my Bandcamp.
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MRT001 Benedikt Frey - Stereobate

My new mix. 100 to 140 BPMzzz...
Artwork by: sly_kollage

Tracklist:
Mira Calix - There Is Always A Girl With A Secret - Warp Records
Piste Noire - Weirdoseries - Topless
Strapontin - Divorce - Higher Hopes
Nicola Cruz - Aima (Breaks Mix) - Multi Culti
Payfone - Put Your Face Away - Otis Records
Metaboman - Einseins (Original Mix) - Souvenir
Matthias Vogt - The Mind Traveller (Losoul's Raw Story Mix) - Flaneurecordings
Whim-ee - The Hight Step - Dubplate
Silat Beksi - Quite A Few Reasons - Rawax
Concept Of Man - Regularities - BigBeak Recordings
Fantastic Twins - Kali's Tongue Was A Weapon - Spun Out
Viers - Summoning Salt - Typeless
Silat Beksi - Jhana - Rawax
Chloe Robinson / DJ ADHD - Pax (Four Tet remix) - Pretty Weird Records
Odia - Insect Plug - AM
D-Leria - Dejavu - Non Series
Valery Allington - Stop (Special Electronic Version) - Musix Records
tRicMast Aka R. Villalobos & Tripmastaz- Nord - Respect The Craft
DJ Chrysalis - I Want To Dance - Public Possession
 Adam Curtain - Rage in the Cage (Bakongo Remix) - Trouble Maker
Bufiman - Sara Sara - Dekmantel
Nikki Nair - Shufflin' - Lobster Theremin
HLM38 - House of the Sun - Notte Brigante
Lag - Sama Doma - Mord
Hassan Abou Alam - Kesibt (Ft. SHBL-LBSH) - Banoffee Pies Records
Mani Festo - Barricade (Addison Groove Remix) - Shall Not Fade
Craig Richards - My Friend Is Losing His Mind - The Nothing Special

MIMI - Neue Mischung (06.02.23)

Italo Moderni el jefe Adrian Marth delivers a diverse mix for Kri Records ahead of his upcoming vinyl release with Diana Berti, landing on 7th of July.

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Kri Podcast #3 - Adrian Marth

Artist: Motion To Strike
Track: Tangent
Release: Into Exile
Cat: HE005
Label: Human Endeavour
Release date: 5th of July 2023
Format: Digital
Pre-order: https://motiontostrike.bandcamp.com/album/into-exile

DT PREMIERE: Motion To Strike - Tangent [Human Endeavour] (2023)

The car rattled and rumbled on through the night, the headlights illuminating the tarmac below and little else. All around them there was a thick dense black – the sort which might weigh you down if you were to let it.

The radio crackled from time to time as they dropped in and out of frequency – they were really in the middle of nowhere.

It was a cold out. Frosty even.

There was no turning back now…

Headman is set to release a new collection of tracks under the title ‘DeTurning’. Described as being a ‘collection which echoes Robi Insinna’s early days in London at the turn of the century where making music became a rebellion against the saccharine sound of the era.’

DeTurning

PREMIERE: Headman - DeTurning

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Lory Sani - Baila Noche [Eder Long Edit]

Following 2020’s 'Point Vacancies', the debut EP from Jamie Paton and Mike Bourne’s collaborative act Metal, the duo return with a trio of dubwise remixes from Mr Paton himself as well as a peak-time stormer from fellow Bristol artist, Hodge. The latter immediately sets the record ablaze with a driving thump, duo of grainy hi-hats and a chalky clap. He layers an anthemic three-chord pad progression, building octaves, peppering in arpeggiated bleeps and articulate lead melodies, then tops it off with a few modular elements that retain the character of the original, before climaxing in true rave fashion. Proper. The following three mixes by Metal’s own Jamie Paton make apparent his sonic obsession — the type of infinite tweaking that sees some artists/producers to the edge of madness, or at the very least satisfies some dragon-chasing addiction. There’s a successive deconstruction from 'Remix' to 'Dubwise' to 'Dubwise II', most notably a reduction of rhythm and drum machinery, but also in general tonality. The melody remains central but is gradually obscured, taking on a less and less recognizable form, and by the end we’re left with a skeleton of the track, quips and cranks, an assembly line of aluminum sheeting punctuated by demented nuts and bolts. As with the previous EP, the sparsity of elements illustrates just how far one can twist aesthetics, proving that self-imposed limitations can often propel an artist’s process and land them somewhere unfamiliar, somewhere foreign, somewhere enchanted.

[ESP088B] Point Vacancies [Remixed]

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A2 - Dislocation Climb (Jamie Paton Remix) - SNIPPET

ZK Bucket - Techstar Liner LP (Released May 20, 2024)
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Label: MoonWalk X [MWXXX2]

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