March 2022

2022.03

Strange Look 3

We are incredibly pleased to announce Tigersushi's new signing, Shoko Igarashi, with a debut single coming out today "AppleBanana".

Shoko comes from a small mountain village in the North of Japan, she has studied Jazz at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and now lives in Brussels. This is the first extract from her debut album that will be released in 2022.

SHOKO IGARASHI - AppleBanana

Chapultepec Lake, Mexico City

Artist: Cignol / Gilbert
Title: Vision System
Label: Distorted Sensory Perception
Cat No: DSP005
Format: 12’’ Vinyl

Tracklist:
A1.  Cignol – Events Unknowable 
A2.  Cignol – Multicellular
B1.  Gilbert – Harmony In Space 
B2.  Gilbert – Eleni

DSP returns with a deep & contemplative split EP from Dublin’s Cignol & Bristol’s Gilbert. ‘Vision System’ boasts 4 machine-made, melodic electro tracks to tug on your heart strings. 

The record opens with ‘Events Unknowable’ an eerie example of Cignol’s distinct sound. Full of broken rhythms, swinging percussion, ice cold arpeggios, LFO warped pads and an acid line to remember. 

Electro doesn’t get much deeper than ‘Multicellular’. A beautifully sorrowful sonic statement coated in icey synth elements and nostalgia. Sophisticated simplicity at its finest. 

Gilbert takes us in a slightly more utopic direction on the flip side. Starting with the musical insight of ‘Harmony In Space’. A Dream laced vision for the future full of smooth synthesis, crisp basslines and pumping percussion. 

The release comes to a heartfelt conclusion with ‘Eleni’. Full of playful acid lines and expressive sonic elements. A loved up, euphoric masterpiece named after and dedicated to Gilbert’s daughter.

Cignol / Gilbert - Vision System (DSP005)

Vortex Mix ✻ Allure

Montréal’s NAFF Recordings co-founder @priori-ties records a mix of deep, spaced-out house and techno for the Fresh Kicks series

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-171-priori

Fresh Kicks 171: Priori

The Sundowner. Mix #18 comes from Ukrainian DJ & Event Curator of Rhythm of Love parties series: Róse @djrose_music . Check out his fresh new mix and get to know him better in the interview we had with him on Tuesday. We have been in touch with him since Thursday morning when the Russian invasion of Ukraine started and decided together to go ahead with publishing the interview as it is since music is what brings people together!

Our hearts and minds are with our friends and the people of Ukraine at this time, stay strong and stay safe!

https://sundownerberlin.de/2022/02/25/sundowner-mix-18-by-dj-rose-interview/

Sundowner. Mix #18 DJ Rose - Omnia transeunt

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Vivian Koch (@kochvivian) has real range. For labels like Life And Death, a.r.t.less and AD 93 she has served up everything from IDM to moody breaks, ambient soundscapes to emotive techno. Her most recent album - last year's ominous but hopeful Beyond Contact - was fine proof of that from the Berlin-based artist who started DJing aged just 16. She has since mastered the art of making and playing club music thanks to her residency at Griessmuehle and her own Olympe party series.

She very much eases into this week with a superb ambient selection. It's broad in its remit, with the most beautiful and suspensory pieces bleeding into gently suggestive rhythms. The moods, too, range from mind-emptying bliss to passages of hopefulness and even romance. It's the sort of cathartic listen we all occasionally need to immerse ourselves in as a way of resetting.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 374 - Vivian Koch

Clint continues his foray into the world of the euphoric dance with a new EP for Slowciety. The EP features three sunny prog-house and dance groovers with trance atmospherics cut for the club. Love On The Rocks member and half of Planet Sundae, Alex Kassian steps in for the remix and delivers a hefty remake of Alpine Breaks, navigating between heavy-infused 90s dance & dreamy trance. TIP!

Buy: https://slowciety.bandcamp.com/album/planet-dance-vol-ii-w-alex-kassian-remix

https://soundcloud.com/alexkassian
https://soundcloud.com/clint-official
https://soundcloud.com/slowciety

Planet Dance Vol. II

Premiere: Clint - Alpine Breaks (Alex Kassian Remix) [Slowciety]

New fat grooves at the horizon are ready, courtesy of Steaf from Ligurian coast.
His "Run EP" is composed by three house jams that fit perfect for late night dancefloors.
There's a lot of influences from the 90's B sides : dubby, but you can feel even a great atmosphere like in the track "Manifesto", premiered here, the pinched rhodes with crazy pads in "Best Trick" or the dreamy stabs in the main track "Run".

PREMIERE : Steaf - Manifesto

🇺🇦  SUPPORT HERE 🇺🇦
https://hawscardiff.bandcamp.com/album/club-unity

Times are unprecedented. We all have a basic understanding of the history of our planet, but now we are truly living in one of the darkest periods wherein we cannot see a clear path out. As an individual it often seems dishearteningly difficult to help aid in humanitarian efforts, but as we stand with Ukraine and understand the importance of assisting them in any way possible, we've decided to do our part by putting together a digital compilation entitled ‘Club Unity’.

It contains a diverse feast of artists that inspire us, and tracks that make you feel. Signature Haŵs vibrations touching on prog, trance and even reaching the realms of the jungle. But most importantly, all proceeds will go to the incredible platform 'WithUkraine', which consolidates international efforts in raising funds to provide humanitarian support to Ukraine and its people. 

As humans and music obsessives we stand in solidarity with life and not with those who are determined to irreparably damage the fragile fabric of humanity.

Forever grateful for all of your support and we send our love out to those affected. Huge thank you to all artists involved in the making of this compilation.

Haŵs 💛

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How you can help Ukraine:
- https://tinyurl.com/mwmuddyf
- https://tinyurl.com/yu2e99me

Solar Suite - Big Drift

schnitthart - Eine Galaxie 
BUY LINK: https://schnitthart.bandcamp.com/album/eine-galaxie
https://soundcloud.com/schnitthart

With his unconventional sound Schnitthart wants to transport the feeling of love, but also the bittersweet melancholy into your living room. The whole sound structure lays over you like a heavy blanket, while you feel like you are traveling through the universe.
His musical style does not demand a specific genre, rather the songs should tell you an exciting story, a story that touches you.

BUY LINK

PREMIERE : Schnitthart - Das Geschenk

A journey through early-to-mid ‘90s house from veteran DJ and Force Inc. Music Works affiliate Ian Pooley.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/03/16/diggers-directory-ian-pooley/

Diggers Directory: Ian Pooley

Album: Peerless 2165
Year: 1944
Country: Mexico
Notes: Origina audio 

El Torito Jarocho - Hermanos Huesca (Huapango) "1944"

Mac Jr. - Elephant Song (special version)

MARIA W HORN, Epistasis, LP

Release date - Oct 25th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1904
Format - Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
A1) Interlocked Cycles I 	(10:45)
A2) Epistasis 			(09:31)
B1) Konvektion 			(13:16)
B2) Interlocked Cycles II 	(09:46)

Credits:
All music composed, recorded and mixed by Maria W Horn
Linnea Hällqvist - violin
Knapp Brita Pettersson - violin
Maria Jonsson - viola
Natalia Goldmann - cello
Johanna Niederbacher - cello
Mats Erlandsson - electric guitar
David Granström - electric guitar
Johannes Landgren - organ 
Fredrik Lundqvist - organ

Mastering by Lawrence English
Design by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and a-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Following the success of her 2018 solo debut album »Kontrapoetik,« the Swedish composer Maria W Horn returns with »Epistasis,« her most ambitious record to date. The title track, »Konvektion« and the two parts of »Interlocked Cycles« see the XKatedral co-founder explore radical approaches to composition that combine avantgarde methods with electronic means. While »Kontrapoetik« highlighted Horn’s strength as a conceptual and political artist, »Epistasis« is to be understood as an advanced statement by a forward-thinking composer who throughout four pieces channels her influences, ranging from black metal to minimal music, through state-of-the-art technology. 
Originally composed as an audiovisual piece for synchronised multichannel sound and lights and premiered in 2018 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, »Interlocked Cycles« is a series of pieces exploring a gradual increase in tempo and density using various instruments. It was written to be performed by a computer-controlled upright Disklavier piano while the electronic part was generated within the Supercollider framework using phase modulation synthesis. Navigating between acoustic and electronic sounds, the two parts of »Interlocked Cycles« create a frame for the album by respectively serving as an introduction and coda to Horn’s musical exploration of the notions of authenticity and artificiality.
The nine and a half minute long title track was composed for an eight-voice double string quartet and draws on evolving progressions in F minor that were inspired by the sound and harmonic structures of early nineties doom and black metal music. During the performance of »Epistasis,« which was commissioned by Konstmusiksystrar and premiered by Malvakvartetten at Konserthuset in Stockholm 2018, four parts are played by the string quartet and four parts are played back electronically. Using various amplification techniques, the spectral characteristics of the string instruments are enhanced and distorted and were later on complemented by feedbacking electric guitar overdubs while mixing the piece. The result are densely layered drones that are most unsettling when they are the quietest and reveal their anthemic qualities in their most forceful moments.
The structure of »Konvektion« however takes its cues from a very different field of the musical world. The composition progresses in a way that was inspired by Arvo Pärt’s »Tintinnabuli« technique, where step-by-step diatonic movement interplays with triads to form a complex harmonic function that is still rooted in tonality. Based around four-note chords articulated as dyads and performed by two organists on the same instrument, the duration of each dyad is measured by the individual breaths of the two performers while pitches are predetermined in the score of the piece. The alternating breathing cycles of the performers slowly move the piece forward at a glacial pace. Simultaneously, an electronic part composed of interference tones creating high and low frequency beating patterns gradually unfolds, making »Konvektion« an exercise in minimalism that combines the subtle gravity of Phill Niblock’s work with the visceral theatrality of Anna von Hausswolff’s organ pieces.

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Epistasis

MARIA W HORN - Epistasis (HG1904)

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Diggers Directory: Ian Pooley

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