Music selected by Aphex Twin for Supreme.

Aphex Twin: [mostly mellow] for Supreme

Is It What You Want

Jesus Going to Clean House

Marshmallow

Mysterious River Snake

La ragazza fuori strada

Cantata per Maryam

1. Web Web - Bird's Lament [00:00]
2. Kahuun - Phoenix [00:06]

birds

The Vessel Boat

Skipping Breakfast

Utopia

Sandro Brugnolini - Chiostro

Rubba - Way Star

Pete Brandt’s Method – What You Are (3:35)

From an artist in their seventies, you probably wouldn’t expect to hear an album like this. But Brazilian drumming legend Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti has been experimenting and innovating for the last half a century. As one third of cult Rio jazz-funk trio Azymuth, Mamão was at the root of the group’s ‘samba doido’ (crazy samba) philosophy, which warped the traditional samba compass with jazz influences and space age electronics. Even with his lesser known jovem guardua group The Youngsters, Mamão was experimenting with tapes and delays to create unique, ahead-of-its-time sounds, way back in the sixties. More recently Mamão recorded an album with hip-hop royalty Madlib under the shared moniker ‘Jackson Conti’.

With his first album in over twenty years, and the first to be released on vinyl since his 1984 classic The Human Factor, Mamão shares his zany carioca character across eleven tracks of rootsy electronic samba and tripped out jazz, beats and dance music. Featuring Alex Malheiros and Kiko Continentino on a number of tracks, the Azymuth lifeblood runs deep, but venturing into the modern discotheque (as Mamão would call it), Poison Fruit also experiments with sounds more commonly associated with house and techno, with the help of London based producer Daniel Maunick (aka Dokta Venom).

Take a bite of Mamão’s psychoactive Papaya and join the maestro on a weird and wonderful stroll through the Brazilian jungle.

United by a love for the music of Mamão and Azymuth, the CD and digital edition also feature remixes and dubs from some of today’s most forward-thinking producers with a penchant for percussion, including IG Culture, the 22a crew, Max Graef and Glenn Astro.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti - Ilha Da Luz

The Ethno-Wave love child of collaborators Frank Harris & Maria Marquez, Echoes compiles a collection of mid 80’s to early 90’s material sound tracking two musical dreamers. Avante-pop flourishes married to the heart strings of an imagined synthetic Amazon.

Fascinated by the rapidly emerging midi electronics of the early ‘80’s, Frank was immersed in sound work for companies such as IBM and producing the likes of Diamanda Galás around the time he began collaborating with Maria.

Envisioning a tropical Sade, the music they created more often veers towards the leftfield, revelling in the embrace of Maria’s Venezuelan roots & folklore visions in combination with the exploration of Frank’s custom Synclavier synth station (the first keyboard to incorporate 16bit sampling).

Compiled here, songs such as ‘Canto Del Pílon’ and ‘Tonada de Ordeño’ resonate with a charged future/primitive electricity that mainline Maria’s song-to-a-siren vocals with Frank’s lush sonic alchemy. On ‘Echoes’ the voice becomes instrument, found sound transforms to melody, the fragile meets the sublime, old is married to new.

Frank Harris & Maria Marquez – “Echoes” LP Strangelove SL-104

Released March 2019
180 Gram Vinyl- w/ Full Sized Insert

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