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Our first ever premiere introduces the 129th imprint on Montreal-based label, Archipel. This album from Italian Rico Casazza hosts 8 intriguing tracks, 4 of which are available only for those who invest in the wax!

Our featured track is one of those vinyl bonuses, named as the entire album is...'Yaman'. Its hypnotic and music box styled melody, is the first stand out feature. As the electro-led beat and energetic claps develop, so does its wonderful 303 bassline. The track epitomises Rico's style in its perfect balance between his melancholic songwriting and his desire to make people move.

Yaman is out on the 30th November on 12” & digital. Available in stores or available direct from the label here - https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/.

You can check other previews from the album here - https://soundcloud.com/ricocasazza/sets/yaman

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ARTIST PROFILE (by Miles Murgett):

@ricocasazza
@archipel

After ten years of producing electronic music, Rico Casazza has created a successful identity for himself and his moody, yet melancholic style of making music. Casazza has released on labels such as Soma, Archipel, Plastic City and our very own platform Loose Lips, which has helped him establish himself amongst the ranks of diverse producers in London. This is no easy task due to the sheer volume of quality artists hailing from this great city. Whether it is Ambient, House, Electro or IDM that you are looking for, Casazza will have his own tripped-out and crunchy take on it. His highly effective, sample-based way of producing reinforces these stylistic qualities. 

Rico Casazza has had a very successful career so far with over fifteen releases under his belt and even with this impressive figure behind him, he shows no signs of slowing down.  Showing the depths of his musical knowledge, he's turned his hand to teaching others how to use Ableton live and all he knows about the DAW. As well as teaching, he also spends time working on his hybrid live set that gives an insight into his love for analogue synthesisers. Rico’s live performance has taken him around Europe and South America, adding to both the maturity and vast array of influences behind his productions.

Rico Casazza’s latest offering is eight tracks in the form of his second LP. We have the privilege of premiering ‘Yaman’, which demonstrates his no-holds-barred approach to writing. As a teacher, producer, live performer and an incredible selector behind the decks, Casazza has cultivated a varied and detailed range of skills. We here at Loose Lips have followed his musical journey thus far with great curiosity, and can’t wait to see the ways in which he will surprise us in the future.

Yaman

PREMIERE: Rico Casazza - Yaman (ARCH129)

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VARIOUS ARTISTS - DBA039.5
NOVEMBER 2018
BUY: https://dontbeafraidrecordings.co.uk/shop

TRACKLIST:
A1 GENERAL LUDD - OWL
A2 HERVA & MASS PROD – CONSTRUCTIVE PESSIMISM
B1 NENE H - ГЕТТО 
B2 ALTERED NATIVES – DANCING GIRL

GENERAL LUDD - OWL [DBA039.5]

ARTIST: Silvestre (@silvestre_pt)
TITLE: Girar EP
CAT NUMBER: DSK045
RELEASE DATE: 25th January 2019

01.	Ir a Sagres 
02.	Deptford Bus 
03.	RC Surfer
04.	Everybody Is Happy

Diskotopia is extremely proud to kick-start 2019 with Girar, a four-track EP of new kaleidoscopic productions from Lisbon-born, London-based producer Silvestre. 

Silvestre is no stranger to Diskotopia, this being his third release with the label, debuting with the gritty noise-and-thump Frank Pike EP in 2014, and following that up with the more buoyant, latinate Floresta EP in 2016. In addition to producing, Silvestre also co-runs the Padre Himalya imprint, putting out 2018’s critically acclaimed Focus EP from tombak virtuoso Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Renato’s 2016 Alo Alo, plus his own Sport Theories and All The Things 12”s.

With the Girar EP, Silvestre continues to embrace the sonic culture-frictions between his home country and his adopted one. In doing so, he has created a pan-continental sound in which coarse-grained Ibero-percussive threads intertwine with digi-tropical synthetic tapestries; testimony of a truly unique artist in the modern current of electronic music. 

Opening with the bubbling Ir a Sagres, Silvestre constructs a basement-born psychotropic rhumba groove, strapped with fluttering arpeggios, nimble conga tappings and a firmly locked-in bassline. Following on, Deptford Bus is a woozier, mid-tempo spliff-house roller, stripped of the flora to leave a simple set up of haunted pads, crisp toms, and a deep sense of unease.

RC Surfer is perhaps the finest example of a soundclash of reggaeton, shoegaze and dub put to wax in recent memory. Here, Silvestre provides an ethereal soundscape with images of late-summer wining in city squares materializing through the cracks of the stoic riddims.

The Girar EP rounds out with the pseudo-rapturous Everybody Is Happy, a slice of breakbeat-house that nods lovingly to the halcyon days of rave past whilst holding a mirror at the present day with an unabating painted-on smile

Girar

Silvestre - Girar

Taken from the compilation ALERT! out 19/04/2019.

Order here: https://alter.bandcamp.com/album/alert

Cru Servers - Glumbooth Nitwit (ALT50)

produced by: @heidisabertooth
label: @lobster-theremin
release date: May 3rd, 2019
link: https://lobstertheremin.com/album/ur-eyes-are-watching

https://bizaarbazaar.com/2019/04/30/premiere-heidi-sabertooth-weeding-through-distortion/

Heidi Sabertooth_Ur Eyes Are Watching EP

Heidi Sabertooth - Weeding Through Distortion

Special limited (Transparent vinyl ! – only on this website!)
wemerecords.com

WeMe313.22 ReQuest "PSI-State Military Dredge Squad"

OUT NOW https://lostdogsentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/streets-of-peace

Won't Ever Do  ("Streets of Peace" Tape LDE017 2020/20/01)

Neural Oscillations #1: https://soundcloud.com/gboi_jeanmi

For the first edition of the Neural Oscillations podcasts we invited our lyonnais neighbours Gboi & Jean Mi, the duo behind https://soundcloud.com/comicsansrec and https://soundcloud.com/silurealbinosfishingclub. They have been consistently releasing high quality music in a wide range of genres on their many record labels, and their DJ sets are similarly eclectic. This mix shows a particular love for a UK sound, rave breaks and low frequency oscillations, just how we like it. 


Pour la première édition de Neural Oscillations on invite les voisins lyonnais Gboi & Jean Mi. Les têtes pensantes derrière un de nos labels préférés https://soundcloud.com/comicsansrec ainsi que https://soundcloud.com/silurealbinosfishingclub, le duo sort de la musique d’une qualité et d’une diversité impressionnante depuis des années maintenant. Pour ce podcast ils nous ont envoyé un truc blindé de breaks, de sonorités rave et de rythmes déstructurés, tout ce qu’on aime.

Neural Oscillations #01: Gboi & Jean Mi

Electronic music Label based in Barcelona.  

No Repress / Limited copies

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