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SOAK - THE MOTHER WE SHARE (CHVRCHES COVER)

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DAMN SHIT FEELS RIGHT

"This rework could be considered a joke. I sat at the piano in silence and worked from there. I listened and took in the atmosphere and this is what came out of it. Of course, it doesn’t do Cage justice, but it was more fun playing rather than sitting in silence."
- Nils Frahm

4'33" recorded exclusively for Late Night Tales.

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Nils Frahm - 4'33" - Mary Anne Hobbs BBC 6 Music World Exclusive

"Walls" by @la-boum-fatale is taken from the forthcoming album "Holygram" on @sinnbus. More info (in German): http://bit.ly/lbfstrm

La Boum Fatale - Walls (Radio Edit)



Astronauts
End Codes album
Lo Recordings
6th May 2016

Dan Carney is a songwriter based in east London who releases music under the name Astronauts. He also enjoys spending time with his daughter and his partner, going for long walks, reading, writing, looking out of the nearest window, and making overly ambitious travel plans.

After the single ‘Skydive’ went viral in June 2014, the debut Astronauts album ‘Hollow Ponds’ was met with critical acclaim. This led to live performances far and wide, with Dan visiting Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and Switzerland in 2015 alone, as well as – equally thrillingly - having a song used on the BBC’s darts coverage in his native country.

Radio support also came from all over, with Radio 2 (Huey Morgan) and 6 Music (Lauren Laverne, Cerys Matthews, Radcliffe & Maconie, Steve Lamacq, Tom Ravenscroft, Gideon Coe) in the UK, to US stations such as KCRU in Los Angeles, all queuing up to broadcast Dan’s efforts to the public.

In between all of this, Dan has found the time to write and record his second full-length, ‘End Codes’. It channels the melancholic intensity and rich arrangements first encountered on ‘Hollow Ponds’ into eleven beautiful new songs, while also managing to sound more coherent and focused than its predecessor.

Lyrically, it’s Dan’s trademark intriguing blend of resignation and defiance, all delivered with a world-weary estuary twang which combines the colloquial fragility of Robert Wyatt with the eerie double-tracked smoothness of Elliott Smith. Cuts such as opener ‘Recondition’, ‘Split Screen’, and ‘Breakout’ are propelled along by a familiar sprawling, motorik intensity, simultaneously fraught and uplifting, and just repetitive enough to lodge themselves firmly in your consciousness without becoming labored or tedious.

Elsewhere, however, there’s variation and versatility in abundance. The woozy, pastoral otherness of ‘When It’s Gone’ – inspired by the cautionary paean to faded youth which adorns the grave of the Black Prince at Canterbury Cathedral - cements Dan’s status as the nearest thing Essex has got to Jonathan Wilson, while ‘Dead Snare’ mines an ominous trench of paranoia and dreamlike malevolence, dark acoustic guitar lines intertwining with creaking cello and a nagging lyric which sets out a bleak, recriminatory inner monologue.

There’s also the steady, cyclical lead single ‘Civil Engineer’, possibly the finest folk-pop song yet written about the vagaries of a career in civic planning, and the triumphant Laurel Canyon-via-Romford CSNY-style harmonies of ‘You Can Turn It Off’. Closer ‘Skeleton’, with its defiant drone-gospel coda, triumphant and boisterous over a yawning chasm of electronic sadness, channels the likes of Fugazi, Tortoise, and The War On Drugs, proving that Dan’s horizons extend significantly further than many of his supposed “indie folk” contemporaries.

Dan hopes that ‘End Codes’ will appeal to his existing small-but-probably-dedicated fan-base, while also attracting new listeners, as it’s the best thing he’s ever done. We like ‘End Codes’ very much, and we hope you do too. Dan is, as ever, available for interviews, lovingly curated playlists, and questionable sports science product endorsements.

ARTIST LINKS
www.lorecordings.com/artist/astronauts/
www.facebook.com/pages/Astronauts…71?ref=bookmarks
twitter.com/AstronautHeart

LABEL LINKS
www.lorecordings.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Lo-Recordi…/448401545307474
twitter.com/lorecordings

CONTACT
Press – John Power – john@thebestinshow.net
Radio – Sean Newsham - sean@mutante-inc.demon.co.uk
Label/licensing - Gavin O’Shea - gavin@hub100.com


End Codes

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Recondition

Next KANNMIX comes from dedicated allrounder Neele: Booker and most versatile Dj from Leipzig. Conne Island is her home, where she among others took care of our 33 Hour party with Giegling last years November. After this two days madness she recorded a perfect come back down mix. 
Future Mondays are save.

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KANNMIX 9 - Neele

1. Air - Alone In Kyoto
2. Four Tet - Glue Of The World
3. The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel Suite 1
4. Al Quetz aka Quetzal - Niger Oil (Delta's Rebel)
5. Begin - Here Comes The Sun
6. Beach House - Silver Soul
7. Christian Naujoks - Number Of Dreams
8. Gonjasufi - Duet
9. Skylevel - Smiling Stranger 
10. Maggie Björklund - Name In The Sand
11. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
12. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
13. Midlake - Am I Go Insane (Black Sabbath Cover)

KANNMIX 9 | Neele

Artist: Zammuto
Title: My Dog's Eyes
Album: Veryone EP
Release Date: July 12, 2016

Buy: https://zammuto.bandcamp.com/album/veryone

Over the past few months Nick Zammuto has been digging back into his seemingly endless backlog of rare tapes and LPs collected during the Books’ tours from 2005-2011. Veryone compiles the first three tracks that mark the beginning of a new line of sample-oriented work that Zammuto plans to develop into a full-length album in 2017. Of this new work, Zammuto says, “In many ways it feels like coming home.”

“My Dog’s Eyes” is based on an outdated list of children’s favorite things. Zammuto took each image, found its rhythmic heartbeat and intrinsic melody, and put them in order of increasing tempo as a structural basis for the track. He then composed additional instrumentation around this structure, in the process revealing the natural cadence and harmony within each phrase.

On “It Can Feel So Good,” Zammuto built a tuned array of PVC pipes and a device that holds a small speaker in the optimal position for re-recording sounds though them (pictured on the Veryone's cover). Using Zammuto’s well- documented, innovative record-scratching process, unique vinyl rhythms were pushed through the pipes to create the rhythmic and melodic structures of the track. He coupled this with a beautiful voice from a vintage meditation tape from the 1970s, chopped and tuned to match the pipe resonances. A portion of this track originally appeared in the 'New Now' episode of Adult Swim's show Off The Air.

For the final track, “Smolt,” Zammuto guitarist, Nick Oddy, donated an old Epiphone SG electric guitar, of which Nick Zammuto removed the frets. By tuning, pitching and delaying improvisations on the fretless guitar, Zammuto sequenced a number of interlocking melodies and rhythms. An old choral tape sample, which happened to be in the same key as the guitar, became the counterpoint. To complete the piece, a lot of 'noise' from recordings of rain and fire were adapted as a kind of “smoldering” backdrop.

TRACK LISTING
1. My Dog's Eyes
2. It Can Feel So Good
3. Smolt

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