sample from an old soviet rhythmic Gymnastics vinyl ...nice!

DC Promo Tracks #840: "Everything Is Talking" by BODY CORP is part of the release "Monument" on bedroom suck records @bedroomsuckrecords  

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DC Promo Tracks #840: BODY CORP "Everything Is Talking"

3 tracks cut out from a romper stomping synth pop set from Ultraflex LIVE at Sameheads........ Playing on the night alongside Raphael Top Secret & Telephones......

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And catch more of Ultraflex here: https://soundcloud.com/ultraflexband

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Ultraflex - Work Out Tonight LIVE At Sameheads 17 02 23

Borrowed Ground

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Mori RA - Water

Vinyl & Digital:
https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/pantene

Pantene was a live performance art-pop group that existed in Berlin, Germany in 2015. Its four band members: Marijn Degenaar, Molly Dyson, Olle Holmberg, and Rahel Tierbach took a DIY approach to instrumentation and arrangement, where intergenerational low-fidelity samples collide with subversive and pithy lyrics. Using laptops, MIDI, samplers and effects units to deliver re-contextualised pieces of music, Pantene explored issues surrounding cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality with effortless aplomb.

This collection of 4 songs has been, for the past few years, sitting on Soundcloud slowly collecting plays, likes and no doubt intrigue from its listeners, as it seems since the time of upload Pantene have gone silent. Super Utu will be reissuing this remastered digi-relic on 10” polyvinyl chloride for the very first time. On side A is Don’t Touch Me I’m Dancing, a piercing retribution to seedy characters who lurk in dark corners of nightclubs. Molly and Rahel’s disaffected vocals pan “It’s a quest for satisfaction. A finger in every hole.” As if the nightclub is the playing field for some sort of sadistic sexual sport. Just Business, dejectedly examines our autonomy as individuals existing in an increasingly monotonous world controlled by capitalists. It’s the kind of work Barbara Kruger might have written if she decided to make music instead of visual art. Olle reflects “…cos everywhere you go there is another IKEA store to stock up your new life.” It’s a witty remark that would feel as much at home in a dole-wave jangle as a David Foster Wallace novel. At once extremely familiar, yet totally mentally isolating.

On the flip we hear Near To The Wild Heart. A legato, time-warped sample breathes deep and heavy beneath the reverb drenched vocals which sing “I am calm, I am cool, I wait for you. Take me all the way down, stretch it to the limit.” The lyrics float around in the back of your mind, in the exact same way the thought does that the attractive other from across the room, who’s been making eyes at you all night, might go home with you. On My Knees 2 Pray also does not falter in it’s sexually implicit/explicit vocal tango. The hapax legomenon of sultry deutsche sprache translates to “Virgin Mary, I know you see me. My knees only suffer for you.” 

While public discourse on sampling is contentious, it definitely pays to look beyond the technicalities and understand the context and contention of the creator(s). Pantene’s use of samples trounce any blatant pastiche. They re-appropriate decades old night club hits into breath-of-fresh-air political-pop songs. Perhaps you could even call them protest songs. At least we’re confident in knowing that they’ll be broadcast in institutions which were once symbols of anti-establishment, freedom and expression. Maybe they’re still like that. or Maybe not.

Words by Raudie McLeod
http://atelierutu.tumblr.com

SUPER UTU 2 - PANTENE - SNIPPETS

UMLAUT! - Enjoy Your Life

Thick Pigeon was, apparently, 'a walk through the civilization of your soul'. And Miranda really is very fan of dogs.

Thick Pigeon - Dog (1982, Les Disques Du Crépuscule)
Long Edit by Athome

As played on NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE:  I'm a Cliche's bi-monthly radio show on Rinse FM France.
 https://soundcloud.com/imacliche/no-weapon-is-absolute-11

Thick Pigeon - Dog (Athome Edit)

One Love for the Antinote Artists, One Love for the Antinote Supporters, Friends and Listeners. We need you, we won't die, hopefully. Nothing can hurt when love is here. e love you As usual we offer you a large spectrum of music wrapped in a One-love-Antinote vibe.

River Yarra - Moss

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Conoley Ospovat - Post-Typhoon Shakedown

Upcoming album "Moods & Dances 2021" out on January 29th, 2021. Preorder available via https://orcd.co/rvds.php

Richard von der Schulenburg – Mrs Yamahas Summer Tune

Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980​-​1989 out March 26  http://bit.ly/OzEchoes

Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio archives and irrationally abandoned studio sessions, as Steele Bonus sequences a 10-track compendium of drone pop, psyche-electronics and agitated tape cut-ups.

From the Sydney cassette network, The Horse He's Sick returns with an industrial car crash, alongside Wrong Kind of Stone Age’s pagan cacophony and primal riddims. M Squared dynamo Patrick Gibson appears in both Height/Dismay and Mr Knott, his respective studio-as-an-instrument collaborations with Dru Jones (Scattered Order) and ex-Slugfucker Gordon Renouf - the former’s worn out apparition hails from an instantly deleted 1981 7”, while Mr Knott entrust one of the compilation’s five previously unreleased tracks.

Matt Mawson represents Brisbane music media-printed matter collective ZIP, as Adelaide’s Three D Radio grants access to their vaults of live-to-air recordings and aspiring demo submissions, rescuing the slap-happy punk-funk of The Frenzied Bricks and Jandy Rainbow’s prodigious beginnings in Les Trois Etrangers and Aeroplane Footsteps. Synchronously in Melbourne, Ash Wednesday (Karen Marks, The Metronomes) leads Modern Jazz’ improvised proto-techno and EBM pioneers Shanghai Au Go-Go home record their sardonic synth-wave.

A cherry-picked cast of unusual suspects, Oz Echoes’ unfamed artist and non-band narratives are detailed by track-by-track liner notes with rarely published archival visions and artwork from Video Synth, prompting further rabbit hole ventures into this golden era of creative risk-taking and instant action.

SUPER UTU 2 - PANTENE - SNIPPETS

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