Shadows

NEVER FALL

OCTOBER

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

Firecracker’s dwarf constellation Unthank thaws down from a small cryogenic suspension and delivers it’s first 12”!

Tracks from the vault from Cardiff’s DJ Guy (Other World Music/Cejero/All Caps) who’s been busy since 1992. All tracks designed to be played loud and with the dance in mind whilst taking in all sorts of melancholy, euphoria and pastoral, acid soundscapes.

• First ever 12” Unthank release!
• 6 Track EP
• Small, 85mm metallic labels suspended on 12” crystal clear vinyl
• Silkscreened artwork by House Of Traps

RIYL Dream 2 Science, Autechre, Unit Moebius, μ-Ziq etc

DJ Guy - UNTHANK012

A spontaneous feeling produced by Zoé Couppé and Eo Eintu,
in 48h on the island of Skopelos, during the equinox storm.
Remember that the equinox is the time of year when day and night are of equal length. The spring equinox takes place in March
The track has been thinked, created and mixed in a car, and then represent how we feel inside it : in a box, so close yet so far from what you see through the window, protected from the outside, still in your home but finally at 3000km from it.

Our own writtings for...
I feel it starts again, Why does it go on?
Aujourd’hui les choses se sont accélérées, et, parodie de la vitesse, les avis vont de même.
Peu de doute, moins en tout cas -en est-il si sûr finalement ?- :
l’implication s’est vue,
au coin d’une altercation,
à l’ombre d’une caméra : pour une lutte déterminée,
par-là la perte d'un peu de soi,

Sur La Digue

Music originally recorded during live acts somewhere between 2017 - 2019.
Release date : 01/05/2020
Pre-order : https://d-k-music.bandcamp.com/album/eighteen-movements

 Eighteen Movements (Recordings 2017/2019 - Preview)

JGT46: https://tinyurl.com/y6u85nz6

@imaginary-phrases
@jungle-gym-records

PREMIERE: "I" - / / / / *Free Download*

Lieues

Erevan DJ The head behind @Bambooshows (label, guestmix series & parties) and station manager of @lylradio is also the Lyon-based partner of @scenecityeu : @ErevanDJ. An active figure of the local scene, the artist promotes audio sophrology, 90's reminiscences, psychedelic atmospheres and exotic breaks through his music. You can have a nice overview of his taste through the second mix of the @scenecityeu Lyon takeover on Mutant Radio.

Erevan DJ  [Scene City Lyon Takeover]

Palanga Street Radio
presents:
💦Monthly show Liūdesys.💦
This time Paul Sadness invites you to celebrate new years with the last episode of the year.
✨A feast of sadness and tears.💦
https://soundcloud.com/paulsadness
Tracklist: 
Conny Frischauf - Halbzeit
Roy Montgomery - For The Imperiled
Yoko Kanno - 15 Road to the West
David Sylvian - Maria
Lewis - I Thought The World Of You
Soft kill - I Needed The Pain
Gigi Masin - Clouds
Meitei - Okue
Lung Dart - Gazing
AV Moves - Sorry Too Much
Shamos - Tarass
Nature And Organisation - A Dozen Winters Of Loneliness
Duval Timothy - First Rain
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Dolphins
Lord Tusk - Beyond Limitation
George-Edwards Group - You Came Away
Yamaneko - Flower Garden (Night)
Lotte Kærså & Græsrødderne – Byen Er Stille
Nyx Nótt - Citation Needed
D.K. - The Goddess Is Dancing
Sordid Sound System - You & Me
Cucina Povera - Kuparirumpu
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Giant Claw - Deep Thoughts 004
Pauline Anna Strom - Marking Time
A Gethsémani - Cheree
Romas Dambrauskas - Naujieji Metai (P.S. Slow Edit)
👍
http://palanga.live