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AMSEM is a family affair! So it was only natural that Karim Kahar was inspired by Joe Lewandowski to offer a powerful remix of his compatriot's track. From the fields, we go to the club. Here, the dreamy and solar atmosphere of the original track has been replaced by a feverish electro atmosphere. Gone is Joe's long progressive introduction: with Karim, we get into the thick of things right from the start, to the rhythm of this vibrant bass and this hard-hitting kick. The acidic arpeggiati collide with slamming snares that seem to intensify as you listen. An unstable energy that is balanced by the light vocals and the softer-than-silk synth layers.

CREDITS
Composed and Produced by Joe Lewandowski
 Remix by Karim Kahar 
Graphic Design by Layla Gras
  Voice by Pauline Konrad
Mix by Thomas Lachèze
Master by Stef @ mixmastering.de
 Published at Baïdy Production Released on Amsem Records
Distribution by !K7 Records

Contact: marco@mesmarecords.com

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✸✸✸ JOE LEWANDOWSKI ✸✸✸
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First Time (Karim Kahar Remix)

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Joe Lewandowski - First Time (Karim Kahar Remix)

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Sampled and pitched in a short loop with reminiscences of the 2000s, the aerial chords of First Time become strangely heady under Valerj's guidance. Carried by this almost exhilarating loop, our auditory contemplation accelerates when the kicks arrive. Our head bobs to the beat of this driving bass, topped by its metallic shaker. The chopped and glitched vocal overlays itself and becomes more and more distorted as the rest of the percussion joins in the dance. The energy of the track builds up in successive bursts. It takes time to build up gently, until the arrival of these angelic synthetic arpeggios, which complete our immersion in the trance. Like a rain of stars, they accompany us towards the end of this dream where only a heady sample remains, with the false air of a scratched CD

CREDITS
Composed and Produced by Joe Lewandowski
Remix by Valerj
Graphic Design by Layla Gras
Voice by Pauline Konrad
Master by Stef @ mixmastering.de
Published at Baïdy Production
Released on Amsem Records
Distribution by !K7 Records
Contact: marco@mesmarecords.com

✸✸✸ VALERJ ✸✸✸
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✸✸✸ JOE LEWANDOWSKI ✸✸✸
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➫ IG : bit.ly/2vnoGMr

✸✸✸ AMSEM RECORDS ✸✸✸
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First Time (Valerj Remix)

Joe Lewandowski - First Time (Valerj Remix)

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Within the transformations of their meticulous processes, London duo Kassian become a vessel for alchemy: filtering and distilling scores of stems, samples and layers until something richer and more complex than the sum of its parts emerges. Uncomfortable in any solitary genre, and at the midpoint of somewhere unexpected and uncharted, the pair describe their sound as “almost techno.”

Since their debut release in 2018, Kassian have drifted leftwards into heavier, more abstract territory, harnessing their individual skills for working in the small pockets and painting the whole cloth of the canvas. In their first outing for !K7, Phase Two EP, the Roland System 1 synth is the throughline as they painstakingly piece together sketches, turning high hats into kick drums, capturing the resonance of percussion and drift further into each other’s heavy-hitting sonic realms.

“X-303” recontextualises the sci-fi inspiration of its name, forging a new style of interstellar acid. A driving kick drum holds steady through a track which oscillates between contrasts: from eerie, suspenseful pads and distorted string sounds, to a minimalistic groove accented with double-time drums and mechanistic pulses. “Tabla” reduces a distinct latin rhythm down to its essence, and is propelled by a thick and distended bass loop. Its hypnotic groove combines the human and the virtual with a glitching vocal sample and the juddering of strummed guitar strings, highlighted by the percussive hits of its namesake instrument.

The pair characterise “Prelude” as “a Frankenstein kind of monster.” Constructed around a radio sample of a legend of the scene, it is a sleek and incremental gradation of shades, with micro layers from their palette of sounds rising and falling, blending and twisting with no obvious lead or bass. Repurposing the same drums as “X-303”, the EP’s final track “Patterns” was inspired by Kassian’s earliest incarnations of live performances, and it unashamedly captures the peaks of communal moments, rounding out the EP with an epic take on deep and techy house.

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