Solpara’s debut album, Melancholy Sabotage, marks his return to Other People. While it was recorded over Covid lockdowns, Jaar had been talking about wanting to back a Solpara full-length since he put out Swing. The album came to life while Solpara was living alone in a Brooklyn loft, collecting unemployment checks and viewing ample free time as the artist residency he’d dreamed of; he’d previously been forced to make music in odd windows between numerous jobs and the unmerciful pace of city life. Free from obligations, he would wake up early to take Arabic lessons, read Tracey Thorn’s autobiography, and skateboard the deserted streets, then come home and design sounds until he had a track that felt like it needed to be released. While this easy going lifestyle was peaceful in many ways, Solpara found more complex inspiration in the emotion that stemmed from participation in Black Lives Matter protests and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion which rocked all of his extended family members in Lebanon.

Melancholy Sabotage explores the theme of sabotaging melancholy. Echoing sounds from the post-punk, trip-hop, and ambient genres, it is about sabotaging the cycle of melancholy and looking at this process without ignoring the sources that put it into motion. It may be compared to a rattling breaking free from retention, reaching states of dreamy euphoria and transcendence while simultaneously acknowledging the sources of retention, viewed from above. “The melancholy is going and going. It’s both beautiful and painful and you can get engulfed by it, but you can sabotage it,” he muses on the album’s title.

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Solpara - Measures

NR Sound Premiere #16

Artist: Solpara
Track: Eviction
Label: OTHER PEOPLE
Album: Melancholy Sabotage
Release date: 21.06.24
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Melancholy Sabotage

Premiere: Solpara - Eviction [OP070]

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Solpara - Time To Hold Better

Solpara - This Time Last Year

Solpara - We Don't Owe

Solpara - Breaking Points

Solpara - Eviction

The End Is Not Always Just An End, Sometimes It Is Also A New Beginning...

TECHNOPUZZLE#5 MIX

Other People is a record label started in New York City in 2013 by Nicolás Jaar. In its 10 years of existence, it has featured the sonic work of over 70 music releases, highlights include Terepa (2015), a "telepathic" collaboration helmed by Kohei Matsunaga (aka NHK’Koyxen) featuring Rashad Becker, Charlotte Collin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, Grégoire Simon and Kohei himself, Caves (2021), a compilation of silences featuring Laraaji, Aho Ssan, Ana Quiroga and more, Weavings (2022), a collaborative live piece with Juliana Huxtable, Ellen Fullman, Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara of Senyawa, Angel Bat Dawid and others. The label has also put out the 1990 spoken word piece "Conspiracy of Women" (2015) by Lydia Lunch, as well as Tomaga & Pierre Bastien's collaborative album entitled Bandiera di Carta (2019) and Lucrecia Dalt's Esotro / Veta release (2014) with remixes by William Basinski and John Wall. It has also featured the likes of Magdalena Dàugosz, Barbara Zawadzka, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Krzysztof Knittel, Bogusław Shaeffer, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Dienne, Charbel Haber, Okokon, Against All Logic, FKA Twigs, Darkside, Nicolás Jaar and others.  It has featured the visual work of Maziyar Pahlevan, Africanus Okokon, Zofia Kulik, Jena Myung, Charbel Haber, Abeera Kamran and Somnath Bhatt among others. The label’s current contract states that an artist on the label owns all their rights and decides the full percentage of the revenue they wish to make from their releases on the label, after recoupment. Any of the label’s profit gets given out to artists in forms of grants, workshop and educational initiatives. The label has collaborated in this form with more than three dozen exceptional organizations and individuals in the past three years. Although the label works not-for-profit, it is not a registered non-profit.

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It took me a while to start writing electronic music. It all started back in hairy 2004, when my friend and I were recording a guitar on a cassette recorder and singing all sorts of nonsense. I began to realize that I feel music and rhythm well, and closer to 2005 we created a team where I worked exclusively on vocals. At the same time, I started getting interested in Chemical Brothers and Prodigy, and I was thinking that it would be great to incorporate electronics into our songs. Soon the band fell apart, and I decided to pursue electronic music, bought a piano tutorial, a MIDI keyboard, connected it via the MIDI interface to the FL 5, delved into the sequencer, and began writing tracks.....
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Now, having more than thirty years of my life behind me, despite my constant work, I continued to do what I always did, I additionally fell in love with techno and its music, and I have accumulated a decent vinyl collection (about 500 records) in this style. Accordingly, more mixes began to appear. Listen to TECHNOPUZZLE and my new tracks.

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