Label : @abstrack-records

The Balek Band’s first album, Médecines, is the product of a magma of influences, the emanation of large decade of music infused lives. The emotional tessitura is wide: the dark meadows of “The Balek Bad” reach us through like a mantra from the end of a dark tunnel, while just three track earlier it was a caribbean Zouk euphoria which ruled the world. Inbetween, it’s a wide spectrum of hybrid epiphanies : Hagen & Again is a progressive Dub jewel, even Krauty to an extent, where the instruments play the lead role. Cosmic Barry is across the Channel : thick and broken club music, sweating with subs, yet always disputing it to the Funk accent of the the keys and the slap bass. This list of Geographical and stylistic hybridations simplys goes on, and it’s the XX minutes of the album that put an end to it. But beyond the never-ending list, this first album is alive : its gets us breathing the therapeutical air which fills the world of its creators.

Le premier album, Médecines, de The Balek Band est le produit d'un magma d'influences, l'émanation d'une grosse décennie de vies traversées par la musique. Dans l'orbite de la communauté Abstrack, la danse et la fête ne sont jamais loin : dans Médecines, elle dessinent l'ossature multicolore d’un corps traversé par des impulsions aussi fortes que diverses. La tessiture émotionnelle est large : les brumes obscures de The Balek Bad nous parviennent comme un mantra chanté du fond d'un tunnel, alors que trois pistes plutôt, c’était l'euphorie Zouk caribéenne qui semblait indépassable. Entre les deux, un large spectre de fulgurances hybrides : Hagen & Again est un bijou Dub progressif, presque Kraut, où les instruments sont au centre du jeu. L’outre Manche est incarnée dans Cosmic Barry : club musique épaisse et breakée, qui transpire le sub, mais dialogue en fil rouge avec les accents Funk portés par les claviers et la basse slapée. L’énumération des hybridations spatiales et stylistiques continue presque indéfiniment, et n’est finalement limitée que par les XX minutes de l’album. C’est le temps écoulé qui semble donc être la limite à cet incroyable projet, tout comme il en avait été le catalyseur, s’offrant en quantités pléthoriques au groupe, lors des premiers confinements.

Médecines

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05 The Balek Band - Hagen & Again

04 The Balek Band - Blanc Nuit

02 The Balek Band - Charbon Alcool

01 The Balek Band -  Introspection

"The Kloom were not a one-day-band... They did it because it was there, all around them.
Whether we like it or not, The Kloom surrounds us, envelopes us, makes us confess that it really exists. 
And you, sitting now in front of this screen, you are literally touching the Kloom, an illusion that in its exceptional complexity makes you feel like you have the option of joining the other 20,000 newcomers.
The Kloom were: Nitay, Nadav, Nadav, Martin and Lucas.
Who will be credited for future Kloom productions? no one knows. Is there even a point in that sort of thing? It just doesn't really matter, because its too fun to bath in Kloom..."

40 Gram Beton

A1_The Kloom - 40 Gram_Beton_(original mix)

Growing Bin burst into 2018 with a bang, crash and symbol splash, uniting a premier pair of per- cussion obsessives for a supernatural mission into the heart of the rhythm.
Dressed in the pitch black of Düsseldorf stands Wolf Müller, master of the tropical drums and se- ven time Salon Des Amateur breakdance champion. Repping Cologne and Berlin is Niklas Wandt, Germany’s funkiest drummer and a mixed musical artist as adept in experimental jazz as demen- ted Euro dance. Standing toe to toe in a no holds barred, no drum unstruck groove contest, these two titans will make you swing your pants like a Crash Bandicoot victory dance...so stretch out and step in to ‚Instrumentalmusik von der Mitte der World‘.
Taking to their task with the joyful abandon of two big kids getting creative with the Kindergar- ten music tray, Müller & Wandt marry dripping electronics, Froesean pads and rubber-limbed basslines with tribal polyrhythms, C2 claps and Indonesian shakers - and that‘s only on the A1. Comprising of three trance-inducing epics, a handful of medium-sized movers and a couple of freeform interludes, this dynamic double pack could almost pass as a lost Library masterpiece; but our mind guides go Furthur, fusing esoteric funk and free-jazz freak-out a truly transportive experience. Prepare to enter a world of techno totems and neon skulls, shades of Yello and excel- lent birds. Within these grooves lies a transdimensional pathway between the Temple of Doom, the Twilight Zone and De Palma‘s Paradise, brought to life in a shamanic rite.
Forget the healing frequencies of Growing Bin‘s ambient outings, this time we‘re dancing for mental health.
(wordsmith: Patrick Ryder!)

Instrumentalmusik von der Mitte der World

Wolf Mueller & Niklas Wandt - Traum 4 (6:51) snippet

Alma Negra - Kabaré (Bambounou Remix)

Lawrence and his label, Dial Music, are no strangers to the speakers of the Fiction Lab: his delicate minimalistic aesthetic has been delighting us on many occasions.  When we heard he was remixing Truby Trio's Universal Love, we were immediately intrigued: how would this funky, groovy and upbeat original be morphed into a Lawrence track. Well, if we had to visualize the creative process, we'd guess that Lawrence was swimming underwater as the original track was playing on the beach when he got his idea for the remix.  Have you ever heard music under water?  The bass gets more prominent but also thump-y and muted.  The highs don’t do well in the water and get filtered out or recede into the background, overpowered by the thump of the bass.  The melodic mids acquire a sense of mystery and smoothness in their flow, but also a sense of distance.  And so it goes with this remix: its bass is prominent, its highs are nothing but gentle flutters, its melody is muted and aquatic sounding.  The energy and drive are dialed (get it? Lawrence? Dial Music?) down and a funky booty shaker of an original gets submerged into Lawrence's ocean to produce a sequence of meditative, delicate melodic phrases that float in and out at will, propelled forward by bass which is the part that most closely anchors (aquatic puns anyone?) the remix to the original.

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@red-laser-records boss @christian-wood AKA Ill Bosco puts an Italo spin on a rare Italian boogie track.

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Ill Bosco - Tokio (Ill Bosco's edit of Flemming Dalum's Centre Neptune Edit) (STW Premiere)

A bit of everything in this remix for the great @future-beat-alliance 🎶

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