mon dieux !! comment tu me fais plané ! l'autre jour a st brieuc à la soirée au bonjour minuit j'ai décollée sur ton set !  sacrée découverte ! votre Live visuel étais tous aussi planant ! Good job !

Written, Produced and Performed by Tammy Lakkis
Recorded in Hamtramck, MI
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering
Pressed by Archer Record Pressing, Detroit
Design and Layout by Ben Saginaw and Vinnie Massimino
©℗ MMXXI Portage Garage Sounds

Shark Island

Project composed by Blutch from 2018 to 2021
Mixed by Blutch and Damien - incredible music ingeneer - Tronchot (Pavane)
Mastered by Benjamin - super masterer - Joubert at Biduloscope Studio
Produced by - this awesome, wonderful & passionate team - Astropolis
Photograph by - the young but already giant - Evan Lunven 
Typography by - the talented - Raphaël de la Morinerie

Wonderful glides, help & modular synth textures 
by  the lovely man of the south, Maxime Dangles.
Wonderful additional strings on  « Cobalan » &  « Choices »
by the one and lovely, Mirabelle Gillis.
Wonderful added keys by the groove man in chief Fabien Lahaye.
Wonderful studio session, guitars and drums on  « Phoenix »
 by my friends forever, Hugo Blonzart & Léo Proust.

Terre Promise

Blutch unveils a new track from his forthcoming debut album ‘Terre Promise’ (January 2022) with ‘Poplar’, one of the most eclectic track from the album.

After breakbeat and UKG explorations on ‘Cobalan’ and ‘River’, Blutch unveils a new colours palette on ‘Poplar’: an introduction sounding like a tribute to Boards of Canada’s ‘Dayvan Cowboy’ or ‘Baba O’Riley’ by The Who, mixed with one of the cultures that has animated him the most since his teen years, hip-hop. At the crossroads of styles, Blutch signs a new libertarian and borderless piece, fundamentally contemporary.

‘Poplar’ refers to the street where he grew up. As a nod to the youth, a piece thought to give strength and energy through its great piano’s chords, sublimated by Fabien Lahaye and recorded at Brest’s Conservatory in France.

Airy and melancholic, smooth and organic, a meticulous production with great alchemy between plenty of influences, from hip hop to electronic or pop.

Two remixes of ‘Poplar’ will be released in November by two well respected French producers: Correspondant label head Jennifer Cardini and Maud Geffray, member of Scratch Massive.

PREMIERE : Blutch - Poplar

Balls of scrunched up paper littered the floor, the notes scrawled across them now illegible. Indecisiveness controlled her every move, she preferred people to make decisions for her — the stress of having choices was all-consuming. Even her decision to pen the thoughts and feelings prompted by these struggles had become saturated with ifs and buts; rights and wrongs. She needed her path dictated...

In 2020 French producer Blutch made his debut on Astropolis Records - the label arm of the festival of the same name in Brittany. Since then he's been hard at work on his follow up for the imprint, this time coming in the form of his first album Terre Promise. A showcase of his knack for playing with mood and emotion, the 12 tracks connect the dots between electronica, breakbeat, house and IDM, straddling the realms of contemplative soundscapes and tracks custom-made for the dance floor. 

In anticipation of the full LP release the label called on the likes of Jennifer Cardini, Lauer, Malcolm and several others, to offer up their own takes on the original LP tracks. These come included as part of the CD release.

PREMIERE: Blutch - Choices [Astropolis]

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America

With an arsenal of stellar music releases already under his belt, Ponty Mython serves up the delicious “Pink Tango” EP for Futureboogie.

Having carved out a reputation for some of the finest cosmic house productions on labels like Omena, Dirt Crew and Quintessentials, the Lithuanian based producer delivers three new cuts on this release, which comes ably backed by a remix from Italian producer Fabrizio Mammarella.

On the title track, Alex Pletnev (Ponty Mython), goes for breezy synths and wandering melodies over a chugging mechanical beat and an FM style bassline, whilst Fabrizio Mammarella (Bear Funk/Les Disques De La Mort) toughens things up slightly on his remix, plunging into a darker sound aesthetic for a great reinterpretation of the original.

On “Time Spiral” an unhurried groove is laced with layer upon layer of meditative synths and percussive rolls for a fat dose of eighties soundtrack vibes, whilst EP closer, “Appreciate It While It's Not Too Late”, settles down to a head-nodding pace with funky bass and key melodies and live drum samples for a real earworm of a track.

Pink Tango EP

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PREMIERE: Blutch - Choices [Astropolis]

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