https://orchidsmantissa.bandcamp.com/track/lama-love-on-the-rocks-orchid-edit

Lama - Love On The Rocks (Orchid Edit)

Mexican duo Sierra Madre is thrilled to unveil their first EP, "Cumbres". The collaboration project of producers @mijomijo and @colossiomx, offers a unique blend of techno and indie dance, influenced by the stories of Monterrey City, Mexico. The release includes a collaboration with @moiseesduro and a remix by Esprit Divers.

Inspired by the tragic events that took place in “Cumbres” neighborhood, the EP opens with the title track, a dark, hypnotic, and evocative cut. It is followed by "Cadereyta," the name of the prison where the perpetrator of the Cumbres murders serves his sentence. A cut featuring distorted synthesizers and a driving drumbeat.

Next is "Diego," the track in collaboration with Moisees, a sinister, powerful, and gummy jam. To close the release, Esprit Divers' “Cumbres” remix provides a powerful and introspective cut, taking listeners on a journey of groovy self-discovery.

Cumbres

Diego

Sierra Madre ft. Moisees - Diego (Original Mix)

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/velvet_desert_music_vol_3_lp_7_dl

Kompakt unveils the third volume of Jörg Burger’s “Velvet Desert Music” compilation series, dedicated to music that hits the sweet spot between the cinematic, the (pop) ambient, and the psychedelic. With “Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3”, Burger and his friends wander afar, taking trips away from, or adjacent to, the dancefloor that’s acted so long as the crucible for the Kompakt aesthetic. Like its predecessors, it’s a gorgeous, lambent collection of late-night mood music.

Because it’s such a broad church, “Velvet Desert Music” admits all kinds of new experiences, as well, with Burger looking for music that “goes beyond the desert to explore different corners of the velvet universe”. Indeed, of all the volumes in the series, this third installment feels closest to an album made by a true collective. The roster has changed, with new contributors Flug 8 and Seb Martel, both with his trio Las Ondas Marteles and with Chocolate Genius and Zsela as La Finca, joining regulars The Novotones, Mount Obsidian, The Golden Bug, Paulor and Sascha Funke.

Burger himself shows up alongside Fritz Ackermann of The Novotones and Max Würden and Thore Pfeiffer, in The Velvet Circle. Their contributions are pure lush life electronica: “Our Tribe” hitches a ride with a low-slung groove, flickering psychedelic reels of acoustic guitar traipsing across moody bass and taffeta layers of drone; their opening remix of Flug 8’s “Puerto Rico” gently introduces the album with softly tangling electronic tones, while guitars, drenched in reverb, pirouette in the background. Mount Obsidian’s remix of Burger´s The Black Frame “Sacrosanct” spins around the listeners ears like a kaleidoscope catching the reflections the sun makes in San Luis Potosí’s ornately decorated churches.

La Finca’s electronics and voice miniature, “What Clouds Say”, is a masterclass in poetic restraint; Martel’s “Dark Mambo”, remixed by Burger, is one of the collection’s big surprises, for it indeed does what the title says, a drifting, surrealist take on the mambo form, full of pensive chords, rich with unrequited longing, a breathy saxophone whispering under the song’s sly rhythmic carriage.

Old friends reappear, too: Golden Bug’s “Es Cucuruc” is a muted slow burner. The Novotones chime in with a slyly propulsive, Krautrock-esque charmer, “Liberty Bell”, and the guitar-led tone-drift of “Valley of Oblivion”; Paulor’s “The Last Coke in the Desert” is a chiming, lilting dreamscape; Mount Obsidian are joined again by vocalist Charlotte Jestaedt for two modern takes on early-hours art song, „Fade“ and „Marole“, the closing track of the compilation, which is a spooked requiem for times passed. Sascha Funke’s “Mathias Rust” is a lavish dancefloor dream, vocal samples drifting through the song as it slowly envelops the listener in its opulent radiance.

What’s most compelling about “Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3”, perhaps, is the way everything sits together so tightly, so neatly – it’s the album in the series so far that feels the most like it’s been made by collaborators in one long, playful session of experiment and exploration; everyone’s on the same page, exploring the fractured wastelands, dust squalls, sunburnt scapes and psychedelic cacti of the psyche; burnt sienna, desert lilies and willows, fairy dusters, yucca and greasewood… an extravagance of blooming, riotous colour, erupting from the sun-cracked landscapes within each of us.

This is just a taste of the rich pleasures of Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3, a triumph of a compilation that takes the psychedelic visions of its predecessors and looks for the desert within, a dusty kiss, a road-movie hallucination flickering on the listener’s eyelids, a cinematic projection from deep inside the mind.

Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3

Mathias Rust

Sascha Funke - Mathias Rust

François K turns in a psychedelic remix of the new single from the “French Jarvis Cocker with a bushy moustache and flares.”

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-dombrance-cope-francois-k-remix-discolypso/


@francoiskofficial @dombrance

Double Trouble

PREMIERE: Dombrance - Cope (François K Remix) [Discolypso]

Druve [Minimal Groove Concept]

Sovrix [Minimal Groove Concept]

Roxa [Minimal Groove Concept]

Traumraum proudly welcomes Kaled to the family. As part of the infamous production duo, Cosmic Cowboys, he’s well known for passionate output on labels such as Compost, Rotary Cocktail, Bedrock, and many more. After his successful solo debut on Lee Burridge’s Get Weird label, the Italian artist presents his second solo EP on Patrick Zigon’s freshly launched Traumraum imprint.

The Endless Story EP is inspired by Kaled’s home base, the beautiful lagoon of Venice: a true fairy- tale area known for amazing landscapes and natural spectacles bridging air, water, and sun. The EP catapults you directly into Kaled’s emotional cosmos full of scents and colors, letting you hover over the Venetian sea and vault into the blue sky. Eventually transforming into a trademark Venice sunset - when the sun warms the spirits as they traverse the darkness of night - truly magical things take place; as the noise leaves room for silence, spirits fly towards the infinite again.

The combination of Kaled’s search for simplicity with his larger-than-life emotions results in a dreamy four-tracker with a gentle, sensual sound and constant groove, finalized by Werner Niedermeier mastering, and a beautiful artwork by MAZi. More info: www.traumraum.org

Endless Story

04. Kaled - 4 Steps

The latest instalment on Viscera Premieres comes courtesy of Niv Ast & Eliezer, who deliver a gripping cocktail of intergalactic melodies - Air guitars at the ready!

@nivast
@laze_65
@newdayeveryday

The Untold Story of Del Fierro

PREMIERE | Niv Ast & Eliezer - La Passioneta ft. Adrien Albou [New Day Everyday]

The elusive UK-underground legend Johnny Aux roughs up the already rugged Crack That Habit into an extended house banger.

Miss Represented - Crack That Habit (Johnny Aux Mix)

Eliezer has more than 20 years of experience behind the decks, in the studio, and as an authority in nightlife in Israel. As an active producer, he’s released on contemporary labels such as Days of Being Wild, Night Noise, Unterman, and Prins Thomas’ imprint Internasjonal under the alias Midnight Dicers and he also runs his own New Day Every Day imprint. Here he works with Isadora, a musician, songwriter and poet known as the lead singer of her eponymously entitled band. The tracks were made in the studio that was inside Eliezer’s club, and he says, “It’s been a long journey as two of them started as a sketch back in 2009 but together with Isadora they got the perfect touch and finish.” Arresting opener ‘Bright Light’ is a dazzling disco cut with shimmering chords and punchy kicks that make you march as Isadora adds fluid, soulful vocals. The excellent ‘Gold E Bella’ started as “a bizarre bass and atmosphere mix, and with the speech from Isadora it became a dance floor bomb.” It’s tense, full of twists and turns and dark disco energy. The heavier ‘Get Down’ has a real sense of menacing energy, with laser like synths, deadpan vocals and punk spirit. Last of all, Dan Wainwright’s X-Rated Remix of ‘Bright Light’ brings howling chords and jittery, dubbed out drums that reverberate with late night kinetics. Once again here Night Noise platform exciting talents with brilliantly inventive sounds.

SSRI

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PREMIERE : Eliezer x Isadora - Gold E Bella

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