There's OnLy this WoRLd

Vinyl & Digital:
https://superutu.bandcamp.com/album/pantene

Pantene was a live performance art-pop group that existed in Berlin, Germany in 2015. Its four band members: Marijn Degenaar, Molly Dyson, Olle Holmberg, and Rahel Tierbach took a DIY approach to instrumentation and arrangement, where intergenerational low-fidelity samples collide with subversive and pithy lyrics. Using laptops, MIDI, samplers and effects units to deliver re-contextualised pieces of music, Pantene explored issues surrounding cultural constructions of power, identity and sexuality with effortless aplomb.

This collection of 4 songs has been, for the past few years, sitting on Soundcloud slowly collecting plays, likes and no doubt intrigue from its listeners, as it seems since the time of upload Pantene have gone silent. Super Utu will be reissuing this remastered digi-relic on 10” polyvinyl chloride for the very first time. On side A is Don’t Touch Me I’m Dancing, a piercing retribution to seedy characters who lurk in dark corners of nightclubs. Molly and Rahel’s disaffected vocals pan “It’s a quest for satisfaction. A finger in every hole.” As if the nightclub is the playing field for some sort of sadistic sexual sport. Just Business, dejectedly examines our autonomy as individuals existing in an increasingly monotonous world controlled by capitalists. It’s the kind of work Barbara Kruger might have written if she decided to make music instead of visual art. Olle reflects “…cos everywhere you go there is another IKEA store to stock up your new life.” It’s a witty remark that would feel as much at home in a dole-wave jangle as a David Foster Wallace novel. At once extremely familiar, yet totally mentally isolating.

On the flip we hear Near To The Wild Heart. A legato, time-warped sample breathes deep and heavy beneath the reverb drenched vocals which sing “I am calm, I am cool, I wait for you. Take me all the way down, stretch it to the limit.” The lyrics float around in the back of your mind, in the exact same way the thought does that the attractive other from across the room, who’s been making eyes at you all night, might go home with you. On My Knees 2 Pray also does not falter in it’s sexually implicit/explicit vocal tango. The hapax legomenon of sultry deutsche sprache translates to “Virgin Mary, I know you see me. My knees only suffer for you.” 

While public discourse on sampling is contentious, it definitely pays to look beyond the technicalities and understand the context and contention of the creator(s). Pantene’s use of samples trounce any blatant pastiche. They re-appropriate decades old night club hits into breath-of-fresh-air political-pop songs. Perhaps you could even call them protest songs. At least we’re confident in knowing that they’ll be broadcast in institutions which were once symbols of anti-establishment, freedom and expression. Maybe they’re still like that. or Maybe not.

Words by Raudie McLeod
http://atelierutu.tumblr.com

SUPER UTU 2 - PANTENE - SNIPPETS

From the EP 'Serwed'
Release date : 26th April 

Asyncro is a record label launched by Moscow's electronic music producer OL in 2019. The opening release is an LP by Serwed – the debut collaborative project from OL and his Gost Zvuk label-mate Flaty. This record offers precise cuts with a wide range of rhythmic structures and granulated backgrounds, based on the duo’s explorations of free-form generative sound.

Artist : @soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov
www.facebook.com/olmoscow/

@soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty
www.facebook.com/producedbyflaty/?ref=hl

Label : @soundcloud.com/asyncro
www.facebook.com/asyncromusic

Premiere : Serwed - Linear [Asyncro]

Meandering between the back streets of nowhere there was little signposting which might act as a guide for escape. He had been trying for as long as he could remember to leave this town but it always found a way of pulling him back in when he least expected it. Out here in the midst of the woodand there was little but for the falling snow and the little huts which huddled together beneath dense green trees. This was his village, where he was born and where he would die. Only in snow it seemed he would live. 

La Fe is a collaboration between Daniel Rincon of Ambien Baby/ NAP and Michael Red of Souns. Together they have collaborated to produce an EP with dub leaning tendencies. Weirdo electronics and hazy soundscapes weave atop reggaeton percussion and the rumble of drums.

Con Que

PREMIERE: La Fe - Ois! [Isla]

Bruits de La Passion duo Jita Sensation come through with an eccentric machine-boogie freakout.

'L’alarme Fatale' is out soon on Association Fatale.

@jitasensation
@be_lec

Premiere: Jita Sensation - Posuere Nec [Association Fatale]

GARIES - In Bits EP - 12"/Digi
Future Times - FT054

OUT IN MARCH AT ALL FINE OUTLETS
Pre-order digi from FT> https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/ep-ft054
Pre-order from Rush Hour> https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/garies-ep

Garies come through for Future Times! After putting a killer on the FIGS Compilation last year (the excellent “Don Bongo”), Lumigraph and New Jackson team up and go wild for a four-song collection. Again channeling a few sounds at once, Garies go up and down with the tempo from the lazer-and-dirt-soaked opening rumbler “Emergency Tenner” thru the Dance-Mania-off-the-rails energy of the B2, “What A Room.” Get In.

Art by Mel Keane, layout by Max D

In Bits

Garies - In Bits EP - FT054

Music originally recorded during live acts somewhere between 2017 - 2019.
Release date : 01/05/2020
Pre-order : https://d-k-music.bandcamp.com/album/eighteen-movements

 Eighteen Movements (Recordings 2017/2019 - Preview)

Digital only release.

Available for purchase from the Parallel Minds Bandcamp.

Original productions by Daniel 58, Yohei S. and Ciel

Chug of Passion samples from "Aeri Jaane Na Doongi" performed by Lata Mangeshkar and Drums of Passion by Babatunde Olatunji

PM002.5

PM002.5 - Various Artists

ISLA founder NAP and his pal ZDBT live out their Euro-industrial fantasy with crushing, new beat-inspired electro.

'Sombras' is out August 24th on ISLA.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2VVSc6j

@napmusick
@zacharydbtreble
@sonidoisla

Premiere: Dosis - Confusion [ISLA]

Смоленский проект Indoor Plants (@indoor_plants) с портфелем личных паттернов.

120 - 130 BPM Podcast #43 - Indoor Plants

@oddlust

TTT089

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