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Artist name: GingerJacc

It’s unclear who I am but welcome to my world anyway

Welcome to my world

Release date: 15 April 2016 on 12" vinyl & digital
Distibuted by Kompakt

I’m a Cliché’s first release of 2016 comes from label boss Cosmo Vitelli. After a five-year hiatus during which he was kept busy by his band Bot’Ox and relocating from Paris to Berlin, this is the very first release to come out of his new studio located in Berlin’s Marzahn district.

A CRUEL STORY
This emotional uptempo track driven by heartfelt synth work explores the territory of dancefloor melancholia. Influences from genres that end in « -wave » but also from the spirit of sentimental electro are obvious and they are creatively used by Cosmo Vitelli for particularly catchy and elegant dance-inducing results.

CHIENS DE L’ENFER
There’s something ominous in this track with a definite rock feeling which is structured around brooding percussion, hypnotic melodies, sinister synths and an entrancing bass line. Darkness prevails and this is the perfect track to take the dancefloor on a date with the hounds of hell.

KETAMINE KARAOKE
Cosmo Vitelli further explores and reinterprets the melancholic and melodic potential of older genres on this catchy tune that sounds like a lost recording from a forgotten yet influential band that used a bass guitar, gently modulating analog synths and vintage drum machines with a taste for dissociatives on the original sound track of a '70s French film.

A CRUEL STORY (I:CUBE REMIX)
One of our favorite producers in Paris delivers a remix which enhances the hypnotic elements of the original track which he turns into tune tense, dark but quite debonair where low end groove is complemented by tribal percussion. Clearlly, this is a track waiting to be unleashed on the dancefloor.

A CRUEL STORY (FX MCHN REMIX)
Fx Mchn is an up and coming producer from London whose tracks are often played by Cosmo Vitelli. This remix focuses on the funkier side of Cruel Story. Instantly danceable, elegantly layered and with added melodic touches, this track conjures element of the Detroit sound and will work wonders on even the most demanding of dancefloors.

COSMO VITELLI — "Ketamine Karaoke"

The flip side of this beautiful release by Phil Gerus is handed on a dubplate(r) to [Emotional] Especial label remixer, designer and visionary, Jamie Paton to turn out another of his deep, drudge, dub outs. Coming as both vocal remix and dub – again conjoined in “discomix” style for the brave (dead) heads – this is Paton at his brooding, echo laden best. Rising and falling, Gerus’ refrain acting as dub melody around symphonic heavy bass. Tune in and dub out.

https://soundcloud.com/jamiepaton-1
https://soundcloud.com/emotional-especial

Out on July 8th!

Buy here!

PRÈMIÉRE: Phil Gerus - Still Blind (Jamie Paton Dub) [Emotional] Especial]

There was a low end rumble as the music began to trickle downstairs and into the basement. Gathered in the cellar there was a small crowd, amidst the fog and dust they began to dance in time with the flurries of percussion and the twinge of electronics which echoed deep into the night. They would be here for a long time, a unit inspired by the deep, sophisticated roar of each element. Their feet would move in time, back and forth, again and again. 

Flippen Disks is a new record label to emerge from Amsterdam, the imprint is run by Monty who also appears on the debut EP. He delivers one solo track and one collaborative effort alongside PTDD for a release which is distinguished and intelligent. The EP features forward thinking percussion and danceable material whilst is also hugely listenable and unique. 

This one is special. 

@flippendisks
@posttraumaticdrumdisorder
@montymixes

PREMIERE: PTDD & MONTY - Tamboe [Flippen Disks]

Alexander Pletnev started an entirely new journey under his own name two years ago. Release after release on forward thinking and respected labels like Media Fury, KUMP, Fleeting Wax, SZE and Hard Fist, he has built a solid discography of incredible diversity - from percussive DJ tools to viscous synthetic EBM to dreamy weirdness.
His latest EP titled "Voranto Bros" is a long awaited return to Le Temps Perdu and the prime example of refined musical storytelling. Title track is a cinematic tale, a sound novel about two migrant brothers hitting the shores of USA in the dawn of XXth century to became vicious gangsters, broken souls ruling the night of NYC. Dusty tape hiss, off kilter percussions and melodies all alternate to later sink under the weight of heavy drums. While Hope They Wont Come Back is a severe instrumental ballad with low drums, talking bass lines and noisy guitar riffs - five minutes inside confused man's mind.
On a remix front, Cocktail D'Amore's head honchos Discodromo strip Voranto Bros down to bear bones to deliver EBM style dance floor burner. And Harold Boué aka Abstraxion aka Lion's Drums of Biologic Records fame delivers menacing remix for Hope They Won't Come Back, a dark & mystic journey, which unwinds slowly and builds up to unexpected climax.

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Pletnev - Voranto Bros (Discodromo Remix)

As the King Cobra uncoils from a woven basket and flares out its iconic hood, it appears to sway back and forth hypnotically as the snake charmer plays his flute. Timpani solos, a variety of percussion, syncopated rhythms and colorful harmonies are woven together to create an exotic tapestry of sound that will captivate young musicians and their audiences. Puma & The Dolphin releases their first EP and it is massive. Our pick up is a B1 track -  "Cobra Dance".
Taking a similar yet slightly different aproach to the post-punk sound of previous tracks, this tune features a catchy bassline and groovy percussion, alternating between vocal samples, melodic elements, and rhythmic phrases. In a sense, this track is reminiscent of the spirit of Martin Hannets work with ESG, that is to say, groovy dance music that feels like the opposite of synthetic. 12" out 18th October , you can buy / pre- order here: https://chambrenoirerecords.bandcamp.com/album/puma-the-dolphin-primitive-ep-cn001

https://soundcloud.com/puma-and-the-dolphin
https://soundcloud.com/chambrenoirerecords

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PREMIERE #611 | Puma & The Dolphin - Cobra Dance [Chambre Noire] 2019

Fragments 6

Written and Produced by ODOPT
Artwork by Dr. Me

Digital release date: February 27, 2020
Order here: bit.ly/39s4GGU
© 2019 Hivern Discs

Fragments 6

Bretonn

ODOPT - Bretonn

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Greetings Earthlings, this is a Viscera Galactic Service Broadcast.

We have been observing your world from a distance for some time under the guise of a series of transmissions known as ‘mixtapes’ as a method of research, via digital interaction with your intriguing species.

soundcloud.com/visceramusic/

Our observations of your world have been both confusing and, more recently, concerning. Thus we present to you, Galactic Service Broadcasting. A musical initiative that aims to raise credits in support of some of the most vital humanitarian services and organisations. Any and all credits raised as a result of this broadcast will be donated to charities supporting the front line workers of the organisation known as the National Health Service.

Finally, an astronomical thank you to all of the artists, James Savage at 'Hottrax Mastering' for the masters, Oscar Mitchell for the cosmic illustration, Jessica Lau for interplanetary art direction and all the other members of the alliance for donating their time and talents in order for us to turn around this banging compilation in such a short time.

Keep it cosmic. x

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Find out more on Bandcamp - https://visceratransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/galactic-service-broadcasting-001

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Galactic Service Broadcasting Vol. 1 [Compilation Sampler]

Rich with FM synthesis, infectious rhythms and evocative motifs, Rester Partir transports us to a fantasised Africa, found onstage at a Lausanne Theatre in 1985. Scoring a story about a 19th Century French missionary’s trip to Timbuktu, Swiss composer Louis Crelier created his own sonic landscape, capturing the exoticism and otherness of an imaginary Mali. Though the hypnotic rhythms and cascading mallets conjure images of the continent, the queasy keys, dubby idents and synthetic sonatas suggest something more interplanetary - picture James T. Kirk and Spock beaming down into the ochre dust of a ruined city. 

Aided and abetted by a selection of ambient interludes, jazzy diversions and polyrhythmic excerpts from Crelier’s film work, as well as the exceptionally Balearic Deep In The Dale from TV series Alpine Academy, the largely unreleased compositions on Rester Partir finally break the fourth wall to find the wider audience they deserve.

Limited to 300
Out December 4, 2020

Words by Patrick Ryder

Rester Partir

A3. Louis Crelier - Scorbut (CDR001)

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