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Cyril Orson [TTOTO] Winter 2019 Soundcloud favourites

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Nation 2 Nation - 303 Sunset

After gracing our Copenhagian stage last summer, Max Graef's right-hand man Kickflip Mike [Joschka Seibt] now joins the Money $ex flanks alongside Glenn Astro, Delfonic, IMYRMIND, Hodini and Alex Seidel as the creator behind their fifth release. Joschka housing his debut EP with the homemade Graef-Delfonic-Astro imprint is a logical move, following on from his previous Box aus Holz dabblings. "Vanilla Seibt" is our top pick from M$R 005's five original cuts – gritty drum distortion grounding the celesta of scalic chimes and whistles above, upholding the well versed groove that the Money $ex / Tartelet / Box aus Holz / ava. crews are now known and loved for.

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Kickflip Mike "Vanilla Seibt" - Boiler Room Debuts

I think i was trying out the <a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/mks30.php">Roland MKS-30</a> for some new sounds working towards the attention album in 2001.

Celebrator Lost Demo 4

Original version of our punk-funk express, a new version of which is on our forthcoming album. Also, I don't want anyone else posting that 'Black Edit' from Youtube, which is done with all the subtlety of a fucking blunt axe, so post this instead please : )

Television Train

The fifth release on Gacha Brakradze's own Transfigured Time imprint parallels a tranquil sunrise, elegantly balancing tender breaks, with a heartwarming bass line and revitalising synth.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/05/25/premiere-gacha-bakradze-saysea/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/gacha-saysea

Listen on Youtube

Gacha Bakradze - Saysea (STW Premiere)

The numbers were assigned to each separate industrial machine within the factory. They each told a story and had an independent reference, the marbled floor reflected the heavy units with a glimmering sheen against the shiny surfaces. Walking through this old space he could only imagine what sort of conversations had happened here during ancient times. What decisions had been made which would impact the very present and the celebrations which had long run into the night. 

Loud-E is set to appear on Passport To Paradise, an imprint which has championed the edit and brought fun to dancefloors the wide world over. Loud-E is no stranger, a funk purveyor of the finest order.

PREMIERE: Loud-E - 456 [Passport To Paradise]

Free download: https://hypeddit.com/track/rgm9nj

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What Is What (Facets Edit)

Order Vinyl & Digital:
https://antinoterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-de-auto-rhythm

August 2018: It’s already been three years since Domenique Dumont made its entrance in the music world with a debut EP named Comme Ca. Despite a seemingly very quiet musical activity (the opening song to Antinote’s compilation Five Years Of Loving Notes was the only song released by the band in 3 years) a few things have changed in-between these two summers: Domenique Dumont is no more the mysterious lone French producer we introduced last time but a Latvian duo, Arturs Liepins and Anete Stuce, which has been collaborating with “an enigmatic French artist whose existence cannot be confirmed nor denied” (sorry, but it sounds like there’s still some mystery in the air, and, again, we’re just as clueless as you might be), the duo have been touring live and, most importantly, they kept on broadening their musical palette experimenting in a definitely pop field. Eight of these experiments are now tied together in Miniatures de Auto Rhythm.

The record probably begins where Comme Ca ended: frantic but light drum programing backbones a solar and slightly melancholic melody on Le Début De La Fin (“the beginning of the end”). However, the scope gets enlarged as soon as one reaches the second tune, Quasi Quasi, or Quand, on the flip side, perhaps the most overtly pop-rock oriented song on the record with its Mediterranean guitar and emotional bridge.

The road towards the apex of the record, Le Soleil Dans Le Monde, is a narrow and windy one, punctuated by toy instrumentals like Ono Mambo Haiku or the Donkey Kong Country-friendly Message Of The Diving Bird; however it never departs from its original tongue-in-cheek attitude. It’s quite pleasant to imagine these eight “miniatures” as field recordings from an enchanted world of pop music designed by some Pierre & Gilles’ disciples – or are there
musical interpretations of half-mechanical, half-organic creations from a certain Otto Rhiesem (who might have inhabited the Locus Solus villa)? There might be no definitive answers to this second set of riddles by Domenique Dumont.

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DOMENIQUE DUMONT - LE SOLEIL DANS LE MONDE

Next up on Calypso Records is Aristidez, who has emerged as an important figure in his hometown of Lima with the Casalocasa parties which he has run since 2012, and has used to bring the likes of Hunee, Matias Aguayo and Kim Ann Foxman to the city. Having previously released on labels including Disque Discos and Discos Aquelarre, Aristidez's brand new 'Evasivas Esotericas' EP takes the listener on a journey dipped in Peruvian culture through the streets of Lima.

We're very happy to be premiering a remix of lead track 'Nada Nada' by Russian duo Simple Symmetry who've previously released on Disco Halal. Mysteriously titled the 'What Happens After Death' remix, it ups the tempo with frenzied vocals and clattering drums.

Evasivas Esotericas

PREMIERE: Aristidez - Nada Nada (Simple Symmetry 'What Happens After Death' Remix)

Supported by:
 Juan Maclean, Il Est Vilane, Andrew Claristidge, Jonathan Kusuma, Justin Strauss, Zillas On Acid, Vox Low, Curses, Iñigo Vontier, Phred La Dame Noir, Damon Jee, Duncan Gray, Amevicious, Gameboyz, Johnson, Sequencers, Did Virgo, Thomass Jackson, Roe Deers, Undo, Sebastian Tex, Fairmont, Javi Redondo, Why People Dance, Amarcord, The Two Mamarrachos, Local Suicide, Future bones, Flxxx, Montcosmik, Theus Mago, Veneno, Colossio, Dawad, Rigopolar, Club Bizarre...

Buy at Bandcamp

Andrem - 'Ascensión' (Rigopolar Remix)

Rising Star Freudenthal remixes Tiempo de Malad's "Soufi" for Nein Records

One of the key figures of the Berlin techno disco/chug scene and founder of the Kater Blau based Feinstoff parties, @freudenthal a.k.a 1/2 of @Pardonmoiband is a busy man – not only organizing the most colourful & sophisticated parties at respected venues like Salon Zur Wilden Renate, or Ritter Butzke, but also with a number of high quality releases (EP’s & Remixes) on labels such as Höga Nord Rekords, NEIN Records and Roam Recordings as well as his glorious live/DJ sets at Katerblau & Bachstelzen.

Tiempo De Maldad - Soufi (Freudenthal Remix)

Andrew Wasylyk is the alias of Scottish writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Mitchell.

In 2018, Andrew was extended a residency invite from arts centre and historic house, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland to create new music for their restored, 19th century, Erard Grecian harp.
During Wasylyk's five-month sojourn he created melodies and progressions echoing the building's unique relationship with the looming North Sea horizon. Using not only the harp, but the house's original grand piano, Andrew explored the Angus landscape and beyond, gathering field recordings on trips to neighbouring Seaton Cliffs and Bell Rock Lighthouse (the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse).
Winter slipped into spring, and harp-led compositions gave way to an ambitious third, full-length album, exploring a range of themes utilising a broad palette of instrumentation, including flugelhorn, euphonium, oboe, string trio, vintage synthesisers, drones and upright piano.

From the wandering, Bob James-esque, Fender Rhodes and shimmering strings in the study of coastal light, "(Welter) In The Haar", to the plaintive brass and farewell transmission blowing through, "Adrift Below A Constellation", punctuated by the fragility of Wasylyk's sole lead vocal of this collection - "The Paralian" (a dweller by the sea), is a conclusion embued with blue and golden melodies that land in a territory akin to experimentalists such as Robert Wyatt and Brian Eno. Through which, Wasylyk weaves the listener along a Modern-classical, Ambient and Jazz dream of Scotland's east coast.

Athens Of The North team were stunned by the luminous beauty and creativity at play in this work. Falling between genres and time, it stands next to 60s British Jazz, effortlessly blending notes of Library and soundtracks with dashes of British Folk.

The Paralian

Flight of the Cormorant

Delivering the goods for Unterman via their remix material for Tel Avivian DJ, Yani Ani, D.Y.O.R showcase an intergalactic oddity that pummels through multiple atmospheres across the solar system.

Pre-Order the release HERE: https://unterman.bandcamp.com/

@dyorband
@alvarocabana
@christian-c
@rockserling
@yaniani
@unterman

PREMIERE | Yani Ani - Yalla Bo (D.Y.O.R Remix) [Unterman]

United Colors of Rhythm Vol.1

Balam - Yucatan

This is the amazing premiere by Angelica Bess from IAMSIAM. 

The track "The Leap" produced by Machinedrum is out this Friday.

Buy link: http://smarturl.it/iamsiam_theleap
Photo Credit: Ruby June

Premiere: Angelica Bess "The Leap (Prod. by Machinedrum)"

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/poli-ritmo-ep

Internal NY Rhythms - Poli Ritmo EP

1 Poli-Ritmo i
2 Poli-Ritmo ii
3 Futurismo

"I've been playing this drums and bass gem (sometimes pitched up a bit) off a dubplate for the last two years. I'd say 95% of plays result in some audible shrieks of delight from the dancefloor. It is finally getting a release in a couple of months on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce along with two other mighty dubbed out rhythm & bass tracks by the mysterious Internal N.Y. Rhythms."

JD Twitch. 

Available from all good digital outlets from April 12th 2019.

Optimo Music Digital Danceforce 008  - Internal N.Y. Rhythms - Poli-ritmo EP

@poor-relatives

"I Can Never Relax" is the second single from Khidja's forthcoming EP on DFA, In The Middle Of The Night, out on vinyl, digital, and streaming April 19, 2019.

Preorder here: smarturl.it/khidja

Khidja - I Can Never Relax

Hot on the heels of his breakthrough ‘Serenade’ and ‘Knife Edge Heart’ 12”s, Ransom Note Records linchpin Timothy Clerkin returned earlier this year with the hotly tipped "Unborn Ep". Comprising four slices of leftfield, rave-infused behemoths, it further added to his growing catalogue of precision-tooled acid anthems. "Insult To Injury" is incredibly excited to announce a remix EP, featuring three variations on the original themes of Unborn EP, from an all-star cast of some of our favourite producers.
First up is style icon, multi-instrumentalist, DJ extraordinaire and mega-producer, Curses. He takes Akathisia on a dubbed out journey via chugging guitars, acidic synth stabs, swirling arpeggios and beyond. This one hits hard!

Preorder : https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unborn-remixed-ep

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Timothy Clerkin - Akathisia (Curses Remix)

The 10th digital release for @DogsandVulturesRecords comes via Mexican producer Alfredo Cardenas aka @2612Montessori in collaboration with the producer, dj and vocalist @Badmoiselle.

There are two originals on the EP 'Aircraft Reel' and 'Fanjoyen', both focused towards the floor . Remixes come from fellow countrymen Rigopolar and Colossio, Italian duo Younger Than Me and French artist @Dombrance.

The latter who is coming hot off the success of his recent album take on 'Aircraft Reel' delivers a killer cut which has an fantastic weirdo break down and kick and is sure to be ripping up many a dance floor.

Release Date - 26/06/19

Sinchi Blog - https://www.sinchi-collective.com/montessori-aircraft-reel-dombrance/

Youtube - https://youtu.be/B6VJgaYFsrg

PREMIERE - Montessori ft. Badmoiselle - Aircraft Reel (Dombrance Remix) (Dogs & Vultures)

Höga Nord Rekords have had the opportunity to work with Al Lover twice before during the last four years and now it’s time for the next step in the relationship between them, this time with the 7” single ”Dark Matter Discotheque / Mark E. Moon”. In these tracks, Lover’s influences mainly stems from a decadent eighties New York or Paris and you can almost smell the heavy perfume mixed with indoors smoking get the feeling of sitting in a room with mirror walls.

Right away, listening to the opening bars of ”Dark Matter”, you can tell that Lover is on to something new and different from his previous Höga Nord-releases. In some ways you hear similarities to ”Zodiak Versions” (2015) but on these two tracks of the 7”, Lover has left the German regions of Europe and the 70’s behind to instead embrace an updated 80’s sound. He comments the new direction with these words: ”'I'd say the influences for these tracks was mainly me wanting to do something different then I have before. I'm alwyas on to next idea, becoming bored with what I've already done”.

pre- orders taken at: https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/dark-matter-discoth-que

PREMIERE | Al Lover - Mark E Moon [Höga Nord Rekords] 2019

Kirfiklere (JackWasFaster Edit)

The adroit and emerging Uninc & Kolomensky deliver the latest release for our Sulk Magic imprint.
Known for their reserved yet utterly eminent methods. Four original tracks fuse the slavic duo's stereotypical breaks, thick synths and ancestral vocal samples.

PREMIERE : Uninc & Kolomensky - Dune Call

Juan MacLean and Man Power debut as Juan Power for Life and Death

Life and Death continue to serve up brilliantly unpredictable releases with a new one that brings together American DFA stalwart Juan MacLean with the UK’s Me Me Me label head Man Power, plus an edit from the boss, DJ Tennis. 

Juan MacLean is a multi-faceted artist who has a history of everything from playing in post hardcore bands to producing some of DFA’s most celebrated releases. He does classy house bangers with synth pop and disco layers like no one else. Man Power, meanwhile, is someone who is fantastically eclectic in what he does on all fronts as a DJ, label boss and producer. He’s made corrugated acid, hands in the air house and machine disco and plenty in between on his own label, but also cult outlets like Correspondent and ESP Institute. The coming together of these two undoubted studio wizards, then, is a fascinating prospect. 

And so it proves right from the off: opener ‘Crescendo’ is a nine minute masterpiece with rickety house drums making you move while the shuffling percussion builds the pressure. Gorgeously warm chords eventually join the fray and have a blissful effect that sets you off dreaming and keeps you in a trance until the end. 

DJ Tennis himself then steps up with an edit of ‘Excuse Me Daddy’ that is deep and cavernous. Next to the suspensory pads is an intricate synth line that takes you in on yourself in perfectly melancholic ways. 

Closer ‘Praise The Toad’ then picks up the pace with more live sounding drums and a sparkling lead synth that rises and falls to cosmic effect. Drawn out over the full length of the track, and in amongst some chattery claps and smart effects, it makes for a journey to the stars that will cast a real spell on all who hear it. 

This is an innovative collaboration between two masters of their craft.

Tour dates
22nd June: Juan Power @ Topaz Deluxe, Mexico
26th July: Juan Power @ Elsewhere, NYC

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Juan Power - Praise The Toad

Candomblé's DJ Ungel conjures dreams of Goa sunsets with a lysergic, tribal remix.

'FD001' is out July 13th on Flippen Disks.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2RAkZK3

@djungell
@posttraumaticdrumdisorder
@montymixes
@flippendisks

Premiere: PTDD & Monty - Tamboe (DJ Ungel's Adventure Mix) [Flippen Disks]

Flippen Disks open up their tally with whatcan only be described as the mother of all percussive tracks calling on the talents of Post Traumatic Drum Disorder the track PTDD. Run by Amsterdam by way of Berlin, Disc Jockey, Monty, If this opening EP is anything to go by this is going to be all about the Rhythm. Bit crushed 808 deep blue kicks fill the bass bins while every other piece of percussive muscle is flexed with no part of the spectrum left wanting. Record out July 13th on vinyl. 

https://soundcloud.com/posttraumaticdrumdisorder
https://soundcloud.com/flippendisks

PREMIERE | Post Traumatic Drum Disorder - PTDD [Flippen Disks] 2019

Flippen Disks is a newly-founded, Amsterdam-based, music outlet, run by Monty, named after his grandmother's maiden name. This first release sets out to find the label's own space in between genres, a versatile endeavour to move dance floors, yet staying non-functional enough to be listened to at home as well. It features the first ever release of Julius van Ijperen's new Post Traumatic Drum Disorder alias, a collaboration with founder Monty, while the flip side features a track by the latter and a superb remix by Candomblé’s own DJ Ungel from Dusseldorf.

Read more: http://liquidyouth.nl/music/premieres/monty-haybo-flippen-disks/
Buy: https://flippendisks.bandcamp.com/releases

https://soundcloud.com/montymixes
https://soundcloud.com/flippendisks

Premiere: Monty - Haybo [Flippen Disks]

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]

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Joining forces as Project Runaway, Stephan and Alek trick us into their own eerily funky sonic realm, fitting halfway between polyrhythmic hoodoo, altered machine talk and freewheeling post-discoid electronics. Eager to find out more about the duo, what makes them tick and their debut instalment, 'Met', out via [Emotional] Especial, we caught up with the guys for a quick fire chat.

Project Runaway - Met [[Emotional] Especial]

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