https://fort-romeau.bandcamp.com/track/the-zone

🔮 THE ZONE IS A VERY COMPLEX MAZE OF TRAPS 🔮

The Zone

Budakid’s ‘Milestones’ gets the remix treatment from three very hot names, with very different results.

Korean hotshot Shubostar has featured on Resident Advisor’s mix series, played leading festivals like Burning Man and released on killer imprints like Robert Johnson, Permanent Vacation, Internasjnoal and her acclaimed Uju Records. Her colorful update on cosmic disco fits perfectly with the charms of Budakid’s style, with a bouncing off-beat bass line driving under heavily reverbed kicks and snares and a flurry of ascending arpeggios. The synths soar, the breakdown takes us into an epic space, and the remix develops beautifully over the course of its 8 minutes to keep you hooked throughout.

London duo Make A Dance are rapidly on the ascent, with a huge release on Classic Music Company and killer cuts on their M.A.D. Records imprint as well as sets at the likes of fabric and Club Silencio. Their rework goes deeper, building through gated snips of the vocal, pulsing pads, Latin snare patterns and subtle bleep riffs and delays to reach a heady, hypnotic place. The ethereal breakdown full of tripped out tape delays and great use of airy vocal harmonies are the icing on the cake, making their remix feel like the original as experienced in a joyous dream. Oh, and prolific guys that they are, they’ve also included a ‘Deep Acid’ mix which... I think you can figure it out?

Rising Dutch talent Milio (Atomnation and formerly one part of Tunnelvisions) rounds off the package by stripping things back to a deep, tripped-out pulse, modulating twanging acid belches in conversation with an off-beat bass bounce. The vocal is used in super-dreamy fashion—particularly in the breakdown—and slick production on that acid line and clever automation keeps it engaging despite this remix’s pared-back approach.

Milestones Remixes

PREMIERE : Budakid - Milestones (Make A Dance 'Deep Acid Mix')

Back in 2017 Tear Apart Tapes released "Run", a song by Shakkatam. John Talabot immediately connected with it and played it as the closing in many of his dj sets. We are now grateful to present "Run" in a new context, with three covers from artists we admire: Cucina Povera, Céline Gillain and Dania.

The original song and Dania's cover are out now. Full release and vinyl will be available in October.

Artwork by Arnau Pi
Mastered by Frederic Stader
credits


bandcamp : https://hiverndiscs.bandcamp.com/album/run

Shakkatam - Run

“I love maintaining a different approach to making music as much as I possibly can.
A fitting description of Milio, always in search of a new
form in electronic music.

The Dutch composer delivers on this philosophy for his debut EP on Maeve. With such a prolific output, the real challenge lay in selecting the right collection of tracks that present the different sides of Milios music, something we hope Eventide EP shows.

Mastered by Gio Conti
Mixed by Milio

Milio - Cruise

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-rampue-inside-a-tribe-called-kotori/

In the realm of Rampue, where unicorns prance,
Lies a tribe so wild, it's like a mad dance,
"Inside [A Tribe Called Kotori]" they chant,
In a bubblebath trance, they love to enhance.

With feathered hats and shoes that squeak,
They slide on rainbows, oh so unique,
In a bubbly river, they giggle and speak,
Their nonsense language, oh so chic.

Rampue's skies are made of lemonade,
Marshmallow clouds provide the shade,
In a bubblebath trance, they wade,
Laughing at pineapples in a serenade.

Squirrels play trumpets, birds play the drums,
As they dance with pineapples, their silliness hums,
The moon joins in, doing twirls and sums,
All lost in the trance, where absurdity strums.

So if you're looking for a whimsical chance,
To escape reality and join in the dance,
Find Rampue's tribe in their bubblebath trance,
With Kotori's spirit, let your nonsense advance!

Rampue's Bubblebath Trance is the A Tribe Called Kotori label's first foray into long players.  Venturing into extended musical narratives they invite Berlin-based producer Rampue who examines electronica, abstraction, and "Balearic-infused progressive-house" no less. Rich textures and intricacies form a "lushly textured promenade in sound."

We're premiering Inside.

Bubblebath Trance

PREMIERE: Rampue - Inside [A Tribe Called Kotori]

Buy/steam: https://kompakt.fm/releases/gimme_ya_mustache
Pre-Order the album: https://kompakt.fm/releases/the_super_ep

In order to sweeten your waiting time until Captain Mustache's "The Super Album" drops we're giving you "Gimme Ya Mustache" - A glitzy electro pop novelty hit that's going to get stuck in your grapevine forever. We are very sorry.

Gimme Ya Mustache

Captain Mustache - Gimme Ya Mustache (Kompakt 472.1)

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

https://my-dear.bandcamp.com/album/my-dear

Music by @adaofficial & @david-hasert
Remix by @superpitcher_official
Written by Bob Lind / Verve Folkways 1966
Mastering: Hans Frage / Deinklang
Original Version: Kompakt 298 / 2014 @kompakt
Label: MY DEAR / 2023

MY DEAR

DAMH - Black Night (Superpitcher Remix)

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Cambiasos

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