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April 2019

DUNGEON ACID/RUSSELL HASWELL 12" (iDEAL111)

Edition of 300

DUNGEON ACID - YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM (Split 12" w RUSSELL HASWELL iDEAL111)

BUY: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/lft-marc-ash-no-return-vol-2/674578-01/

Just what you needed. L.F.T., Marc Ash, Morah and Helena Hauff are combining forces to pollute the world with a little bit more banging industrial techno!

No Return Vol 1 - RTTD010 - Snippets

Kalyma - Rites EP - Original
Release: September 28th 2018
Buy Link: https://goo.gl/DDUyv7

Info:
After D.Y.A's and Kalyma's collaboration for Solide's eights catalogue number, latter returns solo for the label's latest release, 'Rites EP', a three tracker consisting of two original cuts and a remix. In traditional Kalyma manner and part of his trademark sound the Berlin based producer delivers an excessive drum-influenced EP opener, 'Rites', that signifies its dance floor potential within the first minute and teases with an incisive chord which marks the introduction of the track's coming in subtle key-melody. As the track continues Kalyma sprinkles with accentuated synth-chords that adapt to the overall harmonies and set new auditory stimuli before the track enfolds its full peak-time potential. Kalyma's second cut, 'Red Man Calypso', comes in an original version and a Whitesquare remix. As the original highlights whizzling and sizzling synth pads that create late summer esthetics over a proper house bassline, Whitesquare's remix approach concentrates on the low frequencies as the Italian producer implements a reduced bassline smoothly supporting the synth-chords which he adapted from the original. Due to the reduction the remix depicts a multi-layered almost paradox atmosphere buoyant and joyful on the one side, dark and desperate on the other the listener is torn between but never lost as the beauty and life-affirming vibe prevails.

Kalyma - Red Man Calypso (Original)

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I Don´t Like To Dream

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12"&digital
distributed by kompakt

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Fantastic Twins - Lost In Germany EP

A1) Why Are You Here? - 8.04
A2) Wrong Place Wrong Time Wrong People - 8.15

B1) Fur Stunden Lang - 7.42

The fourth AF Trax release is a three track EP from our long time ally The Fantastic Twins, who has the following to say about her EP - 

This EP is a small collection of works I crafted over the past couple of years in the process of working on my live show. I have been performing versions of these tracks countless times and yet never played them twice the same way. To me, they have been material in constant motion, so shaping them into a “finished” form was a risky challenge. Something I was also wary of - would it mean they would become set in stone? Would it mean I’d have to somehow “rationalise" the music - via the mind - as opposed to letting it run into the wildness of its physical live experiences? 

Whilst editing these tracks into a format that could be released, I realised that instead of shaping them into the mould my mind first intended to give them, I could in fact use the power they revealed each time I performed them to an audience and inject some of that energy - as much as it is possible to capture and recreate it in the studio - back into this EP. Then of course, it meant letting go on things I usually like to control more, and better. 

But isn’t it the power of music to let it take you where you didn’t plan to go? And how incomplete would the music be if our inspiration didn’t feed off the collective experience of dancing to music together? I’ve lost myself (and my twins) many times throughout the process - not only on German soil - I have sometimes landed in the wrong place, but I may have found one answer yet in the form of another question. Why are we here if we can’t dance?

That reminds me of the words of Pina Bausch “Dance, dance or we are lost”. Lost in our internal struggles as individuals (or imaginary twins). Lost in a society where our relation to the other is often marked by fear, power or violence. We feel the need to resist. Yet nowadays, taking a political stance as an artist is too often being instrumentalised as another tactics or accessory to gather more popularity, reducing the political message to nothing else but a branding attempt. Isn’t it anyway the power of capitalism to assimilate everything, even contradictory or once-upon-a-time subversive voices? All to end up on a “Rave” or “Feminist” H&M t-shirt. Slogans that have been emptied of their initial force and substance, now replaced by their commercial value. I strongly doubt that more empty words poured in vain on social media will help us much. But, like Pina Bausch, like JD Twitch, I have always firmly believed in dancing as a physical, social and fundamental act that leads us to share a common space with others and embrace otherness. Standing together, dancing together when everything else forces us to divide. 

May the music on this EP be, I hope, a possible answer to its own title.

All label profits will be donated to Hope Not Hate (www.hopenothate.org.uk) which campaigns to counter racism and fascism.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on April 12th 2019. Distributed by Kompakt.

AF Trax 004 - Fantastic Twins - Lost In Germany 12" EP (sampler)

Beau Wanzer & Shawn O'Sullivan are Garum

@bwanz @shawnosullivan TTT078

Garum – Metal Mouth Mob

TTT079

Produced by Alex
Mixed by Mix Mup at Madpremium Mastering @mmup

All TTT titles distributed by Honest Jon's distribution@honestjons.com

Alex – Samba

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