Colonel Pepito - Orisun (TST-LP003)
Release date : June 30th 2021

PRE-ORDER : colonelpepito.bandcamp.com/album/orisun
'Coral Kids' video extract : https://youtu.be/GnSnpZc-YaQ

Orisun est le premier album de Colonel Pepito. Entre boogie, house et afro-synth, il se nourrit de dub, de couleurs baléariques et de la grande époque de Island Records.

Music  : Colonel Pepito
Mastering : Jean-Charles Bastion at Mer/Noir

Colonel Pepito - Coral Kids

V/A - MUSIC FOR MOONBATHING (TST-C001)

Purchase K7 / digital : toosoontapes.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-moonbathing

Music For Moonbathing is the first release of Too Soon Tapes, a cassette label whose intention is to combine electronic music and synthy, hazy or deviant pop music. Music For Moonbathing brings together artists whose music can be instrumental or vocal and sometimes sung in French. The compilation choses to match the nebulous and rough sides of electronic music with pop immediacy. One way to reach both ends of the spectrum. Black and white ambient, end-of-the-world synth-pop and spectral ritornello develop on each side of the mirror. Synthetic ribbons flash before the eyes. The textures drill through the loops like photographic grain. Quirky kicks awaken a roadside melancholy. Too Soon Tapes may not always sounds like this. But today, this is its voice. 
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Released December 9, 2019

Selection : Manon Torres
Mastering : Jean-Charles Bastion
Artwork and design : Paskine
Collage : Manon Torres

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ENIR DA - SILENCE (TST-LP001)

Releases March 23, 2020

PRE-ORDER K7 / digital : toosoontapes.bandcamp.com/album/silence

"Silence" is the first album released by Too Soon Tapes, in collaboration with Wanda Portal.

Enir Da composes on his own, imagining images behind sounds, dreaming his music could be illustrative. Today his composition exists for itself, as a source for imagination.

Founding member of FITH alongside Dice Miller and member of the Wanda Portal collective, Enir Da signs his second album, after "Accalmie" released in 2017.

"Silence" is made of darkness and simplicity. It is the kind of music that stretches, flows away and which one can never really seize. It is like a haze that manages to give the perception of a soul behind the texture. When energy breaks through it, it bursts into magnetic drums. Numbing the senses and manipulating the occult, these loops give Enir Da's music a narcotic roundness that does not exist anywhere else.

The artist explores a territory halfway between ambient, post-punk and krautrock, in which loom vapors of dub and psychedelic steams. And this is an invitation. 
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Mix / Mastering : Arnaud Mathé
Cover / Painting : Théodore Puskine
Graphic Design / Printing : Tom Cazin

Enir Da - Dirt

Paskine - Aleph Attempt
Too Soon Tapes / VoxxoV Records

Purchase K7 / digital : paskine.bandcamp.com/album/aleph-attempt-2

As a musician and visual artist, Paskine chose for Aleph Attempt to use only electronic matter, resulting from physical modeling synthesis, as a source of sound. Neither samples nor field-recordings come into his compositions, which he has shaped for three years. Nothing is external except its inspiration, coming from Jorge Luis Borges' collection of short stories, "The Aleph", which refers to a microcosm that contains the whole universe.

In a fundamentally electronic universe, Aleph Attempt's tour de force is to summon nature so greatly. The auditor does not know if he is dealing with torrents of sand or computer errors. The sensations of collapse evoke the density of vegetation, the rumbling of a waterfall or the trajectory of rocks carried by water. In this magmatic entropy, the earth's insides seem to turn around, causing frictions of dry soil and exposing a teeming underground world.

Paskine has always questioned the tension between noise and harmony. After a quest for radical abstraction on The Shapes of Collapses (VoxxoV Records, 2017), Aleph Attempt seeks to calm the storm and reconnect with rhythm and melody. The light gradually arises and appears in snatches, cut into fragments which are lost in matter. But the emotion remains ambivalent. Aleph Attempt is about vertigo from chaos and the inexplicable. It is about the beauty of the gesture, the persistent awareness of failure, the desire to approach rightness through poetry, while admitting its powerlessness. The Aleph is a quest, a futile attempt to sense the present time, the causes of the past and the future consequences.

Aleph Attempt is likely to be enjoyed by fans of Raster-Noton imprint, since the detail of the grain and the iterative processes can evoke artists like Vladislay Delay or Ryoji Ikeda. But beyond that, it will touch anyone who likes the ambiguity of sound, the beauty of the arid and the lace of signals.

Artwork and design by Paskine
Mastered by Jean-Charles Bastion at Mer/Noir

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