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As we do every Monday we go SoundCloud digging and select ten fresh tunes. Enticing multicoloured sounds to start the new week. As always we hope you discover some exciting new music. Stream the playlist and follow us on our website, Mixcloud, and Spotify for more music.

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Today's Multicoloured Sounds

SoundCloud Weekly 17-10

Stèv - Nakamise

Far, far away in the forest, you can find peace....

Out in the wood

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TOTTE - The Bells (free download)

Buy direct from Tru Thoughts http://shop.etchshop.co.uk/releases/TRU291/archipelago-remixes-part-2/819

Out 12th May, the second in the Archipelago Remixes EP series brings more stunning new versions of tracks from Hidden Orchestra’s second album, ‘Archipelago’. Established and rising stars - Dam Mantle, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Floex, submerse and KRTS – work their magic on producer and band-leader Joe Acheson’s original productions, across two 10” records in a hand-stamped and numbered sleeve, limited to 500 units worldwide.

Opening the first 10” is “Seven Hunters (Dam Mantle Mix)”, which brings a noir-ish intensity to the original, a firm fan favourite. The Glasgow based Notown/Wichita signed producer re-programmes the original drums, creating a sense of space and suspense, and eliciting admiration from Acheson, whose heavily layered organic beats are an integral part of the stirring Hidden Orchestra sound, even requiring two kits in the live show: “it's the kind of way I treat drum recordings in my own work, so it's really nice to hear it done to my drum tracks”.

“Flight (Mungo's Hi Fi Remix)” sees an eagerly awaited hook-up with the Scottish crew, of whom Acheson has long been a fan, having partied at - and played on - Mungos’ legendary soundsystem at Knockengorroch Festival. Here they transform the intricate, folk-influenced “Flight” (which boasts almost a million soundcloud plays) for a bass-heavy dub dancefloor, while skilfully retaining snapshots of the original orchestration and atmosphere. 

“Disquiet (Floex Remix)” finds Floex returning the favour for a Hidden Orchestra mix of his own latest single. This charged, hypnotic version shows the dancier, more electronic side of the Czech clarinettist and producer’s work; twisting and heightening existing sounds, not least the heavenly harp solo, for an epic effect. Floex’s second official Hidden Orchestra remix, this adds to a growing list of joint ventures from these two like-minded creators. 

Two artists from Berlin’s Project Mooncircle label - London based submerse, and Brooklyn’s KRTS (the latter with a  bonus digital cut) – remix “Spoken”, each ramping up the strikingly percussive intro and spiralling down a different yet equally fascinating experimental electronic bass music path. 


Hidden Orchestra - Flight (Mungo's Hi Fi Remix)

It's valentine's day...why not whip up a quick little remix for all the lovers out there. And you alone ass motherfuckers as well. Nina is for everyone.

Be My Husband Remix

For Tor, a long look in the mirror and an eagerness to fully blossom as an artist has led to his next body of work, Blue Book, which will soon take up precious space on Emancipator’s estimable Loci Records back catalog. “Myth” is a musical chapter that tells a tale of both then and now, centered on a soul-stirring guitar riff that gradually flows into languid layers and hushing atmospherics drifting beneath a vocal sample that plays out like a story you’d never want to end.

Read more here: https://www.insomniac.com/media/track-day-tor-transcends-time-and-space-divine-downtempo-offering-myth

Available June 3 via Loci Records. 

Pre-order the ‘Blue Book’ LP on Bandcamp here: http://tormusic.bandcamp.com/album/blue-book

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Track of the Day: Tor “Myth”

▶ Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow 
▶ Discover: @hablotbrown  & @beatsbyesta
▶ Free Download ~ http://soulection.com/sbl01

As smooth as they are soulful, LA-based group Hablot Brown gives us 5 original tracks that will grab you by the heartstrings. From the vocals to guitar-infused production, the first ever Black Label release will make it hard for you to not follow their journey. 

Enjoy!

◈ Credits: Mixed & Mastered by Joshua Pleeter & Austin Brown
 ◈ Artwork: Andre Power

Soulection Black Label: 001

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Hablot Brown - Lonely (ft. ESTA.)

▶ Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow 
▶ Discover: @hablotbrown  & @mathstimejoy
▶ Free Download ~ http://soulection.com/sbl01

As smooth as they are soulful, LA-based group Hablot Brown gives us 5 original tracks that will grab you by the heartstrings. From the vocals to guitar-infused production, the first ever Black Label release will make it hard for you to not follow their journey. 

Enjoy!

◈ Credits: Mixed & Mastered by Joshua Pleeter & Austin Brown
 ◈ Artwork: Andre Power

Hablot Brown & Maths Time Joy - Reason

▶ Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow  
▶ Discover: @devintracy   & @jrobbdaproducer
▶ Free Download ~ soulection.com/sbl02

Introducing the second Black Label, which is a series focused on highlighting rising vocalists/rappers.

Releasing his debut EP, Devin Tracy’s Soulection Black Label is an array of soulful melodies, captivating vocals, with an essence of boom bap R&B. From start to finish, the Florida native creates precise, smoothly woven stories of love and struggle in all phases maintained by his laid back flow and steady rhythms.

Enjoy!

◈ Credits: Mixed & Mastered by Darwin "MixByDarwin" Derequito (Classik Studios)
 ◈ Artwork: Andre Power

Soulection Black Label: Devin Tracy

Devin Tracy - For Me (Prod. by J. Robb)

▶ Soulection ~ The Sound of Tomorrow  
▶ Discover: @devintracy   & @itsmeneedle
▶ Free Download ~ soulection.com/sbl02

Introducing the second Black Label, which is a series focused on highlighting rising vocalists/rappers.

Releasing his debut EP, Devin Tracy’s Soulection Black Label is an array of soulful melodies, captivating vocals, with an essence of boom bap R&B. From start to finish, the Florida native creates precise, smoothly woven stories of love and struggle in all phases maintained by his laid back flow and steady rhythms.

Enjoy!

◈ Credits: Mixed & Mastered by Darwin "MixByDarwin" Derequito (Classik Studios)
 ◈ Artwork: Andre Power

Devin Tracy - Favorite Lover (Prod. by Evil Needle)

'DETROIT'

New album from @thomamusic, out April 26, 2019 via @FutureArchiveRecordings.

BUY/STREAM --> https://futurearchiverecordings.com/thoma-detroit

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'NO RESOLUTION' --> https://youtu.be/riUkp1Kvi3E 
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Influenced by jazz, world music, house, and techno, Thoma is a project that grew out of a desire between producers and long-time friends Tristan de Liège (formerly Stratus) and Benjamin Hill (Askanse) to “bring together their creative abilities and challenge themselves beyond their solo efforts.” Relocating from a small island near Vancouver in British Columbia to Los Angeles, the duo recorded their debut full-length with an array of synths— with a strong focus on modular synthesis—samples, processed acoustic instruments, woodwinds, and upright bass. More recently, Benjamin moved to Detroit and new Thoma material was crafted there, drawing more on the techno and house roots that are so pervasive in the Detroit music scene.
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More about Thoma at https://futurearchiverecordings.com/thoma
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No Resolution

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Thoma - No Resolution

“Maisha” is the Swahili word for life.

This album to me expresses the feeling of embracing life in all its forms, with its different perspectives, moods, sounds, energies. In contrast to previous work, which was somewhat more reflective, this album was made with a lot of creative energy and drive. When starting each track I felt like I was overflowing with ideas that I had to try out and get down as soon as possible. Sometimes the inspiration would come from listening to various new albums on Bandcamp from around the world: jazz, African folk, hip-hop, Neo-soul, funk, afrobeat. Other times the inspiration would come simply from biking around Los Angeles and taking in sights and sounds from different parts of the city.

I think there can easily be pressure when making to album for it to feel as though each album has to embody a sophisticated concept or make some specific statement. Albums expressing abstract concepts or political or social statements are important for the musical culture, to be sure; but music is also an expression of where the artist is at spiritually, emotionally, and creatively at a certain point in time. This is what Maisha means for me. It represents the joys, excitements, and bursts of creative feeling, as well as the tranquility and nostalgia that I felt at times while making it. With this work, as with my previous work, I am ever seeking to defy genre. Of course, it’s clear that downtempo and trip-hop music form the backbone of what I am doing, but I am also trying to challenge those labels all the time by exploring different rhythms, scales, arrangements, and instruments.

I hope this album helps you find inspiration to express yourself or explore in whatever ways are possible or speak to you in your life, as it did for me.

Thanks for listening.

x

Tristan de Liège

Personnel:
Conor Malloy: Drums 
Parker Law: Drums
Yvette Holzwarth: Violin
Isaac Takeuchi: Cello
Moana Avvenenti: Vocals
Carly Barnette: Vocals
Selina Carrera: Vocals
Steven Robinson: Trombone
Henry Solomon: Flute, Saxophone
Tristan de Liège - Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, Percussion

All tracks written and produced by Tristan de Liège, except:
Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) written by Tristan de Liège and Carly Barnette, and
Mbali (feat. Selina Carrera) written by Tristan de Liège and Selina Carrera.

Hawa (feat. Carly Barnette) (Radio Edit)

Creeping from the undergrowth of The Biology Of Plants’ new album, Vol. 2, comes a tasty little morsel by the name of Moss. 

https://thebiologyofplants.bandcamp.com/track/moss-2

Soaked in delicate chimes that bound off warm and harmonious bass lines, fluid cello and interjecting drums, Moss is as complex as any given ecosystem – the sum of its parts transforming into a rich landscape of texture and wonder.

“We chose Moss as our next single as it shows of a completely new side of the band's improvised sound,” says synth/beat-maker Josh Rivory. “With chopping drums, no clear melody and a huge, sweeping post rock sound. We wanted to show off (almost) all of the expansive tone tapped into throughout the album. While composing, I came up with the 5 note motif while smashing a coffee with the band and when we jammed it, Helen and I simply placed ascending chords underneath it with the trigger of a nodded head. We've never played it the same way and it constantly evolves with us; as though we are covered by Moss in a mutually beneficial relationship.” 

Coming off the back of a well-deserved win for Best Jazz Song at the Queensland Music Awards (thanks to their stunning track Long Black), The Biology Of Plants are only continuing to challenge themselves as both musicians and masters of composition.

“Sometimes ideas don’t go as planned,” begins bassist Helen Svoboda, “and sometimes they take on a completely new and exciting direction when you least expect it. In this way, our QLD Music Awards win is a complete motivator to keep thinking outside-of-the-box... to continue creating something new, and to push the boundaries of genre in a modern, ever-expanding creative universe.”

The Biology Of Plants' Vol. 2 is out 14 June on Art As Catharsis.

Vol. 2

The Biology Of Plants - Moss

Out Now: https://catchingflies.lnk.to/SilverLinings

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Catching Flies’ music draws from a wide-ranging palette of influences including jazz, soul, hip-hop, house and electronica and has previously seen him handpicked by Bonobo to provide support on his World Tour. Catching Flies has gathered over 60 million streams to date, praise from the likes of Dazed & Confused, iD Magazine, The Guardian and Nowness, radio support from Gilles Peterson, Annie Mac, Lauren Laverne, Julie Adenuga & Huw Stephens and a growing fanbase which has seen him perform across the UK, Europe, the USA and Asia.

Catching Flies’ forthcoming single ‘Silver Linings’ taken from his debut album (release 5th July 2019), is a slice of sophisticated electronica that nails the sweet spot between headphones and dancefloor. ‘Silver Linings’ is highly textured, deeply melodic and effortlessly marries live instrumentation (guitars, harps, a string quartet…) with warm electronics. To a casual listener, its pulse and lavish keyboard layering might sound familiar – the kind of thing you recognise from the likes of Bonobo or Caribou. But with ‘Silver Linings’, the structuring is unique, the way it draws you through narratives, leading you in and out of its androgynous sampled vocal loops nothing short of magical…meticulous production manipulations make surfaces glitter, crackle and crunch in a way that constantly calls into question what is electronic and what is ‘real.’

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Silver Linings

Upon listening to Elleodin’s debut EP “Iridescent”, one can almost see the colours and imagine the smells of the dreamscapes she has created. Largely fuelled by her sound-colour synesthesia, each track has a unique atmosphere saturated in floaty synths and organic instruments. Accompanied by instances of her vocals, bass guitar and recordings, and through various techniques and experimentation, the result is five tracks that wildly differentiate from each other and yet fit beautifully together.

For “Iridescent”, Elleodin has combined various corners of the electronic music scene, with clear influences which mostly stem from the downtempo music scene, but also venture into the realms of lo-fi and shoegaze. The sound-heavy quality which largely characterises the EP could even be said to be similar to that of witch house, but perhaps with an organic, rather than an industrial, finish. Peaceful yet powerful, with moments of intimacy and fantasy alike, if you’re looking for an escape, “Iridescent” is one that’s not to be missed.

Wing Commander Angel

All music K.barley 
Drums performed by Matt Davies

Bathe Pt3

Lifted - 2
Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 85
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Buy: bit.ly/2W0yIL6 / bit.ly/30OhkwC

PAN welcomes back the Lifted ensemble for a second cross-continental adventure off the grid, simply titled Lifted 2.

Lifted’s latest release expands on the expression of improvised fusion that brought about the spectrum of styles explored on their 2015 debut album for PAN. Expansion is a key theme to Lifted 2, primarily in the musicians involved; Lifted is now a core group of Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics. Expansion also relates to musical ideas Lifted explore and the studio techniques executed.

Whereas the way they approached the idea of improvisation on Lifted 1 was framed in jazz terms, the seven-tracks on this second LP step even further into the vivid unknown. Zero boundaries for the exploratory impulse. “On this record we went a lot deeper into our kind of studio technique,” Lifted say. “We tried to cultivate the sound using the studio as a primary tool, almost a member of the group in a way.”

As with the debut Lifted LP, listening to Lifted 2 is an open invitation to experience the worldwide creative framework surrounding these artists. The collaborators for each track, whether present in the studio or online, show what a fluid and freeform exercise Lifted can be.

Max D’s international crew of Future Timers play deft roles throughout Lifted 2. Jordan GCZ and Dawit Eklund both return for ‘Lifting’ alongside 1432r’s Sami, NYC’s Will DiMaggio and Sao Paulo’s Repetentes 2008. Beatrice Dillon and Bass Clef, two highly-decorated artists from the UK underground, make telling contributions which mark the latest in a long line of celebrated creative collaborations for the pair. Further input comes via Aya, vocalist and bassist for crucial Japanese experimentalists OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre, summoned for Lifted duty to provide some striking saxophone blasts.

How do all these collaborations manifest on Lifted 2? It’s a sort of inverse process full of blind takes with the results more bruised than polished. “The song stays fluid until the end. We pile the ideas really high and then decimate them,” Lifted say. “We delete until the songs are crystallizing; lay a grid of silences to organize the tracks. The breathing spaces become definitive.”

These seven tracks adroitly weave through mood and vibe, demanding heads lock in with an initial blast of whip sharp percussive hits and contemporary no-wave blowouts before letting off steam with soothing ambient synthesis. “Black Pepper” acts as the album centerpiece, an unhinged mangle of SH101 basslines, freeform flute & saxophone and multiple percussive sources brought to order by Papich’s studio dubs. “Rose 31” edges closest to the kind of jazz fusion that inspired the project from the off, Lifted utilising the various classic instruments deployed by the greats of the game. Closer “Near Future” smartly foregrounds Motion Graphics’ stunning piano talents, gradually stripping away all other elements until all that is left are his swirling notes.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Lifted - Total Cure (PAN 85)

Gwakasonné is the ecstatic articulation of Robert Oumaou’s artistic and political vision, a unified expression of his interests in American jazz, pre-colonial rhythms, Guadeloupian independence, and Créole poetics. Over the course of three albums, all released in the 80s, Robert piloted a revolving cast of musicians, a venerable who’s-who of Point-a-Pitre avant-jazz pioneers, to deftly intone his creative communal concepts. The songs on Vwayajé are compiled from these three releases, Gwakasonné, Temwen, and Moun, along with an electronic mantra taken from his 2007 solo album Sang Comment Taire. Viewed from our current artistic and cultural landscape, Robert’s work is exceptionally enduring, grounded in its declarations of freedom and foundational use of the Ka (drum) and voice, and prescient in its borderless explorations of protest folk, electronics, ambient atmosphere, music from the African diaspora, and spiritual jazz. The long-form hive-mind expression of the group has parallels with similar explorations by The Grateful Dead, electric Miles, Pharaoh Sanders, and even the Boredoms, but these are only oblique references for a truly peerless sound. Like other conceptual children of Gérard Lockel, the group was part of a progressive movement of like-minded musicians, such as Serge Fabriano, Dao, Erick Cosaque, and Gaoulé Mizik, who embraced Lockel’s modernist ideals, fusing Gwo Ka drumming and tuning systems with contemporary jazz and vanguard recording technologies. Robert’s ecstatic phrasings, embrace of electronic instruments, and daring lyrics set the group apart as the beatific expression of a sagacious soul. 

Tracklist:
A1 Atmosphere (1:58)
A2 W3 (3:49)
A3 Karayib (4:47)
A4 Suzy (4:00)
B1 Vou (4:09)
B2 Siklon (3:47)
B3 Pita (6:13)
C1 Nirvacina (3:39)
C2 Respé (5:08)
C3 Lewoz (4:06)
D1 Rekreasyon (3:38)
D2 Algerie 62 (10:35)

Release date July 5th 2019

For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl
For NA distribution contact: info@seance-centre.com

Gwakasonné - Nirvancina (16SC) EXCERPT

DJ Regal - The Village Calling (AGFA remix)

Downtempo artist based in Los Angeles

Description of my sound: 

Nostalgic textures with orchestral melodies or organic samples backed by evolving downtempo beats.

One half of Thoma.


Contact: tristandeliege@gmail.com
Instragram: @tristandeliege