Newest album from this Glasgow collective is a hypnotic & melodic indie/post-punk masterpiece with understated hooks that will haunt you long after you've heard them. Out February 26th, 2021 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

RIYL: The Raincoats, Shopping, Marine Girls, The Fates, Faust, Flaming Tunes, Camberwell Now, Neu!, Sonic Youth, Cate le Bon, Grass Widow, Primo!, Young Marble Giants, Vital Idles

Nightshift - Zöe (Trouble In Mind Records)

dupdidu

The Ongoing Sounds of The AM 2021

[Weekly Mix] 2021.01 (3)

Janvier 2021

February 2021

Its past was a souvenir

DF - Culture Amp

Saul

Promenade oblique

De Película

Je rentrais par le bois ... BB

Que Calor ! (feat. Edi Pistolas)

Juliette dans la caravane

The Well- Marcus King Trio

Release date: North America 5/5/2015 - Polyvinyl Records / Benelux 4/5/2105 - Excelsior Recordings / Rest of the World 4/5/2015 - Full Time Hobby


Hypnophobia

First single off new album "Hypnophobia" (out may 4th in North America, may 5th rest of the world).

Pre-order here: 
North America: http://polyvinylrecords.com/hypnophobia
Benelux: http://www.excelsiorshop.nl/
Rest of The World: http://fulltimehobby.sandbaghq.com/jacco-gardner-hypnophobia-pre-order.html

Artwork by Julian House

Find Yourself

Produced by Frank Maston
Previously unreleased track from the Trouble In Mind Presents: Eindhoven 2015 compilation. 
Released on June 5th 2015 in an edition of 800 LP's. 
Exclusively released for the Eindhoven Psych Lab 2015


You Have The Key (That Opens The Door)

Jacco Gardner - Find Yourself (Richard Norris remix)

Maybe This Time

Herbie Hancock Headhunters 
November 1974 | Musikladen, Germany

Tracks:
0:00 Palm Grease - Sly
29:10 Butterfly
44:32 Spank A Lee 
51:28 Chameleon 

Lineup:
Herbie Hancock | Fender Rhodes, clavinet & keyboards
Bennie Maupin | Sax, flute, clarinet, etc.
Paul Jackson I electric bass 
Mike Clark | drums 
Bill Summers I percussion

Disclaimer:
I do NOT own the rights to this recording – it's PURELY for keeping the funk alive. Japanese TV rebroadcast from the original German recording. 

EPIC stuff - probably THE most amazing funk jam ever recorded. Yay for Herbie Hancock! My hero!

Enjoy!

Herbie Hancock Headhunters 1974

Clear The Air

Stream & download: www.melting-pot-music.lnk.to/mrkaefer

If we had only four letters to describe “Lost Reflections”, the new EP by Mr.Käfer, we would choose J-A-Z-Z. This could easily mislead to the presumption that the “Lost Reflections” EP is a bunch of Lo-Fi beats with a random Bill Evans loop on top of it, glued together by vinyl crackles sampled from YouTube. Something that you don't necessarily need in your playlist in 2019. As a matter of fact the “Lost Reflections” EP is not such a thing, even though it has beatmaker and jazz written all over it. The beatmaker here – Mr. Käfer – loves jazz. 
He discovered Mingus, Coltrane and Miles through his love for Pete Rock, Lord Finesse and The Pharcyde. If you listen to his debut album “Travelin” on Postpartum or put on one of his tracks for Chillhop or Hip Dozer you know the deal.

For his new EP the producer from Salzburg, Austria has teamed up with Californian saxophonist Gavin Lord. Together they have recorded 9 dreamy and slightly melancholic pieces of contemporary beatdriven jazz music. Perfect for the cold season.

Here is Gavin's protocol how the EP came about:
„Lost Reflections is a hodge podge of rainy-day jams and musings. It’s the product of a Californian saxophonist and an Austrian beat maker trying to figure out how to make music together one spring in Salzburg. We met by chance in a burger shop, and thought it would be cool to jam. To be honest, at first we didn’t really know what we were doing; I (Gavin) had only played with jazz combos and swing bands. Karim was a beat maker and rapper. It was a bit of a melancholic time for both of us, and we ended up creating an atmosphere that was sometimes smooth and dark, sometimes twisted and barely restrained. At any rate, we preferred to keep it simple. We would start with a rough idea of the mood we wanted to convey, whether that was a feeling or a sample or a riff, and then we would just jam on it until it felt right. Jamming and improvising with a saxophone and a midi-controller was new for both of us, but very cool and natural. After I moved away, we almost forgot about the tracks and they just sat around for a while. We sometimes talked about them, but between us we didn’t have enough time for the project. Releasing the tracks now is a bit of a nostalgic trip, remembering the Salzburg days and the crew of friends who gave their encouragement and support. Although there are things that we would now change, we put too much love into these tracks to sit on them forever.”

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Produced and mixed by Mr. Käfer. 
Saxophone on all tracks performed by Gavin Lord.
Mastered by Roe Beardie at The Brewery, Cologne.
Artwork by Rahel Süßkind. 

Cat No: MPM 269
Artist: Mr. Käfer
Titel: Lost Reflections

Lost Reflections

Floating Away

Hidden Voice

Dynamik Bass System - Out Of Control

Impostor

Walk In The Park (Prod. Selkie Boy)

How Are You? (cover)

We are excited to announce Bell Orchestre's first full-length album in over a decade: House Music — an immersive ecosystem created by the acclaimed Montreal-based outfit, which include Arcade Fire’s Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry — out March 19.

Stream & pre-order the album on LP · CD · DL: https://idol.lnk.to/HouseMusic

House Music unfolds as one long piece, a recorded-then-sculpted improvisation that vastly expands their work, coalescing classical and electronic instrumentation in the creation of genre-defying musical worlds.

After having shared the short film IX: Nature That’s It That’s All. — which layered archival visuals of blissed-out crowds at a carnival over one of the later, dreamier sections of House Music — Bell Orchestre presents a video for the one-track album’s most anthemic and explosive segment, V: Movement, directed by band-member Kaveh Nabatian.

In the album’s liner notes, the group recalls countless moments when, in kinetic moments of improvisation, “a nuanced piece of music would emerge organically, completely formed, without any plan or discussion or rational thought” — and then be lost because it wasn’t recorded. In conceiving a new album, they decided to celebrate the spontaneous and accidental, to centrally situate the act of collaborative, democratic creation in their finished work. With the legacies of improvisation-exploring greats like Talk Talk, The Orb, Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis and the late Ennio Morricone in mind, on House Music, Bell Orchestre captures the impulsive, connective, mysterious poetics of musical invention happening in real-time.

House Music

V: Movement

Stream & order LP · CD

Bell Orchestre - V: Movement

American Culture - Silence

Nightshift - Piece Together

Nightshift - Power Cut

Nightshift - Make Kin

Recorded at The Ranch Production House with Neil Kennedy. 
Artwork: Frank Wright 

Social Contract is Arun Starkey, Bisque Wemyss, Frank Cartwright, Josh Eggerton and Scott Roach.

First blush cold rush
Is it that time again
When the world’s your secret
Red wine on the lens
Feet wade fog fades
Past lock twenty four
Use the break of day
To get away from it all
Dog sweats place bets
On this pearly morn
Store your evenings thinking on the basin Don’t fade away fade away fade away
I’m awake I’m awake
Thoughts breaking
legs shaking in the infant light
The dog starts to pull
the leather wraps tight
There’s a figure bound to a tree by the mews Ropes tie wrists
Naked body in a noose
Cold to touch with a blue upper lip
You tore down the soul
Wrapped a tissue round the rips
Raw, wet, bleeding out
I wonder if he ever carried a doubt
What will the town come to think
Of the private life of a desperate kink
I see this was a desire to be
Vulnerable in a state of ecstasy
How will the headlines print their name One of mystery? One of shame?
It was an act of danger said the nova news This is the story of the morning mews

Waterside Mews

A-State-Of-The-Art Song Performed By The Band 'Home Counties'

Mixed by Conor Kearney & Will Harrison
Mastered by Felix Davis at Metropolis
Artwork by Cameron West

Modern Yuppies

I Don't Want to Get Adjusted to This World

Silly and Self-Destructive

Positive Outlooks for the Apocalypse

There's A Mountain

Baby
Tie my wrist before I hit the sun
Before the backseat
Blows right out throughout the windows gone

Now what's this city and who’s the people 
Oh alright
I’m dressed up pretty, real delightful for the night
But I was nearly suicidal before your car arrived

Moving up to the villas
Kill a bit of time 
Prom tomorrow night

Tasting sweet how the wind blows
But get your head inside
I need you here alive

Now what's this city and who’s the people 
Oh alright
I’m dressed up pretty, real delightful for the night

Moving up to the villas
Kill a bit of time 
Just for one last time

Now maybe
This is the last of what there is to feel
It’s only different places
Poor imitations 
Fucking actors trying to speak like you speak

Moving up to the villas
Kill a bit of time 
Prom tomorrow night

Tasting sweet how the wind blows
But get your head inside
I need you here alive

Now what's this city and who’s the people 
Oh alright
I’m dressed up pretty, real delightful for the night

Moving up to the villas
Kill a bit of time 
Just for one last time

Prom

Gone

Gone (feat. Woods)

Dutch composer Rutger Hoedemaekers makes his debut solo release with a stunning album that marks the culmination of a decade spent in the hyper-creative studio environment he co-founded in Berlin, including four years working closely alongside Jóhann Jóhannsson. Sonically rich, emotionally deep, and immaculately handled, 'The Age Of Oddities’ showcases a brilliant new talent, its cinematic eloquence bearing witness to Rutger’s experiences composing for film alongside Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhannsson, for whom the album is partly a eulogy.

Whilst paying homage to Jóhannsson, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ sees Hoedemaekers forging his own sound and vision. It’s a bold and forward-thinking record, with a rich, hybrid sound seeing vocals processed and blurred alongside brass parts and a wall of strings shadowed by Rutger’s understated, textural electronics. Beautifully scored, immaculately performed and recorded, the album utilises the power of Budapest Art Orchestra’s 23-piece string ensemble conducted and co-orchestrated by Viktor Orri Árnason, alongside vocals (Kira Kira, Theatre of Voices’ Else Torp and Laura Jansen), horn (Morris Kliphuis), trombone (Hilary Jeffery) and violin (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and Viktor Orri Árnason), with Hoedemaekers contributing trumpet, piano, keyboard and electronics.

Born out of a shared creative environment during a time of personal as well as social change, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ is a powerful and emotive work that closes a deeply productive yet also dark and heavy period for its creator.  It sees Hoedemaekers finally stepping out into the spotlight after many years working behind the scenes, revealing a hugely talented new composer who is surely one to watch in coming years.

The Age Of Oddities

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Rutger Hoedemaekers - Not For That Hour, Nor For That Place

Taken off 'Transmission' (HH133), an expansive 10-track remix collection of songs originally featured on ISKRE's 2020 self-released sophomore album 'Intermission'

IKSRE / Soundcloud - @iksremusic
Super Magic Hats / Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/supermagichats

Transmission

BANDCAMP

IKSRE - Wylah (Super Magic Hats Remix)

its my birthday, so its time to release something while im working on a larger project. 

made this earlier last year and left it sitting around, so pardon the mastering/mixing

hope you enjoy and thanks for listening

bandcamp

For After

'AREA MAN' taken from 'Company' (Expanded Edition). Available on 12" blue & white marble vinyl here: tinyurl.com/CompanyVinyl

Area Man (Radio Edit)

Chicago, IL label founded in 2009 with releases by NIGHTSHIFT, Writhing Squares, FACS, Melenas, En Attendant Ana, Mountain Movers, Headroom & more - Cop It. Don't Swap it.

Nightshift - Power Cut

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