RELEASE INFO - COMING SUMMER 2022:
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Release Title: March of the Mighty Club Heroes
Artist / Track B1: Homero G. - "Triple Tab Fantasy"
Label: PDG Discs
Cat. No.: PDG-001 
Release Date (estimate): July 27 2022
Web: pdgdiscs.com
Format: Vinyl Only, No Digital


SALES & DISTRIBUTION:
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For sales and distribution, care of One Eye Witness (Amsterdam, NL), visit: pdgdiscs.com/pdg-001

"The mastermind behind long-running Inner Sunset Recordings out of San Francisco and the elusive Imperial Pressings has once again resurfaced, and resurfaced with ferocity! Inaugurating the all-new imprint PDG Discs, Homero G.’s “March of the Mighty Club Heroes” is a superbly crafted 4-track E.P. that hearkens back to the days of old, when music had unforgettable stories to tell and partying went hand in hand with making memories that lasted a lifetime.

Blast off into outer space with A1, “Red Planet”. The bassline rumbles and the breaks roll with an intensity that propels you forward in a swirl of intergalactic pads. Track A2, “Rusty Robofriend”, is awesomely twinkly, grindy, happy-go-lucky breakbeat jam that your grandfather’s childhood toy robots secretly dance to when nobody is looking. B1’s “Triple Tab Fantasy” is a perky, skippy, stabby, organ-filled breakbeat delight that joyfully progresses with bursts of refreshing positivity around each and every corner. And B2, “March of the Mighty Club Heroes”, is a deep and rainy piano-adorned, break-laced anthem that gives a beautifully sentimental and heartfelt nod to all the true heads out there who will let absolutely nothing stand in their way of going to the club. Not even bad weather.

A fantastic record that’s 100% built for true connoisseurs of dance music, old-schoolers and all-around music lovers alike, “March of the Mighty Club Heroes” possesses a level of detail and emotion-filled storytelling that is rarely witnessed in electronic music these days.
Once again Homero G. delivers, and delivery massively. 

He’s notorious for not repressing prior releases, regardless of how sought after they may be later on, so grab your copy now. Because when it’s gone, it’s very likely gone for good."

March of the Mighty Club Heroes

B1. Homero G - Triple Tab Fantasy

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ALM Busy Circuits Voices Radio Takeover 29/04/23

As part our Voices Radio takeover listen to an interview with Satoshi & Makoto about their favourite Casio synthesizer.

Satoshi & Makoto CZ-5000 Special - ALM Busy Circuits Voices Radio Takeover 29/04/23

New full-length 'Perception' out 04.07 LR cassette + digital, cover art by Ahnnu.

Ahnnu - The Racer

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

From Touched By an Angle Vol. 2 compilation.
https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/touched-by-an-angle-2-2

Touched By an Angle #2

Snow is Jazz

Some mellow sounds using only the new Serge Mantra panel ...

Serge Mantra - Mellow Drones

Richard Fearless - Deep Rave Memory

“Kanda” follows Ranie Ribeiro’s “Individuality EP” with a new series of singles. 

Taking cues from the broken beat and jazz scenes while giving it his own twist. "Kanda" comes as a solid blend between acoustic and electronic music with fast paced drum patterns, electric piano’s and elevating synth lines.

Kanda

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Kaleidoscope / Makoto
https://nemutai.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscope

This is a solo mini album using mainly Casio CZ-5000 synthesizer from Makoto, the younger brother of Satoshi & Makoto.

Track3 was Live recorded at Yebisu, Tokyo "KATA" in 2019/02/02

released April 25, 2020

Kaleidoscope / Makoto (Satoshi & Makoto)

bandcamp
https://nemutai.bandcamp.com

Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/c/WheelRock

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