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Fresh And Foolish (feat. Sarah Palin) (Original Mix)

A Public Affair 12" available now at juno: bit.ly/1rwh4d9

The new soft-spoken, hard-rocking group from Baltimore debuted their full length live show at the Wolf + Lamb Marcy Hotel this March. Following in the footsteps of greats like Nicolas Jaar and PillowTalk, they were the first invited guest in over 2 years to perform at the legendary Brooklyn proving grounds.

Life on Planets is a duo that met in the studio lofts of their east coast hometown, whereby a collaboration fusing indie artrock and electronic music began to take shape. It was a pairing of two dramatically different personas, merging as one for a serendipitous, romantic sound that's now been signed to the Double Standard label. Life on Planets has also released music through Better on Foot, where the debut single 'Apollo' made waves in early 2014. The touring act features live vocals and guitar, backed by a dj/producer, dawning a long-awaited return to authentic songwriting in dance music.

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Life on Planets - Fork In The Path [Preview]

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!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

Ding Dong Thing

Felix Laband - Ding Dong Thing

Feel it coming on

Merry Christmas let it glow

The Conquest of Happiness is a 2-songs EPx10 inspired by Bertrand Russell’s 1930 masterpiece—a philosophical field guide for ordinary people trying to build a life that feels real, meaningful, and free. This EP is an homage to Bertrand Russel, and a soundtrack for anyone who’s trying to stay awake, stay kind, stay curious, and stay human… Think of it as a humble and grateful love letter to curiosity, emotional honesty, and the kind of philosophy that makes you sit up straighter and breathe easier… with humor, compassion, and just enough sASS :)

WHAT IS THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS?
Bertrand Russell wrote this book  because he saw ordinary people suffering unnecessarily—not from tragedy, but from habits of mind, toxic social pressures, and self-inflicted misery. He argued that happiness isn’t a mystery. It’s not a miracle. It’s a skill. And he gave us a map. This EP is my humble attempt at translating that map into music.

SIDE A : “THE UNHAPPINESS DANCE”
A song (x5) songs inspired by the forces that drain joy and distort the mind, i.e. the reasons why people tend to feel unhappy—namely, the emotional chaos, the self-sabotage, and the absurdity of modern misery.
Russell’s #unhappiness list, simplified:
1. Competition: Always comparing yourself to others. 
2. Boredom / Excitement Extremism: Swinging between “numb” and “thrilled” without ever landing in contentment. 
3. Fatigue: Overwork, stress, and no margin for joy. 
4. Envy: Measuring your worth by what others have. 
5. Guilt & Moral Self-Torment:  Beating yourself up for being human. 
6. Fear of Public Opinion: Living your life under imagined surveillance.

SIDE B : “THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS”
A song (x5) about what actually creates lasting well-being, what makes people truly happy. These songs waltz through the antidotes: curiosity, connection, creativity, pleasure, laughter, kindness, courage, and the everyday magic that makes life feel like life.
Russell’s #happiness list, simplified:
1. Zest: Being genuinely interested in life. 
2. Affection: Love given and love received. 
3. Meaningful Work: Not necessarily glamorous, but engaging. 
4. Wide Interests: Multiple passions, not one obsession. 
5. Effort & Resilience: The willingness to grow, to try, to adapt. 
6. Impersonal Interests: Joy in things outside the self (nature, ideas, art). 
7. A Sense of Purpose: Living for something larger than ego.

WHY THIS MATTERS NOW?
Because we’re living in a time of distraction, polarization, loneliness, and algorithmic noise that quietly eats away at our sense of self… Because people are anxious, burnt out, overstimulated, overwhelmed, and under-nourished in the soul. And because Russell’s wisdom—nearly 100 years old—feels like it was written yesterday, for the world we’re in right now.

☰☰☰
NOTE: Lyrics matter, and I’d gladly share mine upon request, as always. But Soundcloud description length is limited, and for this EP, I wanted to tell you more about Bertrand instead of sharing lyrics, because he is a gift to humanity… and, in a world gone unhappy bananas, I hope he may help inspire you to find your path(s) to #happy, too. Look him up <3


Side A [05] EP Bertrand - The Unhappiness Dance - GROWsutra Indie JAZZ

Format: CD, Download | Releasedate: 27.11.2015

That's how long it can take when you want to avoid haste making waste. After a seven-year hiatus Sonar Kollektiv finally releases the third edition of the 2007 installed compilation series “Computer Incarnations For World Peace”. The first two, celebrated episodes had been co-selected by Gerd Janson (Running Back). Now Sonar Kollektiv's A&R manager and Jazzanova DJ Alex Barck takes care of business all on his own, picking thirteen songs out off his immense record collection – which in this order and combination unquestionably live up to the high expectations towards the third part of “Computer Incarnations For World Peace” and beyond.

To start things off we get one of Barck's undisputed favorites, “Caught” from 1986 by Tokyo born singer Anna Domino. And not only this song but all of the following twelve tracks have a strong atmospheric and sonic connection to the eponymous classic by Jean-Luc Ponty (“Computer Incantations For World Peace”). For example, “Night Flight” by German sound engineer and producer Walter Quintus is excellent feelgood jazz funk from the late eighties as well as the cosmic synth monster “Swiftness” by Georges Rodi and Dave Sarkys from 1979. For quite some time now “Airport Of Love” by French studio project Love International is an integral part of any DJ set that ranges somewhere between Balearic and Cosmic. Not assignable to any genre though is Brenda & The Beach Balls' “Theme From A Tall Dark Stranger” off their first EP from 1986. But that's exactly what sets “Computer Incarnations For World Peace” apart from other compilation series: A complexity of all different styles, musical eras and connections to a whole lot of scenes, but – if played in the right order – has a well-knit common thread and takes us on a journey through space and time. A trip with a quick detour to Japan and its quite flourishing Minimal Music scene in the early 80's (Mkwaju Ensemble), but always returns to good old Germany. For example with “Sol Y Sombra” by Amanita from 1978, or Obalki's “Lobos Point”, which came out last year on Public Possession, as well as “Bewegliche Ziele” by Plaza Hotel featuring Jaki Liebezeit on drums; a track acknowledged with a wonderful reissue on Notes On A Journey. And finally we also get a little glimpse of the future via “Altona” by the Tuff City Kids. This is one of the tracks, that could be on the long awaited debut album by the long enduring remix project by Gerd Janson and Philipp Lauer to be released on Permanent Vacation. And when Barck pays tribute to his former compilation ally he's also allowed to throw one of his own tracks into the mix. 

One of the first tracks by Jazzanova, “Introspection” still sounds surprisingly fresh and scrupulous timeless to this day. 

One can almost claim that it was a good thing that Barck (and Sonar Kollektiv) took his time and now can proudly serve us his best matured and well-tested gems out of his collection. Bottoms up!


02 - Quintus Project - Night Flight

!!! These are stripped-down 160mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Bag Of Bones EP
Cat No: CPT 472-1
Format: 12" / digital
Release: 30th Sept. 2016

Tracklisting:
A1.  „Righteous Red Berets“ (Original) (9:12)
A2.  „Bag Of Bones“ (6:03)

B1.  „Righteous Red Berets“ (Luke Vibert Remix) (6:04)
B2.  „Donkey Rattle – Kill The Boer“ (7:37)

"The Bag of Bones EP is an unsettling yet beautiful record. Coming from a time when South Africa is undergoing an unnerving state of change with revolution bubbling just under the skin. The record speaks of hope, anger, love and dreams.
Righteous Red Berets is an ode to Stakerlee who kills another man cause he cheated his cards and we also hear from Reverend Jim Jones as he preaches hope from his mass graves.
Luke Vibert (a hero of mine since the late 90s), reinterprets the track with his unique brand of Funk and Soul that adds some love to a desperate song. 

Bag of Bones is my personal balad to a life with the lights turned off. Just me and my guitar. Shane Cooper (AKA Card on Spokes) adds his beautiful double bass to this track and helps it breath life.
Kill the Boer is a Remix of my 2002 Kwaito Bass classic "Donkey Rattle". I base the remix around a sample of a Toy Toy from Soweto 1960 to speak about the current "revolution" with a different government but with the same despair

Hope you enjoy this record?“

(Felix Laband | August 2016)

Links:

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband
resident advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015: 
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1287887/events/3008007/videos/76528193 (video)

Felix Laband live @ Nacht Digital Festival (July 2016):
https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband/untitled-08072016-05954 (audio)

Bag Of Bones EP incl. Luke Vibert Remix

Righteous Red Berets

Felix Laband - Righteous Red Berets (Original)

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Credits:
Label: Bar 25 Music
out: 27.04.2018
Cat. No: Bar25-073Z
Artist: Various Artists
Release Title: Bar25 - Zeitgeist Vol. 2
Release Type: Compilation
Medium: digital
Territorry: ww

Tracklist:
1. DkA & Exon feat. Sinead Maya - After Calling (Original Mix)
2. Bloody Shelby & Albano - Niglo (Original Mix)
3. Dilby - Solstice (Original Mix)
4. Kalabrese feat. Sarah Palin - Kafi Lied (Original Mix)
5. Paul Schal feat. Robert Owens - Peace (Original Mix)
6. Acid Pauli - Verbos (Nico Stojan Remix)
7. KMLN feat. Wayne Tooker - Zebra (Original Mix)
8. Gab Rhome - Miami Rice (Lee Jones Remix)
9. Benno Blome - Spherical Aberration (Jiggler Remix)
10. Dachshund - Millions Of Particles (Original Mix)
11. SoKool - Sundowner (Edit)
12. Sid Le Rock - Ocean Above (Original Mix)
13. A Guy Called Gerald - Dalek Head (Original Mix)
14. Marco Tegui feat. Tone of Arc - The Wizard Sails Alone (Original Mix)
15. Superpitcher - Little Raver (Original Mix)
16. Daniele Di Martino - DoJoo (Original Mix)
17. Bondi - Siel Fiction (Original Mix)
18. She Knows - Thalassa (Original Mix)
19. Daniel Bortz feat. Nils Corssen - The Misery (Nu & Acid Pauli Remix)
20. Mass Digital - Getting Higher (Original Mix)
21. Fraenzen Texas - Fantomas (Original Mix)
22. Cipy feat. KnowKontrol - Osaka (Original Mix)
23. Strolch - Mlima (Original Mix)
24. Pier Bucci - Hoy (Original Mix)

"Bar25 - Days Out Of Time“ is the motto of the cinema movie about Berlin’s Bar25. By now, not only the club, but also its soundtrack have attained cult status. As a result, the compilation series "Zeitgeist“ is returning for the next round. Featured are many of the label’s well-known as well as new artists, who have contributed mainly exclusively produced tracks. This is atmospheric club sound that goes beyond the usual genre, multi-faceted and timeless, as we are accustomed to hearing from the Bar 25 label.
On board this time around are the artists Daniel Bortz, Nu, Acid Pauli, Kalabrese, Nico Stojan, Superpitcher, Mass Digital, Gab Rhome, Lee Jones, Marco Tegui, SoKool, Bondi, Cipy, Benno Blome, Jiggler, Pier Bucci, Daniele di Martino, Dachshund, KMLN, A Guy Called Gerald, Strolch, She Knows, Fraenzen Texas, DkA, Sid Le Rock, Bloody Shelby, Dilby and Paul Schal feat. Robert Owens. 
Clear the ring! It’s your own fault if you’re still keep standing.

Fresh And Foolish (feat. Sarah Palin) (Original Mix)

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