SoundCloud Weekly 07.04.21

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ART TEACHERS – "A.T." (S.O.T.P.) - JANUARY 2020. (17th) – (low resolution/mp3-snippets)
Pre-Order Vinyl -> https://artteachers.bandcamp.com/ 250 copies including hand-made insert. -

> Longtime activists ART TEACHERS bestow to the world their utterance of Funk Realistique! Native to the periphery of an industrial hotspot in Central Europe the outfit models the world to their own conception. Realfunk, in that respect, needs no outright referring to its origins. Form and expression are skipping genre dictates and thus create another niveau. This elegant EP may whet the appetite for more... -

Art Teachers - "AT" (S​.​O​.​T​.​P​.​)[Out January 2020]

PREORDER LTD ED 01/30 numbered, with silkscreened PVC designed by Gomito: https://discoscapablanca.bandcamp.com/merch/scott-young-ket-city-ltd-ed-12

The new EP by
Scott Young (Discos Capablanca/ Opal Tapes / Born Free)

Out 14.02.2020 on Discos Capablanca

Hypnotic, scuffed dancefloor movements, dub-dilated drum workouts &
heavy-lidded ambient zones.
Made in Hong Kong before the storm, Manchester and Bristol.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Scott Young’s music traverses a wide sonic palette, encapsulating leftfield dance music, musique concrete, experimental film soundtracks and lush ambient excursions.
Following a noteworthy appearance on Samo DJ’s Born Free imprint, a series of accomplished releases on Discos Capablanca and a mesmeric contribution to the 2019 Opal Tapes compilation ‘Amateur Vampires’, Young returns with his most significant output to date.
Comprised of five tracks that work towards different styles, ‘Ket City’ is intended as an intimate ode to the United Kingdom, and a response to the oppression of algorithmically filtered modernity and the drudgery of work. Diving into hypnotic, artfully fractured dancefloor movements, dub-dilated drum workouts & heavy-lidded ambient zones, ‘Ket City’ is a diverse prospect that nevertheless reveals the execution of a unique signature.
A cerebral, tranquilised, escapist trip that channels ambiguity and positivity in equal measure, and evokes the influence of Mille Plateaux, Wordsound, Mark Fell and Matt Steel’s SND project as well as contemporary operators like Huerco S and Madteo.

Scott Young - Ket City (snippets, out 02.2020)

The main thing is to believe in yourself and become helpless, like children. Because weakness is great, and strength is negligible. When a person is born, he is weak and flexible, and when he dies, he is strong and callous. When a tree grows, it is gentle and flexible, and when it is dry and hard, it dies. Callousness and strength are the companions of death. Weakness and flexibility - express the freshness of being. Therefore, what is hardened couldn't win.
Montreal's ISLA presents 'AE' - two 12"s of rhythmic hypnosis from the eXquisite CORpsE related project, XqST (Robbert Heijnen and Debbie Jones). AE logic symbols that stand for "For All" and "There Exists" is a deep and meditative journey moving further into the more abstract territories that Robbert and Debbie previously explored with eXquisite CORpsE.
Most of the material on the record is selected from improvisations Robbert and Debbie recorded in their home studio in Vancouver, BC during 2003, except for "SDLY" which was recorded in the Netherlands in 1996. 
12" 2xLP out end of March, pre- orders taken at: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/119184-isla-23-exquisite-corpse-presents-xqst-ae

'AE' previews: https://soundcloud.com/sonidoisla/xqst-e-previews

https://soundcloud.com/sonidoisla

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PREMIERE #845 | XqST- HRBA [ISLA] 2020

Order here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/kris-baha-barely-alive-timothy-j-fairplay/751479-01/

The label is delighted to welcome Kris Baha with his first 12" for Especial. After killer remixes of Sfire and Red Axes for the label, his name as an artist, with his darker take on dance music, has risen and risen.

With releases on Bahnsteig 23, CockTail d'Amore and Pinkman, Baha has become a respected artist in just a few years. Building analogue equipped studios in Melbourne and Berlin, DJing, producing and mixing have all led to atonal ear, where success came through dedication.

Following his debut album Palais, Barely Alive acts as release from these years of sweat. A call to all in this modern world, the song exemplifies a move from club music to a freedom in sound and song, as vox crash against 808 and Arp 2600. Remixes start with Timothy J Fairplay a name synonymous with Especial. Here TJF laces his trademark echoplexxed wash for a cold wave mover. Next prodigy Job Sifre builds on his acclaimed debuts with a remodel that goes straight to 'that' basement, mixing his love of electro, new wave and industrial. To close, the legend of Das Ding creates a re-alternate remix, fusing his unique fuzz with Baha's ode for a brittle finale.

A2. Barely Alive (Timothy J Fairplay Remix)

Thoughts clouded her mind, mirroring the white blanket that covered the sky outside her window. She'd been gazing out of it for hours, hoping for some inspiration to hit her, but she was finding it hard to engender motivation at all. There wasn't much movement or action outside to give rise to a feeling, but she was hopeful. For now, she'd continue to gaze outside and wait for that moment...

It's not easy to keep an independent label afloat, but Cosmo Vitelli's I'm A Cliche imprint has continued to thrive for over 15 years. To celebrate the occasion he's brought together friends and allies for a 13 track V/A compilation called Bongo, Beats & Bankruptcy, that captures the label's quirks and eccentricities and touches all corners of their vast musical universe. Amongst tracks from Benoît B, Fantastic Twins, Ivan Smagghe and Marc Collin's Volga Select project and Cosmo himself is our selection 'Skate & Distort', a club-ready IDM-not-IDM number by African Acid co-founder Rouge Mécanique.

Bongo Beats and Bankruptcy : The Sound of I'm a Cliche

PREMIERE: Rouge Mécanique - Skate & Distort [I'm A Cliché]

Taken from "Bongo Beats & Bankruptcy: The Sound of I'm a Cliché"
Out 27.03.2020 // 3LP & Digital
Preorder: fanlink.to/bongobeatsbankruptcy

A1. Orestt - Luddisme
A2. Awkward Corners - In Slow Motion (Sunju Hargun Edit)
A3. Volga Select - Spione
B1. June - Perspective 4000
B2. Coy - La Cantine Du Vatican
C1. Rouge Mécanique - Skate & Distort
C2. Benoit B - Cosmic Music Style
D1. Fantastic Twins - Read My Palmer, Laura
D2. Oliver Decrow - Opus Pistorum (Dunkeltier Mix)
E1. Cosmo Vitelli - The Horse Incident (Ft. Andrew Claristidge)
E2 Odopt - Annpala
F1. Krikor - We as one in the S.D.T
F2. Linja - Xanadu

Orestt - Luddisme

A heady dose of cosmic hybridism from Low Bat, Ariel Garcia and Luc Bersier's “psychosomatic” supergroup.

'Ear Clip Series Vol. 2 : Endlich Normale Menschen Vol​.​1' is out June 20th on Chez Émile's Ear Clips Series.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2xuWNTo

@nighttravelonablanketshow
@chezemile

Premiere: Jean-Luc - Die Blaue Orange Pressen [Ear Clips Series]

WRONG ASSESSMENT The True Measure (Marlene Stark Remix)

Artist: Poperttelli https://soundcloud.com/poperttelli
Track: Ecoline
Label: brokntoys https://soundcloud.com/brokntoys
Release date: June 2020 
Format: Vinyl / Digital 
Pre-order: tba

DT PREMIERE: Poperttelli - Ecoline [BT42]

https://anahelder.bandcamp.com/album/boleto-101-ep

Since making her debut in 2011, Ana Helder has ventured on a European tour every year, which always finds her playing in some of the most revered clubs across the continent. She contributed to develop the sound of Matias Aguayo’s Cómeme label becoming one of the most vital members of that collective.


She has continued to develop a steady, growing discography with a deep musicality and an open attitude to house music, amplifying the genre with discreet boogie, disco and funk particles.

She debuts on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce with the "Boleto 1" 4 track EP

Ana says "The first two tracks where started with the drums, a bass and two or three more elements. They were archived on a hard drive for years until recently rediscovered. Some psychedelic overdubs on a Minimoog and a bit of mixing was enough to fill the funky space."

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce June 5th 2020

Optimo Music Digital Danceforce 029 - Ana Helder - Boleto 101 EP

Taken from the Pedestal Arts Estate compilation, digital available here:

https://alteredtapedstates.bandcamp.com/album/pedestal-arts-estate

Foreign Beast (Sleep D) - Who's A Good Boy!?

“The confines of one’s own abode have become painstakingly familiar to most of us in the passing few months. Solitude, solitariness and confinement have marked the spring of 2020 as life has been halted by the covid-19 pandemic. In A Room with a View Maria Korkeila and her cohorts have approached the task of giving form to these sentiments through the one channel which has been absent from life lately; the so-called nightlife. If we consider nightlife as an entity, certain patterns often emerge as giving structure and shape to it – it often has an end a beginning which act as place holders for what can be characterized as a ”peak-time”. The difference with the confinement era has been that you never know when it’s peak-time.

To approach A Room with a View one can turn to the thought of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy whose writings on community and communication offer reflections on this task of being together apart and articulating this aloneness qua togetherness. The absence of the physical presence of the other is not a negation leading us to an emptiness – it is only an exposition, an opening, a vista if you will. Hence, A Room with a View can be seen as a glance towards a future in a time marked with stillness. For in times of uncertainty, dancing and poetry are essential tools to communicate, whether together or separate, a view persists in the motion of body and thought. “

Text: Jaakko Rintala

A Room With a View is an audiovisual compilation supported by Together Alone, an initiative launched by the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes, offering support for art projects documenting the state of emergency caused by Covid-19. The compilation features tracks by emkay and collaborators: Sansibar, River Yarra’s Synthetic Band, Niko Hallikainen and Movies Are Real. All proceedings go to the artists involved.

Niko Hallikainen is a performance poet and writer. Niko’s work gravitates to topics of alienation, emotional instability, nostalgia and the limits of expression. 
instagram.com/lowincomeglow  

River Yarra’s Synthetic Band is the moniker of Raudie McLeod, a producer and DJ who spawned upstream from Melbourne’s Yarra River in a quiet, leafy suburb. Rooted in percussion, rhythm and experimentation developed in the Eltham High School Symphonic Band his small but honest musical output crawls across an entrancing range of tempos and styles. 
soundcloud.com/riveryarra  

Sunny Seppä aka Sansibar is a multi-instrumental producer and DJ based in Helsinki. Sansibar has a diverse style and he like's to work mainly in different fields of contemporary music. 
soundcloud.com/sunnysibar  

Movies Are Real is a Paris-based producer.
soundcloud.com/moviesarereal  

releases June 27, 2020

A Room With A View

emkay – "A Room With A View" (Snippets)

Sentuhlà is one of the many aliases of musical jack of all trades José Guerrero, a long standing figure in the already rich underground scene of Valencia. In this solo excursion he explores the vast possibilities of mechanical repetition, the machine funk of dirtbag rhythms and proper boogie DIY synth music, sculpting a syncopated sound that is both modern and atavistic. Coming from a deep knowledge and ability to communicate very diverse sounds, slow jams unfold into dance music for clear eyed lounge lizards for whom sleaze comes not dizzy but focused. Whitened african rhythms beat up no wave disco pleasure points, managing the hard task of being very cool and nonchalant, but also hot and dedicated.
This closed door nightclub music will appeal to fans of the new developments in dance music that put Cabaret Voltaire, impLOG or Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou into XXI Century basements. The record comes also with a killer remix by Tolouse Low Trax, one of the best producers in modern rhythmic/non-rhythmic music.

https://soundcloud.com/abstrakce
https://soundcloud.com/detlefnet

Pre-order

PRÈMIÉRE: Sentuhlà - El Esquema De Tu Latido (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) [Abstrakce Records]

River Yarra's '2D Electric Mushroom' from our upcoming collaborative release with Ears On Earth, Household Choirs

Pre-order CD or digital album:
earsonearth.bandcamp.com/album/household-choirs
superutu.bandcamp.com/album/household-choirs

Household Choirs [EOE004 / UTU004]

River Yarra - 2D Electric Mushroom

Optimo Music presents “Vanessa 77” the debut album from New Zealander Vanessa Worm. Originally due in May, it was rescheduled due to the lockdown, but we couldn’t wait any longer to get it out into the world, so here it is, on vinyl and digital.

After entrusting us to release three much-loved singles, it seemed right to let Vanessa stretch out across an album and show the world what she is about and how talented she is. Vanessa is exactly the kind of artist Optimo Music dreams of finding; her music fits in with no genre and no scene – it is its own genre and its own scene. Musically free and anarchic, Vanessa conforms to nobody’s dogma. Before lockdown Vanessa played a series of Southern Hemisphere live shows that entranced all who saw them. Hopefully next year she can come and do the same in the Northern Hemisphere.

We asked her for a few thoughts about her album. Vanessa says – “Vanessa 77, like most creative endeavours is a journey of self discovery. Mentally, emotionally and creatively. I spent most of my time alone in winter 2019 – focused solely on personal development and self realisation via the creation of this album. It was a way for me to put my mental state onto a plate – the joys, the fears, the epiphanies, and so on. I so desperately wanted to share what I was learning with the world too – I intended for Vanessa 77 to help others to heal, self-realise and alchemise. It was a 9-month process of death and a re-birth from the old into the new. Much like the world is experiencing now entering 2020, I hope this album can provide some form of healing, soothing, celebration and act as a sub-conscious guide for us as we enter into this New Earth. Thank you to all who listens, enjoy!”

Released on vinyl (and digital) on 10/07/2020. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM LP 18 - Vanessa Worm - Vanessa 77 (album sampler) OUT NOW ON VINYL / DIGITAL

Neubau co-founder Heap graces a joint Ears On Earth and Super Utu compilation with his soaring, mechanical chug.

'Household Choirs' is out July 3rd on Super Utu/Ears On Earth.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3g9r2R1

@heapvienna
@superutu
@earsonearth

Premiere: Heap - Rethink Your Reality [Super Utu/Ears On Earth]

Serial Error was founded as a New Beat project when Jacob Korn was asked for a submission to the 'Our Beat Is Still New' compilation series on the Belgian We Play House label in late 2014.
Knowing the retro-experienced skills of his label mates from Uncanny Valley, he teamed up with Credit 00 & Sneaker and they produced Drum Abuse, a track that finally became the cue for their first full 12'' maxi single in 2018 on Rat Life Records; a label curated by Credit 00.

Now they keep on malfunctioning with a 4-tracker featuring the bizarre title Afro Gothic.

The eponymous track was the first shot when they got together for a second EP in Jacob's studio in now demolished premises (the typical daily Rat Life). The slow, steamy roller captures the amateurish live percussion skills of Credit 00, while - on the other hand - he played one of the manuals of Jacob's 'Son of GX' organ along with Sneaker playing the other manual of the leading voice synth.  
On top, they added a classic acapella - a sudden strike of genius - 'perfectly matching the solemn vibe'
(in their opinion; artist quote).

A2 'Unter den Helmen' is ripping off the same organ's preset drum patterns run through a brutal EQ. Talking of the 70s - a duet by two anti-nuclear activists from the German Sponti  movement of the time  became the theme of this politically charged protest song!

Oh yeah, somewhere I had to paste the striking fact that all is mastered & sent via reel-to-reel at our TailOut studio. Check!

B1 and B2 are two versions of the same song who share their lyrics drawn from school days. To be precise from the tacky Dresden art academy they both - Sneaker and Credit 00 - visited.
The B2 of 'Art Academy Talk' features the typical Sneaker vocals on a 4/4 beat, while - due to Credit 00's lean towards electro - the B1 got the vocoder treatment while Jacob and Sneaker went for lunch.
As Jacob came up with the bass riff on his Chroma Polaris, Credit fiddled the knobs of his Ensoniq ESQ1 like a rusty raver .  
The freaked out FX-sounds we can cherish thanks to the Pearl DRX drum machine; modded and played by Jacob Korn. Due to the odd look also fondly nick-named 'the VCR'. The Pearl, of course, not Jacob.

Serial Error - Afrogothic EP (RAT 18)

When Laura (Ondula) makes jokes out of my kind of extravagant elegance, or about her elaborated saturday-night hair-style, she says that’s “macadam mambo”! When I first listened to her saying this I found it very appropriate.

Sacha Mambo, the man who together with Guillaume des Bois, started the notorious label Macadam Mambo, has been one of Diapason highlights. During the past years Sacha and me were part of the same international underground party scene and ended up putting out a couple of my most known releases, which preluded to the most recent EP “That’s when the Animals turned into humans” made with Laura under the name As Longitude and featuring Twoonky and Paul Arambula. If I remember well, Laura, Sacha and me made the agreement exactly in mid July 2018, in Berlin, just before the night at Sameheads began.

The recent lockdown forced Sameheads to cancel our latest two episodes. Shifting to this hidden virtuality, we want to keep the tradition alive and have reached out to some of our past guests and assembled a Diapason Compilation Tape Vol. 1 featuring new music from some of the artists who inspired us.

https://soundcloud.com/mzkbx
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads

PRÉMIÈRE: Sacha Mambo - Prise D'Otage [Sameheads]

Raster presents »Il Quadro di Troisi«, a project by Andrea Noce (Eva Geist) and Donato Scaramuzzi (Donato Dozzy). The record is a colorful ode of an Italian scented vision, overflowing of details and profound intensity. The contemporary world condition, the pandemic in Italy and around the world define »Il Quadro di Troisi« as a unique and right-on-time release. 

This record is a enigmatic collaboration between the two Italian natives Andrea Noce and Donato Scaramuzzi. Andrea Noce takes lead on the vocals, with Donato Scaramuzzi carving the dreamlike soundscapes of the record. The record was born with a correspondence between the two artists about the late actor and director Massimo Troisi, and this exchange soon became an inspirational source of identification. Andrea Noce’s lyrics are sensitive and multi-faceted, they perfectly cling to the musical phrases and flow like a filmic monologue from the oeuvre of that very Troisi. 

In a highly creative and confident manner, entire decades of national music history are comprehended and transformed into the here and now. The record takes its cue from the italo-disco, synth pop tradition corroborated by the contribution of artists such as the legendary Twilight Music co-founder, Paolo Micioni. With »Il Quadro di Troisi«, Noce and Scaramuzzi prove their eclecticism, and passion for their home country. 

»Il Quadro di Troisi« is a collaboration between Raster and the Milan-based festival Terraforma. With this release, the first with a purely Italian focus on the label, Raster celebrates its long standing relation with Italy and the Italian audience, encapsulated in the label's project ›Electric Campfire‹ held in Rome for ten years. Terraforma is an international experimental and sustainable music festival taking place since 2014 in the park of Villa Arconati, where Dozzy has been invited at every edition in different forms, DJing, live performing both in solo and with Voices from the Lake (together with Neel). 

»Il Quadro di Troisi« will be released on the 31st of August as an exclusive pre-order, followed by the single release of »Raggio verde«. The physical and digital release of the album is planned for autumn 2020.

SoundCloud Weekly 07.04.21

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