New Album "Moonlit Planetarium" out now!


Moonlit Planetarium

Pablo Bolívar, this time releasing under his alias Mind Groove, begins 2017 following the canons with this album, in which he pays tribute to his homeland, Cantabria. In fact, the 10 tracks included in this long play were initially written in his hometown, between the sea and the mountains, between the blue and green. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is perhaps, the most special and sensible job within the ambient boundaries of Pablo Bolívar aka Mind Groove, having already published mixes since 1999, adding a different dimensión to the tracks released under his alias Pablo Bolívar, more oriented to Deep, house and club sounds. Therefore, the release comes together with a wonderful tale, written by X. Balboa, in which a finnish sailor plays the main character. It should be read slowly and carefully, while listening to the tracks in the album. This way, the merely musical and geographical aspects transcend towards a wider, rounder, almost perfect experience. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is a trip around the sound and vital bowels of Mind Groove. From the first track to the last one, the deep, spiritual and emotional character of his bet are truly noticeable. The content of the album is escapist, ambient oriented, extremely downtempo, naturalistic and truth-spreading. The eleven cuts included in the present record develop around a wild Winter-tale atmosphere .’The last dreamer’ (feat.García Smith), ‘Natikha’ and ‘Shadows’ seem –from its honest composition- to stop the time; whereas ‘Tigers come at night’ takes us to a more luminous place, which at times seems softly clubby. The slight lowness of the piano in ‘Inside you’ (feat. Pablo Bolívar) contrasts with the friendly, fragile and twilight touch of tracks such as the one naming the album, and in which Manuel Obeso has collaborated. Delightful and intimate, in any case.

Tigers come at night

The Dybbuk Quartet have been on a bit of a hiatus but here's a remix of some unreleased studio material, exploring the unlikely point where Teebs and Gétatchèw Mèkurya meet...

Tapedeck Tezeta - The Dybbuk Quartet (Sephirot's lo-fi mix)

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This one is very excited... this man has made some of the most beautiful music we have ever heard and its a real honour to have him join the podcast family. Ladies and Gentleman... Alex Banks 

Since releasing his debut album Illuminate in the summer of 2014, Buckinghamshire-born and Brighton-based producer Alex Banks has progressed from being an in-demand remixer and Solid Steel ‘Mix of the Year’-winning DJ to that and so much more today. From touring Europe with Moderat to DJing in Tokyo for Red Bull Music Academy’s EMAF, via countless live performances at continental festivals including Germany’s legendary Melt, he’s raised his own bar, his own way. And what comes now and next is just as forward thinking as the material he’s put out previously, unbounded by electronic music’s typically rigid genre barriers and capable of connecting with an audience on a cerebral as well as a physical level.

A key word is emotion: Alex’s music has it to spare. That was evident back when his remix of Bonobo’s ‘The Keeper’ crept out in early 2012, slow-rising to public recognition as the outstanding reworking of material featured on Simon Green’s acclaimed Black Sands LP. With the best part of two million plays across SoundCloud and YouTube alone, attracting SoundCloud user comments like “a true masterpiece”, the track’s popularity, beside fine receptions for further remixes for the likes of Andreya Triana and Husky Rescue, formed a fine foundation from which Alex could further develop his own original material, forever retaining a grip on his audience’s hearts as he moves their bodies.

It’s a good time for Alex Banks, the one-time metal fan whose life changed with his first teenage rave – to be him, to hear him, to work beside him. Whether remixing, collaborating or operating alone, his unique mark is consistently evident in music bearing the Alex Banks brand, rapidly becoming a seal of warm approval in stark contrast to so much sterile dance fare made with machine-like precision. Just as Illuminate made you move inside and out, so Alex’s next chapter is sure to be full of heart-swelling builds and a very organic sense of euphoria. You can go ahead and mark it as essential, already.

#071 - Alex Banks (UK)

Andi Otto - Taste of Bamboo 
C.A.R. - Idle Eyes 
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Cut Dead
Lemon Fog - Summer
Indifferent Dance Centre - Flight & Pursuit
Coro Qom Chelaalapi meets Lagartijeando - Antiguos Dueños de las Flechas
Auf Togo, Becker & Mukai - High Sweat
Bjørn Torske - Blue Call
General P.D.C - Amazon Dub
2nd layer - Skylon
Amorphous Androgynous - Divinity

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Recorded, mixed & produced by Cosmofonica group (Mikhail Cosmos, Nik. Dubche & Igor Botsman).
Vocals by Irina Epifanova, Olga Rozgdestvenskaya & Mandarina.
Mixed & mastered by Igor Botsman.
Sound design by Nik. Dubche.
Idea & compilation by Mikhail Cosmos.
Produced by Mikhail Cosmos & Konstantin Romanov.

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