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Choons April 2018

SoundCloud Weekly

Sunshine Is Gone

Phutureprimitive's second full-length release "Kinetik" pushes this producers sound into new territories of emotional electronic dance music, exploring a heavier, bass-centric sound that adds raw energy to the meticulously detailed tracks this trusted producer is so well known for. Lush melodies drift across intricate rhythms, groove heavy beats and warm, fuzzy bass lines.  Often exploring a dark and dense palette, this music also manages to convey a sense of tranquility and beauty, engaging the listener into a full on kinetic experience.  Not only does this album has massive dance floor appeal; Rain's energetic presence on stage is not to be missed. Constantly defying convention, the Phutureprimitive sound is not solidly rooted in any single genre nor easily defined, but draws influences from many sub-genres including Downtempo ,Glitch Hop, Dubstep, Psychedelic, Trip Hop, and more. Phutureprimitive has become a musical force to be reckoned with, performing in cities and countries throughout the United States, and Europe including New York, Nashville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, England, Scotland, Portugal, Holland, Italy and Croatia.         www.phutureprimitive.com

Kinetik

初雪 was the first sketch of First Snow.

初雪

Welcome to the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (@Lo Recordings) Oddtronica show, broadcasting from Dubai.

The regular feature 'Feast From The East' - which showcases Oddtronica artists from all over the Near and Middle East - today comes from Lebanon and my special guest selector on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Seattle-based Texan, @lusine-official (@Ghostly International)

So, if you want 2 hours of the very latest electronic-inspired music, come on in...

First aired: 27/05/17

ZvS links:
www.zoonvansnook.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
twitter.com/Zoon_van_snooK
@zoonvansnook

Track list:

1. Lapalux 'Rotted Arp' feat. Louisahhh
2. Roosevelt 'Moving On' (Joe Goddard remix)
3. Body-san 'Liquid Entrance'
4. DC Salas 'The Unspoken'
5. Max Cooper 'Four Tone Reflections'

'Feast From The East'
6. Raja Zahr 'A Drummer And A Dancer' 

7. Tudor Acid 'Spinark'
8. Kyson 'You (Ryan Davis Revision)
9. Dauwd 'Glass Jelly'
10. Tontario 'Revenge'

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Lusine
(x 3 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

14. Lusine 'Witness' feat. Benoît Pioulard
15. Deltawerk 'Departer'
16. Lemakuhlar 'Liser'
17. Sebastian Mullaert 'Visitor's Path'
18. Skwirl 'Attaché Case'

'Left of Field'
19. Suplington 'Spring Dance'

20. Fouk 'F3000'
21. Bunkr 'Cloud Chaser'
22. Deft 'LVR'
23. EOD 'Evenhark'

Bloop. London

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #22 w/special guest: Lusine

"Æ"is the norwegian pronounciation of the A in Acid refering to the 303 screeches going through the "song"

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

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Resynthesis [Mesh004]

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

PantherTek

My remix for the amazing Rob Clouth on Max Coopers Mesh Label.
Listen to the EP and the other great remixes here:
https://store.meshmeshmesh.net/products/rob-clouth-transition-remixes-ep

Transtion EP

Rob Clouth - Transition Ben Lukas Boysen Remix

Edmondson - We Have Love (Dauwd Remix)

Rising Belgian artist Thomas Neyens (a.k.a. Kiani & His Legion) has crafted an invigorating listen, littered with a balmy fug of pads billowing like curtains in a breeze, perfectly complimenting the burbling synths levitating in mid-air and spiraling off into the starry ether.

Bathed in bittersweet ambience, with dashes of droning micro samples riddling its spine, 'Somdo Raptors' is embellished with beautifully melancholic yet trance-induced synths that carry a host of associations with them. Thomas Neyes masterfully utilizes the sonic illusion of high and low to perpetually shape-shift the track’s slippery outlines. The result is a compelling story, in which rhythms are fluid, warmth is the key, and fine morning excitement is guaranteed.

‘Somdo Raptors’ is set to be released on the Dutch imprint Something Happening Somewhere [SoHaSo] as one out of 12 tracks unified under the NOWHERE compilation series, featuring new offerings from the likes of Sigward, Quince, Patlac, Love Over Entropy, Kurt Baggaley, Mayaku, Tracey and Fader From Borneo. 
Kiani & His Legion on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thomasneyens
SoHaSo on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sohaso


NOWHERE01 is available 30 March (vinyl) 9 April (digital).
Artwork by Quentin Deronzier (https://quentinderonzier.cargocollective.com/)


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Part of six track EP available now on Bandcamp. http://vectorlovers.bandcamp.com/album/road-to-ruin

Road / To Ruin

Road

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Electronica artist based in York in the UK, signed to Soma Recordings in 2002. Since released five albums covering IDM, ambient, progressive house and techno, as well as production and remix work for artists including Tracey Thorn, Ladytron, Solvent, Husky Rescue, Slam, Alex Smoke, Tim Wright. Also develops indie video games as Recluse Industries. Donations to help me continue making music and games gratefully accepted. Thanks for listening.

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