FRAGILE labels

On the heels of a steady rising, break out year in New York City, which has seen La Mecanica Popular perform & refine their "Psychedelic Salsa" sound in numerous venues throughout the area, as well as advance to become one of just 3 national finalists in Dewar's "Dewaristas: The Search for the Next Great Latin Sound," Names You Can Trust presents their debut long-player to a worldwide audience for the first time. Led off by the lead single and official video which dropped earlier in the year on NYCT, La Paz Del Freak, the album weaves it's way around the traditional stylings of Salsa & Bolero, with a heavy dose of electrico, incorporating a blend of Peruvian guitars & experimental synths, sounds and textures. They've been praised for their live performances and recordings alike, receiving endorsements and spins from notables such as Juanes, Quantic, Gilles Peterson & Bobbito to name a few.

The 9-track album of original compositions was recorded between NYC & Peru, written by band-leader Efrain Rozas and co-produced alongside Xuxi Lazzaro (Rita Indiana) & Manuel Garcia Orozco. Feautring a melting pot of musicians from New York, Colombia, Peru & Venezuela, as well as the core 8-piece ensemble that performs live, this debut album serves as a welcome connection between the roots, rhythms, and future possibilities of Tropical music and culture.

"La Mecánica Popular is the most refreshing attempt at maintaining Salsa's integrity while introducing a completely new, unprecedented sound that I've ever heard. I totally see them being HUGE!" Bobbito Garcia - Doin' It In The Park, NYC

"Love it. Heavy vibes on this one! Sounds like Dax Pacem live in Peru on Ayahuasca."
Quantic - Tru Thoughts, Soundway

"Storming debut release from La Mecánica Popular on NYCT - dancefloor-burning guaguanco meets tripped-out electronics for some cosmic salsa vibes, definitely one for the box!" Hugo Mendez - Sofrito

"You might eargasm over the way they take psych-influenced sounds of Fania-era salsa and mash it with wavy vibes of '70s Peruvian chicha." MTV Iggy

La Mecánica Popular - Arbol

Akuma

Another track from Köhn's new album 'Kreis Plön', out on KRAAK, on the 9th of June. Pre-order at kraak.bandcamp.com.

Almost 20 years ago Jürgen De Blonde debuted on KRAAK with the nowadays unfindable and almost visionary album köhn 1. It was the starting point for a vital and wondrous exploration that lead him over paths of glitch, idm, shoe gaze, hypnagogic pop, improvised music, straight forward synth music, field recordings and kraut. 

In the middle of this ungraspable adventure through contemporary electronic music, Köhn stands as a genuine artist that stayed true to the curious spirit of the DIY knob twiddling and boggling boy he once was. 

KRAAK is proud to present his 7th album on KRAAK — Kreis Plön, which documents and envisions 20 years of exploring. It’s an album that is about a fusion of the past and the future, of separation and reconfiguration, of mourning and rejoicing, of noise and peace. Kreis Plön is about geolocation. It’s about probable fiction and looking for bits of different puzzles that fit together. An exercise in linear and perpendicular coherence devoid of any objective logic. 

In the middle of the album an artist is envisioning his place in the Now, questioning how or when he got there, as he links memories to imaginary places, and real places to imaginary histories. Kreis Plön stands as such a masterpiece that bluntly envisions the future of electronic music.

Klinker

A Place To Bury Strangers - “Frustrated Operator (Slowdive Remix)” from the upcoming album ‘Re-Pinned’ on Dead Oceans, out October 5, 2018.

Stream / Pre-Order — https://aptbs.ffm.to/re-pinned

A Place To Bury Strangers - Frustrated Operator (Slowdive Remix)

Short-Chain:
Glen Biesiek
Laurence Diack
Catherine Ellis
Liam Pram

Recorded by Liam Pram, Tom Dennison & Joshua Lynn
Mixed and Mastered by Joshua Lynn

Short-Chain

Mouse Man

blue moon
you saw me standing alone
without a dream in my heart
without a love of my own

blue moon
you knew just what i was there for
you heard me saying a pray for
someone i really could care for

(backing vocals)
blue moon blue moon
you saw me standing
you heard me dreaming
of you blue moon blue moon

blue moon blue moon
you knew just what i
i made a prayer for
it’s you blue moon blue moon

written by Richard Rodgers
artwork image by Ellie Tsatsou http://www.ellietsatsou.com/

blue moon

I was right about bitcoin, maybe I'm right about everything else

Akuma

WhiteBike

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