The guitar sounds and chorus melody on this song were, are, and always will be flawless.

WireGit+

Happy Accidents Remixes

Satisfied (Nikki Nair Remix)

Buy & Stream

Lubelski (feat. Danke) - Satisfied (Nikki Nair Remix)[DIRTYBIRD]

Born in Santos and raised in São Paulo, and having participation in the "Nomumbah" project (among others) and releases by labels "Strictly Rhythm", "Yoruba Records" and Sonar Kollektiv, Andre Torquato returns to D-edge Records on its first post-pandemic release on the label. "Cena 6" (the name refers to sessions created on his drum machine) brings house and depth with classic and modern elements. More raw texture, firm grooves that match every dance floor.

Link:
@dedgerecords
@torquato

APPAREL PREMIERE: Andre Torquato - Cena 6 [D-EDGE Records]

Red Barked Tree

Adapt

Read & Burn 01

Comet

The Black Session - Paris, 10 May 2011

Kidney Bingos

3024-FYE2 (RELEASE DATE 27-11-2018) Yak presents his first solo EP on the 3024 imprint! Three intricate percussive excursions showcasing this man's amazing talent. Rhodes Island is a vibey drum 'n bass number with dazzling edits and beat trickery, reminding us of the legacies of Nucleus and Paradox while still sounding extremely 2018. Don Greno is a more garage influenced roller that has been doing the rounds as a dub on Rinse. Ocean Floor is a sluggish, dubbed out drum groove perfect for those late night early morning vibrations.

3024-FYE2

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Yak - Rhodes Island (3024-FYE2)

We finally get to inaugurate Roller Rink with three saucy edits from Lobster head and Yorkshire trouble-maker - Asquith!

Three chopped & pumpin' edits from the 100% mix and the deepest Ableton sesh. These are gonna ring in the summer big time oof!

Check out the lad >> @asquithhhhh

ROLLER001 // Asquith - This Is Home

Out Sept 13 on LuckyMe. 

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27B3l5ie6I

- nathan

I'm Your Huckleberry

WIRE – CHANGE BECOMES US – pinkflag (pf20)

“Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…,” laughs Colin Newman when asked to explain Wire’s original motivation for Change Becomes Us. While that might sound like the kind of feeble excuse you’d offer in mitigation when a drunken escapade goes horribly wrong, not only was it a good idea, it actually turned into a superlative one. 

In spring 2012, Wire’s plan had been to convene at Rockfield Studios in Wales to review the rudimentary blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980 – a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive yet the band was disintegrating. The aim wasn’t simply to resuscitate and record old songs – in fact, many of them hadn’t become proper songs in the first place, existing only as basic ideas or undeveloped parts. Rather, the objective was to approach that unrealised work as an oblique strategy, a potential springboard for Wire’s contemporary, forward-looking processes, a possible point of departure for new compositions.

This took place with Wire firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms. Simms had played a key role in helping the band to cultivate and shape its new sonic landscape throughout the preceding year’s live work. Out of the exploratory Rockfield session and subsequent, extensive development and production at Newman’s Swim Studio, the ostensible source material became, in the classic Wire tradition, something quite other than what it may have once been or what it might have become if it had been pursued in 1980. 

“Love Bends” is a case in point. Its roots lie in “Piano Tuner” -- the raucous, octave-hopping number performed in February 1980 at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and preserved on Document and Eyewitness -- but it’s now morphed, improbably, into an irresistible, totally modern pop song. “It had to be turned into something else,” explains Lewis, “because it only really had one bit.” Just as improbably, the gently lilting “Re-invent Your Second Wheel” is tangentially connected to the notorious “Zegk Hoqp,” which was more of a one-time happening than a song at the Camden gig -- mostly shouting and banging, executed by a stage-full of Wire cronies in funny hats. “It was written for performance, around people with newspaper headdresses; not with music in mind,” Lewis emphasizes. Similarly transformed, “& Much Besides” is a six-minute oneiric-melodic interlude that gives no hint of its putative origins in “Eastern Standard” --  a dreary, obtuse three-minute geography lesson delivered with former manager Mick Collins at the Electric Ballroom concert.

Newman’s writing and production reimagines the past in ways that ultimately break any substantive connection with it, making entirely new pieces; and these songs themselves enact Wire’s restless drive to become other, often thriving on a fundamental tension between opposing sonic characteristics. With its stop-start, soft-hard, quiet-loud structure, “Adore Your Island” veers between what Newman describes as “prog and unhinged punk rock,” never quite resolving itself; the drama of “Attractive Space” hinges on a progressive splitting of the song’s personality, between its calm expansive, anthemic orientation and an increasing sense of intensity and claustrophobia. 

Change Becomes Us encapsulates the paradoxical essence of Wire’s creativity. The tendency of these new songs to refuse a single, settled identity is emblematic of the band’s ever-evolving aesthetic -- one that’s always hinged on sustained tensions and oppositions: between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the comfortable and the unsettling, the melodic and the brutal, the cerebral and the visceral, the smart and the moronic, the obvious and the inscrutable, the rational and the absurd. This intrinsic, core ambivalence generates the essential otherness that has characterized Wire’s most memorable, distinctive work -- from the epochal innovations of Chairs Missing and 154 to the electronic-pop deconstructions of A Bell Is A Cup to Send’s postmodern-punk expressionism and the widescreen lyricism of Red Barked Tree.

Change Becomes Us is an undeniable part of that illustrious lineage. Definitely more than just a good idea at the time.

Wilson Neate


Change Becomes Us

Keep Exhaling

Time Lock Fog

Nobody was getting out. The rules has been issued and so help him they would be obeyed, even if it meant blowing the whole damn thing down to the ground. Looking outwards from windows, people watched from little rooms as the outside world slowly began to fade and fall away. Day by day the loneliness grew, like a monster in the room. The green spaces in which they'd use to gather, run and dance were now empty and deserted. A few stragglers were left behind but they wouldn't last long. 

Dj Physical is set to release a gorgeous new EP via Deviant Episode. This track is rather aptly titled given the current set of circumstances. This tracks called "Lock Down".

PREMIERE: DJ Physical - Lock Down [Deviant Episode]

Red Barked Tree is the new album by Wire
It is released in the UK on January 10th

Please Take

We welcome back yet again our good friends and talented producers Local Options. This is their sixth release with us and I couldn't be more proud and excited to feature this glorious 3 track pack. Frank and Chris always seem to blend their love of tech, deep and soulful in each track and they always showcase a mastery of production skills. I am thankful for their craftsmanship and I hope you enjoy all three of these tracks as much as I do.

–Jeff Craven | October 2020

Curated by Jeff Craven for Large Music LLC
27 year of House Music History.
For licensing: info@largemusic.com

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Local Options | Vibe Check

Kris Wadsworth - 333 B

Transmitted signals from South Korean prodigy SEO JOHN have 
reached the GODDEZZ Aquatic Temple. 'Dive' covers house/
trance-like terrain of our past, while sounding like it was conjured up 
for computer chip cities of an advanced future. 

 Submerge yourself immensely in this debut EP along with totally 
electric remixes from Bliss Inc. and Omformer!

‘Dive’ Photo by Cordie Saville Smith
Artwork by GODDEZZ

https://seojohn.bandcamp.com/album/dive

GDZ BANDCAMP - https://goddezz.bandcamp.com/
GDZ SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/goddezztemple
GDZ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/goddezztemple/?hl=en
SEO JOHN SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/methejohn
SEO JOHN INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/methejohn/?hl=e
BLISS INC.SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/bliss_inc
BLISS INC. INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/blisssinc/?hl=en
OMFORMER SOUNDCLOUD - https://soundcloud.com/omformer

PREMIERE: Seo John - Dive [GODDEZZ]

Since their formation in London in 1976, the members of Wire have maintained and advanced a musical project which treats the creative potential of a rock band as a fluid, amorphous medium. As removed from self-conscious intellectualism as they are from the inherent conservatism of much rock music, Wire employ their unique, endlessly restless and risk-taking creativity to question every aspect of songwriting, recording and performance. They delight and disturb in equal measure, troubleshooting the circuitry of perfect pop, or patrolling the limits of focused experimentalism. In terms of working together as Wire, the group's members disbanded in 1980, reformed in 1985, disbanded in 1992 and reformed for the second time in 2000. Such sabbaticals from their career as Wire have served to sharpen the group's edge and focus, updating the tactics with which they pursue this shared project.

see more - www.pinkflag.com

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