Worst Records opens up a new chapter of its musical odyssey with WORST LTD, the brand new sublabel dedicated to intriguing ambient explorations and abstract experiments released in small quantities on CD.

For this first opus, C. Coiffure is back among us with a deeply conscious concept-album. Born from the idea that mankind is the antithesis of harmony in its relation to nature, and considering that other lifeforms manage to create a balance between them and their environment that we often struggle to fully understand, C. Coiffure pays homage to the organic beauty of these biotopes. « Freefloat » is a sonic continuum where electronics and field recording melt in each other, without any real interruption, creating almost autonomous structures and symbiosis that siphonophores, bee hives and ant citadels can incarnate as well.
Conceived as a whole, this first album of the new catalogue isn't limited by the illusion of an accomplished perfection and instead puts an awakening light on the nobility of happy accidents and the invisible harmony that surrounds us. An ode to life to start a new sonic saga.

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Worst Records ouvre un nouveau chapitre de son épopée musicale avec WORST LTD, son premier sublabel qui sera consacré à recueillir d'intriguantes explorations ambient et autres expérimentations contemplatives et abstraites édités en petite quantité en CD.

Pour ce premier opus, C. Coiffure est de retour parmi nous avec rien de moins qu'un concept-album tressé telle une fable écologique. Partant du constat que la vie à l'échelle humaine est l'antithèse de l'harmonie avec son environnement, et que d'autres formes de vie parviennent, elles, à évoluer avec une cohérence et un équilibre qui nous échappent, C. Coiffure a souhaité rendre hommage à la beauté organique de ces biotopes. « Freefloat » se présente ainsi comme un continuum sonore où électronique et field recording s'entrelacent sans interruption réelle, formant des structures et des symbioses presque autonomes, à l'image des ruches, des siphonophores, des colonies de fourmis.
Conçu comme un tout, ce premier album du catalogue ne s'enferme pas pour autant dans la finitude d'une perfection artificielle, et donne à voir la noblesse de l'imprévu dans la création ainsi que la délicate et invisible cohésion qui règne autour de nous sans que nous n'en ayons le plus souvent conscience. Une ode à la vie qui inaugure une nouvelle saga sonore. 

Written and mixed by Lucas Marciniak
Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork by Fauxbits999
Words by Alexandre Aelov

Freefloat

C. Coiffure - Cave Moss

C. Coiffure - Ninefold Symmetry

What makes a being ? What tends to be, always, and yet remains never achieved ? @jonnnah puts on this set of imagination many parts, many pieces, many elements. In this ninth release on Worst Records, the Lyon based musician gathers all the impressions defining this nebula. « Mental & Physical » is a collection above all things. We talk about a collection of influences. Industrialized trip-hop, dubstep for concrete spaces, new-age-infused ambient daydreams, links are hazy but incarnate. A constant rotation, between extasy and uneasy meditation, shapes this mass of artefacts that seems almost involuntary as they dig so deep into instinctiveness. At the root of this first magmatic opus lies a years long work in progress, a sonic research, the attempt to make live this body of vapour which is the music in becoming. It's a listening with no answer, but the pulse is vivid and vital.

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Qu'est ce qui fait un être ? Qu'est ce qui tend à l'être, toujours et pourtant jamais achevé ? @jonnnah pose sur la table de l'imaginaire des parties, des pièces, des éléments. Avec ce neuvième volet de Worst Records, le lyonnais liste toutes les impressions qui dessinent cette nébuleuse. « Mental & Physical » est avant tout une collection. Collection d'influences tout d'abord. Trip-hop industrialisante, dubstep pour tunnels de béton, ambient subtilement new-age, les ponts sont ténus mais réels et palpables. Collection de sens également. Une rotation permanente, entre extase et recueillement inquiet, sculpte cet amas incertain d'artefacts qu'on dirait presque involontaires tant ils creusent dans l'instinctif. A la génèse de ce premier opus magmatique se trouve un work in progress de plusieurs années, une recherche sonore, la tentative de faire vivre ce corps toujours vaporeux de la musique en devenir. Une écoute sans réponses, mais à la pulsation vitale intacte et organique.

A1 - Friendly Tribute
A2 - Binary Life
A3 - Whispering The Past
B1 - Insomnia Never Ends
B2 - Too Many Colors In The Wood

Written and mixed by Pierre Paumier
Mastered by Paul "Pilah" Kozmik at Paul's Boutique studio
Artwork by Andria
Words by Alexandre Aelov

Jonnnah - Whispering The Past

If you read this, we have made contact.

You are not alone.

Life is present beyond your physical realm and senses.

Our quantum settings are incompatible with yours.
Our physical form cannot be expressed in your dimension.

By abducting a Human, and reshaping his senses to ours, we are able to reach Earth lifeforms and beyond.

His name is Androne.

The following transmissions are made in the 5th Dimension to be deployed in Earth Realm (Dimension Z-67).

A1 - Contact
A2 - Abducted By Aliens
B1 - Abducted By Aliens (A Strange Wedding Hypergravity Remix)
B2 - Signs Of Life

Written and mixed by Jerome Boutin
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Andria
Print by Gros Oeuvre

Androne - Signs Of Life

Androne - Contact

Years have passed. 
Several lifeforms digested and built symbiosis relationship with the Freefloat.

Landscape have changed.
Through adaptation and mutation, the life-swarm erased the scars at the surface of the Earth.

Climax has been reached.

Eternal love to the artists who accepted and took part in this adventure. 
Aa Sudd, BZMC, Glass, Jan Loup, Jonnnah, Jonquera, Katatonic Silentio, Myako, Plants Army Revolver, Space Drums Meditation, Varuna, Yushh.
They broadened the stylistic borders of the initial material and pushed further the ideas and what we expected for Freefloat to be.

01 - Increased Mutualism (Varuna Remix)
02 - Cave Moss (Space Drums Meditation Remix)
03 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Yushh Remix)
04 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Katatonic Silentio Remix)
05 - Weeping Willow's Celestial Glow (Jonnnah Remix)
06 - Cave Moss (Glass Remix)
07 - Weeping Willow’s Celestial Glow (Jonquera grattait sous le saule)
08 - Cave Moss (Jan Loup Natural Anarchy Remix)
09 - Dreamers At Work (Live Version)
10 - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Myako Remix)
11 - ALGII (Plants Army Revolver Remix)
12 - Cave Moss (Aa Sudd Liquid Bog Remix)
13 - Increased Free Dream (BZMC Remix)

Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork by Fauxbits999
Print by Gros Oeuvre

Freefloat Remixes

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WORSTLTD002 - C. Coiffure - Freefloat Remixes (previews)

Years have passed.
Several lifeforms digested and built symbiosis relationship with the Freefloat.

Landscape have changed.
Through adaptation and mutation, the life-swarm erased the scars at the surface of the Earth.

Climax has been reached.

Eternal love to the artists who accepted and took part in this adventure.
Aa Sudd, BZMC, Glass, Jan Loup, Jonnnah, Jonquera, Katatonic Silentio, Myako, Plants Army Revolver, Space Drums Meditation, Varuna, Yushh.
They broadened the stylistic borders of the initial material and pushed further the ideas and what we expected for Freefloat to be.

Mastered by Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork by Fauxbits999
Print by Gros:Oeuvre

C. Coiffure - Increased Free Dream (BZMC Remix)

C. Coiffure - Cave Moss (Aa Sudd Liquid Bog Remix)

C. Coiffure - ALGII (Plants Army Revolver Remix)

C. Coiffure - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Myako Remix)

C. Coiffure - Dreamers At Work (Live Version)

C. Coiffure - Weeping Willow’s Celestial Glow (Jonquera grattait sous le saule)

C. Coiffure - Cave Moss (Glass Remix)

C. Coiffure - Weeping Willow's Celestial Glow (Jonnnah Remix)

C. Coiffure - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Katatonic Silentio Remix)

C. Coiffure - Trees Used To Speak At Dawn (Yushh Remix)

C. Coiffure - Cave Moss (Space Drums Meditation Remix)

A Strange Wedding - Cosmic Bastringue [WORST001]

Because it's Christmas soon and especially because our friend @acidobasic is very talented, we decided to add his track Sham on our next release "Worst Greatest Hits Vol. I".

Basic - Sham

A Strange Wedding - El Cartel Del Sangria

And then came the Visitations.

The fifth opus of the Worst Records library could appear as an audiobook for transcendental meditations. If the idea of trance-induced state is no surprise in the music we deliver to the world, this new album by Ricco goes beyond. The pair formed by Gil.Barte, head of Kump Records, and HLM38, in charge of house Notte Brigante, dare to offer a sinuous collection of mantras melted in light, silver dust and darkness. Each track navigates through ritualistic slow beats, drum'n'bass-ish half tempo incantations and other mystic hybrid forms not so far from Kode 9esque or Shakletonists reminiscences, just to name a few. The titles evoke a spiritual diagonal, from biblical to islamic worlds and arcanes, passing through persian tradition and obscure references hard to decipher. Several interludes, leading to the final Prelude, stand as resting rooms to drown the listener into purifying dark-ambient, where glitches of enlightenment and distants sounds from nature slowly disappear in divine drones. You now hold in your hands a keyholder to somewhere else, a sonic ally through everyday chaos, and spells to protect the soul.

Let yourself loose in enchantment.

A1 - Torq
A2 - Interlude4
B1 - Al Akhir
B2 - Interlude3
C1 - Seraphin
C2 - Interlude2
C3 - Dictatone
D1 - Interlude5
D2 - Leyla
D3 - Prelude

Release date : 12/04/2020

Artwork & design by Aurélien Arnaud
 Mastered by Paul "Pilah" Kozmik at Paul's Boutique studio
 Distributed by @chezemile

Visitations

WORST005 - Ricco - Visitations (previews)

Even a historical pandemic couldn't take summer hits away from our hearts. Exceptional circumstances means extraordinary compilation.

Worst Records' hall of fame welcomes new faces around the pool for a 13-stages enlightened drama. You'll meet again with the top 3 podium made of A Strange Wedding, Jacques Satre and Christian Coiffure, all rensponsible for our first three releases, building up a mesmerizing, out of season mental workout. Extending the dimension of trance towards Saint-Etienne, Del.Duc brings on a curious yet serene astral travel, and we can also count on the distant reinforcements from the Toulouse Gouffre Club crew with Jan Loup and her glitch spangled hazy dub from far futures and the new trance comer from Bordeaux, Lazuli.
Special friends are also gathering here, as Myako is sewing on thin fabric a vaporous dub in shades of grey, the one-and-only master touki Théo Muller delivers a cinematic remedy to confinement.
Liberation through hearing, it is, as borders explode with the presence of many : Yin Yang Audio in a transatlantic IDM/break jump, Forest on Stasys (aka Mental Resonance) and his tough shamanic dance, Clemens Friedrich slowing down all senses at once and JEANS, boss of Oracle Bones, speeding us up in the hyperloop.
Finally, as teamwork means a lot, we have given the pleasure to open this compilation to the four-headed Lausanne/Freiberg hydra 4POTR and their cryptic transdimensional message, and the honor of closing this pool party to the 404 trio gem from Candoblé with a fine piece of wonder.

Not exactly your usual summer compilation, nor the hits you could imagine, but surely the music you'll need under the hot sun of 2020.

Free download on Bandcamp : bit.ly/2YJz0e1 🌀

Design by Elie Pesqué
Words by Alexandre Richet
 Mastered by Jules Payen
Selection by Les Fils de Jacob

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JEANS - Keepers Of The Eastern Door

A Strange Wedding - Olo Rave

Jacques Satre - Fernando

Lazuli - Waterworld

Del.Duc - Prométhée (Low Break Mix)

Christian Coiffure - Prince Of Pilat

Myako - Les Fils De Jah

Ricco - Dictatone

A Strange Wedding - Three Dimensional Layers Of Thoughts

A Strange Wedding - The Super Slow Hyperspeed Fractals

A Strange Wedding - Isaias Thunder

Like a shadowplay for endtimes.

Tamburi Neri, a duo from Milan, joins Worst Records' strange catalogue with their debut LP. Soberly named « Ombre », it's an organic entity filled with worry. If we discover again with pleasure their signature scarce and elegant style which drew the tension of their first releases, everything here is sewn as a delicate echo chamber. Hiroko's voice responds to a relentless male spoken word, with invocations sometimes vaporous and sometimes lyrical. It's a poetic canvas suspended over the void and balanced by hypnotic rythms on one side and synthetic avant-garde minimalism on the other.
This eighth pannel of Worst's catalogue sets itself as a contemporanean piece far away from genre identifications and beautifully possessed in equal freshness and enlightening maturity.

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Comme un clair-obscur pour temps morts.

Tamburi Neri, duo milanais, rejoint le drôle de catalogue de Worst Records avec rien moins que leur premier LP. Le sobrement nommé « Ombre » est un objet aussi organique que pétri d'inquiétude. Si l'on retrouve ici leur style parfois minimaliste et décharné à l'élégance toute arty qui faisait le ferment de leurs premiers disques, c'est une chambre d'écho à l'incroyable finesse qu'ils déploient ici. Au spoken word tissant le canevas des tableaux de chaque track répond la voix de Hiroko, tantôt invocatrice tantôt fantomatique ou bien lyrique. Une trame poétique toujours portée par un équilibre ténu entre rythmes hypnotiques et minimalisme synthétique aux accents d'avant-garde des temps passés. Ce huitième volet du catalogue de Worst se pose ainsi comme une pièce contemporaine inclassable et habitée, dont la fraîcheur n'a décidément d'égale que la maturité lumineuse. 

A1 - Le Porte d'Incanto
A2 - Giochi d'Ombre
B1 - Ama
B2 - Sono Perfetto
C1 - Il Buio
C2 - Barritono
D1 - This is the End
D2 - Le Labbra

Recorded and mixed at Prisma Sonoro Studio in Milano
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Lena Macka
Words by Alexandre Aelov

WORST008 - Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - Ombre (previews)

Like a shadowplay for endtimes.

Tamburi Neri, a duo from Milan, joins Worst Records' strange catalogue with their debut LP. Soberly named « Ombre », it's an organic entity filled with worry. If we discover again with pleasure their signature scarce and elegant style which drew the tension of their first releases, everything here is sewn as a delicate echo chamber. Hiroko's voice responds to a relentless male spoken word, with invocations sometimes vaporous and sometimes lyrical. It's a poetic canvas suspended over the void and balanced by hypnotic rythms on one side and synthetic avant-garde minimalism on the other.
This eighth pannel of Worst's catalogue sets itself as a contemporanean piece far away from genre identifications and beautifully possessed in equal freshness and enlightening maturity.

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Comme un clair-obscur pour temps morts.

Tamburi Neri, duo milanais, rejoint le drôle de catalogue de Worst Records avec rien moins que leur premier LP. Le sobrement nommé « Ombre » est un objet aussi organique que pétri d'inquiétude. Si l'on retrouve ici leur style parfois minimaliste et décharné à l'élégance toute arty qui faisait le ferment de leurs premiers disques, c'est une chambre d'écho à l'incroyable finesse qu'ils déploient ici. Au spoken word tissant le canevas des tableaux de chaque track répond la voix de Hiroko, tantôt invocatrice tantôt fantomatique ou bien lyrique. Une trame poétique toujours portée par un équilibre ténu entre rythmes hypnotiques et minimalisme synthétique aux accents d'avant-garde des temps passés. Ce huitième volet du catalogue de Worst se pose ainsi comme une pièce contemporaine inclassable et habitée, dont la fraîcheur n'a décidément d'égale que la maturité lumineuse.

A1 - Le Porte d'Incanto
A2 - Giochi d'Ombre
B1 - Ama
B2 - Sono Perfetto
C1 - Il Buio
C2 - Barritono
D1 - This is the End
D2 - Le Labbra

Recorded and mixed at Prisma Sonoro Studio in Milano
Mastered at Enisslab by Neel
Artwork by Lena Macka
Words by Alexandre Aelov

Order

Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - Le Porte D'Incanto

Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - Barritono

Tamburi Neri & Hiroko - This Is The End

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