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Taken from the 12"/digital EP "The Next LIfe"
Out now on Slumberland Records/Tough Love Records.

limited edition white vinyl 12": http://smarturl.it/gntnl-vinyl
expanded digital edition from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/gntnl-itunes

Belfast four-piece Girls Names released their critically acclaimed second album, "The New Life," in February and it marked a new direction for the band altogether. That directional shift is emphasized even further by a new limited edition 12" EP, entitled The Next Life.

With the artwork making a playful nod to Bowie's latest record, it's not surprising that the EP should see the band experiment with the sonic make up of their last album. Leading is "Visions," a spooked tune from the album sessions, seeing wide release here for the first time. Also of note is a cover version of Brian Eno's 'Third Uncle.' Recorded in August of this year, it is the first recorded Girls Names track to feature new drummer Gib Cassidy and offers a telling glimpse at what creative steps the band may next take.

Following are a series incredible remixes of tracks taken from the sister record. The first is by producer/composer/dance don legend David Holmes, who lends a somewhat European elan to the titular track. The second sees Gabe Gurnsey from Factory Floor add his band's characteristic dance floor focus to Girls Names' motorik groove, turning in something that jitters and pulses in a manner befitting of any track attributed the Factory Floor moniker. JD Twitch from the Optimo DJ/production team turns in a suitably grooving take on "The New Life," while Locust/Seefeel/Black Hearted Brother member Mark Van Hoen strips down and tracks out "Drawing Lines." The EP wraps up with a spectral take on "Occultation" by bedroom psych/ambient genius The Soft Walls.

All in all, it's an enlightening series of interpretations that sheds new light on Girls Names source material and points way to new avenues of exploration.

Girls Names - Projektions (Gabe Gurnsey Factory Floor Remix)

From new album 'Kyverdale Road' out now.

https://kelpe.bandcamp.com/album/kyverdale-road

Don't Forget To Breathe Eh

https://rberbe.bandcamp.com/album/03-2607-reasons-2010

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*totk flip from upcoming beattape releasing around my 40th birthday (May 2024).

Skydiving

Nathan Fake and Wesley Matsell's new Cambria Instruments label already got us salivating with a split release between the two Border Community-affiliated artists in August. NF's track 'Black Drift' was intriguing and restrained, a subtle return to the fray after two years without releases – but now we have 'Nuuk' from his first full solo Cambria Instruments EP, and he's really cut loose. It's a stunner, somehow both fragile and nails-hard, and easily as spine-tingling as 'The Sky Was Pink'. It's good to have him back.

Nathan Fake "Nuuk" - Boiler Room Debuts

RBR finally unveils his 3rd compilation, showcasing a taste for trancey atmospheres mixed with bass music. Get in the skin of your alter-gecko and discover your reptilian reflection in the Picture of Saurian Gray. We welcome first the ambient & slow goa maestro Khey Mysterio with his friend FIDY for a wobbly and swampy psybient track, to introduce talented newcomer Juli and her precise and sharp deep dubstep sound. RBR head Da Iguana delivers his usual lizard wizard touch in a drum & bass track with oriental and humid jungle flavours, leaving the stage to Mexican producer Sandunga and her typical psytropical sound where dembow and cumbia anthems meet experimental sounds. Argentinian and Brazil-based Nahd offers her vision of dark trip-hop before Toulouse-based Shaku hits our eardrums with a trancey and minimalistic dancehall banger.

Mastering by Da Iguana
Cover by Sāgarā

Sandunga - Abanicos

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Stefan Jós - Specialism (Uneasy)

New Horizon is a release from Golden Axe, better known as LVRIN. New Horizon is also what the whole civilised world longs for now. A New Horizon without fear, without hate… without war. This musical journey will transport you for a time to a peaceful state from which everyone will emerge with the equanimity for a peaceful future. To make this future real, we must conquer the terror that has besieged Ukraine. So all the profits from this release will be donated to the humanitarian aid fund called Livyj Bereh (the Left Riverbank). The power of Ukrainians is in their love of freedom and their resilience. Channel these feelings as you go on this sonic journey and support Ukraine towards victory.

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New Horizon

Golden Axe - New Horizon

Taken from the forthcoming album "Ristoranti Innovativi"
by Strata-Gemma & MA Spaventi

CD/DIGITAL:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ristoranti-innovativi

Limited to 50 copies, handmade wallets, hand numbered....

Fourth album for the well established Strata-Gemma project by producer Billy Bogus who, this time, joins forces with long-time friend MA Spaventi to create a project experimental under every aspect. 
Ristoranti Innovativi speaks to us - same as a film would - about an idea of consumption so exasperated to become obsolete, in the general amniotic unawareness. From this awareness restless scenarios arise, as in the opening track Bath Exotico but also classy as in the nu-jazz of Oliver Stoned. Vaporous Africanisms intertwine in the rhythmic jungles of Pintus and Witch Doctor and glide over the jazzy downtempo of Diorama and the atmospheric electronics of Giardino d'Inverno. Ristoranti Innovativi is an album of chiaroscuro that mix jazz and electronic rhythms, to show us that mental and emotional process can synch our moods - through music - with an often indecipherable present. 

Strata-Gemma are Niccolò Bruni AKA Billy Bogus on composition and arrangement, Luca Cacciatore on winds and Andrea Moretti on double bass. The band boasts regular appearances on the renowned radio broadcasts of Gilles Peterson and Raffaele Costantino AKA DJ Khalab as well as having performed at the Giant Steps and Brilliant Corner in London, venues devoted to nu-jazz and post club sounds. 

MA Spaventi is a sound engineer and producer who has collaborated with an incredible number of artists and labels, making his synthesizers playground available for music ranging from electronic and ambient to house and Italo disco. 

This collaboration was born from a strong friendship and it’s based on an insatiable desire to experiment with genres and feelings. 

Releases September 27, 2024 

Produced and arranged by Niccolò Bruni AKA Billy Bogus and Marco Antonio Spaventi 
Luca Cacciatore - horns 
Andrea Moretti - bass & double bass 
Artwork pics by Niccolò Bruni 
Mixed and mastered by MA Spaventi 

SHM 312 
Shimmering Moods Records 2024

Strata-Gemma & MA Spaventi - Oliver Stoned

From The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990
Video compiled by Holden Lay from Mitsuru Hiyashi's 1988 film In Search of Desert Equations and footage from a 1987 performance of Azax Attra 1 and 2 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

Available November 8, 2024
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Craving Your Embrace

Modular Echo - Minimal Techno

Mesmerize

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

Love 7

This is a special downtempo set I played as Mathimidori at Kumharas Ibiza this summer when the sun was about to go down.

Mathimidori DJ SET @ Kumharas Ibiza 2017

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Stefan Jós - Specialism (Uneasy)

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