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Tuesday, 24 June
Third GRM compilation from Editions Mego' Recollection GRM imprint, featuring Charles Clapaud, Janez Maticic, Servio Tulio Marin and Eugeniusz Rudnik.
*Limited edition of 250. Hand-numbered black labels sealed in vacuum bags with handmade marker tag & poster*
"Quiltland's self-titled LP, a pop-orientated experimental approach where a new-age fragility sits alongside a tape-sautrated euro trance palette, at times recalling the works of Lars 'TCF' Holdhus or Lorenzo Senni but with a more saccarine-sweet and vocal-fuelled edge. The 10-track LP also features a remix from fellow swede and labelmate 1991"
Killer second release for Idle Hands from Rhythmic Theory delving deeper into the realms of classic jungle, early nineties UK techno, swung beats and deadly bass...
**Limited translucent red vinyl for initial orders only** Drumm returns with this incredible album of dense drone pieces recorded with 6 Oscillators at Single Room Occupancy, Chicago IL last year.
**RIYL HTRK, Cold Cave** "Female/male duo White Hex (Tara Green and Jimi Kritzler) released their debut album Heat in 2012 released on Avant! Records. 2014 sees their return with the follow up full-length, Gold Nights. The album is the second in a series of three thematically connected records which is based on a period of three years. The album's themes include tackling the deaths of friends over the past few years and somehow staying optimistic through that loss. Recorded after shows in Paris, Berlin, New York and Melbourne, Gold Nights explores Italo disco, minimalist techno and the more pri… Read more
**Includes digital download voucher redeemable from the label for both tracks plus bonus Claude remix**
Monday, 23 June
**Includes digital download voucher redeemable from the label** The talented bod behind Blood Orange, Devonte Hynes presents a selection of songs for Gia Coppola's major motion picture adaptation of James Franco's book, 'Palo Alto'. 10 tracks are included from Devonté and his Blood Orange alias alongside Mac Demarco, Robert Schwartzman and more.
Stripped down acid and deep house styles from Welshman, Luv Jam, backed with Gnork and Vernon Dixon Avenue remixes. With 'Anti Tracksuit Party' he rubs out a wobbly acid bass, glassy keys and low key drum machine patter, whereas 'Over Draight Facility' gives up the funk with fluttering Detroit chords and neatly crimped groove. Gnork gives the former a square bassed warehouse overhaul, and Vernon Dixon Avenue's Basement Mix of the latter wins for us with a coolly paced blend of Chicago strut and furtive synthlines that wouldn't sound outta place in some Italian Giallo soundtrack.
The excellent Deek label returns with a new ep from Nautic - a union of like-minded musicians comprising of Nathan Jenkins (Bullion), Laura Groves, and Tic Zogson (Young Turks). Since Fresh Eyes, the trio have all been individually busy with other projects; Tic collaborating and playing live with FKA Twigs, Laura releasing her own solo EP, and Nathan producing records on DEEK. But Navy Blue sees them reassembled once again. Around the core members of the group is an ever-expanding set of live and studio collaborators including Laura Coulson (who's vocals feature on Lay Back), Ben Reed, Shabaka Hutch… Read more
Tri Angle's Kiwi D&B; deviant drops a 2nd EP of crushed/crushing riddim structures and swarming noise harmonics in 'Iterations'. Picking up where he left us with the 'Preparations' EP, Olly Peryman aka FIS has refined his sound with equally expansive and visceral values on these four tracks. His rhythm structures are increasingly unstable and the rich mulch of his harmonics feels ever denser, complex and chaotic, from the water-music slosh and Vangelis-style synth brass plumes of the title track thru the systolic palpitations and coarse roil of 'Womb Dreams' to the breathtaking, barely harnessed chaos … Read more
"The 1985 release of Wayne Smith's ‘Under Mi Sleng Teng’ revolutionised Jamaican music forever, heralding a new exciting age of digital reggae. Now reissued complete with Jammy's dub - and long unavailable flip side "Dance Gate' showcasing Michael Buckley expertly riding Jammy's Sly & Robbie drum and bass cut of the 'Answer’"
**Clear vinyl reissue** What have Keysound been putting on their Weetabix recently? Following exemplary issues from Beneath and Mumdance, it's the turn of Logos with his debut album, 'Cold Mission' to leave a big mark on the scene. Isolating the quintessence of Eski Grime, New Age electronics, cinematic sound design and hyper-forward Vaporwave, his definitive album statement can stand up next to Jam City's 'Classical Curves' as one of the UK's finest contributions to the ongoing dialogue between futurist labels such as Fade To Mind (Total Freedom, Nguzunguzu), Software (Oneoht… Read more
*Heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matte finish sleeve with artwork by Leif Podhajsky* Bonobo returns with a new 12” featuring the ‘Ten Tigers’ (Bengal Edit) rework, exclusive new track ‘Duals’ and Maya Jane Coles’ bass heavy re-rub of ‘First Fires’.
**Remastered collection of amazing, classic African recordings made by Hugh Tracy in 1952 & 1957** "Music from another world! This collection of magnificent recordings merely touches on the richness and diversity of the traditional musics of the Congo, as found by Hugh Tracey in the 1950s. In the ensemble tracks we can hear his hand-held microphone technique, as he moves around with his one mike to highlight one instrument after the other – a kind of instant mixing. But how many of these musical traditions have been lost since they were captured on tape? Urbanisation and satelite… Read more
"This is the famous Katanga guitar sound, as recorded by Hugh Tracey, based on the traditional likembe lamellaphone music of the various Luba peoples and their neighbours, who went to work in the mines and, as a result of this urbanisation, embraced 'modernism' by buying guitars. Plus three rumba tracks from Stanleyville (Kisangani), where there was a laid-back atmosphere with white and black dancing together in a flourishing nightlife, exceptional for the Belgian Congo. The recorded musicians there said they had copied the style of playing introduced from the San Salvador district in northern Angola through Leopoldville (Kinshasa)."
'African Gems' is an outstanding collection of recordings made in Cameroun, Congo, D.R. Congo, Uganda and Chad between 1965-1973. The label, SWP Records, make the lofty claim that this is "some of the best traditional African music ever recorded" and, considering our limited knowledge of the field, it's some of the best we've ever heard too. Opening with the flurry of polymetric xylophones, sticks and shakers documenting the mesmerising music of the Beti people, Cameroun, it yields the deeply haunting Bi Witi music Horn Ensemble of the Babembé people, Congo, and the distinctly Konono No.1-like … Read more
Darkside's Dave Harrington drifts bleak kosmische zones on his solo debut away from Nico Jaar. In the three-part 'One-All / A Thousand Times / Multiple and Mirror' he indulges star-eyed synth and guitar scapes with a spot of bass guitar frippery for measure, and 'All-One / Flash' segues from what sounds like an abandoned space station soundtracked by Helm to abstracted industrial techno rhythms and roiling noise textures with a sorta Tarkovsky-esque atmosphere.
Perlon #100! The label's Polish born, California bred ambassador Margaret Dygas marks the occasion with two kinetic tech-house aces produced to Perlon's typically exacting standards. A-side, she rolls smooth and mellow with stretched, strafing jazz motifs synched to round bass and bristling micro-rhythms; B-side 'That' swings wider with knotted garage sub-bass movements and shuffling hi-hats offset with crisp, jazzy breakbeats.