american duo joonam launch their balagan imprint with three transcendental electro cuts, including a remix from uk electro producer silicon scally aka carl finlow.
from isla label head, nap. ep of emotive electro, tinged with spanish vocals, sedative pads and fried rhythms. featuring zdbt (1800 haight st) on transhumano. made in vancouver bc, at deep blue studios, winter 2018.
best effort records jumps out of the box with their inaugural release ’number one’ - a selection of tracks that celebrate friends making music together. cold emotion are danny wild and rory stenning. the duo explore improvised club music using various keyboards and modular synthesisers. “toast” is a track taken from an extensive live recording session from 2015. accidental cv messages create unexpected cyclic baseline patterns while keyboard melodies float freely above jacking modular beats. the result is an imperfect, inspired club jam ready for any occasion. -cantao- pitches things down from the hypnotic frenzy of -toast- to offer a unique hybrid between computerized dub, subaquatic g-funk and triphop ambiance. canadian content! -manipulate me- is a collaboration between ivy barkakati and phran. the stark, alienated quality of ivy s spoken vocals & dark subject matter sounds even more claustrophobic and sinister backed up by the duo s frigid machine-funk, which is more in the spirit austere & icy 80s coldwave than modern house music. metric systems are a duo from somewhere in australia. the fathoms-deep -adaptation dub”, recored in 2009, is reminiscent of australia s after-hour dub technicians sheriff lindo or andy rantzen. look out for a full lp later in the year
a slice of international oddball rap from la baleine 3000, a group composed of belgian producer lawrence le doux, french dj afrojaws, and japanese mc illreme. the ep features seven cuts of soft, dreamy beats, vinyl fuzz, and delicate verses that speak to hip-hop’s universal appeal and ability to transcend boundaries. as illreme puts it on the nap , “the story is always over on the way. when does this story end?”
sleeve created on an analog typewriter in the vlek workshop by dimitri runkkari. hand-carved vinyl art by jeff ablezot.
this four track release showcases some of the new electro sounds coming out of detroit. the dirt nap e.p. offers up a new flavor of detroit electro, focusing on mixing the raw analog sounds of years past with the digital textures of modern electro.
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