the fourth album from californian folk-rock duo mapache. double vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

the third album from californian folk-rock duo mapache.

the songs, the words, the melodies in this album, they all matter to me because they represent the real time outworking of my own trauma, pain and discovery of joy and peace. but there is a life inside this record equally important to all of the above, which is also trying to be communicated. it’s almost like how listening to a song in a foreign language doesn’t hinder you from absorbing what the song is communicating. in listening closely as i expose myself to myself, that is where the art is. maybe every time we have the courage to unabashedly be true in ourselves, the courage to do the same is received by someone else.
i ask that you pray for me, so that i can continue to live on the surface, not only in private while making art, but also in public while living life visibly. also that as i continue on this journey with myself, that i can communicate who this old yet new person i have found is. a little better each time, with more clarity each time. - vicktor taiwò

to make it to album number three, a group has to make a compelling debut and then avoid the sophomore slump. if you reach that third record, you are supposed to be a professional, a stone-faced musical grown-up. but don’t tell that to de lux. after their 2014 debut voyager and 2015 follow-up generation, the la duo is gearing for its best and brightest lp, more disco songs about love. the difference between this album and all the rest? let s ask the band: we like to say voyage was our baby, generation was our baby all grown up and more disco songs about love thinks growing up sucks and just wants to party smart.

in october 2016, snoop dogg took to instagram to preview a new song that includes a sample of badbadnotgood s -lavender- featuring their fellow canadian beatsmith, kaytranada. the internet pounced on the track that addresses the police killings of black men in the united states, with coverage from fader and fact magazine to complex, xxl mag and pitchfork and more. now snoop dogg s long-awaited nightfall remix is being released on badbadnotgood s la based label innovative leisure. comes with a poster insert & b-side etching of the original artwork.

als vinyl streng limitiertes debütalbum des aus der bay area stammenden und in los angeles ansässigen künstlers harriet brown, das auf seine ep -new era- aus dem jahr 2014 folgt. es ist kein geheimnis, dass der multiinstrumentalist und produzent stark von prince und sade inspiriert ist. die musik der one-man band ist ein mix aus elektronischen sounds aus drum-maschinen, synthesizern, geloopten live-aufnahmen und sinnlichen vocals. die atmosphäre ist sinnlich, sexuell, vieldeutig und androgyn. das album erscheint bei innovative leisure aus los angeles, heimat von nick waterhouse, badbadnotgood, hanni el khatib, etc. für fans von prince, classixx, kelela, nao, sade, blood orange, u.a.!

anglo-cherokee-japanese skateboarder turned musician korey dane returns with his second album chamber girls. influenced by the likes of t.s. eliot, tom waits, karen dalton, the beatles and the stones, and more, chamber girls was recorded almost completely live at l.a.’s analog time capsule valentine recording studios, searing instinct and experience direct to tape. dane produced everything himself, too, except for a quick assist from legendary producer tony berg (x, public image ltd.) on one song, and he was inspired by the deceptively simple ethos he’d internalized while making youngblood: pursue greatness. “writing a song that you know someone might skip over later is sacrilege,” he says. instead, he wanted every song on chamber girls to feel not only live but alive, too, with that go-forbroke spirit that animates everything he says, does, or sings: “i’m writing all the time,” he says. “i’ve lived by a line a day sometimes. i try and stop when it’s good. if you try and simplify it down to its bare elements ... it’s truly a redemptive act.”

pinky pinky ist ein proto-prog inspiriertes rock-trio aus los angeles, bestehend aus den teenagern isabelle fields (17, guitar), eva chambers (17, bass) und anastasia sanchez (19, vocals/drums). die band präsentiert -good clean fun- und verneigen sich vor den größen von gestern mit vollem einsatz für die zukunft. die als 7inch picture disc streng limitierte ep wurde vo hanni el khatib und jonny bell (crystal antlers) co-produziert und erscheint bei innovative leisure aus los angeles, heimat von nick waterhouse, badbadnotgood, allah las, usw.

limited edition of 300 copies on 10 inch vinyl.
brooklyn musician and red bull music academy alum sam posner created el niño & the southern oscillations as a meditation on the the beauty and power of the ocean. the tracks flow through timeless electronica influenced by selected ambient era aphex twin and early larry heard as well as contemporary artists like carribou and jamie xx. posner sketched the framework and palate for the project over a few years of travel, bringing the final ep together in a sea-side cabin watching waves crash against the rocky maine coast.

faraway reach casts classixx’s young-but-nostalgic melodies and sublime chords in a more mature, restrained light, albeit no less lively and bright. establishing themselves as producers of note on their debut lp (pitchfork called them “great songwriters, too”), faraway reach delivers powerfully smooth and soulful jewels that are still decidedly their own - the classixx signature is one that can’t be traced. their love of plaintive voices and disco-inspired grooves is as evident as ever, but this time around everything is a bit bolder, the cast is bigger, the melodies distilled into a higher potency - it’s all just as good, but better. “on the first record, we wanted to include only people that were our friends, and have it be really personal…” david begins, a thought blake finishes: “this time we wanted to make a record with a lot of different kinds of vocals, to see if we could be the common thread.” the album traverses locales, vocalists and inspirations. it s a fitting movement for the duo, from venice beach to the mountains of south africa and everywhere in between - a faraway reach.
the double vinyl release includes a download code.

parallels is the fourth full album released under jason chung’s distinctive moniker, nosaj thing. masterfully dimensional, parallels represents the acclaimed los angeles-based electronic producer/composer/performer’s most diverse, vital work yet. as such, chung sees parallels represents a kind of redemptive rebirth. the album’s compellingly elusive, uncategorizable sonics developed out of what he terms a personal & musical “identity crisis.” according to chung, working with a group of collaborators on parallels that combined both longtime friends and new creative partners added “new energy which pushed me not to limit myself. everything felt fresh and alive.” chung is known specifically for his innovative, unexpected musical pairings: kid cudi hit up on nosaj thing via his myspace page in 2006, resulting in chung producing cudi’s autobiographical classic “the man on the moon.” kendrick lamar flowed over nosaj’s ethereal boom bap to create the youtube gem “cloud 10”, chance the rapper, meanwhile, freaked a nosaj beat for his 2013 breakout masterpiece “paranoia” and appeared on nosaj thing’s previous lp, 2015’s fated. chung and blonde redhead vocalist kazu makino are also longtime creative partners on each other’s work, her voice appears on parallels as an otherworldly spirit animating the icily ‘80s-synthetic “how we do.”

repress - badbadbadnotgood is the talented young quartet of matthew tavares on keys, chester hansen on bass, alex sowinski on drums & leland whitty on saxophone. they formed and became inseparable friends at humber college’s music performance program in 2011 and have been on a critically acclaimed, rule bending musical journey ever since. bbng took the music world by storm with their 2014 lp, iii, a brash yet refined record of angular jazz improvisations, lush ballads, kraut rock, & futuristic hip-hop tinged rhythms which led to a couple years of touring the world & collaborating with some of the best and brightest artists around the globe.

holy fuck took the world by surprise around 2005 because there was just nothing like them—a hardcore thrift-store foundobject punk band with a relentless commitment to rhythm and a sense for atmosphere better matched to a close encounter of the third kind than a simple rock concert. think einstürzende neubauten re-inspired by fela kuti with brian eno working as keyboard tech and every channel on the mixer set to max power. checking into a “proper” studio, rather than the barn in rural ontario where most of holy fuck’s records were made, congrats was recorded by the same lineup that recorded latin (2010). as they worked, they discovered that congrats was a process of refining things both physically and philosophically. their ad hoc arsenal of low-budget hi-tech toys has been streamlined and the result is the moment when holy fuck take the chaos and craziness (and charm) that have always been at the heart of their band and not so much control it as concentrate it. now they’re heavier, wilder, leaner, sharper, more daring and more unpredictable than ever before, on fire with the power of inspired outsiders like suicide, silver apples, can, mission of burma or the monks or even sun ra whose pursuit of his own kind of musical purity is exactly what holy fuck are after.
the vinyl lp is housed in a gatefold sleeve with download code included.

de lux zementierten ihre art des art-rock / alt-dance mit Ähnlichkeiten zu den talking heads oder lcd soundsystem auf ihrem 2015er album “generation”. auf dieser limitierten 8” zollen sie woddy allen mit dem neuen song “joe berlin” tribut. die b-seite ist ein abgefahrener coversong von classixx “stranger love”.

evan reiner aka gossamer macht elektronische musik, die von hip hop, hardcore und jazz guitar beeinflusst ist. reiner studierte an der berklee school of music film-sound und foley artistry (frei übersetzt: geräuschemachen). dabei streute er dann beispielsweise sand über schlagzeug-becken, oder nutzte gebrauchte patronenhülsen für percussion, was ihm eine ganz neue perspektive eröffnete. inspiration fand er bei künstlern wie ai weiwei oder maya duren. für sein debütalbum begann er während eines trips nach japan field recordings in tunneln oder unter einer brücke in l.a aufzunehmen. zu hause setzte er sich dann hin und *made accidents happen*. mit aufnahmegeräten, samplern, gitarren und analogen synthesizern. *automaton* ist eine präzise und sanftmütige traumlandschaft, die sich mal solcher musiker wie gas, boards of canada oder auch vangelis besinnt, wie auch brian enos und jon hassels album *fourth world*. die vinyl-lp erscheint inklusive downloadcode.

on their 2013 debut album voyage, l.a. duo de lux introduced their singular sound, a fusion of post-punk, disco, funk and synth wizardry. fun though voyage was, described by the guardian as -intricate, witty, inventive, dazzling and by dj mag as fresh, immediate, for their follow-up, de lux felt compelled to add an element of social commentary to the mix.

mittlerweile ist es bereits sechs jahre her, dass nosaj thing (auch bekannt als produzent jason chung) das erste mal im dunstkreis der low-end-theory produzenten garde aus los angeles aufgetaucht ist. nach dem futuristischen debüt *drift* und dem ersten album für innovative leisure, *home* (2013), erscheint mit *fated* nun ein album, bei dem der sound zeit hatte zu reifen. indem er alles hat wegfallen lassen, was er nicht als wichtig erachtete, hat chung einen sound mit bemerkenswerter direktheit und emotionalem potenzial geschaffen. dennoch: passend für einen künstler, der bereits charlotte gainsbourg und the xx geremixt, mit toro y moi und kendrick lamar zusammengearbeitet hat und mit james blake auf tour gegangen ist, lässt sich nosaj thing nicht so einfach einordnen. es ist nicht ganz klar, was *fated* ist: mal idm, hip hop, ambient und dann wiederum pop. was aber klar ist: wie weit nosaj thing bereits gekommen ist ...
die lp erscheint auf weißem vinyl inklusive downloadcode.

mittlerweile ist es bereits sechs jahre her, dass nosaj thing (auch bekannt als produzent jason chung) das erste mal im dunstkreis der low-end-theory produzenten garde aus los angeles aufgetaucht ist. nach dem futuristischen debüt drift und dem ersten album für innovative leisure, home (2013), erscheint mit fated nun ein album, bei dem der sound zeit hatte zu reifen.