Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield 1897 Items

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sony Music Japan)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following 2019's Inside, Vc-118a returns to Delsin to present Spiritual Machines. Following a re-evaluation of his creative process, Samuel Van Dijk's fourth album encompasses more fluid shifts into abstract and downtempo, dub-inflected realms, without losing sight of the electro and techno qualities that have made Vc-118a so compelling from the beginning. Burnished machine soul, aqueous atmospherics and immaculate drum programming abound, but in the mellow, enveloping sound world of Spiritual Machines you can hear Van Dijk guiding his music into a broader form that sounds at once more assured and more inspired.

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Gontiti

Paradise Shift

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wanderers Red, Blue w/ Purple Swirl Vinyl Edition

The G

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

29,99 €*

CD | 2021 | JP | Original (EM)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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‣ It's Official....SEXY Red, Blue w purple swirl in limited 100 copies.
‣ Printed on 1 180g RED, BLUE w PURPLE SWIRL vinyl with sleek finishing.
‣ Audio mastered for vinyl.

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Clan Caiman

Asoma

17,99 €*

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Big Love)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing and sweetly melodic soundworld, based on composer Emilio Haro’s vision of a band playing the music of an imaginary undiscovered ethnic group. Woven together by Haro’s self-made kalimbafón, a tuned percussion instrument, these five Argentinian musicians also use threads of lap steel, guitars, bass and percussion to knit their beyond-genre textures, seemingly ageless despite being recorded in December 2019. Available on CD, digital download and 12’’ LP, the latter cut at Berlin’s famed Dubplates and Mastering. “Asoma” is perfect music for imaginary voyages during travel-restricted times.

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Lolina

Live In Geneva

34,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Whited Sepulchre)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Only a few of these - one for the hardcore. Lolina Live, and this time in Geneva (Performed at cave12, 26.09.2018). A special document beautifully presented on a single LP in gatefold sleeve by Big Love Records, Harajuku, Tokyo.

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Zvrra

Array Of Light

25,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Hybrid Minds)

Hybrid Minds

Reflections

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Isabassi

789.0

12,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Hibylo

12,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Paperbark

What Was Left Behind

8,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-Field Pop From The CD Age 1989-1996 2024 Repress

V.A.

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Music From Memory)

Space Teddy Collection 2024 Repress

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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NO OBI VERSION

Music From Memory is excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; Mfm053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996). Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released almost exclusively on CD and brings together a fascinating selection of discoveries from a little known and overlooked part of Japan’s musical history. The last ten or so years have seen a global wave of interest in Japanese music encompassing ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records from the 1980s, some of which is increasingly considered the most innovative and visionary music of that time. Although some music from this period, in the form of ‘City Pop’ or ‘rare groove’ records, had been coveted by collectors and DJs for a number of years, most Japanese music from the time was little known outside and often even within Japan. Sometime around the mid 2000s, two Osaka record store owners, Eiji Taniguchi of Revelation Time and Norio Sato of Rare Groove, along with a handful of deep Japanese diggers such as Chee Shimizu of Organic Music records in Tokyo, began to explore beyond the typical ‘grooves’ or ‘breaks’. Much like their counterparts in Europe and the US, they began delving into home-grown ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records, discovering visionary music, often driven by synthesizers or drum computers, that broke beyond the typical confines of their genres. Spending tireless hours in local record stores and embarking on digging trips across the country, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, much like Chee Shimizu, have been at the forefront of unearthing and introducing many of the very Japanese records now loved and sought after around the world. Yet as YouTube algorithms and vinyl reissues would transport such music into the global consciousness and demand and therefore scarcity intensified for such records, so Eiji and Norio have recently begun to turn their attention to CDs. The title of the compilation Heisei No Oto refers to the sound of the Heisei era, which began in 1989 and corresponds to the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019. Marking the culmination of one of the most rapid economic growths in Japanese history, 1989 also coincided with the music industry’s final shift away from vinyl in favour of CDs. And, although compact discs were first introduced seven years earlier it wasn’t until late into the ‘80s that, beyond dance music labels, CDs became the exclusive format for major and independent labels in Japan and throughout the world. This however didn’t signal the end of the innovation in Japan. Many of those same musicians who have become known for their work in the ‘80s would continue to produce outstanding music well into the mid ‘90s, as greater innovation and advances in musical equipment allowed Japanese musicians and producers to refine and explore new sounds. While musicians such as the seminal Haruomi Hosono, whose productions feature on a number of tracks, would continue to push the boundaries of these new technologies, these technological advances also meant less established musicians were able to make use of increasingly affordable but state-of-the-art equipment. Including music by Haruomi Hosono as well as Yasuaki Shimizu, Toshifumi Hinata and Ichiko Hashimoto who have become known and loved around the world in recent years, Hesei No Oto also features Japanese pop star Yosui Inoue, producers Jun Sato and Keisuke Kikuchi in aaddition to less established artists from the contemporary, jazz, new wave, pop and dance music scenes. Bringing together a selection of tracks that seem to define these specific genres and in fact move fluidly between a number of them, the music on the compilation is again underscored by experimentations with synthesizers and drum computers though with something of a gentle Pop sensibility. Reimagined here then under the encompassing term ‘Left-field Pop’, this is an exciting chapter in Japanese musical history that has only just begun to be fully explored.

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Ebi

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Transmigration)

Tape | 2021 | US | Reissue (100% Silk)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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No introduction needed here, the collectors version of 2 previously re-issued LPs on Transmigration no available as one double LP. Now complete with Obi strip and insert.
Susumu Yokota's vision of techno - house, lovingly collected in collaboration with Space Teddy and the Yokota family. Presented through linear notes in English and Japanese with archival photos from Uwe Reineke and Mijk Van Dijk. All tracks have been remastered by Steffen Müller.
Very limited quantities!

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Shoshi Takeda

Floating Mountains

11,99 €*

CD | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tokyo visionist Soshi Takeda’s second album took shape across eight months of the winter and spring, inspired by an iconic mid-80’s photography book of Chinese landscapes. Scenes of lantern-lit fishing boats on misty mountain lakes seeded a mood of hidden paradise, ancient waterways snaking secret paths into the past.

Recorded at his home studio using exclusively hardware synths and samplers from the 1990’s, the six songs of Floating Mountains (plus digital-only bonus cut, “Deep Breath,” from the recent 2nd Life Silk compilation) evoke shrouded cinematic vistas of liquid skies and shining lakes, like some Li River twist on Balearic half-light house. Shades of cosmic drift and crystalline electronica ebb and flow within the nocturnal pulse, pagodas and pearls reflecting the waning moon: “I hope you can feel the cool and exotic atmosphere.”

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GAS

Der Lange Marsch

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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At the latest with the release of the albums "Zauberberg" and "Königsforst", in the mid-1990s, one associates GAS, Wolfgang Voigt's very own artistic cross-linking of the spirit of Romanticism and the forest as an artistic fantasy projection surface, with intoxicatingly blurred boundaries of post-ambient infatuation and the impenetrable thicket of abstract atonality. The distant, iconic straight bass drum marching through highly condensed, abstract sounds taken from classical music by the sampler or modulated accordingly, and the enraptured gaze through pop art glasses into the hypnotic thicket of an imaginary forest, manifested over the years this unique connection of audio and visual, which to understand fully, then as now, would be neither possible nor desirable.

Quite the opposite. The album GAS - DER LANGE MARSCH once again invites us to follow the deep sounding bass drum, to give in to its irresistible pull into a psychedelic world of 1000 promises. In the process, the journey leads us past stations of memories sounding from afar, from "Zauberberg" to "Königsforst" and "Pop", from "Oktember" to "Narkopop" and "Rausch", back and forth, now and forever.

Way. Destination. Loop. Forest loop.

No beginning. No end.

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GAS

Der Lange Marsch

33,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Motvind)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Maja S.K. Ratkje

Vannstand

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Cos / Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn

Mein Maschin Ist Schön / The FF Boom

7" | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Finders Keepers)

14,99 €*

Emancipator & Asher Fulero

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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From the same continental cosmic egg that hatched Marc Moulin, Marc Hollander and Belgian synth fusion combo Placebo comes your favourite new Franco-Flemmish pop discovery. COS, where have you been all my life? Compact in name but wide-eyed in nature, it’s understandable how the 70’s band known simply as COS has remained trapped in the tight cracks between pop stardom and prog indulgence where other like minded names like CAN, Zao, Neu! And Egg have managed to squeeze into gaps of your record collection. In presenting one of the band’s most infectious and potentially crossover legible tracks on this exclusive user-friendly 45, COS mastermind Daniel Schell not only breaks an unlikely new format for this lesser-known femme-fronted, electro/jazz fusion/prog pop opera/would-be disco cinematic six-piece but also sends a sonic telegram to a new generation of futurist pop aficionados ready to explore the deep realms of his band’s dense, expansive and consistently rewarding catalogue. Placing the microscope over the central motif of the band’s onomatopoeic 1978 triptych known as Mein Maschine Ist Schön (My Machine Is Beautiful) this very rare proposed single edit from the group’s third album combines the type of warm, brooding, discoid funk and nymphish Morse code vocals that unite fans of Stereolab, Curved Air, Jan Hammer, Emerald Web and Ursula Dudziak not to mention Schell’s own close friends, the aforementioned, Hollander, Moulin and Placebo. A prog rock 45 might sound like a contradiction in terms but with a band like COS you can only expect them to defy convention. Backed here with another deeply conceptual sliced of deep orchestral symphonic psych from Schell’s short-lived FF Boom project from the previous year this suitably compact introduction to your new favourite COSmonauts provide digestible versions of some of Schell’s finest moments and clears the decks for future explorations of a wider musical universe waiting to be explored. Turn on this beautiful machine and let yourself melt into the COSmix.

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Dab Records Volume One Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Loci)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Loci)

Emancipator & Cloudchord

Citrus Fever Dream

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Moloton)

Linus Hillborg

Magelungsverket

20,39 €* 23,99 € -15%

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anjunabeats)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Linus Hillborg’s solo debut lures listeners through despaired soundscapes of justly tuned electroacoustic orchestral arrangements seeped in rich harmonic synthesis. Magelungsverket is a rendering of materials from Hillborg’s own computer game hacking project, Orphan Works, where an obsolete game engine was modified to create an interactive installation in which participants drive through the purple midnight streets of a decrepit and abandoned Stockholm. The rendered pieces on Magelungsverket have been adapted from Orphan Works’ interactive and generative material into separate, fixed compositions, bound by duration, each one named after a location in this fictional, virtual Stockholm.

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Gardenstate

Inspirations

33,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Libary Of The Occult)

Dream Division

Legend Of Lizard Lake

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Charly)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dream Division presents an album of reptilian synthesiser psych 'Legend of Lizard Lake' takes the listener on a journey with its fantasy inspired soundscapes with brooding electronics and psychedelic guitars building on an immersive Dungeon Synth backdrop. Pressed on 180gm ‘Poison Dusk’ vinyl, in a mirror board sleeve

For fans of John Carpenter, Goblin, Dungeons & Dragons

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Van Mccoy & Friends

Dancin'

37,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Famm)

Enny

Under 25

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lucid Dreams Pink Vinyl Edition

Yota

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

Lucid Dreams Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Yota is back, with the continuation from Hazy Paradise! Lucid Dreams is an album packed full of luscious synth and ethereal sonics. A must listen for all Retrowave and Retro Electro lovers!!

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Yota

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

History / Am I Losing You Forever

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Yota is back, with the continuation from Hazy Paradise! Lucid Dreams is an album packed full of luscious synth and ethereal sonics. A must listen for all Retrowave and Retro Electro lovers!!

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Mai Tai

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Smg Recordings)

17,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne

Hildring

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (By Norse Music)

23,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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4LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Chat Chapeau Nouveau)

Deladap

Play Limited -Box

79,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess

Explain The Food, Bitte

LP | 2021 | Original (Play Loud! Productions)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Fixt)

Essenger

After Dark

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Dutchess)

Mirry

LP | 2021 | Original (Laser)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The discovery and musical re-imagining of Mirabel Lomer – an artist’s unheard world which is emerging from the shadows into the light.

30 years ago, Edinburgh based musician Tom Fraser was helping with the house clearance after his grandfather’s death and found an old scratched Transco record left out on the street. He took it home where it sat on a shelf for years until one day during lockdown, he gave it a play - and a whole world opened up to him - his Great Aunt Mirry had recorded a number of piano compositions which she had kept secret from her family. Since then, Tom has been re-working and re-mixing her compositions with his brother-in- law Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good the Bad and the Queen, and The Magnetic North) and together with project curator Kirsteen McNish they hope that this secret life will now reach beyond Mirry’s own four walls.

Mirabel Lomer was born in 1906 to a military family and for the best part of her life stayed at home in Ireland looking after her elderly parents. In the early 1950s she became a paid companion to another elderly couple in Wiltshire, both of whom she nursed until they died. While most of her life was spent caring for others it also transpired that Mirry had written music (despite the fact that as a young woman, her father actively discouraged her playing music in the family home). In quiet rebellion and creative escape, she composed this piano music secretly and her nephew and confidant Geoffrey captured it on his tape recorder.

Like untold numbers of women whose creative lives didnt find an outlet, Mirry never received any accolades for her work but enjoyed the act of creating work for herself. She died in the 1980s but the story of Mirry’s music and secret life is still unfolding.

The resulting album “Mirry” by Fraser and Tong is a celebration of Mirry’s work and a call and response to her original recordings with her family members – almost as if she were still in a room with them.

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Dirk.

Cracks In Common Sense

20,99 €*

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2021 | Original (Blackhole)

Markus Schulz

Escape

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Gilead Media)

Mizmor & Andrew Black

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Portland, OR black-doom powerhouse, Mizmor has joined forces with multi-instrumentalist (and live musician for Mizmor) Andrew Black to create a masterful collaboration titled, Dialetheia. Two massive and introspective tracks fill space and time as we know it with undulating soundscapes - exploring bleak and beautiful isolation. Haunting and hypnotizing, the endless waves of sonic nostalgia, emerge triumphantly through sirens of solace and meditative winds.

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Gas28a

Dao Hac

8,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Workshop)

PST

Untitled

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Kontor)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Crafty dubbed out & carefully drifting House / Downtempo excursions, luxury gatefold cover.

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Le Shuuk

Kunterbunt

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Seance Red Transparent Vinyl Edition

Maxine Funke

LP | 2021 | Reissue (A Colourful Storm)

19,94 €* 20,99 € -5%

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Hospital Productions)

Release: 2021 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2023 Repress

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Regis

Play Neutral

11,19 €* 15,99 € -30%

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Baked Colored Vinyl Edition

Hotel Pools

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Stratford Ct.)

29,99 €*

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Shango)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This EP is dedicated to the memory of Charlie Braun and Ian Mouser

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Dan Bay

Cassiopeia EP

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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10" EP by German producer Dan Bay. 3 Downtempo/World tracks dedicated to the Cassiopeia Greek myth

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Interim Report, March 1979 & The Nation's Most Central Location White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Castles In Space)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ever/Never)

Rider/Horse

Select Trials

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ever/Never)

Cia Debutante

Music For Small Rooms

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony Bundle 2lp+ 258p Book

V.A.

2LP+Book | 2021 | EU | Original (FLEE)

53,99 €*

All The Brilliant Things Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The pearls of the Gulf have stoked the imagination and desire of people around the world for centuries, their magnificence matched only by the courage of the divers who found them. This project aims to honor the memory of these valiant free-divers, their culture and their music by the means of a 2XLP compilation with undisclosed original recordings of pearl divers and inspired modern-day compositions by artists like Tomaga, YPY, Ben Betrand, Tarek Yamani or Hieroglyphic Being. Along with that record, a 258 pages long book in Arabic and English is available featuring contributions from regional experts and artists to contextualize the tremendously rich theme that is pearling and it's music.

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Skyzoo

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Mello Music Group)

26,59 €* 37,99 € -30%

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | CZ | Original (Leaving)

Celia Hollander

Timekeeper

23,99 €*

Release: 2021 / CZ – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An Iceberg Cruising The Jamaican Coastline Black Vinyl Edition

Froid Dub

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Delodio)

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Moloko

I Am Not A Doctor

36,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Orange Milk)

Eyeliner

Drop Shadow

Virtual Utopia Experience Cosmic Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Drop Shadow also explores Rowell’s fascination with American and Japanese music culture and their many intersections, most evident to me on the upbeat “Drop Shadow” which utilizes the Korg Wavestatoion and M1 VST (which is the highest selling synth of all time in its hardware form) and lands somewhere between early house music, a Madonna instrumental, and something from a Nintendo 64 soundtrack.

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Death's Dynamic Shroud

LP | 2021 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

31,34 €* 32,99 € -5%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2021 | UK | Original (Peaky Beats)

Highrise & Peaky Beats

PBR005

Soft Season & Meet Local Singles Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Not stamped white label copy is close to NM.

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Lasership Stereo

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

39,99 €*

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (DJs Choice)

The Rebel

The Sculptor/Nickodemus

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2021 | US | Original (DJs Choice)

Dedy Dread & The Rebel

Quero Ver Voce Dancar

20,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Relentless Trills Black Vinyl Edition

DJ Plead

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Documenting Sound)

CD | 2021 | UK | Original (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DJ Plead’s genre-defining album of slow and humid dance music, recorded almost entirely on a Yamaha ‘Oriental’ keyboard in the spring of 2020, finally lands back in print on this new vinyl edition made for anyone who missed it first time round, remastered by Rashad Becker.

Giving us full classic/futureshock from the moment we first heard it, it’s one of those albums that’s stitched itself to the very fabric of our being over the last couple of years, becoming a sort of reference against which we’ve measured all weapons made for the sweatiest end of the night. If you’ve ever heard it out, you’ll know what we’re saying - it’s just supremely provocative, unhurried body music.

Recorded at his home in Sydney during the height of that first lockdown with a wild creative energy only amplified by strict aesthetic control - almost all of the album was recorded on the one keyboard featured on the cover artwork - it’s ironic that at a time when we basically got several years worth of reflective home listening albums recorded in isolation, Plead made one of the definitive club albums of the 2020’s, even if it’s for the kinda club that keeps it on full slink.

Equally influenced by vintage dancehall riddims and the inspirational glow of CS + Kreme's psycho-ambient heartmelters, Plead here dissolves his much-loved hard drum style, dropping the tempo and conserving energy levels across a suite of smutty, tense works, matching his waviest microtonal vamps with the signature, rhythmelodic lilt of his drums in a properly hypnotic style. A hazy introductory piece of autotuned vocals and subs seduces from the front, with feelings spilling out into delirious dancehall pressure with drums on some mad Mahraganat x Timbaland tip, closing on a mesmerising beatless highlight.

Perfect music, made for slow dancing.

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Dr Atmo & Mick Chillage

Ruhleben

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unfinished Colored Vinyl Edition

nthng

2LP+7" | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Lobster Sleep Sequence)

41,99 €*

Virtua.Zip Orange & Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Repress

Themed around events in nthng's life, Unfinished is a deeply personal journey, yet there's something very relatable to the world he has conjured. Lockdown has forced us to look inward, explore realities within ourselves and the fragility of our forgotten world. The album is a series of peaks and troughs - hopeful words, ominous tones and other-worldly soundscapes, giving way to a journey in no way linear - but a true reflection of our times.

The title track sets the scene perfectly, while Son features deep bass notes, dreamy keys and spoken word - creating a visceral and unsettling scene. Subnautica resides in the fringes of ambient and techno - as tribalistic drums are suspended in our new rendered reality.

The marching bass and howling synths of Wrath of the Demon lull conspicuously in a vacuum, while the hauntingly beautiful vocals featured on Disappeared But Not Forgotten evoke a poignant, powerful reaction across the record's B-side - "Everything stopped, you just disappeared..."

At its most tranquil Our Time offers a sense of rest - a space to appreciate, as we leave the window open, peer outside and feel the gentle breeze brush across our face. Saafe continues this theme, and feels like a warm embrace - "She saved my life in a matter of speaking, when she gave me back the power to believe."

Ending Theme is beautifully organic as you hear the sound of the piano pedal touch the floor, tones are introspective and vulnerable - while the looming presence of uncertainty subtly takes form in thinly layered pads.

The album also sees the release of a digi only bonus track Only a Flash of Light and invites you outside while the stars are at their brightest.

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Esprit

LP | 2021 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Illuminations Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

FM Skyline

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (100% Electronica)

I Dreamed Of A Palace In The Sky Green & Black Olive Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“Illuminations is a homage to 20th century French Impressionism/surrealism as well as a homage to the way art from that era inspired some of early digital art in the 80s & 90s, and is intended to invoke a classical, theatrical atmosphere. It became a very personal and emotionally heavy album for me - besides the obvious backdrop of a world frozen in pandemic, it was written between the loss of a best friend and then later on the dissolution of a long romantic relationship. I was exploring loss through the way seemingly familiar things can feel haunted by being dislodged from their original context or being obvious facsimiles of more natural things.” -Pete Curry (FM Skyline)

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Equip

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

47,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Horizon Colored Vinyl Edition

Unfound

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Stratford Ct.)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Crystal Shores Colored Vinyl Edition

Viq

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Stratford Ct.)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Pschent)

Stéphane Pompougnac

Hotel Costes/Best Of

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Pschent)

Stéphane Pompougnac

Hotel Costes 12

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Melodies Souterraines)

V.A.

K/L

Amami's Roaring Song Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition repress without the insert!

After 2 quiet years, Mélodies Souterraines strikes hard! A very soft opus under the sign of Europa and its Japanese reflections. Influencing the direction of "k/l" - Miyako Koda's 'Sleep In Peace' (prod. Haruomi Hosono) defined the color of the following 40min. new wave comp. Incl. music by Electrodelia, Andy Rantzen, Jan Schulte, Zmatsutsi, Tolouse Low Trax or rare-as-teeth hit 'Analyze' by Tase... Probably the most sophisticated record of the series: In-motion, elegant, nocturnal.

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Kunitaka Sato

LP | 2021 | JP (Teichiku)

59,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (No Slack)

Release: 2021 / JP

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Record Store Day Japan 2021 Drop 2 release. The first reissue of “Amami no Ukiuta” released in 1975 by Kunitaka Sato from Okinawa Amami Oshima, which continues to soar in the second-hand market!

The long-awaited reissue of the album “Amami no Uta” released in 1975 by Kunitaka Sato, a wandering island singer who played the lyre and shamisen in various parts of Okinawa, Amami!

The original version is a rare version that is popular both in Japan and overseas and is difficult to obtain, so it is one of the coveted Japanese mono-folk song fan

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Livigesh

Wolf Pack

17,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Amek)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wolf Pack” is Livigesh's fifth album and his first album to be pressed onto vinyl. From the 2 years of making “Wolf Pack” Livigesh feels he grew as an electronic music producer and performer. To Livigesh, “Wolf Pack” seems like his first album. His drum programming has evolved into something more complex, and his use of musical elements have started to become more diverse and creative. These developments made “Wolf Pack” something that sounds familiar and alien at the same time.

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Cyberian

Dark Orphism

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Won Ton)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After his acclaimed 2018 debut full-length “Limerence”, Stefan Bachvarov returns to Amek for his first vinyl release as Cyberian. “Dark Orphism” is a meeting point between Bachvarov’s usual drifting electronic melancholia, his obsession with textured and detailed percussion, and his interests in paganism, nature, and the occult. Spanning over eight compact tracks, the album is moody and brooding, while somehow always remaining focused and direct. More beat-oriented and certainly noisier than its predecessor, “Dark Orphism” is an immense leap forward in the ever-evolving Cyberian sound.

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Veslemes

Pigeon Post Knossos

22,99 €*

LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Pasocom)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Who runs the Pigeon Post of Knossos? What exactly these birds carry and to whom? How Prometheus rocks his rock of torture and who really wants to punish Klaus Kinski with the whip? Veslemes’ follow up album to Invisible Inc's Apoltihoma is a sonic excursion to the primordial routes of rhythm filtered by his speculations about the kinky habits of everyday life back in ancient Greek. Relics of the subculture of the 70s and the 80s are also evident here through his adoration for sci-fi l, obscure lost films and vaporish dance music.

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Computer Music Club

Ambience

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Savage Planet Pink Vinyl Edition

Jaguar Skills

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Nope23)

18,99 €*

On Earth Black With Baby Pink Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Welcome to Nope23. Created by Jaguar Skills. Born from his love of underground Hip-Hop, Funk and Soul, ‘The Savage Planet’ by Jaguar Skills is his label’s first broadcast. Utilising a band of experienced musicians to create the project, ‘The Savage Planet’ is 8 tracks, 23 minutes and 23 seconds of experimental Hip-Hop Funk, interwoven with official adverts and soundbites direct from the Nope23 vault. Featuring the vocal skills of rapper Crimeapple (Soul Assassins), New York MC Johnny Storm, guitar legend Simon Katz (Jamiroquai/ Gorillaz), renowned bass player Zoltan (Erka Badu), flautist Rowen Harwood, alongside the beat alchemist himself; Jaguar Skills. ‘The Savage Planet’ confirms once again, that Jaguar Skills is not of planet Earth. Stay tuned for more fly sh*t. Nope23. For freaks and pencil necked geeks.

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R. Stevie Moore

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Earth Libraries)

43,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Sdban Ultra)

Echt!

Inwane

25,99 €*

Live At The Reims Cathedral 1974

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Echt! - an instrumental, futuristic four-piece inspired by the concepts absorbed in electronic music and musical production. Taking inspiration from artists including Jonwayne, DJ Rashad, Deantoni Parks, J Dilla, Dorian Concept and Aphex Twin, Echt! combine electro, hip-hop, trap, funk and futuristic jazz, resulting in a distinct and unique sound.

On the 24th September, Echt! are set to release their highly anticipated debut album 'inwane' via the groove-obsessed, Gent-based label Sdban Ultra. Releasing their debut EP 'douf' in 2019, the Brussels quartet has not stopped working, recently releasing three sublime live studio sessions titled the BREWmixes which received support from tastemakers including Lefto, Worldwide FM and Belgian national radio station Studio Brussel (StuBru).

Echt means 'vrai de vrai' - 'true' or 'real' in brusseleir (Brabantian dialect of Brussels). The name is a direct reference to the fact that their sound transmission is 'real', performed with conventional musical instruments as oppose to computer music which the production might suggest. It also relates to the fact that none of the members of the band are originally from Brussels - bassist Federico Pecoraro is from Italy, keyboardist Dorian Dumont is from France and drummer Martin Méreau and guitarist Florent Jeunieaux are both from the Mons region on Belgium.

"For our first album, we wanted to go into deeper beats. We were listening a lot to trap, gritty hip-hop & bass music, and we tried to emulate those kinds of beats on our instruments. The darkish mood of those music genres was fitting for us with this strangest year of 2020. But we also wanted to give a contrast with some brighter parts, where the human feeling is more present. This duality continued in the mixing process by pushing or destroying some sounds, adding electronic textures & effects, but also keeping some sounds really acoustic & organic. The result is for us a mature album: the feeling of electronic music emulated on instruments is confirmed but the human vibe stays central."

From the abstract patterns of 'Permanent' and melodic atmospherics of 'Dunes' to the futuristic funk of 'Charlier', Echt! look to emulate the producer's off-beats, the compressor's swell, the repeating samples or the DJ's transitions. Elsewhere, the trap-heavy sounds of '500gr.' and subby bass stylings of 'Champi' push things forward, before the scatter rhythms of 'Kiekebiche' and weighty rumblings of 'Drache' integrate the inhuman heritage of electronic music and 're-humanise' it.

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Tangerine Dream

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Culture Factory)

43,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lush Green & Black Twirl Vinyl Edition

Kaae & Batz

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Stereo Royale)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Intercourse)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Composer duo Kaae & Batz release hazy electronica single and announces new album L.U.S.H on vinyl. Kaae & Batz, the duo behind the Netflix series Bordertown’s score, is ready with a new album. The first single “Into the Void” is released 15th September, while the album L.U.S.H lands 29th October both digitally and on vinyl on Copenhagen- based record label StereoRoyal.

The album is a collection of reflective and melancholic cinematic tracks with clear references to jazz and neo-classicism where organic elements merge with electronic textures and emotional vocal samples. The album is teased with the first single “Into the Void (Part 1)” – a dark and hazy dystopia accompanied by beautiful piano chords. The album came to life on a 14-day trip to Istanbul and the majority of the tracks, including the first single “Into the Void”, are created entirely from samples and programming.

Kaae & Batz has previously released two albums, Basement Tales (2015) and Mosaic (2019), as well as composed scores for several international film productions which have garnered attention and critical acclaim in the industry. The story about childhood friends Kaspar Kaae (cody) and Brian Batz (Sleep Party People) dates back to their teenage years in Bornholm where they were both born and raised. They went to high school together, cultivated their shared interest in music, and played together in bands. These years became the cornerstone of their friendship and musical collaboration.

With L.U.S.H, Kaae & Batz shines a light on Danish electronica. The album is released 29th October on a limited-edition LP (180g) and on all streaming platforms.

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Enotea

In The Light Room

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Chinabot)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Over the last couple of years, Morph and Bedside of Copenhagen have been engaged in the ambitious and on-going project Lightroom - a delicate exploration of male intimacy as a healing ritual against toxic masculinity. Working with more than fifty people to date, Lightroom has given birth to film, photography and music, and has traveled around the world at festivals and exclusive events, facilitating a continuous room for reflection on the concept and image of man - with the intention of decalcifying our ideas to create movement towards the new.

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Tafaa

Random Activity (...)

Rare Pleasure Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society' is a sound editing project led by Chloé Delarue, a visual artist based in Geneva (ch) in collaboration with Adeena Mey, a curator, art critic, managing editor of the magazine Afterall (Central St Martins, London, UK) and researcher/teacher at Ecal (Lausanne, ch).

Together, they gathered sound artists Jaeho Hwang, Lafidki of the Chinabot label and the performer-composer Seth Ayyaz in a desire to bring together horizons of thoughts with a singular tonality in resonance with the Tafaa* cycle. The release is a continuation of the deployment of Chloé Delarue's solo show - Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch, which took place at the Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center in Annemasse (fr).

The four compositions resulting from this meeting are materialized in a hybrid compilation. Each of the tracks, affected by the aesthetic spectrum of Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch, results from unique paths that each sound artist builds in their own works. This compilation released in the exhibition space and in its vinyl form, was infused under this particular atmosphere with the aura of sodium, as an echo of the previous opus Tafaa - Acid Rave. The title evokes territories in wasteland and multitude of theaters of an urbanity that has become tropical for one night.

For Chloé Delarue, the environment produced under Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch and its aesthetic feeling is linked with the dissemination of these four tracks. As she says, it becomes “like the deep trance of a noise invisible to oneself but that we perceive thanks to the questioning of its own imperception, the work no longer looks at itself, it injects itself.”

Moult and Dystopia by Jaeho Hwang, Pandæmonium Cctv by Lafidki in collaboration with Ayankoko and Pisitakun (from Chinabot) and Apophenic studies | stochastic iqaat by Seth Ayyaz thus bring out, through their sound characteristics, a powerful emotional expanse driven by their glimpse of the conceptual reconfigurations of a world increasingly accessible through its ersatz.

The vinyl title Tafaa - Random Activity (...) is borrowed from Gustav Metzger taken from an extract from his Manifesto On random activity in material / transforming works of art in July 30, 1964.

Chloé Delarue constitutes what she calls environments under the influence of the Tafaa perception system, an acronym for Toward A Fully Automated Appearance. Tafaa is a conceptual organ that she builds as a cognitive outgrowth allowing her access to the reasoning that feeds her work. It is under this name, indexed by a number or a subtitle, that each occurrence of her work has been presented since 2015. Thus, she probes the ambiguous relations that our society maintains with its multitudes of transfigurations, real or simulated, at the time of permanent interconnections and raises questions relating to changes in perceptions and cognitive transformations of our beings under the visible and invisible authority of cosmotechnics.

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Mndsgn

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Stones Throw)

Street Smarts Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Rare Pleasure is Mndsgn's third album to be released on Stones Throw Records. Following 2016's Body Wash, this album truly shows the artist's evolution from his roots as a heralded beatmaker to vocalist, songwriter and arranger. Though he began writing for the album in 2018, the final recordings took just a week in studio with the help of trusted collaborators: Swarvy on bass, guitar and as Musical Director for the sessions, Stones Throw label mate Kiefer Shackelford on keys, drum work by Will Logan, the blessed percussion of Carlos Niño, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on strings, and accompanying vocals from Fousheé and Anna Wise.

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Vhs Logos

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

40,99 €*

Net Cruising Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition LP run of 100 on sapphire blue Colored Vinyl in full colour jackets with OBI strips and shrink wrapped.

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Cvltvre

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

44,99 €*

Laurent Bardainne / Etienne Jaumet

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition LP on Powered Pink Colored Vinyl in full colour jackets and shrink wrapped.

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Bardainne-Jaumet EP

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

16,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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When I Hit You You'll Feel It

Leslie Winer

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

21,59 €* 26,99 € -20%

The Strangest Part Of The Dream Is That The Water Was Alive

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Definitive career-spanning anthology
Includes previously unreleased tracks, inspired collaborations, and material from Leslie’s groundbreaking 1990 solo debut, Witch
Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, Christophe Van Huffel, Jay Glass Dubs, Mari G. Mooney, and Diamond Version, amongst others
Newly remastered by the GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin
24-page booklet featuring a new, extensive interview with Leslie and liner notes by acclaimed author, critic and compilation co-producer Wyndham Wallace, along with an essay by award-winning writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei
Cover collage by renowned British artist Linder, featuring photography by Mondino, and design by designer Christopher Shannon

“The definition of a hidden gem” – John Peel

“The world seems finally to be catching up to Leslie Winer, whose startling intelligence and singular vision shine through her copious recording life.” – Max Richter

“She might just be the coolest woman on the planet!” – Boy George

Light in the Attic is ecstatic to announce When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It: a 16-track anthology that celebrates the extraordinary work of musician, poet, and author, Leslie Winer. When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It spans Winer’s three-decade-long musical career: from her groundbreaking solo work in the early ‘90s to her latest inspired projects. Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Helen Terry, Jah Wobble, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, the collection also spotlights Winer’s diverse collaborations, and unearths previously-unreleased recordings.

Newly remastered by the GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin, When I Hit You—You’ll Feel It will be available in multiple special 2xLP editions, on CD, and across digital platforms. The album includes a new interview with Winer, captured by the compilation’s co-producer, acclaimed author and critic Wyndham Wallace. Rounding out the package is an insightful essay by the award-winning writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei and an original cover collage by the renowned British photographer and artist, Linder, featuring photography by Mondino, and design by designer Christopher Shannon.

MORE ABOUT LESLIE WINER….

Musician, poet, iconoclast, model, artist, enigma. Leslie Winer is many things.

Born to a teenage mother and sold for $10,000 in a black market adoption when she was just hours old, Winer has always lived an uncommon life. She grew up in Boston with a voracious appetite for music and the written word and embraced the city’s lively jazz and folk scene in the ‘70s. Moving to New York for art school, she gravitated towards a vibrant crowd of intellectuals, artists, and radical thinkers—or perhaps they gravitated towards her.

There, Winer formed an unlikely friendship with writer and artist William S. Burroughs and lived on-and-off with Jean-Michel Basquiat. In London, where Winer began her musical ventures in earnest, she was a regular at Leigh Bowery’s underground club Taboo, where she met many of her collaborators, including filmmaker John Maybury, Kevin Mooney (of Adam and the Ants), and Boy George, who once declared that Winer “might just be the coolest woman on the planet!”

Winer’s striking looks also attracted fashion designers and photographers. Throughout the early ‘80s, she was an in-demand model—appearing in campaigns for Valentino, Christian Dior, and Yohji Yamamoto, and serving as a muse for a young Jean-Paul Gaultier, who later dubbed Winer “the first androgynous model.” She posed for Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Pierre et Gilles, and graced the covers of The Face, French and Italian editions of Vogue, and Mademoiselle.

But music was Winer’s true passion and, at the turn of the ‘90s, she would unknowingly help invent the massively popular genre known today as trip-hop.

On her debut, Witch, Winer masterfully blended the uninhibited sampling of early hip-hop with dancehall basslines and programmed beats, while weaving mesmerizing—and coolly-detached—spoken-word vocals into her ambient tracks. It was unorthodox in the most delicious ways.

The album was a bold experiment by the self-taught artist, who enlisted a number of talented musicians in the sessions, including Culture Club’s Helen Terry, Karl Bonnie of Renegade Soundwave, former Public Image Ltd. bassist Jah Wobble, and Kevin Mooney, as well as Marco Pirroni and Matthew Ashman (both of Adam and the Ants, among other acts).

While Witch was finished in 1990, it wouldn’t be released for three years, due to the whims of Winer’s label. In the meantime, several tracks made their way out into the world as early as June 1990, thanks to BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who later referred to Witch as “the definition of a hidden gem.”

Opening with the laid-back dub beats and soft, sing-songy chorus of “He Was,” Witch features such highlights as the up-tempo “Skin,” the hypnotic, bass-heavy “The Boy Who Used 2 Whistle,” and the album’s closer, “Dream 1,” in which waves of reverb-soaked vocals bounce from one ear the other.

While sonically, Winer was breaking new ground, she was also bringing a fresh, incendiary take on what it means to be a woman in the music business, as embodied by her composition “N1 Ear,” in which she delivers a scorching, feminist manifesto, borrowed from the Women’s Liberation Broadsheet: “If I get raped it must be my fault / And if get bashed I must’ve provoked it / And if I raise my voice I’m a nagging bitch / And if I like fucking I’m a whore…And if I ask my doctor too many questions I’m neurotic and need pills / Because I still can’t get a safe birth control while some fucker’s roaming the moon.”

Winer had every right to vent her frustrations as a woman in music. Despite her fierce demeanor and steadfast focus, she was consistently disregarded and typecast by the industry. Many of her early collaborators failed to credit her work, while others simply overlooked her influence. Witch, for example, was so delayed that by the time the album saw the light of day (released under the pseudonym “©”), trip-hop was gaining mainstream traction via acts like Portishead, Massive Attack, and Madonna. Although Winer eventually gained wider acknowledgment (prompting the NME to give her the dubious distinction of “The Grandmother of Trip-Hop”), Witch initially went sorely unnoticed.

Following the disappearance of Witch, Winer continued to record, undeterred by the elusive nature of mainstream success in the modern music business. Her network of inspired collaborators continued to grow and expand, yet her influence remained largely a secret except to those in the know, such as Grace Jones and Sinead O’Connor, who would cover her songs.

Today, Winer stays busy on new musical projects in the French countryside, where she has spent the past two decades raising her five daughters. A prolific writer, she has also published two collections of poetry and oversees the literary estate of Herbert Huncke, a defining member of the Beat Generation.

In the modern era, one is hard-pressed to find an artist who continues to push the creative envelope as much as Winer does. And yet, three decades after her revolutionary debut, her work remains just as startling and fresh.

Winer’s influence might best be summed by the award-winning composer Max Richter, who offered the following thoughts to Wyndham Wallace for his extensive liner notes: “The world seems finally to be catching up to Leslie Winer, whose startling intelligence and singular vision shine through her copious recording life. A visionary commentator on the relationship between individuals and society in the mould of Blake or Woolf, Leslie Winer knows things that the culture at large just doesn’t understand yet, and she has never been afraid to let us know that.”

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Shit Creek

7,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Stuart Chalmers

The Heart Of Nature

7,49 €* 9,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Swagger Jack

Phoney Recs

7,49 €* 9,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cucumber Sandwich

7,49 €* 9,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Music For 1- Yr Old Samuli Tanner

Samuli Tanner

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

16,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Altaat / Euter

Split

16,49 €* 21,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Transition Orange Vinyl Edition

The Dark Destiny

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hiraeth)

35,99 €*

Transition Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A Shroud OF Dark Desolation Falls Over A Once Bounteous Utopia

Having explored a range of genres, 暗闇destiny finds a glorious sweet spot in a work that revels in euphoria, whilst utilising synth-driven instrumentation to confidently progress the neo-mythic narrative. Watch the story unfold like an epic poem of deities and divine landscapes.

遷移transition shows the transformation of a location blooming with vitality into a dark, unrecognisable place. 暗闇destiny masterfully weaves sombre ambient with visceral electronic instrumentation. The artist paints a picture of epic proportions, the slow degradation and collapse of a fruitful society, and the privation of its positive energy.

The lines of this picture trace horrifyingly close to the lines of our own world, as 暗闇destiny explores themes such as environmental destruction, mankind’s self-harming nature and the world’s beauty succumbing to evil, insatiable forces.

Hiraeth Records invites listeners to witness the destruction of an utopian empire on this sublime work. Attend the dismantling of a world, told through lashings of atmospheric ambient and dreamy electronic instrumentation. Wander through a stark wasteland, as 暗闇destiny illustrates a story as epic as those depicted by the romanticist painters of old.

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The Dark Destiny

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hiraeth)

Mmxx-19: 1883 (Sound Model I)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Carlos Casas

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Matière Mémoire)