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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (KNTXT)

Venture EP

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amazingblaze is the latest red-hot new talent to be signed up by Charlotte de Witte's KNTXT label. The Russian artist serves up four fierce techno weapons on his Venture EP, due for release on 25th February 2022.

Though a relative newcomer, Amazingblaze is already making big moves mixing up heavy-hitting hard trance and techno. He has a sound that combines old school influences with new school sound design, and it never fails to captivate the dance floor. On this first EP for KNTXT, all of the signature Amazingblaze essentials are here: weighty drums, massive synths and authentic atmospheres.

Says the artist, "The Venture EP was started when I was living in Saint-Petersburg and there was a pandemic situation. Experimenting with different shades of techno I created a pretty authentic sound which works very well on the dance floor. After leaving Saint-Petersburg I decided to move to Moscow, gladly the pandemic restrictions there were lifted and I became inspired by the new city and parties where I've never been before, I completed the EP adding some new bangers with an already experienced touch.”

Says Charlotte de Witte, “My eye fell on Amazingblaze for the first time during the preparation of my Tomorrowland Around The World Set, where I closed with his beautiful track "Stratosphere". A couple of months later, I fell head over heels in love with his track "Venture", which, I'm proud to announce, turns out to be the title track of the newest EP on KNTXT. Venture captures every crowd of people I’ve played it to, ever since I debuted it in my set at Exit Festival. The entire EP is an out of the box masterpiece.”

First up is the mighty 'Venture' with its pummelling drums and turbo-charged trance stabs. They are bright and bring the energy while a rapped vocal adds something utterly fresh. 'Inner Fire' ups the ante further with a diva female vocal straight from the classic trance era. She brings waves of euphoria and, after a spine tingling breakdown, the machine-gun grooves fire on. There is terrific turbulence in the synth stabs of techno gem 'Flashback' as well as industrial textures and walls of white noise that bring real tension. ‘Neutron’ closes down with the most fierce groove of the lot, this time rippled with cosmic psy trance chords and irresistible video game synths to take you into the next dimension.

Venture EP is a superb outing from Amazingblaze.

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12" | 2024 | Original (KNTXT)

Touch The Sky EP

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amazingblaze returns to home label KNTXT with an exhilarating new release that shows another subtle evolution in his style. His Touch The Sky EP features four standout new tracks that are sure to make a global impact.

Amazingblaze emerged as a pivotal tastemaker in the new school scene, marking his debut on KNTXT in 2022 with his Venture EP. Last year, he further solidified his presence on the label, with the release of two EPs and a remix of Charlotte de Witte’s single ‘High Street’. He has been obsessed with music since a young age and that shows in his productions which blend the inspirations of his youth with plenty of fresh contemporary style. His releases consistently aim to leave a significant mark on the club scene, and this latest EP is no exception. With powerful grooves and emotive synths, it sets the stage for another impactful experience.

Amazingblaze on his new EP: "Touch The Sky is a blend of emotions of early trance with the shape of a modern look. From start to finish it's catching you with pleasant pressure and doesn't let you go. Really proud of this one!"

Charlotte de Witte adds: “Amazingblaze is back and I'm just obsessed with these four tracks. They're all masterpieces, representing his very unique and distinctive sound. I'm very proud to be able to welcome him again on the label and continue to be a place he can call home.”

Opener Touch The Sky is a high speed and fresh techno sound that is laced with euphoric trance synths and a heartfelt vocal. It is sure to get hands in the air and dance floors locked into its spell. Kaleidoscope ups the ante further with more scintillating hard techno drums and flashes of synth that will chime perfectly with strobe-lit clubs. A spine-tinging breakdown features angelic vocals before the drums kick in and power things to the next level. Thank You, God Always is more straight up with hard edge drums and synths that spray about the mix with bright rave energy and futuristic soul and last of all is Habits, an urgent and high speed wave of lush trance techno with a classic vocal stab and more celestial voices drifting up to hypnotic effect.

This is another big release from Amazingblaze that shows he has plenty of new tricks up his sleeve.

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Märked)

Stargaze EP

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After an incredible journey spanning 8 years and 40 releases, Marked is proud to unveil a monumental milestone - their first EP released on the timeless medium of vinyl. There is no better way to do this than with upcoming superstar Amazingblaze. His Stargaze EP is a journey of pure power and brightness -a dopamine rush- waiting to find its place of honor within your cherished wooden vinyl cabinet.

Starting with Treasures, this is one of those musical gems that keeps on overflowing with life with an almost mystical quality. A sound and melody that have emotions run deep, while the heart of the track keeps your pulse racing at its beats per minute.

The answer to a surefire way to light up the dancefloor is Quantumness. The lead synth and perc rhythm make a deadly and irresistible groove. Its notes soar and dive, creating a rhythmic anchor that holds everything together.

In Geerson's remix of Quantumness, most of the original's iconic lead synth is kept intact. In this version, the kicks fire in rhythmic drum salvos. The sonic landscape traverses peaks and valleys, sending you to both extremes in orbit.

Powerhouse Tham brings in the Club Kid remix of Pittsburgh by sending new life into one of the layers of the lead synth. Tham's signature sound is applied to turn it into a full-fledged hammer track: the sound is ruthless, the groove contagious.

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (KNTXT)

Can't Stop EP

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (KNTXT)

Believe EP

No Comp Feat. Cella Dwellas & Ran Reed

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This is a welcome return to the label for Amazingblaze who released his Can't Stop EP in January this year and his Venture EP in 2022. Since then he has continued to innovate with his heavy-hitting trance, techno and hardstyle influenced sounds. His ever evolving studio skills see him mix up old school influences with new school sound design that is perfect for engaging dance floors. His signature imprint is all over these four new cuts with their mix of big synths, bigger drums and all consuming grooves.

“Believe EP says it itself. All I wanted to say is that you have to believe in yourself”, Amazingblaze says. “This brand new EP contains 4 full-power tracks that definitely goes through your heart. Massive trance synths combined with vocals make it sound really mysterious and groovy. Hope you enjoy it, and believe in yourself.”

Charlotte de Witte adds: “It’s no secret that to me, Amazingblaze is one of the purest talents out there. This guy really understands what music is about and manages to create dancefloor bombs time after time. I’m super proud to have him on board for another EP on Kntxt and to watch him grow and become one of the top level artists out there.”

'Believe' kicks off with intense drum patterns and smart vocal samples that are lit up with bright and electric synths full of euphoric energy. 'Strange Candy' is a bulky and physical mix of clipped techno funk and throwback rave sounds with strobe-like lasers shooting across the face of the track. There is more peak time brilliance in the hard drums and hands-in-the air synth magic of 'It Happened Again' while 'Boyz Makin Noiz' shuts down with twitchy stabs and twisted acid lines and dark vocals appear from the shadows.

Amazingblaze delivers yet another exceptional EP, seamlessly blending forward-thinking techno and trance elements.

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Amazing Maze

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Street Symphony)

CD | 2023 | EU | Original

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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After joining the likes of Lord Finesse, Large Pro, and Nottz on the production lineup for The Xav’s recently released Black Duke LP with Come On (feat. A.G.), Cologne, Germany-based producer Amazing Maze blesses us with another sureshot. His new single No Comp features the legendary Cella Dwellas and Ran Reed and sounds like it could've been from the Dwellas legendary "Realms & Reality" album.

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Amatowsky

Listen And Learn

9,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original

Amatowsky

Dilla Dawg EP

9,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Le Desordre Et La Nuit EP

Amato

12" | 2016 | US | Original (Cititrax)

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Barro)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Cititrax presents a four song debut solo EP by The Hacker‘s new project called Amato. Influenced by early EBM, German techno and new wave, Michel Amato aka The Hacker began producing tracks under his new moniker Amato in 2014. On this EP Amato integrates his love of the new wave to form four ebm tinged techno funk hits. Very dancefloor friendly, these tracks take pop elements reminiscent of Belgian body music and bring them to the present day.

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Amato

2 In 1 Remixes

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amatah Keo / Lone Ark Riddim Force

Each One Teach One

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Shi Fu)

10,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Amas)

Amas X Konstantin Kost

Odessa

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Amas_Studio)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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how do we live in times when nothing seems safe, how do we listen to music when rockets and bullets make the air scream, how do we produce music when the building with our studio is simply no longer there? over the last 2 years, Amas and Konstantin Kost have been trying to produce a techno EP across the borders of the war in ukraine. Konstantin Kost was never able to leave ukraine for this, while we were able to move freely through europe. this ambivalence is part of this album, it is part of every note and every line of the poems that can be heard here. we all associate techno with bass-heavy and dancing through the night, but Odessa is more, it is a journey without being able to travel, an experience without being able to experience, an escape without being able to escape and a life without really being able to live ... neither Amas was able to travel to odessa during this time, nor Konstantin Kost to europe, neither was able to experience the other personally. however, the exchange of music and lyrics has built up a relationship to a country at war, as well as to its people, musicians, women and children. while we were dealing with our everyday problems in germany, the situation in Odessa became increasingly confusing. the constant fear of being drafted and producing videos and images for the album at the same time were extremely ambivalent moments. how do you deal with your counterpart in such moments and what do you say to someone in a situation that we can hardly imagine? we often talked about friends simply disappearing and corrupt officials and soldiers embezzling money and in the next sentence it was straight back to the vinyl production. these conversations were very rational and at the same time extremely surreal. this EP is not meant to be a political EP, it is meant to be a human album and to take away the feeling of powerlessness from the people who were and are involved. this production and its music is a triumph over the destructive and dark side of war, it is meant to show that art is boundless and that people are connected all over the world even in the darkest times. in the first track RED Glow our guest Tanya (musician and djane from Odessa) stoically repeats the words Love and Fear, followed by the words: ?i meet you with red glow, in your eyes i quickly dissolve!? the track is part of everyday life, everywhere you meet this red glow and yet everything has to flow on and yet people still live and dance ... in Nightcall we walk through the streets and follow the call of darkness. the words ?through the night? are used here repetitively like a percussion. but the highs and lows also give us hope and the belief that we will wake up again tomorrow and start a new day. in the dark there is always light, which must be preserved and found. OLD Kings is also the title of the poem we have written, based on the poem Ozymandias by percy bysshe shelley. OLD Kings determine our times and our political systems, seemingly unteachable old men hold the world in a stranglehold and it seems as if there are an infinite number of them. yet we continue to fight against these people, we cannot and do not want to do otherwise ... in Talk TO GOD, Konstantin Kost reads from the well-known ukrainian poem ?a cloud floating behind the sun? by Taras Shevchenko, a famous ukrainian poet and writer. he is considered the founder of modern ukrainian literature and, in part, of the ukrainian language. it is about red fields, the fog and its darkness, as well as the sea and the calmness of the heart in nature, the longing for peace and peace with god. in addition to poetry and music, all photographs and videos are original recordings by Konstantin Kost of his city Odessa. although we cannot visit each other, we still share strong visual impressions of a city that, in all its beauty and resilience, will hopefully soon be open to the world again. the cover is therefore also a picture of the port of odessa, a place where people and goods from all parts oft he world will soon be able to sail in and out again.

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Amas

Face II EP

20,99 €*

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Amas)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The EP Face II is a continuation of the Faces EP series, of which the first EP was released in october 2022. The basis here is also a literary fixpoint with Kafkas Ver- Wandlung. the examination of the urban modern man has its origin in the album Jahre and is now explored in more detail here. What happens to us in a time of digital transparency as a glass human of the city and night. It starts with THE Void, which was originally intended as a poem about being lost. We go out into the night, some to search, some to forget and some to never come back as the same again. On our journey we often take substances that we expect to make this journey easier and faster. the escape from ourselves and from our relationships to the environment and humans can?t just be skipped. a fast way is always a dangerous way and often leads to an even bigger Emptiness. In THE Ghost something appears to us late at night, it is like a shadow of the pre- vious hours, something that has followed us on the streets and accompanied us un- discovered until we reached our home. We wake up and at first it is unclear whether we are dreaming. In half-sleep the dimensions blur together and the whole polyva- lence of the different existences gapes open. We blink into the Darkness and try to recognize something, the light remains far away and yet we hear this piercing sound, which in the end leaves us only with ourselves. we are the spirit of the night, trapped on an old tape in the chest of nothing. The next section THE Moon shows us the light in the darkness. The shadows and ghosts give way for a moment and the light flows through our veins and molecules. The poem describes our unspoken longing to follow the light, in the light our fears disappear and everything blurs into an unknown familiarity. We stagger back and forget the encounters with our inner Dawn. In the light the ghosts disappear like childhood memories left behind. The last chapter is written by THE Dawn, a stanza from the poem of the same name as a spoken reconciliation with the world. In spite of everything, we seek harmony and connectedness. No one wants to become an exile, even if we can?t always bring it about ourselves. We love Life and we hear and feel everything around us, if we let ourselves ... ALL Love Amas_dhe / Amas_phi

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Amas

Face 1 EP

20,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Vulture Print)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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quality 4 tracker mit high class 3d feeling cover

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Amarok

Resilience

64,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Psychic Hotline)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amarok is an epic doom & black metal project based in Northern California that combines the sustained drones and extended rhythms of doom metal with the intricate melodic passages, layered guitar harmonies, and blast beats of black metal. Amarok takes their name from the giant wolf cryptid of Inuit mythology, a creature capable of ripping a person’s soul from their body, symbolizing their powerful wall-of-sound aesthetic and signaling the band’s connection to the primal forces of nature. With driving double bass sections, slow crushing riffs, and mesmerizing guitar harmonies, Resilience is Amarok’s most atmospheric and conceptual album to date. Known for weaving symbols of the natural world into their lyrics, Amarok pays homage on this album to the deadly fires near the band’s home in Northern California, as well other personal tragedies. Resilience serves as a reminder that just as nature regenerates after the earth has been scorched, humans have the same transformational capacity. Previous split release with Hell.

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Amaro Freitas

Y'Y

29,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Far Out)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mit seinem neuen Album Y'Y (ausgesprochen "eey-eh, eey-eh") betritt Amaro Freitas ein neues Reich des musikalischen Schaffens. Ein Reich, das in Magie und Möglichkeiten verwurzelt ist und von einem Gefühl der Verantwortung für die Gaben der Erde getragen wird. Seite A ist ein Ausdruck der Verbundenheit mit der Erde und den Ahnen, eine Hommage an den Wald und die Flüsse Nordbrasiliens, sowohl mit der Musik als auch mit dem Albumtitel Y'Y, einem Wort aus dem Sateré-Mawé-Dialekt, einem uralten indigenen Code, der Wasser oder Fluss bedeutet. Und indem er die Lektionen, die er im Amazonasgebiet über die glühende Kraft verzauberter Geister gelernt hat, die in Zeiten des Kampfes im Namen der Gemeinschaft eingreifen, zum Leben erweckt. Auf Seite B zeigt Y'Y die Verbindungen zwischen der globalen schwarzen Avant-Jazz-Gemeinschaft. Die Musik des Multiinstrumentalisten Shabaka Hutchings, der Harfenistin Brandee Younger, des Bassisten Aniel Someillan, des Gitarristen Jeff Parker und des Schlagzeugers Hamid Drake schafft eine kunstvolle Konversation, indem sie Jazztraditionen aus der ganzen Welt miteinander verwebt und gleichzeitig in den einzigartigen Klängen und Ritualen afro-brasilianischer und indigener Kulturen verwurzelt bleibt. Auf Y'Y lässt Freitas das Wissen der Vorfahren in die Musik einfließen, indem er seine frische, "dekolonisierte" Interpretation des brasilianischen Jazz einbringt und Musik präsentiert, die vorgefasste Meinungen darüber, was Jazz sein kann, durchaus erschüttern könnte.

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Amaro Freitas

Sankofa

25,99 €*

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Knitebreed)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP includes 60 x 30cm poster (prints on both sides). From the slums of Recife in Brazil’s North-East to international jazz icon, Amaro Freitas has worked tirelessly to become the artist he is today. His new album Sankofa - a spiritual quest into the forgotten stories, ancient philosophies and inspirational figures of Black Brazil - is his most stunning and sincere work to date.

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Amaretto

The Poltergeist EP

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Second Drop)

Amaretto

The Light & Darkness EP

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Nuclear Blast)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amaretto is one of the new breed of old skool artist, hailing from Japan. He is a producer who loves his old skool rave music, and he has been producing for a while now. This is his first EP on Second Drop and his second vinyl release. As the title of the EP would suggest this EP is two very different sides of the same coin. The A side is the lighter side with pianos and vocals, while avoiding the cheese factory for a fat slice! Then the flip walks the dark line with film samples and a much grittier vibe, whilst still having superb production on the heavy beats. You can hear the dark style hardcore influences here, those that sampled the likes of Predator and other such films back in the day.

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Amaranthe

The Catalyst

30,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sola Terra)

Amara

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | DE | Original (Press Play)

Amar

Erst Straße Dann Rap

Release: 2018 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (That's Why)

Amantido Bay Band

Flying Through The Air

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (That's Why)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Another hard hitting pair of Spencer/Hill Reggae. Originally composed and recorded by Italian brothers Duo Oliver Onions brought to a Caribbean feel of off-beat, police-band-horns and muted guitar. Check out the dynamic sound of this!

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Amantido Bay Band

Dune Buggy

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Musica Macondo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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You know the famous Italian Duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill? Well, you should. The films they've made are definitely B-Movie Classics and their soundtracks hit as hard as Bud Spencer's fist. The Amantido Bay Band puts them in a nice shabby old school Reggae dress, their versions could have fit perfectly into the movies...

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Amane

Moments Of Solace

11,89 €* 16,99 € -30%

Ruban Rouge EP White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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London-based artist, musical director and producer Amane shares ‘Moments Of Solace’ via Música Macondo. Introspective and contemplative from the outset, the 6-tracks EP meanders between the hypnotic pulse of electronic percussion, nocturnal pads evoking elated epiphanies and calming synths. Echoes that fade and return, an ecstatic wave of sound. For Amane, the music collected on ‘Moments Of Solace’ is the physical answer to a world that seems to become darker every day. A creative way out, a sonic world where ambient excursions à la Boards Of Canada coexist with thumping beats that could have rolled out of a Floating Points’ set at Plastic People. On ‘Moments Of Solace’ Amane distills ambient electronica, idm, jazz, crafting music that reflects his global pursuit - a non-stop touring creative able to soundtrack night drives on the Pacific coast highway, clubbing in London or a meditative trip on the Shinkansen.

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Amandra

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Affute)

2x12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Tikita)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Affyute broadens the scope of its sound once more by adding Amandra to the roster. The young artist delivers two tracks made of his signature sound: mechanical rhythms and repetitive melodies. French comrade AWB's remix is a distinctive and clever remodel cut of Ruban Rouge, further deepening the emotion of the track. Edit Select brings a darker, haunting touch to Tour Karin with his modus operandi akin to Amandra's: a slow, subtle and detailed progression. Teo Drean gives Tour Karin more horsepower, coupling a heavy kick with wondrous choir sounds.

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Amandra & Karim

Sqala EP

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Studio Du Faune / Faune Pm)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tikita proudly presents its first double EP in the form of Sqala. Label-curator Karim steps forward for the first time with his own productions on the label in collaboration with close friend and label mainstay Amandra. For this special occasion they invited a group of their favourite producers around to give the originals a deep techno twist in true Tikita fashion.

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Amandine Prost

Internative

28,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (First Word)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Amandine Prost writes sensitive, sometimes disturbing French pop songs that speak to the hearts of all generations. With her clear, deep voice, she takes us along in the wake of the anthology songs she loves, so French, sensitive, elegant and Pop's all at once.Propelled to the final of The Voice Kids (2017) at the age of 15, she decided not to capitalize on this sudden craze, and to take the time to write her own songs.Her debut album "internative", written over three years in Moleskine notebooks crammed with notes and words scribbled on the fly, bears witness to the evolution of a young girl becoming a woman, and wanting to write "for everyone, without making things about her". The words suggest, the themes are refined, the lines resist easy turns of phrase, the notes refuse to repeat hackneyed chords, and the subjects go straight to the heart. "A song is fragile. It's subtle." Indeed it is. And it's beautiful.

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Amanda Whiting

The Liminality Of Her

23,99 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Jazzman)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Word Records is very proud to present 'The Liminality of Her', a brand new 10-track album from their newest signing, Amanda Whiting; a highly-acclaimed Welsh harpist & composer.

A virtuoso in her field, this classically trained musician has quickly established herself as an essential player in the UK jazz scene, carving her own unique sound, following on from the paths forged by Ashby and Coltrane.

Amanda recently joined the First Word label roster, via a collaborative project with Don Leisure, 'Beyond The Midnight Sun', as well as a feature on his Welsh Music Prize nominated project 'Shaboo Strikes Back'.

She's previously toured extensively with her own band, as well as with Matthew Halsall, Rebecca Vasmant, DJ Yoda and Chip Wickham (who also features on this new project), whilst previously releasing three solo albums on Jazzman Records, and a remix project for Scrimshire's Albert's Favourites imprint. Along the way, there's been a nomination for 'Instrumentalist of the Year' from Jazz FM and she's garnered the support of DJs such as Radio 2's Jamie Cullum ("highly recommended") and BBC 6Music's Cerys Matthews ("my highlight of the Cheltenham Jazz festival 2023").

This 10-track album exemplifies Amanda's talents as a performer and composer, taking in an array of hypnotising sonics from the worlds of jazz; from fusion to spiritual and beyond. She is backed with accompaniment from a remarkable set of players in their own right, including Chip Wickham on flute and Peach. on vocals. A confident display of purposefully blissful compositions that saunter as much as they soothe, whilst being unafraid to lean into some deep uptempo grooves.

Amanda describes the theme of this project as "liminality... that place in between, the transition from one place to another. No longer what it was, yet not what it's going to be.

The harp always presents itself at these moments. It's a sound that causes an emotion. My instrument chose me. It's been with me through every chapter of life. It's how I speak, especially when there are no words.

This album is a rite of passage for "her". A feeling of alchemy, a feeling of liberation. Moments of inner searching, intertwined, waiting but moving forward. Never looking back.

'The Liminality of Her' encompasses the highs and the lows. The nomadic love of freedom and spirituality. It's all so much bigger than you or I…"

From the cinematic, classical fusion of 'After Dark', to the more playful 'Lost in Abstraction', this album invites you to float in a soundscape of liminality...

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Amanda Whiting

Lost In Abstraction

30,99 €*

LP | 2022 | Original (Problembär)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Welsh harpist Amanda Whiting returns on Jazzman Records following on from her successful debut album ’After Dark’ (2021).

New explorations and global changing events have led Whiting to ‘Lost in Abstraction’. The Reynolds/ Thorne/ Whiting trio is joined again by the mesmerising lines of flautist Chip Wickham, resuming their conversation reminiscent of Dorothy Ashby and Frank Wess.

‘Lost in abstraction’ was written during a period of the unknown when Whiting, like most, explored her own sense of self. The world paused, with no timeframe, and the fragility of life was laid bare. A time when humanity was left searching for purpose. Freedom and the dependable structures of familiarity were dissolved in most aspects of life. But music stayed constant. Creativity kept weaving its thread, connecting music and its makers in an indissoluble bond.

The album explores the questions and realisations whilst confined. The spiritual findings, the playful curiousness and the reflective moments of loss. Whiting’s writing indulges the listener with the spiritual ethereal washes of sound demanded of the harp, whilst also embracing her influences across many genres. Classically trained, her roots are evident. But with an emotionally charged energy and spiritual questioning, a new soundscape of modernity has emerged.

So often associated with Ashby and Coltrane, the harp finds itself in the hands of a new voice which tells the story of a period of time where the world was unified in reflection.

So what is that feeling when you resonate? When your breath steadies and you let go Lines no longer restrict or choke Energies envelop, yet set you free Are you lost or found?

Amanda Whiting - harp Chip Wickham - flute Aidan Thorne - bass Jon Reynolds - drums Baldo Verdú - percussion

About Amanda Whiting Following on from her sold out album ‘After Dark’ on Jazzman records, Amanda Whiting is making a name for herself on the British Jazz scene.

From Wales, the home of the harp, Amanda has taken her classical roots and forged them in the path of jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Her unique style resulted in her nomination for the Jazz FM “2021 Instrumentalist of the Year.”

She has toured extensively with Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra performing at Jazz festivals around the world. More recent collaborations have included touring with Chip Wickham, Greg Foat and Rebecca Vasmant. She also performed at the We Jazz festival, Finland in November 2021.

2022 will see the release of her new album ‘Lost in Abstraction’ and performances in Helsinki and other festivals throughout the year. She will also be performing at XJazz Berlin and We Out Here with the Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble.

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Amanda

Weltenraum

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Silver Knife)

To The Sunset

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Take It Like A Man Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | US | Original (ATO)

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Take It Like A Man Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ATO)

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Silver Knife)

For Christmas

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Metatune Inc.)

Amanda Marshall

Heavy Lifting

Divina Amanda Red & Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dawgcatcher' Quote: “Dawgcatcher” asks an uncomfortable question: What if #metoo was #heyyou? What if you got a tap on your shoulder warning you about someone you loved, and the truth was hard to hear? This song explores the issue of what happens when bad behaviour hits a little too close to home”

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Amanda Lear

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Brioche)

49,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever Pink Opaque Vinyl Edition

Amanda Bergman

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Gamlestans Grammofonbolag)

27,99 €*

Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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With fans ranging from Bon Iver to The War On Drugs, critically acclaimed Amason member, farmer, record label boss & singer-songwriter Amanda Bergman - known for her grand voice - is back with her first solo album in over 8 years titled ‘Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever’, due June 7.

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Amanda Bergman

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Gamlestans Grammofonbolag)

28,99 €*

The Fire Above Solid Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Amammoth

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Electric Valley)

17,99 €* 29,99 € -40%

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“We are a Sludge/Doom band from Sydney, Australia. We have been on the local Australian Doom scene for a couple of years and released an EP at the end of 2019 called the Blackwitch EP and we are about to release our new album The Fire Above. Our influences are varied but include Sleep, The Melvins, EyeHateGod, Electric Wizard and Black Sabbath. We have been getting attention at our live shows for being really loud!!! “Long, hypnotic, simple yet textured seven minute songs. A sonic scream into the abyss and a sacrifice of the innocents at the alter of the almighty bong. The record sounds like a weighted blanket, a comforting fire on a frozen night, a shot of heroin to shut out the voices, a knife in the throat of those who have wronged you, the tender touch of a lover who had plans for you which were not negotiated in the verbal contract of consent.

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Amami

Soleil

21,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Amami

Giant

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New band from Bongo Joes agitated hometown Geneva! Just somewhere between dub tape, afrobeat and dancehall... like a lost gem of a retro-futurist soundtrack or a dusty trap song from outer space. Just listen to IVORY to catch the vibe : furious claps, deep kick, melow synth and souly vocal. Drum machine and madness are maybe the two feet they stand on. So free your mind and just dive into this post-tribal dance.

As three face of the same coin, Raphaël Anker (Imperial Tiger Orchestra), Gabriel Ghebrezghi (Ghostape, Tapes Adventure, Uberreel) and Ines Mouzoune will catch you on their spinning game... and you'll not stay indemn.

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Amalie Dahl's Dafnie

Star Op Med Solen

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (On Loop)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Står op med solen’ (Rising with the sun) is the second album by Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie. With this album, the band continues the exploration of their collective sound. We hear influences from both old school free jazz, and contemporary Scandinavian jazz like Fire! Orchestra and Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, as well as clear connection to the Trondheim milieu, where the group was founded in 2020.

The energetic and expressive band explores their more subtle side with this record. ‘Står op med solen’ is an album longing for humans to be one with nature. The music comments on the world’s ultra-capitalistic power structures of today. The band navigates like one organism through parts of organic free jazz, strict structures and composed cells.

They start out where their first record ended, in the familiar free jazz sound with riffs and melodies, and take us safely on their onward journey. Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie brings together five well-known names from the Norwegian jazz scene, also known from other projects like Kongle Trio, Bliss Quintet, I like to sleep, Veslemøy Narvesen, Galumphing Duo, Treen and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, among others.

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Amaliah

Manifold EP

Amalia & The Precious Lo's

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Moxie’s On Loop imprint proudly presents ‘Manifold’, the highly anticipated debut solo EP from Amaliah. The rising Londoner delivers on her burgeoning ravey promise, unleashing a remarkable trio of percussive club tracks that link UK house aesthetics with global soundsystem influences, and comes with a wonderfully knotty remix from celebrated producer Call Super.

Borne Fruits founder Amaliah has rightfully ascended through the musical ranks of her native city to emerge as one of its most exciting voices. As a DJ and producer, she intersects at the exhilarating crossroads of contemporary house sounds, soundsystem culture and UK club influences to packed dancefloors weekly across the UK and EU. The Manifold EP flexes Amaliah’s parallel trajectory as a wicked tunesmith, offering her long-awaited and most substantial musical offering to date for Moxie’s much-loved On Loop imprint.

Opening track “Helix” curls a percussive membrane around its funky core, pumping along with nocturnal rave menace punctured by sirens and grotty synths. Next up, “Me So” shimmers with bubbling assuredness, diffusing Detroit-inspired melodies atop a bumpy house stepper that spurts with synthetic glee along its way. “Spooky Dub” greets us on the flip, wasting no time in igniting its punchy dembow groove while peppering its rubbery bassline amongst some dub-drenched fx. It briefly retreats for a half-step breakdown before re-launching us straight back to dancefloor salvation. Can You Feel The Sun’s Call Super sees us out with a typically psychedelic labyrinth-like remix of “Helix”, refracting a minimalised Electro groove through a magnificent fairground ride of wide-eyed sound design and intimate melodics.

Early support from Saoirse, Call Super, Parris, Moxie, Niks, Roza Terenzi, ISAbella and featured in Pangaea’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.

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Sanctify Feat. Brian Ellis

7" | 2021 | US | Original (Love Touch)

14,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Very Best Of Amalia Rodrigues

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Intermusic)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

The Queen Of Fado

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (INA)

Recitals Parisiens

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Amália Rodrigues, international star, nicknamed 'the Queen of Fado', has maintained a special relationship with France and Paris in particular. From the end of the 1950s, she found success there and became a popular artist, filling Parisian halls.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Fado Milagroso

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Busto

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fado is the popular folk music of the cities of Portugal and is an expression of "saudade". "Saudade" is a difficult word to translate for it means many things, sadness, longing for someone or something, the past or even the future; nostalgia, yearning, wistfulness all of which is expressed not only in words and music, but is the very vocal qualities of the singer. Amalia Rodrigues and fado have come to mean the same thing. Amalia is the goddess of fado, and although there are many fado singers in Lisbon, Amalia reigns supreme. Even without understanding Portuguese one can feel "saudade" when listening to her thrilling voice.

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Amalia A L'Olympia Gatefold Sleeve Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dol)

15,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Minimum Success)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g Gatefold with liner notes and /or bonus tracks

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Amalgam 5

Live From Hell EP

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Logo)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The very first initial Minimum Success Records release features the legacy of some finest mix of breakbeat, gabber & hardcore influenced tracks with some ghetto touch produced in the studio sessions between 1993-1997 by the duo Amalgam 5 at West 20 Studio in Turku, Finland. Well after a decade being buried in the deepest master tapes archives these tracks are finally seeing a daylight and becoming available on a beautifully designed vinyl release by Bank™.

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Amalfitano

Tienimi La Mano, Diva!

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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A New Dance Feat. The Khan & Nappynappa

Amal

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Future Times)

11,04 €* 12,99 € -15%

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (0101records / Hmv)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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" a brutal rap + jungle 7" from DC's own Amal, who is a part of the rising international trio Black Rave Culture, along with James Bangura and DJ Nativesun. This 7" is a preview of things to come, Amal's LP Madness is forthcoming on FT later in 2023. "A New Dance" is vintage crushed jungle with two of DC's finest rapping on top. THE Khan & Model Home's Nappynappa trade smooth barb-wires over flayed audio delightfully smushed on 7" wax with a killer photo sleeve. A ruff sound system slicer. Instrumental on the flip." TIP!

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Amaiwana

Sweet Sweet Sweet

34,99 €*

LP | 2024 | JP | Original

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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The track "Chocolate Lemonade" features American musician Ginger Root as the arranger. Ginger Root also handled the mixing and mastering for the entire album. The album includes a techno-pop cover of "Message Song," originally by Pizzicato Five, whom Amaiwana admires. Additionally, it features "Shanghai Aibiki," an answer song to their 2020 track "Shanghai Wakusei," marking a continuation of Amaiwana's "Shanghai series." The album's title, "sweet Sweet Sweet," reflects a pop aesthetic inspired by the Shibuya-kei genre. The cover art, designed by Amaiwana, is sweet and catchy, complementing the album's vibe.

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Amaiwana

New Shibuya / New Wave

34,99 €*

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Amageddon Musik)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Pop

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Amaiwana's new project draws influence from Shibuya-kei, new wave, and techno-pop genres.

Scheduled for release in October 2024, the project includes two EPs, 'new Shibuya' and 'new WAVE,' presented as a double A-side. Ginger Root, an American musician, contributed to the mixing and mastering of both EPs. 'new Shibuya' features the track "cover GIRLS," with a guest appearance by Maki Nomiya, the queen of Shibuya-kei. The album continues the spirit of Shibuya-kei into the Reiwa era. It also includes "Shanghai Girl," part of Amaiwana's "Shanghai trilogy," alongside previous releases "Shanghai Planet" (2020) and "Shanghai Rendezvous" (2023). 'new Wave' reimagines tracks from 'new Shibuya' in a techno-pop and new wave style, influenced by artists like Plastics, Hikashu, and Miharu Koshi, as well as 80s techno kayō music. These self-remixes offer a fresh take on the original songs, giving them entirely new identities. Amaiwana also designed the cover art, which features a double-sided concept that represents both the new Shibuya-kei and new wave aesthetics.

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Amageddon Musik

Manifest

14,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Because Music)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Includes download code and stickers!

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Amadou & Mariam

La Vie Est Belle

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2020 | US (Polygram)

Amadou & Mariam

Baarra / Ja Pense A Toi

Release: 2020 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Is Our Language Quartet

Amado, Rodrigo

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Trost)

22,99 €*

Galaxy Dance / Play It Loud

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Is Music By Four Strong Individual Players With Room For Eruptive Solo-Parts, But Always Held Together By Intensecommunication And Beautiful Interwoven Melodies. The Quartet's Second Album A History Of Nothing (Trostrecords/Tr170) Got A Huge Number Of Excited Reviews:A Superb Quartet Outing. The Music Is All Improvised, But It's Firmly Rooted In Jazz, With Superb Interaction Between All Ofthe Players, Both On Ripping, High-Velocity Blowouts And More Delicate Forays. (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader)Freedom Is Clearly A Responsibility As Well As A Joy, And It's Emphasized Here By The Group's Shared Commitment: Eachmusician Is Constantly Working In Two Directions, Stretching Further And Creating Cohesion. The Music Is Improvised Withsuch An Ear To Complementary Detail That It's Literally Being Collectively Composed. (Stuart Broomer, Free Jazz Collective)Together, This Quartet Is Dynamite. It's Exciting To Hear A European Musician Along With Three Americans, And Notice Thatthey Communicate So Well. (Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts)Recorded By Klaus Hedegaard Nielsen At Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, March 2nd, 2017mixed By Joaquim Monte And Rodrigo Amado, Cd Master By Simon Wadsworth / Lp Master By Martin Siewert

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Amadeo85

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Happy Milf)

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Sinial)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Blessed by the Californian modern funk diva Moniquea , Amadeo 85 is back with a brand new 7". Moogy basses, heavy drum machines and FX from space are the mood of this double sider. On A side, Moniquea transcends this rough beat with her classy style, an ode to the universal party, in the deep boogie funk spirit. On B Side, this drunk Funk Boogie is a space travel produced under the influence of liters of Vinho Tinto, with the support of Bacchus himself.

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Amadeo

Net Flex EP

15,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (NTS)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Amadeo Savio is back as “Amadeo”, his club oriented side, on Sinial “sms” vinyl series. 3 original tracks and a remix by maestro Varhat to conclude this Net Flex Ep.

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Amaarae

The Angel You Don't Know

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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140g LP, High UV Gloss Gatefold Jacket and 60cm double-sided fold-out poster.. it's a big release! TIP!

Raised across multiple cities, Amaarae’s music reflects a life split between New Jersey, Atlanta and Accra. As indebted to raw Southern rap as it is dancehall, her work also holds echoes of glossy mall rock and bubblegum pop. Embraced and endorsed by the Nigerian Alté scene as it was exploding into action several years ago, THE Angel YOU Don’t Know is an exuberant opening statement from Amaarae, anchoring her sound in her heritage and myriad influences, channelled through female empowerment. Whilst working on the record, Amaarae’s reference points ranged from Paul Wall to Meat Puppets, reflected in the kaleidoscopic vision of the album, effortlessly jumping from the country trap of Fancy to an Afro-house comedown in 3AM. The vinyl release of Taydk is packaged in a UV gloss gatefold sleeve with double- sided poster insert. It features an exclusive remix of Fancy, featuring London rap royalty Bree Runway.

Press: "The future of Afro-pop” New Yorker “An instant classic” The Guardian “One of the most compelling new acts on any continent” Pitchfork

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Amaarae

Fountain Baby

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2018 | EU | Original (AVA. RECORDS)

Am Kinem (Funkycan)

Hallo Welt

7,79 €* 12,99 € -40%

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2019 | EU | Original (AVA. RECORDS)

Am Kinem

Combo Breaker

13,99 €*

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Out To Lunch)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum. Looks like Funkycan’s all out of gum.
Following a string of releases on labels such as Beatbude, Workshop’s Out To Lunch and Tax Free, Am Kinem aka Funkycan is back with "Combo Breaker", his 2019 release on AVA. Records. Filled with more handsome terror straight out of Neukölln. Come get some!
AVA.018 comes stickered and stamped.

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Am Kinem

6,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Burning World)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Unique blend of Jazz infused, Beatdown affine & late night DJ tool Deep House

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Am Himmel

23,99 €*

Alzheimer, Villalobos, Wetsuit

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First album by mystifying entity called Am Himmel lead by M, who is active in many band and under a lots of (dis)guises.Am Himmel is the ecclesiastical nightmare formed by emanations from the metaphysical voids trapped in the eternal light. A starless kingdom bereft of celestial pureness. Strange rituals in the gothic catacombs of christianity and insanity.Sounds like: synth heavy doomgaze with a strong hint of raw black metal.FFO Lurker Of Chalice, Xasthur, Vrörsaath

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Alzheimer Special Limited Box

Box Set | 2023 | EU | Original (Jigit)

62,99 €*

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Increase The Groove)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Special Limited Box : 12″ LP + 12″ RMX + one sided 12″ (only available in this box set) + tarot cards

Alzheimer, the record, is a Stranger everywhere on Earth. Wherever you might be listening to it, it will always be from somewhere else. The product of a foreign culture, for even though it was created and recorded in Caracas, Venezuela between January 1997 and 9/9/99. It is the result of forgetting everything and recomposing a new Sound World from the faintest, blurriest recollections of musical culture. Its purpose is confusion, its uniqueness is creating it in the realm of Music; a clash of instruments and minds.

Everything you will hear in the record was performed by humans and insects, spoken and sung by living beings, roughly a decade before the “smartphone”, which is probably the most stupid, final creating of mankind. The Alzheimer ensemble still exists and fully supports this initiative of celebrating the 24th year of its first of two published albums on vinyl. The spirit of our group will never be captured by robotic “intelligence”. We will fight it in every possible way through unpredictable cultural action and the infinite Human creative talent are uniting under our banner.

Alzheimer Cultural, Caracas

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Alyhas & Occibel

Emotional Damage

14,99 €*

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Increase The Groove)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Emotional Damage EP, is the result of a collaboration between Alyhas & Occibel. Friends and now colleagues, they have decided to work together on a house, funk and electro EP. It's made up of 3 eclectic tracks: House, Funk and Electro-House. For his part, Tiago Walter took up the challenge of remixing the track Emotional Damage, bringing his own deeper touch to the mix, which takes the idea of this eclectic EP even further.

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Alyhas & Noiro / JL.

From Da Split 3

13,99 €*

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Increase The Groove)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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From da Split III, is composed of House, minimal and downtempo tracks. An EP of 3 tracks / side, with Noiro & Alyhas on A side and JL. on B side. The idea of these mini EP is to "increase" the music through the genres and the bpm in order to make the public travel in the universe of the artists.

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Alyhas & Liam Fattori

Funk Dat EP

Speak The Word To Hear The Sound

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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After a year off, Increase the Groove Records is back in force with a release eclectic AF, like the vibe that has instilled into this label since its creation. The EP of Alyhas & Liam Fattori, includes 2 remixes of the very tallentuous : Idris Bena and Harry Wills ! Lowride & enjoy it.

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Alycia Lang

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Mtn Laurel)

37,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alycia Lang is a Durham, North Carolina-based singer-songwriter, touring musician and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist with Samia. Collaborators on her first full-length solo record, Speak The Word To Hear The Sound include Jenn Wasner (Bon Iver, Wye Oak, Flock Of Dimes) Lauren O'Connell, Damien Rice, Aaron Roche, BlankFor. Ms, and Adrian Olsen (Twain, Illiterate Light, Nadia Reid, Lucy Dacus).

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Aly Eissa

Gouda Bar

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Deep Medi Musik)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An original instrumental music project led by composer and Oud player Aly Eissa. Featuring his diverse musical influences, Eissa’s compositions create versatile and twisted meditative atmospheres throughout the musical experience.Aly Eissa is a composer and Oud player based in Cairo, Egypt. He was mentored by legendary composer Abdo Dagher and Oud virtuoso Hazem Shahin. Eissa’s style is deeply-rooted in the Egyptian classical and folk traditions, and influenced by various western genres. Since 2012, Eissa has been regularly performing his compositions with an ensemble for live audiences in Cairo, offering a meditative musical experience with a twist. One of Eissa’s musical approaches is the experimenting approach through a unique trio formation including the Belgian synthesizer player Jonas Cambien and the Egyptian percussion player Ayman Mabrouk. In this trio, Eissa is trying to explore a different sound and space in the originally composed Arabic music.

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ALXZNDR

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"M4 is a tune that I wrote back in 2017 when I was living in Bristol. At the time I was really into writing melodic pieces and messing around with as many synths as possible. I decided to add some heavy bass to this one cinematic organ progression and laid down some basic drums over the top and called it a day really. I think I sent it out to a couple people (one being Mala) and forgot about it.

Another few years went by and the tune has changed a bit to stay in line with my current production style arriving at the version that's set to be released. Abacus was just an all out bass experiment that I never thought would see the light of day and Dusty really shows off the more melodic style of my productions. After hearing these tunes played on big systems for so long I'm really happy that everyone can now finally get their hands on a copy."

Alxzndr 2022

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Alwanzatar

Kosmisk Skrekk

37,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alwanzatar is a one man (Krizla from Norwegian cult heroes Tusmørke) musical project creating extraterrestrial world music, with flute, incantations, synthesisers and electronics. Kosmisk skrekk is a gloomy sound track for space travel aboard grey, dusty interplanetary crafts. Beware of space pirates with hooded lanterns sneaking up behind an asteroid as you lay frozen in your sleeping capsule! The sounds on Alwanzatars fifth album are generated from a hundred years of synthesizers, including the theremin, Buchla Music Easel and Eurorack, accompanied by flutes, 808 drums and analogue mixing console screams. In many ways a lockdown album, it is a bleak travelogue of studio excursions into madness and altered reality.

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Alwanzatar

Ensyre

44,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Apollon)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alwanzatar is a one-man musical project (Krizla from Norwegian cult heroes Tusmørke) creating extraterrestrial world music, with flute, incantations, synthesizers and electronics. This is Alwanzatar’s sixth album, performed on synthesizers and flute. Engsyre is dance music for the faery folk feasting in the woods, where the murmur of the city falls silent, and the booming bass of dreams takes over. It is the slow pulse of the blood in the ground, life sliding through roots of hungry trees, the scurrying movements of living creatures that do no wish to be seen. Hidden, until they show themselves in awesome splendour and sound reverberates in the hills.

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Alwanzatar

Den Glemte Dalen

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Not My Baby / Next Of Kin

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alwanzatar (Krizla from Norwegian cult heroes Tusmørke) is a one man musical project creating extraterrestrial world music, with flute, incantations, synthesisers and electronics. His fourth album “Den glemte dalen” is a collection of psychedelic, gloomy and dreamy songs for synthesizers and flute. The artwork is a homage to the great swede Bo Hansson (Sagan Om Ringen and more...).

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Alvvays

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in 2014, Alvvays had the world in their hands. As a sum of their parts, the guitars jangled like they did in the 80s, the drums felt lifted from Scottish classic records where the snares rattled through reverberating halls, and Molly Rankin’s vocals towered above in dreamy horizons. As a unit, the band produced a string of some of the best indie-pop singles seen this side of the century. “Not My Baby” and “Next of Kin” are included on the special edition 7” single from P-vine.

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Alvvays

Blue Rev

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alvvays 10th Anniversary Edition

Alvvays

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Transgressive)

27,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Stunt)

Alvin Trio Queen

Feeling Good

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | Original (Spinout Nuggets)

Alvin Purple

Billie

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Works For The Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II continues Black Truffle’s documentation of the late work of legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier, who sadly passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. Like the first volume of the series, the two works recorded here were written for The Ever Present Orchestra, an ensemble founded in Zürich in 2016 to perform Lucier’s work exclusively. At the core of the music Lucier wrote for the ensemble is the electric guitar, an instrument he began to explore in 2013. Played with e-bows, in these works electric lap steel guitars take on roles akin to the slow sweep pure wave oscillators heard in many of Lucier’s works since the early 1980s. This strikingly elegant pair of compositions would serve as an ideal introduction to Lucier’s late music for a listener as yet unfamiliar with its graceful exploration of beating patterns and other acoustic phenomenon.

The two pieces have quite different characters, exemplifying Lucier’s ability to harvest a remarkable range of musical results from closely related compositional procedures and concerns. In Arrigoni Bridge (2019), Lucier uses a technique familiar from earlier works such as Still Lives (1995), where sine waves traced the shapes of household objects. Here, three lap steel electric guitars (played by Oren Ambarchi, Bernhard Rietbrock, and Jan Thoben) follow the form of the Arrigoni Bridge that connects Middletown and Portland, Connecticut. The bridge’s two enormous steel arcs become slowly sweeping pitches, alongside which alto saxophone (Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos), violin (Rebecca Thies) and cello (Lucy Railton) sustain long tones, creating a variety of audible beating patterns depending on their distance from or proximity to the guitars. With its stately pacing, warm middle register tones, and rich timbral variety in the sustaining instruments, Arrigoni Bridge is a beautiful example of compositional reduction producing immersive results. Flips (2020), on the other hand, is more austere. Scored for two lap steel electric guitars (Rietbock and Thoben), double bass (Ross Wightman) and glockenspiel (Trevor Saint), the two acoustic instruments played with bows, the piece zooms in on the range of a major second (two semitones). The two guitars sweep in opposite directions within the range, crossing every four minutes; the double bass and glockenspiel sustain long tones, producing beats of different speeds determined by their distance from the guitar tones. This limitation of the tonal range means the music is often dissonant and forces the phenomenon of audible beating to the surface, resulting in a paradoxical music composed entirely of long tones yet alive with pulsating rhythm. Exemplifying Lucier’s ability to uncover near-infinite complexity within seemingly simple materials, Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II is a fitting tribute to one of the major figures of the experimental music tradition and a testament to the continuing power of his work.

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Works For The Ever Present Orchestra

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A download code is included. Black Truffle’s documentation of the prolific recent work of legendary American composer Alvin Lucier continues with Works for the Ever Present Orchestra. This is a very special release for the composer, as it presents pieces written for the thirteen-member Ever Present Orchestra, formed in 2016 exclusively to perform Lucier’s works. At the heart of the ensemble are four electric guitars, an instrument Lucier began composing for in 2013 with Criss-Cross (recorded by two core members of the Ever Present Orchestra, Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley, for whom it was composed, on Black Truffle 033). Through the use of e-bows, the guitars take on a role akin to the slow sweep pure wave oscillators heard in many of Lucier’s works since the early 1980s, but with added harmonic richness. Like much of Lucier’s instrumental music, the pieces recorded here focus on acoustic phenomena, especially beating patterns, produced by the interference between closely tuned pitches. The work presented here is some of the richest and most inviting that Lucier has composed. Though all of the pieces clearly belong to the same continuing exploration of the behaviour of sound in physical space and make use of related compositional devices, each takes on a strikingly different character. Titled Arc, for the full ensemble of four guitars, four saxophones, four violins, piano and bowed glockenspiel inhabits a world of sliding, uneasy tones, punctuated by a single piano note. Where Double Helix, for four guitars, rests on a pillow of warm, low hum, Epo-5, for two guitars, saxophone, violin, and glockenspiel possess a limpid, crystalline quality. Accompanying the four new compositions are two adaptations of existing pieces for radically different instrumentation, demonstrating Lucier’s excitement about the new possibilities suggested by this dedicated ensemble. Works for the Ever Present Orchestra is an essential document of the current state of Lucier’s continuing exploration, as well as offering a seductive entry-point for anyone who might yet be unacquainted with his singular body of work.

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CD | 2023 | US | Original (Important)

One Arm Bandits

Alvin Lucier & Jordan Dykstra

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One Arm Bandits is an hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists. The cellists play only open strings, thus using only their right arms, never fingering the strings with the left hand. Recorded in Alvin Lucier's dining room, this work features cellists Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann. Lucier oversaw and produced the recording, and approved the final takes.

One Arm Bandits was an important project for Alvin Lucier. The idea for the piece goes back to conversations we first had in 2007 about the relationship between bow direction changes and shifts in phase. In the summer of 2015 we worked these ideas out in long sessions with Judith Hamann and T. J. Borden in New York, and the resulting piece received its first performances in Graz and Zürich in 2016. Alvin thought of One Arm Bandits as a radical statement, I think primarily in view of the severe reduction in material – even in the context of his music – and the physical restraint required in performance. The unusually long duration attests to Alvin's recognition that an expansion of scale was required in order to magnify acoustical details of such subtlety.

In November 2021 Alvin saw proofs for the CD artwork. He passed away at the age of 90 on December 1, before he could see the album in its final form. Work with Alvin was always joyful, stimulating, and surprising. We dedicate this recording to the continuing spirit of this remarkable musician and friend.

[Charles Curtis]

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Out Of Our Hands

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Important)

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“Out of Our Hands” brings together Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra who, through the hands of Ordinary Affects, have created debut recordings of two new compositions.

These companion pieces have similar orbits as they were not only both composed in Middletown, CT (where Alvin and Jordan lived for a number of years), but are about Middletown, at least from a starting point. Alvin’s piece — a homage to the location of the house in which he recorded “I am sitting in a room” back in 1969 — continues his study into slow-moving glissandi and carefully crafted beating patters by interweaving three string players within a minor third (voiced by two vibraphonists). The result is entrancing, almost psychedelic, and opens space where one didn’t expect. Like much of his previous work, it is conceptual and process-based; once the wheels get turning they go on and on, giving the listener time to approach the piece, sit with it, and then move back inward.

On the other hand, Dykstra’s piece “32 Middle Tones” (a pun on his Middletown street address and the harmonic microtonality utilized in the composition) is a very textural work. His piece asks the cellist to sustain pitches for extended durations — at times quietly singing in close proximity to the stopped pitch coming from the cello — while the rest of the ensemble (violin, viola, and 2 percussion) voice a sequence of chords separated by notated silences. The cello voice is sometimes alone, but never for too long as it finds itself supported from both the top and bottom in a harmonic embrace. This supportive structure involves a percussion section which colors the seemingly simple chords (major 6th, inverted minor 7th, inverted minor 2nd, etc.) with a non-traditional toolkit of bowed singing bowls, stone sheets, harmonicas, and even leaves.

This is music that gently gives the listener a sense of predictability but always in an unexpected (and subtly indeterminate) shade. Speaking of shade, the album’s cover photo was taken in 2019 in Alvin’s backyard in Middletown. Alvin and Jordan sit with similar demeanors in front of his favorite tree — a crooked aspen which early on looked to be doomed — but which he would often saunter over to spend time with, giving it whispers of blessings and encouraging words.The world was blessed with Alvin’s presence and hopefully this album will whisper to you and yours.

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Criss Cross / Hanover

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Repertoire Entertainment Gmbh)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is honoured to present the premier recordings of two recent works by legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier. A friend and contemporary of pioneers like Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, and Christian Wolff, Lucier has been crafting elegant explorations of the behavior of sound in physical space since the 1960s. Lucier is perhaps best known for I Am Sitting in a Room (1970), in which he repeatedly re-recorded his own speaking voice being played back into a room until the room’s resonant frequencies entirely obscure the spoken text. Beginning in the early 1970s, he has written a remarkable catalogue of instrumental works that focus on phenomena produced by the interference between closely tuned pitches, such as audible beating, often using pure electronic tones produced by oscillators in combination with single instruments.

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Alvin Lee

Zoom

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Repertoire)

Alvin Lee

Live At Rockpalast

31,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Repertoire Entertainment Gmbh)

Alvin Lee

Detroit Diesel

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alvin Davis & Alien Dread

My Homeland & My Homeland Dub

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Iron Sound)

Alvin Davis & Alien Dread

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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* The 7” A side, ‘My Homeland’, is a Sax/Hornz instrumental track and features top Jamaican Hornzman, Alvin Davis. The B side has a heavyweight Dub from Alien Dread.

Alvin is also well known ref Jazz and other musical areas, as well as Reggae and has worked with many Jazz, Soul and mainstream artists including: Andy Hamilton, Rose Royce, Prince, Edwin Starr, The Foundations, Neville Staples (Specials & Fun Boy Three), Jackie Graham, Nigel Kennedy and Reggae-wise, Alton Ellis, Macka B, Maxi Priest and David Hinds (Steel Pulse) and many others.

An alternate version of A side track will be featured on the forthcoming Alvin Davis & Alien Dread album: Dreadland (Iron Sound).

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My Homeland 2022 Repress

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Iron Soun)

Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The long awaited re-press of the Alvin Davis, ‘My Homeland’, track is now available again. Sax/Hornz instrumental track and features top Jamaican Hornzman, Alvin Davis. The B side has a heavyweight Dub version from Alien Dread. Alvin is also well known ref Jazz and other musical areas, as well as Reggae and has worked with many Jazz, Soul and mainstream artists including: Andy Hamilton, Rose Royce, Prince, Edwin Starr, The Foundations, Neville Staples (Specials & Fun Boy Three), Jackie Graham, Nigel Kennedy and Reggae-wise, Alton Ellis, Macka B, Maxi Priest and David Hinds (Steel Pulse) and many others.

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Alvin Curran

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first-ever vinyl reissue of Alvin Curran’s classic Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri, originally issued in 1978 on Ananda, the cooperative label run by Curran, Roberto Laneri, and Giacinto Scelsi. Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri (Light Flowers Dark Flowers) – its title inspired by an intersection in Milan – is the second in the series of four solo recordings Alvin Curran issued in the 1970s and early 1980s, preceded by Songs and Views from the Magnetic Garden (1975), followed by The Works (1980) and Canti Illuminati (1982).

Each of these solo works combines field recordings with performances on synthesiser, various acoustic instruments, and voice, arranged in languorously paced, dreamy sequences. Far from the bracing pointillism of much musique concrete, the elements encountered on the meandering course followed by Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri – whether a frenetic piano improvisation, dense layers of Serge synthesiser and ocarina, or a monologue from Frederic Rzewski’s five-year old son, Alexis – often occupy the foreground of our attention for minutes at a time. As Curran explains, his approach is like that of a filmmaker in the editing process, working with “whole blocks of recorded time”. The purring of a cat, toy piano, a child counting, plaintive synthesiser tones, the cacophony of exotic birds at the London Zoo – each disappears into the next, until, on the LP’s second side, a solo piano performance takes centre stage, moving unexpectedly from percussive minimalist permutations to a halting rendition of Georgia on My Mind. A subtle yet stunning work that more than forty years on still seems charged with possibility, Fiori Chiari, Fiori Oscuri arrives in a loving reproduction of the original sleeve, featuring Edith Schloss’ beautiful cover painting, remastered audio and with new liner notes by Alvin Curran and Francis Plagne.

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Alvin Curran

Drumming Up Trouble

Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (The Tapeworm)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Drumming Up Trouble, the first release of previously unissued music by Alvin Curran on the label. Collecting works recorded between 2018-2021 and a side-long epic dating back to the early 80s, as the title suggests, Drumming Up Trouble focuses on a hitherto almost unknown aspect of Curran’s encyclopaedic and omnivorous musical world: his experiments with sampled and synthesised percussion. As Curran’s wonderful, wildly sweeping liner notes make clear, his fascination with drumming belongs to the radical investigation of music’s fundamental elements that has marked his output since the beginnings of MEV, who aimed (as he says in a recent interview) to return ‘in some collective way to a non-existent start time in the history of human music’. Whatever kind of music our proto-human ancestors played, he writes, ‘drums were front and centre in the mix. Drums rule!’

In a paradox typical of Curran’s approach, Drumming Up Trouble interrogates this most ancient dimension of music with contemporary technology. On the first side, we hear recent pieces performed using the sampling software and full-size Midi keyboard setup Curran has refined since the 1980s. Two of them are wild real-time improvisations, primarily utilising an enormous bank of hip-hop samples. Building from polyrhythmic layers of drum machine fragments to wild cacophonies of clashing vocal samples, scratching, and frantic pitch shifting, these energetic and at times hilarious pieces occupy a space somewhere between John Oswald’s Plunderphonics, Pat Thomas and Matt Wand in the Tony Oxley Quartet, and the propulsive Kudoro/Grime fusion of Lisbon’s Príncipe label. They are improvisations are accompanied by two austere, minimal compositions realised in collaboration with Angelo Maria Farro: ‘End Zone’ for orchestral bass drum and high oscillator, and ‘Rollings’, where a snare roll is gradually stretched and filtered by digital means into ‘floating electronic gossamer’.

The incredible breadth of Curran’s output makes it pretty unlikely that a listener familiar with his work would be surprised to find it branching out in a new direction. But no degree of familiarity with his work can really prepare for side B’s epic and bizarre ‘Field it More’. It’s perhaps best to let the maestro describe this unhinged and infectious offering in his own words: ‘It features an 8 bar funky minimal riff à la James Brown, played on synth and an-out-of-tune piano, synced to a pre-paid patch on the Roland drum machine. Over this is laid a heavily processed track of the voices of dancer Yoshiko Chuma and movie-maker Jacob Burckhardt discussing an upcoming performance of theirs at the Venice film festival, capped by a track of my playing an increasingly out of control blues over the top of all of the above’. Only Pekka Airaksinen’s Buddhas of the Golden Light comes to mind as a reference point that might even vaguely compare to this wild home-brew of drum-machine funk, mad improvisation and squelching electronics, which eventually dissolved into a massive, layered cluster. Ancient and modern, synthetic and human, hysterical and rigorous, Drumming up Trouble is 100% Curran.

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Alvars Orkester

Nuthull