Browse by Label: TRI ANGLE

Artist:	BALAM ACAB
Title:	See Birds
Label:	TRI ANGLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TRIANGLE 001CD

First release on Tri Angle, now repressed on CD -- originally released in August 2010 on 12" vinyl that sold-out immediately. Balam Acab's See Birds EP presents an optimistic yet haunting glimpse of a droning future. See Birds is the product of 19 year-old Ithaca, New York resident and solo producer, Alec Koone. "He isolates and distorts bits of source material (say, vocal loops or beat fragments) and smears them together in new arrangements. The results are remarkably seamless. Take opener 'See Birds (Moon)', where a scratchy drone meets heavy, blown-out beats and a chorus of layered vocals. The way he puts them together, a new natural rhythm for these sounds emerges and it becomes hard to imagine them in any other order... a heck of an impressive first step." --Pitchfork (8.0)

Artist:	AYSHAY
Title:	WARN-U
Label:	TRI ANGLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	TRIANGLE 008CD

With the upcoming release of her debut EP WARN-U, Tri Angle is extremely excited to introduce Ayshay. Born in Senegal, raised in Kuwait and now living in New York City, Fatima Al Qadiri is the producer and vocalist behind Ayshay. Fuelled by her fascination with the sacred songs of Islam, WARN-U is a homage and reinterpretation of the sounds that have haunted Al Qadiri since she was a child. Constructed entirely out of her own vocals, which she filtered and layered upon one another, WARN-U is Al Qadiri's attempt to reconfigure the concept of "sacred" music as inspiring divine love and divine fear. Even in her adoption of the name Ayshay, a flippant term which means "whatever" in Arabic, Fatima Al Qadiri seeks to distance the austere values inherent in worship music from her own interpretation of the latter. Listening to the three songs Al Qadiri has created for this record, which work in sequence almost as a tone poem, conjures up a dizzying array of mixed, sometimes indefinable emotions. They sound menacing and yet strangely comforting, ancient and bizarrely futuristic. As well as Al Qadiri's own original material, the record features an epic 12-minute long megamix by L.A.-based production duo, Nguzunguzu. In keeping with the tone poem vibe of the original songs, the label agreed that the remix element of the record should mirror this, and so as opposed to commissioning a bunch of different remixers to put their spin on the material, they decided to have one act create one giant reinterpretation of all the songs featured on WARN-U, something which they referred to throughout the creative process as a remix suite, of sorts. When she's not producing music as Ayshay, Fatima Al Qadiri is responsible for the "Global.Wav" column on the brilliant online NYC culture magazine DIS, using her column to draw attention to the kind of obscure pop music that generally goes unnoticed in the Western world. Late last year, she gained some online attention with the "Muslim Trance" mix she made exclusively for DIS. The mix was made up of original Ayshay material which in contrast to the original a cappellas of WARN-U, reinterpreted Islamic anthems by sampling sacred Shi'ite and Sunni vocals with original music. Last copies.

Artist:	AYSHAY
Title:	WARN-U
Label:	TRI ANGLE
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	TRIANGLE 008EP

12" version. Born in Senegal, raised in Kuwait and now living in New York City, Fatima Al Qadiri is the producer and vocalist behind Ayshay. Fuelled by her fascination with the sacred songs of Islam, WARN-U is a homage and reinterpretation of the sounds that have haunted Al Qadiri since she was a child. Constructed entirely out of her own vocals, which she filtered and layered upon one another, WARN-U is Al Qadiri's attempt to reconfigure the concept of "sacred" music as inspiring divine love and divine fear. Even in her adoption of the name Ayshay, a flippant term which means "whatever" in Arabic, Fatima Al Qadiri seeks to distance the austere values inherent in worship music from her own interpretation of the latter. Listening to the three songs Al Qadiri has created for this record, which work in sequence almost as a tone poem, conjures up a dizzying array of mixed, sometimes indefinable emotions. They sound menacing and yet strangely comforting, ancient and bizarrely futuristic. As well as Al Qadiri's own original material, the record features an epic 12-minute long megamix by L.A.-based production duo, Nguzunguzu. In keeping with the tone poem vibe of the original songs, the label agreed that the remix element of the record should mirror this, and so as opposed to commissioning a bunch of different remixers to put their spin on the material, they decided to have one act create one giant reinterpretation of all the songs featured on WARN-U, something which they referred to throughout the creative process as a remix suite, of sorts. When she's not producing music as Ayshay, Fatima Al Qadiri is responsible for the "Global.Wav" column on the brilliant online NYC culture magazine DIS, using her column to draw attention to the kind of obscure pop music that generally goes unnoticed in the Western world. Late last year, she gained some online attention with the "Muslim Trance" mix she made exclusively for DIS. The mix was made up of original Ayshay material which in contrast to the original a cappellas of WARN-U, reinterpreted Islamic anthems by sampling sacred Shi'ite and Sunni vocals with original music.

Artist:	WATER BORDERS
Title:	Harbored Mantras
Label:	TRI ANGLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	TRIANGLE 009CD

Tri Angle presents the debut album by San Franciscan duo Water Borders. Primarily inspired by their lifelong passion for '80s industrial legends Coil and the kind of underground UK dance productions often heard on Rinse FM, Harbored Mantras is a dense and dizzying soundworld; a dank, tribal and often disorientating dance record which, as the two piece state, was intended to be "a coalescence of digital and analog sounds and textures." As well as looking to Coil and the UK dance scene for inspiration, Harbored Mantras also incorporates a vast array of Water Border's influences, including Gamelan rhythms, proto-techno, Scott Walker, African drum patterns, dub, Popul Vuh and Glasser, who actually designed the artwork for the album. Harbored Mantras sounds like nothing else you'll hear all year.

Artist:	WATER BORDERS
Title:	Harbored Mantras
Label:	TRI ANGLE
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	TRIANGLE 009LP

LP version. Tri Angle presents the debut album by San Franciscan duo Water Borders. Primarily inspired by their lifelong passion for '80s industrial legends Coil and the kind of underground UK dance productions often heard on Rinse FM, Harbored Mantras is a dense and dizzying soundworld; a dank, tribal and often disorientating dance record which, as the two piece state, was intended to be "a coalescence of digital and analog sounds and textures." As well as looking to Coil and the UK dance scene for inspiration, Harbored Mantras also incorporates a vast array of Water Border's influences, including Gamelan rhythms, proto-techno, Scott Walker, African drum patterns, dub, Popul Vuh and Glasser, who actually designed the artwork for the album. Harbored Mantras sounds like nothing else you'll hear all year.

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