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AUS 1577EP
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Aus Music follows 2015 EPs from Tom Demac (AUS 1575EP), Escape (AUS 1573EP), and Youandewan (AUS 1576EP) with the second offering on the label from Toronto-born Bwana, who broke a two-year silence with his Flute Dreams EP (AUS 1472EP) in December of 2014; with his Tengo EP, he reaffirms the benefits of patience and proves that he's an artist capable of touching many bases effectively. The A-side opens up with a trance-minded thud colored with thick, swooning melodies before "Drop Mechanism" sets impassioned strings and sweeps over a thick, booming low-end and "Due West" sets out a snapping, forthright groove.
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AUS 1472EP
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Aus Music follows up Huxley's Give 2 U (AUS 1469EP) and Gerry Read's 3, 2, 1 (AUS 1471EP) with its 72nd release and the first contribution to the label from Toronto-born, Leeds-based producer Bwana. Flute Dreams is an iridescent record that sits comfortably in big spaces. The title track crescendos behind a thrumming kick and chirping melodies as it gathers luminous tones and textures throughout. Simian Mobile Disco's tense and capacious remix drives clipped acid patterns under hustling drums. "Fizzle" unfolds behind shimmering synth patterns and stout toms before "Aomame" lays a saturated thud under more flaring synths.
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CYS 1312LP
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Gray area exact repro. "Fantastic Latin funk/psych rare groove special from around 1970. Astral-planar Latin jams, with blazing guitar and organ laid down over hot funk/psych grooves; leads off with the eight-minute runaway train 'Tema de Bwana'; what's next, you wonder? Why it's the intricate twin-guitar progressive call and response jam of 'La Patada'; the rest gets better from there, with songs that shift and flow until they hit an acid freakout point -- check out the end of 'Chapumbambe' or the second half of the thirteen-plus minute soul/psych style rave up 'Lolita' that closes the album."
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