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Pleasure is a Sydney based music project that utilizes distorted synths, irregular drum beats, and fluid song structures to create energetic and hypnotic pieces that straddle the line of bright and abrasive. The trio is comprised of Adam Connelly (synthesizers, vocals) Jonathan Boulet (bass guitar, fx pedals), and Hugh Deacon (drums). When playing live and on record, their music is improvised and unrehearsed with no laptops or backing tracks. "One of us will introduce an idea and the rest will follow." Their debut LP, Saint Albans, was conceived and recorded in a small farm house in the town of Saint Albans, New South Wales, over three days from the 12th to the 14th of October 2019. The building has since burned down in the 2019 Australian Bushfires. "We came away from this session with close to 20 hours of material that we edited down into consumable pieces." This is the case for all tracks except "Brain Waste" which was left intact and unedited. They launched the Australian release of the album by playing a six-hour endurance set in a warehouse in Sydney's Inner West. "Our sonic influences seem very obvious but we haven't been called out yet. Mainly Boards of Canada, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Aphex Twin, Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass, and Lightning Bolt." File Under: electronic, hauntology, Ghost Box. Edition of 350.
"Condensing down a mere 20 (!!!) hours of material recorded unrehearsed and improvised over the course of three days in October of 2k19 into nine tracks of 38 minutes total playtime the project caters a playful, warm take on what might be best described as triphop/dopebeat-infused live electronica with a well organic twist, partially drifting into complex and haunted polyrhythmic territories like in 'Be Yourself Harder' with its ever spiraling, captivating low-end and heavy drum explosions or the clearly dub-infused 'Taste Mouth' whereas the dark'ish, nightly 'Breathe In' brings associations like Morr Music, Jan Jelinek as well the Moritz Von Oswald Trio to mind"--Nitestylez, Germany
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"Pleasure originated from the ashes of two local Portland, Oregon bands - The Soul Masters and Franchise - to become veritable monsters of funk, soul, and jazz. Their sound is often compared to Earth, Wind and Fire or Kool and the Gang. They had an inspired run of seven albums, six for Fantasy Records and one for RCA, from 1975 through 1982. The group was discovered by Grover Washington Jr.; he passed their demos on to Wayne Henderson of The Crusaders who signed them to his production company, At Home Productions. Tracks from all seven Pleasure albums are featured on this multi-LP set, Glide: The Essential Collection 1975-1982, many of which have never been reissued on LP before, including an extended disco/dance remix of 'Foxy Lady' which was lost in tape vaults for 35 years. Rounding out this deluxe package are many rarely seen group photos, along with extensive liner notes featuring newly-commissioned interviews with original band members by veteran Urban music critic and historian A. Scott Galloway."
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