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MUSLIMGAUZE	Babylon Is Iraq	LP	STAALPLAAT	ARCHIVE 049LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/5/2019 Unsurprisingly for a creator as prolific as Muslimgauze's Bryn Jones was, when he was asked for a contribution for any sort of group project, he would tend to provide more options than necessary. In the case of longtime label Staalplaat's 1996 compilation Sonderangebot, where Jones would find himself in the company of everyone from Charlemagne Palestine to Reptilicus, the selected track was the characteristically head-spinning "Kaliskinazure", nine minutes of insistent digital percussion bouncing the listener back and forth between samples of wailing women's voices and a trebly, blurry little whirr that traces the percussion. It's distinctive enough even among the vast Muslimgauze corpus, but as the continued excavation of DATs Jones submitted to his labels continues, sure enough there's more to that track's story, too. An extended "Kaliskinazure" makes up the second of four tracks on Babylon Is Iraq, although it's been lost to the mists of time whether an outside editor excised the more drifting, less needling coda that makes up the extra six minutes found here, or whether Jones simply submitted both versions of the track at different times. This more complete version of "Kaliskinazure" is surrounded by shorter tracks, with the opening "Kaliskinazure _ Momada" sounding not very much like either track it references (instead being a barely-there wisp of far-away sampled wind instruments and what sounds like treated cymbal sounds) and the title track constantly coming to a full, roiling digital boil. The lengthy "Momada" closes out the album with a different, more tersely internal arrangement surrounding the same percussion pattern that will be familiar to any Sonderangebot fans, although the way the quieter atmosphere transforms the feeling of that rhythm indicates once more than Jones's way of reconfiguring his pieces over and over was perhaps more purposive and even more effective than he's sometimes given credit for. The result is a fascinating expansion on one of Muslimgauze's strongest stand-alone moments, as well as a fitting tribute to an artist who would never give you a track if an album would do. such strong powers of suggestion. Cover made of 1mm thick bleu cardboard, sewed, text silver glitter screen-print, black image, name, and side lines are lasercut -- All done by hand! All tracks written, performed, mixed by Muslimgauze. Recorded, engineer, mixed by John Delf. Unreleased material. Edition of 500 (numbered).

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XOA	Way West	LP	FIVE EASY PIECES	FEP 028LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/21/2019 XOA, led by London-based producer and musician Nick Tyson, releases their debut album Way West on Five Easy Pieces. XOA means to look outwards, to draw inspiration from many sources. Way West is alive with this: steeped in the rich analog sonics of the past, the warmth of machines and influence from the sounds of London's fervent music scene. Featuring a blend of contemporary electronic production and live instrumentation, '70s Afrobeat-inspired drums and cosmic melodies are thrust into the present day with strong cues from house and techno. Three vocalists contribute across the album, with Tyson choosing to work with singers with whom he has a personal admiration and friendship. Hollie Cook, known to many for her ethereal pop-tinged reggae, delivers a sumptuous contribution on "Heartland," adding a beautiful emotional dimension to the horn-led track. Lulu Jones' vocals are treated more as a sample for the garage-tinged "Call On Me" and Ruby Wood, of Submotion Orchestra, has worked with Tyson over a number of projects and their shared love of '90s soul comes to the fore on the laid-back grooves and sun-kissed "Only One Thing." Says Tyson, "when collaborating, especially with vocalists on melodic and lyrical ideas, it's important to have that personal connection and respect for each other's craft. That's why I never ask vocalists to prepare anything in advance for the tracks; I like to get in the room and just see what happens in the moment, to trust each other's ideas, and for it to be a natural, organic and spontaneous process". Collaboration has always been at the heart of the project for Tyson. He plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but invites Marijus Aleksa on drums to provide live energy, extra synth work from Parisian Kenzo Zurzolo, and a notable Rhodes solo from Johnny Tomlinson (a member of Bonobo's live band) on "Osu." After well-received releases on Soundway Records, Cin Cin (with Wayward) and Banana Hill (with Contours); Way West shows another step up for Tyson as a writer and producer.

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BAGUESTE & SUSO SAIZ, JUSTO	Inducing The Pleasure Dreams V2	LP	GEOMETRIK	GR 2147LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/21/2019 "In 1995 Justo Bagüeste released a record called I.P.D.; it claimed to induce in the listener a pleasant dream, heading for the final sprint towards that collective promise beyond the end of the millennium. I.P.D. was some sort of Goldberg Variations for the turn of the century, played on mini-Moogs, short-wave radios and analog synths. In 2016, Bagüeste and Suso Saiz (producer of I.P.D.) performed at Periferias Festival in Huesca; they were to play a reinterpretation of the recording they had made twenty years before. However, Bagüeste and Saiz didn't appear nostalgic nor revisionist: just a certain atmosphere and a few samples linked the concert to the 1995 recording. Firmly stuck in that moment, they offered a session of sonic haze based on dialog and improvisation -- the 40 minutes of music presented here stem from that haze. Like a vitalist statement, a heartbeat and a human voice open the first track, "Nóstos". One is then plunged into a boundless sea of textures and synthetic serpentines entitled "Margen de Indefinición" (Margin of Vagueness). Soon, some rhythmic turbulence shows up, evoking a dream of "Despertar" (Awakening) between faraway saxophones, glided guitars, reminiscences of Popol Vuh and Tangerine Dream. The final stretch starts in tension, mired in an inner conflict "Cerca de Algún Lugar" (Close To Somewhere). After a shamanic-like voice, the session leads to a backwater of spacious ambient music with stitches of sax and guitar, describing a transcendental "Implosión" (Implosion) ended with unrepentant heartbeats again. This re-reading of I.P.D. is like an agile pirouette against the inertia of time; it reminds one how intimately electronic music has been related to spirituality since the beginning, and how that bond seems to have diluted in the 21st century, in the factual setting of so many utopian fantasies from the past. Bagüeste and Saiz evoke the enthusiasm of the future pasts. They recall that promise of plenitude through technology that never was. At the same time, they update that promise before our ears, naturally and fully aware." --Javier Aquilué Edition of 500.

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ORFEON GAGARIN	Voces A 45	LP	GEOMETRIK	GR 2146LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Orfeon Gagarin is the Miguel A. Ruiz's main project, a veteran electronic musician from Madrid (Spain). Ruiz's music has been the best-kept secret of Spanish underground electronics since the early '80s until now, although he's not as well known internationally as other contemporary musicians (Esplendor Geométrico, Francisco López, or Diseño Corbusier, to name but a few). In 1986 he released his first cassette on his own (now legendary) Toracic Tapes label. Since then he has remained active at the international network of independent electronic music and has collaborated with musicians from different countries such as Cisfinitum (Codachrom), Siegmar Fricke (Efficient Refineries), Dieter Mauson, Francisco López, Stefano Barban, etc. Ruiz has composed many solo albums in all formats, especially on cassette, using several aliases: Funeral Souvenir, Exhaustor, Michel Des Airlines, Ventral Metaphor, apart from Orfeon Gagarin. His first vinyl LP was Encuentros En La Tercera Edad (1991) produced by the German electronics master Asmus Tietchens on his label Hamburger Musikgesellschaft. In addition, he has published with other respected international labels like Discos Esplendor Geométrico, Old Europa Café, Aquarelist, Monochrome Vision, Menstrual Recordings, etc. Fascinated by the sonic possibilities of analog and digital synthesizers and other studio techniques, Ruiz's style is fantastic and surprising, with an imagination that can be considered as overwhelming. Science, technology, Soviet space race, Borges, surrealism, clinical pathologies, black humor, or extra-planetary life -- whatever eccentricity has a place within the microcosm of this artist. He has a wide range of musical references: post-industrial music from the eighties recorded in home studios, German cosmic music from the '70s, pioneers of electro-acoustic music, Japanese techno pop, old and strange film soundtracks, retro-futurism, mutant pop, ambient, etc. At present, Ruiz is experiencing one of the most active and best creative moments, performing more than ever and being discovered by a new generation of young Spanish electronic musicians who look for his works and admire him. Voces A 45 is his latest album, a vinyl LP with nine tracks recorded in 2018 at his own Toracic Studio. It's the seventh work as Orfeon Gagarin, the previous one, Contestación Capilar, was released 25 years ago on CD (1994). Cover artwork by Alonso Urbanos. White vinyl; Edition of 250.

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SPECIAL REQUEST	VORTEX	2LP	HOUNDSTOOTH	HTH 113LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Double LP version. Special Request returns from hibernation with Vortex, an album he made in his underpants. Of the new material, he says, "I had a right fucking doss making this. Fuck all that conceptual guff m888" The music here is strictly bowel-evacuating bangers; those of a nervous disposition should watch out for incontinence. Many people think one can't do anything truly new in electronic music; Special Request disagrees. Upon playing some of the new tracks to a friend, the question "are u alright m8?" was asked; now the avid listener, can answer for themselves. Cut and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, manufactured at optimal media, Germany. Magenta and green vinyl.

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FEEL FLY	Syrius	2LP	INTERNASJONAL	INT 007LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Feel Fly is the alter ego of Daniele Tomassini: DJ and producer, composer of sound for theater and cinema, member of multiple hybrid projects, both live and studio. Based in Perugia, Italy, the co-founder of the monthly party Afro Templum has been, for years, an active organizer of musical and cultural events in the underground city scene. Raised between the walls of the historical and transversal Norman Club, he is currently a resident of the Tangram and Numbers parties at Perugia's Urban Club, which led him to share the console with many important national and international artists. An avid collector of synths, keyboards, and any noisy toy he can lay his hand on, after appearances on Roots Underground and his own Too Romantic, it's now time for his first full length release Syrius on Internasjonal, co-produced and mixed by Prins Thomas. Includes download code. "In the mystical crescendo of soft cosmic-melodic carpets and expansive Balearic pulses, Feel Fly tinges his sounds with neo disco, house, synth-pop and Italo incursions. A slow pilgrimage permeated by immersive and dreamy beats that envelop you." --Prins Thomas, April 2019

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YANO, AKIKO	Iroha Ni Konpeitou	CD	WEWANTSOUNDS	WWSCD 018CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Wewantsounds present a reissue of Akiko Yano's Iroha Ni Konpeitou, originally released in 1977. Another superb Akiko Yano album and one of her funkiest, highlighting her singing and songwriting talents. Iroha Ni Konpeitou is perhaps Akiko Yano's best-known album in the Western world not just because of its striking front cover -- a shot by famed photographer Bishin Jumonji featuring Akiko holding an inflatable dolphin. A slick mix of Japanese pop and New York funk, the album was recorded in Tokyo except for the title track which was recorded in NYC with an all-star line-up consisting of Rick Marotta, David Spinozza, Will Lee, and Nicky Marrero. For the rest of the album, Akiko is accompanied by some of the best musicians from the Tokyo music scene gravitating around the groups Happy End and Tin Pan Alley: the ubiquitous Haruomi Hosono on bass, Tatsuo Hayashi on drums, Shigeru Suzuki on guitar, to name just a few. Interestingly, two Hosono compositions are featured on the album: "Ai Ai Gasa" which he recorded on his 1973 landmark debut Hosono House and "Hourou" originally recorded in '75 by singer and musician Chu Kosaka, on the eponymous album Horo. Last but not least, Hideki Matsutake is handling the keyboard programming duties on the album as Yano is playing a wide array of keyboards: Moog IIIc, Mini Moog, String Ensemble, on top of the Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, and Yamaha CP7C. Matsutake would soon become programmer in chief for Yellow Magic Orchestra, touring and playing with them around the world (like Yano herself). Although the album feels very accessible and funky, there are complex keyboard layers underneath as on the first short introduction "KAWAJI", a short electro fantasy, or on such tracks as "Ai Ai Gasa" and "Kino Wa Mou" on which Akiko is playing bass with her Moog, making the album a richly textured and inventive one once you scratch its surface. The tracks on the album flow effortlessly also highlighting Akiko Yano's superb songwriting and knack for creating fascinating pop song. "Iroha Ni Konpeitou" sounds as fresh and beautiful as when it first came out more than forty years ago and will please the growing circle of Akiko Yano fans around the world as a welcome addition to her brilliant discography. Remastered sound. First release outside of Japan.

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(((VLUBA)))	A-Mu-Kia (fur Future)	LP	NASHAZPHONE	NP 029LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 (((vlubä))) return with a new space drone ritual (the first on LP). A-Mu-Kia addresses an ancestral future over two sides of cosmic free sounds. Recorded and mixed at the Chrome Moon between 2017 and 2018. Artwork by Salvador Cresta. "(((vlubä))) is an Argentinian paranormal art project founded by Müriscia Divinorum and Aphra Cadabra. Since their initiation in 2001, their ritual, cosmic, drone, and free music has been documented on recordings issued on diverse labels around the world (Chocolate Monk, Ikuissus, Pseudoarcana, Foxglove, Phase!, RootDonLonie, Musik Atlach, Buh... etc) and have appeared on numerous compilations, splits and collabs with artist such as Alan Courtis, Futurians, Uton, Michael Donelly, and many more. (((vlubä))) have appeared in several festivals throughout South and Central America: Festival Integraciones - Perú (2011), Festival los Lenguajes Alienígenas - México (2014), Hyperlocal Festival - Buenos Aires (2017), in addition to countless gigs across the multimedia and underground scenes. In 2016, (((vlubä))) has joined the visual artist Fernando 'Huanchaco' Gutierrez in the Peruvian desert of Chilca for a hypnagogic UFO show and radio transmission to space. Their entire oeuvre focuses on extraterrestrial themes, sci-fi and most importantly the essence of strong psyche-shamanistic soundscapes. THEY ARE AN ENTHEOGEN. The mountain ladies say a table snared is a table not going anywhere, so keep yr eyes and ears in that direction. Vluba know this and invite you to immerse yourself in A-Mu-Kia and check their desk of daydreams where you can listen to them building their grand gleaming design, tossing confusion upon your countenance with their own personal pattern of doofus drone soul vibration with added mercury spit pulse." --Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo/Chocolate Monk), Brighton, UK, April 2019

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LLYN Y CWN	Twll Du	CD	COLD SPRING RECORDS	CSR 254CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Llyn Y Cwn's Twll Du (Black Hole) is an ominous dark ambient journey through vast atmospheric landscapes. Each beautifully-crafted opus is based on a bespoke field recording and is named after an area of Cwm Idwal, home of the Twll Du. Swelling, monolithic drones reveal the majestic power of the mountains. The music conveys an immersive atmosphere and is intended to be played as the listener falls into a deep sleep. Llyn Y Cwn (Lake Of The Dogs) is a small lake at 715m in the Glyder mountain range of Snowdonia, North Wales. The Devil's Kitchen is the name given to the dark, black crack which splits the rock of Clogwyn y Geifr (Cliff Of The Goat) between Y Garn and Glyder Fawr. The Welsh name for Devil's Kitchen is Twll Du, meaning 'black hole', because of the plume of steam that is often seen rising from the crack resembling a chimney. It's said when steam can be seen rising from the chimney, the Devil is cooking. File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord. Benjamin Ian Powell on the project's genesis: "I am an electronics technician for the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University; I spend a lot of time of time at sea on scientific research cruises which is where most of my music is written using a laptop and headphones. I have been on research trips to the Arctic several times on Russian, British and Canadian icebreakers, an experience that has been a large inspiration to my music. I have lived in North Wales all my life and spend as much time as I can in my camper van in the mountains." Presented in a six-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist.

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YANO, AKIKO	Iroha Ni Konpeitou	LP	WEWANTSOUNDS	WWSLP 018LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 LP version. Obi strip; Includes insert. Wewantsounds present a reissue of Akiko Yano's Iroha Ni Konpeitou, originally released in 1977. Another superb Akiko Yano album and one of her funkiest, highlighting her singing and songwriting talents. Iroha Ni Konpeitou is perhaps Akiko Yano's best-known album in the Western world not just because of its striking front cover -- a shot by famed photographer Bishin Jumonji featuring Akiko holding an inflatable dolphin. A slick mix of Japanese pop and New York funk, the album was recorded in Tokyo except for the title track which was recorded in NYC with an all-star line-up consisting of Rick Marotta, David Spinozza, Will Lee, and Nicky Marrero. For the rest of the album, Akiko is accompanied by some of the best musicians from the Tokyo music scene gravitating around the groups Happy End and Tin Pan Alley: the ubiquitous Haruomi Hosono on bass, Tatsuo Hayashi on drums, Shigeru Suzuki on guitar, to name just a few. Interestingly, two Hosono compositions are featured on the album: "Ai Ai Gasa" which he recorded on his 1973 landmark debut Hosono House and "Hourou" originally recorded in '75 by singer and musician Chu Kosaka, on the eponymous album Horo. Last but not least, Hideki Matsutake is handling the keyboard programming duties on the album as Yano is playing a wide array of keyboards: Moog IIIc, Mini Moog, String Ensemble, on top of the Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, and Yamaha CP7C. Matsutake would soon become programmer in chief for Yellow Magic Orchestra, touring and playing with them around the world (like Yano herself). Although the album feels very accessible and funky, there are complex keyboard layers underneath as on the first short introduction "KAWAJI", a short electro fantasy, or on such tracks as "Ai Ai Gasa" and "Kino Wa Mou" on which Akiko is playing bass with her Moog, making the album a richly textured and inventive one once you scratch its surface. The tracks on the album flow effortlessly also highlighting Akiko Yano's superb songwriting and knack for creating fascinating pop song. "Iroha Ni Konpeitou" sounds as fresh and beautiful as when it first came out more than forty years ago and will please the growing circle of Akiko Yano fans around the world as a welcome addition to her brilliant discography. Remastered sound. First release outside of Japan.

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WRUHME, ROBAG	Venq Tolep	2LP +7"	PAMPA	PAMPA 014LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Double LP version includes 7" with two bonus tracks, postcard, and download. Robag Wruhme takes synthetic sounds and sampled noises, cuts them to fit, and turns them into beats without his music ever sounding pieced-together; every single percussive sound is a compact unit, bursting with melody. For Venq Tolep, his first album-length release on Pampa Records in eight years, Wruhme chooses to dig deeper, expanding the space of these elements. He finds beats inside the beats, opens them up further, discovers hooklines, harmonies and feels where he can dispense with rhythm entirely. From his first releases on Freude am Tanzen one could hear it, a light-footed sense of rhythm. Venq Tolep opens with two melodic, melancholic pieces: "Advent" sets one to dancing, while "Westfal" has the listener lying in the grass amid the buzzing heat and rustling wind, hearing the voice of Lysann Zander, with whom Wruhme has worked previously on projects including his album Thora Vukk (PAMPA 002CD, 2011). Hers is not the only familiar name on this album -- Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft have both appeared on releases from Wruhme's bootleg label. Here, they are featured on "Nata Alma," a laid-back club track. "Iklahx" and "Ak-Do 5" both possess a carefree percussiveness, while "Komalh" and "Ago Lades" prove that when Wruhme talks about techno, he means club music more akin to the elegance of London two-step, fueled by R&B/hip-hop and swingbeat, and far removed from the Belgian-Teutonic bunker sound. "Bézique Atout" is a reinterpretation of "Domino," a track from French producer Oxia which Wruhme remixed in 2017, stylishly making it his own. Two more familiar tracks are "Volta Copy," a version of his 2015 hit "Volta Cobby," minus the beat, but now propelled by arpeggios, and "Ende #2," like greetings received from around the world in a day, picks up where "Ende" from Thora Vukk leaves off. Title track "Venq Tolep" draws on all the album's various movements in four minutes and 18 seconds: the light, pensive mood, the subtle, driving rhythm, the ambient-sounding layers of synthesized strings and the percussive electric piano melody lines. Venq Tolep has a well-rounded sound, like an arch unfolding in space; that, of course, is the universe of Robag Wruhme. With Venq Tolep, Wruhme creates something extraordinary -- the album may speak the language of club music, but the music verges on feeling like songs. Is it techno pop? Pop techno? Pop ambient? Ambient pop?

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STANTON WARRIORS	Rise	2LP	NEW STATE MUSIC	NEW 9349LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Since bursting onto the scene with their multi award-winning compilation The Stanton Sessions back in 2001, the Stanton Warriors irresistible and inimitable sound has consistently remained the soundtrack to some of the world's biggest and best parties. From East London warehouses, Miami boat parties and illegal Detroit raves, to smashing up the stages of Coachella, Glastonbury, Burning Man and Ultra, selling out global tours, topping DJ lists, Bristol's Mark Yardley and Dominic Butler have honed a trademark, uncategorizable sound that is at once all their own, but also utterly indefinable, leading to high-profile releases on XL Recordings, Fabric, Cheap Thrills, Central Station and Universal, alongside official remixes for everyone from Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim, to MIA, Gorillaz, and Danny Byrd. This phenomenal output and remarkable longevity have ensured the Stanton Warriors' legendary status amongst not only their fans, but also their peers. Stanton Warriors' 2015 album Rebel Bass featured a host of new and exciting bass artists such as Cause & Affect (aka Chris Lorenzo & Kane) and went to #1 in the Apple Music general album chart and Top Ten in the iTunes dance album charts in eight countries. They also continued their sold-out tours across the USA, Europe, Australia and the Far East, releasing collaborations on Claude Von Stroke's Dirtybird label and a slew of exciting releases on their own label Punks. Rise is Stanton Warriors' strongest album to date, with all twelve tracks ready to set dancefloors alight. Stanton Warriors have called on some of the scene's most exciting and diverse artists with which to collaborate. Featured artists include Foreign Beggars, Stush, Taiki Nulight, Sian Evans, Ami Carmine, Keith Thompson, Lily McKenzie, Danny Dearden, and Scarlett Quinn. Each track on Rise showcases Stanton Warriors' trademark rolling breakbeat-bass sound. They remain fresh, original and relevant, obstinately dancing to the beat of their own drum, helping to pave the way for new talent, proudly plowing their own genre for twenty years and as the new album title points to, still continuing to rise. 180 gram pressing.

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1127	Tqaseem Mqamat El Haram 2016-2019	LP	NASHAZPHONE	NP 031LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Debut LP by Cairo's darkest prince who has translated your deepest and sickest thoughts into an electronic narrative reminiscent of a krokodil-induced Tim Hecker composition. "Zezinia 2" features She7ta Wel3a. "I enjoyed listening to this album -- it's beautiful, provocative and driven by a thoughtful balance between density and isolation. The clutter of elements tells a precise story, clarified by chaotic fusions and spontaneous, tangential ideas of sound. The 'pressure' of the thing feels important. I'm struck by how the detail of the sound design and non-musicality evokes real places and real moments, and somehow very human emotions. It's a brilliant record." --David Psutka (Egyptrixx/ACT!), Toronto, Canada, March 2019

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BOONLORM	Omniscient Wildin'	12"	SNOW DOG RECORDS/WILDE CALM RECORDS	SDWC 1407EP
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Snow Dog Records and Wilde Calm present Omniscient Wildin', the follow-up release to Boonlorm's now-classic "piano not piano house" album, String Figures (SDGWC 1401CD, 2014). A decidedly "techno" approach was taken for the six-track EP, with Boonlorm ratcheting up the master tempo to 130BPM and utilizing a rugged economy to emphasize the rhyth-melodic dialogue between the drums and prepared piano. This "percussion discussion" quotes the past syntax of Chicago and Detroit, the 20th century avant-garde, and the bold new dialects being created for dancefloors around the globe. Omniscient Wildin' buzzes, vibrates, and talks that talk.

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PRINCIPLEASURE	1	2LP	PRINCIPLEASURE	PPLP 001LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Los Angeles-based Principleasure releases his debut LP I ("One") to critical acclaim. "An enthralling debut album," according to Mixmag who promptly made it their Album of the Month; "A brilliantly crafted debut album" proclaim Future Music Magazine and "brooding with icy contempt" says Electronic Sound in their full-page review. With festival support from DJs as diverse as Dixon and AME to A-Trak, 1 comes hot off the back of three EPs released in 2018, with videos from Hirad Sab (Sevdaliza) and Yoshi Sodeoka (Digitalism). Double-LP version come on clear vinyl; gatefold sleeve.

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WRUHME, ROBAG	Venq Tolep	CD	PAMPA	PAMPA 014CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Robag Wruhme takes synthetic sounds and sampled noises, cuts them to fit, and turns them into beats without his music ever sounding pieced-together; every single percussive sound is a compact unit, bursting with melody. For Venq Tolep, his first album-length release on Pampa Records in eight years, Wruhme chooses to dig deeper, expanding the space of these elements. He finds beats inside the beats, opens them up further, discovers hooklines, harmonies and feels where he can dispense with rhythm entirely. From his first releases on Freude am Tanzen one could hear it, a light-footed sense of rhythm. Venq Tolep opens with two melodic, melancholic pieces: "Advent" sets one to dancing, while "Westfal" has the listener lying in the grass amid the buzzing heat and rustling wind, hearing the voice of Lysann Zander, with whom Wruhme has worked previously on projects including his album Thora Vukk (PAMPA 002CD, 2011). Hers is not the only familiar name on this album -- Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft have both appeared on releases from Wruhme's bootleg label. Here, they are featured on "Nata Alma," a laid-back club track. "Iklahx" and "Ak-Do 5" both possess a carefree percussiveness, while "Komalh" and "Ago Lades" prove that when Wruhme talks about techno, he means club music more akin to the elegance of London two-step, fueled by R&B/hip-hop and swingbeat, and far removed from the Belgian-Teutonic bunker sound. "Bézique Atout" is a reinterpretation of "Domino," a track from French producer Oxia which Wruhme remixed in 2017, stylishly making it his own. Two more familiar tracks are "Volta Copy," a version of his 2015 hit "Volta Cobby," minus the beat, but now propelled by arpeggios, and "Ende #2," like greetings received from around the world in a day, picks up where "Ende" from Thora Vukk leaves off. Title track "Venq Tolep" draws on all the album's various movements in four minutes and 18 seconds: the light, pensive mood, the subtle, driving rhythm, the ambient-sounding layers of synthesized strings and the percussive electric piano melody lines. Venq Tolep has a well-rounded sound, like an arch unfolding in space; that, of course, is the universe of Robag Wruhme. With Venq Tolep, Wruhme creates something extraordinary -- the album may speak the language of club music, but the music verges on feeling like songs. Is it techno pop? Pop techno? Pop ambient? Ambient pop? Digipak.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
STANTON WARRIORS	Rise	2CD	NEW STATE MUSIC	NEW 9349CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Since bursting onto the scene with their multi award-winning compilation The Stanton Sessions back in 2001, the Stanton Warriors irresistible and inimitable sound has consistently remained the soundtrack to some of the world's biggest and best parties. In the studio, Bristol's Mark Yardley and Dominic Butler have honed a trademark, uncategorizable sound that is at once all their own. This phenomenal output and remarkable longevity have ensured the Stanton Warriors legendary status amongst not only their fans, but also their peers. Stanton Warriors' 2015 album Rebel Bass featured a host of exciting bass artists such as Cause & Affect (aka Chris Lorenzo & Kane), which went to #1 in the Apple Music general album chart and Top ten in the iTunes dance album charts in eight countries. They also continued their sold-out tours across the USA, Europe, Australia and the Far East, collaborations on Claude Von Stroke's Dirtybird label and a slew of exciting releases on their own tastemaker label Punks. Rise is Stanton Warriors strongest album to date, with all twelve tracks ready to set dancefloors alight. Stanton Warriors have called on some of the scene's most exciting and diverse artists to collaborate with, across hip-hop, grime, house, dancehall, drum'n'bass. Featured artists include Foreign Beggars, Stush, Taiki Nulight, Sian Evans, Ami Carmine, Keith Thompson, Lily McKenzie, Danny Dearden, and Scarlett Quinn. Each track on Rise showcases Stanton Warriors's trademark rolling breakbeat-bass sound. Also included in the package on the second disc is their "Rise DJ Mix" that contains a selection of new remixes of tracks from their previous albums, releases from their own label Punks artists including Plump DJs, Chris Røyal, Cosella & Vanilla Ace, and tracks from Rise, remixed by the Punks family, plus an unreleased Stanton Warriors remix of Danny Byrd's "Salute". They remain fresh, original and relevant, obstinately dancing to the beat of their own drum, helping to pave the way for new talent, proudly ploughing their own genre for twenty years and as the new album title points to, still continuing to rise. Rise features: Sian Evans, Scarlett Quinn, Taiki Nulight & Danny Dearden, Stush & Foreign Beggars, Keith Thompson, Lily McKenzie, and Ami Carmine. Rise DJ Mix features: The Beatnuts, Neon Steve, Plump DJs, Twista, Volac, Taiki Nulight, Foundry, Ami Carmine, Aylen, Bombo Rosa, Chris Røyal, Cosella & Vanilla Ace, Marten Hørger, Skiitour, Sian Evans, Badjokes, Greed, Lily McKenzie, GUAU, Danny Byrd, MC GQ, and Left/Right.

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TRAPPES, PENELOPE	Penelope Redeux	LP	HOUNDSTOOTH	HTH 110LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 After the release of her sublime sophomore solo album Penelope Two (HTH 105CD/LP, 2018), Penelope Trappes and Houndstooth announce Penelope Redeux, an album of top-drawer reworks of tracks from Penelope Two which showcase the intrinsic brilliance of Penelope's composition and performances and her far-reaching and all-encompassing musical influences and significance. On Penelope Redeux, Penelope Two's themes of life and death and of hope and dismay are still prevalent, brought to the surface in a myriad of ways. Mogwai stretch "Burn On" into a scorching, warbling drone that flips the original somber subtlety for grandeur and in-your-face majesty. Factory Floor member Nik Colk Void offers up a wayward, statically charged reworking of "Nite Hive" which reimagines the track's solemn beauty as a heads-down roller. Throbbing Gristle's Cosey Fanni Tutti's dystopian, avant-garde and jazz tinged electronics are deployed alongside her signature cornet to flip "Carry Me." Félicia Atkinson's rework of "Burn On" digs for the skeletal awe by stripping away many of Penelope's multi-layered effects and pushing the bare vocals to the front with manipulated field recordings. Houndstooth mainstay Throwing Snow demonstrates his ineffable brilliance, delivering an elastic-yet-powerful subdued rework of "Farewell". Jófríður Ákadóttir aka JFDR injects nimble rhythms and guitar into piano ballad "Maeve." Hidden Orchestra member Poppy Ackroyd transposes "Kismet" onto the piano, adding eerie percussive embellishments. Savages producer Jonny Hostile takes "Farewell" and utilizes the space within to add more noise and energy. Sigur Ros' musical director Paul Corley, delivers a forlorn take on "Nite Hive," whilst Swedish techno duo Aasthma (Peder Mannerfelt and Pär Grindvik) "Connector" to an entirely different realm, adding rattling drum patterns and skidding synth leads which transform the sober original to a joyous dancefloor slayer. Trappes is a London-based, Australian-born vocalist; she spent 2016 writing and recording what would become her first solo album Penelope One (OMLP 011LP, 2017) in a piano studio in East London. Composed of mostly percussion-less, reverb-heavy atmospherics with dystopian themes, the LP was released via Optimo Music. Penelope signed to Houndstooth in 2018 and released Penelope Two; the minimalist, ethereal album was built around field recordings, meditations, guitars, synth drones, piano and reverb, and deals with mortality, predestination and empathy.

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KOLSCH	Fabric Presents Kolsch	2LP	FABRIC	FABRIC 202LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Fabric Presents Kölsch is a ten-track journey of exclusive new material by Kölsch inspired by and named after flights from his gig schedule. Drawing from the routine experience of flying from show-to-show, each track imagines its own sonic world from solitary journeys at 30,000 feet. Employing a tapestry of carefully arranged textures, he levitates his way through 60 minutes of blissful hypnotism. Building on a constant, but gentle line of tension, his track selections tread the line between melancholic and uplifting. Microscopic percussive details roll through sprawling backdrops whilst animated glitches form subtle melodic leads.

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KOLSCH	Fabric Presents Kolsch	CD	FABRIC	FABRIC 202CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Fabric Presents Kölsch is a ten-track journey of exclusive new material by Kölsch inspired by and named after flights from his gig schedule. Drawing from the routine experience of flying from show-to-show, each track imagines its own sonic world from solitary journeys at 30,000 feet. Employing a tapestry of carefully arranged textures, he levitates his way through 60 minutes of blissful hypnotism. Building on a constant, but gentle line of tension, his track selections tread the line between melancholic and uplifting. Microscopic percussive details roll through sprawling backdrops whilst animated glitches form subtle melodic leads.

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SPECIAL REQUEST	VORTEX	CD	HOUNDSTOOTH	HTH 113CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/7/2019 Special Request returns from hibernation with Vortex, an album he made in his underpants. Of the new material, he says, "I had a right fucking doss making this. Fuck all that conceptual guff m888" The music here is strictly bowel-evacuating bangers; those of a nervous disposition should watch out for incontinence. Many people think one can't do anything truly new in electronic music; Special Request disagrees. Upon playing some of the new tracks to a friend, the question "are u alright m8?" was asked; now the avid listener, can answer for themselves. Cut and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis, manufactured at optimal media, Germany.

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DAVACHI, SARAH	Pale Bloom	LP	W.25TH	W25 010LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/31/2019 LP version. "Pale Bloom finds Sarah Davachi coming full circle. After abandoning the piano studies of her youth for a series of albums utilizing everything from pipe and reed organs to analog synthesizers, this prolific Los Angeles-based composer returns to her first instrument for a radiant work of quiet minimalism and poetic rumination. Recorded at Berkeley, California's famed Fantasy Studios, Pale Bloom is comprised of two delicately-arranged sides. The first -- a three-part suite where Davachi's piano acts as conjurer, beckoning Hammond organ and stirring countertenor into a patiently unfolding congress -- recalls Eduard Artemiev's majestic soundtrack for Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris. 'Perfumes I-III' employs the harmonically rich music of Bach as a springboard for abstract, solemn pieces that sound as haunted as they are dreamlike. While the first half of Pale Bloom showcases Davachi's latent Romanticism, the sidelong 'If It Pleased Me To Appear To You Wrapped In This Drapery' reveals the Mills College graduate's affinity for the work of avant-garde composers La Monte Young and Eliane Radigue. Softly vibrating strings rise and fall like complementary exhalations of breath. As the fluctuating pitches create overtones that pitter and pulse, the piece slowly and subtly evolves -- suggesting a well-tempered stillness, yet without stasis."

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COOPER SAVER	Coastal Breeze	12"	PERMANENT VACATION	PERMVAC 185-1EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/24/2019 Cooper Saver is a Los Angeles based DJ and producer. Coastal Breeze is a collection of tracks Cooper produced at home in LA over the last year or so, aimed at the late-night dancefloor with an injection of California sunshine. Close friend and local hometown hero Indra Dunis of Peaking Lights was summoned for vocal duty on "The Search", rounding off this release as the ultimate embodiment of Cooper's surroundings.

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FALTYDL X BENNY ILL	FaltyDL X Benny Ill	12"	BLUEBERRY RECORDS	BBR 017EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/24/2019 Yo Falty why don't you do the old school shuffle anymore? What happened? Failty: "OK, held this one back from 2011. All the garage and two-step workouts I made were inspired by hours and hours of listening to Horsepower Productions, Zed Bias, El-B, Darqwan... This tune in particular inspired by Benny Ill himself. 'Ill Bent' was never released, I always held back some exclusives for my sets . . . Benny Ill remixed the track in fine style, both "Straight Up" and with a "Fat Larry" spin."

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INLAND	Time Leak	12"	FIGURE	FIGURE X005EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 5/24/2019 After having appeared twice on the Figure SPC series, Inland (aka Ed Davenport) now arrives on Figure, providing a trio of well-honed, first-grade club-material. Out the gate comes "Stainless" -- an electrifying piece of machine-power which, already bursting with energy, still manages to turn it up a few notches. Next up, the seasoned producer turns in a powerful chord-rooted tool: "Swerv" is driven by tides of shimmering beauty along a sea of pounding drums. One to behold is the epic B side, which amounts to a trance-inducing, enveloping synthetic vortex of sound. A long journey that is deeply rewarding.

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