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KRXN 022LP
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After more than two decades flexing his muscles on the local underground scene and gaining a legendary cult status on his Tenerife home turf, the island's most famous postman, as he's affectionately known by his consorts, Tomás de la Rosa aka Postman breaks radio silence to bulldoze his way through the canyons surrounding his hometown of Santa Cruz into an unknown and unsuspecting world. Keroxen presents Postman's first ever album of original bangers, micro chopped two steppers and rage induced breakbeat anthems. Constructed over the course of global confinement, Seeds of Light marks a return to creative activity from the man who regularly delivers your post (it's not just a random artist name). Postman, aka Tomás de la Rosa, has taken his time, compiling sketches and unfinished songs, rummaging through the deep ends of his hard drive, stitching early production sketches with recent compositions, revising, reediting and rebuilding with a more mature and concise attitude, eventually completing, almost unintentionally, the perfect self-referential retrospective album. Far from being just a compilation album, Tomás managed to create an explosive document, suspended in time, in which styles are intertwined regardless of fashions and fads -- letting go of the "modern" or "up to date" burden -- so common these days in electronic music. It is not an easy album, like many of his previous work it demands extra attention to experience the full crystallization of his complex sound structures. You find ourselves in front of a truly surgically precise work of art whose result comes as a waterproof war machine, refined and incisive, resonating deep with soul and groove. Postman develops his sound palette throughout the album from very basic sound snippets into a concrete dance world of synthetic sounds eventually creating a parallel reality where J. Dilla could be living in Chemnitz instead of Detroit and releasing records for a label called Raster-Throw. Glitch sampladelics! Incursions into grime are also abundant with nods to the ineffable East Man, reunions with his beloved Funkstörung or many other stimulating revisions of lifelong genres and breaks populate this multidimensional sound space, see soul, dancehall, breakbeat, two step and the UK hardcore continuum. Artwork by Catalan visual artist Alba de Corral.
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KRXN 023LP
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Helmed by Dave Watts, aka D.WattsRiot (Fun-da-mental), the debut King L. Man album, Headonix, is beat-laden shout out in response to the perpetual state of war we seem to find ourselves at. Outrage and disgust, love and hate, history and presence. Contributions come from four continents. Fresh on the scene is Senegalese vocalist Sidi I.B., who arrived on Canarian shores with two hundred other compatriots, cold, wet and hungry after seven days at sea with nothing but his future in his hands. Temporarily housed at the infamous migrant holding center in Las Raíces, Tenerife, the studio environment provided an avenue of relief from the inadequate conditions at the overcrowded camp. Also from Senegal, living in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is rapper Ibrahima El Latigazo who delivers his lyrics in French, Wolof, Spanish, English, and Sérère. Rounding up the Senegalese contingent is Mame Samba, a group that hold the spirits close when performing. Their contribution is from recording sessions they had with François R. Cambuzat and Gianna Greco (Putan Club, Ifriqiyya Electrique). Kiki Hitomi (Waq Waq Kingdom, King Midas Sound) returns to the fold, exhaling positivity with Canarian multi-instrumentalist Javier Afonso (Grenouille). The Canarian faction also includes violinist Mónica Viñoly, Dani Garcia (Lagoss, Tupperwear), and Vakawuare. Further guests include percussionist Miroca Paris (Cesária Évora, Madonna); Hamid Mantu (TransGlobal Underground); Ramjac (Dub Colossus), drums and percussion respectively. Also features Zeeteah.
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KRXN 024LP
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Spectacular mystical jazz infused psychedelics from Canary Islands' cult band GAF. Using a series of different add-ons to their (already obscure) band acronym GAF (Grifa Ambient Factory) such as Love Supreme Arkestra or GAF & La Estrela de la Muerte amongst a few, the Tenerife based band illustrate clearly what mutation or influence they're feeding through (their mind) by the judicious use of these referential add-ons. Rotating around the vision of local lynchpin, Mladen Kurajica aka Bonni, Keroxen label head, festival organizer, producer and musician with numerous projects including helming the GAF outfit. The Love Supreme Arkestra variation here being the more Coltrane leaning (Alice rather than John) and Sun Ra-esque influenced thematic of the six-piece band. Over a series of seven huge sounding themes, you can hear twirling saxophones, trumpets, marimbas, modulars, and rhythmic sections intertwining like flying spiral snakes over a burning sea of lava. Recorded live and freely over a completely improvised jam session on a sunny afternoon in the mountainous region of La Esperanza in Tenerife, the band lets rip free of any previous albums particular sound choosing instead to purge into a world of musical liberation by embracing the aforementioned pioneers of the genre whilst unconsciously absorbing in their surroundings -- as an additional inspiration for musical freedom. The result really shines through its 74 minutes of mind-blowing adventurous music. A journey to the peaks of the Teide Volcano and down the green valleys, into the blue and black volcanic coasts of liberation. For fans of Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, free spiritual jazz. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with two beautiful paintings by Tenerife painter, Sema Castro.
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KRXN 018LP
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Melancholic energy blast from Gran Canaria's cult trio, MINIATURa, helmed by Eduardo Briganty. Formed in Las Palmas in 2007 and with three records under their belt, Music Box (2007), La Huida Concéntrica (2012), and Estrategias de Perdición (2015), the trio now unleashes its fourth album with a distillation of Briganty's musical and artistic references, coming like a cross of concept album and an unintentional imaginary soundtrack to a David Lynch flick -- an island version of a depressed or irate David Lynch. Featuring deep rock workouts to somnambulant ballads, Geometría Prohibida presents itself like a statement from the band, a crystallization of the bands intentions with a concise and precise 26 minutes of masterfully produced music showcasing the kind of restrain you'd expect from past giants like Joy Division, Neu!, or Scott Walker. The hallmarks of krautrock and shoegazing/dream pop haunt this record like a benevolent force, another unique reference of music made through an insular lens of remoteness that Keroxen drives to showcase to the world. More unobvious island music to the outer world.
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KRXN 003LP
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2021 repress of Tupperwear's 2017's sophomore album, Mokele Mbembe. Rising from the ashes of legendary underground Tenerife outfit Colectivo Drone are Tupperwear -- an organic electronic duo formed by Daniel García (Salétile) and Mladen Kurajica (Gaf) in 1999. Since then, and for the most of 20+ years they have been unleashing electronic waves of sound from the Atlantic Island by way of intense live and a series of uncompromising and unclassifiable albums and EPs. Taking cues from a wide spectrum of electronic music classics, mostly the more pastoral and frantic electronica of Aphex Twin et all circa the late '90s, whilst at the same time adding their own mischievous and tongue in cheek approach to composition and performance, Tupperwear have for the last 20 years been responsible for some of the most intense live performances the island has seen whilst also taking their anything goes, improvisation first approach all over the world, this includes virtually all of Europe (east or west), Japan, China, Peru, Colombia, Equador, or Mexico, you name it! In 2017 the local festival and label Keroxen published Mokele Mbembe, their second LP of twisted electronica which is here repressed to a wider public after the success of their collaboration with São Paulo Underground and Chicago legend Rob Mazurek.
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KRXN 021LP
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Yearly compilation album Radar by Keroxen, introducing the second volume in the series of themed based albums showcasing the talents and misfortunes of carefully selected musicians/bands based in the Canary Islands. Where Radar Vol. 1 (2020) focused its sights on rock oriented music, Vol. 2 looks at the more experimental, free flowing side of electronic and sample based music, also made in Tenerife this last year. The format stays the same as Vol. 1: four different artists are invited to contribute two tracks, no rules other than do their own thing. The result being an extraordinary amalgamation of various genres and styles of the electronic music cannon including: smoky dub beats by King L. Man, tropical Casiotone divagations by Usted, inverted and polyrhythmic workouts from the Tupperwear duo, ultra precise dub-tech-2step edits by Postman, and organic psychedelics by freak trio Lagoss. Yet another crucial document from a region you usually do not associate with forward thinking music, more than a simple compilation, Radar 2 unveils the thin veil of new and uncompromising music being produced in and around the orbit of the Keroxen collective. It seems the Atlantic isolation works as a catalyst here, judging from the copious amount of different and challenging music that has been coming from this corner of the world over the last few years. Keroxen invite you to dive in the wild remote tropical waters of Radar 2. Usted's "Salió De La Nevera" features Okydoky. Artwork by Pura Márquez. Mastering by Daniel Báez.
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KRXN 017LP
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Francisco López offers a brand-new field recording composition based on the recordings he did in the island of Tenerife whilst visiting for a performance at the Keroxen Festival, 2020. Internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene, Francisco has an ear-like gift to point his microphones (and our ears) to the most special and unlikely of sound sources. For almost forty years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, the presentation here is not unlike his most famous and celebrated works whilst still maintaining its unique relevance among a prolific catalogue of sounds. Entitled Hidden Island Music the work explores its aforementioned "hidden sounds" of Tenerife with a high sensorial mix of environmental and "industrial" recordings taken in and around the Massifs of Teno and Anaga and later composed into a unique sonic journey through the huge sound pits of this rugged region of north Tenerife. Another masterful work from one of the masters of his craft, shifting from the limits of our perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, a profound and transcendental listening open to sensory and spiritual expansion. Original environmental sound matter recorded at multiple locations in Macizo de Teno and Macizo de Anaga (Tenerife), November 2020. Evolved, composed, edited, mixed and mastered at "mobile messor" (Tenerife, Den Haag) and Dune Studio (Loosduinen), 2020-21. Cover photography by Néstor Torrens Back. Photography by Francisco López.
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KRXN 016LP
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Brazilian-American power trio São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado) align their chakras with Tenerife electronic pranksters Tupperwear (Mladen Kurajica, Daniel Garcia) for an anything goes EP session of tropical jazz, Chicago post rock, and general head scratching psych chants. Recorded live in 2016 in a disused kerosene tank in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands after a week-long residency. Now recompiled by the Keroxen label and presented here in its ripest form, certified ready for human consumption. Each member plays multiple roles in creating Saturno Mágico's unique organic evolving sound. Mazurek plays cornet and modular synths; Takara's on drums, cavaquinho and electronics, whilst Granado plays keyboards, synthesizers, and sampler. Tupperwear add to the organic flow with Kurajica on various synths and keyboards whilst Garcia excels on electronics, live sampling, guitar and voices. Another unique document from the Keroxen Label, exponential Island music and insular collaborations spilled out onto the world -- so much more to come, blink it and you'll miss. Recorded Live November 9th, 2016 by Daniel Badal. Mixing and master by Daniel García. Artwork by Evan Crankshaw.
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KRXN 014LP
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Los Pirañas' "Greatest Hits", with an added brass section, in a disused kerosene tank, what else! The Colombian trio return with an echo blast after their last delivery Historia Natural (GB 081CD/LP, 2019) to make their own way through the psychedelic tunnel visions of cumbia, champeta, psych surf rock, and everything else in between. Made up of Bogota natives, Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Chupame El Dedo), Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Chupame El Dedo) and Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica), the trio have been playing their own brand of tropical music together for over two decades now. Infame Golpazo en Keroxen reunites the trio's subversive way of making music as they re-configure and re-record their sound live in a disused gasoline tank situated in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. As that wasn't enough they meet with local brass players Pablo Arocha on trumpet, Pablo González on trombone, and Eduardo Martín on tuba to mash up the already mucho tropical humid vibe into a unique gasoline implosion of tropical fervor. After three unique albums showcasing their trajectory as a trio through the South American music ethos the Colombian powerhouse return to the scene of the crime with a solid set of high energy reversions of their most memorable tunes. Features tracks from their last three albums: Toma Tu Jabón Kapax (VAMPI 148CD), La Diversion que Hacia Falta en mi País (STAUB 145LP), and Historia Natural. Part of a new collaboration between Discrepant and Keroxen labels, firing up the less obvious island-made music into the wide world. Artwork by Paco Guillén Abrante. Recorded live by Jorge Lorenzo. Mixed and Mastered by Eblis Alvarez.
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