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PTP 2006LP
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PTP (Purple Tape Pedigree) present the debut album by Celestial Trax (real name Joni Judén) entitled Nothing Is Real, which he describes as a departure not only in sound but also geographically and spiritually from his previous output, having found an increased interest in mysticism and the esoteric. Taking inspiration from a quote by Anton Chekov, "if you want to work on your art, work on your life," Judén aimed for the album to be a true representation of his voice at this time. He felt a need to distance himself from the distractions a creative hub like New York City can often provide, not wanting to become too influenced by the city's current trends, and instead shifted his focus inward to cultivate a more meaningful self-connection: this journey and struggle thus serving as the main inspiration to the writing. In beginning of Nothing Is Real, Judén had reached the point of creative purge, deleting almost all samples, sample packs, and software synths. Fueled by ideas of rebirth and true self-projection, he amassed a library of field recordings from New York City, plus samples from his own cassettes, vinyl, and YouTube search history -- utilizing every sound source he could come across in his studio whilst trying to spend as little time as possible on the computer screen. The result is an album less concerned with achieving a masterful polish and sonic bombast, and instead aims for more organic textures where noise and imperfection reflects the human experience, with recurring themes of existentialism, surrealism and nature permeating throughout.
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PTP 2005LP
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Collaboration between Liverpool-based sound artist, Jon Davies, aka Kepla, and New York-based media theorist and music writer, DeForrest Brown Jr. Following in the style of verbatim theater, Brown -- through private recordings in various urban public environments -- recalls a palpable, though unseen trauma while wading amidst Davies's digital processing of found social media audio. The result is a psycho-political meditation on Black America as a (de)territorialized subject. Absent Personae was commissioned by Electronic Voice Phenomena as an interstitial specter in transition, resonating with the sinister politics of pseudo-science histories, while speculating on identity as evasion and persona without orientation. The piece is a post-industrial Dérive considering the psychological liminal zones between old and new industry and urbanity, the changing landscapes of labor: a fractured genealogical memory trace obscured by intercepted signals and the liquidating flux of late capitalism. "Lost My Head" features Embaci.
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PTP 2004CS
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Visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Olin Caprison composes and performs all aspects of the Violence project. Compositionally, each of the songs fearlessly disrupts any notions of genre division, creating a universe that is equal parts at-home in the realms of noise, rap, industrial, and the more extreme deviations of metal. Lyrically, Violence meditates on the oppressive nature of history, and explores ideas of archetypal memory and the stigmas which come with those memories. Caprison on the project: "My palette consists of the shattered micro-architecture of an unprejudiced, undiscerning, cosmopolitan, anti-culture massive music archive. A piece of this, a piece of that. The shattered remains of the 'genre', utilizing the mythopoeia behind each cultural movement to fight for meaning. This music is a struggle. It is a struggle from within this anti-history vacuum, a struggle against the all-embracing, multicultural, ahistorical ecosystem of contemporary music that renders all hierarchies impotent and null."
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PTP 2003EP
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Described by Soraya Lutangu as having been born out of "a violent clash of sorrow and love", this EP explores themes of institutional racism and oppression -- something she's experienced first-hand growing up in Lausanne, Switzerland, of mixed African and European heritage. Listeners are confronted head-on by these issues with "Supremacy", acting as an ominous movie trailer narrated by samples of Sister Souljah's speech from Bill Moyer's PBS series Listening To America. Closing track "Fearlings" also sees Bonaventure collaborate with artist and writer Hannah Black. Included download card includes six remixes, featuring Y1640, Ziúr, Prison Religion, Endgame, Jackie, and Geng.
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PTP 2001EP
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Verloren sees the Brooklyn-based producer placing a lens on society's relationship with digital environments. These 16 tracks continue to explore the relationship between sound and physical structure. Eaves drifts through fictional representations of our world in the future, finding that our present day seems to mimic them. Although there is a sense of fleeting chaos throughout, each track seems to sonically map out a landscape. Strings and synths swell over ominous beats, mysterious human-like sounds are buried under layers of sonic bombardments.
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PTP 007EP
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Geng's Purple Tape Pedigree continues its deviation from the electronic club music tradition with Syn Stair by NYC producer DJ NJ Drone. Uncoiling at a frantic, 150bpm+ pulse, "Syn Stair" is a stomach-sinking exercise in tension with arpeggiated synth chatter and mutant noise. The A-side focuses on a brooding, weightless approach ("Syn Stair (No Fountain)," "SYN 555 Zone") with bursts of stop-n-go movement ("10 Cones"), the flip is where momentum gathers from quickened stalk ("Syn Stair (Blind)," "Sharp") to pursuit, ending at a punishing 4x4 charge ("Spectral Future Loop").
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PTP 006EP
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140-gram 12". London-based DJ and producer Endgame is a founding member of Bala Club (alongside Kamixlo and Uli-K) and a regular at London's Endless party. Here, opener "Savage Riddim" is a destructive reggaetón-meets-mech-suit manifesto, layering frantically plucked melodies at a mid-tempo pump. The 140 BPM stutter-step of "1 Night Riddim" is blanketed by slabs of Tangerine Dream-like synthetics and maddened voices. The nimble, precise "XOX" bears an intricate dancehall whine, while the tarraxo rhythm of "NXN" comes awash in distant sirens, laser blasts, and disembodied screams. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy. Art by Kyselina.
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PTP 005LP
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Joey LaBeija has earned himself the reputation of an underground club music deity in his native New York City. The Bronx-bred producer and DJ is revered for his rhythmic assaults on sound systems, combining a celebration of his Puerto Rican heritage (e.g. Big Pun and Wisin & Yandel) with his love for the more extreme and experimental corners of electronic music (from Björk to friends Rabit and Lotic). As a fourth-generation House of LaBeija emissary, Joey LaBeija is not so interested in plainly referencing the traditional sound of ballroom and vogue, but instead seeks out new pathways to further immerse listeners into his personal experience. Shattered Dreams, LaBeija's full-length debut, marks a bold step forward in this artistic inquiry. The listener hears LaBeija pouring his darkest time as an adult into the music, drawing upon a single year full of life losses amid the walls of an unforgiving metropolis. From start to finish, it is a story told through the sprawl of daydreamt melodies, amorphous noise resembling the multi-appendage-clatter of insects, and tattered beds of abrasive percussion. Much like his style of playing live, there is no single set genre as Shattered Dreams winds forward; instead LaBeija mines various stylistic cues -- the upbeat stutter step of Timbaland or that of grime ("Over" and "Joey's Inferno"), for instance -- until revealing the tender, reverberating echoes of sounds unfound beneath the breaking sediment. This album is a hard barrel roll left, away from LaBeija well secured club stature. It is an intrepid dive into the pain of the mind. While Shattered Dreams was debuted by The FADER as a stream-only mix in August 2015, after which it appeared in FACT's "The 25 best albums of the last three months" list in October 2015 and received high praise in Mixmag's November 2015 issue, Purple Tape Pedigree now presents the album as an LP, with tracks split and re-touched to the utmost dynamic clarity by the masterful Rashad Becker.
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PTP 004EP
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On side A, MM (formerly Miss Modular), co-founder of the London-based Her Records, opens with "Charly Tek," spilling a liquid metal mixture of percussive bursts, bashment chants, and a rogue whistle to form a relentless stop-n-go riddim that is nothing short of bonecrushing. "Ohmu" furthers the midtempo exaltation with lines of manic brass and concussive bass. Side B sees N.A.A.F.I.'s Chilean club ambassador Imaabs controlling the atmosphere with trance-inducing minimalism. The ghostly bells of "Disyuncion" slip into a throbbing dembow-meets-stutter-step sequence before the sitar and frisky bassline of "Clinamen" braid melody over a heavy set of skin percussion and snare-clap combinations.
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PTP 003EP
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Purple Tape Pedigree, the New York City electronic imprint run by Geng, follows the 2015 Ride or Die EP by Celestial Trax with the first release in its split-12" series, a bold departure into the less-frequented realm of 95-120 BPM. London's Trap Door and Ra's Al Fatale combine as Gang Fatale to mix a pot of '80s funk/boogie, newer rhythmic themes such as "lite feet," and their spiced-up metallic reverb. CYPHR (Her Records) upends his own palette of kaleidoscopic ambience and sub-heavy percussion into two rollers drenched in viscous psychedelia. Mastered by Tony Dawsey. Cut by Matt Colton. Art by Chris Ramos.
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