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SL 112LP
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Mindgames follows Strangelove Music's previous issue of Sjunne Ferger's early singles and soundtrack work on Childrens Mind (SL 106LP, 2021). Occupying its own hinterland within Scandinavia's early '80s electronic/progressive movements, Mindgames navigates a lifetime of musical and personal exploration by Sjunne Ferger. Child jazz drummer prodigy, arts venue operator, music teacher and Aikido practitioner, a bewildering array of personal and creative influences are distilled into the Örebro native's only long player. Written around a new wave context, his own jazz fusion roots and at times with an unintentionally Balearic outcome, Sjunne goes some way to conjuring up a singular sounding album of the time. Narratives of love and loss, calls to self-empowerment and mindfulness, the new age zeal throughout follows Sjunne's own awakening. Its music caught in meditative reflection one moment before propelling into ecstatic revelation the next, with Sjunne's collective Exit providing electric backing throughout. Propelled by the drummer's beat, it's hard not to be caught up with Sjunne's personal vision of a "Polymood Music" LP painstakingly transferred and fully remastered from the original tapes, with new liner notes and photography.
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SL 113EP
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Proto-future pop exhumed from '86, Romie Singh's Dancing to Forget, could easily be mistaken for an up-to-the minute R&B instrumental from '22. The song's elastic swing reminiscent of a vintage Wally Badarou Compass Point session. Instead masterminded by studio maestros Günther Janssen (more lately of Donna Regina) and Peter Hantke, while Romie's vocals soar above. It's a timeless call to escape life's ills via the dancefloor. Collected here on Strangelove the cavernous, dubbed out "D.T.F." (12" version) sits alongside the prescient hope/dystopia of LP cut "Future World" (cue Covid World) and the killer Balearic-beat sass of "Credo". A short sharp three-track jolt into the trio's cult '80s catalog. Shouts to Basso for the original resuscitation!
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SL 111LP
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CCCVVV is the Brussels based duo of Clara Vellin and soFa elsewhere. The first Covid-lockdown drew these two old friends closer and both a love-story and burst of musical creativity followed. A wide-eyed electronic record wearing its heart on an inner sleeve, Curriculum Vitae chases after no real genre, preferring a very personal color and style of its own. Music and passion entwined; it has resulted in this collection of intimate avant-pop-oddities. The album collects whispers of 60's chanson and psyched out chords, holding a playful spirit throughout. Through the genre-no-genre approach, Curriculum Vitae distills down to a vital essence, constantly flirting with smartly infused elements from the past/present for the head, heart and feet. Highlights include a dreamy version of Nancy & Lee's "Some Velvet Morning" alongside the acidic slow-mo hypnotics of "Ritmo Denso". "Generationen" floats on a pillow of sonic bliss, while "Alla Porta Subito"'s vocal and instrument interplay slinks closer to outer-planetary Italo-reggae. C.V.'s production wanders along a retro-futuristic approach throughout, its punkish attitude dancing between an embrace of the modern and a more naive pop-arrangement approach. Along this 37-minute journey the sweet and dark sides of a lifetime are witnessed, light organic harp marries refreshingly to carefully chosen synthesizers. Whimsical lyrics meet with melancholic composition. Clara Vellin is a classical harp player active in a variety of eclectic musical projects. soFa, known for his highly acclaimed series of the eclectic elsewhere compilations, and productions such as Mameen 3, Nyati Mayi and collab with legendary Turkish drummer Okay Temiz and Houschyar on Music From Memory/Second Circle.
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SL 110LP
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A sonic clash of tropical, On-U and eastern proportions, t-woc drops six tracks of dope sound system bashment for Strangelove. Informed by Mick's musical wanderlust and prolific digging, Pantangle deftly blends a mélange of influences where Caribbean steel drum, Anatolian melodies and the sounds of the Maghreb all float through the mix. Like his work for Macadam Mambo or Emotional Response, it's a sound hard to pin down and all woven into a heady brew percolating somewhere in the dancefloor twilight zone. With early works created pre-lockdown at an artist residency in The Dock in County Leitrim, the heads down groove of "Crazy Bronco" and "Goddy" don't sound out of place with an early '90s UK bass culture. Elsewhere the deeper cuts rub against a little sunshine as the late-night swing of "Midnight Magic" riffs off Junior Delgado's roots classic. With killer artwork courtesy of Marius Houschyar, Strangelove release this collection of outernational rhythms from the Irish vinyl wallah, mix engineer, and producer.
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SL 109LP
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Six melodious pieces. This music embodies the nonsense of life during crucial times humanity is undergoing. It's believed that digestion plays a highly important role in the well-being of earthlings and balance; the immortality of sound within the cosmos of abnormal ideas and thoughts. This album says more than can be mentioned, Psychedelic Digestion Therapy have no doubt that this record will do its duty in fulfilling its purpose in your mind. While recording these songs, light-hearted artists were able to combine our digested voices with the exact sentiments depicted in humankind's pivotal moments of loneliness. The group hereby create a soothing inner feeling in our listeners. This album says more than can be mentioned, Psychedelic Digestion Therapy have no doubt that this record will do its duty in fulfilling its purpose in your mind. Edition of 350.
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SL 106LP
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From his FAT Studio near the central Swedish town of Örebro, Sjunne Ferger crafted a small but radical legacy of genre-bending music. With an open-minded, "anything goes" attitude born from his jazz roots, compiled here are songs charting a transition from fusion beginnings via his debut 7" with group Exit through to a more blissful synthetic sound palette. Across the album's seven songs, Sjunn's heady musical optimism aspired to an aesthetic that moved freely between drum machines and synths to more organic instrumentation with rich arrangements never losing sight of a light ethereal feel. Hypnotic ambient pieces written for short film swirl amongst the electronic and electrified -- unreleased versions of "Destiny" and "Candlelight" hint at his sound to come, while the album culminates in the highlights "Night Rituale" and "Childrens Mind" -- intoxicating mixes of Sjunne's influences and inspiration, they unknowingly hint at Mkwaju Ensemble and other key Japanese contemporaries, and bear witness to the Swede's deep Eastern philosophical outlook.
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SL 108LP
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Johanna Pigott's Scribble project floated through the airwaves down under during the first years of the '80s, gathered here is a succinct collection of her dreamy electronic pop from that era. There's an enigmatic feel woven throughout, songs such as "River" set sail on an imagined Antipodean Balearic vibe, while blissful end-of-nighter "Mother of Pearl" would likely get DJ Harvey in a spin. "The Party" poignantly mulls missing the big night out, while "Mr Calico" navigates spooked out noir before the eerie synth-waves of "B4" (rearranged by local maestro Hysteric).
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Strangelove Music present the first ever reissue of Syguira Lady, originally released in 1985. An eerie and absorbing ride through the rich imagination of enigmatic Osaka group, Viola Renea. While riding the current interest in Japanese music, the album remains an anomaly to much of the local music of the time. Juxtaposing ancient/modern sources of sonic inspiration, North England's new musical movements collide with Eastern European folk rhythms, while oriental scales slide amongst wavey-electronic instrumentation. The resultant musical dreamscapes sought to conjure themes of noir and seduction, recurrent in the period's techno-pop. Kuki Imamura described the album as the sound of unknown memories with aural visions and strange musical loves coalescing around a femme fatale; Syguiria Lady. Syguiria Lady is the first full reissue album for Strangelove Music. For fans of current Japanese music revival.
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LP version. Includes insert and new liner notes. Strangelove Music present the first ever reissue of Syguira Lady, originally released in 1985. An eerie and absorbing ride through the rich imagination of enigmatic Osaka group, Viola Renea. While riding the current interest in Japanese music, the album remains an anomaly to much of the local music of the time. Juxtaposing ancient/modern sources of sonic inspiration, North England's new musical movements collide with Eastern European folk rhythms, while oriental scales slide amongst wavey-electronic instrumentation. The resultant musical dreamscapes sought to conjure themes of noir and seduction, recurrent in the period's techno-pop. Kuki Imamura described the album as the sound of unknown memories with aural visions and strange musical loves coalescing around a femme fatale; Syguiria Lady. Syguiria Lady is the first full reissue album for Strangelove Music. For fans of current Japanese music revival.
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SL 105LP
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Strangelove Music's personal inventory of New Zealand's 1980s odd pop; The Kiwi Animal recasts the local charts in a parallel universe of misfit melodics, gonzo-tronics, and strange waves. Channeling South Pacific voodoo and edge of world melancholia, the album highlights electronic tangents from iconic NZ groups Blam Blam Blam and Headless Chickens. It dredges the cassette revelations of art avante-gardists' Drone and Kim Blackburn, alongside bittersweet moments from Rupert and Norma O'Malley. There's the infectious minimal wave of Ballare and a reprised electro-boogie dance suite(?!) from Tom Ludvigson & Graeme Gash. The furthest depths of Flying Nun's catalog are also plundered -- a brilliant earworm from Stiff Herbert and a mysterious "Roger" Knox birthday promo. Mining disparate seams of a local indie label awakening, the various tangents of The Kiwi Animal congeal with a future/primitive sensibility and an underlying Antipodean mischievousness... Includes insert.
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SL 103LP
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Strangelove Music's latest release turns left somewhere near the edge of the Atlantic, with Electricidade Estética they document a vibrant window into the musical landscape of 1980s counter-culture Portugal. Compiling early un-issued works, DWART's organic Ash Ra Balearics meld with spikey Iberian electronics, coalescing around the floating beauty of "Mate", reissued for the first time on vinyl. With emergent music technologies of the era enthusiastically adopted by Lisbon's avant-garde, there was a collective desire by DWART and their contemporaries to push existing sonic boundaries; Post new wave sounds melded with distinctive local sensibilities. Antoñio and Manuela Duarte's search for an artistic language melded a continuing curiosity with aural and physical dualities: experimental pop integrated with performance art, mathematics sound-tracked on canvas, organic found sounds at ease alongside synthetic drum machines. The nine songs found here document the early emergence of their own Electricidade Estética . Vítor Rua and Jorge Lima Barreto of the legendary Telectu were regular collaborators while composer/guitarist Nuno Rebelo and guitarist/singer Bernardo Devlin feature throughout. Includes color innersleeve; edition of 500.
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SL 104LP
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2020 repress. Echoes is the ethno-wave love child of collaborators Frank Harris and Maria Marquez. A collection of sublime songs dating back to '85, avant-pop flourishes are married here to the heart strings of a synthetic Amazon -- think Music From Memory's Outro Tempo (MFM 016CD/LP, 2017) meets a tropical Sade. With much contemporary interest in South American electronic music, Echoes is a window into two musicians prescient dreamings of tradition, melody, and technology. Reveling in the embrace of Maria's Venezuelan roots amd folklore visions, combined with Frank's custom Synclavier synth station, songs such as "Canto Del Pílon" and "Tonada de Ordeño" resonate with a charged future/primitive electricity; Maria's song-to-a-siren vocals mainline with Frank's lush sonic alchemy. Mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy. A portion of Echoes profits will go to Venezuelan charity. 180 gram vinyl with printed deluxe sleeve; Full size graphic insert; Includes two-sided, full-size insert.
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SL 102EP
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Strangelove resurrects two cuts from the Australian cult synth pop duo, Arvo's much mythologized 1984 album Luna. A glamorous visual/electronic opus, major label misjudgment, and local bewilderment left Luna to unjustly slip under the radar. Rescued here, "Bikini" channels an Ipanema electronic vibe, nostalgically recalling Antipodean beach culture while the synthetic undercurrents of "So Deep" reflect on the nature of dreams. Also presented is a reimagined "So Deep" instrumental from Australia's synth pop scholar-in-chief Hysteric, while French M.O.T.M. Shelter tailors "Bikini" into an excursion version.
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SL 101EP
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Strangelove present its first project, two songs from Lena D'água, one of Portugal's great musical acts of the early 1980s. Combining a siren presence and soaring vocals, alongside songwriter Luis Fonseca and backing band Atlântida, they released a series of records that wove through the avant-pop sensibilities of the time. Collected here are two of their more leftfield moments; "Jardim Zoológico" is a beguiling mix of new wave, post punk, and dub into a short sharp pop format. The calmer "Tao" takes Fonseca's keyboards towards more Eastern territories, conjuring up a dreamy synthesized new age vibe.
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