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(July Collective Title) Born in Berlin in early 2014 and nurtured over the following summer, 'I Declare Nothing' is the spine-tingling collaboration between Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre). The duo, who co-wrote and co-played on the album, they are touring across Europe this year.Tess Parks - A native of Toronto, Tess Parks moved to London, England at the age of seventeen where she briefly studied photography before deciding to focus on music. Tess made an impression on industry legend Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, albeit the timing of their meeting could hardly have been less ideal, McGee was no longer involved in music and Tess was due to move back to Toronto. After moving back to her hometown in 2012, Tess formed a band on the advice of McGee and less than a year after their meeting, he returned to music with his new label, 359 Music. Tess became one of his first signings and released her debut record 'Blood Hot' in November 2013 to excellent reviews. One reviewer described her as Patti Smith on Quaaludes'. Others have mentioned her "gauzy psychedelic sound' and "smouldering voice'. Alan McGee himself said: She's only 24 and is already an amazing songwriter... she just doesn't quite know she is yet ... her most beautiful quality is her lack of ego. Tess is an amazing lady'. Anton Newcombe - Anton Newcombe is the leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, who returned last May with their 14th full-length album 'Revelation' to critical acclaim. It is the first album that was fully recorded and produced at Anton Newcombe's recording studio in Berlin and was released on his record label A Recordings. It was supported by a successful European tour. Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, California in 1990. Two dozen band members later and numerous ups and downs' (some have been famously sensationalized in the media), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic collective, is front man Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe.

All tracks written and produced by Junto Club. Copyright Control
Next up on Optimo Music is the next wave of unique talent to emerge from Glasgow, once again recorded in the near-legendary Green Door studio.
Four tracks of highly original, impossible to pigeonhole, dancefloor-not-dancefloor music.
Junto Club are four men from Glasgow who have remained friends since they were teenagers through creating music they love. Whilst learning new instruments during a long winter, their sound was fashioned unexpectedly with sporadic melodies overlaid on taut drum machines, synthesizers and bass guitar. Many humble dance moves followed as the band began to carouse behind closed doors with their newly-found rhythm.
Four track 12" EP in picture sleeve.

*The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro Y Moi's third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer/songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established.
*There's a pervasive sense of peace with his tendency to dabble in both sides of the modern music-making spectrum, and he sounds comfortable engaging in intuitive pop production and putting forth the impression of unmediated id.
*The producer's hand is prominent- not least in the sampled "yeah"s and "uh"s that give the album a hip-hop-indebted confidence- and many of the songs feature the 4/4 beats and deftly employed effects usually associated with house music. Tracks like "High Living" and "Day One" show a considerably Californian influence, their languid funk redolent of a West Coast temperament, and elsewhere- not least on lead single, "So Many Details"- the record plays with darker atmospheres than we're used to hearing from Toro Y Moi. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter's return to producer-hood, Anything in Return is Bundick uninhibited by issues of genre, an album that feels like the artist's essence.
*Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, Chaz Bundick has been toying with various musical projects since early adolescence. Having spent his formative years playing in punk and indie rock acts, his protean Toro Y Moi project has been his vessel for further musical exploration since 2001. During his time spent studying graphic design at the University of South Carolina, Chaz became increasingly focused on his solo work, incorporating electronics and allowing a wider range of influences- French house, Brian Wilson's pop, 80s R&B, and Stones Throw hip-hop- to show up in his music. By the time he graduated in spring 2009, Chaz had refined his sound to something all his own. Music journals across the board touted his hazy recordings as the sound of the summer, and he released his debut album, Causers of This in early 2010.
*Since then, Bundick has proven himself to be not just a prolific musician, but a diverse one as well, letting each successive release broaden the scope of the Toro Y Moi oeuvre. The funky psych-pop of 2011's Underneath the Pine evinced an artist who could create similar atmospheres even without the aid of source material and drum machines. His Freaking Out EP, a handful of singles and remixes, and a retrospective box-set plot points all along the producer/songwriter spectrum in which he's worked since his debut, and Anything In Return is another exciting offering that shows he's still not ready to settle into any one genre.

First new album in 4 years. One of the true pioneers of modern electronic music. Features guest collaborations with Sam Dew (Wale, Roc Nation,Jessie Ware), Rob Crow (Pinback), Milo & Busdriver (Hellfyre Club), Helado Negro. It has been 4 years since Guillermo S. Herren released anything significant from his most famous and respected moniker, Prefuse 73 (though he has certainly kept busy with live shows, collaborations, and remixes). That's a long time for virtually any artist, but it's an eternity for Herren, whose first three Prefuse 73 albums dropped in the span of under 4 years. As if to make up for lost time, 2015 will see the release of not one, but 3 major works from Prefuse 73. After several albums that saw Herren progressively drift away from the beatmaking prowess that made him synonymous with emotionally resonant, damaged hip-hop, he's found himself reinvigorated. Rivington Não Rio revels in the kind of compassionate complexity that marks Prefuse 73's greatest works, with a profound new element added to the mix: Patience. Herren's ability to marry the manic to the melodic has always been uncanny, but here it feels downright magical as the songs inhale with his trademark sense of urgency... then exhale in longer, more revealing breaths. The prismatic textures that have long been a staple of Prefuse 73 are bound to beats and melodies with the spirit of hip-hop and the subtlety of modern minimalism. The album's guests treat the material with a hushed respect: Roc Nation songwriter and Jessie Ware collaborator Sam Dew turns "Infrared" into a sublimely soulful, dimly-lit portrait of inverted R&B, Milo & Busdriver's vicious, rapid-fire verses contrast a pastoral downbeat to brilliant effect, and elsewhere, Pinback's Rob Crow and Latin electronic-folk crooner Helado Negro navigate splintered tropics with passive grace. As a stand-alone album, Rivington Não Rio ranks extraordinarily high in the Prefuse 73 canon. As a centerpiece to an epic triptych that includes the Forsyth Gardens and Every Color of Darkness EPs, it's a new peak from a pioneer who appears to only just now be hitting his prime. For an artist who has played an undeniably integral role in the careers of so many influential artists, it's not just refreshing to hear him return to top form... it's revelatory.

A very necessary stand-alone release for Six Six Seconds' 'Tearing Down Heaven', which originally appeared on the 2012 Downwards compilation So Click Heels. Written and performed in Berlin by the elusive Eden, and deftly recorded and mixed by Karl O'Connor, 'Tearing' was the comp's stand-out: a piece of drugged, darkly rapturous dream-pop in which the abyssal swoon of shoegaze meets a harsher, more pernicious order of psychedelic rock minimalism. This 10'/digital edition on Blackest Ever Black features a slightly extended version of 'Tearing Down Heaven', and a stunning new reprise', which homes in on the original's roaring, phantasmic electronics, unravelling its complex webs of feedback and high-end scorch into a masochistic drone-raga for eternally thwarted lovers. Freshly remastered by Matt Colton, released in a one-off vinyl edition of 500 copies.

'Memoosh' is the collaborative project between William Yates (memotone) and Soroosh Khavari (Soosh).

Without any pre-planning, the project started to grow and develop a life of its own as soon as the first session started. Over the course of more than eight weekends spread over a year, the two visited each other for recording sessions, not relying on modern modes of communication. Making all the music in person to keep to the collaborative nature of the project, leaving more room for improvisation and opportunity to jam out all their ideas.

The album is a mixture of live instrumentation (guitars, piano, cello, zither, drums, clarinet, synths and numerous others) coupled with effect boxes, samplers, vocals and field recordings, influenced by everything from random static and buzz, to a beautiful early morning rain or the bass thud of a closing door. The whole album being more an exploration of their approach rather than anything conceptually thematic, representing both characters and personalities in the music.

"To be honest, had we not been asked by Project Mooncircle to make the album we probably would never have met to make music. Thankfully they did ask! And it has been a very fruitful conquest. Not only has the album created music we are proud of, but in it's construction it created a new and lasting friendship."

'Memoosh' comes out worldwide on limited grey-marbled double vinyl, limited handmade and handpainted cassette edition (both including download code).

With a compact production, filled with guitar riffs, catchy melodies surrounded by a haunting bass, incredible electronic atmospheres, his new project 'Stalker' shows his concept of pop music. Memories of people passing by, visions of nights to come. A retro pop approach to everyday 's life. Music with a reason and a meaning by a man of mystery, passion and a brilliant mind. Music with a reason from a true artist.

Complimenting the original version, Playout have assembled an all-star cast of remixes to create one of the most essential releases you'll hear this month. Tigersushi's Joakim, New York's Com Truise, and finally it's the turn of the UK's Optimo, creating the perfect warehouse moment in the process.

Black Spirituals is the Oakland, CA based duo of Zachary James Watkins on electronics and strings and Marshall Trammell on percussion.  This is the band's debut full length after cassette releases on Sixtyhurts and The Tapeworm.Black Spirituals have been performing extensively in and around their Oakland, CA base of operations, have recently completed their first US tour, and have continuous live actions throughout the coming year. LP limited to 250 copies, in custom printed 2 color 12' jackets with hand-stamped labels and inserts.

Album art and design by Faith Coloccia with texts by band members Zachary James Watkins and Marshall Trammell.
OF DECONSTRUCTION emerges from a landscape of sameness fully formed and armed to the teeth with its idiosyncratic musical idiom in the brilliant, crunchy, rocking, swelling, absorbing, immersive, hypnotic, ritualistic, improvised, heart-throbbing, spine-tingling, buzzing, captivating, comforting, raw, non academic, free flow, on the spot, fluxus-like, futurist, natural, psycho-acoustic hyper-realist touches of the twenty minutes tour de force Radiant. Massive electronic synth noise

SELECTED QUOTES:
'Two of the brightest musical minds of today - Marshall Trammell and Zachary James Watkins bring their skills and passion to Black Spirituals. Get this recording right away!'
- PAULINE OLIVEROS
'Whenever I see Black Spirituals play I see a magical collaboration bringing together concepts of history and radical transformation. I see elements of rebellion and elements of simplicity and fun. There are elements of cumbia, noise, jazz, and avant improvisation.'
- SHARMI BASU

'He can do quiet intensity- made possible by his voice, abstract (yet heartfelt) lyrics, innovative arrangements, and top-notch performance- delivered with complete and authentic sincerity. Arranged Waves is a great introduction to the music of Stephen Steinbrink- and it is quickly becoming one of my favourite albums of the year. ' 8.5/10 - Louder Than War

LP is 180g and comes with CD inside.
LP Includes download code

Rhyton is an experimental/improv/psych trio based in Brooklyn that features Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama)
*The Emerald Tablet follows the sold out self-titled Rhyton album released by Thrill Jockey
in Jan 2012
*The Emerald Tablet is from an edition of approximately 600 copies worldwide and is pressed on 140
gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry.
*The album is housed within a handsome, intense jacket featuring art design from Arik Roper.
*The album and the jacket are both housed within a custom designed and printed rigid poly sleeve which adds an extra, vivid dimension to the album's presentation. The album is be accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album.
*The Emerald Tablet was mastered by Patrick Klem. This record is a joint release between Three Lobed Recordings and Divide By Zero Records.
'When one thinks of a power trio, the ears tend to gravitate to bands like Blue Cheer, Cream, post-Scratching the Surface Groundhogs, Freedom and bands of that ilk. In improvised music, the saxophone stood in for the guitar, giving us groups like Sonny Rollins' trio with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones, Coltrane's 'Chasin' the Trane,' and Albert Ayler's unit with Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray. Of course,
*'power' is a vast concept that could represent change, emotional breadth, or deep, interpersonal communication. Rhyton - the trio of string multi-instrumentalist David Shuford, bassist Jimy SeiTang and drummer Spencer Herbst - fits all of these characteristics as well as a whole lot more. Rhyton developed from Shuford's desire to return to open-form music, which he'd explored in great depth with the No Neck Blues Band. Developed out of sessions for the Arghiledes LP (Thrill Jockey, 2010), he assembled Rhyton with SeiTang (ex-Psychic Ills) and Herbst (ex-Matta Llama, Messages) and the results appeared on an eponymous Thrill Jockey debut.
*The Emerald Tablet is the follow up, and presents a decidedly more 'free' angle on the Rhyton chalice, fitting well within both Three Lobed Recordings' painstaking documentation of contemporary psych and outsider music and Divide By Zero's emergence withinthat same sphere.

You Are Wolf (aka Kerry Andrew) explores English and American folk music, fusing source material with leftfield pop, gentle touches of electronica and a hint of spoken word, all melded with an array of wild vocal techniques. Debut album Hawk to the Hunting Gone (produced by MaJiKer) was made with the backing of the PRS Foundation for Music's Women Make Music scheme which allowed Kerry to developed a set of songs based around British birds in folklore (or 'Birdlore', if you will) that provides the backbone of this very unique record.

Six of the album's ten tracks are adapted in part or in whole from traditional British folk songs, but You Are Wolf's approach to arranging the material is anything but traditional. That said, leading roots music magazine fRoots, ever forward thinking, are already championing the record with a feature on Kerry (penned by wyrd-folk connoiseur Jeanette Leech) set to appear in the May 2014 issue with an album track appearing on the accompanying downloadable playlist. Standout track Doves fuses When Doves Cry by '80s US pop legend Prince with the traditional song Turtle Dove and features fellow folk maverick Alasdair Roberts on guest vocals, while The Buzzard's Heart takes the poem Answers by TS Eliot Prize nominee Robin Robertson and sets it to music.

Kerry's music has been played on BBC6 Music by Tom Robinson, Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie, Radio 3's Late Junction and New York's premier indie radio station WFUV. She has appeared twice on BBC Radio 3's The Verb, writing a specially-commissioned new song for the show. Kerry was chosen to be an EDFSS 'Folk Rising' artist in 2010, appearing as part of a concert series curated by Sam Lee's Nest Collective at the home of the EFDSS, Cecil Sharp House. As YAW Kerry has supported the likes of Martin Carthy, Alasdair Roberts and Laura J Martin. Elsewhere, as Kerry Andrew she's a composer of experimental vocal and choral music and she is also a member of adventurous a cappella trio Juice, punky/jazz crew DOLLYman, and folk-jazz sextet Metamorphic.

Tracklisting;

* Following from 2012's critically lauded album 'TIMETIMETIME&TIME', Kansas based experimental producer and sonic auteur 'yyu' (said why why you) is set to release his first 12' single - entitled 'Kiss As We Walk' - for UK based powerhouse RAMP, with his second official full length album set to follow on the label later on this year.
* Advancing on his home-spun sound that sees the producer utilising field recordings of live instrumentation and heavily effected, pitch shifting vocal refrains - occasionally sounding like James Blake making garage rock - alongside modern, hip hop leaning production techniques. YYU has finally managed to find his spiritual home in RAMP, a label that has enabled him to truly hone his sound for the first time into something truly personal, beguiling and totally affecting.
* 'Kiss As We Walk' - a tune that was recorded in a parking garage - sees the self-professed rat enthusiast, who makes his music to the sound of a coffee maker, combine home cooked foley samples, with gritty pads and lopsided drums. *Chopped up room ambience, tiny snippets of vocal utterances and snatches of noise fill out the focused, minimal yet overwhelming sound position you right next to the young producer.
* The flip sees yyu recording in an old bathroom armed only with his guitar. The same naturally occurring reverbs and idiosyncrasies present on side A are again present into 'When We Were Old' - an emotionally charged folk song about time and death.
* Given that the two entities involved in the release of this record are innovative, experimental, and subversive purveyors of musical art, RAMP is definitely the perfect home for the pugnacious, liberating talent that is yyu.
* For a taster, grab a free track from the young producer here:

Kathryn Bint follows her perfectly formed debut Until (2008) with an album that reveals her remarkable range as a musician and songwriter. Her tender vocals still send husky shivers down the spine, but Into The Trees is so much more than beautiful folk songs.

*Limited Edition Young Galaxy 'Privileged Poor' Remix 12' featuring Factory Floor, TOY and Dan Lissvik (Studio).

*400 copies only for Europe, clear vinyl.

*Young Galaxy's 'Privileged Poor' is taken from the Polaris Music Prize short-listed album Ultramarine.

*Debut release from new label, 586. (586.001)

*Factory Floor remix: This remix comes hot on the heels of the band's acclaimed debut album on DFA. One of Factory Floor's strongest remixes to date.

*TOY remix: TOY's Dom and Ale continue to emerge as world class remixers as they transform this track into a psychedelic freak out.

*Dan Lissvik remix: Ultramarine's producer returns to 'Privileged Poor' and gives the track an extra bump for the dance floor.


Young Galaxy 'Privileged Poor' 12' Tracklisting:

*Leader of the new wave of Belgian artists; Cupp Cave unleashes his first set of tracks since last years mini album Retina Waves. NVMB is more focused and dancefloor friendly than his previous release - Cupp Cave is currently putting the finishing touches to his debut album, due on RAMP in 2014.
*Initial copies come in a limited embossed sleeve.
*Radio: Gilles Peterson (BBC 6Music), Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6Music)
*Reviews: DJ Mag (print), Mixmag (print), Data Transmission, De:Bug, XLR8R, Resident Advisor
*Streaming: Sonic Router, Dummy, XLR8R

Didascalis locked himself in the studio during the last months to put maximum effort into his fourth album. "Enjoy My Wrong Shoes", a little puzzle with some of the songs' titles, is a real masterpiece, a sweet collection of Depeche Mode's best songs taken by Davide (Didascalis) into a more chill, warm, intimate and subsonic dimension. The album also includes a brand original track from Didascalis: "Springtime". The album is yet supported by the Top Italian Chillout DJ's and constantly aired by many radio stations, including the famous Radio Montecarlo (national radio).

Couture Chic begin their musical journey in 2010 from a lucky encounter between 4 young musicians: Vanessa Chiappa (vocals), Luca Gabbianelli (guitar), Thomas Bianchi (Double Bass) and Marco Bellagamba (Drums), each one of them has been involved previously in important music projects both at National and International level (Steve Lyon, Howie B, Nomadi, Max Pezzali, etc). In their Live Shows Couture Chic go through a musical trip starting with a sound reminding us Of the Fifties and ending with today's classics, covering a number of Hits of the International Pop Rock repertoire in a bossanova, lounge, nu jazz and swing mood. From Michael Jackson to Madonna, from The Beatles to Bob Marley, from Deep Purple to Guns 'N' Roses until we even get to Lady Gaga and James Blunt, so many great Artists that Couture Chick Care to cover in their Shows, in a mix of Sounds, an exotic and grabbing Groove, made easy by the four members contributing to keep the arrangements interesting and never dull throughout. In the fall of 2012 the collaboration with IRMA records begins, which leads to the release of their first album titled "Velvet Bossa": 12 intense rearranged Covers that synthesize the artistic project of the Band and highlight the musical versatility of Chic Couture, ranging between different genres until they manage to create their own characteristic sound. The album, entrusted to the Artistic Production of Riccardo Rinaldi (Aerosmith, Sud Sound System) relies on the participation of nationally known musicians: among them, the Internationally know trumpet player Massimo Greek (Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari, Neffa) and the excellent piano player Alessandro Garofalo (Sud Sound System).

01. Personal Jesus
02. Missing
03. Smoke On The Water
04. YMCA
05. IShot The Sheriff
06. JumP
07. Wicked Game
08. Paparazzi
09. Eye Of The Tiger
10. Love WIll Tear Us Apart
11. You're Beautiful
12. Hey Soul Sisterv

The 'Spit' EP on budding label Astro:Dynamics is the debut release proper from Samoyed, producer of mood-drenched grainy lo-fi drones and tough - yet ragged and bitty - dancefloor disturbances. Three original tracks and a remix from Lukid, fusing textural beatlessness with stripped back house and techno, whilst also incorporating the artist's own vocals, in a style he calls 'Melty'. Samoyed has already received support from Rustie (one of these tracks featured in his FACT mix), Hudson Mohawke and Floating Points, and his name is increasingly being dropped on blogs and message boards. On the title track he utilizes an array of static drenched snippets of guitar feedback to create a granular atmosphere with a subtle groove, topping the track off with his own muted vocal, landing somewhere between Panda Bear and Arthur Russell. 'Maybe Yes' is created on self-built Max-based software, wherein a break-beat is meticulously deconstructed whilst an awe-inspiring soundscape is processed and overdriven. 'Malamute' is the last of the original tracks, on which found sounds and rough / smooth textures combine sublimely with Samoyed's vocal and a minimalistic chord structure, whilst the slo-mo 4/4 rhythm and an irresistibly sub-heavy bass hits you right in the back of the throat. Rounding off the record is a remix from Lukid, who reconstructs the rhythm of 'Maybe Yes' into a straight and driving pulse, whilst euphoric pads and vocal snips combine with the soundscape of the original sounding like re-edit of a golden era jungle track. Early radio plays have come from Tom Ravenscroft and Mary-Anne Hobbs. Features confirmed in FACT, DJ Mag, and Dummy.

*There can't be many who possess a back catalogue containing more hidden gems and scarcely touched upon curios than R Stevie Moore. Dubbed 'The Grandfather of DIY' by some, it's the only tag that's ever stuck for this prolific, chameleonic artist, whose cult status has grown over nearly half a century of music making, and whose back catalogue - which numbers in the hundreds of releases - has influenced everyone from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to recent lo-fi pop King Ariel Pink.

The second full-length from Los Angeles / London electro soul duo draws heavily on late 70's French library music, 80's Italo disco and sleng teng dancehall riddims. "LA MUSIQUE" pays homage to the beginnings of the digital realm via vintage gear. In full picture sleeve. 12 tracks

*There can't be many who possess a back catalogue containing more hidden gems and scarcely touched upon curios than R Stevie Moore. Dubbed 'The Grandfather of DIY' by some, it's the only tag that's ever stuck for this prolific, chameleonic artist, whose cult status has grown over nearly half a century of music making, and whose back catalogue - which numbers in the hundreds of releases - has influenced everyone from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to recent lo-fi pop King Ariel Pink.
TRACKLIST: Why Can't I Write A Hit - Makeup Shakeup -Old- Structure Of Love -The Picture -Quarter Peep Show- I've Begun To Fall In Love -Pretend For A Second That You Are very intelligent Forecast - No Body - Man Without A Purpose - Treat Me What We Did - Copy Me - I'm Sorry But Goodnight

Rmxs from Robin Guthrie, leader of the defunct Cocteau Twins, and Idol for all the shoegaze electronic scene (Apparat, M83, Walls..), Telefon Tel Aviv (BPitch), Douglas Greed (Freude am Tanzen) and post-dubstep duo from Barcelona Downliner's Sekt.

After the critical success of his 2010 debut album, Things To Do and Make, composer Ergo Phizmiz returned to a string of often award winning commissions for radio (BBC 3 and 4 and German national radio) theatre and opera before coming back full circle to the melodic three minute popular song form.
*Earlier this year, over the space of a few weeks, and in typically prolific style, he refined and self-recorded a number of ideas that had been forming in his head while busy with other projects. Leaving behind the favourable comparisons to the 1960s Canterbury Sound or Vivian Stanshall of his debut and occupying less identifiable territory, the resulting Eleven Songs is a leaner, harder collection of songs that, as the title suggests, each stand in their own right. Although ostensibly the album consists of ten songs and an instrumental, Ergo considers Space Dance, a Sun Ra tribute, in the manner of Lieder ohne Worte, a song without words. *With no default mode of music making, but versed in so many, it would be fair to call Ergo a music conceptualist. But the purposeful construction of his writing and production methods are always in the service, rather than at the expense, of the pure joy of what makes a good song. Anyone who has seen Ergo perform will instantly recognize in these songs his natural theatricality, narrative drive, and a lack of pretension that allows music to be a shared experience. This is a highly addictive album that should echo the chorus of voices that acclaimed his first album with the
lament that there aren't more pop musicians like this. 

Refining the psych-pop nuggets of their debut LP, In Limbo, TEEN's new Carolina EP is a stepping stone in the way that all good extended plays are. The band — lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson,
keyboardist Lizzie Lieberson, drummer Katherine Lieberson (the three are sisters), and bassist Jane Herships---recorded the five-song record with producer Daniel Schlett, who recently worked on DIIV's Oshin, at Strange Weather studio in Brooklyn.

*While In Limbo 's songs have many layers and effects, TEEN intended Carolina to be a more natural affair, with the band only playing what they could physically perform in a live setting. Teeny sings in a higher register here, inspired by Kate Bush and Al Green. 'Our music in the past was so about interweaving melodies, creating movement by syncopation, and simple chord structures,' Teeny says. 'It felt like the next step forward would be to take a more simplistic, live approach, play lines in unison and create a different kind of conversation between the instruments.'

Beautiful melodies crafted with intricate layers of electronic sounds.
Japanese music producer Masumi Nishimura's solo project INNER SCIENCE. In which he creates an original
kind of electronic music using his signature shimmering tones and melodies along with a wide spectrum of
rhythms that is uncategorisable to conventional genres.
Release a this new vinyl for the first time in two years.

An album of unrelased music made by Jeff Keen, one of the UKs great avant garde artists. This is music found on cassettes in his studio after his death, was made by Jeff (throughout the 1980s) using field recordings from his eocal amusement arcade, the radio, the TV, films, an Atari, a ZX Spectrum, a delay unit and a WASP Synth. This is the first Jeff Keen album ever issued.
*Jeff Keen is one of the great undoscovered artist of out times. A missing link between the DADAists, Cocteau, Warhol, Picasso, Jack Kilby and just about anyone else you can think of, Jeff made art every day of his life. Art seemed to explode from him, and he worked across all mediums with boundless creativity and very much his own style. He developed his own graphic, visual and speoken art language. The BFI have issued a 4 DVD set of his films. His collages and paintings are currently being exhibited in Brighton, New York and Paris. The Tate have started buying his work. He's now dead and his stock is quickly rising. The music on this relase was made in and around the 1980s, using methods unique to him; in his ramshakle studio he'd have a mic, a radio, an Atari, a ZX Spectrum, a WASP synth, effects units and his own very ususual mind. He mixes field recordings with his very own language ('Bltazwurds') and takes on the characters he developed over his artistic life.
*This is very much an art / music release. The sound is a little like the industrial albums made in the late 1970s and 1980s, intense, odd, otherworldy, unpredictable. As a result, the vinyl is being pressed in limited numbers, unusual colours and comes in hand made packaging. Notes by Jonny Trunk, there is also an important essay by David Toop and recollections by Will Fowler of the BFI who worked closely with Keen.
PACKAGING
The CD has a 22 page full colour booklet wityh two essays, rare photos and imagery from the Jeff Keen archive
The LP is being pressed just once, 500 copies only. Each 100 unit block opf pressing will have a different colour vinyl differenet screenprinted sleeves (using unseen images from the Keen sketcbooks) and different inserts.
These vinyl colours have been selected by Stella Keen as they represent the comic book palette most used by Jeff Keen in his work.
Each LP has a standard 11 X 11 full colour insert with essay by David Toop. Eacha lbum will also have another insert, taken from the Jeff Keen music notes found in his studio. There are five of these, one for each colour of pressing. The LPs are their various bits are all being assembled at the Trunk HQ.

*LAST 80 COPIES.
*Roberto Cacciapaglia is an Italian electronic composer who's made albums using every possible permutation of the same six notes, right up to modern classical, with 1979's 'The Ann Steel Album' as the weird anomaly.
*Made with an American model, who moved to Italy to make it big in fashion, Roberto took her languid, Laurie Anderson-esque voice and created a detached futurist popstar.
*The odd sound of these European futurist pop songs make it sound like the machines are breathing, creating a weird organic/ electronic rhythm section. It has to be heard to be believed.  
*With fans ranging from Geologist and Avey Tare from Animal Collective, Deerhunter's Bradford Cox and Banjo or Freakout/ Walls mainman Alessio Natalizia.
*'The Ann Steel Album' will be a vinyl only reissue, the first time this album has been on vinyl since its initial small pressing in the 70's, available from Half Machine Records.

Remixes taken from Clouds' USB Islands, featuring reworks from LHF's Amen Ra, Tomutonttu, and a very twisted house version from Gerry Read

Clouds return to RAMP after a long hiatus in the studio to deliver their upcoming USB Islands mini-album. From the orchestral opener Cannibal Generals, to the tapped auto-tuned euphoria of I'll Be Broke, to the loose and rattling dubstep of You Go To My Head, Finland's Clouds are very much back on form.

Clouds return to RAMP after a long hiatus in the studio to deliver their upcoming USB Islands mini-album. From the orchestral opener Cannibal Generals, to the tapped auto-tuned euphoria of I'll Be Broke, to the loose and rattling dubstep of You Go To My Head, Finland's Clouds are very much back on form.
* CD features remixes from LHF's Amen Ra, Tomutonttu, and a very twisted house version from Gerry Read
1. Cannibal Generals
2. Four Hands
3. You Go To My Head
4. I'll Be Broke
5. Napalm
6. Get Over It
7. I'll Be Broke (Gerry Read Remix)
8. You Go To My Head (Tomutonttu Remix)
9. You Go To My Head (Amen Ra Remix)

Welcome aboard Amen Brother - A new Dublin based label providing an outlet for the expertly curated sound of the underground psychedelic Soul, Funk & Disco they champion at their night of the same name.
Amen Brother launches with a debut release from their own Amen Brother Disco Band.
ABDB lines up a selection of lovingly amended tracks for different moments of the night while remaining true to Amen Brother's signature psychedelic sound.
The A side opens with the peak time rumbling and percussive sounds of "Afreeka", an afro-esque track with hypnotic male vocal chants and rising melodies.
Side B kicks off with the raw phased guitar sounds of "Gonna Get Some" and quickly moves into its sleezy funk groove and sassy female vocals. Rollin' & Sinkin', closes the B side with a catchy folk track whose funky guitar based groove and male vocal finish off the debut release perfectly.
Amen Brother Disco Band - Amen Brother Vol 1
Vinyl 12"
Genre: Funk / Soul Style - Funk, Psychedelic, Percussion, Folk, Leftfield

ince 2009 Chaz Bundick's output as Toro Y Moi has bounced back and forth from the work of a producer' and that of a 'songwriter.' His debut, Causers of This, introduced him to the world as more of the former, with sampled snippets and effects populating much of the space between the record's slow-motion dance beats. The funky psych-pop of 2011's Underneath the Pine evinced an artist who could create similar atmospheres even without the aid of source material and drum machines. His Freaking Out EP, a handful of singles and remixes, and a retrospective box-set plot points all along the producer-songwriter spectrum, and his newest 7-inch, 'So Many Details,' (from his forthcoming third album) sees him poised directly in the middle of the two.

Situated in a slightly darker setting than we're accustomed to hearing from Bundick, 'So Many Details' builds on a foundation of rolling hi-hats and deep, syncopated kick drums, letting highly variable elements pass in and out of the mix. A slightly fuzzy bass line carries much of the melody, drunken synth stabs try to keep up with the vocals, and lilting guitar adds tension as the track reaches its peak. The producer's hand is extremely apparent here—not least in the sampled vocal punctuations

that give it a hip-hop-indebted confidence—and Bundick spends much of the track adding, subtracting,
and putting effects on a handful of elements. Remixing himself on the B-side and enlisting Odd Future's Hodgy Beats, Bundick keeps the vibe and shape of the original intact. Trimming off the emotive peaks and valleys to give Hodgy's verse more space, the remix's languid funk sounds like West Coast hip-hop radio of yore. Sounding quite assured in what some may call this songwriter's return to producer-hood, 'So Many Details' is an exciting aperitif for the next Toro Y Moi full-length.

Founded in 2009 you can file ortloff records under:
excitement. sparkle. faith. time. warmness. memories. desire.

Just a few months after the release of his successful debut double LP "For A Better Tomorrow" and his singles "Andromeda" and "Günesim", Deckard is ready for the next strike. "Echoes From The Past" is an unreleased album that was produced during the years 2000 to 2005 and is finally ready to drop in September this year. After some dusting off, polishing and re-mastering, the 9 tracks sound as contemporary and fresh as back then. Deckard himself calls it "Instrumentals out of a time when beats where still beats" classically arranged drums, assembled with futuristic sound elements already making up the classic dark sound that Deckard is now known for.
The travel into time past starts with "A Black Hole (Part 2)", a deep and hauling tune, that, as the name promises, might be able to absorb you entirely. The following track, "Defunked", is a more club friendly but equally deep song that hasn't lost any of its freshness over the years. Next up, - Haunted Beats" and the title track - Echoes From The Past" are more classical, "triphoppy" and dark, reminiscent of some of the early heroes of the genre such as Krush, Spooky or DJ Cam. Listening to the following tracks, it shows how far Deckard's production and arranging skills were already advanced at that time: The grooving "Endzeit" paints images of gloomy machine halls in the year 2050, "Gedankenjäger", German for "mind hunter", is hypnotic but yet pushing, "Shadows" saws into your ear canals with distorted bass sounds, while "Slow Body Movement" offers a few more soulful and jazzy shades and concludes the album to full satisfaction.
Echoes From The Past" includes 9 tracks, while a bonus track is offered for the vinyl buyers. The limited LP release additionally is sold as a bundle package that even contains a second unreleased album from Deckard's vast archive entitled "Underground und Subkultur".
Echoes From The Past" is releases as part of a two-piece "Unheard & Recovered" series on Equinox Records. Part 2 of the series will be the unreleased solo full length by DJ Scientist, an equally deep and meticulously produced album with great unheard material from his archives.

On paper, a full collaborative album from Doom and space age production from Jneiro Jarel

can't fail. In practice it's even better. Doom is in the form of his life here. JJ produced all the

tracks, Doom provided the bulk of the vocals and compiled the cut and paste skits. Doom

recorded the album while 'banished' from the States and back living in london. He references

British culture throughout the album, name dropping British institutions, and possibly being

the first emcee to reference My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. Jneiro recording the beats in the dirty

south, got into a UK state mind, and turned in heavy hip hop production that leans towards

grime, dubstep and British techno. The album will appeal to fans of classic Doom material.

JJ's tough, far out hip hop production will appeal to fans of Dilla, Flying Lotus and el-p. It also

features guest appearances from Beth Gibbons, Damon Albarn and Khujo (goodie mob).

Album artwork is by graffiti artist Steve Powers aka Espo.

Neon Pink Transparent Vinyl (Limited)
Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really
Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world." The New York Times described them as "one of the most original rock bands to have come along in the last decade." From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop.
1.Breakup Songs 2 There's That Grin 3 Bad Kids To The Front 4 Zero Seconds Pause 5 Mothball The Fleet
6 Flower 7 To Fly Or Not To Fly 8 The Trouble With Candyhands 9 We Do Parties 10 Mario's Flaming Whiskers III
11 Fete D'Adieu