|
|
viewing 1 To 25 of 25 items
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cassette
|
|
CCK 7002CS
|
$16.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 11/22/2024
Cassette version. High Hopes -- new album from the Mole. High Hopes is 17 songs across 40 minutes that, as advertised, sounds nothing like High Dreams. Here, rather than the long form dance form, is a continuation of the beat tape pacing from the last album, a collection of moments posing as ideas posing as a narrative stuffed with oddities and surprises that reward the close listen. What's heard on High Hopes is the Mole's exploration of a love letter, from one person to a family, from the northern Pacific to the southern Atlantic, from a boy to a painted bird. Vancouver Island to Manantiales. The songs range from ambient sound bath and hip-hop sludge, up to micro boogie and almost house before tumbling back down and forth again. Bubbling synths, MPCs swung out, samples chopped and chewed, bass and violins from Rick and Sophie, field recordings of birds and frogs and beaches, friends and family and fiestas. Original collages from Antonio Carrau envelope this wax: jacket, sleeve and cookie. The Mole is joined by friends and colleagues on several songs included on High Hopes. Rick May plays bass on both "Que Rico" and album stand out "GoinF4er." Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You Black Emperor) plays and arranges violins on "GoinF4er" and "Danuel Tate" (Cobblestone Jazz) and Julz Chaz (Wagon Repair) both play Vibes and Emaxx throughout the album. Working with these incredible talents not only enriched this album, but fulfilled a long-standing goal of the Mole's; to work again with the musicians from whom he learned so much. People who helped inform the shape of Mole to come. High Hopes is the Mole's fifth solo album and his second album for Circus Company, who have also proudly released two EPs of Mole magic.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
LP
|
|
CCS 134LP
|
High Hopes -- new album from the Mole. High Hopes is 17 songs across 40 minutes that, as advertised, sounds nothing like High Dreams. Here, rather than the long form dance form, is a continuation of the beat tape pacing from the last album, a collection of moments posing as ideas posing as a narrative stuffed with oddities and surprises that reward the close listen. What's heard on High Hopes is the Mole's exploration of a love letter, from one person to a family, from the northern Pacific to the southern Atlantic, from a boy to a painted bird. Vancouver Island to Manantiales. The songs range from ambient sound bath and hip-hop sludge, up to micro boogie and almost house before tumbling back down and forth again. Bubbling synths, MPCs swung out, samples chopped and chewed, bass and violins from Rick and Sophie, field recordings of birds and frogs and beaches, friends and family and fiestas. Original collages from Antonio Carrau envelope this wax: jacket, sleeve and cookie. The Mole is joined by friends and colleagues on several songs included on High Hopes. Rick May plays bass on both "Que Rico" and album stand out "GoinF4er." Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You Black Emperor) plays and arranges violins on "GoinF4er" and "Danuel Tate" (Cobblestone Jazz) and Julz Chaz (Wagon Repair) both play Vibes and Emaxx throughout the album. Working with these incredible talents not only enriched this album, but fulfilled a long-standing goal of the Mole's; to work again with the musicians from whom he learned so much. People who helped inform the shape of Mole to come. High Hopes is the Mole's fifth solo album and his second album for Circus Company, who have also proudly released two EPs of Mole magic.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
CCS 133EP
|
New music by The Mole. High Dreams contains four tracks, three originals and one remix from Circus Company favorite Dave Aju. The Mole savors dreaming and welcomes the mystical landscapes of the mind with High Dreams, a collection of up-tempo dance pieces inhabited by ghosts and welcoming creatures from the deeps. This unpretentious collection cuts straight with the rhythms, and carries long with the arrangements. Dancefloor sizzle. Subsonic rumble. Ghosts! Your body moving requisites lie within this simple plate of wax. Turn up your amps and bathe in it. The Mole is known for his "hits" and his "work" with many Top labels (Perlon, Kompakt, Wagon Repair, Maybe Tomorrow, Ostgut Ton) is played by many Top DJs. Only his third release with Circus Company, this EP is a reminder that the Mole is still at it, and a warning. Featuring Joli B & Danuel Tate.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
Cassette
|
|
CCS 124CS
|
Cassette version. One of Circus Company's all-time favorite artists and extended label member The Mole returns a proper presentation of his album The River Widens. Originally a limited, cassette-only release via fellow Canadian Eddie C's Red Motorbike. Never one to shy away from synth deep dives, or raw sample flip collaging, this collection of 21 works checks all the boxes. Ambient trippers to straight up neck-snapping instrumental beats. Not forgetting tastes of the more uptempo, highly-assured and hypnotic dancefloor feels, the reason the world has come to love The Mole. Moments of casual chillin' are interspersed with effortless, emotive angles, some evoking the charm of his Little Sunshine release for the label in 2017 (CCS 107EP). "X-pert Profat" opens the set with sly statements that give way to relaxed and subtle keys over gentle, midtempo rhythms. Things switch up nicely into easy, Northwest Coast boogie-meets-beatdown feels in "Break For Ma", followed by a solid array of almost Jaylib-schooled boom bap twists, like the aptly-titled "Drums 2002" and "Jo Barker". Ambient cuts like "AR Day" and "New Family" offer a refreshing tap of the brakes, setting the scene for the gorgeous, Jarre-esque "Weak Stranger". You also get treated to "Repepepater"'s nod to Detroit house, urban-mode Balearic feels on "They Work For Mr. O", and sneak attack lo-fi future funk in the form of "UFOs Over Egypt", with Montreal co-pilot Cristobal on a wild shisha-lit vox narrative, earlier versions of which have blessed many of Circus Company's comrades' DJ sets, from Dave Aju to Vincent Lemieux. The River Widens expands beautifully on the breadth of unique musical directions. Also features Joli B and Ted Pilsner.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
2LP
|
|
CCS 124LP
|
One of Circus Company's all-time favorite artists and extended label member The Mole returns a proper presentation of his album The River Widens. Originally a limited, cassette-only release via fellow Canadian Eddie C's Red Motorbike. Never one to shy away from synth deep dives, or raw sample flip collaging, this collection of 21 works checks all the boxes. Ambient trippers to straight up neck-snapping instrumental beats. Not forgetting tastes of the more uptempo, highly-assured and hypnotic dancefloor feels, the reason the world has come to love The Mole. Moments of casual chillin' are interspersed with effortless, emotive angles, some evoking the charm of his Little Sunshine release for the label in 2017 (CCS 107EP). "X-pert Profat" opens the set with sly statements that give way to relaxed and subtle keys over gentle, midtempo rhythms. Things switch up nicely into easy, Northwest Coast boogie-meets-beatdown feels in "Break For Ma", followed by a solid array of almost Jaylib-schooled boom bap twists, like the aptly-titled "Drums 2002" and "Jo Barker". Ambient cuts like "AR Day" and "New Family" offer a refreshing tap of the brakes, setting the scene for the gorgeous, Jarre-esque "Weak Stranger". You also get treated to "Repepepater"'s nod to Detroit house, urban-mode Balearic feels on "They Work For Mr. O", and sneak attack lo-fi future funk in the form of "UFOs Over Egypt", with Montreal co-pilot Cristobal on a wild shisha-lit vox narrative, earlier versions of which have blessed many of Circus Company's comrades' DJ sets, from Dave Aju to Vincent Lemieux. The River Widens expands beautifully on the breadth of unique musical directions. Also features Joli B and Ted Pilsner. Double LP version includes download code.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
MEANDER 023EP
|
The Mole debuts on Meander Music. Sun-infused, jacking, and swinging house cuts with a very intuitive flow. In the past few years the Canadian-born, Berlin-based producer released a string of exceptional releases for labels like Slices Of Life, Perlon, Musique Risquee, Wagon Repair, and his own Maybe Tomorrow. Includes a remix from Romanian genre-bending project Amorf. Features Valerie Temple Boyd's "Comb Over".
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
SOV 012EP
|
Sound Of Vast welcomes aboard the new family member for its 12th cat. The Mole is a Canadian artist known for his music boutique interpreting elements of disco, jazz, hip hop, and funk. Since this kind of game is also the core of their soul, the label are happy to present four special tracks from him.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
2LP
|
|
MT 009LP
|
"I try to perform as honestly as possible" -- the soundbite borrowed from late dancer Dudley Williams for De La Planet's second track could have been uttered by The Mole himself. It's this candor that allows his listeners to bear witness to a very marked and very audible transition from his days as a producer in Montreal to becoming a part of the Berlin scene. And what is present here is one result of that very explicit sonic metamorphosis. De La Planet is The Mole's third studio album, one that stays true to his ethos of weird above all, in the best possible sense. And yet it feels like something distinctly new. Tapping his enormous reservoir of vinyl and sampling the odd film have acted as complement to the jaw-dropping arsenal of synthesizers at De La Planet's disposal -- a battery of machines he's been quietly improving his skills on during the past few years. Or not so quietly, perhaps. The man himself would probably say "I'm coming out of the woodshed", and go off on a tangent about Sonny Rollins and his saint of a wife. But that's a story for another sheet. While the days of Franco-Canadian dollar-record digging are behind him, this album is nothing if not quintessential Mole. And the opening "Harmony Day" lets you know you're in for a beautifully strange ride. But not without a dancefloor throwdown first -- by way of the symphony of pleas, bargains and one-line artist manifestos that is "Going With The Hat Man". From its own dizzying heights through to the sci-fi inflected thumps of "Braineater Returns", all the way to the earworm of a wonky cowbell in "He Frank", it's a charter through seldom explored lands. After "The Hat Man" gets the instrumental treatment, the album proceeds to "Sandwich Time Is Coming", which sounds like a sonic wink at the portrait of Prince presiding over Colin's turntables -- or is it the Klee illustration of a man expelling a smiling turd right next to it? "So What Don't You" has and inarguable thick percussive groove. The cinematic ambiance of "Soft Translation" and esoteric ripples of "River Highways" round out the trip, before "Time Out" sends you on our way with an early-aughties beat to march along to.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
CCS 107EP
|
Colin de la Plante aka The Mole follows releases on Wagon Repair, Philpot, Perlon, and more with this work of stripped-back, understated disco grooves and infectious, cyclical melodic patterns. The title-track brings a mellow introspection to the track as a neat counterpoint to the energy of the drums and arpeggios. "Discotheque Airplane" features dusty samples and truly mesmerizing bass that swells in and out. The B-side features a collaboration with Tom Trago that finds the pair exploring lean, focused techno, plus a remix of their track by Aardvarck, who takes the subtle foundations of the original and builds delicate, lilting melodies on top.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
MT 008EP
|
Maybe Tomorrow are back with a release from Colin La Plante, aka The Mole, aka half owner of this imprint. Spicy noodles are something Colin thinks everyone can love. Nothing too outlandish from The Mole, but the path he chose with the title and crowd favorite "Gelb Grun Blau" definitely has these tracks leaning towards the center of a DJ sets. Spiraling kick drums with a fine blend of digital synths, analog synths, drum machines, and the occasional sample. Vape-house anyone? "Back In The Studio Game" is a beatless one, created just for the sunrises.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
SOL 007EP
|
Canadian DJ and producer The Mole (Colin de la Plante) follows up Hang in There Fry Guy (SOL 004EP, 2013). "Inhuman" surprises with a higher BPM than you might expect from The Mole, and breathes a warm and humorous funk while twinkling mischievously from the dancefloor. "Another One of Those Nights" offers a deep and almost melancholic view on the night and its various side effects. "Hot Tea Dog Man" links perfectly to "Now I Understand" from Hang in There Fry Guy; its hypnotic beat concentrates on the essentials and a few well-set elements carry the track wonderfully and endlessly.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
PERL 094EP
|
2016 repress; two original versions plus a remix by Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
CD
|
|
MT 003CD
|
Canada-born, Berlin-based Colin de la Plante aka The Mole remains low-key but loved by many. He thrives off of long, late DJ sets and does his best to keep record stores in business with what he earns. The Mole's passion for music speaks through his own -- a smoke-hazed world without constraint or care for genre but cemented in a foundation built in house music. You can hear him thanks to releases for Perlon, Ostgut Ton, Slices Of Life, Haunt, New Kanada, Internasjonal and his long-time home, Wagon Repair, who released his track that still receives plenty of plays, "Baby, Your the One." He's remixed many of the finest, including Michael Mayer, Imugem Orihasam, Pole and Gui Boratto, to name a few. He continues to record and on occasion perform live with his buddies Cobblestone Jazz that happens to feature Mathew Jonson. So late in 2012 with Kompakt's Jon Berry, they came up with Maybe Tomorrow. Inspired by a conversation about their favorite childhood (Canadian) hero "The Littlest Hobo" -- a TV show about a German Shepherd that had no home and roamed around Canada helping people out. Makes sense, right? And now The Mole is back -- it's been four years since we heard his Wagon Repair debut High as the Sky. The beat played on through his many 12" releases, but between then and now he's back with album #2. Caregiver was recorded in the now-defunct Berlin Wagon Repair studio A(rkona) -- a psychedelic caravan roaming a disco-laced cosmos that seeks to go beyond any specific niche or sound. In his own words. "Caregiver is supposed to be listenable all the way through. So hopefully that unifying thread has something pleasing within it."
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
SOL 004EP
|
These two tracks on Slices Of Life presents The Mole's hypnotic and paranoid disco side. On "Hang in There Fry Guy," a female voice from far away whispers above percussions, synth lines and a massive beat that leaves no open questions behind. "Now I Understand" appears way more tidied up and reduced, but is also massive. This tracks opens rooms, where the short vocal samples seem to float, soaking you in until the last tone is finished.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
HAUNT 005EP
|
The Mole graces Haunt Music and this plane of existence with yet another sonic connection to the deepest corners of the ether-house reality. A subtle combination of forgotten vinyl moments, childhood memories and modular synth alchemy.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
RISQUEE 021EP
|
The Mole is back on Musique Risquée with his 3rd EP. Each track is a story about dreams. "Dreamer" is this weird one you can't get rid of, with an annoying voice following you around everywhere. "Oh My Stomach" is the mysterious black & white dream, with cigar reek and bad whiskey breath. "Last Ditch" is the action-packed one, with a car chase and the usual neverending sex scene at the end. You wake up, and the record is over.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
INT 006EP
|
Colin De La Plante is the Canada-bred and Berlin-based The Mole. His unique and abstract take on modern disco on labels like Wagon Repair and Musique Risquée puts him right at the top of everyone's wishlist, so after promises of fulfilling filthy fantasies and a big share in the Norwegian oil fund, these two golden nuggets were handed over.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
2LP
|
|
WAG 038LP
|
|
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
CD
|
|
WAG 038CD
|
Montreal's The Mole (Colin De La Plante) releases his debut full-length album. A Wagon Repair veteran of numerous singles and member of The Modern Deep Left Quartet with his comrades from Cobblestone Jazz, The Mole has established a strong reputation for his jubilant house and humble attitude. He's released on Itiswhatitis, collaborated with Paddy from Cobblestone as the Smokin Posties, created a 5-turntable experimental techno project referred to mysteriously as the "Starchy Root Machine" and is currently planning to start a 7" label of disco edits with fellow Canadian Koosh. Opening with a bouncy intro, "Still In My Corner" begins with deceptively dark melodic tones and a funked-up bass plunge before growing into a mid-pace house treat. "Aint The Way It Supposed To Be" leads with sustained pads, infectious Latin percussion and cinematic string samples, climbing to close with a bass-heavy disco drive. "Alice You Need Him" builds around looped dripping melodies, taking things deep with shimmering soundscapes and modulated synth. "Hey Girl (I Feel So Good)" is an anthemic house number, building on sampled ride riffs and prodding synth to the sound of an excitable audience. An edit of recent Wagon Repair single "Baby, You're The One" follows, with stabbed key melodies, deeply reverberated percussion and looped soulful vocals, creating a deep house sweat fest. The wobbled melodies of "Gracias A Los Ninos" plunges us deeper, with pulsing submarine-style pads offering a brief breather. Equally chilled, "Like The Way" builds slowly around an eccentric drum pattern and mantric vocal sample, before "Smiling And Running" gathers pace with funk percussion, deep pulsed synth tones and panned bass rhythms. "Knock Twice" sticks to the funk theme, with smooth bass progressions and tight percussion, escalating with choppy guitar and effected flute samples. Closing on a lullaby, "When It Tastes So Good" is pure chocolate, with soothing sampled keys and bouncing bass dozing into a lazy Spanish guitar and Caribbean steel drum finale -- not the first indication that The Mole dreams of one day burrowing his way to tropical climes.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
RISQUEE 013EP
|
The Mole is back on Musique Risquée with a beautiful introspective three-tracker. The opening track ''I've Got My A'' is an upper-mid-tempo, Theo Parrish-style, tribal house groove. "Thanks For Coming Out Pt.1" is a sweet little anthem building up slowly and softly. It reminds of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, with lush keyboard pads supported by a smooth drum pattern. Finally, "Border Times" is a soulful, reggae-styled club track that will make its way into the playlist of many DJs.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
WAG 020EP
|
"For the last few years The Mole has been trying to translate his experience in clubs and parties into a sound that is at once reflective, inspired by all the great music that has moved him (and so many others), and yet personal. Deepness is of the essential for The Mole, taking his cue as much from Moodymann and Wildpitch as from Larry Levan and Ron Hardy. Being a vinyl obsessive, or black crack addict, DJing has completely reshaped this Montreal resident's life. And finally, after taking and learning so much from this worldwide vinyl community, he is finally ready to give a little back. On the A-side you'll find 'Jingover,' a jam The Mole created with real handclaps (hooray for handclaps!) and a whole lot of samples. Both tracks here are similar in form to The Mole's live sets, he sets up a bunch of loops and rides them for a while, spontaneous magic, if you will. 'Steady Down,' the B-side, is one long jam Mole did and it has a trajectory just like its name. The Mole got the name from his Russian piano tuner who when asked how he's doing responds with 'steady down.' An appropriate hand movement accompanies this and he explains it as being a description of life... steady down towards the grave. The Russian thought it was funny. Anyway, the track has absolutely nothing to do with death, it just goes steady down."
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
WAG 013EP
|
"Long time no see -- Wagon Repair are back -- with fresh releases recently on Mutek, Philpot, Musique Risquee, Kompakt and Revolver, The Mole returns once again to Mat Johnson's label. Two tracks, two thick sides of our blissed bro from Montreal. Sick Moodyman-style mid to uptempo groovers that build and build with intensity. Shuffling, twirling, fascinating. One of his best gems to date. This EP truly shows us the true talents of this man and proves that Urb Magazine was correct in naming him as one of today's hottest producers."
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
REV 013EP
|
"Revolver Canada is very proud and excited to bring our good friend Colin de la Plante (aka The Mole) into the Revolver family. Notes From the Desktop of My Mind is The Mole's debut EP. The Mole has released sides, songs, remixes and/or loops on Itiswhatitis (Canada), Starbass (USA), his own label Nextdoor (Canada), Tuningspork (USA), Complot (Canada), Telegraph (France), Mutek (Canada), Textone Media (USA) and Epsilon Lab (Canada)." 2005 release.
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
ARBU 003EP
|
"For their third offering, The Mole resurfaces with a tasty and diverse EP that truly showcases this man's incredible production skills. With fresh releases recently on Mutek, Philpot, Musique Risquee, Kompakt and Revolver, The Mole returns once again to Arbutus. Three tracks, three sides of The Mole. 'I'll Do it if You Chase Me' is a deep and devastating rumbling monster of a tune with an early Perlon feel. On the flip we have 'That Wasn't Sneaky,' an almost broken beat feeling tune with a thick kick, rolling stand up bass and haunting melodies. To finish off this outstanding EP, we have the inspiring deep and dubbed out 'Unexpected Fox in My Garden.' The Mole takes us to the next level with this blissed out mid tempo gem."
|
|
|
Artist |
Title |
Format |
Label |
Catalog # |
|
|
12"
|
|
RISQUEE 005EP
|
"For its fifth release Musique Risquée is very proud to present a new EP by The Mole (Colin de la Plante). The first track 'Lost in Transvestite', is a long, slow and hypnotising track that brings right in the heart of transvestite, the great capital Lesbosania. The Bacon Smugglers (The Mole with Juanself) follow with 'Naming my Bacon', a greasy house blend of meatsoul in minimal sauce. Maybe a little cooking is needed before. And finally the last track: 'All Because of a Lack of Snow and Temptation' as a very good story attached to it: the reason why The Mole got inspired for it was all because of lack of snow and temptation. Isn't that just wonderful."
|
viewing 1 To 25 of 25 items
|
|