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SILK 152LP
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"Tokyo deep house master Soshi Takeda returns with a long-awaited six-song sequel to 2021's landmark Floating Mountains, surfing deeper into mystery, motion, and liquid dreams: Secret Communication. Recorded across 2022 and 2023 at his home studio with a unique assemblage of '80s and '90s hardware, the tracks cruise through a latticework of skyways on lush pads, bubbling bass, and blissed BPMs, dusted in sunrise acid and cosmic piano. His is a dance music of idyllic emotions and inner worlds, yearning for new horizons. Dramatic events overlapped with the album's creation: 'Wars broke out. On the other hand, my child was born. There were sad and beautiful moments in my life.' Secret Communication contains vistas, valleys, glimpses of lives unled, swirling above the grey noise of the city. From the jazzy daydream of 'Can Imagination Transcend Distance?' to the sleek starlight house of 'Rainstorm' to the farewell ecstasy of the title track, Takeda's music touches and transports, a portal to places beyond. Fantasy and feeling, intention and inspiration, all become one: 'When I listen to beautiful deep house, I feel a mysterious atmosphere. Dreamy scenes come to mind. I aim to create that sound.'"
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SILK 150LP
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"From the forests of Cascadia to the rippling tropics of the Gulf Coast, Hunter P. Thompson's music as Akasha System both reflects and refracts the environment of its origin -- equal parts mirror, mixing desk, and meditation chamber. His latest, Phytopia, skews even loftier, a private portal into a primordial world of mist and mystery, framed by crystalline rivers, rainbow canopies, and hanging gardens. He describes its wavelength as 'a waking vision,' teeming with 'life, chaos, and magic.' Crafted across the past three years in his recently departed Portland, Oregon basement haven, Green House, the album's nine tracks unfold with a shimmering, cellular symmetry -- prehistoric and preordained, lush ecosystems in hidden harmony. A composite of synths, software, and spatial finesse, this is Akasha System at its most attuned and eternal, a forever expanding universe of percolating rhythm and fragrant air."
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SILK 023EP
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"100% Silk begs and pleads for all things OCTO--that eight-sided honest octagon: sweet, sad, shy, hopeful, blissful, light, lifting, longing. Going deeper, swelling higher than his first Let Me See You 12', Oh Love unifies crucial human experience with technology, sound, and rhythm in a totality of touching vision. The thesis thrill here: selling dreams that can't be followed, finding love that can't be lasting, seeking a future that can't solve your present. 'Oh Love' is honeyed with tender integrity; musings on dance history merge euphoniously with a wealthy sample bank. Octo Octa's the new search engine; he's connected and connective, the feeling fish to your computer chips. The dancefloor has been pulled out from under you, now you're free to float in the 'Oh Love' atmosphere--warm and womby, roused and roomy, a tear-jerk body-work. Poise yourself for poignancy. He's TRYING to break your heart."
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SILK 030EP
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"Groovesome twosome, din-yin and bang-yang, San Fran band of solo brothers, Damon Palermo and Daniel Martin Mccormick disjoin forces here for a split personality. Magic Touch and Ital, respectively, travel the globe separate and together (as the harmoniously, ever-evolving Mi Ami), forging a years-long relationship that supercedes the prod of producer's ego. Like his previous paean 'Clubhouse' but with gospel-gush swirl and swoon, Magic Touch's 'Anywhere You Want Me' bursts with soul to squeeze, a slip-disco house hunt for the perfect ease-ster egg. Then, re-envisioned by Ital, 'Anywhere' goes satin to satan, perfect paranoia pitch, choir curse, a 'bot-banger out of darkness into flight. Flip to Ital's 'From A Dream' and find your BPM on a trip-treadmill, jacked, pumped, maxxed Max Headroom seizure samples, with moments of power-pretty sweat-spritz dizziness. The remix from Magic Touch jumps through Italo-boogie loops and hoops for a revolution-evolution of hooks and crammies, all dissolving into an interzone afterglow."
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SILK 031EP
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"Octo Octa adds the melancholy to LA Vampires infinite fadness on Freedom 2K, their reachin'/preachin' 50/50 collaboration on 100% Silk. Here LaVamps has traded her cheap n' chic booty-budget grooves for sleek n' chic haunted house. With lyrical references to Minnie Riperton, Arthur Russell, and Evelyn Champagne King, vocalist Amanda Brown reappropriates realms of romance, skewing them into fresh sonic moods. Her wash n' rinse sing/speak is backed by Nick Malkin's keys-like-skippin'-stones, Britt Brown's Tex-Mix dub-bumps, and Brian Foote's sense and sexpertise, which are all just spit and shine for Octo Octa's moonlit piano naïve melodies. Gloss and glow design by aesthetic-elevator Bobby Houlihan, with silver and pink toned drop-of-androgyny photography by Ashley Anthony, will push your candy buttons. Freedom 2K provides dance-or-be-danced-on anthems for the 21st Century, with a diagonal devotion to our generation's gay nineties."
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SILK 019EP
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"Big, butch, bossy, industrial, and immediate, Body Double conjures KLF's cult convictions, with the same stadium strength and flamboyant fire-technics. Imagine shirtless strobe-bro brawn, almost religious in its glory-grandiosity, Martin Gore-geous as an opulent outing. From shifted deep down vocal voids, construction/deconstruction factory fetishes, and bang-the-barrel-slowly tom fills on My Life to running man mounts, choral caresses, ghost-gospels, rally-reaching duets, and playful pitch stretches on 'Be Strong,' Body Double bass-bounds through the blues barrier. Mournful and masculine, sweaty and strapping, assertive and arresting. With a club-bump, 55 hour-energy boost remix from Sir Stephen, sure to congregate and convert."
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SILK 020CD
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Follow-up to last year's Dolphins on Thrill Jockey. "On Decade (Daniel Martin-McCormick) returns to work with Damon Palermo as half of Mi Ami, a record released by Not Not Fun offshoot 100% Silk, who helped establish Ital through a series of 12" singles in 2011. It's an apt way of tethering Martin-McCormick's dual careers, of drawing an easy line between them, especially when the expansive deep house influence at the heart of Decade kicks in." --Pitchfork
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SILK 020LP
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LP version. Follow-up to last year's Dolphins on Thrill Jockey. "On Decade (Daniel Martin-McCormick) returns to work with Damon Palermo as half of Mi Ami, a record released by Not Not Fun offshoot 100% Silk, who helped establish Ital through a series of 12" singles in 2011. It's an apt way of tethering Martin-McCormick's dual careers, of drawing an easy line between them, especially when the expansive deep house influence at the heart of Decade kicks in." --Pitchfork
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SILK 018EP
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"Scott Goodwin has elevated electronics through deliberate drone as Bonus and maximized minimal techno as Operative but with Avalon Kalin, the fine finder of Finesse, and tasty treater of Glass Candy, they've found a key-board to Portland paradise with Polonaise. The twosome remind that romance is alive and lively on Trocadero, a vibrant valentine to primitive piano-plush early house. As the San Francisco danger-disco-drug-dance destination Trocadero Club sucked you into its sparkle spectacle so, too, does this EP: down the K-for-Kraftwerk Hole into those chase-bassy Black and White balls, all trance tuxedos and superfluid Steinways. Polonaise patience keeps you measured and mindful, freely feeling a designed dance; the blueprint for boogie. Bot-bops and Polonaise sauce, eat it up."
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SILK 021EP
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"Prince of Portland Paul Dickow turns his no-nonsense Nudge-sludge awesomeness into revved-up, avant tech-house arousal as Strategy. The moniker has found Dickow checking out hooks in his Community Library and niche-in'-out nooks on Kranky. With SILK he separates: 'Skanking Stabs' stomps with reverb canned-can drums, bouncing in a dancehall vault. 'Feel The Earth' is not your daddy's acid jazz, with its bouncing house arresting piano bar tipped jar. 'Starry Day' soft serves up a swirl of '80s vamp funk, contempo computer chocolate chips, and haywire Cyberdyne scheming sequences. The dueling 'Bolly Valve' tracks mix Arabic woodwind skill scales with whisper sizzle clatter data. Limited edition, with hot pink pop art Neu-bout-town jackets designed by the artist. Strategic move for winning your love."
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SILK 017EP
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"Bay Area bruiser Andre Ferreira aka Bobby Browser makes PeopleMover music: taking his sweet time to glide. Side A 'Bass-ic' backdrops are ever-changing: wade through winds on the night yacht, dewy fields for the drumline, front row Fashion Week, whirl-a-girl-globe-twirl. Side B 'Glist-opher's' guest vocals by Mara Barrenbaum give the EP that art-echo-deco, opulent opera, Blessed House happy-hedonist feel. Rollin' Roland silly strings play cucumber-cool Q and A with bubbly-bath acid stabs. It's sunny techno, rat-a-tat trance, Tom Bomb Club Dub, woodwind hopscotch, Rob Rouser five-star quality. For your Uplift Mo' Blow Party Plan. Just browsing? Just buying."
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SILK 013EP
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The best 100% Silk release of the year: a mini-album/EP housed in a gold-foil stamped LP jacket. "Producer and chanteuse (and fashion icon and social satirist and heartbreaker) Maria Minerva is the groove-gift that keeps on shimmy-givin.' Her forth effort this year -- after the wildly weird, how-low-fi-can-you-cry Tallinn At Dawn, the boy-you-turn-me upside down disco EP Noble Savage, AND the salty sweet gauze-ahh strip tease Cabaret Cixous -- comes just in time for Santa, baby. Sacred and Profane Love wraps it up with a bow: drugged-out drag choruses, saucy pans, lines of echo-coke, head-trippy candy flips, layered bangs, crooked hooks, top forty flirting, pop weaseling, sand dune sparkle, dream reels. With a wily wink Minerva serves allusions to the other gay nineties, reminding one of a Post-era Bjork or a 'Sampladelic' Lady Miss Kier or a 'Deeper and Deeper' Madonna. Sensual in every sense of the word. Maria Minerva just turned it up, so you better bring your M game."
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SILK 007EP
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"Catwalk calls from a Creole Camelot; Sir Stephen's more Boy London than Boy Bayou. Like the well-lit fitting room of a United Colors of Benetton store in Milan, By Design is consumer-cool counter culture, if the counter's a denim bar that only takes gold Amex. Like the pool on the roof of a luxury hotel in Tokyo, By Design is Starck-er than stark, wetter than wild, and deeper in the shallow end. Like a Kuwakuba runway during Paris fall fashion week, By Design is baggy on Agynes, mixxy on Moss, jammin' on Gemma. It's so down its beat, so afterhours its early afternoon, so oversized there's room for two. Made by design with the finest materials - rayon and on, cashmere and cream, and 100% silky Silk. Yeah, boy."
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