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CPT 631EP
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RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2024
Michael Reinboth's first ever release under his real name. After early Beanfield productions, circa 20 remixes (some old ones labelled simply Compost Remixes), more than 30 compilations and 30+ years of running Compost, a few 12"s under alter egos, the Compost boss decides to liberate the alias and mystic. "Let The Spirit" is a kinetic cover version of a house classic, released way back in time on Ron Trent's legendary Prescription imprint. It has no samples, everything is self-programmed and produced in team play with Jan Krause (Beanfield). The flipside brings the trippy "RS6 Avant" which comes in two versions. The "Cosmic Version" is an invite to float over the "Landstraße" (or the dancefloor with eyes closed in the late night hours). And as Michael loves to drive fast too, he decided to add the Club Version -- a much more energetic take with which works a treat on peak time dancefloors (and the Autobahn of course).
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Precursor EP to Mr. Raoul K's newest album. The Afro-house pioneer has returned to his home country Côte d'Ivoire. Raoul K: "Since I know how good and easy it is to live in my home country of Côte d'Ivoire, I drew a line in Germany and set off." So, he's back in full effect with spiritual Afro-tinged gems, catching the vibe and easier living there, and discovered new voices from Kenia, South Africa and India. Sinkere got mixing skills from Rancido, while Compost head honcho Michael Reinboth delivered a tempered stripped-down remix of "Loni ké." Also featuring Sidney Simila, Lady Parul, and Abou C.
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After Future Sounds Of Kraut Vol. 1 (CPT 621LP), Compost presents Vol. 2: 17 modern krauty electronic tracks (nine of them exclusive) inspired by Kraftwerk, Can, Neu!, Cluster, Harmonia, Klaus Schulze, and many others. Curated and compiled by Compost artist Fred und Luna. The collage on the cover -- like on Vol.1 -- was exclusively made by the fantastic artist Norika Nienstedt from Kraut metropolis Düsseldorf. Future sounds of Kraut, what's it all about? Maybe Vol. 2 will bring it to light for you. It's not easy at all or even impossible to define the musical genre "Kraut." Nevertheless, Compost Records and Fred und Luna strike out on the path to find the diverse elements of German electronic music of the 1970s and 1980s and their effects on the new German and international music scene. After the immense success of Vol. 1, a follow-up volume was soon started, tying in stylistically with its predecessor and furthermore -- as this is one basic principle of the series -- expanding the musical spectrum by adding new krauty elements step by step. So now, besides stylistic followings to Vol. 1, you will hear some more club oriented and experimental tracks. Feel free to listen and get krautified! Featuring Sankt Otten, Ghost Power, formAnt B, Thomas Fehlmann, Roman Flügel, Sordid Sound System, I:Cube, Lucas Croon, Minami Deutsch, Gilgamesh Mata Hari Duo, Kosmischer Läufer, Young Solo, Schlammpeitziger, and Halwa.
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CPT 630EP
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The visionary electronic music producer team Arnau Obiols and KAYYAK, known for blending cultural influences into captivating soundscapes, present two new tracks seamlessly fusing afro-inspired rhythms with groovy organic beats. Splendid remix works by the masterminds Prins Thomas, Medlar & Dele Sosimi, and Rahaan are the icing on the cake. Arnau Obiols and KAYYAK return to Compost Records with their third release for the esteemed German label. Following their debut EP, Chang'an, and the single "Tunacheza," which was also featured in the compilation Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 15, the duo presents their latest offerings: "Faith" and "San Diago." Recorded between Zurich and Barcelona, these tracks embody a fusion of disco, funk, and jazz infused with a strong West African influence drawn from genres such as highlife, afrobeat, and juju. Their passion for psychedelia and krautrock is evident in the recordings, characterized by raw tape echoes, primitive drum machines, heavily processed analog synthesizers and dream-like atmospheres. While the original tracks maintain an organic vibe, the remixes offer club-ready versions tailored for the dance floor. Featuring outstanding remixes by the Norwegian space disco pioneer Prins Thomas, the Chicago legend Rahaan, and the British house producer Medlar, along with Nigerian musician Dele Sosimi, renowned for his work as a keyboard player for Fela Kuti in the late '70s and early '80s.
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A wonderful song with a heartwarming hook. Jimi Tenor and Tomasz Guiddo at their best. With three delightful feel-good remixes by the shining light, Erobique, Freestyle Man, and Ale Castro. Erobique, who recently had chart hits in middle Europe and was a member of International Pony with DJ Koze back in the days. He also wrote fantastic musical scores for the Tatortreiniger TV series (with Bjarne Mädel) and celebrated sold-out live shows all over Germany and Austria. Freestyle Man, perhaps better known as Sasse from Moodmusic, is recognized for delivering many excellent deep house gems. Ale Castro from Argentina also contributes to the top-notch remixes with a DJ-friendly house version. Last but not least, the legendary Austrian crooner Louie Austen works his magic with his voice on "Smile."
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German jazz supergroup Web Web continue their collaboration with songwriter and producer Max Herre on their fifth album WEB MAX II, issued on Compost Records. First joining forces with Herre for 2021 offering WEB MAX (CPT 584CD), on this new long player the band has achieved much more than just the pure continuation of a series. Roaming far from its spiritual jazz roots, WEB MAX II is, musically and emotionally, probably the most diverse distillation of what Web Web has created in its seven years of existence. Featuring Marja Burchard and Carlos Niño.
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LP version. German jazz supergroup Web Web continue their collaboration with songwriter and producer Max Herre on their fifth album WEB MAX II, issued on Compost Records. First joining forces with Herre for 2021 offering WEB MAX (CPT 584CD), on this new long player the band has achieved much more than just the pure continuation of a series. Roaming far from its spiritual jazz roots, WEB MAX II is, musically and emotionally, probably the most diverse distillation of what Web Web has created in its seven years of existence. Featuring Marja Burchard and Carlos Niño.
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Balearic heaven: massive remix package of ten remixes by Joe Claussell, Mark E, I:Cube, Beanfield, Gilb'R, Gigi Testa, Arno E. Mathieu, Julien Jabre, Next Evidence, and Max Essa. There are not many records circulating around, which are embracing and implicate the beauteousness of "the Balearic" sound on a full-length artist album. It is a unique gleam of Mediterranean light, a sense in a modern sound environment, which Arno E. Mathieu captured and created here on "Contemplation." It is not by accident that DJ Harvey is playing Arno E. Mathieu tunes. Other great names, too, have fallen in love with that sound and produced a remix: Franck Roger, Joe Claussell, I:Cube, Beanfield, Julien Jabre, Mark E, Simoncino, Woolfy, DJ Deep, Gigi Testa, Next Evidence, Max Essa. So nearly every single track on this album will have a remix. Sit back, relax and watch out.
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Carribean, jazz, Afro, reggae, the full spectrum of world music sophisticated and ingenious fused with electronica. A08 is the brainchild of the two Berliners Dirk Leyers and DJ Nomad. Formerly known as AFRICAINE 808, the studio/live music project with an album and various EPs on NYC's Golf Channel Recordings and Vulcandance. A08 started as an experiment where the two succeeded in the amalgamation of rhythmic world music heritage with the zeitgeist and aesthetics of electronic dance music. After ten successful years touring the globe as a live music project, a praised double album, five EPs and remix work for legends like Tony Allen and Amadou & Mariam among many others, the two decided to re-invent their sound for a new album, exploring jazz and Caribbean music among their "classic" working genres of electronic world dance music. For the production, A08 included an illustrious crowd of guests into the band line-up, featuring artists from Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Trinidad and Germany. The outcome is Waiting for Zion.
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The stunning debut ambient album from Fred Everything's new project All Is Well. A Break In Time is an ambient album written during the lockdown as a sort of calming therapy/meditation exercise. The project quickly took form with a unique sonic identity and message inspired by this feeling of isolation felt during that time. The album is about fragility, naivety, contemplating our vulnerability but also of resilience and the feeling of alone/together. This album might have taken less than a year to make, but it's a culmination of influences drawing back to his early '90s growing up in Québec City. He was then known simply as Everything, performing live in Raves and Chill Out Room, armed with nothing but a 909, an SH-101 an Ensoniq EPS and a Quadraverb. His love for ambient music never faded. With early influences such as Carl Craig's seminal Landcruising, Warp's Artificial Intelligence, and Black Dog Production Bytes, this album bridges the gap between here and there, now and then: where time stands still. This is a collaborative release from Compost Records and Drumpoet Community.
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The fifth album by the Berlin band Automat pours oil on the fire. Heat is more homogeneous, warmer and rounder than its predecessors. Intimate dub, rich bass, scrambled delays, deep blue trip hop, deep violet downtempo ballads, reggae/rap sparks fly here and there, all of which makes Heat a beautiful album. Heat stands for a process of change: both in the line-up and for the energy and passion of the new line-up. After a longer break due to Corona, the leave of guitarist Jochen Arbeit, the entry of keyboardist Max Loderbauer and producer Ingo Krauss as well as the ingenious reinforcement by Scott Montieth (Deadbeat), singer Barbie Williams and the guests on the microphone Gemma Ray and both reggae legends Prince Alla and R Zee Jackson, the new Automat is running like a machine. Automat are: Achim Färber (Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Skip McDonald), Georg Zeitblom (wittmann/zeitblom), Max Loderbauer (Ricardo Villalobos/Sun Electric/Moritz Von Oswald Trio), and Scott Montieth (Deadbeat). Black double LP with black inner sleeves. Includes download card.
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16 modern Kraut-ish electronic tracks inspired by Kraftwerk, CAN, Neu, Rother, Klaus Schulze etc. Curated and compiled by Compost artist Fred und Luna. Their selection (with six exclusive tracks!) shows how well younger artists are revitalizing the Kraut scene. The better known ones, like Pyrolator, Sankt Otten, I:Cube, anyway. Watch out for Vol. 2 at the end of the year. The collage on the cover was exclusively made by the fantastic artist Norika Nienstedt from Kraut-metropole Düsseldorf. It's not at all easy or even impossible to define "Krautrock" or "Kraut." Nevertheless, Compost Records and Fred und Luna strike out on the path to find the diverse elements of German electronic music of the 1970s and 1980s and their effects on the newer German and international music scene. So, as a first approach, this volume of Future Sounds Of Kraut includes the music of up-to date artists primarily influenced by bands representing the repetitive character of German Electronica: Kraftwerk, CAN, Neu!, Harmonia and Cluster, just to name a few. Feel free to listen and get krautified! Featuring Fred und Luna, Baikonour, Musiccargo, Abrão, Listening Center, Higamos Hogamos, Gilgamesh Mata Hari Duo, Kosmischer Läufer, Sankt Otten, Pyrolator, I:Cube, Organza Ray, Sula Bassana, Halwa, and Lionel, Julien, Marceau et Rainer.
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Double LP version. Trustworthy sequel of Compost's classic and mega-selling series. After 20 years a new Glücklich! Rainer Trüby fished deep in Brazilian- and Latin-tinged music and makes us more than glücklich. It only took a little over 20 years since the last installment but a classic and much-loved compilation series is "de volta" in a very big way. And a two-decade break means that when you come back, you'd better come back strong, but of course this is Rainer Truby we're talking about here and he's got a serious bag of Brazilian and Brazilian-flavored goodies for all good boys and girls! Some of them were buried on obscure CDs ignored by vinyl collectors, several have escaped being compiled until now and all of them will make your summers very pleasant and happy indeed. By the way: the car is a VW Volkswagen SP2 manufactured in Brazil between 1972 and 1976. Includes extensive liner notes. Features: Jon Lucien, Debbie Cameron & Richard Boone, Marcia Maria, Midnight Gigolos, Sonzeira, Rainer Trüby, Corrado Bucci, A Bossa Elétrica, The Matheus Combo, Grupo Ébano , Guillermo Reuter, Jean-Marc Jafet, Wütrio, and Christian Knobel.
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Trustworthy sequel of Compost's classic and mega-selling series. After 20 years a new Glücklich! Rainer Trüby fished deep in Brazilian- and Latin-tinged music and makes us more than glücklich. It only took a little over 20 years since the last installment but a classic and much-loved compilation series is "de volta" in a very big way. And a two-decade break means that when you come back, you'd better come back strong, but of course this is Rainer Truby we're talking about here and he's got a serious bag of Brazilian and Brazilian-flavored goodies for all good boys and girls! Some of them were buried on obscure CDs ignored by vinyl collectors, several have escaped being compiled until now and all of them will make your summers very pleasant and happy indeed. By the way: the car is a VW Volkswagen SP2 manufactured in Brazil between 1972 and 1976. Includes extensive liner notes. Features: Jon Lucien, Debbie Cameron & Richard Boone, Marcia Maria, Midnight Gigolos, Sonzeira, Rainer Trüby, Corrado Bucci, A Bossa Elétrica, The Matheus Combo, Grupo Ébano , Guillermo Reuter, Jean-Marc Jafet, Wütrio, and Christian Knobel.
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CPT 615EP
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Super bitter-sweet ballad. Like 70% cacao chocolate. Tomasz Guiddo teams up with legendary Vienna crooner Louie Austen (remember all his hits on Cheap, KittyYo, Tirk, G-Stone, Klein Records, Etage Noir). On the flip side of this 7" the Columbian superdons Meridian Brothers turn this into real mambo madness, which gives the ballad a joyful twist.
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Fred und Luna have always had a preference for symmetry. Reflected in their cover motifs and, on the current album, in the length of the musical pieces, which are all around the five-minute zone. Im Fünfminutentakt, accordingly the name of their latest creation, is Fred und Luna's fourth long player, an exquisite selection of contemporary instrumental and vocal pieces with a sensitive feel for repetitive rhythms, enchanting melodies, and mesmerizing sounds. Particularly noteworthy are "Es ist so schön" ("It's wunderschön"/"C'est wunderbar"), a piece sung in three languages (with its sensitive feeling for the joy of seeing your loved ones again after months of loneliness caused by the pandemic) and the dancefloor-oriented "Tanz mit mir" ("Dance With Me"), that gives an idea of how much even computer-like voices can awaken desires and dreams. Who are Fred und Luna? Fred und Luna are two mannequins living in a fashion boutique in Karlsruhe, Germany. They serve as muse for musician, poet and photo/video maker, Rainer Buchmüller. Inspired by his doll friends and his love for German electronic music of the past decades, Rainer Buchmüller under the name Fred und Luna produces his self-created genres elektrokraut and krautelektro: both a modern adventurous journey with a combination of motorik beats, electronic soundscapes, and elements of the krautrock era.
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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve; includes download. After excursions into hip-hop, rap, and film music Austrian producer and musician Urbs has returned to the downtempo and trip-hop styles that were the cornerstones of his most successful work. Using obscure samples as well as traditional instrumentation for his impressionistic instrumental pieces he takes you to Geheimland. Born as Paul Nawrata in Lower Austria, Urbs is a veteran electronic producer and musician living in Vienna. A music fanatic from a very young age, he started writing and photographing for various fanzines in his teenage years, interviewing artists as diverse as Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave, and the Wu Tang Clan. He soon felt attracted to the blossoming hip-hop scene of Vienna, contributing to the radio program of legendary impressario Werner Geier aka Demon Flowers. Best described as the Austrian version of Tony Wilson, he took him under his wing and soon released his first steps in music production on his Uptight label. In 1998, two EPs were released as Urbs & Chaoz, spawning a first success with "Closer To God", which was not only a radio favorite, but was also used by famed director Ulrich Seidl in his early work Models and remixed by Thievery Corporation. Heavily influenced by Kenny Dope, Todd Terry, and Armand Van Helden's hip-hop releases, the musical style of Urbs & Chaoz was dubbed "Dope Beat" in central Europe and can be seen as one of the precursors of trip-hop. His next musical partner was Cutex with whom he released Breaks Of Dawn and Peace Talks!, two LPs of timeless instrumental hip-hop, both of which are seen as classics of the genre. His first solo album was released on G-Stone Recordings in 2005 and was co-produced by Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister). On Toujours Le Meme Film, Urbs channeled his love for film music and French chanson. Songs from the album were used for TV shows Grey's Anatomy and Nip:Tuck. Together with award winning composer Karwan Marouf, he worked on film music for directors like Arash and Arman Riahi as well as Werner Boote. While the world was in the grip of the pandemic in 2020, Urbs, who had just become a father, felt inspired by the fantasy and perception of his son. He reconnected with his roots and produced Geheimland in one go, trying to find the essence of his work and musical passion and creating his very own musical language along the way.
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After excursions into hip-hop, rap, and film music Austrian producer and musician Urbs has returned to the downtempo and trip-hop styles that were the cornerstones of his most successful work. Using obscure samples as well as traditional instrumentation for his impressionistic instrumental pieces he takes you to Geheimland. Born as Paul Nawrata in Lower Austria, Urbs is a veteran electronic producer and musician living in Vienna. A music fanatic from a very young age, he started writing and photographing for various fanzines in his teenage years, interviewing artists as diverse as Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave, and the Wu Tang Clan. He soon felt attracted to the blossoming hip-hop scene of Vienna, contributing to the radio program of legendary impressario Werner Geier aka Demon Flowers. Best described as the Austrian version of Tony Wilson, he took him under his wing and soon released his first steps in music production on his Uptight label. In 1998, two EPs were released as Urbs & Chaoz, spawning a first success with "Closer To God", which was not only a radio favorite, but was also used by famed director Ulrich Seidl in his early work Models and remixed by Thievery Corporation. Heavily influenced by Kenny Dope, Todd Terry, and Armand Van Helden's hip-hop releases, the musical style of Urbs & Chaoz was dubbed "Dope Beat" in central Europe and can be seen as one of the precursors of trip-hop. His next musical partner was Cutex with whom he released Breaks Of Dawn and Peace Talks!, two LPs of timeless instrumental hip-hop, both of which are seen as classics of the genre. His first solo album was released on G-Stone Recordings in 2005 and was co-produced by Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister). On Toujours Le Meme Film, Urbs channeled his love for film music and French chanson. Songs from the album were used for TV shows Grey's Anatomy and Nip:Tuck. Together with award winning composer Karwan Marouf, he worked on film music for directors like Arash and Arman Riahi as well as Werner Boote. While the world was in the grip of the pandemic in 2020, Urbs, who had just become a father, felt inspired by the fantasy and perception of his son. He reconnected with his roots and produced Geheimland in one go, trying to find the essence of his work and musical passion and creating his very own musical language along the way.
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Remix EP 1 (includes remixes by Acid Pauli, Coldcut, DMX Krew, Shahrokh Dini, Frivolous). After the release of Felix Laband's highly acclaimed fifth album The Soft White Hand (CPT 605CD/LP), it's about time to give it some extra class remix treatment. So here comes a massive package with remixes by living legends Coldcut, Acid Pauli, DMX Krew, Frivolous, and Shahrokh Dini. Felix Laband's The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story. Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband's first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015. It is heralded by the single "Derek and Me", and is being pressed on vinyl for distribution globally.
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Shahrokh Dini delivered two top-notch EPs in 2022, Now We Can Dance with Illinois and Ubuntu. After gathering some decent remixes, a proper vinyl release became self-evident. Here are splendid re-works by the likes of Lehar, David Mayer, Omer Tayar, Tooker, Kovi, Patrick Zigon, and Apoena. Shahrokh Dini left Karlsruhe, while he is even more active than ever in his old and new basecamp Berlin. Not even that he played a lot of nice gigs during summer (Amsterdam, few times on Ibiza, lot of gigs in Berlin, Italy, Corfu, Sardinia), he is also busy in the studio with several releases and remixes "Now We Can Dance" with the strong and lovely vocals by Illinois is a contemporary house smash with an '80s indie dance twist. Shahrokh met Illinois at the Garden Of Babylon parties, where Shahrokh is virtually the resident DJ, too.
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Beanfield's mega classic re-release in a double 12" pack with old and new remixes by Toto Chiavetta and Art Department and a new Beanfield track. "Tides" was originally released in 2004 and evolved into an all-time club anthem by means of Carl Craig's huge remix (C's Movement #1), followed-up by the stunning Ripperton remix.
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Born and raised under the sun of Provence, Arno E. Mathieu spent most of his time riding his grandfather's old motorcycle in the hills, listening to the most psychedelic Doors songs, and eating his grandmother's traditional eggplant and tomato Mediterranean dishes. He starts a new project called Contemplation, totally dedicated to his lifestyle and to the landscapes and environment that make it possible. A tribute to the "sublime" of nature and the moments that creates. Surrounded by his parent's jazz records, young Arno watch classic sci-fi movies like Blade Runner or Star Wars, and the Italian western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, getting lot of influences from Vangelis or Morricone soundtracks, and developing a special taste for epic music and stories, and romantic characters. Around 17 years old, Arno gets a real interest for electronic music through his elder brother's mixtapes of Laurent Garnier, Saint-Germain's house music, then Nuyorican Soul album and Masters At Work club tunes. He buys two turntables and vinyl, and quickly organizes his first parties and club events with his brother. In 2000, straight out from his daily MPC sessions, Arno E. Mathieu releases his track "Call It Jungle Jazz" as Matt'Samo, for a Yellow Production project called Africanism. He then moved to the French capital where he spent lot of time exploring club scene and witnessing studio sessions of his new friend DJ Gregory, who introduces him to Parisian house music leaders like, Julien Jabre, Next Evidence, and DJ Deep. In 2005, Arno E. Mathieu creates his own Clima Records label. Since his first release on Clima, Arno's music finds supports from many leaders of the underground scene such as François K, DJ Harvey, Jeff Mills, Dixon, or Laurent Garnier, and are getting a special attention from Joe Claussell. Arno E. Mathieu has also produced tracks and remixes for labels such as Deeply Rooted, Real Tone, Yoruba, Tribe, Compost, and has released a first album in 2018 called Circumstances Of Chaos, also appreciated by the underground scene. After many years going back and forth between Paris and his beloved Provence, Arno has finally got back home in the south, and made a last move for a real Mediterranean lifestyle, cooking fig jam, growing tomatoes, zucchini, and eggplants, and finds the right balance for his creative process.
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Double LP version. Gatefold. Includes download. Felix Laband's The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story. Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband's first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015 (COMP 470CD/LP). In The Soft White Hand, Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album's creation -- an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like "Death of a Migrant" -- is perceptible in Laband's desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life. Few artists have managed to air these intimate aspects of their life so luminously as Laband does in tracks like "5 Seconds Ago", "They Call Me Shorty", and in the strange and meditative "Dreams Of Loneliness". Yet, as in all of Laband's recorded output, the delineations between emotions are never starkly drawn and The Soft White Hand is also shot through with beauty. Nature appears in recordings made in his garden in the intimate early morning hours, whether as in the calls of the Hadada Ibis and other birdsong in "Prelude" or of the vertical-tail-cocking bird in "Derek And Me". The last is a wonderful track with Derek Gripper, the South African experimental classical guitarist of international renown, whose 2020 song "Fanta And Felix" imagines a meeting between Fanta Sacko and Laband. Laband's eloquence in reinterpreting classical composers such as Beethoven in "We Know Major Tom's A Junkie" is another thrilling aspect of the new record. A fresh quality comes to his work through this sonic adventuring: the tender manipulation of the mundaneness of the computer's AI voice to reimagine and reinvent iconic lyrics and melodies in strange and unexpected configurations. The Soft White Hand is Laband's most cohesive body of work to date. Yet it remains, in its sheer artistic scope, impossible to describe fully. Darkness abuts the gossamer light. His music reflects a primal artistic impulse that is also visible in Laband's considerable visual art output as seen in several solo exhibitions. With The Soft White Hand, Laband is confirming his singular ability to achieve this in both art and music, melting the divisions between the two creative disciplines until they become one.
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CPT 605CD
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Felix Laband's The Soft White Hand is the masterwork of an artist who expresses himself through musical and artistic collage acting together to reinterpret his sources and to express significant elements of his own personal story. Released by Munich-based Compost Records, the 14-track album is Laband's first full-length offering since the critically acclaimed Deaf Safari in 2015 (COMP 470CD/LP). In The Soft White Hand, Laband works with source materials that will be familiar to those who know his previous four records. However, the disengagement he felt from his homeland during his latest album's creation -- an abiding sense of untethered-ness to place and space, exquisitely rendered in tracks like "Death of a Migrant" -- is perceptible in Laband's desire to illuminate instead aspects of his own life. Few artists have managed to air these intimate aspects of their life so luminously as Laband does in tracks like "5 Seconds Ago", "They Call Me Shorty", and in the strange and meditative "Dreams Of Loneliness". Yet, as in all of Laband's recorded output, the delineations between emotions are never starkly drawn and The Soft White Hand is also shot through with beauty. Nature appears in recordings made in his garden in the intimate early morning hours, whether as in the calls of the Hadada Ibis and other birdsong in "Prelude" or of the vertical-tail-cocking bird in "Derek And Me". The last is a wonderful track with Derek Gripper, the South African experimental classical guitarist of international renown, whose 2020 song "Fanta And Felix" imagines a meeting between Fanta Sacko and Laband. Laband's eloquence in reinterpreting classical composers such as Beethoven in "We Know Major Tom's A Junkie" is another thrilling aspect of the new record. A fresh quality comes to his work through this sonic adventuring: the tender manipulation of the mundaneness of the computer's AI voice to reimagine and reinvent iconic lyrics and melodies in strange and unexpected configurations. The Soft White Hand is Laband's most cohesive body of work to date. Yet it remains, in its sheer artistic scope, impossible to describe fully. Darkness abuts the gossamer light. His music reflects a primal artistic impulse that is also visible in Laband's considerable visual art output as seen in several solo exhibitions. With The Soft White Hand, Laband is confirming his singular ability to achieve this in both art and music, melting the divisions between the two creative disciplines until they become one.
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CPT 602EP
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Kenny Dixon Jr. acuminates it deep and groovy, well, it's his holy trademark sound. Potatohead People from Vancouver have releases on Jellyfish Recordings and NY label Bastard Jazz. On top Moodorama's remixes are trippy dubby jams. Inkswel & Colonel Red started out writing together more than decade ago and over the time have developed quite a unique sound when recording together... a chemistry that blends music melody and lyric into every verse chorus and hook. So, when Inkswel approached Colonel Red to create the Holders of the Sun album (CPT 601LP), Redz response was to move his hectic schedule around and start immediately. Inkswel dropped the beats Colonel Red dropped the vocals and some fine musical tuning and Holders of the Sun Vol. 1 was born... while they promise a Vol. 2. Colonel Red is a groundbreaking soul singer, musician, producer and performer, often referred to as one of the most powerful voices in the UK soul music community, a champion in equal parts of the original broken beat scene, as well as the UK soul scene. Working with and writing for the likes of Teddy Pendergrass, Amp Fiddler, Maurice White, Bugz In The Attic, Tony Allen, and countless others. His track "Belive In Me" was awarded the "worldwide" award from Gilles Peterson in 2014. Colonel Red's foray into the music industry began when Epic Record company giant Sylvia Rhone signed the then lead singer, Nikki Romillie, of Pride n' Politix, to Atlantic Records. An accompanying publishing deal with Warner Bros. established the artiste, now known as Colonel Red, as one of the UK's top cutting-edge singer/songwriters. Inkswel has been heralded as one of the busiest and most prolific beat-based producers from Australia, a true master of his craft he has worked with the likes of Talib Kweli, Lee Scratch Perry, Andrew Ashong, Dwight Trible, Amp Fiddler, and countless others as well as putting out timeless musical projects on labels such as BBE, Sonar Kollekiv, Rush Hour, Warner Music, Boogie Angst and others. He hovers evenly between hip-hop and club sensibilities, blending new age approaches with nostalgic leans. Holders of The Sun is the audio melting pot of two musical aliens, future directive soul music drenched in the nostalgia of what once was. Remixes by Moodymann, Potatohead People, and Moodorama.
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