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RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2025
A groundbreaking collaboration between British experimental artist Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) and Swiss electronic duo SINNER DC, MAPS blends music, visuals, and interactive gaming (Mac/PC) into a multidimensional experience. Originally conceived for a one-off live performances in 2013 in Geneva, MAPS draws inspiration from Borges' meditations on the limits of representation, crafting a surreal auditory and visual journey.
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A selection of eight exclusive dub cuts produced in the legendary Genevan squat Goulet 25 between 2003 and 2013 and cut at 45rpm for deeper basses at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Recorded at Addis records studio/Goulet 25 Overdubbed in France, UK, Jamaica and New-York Mixed at Disciples, Conscious Sound and Vibronics studios. Mastered by Kassian at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Produced and arranged by Gilles Geuggis aka Jil Addis for Addis records in collaboration with Olivier Ducret. Front cover by Stephane Lambercy aka Stuf Addis. Layout by Nicolas Eigenheer. Give thanks to the creator Jah Rastafari, who makes everything possible.
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Remastered self-titled Swiss Romande sought-after dark wave/post punk album from 1981. Includes 24"x24" poster and original insert with lyrics.
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The 12-year anniversary edition of Imperial Tiger Orchestra's Mercato includes the best of both albums Mercato (2011) and Addis Abeba (2010). Remastered with bonuses live recordings in London, Paris, Addis, Tokyo, and Cape Town. Imperial Tiger Orchestra, the finest connoisseurs and grooviest performers of Ethiopian music from the golden age. Back in 2007 in underground Geneva, band leader Raphaël Anker decides to gather musicians for a one-off live performance revisiting the golden age of Ethiopian music. A memorable event that forced all the musicians to carry on. As Imperial Tiger Orchestra. Consisting of members with very diverse backgrounds (free jazz, noise experimentations, contemporary music, twisted pop...) the Orchestra soon travels to Addis-Abeba where they perform with local luminaries and deep learn about the large diversity of Ethiopian music. A life-changing experience which brings them back to the studio and to a plethora of successful gigs around Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, and Africa. The Tiger's unique sound is a mesmerizing re-interpretation of Ethiopian music's golden age mixed with the digitalized themes that appeared in the '80s and filtered through their eclectic influences, a sort of retro-futuristic and progressive Ethiopian rock. This 12-year anniversary edition brings back thunderous rhythms and feverish hooks, down tempo moments and fast paced epiphanies, electronic sounds and ambient nirvanas.
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Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose work spans thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance and conceptual art, and culture jamming. Chris pioneered the use of complex polymeter in electronic dance music, and invented a unique MIDI sequencer in order to explore polymeter composition techniques. Chris composes and performs music in a variety of genres, and has released many albums on labels such as Perlon, Mental Groove, and Gigolo Records. Chris also worked as a computer programmer for thirty-five years. Her new album Passion For Numbers is one of the very few album in the world entirely composed in complex polymeter, meaning that each pieces of music uses several prime meters simultaneously. A unique way to compose music with a new generation of musical algorithmic, inside which Korda injects the DNA of neo classical, ambient, and jazz music. This refreshing album will please you whether you are into complex musical composition, experimental music or just seeking for a beautiful, emotional and accessible musical moment. Sleeve is printed with silver pantone; includes note from composer (insert).
An extract of Chris Korda's letter about Passion For Numbers, included as insert in its entirety in this vinyl release: "This is an album of piano music, but I wrote it without a piano. Not having a piano turned out to be constructive, because I had to rely on my brain instead of my fingers, and particularly on my imagination and inner hearing. The album belongs to a category called phase music, and it's also algorithmic, or more precisely rules-based generative music. I don't write music in the usual sense of the word 'write.' I build kinetic sculptures, and the sculptures generate my music. My sculptures are virtual, meaning they're invisible machines that exist only as data within my home-grown software. My process is related to the work of a relatively obscure early 20th century artist named Thomas Wilfred. Like me, Wilfred was an engineer-artist, and built machines that generated art from phase shift. My music is in complex polymeter, meaning it's not just in odd time, but in multiple odd time signatures, and not one odd time signature after another sequentially, but all of them running concurrently. Most music isn't constructed this way, which is why I needed to develop custom software in order to compose my music. My software is called The Polymeter MIDI Sequencer, and you can easily find it on the Internet. I also use music set theory, change-ringing and gray code, explanations of which can be found in Wikipedia."
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Limited restock. Two guitars heard, one played that listens to the second. Two superimposed timelines that are replayed through the disc. "Libellule": One side with use of drone. "Ébouli": a side where the guitar is detuned as the piece progresses. Guilhem Lacroux designed this disc so that it could be listened to in 45rpm and 33rpm. The 45rpm, as a version of real time -- I live -- and the 33rpm version that of the state of suspension, the invitation to slow time. For fans of France (the band), Tanz Mein Herz, guitar improvisations, electroacoustics.
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A love-filled tribute to the late Japanese techno and ambient pioneer Susumu Yokota. In 2021, talented classical guitarist Ayane Shino discovered his impressive works and recorded cover version of tracks from his acclaimed Sakura album. Those new contemporary musical pieces will please his ever-growing fanbase as well as listeners beyond the electronic music scene. First in a series (The Timbre Of Guitars) of classical cover versions by Japanese guitarist Ayane Shino. For fans of: ambient, new classical, electronica Japan, Susumu Yokota. Half speed mastering; inside out cardboard; edition of 500.
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Essential techno, essentially militant. A collection of pioneering electronic club hits and classic tech funk cuts with highly eco-political lyrics, produced by Michelle Grinser, DJ Naughty, and featuring by Chicks On Speed. Chris Korda, is a transgender artist and tireless environmental activist who denounced 21 years ago the excess of capitalism and consumerism ("Buy", "Buy More"), exposed social inequalities and warned of the dangers of climate change.
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Amazing and legendary 1994 album on the equally amazing and legendary Irdial Disc label, remastered at Emil Berliner Studios in half speed mastering. The whole album was composed and realized on the Roland R8 drum machine. It followed the same process as the Elastic Variations pieces, with the major addition of many, many hours of editing. Each piece was composed as a series of patterns, of varying lengths. The stock R8 sounds were embellished with one of several ROM sound library cards/ These patterns were created by tapping out a rhythm, then, in real time, using the pitch slider as the pattern looped, to create improvised melodies for each of the pattern's voices. The rough version of each piece was built by stitching the patterns together as a song, listening to each addition over and over, to make sure the melodies flowed into each other in a vaguely coherent manner. Once this initial rough structure was in place, Manning set about fine tuning every single note. Most of the percussive sounds, when pitch shifted, only sounded "good" over a reduced range. The first editing step was to go through the entire piece, and change every note's pitch to its nearest multiple of 400. The second step was to draw out the entire piece on graph paper, the Y axis being pitch, X being time. It was easy to see too many notes clustering around too tight a pitch range for instance, or a single note straying way down into the lower register while all others at that point in the melody were in the upper. Once these first "clearing-up" edits were complete, Manning could set about re-writing elements that didn't sound right melodically. Often this meant stripping out whole chunks of superfluous notes, to reveal a cleaner melody line, then shifting its shape slightly. If the flow of the line of dots on the graph "looked" balanced and sweetly sinuous, then often it sounded so. Slowly, a shape, narrative, starts to appear. Then, all of a sudden, somehow, it's done. When all the pieces were complete the R8 was taken into Irdial's studio where some simple effects were added, each voice recorded individually for clarity onto 8-track tape and mastered onto an ex-BBC half-inch tape deck. Included in Pitchfork's "The 50 best IDM Albums of All Time".
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LP version. 140 gram vinyl; 350g inside-out sleeve; Includes insert with liner notes in French and English. Mental Groove Records and Musée D'ethnographie De Genève present Soothing Songs For Babies (Berceuses Du Monde), curated by Madeleine Leclair, head of the MEG's department of Ethnomusicology, and Olivier Ducret of WRWTFWW Records and We Release Jazz. An inspiring collection of carefully chosen lullabies from all over the world, that will please both young parents and their children, as well as (world) music enthusiats looking for a peaceful and captivating listening. Lullabies exist in almost every culture in the world. While they relate to the world of childhood, they also evoke the privileged relationship established through music between an adult and an infant. The lullabies presented here were recorded at different times and come from eighteen countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. They share certain musical characteristics that can be identified from one piece to another: simple melodies, a sequence of short patterns repeated several times in succession, an overall melodic contour following a descending line. All the lullabies presented here come from records published with a copy kept in the Archives Internationales De Musique Populaire (AIMP) of the MEG. For fans of labels like Ocora, Smithsonian Folkways Records, Buda Music, Nonesuch, and traditional forms of music, ambient, (ethno)musicology, and children.
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Mental Groove Records and Musée D'ethnographie De Genève present Soothing Songs For Babies (Berceuses Du Monde), curated by Madeleine Leclair, head of the MEG's department of Ethnomusicology, and Olivier Ducret of WRWTFWW Records and We Release Jazz. An inspiring collection of carefully chosen lullabies from all over the world, that will please both young parents and their children, as well as (world) music enthusiats looking for a peaceful and captivating listening. Lullabies exist in almost every culture in the world. While they relate to the world of childhood, they also evoke the privileged relationship established through music between an adult and an infant. The lullabies presented here were recorded at different times and come from eighteen countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. They share certain musical characteristics that can be identified from one piece to another: simple melodies, a sequence of short patterns repeated several times in succession, an overall melodic contour following a descending line. All the lullabies presented here come from records published with a copy kept in the Archives Internationales De Musique Populaire (AIMP) of the MEG. For fans of labels like Ocora, Smithsonian Folkways Records, Buda Music, Nonesuch, and traditional forms of music, ambient, (ethno)musicology, and children. CD comes in a digipack; Includes insert with liner notes in French and English.
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Mental Groove Records is ecstatic to announce the release of a collaborative musical effort between Spanish producer extraordinaire Orbe and Swiss adventurous Mental Groove label head Oliver for a retro/phuturistic four-for-the-floor EP mixing the science of hypnotic analog grooves with the wickedest sound techniques of the warehouse rave days. Four pumped-up jams for DJs to take control -- don't hold back, just let go and feel the n-r-gee. Early support by Eduardo De La Calle, Jennifer Cardini, Andrew Claristidge, Gilb'r, Daniel Kyo, Photonz, Angel Molina.
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Mental Groove present the follow-up to 2016's Water Vein EP (MG 115EP) by Asian Psilocybe Foundation and DJ Yogurt, Daikaku, a Buddhist term for one who has achieved enlightenment. This second installment smiles on Geinoh Yamashirogumi's soundtrack for Akira (1988). APF is an eccentric Japanese musician. On the A side he achieves in capturing Akira's spirit with his own organic and floating sound signature within a long, delicate, and trippy techno number. On the flipside, DJ Yogurt and Moja deliver two straight percussive numbers, fueled with traditional Japanese flavor, taking floors to a Tetsuo (1989) state-of-mind.
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Mental Groove present the ninth volume of the long-lasting and legendary radio show La Planète Bleue, created by writer, director, independent journalist, activist of extreme music and of non-aligned informations, Yves Blanc. With a broadcast syndication active since 1995, including Swiss Radio Couleur 3 and French Radio Nova, La Planète Bleue is widely renowned as one of the most ambitious, exceptional, and unconventional radio shows of all time. In favor of the unexpected, the weekly show opens the doors to other worlds, other sounds, and other ways of thinking by breaking geographical borders, eras, and genres. La Planète Bleue invites the audience to experience different ways of observing and understanding our world without feeling settled with conventions. This ninth volume collects, in a continuous mix, futuristic and exotic audio gems from Ecuador, Switzerland, Argentina, Niger, Germany, Korea, France, China, United Kingdom, Italy, and Vanuatu, ranging from relaxing drone to ethereal pop, to ambient trance and field recordings. It also includes several recordings extracted from the monumental Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire (AIMP), courtesy of the Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (MEG). Features: Geins't Naït & Laurent Petitgand, Thee Caretakers, Nicolá Cruz, Cat's Eyes, George Boe, Sinner DC, Yantra Mandir, Diminutos, Bombino, Christian Löffler, Loomeer, Keda, and Sequentia Legenda. Includes a 54-page booklet in French and English.
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LP version. 180 gram, blue vinyl. Scarlett's Fall is a duo formed in 2014 by Ruth Childs (British-American performance artist and singer based in Geneva) and Stéphane Vecchione (Swiss performance artist and musician based in Lausanne). They define themselves as dirty-girlie-kitchen-pop, mixing catchy melodies and repetitive looping with fragile vocals and provocative texts. Out of their playfully ironic and poetic universe you can hear shades of Can, Broadcast, and Young Marble Giants. Scarlett's Scared is Scarlett's Fall's ironically seductive second album. It all started with a (blue) demonstration vinyl entitled The Incredible Sounds Of Synclavier II, released by New England Digital Corp in 1981, to promote the first digital sampling system. Its content gave the basic atmosphere for the whole album: each of the ten tracks samples a specific Synclavier sound. Add haunting melodies, mysterious vocals, and fun beats and you get Scarlett's Scared complete. As the title suggests, Scarlett's Scared is about being scared and takes its roots from vintage movies, such as Klute (1971) and Metti, Una Sera A Cena (1969), that deal with phone stalkers, insomnia, sexual tension, vampires, ghosts, and explosive watermelon attacks.
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Scarlett's Fall is a duo formed in 2014 by Ruth Childs (British-American performance artist and singer based in Geneva) and Stéphane Vecchione (Swiss performance artist and musician based in Lausanne). They define themselves as dirty-girlie-kitchen-pop, mixing catchy melodies and repetitive looping with fragile vocals and provocative texts. Out of their playfully ironic and poetic universe you can hear shades of Can, Broadcast, and Young Marble Giants. Scarlett's Scared is Scarlett's Fall's ironically seductive second album. It all started with a (blue) demonstration vinyl entitled The Incredible Sounds Of Synclavier II, released by New England Digital Corp in 1981, to promote the first digital sampling system. Its content gave the basic atmosphere for the whole album: each of the ten tracks samples a specific Synclavier sound. Add haunting melodies, mysterious vocals, and fun beats and you get Scarlett's Scared complete. As the title suggests, Scarlett's Scared is about being scared and takes its roots from vintage movies, such as Klute (1971) and Metti, Una Sera A Cena (1969), that deal with phone stalkers, insomnia, sexual tension, vampires, ghosts, and explosive watermelon attacks.
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"Although I did not think deeply about it, I felt that a certain time had come for me and I decided to produce my solo album. It was 20 years since I first started playing drums and since then, out of all the brilliant artists who live in Japan that I played with, I wanted to freely enlist players who I really wanted to create music with." This is what Keiichi Tanaka said about his intention in making Keta Iicna Hika. In 2014, Japan's leading eight-piece Afrobeat band, Kingdom Afrocks, put a halt to their group activities. For eight years, they firmly maintained their steady and indispensable rhythmic core, developing an energetic live performance and music. Their drummer Keiichi Tanaka became the first member to produce a solo album after their split. He started working on Keta Iicna Hika in October of 2014 and finished it at the beginning of 2015. There are several collaborations on Keta Iicna Hika including Kingdom Afrocks ex-colleague Nao Ito, OKI of Oki Dub Ainu Band, legendary Japanese Jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi, and several other artists who Keiichi had performed with. Furthermore, Keiichi has enlisted many African musicians living in Japan. Along with conventional instruments, traditional African instruments, such as a banjo-sounding traditional string instrument popular in countries such as Mali and Guinea, the n'goni, traditional Karafuto/Ainu instruments, such as the tonkori, and a bamboo mouth harp, the mukkur, are featured. Not just confined to Afrobeat, Keiichi also includes various African music and traditions such as Benga from Kenya, a lullaby from Congo, and inspiration from Somaliland and Mali. Keiichi mixes it with dub from OKI, traditional Japanese music, such as the music of Tenjinbayashi, and traditional Ainu sounds. Keiichi also undertakes a jazz-flavored cover of Afrobeat founder Fela Kuti. With Keta Iicna Hika, Keiichi has created a deep and unparalleled melting pot of an album that only he was able to produce. Each song is recorded "live", and as such, performed with his collaborators mostly in one take. The record was ready in 2015 but tragedy struck, and Keiichi passed away. Keta Iicna Hika represents Keiichi's musical vision, a culmination of all he had learned in this twenty years as a musician. Comes in a gatefold tip-on, with an obi strip, and booklet with extensive liner notes in Japanese and English.
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Mental Groove present Bigeneric's double album Spielmanda in collaboration with the artist's own Inzec imprint. Swiss artist Marco Repetto is the chromatic brain behind the Bigeneric musical project and has a strong background in the burgeoning scenes of minimal synth (Grauzone with Stephan Eicher), early techno (Synectics on Aphex Twins' Rephlex imprint), and ambient/trance (Planet Love on Superstition). Spielmanda reflects Repetto's deep love for nature, psychedelia, health, and futurism. The title is borrowed from a book by Bern writer and myths researcher Sergius Golowin and is a fictional legendary and mystic place in the Swiss pre-alps, a place that Marco Repetto explores through the 16 tracks of this album that he has constructed and tested at numerous performances. A truly justified and bright two hour long daydreaming walk across the deep forests and infinitively colorful meadows of imaginary Spielmanda's landscapes and beyond, with Marco Repetto's heart rebel signature, a unique and modern mixture of technology driven hippie and punk culture. Comes in a heavy double digisleeve jacket.
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"Although I did not think deeply about it, I felt that a certain time had come for me and I decided to produce my solo album. It was 20 years since I first started playing drums and since then, out of all the brilliant artists who live in Japan that I played with, I wanted to freely enlist players who I really wanted to create music with." This is what Keiichi Tanaka said about his intention in making Keta Iicna Hika. In 2014, Japan's leading eight-piece Afrobeat band, Kingdom Afrocks, put a halt to their group activities. For eight years, they firmly maintained their steady and indispensable rhythmic core, developing an energetic live performance and music. Their drummer Keiichi Tanaka became the first member to produce a solo album after their split. He started working on Keta Iicna Hika in October of 2014 and finished it at the beginning of 2015. There are several collaborations on Keta Iicna Hika including Kingdom Afrocks ex-colleague Nao Ito, OKI of Oki Dub Ainu Band, legendary Japanese Jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi, and several other artists who Keiichi had performed with. Furthermore, Keiichi has enlisted many African musicians living in Japan. Along with conventional instruments, traditional African instruments, such as a banjo-sounding traditional string instrument popular in countries such as Mali and Guinea, the n'goni, traditional Karafuto/Ainu instruments, such as the tonkori, and a bamboo mouth harp, the mukkur, are featured. Not just confined to Afrobeat, Keiichi also includes various African music and traditions such as Benga from Kenya, a lullaby from Congo, and inspiration from Somaliland and Mali. Keiichi mixes it with dub from OKI, traditional Japanese music, such as the music of Tenjinbayashi, and traditional Ainu sounds. Keiichi also undertakes a jazz-flavored cover of Afrobeat founder Fela Kuti. With Keta Iicna Hika, Keiichi has created a deep and unparalleled melting pot of an album that only he was able to produce. Each song is recorded "live", and as such, performed with his collaborators mostly in one take. The record was ready in 2015 but tragedy struck, and Keiichi passed away. Keta Iicna Hika represents Keiichi's musical vision, a culmination of all he had learned in this twenty years as a musician. Comes in a heavy reversed cardboard sleeve; Includes two pantone printed sleeves, a 60x60 double-sided poster, extensive liner notes in Japanese and English.
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Conceived in the cultural cellars of Bangkok, Thailand, and Geneva, Switzerland, Yantra Mandir the nine-track LP by Jerome Doudet, aka Yantra Mandir aka The Dude of Stratosphear, casts a wide net over experimental meditative ambient music, progressive drone, Brahmanic accents, and ritual oscillations. Together, this work represents a 20 year journey in Geneva of musical production, artistic expression, and the melting pot of experiences fused with the rich legacy of Indian spiritual sounds. The LP is partly a collaboration between five close collaborators, each contributing a single sound to complete the jigsaw, and partly comprised of field recordings of Bopa musicians from Rajasthan, in northern India. Added to the confluence are intricate layers of electric bass and electronic vibrations. The name derives from ancient Sanskrit words emblematic of the overarching sound. "Yantra" is the Sanskrit word for mystical diagrams found in the Tantric traditions of the Indus Valley. These diagrams are used to worship dieties at home or in temples, as a meditation aid, and to activate the various benefits and occult powers as defined by Hindu astrological and Tantric texts. "Mandir" is the Sanskrit word for a place in which a still mind and soul float freely search of life, peace, joy, and comfort. For centuries, the mandir has remained the nexus of a community where people forget their differences and voluntarily unite. "Garden of Reality" is the musical meeting point between Europe, Southeast Asia, and India - and everything in between from past, present, and future. Jerome Doudet was born in the beginning of the '70s with a father DJing in disco clubs. Raised in the alternative scene of the very international city of Geneva Switzerland, he started playing bass at the age of ten and spinning various old punk/funk/rock/reggae in squats all along the '90s. Bass player in bands such as Knut and Half Japanese, he now works with the experimental kraut band Bliscappen Van Maria, and on his tantric bass solo project Yantra Mandir. After many trips to India and South East Asia the Dude, always in search of new sounds, has sharpened his globe-spanning mix with far eastern psychedelic music and with largely unheard gems from across the musical spectrum. 140 gram vinyl with printed inner sleeves in gatefold sleeve. Edition of 300.
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Mental Groove presents a vinyl reissue Do Den Haag Church from France. Originally released on CD in 2009. The recording is raw and the mastering is fat. The first two pressings made in 2014 and 2015 were distributed confidentially and during the numerous live performances of the band. This pressing features brand new artwork. "France is a French trio that uses drums, bass and amplified hurdy-gurdy. They only perform live, in the middle of the audience - turned to face each other - full on smoke machines and strobes. They play only one 'song' for the duration of their hour-long set. And it's the most transfixing live experience of intense physical and mental focus. The distorted hurdy-gurdy plugs France's sound into the country's history of folk music and popular festivities, of communal trance and immersive pleasure. The rhythmic basis is pretty much the same throughout the whole set. One doesn't need to actually be tripping balls for the auditory illusions to start coming thick and fast. Those who've stayed for the whole duration of their performances know they've shared something, however disparate the phantom forms each might have discerned in the midst of the howls and groans. Gigs like this you leave feeling you're not quite the same person who went in, even though you'd be hard-pressed to pinpoint precisely what has changed." -- David McKenna (The Quietus).
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Over the past 20 years, Genevan duo Sinner DC have built a solid, yet discreet reputation on the international electronic music scene. Their ethereal intergalactic yet catchy melodies, full on emotions and melancholy, became, throughout the years, the band's trademark. Co-published by the prestigious Museum of Ethnography of Geneva and Swiss renowned Mental Groove Records, this first album entitled MEG / CDG inaugurates a new series of CDs devoted to contemporary compositions sourced from the monumental audio archives of the Museum. MEG / CDG's backbone contains music from Romania, Niger and southern United States, from the mid '30s to the early '50s that the Genevan Sinner DC selected while browsing the museum database. MEG / CDG is a kaleidoscopic album and a scenic trip - the title of the album and the songs are of IATA airport codes and explores the limits of the panoramic vision of the duo through hypnotic landscapes and imaginary places. The Museum of Ethnography of Geneva and Mental Groove look forward to continuing their collaboration.
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Mental Groove Records announces the debut release of DJ Vax1 aka Marion Xavier delivering a subtle, gorgeous and much valuable house/electro EP. Headlining the EP is Alexander Robotnick who takes the track to stripped down electronic territories that will fit comfortably in any set with that "satisfaction guaranteed" label. Introducing the Kira Neris remix! With his skilled hands he changed the original into a pure golden nugget for joyous peak time action. We end with Vax1's vocal and instrumental versions. It's grooving without a doubt and is for sure a "grower".
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Reissue of the Water Vein EP by Japanese producer Asian Psilocybe Foundation (APF), a sought-after work of ambient house/minimal techno originally released in a limited run of 25 handcrafted white labels and available only at Disk Union Tokyo, where it sold out immediately. Layers of unprocessed field recordings, traditional instruments, and minimal beats create meditative soundscapes at the convergence of ambient and trance. Water Vein starts with ritual sequences, continues with two carefully crafted club tracks for both the feet and the brain, and closes with remixes by Tobi and DJ Yogurt & Moja.
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Grand Pianoramax is a supergroup consisting of three strong personalities, each possessing outstanding mastery of their craft, from the acute lyricism of Geneva-based pianist Leo Tardin's keyboards and the immediate intimacy of Black Cracker's wild poetry to the powerful, razor-sharp, and pugnacious drums of Dom Burkhalter. The virtues of this rare alloy illuminate each of their concerts, which have taken place all around the globe. With four albums already under their belt, Grand Pianoramax now presents Soundwave, their second release on Mental Groove Records following 2015's Big Easy mini-album. Staying true to their instantly recognizable signature sound at the crossroads of post-jazz, art rock, and hip hop, Soundwave is another step in the ambitious artistic path of the trio. As opposed to their previous works, this album is characterized by less polished DIY production, in a better reflection of the spontaneity that shines through during the trio's live performances.
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