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RSOON 028EP
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Ultramarine and Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track "$10 Heel". The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). "$10 Rework" replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter house backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes. Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window. Iain Ballamy wields his saxophone like a graffiti artist with a spray can; scrawling and skronking across the canvas. Ric Elsworth lurks in a side alley, unraveling a trash can monologue of wild flamming bongos. Ultramarine is the UK duo of Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, their albums include Every Man and Woman is a Star (Rough Trade, 1991), United Kingdoms (with Robert Wyatt) (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), and Signals Into Space. Anna Domino is an American musician based in LA and NY, best known for her classic run of releases on Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule in the 1980s and '90s. Iain Ballamy is a composer and saxophonist; a member of the Loose Tubes collective in the 1980s and more recently with several albums to his name on ECM. Ric Elsworth is UK-based percussionist and vibraphone player.
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RSOON 027LP
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"Meditations is two long-form episodic ambient pieces performed with a reduced palette of kalimba, treated guitar, wavetable & analogue synths and hardware effects; recorded in London with Andy Ramsay of Stereolab. Conceived as a companion to Ultramarine's acclaimed seventh album Signals Into Space (2019), Meditations was originally issued by Les Disques du Crépuscule as a limited edition CD and is now available for the first time on vinyl via Real Soon."
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RSOON 025EP
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Real Soon brings together a trio of heavyweight practitioners in the fine art of house music to remix tracks from Ultramarine's critically-acclaimed album This Time Last Year (RSOON 024CD/LP). The Kai Alce and Hercules & Love Affair mixes share a similar approach; raw, jacking and dancefloor-friendly. Kai gives "Eye Contact" a Chicago-flavored jazz twist with a bass line reminiscent of Glenn Underground and fleeting, high-register piano. On "Passwords," Hercules & Ha-Ze Factory layer rhythm and vocal samples from the original track and punch a hole in them with brutal sawtooth basses and bouncing syndrums. Juju & Jordash reduce the downtempo "Decoy Point" to a warm, pulsing mantra.
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RSOON 024CD
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This is the sixth album by UK electronic duo Ultramarine (Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond), and their first full-length release in 15 years. Featuring all-new material and recorded in the band's isolated studio on the edge of the Essex marshes, the album ebbs and flows in mood like the nearby Blackwater estuary. Working with a palette of vintage drum machines, analog synths, textural samples, acoustic recordings, electric bass and heavily-treated guitar, the songs were born out of captured live studio performances. Cooper & Hammond then rewired their initial sketches through a series of hands-on, lo-fi effects chains, blurring the edges between acoustic and electronic elements. The result is an organic, playful feel; leaving the music room to breathe and carrying distinct echoes of the band's previous work.
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RSOON 024LP
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LP version on 180 gram vinyl with download card. Sleeve printed in three Pantone colors.
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RSOON 022EP
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Real Soon are proud to present the first new material in 13 years by London-based electronic veterans Ultramarine. "Find A Way" rolls out dreamy, chopped and layered vocals over a wash of soft, treated guitar, deep synth stabs and swinging 808 percussion. The B-side version kicks off with a monotonous, metallic-sounding Moog synth loop and builds into a full live 808 workout punctuated by arpeggiated electric bass, vocal snippets and dub effects.
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RSOON 021EP
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Toronto-based producer James Duncan returns to Real Soon with his second release for the label. James' trademark, as fully demonstrated on this EP of four new untitled tracks, is a raw, soulful, minimal and uncompromising take on classic Chicago and NY house music. This is the sound of house music taken apart and reconstructed with the most basic, rough-edged building blocks; gritty, dirty percussion, sine wave bass, EQ'd & filtered vocal and piano parts.
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RSLTD 001EP
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"Real Soon is proud to present the debut release by Berlin-based producer Hauke Freer. Hauke has an old-school production approach, working with contemporary software but using a palette of mainly vinyl samples to give a loose, effortless, raw-sounding edge. 'My Beat' is a dirty, gritty, House work-out featuring deep, filtered chords, lo-fi percussion and roughly chopped vocal pieces. Old-fashioned in a good way -- just the way we like it! 'We Must Face Our Fears' is a smoother, minimal track with a delicate, beautifully measured mesh of percussive knocks, slides & bleeps driven by a pulsing sine wave bass. As the track builds, a classic Detroit-flavoured chord wash brings it all together. Bliss. Hauke Freer grew up in a small town near Hamburg and moved to Berlin in 2000 to work for the techno label Kanzleramt. After spending a year in Australia DJing and working for the label Future Classic, Hauke returned to Berlin to work for the Resopal Schallware label."
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RSOON 013EP
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"LeRosa is Dublin-based Italian producer Leopoldo Rosa. The title track 'Ruski' combines a rough-cut sampled break with a loose, minimal arrangement of sub-bass and liquid synth pads. On the flip, 'Russell' and 'Tempio' are deep, moody house explorations, beautifully suspended by shifting sine wave pads and Rhodes-like chords. Leo began producing his own music in 2000, concentrating initially on electro but broadening his range into unconventional house and techno styles. His debut LeRosa release was the Maike EP on Dublin's D1 Recordings in 2005."
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