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RBINC 010LP
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Following up 2022's Acrobatic Thoughts album (RBINC 008LP), Panoram delves even deeper into his own musical universe with Keep Looking Where The Light Comes From. We find the producer in confident form, exploring the fuzzy fringes of beauty and chaos. The result is an album that sounds even more like himself and yet surprising at each turn. Opening track "Feathers" sounds like only Panoram can, buzzy arpeggiated distortion takes flight somewhere in the direction of a distant multiverse where Animal Collective and Boards of Canada soundtracked Koyaanisqatsi. But the psychedelic drift is all Panoram's own, conjuring a stark sense of the uncanny with the repeated phrases. The digital guitar and vocal loops of "I Can Only Repeat Your Love" are practically on the brink of collapsing in on themselves, to the point where the structure begins to shift like a collapsing monument. "Flat Stones" nods towards ASMR, as flute and woodwind tones caress the ears and a whispered voice teases out an altered state. It's this dreamlike mood that pervades the whole album, a maximal effect that's wrung from minimalist compositions. "The Wide House" picks up the baton from Laurie Anderson to trip gently through different states of awareness, while the piano patterns of "Blank Sheep" float through the synth ambience like ideas entering an empty dream. "There Is A Hole Here" is another mutant loop that unravels as it proceeds -- the rhythms turn into a pulse, and despite what the lyrics say, it does indeed mess around with your brain. Panoram balances dance tropes, classical composition, ambient drones and a washed out, fuzzy twist on avant garde pop, and manages to transform it all into a uniform whole that fits all those puzzle pieces together. Yet such is the assuredness of Panoram's production that it sounds effortless. At this point, the music is more like a midwife, manifesting your future self's enlightened consciousness with surreal effect.
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RBINC 009LP
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You can't keep a good thing down: 99 marks the triumphant and long overdue return of Matthew Edwards's Rekid project. More than just Radio Slave records slowed down, his alter ego preferably ploughs the field between ambient excursions, downtempo hypnotism, sample sculptures and the general space in between raves. Since its first appearance with the Lost Star EP for Classic in 2004 and the still breathtaking follow up Made In Menorca opus on Soul Jazz Records, Edwards firmly established himself as a producer of many, if not all trades. Thought of, produced and conceived during the first lockdown of 2020, 99 is conceptual (with the tempo firmly set at that tempo), concise (34 minutes and 34 seconds long) and content with exploring the possibilities of limitation (one track a day, live takes, no editing). Without departing the original Rekid ethos of glacial music, it presents a modernized and contemporary version of IDM tropes, chill out topics, and a capturing sound of mesmerizing materiality. After a while, it all made sense to Edwards as one piece, was presented to Running Back. Jeep music for ballet dancers.
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RBINC 008LP
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"Sybilline", "unique", and "peerless". These are some of the adjectives that were used to describe Everyone Is A Door, Panoram's first full-length on Edinburgh's Firecracker Recordings. Since then, the elusive producer, founded his own label Wandering Eye, produced automated piano music in Los Angeles (Thom Yorke Sonos playlist approved), composed synth lines underwater for Amen Dunes Freedom, and toured two years with the band as well being involved in their collaboration with Sleaford Mods Feel Nothing and their upcoming album on Sub Pop. But Panoram can also hold its own very well. His debut on Running Back's Incantations series lets you hear and experience that after the first few bars already. Acrobatic Thoughts is surreal, abstract, puzzling and urgent, yet filled with beautiful, slow-moving melodies, and emotional passages. Eccentric humor meets serious soundscapes, acrobatic thoughts evolve around abstract key notes, while an out-of-time and out-place atmosphere surrounds a microcosmos that seems to be otherworldly and very natural at the same time. Panoram manages to build a house that can be as much of a home for ambient record collectors as for futuristic pop fans and all the ones in-between those poles. Or to describe it one sentence while quoting two titles of this enigmatic record: Seabrains controlled by beautiful engines. Short: Seabrains controlled by beautiful engines.. Eccentric humor meets serious soundscapes, acrobatic thoughts evolve around abstract key notes. One LP to make millions happy.
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Three's a charm, as they say. After Waste The Time (IML 004LP, 2016) and Socialo Blanco (RBINC 002LP, 2019), Money completes Daniel Meuzard's Feater triptych. Again joined by the likes of Eric Owusu and Sam Irl and their musical as well as technical skills, as well as by the lovely voice of Vilja Larjosto, the ageless beauty and intellectual brilliance of Money is impossible to resist. It could have been imagined, written and recorded almost any time in the last 50 years. Inspired or -- better put -- troubled by the rise and transformation of capitalist systems, fatalism, extravism, climate change and -- surprise -- the power, corruption, and lies revolving around money, its topic is anything, but bubblegum. The music though, is ranging from powerful songs to clever synth experiments. Incredibly executed with a perfectly wonderful result. And even if Daniel writes that there is "no need to worry, I want you to panic," you should listen to this album, while you do so!
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RBINC 006LP
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AKSK is the collaborative effort of Adda Kaleh and Suzanne Kraft. Recorded over the course of almost seven years and despite local separation or virtual realities, it sums up the magic that already inhered in their debut song "Breaking" for Gerd Janson's Musik for Autobahns compilation on Rush Hour (RH 125CD/LP, 2013). An eight-track LP of crystalline chansons and pastels pop that features the skills of The Coober Pedy University Band aka CPUB (Tornado Wallace and William Paxton) on dub duties to complete the magical musical mysteries of AKSK.
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RBINC 005LP
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Running Back Incantations present Yogtze! A joint venture of musician/producer Daniel Helmer (Mantra Mantra, Gudrun von Laxenburg) and filmmaker from Vienna Daniel Meuzard (Feater, Skymax, Vallay). The duo offers a headstrong trip deep into the tune-in-turn-on-drop-out-mentality of European minds outside of their natural environment. Helmer and Meuzard met around 2005 in Peru where they both participated in an ayahuasca ceremony. After this experience they decided to travel and discover South America together for some weeks. During that journey, the idea of a musical project (Yogtze) was born. Two years and many miles later, Helmer and Meuzard saw Alejandro Jodorowsky's Montana Sacra (The Holy Mountain, 1973) at a small film festival in Paris. The movie inspired them to create a musical composition that reflects its spirit and atmosphere. In order to do so, they decided to travel Morocco and record music on a small 8-track tape machine at a friend's home studio in Essaouira. "The artistic process felt very natural. All we had to do was to open up to the cosmos and let the music flow through our bodies," said Meuzard. Neither Meuzard nor Helmers intended to release those recordings, since the sessions were more of a personal nature and meant to create a musical experience for themselves. A decade later, their Moroccan friend, who stumbled upon the tapes while cleaning his storage, urged them to release their recordings so everyone could experience the same musical journey as they had back in 2007. "It would be a grand act of selfishness not to share this work of art with others," he told them. Luckily for the world, Helmer and Meuzard decided to finally edit, mix and master the rest of the material in 2018/2019 and named their project Yogtze. Expect a record full of wondrous soundscapes, haunting melodies, and captivating themes that would fit in many categories or definitions and none at the same time. Music from and for memories, tangerine dreams, and chessboards.
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RBINC 004LP
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A Sagittariun's third album chronicles the journey back to "Telepathic Heights"; an expedition that encounters many obstacles along the way. The feuding parties of the two planets make for a journey of determination and self-discovery for our techno lone ranger that will ultimately deliver him to the sacred site on which "Telepathic Heights" stands. Conceived as a space western soundtrack to the cinematic interpretation of this tale, Return To Telepathic Heights delivers ten chapters that journal the ultimate mission to reach the imposing tower of "Telepathic Heights", where dream telepathy has become the primary communicative tool amongst its peaceful and harmonious community who have opted out of the planetary war that continues to rage, seemingly with no armistice anytime soon. The score fittingly winds its way through the trials and tribulations of this journey, blending minimal and harmonic rhythms, industrial funk, dreamy synth wave, and transcendental techno into the rich tapestry of music that documents the Return To Telepathic Heights. The album features original artwork by Johnny Bruck, fully licensed, and taken from the legendary German science fiction novel series, Perry Rhodan, which ran weekly from the early 1960s, and was the most successful sci-fi book series ever written. Gatefold sleeve.
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RBINC 002LP
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Sometimes -- despite the high-octane, fast-track, and hyper-hysteric music business -- you come across things that seem so pure, perfect, and poetic that it almost hurts. Socialo Blanco is one of these objects. It appears understated at a first listen, startling at the second and totally enamoring by the third run. To lay it all out on the table: it sounds like a Music From Memory reissue, looks like a Growing Bins Records discovery, and feels like a flea-market-hippie-uncle-record-collection find. Based on the language (coincidences and misbehavior included) and direction of the classic EMS Synthi AKS and recorded by hand and directly to tape (no MIDI, no sync, no computer), it is at once out-of-time and out-of-touch with current sound aesthetics, but that only makes it even more contemporary (vintage), like a great piece of furniture. Unsurprising, if you know that Feater is helmed by Daniel Meuzard. Hailing from Vienna and having made a name for himself as a trustworthy and skilled studio equipment dealer and working closely with producer and studio engineer Sam Irl, the man has a knack for turning yesterday into today. Already is his project's second album, Socialo Blanco is the result of all of this and some magical and effortless sessions. The voice of Vilja Larjosto from Finland and Ghana's Eric Owusu (Pat Thomas, Ebo Taylor) on percussion, spontaneously invited to the recording sessions by fellow Viennese Giuseppe Leonardi, are the icing on the cake. All of that and especially the non-conformist pop song "Time Million" symbolizes the heart and soul of an album that deserves to be billed as such. And that is no mean feat.
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Mark Barrott is the man behind International Feel, Roca, Future Loop Foundation, as well as being a founding member of the Balearic boy-band Talamanca System alongside Gerd Janson and Lauer. Nature Sounds of The Balearics is Mark's debut LP on Running Back Incantations.
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Nature Sounds Of The Balearics is Mark Barrott's debut LP on Running Back Incantations. Mark Barrott is the man behind International Feel, Rocha, and Future Loop Foundation, as well as being a founding member of the Balearic boy-band Talamanca System alongside Gerd Janson and Lauer.
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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Running Back welcomes Andreas Grosser for the start of the label's non-dancefloor series Running Back Incantations. Think Tornado Wallace's Lonely Planet (RB 009CD/LP, 2017) or Suzanne Kraft's Missum (RB 046LP, 2014) who both would have been good and early contenders for a series like this, and you are half way there. Andres Grosser though, was "there" and that way before. Probably best-known for his 1987 collaboration Babel with Klaus Schulze (1987), Grosser is a bit of a dark horse in the universe whose big bang was krautrock and that went on to be called cosmic, space music or simply new age. A native East-Berliner, Grosser crossed the Wall in 1981 and next to studying piano, his day job was to advise, sell, maintain, and invent electronic music instruments. Naturally, Grosser had a good connection to and support from local Berlin musicians and groups, while working at night in his own studio and in those of others. Fast forward 37 years and Andreas is now one the world's leading microphone technicians specializing in German and Austrian vintage types. Venite Visum is an anthology of recordings made between 1976 and 1980. Released in 1981 on UK's York House Recordings as a cassette-only release, it features some of the most out-there, hypnotic, and still state-of-the art space music known to man. For the first time transferred onto vinyl and compact disc, it was perhaps best described by one reviewer at the time as; "powerfully relentless, repetitive themes which are constantly embellished and subjected to variations in tone colour and instrumentations. The music surges, coming in waves that approach and recede, but with each surge the waves seem to be higher up the shore." Now carefully transferred from an archived tape, remastered, and compiled here, it features the previously unreleased and no less mesmerizing "The Quantum Jump". Come and visit the hidden and almost forgotten.
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Running Back welcomes Andreas Grosser for the start of the label's non-dancefloor series Running Back Incantations. Think Tornado Wallace's Lonely Planet (RB 009CD/LP, 2017) or Suzanne Kraft's Missum (RB 046LP, 2014) who both would have been good and early contenders for a series like this, and you are half way there. Andres Grosser though, was "there" and that way before. Probably best-known for his 1987 collaboration Babel with Klaus Schulze (1987), Grosser is a bit of a dark horse in the universe whose big bang was krautrock and that went on to be called cosmic, space music or simply new age. A native East-Berliner, Grosser crossed the Wall in 1981 and next to studying piano, his day job was to advise, sell, maintain, and invent electronic music instruments. Naturally, Grosser had a good connection to and support from local Berlin musicians and groups, while working at night in his own studio and in those of others. Fast forward 37 years and Andreas is now one the world's leading microphone technicians specializing in German and Austrian vintage types. Venite Visum is an anthology of recordings made between 1976 and 1980. Released in 1981 on UK's York House Recordings as a cassette-only release, it features some of the most out-there, hypnotic, and still state-of-the art space music known to man. For the first time transferred onto vinyl and compact disc, it was perhaps best described by one reviewer at the time as; "powerfully relentless, repetitive themes which are constantly embellished and subjected to variations in tone colour and instrumentations. The music surges, coming in waves that approach and recede, but with each surge the waves seem to be higher up the shore." Now carefully transferred from an archived tape, remastered, and compiled here, it features the previously unreleased and no less mesmerizing "The Quantum Jump". Come and visit the hidden and almost forgotten.
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