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Kieran Hebden's Text Records announce Bolts, the debut album from British-Armenian producer Hagop Tchaparian. Hagop's debut album Bolts features ten tracks of hyper-personal rhythm music that mixes techno with field recordings of his travels through Armenian and Mediterranean culture. The ten tracks on Bolts, combine the audio evidence of a life's experience, with the notion that lo-fi techno can be the right canvas for conveying that experience. Hagop's been gathering these sounds and vignettes for almost 15 years, having begun accumulating them before the smart-phone in his pocket included a "record" function. The result is the sound of a man chasing his heritage around the world, while sprinkling clues of his everyday life amidst the manipulated folk instruments of his ancestry. There are aspects of tactile remembrances in between these rhythms, at times the result feels explosive. From its title down to the incessant bleating of the zurna, "Right to Riot" is like a punk techno that cries for the disaffected. Whereas "Timelapse", which features a loop of the music that accompanies the fire-jumping wedding ritual sews together what seem like connected images in a photo album that may be physically decomposing, but whose power remains. Hagop's past is the precursor to him creating something meaningful with these recordings. In his teens Tchaparian, played guitar in Symposium, a '90s post-grunge punk band. After Symposium, Hagop contributed to a 2000 comp called Hokis, which collected music by Armenian artists and Hagop was drawn into London's club scene. Hagop would make the occasional remix that friends like Kieran would play in their DJ sets, but working on original new music wasn't foremost on his mind. He kept gathering these little snippets of rudimentarily recorded sound. There was an emotional resonance in continuing to fit these samples together into a storyline that made sense to him. On their own, the rhythm tracks could successfully power an underground dance-floor, but the elements surrounding the beats were the undercurrents that helped push the music beyond party rituals. When he played some early bits and pieces for Hebden, the veteran musician encouraged him to continue, and turn it into a full body of work. Hagops's globalized narrative complicates this party's soundtrack beyond the margins of ethno-cultural chill-out comps. Bolts is a very particular and this is Hagop's excavation of his Armenian heritage through a lifetime's worth of remote recordings. Ryan Smith (Caribou, Taraval) assisted with production and mixing. London compatriot Dennis White added a few production touches. Hagop also worked with Michel "Shelle" Dierickx, a legendary old-school producer. Artwork by Atiba Jefferson.
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Taraval returns to Text with Aardvark.
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KH presents a new EP on Text, Question.
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Taraval presents a new EP on Text, Taraval II.
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"All proceeds to the Steve Reid Foundation. Comes in hand-made letterpress sleeve designed and printed by Marta dos Santos." More limited than the regular "pretty limited" Text releases -- one per customer.
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When 2012 began, Anthony Naples didn't have a song to his name; by the year's end, he was being heralded as one of the city's rising talents. The genesis was "Mad Disrespect" -- a cut that dominated Brooklyn's underground electronic music scene even before its official release. Not only was it Naples's first single, but it was also the first track he'd recorded, period. On a whim, he sent the track to Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, the founders of New York's respected Mister Saturday Night series, and it caught their attention. Naples ended up delivering the label's inaugural release: the 2012 Mad Disrespect EP. His music caught the ear of a number of people that summer, none more important than Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, who commissioned Naples to remix his single "128 Harps" -- Naples's first remix. Now, after releasing on labels including Rubadub, Opal Tapes, and The Trilogy Tapes and performing at Fabric in London and Berghain Panorama Bar in Berlin, Naples presents his debut full-length, Body Pill. Naples lifted the title from a mangled English translation in a Japanese vending machine, and says, "When I ran the title past Kieran... he said it just sounded like a lost rave classic, but I thought in the end it makes sense. The LP is a small dose of synthetic noises and rhythms... I wanted to make a streetwise record that was also solid and simple, like a brick or those weird fluorescent light tubes in the subway. They give off this weird hum that you hear only when you're alone in the station between trains late at night. I wanted to make a record that evoked that experience." Body Pill is a surprising album for Naples, his most understated and mature release to date. It opens with a wall of ambient noise on "Ris," only to be overtaken by a modest synth groove. Ambient noise washes over tracks like "Way Stone" and "Pale," but that's not to say there aren't echoes of Naples's work for Mister Saturday Night lurking throughout. "Abrazo" feels like the natural companion to Naples's earlier singles, with elegant strings mingling with a deconstructed house-inspired beat. "Used to Be" is arguably Naples's largest beat to date, with rolling hi-hats counterbalancing stabbing synths. Closer "Miles" abruptly morphs from a lo-fi house anthem into a minimal synth soundscape, a microcosm of the record as a whole. Limited stock available....
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Contains original version on the A-side and remix by Four Tet on the B-side.
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Tracks: Four Tet - Aerial (Jay Daniel remix); Four Tet - Buchla (Seven Davis Jr remix); Four Tet - Crush (PhOtOmachine remix).
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"New music from Four Tet, under his Percussions moniker. One of two new EPs on Text."
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"New EP from Taraval on Text."
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"Beautiful Rewind. Shout out to Text Records. On LP and CD. No YouTube trailers, no streaming, no charts, no Amazon deal, no last minute Rick Rubin."
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Limited repress; Four Tet with brothers Ben and Tom Page of RocketNumberNine.
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Remixes by Happa and Jamie XX.
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Kathryn Bint follows her perfectly-formed debut Until (2008) with an album that reveals her remarkable range as a musician and songwriter. Bint was born in Australia, grew up in Chicago, and moved to London nine years ago, where she began writing songs in earnest. After the release of Until, she got together with Henry Scowcroft and Lucy Jamieson, with whom she toured Europe and played festival dates. On this record, her tender vocals still send husky shivers down the spine, but Into The Trees is so much more than beautiful folk songs. Produced by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), Into The Trees weaves a fabric of different sounds, united by Bint's elegiac voice and strong storytelling. Radiohead's Colin Greenwood lends the album his bass powers, and tracks like "Paper Planes" and "I Know" rock with a swagger that surprises and yet fits perfectly with the whole. The musicianship of Scowcroft and Jamieson is on full display as the record moves deftly from the acoustic warmth of "Hold You Down" to the sunshine pop of "Simmer Down Simmer" to the dreamy synth of final track "Synthesizer." Hebden's touch is a delicate one; there is a modesty and clarity to these songs that speaks to the confidence and judgment of those involved. "If You Ask" is so simple and clean that no extra seasoning is required. This is an optimistic record in which "hope stretches out like a leaf." Recorded in 2010 at Bryn Derwen studios in North Wales, while Bint was pregnant with her first child, these songs are imbued with a tangible determination and hope.
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"This is a limited 12" vinyl release on Kieran Hebden's (Four Tet) Text records label. 500 only for the world. Two new remixes of one of the stand out tracks from the debut album by One Little Plane. The first mix is by Avus who is one of the artists on James Holden's Border Community label. A beautiful piece of melodic techno that has been getting lots of play at Border Community nights. The other remix is by Joe Goddard from Hot Chip. Techno with a strong UK garage influence. Following on from the amazing remixes he has done for everyone from Gang Gang Dance to Kraftwerk."
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"A twist on the singer-songwriter tradition, One Little Plane is a musical epiphany straight from the unfaltering beat of one little heart -- the captivating Kathryn Bint. You may have first heard the beguiling voice of One Little Plane on the Four Tet remix of 'Melody Day,' the single from Caribou's latest album Andorra (2007). Originally from Chicago, Kathryn relocated to London in 2003, where she began recording in her flat with producer Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) in 2005. Together, they created One Little Plane's distinctive soundscape of unique instrumentation: a combination of electric and acoustic guitars, small percussion, thumb piano, melodica, keyboards, vibraphone, samples and multi-tracked vocals. From the acoustic wanderings of title track 'Until' and 'Make of Me,' to the heavy drums and multi-tracked vocals of 'Lotus Flower' and 'Nobody Out There,' to the playful pop beat of 'Sunshine Kid,' like a book of short stories, each of Kathryn's songs are a lyrical journey into a secret garden of everyday wonders and melodies. One Little Plane is a new signing to Text Records, the label run by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) that released acclaimed albums Happiness and The Sun by Fridge. The album was produced by Kieran Hebden who has in the past produced Foals, James Yorkston and Beth Orton, done remixes for artists such as Radiohead, Bloc Party and Battles, and released a number of successful albums as Four Tet. One Little Plane's music will appeal to fans of Cat Power, Bat for Lashes, Beth Orton, and Feist."
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