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TPG 011EP
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TPG long-term friend and homeboy Ben Oyefeso pulls out a trio of double-jointed cuts for the club and not, the German producer's debut EP Lagerfeuer packs that left-of-center house punch that's come to define the label throughout the previous ten releases and certainly more than just that. Cutting his lane at the junction of oddball party music and deconstructionist boogie, Oyefeso's maiden sortie floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. A weird, buzzing slab of body-jacking electronics that doesn't play by the book. Enough with the words, just jump on board Ben Oyefeso's ghost train for a seriously tortuous, nonconformist ride across dance music's jagged ridges and most secret crevasses.
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TPG 010LP
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Rupert Marnie's debut album Evocative Rhythm Experience is a singular object to begin with. Split over two parts, each one working as an individual piece and under seemingly endless configurations when played together on a pair of record players, "Evocative Rhythm" is an elusive piece of musical abstraction you will play a crucial role in shaping, fashioning it as you dabble with it -- certainly curious and cautious at first, then manipulating its raw clay more firmly as you envision it with a clearer idea of where to go with it. Or is that just a mirage? Fruit of geographical meanderings through Hamburg's tentacular architecture, Rupert Marnie's maiden full-length effort reflects that of the city's tonal, rhythmic and harmonic structures in a uniquely vibrant way: dance-y and not, ethereal and full-bodied, oneiric and anchored. From field recordings garnered here and there across town, then either truncated, morphed, stretched out beyond recognition via a wide palette of technical means (granular synthesis, time-stretching, use of resonators, delay, reverb, pitch-shifting...), Marnie weaves a narrative that bridges the gap continually betwixt non-formulaic beatless meditation and proper club-focused functionality, plus the countless possible creations that will emerge when combining both sides of the disc to form your own story out the battery of elements at reach. Evocative Rhythm Experience is much more than the sum of its parts. A mirage of ambient, techno, electro, whatever style and labels that could be stuck all over it, yet never managing to say a true word of it.
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TPG 007CD
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The Press Group's newest volume is a most spitting image of what the label has been pushing since establishing four years ago: a sound both atmospheric but no short of danceable, equally geared toward oneiric mind-wandering and playful foot-shuffling sessions in the club. A bespoke sample of the Hamburg's imprint DNA, it also witnesses the growth of the featured artists both individually and as a collective of like-minded artists -- tirelessly experimenting, emulating, and re-inventing their own shared and personal creative universes under various configurations and aliases.
Spinning out of the calibrated dance music's orbit, TPG here present no less than sixteen cuts courtesy of a wide array of mostly German talents, new and confirmed, capturing a much compelling snap of the common vision and idiosyncrasies of the parties involved. Obviously part of the trip, imprint mainstays Rupert Marnie and Youthman(29) each deliver a piece, slapping rhythmic and texturally ethereal as get (tell us that Youthman(29) jam hasn't got the taste of dreams), and so does Christoph Friedmann's jaunty tropical number, sure to awaken the shamelessly wiggly dancefloor operator in you, whilst the mysterious thcarp and Lehult boss Lucky Charmz wing out a pair of deep-diving workouts to get down to -- preferably with your aqualung on so you don't resurface blue-ish. Local players MF Earth Band and French border duo RBDP go spaced-out jazzy when ott goes in with a fruity sino squasher and Aii PS gives it's all in the gut-melting subs. Mischievous, off-kilter acid lovers take note, Dolomea's joint is the one. If you're in the train, though, we recommend taking Ben Oyefeso with you, as he's sure to have you drifting off the rails into his strangely familiar realm. If you're in need for some high-powered electro pumper, wobbly warbles ace Matthias Wagner's got you covered, but if it's bleepy, bloopy, blurpy post Hawtin'ian minimalism tinged with a solid hint of Dam Funk-esque synths, go check our buddy Walt Ever. More of an AFX and Autechre fan? No worries, geezer -- Europa's feeling, glitchy cybernetics are there to please and your senses will thank you for the journey. Antep Haze's synthetic bird calls and glaring chime-y streams will ease you into a much enticing last stretch across a fantasized forest of sorts, before the all-engulfing finale takes you well off into the galaxy's masters' own Area 51. Also features Primary Mystical Experience.
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TPG 006EP
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Youthman(29) dishes out his debut 12" on The Press Group, comprised of seven cuts that yo-yo between revamped breaks-y house tropes, sample-heavy intricacies, and lo-lidded ethereality. Maintaining a fine balance between danceability and daydreaming, Untitled holds its listener in a hazed-out hypnagogic state of body-&-mind symbiosis that's best suited for moments of transition and sense-awakening, when the lights begin to flicker and the club seems to fold up in a strange, otherworldly halo of sorts.
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TPG 005EP
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For Lie To Your Mom, The Press Group hand the reins over to up-and-coming Ukrainian producer Sasha Zlykh, delivering his debut 12". Clocking in with a quartet of club-oriented weapons and off-road house-y pumpers that shall bring dancefloors to a slow but steady simmer, the Kyiv-based producer blends in an avalanche of breaks-strewn rhythms, bleepy melodies and reshuffled UK bass patterns to create his own distinctive hybrids, halfway straight dance functionality and non-formulaic experimentality.
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TPG 004EP
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After a triplet of solo 12"s, all courtesy of label main man Rupert Marnie, Hamburg-based imprint The Press Group are set to break 2018 in with the multi-flavored TPG004 -- a versatile debut compilation that offers a fine close-up on the label's whole cast of operating forces with some choice contributions from TPG's core tetrad including Youthman, Ten Letu, DJ Dodo, and Marnie himself. Also features AAAclimax. Includes download code.
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TPG 003EP
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The Press Group's new issue is a tale of lost love and broken hearts. "Blaine Mcconchie" is a constantly evolving minimal-heyday-inspired trip through bleeping artifacts driven by an organ chord, while on the flipside "Dog Park" is a classic groover for lush summer evenings. Frankfurt's Phil Evans gives "Blaine Mcconchie" his treatment, taking the central melody and building a sparse rhythm workout around it. 180 gram vinyl; Transparent sleeve.
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TPG 002-5EP
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It was in June of 1980. Rupert Marnie met spiritual highness Frater loannis and became his apprentice. The Magus told him invaluable things, like controlling his precious bodily fluids and the holistic mastery of others' endocrine glands. The greatest wisdom though reached him on his seventh day, when Frater loannis professed him an ancient ritual that allowed him to meet the Titan UFOhagen, aka CDboy. Rupert stood in awe, immediately losing his newly gained fluid control, and started crafting a piece of music, that would remind mankind that not all is lost, as long as there is almighty Ufohagen. Single-sided.
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TPG 002EP
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The Press Group presents Rupert Marnie's 4 Days EP. This EP moves into the sinister territory of pre-postmodern robotics, Japanese swamps and the bird call of the ending of a century. An opaque surface reflecting a tremble in the mist - Onibaba's (1964) gaze dipped in thickness.
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TPG 001EP
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180-gram vinyl. Hamburg-based label The Press Group spreads 300 copies of fine, raw, and modern house cuts. The Masala EP is not only the label's first release, but also the debut of label cofounder Rupert Marnie. The record brings three tracks for the dancefloor. Starting with some dubbed-out 115-BPM followed by more peak-time-friendly material and a melodious track for after hours.
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