MY PANDA SHALL FLY & MAU' LIN - Push - Project Mooncircle

'Push’ sees the bridging of two minds, a spontaneous event of shared loops, ideas and vision. My Panda Shall Fly & Mau’lin join creative forces giving birth to five abstract free-form compositions. Having followed each others work for some years, the pair found themselves in an East London studio first commencing a sonic dialogue just days before Christmas.
Each track breathing a new life; a conventional genre is hard to pin down. Fusing elements of neo-jazz, broken house and down-tempo ambient, results as an eclectic product of unforeseen creativity.
Opening track ‘Sea Beast’ heralds entrance into a murky journey through time and space. With jilted, broken keys drizzled upon a throbbing bassline, a distant moan finds its way through dense textures. ‘Red', eases up tightened bolts, it lifts a hazy smog with its loose, almost 'Buddha Lounge’ melodies. A poly-rhythmic venture of crossing synths, snares and percussion each teasing the other in & out. Taking you into a videogame-like realm, ‘Gingerbread House’ summons intrigue with a conflict of virtuous and sinister emotives. Its minimal pulsing bass line transports an ethereal synth with playful bleeps and shuffling stirs.
Calling in Irish outfit Lakker, they instinctively gravitate towards the more organically moulded ‘15Keys’. Dismembering a canon of cascading marimbas and chromatic percussions, they splice and reconstruct it into a euphoric slow burner. Marking the last leg of an enchanted journey, ‘I’ finds its dance-floor energy in swelling melodies and a confident staccatoed bass gifted with sharp hi-hats & breaks. Twinkling keys descend as if embossing a newly-cleared night sky with falling stars. 
Devoid of preconceived concepts, MPSF & Mau’lin have managed to bind together their own musical idiosyncrasies creating an EP of seductive suspense and intelligent textures.


Tracklist:

A01. Sea Beast
A02. Red
A03. Gingerbread House
B04. I
B05. 15 Keys (Lakker Remix)
B06. 15 Keys (Bonus Digital)

LAKKER - Containing A Thousand - R & S Records

After a decade of creating some of "the most distinctive techno around" (Resident Advisor) for the likes of Blueprint and Stroboscopic Artefacts, R&S is delighted to welcome Dublin based duo, Lakker into the fold with their stunning new EP 'Containing A Thousand'.
Lakker: 'We're delighted to be releasing on R&S. It's one of those labels that has been huge in electronic music for years - anyone who is into modern electronic music will have a few R&S records in their collection. Ourselves included - classics from Joey Beltram and AFX up to the recent Tessela stuff. It's all in our bag!"
Their intricate, yet muscular soundscapes and skittering percussion have an epic, alien quality that set them head and shoulders above their less ambitious peers; witness the blistering noise of the brooding title track, the staggered, slurping beats and mechanistic clanks of 'Mausoleum', the crisp, propulsive grooves of 'K'antu' and jagged slashing drums of 'Thermohaline'.
Having a background in punk, metal and broken beat as well as noise and techno helps give Lakker their truly unique and uncompromising sound - indeed their music has won them the most coveted recommendation in electronic music - Richard D James (Aphex Twin) himself has been known to deploy multiple Lakker tracks in his face melting live sets.


Tracklist:


A1 - Containing A Thousand
A2 - Mausoleum
B1 - K'antu
B2 - Thermohaline

THESE HIDDEN HANDS - Ivy - Hidden Hundred

Album di debutto per These Hidden Hands il nuovo progetto nato dalla collaborazione di Tommy Four Seven, artista già apparso su etichette come CLR e Stroboscopic Artefacts e il produttore Alain della One Million Manogs.

Il singolo "Ivy" è stato estratto dall'album che uscirà a breve sulla nuova label Hidden Hundred.

"Ivy" è una traccia non convenzionale, potremmo definirla semplicemente come "musica elettronica". E' una miscela di ritmi spaziali e melodie celestiali, così lo definiscono anche gli artisti. 

La scelta artistica è stata quella di fare uscire il singolo più due remix: il primo è ad opera di un certo Vatican Shadow, la traccia si discosta molto dalle cupe atmosfere tipiche del suo stile, ha deciso di tenere il synth della traccia originale aggiungendogli una ritmica più dritta e martellante. L'elemento distintivo di Vatican Shadow lo si nota respirando quell'aria sospesa che è tipica della sue produzioni.

Il secondo remix è ad opera dei Lakker, puro IDM, cassa spezzata, suoni spaziali, atmosfere cosmiche, un capolavoro dell'imballabilità che elogia la produzione destinata all' ascolto e allo sconvolgimento delle regole del "tum cha tum cha".

Da comprare!!

Alessandro Gambo

Tracklist:

A1 - Ivy

B1 - Ivy (Vatican Shadow Remix)

B2 - Ivy (Lakker Remix)