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We are thrilled to bring you the premiere of the Cut Tongues & Golden Ratio Syrup ‘A Screaming Comes Across the Sky’ film. Golden Ratio Syrup’s project up until now has been anonymous, but today via Noisey, it was announced that the project is the work of Planet Mu / Mad Decent affiliated producer Rudi Zygadlo!  You can read the whole article here.

 

The artists had this to say about the project.

“This is a highly personal project. The three of us have spent a lot of time together, listening to chamber music and taking certain mind exploding chemicals. The idea to collaborate came from that psychotropic period. We (Cut Tongues) were greatly inspired by Rudi’s piece of music. Our starting point was the piano sequence. Its painfully slow tempo connoted an image of laborious and aimless struggle. We then began to look into Erik Satie, who is explicitly referenced in the composition. Satie was an eccentric, to say the least: he claimed to only eat white food, kept two grand pianos stacked on top of each other, one for storage, and once sentenced himself to death in a letter to a Parisian newspaper. His sense of carnival and penchant for games inspired a whole series of invented sports, a Breugelian human landscape if you will. This is the central idea for the film: life as a meaningless sport with an arbitrary set of rules. And yet we must throw ourselves into it with joyous abandon.” – Cut Tongues & Golden Ratio Syrup

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The video of RVLVR’s live set for Philadelphia-based Podcast, Paper Box Sessions, is now available to view on YouTube (see below).  RVLVR was joined by Starkey for the session which included music from the ‘Astral EP’ as well as some new material (including his remix for Oh! Pears forthcoming on ‘ONLYEMIXES Vol. 1’.

The duo also recorded an interview podcast which can be streamed/downloaded here.  They discuss the Philly music scene, meeting back in the day, NOREMIXES and other topics.

 

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We’re really happy to announce ONLYREMIXES Vol. 1 out September 18th!  The compilation was announced today via Decoder Magazine, who are also streaming the Giant Claw (Orange Milk Records founder) remix of the Beck-Fields song “De Anima”.

Pre-orders are available on Bandcamp, where you’ll receive an immediate download of the Giant Claw remix as well as Starkey‘s remix of Golden Ratio Syrup!

Here’s the full tracklist:

  1. Golden Ratio Syrup – Bay Windows (Starkey Remix)
  2. Joo Won Park – Cross Rhythms (William Fields Remix)
  3. Oh! Pears – II (Yung Jupiter Remix)
  4. Oh! Pears – III (Curses Remix)
  5. Beck-Fields – De Insomniis (Joo Won Park Remix)
  6. Daniel Potter – 2°C (Mikronesia Remix)
  7. Beck-Fields – De Anima (Giant Claw Remix)
  8. Joo Won Park – Sky Blue Waves (Oh! Pears Remix)
  9. Mikronesia – Unfolder (ghostinthehills Remix)
  10. Oh! Pears – IV (RVLVR Remix)
  11. ghostinthehills – Elegy (Beck-Fields Remix)
  12. Joo Won Park – Beft (Dow Jones Brotherhood Remix)
  13. Golden Ratio Syrup – A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (Winter Sleep Remix)
  14. RVLVR – Astral (Normaling Remix)

Click the cover art above to head over to Decoder Magazine.

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We’re really excited to be releasing the debut album from Amsterdam’s Dow Jones Brotherhood. The producer sat down with Noisey in his home country and talked about the creation of ‘~~~’ and the direction for this new moniker. They’re also streaming the entire album on their site now, so you can check it out ahead of tomorrow’s release.

The interview is in Dutch, so get your Google Translate on if you’re a non-Dutch reader.

Cassettes are shipping now from our site and bandcamp page. It comes with a digital download code on both sites.

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We’re really excited to be releasing the debut full-length album from Amsterdam’s Dow Jones Brotherhood, a new moniker of producer Thomas de Rijk.  Thomas has been involved heavily with the Dutch music scene from his days in Rotterdam to his new home of Amsterdam, having released under the name Halp for Seclusiasis, Lowriders and MYOR. But his new project Dow Jones Brotherhood has him approaching his music from a completely different perspective, utilizing different music-making tools, and a new aesthetic.

Although there is a musical connection to some of de Rijk’s previous output, ~~~, is much more abstract in its direction. The entire album was produced on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 portable synthesizer/sampler. Working away from a computer, and gathering musical inspiration from a completely different palate has allowed Thomas to develop a new language for his compositions, often improvising with short samples and the OP-1’s built in effects in passes to the built in 4 track recorder.

We’ve decided to press a limited edition Cobalt High Bias Type II Professionally Duplicated Cassette with Full Color Artwork and Direct-to-Tape Imprinting. Tape Shell is Smoky-Tinted Transparent.  The cassette ships with a WAV Download code if purchased from our site, and is also available on Bandcamp with free download and unlimited streaming via the Bandcamp app.  Tapes will ship Monday, August 3rd!

Atmosphreq has sent over hi-res scans of the photos from his limited edition self-titled Photo Box to share with everyone.  If you missed it when it was released earlier this year, definitely check it out in the store.  The hand developed original photos come with digital download codes.

 

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Thanks to a successful Kickstarter (THANKS EVERYONE INVOLVED!) we have pressed Mikronesia’s new album “In a River the Color of Lead” on beautiful 12″ 140g vinyl with full color artwork. It looks and sounds amazing!

You can get this limited edition pressing directly from our site, or via our bandcamp page. (Copies will be shipping around to stores as well.)

If ordered through our site, the vinyl will also ship with a Wav download code to download 16bit, 44.1kHz files of the release. If ordered through bandcamp, you’ll get free streaming through the bandcamp app as well as the digital download of your choosing.

Joo Won Park was at Fidget in Philadelphia last night to perform works from his new NOREMIXES album “Overundertone” in 8 channel surround sound. It was a great night of music, as Joo Won was also joined by composers Maurice Wright, Mark Zaki & Adam Vidiksis. Here’s a clip of Joo Won performing “Snake and Ox”.

If you haven’t picked up the release yet, head here for some links.