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Eagerly anticipated new sophomore album from critically acclaimed electronica legend Martyn, and his first through Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder. Double LP features one disc of black vinyl and one disc of white coloured vinyl.
Coming out with one of the most anticipated and long-awaited albums so far on Brainfeeder is Samiyam aka Sam Baker. 'Sam Baker's Album' is 40 minutes of pure listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-centre hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Baker's love of electronic funk but never in hock to it. Intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight, this is not 'Rap Beats Volume 2' but an album of fully-realised pieces of music which stand on their own without the need for an MC's intervention.
Ann Arbor native, Samiyam (born Sam Baker) moved to Los Angeles in 2006. In his short time out West, he has become one of the city's most progressive and recognized producers, a man who has spearheaded the revival of interest in instrumental hip-hop music over the last few years. Baker's 'Rap Beats Vol.1' collection was the very first release on Brainfeeder. He has also collaborated with old friend Flying Lotus as Flyamsam as well as having releases on Hyperdub and Poo-Bah records.Samiyam describes the work contained in his "Debut album" simply as, 'my favourite stuff' - and what could be better than that
- A1: Panbers 'Haai
- A2: The Brims 'Anti Gandja
- A3: Rollies 'Bad News
- A4: Shark Move 'Evil War
- B1: Golden Wing ' Hear Me
- B2: Aka 'Do What You Like
- B3: Ivo's Group 'That Shocking Shaking Day
- C1: Ariesta Birawa Group 'Didunia Yang Lain
- C2: Terenchem 'Jeritan Cinta
- C3: Benny Soebardja And Lizard 'Candle Light
- C4: Super Kid 'People
- D1: Koes Plus 'Mobil Tua
- D2: The Gang Of Harry Roesli 'Don't Talk About Freedom
- E1: Black Brothers 'Saman Doye
- E2: Aka 'Shake Me
- E3: Rasela 'Pemain Bola
- F1: Freedom Of Rhapsodia 'Freedom
- F2: Rhythm Kings 'The Promise
- F3: Duo Kribo 'Uang
- F4: Murry 'Pantun Lama
Tuba's inaugural release features Antiserum's dark, forceful, hip hop focused banger, Mofo. This A side has been supported by Benga, Babylon System, Sukh Knight, Tes La Rok, Nicon, 12th Planet, DJG, Excision, Datsik, and 16BIT, getting plays around the world. Neighborhood Lasersniper, on the flip, is a dubstep interpretation of a hip hop classic.
- A1: Marsen Jules - The Sound Of One Lip Kissing
- A2: Brock Van Wey/Bvdub - Lest You Forget
- A3: Triola - Schildergasse
- A4: Wolfgang Voigt - Zither Und Horn
- A5: The Orb - Glen Coe
- B1: Mikkel Metal - Blue Items
- B2: Dj Koze - Bodenweich
- B3: Jürgen Paape - 864M
- B4: Dettinger - Therefore
- B5: Thomas Fehlmann - In The Wind
- B6: Popnoname - Deutz Air
The first time ever on vinyl for these 1964 Rudy Van Gelder recordings for Blue Note; and astral strides beyond the flat highlife cuts originally issued. With Donald Byrd, Hubert Laws and Elvin Jones stretching out breathtakingly amongst resplendent Nigerian drumming, and anticipating the vibes of classic Pharoah and Alice Coltrane. Around thirteen minutes each side.
“A Typical Night in the Pit” is a collection of new music by Los Angeles’ Nick Malkin. It is an album that finds the artist absorbed in the density and chaos of the urban complex. It is unquestionably an “LA album”, but not the LA of hi-fi listening bars and twinkling, Instagram-ready New Age. Rather, Malkin navigates something more akin to the LA found in the films of Robert Altman or Alan Rudolph — overheated, tense, hazy, frayed — with blue-lit, nocturnal compositions that at times recall Mark Isham’s noirish scores for those subversive (anti-)Hollywood pictures. Enlisting a revolving cast of LA experimentalists, Malkin has assembled a record that is as chameleonic as it is cohesive, offering up vignettes ranging from the skewed MIDI-jazz of “Sixth Street Conversation” to the skulking menace of “Estacionamiento Privado,” before giving way to the wide-eyed, cloudy closer “View From Two Perspectives.” C’mon, let’s go in here and get outta this heat.
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Artwork by Alex McCullough and Niall Wynne Lewis.
Australia-based musician Mark Gomes presents the debut full length under his own name for Soda Gong. “Alphane Moods” finds Gomes employing strategies that will be familiar to listeners of his work as Blue Chemise – elegiac, loop-based modes of composition and a predilection for concise etude forms – that manifest here with a strikingly different scope and intent, shifting from expressive abstraction into more conceptual terrain. Over the course of fourteen widescreen tracks, he navigates the gap between nostalgic and futurist sensibilities, concocting elusive, romantic, and sanguine settings that feel both plucked from the past and beamed in from a time still to come. Gomes describes his approach on the record as a “practice of ‘constructed ambience’, deploying sounds and track titles with pop-psychological associations of escape.” The result is a vivid, cinematic album that splits the difference between the worldbuilding retrofuturism of the best vaporwave music and the shadowy, homespun tape vignettes for which Gomes has become well known.
Written and produced by Mark Gomes
Master + cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Artwork by Alex McCullough














