
We're pleased (read: STOKED!) to release our first digital EP from a non-collective artist. "Morning Afternoon, Evening and Night" is the debut recording from Jason Worrell and Anthony Sanchez aka Yellow Beard—two legends of Tucson, AZ and some dang creative minds to boot.
The EP represents a hazy arc that mimics a day. "Morning Afternoon" mixes organic (as it gets) samples of birds and wind chimes with ethereal church organ tones and watery, chanted vocals. The track blends into "Evening" with windy gusts and a throbbing ghostly organ figure. Flicks of drum noise fly around the sonic field and an electric pulse slowly builds from background to forefront. "Night" concludes the record by taking the preceding ideas and throwing them in a blender (with a house beat as the base). Samples swirl through circular patterns before the beat collapses in on itself and turns organic with reversed drums and organs taking over.
The most unique aspect of the recording is probably this mixture of bipolar organic and electronic elements. Now, sure, this has been done, but rarely in such an extreme and engaging way. Much of the instrumentation is recording outside with microphones extending from a porch. You can hear traces of planes flying overheard and dogs running around, yet sources are cut through a sampler and digitized. It leaves the listener with a fractured take on a day from start to finish.
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No Privacy is a mixtape collection recorded by Carter Maness over the course of 11 cold NYC nights in the 2007-08 winter. If you've been paying attention to the Proyekto blog you've heard most of these before, but now they flow together like the auditory yeast infections they were meant to be. (That reference makes NO sense.)
Anyway, the sample and beat-heavy leanings on this record tend to mix with vocals smeared into reverb stratospheres. Most of the lyrics are unintelligible and bring to mind urban winter hymns sung by a 20-something in his bedroom. Building on the narcotic DJ aesthetic of his first two singles, No Privacy features original instrumentation and vocals spliced with mangled samples from ESG, Thomas Fehlmann, Growing, Hercules & Love Affair, Atlas Sound, Group Home, The Old Bangers and a whole slew of others. Can you spot them?
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Proyekto is pleased to continue their mission to package and reissue the excellent Sndrft catalogue. The next entry into the canon is an EP called Multiply Three Overhang. This record features tracks recorded in 2003-04, which run all the way from abrasive atonal exploration to poppy, bell-laden journeys that will simultaneously make your head nod and tickle the brain. Venturing into divergent territories from his last official release, Multiply Three Overhang shows another set of multiplicities to Sndrft and should prep listeners for two new LPs on the way later this year.
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"You Don't Know my Stilo" is the second digital single by Carter Maness in as many months. Continuing with the narcotic dj aesthetics of the first cuts, these two tracks feature a hodgepodge of dance floor bangin, noise experimentation and a whole lot of drums. Look for more one-off excursions from Carter Maness as Jacques Derrida in the coming weeks!
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"My Son is Gay?" is the debut digital single by Brooklyn, NY-based recording artist Carter Maness. Released under the name Jacques Derrida, the two tracks end up somewhere close to undanceable dance music. The style veers from his previous work in Brando Skirts and the identifiable influences are numerous. Mainly tweaking aesthetics of djing and hiphop production, these tracks touch everywhere from the Rza to the Field to Black Dice. Like John Mayer if his face was burnt with a blowtorch, subsequently became a junkie, bought Other Music, and lived inside an igloo. Uh, yup.
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With Pitch Balloon, Sndrft places his stake in the pantheon of current electronic composers. As a debut EP, this collection avoids the usual odds & sods approach, instead opting for a coherent mood piece that demonstrates the wildly divergent styles of the artist's formative years. The arrangements are complex, multilayered and unwilling to sit still for too long. Swells of ambience wash over dissident strings, playfully responding to synthesizers that sound as if they could evaporate any second.
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A local critic was telling us that "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo" (Bx3 to you!) sounds like TV on the Radio having a nightmare and trying to play Belle and Sebastian songs fronted by David Berman. We think this is pretty inaccurate and stupid, yet most things written by music critics would qualify as such. You be the judge! You have the power!
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Are they really serious? The Old Bangers debut album has been called hiphop for the 2200 set, Anticon with precision and a trip through Dante's Inferno led by DJ Screw. The production tickles. The rhymes are fickle. King Lear even rated this his favorite album of 2006. Anyway, you'll love it...
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