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dubmission news #4: international observer and misled convoy (pitch black)
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crazybaldhead
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Posted : Aug 12, 2014 12:06:31
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happy to announce two new releases
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First up is International Observer's ‘Touched’, which collates over 15 years of studio trickery into a single disc, picking up some old favourites, a few hard to find obscurities and a handful of unreleased gems along the way.
International Observer’s Tom Bailey has had an illustrious career: as well as being in pop trio The Thompson Twins and ambient/dance duo, Babble, he has contributed his keyboard skills to Foreigner, Grace Jones and Debbie Harry, and created the Indian fusion group Holiwater Band.
This collection reflects that musical history, going from remixes of platinum selling pop acts like Bic Runga and Stellar* to the underground electronica of Pitch Black and Warp Technique, from modern reggae stars The Black See to globetrotting beatsmiths Bombay Dub Orchestra and Minimal Compact. It even includes a remix of his son Jackson’s acclaimed Tapes project (championed by Thom Yorke amongst others).
Indicating the many years he spent there, more than half of the tracks originate in New Zealand, and some have never previously been available outside of those shores.
The album is available on CD and as a download worldwide from all good stores, plus http://internationalobserver.bandcamp.com/.
You can preview most tracks at https://www.youtube.com/user/officialobserver
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'Tickling the Dragon’s Tail' is the beautifully dense and dubby debut studio release by Pitch Black’s Mike Hodgson. As with his other band, Misled Convoy is heavily influenced by bass culture, but draws equally from ambient, noise and art backgrounds.
As such, the album drifts effortlessly between strands of electronic music, with the cinematic ambience of the opening ‘It’s in Here’ setting the tone for the densely layered ‘Critical Mass’: 12 minutes of quivering bassline, peppered with stray horns and awash in delay and echo.
The sensual, earthy sway of ‘Ring Wraith’ is reminiscent of early ‘Futureproof’ tracks while ‘Replace the Ribbon’’s stripped back and hallucinatory world of smouldering electronica sounds like a tune that has been turned inside out.
For ‘No Ganja required’, Mike collaborated with Greece’s Vlastur, twisting his ‘Ganja Man’ original into an intricately crafted deep space skank, which comes to land on the sparse and haunting soundscape of ‘Pity to destroy something so beautiful’.
‘Leap beneath’’s upbeat stepping rhythm would definitely sit comfortably on the dance floor, while the brooding minimalism of final track ‘Chromosentric’ is designed for the total opposite – immersion into a horizontal trance, thanks to its hypnotizing drone.
Taking things even further down this path, the bonus track for album buyers, ‘Long after the Embers are Cold’ is a 55 minute odyssey into sonic limbo.
The album is available on CD and as a download worldwide from all good stores, plus http://misledconvoy.bandcamp.com/
You can preview it in full at https://www.youtube.com/user/misledconvoy
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Other releases this year include:
Akasha Experience - Lostwithiel
Akasha Experience - Shamanized (Re-release)
Akasha Experience - One Drop (Re-release)
Akasha Experience - The Chain (Re-release)
all from http://akashaexperience.bandcamp.com/
Holiwater Band - Maya
available from http://holiwaterband.bandcamp.com/
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Yidam
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Posted : Aug 12, 2014 12:23
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Both phenomenal releases!
On one hand you have the positive electronic dub that International Observer gets right every single time. On the other is some of the most sinister ambient dub in a while... reminds me a bit of the Gaudi-Testa collab on em:t.
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klippel
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Posted : Aug 20, 2014 12:23
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Chlorophil
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Posted : Oct 19, 2014 09:32
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dubmission delivers!
Cosmic Cosmic leaf, ajana records, six degrees, Fort Knox Five, interchill, chillcode, aleph zero, Dubmission, tempest, unicorn, Geomagnetic, founder: Synchronos Recordings |
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