REVIVAL SEASON – GOLDEN AGE OF SELF SNITCHING

Posted on 2023-11-27

Much in the spirit of Swilley’s teenage bedroom beatmaking, their debut album Golden Age Of Self Snitching was pieced together largely self-sufficiently, written both remotely and in person, and recorded between a temporary studio space in a health centre and an ad-hoc setup in Swilley’s dining room. A skeleton team of outside musicians contributed additional parts — with Jordan Manly [Mattiel] and Rupert Brown [Roy Ayres, Raf Rundell] on drums, Shaheed Goodie on guest MC vocals for the jagged, spiralling ‘Pump’, and Raf Rundell [The 2 Bears], with whom Revival Season had previously made the Outernational mixtape (“equal parts Prince Paul and King Tubby”) on hand as “vibe consultant”, bringing additional production to a handful of tracks.

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MOOR MOTHER – “LIVERPOOL WINS (FEAT. KYLE KIDD)

Posted on 2023-11-20

Philadelphia-based multi-hyphenate Moor Mother returns to the Anti- label for her ninth solo LP entitled The Great Bailout. Another thematically rich and musically dense collection of songs weaving spoken word, noise, jazz, and electronica through Moor Mother’s otherworldly lens, The Great Bailout is also among her most collaborative work to date. Guests ranging from Angel Bat Dawid to Mary Lattimore make impassioned appearances here, as Moor Mother explores oppression of all forms, and its sociopolitical impact on the world around her. Head-y without losing sight of brute musicality, Moor Mother pairs radical empathy with even heavier tuneage.

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KMRU – DISSOLUTION GRIP

Posted on 2023-11-13

Kenyan composer/producer KMRU launches his own OFNOT imprint with a new LP entitled Dissolution Grip. Inspired by a recent run of touring, the album folds in field recordings and sound work from all over the globe, which KMRU then pieced together during a stay at Berlin’s renowned UDK school where he rigorously studied waveforms and the roots of synthesis under the tutelage of Jasmine Guffond. To this end, none of these “snapshots” exist in their natural form on Dissolution Grip, as all have been digitally altered to express new sonic frequencies and motifs. While still functionally ambient in nature, the rich scope of KMRU’s work here borders on the symphonic.

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TERR – ONLY FOR TONIGHT

Posted on 2023-11-06

Originally released in 2022 and later featuring on her debut album ‘Consciousness As A State Of Matter’, TERR’s irresistible and irrepressible ‘Only For Tonight’ became a fixture in the sets of 2ManyDJs, Optimo and drag icon Trixie Mattell, as well as in TERR’s own diverse performances, including numerous Panorama Bar closing sessions. Snowballing into a true underground anthem, ‘Only For Tonight’ is now reimagined as a spectacular tech-house remix from Denis Horvat.

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SPARKLE DIVISION – SLIP AND SLIDE

Posted on 2023-10-30

1969. Two gorgeous young interns in the film industry get invited to a glamorous A-list Hollywood party in the Trousdale Estates – in one of those fabulous pavilion-style mid-century modern homes at the top of Beverly Hills. They go in their best mod clewths. Eyes popping at the technicolor scene of Hollywood stars smoking and drinking in the sunken living room, they do as instructed and have some punch and watch – wallflower style as drama ensues…oh, and the the house is owned by Foxy, the pimp and drug dealer who everybody there owes munty, hunty…and he’s ready to get paid! Oh yeah, and the punch is dosed with LSD25. They manage to make it home, panties and purses and shoes intact and will never forget this party for as long as they live.

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LADY WRAY – COME ON IN (LES IMPRIMÉS REMIX)

Posted on 2023-10-23

On January 28, 2022, Lady Wray released her Piece Of Me album. A deeply personal record that takes on the good and the bad in life from deception and abuse to the joys of motherhood and long awaited professional triumph. The accolades the album has received since its release speak volumes. From performing on The Stephen Colbert Show, to selling out multiple US tours, to cleaning up in the best of 2022 lists to crushing an NPR Tiny Desk on the 1 year anniversary of the album, Piece Of Me continues to prove itself a timeless classic.

In March of 2023, Lady Wray had Ghostface Killah join her on the “Piece Of Me” remix and had Pete Rock lend his legendary remixing skills to “Joy & Pain”. Now it’s a Big Crown family affair as Les Imprimés lends his production prowess to a remix for “Come On In” and Surprise Chef take the warm weather anthem “Under The Sun” and give it their unorthodox Jazz / Funk treatment. Both of these remixes put brand new energy on the originals and will hold us over while Lady Wray is finishing her new album with El Michels Affair due out in 2024.

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