Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Vrioon

Errortica, Viikatory, Varum, URTE for WAR1205!

Domestic Exile warmly welcome the return of Grim Lusk, coming full circle to follow up 2018’s ‘SUNP0101’ after releasing under their Dip Friso and Sunny Balm aliases in the interim. ‘Diving Pool’ is a hallucinogenic concoction of marshy, aquatic, oscillated dubs and skittering, microtonal beat experiments. Grim Lusk's signature production style is in full effect, often occupying some liminal space nearing offbeat discordancy, but beautifully pulling together on the brink. Gelatinous machine funk rhythms and sweet, syrupy dub bass ooozing with a vibrant convergence of bright psychedelic greens, yellows and oranges, akin to bubbling sulphur pools and lava lakes, are present throughout the 6 tracks; Nuovo takes late 80’s drum machine patterns and twists them up with rough-cut vocal chops and long-form sampling of a 60’s film on the first iteration of ‘​​Il Gruppo”. Striding into the turbulent sea, Partans is kept jovial by rim shots, cymbals and snares fed back over the forward bass buzz. Not Enough is a bizarre, primordial, stretched-out gloop sludge half-speed version of the B-side track Too Much, twisted into new rhythmic territory by an off-kilter breakbeat sample. Diving Pool takes crushed, bouncing drum machines and loop-focussed experimentation to find incidental interplay between the two, whilst somehow retaining ebullient make-you-movable gusto. Angular rhythm and zealous sample manipulation seep through in Too Much, live drums patched, extrapolated and pulled further out in the mix, where jump cuts between familiar vocal chops and distorted tape delay contort manically- a warped, swinging echo of Slum Village's ‘I Don’t Know’. Wazoo rounds things out with the most club-leaning moment of the record, a saturated, throbbing atmosphere hanging over a beat-up, lurching drum sample layered with malleable pitched percussion and fuzz guitar. Peculiar shapes, fragmented shards of rhythmic patterns, crushed, crystallised snares, and congealed, jelly-like dubs; the music embodies a sense of carefree fun and playfulness, where dissolving layers of organic echoes, warm, slippery reverbs, and expansive phaser EFX stretch out into nebulous space…

YUNG DUMB is pleased to welcome the return of Westcoast Goddess (Delusions Of Grandeur, Lets Play House) for the label's first release of 2022.

Compilation vinyl from the San Paulo and Berlin art collective Voodoohop. A mysterious fusion of Minimal sounds from Berlin, Chile, and Romania with Brazilian, Latin/World Groove, Digital Cumbia/Tropical Bass, organically crafted into an intoxicating, shamanic slow-groove with etherial chants from the spirit-world. The music has it's roots in both the hedonistic party culture European raves and a more sentimental South American folklore. A new Tropicàlia for the 2020's, or a dream one night. Soak the cover-art in sunshine and LSD and toss it in your mouth. Be sure to taste all 12 trips.

Imperfect Strangers by Delay Tactics