Deborah Haslam
Let Me Trouble

Our 1st full release via the shops in house label! Local hero Richard Wenger cooked these up over the last years of playing out and experiencing late nights in the city. Rough rugged and raw to help us get back to it once we have reached the other side of time... Dj Medallion has programmed and recorded the patterns of personal experience, influence, and desire. These songs are now at the mercy of the world and its residents... please use to provide moments of chaotic ease, where all the anxieties and pressure are externalized so you may see that it can all be fabricated and dismantled from within.

For their first multi-artist compilation, Music From Memory take us on a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 is a double LP that explores the outer reaches of Brazilian music, where indigenous rhythms mix with synthesizers and where MPB mingles with drum computers. As Brazil faced the last years of its military dictatorship and transition to democracy, a generation of forward-thinking musicians developed an alternative vision of Brazilian music and culture. They embraced traditionally shunned electronic production methods and infused their music with elements of ambient, jazz-fusion, and minimalism. At the same time they referenced the musical forms and spirituality of indigenous tribes from the Amazon. The music they produced was a complex and mesmerising tapestry that vividly evoked Brazilian landscapes and simultaneously reached out to the world beyond its borders.The product of extensive research, this compilation is a unique introduction to this visionary music and features many fresh discoveries in a country well trodden by record diggers. It gathers tracks from obscure albums that have for too long been neglected by even the most avid collectors of Brazilian music. It includes now highly sought after music by Andrea Daltro, Maria Rita, and Fernando Falco, as well as unknown gems like those of Cinema, Carlinhos Santos, and Anno Luz. This is an essential release that reveals a broader spectrum of Brazilian music, striking a unique sonic signature that is full of innovation, experimentation, and beauty. Compiled by John Gomez and featuring extensive liner notes, Outro Tempo showcases this overlooked corner in Brazil's rich music history for the first time.

A brutal rap + jungle 7" from DC's own AMAL, who is a part of the rising international trio BLACK RAVE CULTURE, along with James Bangura and DJ Nativesun. This 7" is a preview of things to come, Amal's LP MADNESS is forthcoming on FT later in 2023. "A New Dance" is vintage crushed jungle with two of DC's finest rapping on top. THE KHAN & Model Home's NAPPYNAPPA trade smooth barb-wires over flayed audio delightfully smushed on 7" wax with a killer photo sleeve. A ruff sound system slicer. Instrumental on the flip.

Winter is here. It's time stoke up the fire, turn up the tunes and Batter Down with Toké.

Press Release:Gordan join traditional Serbian singing with abstraction, energy and minimalism. Their music is marked by radical reduction, seemingly endless ascension and a passion for experiments.The Serbian singer Svetlana Spajić is an internationally recognized and acclaimed artist. She, like almost no other contemporary singer, is a master of all the complex local stylistic variations of singing from Balkan music. Guido Möbius plays bass and various electronic sound generators. Additionally he uses guitar amps, microphones and effects to provoke feedback which either harmonize or are juxtaposed with the song. It is a dialogue between sound and noise which is accentuated or fragmented by means of Andi Stecher’s expressive drumming. With a rich pool of ideas the percussionist drives the sound forward breathlessly and grounds it. Together the trio form a dynamic body of sound.Gordan recorded their debut during the first wave of the Covid19 pandemic in Europe in March 2020. Due to the lockdown in Berlin at that time the city didn’t have many distractions to offer, so the trio just concentrated on work. The atmosphere of being isolated in a recording studio had a big impact on the musical results. All three band members came up with ideas for new pieces, which were immediately tested, worked out and recorded. On abstract instrumentals provided by Stecher and Möbius, Svetlana Spajic sometimes reacted with personal interpretations of serbian traditionals, and the other way around. Most of the time it was as if the music just happend to the band; playing together felt natural from the first moment on.Some of the old serbian traditional songs that Spajic sang are extinct forms with a specific local melodic mode. The skillful improvisation of their lyrics and ornaments was of great importance and very estimated among village singers. The title song Down In The Meadow for instance originally is a love song from the village of Odevce in eastern Kosovo, Serbia. The singing manner is of a great intensity and sonority, with lots of specific local ornaments. It disappeared along with the village communities from the area. Oh, my Rose flowers is from the region of Kopaonik mountain (southwest Serbia) and the mode, scale is known as ”kopaonički glas” (Kopaonik mountain air). Svetlana adopted the style from the late singer Veličko Veličković from the village of Ostraće. It is an old mountain solo chant, rich in fast ornamentation movements and microtonal intervals. Don’t ask how I live is Svetlana’s homage to the new popular folk music movement from the 80ies known as Južni Vetar (Southern Wind) led by a musician and composer Mile Ilić, known as Mile Bas (“Mile the Bass”) which revolutionized popular music introducing tabooed oriental music and original arrangements.All music by Spajic Stecher Möbius except ‘Don’t Ask How I Live’ by Miodrag M. Ilić, original title Što me pitašAll lyrics are traditional, except ‘Don’t Ask How I Live’Svetlana Spajic — vocalsAndi Stecher — drums & percussionGuido Möbius — bass, feedback, electronicsRecorded by Alberto Lucendo at UFO sound studios Berlin in March 2020 mixed by MorphosisMastering by Neel at Enisslab, RomeArtwork by Lorenzo Mason Studio

Orginally released in 2021, Shinichiro Yokota's album 'Tokonoma Style' comes on a 2x12" from Soichi Terada's Far East Recordings.Over a diverse set of songs, the veteran Tokyo producer makes full use of his collection of vintage synthesizers such as AKAI's sampler S1100, KORG M1 and PROPHET-5 (his trusted machines that hes used since the early 90s).