Rights: World excluding FR, UK, US, Belgium & Netherlands
2 x 140 G Black Vinyl, 5mm spine printed Sleeve, 2 x Black Dust Inner Sleeve, 2 page 30cmx30cm printed insert, sticker
BIOG
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
TRACKLIST
LP
VINYLE 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
2 x 140 G Black Vinyl, 5mm spine printed Sleeve, 2 x Black Dust Inner Sleeve, 2 page 30cmx30cm printed insert, sticker
BIOG
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
TRACKLIST
LP
VINYLE 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
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Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
More records from Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul
1
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Cliché - Soulwax Remix
2
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
3
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
Rights: World excluding FR, UK, Belgium & Netherlands
Packaging: 12’’ Black Vinyl, 3mm spine printed sleeve, heavy weight printed inner sleeve
TRACKLIST
FACE A
1. Cliché - Soulwax Remix
FACE B
1. Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
2. Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
BIOG
After co-producing their triumphant debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ which was heralded as Pitchfork’s Best New Music on release, Soulwax have delivered a remix of Charlotte & Bolis’ fan favourite 'Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché'. The dynamic track which touches on all of the most cliché lyrics used in pop music has received the club treatment from Soulwax ahead of this summer’s lengthy festival run for the Belgian duo.
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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
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Packaging: 12’’ Black Vinyl, 3mm spine printed sleeve, heavy weight printed inner sleeve
TRACKLIST
FACE A
1. Cliché - Soulwax Remix
FACE B
1. Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
2. Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
BIOG
After co-producing their triumphant debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ which was heralded as Pitchfork’s Best New Music on release, Soulwax have delivered a remix of Charlotte & Bolis’ fan favourite 'Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché'. The dynamic track which touches on all of the most cliché lyrics used in pop music has received the club treatment from Soulwax ahead of this summer’s lengthy festival run for the Belgian duo.
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
CD : 1 X CD, Jewelcase,20 page booklet.
TRACKLIST CD :
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY 5. IT HIT ME 6. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 7. REAPPROPRIATE 8. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 9. HUILE SMISSE 10. MANTRA 11. MAKING SENSE STOP 12. HAHA 13. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
CD : 1 X CD, Jewelcase,20 page booklet.
TRACKLIST CD :
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY 5. IT HIT ME 6. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 7. REAPPROPRIATE 8. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 9. HUILE SMISSE 10. MANTRA 11. MAKING SENSE STOP 12. HAHA 13. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
Ltd Black & White LP : 1x Black Vinyl 140 gr + 1x Solid White Vinyl, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Ltd Black & White LP : 1x Black Vinyl 140 gr + 1x Solid White Vinyl, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
Black 2 x LP : 2x Black Vinyl 140 gr, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
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TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
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Release-Date:28.02.2025
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Release-Date:28.02.2025
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This fifth album of the Canadian artist has been produced by Belgians artists and producers Soulwax, longtime collaborators of Marie Davidson.
TRACKLISTING
CD
1 Validations Weight
2 Demolition
3 Sexy Clown
4 Push Me Fuckhead
5 Fun Times
6 Statistical Modelling
7 Y.A.A.M.
8 Contrarian
9 Unknowing
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Marie Davidson's new album 'City of Clowns' will be released on Deewee/Because.
This fifth album of the Canadian artist has been produced by Belgians artists and producers Soulwax, longtime collaborators of Marie Davidson.
TRACKLISTING
CD
1 Validations Weight
2 Demolition
3 Sexy Clown
4 Push Me Fuckhead
5 Fun Times
6 Statistical Modelling
7 Y.A.A.M.
8 Contrarian
9 Unknowing
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Release-Date:28.02.2025
Genre:Electro
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Packaging: 1 x Solid White Vinyl, 3mm spine sleeve with UV Gloss finish , printed inner sleeve , marketing front sticker
SHORT BIOG
Marie Davidson's new album 'City of Clowns' will be released on Deewee/Because.
This fifth album of the Canadian artist has been produced by Belgians artists and producers Soulwax, longtime collaborators of Marie Davidson.
VINYL
A Side
1 Validations Weight
2 Demolition
3 Sexy Clown
4 Push Me Fuckhead
B Side
1 Fun Times
2 Statistical Modelling
3 Y.A.A.M.
4 Contrarian
5 Unknowing
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SHORT BIOG
Marie Davidson's new album 'City of Clowns' will be released on Deewee/Because.
This fifth album of the Canadian artist has been produced by Belgians artists and producers Soulwax, longtime collaborators of Marie Davidson.
VINYL
A Side
1 Validations Weight
2 Demolition
3 Sexy Clown
4 Push Me Fuckhead
B Side
1 Fun Times
2 Statistical Modelling
3 Y.A.A.M.
4 Contrarian
5 Unknowing
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TRACKLISTING VINYL:
A1. Letter To Yu
A2. Completely Half
A3. Goodnight Mr Yi
A4. Doctor Says
A5. Spicy Crab
B1. Ma Tau Wai Road
B2. Causeway Bae
B3. Cantonese
B4. Kowloon
B5. Cosmic Rendez-Vous
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Following 2022' acclaimed 'Topical Dancer' album with Charlotte Adigéry, here comes 'Letter To Yu', the debut solo album by Bolis Pupul : produced by fellow Belgians Soulwax & released on DEEWEE/Because Music. Exploring many themes including loss, grief, ancestry, culture, belonging/not belonging and identity. It's no coincidence that Bolis Pupul's music sounds the way it does. Born in Belgium to a Chinese mother and Belgian father and raised in the super-cool creative city of Ghent, Bolis' music is a joyous cross-cultural assemblage. Mixing widescreen electronica with the warm-hearted and wonky naivete of Belgian New Beat, Bolis' singular sonics are at once playful, emotive, unrelenting and tender. The real key to unlocking Bolis' musical secret, however, is that conversation he has between his Eastern and Western roots. The creation of the album is built around Bolis' trip to Hong Kong earlier this year, made to reconnect with his late mother's roots.
TRACKLISTING VINYL:
A1. Letter To Yu
A2. Completely Half
A3. Goodnight Mr Yi
A4. Doctor Says
A5. Spicy Crab
B1. Ma Tau Wai Road
B2. Causeway Bae
B3. Cantonese
B4. Kowloon
B5. Cosmic Rendez-Vous
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SHORT BIOG
Following 2022' acclaimed 'Topical Dancer' album with Charlotte Adigéry, here comes 'Letter To Yu', the debut solo album by Bolis Pupul : produced by fellow Belgians Soulwax & released on DEEWEE/Because Music. Exploring many themes including loss, grief, ancestry, culture, belonging/not belonging and identity. It's no coincidence that Bolis Pupul's music sounds the way it does. Born in Belgium to a Chinese mother and Belgian father and raised in the super-cool creative city of Ghent, Bolis' music is a joyous cross-cultural assemblage. Mixing widescreen electronica with the warm-hearted and wonky naivete of Belgian New Beat, Bolis' singular sonics are at once playful, emotive, unrelenting and tender. The real key to unlocking Bolis' musical secret, however, is that conversation he has between his Eastern and Western roots. The creation of the album is built around Bolis' trip to Hong Kong earlier this year, made to reconnect with his late mother's roots.
TRACKLISTING CD (includes an exclusive bonus track : "Frogs")
1. Letter To Yu
2. Completely Half
3. Goodnight Mr Yi
4. Frogs
5. Doctor Says
6. Spicy Crab
7. Ma Tau Wai Road
8. Causeway Bae
9. Cantonese
10. Kowloon
11. Cosmic Rendez-Vous
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SHORT BIOG
Following 2022' acclaimed 'Topical Dancer' album with Charlotte Adigéry, here comes 'Letter To Yu', the debut solo album by Bolis Pupul : produced by fellow Belgians Soulwax & released on DEEWEE/Because Music. Exploring many themes including loss, grief, ancestry, culture, belonging/not belonging and identity. It's no coincidence that Bolis Pupul's music sounds the way it does. Born in Belgium to a Chinese mother and Belgian father and raised in the super-cool creative city of Ghent, Bolis' music is a joyous cross-cultural assemblage. Mixing widescreen electronica with the warm-hearted and wonky naivete of Belgian New Beat, Bolis' singular sonics are at once playful, emotive, unrelenting and tender. The real key to unlocking Bolis' musical secret, however, is that conversation he has between his Eastern and Western roots. The creation of the album is built around Bolis' trip to Hong Kong earlier this year, made to reconnect with his late mother's roots.
TRACKLISTING CD (includes an exclusive bonus track : "Frogs")
1. Letter To Yu
2. Completely Half
3. Goodnight Mr Yi
4. Frogs
5. Doctor Says
6. Spicy Crab
7. Ma Tau Wai Road
8. Causeway Bae
9. Cantonese
10. Kowloon
11. Cosmic Rendez-Vous
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Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Cliché - Soulwax Remix
2
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
3
Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Popul - Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
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TRACKLIST
FACE A
1. Cliché - Soulwax Remix
FACE B
1. Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
2. Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
BIOG
After co-producing their triumphant debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ which was heralded as Pitchfork’s Best New Music on release, Soulwax have delivered a remix of Charlotte & Bolis’ fan favourite 'Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché'. The dynamic track which touches on all of the most cliché lyrics used in pop music has received the club treatment from Soulwax ahead of this summer’s lengthy festival run for the Belgian duo.
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TRACKLIST
FACE A
1. Cliché - Soulwax Remix
FACE B
1. Cliché - Soulwax Instrumental Mix
2. Ceci N’Est Pas Un Cliché - Original version
BIOG
After co-producing their triumphant debut album ‘Topical Dancer’ which was heralded as Pitchfork’s Best New Music on release, Soulwax have delivered a remix of Charlotte & Bolis’ fan favourite 'Ceci N’est Pas Un Cliché'. The dynamic track which touches on all of the most cliché lyrics used in pop music has received the club treatment from Soulwax ahead of this summer’s lengthy festival run for the Belgian duo.
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TRACKLIST LP:
FACE A
1. LIVESTREAM SUPERSTAR
2. PAUSE
3. TOUCH
4. RELEASE PARTY
5. REAL WORLD PARK
6. NEVER GIVE UP ON THE CITY
FACE B
1. A DAY AT THE RACES
2. I WANT TO LIVE
3. LOVER BOY
4. EMPTY ROOMS
5. PLAYING TO WIN
6. FAREWELL SUPERSTAR
INFORMATION/ BIOG
‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is the second album from James Righton under his own name; produced by David & Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax and released on their label DEEWEE, the album follows The Performer released in 2020. James’ musical past is well documented; as the frontman of the genre inventing Klaxons, he helped create a revolution in British music and spawned a youth subculture. ‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is a captivating meditation on the artists experience of the pandemic as James looks to conceptualize the myriad of emotions and events into a fascinating third person narrative. One of the album tracks features Benny Andersson from Swedish pop legendary band ABBA, with whom James has been working on putting together their new live band.
"I wrote this record during the first few months of the pandemic. At the time I wasn’t intending to make any music. I’d just released ‘The Performer’ on what turned out to be the first week of lockdown. The outside world shut down and I was busy being Dad. Then. I started making notes on my phone. Just words. In moments stolen from family life I’d head downstairs to my garage studio and put the words to music. When I was happy with a song I’d send it to Dave and Stef. Demos and Pro Tools sessions were passed back and forth between my home studio and the Deewee studio in Ghent. I was nervous about their response to the music I was making. It was personal, raw: unlike anything I’d ever written before. A conversation with the outside world during these times of isolation. For the most part my life was centred on the domestic. Getting to spend so much time with my family was a blessing. Making music was my play time. Isolation opened me to memories and allowed me to dream of the future. As the outside world tried to adapt to the pandemic I was asked more and more to promote ‘The Performer’ in live stream concerts on various platforms. As the pandemic went on, demands on production increased (more camera angles, better lighting, higher quality audio recordings). It became a one man show. I’d head downstairs to my garage, put on my Gucci suit, comb my hair and become someone else. Jim. Jim the deluded rock star, living out his fantasies from the confines of his garage. A lonely stardom. And yet, Jim was part me. He made me feel like I still existed. Jim became the centre of the new album. Dave, Stef and I worked into the sessions over the following months. It was always exciting to see where they would take my initial demos. The working method and the restrictions of making music together but in separate spaces, separate countries shaped the sound and feel of the record.
I won’t make another record like this again”.James/Jim
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TRACKLIST LP:
FACE A
1. LIVESTREAM SUPERSTAR
2. PAUSE
3. TOUCH
4. RELEASE PARTY
5. REAL WORLD PARK
6. NEVER GIVE UP ON THE CITY
FACE B
1. A DAY AT THE RACES
2. I WANT TO LIVE
3. LOVER BOY
4. EMPTY ROOMS
5. PLAYING TO WIN
6. FAREWELL SUPERSTAR
INFORMATION/ BIOG
‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is the second album from James Righton under his own name; produced by David & Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax and released on their label DEEWEE, the album follows The Performer released in 2020. James’ musical past is well documented; as the frontman of the genre inventing Klaxons, he helped create a revolution in British music and spawned a youth subculture. ‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is a captivating meditation on the artists experience of the pandemic as James looks to conceptualize the myriad of emotions and events into a fascinating third person narrative. One of the album tracks features Benny Andersson from Swedish pop legendary band ABBA, with whom James has been working on putting together their new live band.
"I wrote this record during the first few months of the pandemic. At the time I wasn’t intending to make any music. I’d just released ‘The Performer’ on what turned out to be the first week of lockdown. The outside world shut down and I was busy being Dad. Then. I started making notes on my phone. Just words. In moments stolen from family life I’d head downstairs to my garage studio and put the words to music. When I was happy with a song I’d send it to Dave and Stef. Demos and Pro Tools sessions were passed back and forth between my home studio and the Deewee studio in Ghent. I was nervous about their response to the music I was making. It was personal, raw: unlike anything I’d ever written before. A conversation with the outside world during these times of isolation. For the most part my life was centred on the domestic. Getting to spend so much time with my family was a blessing. Making music was my play time. Isolation opened me to memories and allowed me to dream of the future. As the outside world tried to adapt to the pandemic I was asked more and more to promote ‘The Performer’ in live stream concerts on various platforms. As the pandemic went on, demands on production increased (more camera angles, better lighting, higher quality audio recordings). It became a one man show. I’d head downstairs to my garage, put on my Gucci suit, comb my hair and become someone else. Jim. Jim the deluded rock star, living out his fantasies from the confines of his garage. A lonely stardom. And yet, Jim was part me. He made me feel like I still existed. Jim became the centre of the new album. Dave, Stef and I worked into the sessions over the following months. It was always exciting to see where they would take my initial demos. The working method and the restrictions of making music together but in separate spaces, separate countries shaped the sound and feel of the record.
I won’t make another record like this again”.James/Jim
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TRACKLIST CD:
1. LIVESTREAM SUPERSTAR
2. PAUSE
3. TOUCH
4. RELEASE PARTY
5. REAL WORLD PARK
6. NEVER GIVE UP ON THE CITY
7. A DAY AT THE RACES
8. I WANT TO LIVE
9. LOVER BOY
10. EMPTY ROOMS
11. PLAYING TO WIN
12. FAREWELL SUPERSTAR
INFORMATION/ BIOG
‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is the second album from James Righton under his own name; produced by David & Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax and released on their label DEEWEE, the album follows The Performer released in 2020. James’ musical past is well documented; as the frontman of the genre inventing Klaxons, he helped create a revolution in British music and spawned a youth subculture. ‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is a captivating meditation on the artists experience of the pandemic as James looks to conceptualize the myriad of emotions and events into a fascinating third person narrative. One of the album tracks features Benny Andersson from Swedish pop legendary band ABBA, with whom James has been working on putting together their new live band.
"I wrote this record during the first few months of the pandemic. At the time I wasn’t intending to make any music. I’d just released ‘The Performer’ on what turned out to be the first week of lockdown. The outside world shut down and I was busy being Dad. Then. I started making notes on my phone. Just words. In moments stolen from family life I’d head downstairs to my garage studio and put the words to music. When I was happy with a song I’d send it to Dave and Stef. Demos and Pro Tools sessions were passed back and forth between my home studio and the Deewee studio in Ghent. I was nervous about their response to the music I was making. It was personal, raw: unlike anything I’d ever written before. A conversation with the outside world during these times of isolation. For the most part my life was centred on the domestic. Getting to spend so much time with my family was a blessing. Making music was my play time. Isolation opened me to memories and allowed me to dream of the future. As the outside world tried to adapt to the pandemic I was asked more and more to promote ‘The Performer’ in live stream concerts on various platforms. As the pandemic went on, demands on production increased (more camera angles, better lighting, higher quality audio recordings). It became a one man show. I’d head downstairs to my garage, put on my Gucci suit, comb my hair and become someone else. Jim. Jim the deluded rock star, living out his fantasies from the confines of his garage. A lonely stardom. And yet, Jim was part me. He made me feel like I still existed. Jim became the centre of the new album. Dave, Stef and I worked into the sessions over the following months. It was always exciting to see where they would take my initial demos. The working method and the restrictions of making music together but in separate spaces, separate countries shaped the sound and feel of the record.
I won’t make another record like this again”.James/Jim
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1. LIVESTREAM SUPERSTAR
2. PAUSE
3. TOUCH
4. RELEASE PARTY
5. REAL WORLD PARK
6. NEVER GIVE UP ON THE CITY
7. A DAY AT THE RACES
8. I WANT TO LIVE
9. LOVER BOY
10. EMPTY ROOMS
11. PLAYING TO WIN
12. FAREWELL SUPERSTAR
INFORMATION/ BIOG
‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is the second album from James Righton under his own name; produced by David & Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax and released on their label DEEWEE, the album follows The Performer released in 2020. James’ musical past is well documented; as the frontman of the genre inventing Klaxons, he helped create a revolution in British music and spawned a youth subculture. ‘Jim, I’m Still Here’ is a captivating meditation on the artists experience of the pandemic as James looks to conceptualize the myriad of emotions and events into a fascinating third person narrative. One of the album tracks features Benny Andersson from Swedish pop legendary band ABBA, with whom James has been working on putting together their new live band.
"I wrote this record during the first few months of the pandemic. At the time I wasn’t intending to make any music. I’d just released ‘The Performer’ on what turned out to be the first week of lockdown. The outside world shut down and I was busy being Dad. Then. I started making notes on my phone. Just words. In moments stolen from family life I’d head downstairs to my garage studio and put the words to music. When I was happy with a song I’d send it to Dave and Stef. Demos and Pro Tools sessions were passed back and forth between my home studio and the Deewee studio in Ghent. I was nervous about their response to the music I was making. It was personal, raw: unlike anything I’d ever written before. A conversation with the outside world during these times of isolation. For the most part my life was centred on the domestic. Getting to spend so much time with my family was a blessing. Making music was my play time. Isolation opened me to memories and allowed me to dream of the future. As the outside world tried to adapt to the pandemic I was asked more and more to promote ‘The Performer’ in live stream concerts on various platforms. As the pandemic went on, demands on production increased (more camera angles, better lighting, higher quality audio recordings). It became a one man show. I’d head downstairs to my garage, put on my Gucci suit, comb my hair and become someone else. Jim. Jim the deluded rock star, living out his fantasies from the confines of his garage. A lonely stardom. And yet, Jim was part me. He made me feel like I still existed. Jim became the centre of the new album. Dave, Stef and I worked into the sessions over the following months. It was always exciting to see where they would take my initial demos. The working method and the restrictions of making music together but in separate spaces, separate countries shaped the sound and feel of the record.
I won’t make another record like this again”.James/Jim
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
CD : 1 X CD, Jewelcase,20 page booklet.
TRACKLIST CD :
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY 5. IT HIT ME 6. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 7. REAPPROPRIATE 8. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 9. HUILE SMISSE 10. MANTRA 11. MAKING SENSE STOP 12. HAHA 13. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
CD : 1 X CD, Jewelcase,20 page booklet.
TRACKLIST CD :
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY 5. IT HIT ME 6. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 7. REAPPROPRIATE 8. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 9. HUILE SMISSE 10. MANTRA 11. MAKING SENSE STOP 12. HAHA 13. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
Black 2 x LP : 2x Black Vinyl 140 gr, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Black 2 x LP : 2x Black Vinyl 140 gr, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Rights: WORLD excluding FR, UK, US, BENELUX
Ltd Black & White LP : 1x Black Vinyl 140 gr + 1x Solid White Vinyl, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Ltd Black & White LP : 1x Black Vinyl 140 gr + 1x Solid White Vinyl, Gatefold sleeve + UV gloss, 2x heavy weight printed inner sleeve. Sticker + download card
TRACKLIST 2LP :
VINYL 1
FACE A
1. BEL DEEWEE 2. ESPERANTO 3. BLENDA 4. HEY
FACE B
1. IT HIT ME 2. ICH MWEN (WITH CHRISTIANE ADIGERY 3. REAPPROPRIATE
VINYL 2
FACE C
1. CECI N’EST PAS UN CLICHE 2. HUILE SMISSE 3. MANTRA
FACE D
1. MAKING SENSE STOP 2. HAHA 3. THANK YOU
BIOG :
“sweet, moreish and deliciously unpredictable” - The Guardian
“striking, playful electro pop with a sly sense of humor” - Pitchfork
“Delightfully (Deliberately) Absurd” - Vogue
“A deeply sardonic salvo that, in a better world, would annihilate mansplaining once and for all." - The New York Times on Thank You
Today sees Belgian-Caribbean provocateur Charlotte Adigéry and her long-term musical partner, Bolis Pupul announce their debut album Topical Dancer, due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE.
Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their debut album Topical Dancer. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.
Their debut studio record – which cements them as a duo under both their names for the first time and is co-written and co-produced by Soulwax – is both a triumph of kaleidoscopic electro-pop and “a snapshot of how we think about pop culture in the 2020s.” It captures Charlotte and Bolis’s essence as musical collaborators and the conversations they’ve had over the past two years on tour, as well as their perspectives as Belgians with an immigrant background, Charlotte with Guadeloupean and French-Martinique ancestry and Bolis being of Chinese descent.
Beyond the album’s thematic heft, Topical Dancer reflects Charlotte and Bolis’s idiosyncratic sound: it’s thoughtful but it bangs. Their take on familiar genres is always off-kilter; songs sound undone or a little wonky; but these are nocturnal heaters to make the club throb. “We like to fuck things up a bit,” laughs Bolis. “We cringe when we feel like we're making something that already exists, so we're always looking for things to combine to make it sound not like a pop song, not like an R&B song, not a techno song. We’re always putting different worlds together. Charlotte and I get bored when things get too predictable.”
Topical Dancer is fizzing with ideas – there’s certainly no filler among its 13 tracks. But above all, perhaps, it has a restlessness, a desire not to be boxed in and to escape others’ narrow perceptions of who they are. It’s summarised by the refrain of their new single, ‘Blenda’: “Don’t sound like what I look like / Don’t look like what I sound like.” “One thing that always comes up,” says Bolis, “is that people perceive me as the producer, and Charlotte as just a singer. Or that being a Black artist means you should be making ‘urban’ music. Those kinds of boxes don’t feel good to us.”
‘Blenda’ in particular references how “I am a product of colonialism,” says Charlotte, “and I feel guilty for taking up space in a white country.” The song was inspired in part by Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m Not Longer Talking To White People About Race. “It talks about the colonial past and post-colonial present in the UK,” Charlotte continues, “but that isn’t merely a British or American problem, Belgium is part of that as well.” She says that her home country is likewise “oblivious to a big part of its history” which “results in general ignorance and a lack of understanding and empathy towards Belgian inhabitants of immigrant descent.”
On Topical Dancer, it’s less about finger pointing or being dogmatic about all the things they speak about. It’s about emancipation through humour. “I don’t want to feel this heaviness on me,” says Charlotte. “These aren’t my crosses to bear. Topical Dancer is my way of freeing myself of these issues. And of having fun.”
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More
Label:Deewee / Because Music
Cat-No:DEEWEE042
Release-Date:27.08.2021
Genre:House
Configuration:12" Excl
Label:Deewee / Because Music
Cat-No:DEEWEE042
Release-Date:27.08.2021
Genre:House
Configuration:12" Excl
Rights : World excluding FR & UK
12“ – Printed sleeve with 3mm spine UV Gloss finish, 140 G Black Vinyl, Heavy Weight 200 grs Printed Inner Sleeve
TRACKLIST
A SIDE : 1. CONNEXION À LIÈGE 2. CACAO
B SIDE : 1. MISSING TEETH 2. VELEDA 3. IN MY BODY
SHORT INFORMATION/ SHORT BIOG
DEEWEE ‘s new releases now worked with Because Music. Formed in 2012, Asa Moto purvey non-standard body music from their Ghent outpost, Studio Martino. Closely affiliated with famed Soulwax imprint, DEEWEE, the Belgian duo’s recorded offerings carefully juxtapose expert synth-work with aesthetic imperfection. Charming melodies and throbbing rhythms come courtesy of archaic tone generators and acoustic instrumentation alike, landing Asa Moto in a zone of confident sonic idiosyncrasy. Their studio prowess has hardly gone unnoticed and during their breakout year of 2018, Resident Advisor, Redbull and the BBC were quick to take note of the group’s steady ascent. Via their ever-changing live performances, Asa Moto have become regular fixtures on the European touring circuit, touching down for club nights and festival appearances across the continent. As astute selectors, they operate a bi-monthly radio show in Brussels, digging into their sprawling collection, ranging from obscure jazz records to contemporary electronic cuts. Asa Moto have re-adapted their unmistakable strain of body music into a live show, which premiered on the Mainstage of the Lokerse Feesten 2019 and at the 40th anniversary of Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. In 2020, they co-produced and mixed the Turkish band, Altin Gün album 'Yol' marking the first time that the band has collaborated with outsiders.
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12“ – Printed sleeve with 3mm spine UV Gloss finish, 140 G Black Vinyl, Heavy Weight 200 grs Printed Inner Sleeve
TRACKLIST
A SIDE : 1. CONNEXION À LIÈGE 2. CACAO
B SIDE : 1. MISSING TEETH 2. VELEDA 3. IN MY BODY
SHORT INFORMATION/ SHORT BIOG
DEEWEE ‘s new releases now worked with Because Music. Formed in 2012, Asa Moto purvey non-standard body music from their Ghent outpost, Studio Martino. Closely affiliated with famed Soulwax imprint, DEEWEE, the Belgian duo’s recorded offerings carefully juxtapose expert synth-work with aesthetic imperfection. Charming melodies and throbbing rhythms come courtesy of archaic tone generators and acoustic instrumentation alike, landing Asa Moto in a zone of confident sonic idiosyncrasy. Their studio prowess has hardly gone unnoticed and during their breakout year of 2018, Resident Advisor, Redbull and the BBC were quick to take note of the group’s steady ascent. Via their ever-changing live performances, Asa Moto have become regular fixtures on the European touring circuit, touching down for club nights and festival appearances across the continent. As astute selectors, they operate a bi-monthly radio show in Brussels, digging into their sprawling collection, ranging from obscure jazz records to contemporary electronic cuts. Asa Moto have re-adapted their unmistakable strain of body music into a live show, which premiered on the Mainstage of the Lokerse Feesten 2019 and at the 40th anniversary of Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. In 2020, they co-produced and mixed the Turkish band, Altin Gün album 'Yol' marking the first time that the band has collaborated with outsiders.
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Deluxe Triple LP (with free download) - Rights : World excluding France, UK, Belgium,Netherlands,Luxemburg,Spain,Portugal
DELUXE TRIPLE VINYL EDITION :
3 x Black 12" 140 G Vinyl - 6 x Labels 4/0 - 12" special Trifold Sleeve (3 wallets) , 4/1, 2 x Side + 1 x Top Opening pockets, UV Gloss
3 x 4/0 Printed Inner Sleeves, Uncoated - 26 x 5cm tracklisting Sticker 1/0 - Position: Back Sleeve, Centralised. Over Shrink-wrap. Marketing Front sticker.
Includes a download card.
Informations :
Deewee presents their first compilation ! 27 tracks from Soulwax 's label, including 3 new & exclusive tracks.
Features Charlotte Adigéry ,Soulwax , James Righton , Die Verboten, Asa Moto..
TRIPLE VINYL EDITION
A1. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - BEAR WITH ME (AND l'LL STAND BARE BEFORE YOU)
A2. LAIMA - DISCO PREGNANCY (TONAL+ RHYTHMICAL)
A3. EACH OTHER - BURN IT DOWN
A4. BOLIS PUPUL - MOON THEME
A5. JAMES RIGHTON - RELEASE PARTY
B1. DIE VERBOTEN - AQUARIUS
B2. SOULWAX - HEAVEN SCENT FEAT. CHLOE SEVIGNY
B3. EMS SYNTHI 100 - MOVEMENT 6
B4. SOULWAX - CONDITIONS OF A SHARED BELIEF
C1. SOULWAX - CLOSE TO PARADISE
C2. ASA MOTO - KIFESH
C3. LAILA - THE OTHER ME (DEEWEEDUB)
C4. ASA MOTO - WANOWAN EFEM
D1. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - PATÉNIPAT
D2. KLANKEN - DRIE
D3. PHILLIPI - 9000
D4. MOVULANGO - LEAVE
D5. LAIMA - HOME
E1. EMMANUELLE - ITALOVE
E2. SWORN VIRGINS -TAKE YOUR LADY
E3. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - PACIENCIA
E4. EXTRA CREDIT- DRIVE ME
F1. BOUS PUPUL - WÉI?
F2. SOULWAX - ESSENTIAL ELEVEN
F3. SWORN VIRGINS - FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS
F4. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - RETROGRADO
F5. FUTURE SOUND OF ANTWERP - TOM CRUISE, SCIENTOLOGIST
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DELUXE TRIPLE VINYL EDITION :
3 x Black 12" 140 G Vinyl - 6 x Labels 4/0 - 12" special Trifold Sleeve (3 wallets) , 4/1, 2 x Side + 1 x Top Opening pockets, UV Gloss
3 x 4/0 Printed Inner Sleeves, Uncoated - 26 x 5cm tracklisting Sticker 1/0 - Position: Back Sleeve, Centralised. Over Shrink-wrap. Marketing Front sticker.
Includes a download card.
Informations :
Deewee presents their first compilation ! 27 tracks from Soulwax 's label, including 3 new & exclusive tracks.
Features Charlotte Adigéry ,Soulwax , James Righton , Die Verboten, Asa Moto..
TRIPLE VINYL EDITION
A1. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - BEAR WITH ME (AND l'LL STAND BARE BEFORE YOU)
A2. LAIMA - DISCO PREGNANCY (TONAL+ RHYTHMICAL)
A3. EACH OTHER - BURN IT DOWN
A4. BOLIS PUPUL - MOON THEME
A5. JAMES RIGHTON - RELEASE PARTY
B1. DIE VERBOTEN - AQUARIUS
B2. SOULWAX - HEAVEN SCENT FEAT. CHLOE SEVIGNY
B3. EMS SYNTHI 100 - MOVEMENT 6
B4. SOULWAX - CONDITIONS OF A SHARED BELIEF
C1. SOULWAX - CLOSE TO PARADISE
C2. ASA MOTO - KIFESH
C3. LAILA - THE OTHER ME (DEEWEEDUB)
C4. ASA MOTO - WANOWAN EFEM
D1. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - PATÉNIPAT
D2. KLANKEN - DRIE
D3. PHILLIPI - 9000
D4. MOVULANGO - LEAVE
D5. LAIMA - HOME
E1. EMMANUELLE - ITALOVE
E2. SWORN VIRGINS -TAKE YOUR LADY
E3. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - PACIENCIA
E4. EXTRA CREDIT- DRIVE ME
F1. BOUS PUPUL - WÉI?
F2. SOULWAX - ESSENTIAL ELEVEN
F3. SWORN VIRGINS - FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS
F4. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - RETROGRADO
F5. FUTURE SOUND OF ANTWERP - TOM CRUISE, SCIENTOLOGIST
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DOUBLE CD EDITION :
2 x CD Onbody - Clear Jewelcase with hinged CD bracket - 8 Page Booklet CMYK
1 x Inlay CMYK - 6.4cm x 4cm tracklisting Sticker 1/0 - Position: Back Sleeve, Centralised. Over Shrink-wrap.
Marketing front sticker.
Informations :
Deewee presents their first compilation ! 27 tracks from Soulwax 's label, including 3 new & exclusive tracks.
Features Charlotte Adigéry ,Soulwax , James Righton , Die Verboten, Asa Moto..
Tracklist
DOUBLE CD
CD 1
01. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - BEAR WITH ME (AND l'LL STAND BARE BEFORE YOU)
02. LAIMA - DISCO PREGNANCY (TONAL+ RHYTHMICAL)
03. EACH OTHER - BURN IT DOWN
04. BOLIS PUPUL - MOON THEME
05. JAMES RIGHTON - RELEASE PARTY
06. DIE VERBOTEN - AQUARIUS
07. SOULWAX - HEAVEN SCENT FEAT. CHLOE SEVIGNY
08. EMS SYNTHI 100 - MOVEMENT 6
09. SOULWAX - CONDITIONS OF A SHARED BELIEF
10. SOULWAX - CLOSE TO PARADISE
11. ASA MOTO - KIFESH
12. LAILA - THE OTHER ME (DEEWEEDUB)
13. ASA MOTO - WANOWAN EFEM
CD 2
01. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - PATÉNIPAT
02. KLANKEN - DRIE
03. PHILLIPI - 9000
04. MOVULANGO - LEAVE
05. LAIMA - HOME
06. EMMANUELLE - ITALOVE
07. SWORN VIRGINS -TAKE YOUR LADY
08. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - PACIENCIA
09. EXTRA CREDIT- DRIVE ME
10. BOUS PUPUL - WÉI?
11. SOULWAX - ESSENTIAL ELEVEN
12. SWORN VIRGINS - FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS
13. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - RETROGRADO
14. FUTURE SOUND OF ANTWERP - TOM CRUISE, SCIENTOLOGIST
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DOUBLE CD EDITION :
2 x CD Onbody - Clear Jewelcase with hinged CD bracket - 8 Page Booklet CMYK
1 x Inlay CMYK - 6.4cm x 4cm tracklisting Sticker 1/0 - Position: Back Sleeve, Centralised. Over Shrink-wrap.
Marketing front sticker.
Informations :
Deewee presents their first compilation ! 27 tracks from Soulwax 's label, including 3 new & exclusive tracks.
Features Charlotte Adigéry ,Soulwax , James Righton , Die Verboten, Asa Moto..
Tracklist
DOUBLE CD
CD 1
01. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - BEAR WITH ME (AND l'LL STAND BARE BEFORE YOU)
02. LAIMA - DISCO PREGNANCY (TONAL+ RHYTHMICAL)
03. EACH OTHER - BURN IT DOWN
04. BOLIS PUPUL - MOON THEME
05. JAMES RIGHTON - RELEASE PARTY
06. DIE VERBOTEN - AQUARIUS
07. SOULWAX - HEAVEN SCENT FEAT. CHLOE SEVIGNY
08. EMS SYNTHI 100 - MOVEMENT 6
09. SOULWAX - CONDITIONS OF A SHARED BELIEF
10. SOULWAX - CLOSE TO PARADISE
11. ASA MOTO - KIFESH
12. LAILA - THE OTHER ME (DEEWEEDUB)
13. ASA MOTO - WANOWAN EFEM
CD 2
01. CHARLOTTE ADIGÉRY - PATÉNIPAT
02. KLANKEN - DRIE
03. PHILLIPI - 9000
04. MOVULANGO - LEAVE
05. LAIMA - HOME
06. EMMANUELLE - ITALOVE
07. SWORN VIRGINS -TAKE YOUR LADY
08. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - PACIENCIA
09. EXTRA CREDIT- DRIVE ME
10. BOUS PUPUL - WÉI?
11. SOULWAX - ESSENTIAL ELEVEN
12. SWORN VIRGINS - FIFTY DOLLAR BILLS
13. PHILLIPI & RODRIGO - RETROGRADO
14. FUTURE SOUND OF ANTWERP - TOM CRUISE, SCIENTOLOGIST
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A1 Drums Are Dangerous (Original Mix)
A2 Drums Are Dangerous (Heads Down Dub)
B1 Drums Are Dangerous (Todd Modes Full Moon Mix)
B2 Where Were U In 92? (Colter Carson Mix)
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Back by Popular Demand in a 2025 Re Press Edition in /with Original 50th Anniversary Edition Art and Acessories :
LP, 180G Black Vinyl, Sticker, 50th Anniversary RE-Edition, f irst-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975,
Re-Cut carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching
Quadro Fold Out Sleeve, exactly replicates complex/original OHR die-cut jacket, A2 Poster, 2x (German and English) A4 Inlay with Original Bio Sheet written by Manuel Göttsching (1970)
2. GENRE/S: Krautrock, Kosmische, Early Progressive-/Psychedelic-Rock, Early Electronics
3. TRACKLIST:
A. "Amboss" 19:40
B. "Traummaschine" 25:24
Personell:
Hartmut Enke - Gibson bass,
Manuel Göttsching - Electric guitar, Vocals, electronics,
Klaus Schulze - Drums, percussion, electronics
Engineered by: Conny Plank
Artwork: Bernhard Bendig
Recorded in March 1971, Star Studio Hamburg
4. INFO:
Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel.
It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke.
Engineered by Conny Plank it was recorded in March 1971 and released in June 1971 on Ohr Records.
This 50Th Anniversary Album will be Released in Memoriam of all the Musical Contributors to this Release and on Manuel Göttsching´s MG.ART label.
It´s the fourth and headlining edition in this series and was finalised, carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself in the late Autumn of 2022.
Much has been written about the record and band.
Having finished a first musical chapter with their Steeple Chase Bluesband and still at very young age of only 17 and 18 years old Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke met Klaus Schulze. Together they started to write and and compose what, to many,
became one the holy grails of Psychedelic Rock and early Electronic Music -
the German variant which was later also named "Krautrock":
Ash Ra Tempel´s self-titled first album "Ash Ra Tempel".
"The trio of Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke decided to abandon conventional composition and song writing, in favour of free-form improvising and developing a new musical language. As such, they became notorious for jams that could exceed 30 minutes." Says Discogs. "Some of these recordings can be found on Manuel Göttsching´s "The Private Tapes" releases", which will be re-released on MG.ART as well, following this edition.
"Krautrocksampler" author Julian Cope mentioned it to be "… one of the greatest rock 'n' roll LPs ever made." (Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel". 15 March 2000.)
AllMusic called the album "both astonishingly prescient and just flat out good, a logical extension of the space-jam-freakout ethos into rarified realms."
Here we would like the Band to be heard, for what can easily be said as the first time in 50+ years, with the exception of some early Journalists for whom the young Manuel Göttsching wrote a statement of intent (the original text can be found inside this edition) as following:
"Our musical concept is based on a combination of blues rock and delicate collages of electronic sound. These two elements should remain inseparable. And in their complex unity, the different musical philosophies of each musician find a common sweet spot. Our music is a permanently impulsive experience left to develop as it will, starting from a common fixed point of departure. This is where the difficulty of the music begins: No standardized formulation of our music can and should be possible. Only the constant reaction within the band can determine the musical result. And this requires constant listening with full concentration on the part of the creators. The idea of a particular musician will be - if flexible enough - absorbed by the others, transposed to their own instrument, and reflected back into the music as an individual contribution. This reciprocity within the band is then transferred over to the audience. And this process means that their reaction is not only a contribution to the end result; it actually makes them jointly responsible for the creation of the final musical product.
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On our album, the track "Amboss" represents the first layer. Conventional instruments communicate familiar music which is in part expanded through electronic means. In the second track of the album - "Traummaschine" - the actual basic sound approach is dissolved into an electronic Nirvana which no longer allows the concrete identification of actual instruments. Innocent, virgin listening, free from any and every association, can finally begin - and the music can be absorbed and processed free from the limitations of categorization. That is the purpose of our music: To convey freedom without any predetermined criteria or traditions.
Thank you for your attention."
(Taken from the original A-R-T Bio 1970)
Hartmut Enke, Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze aka. Ash Ra Tempel travelled to Hamburg in March 1971 to record their debut, with assistance of another Icon, legendary engineer Conny Plank.
The rest is history.
www.manuelgoettsching.com
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LP, 180G Black Vinyl, Sticker, 50th Anniversary RE-Edition, f irst-ever official reissue on vinyl since 1975,
Re-Cut carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching
Quadro Fold Out Sleeve, exactly replicates complex/original OHR die-cut jacket, A2 Poster, 2x (German and English) A4 Inlay with Original Bio Sheet written by Manuel Göttsching (1970)
2. GENRE/S: Krautrock, Kosmische, Early Progressive-/Psychedelic-Rock, Early Electronics
3. TRACKLIST:
A. "Amboss" 19:40
B. "Traummaschine" 25:24
Personell:
Hartmut Enke - Gibson bass,
Manuel Göttsching - Electric guitar, Vocals, electronics,
Klaus Schulze - Drums, percussion, electronics
Engineered by: Conny Plank
Artwork: Bernhard Bendig
Recorded in March 1971, Star Studio Hamburg
4. INFO:
Ash Ra Tempel is the eponymous debut studio album by the Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel.
It features guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke.
Engineered by Conny Plank it was recorded in March 1971 and released in June 1971 on Ohr Records.
This 50Th Anniversary Album will be Released in Memoriam of all the Musical Contributors to this Release and on Manuel Göttsching´s MG.ART label.
It´s the fourth and headlining edition in this series and was finalised, carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching himself in the late Autumn of 2022.
Much has been written about the record and band.
Having finished a first musical chapter with their Steeple Chase Bluesband and still at very young age of only 17 and 18 years old Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke met Klaus Schulze. Together they started to write and and compose what, to many,
became one the holy grails of Psychedelic Rock and early Electronic Music -
the German variant which was later also named "Krautrock":
Ash Ra Tempel´s self-titled first album "Ash Ra Tempel".
"The trio of Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke decided to abandon conventional composition and song writing, in favour of free-form improvising and developing a new musical language. As such, they became notorious for jams that could exceed 30 minutes." Says Discogs. "Some of these recordings can be found on Manuel Göttsching´s "The Private Tapes" releases", which will be re-released on MG.ART as well, following this edition.
"Krautrocksampler" author Julian Cope mentioned it to be "… one of the greatest rock 'n' roll LPs ever made." (Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel". 15 March 2000.)
AllMusic called the album "both astonishingly prescient and just flat out good, a logical extension of the space-jam-freakout ethos into rarified realms."
Here we would like the Band to be heard, for what can easily be said as the first time in 50+ years, with the exception of some early Journalists for whom the young Manuel Göttsching wrote a statement of intent (the original text can be found inside this edition) as following:
"Our musical concept is based on a combination of blues rock and delicate collages of electronic sound. These two elements should remain inseparable. And in their complex unity, the different musical philosophies of each musician find a common sweet spot. Our music is a permanently impulsive experience left to develop as it will, starting from a common fixed point of departure. This is where the difficulty of the music begins: No standardized formulation of our music can and should be possible. Only the constant reaction within the band can determine the musical result. And this requires constant listening with full concentration on the part of the creators. The idea of a particular musician will be - if flexible enough - absorbed by the others, transposed to their own instrument, and reflected back into the music as an individual contribution. This reciprocity within the band is then transferred over to the audience. And this process means that their reaction is not only a contribution to the end result; it actually makes them jointly responsible for the creation of the final musical product.
…
On our album, the track "Amboss" represents the first layer. Conventional instruments communicate familiar music which is in part expanded through electronic means. In the second track of the album - "Traummaschine" - the actual basic sound approach is dissolved into an electronic Nirvana which no longer allows the concrete identification of actual instruments. Innocent, virgin listening, free from any and every association, can finally begin - and the music can be absorbed and processed free from the limitations of categorization. That is the purpose of our music: To convey freedom without any predetermined criteria or traditions.
Thank you for your attention."
(Taken from the original A-R-T Bio 1970)
Hartmut Enke, Manuel Göttsching and Klaus Schulze aka. Ash Ra Tempel travelled to Hamburg in March 1971 to record their debut, with assistance of another Icon, legendary engineer Conny Plank.
The rest is history.
www.manuelgoettsching.com
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Iglo - A1. Computed Love
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Iglo - A2. Determinated
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Iglo - B1. Enter The State
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Iglo - B2. Enlighten
12" vinyl with full cover print
TRACKLIST:
A1. Computed Love
A2. Determinated
B1. Enter The State
B2. Enlighten
INFO:
Promising label newcomer IGLO returns to Figure with his second EP this year, building on a distinct sonic identity shaped by a background in classical music and live performance. Across five tracks, he further refines his mix of atmospheric depth, precise rhythms, and melodic nuance.
This time, his own voice takes on a more central role, adding a personal and expressive layer to the productions. On opener Computed Love, restrained, longing vocals blend into squelchy synths and minimal grooves - hauntingly beautiful, yet gritty with rumbling machine funk. Determined follows with a more menacing tone, its sharp percussion cutting through a bleak, shadowy atmosphere - perfect for building tension on the floor.
On the flip, IGLO switches up the mood: Enter the State runs on hypnotic loops and chopped-up piano riffs, peppered with cheeky, spoken-word style vocals that nod to ghetto house traditions. It breaks into an irresistible, swinging groove that hits with full force.
Offering a smooth counterpoint, Enlighten drifts into dubby terrain. Soft, ricocheting vocal snippets and warm chords conjure a hopeful, human glow - a bouncy balm for the soul, without losing its forward momentum.
Digital bonus track Find Yourself closes the EP on a spacious, almost sci-fi note - twinkling synths and airy melodies float above crisp textures, like a breath of fresh air at the end of a long night.With X49, IGLO deepens his connection with Figure and sharpens his unique voice - equally grounded in introspection and dancefloor impact, continuing to shape a sound that's thoughtful, bold, and marks him as one to watch.
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TRACKLIST:
A1. Computed Love
A2. Determinated
B1. Enter The State
B2. Enlighten
INFO:
Promising label newcomer IGLO returns to Figure with his second EP this year, building on a distinct sonic identity shaped by a background in classical music and live performance. Across five tracks, he further refines his mix of atmospheric depth, precise rhythms, and melodic nuance.
This time, his own voice takes on a more central role, adding a personal and expressive layer to the productions. On opener Computed Love, restrained, longing vocals blend into squelchy synths and minimal grooves - hauntingly beautiful, yet gritty with rumbling machine funk. Determined follows with a more menacing tone, its sharp percussion cutting through a bleak, shadowy atmosphere - perfect for building tension on the floor.
On the flip, IGLO switches up the mood: Enter the State runs on hypnotic loops and chopped-up piano riffs, peppered with cheeky, spoken-word style vocals that nod to ghetto house traditions. It breaks into an irresistible, swinging groove that hits with full force.
Offering a smooth counterpoint, Enlighten drifts into dubby terrain. Soft, ricocheting vocal snippets and warm chords conjure a hopeful, human glow - a bouncy balm for the soul, without losing its forward momentum.
Digital bonus track Find Yourself closes the EP on a spacious, almost sci-fi note - twinkling synths and airy melodies float above crisp textures, like a breath of fresh air at the end of a long night.With X49, IGLO deepens his connection with Figure and sharpens his unique voice - equally grounded in introspection and dancefloor impact, continuing to shape a sound that's thoughtful, bold, and marks him as one to watch.
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Todh Teri - Maalgaadi 54
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Todh Teri - Cosmic Dirt
3
Todh Teri - Beauty Blues
Tracklist:
A1 Maalgaadi 54 12.12
B1 Cosmic Dirt 04:44
B2 Beauty Blues 07:17
Short Info:
Todh Teri is back with a brand-new chapter.
The Return of Neela Devi kicks off a vinyl-only series where the iconic characters from Deep In India finally take center stage. With the Sampadan era behind us, a bold new sound is rising.
Leading the way is Neela Devi herself, across three genre-spanning tracks that cover everything from vintage disco to spaced-out synths and slow-burning indie dance. There’s something here for every kind of listener – the groover, the dreamer, and the deep digger.
We open with “Maalgaadi 54” – a relentless disco heater drenched in ’70s glam, trippy layers, and hands-in-the-air energy.
Next comes “Cosmic Dirt” – dusty, mysterious, and dripping with attitude. Think desert synths, dark disco grooves, and a mood straight out of an Indian spaghetti western.
Closing the record is “Beauty Blues” – a dubby slow-burner that gently builds before locking into a bouncing, blissed-out groove. A cheeky take on a classic that’ll leave you smiling from start to finish.Those who dig a little deeper into the wax will uncover a secret locked groove Visually, the record is a stunner. The artwork is helmed by Soju Aduckathil, with creative direction by Manoj Kurian, the visionary behind Masala Movement.
Marking the sixth release on the Masala Movement label, this vinyl-only beauty is just the beginning – with plenty more surprises lined up for 2025.
The new era has arrived. Ready to dive in?
ABOUT THE ARTIST’S NAME
Todh Teri (noun)
Origin : Hindi/Urdu
(to-rh tey-ri)
________________________________________
todh: break
teri: yours
“If said aggressively, it can imply “I’ll break you”.
Although in this case, I’m only breaking tunes!” - Todh Teri (2019).
DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to other persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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A1 Maalgaadi 54 12.12
B1 Cosmic Dirt 04:44
B2 Beauty Blues 07:17
Short Info:
Todh Teri is back with a brand-new chapter.
The Return of Neela Devi kicks off a vinyl-only series where the iconic characters from Deep In India finally take center stage. With the Sampadan era behind us, a bold new sound is rising.
Leading the way is Neela Devi herself, across three genre-spanning tracks that cover everything from vintage disco to spaced-out synths and slow-burning indie dance. There’s something here for every kind of listener – the groover, the dreamer, and the deep digger.
We open with “Maalgaadi 54” – a relentless disco heater drenched in ’70s glam, trippy layers, and hands-in-the-air energy.
Next comes “Cosmic Dirt” – dusty, mysterious, and dripping with attitude. Think desert synths, dark disco grooves, and a mood straight out of an Indian spaghetti western.
Closing the record is “Beauty Blues” – a dubby slow-burner that gently builds before locking into a bouncing, blissed-out groove. A cheeky take on a classic that’ll leave you smiling from start to finish.Those who dig a little deeper into the wax will uncover a secret locked groove Visually, the record is a stunner. The artwork is helmed by Soju Aduckathil, with creative direction by Manoj Kurian, the visionary behind Masala Movement.
Marking the sixth release on the Masala Movement label, this vinyl-only beauty is just the beginning – with plenty more surprises lined up for 2025.
The new era has arrived. Ready to dive in?
ABOUT THE ARTIST’S NAME
Todh Teri (noun)
Origin : Hindi/Urdu
(to-rh tey-ri)
________________________________________
todh: break
teri: yours
“If said aggressively, it can imply “I’ll break you”.
Although in this case, I’m only breaking tunes!” - Todh Teri (2019).
DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to other persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Kregoo - Sensor (feat. Jairus Sharif, Daniele Patton)
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Kregoo - Labi Inside
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Kregoo - Obabi
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Kregoo - Taylor Bottle
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Kregoo - Labi Inside (Glib’R Remix)
Territories: World
Tracklist:
A1 / Sensor (feat. Jairus Sharif, Daniele Patton)
A2 / Labi Inside
A3 / Obabi
B1 / Taylor Bottle
B2 / Labi Inside (Glib’R Remix)
Info
Oath’s latest release features renowned producer Kreggo, founder of Art-Aud and Secret Rave, known for his genre-defying sound and deeply atmospheric productions. Active since 2014, Kreggo’s music spans IDM, Acid, Breaks, Bass, and Techno, continually evolving with each release. His label Art-Aud is celebrated for its forward-thinking output. His new EP ‘Altro Mood’ includes three original tracks and a remix by Gilb’R, blending energetic rhythms with rich, emotive layers. Tracks like ‘Sensor’, ‘Labi Inside’, and ‘Obabi’ explore intricate sonic textures, while ‘Taylor Bottle’ and Gilb’R’s remix add further depth. The EP showcases Kreggo’s signature warmth, innovation, and ever-expanding sonic world.
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Tracklist:
A1 / Sensor (feat. Jairus Sharif, Daniele Patton)
A2 / Labi Inside
A3 / Obabi
B1 / Taylor Bottle
B2 / Labi Inside (Glib’R Remix)
Info
Oath’s latest release features renowned producer Kreggo, founder of Art-Aud and Secret Rave, known for his genre-defying sound and deeply atmospheric productions. Active since 2014, Kreggo’s music spans IDM, Acid, Breaks, Bass, and Techno, continually evolving with each release. His label Art-Aud is celebrated for its forward-thinking output. His new EP ‘Altro Mood’ includes three original tracks and a remix by Gilb’R, blending energetic rhythms with rich, emotive layers. Tracks like ‘Sensor’, ‘Labi Inside’, and ‘Obabi’ explore intricate sonic textures, while ‘Taylor Bottle’ and Gilb’R’s remix add further depth. The EP showcases Kreggo’s signature warmth, innovation, and ever-expanding sonic world.
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Label:Scissor And Thread
Cat-No:satltd007
Release-Date:22.08.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
Label:Scissor And Thread
Cat-No:satltd007
Release-Date:22.08.2025
Genre:Deephouse
Configuration:12" Excl
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fka boursin - Listless Intertext
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fka boursin - Listless Intertext (Frank & Tony's Housebeat Dub)
FORMAT: 12”
GENRE/S: House, Deep House
TRACKLIST:
A. Listless Intertext
B. Listless Intertext (Frank & Tony's Housebeat Dub)
SHORT INFO:
fka boursin is a DJ and producer out of Bristol, UK.
Previously known as DJ Boursin, he is recognized for his deep, ambient-infused house music that explores political dimensions of clubs and identity politics.
Welcomed into the Scissor & Thread fold, fka boursin shares two cuts of deep and introspective
electronic music.
The original Listless Intertext is a hazy trip through ambient soundscapes, shuffling rhythms and half-caught conversations, drifting across a 12 minute run time that slowly evolves and shifts with time.
"Listless Intertext is a track centred around the "failed" employment of cheap vocoder software that attempted to process explicit words and phrases across 11 minutes." says fka boursin. "Instead, the vocoder output made any words indecipherable and I was left with thematic vagueness. The final text of the track is simply a submission to its own limitations with some french thrown in."
When label bosses Frank & Tony step up for their Housebeat Dub, they keep the essential mood but introduce a thick, fat groove that works just as well in conveying the mood.
"Our remix is a strictly dancefloor approach," says Frank, "an extended psychedelic beat rework perfect for late night, early morning vibes".
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GENRE/S: House, Deep House
TRACKLIST:
A. Listless Intertext
B. Listless Intertext (Frank & Tony's Housebeat Dub)
SHORT INFO:
fka boursin is a DJ and producer out of Bristol, UK.
Previously known as DJ Boursin, he is recognized for his deep, ambient-infused house music that explores political dimensions of clubs and identity politics.
Welcomed into the Scissor & Thread fold, fka boursin shares two cuts of deep and introspective
electronic music.
The original Listless Intertext is a hazy trip through ambient soundscapes, shuffling rhythms and half-caught conversations, drifting across a 12 minute run time that slowly evolves and shifts with time.
"Listless Intertext is a track centred around the "failed" employment of cheap vocoder software that attempted to process explicit words and phrases across 11 minutes." says fka boursin. "Instead, the vocoder output made any words indecipherable and I was left with thematic vagueness. The final text of the track is simply a submission to its own limitations with some french thrown in."
When label bosses Frank & Tony step up for their Housebeat Dub, they keep the essential mood but introduce a thick, fat groove that works just as well in conveying the mood.
"Our remix is a strictly dancefloor approach," says Frank, "an extended psychedelic beat rework perfect for late night, early morning vibes".
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Luca Lozano & DJ Steve - Closed Circuit 05:48
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Luca Lozano & DJ Steve - Closed Circuit - Roman Flügel Remix 06:04
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Luca Lozano & DJ Steve - Time 06:31
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Luca Lozano & DJ Steve - Love/Hate 06:20
Tracklist:
A1. Closed Circuit 05:48
A2. Closed Circuit - Roman Flügel Remix 06:04
B1. Time 06:31
B2. Love/Hate 06:20
Once upon a car park.
In the mid-90s, DJ Steve and Luca Lozano bonded over Mobb Deep, Droors, and the finer points of frontside flips. Soundtracked by skate videos and boombox freestyles, those formative years were more about asphalt than machines.
Time moved on. Steve found his way to stages from Sheffield to Sonar as half of an electro duo; Luca chased underground frequencies from London to Berlin. Life zigzagged. Contact faded.
Fast forward a couple of decades and a random reconnection just before lockdown sparked version 2.0 of their friendship—and a new chapter of collaboration. What started as nostalgia turned into studio marathons and shared sonic visions. The result: Closed Circuit.
This is the sound of two old friends channeling 20-year loops—where electro meets B-boy attitude, house nods to early Warp, and vocoders clash with vintage drum machines. Think sun-bleached jeans, fuzzed-out tape hiss, and that pre-internet rush of discovery.
To top it off, Running Back’s own Roman Flügel contributes a sharp remix flip, and the sleeve features archival photos taken by Lozano during his early London days (2002–2005)—moments frozen in grain and sweat from some of the city’s first DIY parties.
Friendship. Frequencies. Full circle.
Closed Circuit.
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A1. Closed Circuit 05:48
A2. Closed Circuit - Roman Flügel Remix 06:04
B1. Time 06:31
B2. Love/Hate 06:20
Once upon a car park.
In the mid-90s, DJ Steve and Luca Lozano bonded over Mobb Deep, Droors, and the finer points of frontside flips. Soundtracked by skate videos and boombox freestyles, those formative years were more about asphalt than machines.
Time moved on. Steve found his way to stages from Sheffield to Sonar as half of an electro duo; Luca chased underground frequencies from London to Berlin. Life zigzagged. Contact faded.
Fast forward a couple of decades and a random reconnection just before lockdown sparked version 2.0 of their friendship—and a new chapter of collaboration. What started as nostalgia turned into studio marathons and shared sonic visions. The result: Closed Circuit.
This is the sound of two old friends channeling 20-year loops—where electro meets B-boy attitude, house nods to early Warp, and vocoders clash with vintage drum machines. Think sun-bleached jeans, fuzzed-out tape hiss, and that pre-internet rush of discovery.
To top it off, Running Back’s own Roman Flügel contributes a sharp remix flip, and the sleeve features archival photos taken by Lozano during his early London days (2002–2005)—moments frozen in grain and sweat from some of the city’s first DIY parties.
Friendship. Frequencies. Full circle.
Closed Circuit.
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a pair of 2 cocoon slipmats black with neon orange print print (pair!)
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Unknown Artist - Yagmur Yagdi Kac
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Unknown Artist - Adana Ücayak
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Unknown Artist - Sis Kebabi
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Unknown Artist - Hint Geceleri
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Unknown Artist - Cilli
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Unknown Artist - Kalaycilar
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Unknown Artist - Fesuphanallah
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Unknown Artist - Zühtü
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Unknown Artist - Harmandali
Vinyl Only Release lim. to 500 copies worldwide!
There are mysterious records. Records hiding and showing something at the same time. This is one of them. It is made from two records that were most probably released in the mid-1970s, most probably primarily by Turkish Roma.
It brings together what Anadolu pop music lovers always dream of: Anatolian geleneksel (traditional folk tunes), disco and funk, jazz and hard rock, psychedelic sounds, hard-hitting drums, Arabesk percussion, and hip-hop friendly breaks. Put together in a careful, smooth production with a warm, relaxed and dance-friendly vibe.
Here you get it: Roma-nized instrumental Turkish pop music in all its facets of the 1970s.
Track Titles:
A1 Yagmur Yagdi Kac
A2 Adana Ücayak
B1 Sis Kebabi
B2 Hint Geceleri
C1 Cilli
C2 Kalaycilar
D1 Fesuphanallah
D2 Zühtü
D3 Harmandali
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There are mysterious records. Records hiding and showing something at the same time. This is one of them. It is made from two records that were most probably released in the mid-1970s, most probably primarily by Turkish Roma.
It brings together what Anadolu pop music lovers always dream of: Anatolian geleneksel (traditional folk tunes), disco and funk, jazz and hard rock, psychedelic sounds, hard-hitting drums, Arabesk percussion, and hip-hop friendly breaks. Put together in a careful, smooth production with a warm, relaxed and dance-friendly vibe.
Here you get it: Roma-nized instrumental Turkish pop music in all its facets of the 1970s.
Track Titles:
A1 Yagmur Yagdi Kac
A2 Adana Ücayak
B1 Sis Kebabi
B2 Hint Geceleri
C1 Cilli
C2 Kalaycilar
D1 Fesuphanallah
D2 Zühtü
D3 Harmandali
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Label:London Records
Cat-No:LMS1725439
Release-Date:11.07.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:CD Excl
Label:London Records
Cat-No:LMS1725439
Release-Date:11.07.2025
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:CD Excl
Rights: World excluding FR & UK
Packaging: 1 x CD, 6 page digisleeve 4/4 UV matt finish with spot UV gloss , 1 wallet,marketing sticker
SHORT INFOS / KEY POINTS
- Following on from the success of the 2024 editions of The Age of Consent and the incredible viral activity for 'Smalltown Boy', London Records follow up with Forbidden Fruit - a remix compendium to The Age of Consent. Similarly to 1995's Hundreds and Thousands album, The Age of Consent has been re-interpolated to create a new remix album - traversing Hi-NRG, House, Italo Disco and more - while working together as a cohesive listening experience.
- The LP : 7 tracks for the first time on Vinyl ! features five re-workings specifically commissioned for this project, alongside mixes by Superchumbo and The Knocks appearing on vinyl for the very first time.
- The CD : 11 tracks, 9 for the first time on CD , additional 4 tracks exclusive to the CD version, and longer extended versions of the newly commissioned mixes.
TRACKLIST
CD
1. WHY? (SUPERCHUMBO SUPER EXTENDED MIX FT. NEIL TENNANT) 8'18" +
2. SMALLTOWN BOY (BRONSKI BEAT & THE KNOCKS FT. PERFUME GENIUS - EXTENDED MIX) 6'44" +
3. JUNK (AN ELECTROGENETIC EXTENDED REMIX BY GARETH JONES) 7'39" * +
4. LOVE AND MONEY (RSF METROPOL ITALO EXTENDED REMIX) 6'02" * +
5. NEED A MAN BLUES (RSF METROPOL NRG EXTENDED REMIX) TBC est 6'50" * +
6. I FEEL LOVE / LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (ULTRAMIX) 15'48" * +
7. JOHNNIE REMEMBER ME (A JAZZ AFFAIR) 2'40" * +
8. NO MORE WAR (EXTENDED REMIX) 7'03" * +
9. SMALLTOWN BOY (PLANNINGTOROCK'S 'THE LOVE THAT YOU NEED' REWORK) 4'08
10. I FEEL LOVE (PROMO DUB MIX) 8'57"
11. SCREAMING (STRIPPED MIX) 3'00 * +
+ 9 tracks for the first time on CD
* 7 tracks previously unreleased
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Packaging: 1 x CD, 6 page digisleeve 4/4 UV matt finish with spot UV gloss , 1 wallet,marketing sticker
SHORT INFOS / KEY POINTS
- Following on from the success of the 2024 editions of The Age of Consent and the incredible viral activity for 'Smalltown Boy', London Records follow up with Forbidden Fruit - a remix compendium to The Age of Consent. Similarly to 1995's Hundreds and Thousands album, The Age of Consent has been re-interpolated to create a new remix album - traversing Hi-NRG, House, Italo Disco and more - while working together as a cohesive listening experience.
- The LP : 7 tracks for the first time on Vinyl ! features five re-workings specifically commissioned for this project, alongside mixes by Superchumbo and The Knocks appearing on vinyl for the very first time.
- The CD : 11 tracks, 9 for the first time on CD , additional 4 tracks exclusive to the CD version, and longer extended versions of the newly commissioned mixes.
TRACKLIST
CD
1. WHY? (SUPERCHUMBO SUPER EXTENDED MIX FT. NEIL TENNANT) 8'18" +
2. SMALLTOWN BOY (BRONSKI BEAT & THE KNOCKS FT. PERFUME GENIUS - EXTENDED MIX) 6'44" +
3. JUNK (AN ELECTROGENETIC EXTENDED REMIX BY GARETH JONES) 7'39" * +
4. LOVE AND MONEY (RSF METROPOL ITALO EXTENDED REMIX) 6'02" * +
5. NEED A MAN BLUES (RSF METROPOL NRG EXTENDED REMIX) TBC est 6'50" * +
6. I FEEL LOVE / LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (ULTRAMIX) 15'48" * +
7. JOHNNIE REMEMBER ME (A JAZZ AFFAIR) 2'40" * +
8. NO MORE WAR (EXTENDED REMIX) 7'03" * +
9. SMALLTOWN BOY (PLANNINGTOROCK'S 'THE LOVE THAT YOU NEED' REWORK) 4'08
10. I FEEL LOVE (PROMO DUB MIX) 8'57"
11. SCREAMING (STRIPPED MIX) 3'00 * +
+ 9 tracks for the first time on CD
* 7 tracks previously unreleased
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Clint - Bliss Science
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Aldonna - Pisa 97
3
Sam Goku - Walking Drums
4
Rosa Red - Rhapsody (Known Artist Remix)
5
Third Son & Baldo - This Is Your Brain On Music
Tracklist
a1 Clint - Bliss Science
a2 Aldonna - Pisa 97
b1 Sam Goku - Walking Drums
b2 Rosa Red – Rhapsody (Known Artist Remix)
b3 Third Son & Baldo - This Is Your Brain On Music
Short Info
This is a 5 track vinyl sampler taken from the new Permanent Vacation Selected Label Works 11
compilation.
Vinyl comes in transparent green, in a rose colour sleeve.
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a1 Clint - Bliss Science
a2 Aldonna - Pisa 97
b1 Sam Goku - Walking Drums
b2 Rosa Red – Rhapsody (Known Artist Remix)
b3 Third Son & Baldo - This Is Your Brain On Music
Short Info
This is a 5 track vinyl sampler taken from the new Permanent Vacation Selected Label Works 11
compilation.
Vinyl comes in transparent green, in a rose colour sleeve.
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