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Jennifer Vanilla - Jennifer Pastoral (Love Injection's Earthly Mix)
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Jennifer Vanilla - Jennifer Pastoral (Love Injection's Celestial Mix)
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TIP!
New York City's Jennifer Vanilla, aka Jennifer Vanilla and Brian Abelson, offered a portal into a colourful world of innovative electronic sound with their 2022 debut album ‘Castle In The Sky’, traversing new wave, post- punk, art pop, and experimental R&B. Now Love Injection, the multi-faceted brainchild of Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele comprising a print magazine, radio show, record label, and production duo breathe new life into one of the album’s standout tracks ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ on home turf, in the form of a 12” single alongside two ethereal mixes featuring maestros Dave Darlington on mixing duties and Francois Kevorkian as mastering engineer.
Love Injection's Earthly Mix of ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ is a sublime seven-minute deep house odyssey with neon keys from ‘Conclave’ frontman and close friend Toribio and a sprinkling of organic percussion that harks back to the likes of François K and Pal Joey but with Vanilla's sensuous vocals soaring up top. The duo’s Celestial Mix of ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ is more of a late-night lullaby - a soothing comedown with widescreen pads and layers of percussion that bubble along on expansive synths. The original version of 'Jennifer Pastoral' is a freewheeling electronic rhythm reminiscent of Will Powers with robust drums but funky riffs, lavish pop vocals and cosmic warmth.
A standout package of love-filled and future-facing electronic sound, Jennifer Vanilla ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ drops via Love Injection Records on 15th March 2024.
Fader's Songs You Need In Your Life, Radio support by Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (Balearic Breakfast), Bill Brewster.
"They pair things back and take their time to the emotions really build before locking into a rhythmic ambient groove that feels calming, hypnotic and dreamy in equal measure." – Martyn Pepperell, Test Pressing
"An overall exquisite, deep, spiritual house release, with an unusually soft and dubbed-out palette, reminiscent of the deeper ends of Y2K broken beat and wild, long-form nocturnal galas a-la Joaquin Claussell." – Juno Records
"I offing love the Jennifer vanilla remix you did. Not sure if I told you already!!" – Gilles Peterson
"430am hands up eyes closed business yessss let's goo" – Mario Cotto
"Beautiful release, especially the Celestial Mix which shines like a star!" – Jimpster
"Beautiful music" – Timo Maas
"Heavenly Jamz" – Hugo Capablanca
"Got that Epic vibe!" – Kai Alce
"Love injection Earthly mix is stellar" – Chateau Flight
"Dope!!!" – Fred P.
"I love the earthly mix!" – Yu Su
"Lovely tune and a nice deep brew - can imagine this sounding amazingly uplifting on the dancefloor." – Marco Weibel (Darker Than Wax)
"Very nice, thanks." – DJ Bone
"The Earthly Mix is beautiful ! Thank you !" – Peter Kruder
"Very nice release!" – DJ Deep
"Feelin the Celestial mix !" – Radio Slave
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New York City's Jennifer Vanilla, aka Jennifer Vanilla and Brian Abelson, offered a portal into a colourful world of innovative electronic sound with their 2022 debut album ‘Castle In The Sky’, traversing new wave, post- punk, art pop, and experimental R&B. Now Love Injection, the multi-faceted brainchild of Barbie Bertisch and Paul Raffaele comprising a print magazine, radio show, record label, and production duo breathe new life into one of the album’s standout tracks ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ on home turf, in the form of a 12” single alongside two ethereal mixes featuring maestros Dave Darlington on mixing duties and Francois Kevorkian as mastering engineer.
Love Injection's Earthly Mix of ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ is a sublime seven-minute deep house odyssey with neon keys from ‘Conclave’ frontman and close friend Toribio and a sprinkling of organic percussion that harks back to the likes of François K and Pal Joey but with Vanilla's sensuous vocals soaring up top. The duo’s Celestial Mix of ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ is more of a late-night lullaby - a soothing comedown with widescreen pads and layers of percussion that bubble along on expansive synths. The original version of 'Jennifer Pastoral' is a freewheeling electronic rhythm reminiscent of Will Powers with robust drums but funky riffs, lavish pop vocals and cosmic warmth.
A standout package of love-filled and future-facing electronic sound, Jennifer Vanilla ‘Jennifer Pastoral’ drops via Love Injection Records on 15th March 2024.
Fader's Songs You Need In Your Life, Radio support by Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (Balearic Breakfast), Bill Brewster.
"They pair things back and take their time to the emotions really build before locking into a rhythmic ambient groove that feels calming, hypnotic and dreamy in equal measure." – Martyn Pepperell, Test Pressing
"An overall exquisite, deep, spiritual house release, with an unusually soft and dubbed-out palette, reminiscent of the deeper ends of Y2K broken beat and wild, long-form nocturnal galas a-la Joaquin Claussell." – Juno Records
"I offing love the Jennifer vanilla remix you did. Not sure if I told you already!!" – Gilles Peterson
"430am hands up eyes closed business yessss let's goo" – Mario Cotto
"Beautiful release, especially the Celestial Mix which shines like a star!" – Jimpster
"Beautiful music" – Timo Maas
"Heavenly Jamz" – Hugo Capablanca
"Got that Epic vibe!" – Kai Alce
"Love injection Earthly mix is stellar" – Chateau Flight
"Dope!!!" – Fred P.
"I love the earthly mix!" – Yu Su
"Lovely tune and a nice deep brew - can imagine this sounding amazingly uplifting on the dancefloor." – Marco Weibel (Darker Than Wax)
"Very nice, thanks." – DJ Bone
"The Earthly Mix is beautiful ! Thank you !" – Peter Kruder
"Very nice release!" – DJ Deep
"Feelin the Celestial mix !" – Radio Slave
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The project is the brainchild of Swiss keyboardist and producer Mathias Liengme. In 2013, he travelled to Kingston, Jamaica, to produce The Inspirators project, an all-star album gathering Leroy ”Horse-mouth” Wallace, Lloyd Parks, Earl ”Chinna” Smith and Sangie Davis, the four of them acting both as musicians and vocalists. This first experience in Kingston studio life paved the way to what would become the Roots Architects project. In February and March 2017 Mathias Liengme travelled for the fifth time to Kingston to record as many of reggae’s greatest living veteran musicians as he could. With the help of a few of these Architects like Robbie Lyn, Fil Callender or Dalton Browne, he managed to gather over 50 session musicians aged 60 to 85 on nine instrumental songs.
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Label:Field Records
Cat-No:FIELD34
Release-Date:12.04.2024
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
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Label:Field Records
Cat-No:FIELD34
Release-Date:12.04.2024
Genre:Electronic, Electronica
Configuration:3LP
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Charting the course of Parker’s career reads like the evolution of deep techno itself - moving from early collaborations with Donato Dozzy to appearances on seminal labels such as Prologue, Semantica and Spazio Disponibile. The essence of his approach was forged early on, honing techno’s propulsion into a raw essence without losing any of the weight. It’s an exercise in minimalism, but the sound is still monolithic and engulfing, crystal clear in its intention and devoted to the power of subtle pressure. When the decay on a reverb opens up a fraction, Parker’s music leaves enough space for you to notice. Incremental shifts become monumental in his hands and his commitment to subliminal layering reveals hidden depths the further you submit to his hypnotic sound.
This definitive edition of Dispatches looks at the vinyl singles which accompanied the album’s original release and creates a more complete picture of the area that Parker was exploring at the time. It’s the first time that the alternate take of icy depth charge ‘Copper Variations: CV1’ appears on wax, as goes for the pneumatic tension of ‘Reduction’ and evocative miniature sound sculpture ‘Blue Equals Black’. Expanding the album beyond its original CD form, epic rarity ‘Dissolution 99’ presides over the final side, while the standout Voiceprint release is now represented in full with the inclusion of heavyweight stepped techno workout ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’.
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- Claude VonStroke/Barclay Crenshaw regularly tours and plays shows across the country
- This is the first time since the original release that the album is back in print
- Resale value on Discogs is going for over $400 on average, with over 200 people including it in their wantlist
- Pressed on White In Tan Color In Color Vinyl with White Splatter
Tracklist:
A1/1. Sleepy Kids
A2/2. Hidden Harmonics (feat. Aviella)
A3/3. The Real X Files (feat. Lady Chann)
B1/4. Artifacts (feat. The Underachievers)
B2/5. The Gene Sequence
C1/6. Respect The Source
C2/7. I'm Up Here
C3/8. U Are In My System (feat. The Cool Kids)
D1/9, Fatal Error
D2/10. My Dog Knows The Truth (feat. Mr. Carmack)
Socials:
Barclay Crenshaw
IG: 39k followers
FB: 61k followers
YT: 4.87k subs / 363k views
Claude VonStroke
Twitter: 113k followers
IG: 179k followers
FB: 293k followers
YT: 58k subs / 15M views
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: gpsr@wordandsound.netMore
Channeling a love affair with classic '90s hip-hop, an affinity for otherworldly themes and an ear for raw funk, Barclay Crenshaw uses his given birth name to bare his soul and deliver a slowed-down, emotive collection of collaborations and instrumentals. This self-titled debut album is a left-field departure from his better-known alias, Claude VonStroke, but the quality is undeniably the same. The themes of ancient alien abductions and exploration of time and space are discovered and brought to life over ten tracks that sound like a mixture of gold rope chains and new age enlightenment. Modern organic beats mixed with gorgeous melodic moments and underlying grittiness create an experience that is eclectic, expressive and expansive. Coded art furthers the sense of mystery and the unknown, harking back to the past while gazing into the future.
Guests include a wide array of artists, from bass maestro Mr. Carmack to the U.K.'s inspired Lady Chann, Flatbush emcees The Underachievers, and even a Cool Kids reunion from Chuck Inglish & Sir Michael Rocks.
Back in print for the first time since release, and pressed on White In Tan Color In Color Vinyl with White Splatter
Key Marketing/Selling:
- The debut album from Claude VonStroke's musical alter ego, Barclay Crenshaw, which also happens to be his real name
- Barclay Crenshaw is the founder of the esteemed San Francisco underground dance label, Dirtybird
- Claude VonStroke/Barclay Crenshaw regularly tours and plays shows across the country
- This is the first time since the original release that the album is back in print
- Resale value on Discogs is going for over $400 on average, with over 200 people including it in their wantlist
- Pressed on White In Tan Color In Color Vinyl with White Splatter
Tracklist:
A1/1. Sleepy Kids
A2/2. Hidden Harmonics (feat. Aviella)
A3/3. The Real X Files (feat. Lady Chann)
B1/4. Artifacts (feat. The Underachievers)
B2/5. The Gene Sequence
C1/6. Respect The Source
C2/7. I'm Up Here
C3/8. U Are In My System (feat. The Cool Kids)
D1/9, Fatal Error
D2/10. My Dog Knows The Truth (feat. Mr. Carmack)
Socials:
Barclay Crenshaw
IG: 39k followers
FB: 61k followers
YT: 4.87k subs / 363k views
Claude VonStroke
Twitter: 113k followers
IG: 179k followers
FB: 293k followers
YT: 58k subs / 15M views
Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / safety and manufacturer info (GPSR)
WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: gpsr@wordandsound.netMore