Over the course of 2025 IARC will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 16-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos, new liner notes written by New Breed bassist / co-producer Paul Bryan, and an in-depth conversation between JP and IARC co-founder Scott McNiece), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 16-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos, new liner notes written by New Breed bassist / co-producer Paul Bryan, and an in-depth conversation between JP and IARC co-founder Scott McNiece), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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More records from International Anthem
The Oganesson Remixes EP follows the March 2025 release of “Oganesson”, which was the first new music released by Tortoise since 2016. The EP includes the original version of “Oganesson” alongside five new remixes of the track created by collaborators and friends of the band, including poet and activist Saul Williams, prolific mastering engineer Heba Kadry, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney,
indie music icons Broken Social Scene, and International Anthem labelmate
Makaya McCraven. The Oganesson Remixes EP is released ahead of a new album
by Tortoise, which will be announced and released this fall via International Anthem.
This very limited 12” record features artwork by Tortoise’s John Herndon.
Trackliste
1.1Oganesson
1.2Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix)
1.3Oganesson (Heba Kadry Remix)
1.4Oganesson (Patrick Carney Remix)
1.5Oganesson (Broken Social Scene Remix)
1.6Oganesson (Makaya McCraven Remix)
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indie music icons Broken Social Scene, and International Anthem labelmate
Makaya McCraven. The Oganesson Remixes EP is released ahead of a new album
by Tortoise, which will be announced and released this fall via International Anthem.
This very limited 12” record features artwork by Tortoise’s John Herndon.
Trackliste
1.1Oganesson
1.2Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix)
1.3Oganesson (Heba Kadry Remix)
1.4Oganesson (Patrick Carney Remix)
1.5Oganesson (Broken Social Scene Remix)
1.6Oganesson (Makaya McCraven Remix)
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Hyperglyph is the first new album in 11 years from composer/trumpeter/synthesist Rob Mazurek and composer/percussionist Chad Taylor’s long-running Chicago Underground Duo project. Mazurek and Taylor have played music together in a multitude of formations over nearly three decades, including their ongoing partnership in Mazurek’s large-format-skyward-expressionism vehicle Exploding Star Orchestra, in the expanded Chicago Underground Trio, Quartet and Orchestra (all with guitarist Jeff Parker), as well as a plethora of other assemblages. The early albums by the Duo have proven to be embryonic blueprints for the avant-jazz / electronic / indie rock hybridizing of the time, making them majorly important moments in the articulation of the “jazz” dimensionality of the then-burgeoning "post rock" sound. That sound, of course, was being transmitted far and wide due to the success of these groups as well as the Mazurek/Parker project Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground’s frequently-intersecting collaborators in Tortoise. Just as most of the still-working projects born of that era have evolved, reconfigured, and grown, the Chicago Underground Duo has undergone a number of musical moltings, with the project always in the background of disparate individual aural investigations. The concurrent personal evolutions of Mazurek and Taylor as the Duo project drops off and picks back up makes it a true reflection of their own lives and friendship. Available Friday August 15th, 2025.
Track listing
1 Click Song
2 Hyperglyph
3 Rhythm Cloth
4 Contents of Your Heavenly Body
5 The Gathering
6 Plymouth
7 Hemiunu
8 Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect
9 Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light
10 Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time
11 Succulent Amber
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Track listing
1 Click Song
2 Hyperglyph
3 Rhythm Cloth
4 Contents of Your Heavenly Body
5 The Gathering
6 Plymouth
7 Hemiunu
8 Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect
9 Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light
10 Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time
11 Succulent Amber
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Hyperglyph is the first new album in 11 years from composer/trumpeter/synthesist Rob Mazurek and composer/percussionist Chad Taylor’s long-running Chicago Underground Duo project. Mazurek and Taylor have played music together in a multitude of formations over nearly three decades, including their ongoing partnership in Mazurek’s large-format-skyward-expressionism vehicle Exploding Star Orchestra, in the expanded Chicago Underground Trio, Quartet and Orchestra (all with guitarist Jeff Parker), as well as a plethora of other assemblages. The early albums by the Duo have proven to be embryonic blueprints for the avant-jazz / electronic / indie rock hybridizing of the time, making them majorly important moments in the articulation of the “jazz” dimensionality of the then-burgeoning "post rock" sound. That sound, of course, was being transmitted far and wide due to the success of these groups as well as the Mazurek/Parker project Isotope 217, and the Chicago Underground’s frequently-intersecting collaborators in Tortoise. Just as most of the still-working projects born of that era have evolved, reconfigured, and grown, the Chicago Underground Duo has undergone a number of musical moltings, with the project always in the background of disparate individual aural investigations. The concurrent personal evolutions of Mazurek and Taylor as the Duo project drops off and picks back up makes it a true reflection of their own lives and friendship. Available Friday August 15th, 2025.
Track listing
1 Click Song
2 Hyperglyph
3 Rhythm Cloth
4 Contents of Your Heavenly Body
5 The Gathering
6 Plymouth
7 Hemiunu
8 Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect
9 Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light
10 Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time
11 Succulent Amber
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Track listing
1 Click Song
2 Hyperglyph
3 Rhythm Cloth
4 Contents of Your Heavenly Body
5 The Gathering
6 Plymouth
7 Hemiunu
8 Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect
9 Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light
10 Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time
11 Succulent Amber
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Black 140g 2xLP, in a heavyweight UV-Gloss jacket, with 12"x12" insert booklet, with IA OBI Strip & printed inner sleeves.
Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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Over the course of 2025 IARC will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 8-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos and new liner notes written by IE bassist Luke Stewart), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with new lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 8-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos and new liner notes written by IE bassist Luke Stewart), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with new lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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Over the course of 2025 IARC will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 8-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos and new liner notes written by IE bassist Luke Stewart), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with new lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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Classic Black 140g LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with 8-page insert booklet (new for IA11, with additional photos and new liner notes written by IE bassist Luke Stewart), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined printed innersleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with new lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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Different Rooms is the sophomore album by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. The followup to their critically acclaimed Recordings from the Åland Islands, this collection extends the path of pastiche forged by their debut: quietly multi-rhythmic, modular-trance-meets-processed-and-unprocessed-chamber strings, bewitching and bewildering field recordings—all knitted tightly, an LA patchwork.
Tracklist
1.1Mean Solar Time
1.2Long and Short Delays
1.3Side by Side
1.4One of Eight
1.5Before and After Signs
1.6Different Rooms
1.7Speaking in Parallel
1.8Side by Side (reflected)
1.9Mind by a Way
1.10Mean Solar Time (reflected)
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Tracklist
1.1Mean Solar Time
1.2Long and Short Delays
1.3Side by Side
1.4One of Eight
1.5Before and After Signs
1.6Different Rooms
1.7Speaking in Parallel
1.8Side by Side (reflected)
1.9Mind by a Way
1.10Mean Solar Time (reflected)
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'Battiato Brick' (Red)
Different Rooms is the sophomore album by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. The followup to their critically acclaimed Recordings from the Åland Islands, this collection extends the path of pastiche forged by their debut: quietly multi-rhythmic, modular-trance-meets-processed-and-unprocessed-chamber strings, bewitching and bewildering field recordings—all knitted tightly, an LA patchwork.
Tracklist
1.1Mean Solar Time
1.2Long and Short Delays
1.3Side by Side
1.4One of Eight
1.5Before and After Signs
1.6Different Rooms
1.7Speaking in Parallel
1.8Side by Side (reflected)
1.9Mind by a Way
1.10Mean Solar Time (reflected)
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Different Rooms is the sophomore album by Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer. The followup to their critically acclaimed Recordings from the Åland Islands, this collection extends the path of pastiche forged by their debut: quietly multi-rhythmic, modular-trance-meets-processed-and-unprocessed-chamber strings, bewitching and bewildering field recordings—all knitted tightly, an LA patchwork.
Tracklist
1.1Mean Solar Time
1.2Long and Short Delays
1.3Side by Side
1.4One of Eight
1.5Before and After Signs
1.6Different Rooms
1.7Speaking in Parallel
1.8Side by Side (reflected)
1.9Mind by a Way
1.10Mean Solar Time (reflected)
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Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay.
Gay's de facto debut album—the 2018 compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun—properly introduced him to the world by placing fifteen stylistically diverse tracks from seven then-unreleased albums next to one another. The release of his critically-acclaimed 2021 song cycle Open Arms To Open Us followed, and then the explosive free-electronics of 2022’s Certain Reveries. In addition to being featured on a staggering number of International Anthem releases (including albums by Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly), Gay is one of the most prolific collaborators in creative music today, making active contributions to Mike Reed’s Separatist Party, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas, Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, and many more.
A uniting factor in Gay's deep, multi-faceted discography is a never-ending commitment to taking the stories of the past and pushing them outward, filtered through a sense of self, to keep that information moving. Information moves through Yowzers via the intuitive physicality of Gay’s creative polyrhythmic constructions, as he covertly delivers familiar folk melodies. “It’s the most natural thing,” says Gay. “That’s how the world is. There are overlapping rhythms all around us, and so it reminds you of the reality of the world when you hear them. It’s a loop and the loop is always changing.”
Yowzers features Gay's working quartet with Tommaso Moretti (drums, percussion, voice), Matthew Davis (tuba, piano, bells, voice), and Will Faber (guitar, ngoni, bells, voice), as well as guest instrumentalist Rob Frye and a mini-choir comprising vocalists Ayanna Woods, Tramaine Parker, and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu. The album recalls the high-minded freedom of Liberation Music Orchestra, the glitched-out electronic webs of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the unbridled rhythms and sandpaper bellows of Bukka White, and the harmolodic cartoon glory of Arthur Blythe’s Illusions. It’s all there, filtered through an improvisational approach and a lifetime of secrets embodied. For a man who has inhabited and traveled these continents so extensively, it’s safe to call this work true “Americana,” despite what that word might mean to the average person in the United States.
https://listen.k7.com/ff1c4674-9e23-4e01-b7e8-7e1c631f4a18
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Gay's de facto debut album—the 2018 compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun—properly introduced him to the world by placing fifteen stylistically diverse tracks from seven then-unreleased albums next to one another. The release of his critically-acclaimed 2021 song cycle Open Arms To Open Us followed, and then the explosive free-electronics of 2022’s Certain Reveries. In addition to being featured on a staggering number of International Anthem releases (including albums by Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly), Gay is one of the most prolific collaborators in creative music today, making active contributions to Mike Reed’s Separatist Party, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas, Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, and many more.
A uniting factor in Gay's deep, multi-faceted discography is a never-ending commitment to taking the stories of the past and pushing them outward, filtered through a sense of self, to keep that information moving. Information moves through Yowzers via the intuitive physicality of Gay’s creative polyrhythmic constructions, as he covertly delivers familiar folk melodies. “It’s the most natural thing,” says Gay. “That’s how the world is. There are overlapping rhythms all around us, and so it reminds you of the reality of the world when you hear them. It’s a loop and the loop is always changing.”
Yowzers features Gay's working quartet with Tommaso Moretti (drums, percussion, voice), Matthew Davis (tuba, piano, bells, voice), and Will Faber (guitar, ngoni, bells, voice), as well as guest instrumentalist Rob Frye and a mini-choir comprising vocalists Ayanna Woods, Tramaine Parker, and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu. The album recalls the high-minded freedom of Liberation Music Orchestra, the glitched-out electronic webs of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the unbridled rhythms and sandpaper bellows of Bukka White, and the harmolodic cartoon glory of Arthur Blythe’s Illusions. It’s all there, filtered through an improvisational approach and a lifetime of secrets embodied. For a man who has inhabited and traveled these continents so extensively, it’s safe to call this work true “Americana,” despite what that word might mean to the average person in the United States.
https://listen.k7.com/ff1c4674-9e23-4e01-b7e8-7e1c631f4a18
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Yowzers is a new album by Chicago composer, improvisor, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay.
Gay's de facto debut album—the 2018 compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun—properly introduced him to the world by placing fifteen stylistically diverse tracks from seven then-unreleased albums next to one another. The release of his critically-acclaimed 2021 song cycle Open Arms To Open Us followed, and then the explosive free-electronics of 2022’s Certain Reveries. In addition to being featured on a staggering number of International Anthem releases (including albums by Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly), Gay is one of the most prolific collaborators in creative music today, making active contributions to Mike Reed’s Separatist Party, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas, Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, and many more.
A uniting factor in Gay's deep, multi-faceted discography is a never-ending commitment to taking the stories of the past and pushing them outward, filtered through a sense of self, to keep that information moving. Information moves through Yowzers via the intuitive physicality of Gay’s creative polyrhythmic constructions, as he covertly delivers familiar folk melodies. “It’s the most natural thing,” says Gay. “That’s how the world is. There are overlapping rhythms all around us, and so it reminds you of the reality of the world when you hear them. It’s a loop and the loop is always changing.”
Yowzers features Gay's working quartet with Tommaso Moretti (drums, percussion, voice), Matthew Davis (tuba, piano, bells, voice), and Will Faber (guitar, ngoni, bells, voice), as well as guest instrumentalist Rob Frye and a mini-choir comprising vocalists Ayanna Woods, Tramaine Parker, and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu. The album recalls the high-minded freedom of Liberation Music Orchestra, the glitched-out electronic webs of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the unbridled rhythms and sandpaper bellows of Bukka White, and the harmolodic cartoon glory of Arthur Blythe’s Illusions. It’s all there, filtered through an improvisational approach and a lifetime of secrets embodied. For a man who has inhabited and traveled these continents so extensively, it’s safe to call this work true “Americana,” despite what that word might mean to the average person in the United States.
https://listen.k7.com/ff1c4674-9e23-4e01-b7e8-7e1c631f4a18
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Gay's de facto debut album—the 2018 compilation Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun—properly introduced him to the world by placing fifteen stylistically diverse tracks from seven then-unreleased albums next to one another. The release of his critically-acclaimed 2021 song cycle Open Arms To Open Us followed, and then the explosive free-electronics of 2022’s Certain Reveries. In addition to being featured on a staggering number of International Anthem releases (including albums by Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly), Gay is one of the most prolific collaborators in creative music today, making active contributions to Mike Reed’s Separatist Party, Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas, Theaster Gates’s Black Monks of Mississippi, and many more.
A uniting factor in Gay's deep, multi-faceted discography is a never-ending commitment to taking the stories of the past and pushing them outward, filtered through a sense of self, to keep that information moving. Information moves through Yowzers via the intuitive physicality of Gay’s creative polyrhythmic constructions, as he covertly delivers familiar folk melodies. “It’s the most natural thing,” says Gay. “That’s how the world is. There are overlapping rhythms all around us, and so it reminds you of the reality of the world when you hear them. It’s a loop and the loop is always changing.”
Yowzers features Gay's working quartet with Tommaso Moretti (drums, percussion, voice), Matthew Davis (tuba, piano, bells, voice), and Will Faber (guitar, ngoni, bells, voice), as well as guest instrumentalist Rob Frye and a mini-choir comprising vocalists Ayanna Woods, Tramaine Parker, and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu. The album recalls the high-minded freedom of Liberation Music Orchestra, the glitched-out electronic webs of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, the unbridled rhythms and sandpaper bellows of Bukka White, and the harmolodic cartoon glory of Arthur Blythe’s Illusions. It’s all there, filtered through an improvisational approach and a lifetime of secrets embodied. For a man who has inhabited and traveled these continents so extensively, it’s safe to call this work true “Americana,” despite what that word might mean to the average person in the United States.
https://listen.k7.com/ff1c4674-9e23-4e01-b7e8-7e1c631f4a18
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Horizon is a new collaborative album by Resavoir & Matt Gold. Across the 10 tracks the two Chicago-based producers combine their distinct sensibilities to create a hypnotic and inviting love letter to their shared admiration for ‘60s and ‘70s Brazilian music.
Tracklist
1.1Canopy
1.2Memento
1.3Dewy
1.4Zero Gravity
1.5Diversey Beach
1.6Ahhh
1.7Horizon
1.8Hazel Canyon
1.9Metropoli
1.10Tomorrow
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1.2Memento
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1.4Zero Gravity
1.5Diversey Beach
1.6Ahhh
1.7Horizon
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1.9Metropoli
1.10Tomorrow
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Horizon is a new collaborative album by Resavoir & Matt Gold. Across the 10 tracks the two Chicago-based producers combine their distinct sensibilities to create a hypnotic and inviting love letter to their shared admiration for ‘60s and ‘70s Brazilian music.
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1.9Metropoli
1.10Tomorrow
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Horizon is a new collaborative album by Resavoir & Matt Gold. Across the 10 tracks the two Chicago-based producers combine their distinct sensibilities to create a hypnotic and inviting love letter to their shared admiration for ‘60s and ‘70s Brazilian music.
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1.4Zero Gravity
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1.6Ahhh
1.7Horizon
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1.9Metropoli
1.10Tomorrow
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Record Store Day Exclusive "Frozen Lake Michigan" Color 140g 2xLP, in a heavyweight UV-Gloss jacket, with 12"x12" insert booklet, with IA OBI Strip & printed inner sleeves.
Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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2xCD in 8-panel digipak.
Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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Gilles Peterson presents International Anthem is a Deluxe Double LP compilation chronicling the infamous London-based radio host, DJ, label head, curator and cultural impresario's long-standing affinity for and interaction with artists and music from the Chicago-born record label International Anthem.
tracklist:
Side A
1) Chicago, January 13th, 2020
2) Makaya McCraven - The Jaunt
3) Junius Paul - Asé
4) Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger - The Creator Has a Master Plan
5) Resavoir - Taking Flight
6) Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates
7) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz
8) Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra - Abstract Dark Energy (Parable 9)
Side B
9) The Most Amazing Time
10) Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - Rebuild a Nation
11) Dos Santos - A Shot in the Dark
12) Daniel Villarreal - In/On
13) Anna Butterss - Pokemans
14) SML - Industry
15) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Snåcko
Side C
16) Jeff Parker - Cliche
17) Jamire Williams - And Then the Anointing Fell
18) Carlos Niño & Friends - Please, wake up.
19) Thandi Ntuli with Carlos Niño - Voice and Tongo Experiment
20) Tom Skinner - Quiet as it’s Kept
21) Ruth Goller - Next time I keep my hands down
22) Alabaster DePlume - A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Side D
23) Old Fashioned Chicago Music
24) jaimie branch - theme 001 (live)
25) Tomin - Angela’s Angel
26) Asher Gamedze - Melancholia
27) Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly - MESTIZX (Brownswood Basement Live)
28) Ben LaMar Gay - Oh Great Be The Lake
29) Charles Stepney - Step on Step
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Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles was International Anthem's first release. The incredibly spare single-note-centered cornet, bass, and organ chant was recorded to tape at pint-sized Chicago bar Curio as part of a performance series that predates any notion of the label’s existence.
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Rob Mazurek’s Alternate Moon Cycles was International Anthem's first release. The incredibly spare single-note-centered cornet, bass, and organ chant was recorded to tape at pint-sized Chicago bar Curio as part of a performance series that predates any notion of the label’s existence.
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Makaya McCraven’s International Anthem debut In The Moment is the album that properly introduced the then-burgeoning drummer/producer to the world.
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Makaya McCraven’s International Anthem debut In The Moment is the album that properly introduced the then-burgeoning drummer/producer to the world.
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Ben LaMar Gay’s de facto debut album, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun, was the attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improvisor / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from “7 albums he made over 7 years but never made the effort to actually release.”
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Ben LaMar Gay’s de facto debut album, Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun, was the attempt to introduce the legendary Chicago composer / improvisor / renaissance man to the rest of the world with a compilation of tracks from “7 albums he made over 7 years but never made the effort to actually release.”
140g Classic Black LP in heavyweight jacket, with 12x12" insert booklet, IA OBI strip & printed poly-lined inner sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany.
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Classic Black vinyl in heavyweight reverse board jacket, with photostrip insert sheet, IARC OBI and poly-lined inner sleeve
"When the Distance is Blue" is Macie Stewart"s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as "a love letter to the moments we spend in-between" - a letter realized via an intentional return to piano, her first instrument and the origin of her creative expression. Here Stewart creates a striking and cinematic work through collages of prepared piano, field recordings, and string quartet compositions, one that gives shape to a transient universe all its own while tracing the line of her musical past, full circle.
Tracklisting
1 I Forget How To Remember My Dreams (ft. Lia Kohl)
2 Tsukiji
3 Murmuration/Memorization
4 Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New
5 Stairwell (Before and After)
6 What Fills You Up Won’t Leave an Empty Cup
7 In Between
8 Disintegration
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"When the Distance is Blue" is Macie Stewart"s International Anthem debut. The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser describes the collection as "a love letter to the moments we spend in-between" - a letter realized via an intentional return to piano, her first instrument and the origin of her creative expression. Here Stewart creates a striking and cinematic work through collages of prepared piano, field recordings, and string quartet compositions, one that gives shape to a transient universe all its own while tracing the line of her musical past, full circle.
Tracklisting
1 I Forget How To Remember My Dreams (ft. Lia Kohl)
2 Tsukiji
3 Murmuration/Memorization
4 Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New
5 Stairwell (Before and After)
6 What Fills You Up Won’t Leave an Empty Cup
7 In Between
8 Disintegration
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Sabor de Amor is the fourth album from Brazilian soulman Hyldon, singer and instrumentalist, who formed, alongside Tim Maia and Cassiano, the legendary triad of Brazilian soul music in the 1970s. Sabor de Amor (Continental, 1981) is perhaps his most consistent work. On it, Hyldon is back once again by his trusted buddies Azymuth with a stellar lineup of musicians, including Alexandre Malheiros (bass), Ivan "Mamao" Conti (drums), Sérgio Carvalho (Hammond organ and Fender piano), Zé Roberto Bertrami (synthesizers), Antonio Adolfo (Yamaha piano), Marcio Montarroyos (flugelhorn), Renato Piau (guitar), Mario Monteiro "Picolé" (drums) and the Grupo Alma Brasileira (percussion).
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2xLP, Gatefold Jacket, Black Vinyl
The Great Escape is the debut collaborative album from San Francisco Legend, Larry June & prolific super producer, The Alchemist. Through a process that felt very organic, the two churned out an extra healthy amount of music that resulted in what may be their magnum opus. At 15 tracks, the album includes tasteful features from some of Hip-Hop's most celebrated figures; Action Bronson, Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign, Slum Village, Boldy James, Evidence, Wiz Khalifa, Jay Worthy, Curren$y & Joey Bada$$. Like a fine wine, sit back, let it breathe, and enjoy the neat yet exquisitely rich complexities of two of Hip-Hop's smoothest figures.
Key Marketing/Selling:
- Larry June & The Alchemist are each extremely respected and notable individual artists in the Hip-Hop community
- Album activations in LA, SF, CDMX and NY during release week, with multiple exclusive merch drops planned alongside each release
- The Alchemist routinely sells out of physical product on each drop - CD/CS/LP
- Larry June's previous releases, Orange Print & Spaceships On The Blade, have done exceptionally well at retail
- The Alchemist has put together some of the most sought after physical releases over the last 3+ years
- All production is handled by The Alchemist, with additional production on Track 6 by frequent Griselda collaborator, Beat Butcha
- Features include notable rap luminaries Action Bronson, Big Sean, Slum Village, Ty Dolla $ign, Boldly James, Evidence, Wiz Khalifa, Jay Worthy, Joey Bada$$, & Curren$y
- Extensive press write ups published throughout album rollout such as Rolling Stone, HipHopDX, Billboard, Okayplayer, The Source, BrooklynVegan, Yahoo, Vibe
- Extensive outdoor campaign with multiple billboards secured from all major DSPs
- Each single has been featured and placed on numerous playlists and obtained multiple playlist covers across all DSPs
- Multiple videos released with more on the way
- "Making of" Documentary released in support of album rollout
- 89 Earthquake has over 2.3M streams on Spotify alone since release on 3/1/23 (3/29/23)
- 47 date nationwide tour planned in support of the album, with multiple dates already sold out and additional shows already added. European dates are expected to follow shortly
- Larry June has over 3.3M monthly listeners on Spotify
- The Alchemist has over 6.8M monthly listeners on Spotify
Tracklist:
A1/1. Turkish Cotton
A2/2. 89 Earthquake
A3/3. Solid Plan (feat. Action Bronson)
A4/4. Palisades, CA (feat.Big Sean)
B1/5. Summer Reign (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
B2/6. Orange Village (feat. Slum Village)
B3/7. Porsches in Spanish
B4/8. Art Talk (feat. Boldy James)
C1/9. Ocean Sounds
C2/10. Left No Evidence (feat. Evidence)
C3/11. What Happened To The World? (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
C4/12. Éxito (feat. Jay Worthy)
D1/13. 60 Days
D2/14. Barragán Lighting (feat. Joey Bada$$ & Curren$y)
D3/15. Margie's Candy House
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The Great Escape is the debut collaborative album from San Francisco Legend, Larry June & prolific super producer, The Alchemist. Through a process that felt very organic, the two churned out an extra healthy amount of music that resulted in what may be their magnum opus. At 15 tracks, the album includes tasteful features from some of Hip-Hop's most celebrated figures; Action Bronson, Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign, Slum Village, Boldy James, Evidence, Wiz Khalifa, Jay Worthy, Curren$y & Joey Bada$$. Like a fine wine, sit back, let it breathe, and enjoy the neat yet exquisitely rich complexities of two of Hip-Hop's smoothest figures.
Key Marketing/Selling:
- Larry June & The Alchemist are each extremely respected and notable individual artists in the Hip-Hop community
- Album activations in LA, SF, CDMX and NY during release week, with multiple exclusive merch drops planned alongside each release
- The Alchemist routinely sells out of physical product on each drop - CD/CS/LP
- Larry June's previous releases, Orange Print & Spaceships On The Blade, have done exceptionally well at retail
- The Alchemist has put together some of the most sought after physical releases over the last 3+ years
- All production is handled by The Alchemist, with additional production on Track 6 by frequent Griselda collaborator, Beat Butcha
- Features include notable rap luminaries Action Bronson, Big Sean, Slum Village, Ty Dolla $ign, Boldly James, Evidence, Wiz Khalifa, Jay Worthy, Joey Bada$$, & Curren$y
- Extensive press write ups published throughout album rollout such as Rolling Stone, HipHopDX, Billboard, Okayplayer, The Source, BrooklynVegan, Yahoo, Vibe
- Extensive outdoor campaign with multiple billboards secured from all major DSPs
- Each single has been featured and placed on numerous playlists and obtained multiple playlist covers across all DSPs
- Multiple videos released with more on the way
- "Making of" Documentary released in support of album rollout
- 89 Earthquake has over 2.3M streams on Spotify alone since release on 3/1/23 (3/29/23)
- 47 date nationwide tour planned in support of the album, with multiple dates already sold out and additional shows already added. European dates are expected to follow shortly
- Larry June has over 3.3M monthly listeners on Spotify
- The Alchemist has over 6.8M monthly listeners on Spotify
Tracklist:
A1/1. Turkish Cotton
A2/2. 89 Earthquake
A3/3. Solid Plan (feat. Action Bronson)
A4/4. Palisades, CA (feat.Big Sean)
B1/5. Summer Reign (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
B2/6. Orange Village (feat. Slum Village)
B3/7. Porsches in Spanish
B4/8. Art Talk (feat. Boldy James)
C1/9. Ocean Sounds
C2/10. Left No Evidence (feat. Evidence)
C3/11. What Happened To The World? (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
C4/12. Éxito (feat. Jay Worthy)
D1/13. 60 Days
D2/14. Barragán Lighting (feat. Joey Bada$$ & Curren$y)
D3/15. Margie's Candy House
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nu guinea - No Title
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My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Original 12” Version)
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My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Instrumental Version)
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My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (1987 Powerhouse Mix)
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My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Hypnotic Mix)
Repress!
We are honored to announce the next 12" in Dark Entries Editions is one of the all time Italo Disco club classics: My Mine - ‘Hypnotic Tango’. My Mine were the trio of Stefano Micheli (vocals, keyboards), Carlo Malatesta (vocals, keyboards), and Danilo Rosati (drums, keyboards) formed from the ashes of Italian New Wave group Ipnotico Tango in 1982. They shifted focus from the experimental post punk sounds towards something more commercial with which to try and enter the market, namely to make a record. At that time Carlo was studying in Bologna and he had heard about producer and arranger Mauro Malavasi famous at that time for the many hits produced for Macho, Peter Jacques Band, Change, Luther Vandross, Ritchie Family. The group handed Malavasi a demo tape and four days later they were invited to Fonoprint Studios to record their first single, “Hypnotic Tango”.
Utilizing new electronic instruments like the now legendary Roland TB-303, Danilo improvised a simple but effective synthesizer bass line and passed it through the Roland Echo until something magical came out. “Hypnotic Tango” was released on Progress Record in 1983 and became an international hit across Europe and US dance clubs in New York, Detroit and Chicago, capturing the imagination of House and Techno producers. In 1987 the legendary Frankie Knuckles remixed “Hypnotic Tango” at Seagrape Studios in Chicago, with assistance from studio engineers Tommy White and Brett Wilcotts. Originally released on Danica Records as the “Powerhouse Mix” paying tribute to the Windy City club atmosphere and adding his own "sighs" in the track as well. The Hypnotic Remix This reissue presents 4 mixes of “Hypnotic Tango” including the “Hypnotic Mix” only appearing together once before in 1990 on Rams Horn Records. All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket with original artwork and includes an insert with photos and liner notes by Stefano Micheli. “Look on the floor and all is spinning round, Someone told me this was just a dance And take a chance I ain't met before..Do you think I really have a chance??"
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We are honored to announce the next 12" in Dark Entries Editions is one of the all time Italo Disco club classics: My Mine - ‘Hypnotic Tango’. My Mine were the trio of Stefano Micheli (vocals, keyboards), Carlo Malatesta (vocals, keyboards), and Danilo Rosati (drums, keyboards) formed from the ashes of Italian New Wave group Ipnotico Tango in 1982. They shifted focus from the experimental post punk sounds towards something more commercial with which to try and enter the market, namely to make a record. At that time Carlo was studying in Bologna and he had heard about producer and arranger Mauro Malavasi famous at that time for the many hits produced for Macho, Peter Jacques Band, Change, Luther Vandross, Ritchie Family. The group handed Malavasi a demo tape and four days later they were invited to Fonoprint Studios to record their first single, “Hypnotic Tango”.
Utilizing new electronic instruments like the now legendary Roland TB-303, Danilo improvised a simple but effective synthesizer bass line and passed it through the Roland Echo until something magical came out. “Hypnotic Tango” was released on Progress Record in 1983 and became an international hit across Europe and US dance clubs in New York, Detroit and Chicago, capturing the imagination of House and Techno producers. In 1987 the legendary Frankie Knuckles remixed “Hypnotic Tango” at Seagrape Studios in Chicago, with assistance from studio engineers Tommy White and Brett Wilcotts. Originally released on Danica Records as the “Powerhouse Mix” paying tribute to the Windy City club atmosphere and adding his own "sighs" in the track as well. The Hypnotic Remix This reissue presents 4 mixes of “Hypnotic Tango” including the “Hypnotic Mix” only appearing together once before in 1990 on Rams Horn Records. All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a jacket with original artwork and includes an insert with photos and liner notes by Stefano Micheli. “Look on the floor and all is spinning round, Someone told me this was just a dance And take a chance I ain't met before..Do you think I really have a chance??"
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Flammer Dance Band - Båndet Går
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Flammer Dance Band - Trenger Ikke Dra
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Flammer Dance Band - Nå Nå
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Flammer Dance Band - Ekko Av Degb Selv
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Flammer Dance Band - Glad
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Flammer Dance Band - Gynger
Hot off a crazy year of constant touring from January to December, which included a two-week stint as the backing band for Ghanaian Legend Funky Rob, Flammer Dance Band returned to the studio, buzzing with spontaneous energy and inspiration.
Seven musicians squeezed into a hot and sweaty soul shack, in pursuit of the funk.
Five days later, they emerged with 'Gynger', an album that captures the raw, dynamic spirit of their well-oiled, psychedelic funk machine.
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Seven musicians squeezed into a hot and sweaty soul shack, in pursuit of the funk.
Five days later, they emerged with 'Gynger', an album that captures the raw, dynamic spirit of their well-oiled, psychedelic funk machine.
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Rhythm & Sound - King Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Queen Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Jah Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Toddin Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Mash Down Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Hit You Version
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Rhythm & Sound - Friend Version
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Rhythm & Sound - History Version
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collection of all the instrumental versions of BMD-2. An essential dub album!
Tracklist:
01. King Version
02. Queen Version
03. Jah Version
04. Troddin Version
05. Mash Down Version
06. Hit You Version
07. Friend Version
08. History Version
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collection of all the instrumental versions of BMD-2. An essential dub album!
Tracklist:
01. King Version
02. Queen Version
03. Jah Version
04. Troddin Version
05. Mash Down Version
06. Hit You Version
07. Friend Version
08. History Version
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“‘A La Sala,’ I used to scream it around my house when I was a little girl, to get everybody in the living room; to get my family together. That’s kind of what recording the new album felt like. Emotionally there was a desire to get back to square-one between the three of us, to where we came from–in sonics and in feeling. Let’s get back there.” - Laura Lee Ochoa
The title makes it clear. A La Sala (“To the Room” in Spanish), the fourth studio album by Khruangbin, is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and do so on your own terms. It extends the air of mystery and sanctity that’s key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music. Yet if 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio album Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record whose ensuing post-lockdown tour enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, A La Sala is the measured morning after. It’s a gorgeously airy album made only in the company of the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimal overdubs. It is a porthole onto the bounties powering Khruangbin’s vision, a reimagining and refueling for the long haul ahead. A La Sala scales Khruangbin down to scale up, a creative strategy with the future in mind.
It is also a response to the unique moment Khruangbin finds itself in now: following a decade spent cultivating extraordinary music paths, beginning a year when they'll perform for more people, in more iconic spaces, staging a live show that pushes a creative envelope peculiar to them alone. (Look for the band at major festivals and venues near you.) 2024 feels like both marker and pivot, cementing Khruangbin’s stature as a commercially and critically successful group that continues to be guided by creative possibilities.
Such crossroads are familiar for iconic artists throughout the rock era — your Dylans, Stevies and Bowies, up thru turn-of-the-century Radiohead, all have navigated these straits. On A La Sala, Khruangbin also pulls exploration inward, spurning the din of the crowd’s expectations, mapping a personal direction home. The trio’s collective musical DNA and the years spent constructing it in Houston’s local-meets-global cultural stew ensure the band carries on sounding like no one but itself. A La Sala may in fact be Khruangbin’s purest distillation. A cascade of crisp melodies still emanates from Marko’s reverb-heavy electric, dancing gently around Laura Lee’s minimalist almost-dub bass triangles, while DJ’s drums serve as the tightened-up pocket and unwavering dance-floor on which all this movement takes place.
Where prior album-by-album growth seemed to point the narratives towards music’s polyglot edges, such inquiries now sound like known intimacies. What once seemed like sonic invocations — spaghetti-western film scores, found-sounds, dancing moments more living room than rooftop disco — are ingrained characteristics. This is who they are! And there’s a freshness to the instrumental interactivity on A La Sala that’s less concerned with getting further out than going deeper in. That depth is not about therapeutic self-reflection, but a profound desire to celebrate the world’s external wonders.
A La Sala invites intimate intercontinental partying. The first single is, after all, called “A Love International.” “Pon Pón” holds the band’s table at the West African discotheque; yet the joy now moves to the corner left of the dancefloor, where the back-and-forth between Laura Lee’s bass, DJ’s hi-hat, and Marko’s tuneful rhythm scratches, is a marvel of knowing head-nods. There’s “Hold Me Up (Thank You),” a familial sweetness in its spare lyrics, feeding off the rhythm section’s sturdy funk shuffle, and a chorus on which Marko’s guitar evokes both sides of the Atlantic in confident unshowy rhythms. They’re on “Todavía Viva” too, next to DJ’s noir-soul rim-shots, synth strings and a pregnant pause that is Laura Lee’s favorite moment on the album, the mood kin to the band’s glorious live interpretations of G-funk fantasias. And the rocked-up miniature, “Juegos y Nubes,” demonstrates Khruangbin’s Houston-born superpower to culture-mix, a dancing mood less concerned with worldly glamor than communal grooving.
“I read something long ago, attributed to Miles Davis. He said, ‘When they play fast, you play slow. When they play slow, you play fast.’ And it's definitely how I've approached looking at music: Don't follow the trends. And if the trend is this, then do something else.” - Marko
From the get-go, Khruangbin’s journey has been emphatically its own: a sound and visual representation with few precedents, ignoring pop expectations, relying only on internal inspirations, and a multitude of visions. It’s a mindset of penetrating the self, connecting to the surrounding world, modeling your own life experiences. This ethos is threaded throughout A La Sala, audible in the album’s form and function. (It’s even visible in the vinyl version’s physical package, which will be released as a set of seven distinctive covers and color-sets — more on which in a sec.)
The building blocks for the album’s 12 songs were jigsaw pieces found in Khruangbin’s creative past. Having stockpiled ideas originally set down as off-the-cuff recordings (voice-memos made at sound-checks, on long voyages, as absentminded epiphanies), they began fitting those pieces together in the studio. Which parts were apt? Which could be massaged and stretched out? Which inspired new sections or rhythms or musical interactions? Once more, Khruangbin’s familial DNA kicked in. Layer-by-layer, the intimate work, rework and re-rework bore new fruit. They also brought back a strategy once foundational to their records: seeding an album with field recordings.
Some results fold directly into A La Sala’s down-home feel. “Three From Two” and “May Ninth” are wistful mid-tempo numbers, with guitar melodies that reside somewhere between Bakersfield and by-the-riverside, cues that, for all its borderless inclusivity, another core Khruangbin value is being steeped in American roots. And in the landscape that music comes from. Like all albums prior to Mordechai, Marko made sure environmental sounds — natural and man-made — appeared as textures. (At times philosophically: the group recorded while cricket chirps played in their headphones, presumably for terroir.) It’s how A La Sala achieves such interconnected set-and-setting-ness.
Other results are more metaphorical, especially in Khruangbin’s flirtation with ambient spaces. The dramatically beatless “Farolim de Felgueiras” and “Caja de la Sala” both feature only Marko’s unmistakable guitar dueting with Laura Lee’s Moog, lightly layered with sounds of shoes on stone steps, and cicadas in an open field. The closing “Les Petits Gris” more fully reduces and fleshes out the ambiance, with a piano and a simple single-note bass pattern, Marko’s plaintive spare guitar echoing the melody of a ballerina-turning music box. It feels an apt way of ending — as a passing of this particular moment, preparation for the next one, soon-come.
Even the seven different covers that adorn A La Sala’s various vinyl editions offer a throughline from the music into Khruangbin’s current frame. Designed by the band using Marko’s multitude of travelog photos, they are windows from the band’s living room onto a set of daydreams, scenes of impossible skies, external glances illuminating what is going on inside. These are also directly related to David Black’s images of DJ, Laura Lee and Marko which accompany A La Sala, and to Khruangbin’s live staging reinvention. It’s all about looking out and looking back, in order to better look ahead.
“All the little moments you capture. You don't see how impactful they are until you hear what eventually comes of them. A lot of those scraps end up being the thing — and you don't realize it until it's ‘The Thing.’” - DJ
credits
releases April 5, 2024
Produced by Mark Speer & Steve Christensen
Written, Arranged & Performed by Khruangbin
Art Direction: Tiny Frees
Mixing: Steve Christensen
Mastering: Chris Longwood
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The title makes it clear. A La Sala (“To the Room” in Spanish), the fourth studio album by Khruangbin, is an exercise in returning in order to go further, and do so on your own terms. It extends the air of mystery and sanctity that’s key to how bassist Laura Lee Ochoa, drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson, Jr. and guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer approach music. Yet if 2020’s Mordechai, the last studio album Khruangbin made without collaborators, was a party record whose ensuing post-lockdown tour enhanced the band’s musical reputation far and wide, A La Sala is the measured morning after. It’s a gorgeously airy album made only in the company of the group’s longtime engineer Steve Christensen, with minimal overdubs. It is a porthole onto the bounties powering Khruangbin’s vision, a reimagining and refueling for the long haul ahead. A La Sala scales Khruangbin down to scale up, a creative strategy with the future in mind.
It is also a response to the unique moment Khruangbin finds itself in now: following a decade spent cultivating extraordinary music paths, beginning a year when they'll perform for more people, in more iconic spaces, staging a live show that pushes a creative envelope peculiar to them alone. (Look for the band at major festivals and venues near you.) 2024 feels like both marker and pivot, cementing Khruangbin’s stature as a commercially and critically successful group that continues to be guided by creative possibilities.
Such crossroads are familiar for iconic artists throughout the rock era — your Dylans, Stevies and Bowies, up thru turn-of-the-century Radiohead, all have navigated these straits. On A La Sala, Khruangbin also pulls exploration inward, spurning the din of the crowd’s expectations, mapping a personal direction home. The trio’s collective musical DNA and the years spent constructing it in Houston’s local-meets-global cultural stew ensure the band carries on sounding like no one but itself. A La Sala may in fact be Khruangbin’s purest distillation. A cascade of crisp melodies still emanates from Marko’s reverb-heavy electric, dancing gently around Laura Lee’s minimalist almost-dub bass triangles, while DJ’s drums serve as the tightened-up pocket and unwavering dance-floor on which all this movement takes place.
Where prior album-by-album growth seemed to point the narratives towards music’s polyglot edges, such inquiries now sound like known intimacies. What once seemed like sonic invocations — spaghetti-western film scores, found-sounds, dancing moments more living room than rooftop disco — are ingrained characteristics. This is who they are! And there’s a freshness to the instrumental interactivity on A La Sala that’s less concerned with getting further out than going deeper in. That depth is not about therapeutic self-reflection, but a profound desire to celebrate the world’s external wonders.
A La Sala invites intimate intercontinental partying. The first single is, after all, called “A Love International.” “Pon Pón” holds the band’s table at the West African discotheque; yet the joy now moves to the corner left of the dancefloor, where the back-and-forth between Laura Lee’s bass, DJ’s hi-hat, and Marko’s tuneful rhythm scratches, is a marvel of knowing head-nods. There’s “Hold Me Up (Thank You),” a familial sweetness in its spare lyrics, feeding off the rhythm section’s sturdy funk shuffle, and a chorus on which Marko’s guitar evokes both sides of the Atlantic in confident unshowy rhythms. They’re on “Todavía Viva” too, next to DJ’s noir-soul rim-shots, synth strings and a pregnant pause that is Laura Lee’s favorite moment on the album, the mood kin to the band’s glorious live interpretations of G-funk fantasias. And the rocked-up miniature, “Juegos y Nubes,” demonstrates Khruangbin’s Houston-born superpower to culture-mix, a dancing mood less concerned with worldly glamor than communal grooving.
“I read something long ago, attributed to Miles Davis. He said, ‘When they play fast, you play slow. When they play slow, you play fast.’ And it's definitely how I've approached looking at music: Don't follow the trends. And if the trend is this, then do something else.” - Marko
From the get-go, Khruangbin’s journey has been emphatically its own: a sound and visual representation with few precedents, ignoring pop expectations, relying only on internal inspirations, and a multitude of visions. It’s a mindset of penetrating the self, connecting to the surrounding world, modeling your own life experiences. This ethos is threaded throughout A La Sala, audible in the album’s form and function. (It’s even visible in the vinyl version’s physical package, which will be released as a set of seven distinctive covers and color-sets — more on which in a sec.)
The building blocks for the album’s 12 songs were jigsaw pieces found in Khruangbin’s creative past. Having stockpiled ideas originally set down as off-the-cuff recordings (voice-memos made at sound-checks, on long voyages, as absentminded epiphanies), they began fitting those pieces together in the studio. Which parts were apt? Which could be massaged and stretched out? Which inspired new sections or rhythms or musical interactions? Once more, Khruangbin’s familial DNA kicked in. Layer-by-layer, the intimate work, rework and re-rework bore new fruit. They also brought back a strategy once foundational to their records: seeding an album with field recordings.
Some results fold directly into A La Sala’s down-home feel. “Three From Two” and “May Ninth” are wistful mid-tempo numbers, with guitar melodies that reside somewhere between Bakersfield and by-the-riverside, cues that, for all its borderless inclusivity, another core Khruangbin value is being steeped in American roots. And in the landscape that music comes from. Like all albums prior to Mordechai, Marko made sure environmental sounds — natural and man-made — appeared as textures. (At times philosophically: the group recorded while cricket chirps played in their headphones, presumably for terroir.) It’s how A La Sala achieves such interconnected set-and-setting-ness.
Other results are more metaphorical, especially in Khruangbin’s flirtation with ambient spaces. The dramatically beatless “Farolim de Felgueiras” and “Caja de la Sala” both feature only Marko’s unmistakable guitar dueting with Laura Lee’s Moog, lightly layered with sounds of shoes on stone steps, and cicadas in an open field. The closing “Les Petits Gris” more fully reduces and fleshes out the ambiance, with a piano and a simple single-note bass pattern, Marko’s plaintive spare guitar echoing the melody of a ballerina-turning music box. It feels an apt way of ending — as a passing of this particular moment, preparation for the next one, soon-come.
Even the seven different covers that adorn A La Sala’s various vinyl editions offer a throughline from the music into Khruangbin’s current frame. Designed by the band using Marko’s multitude of travelog photos, they are windows from the band’s living room onto a set of daydreams, scenes of impossible skies, external glances illuminating what is going on inside. These are also directly related to David Black’s images of DJ, Laura Lee and Marko which accompany A La Sala, and to Khruangbin’s live staging reinvention. It’s all about looking out and looking back, in order to better look ahead.
“All the little moments you capture. You don't see how impactful they are until you hear what eventually comes of them. A lot of those scraps end up being the thing — and you don't realize it until it's ‘The Thing.’” - DJ
credits
releases April 5, 2024
Produced by Mark Speer & Steve Christensen
Written, Arranged & Performed by Khruangbin
Art Direction: Tiny Frees
Mixing: Steve Christensen
Mastering: Chris Longwood
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Dennis Quin Remix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Kai Alce´ NDATL Remix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Rocco Rodamaal & Alex Finkin Remix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Louie's Instrumental Demo Mix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Miles (Rocco Rodamaal Deep Down Mix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Rocco Rodamaal Dubby Mix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Charlie Levine Remix)
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Louie Vega Featuring Moodymann - Seven Mile (Charlie Levine Wild Version)
Louie Vega and Moodymann, two of the most celebrated and iconic talents in the world of House Music, come together for this very special single “Seven Mile.” Originally released as part of Louie Vega’s universally acclaimed “Expansions In The NYC” album on Nervous Records, the song is now being released as a Double Pack, Custom Art Remix Package with an all-star collection of producers on remix duty, including Dennis Quin, Kai Alcé, Rocco Rodamaal, Alex Finkin and Charlie Soul Clap
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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More