We were waiting for this for a long time. Finaly, the first IT'S A FINE LINE' album [ Ivan Smagghe & Tim Paris project ] will be released end of august 2016 on kill the dj records
Two Parisians, Ivan Smagghe and Tim Paris, exiled in London for the better part of the last ten year set out to re-define space. It's a fine line was born from non-restraint, cultivating its own vision of house music and disco, a paradoxical one, a non-functional one. Their first LP (thought, rebuilt, announced, delayed) reveals itself as a collection of tests, of explorations in the shadows and corners of club culture. These are murky roads where counterfeit goes for gold standard, perfect territory to lose oneself in order to find ones way. Leaving behind the smooth highways of club music, they rode more chaotic trails, with dubious reputation or names: white funk, trance groove, electronic psychedelia, greasy, rock'n'roll... A risky path, ambivalent, proud of accidents, crashes and bad taste, but the only real way to discover virgin grounds on well-trodden terrain. They are writing their own (hi)story. For this album, Tim and Ivan recruited three double agents, the flame of Alex Kapranos, singer of Franz Ferdinand, the mysterious voice of Olivia de Lanzac from cult band Quad Throw Salchow and the pitched down, spectre of label companion C.A.R. Three tweaked but prominent voices, joining in an album that confounds through the coherence of its eclecticism and the rigorous mirage of its style. More

We were waiting for this for a long time. Finaly, the first IT'S A FINE LINE' album [ Ivan Smagghe & Tim Paris project ] will be released end of august 2016 on kill the dj records.
Two Parisians, Ivan Smagghe and Tim Paris, exiled in London for the better part of the last ten year set out to re-define space. It's a fine line was born from non-restraint, cultivating its own vision of house music and disco, a paradoxical one, a non-functional one. Their first LP (thought, rebuilt, announced, delayed) reveals itself as a collection of tests, of explorations in the shadows and corners of club culture. These are murky roads where counterfeit goes for gold standard, perfect territory to lose oneself in order to find ones way. Leaving behind the smooth highways of club music, they rode more chaotic trails, with dubious reputation or names: white funk, trance groove, electronic psychedelia, greasy, rock'n'roll... A risky path, ambivalent, proud of accidents, crashes and bad taste, but the only real way to discover virgin grounds on well-trodden terrain. They are writing their own (hi)story. For this album, Tim and Ivan recruited three double agents, the flame of Alex Kapranos, singer of Franz Ferdinand, the mysterious voice of Olivia de Lanzac from cult band Quad Throw Salchow and the pitched down, spectre of label companion C.A.R. Three tweaked but prominent voices, joining in an album that confounds through the coherence of its eclecticism and the rigorous mirage of its style. More

Let us introduce the first YULA KASP ep produced by PILOOSKI and remixed by REBOLLEDO & PILOOSKI. Yula Kasp is our " enfant sauvage ", raised by wolves into a wolf. A slav pup in Poland, under the dregs of the communist regime. A teen wolf in Toronto, daughter of immigrants, eating up America through Rock n'Roll rebellion. And a nearly grown Canis Lupus in Paris where she starts going out where the fellow wolves go: Le Pulp, Le Batofar.... The wolf is a social animal, but Yula also makes music alone, on the cheap, in her bedroom. Her first project would be an homage to her grand-mother, Wanda Trampczynska, solely made up of cut-ups of her words. One of leader of her pack that slowly emerges here is Matias Aguayo from Comeme records, for whom she starts making videos (another thing she learned alone). Everybody will remember Rebolledo's Guerrero video (werewolf?), or other works for Philip Gorbachev or Sano. Matias is drumming on two of the tracks of this ep, CONSCIOUS and SENSITIVE PLANT. After the early pick up of the LEISURE by Mauricio Rebolledo for the A VERY NICE COMBINADO compilation of the Pachanga Boys, Pilooski seemed an obvious choice to produce the infused psychedelia of this mini album, a strange mixture of eighties wave tape music, folkish electronic voodoo, dubbed-up disco, her own mental poetry and extracts from Shelley or W.H Davies. This is a world you need to enter with your eyes closed, visions will come by themselves. More

Few words from ivan smagghe to introduce this release : KTDJ met the Margot guys through James Holden who released their first ep. I first heard the epic trance cheese-athon (mature cheese) of magic disco in one of his sets and I felt love. This was fast, delirious, vocodered fluff. Blew me away. James being busy with making the best lp of the last ten years, he passed the baby to us and to our joy. The boys from Rimini (oh yes), brought up in the mecca of italian house but calling their first ep Goblin, covering Soft Cell's Torch and being, as myself, Franco Battiato fans (Bandera Bianca really reminds of them) fitted in perfectly with our plans. Only their mental output made it quite hard to pick up the tracks for the ep. Spoiled we were. Spoiled we are. Spoiled you are. Magico Disco is a non-clicheed homage to Moroder, remixed to great effect by Tel Aviv's Red Axes who bring the tempo down, add their cramps licks but never lose the spaced-outness of the original for their Medical diso remix. Castel is like MD's little brother, a 80 bpm vocoder short shot in space. My sisters and Rockstep show brilliantly the rockier side of Margot, like breakbeat eighties crosses between kraut and house, grunge synths rising. totally fascinating and hard to describe, escapes from all boxes. Voice Chord could seem like a more straightforward club track, but it is spaaaaaaaaced out, believe me. Early (but solid) support by Andrew Weatherall, Tim Paris, My Favorite Robot etc... Finally, I Got is like Moodyman taking acid and being chopped up in a meat grinder. These tracks show the amazing scope of Margot's invention. We have not heard the last of them but this should be enough to leave you drooling for more.
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This 12" feat. a darkness that is never self-indulgent & grooves that lock you in but leave room for melodies. More

First glimpse of the new Battant album: Shutter. This is one of the many places where they now stand. A dry, sparse yet catchy romp. On their own edge (between early Cure and meth country if you need ready made tags), Electronics still dance in the corner, reigned in by the sharp It's A Fine Line (Tim Paris & Ivan Smagghe) production. the Live Take of Clearcut is what it says. Ghosts in the machines, spookiness never in vain, this is a real song. The idea of a cover of Westbam and Nena's classic Old School, baby had been in the mind of the team for a while. More