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asa 808 - "Ignorance"
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asa 808 - "Attachment"
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asa 808 - "Bad Karma"
Berlin resident and general man-about-town, Asa 808 has run parties supporting underground house and techno all over the city for years whilst simultaneously learning his craft as a producer and DJ. 'Ignorance', 'Attachment' and 'Bad Karma' all beautifully capture the patience, melodic intricacy and raw functionality which characterises the finest dance music coming from this great city. It is with great pleasure we welcome him to the label.
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ASA 808 - Bliss
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ASA 808 - Fill Your Lungs With Peace
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ASA 808 - Boy, crush
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ASA 808 - Love No Matter What feat. DAEDE
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ASA 808 - Another First Next Time feat. Séverine
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ASA 808 - Healing
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ASA 808 - Ataraxia feat. Séverine
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ASA 808 - DL BONUS: Detox Masculinity
ASA 808's new album Boy, crush is a very personal inner journey as well as a call to fight and free ourselves from toxic masculinity. In eight tracks that subtly merge electronica, ambient, breakbeat and house, the Berlin-based artist process their own quest for gender identity. Out on vinyl and digital via the TOYS Berlin imprint, the album proposes new, softer and more diverse forms of gender fluidity.
ASA 808 invites listeners to expand their views of the gender spectrum. The title Boy, crush plays with the term "boy crush" and is meant as an encouragement for all men to "collectively crush manhood" with all its toxic traits and consequences:
"Toxic masculinity has kept our grandmothers and mothers small and brought deviant boys into line. It took me a long time to unlearn so much sexism and queerphobia and find my inner queer child again to let it grow, bloom and shine. I dream of a world in which men emasculate themselves. In which masculinity (if we feel it's still needed) will embrace softness, weakness, vulnerability, solidarity, consideration, mindfulness, self-reflectiveness and nonviolence", explains the non-binary producer and DJ who discovered their gender-nonconforming side already at an early age.
Tracklist:
1. Bliss
2. Fill Your Lungs With Peace
3. Boy, crush
4. Love No Matter What feat. DAEDE
5. Another First Next Time feat. Séverine
6. Healing
7. Ataraxia feat. Séverine
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ASA 808 invites listeners to expand their views of the gender spectrum. The title Boy, crush plays with the term "boy crush" and is meant as an encouragement for all men to "collectively crush manhood" with all its toxic traits and consequences:
"Toxic masculinity has kept our grandmothers and mothers small and brought deviant boys into line. It took me a long time to unlearn so much sexism and queerphobia and find my inner queer child again to let it grow, bloom and shine. I dream of a world in which men emasculate themselves. In which masculinity (if we feel it's still needed) will embrace softness, weakness, vulnerability, solidarity, consideration, mindfulness, self-reflectiveness and nonviolence", explains the non-binary producer and DJ who discovered their gender-nonconforming side already at an early age.
Tracklist:
1. Bliss
2. Fill Your Lungs With Peace
3. Boy, crush
4. Love No Matter What feat. DAEDE
5. Another First Next Time feat. Séverine
6. Healing
7. Ataraxia feat. Séverine
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Fold, - Slime
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Natan H, Amy Jean, - Rush
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Jack Dixon, Rick Grant, - Running Man
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George's releases on Hotflush and Aus this year have consolidated his reputation as one of a small set of producers from London whose tracks translate in to dancefloor capital outside of British borders. This record travels deeper in to the territory of housedubstep cross-pollination than George's previous excursions. A-side 'Fernweh' is an intricate work of ecstatic synths tempered with a rock solid groove that betrays George's UK sensibilities. On the flip, 'Hearts' ramps up the energy levels with tough percussion and the trademark FitzGerald vocal wizardry.
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