Pontiac Streator
Triz

Dubbed-out leftfield trips from Peter Graf York on the always brilliant - South of North. Tip!Welcome to the curious world of Peter Graf York: a world full of city centre safaris and epic train journeys, Soviet cosmonauts and Oakland rappers, filtered synths and plucked mbiras. It's a wild ride inspired as much by Jamaican dub sorcery as by playful minimalism outta the Pacific Northwest.Many of these tracks were composed on the hoof - literally en route across sections of the ever-reliable Deutsche Bahn network. As such, there’s a certain travellin-without-moving dynamic across this collection. Expedition Bahn is the sound of ideas being set in motion, each track heralding the arrival of an uncanny destination. Blazed beats give way to acid-fuelled electro, and dub rhythms step aside for 4th world meditations as readily as sleepers on a train track.Gear used: Tascam MIDISTUDIO 644, MPC1000, Roland JX-3P, MODE MACHINES DT200, Electro-Harmonix MEMORY BOY analog delay, Nord Drum 3P, MacBook Pro, Logic Pro 9.

A staple in many a DJ's bag since the 90s, the name LHAS (Larry Heard Appreciation Society) gives a clue what to expect here. Quality deep house EP.

Debut album from USA / Berlin legend Doc Sleep who helps run the Room 4 Resistance party, DJs on Refuge Worldwide, co- owns the Jacktone label and has released on Detour and Dark Entries.Birds (in my mind anyway) by DOC SLEEP

Quality downtempo leftfield techno jams with bleep & tribal elements by Montreal-based Richard Lamb. Includes two banging acid electro remixes from Sotofett!

***2023 repress*** Debut album of Gaussian Curve, a collaboration between Italian ambient pioneer Gigi Masin, Melody As Truth's Jonny Nash & Young Marco. Each of them established in their own rights, the three musicians from Italy, UK and the Netherlands, came together during a weekend long recording session in April of this year. Without preconceived ideas and developed around often purely intuitive improvised jams, the eight tracks on the album are all 'one take' live recordings. With Gigi Masin on Rhodes and piano, Jonny Nash on guitar, melodica, synths and trumpet and Marco Sterk on synths, rhythmic structures and production duties, the three of them succeed in developing a musical language all of their own. Recorded in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light district, the album reflects the unusually warm Spring and the buzz from the open windows that filled the derelict downtown studio space during that particular weekend. Whilst on the more introvert late night compositions the music quietly soars, reflecting the brooding melancholy of an evening in that particular part of the city.

Superb retrospective of incredible, innovative songs. Drum machines & oddball synths mixed with wonderful vocals & deft guitar playing... High Life New Wave!