UK group Psychemagik will release the Ritual Chants compilation via Eskimo Recordings on November 18th. The rarities collection is split up into “Love,” “Beach” and “Dance” categories.
Though they put out their own music and DJ, Psychemagik are arguably best known for unearthing and licensing rare records for broader consumption. For Ritual Chants, the group’s resident record digger, Danny McLewin, shares material “acquired [on] world tours,” according to the press release.
McLewin arranged the forty tracks into three sections, Beach, Love and Dance. Love includes tunes like Man Parrish’s new age-leaning “Water Sports” and Bobby Lyle’s 1973 jazz vamp, “Making Love.” The Beach collection contains cuts from Zru Vogue, Tony Wilson and Minako Yoshida. Dance tracks include soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone’s “Dance On,” Dionne’s “Come Get My Lovin'” and Swedish group Family Four’s “En Häst Utan Namn.” As usual, many of McLewin’s finds are rare, expensive or otherwise difficult to acquire.
Stream Golden Hands’s “Take Me Back”
Eskimo Recordings will release Ritual Chants on November 18th, 2016.
Todd Terje‘s remix of Ola Kvernberg’s “The Mechanical Fair” will see release on November 11th.
The original version of “The Mechanical Fair” was released in 2014. It was written by Kvernberg, an acclaimed Norwegian jazz violinist, for a quintet of musicians that included Erik Nylander, Ole Morten Vågan, Petter Vågan and Even Helte Hermansen, though it’s now performed by a bigger ensemble. Todd Terje’s ten-minute version will come out via his own label, Olsen Records, on vinyl and digital formats.
Listen to the remix in full.
Olsen Records will release The Mechanical Fair (Todd Terje Remix) on November 11th, 2016.
Brussels Philharmonic completed the recording of the anthology of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s oeuvre in Flagey. The recordings include fragments from ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’ and ‘The Revenant’ and were led by music director of Film Fest Gent Dirk Brossé.
Buteo Buteo will release Ryuichi Sakamoto, Music For Films on October 28th.
Nine tracks released in the early ’00s make it onto the release, which also includes one unreleased tune.
Token has announced a compilation of tracks from Scorp, a little-known alias from Steve Rachmad.
The triple-vinyl package assembles nine cuts released between 2000 and 2004. Called Scorp, the compilation draws upon a lean and no-nonsense brand of techno that was common throughout the late ’90s and early ’00s—a style that’s influenced the hard-hitting sound Token founder Kr!z has explored on his label since it launched in 2007. One previously-unreleased track, called “Untitled v1,” is also included.
Scorp, which is being “presented” by Rachmad’s STERAC alias, is due out on October 28th. Rachmad, Antigone and Kr!z will play for a Token party at Doornroosje in Nijmegen, the Netherlands that same night.
Indigo Aera celebrates five years with Lost Archives Special compilation.
Indigo Aera is the brainchild of Jasper Wolff and Maarten Mittendorff, former residents at the now-shuttered nightclub Trouw who these days host a night at De School. Launched in 2011, the label champions soulful, Detroit-leaning techno by putting out new material as well as older, previously unreleased productions under the Lost Archives banner.
Lost Archives Special, scheduled to land next month, is Indigo Aera’s most ambitious project. Its five individually titled records bring together 18 tracks in all—some are unreleased, some are new and others are being put on a physical format for the first time. Skudge, Makam, Don Williams, Joris Voorn, Antigone and Sterac are some of the names involved. Wolff and Mittendorff have each contributed one of their own tracks. Along with the limited-edition box set (and digital formats), the label plans to issue each 12-inch as separate EPs later on. Artwork by Daniel Hageman
Stream The Lost Archives Special here below.
Indigo æra will release part 1, part 2 & 3, and part 4 & 5 on October 21st, November 18th, and December 12th, 2016
Curle‘s subdivision Petite shine with two reissues from Matthew Herbert‘s 1996 collection of early dancefloor-oriented 12″s. See You On Monday and Deeper sounds as fresh as they did in ’96. Herbert didn’t only successfully pave the way for micro-house, minimal, or whatever they are calling it these days, he also perfected it. Remix duties are given over to Linkwood and Basic Soul Unit.
Petite will release See You On Monday on 30 September, and Deeper on 14 October, 2016.
