Conch Records
UPCOMING: Kode9 & The Spaceape - Otherman / Love Is The Drug (ft Cha Cha) (HYPERDUB)
Due for release April 2011, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Tracklisting & Soundclips: A. Otherman AA. Love Is The Drug (ft Cha Cha)Otherman’ backed with ‘Love Is The Drug’ is the lead single from Kode9 And The Spaceape's second long player 'Black Sun'. Coming from oblique angles, these two songs introduce the breadth of the album.
‘Otherman’ opens with a sombre, arpeggiated march built from wavering analogue synth drones, lulling the listener until Spaceape's cracked communique interrupts the flow with downtrodden descriptions, wrapped around lop-sided rhythms. Sombre, flatline funk.
‘Love Is The Drug’ features the vocals of Cha Cha, a singer from Shanghai, who guests across four tracks on the album. ‘Love Is The Drug’ is ambiguously connected to house music by speed, but operates on a much rawer emotional level here, over a droning synth and an aggressively coiling drum pattern with the sound of a pumping heartbeat at the centre. Cha Cha's vocals drift into a sensual pattern as the melody soars beneath her, before confirming the suffocation of love, with Spaceape whispering over her shoulder.
Actress - Harrier ATTK / Gershwin 12" (NON PLUS)
Available Here
Tracks & Soundclips: 1. Harrier ATTK 2. Gershwin With a sound that no one can quite touch, nor classify, Actress took the electronic spectrum into another direction entirely last year with "Splazsh". The album brought dynamic hypercolour to the insular greyness that his "Hazyville" album captured so well. After his acclaimed debut on Nonplus+ in 2010 - the astral "Machine And Voice" EP, the intriguing artist returns to the label with "Harrier ATTK / Gershwin". A bonafide classic to sit in the ranks alongside Cybotron, in comes a typically all-encompassing, textured four-on-the-floor stomper from Actress. "Harrier ATTK" brings back the smoky, blurriness of "Hazyville" with an especially hypnotic twist. It’s the kind of Actress track that makes a listener lose all sense of time and space; a head nodder that could stay on loop for days, where the smallest subtleties come out loudest. Equal parts sublime and austere, a simple melody loops as a clean bass drum hits gently, and tangible sounds crack in the background. "Gershwin" conjures the bright metallics and intricate programming of a Ford workshop in a futuristic, sci-fi Detroit, but without the repetitive motion: no two bars are the same, and the track moves through so many colors and sounds it’s hard to keep up. Slamming with sharp, piercing lasers, roughly cut beats sit on a building melody that wraps itself around dreamscape New Order esque synths.GIG: Subvert @ BE Club - Fri 25th Feb
One week after Roska tore it up at Be club, Nuff Said promotions present the launch of a new club night at Be. Bringing you the best of underground house and garage from the UK underground and right here in NZ. Playing everything from Future Garage and UK Funky to big room tropical rave sounds.
With selectors who have been blending the bass heavy sounds coming from the UK underground and Auckland's finest House DJ's meeting half way to produce an awesome night of dance music with a sub bass work out on the best sound system in any club in Auckland.
This month, launching with a fierce line-up New Zealand's finest emerging dance export, CHAOS IN THE CBD, Swervy, AKA Base FM's TOMMY FLOWERS Live Ableton set from Hoiho label boss PEAS with support from 3beat general FLEX and one of NZ's finest female DJ's BRIDGE
SUBVERT At Be Club, 8 Commerce St, AK City
10pm til late Only $5 on the door
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