die ablenkung

Better late than never, and in no particular order:

Move D - Drøne [Modern Love 049]

Another one sided 12″ from Modern Love. Immersive, droning wall-of-sound with polyrhythms that keep you coming back.

Jon Baily writes in his review that, “‘Drone’ is apparently an older track, hijacked from his infamous KM20 vaults.” Boomkat says something similar, “the track comes from David Moufang’s hallowed KM20 vaults, the place were he keeps his most devastating, vintage analogue material.”

I had no idea what this meant, but have since found that KM20 is a sub-label of Moufang’s Source Records. There were only three releases around ‘96-’97 - one of which it seems people can’t pay to get rid of, and all pretty easily available.

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Bvdub - Monuments to Oblivion + Tape [Southern Outpost]  [SOSP-001] [SOSP-001.5]

I hauled out my crusty old walkman for the cassette tape of this part of the package. And after some initial skepticism, found it hard to resist this blatently nostalgiac appeal. The lo-fi loveliness - hissing tape noise and clunking buttons -  was as tactile and retro as you’d imagine, but with soundscapes that flip you into a fantasy of a different order.

Buy: [Monuments to Oblivion]

Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Honey [Smallville]

More from Move D aka David Moufang, but this time in a different direction. Here he’s teamed up with Benjamin Brunn to do a teaser for their album, <i>Songs From the Beehive</i>. Brunn is an artist known for sparse ambient productions on Raster Noton relative, Bine Music. Downplayed house grooves in spattered patterns shot through with long chord washes are played out on the long a-side, veering into acid rhythms. But it’s restrained quiet of the b-side tracks that really get me.

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Jacezsiek - Treny [Miasmah]

Bonobo name-checked Jacezsiek’s newest album Treny recently in an interview. Well, kind of. He couldn’t remember the producer, only the album title and that it had ‘lots of strings’. That it does have. Swirling orchestral sounds - apparently not samples, some almost-too-much castrati-style vocals, and some glitchiness underpinned by deep, rolling bass.

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