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OMINIRA 013LP
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"If you slide in on Bisk's homepage, you will see at the very top it says 'Good Electronic Music' -- a brave, and foremost, true statement. Being an active producer since 1996 Bisk has released seven albums, and after a 12-year hiatus he returned again in 2012. Bisk's eighth album is Vacation Package on Ominira. Vacation Package consists of eight eclectic tracks, their origins being traced back to several performances taking place at radical live music venue Forestlimit, Tokyo, in late 2019 and early 2020. Reinterpreted, reconstructed, sawed into pieces, Bisk presents his own fragmented interstellar funk: ultramodern yet effortlessly cool and timeless, with a slight relaxed nonchalance. Warm, groovy basslines centering stretched out cosmic colors, gliding melodies and vocals. Bisk's play with rhythms and his intense, at times rather sparse, drops of beats makes the pace so speedy that, contrary, the record seems to go in ultrarapid -- taped so fast it actually plays to the listener in slow motion. Bisk presents a sincere and emotive collection of work with Vacation Package. Funky and slick, without the cheese."
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WE 001EP
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"Julion De'Angelo builds his music around Florent Kandety's voice, which resonates with the Senegalese experience (Kandety was originally featured on Klein's A Passport And A Visa Stamped By The Holy Ghost, released on Meakusma in 2018). De'Angelo, who plays and records live percussion, works Kandety's way of expressing astonishment into a vast environment of arranged beats. His Detroit ambience combines vivid bass-lines on the subs and a patina-like finish, as if from a tape found in the sand while waiting for a bus to Dakar. Afro-Cuban rhythms offer shelter to the delicateness of De'Angelo's sound constructions. Vulnerability is transformed into wealth. The arrangement becomes a parade moving into the depth, the underground, the basement. Part one, 'N'aie Pas Peur (Exchange Mix)' might be like a triumph in minor heard while going downstairs. Arriving in the deepness, the party is just getting started with part two, 'Don't Be Scurred'. Mastered by Jose Rico. Viola Klein recorded in Saint-Louis, Senegal with the Sabar drummers Abdou Aziz, Abdoukhadre and Adramé Diop. She and the musicians have worked together before. On 'Exchange', released on Meakusma in 2017, the family Diop responded to deep house music, proposed by Whodat and Klein, which slowed the drummers down heavily. This time they release their whole energy, playing Mbalax rhythms. Now the response comes from Whodat and Klein. 'We (Part One)' embraces the drive of the drummers with Klein's hypnotic chord overtones as well as her bass, with both providing accompaniment to that fearless ride. 'We (Part Two)' is a beat by Whodat in combination with Mbalax. 'We (Another Part)' leaves four to the floor behind and tenderly opens up for the organ's way of paying attention to what the Sabar drums are saying, becoming a new rhythm included in their polyrhythm, giving glimpses of a futuristic floor. Mastered by Helmut Erler. We is published in union by the imprints Meakusma, Ominira and Viola Klein."
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OMKMOS 001EP
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Limited restock. Nine tracks of deep and twisted techno.
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OM 012LP
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2020 restock. "A warmly compelling, elegant combination of psycho-geography and musical travelogue, imbibing the sounds and traditions of five US cities. Local genies of funk, jazz and classic r&b are folded into live guitar, pocket trumpet and slit drum, together with citizens' spoken testimony about place and politics, and reflective, floating vocals. In a smart, informative, gatefold sleeve."
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OMINIRA 011LP
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"Eighteen freeform electronic miniatures by Lorenz Lindner -- aka Mix Mup -- after his love of experimental ambient and soundtrack idioms."
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OMBT 001EP
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"One half of Africans With Mainframes, with a hard-swinging, two-one-two combo of hazy, nineties soul patrol and romping stomping Chicago house."
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OM SHADE
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"A brace of tripped-out R'n'B burners. Iridescent digital soul from London. Nervy, far-flung, sweet." On white vinyl.
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OM 008LP
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"Kassem Mosse's Ominira presents a selection of recordings produced by Nicola Cunningham and Karl Skagius (who have previously released material on Micron Audio and Icasea), evoking and re-imagining the sound-world of classic British horror. A very special late-night listening experience."
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