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BEC 5676820
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2023 repress. Celebrating 10th anniversary of Connan Mockasin's both debut album Forever Dolphin Love and career, Phantasy Sound release new editions of longtime out-of-stock Forever Dolphin Love and second album Caramel. Exclusive splatter 2021 edition. The second solo album by New Zealand psychedelic pop musician Connan Mockasin was originally released in 2013. "Taking his talents for strangeness and mood-making in a very different direction, Connan Mockasin's second solo album is a far cry from the whimsical psych pop he made with the Mockasins, and pretty far removed from his acclaimed 2010 album, Forever Dolphin Love. Yet Caramel does take musical and thematic inspiration from that album's poignantly woozy title track, which Erol Alkan reworked into an indie club hit. . . . the album overflows with sweetly sensual, acid rock meets-R&B songs and guitars so languid they seem to stretch and drip." --AllMusic
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BEC 5676819
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2022 repress. Celebrating 10th anniversary of Connan Mockasin's both debut album Forever Dolphin Love and career, Phantasy Sound release new editions of longtime out-of-stock Forever Dolphin Love and second album Caramel. Exclusive splatter 2021 edition. Connan Mockasin has the kind of deliciously off-kilter and gloriously idiosyncratic worldview that rapidly proves addictive. Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of Connan Mockasin. Like David Lynch's willfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince's paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand-born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerizes, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex-Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey, over-produced "alternative" guitar music and press-fueled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to cult figures like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus. Written from start to finish one hot summer, while camped outside his parent's church-like house in a tent, Forever Dolphin Love is an LP which brims with the beauty and solitude of summer evenings, a miasma of psychedelic tangents, jazz interludes and echoing guitars which hum with a distant, haunting resonance. For apart from being one of the most singular musicians we currently have, he is also a brilliant and unusual painter, a gift which will be glimpsed for the first time with this album, which features a collection of wonderfully surreal paintings of dolphins, all bold and beautiful interpretations of the mammal, but evolved into human forms, smiling in gaggles, sometimes wearing clothes, sometimes swathed in pools of lush colors. Connan's talents also include recording, producing and mixing the entire record. It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy and released his first output Please Turn Me Into The Snat.
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BEC 5156029
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Following the international success of his acclaimed 2013 debut album Drone Logic (BEC 5161626/5161627), Daniel Avery expands his wide-reaching world with a carefully curated collection of remixes from the artists with whom his forward-facing electronic style shares the deepest affinity. Inviting each producer to either complement, reconstruct, or occasionally rebuild his original compositions, New Energy stands as a testament to the strength of the current state of affairs in electronic music, borne out of one of its most original talents. Includes remixes by Gabe Gurnsey, Roman Flügel, Volte-Face, Ø [Phase], Silent Servant, Matt Walsh, Kink, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve, Rødhåd, Audion, Perc, Ricardo Tobar, Conforce, Powell, Special Request, and Danny Daze.
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BEC 5161947
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In recent times, Phantasy Sound has provided the soundtrack for many adrenaline-fueled nights and hazy mornings with critically acclaimed albums from Daniel Avery (Drone Logic (BEC 5161626/7) and Connan Mockasin (Forever Dolphin Love (BEC 5772802/52). Its latest discovery, Ghost Culture, emerges from the shadows to make the space between those two worlds his own. Since announcing his arrival one year ago with the debut single Mouth, the London-based artist has built up a feverish following with a further pair of ear-catching singles. This trio of sell-out releases, each pressed on clear "invisible" vinyl, offers a glimpse of a rare talent whose music is just as much at home in the club as it is in one's bedroom. Now Phantasy Sound is proud to present Ghost Culture's self-titled debut album, a collection of ten tracks rich in emotion, musicality, and sonic artistry.
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BEC 5161946
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LP version in heavy gatefold, with spot varnish and special inner sleeves. Includes download code. In recent times, Phantasy Sound has provided the soundtrack for many adrenaline-fueled nights and hazy mornings with critically acclaimed albums from Daniel Avery (Drone Logic (BEC 5161626/7) and Connan Mockasin (Forever Dolphin Love (BEC 5772802/52). Its latest discovery, Ghost Culture, emerges from the shadows to make the space between those two worlds his own. Since announcing his arrival one year ago with the debut single Mouth, the London-based artist has built up a feverish following with a further pair of ear-catching singles. This trio of sell-out releases, each pressed on clear "invisible" vinyl, offers a glimpse of a rare talent whose music is just as much at home in the club as it is in one's bedroom. Now Phantasy Sound is proud to present Ghost Culture's self-titled debut album, a collection of ten tracks rich in emotion, musicality, and sonic artistry.
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