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SAFE 016EP
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It's been all go at the Safe Trip Institute of late, with a visiting professor of cosmic numerology and solar-psychic channeling joining the label in the laboratory to conduct intense analysis on more audio artifacts. Dr Prins Thomas is currently on secondment from the Full Pupp College of Scandi-Science in Oslo and has provided his own aural interpretations of audio held in the file ST012, colloquially known as Tulipa Moves. This file was said to be the work of an associate fellow of the Institute known only as Darling. The label have subsequently carefully considered his musical re-configurations, which can be found in file ST016, and would like to offer the following observations: "His extensive experimentations on the artefact known as 'Kiss The Glass' tie in closely to his exploration of astronomic numerology. By adding together the various numbers used to represent specific musical elements contained in the recording -- synthesizer leads, TB-303 style' acid motifs, machine drums and so on -- we arrived at a startling total: 84626852. Coincidentally this number is also the given codename for one of the galaxy's most confusing stars. Dr Thomas's other re-framing (of ST012 artefact 05, 'The M Song') is even more ear catching and eye-opening. We observe that the echoing electronic note sequences, chiming motifs and shuffling rhythm represents the transfer of data between two points; one above the surface of the Earth, the other within its hollow interior. This is a significant breakthrough on many levels."
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SAFE 014X-EP
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Two alternative mixes of album tracks by Trans-4M. The A side being an unreleased mix, the flip once came out on a 1993 release on Buzz, a very much desired record!
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SAFE 014LP
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The history of underground electronic music is littered with inspired releases that, for one reason or other, slipped through the cracks. It would be fair to say that Trans-4M's 1992 debut album, Sublunar Oracles, is one such release. The full-length originally appeared on Belgian dance music megalith Buzz, an imprint whose output tended towards the more commercial end of the dance music market. Initially, Sublunar Oracles failed to make much impact and was championed only by a small group of chill-out DJs; these days, it's rightly considered a lost classic and one of the most overlooked albums of the ambient house era. It was the product of the blossoming studio relationship between brothers Stefan and Dimitri Van Elsen. The former, the elder of the two, had been making a living as a club DJ on the Belgian scene since the early 1980s, taking up electronic music production following years spent playing experimental and industrial fare on local pirate station Radio Centraal. Dimitri, meanwhile, spent his days studying jazz piano and his evenings working on tracks. The chance to release a collection of their bedroom productions came via a friend who worked for Buzz. The Van Elsen brothers grasped the opportunity, sequencing and tweaking a set of evocative, otherworldly tracks that had initially been written and produced over the best part of four years. Despite Stefan's status as a working club DJ, Sublunar Oracles largely looked towards the vibrant chill-out and ambient house scenes for inspiration, combining their own manipulated synthesizer sounds, dreamy jazz chord progressions, and gentle beats with a smorgasbord of spoken word samples and home-made field recordings. The Antwerp-based brothers designed the set as a concept album of sorts, with a clear narrative thread running through the album's eight intoxicating and ethereal tracks. However, they never made this concept public, and it's down to a new generation of listeners to piece together the story themselves. 26 years on from its initial release, the Van Elsens' lost classic is getting a new lease of life via a Safe Trip reissue that stretches the original's eight inspired tracks over two heavyweight slabs of wax. Beginning with the breakbeat-driven bliss of "Arrival", the album bobs and weaves its way through deep ambient house, sublime horizontal soundscapes, saxophone-laden electronic mysticism, dusty downtempo grooves and glassy-eyed positivity.
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SAFE 011EP
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12 months ago we concluded a series of experiments with a test subject named Ben Penn. A year on, we decided to repeat this experiment at his Tilburg base. Once again, the results, titled Very Important were startling. With the aid of electronic instruments and hardware, he worked quickly, producing both his trademark "higher level inter-dimensional funk" and compositions that defied our previous expectations.
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PF 099EP
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Young Marco with two recordings. The first rearranged recording is by a local recruit called Madlaks. Entitled "Jikovunu" and dated 2006, it is a bright and breezy affair marked out by bold piano riffs, bustling breakbeats, and "acid-style" synthesizer bass. The second audio missive dates back to 1992 and was originally produced by a duo referred to in south Africa as Hot Slot Machine. This new rework from our shadowy nemesis emphasizes a rolling and futuristic electronic bassline, a shuffling hip-house style rhythm track, classic house elements and a soulful vocal.
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SAFE 013EP
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The Hague's Dazion -- who previously released a 12" on Music From Memory's Second Circle imprint (SC 006EP, 2017), with a two-tracker for Safe Trip. Dazion, a keen windsurfer, developed a method of broadcasting addictive and mind-altering musical missives wherever there is a suitable body of water. Dazion was spotted on a remote spot on the Dutch coast trialing his new technology with his favored F2 dragon board. Rhythmical electronic music was broadcasted, and Safe Tripe recorded. Tribalistic, delay-laden drums, swelling electronics, and exotic melodic refrains that are known to inspire frenzied dancing in members of the public.
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SAFE 009EP
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Four ear-pleasing transmissions from Safe Trip associate, Artis. The ethereal, dreamy, arpeggio-driven throb of "Panthera Pardus", with its poignant tone and undulating lead lines, is meant as a warning. The same could be said of "Cetacea", where melancholic synthesizer sounds and meandering electronics gently wind their way around hybrid electronic/acoustic percussion. "Giganthopithecus" is a composition littered with frequent increases in percussive intensity and a mind-altering melodic refrain. The colorful melodic fluidity, futurist new age construction, and layered wooden drum hits of "Delphinae" are deeply affective.
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SAFE 003-3LP
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Safe Trip is taking one final deep dive into the warm waters of Italian dream house with Welcome To Paradise Volume III, the concluding chapter in the label's journey through the previously overlooked world of one of dance music's most vibrant and influential underground movements. While the influence of dream house continues to echo through the ages, the style was at its peak between 1989 and 1994, when producers across Italy delivered a high volume of loved-up, wavy, and occasionally blissful productions that fused contemporary deep house tropes -- most notably from Chicago, New York, and New Jersey -- with elements borrowed from ambient, jazz, and Balearica. It's this six-year period that provides the focus for Welcome To Paradise Volume III, which draws together a spine-tingling mixture of sought-after classics, unheralded gems, and little-known delights from the original Italian dream house movement. Thrillingly, Welcome To Paradise Volume III co-curator Young Marco has managed to source two previously unreleased tracks during the dream house period: the gently unfurling, sunrise-friendly bliss of Jacy's "Resounding Seashell" and a special "Longer Edit" of Neurostate's brilliant "Dance To The House", a track that -- somewhat surprisingly -- has never previously been issued on vinyl before. Elsewhere, there are plenty of treats to set the pulse racing, from the must-have deep house brilliance of Leo Anibaldi's "Universal" -- a rare foray into dream house territory from the Italian techno pioneer -- and the Afro-bleep-goes-dream-house trip of Golem's "Sun City", to the cowbell-driven, New Jersey garage-influenced warmth of Deep Choice's "Children Trip" and Cosmic Galaxy's "Walkin' On The Moon", a Detroit techno-influenced outing with a deliciously saucer-eyed, extended ambient intro. You'll also struggle to find a more inspired house record than Green Baize's "Tramp Heart", which mixes familiar dream house elements with spacey electronics and tribal chants that recall Italy's early '80s Afro-cosmic scene. It all adds up to another essential selection of rich, glassy-eyed dream house treats tailor-made for sound-tracking drawn-out Adriatic sunsets, Mediterranean sunrises, and loved-up parties the world over. Also features Optik, Deep Blue, Lonely Dance, and Don Carlos.
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DARLING 002EP
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To whom it may concern: Following the release of the recently discovered musical recordings of the escaped extra-terrestrial lifeform known as "Darling", Safe Trip have unearthed two more aural explorations. The first is called "Sim". It is the subject's most alien and otherworldly composition yet, combining mind-altering rhythmic elements with elastic electronic bass and chords. The second, "Moon Fleet", can only be described as next-level sci-fi daydreaming. Since "Darling" had no access to electronic hardware or musical instruments during his time in Safe Trip's holding facility, they have absolutely no idea how this music came into being.
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SAFE 008EP
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While attempting -- and failing -- to apprehend the shadowy figure known as "Max Abysmal" during a frenzied chase through the underground Amsterdam arts establishment "Het Skatecafé", Safe Trip recovered a boxed reel of quarter-inch tape. "Sutekh's Mirage" is bold and warm in tone, and makes use of dazzlingly colorful melodic patterns and passages of percussion that reference polyrhythms. Safe Trip want you to note the use of a rising and falling electronic motif capable of inducing a trance-like state in "Donna, Don't Stop" -- those untrained in listening to electronic music this potent and emotive.
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DARLING 001EP
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Two tracks from an extra-terrestrial specimen on Safe Trip. The first, titled "When She Hates Me" sounds like a call to a distant mate or partner, composed at sunrise and shot through with blissful positivity. The other, now known as "Isle Of Red", combines surging drums with poignant and melancholic sounds that are clearly unearthly in origin.
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SAFE 007EP
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Casio house tracks. Further prepared transmissions hidden within Satoshi & Makoto's mainframe computer. Explained their intention to broadcast these on their usual short wave radio frequency. These two "future transmissions" feature repetitive beats designed to make unwitting listeners dance enthusiastically. Under questioning, the twins confirmed that these two pieces had been composed using their favoured synthesizer, the Casio Corporation manufactured CZ-5000.
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SAFE 006LP
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An unidentified life source on the release: "We write to you with the conclusions of our investigation into the synthesized audio transmissions picked up by the deep space telescope at irregular intervals since 1986. After many years, we pinpointed the source of the ear-pleasing frequencies. They were being transmitted from a secluded building in 'Kawasaki', Japan. A key to their origin was found on the video-sharing site, 'YouTube'. When we visited the building, we discovered identical twins, huddled around a synthesizer manufactured by the Casio Corporation. The twins told us that their names were Satoshi and Makoto, and that the synthesizer model number was CZ-5000. We were still puzzled about the music we had heard, which was largely ambient in nature, positive in tone, and possibly extra-terrestrial in origin. Under interrogation, Satoshi and Makoto claimed that they had created every melody, drumbeat and musical phrase using this one piece of Japanese-made musical hardware. We doubted their version of events, so asked for a demonstration of their working method. Once they had shown us how they shaped, played, and sequenced sounds, we accepted that the transmissions we had received were indeed created entirely using the CZ-5000. Satoshi and Makoto said that the audio transmissions we were investigating had been mostly been created throughout the 1990s, under the influence of early Japanese techno, the Orb, YMO, Kraftwerk and 'lots of soul'. We asked to be provided with a collection of these transmissions, which had never before been made available to the public. Satoshi and Makoto kindly provided us with a compact disc, on to which was scribbled the code 'st006'. We believe it is in the public interest to make these remarkable synthesizer compositions available for wider research. We have therefore passed them on to the 'Safe Trip' organization. They will make suitable arrangements for public release."
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SAFE 004EP
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June 2017, Amsterdam, NL. Conclusions of experiments with controlled doses of 4-HO-MET, codenamed ST004. The test subject -- code name Ben Penn -- was ushered into the bunker for immediate testing. Afterward, Penn was able to play two audio interpretations of his experience. He was visibly shaken. The first Penn called: 'Spare Bobby.' He described the resultant musical translation as 'higher level inter-dimensional funk.' The second interpretation was titled 'Carrera' and composed during a period of vivid hallucination. Immediate action must now be taken in order to control the spread of 4-HO-MET amongst the wider civilian population.
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SAFE 003-1LP
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First part of an expansive two-part retrospective of the Italian dream house sound compiled by Safe Trip label founder Young Marco and Christiaan Macdonald. At the tail end of the 1980s, a new take on deep house began to emerge from Italian studios. Dream house drew inspiration from key US deep house records of the period -- the spacey melodiousness of Larry Heard's productions, and the rich jazziness of tracks originating in New Jersey in particular -- but sounded distinctly different. Its "head-in-the-clouds" feel -- all rich chords, tactile basslines, fluid piano lines, and starry electronics -- made dream house a uniquely Italian proposition. First and foremost, the style echoed the wavy, glassy-eyed positivity of the period more than any other. While music in the UK and the low countries was getting faster and heavier, Italy's dream house producers continued to create music shot through with warmth and colorful musicality until 1993. While few dream house records were made after then, the style's sounds and loose aesthetic influenced subsequent styles such as trance and progressive house. During its peak, dream house -- or, as it was tagged by leading Italian label DFC, "ambient house" (echoing the similarly minded work of UK pioneers such as The Orb and The KLF) -- could be heard blaring from club sound systems across Europe. The style's popularity was fueled, in part at least, by the runaway international success of "Sueño Latino." Welcome To Paradise gathers together some of the finest examples of the style for the first time since the turn of the '90s. It includes a smattering of scene anthems, like Key Tronics Ensemble's peerless "Calypso Of House (Paradise Mix)" and the ambient mix of Last Rhythm's Italo-house classic "Last Rhythm" -- alongside a swathe of hard-to-find, in-demand, and forgotten gems. There are cuts from key players in the movement -- the likes of Don Pablo's Animals and Dreamatic -- plus a string of lesser-known names whose contribution to the evolution of the sound should not be overlooked. Over the course of two double-LP sets, Welcome To Paradise celebrates one of the most evocative and imaginative musical styles of electronic music's golden era. Vol. I artist list: Key Tronics Ensemble, Dreamatic, Night Communication, Agua Re, Deep Choice, High Tide, Don Pablo's Animals, Open Spaces, Jacy, K2, and Last Rhythm.
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SAFE 003-2LP
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Second part of an expansive two-part retrospective of the Italian dream house sound compiled by Safe Trip label founder Young Marco and Christiaan Macdonald. At the tail end of the 1980s, a new take on deep house began to emerge from Italian studios. Dream house drew inspiration from key US deep house records of the period -- the spacey melodiousness of Larry Heard's productions, and the rich jazziness of tracks originating in New Jersey in particular -- but sounded distinctly different. Its "head-in-the-clouds" feel -- all rich chords, tactile basslines, fluid piano lines, and starry electronics -- made dream house a uniquely Italian proposition. First and foremost, the style echoed the wavy, glassy-eyed positivity of the period more than any other. While music in the UK and the low countries was getting faster and heavier, Italy's dream house producers continued to create music shot through with warmth and colorful musicality until 1993. While few dream house records were made after then, the style's sounds and loose aesthetic influenced subsequent styles such as trance and progressive house. During its peak, dream house -- or, as it was tagged by leading Italian label DFC, "ambient house" (echoing the similarly minded work of UK pioneers such as The Orb and The KLF) -- could be heard blaring from club sound systems across Europe. The style's popularity was fueled, in part at least, by the runaway international success of "Sueño Latino." Welcome To Paradise gathers together some of the finest examples of the style for the first time since the turn of the '90s. It includes a smattering of scene anthems, like Morenas's "Sonnambulism," -- alongside a swathe of hard-to-find, in-demand, and forgotten gems. There are cuts from key players in the movement, including Sasha (later to find fame with a string of bouncy, piano-heavy Italo-house cuts), plus lesser-known names whose contribution to the evolution of the sound should not be overlooked. Young Marco has also found space for Leo Anibaldi's "Elements," a rare deep house outing from a producer who later helped define the sound of Roman techno. Over the course of two double-LP sets, Welcome To Paradise celebrates one of the most evocative and imaginative musical styles of electronic music's golden era. Vol. II artist list: Z 99, Extreme, Transitive Elements, 707 Boyz, Morenas, Now Now Now, Q-Base, Sasha, The Sky, Leo Anibaldi, and Jacy.
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SAFE 001LP
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Young Marco delivers a compilation of his own remixes to inaugurate his Safe Trip label. Featured are his versions of tracks by Francis Bebey, HNNY, and Michael Ozone, his 2015 remix of Vangelis Katsoulis's "Enigma," and a couple of previously unreleased remixes of Jacco Gardner and Zulu Pearls, plus his remixes of Heatsick, Mock & Toof, Causa, and Tony G. Few have developed as distinctive an identity as quickly as Young Marco. Since his full-length debut in 2014, the Dutch vinyl obsessive has shot from relative obscurity to global renown, building his name through brilliant, vastly wide-reaching DJ sets and optimistic, rhythm-obsessed, simplistic-but-detailed production.
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