The Dwarfs of East Agouza is an improvising band formed in Cairo, Egypt combining repetitive North African drums, free jazz guitar inspired by West African traditions and motorik acoustic bass a la krautrock in a colourful and lively blend of hot psychedelia. It’s a new project from Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Alvarius B.), Maurice Louca (“Salute the Parrot”) and Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect), who started playing together in Cairo’s Agouza district in 2012 to explore hypnotic local traditions, as heard on their excellent debut album “Bes”.
https://thedwarfsofeastagouza.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thedwarfsofeastagouza/
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. In the past 20 plus years Sote has published his work with such established music labels like Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes, Morphine, Digitalis and Repitch among others. Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthetics. Sote's goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his own mind.
Sote's compositions and multi-channel installations are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His passion for all music, especially electronic music, and his extensive involvement in sound art and the world of academia have led Sote to compose in a wide variety of musical styles. His works show a strong emphasis on electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs.
http://www.sotesound.com/
https://soundcloud.com/sotesound
Killing Sound is the quartet of Seb Gainsborough, Amos Childs, Sam Kidel and Chester Giles.
Gainsborough is best known for his solo work as Vessel, while Amos Childs is one half of spooked hip-hop duo Jabu, and Kidel pursues more abstract electronics as El Kid. All three are members of Bristol’s Young Echo collective. The Killing Sound project debuted in 2012 on No Corner, contributing the sprawling ‘Real Love’ to a split cassette with Jabu. This piece scarcely prepared us for the power and poise of Killing Sound, a vinyl-only 2×12″ EP of oblique soundsystem murderers released on Blackest Ever Black in early 2014, and followed by the one-sided ‘$ixxx Harmonies Version’ 12″.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wzu35elDw
https://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/ks-clips-2
An alter ego for the man behind the brilliant Farbwechsel label based out of Budapest, Bálint Zalkai, Alpár sees the Hungarian producer turning his hand to old school Schulze-style arpeggiated Kosmische on his latest release Tropic Daze, where he distils the synth epics of 70s Berlin School to its most potent possible form.
https://soundcloud.com/alpaar/sets/tropic-daze-jj-funhouse-007-2015
https://farbwechsel.bandcamp.com
https://thedwarfsofeastagouza.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thedwarfsofeastagouza/
Ata Ebtekar aka Sote is an electronic music composer and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. In the past 20 plus years Sote has published his work with such established music labels like Warp, Sub Rosa, Opal Tapes, Morphine, Digitalis and Repitch among others. Global cultural exposure through transmigration has been a significant stimulant for his aesthetics. Sote's goal is to create unique and timeless pieces of music that are not available anywhere except in his own mind.
Sote's compositions and multi-channel installations are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo aligns with folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analyses. His passion for all music, especially electronic music, and his extensive involvement in sound art and the world of academia have led Sote to compose in a wide variety of musical styles. His works show a strong emphasis on electro-acoustic techniques, microtonal systems and polyrhythmic motifs.
http://www.sotesound.com/
https://soundcloud.com/sotesound
Killing Sound is the quartet of Seb Gainsborough, Amos Childs, Sam Kidel and Chester Giles.
Gainsborough is best known for his solo work as Vessel, while Amos Childs is one half of spooked hip-hop duo Jabu, and Kidel pursues more abstract electronics as El Kid. All three are members of Bristol’s Young Echo collective. The Killing Sound project debuted in 2012 on No Corner, contributing the sprawling ‘Real Love’ to a split cassette with Jabu. This piece scarcely prepared us for the power and poise of Killing Sound, a vinyl-only 2×12″ EP of oblique soundsystem murderers released on Blackest Ever Black in early 2014, and followed by the one-sided ‘$ixxx Harmonies Version’ 12″.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wzu35elDw
https://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/ks-clips-2
An alter ego for the man behind the brilliant Farbwechsel label based out of Budapest, Bálint Zalkai, Alpár sees the Hungarian producer turning his hand to old school Schulze-style arpeggiated Kosmische on his latest release Tropic Daze, where he distils the synth epics of 70s Berlin School to its most potent possible form.
https://soundcloud.com/alpaar/sets/tropic-daze-jj-funhouse-007-2015
https://farbwechsel.bandcamp.com
