#Soma Quality Recordings

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Finally I put out a fake track cover

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ⓟ 2015 AXC under exclusive license to Sacred Bones Records / Soma Records Ltd

© 2015 Sacred Bones Records, under exclusive license to Soma Records Ltd

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Today's mix:

Past Lessons / Future Theories by Slam 2000 Tech-House / Techno / House / Deep House

Oh, hell yes, folks. Today, we've got an exquisite turn-of-the-millennium double-disc mix, courtesy of Glasgow's greatest techno DJ pair to ever do it, Slam. Back in the early 90s, these guys were part of the group that was responsible for co-founding the terrific Soma Quality Recordings label—also based out of Glasgow—and these days they play sets all across the globe, have their very own festival, and host one of techno's most popular weekly podcasts too: Slam Radio. Needless to say, in a genre whose overall ephemerality tends to be so key, and with so many acts who debuted in the early 90s having naturally fallen by the wayside, the fact that these two have managed to become, and still remain, an institution in this space is such a commendably rare feat in and of itself 👏. And a mix like this serves as a stellar example as to why they've managed to stick around and stay in the top echelon of techno DJs for so long. Past Lessons / Future Theories certainly doesn't catch Slam in their earliest days, but it's still only the second mix of theirs to ever be released commercially, and the first since 1996's Psychotrance 4, on Moonshine Music. And while the first disc is the far chiller of the two and sees them tying to shy away from dropping the straight-up techno jams, it's the second disc where they decide to really channel their true, uninhibited inner selves, and get down to brass tacks 😤.

Now, while most mixes tend to have names that you really shouldn't read too much into, I think there's a meaning behind this one's in particular, and that it's really exemplified by a single track: Josh Wink and Lil' Louis' "How's Your Evening So Far?" Real house heads who know their history are already undoubtedly familiar with the name Lil' Louis, as he's the guy who made one of the biggest ever house tunes of the 1980s, with the warm and chuggingly sensual "French Kiss." But with this track from 2000 here, Philadelphia's Josh Wink manages to revive that classic while simultaneously cozily wrapping it in his own techno knowhow, yielding a total banger that, over 20 years later, still satisfies plentifully 😌. So, if Past Lessons / Future Theories means taking what you've already learned and then building something new and lasting directly on top of it, then Wink really knocked that whole concept out of the damn park with this song here.

And also, while this second disc largely seems to run a slightly dark, yet eclectic contemporary techno gamut of sorts, I still definitely gotta give it up especially for Mad Mike Banks' "String Mix" of The Aztec Mystic's "Jaguar." This is a tune that builds itself in anticipation to a boiling point with its very prominent, sharp, and dramatic orchestral string work, with those strings eventually transitioning into creakily seesawing Hitchcockian stabs when the drumbeat finally comes in at the end. Such a phenomenal track!

So, in all honesty, after listening to this album's first disc, I was starting to get ready to conclude that while Slam had been trusted veteran DJs for a good while by the year 2000, this release itself didn't actually have the transcendent 'wow' factor that you might expect. But evidently, these guys were just saving up all their magic for disc 2. Disc 1 isn't a total skipper by any means, but that second one really shows you what these Glasgow legends are capable of weaving together, and to that end, why they've managed to outlast almost all of their peers as well.

Listen to CD1 here. Listen to CD2 here.

Highlights:

CD1:

E-Dancer - "Heavenly (Juan Atkins Remix)" Flunky - "Love Song (Dub)" Sueño Latino - Sueno Latino (Bushwacka! Tek Mix)" Mark Flash - "Timbales Calientes" Silicone Soul - "Right On, Right On"

CD2:

Bushwacka! - "Healer (House Mix)" Hipp-E & Eric Davenport - "Jesus Loves 2000" Valentino Kanzyani - "Fever" Trevor Rockcliffe - "A Sound Called House" Samuel L. Session - "Tribe Cut" Death In Vegas - "Dirge (Slam Mix)" Josh Wink & Lil' Louis - "How's Your Evening So Far?" Black Odyssey - "The Stand" Gaetano Parisio - "1999" Slam - "Positive Education" The Aztec Mystic - "Jaguar (Mad Mike String Mix)"

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Secret Circuit - Green Mirror - new double-length album from one of the best in electronica

Invisible Inc is over the moon to finally be announcing this long-awaited double album of new music by Secret Circuit. Presented here are 21 new pieces (or 22 if you count the bandcamp-exclusive digital bonus) recorded between 2020 and 2022 which capture that spacey, otherworldly quality Secret Circuit is known for but they also very much veer into the warmer, earthier and generally more ambient textural territories of his E Ruscha V and Only Thingz work...an altogether softer sensibility. The fact that the second disc of the double album is primarily ambient further confuses the issue! But Secret Circuit this most definitely is! From a plethora of demos (40+) Invisible Inc label boss GK Machine wanted to distill these down and explore a side of Ruscha's that he felt hadn't been heard before, focussing on Ruscha's more emotive yet at the same time experimental side. Is that a paradox? Well, let's say only very rarely do we hear modular synths doing something so human-sounding, and when these are juxtaposed alongside slide guitars, live bass and vocodered vocals, we have something very special indeed. Then there's the artwork...all lovingly drawn by E Ruscha V himself and landing on our desk long after the record had gone into production and test pressings delivered and approved. The package is made complete with a double-sided colour insert with liner notes and another of Ruscha's mind-warping doodles. Oh and the liner notes are written in reverse so you'll need a mirror to read them. Of course they are! To cut a long story short, everything about this release is archetypal classic Secret Circuit and couldn't be anyone else. A highpoint for the label in 2023, no doubt. And we hope you love it as much as we do. INVINC HQ

instruments: Modular Synths, Lap Steel, Roland Jupiter 6, Roland JD-800, Roland SH101, Roland TR808, Elektron Machine Drum, Elektron Digitakt, Field Recordings, Soma Lyra 8, Various Guitars, Fender Bass, Yamaha M5, Yamaha CS 60, Moog DFAM, Moog Subharmonicon, Various Percussion, Yamaha PSR 19, Clarinet, Syntox Vocoder, Modor NF1 + Vox by E Ruscha V Vox & percussion on "Illuminated Knights" by Milo Ruscha All songs written by Edward Ruscha V

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New Roll Dann finally out on Soma Quality Recordings soon

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Deepchord - Jeanneau Rainy Winter Vibes.

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Fantastic Voyage

July's Featured Release

Destination Unknown 2 - Pig & Dan (2022, Bedrock Records) the Spanish duo, who have been active since the early '00s, with releases often categorized under tech-house and post-progressive house elements via their self-run Submission Records label. They've pulled the attention of some crucial, well-respected labels and had put out full-length releases on Cocoon, Soma Quality and Bedrock where the first chapter of Destination Unknown was issued.

Destination Unknown 2 is a journey of chill-out, rather than another compilation of 12" tracks. Remnants of DnB and dub influences ebb and flow throughout the set, marking points of soul and depth to the ears, with absolutely no trace of tech-house interference.

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Slam – Lifetimes

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0D84RItW5kza1ODKMKluOM

AppleMusic: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/lifetimes/206343567?i=206343581&l=en

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hugoooooo/8-lifetimes-slam

[thebonesofhoudini]

Bush Funk - Computers Ain't Funky (1996)

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with neko being the current main character of lookism fandom disk-horse, i feel an urge to share my two-cents on her, so here we go. (long rant ahead)

soma mitsuki is an excellent antagonist (or as good as we could hope for, with ptj’s questionable record of writing women characters…). her intentions and actions are enough to make many readers double over with rage, which i think is testament to how well she’s written.

she revived a collapsing casino, and turned it into an empire. she managed to recruit the 2A executives to become her henchmen and follow her to a foreign country, and they remained loyal to her upto the very end.

she isn’t like vivi, the pampered daughter of a billionaire that would rather traumatise unregistered children and brainwash burn victims to protect his daughter, than rehabilitate her. unlike vivi, she doesn’t have xiaolung’s devotion. throughout her growing up, she has only seen the worst of men. even ryuhei, despite his feelings for her, behaved in an absolutely gross way during their first meeting. 

her obsession with sinu is infinitely interesting - she’s drawn to him not because of lust, but due to his sacrifice. it’s the first time she’s seen any man act outside of his own needs, and she wants to be on the receiving end of his sacrifice, even if it means she has to treat sinu like an object… such an obsession is selfish. it’s disgusting. it’s terrifying. but all of this asserts her position as a commendable antagonist.

she’s an exceptionally capable business woman, a quality that’s seen in men like yujin, gun, samuel, and olly - all of whom are equally terrible, but better-liked than mitsuki.

mitsuki is manipulative, but so are characters like gun (with his successors) and jake (with big deal during juvie and even after his release).

she’s a charismatic leader, much like jake. In fact, both of them are the neglected children of lecherous fathers who left them with only burdens and problems. both are touched by sinu’s passion and romance. both of them sit at the top of the food chain and make the ones below fight (mitsuki in the circus, and jake in juvie). however, both of their love for sinu diverges their roads as protagonist and antagonist - jake wants sinu to be happy, even if it’s far from himself. mitsuki only wants sinu to be by her side, even if he’s never truly happy.

so, i feel that it’s time that we realise that being like soma mitsuki was a VERY likely outcome if characters that we love and adore were placed under slightly different circumstances, or that we give characters that are no different from her a LOT less heat.

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1990s Techno Playlist

Got a huge update for this playlist that I somehow haven’t managed to touch in months 😧. Well, actually, let me clarify that...the update’s huge for YouTube, but not so much for Spotify, since Spotify’s techno library is, sadly, severely lacking. I mean, most of the tracks I’m adding today come from one of the most important labels in techno history, Berlin’s Tresor, and Spotify has barely any of them! For shame, Spotify!

Funny though, the two Tresor tracks that I was able to find on Spotify actually now end up bookending the playlist: X-101′s “Sonic Destroyer,” a classic, hard-nosed, buzzing early 90s raver, and Hiroaki Iizuka’s “Tera,” one of those rhythmically walloping and super hypnotic, tribal kinds of grooves. Plus, I also threw in probably one of the most oddball tracks to ever chart in the top 5 in the UK with Underworld’s “Born Slippy,” which earned its fame thanks to its inclusion in the 1996 film, Trainspotting. Some people have even gone so far as to call that song electronic music’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

X-101 - “Sonic Destroyer” Underworld - “Born Slippy” Hiroaki Iizuka - “Tera”

Now, for the YouTubes: it’s a lot. I added a bunch of songs that I’d struggled to find previously from a trio of legendary labels: Paris’ F Communications, the Netherlands’ Djax-Up-Beats, and Glasgow’s Soma Quality Recordings. I also added some great tracks that were showcased on Josh Wink’s Profound Sounds, Vol. 1 mix from 1999. And on top of that, I poured in a good bunch from the Tresor label too. 

And I think, since this is something of an immense update, that if you want the true cream of the crop here within all of these adds, you should go towards the end of the playlist and find “Bored Meat” by Berlin’s DisX3 and “Mala Mazza” by Amsterdam’s Diskordia. Both of those tracks are featured on Tresor’s Annex 3 compilation, and while all the songs in this update are great, it’s those two particular beauties especially, which just so happen to be lined up back-to-back, that are simply *on another level* to me 😌. And don’t sleep on Funk D’Void’s “V-Ger” either! 🤩

Here’s a list of tracks from the update that only exclusively appear on YouTube and not on Spotify:

Laurent Garnier - “Breathless (Edit)” Phaedrus - “Tesla” Aurora Borealis - “The Milky Way (Edit)” Holy Ghost - “MK Ultra” Funk D’Void - “V-Ger” Group X - “Journey” Marko Laine - “So What” Blue Arsed Fly - “Bucket” Cristian Vogel - “Lock Onto the Signal” Pacou - “T.4″ Naohisa Furusawa - “E++” Marshall Jefferson - “The Horse” Maas - “Look At Me Now Falling (I.Cube Simple Mix)” Tobias Schmidt - “Cosmetic Pollution” Blaze - “Lovelee Dae (Eight Miles High Mix)” DisX 3 - “The Wide Theatre” Stacey Pullen Presents Black Odyssey - “Sweat” Christian Smith & John Selway - “Silver” Josh Wink - “Untitled” The Advent - “Sketched for Life (Salsa mix)” Dave Tarrida - “Mouse Catcher General” DisX3 - “Bored Meat” Diskordia - “Mala Mazza” Kijitora - “Butterfly Control”

Playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So now this thing is really finally starting to take shape, at least on YouTube. We’ve got about 3 hours and 20 minutes worth of songs on Spotify, but almost 7 hours now on Youtube. And there’s still so much more to add 😅.

But wait, we’re still not done yet! Also have another 90s techno playlist that’s specifically focused on the year 1997. Again, the Spotify one is far inferior to the YouTube one:

Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!  

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Slam — Intensities In-Ten-Cities Soma Quality Recordings [SOMA 008], 1993

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Ryley Walker - Mark & Kim’s Backyard, Flushing, New York, June 5, 2021

Feels good to be linking over to the venerable NYC Taper — to a recording of a Ryley Walker show in 2021! Of all things. Is live music really back? (Live music taping is back, anyway — there’s actually another source for this show. Thank you, tapers.) Ryley admits to a little rustiness, but he sounds great, playing tunes from all over his catalog, plus some choice covers of John Martyn, Jim O’Rourke, Bill MacKay and others. Anyway, it puts me in the mood to catch a show in person ... I haven’t done it yet, but maybe soon? 

The new RW record, Course In Fable, came out this spring, and it is fannnnntastic. In fact, since we’re here, you can read my little one-sheet essay about the LP, which Ryley asked me to write earlier this year. An honor and a privilege. 

Ryley Walker - Course In Fable

Ryley Walker currently resides in New York City. But his latest LP is a Chicago record in spirit. The masterful Course In Fable, the songwriter’s fifth solo effort, draws from the deep well of that city’s fertile 1990s scene, when bands like Tortoise, The Sea and Cake and Gastr del Sol were reshaping the underground, mixing and matching indie rock, jazz, prog and beyond. Walker spent his formative years in Chicago, absorbing those heady sounds and finding ways to make them his own. Even though he emerged at first in folk-rock troubadour mode, it makes sense that he’s arrived at this point; each LP has grown more intricate and assured, his influences distilling into something original and unusual. To put it simply: Course In Fable is Walker’s best record yet, full of active imagination and endless possibilities. Last October, Ryley went straight to one of the primary architects of the Chicago sound to make the LP. John McEntire, Course In Fable’s producer/engineer/ mixer, can rightly be called a legend for his work with Tortoise, Stereolab, The Red Krayola, Jim O’Rourke and countless others over a prolific career that now spans more than three decades. Seeing his name in an album’s liners is pretty much a trademark of quality. Another Windy City exile, McEntire is based on the west coast these days, working out of the Portland, OR studio he’s dubbed Soma West. On the seven songs here, he delivers the signature shimmering and pristine sonics he’s become known for over the years. But McEntire was also intimately involved with Course In Fable’s overall creative process. “I told him to take the mixes and have at it,” Walker says. The result is a rich, immersive affair — a headphones record if ever there was one. Course In Fable’s songs are twisty, labyrinthine things, stuffed full of ideas (Walker half-jokingly calls it his “prog record”). But no matter how complex it gets, the album is never overwhelmingly busy. Wiry guitars melt into gorgeous string sections (arranged by Douglas Jenkins of the Portland Cello Project). Tricky time signatures abound but feel as natural as can be. Melodies o@en dri@ in unexpected directions but remain downright hummable. Like Walker’s beloved Genesis, the pop element is never too far from the surface even when shit gets weird. (And speaking of weird, Ryley says that in addition to Genesis, much of the album’s inspiration comes from “Australian extreme scooter riders on YouTube and balding gear heads on Craigslist.” Go figure.) To help put together these various puzzle pieces, Ryley assembled a band made up of several longtime collaborators. Bill MacKay (another Chicago mainstay) and Walker have made two excellent instrumental duo records of interlocking guitars and warm give-and-take — a rapport very much in evidence throughout Course In Fable. The freakishly talented drummer Ryan Jewell has performed with Walker for years now in a variety of settings, from straightforward song-centric sets to blown-out improv extravaganzas. Bassist Andrew Scott Young (Tiger Hatchery, Health & Beauty) has logged many miles on tour with Walker; he and Jewell are frequently astonishing, a buoyant-but-always-locked-in rhythm section, able to navigate sometimes dizzying turnarounds with apparent ease. Listening to the interplay between Walker and these musicians and you might be fooled into thinking they’d spent a year road-testing Course In Fable’s songs. But it all came together relatively fast, thanks to demos, rehearsals and the kind of musical empathy that comes from years of playing together. Beneath the wondrous interplay, you’ll find some of Walker’s most personal – if still typically cryptic — lyrics, hinting at some of the trials the songwriter has been dealing with in recent years. Balanced with necessary doses of dark humour and oddball poetry, Course In Fable feels most of all like a life-affirming record, fresh air in the lungs, sun on your skin. “Fuck me, I’m alive,” Ryley sings at one point, a moment of both disbelief and pure joy. Walker has released his albums on a who’s-who of independent labels over the past decade — Tompkins Square, Dead Oceans, Thrill Jockey and Drag City among them. This time around, he’s doing it DIY-style, putting Course In Fable out on his own Husky Pants imprint. You’re in good hands. This is an album that sounds great (mastered by Greg Calbi), looks great (artwork by Jenny Nelson and design by Michael Vallera). It probably even smells great. Whether you’ve been onboard since the beginning or are new to the Ryley Walker universe, you’re in for a treat.

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New Symmetrical Behaviour out on Soma Quality Recordings

https://www.deejay.de/Symmetrical_Behaviour_Superconducting_Harmonic_Oscillator_EP_SOMA564_Vinyl__942466

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#SImternet Conqueror Aspiration

Created for: The Sims 4 by  IlkaVelle

4/10 October Patch (10/3/2019 - PC 1.56.52.1020)

I very briefly checked my mods for the newest patch. All of them seem to work fine. Unfortunately I don't have time currently to test it out thoroughly. But it was very small patch and shouldn't affect files. Still, if you notice that something doesn't work, please let me know A friend asked me for a YouTuber aspiration, this is how this one started  And I had so much fun when creating it, that eventually I expanded the idea, and in the end it is an aspiration combining social media possibilities  So let your Sim start Social Media career, record new videos, stream and gain followers, and you will be awarded Objectives: 1) Excited Newbie * Study Trends 3 Times * Respond To Comments 3 Times * Upload Videos 3 Times * Join Social Media Career 2) Followers Collector * Advertise Product via Social Media 3 Times * Stream 5 Times * Update Social Media Status 30 Times * Join the Internet Personality Branch of the Social Media Career 3) Trend Setter * Achieve Level 5 Media Production Skill * Edit Videos 10 Times * Upload Videos with Best Quality 5 Times * Receive an Award 4) Famous SimTube Vlogger * Become a 5 Star Celebrity * Complete 24-Hours Charity Stream * Have 30 000 000 Followers * Reach the Top of Social Media Career Reward Trait : Credible Simfluencer - Sims with Credible Simfluencer trait get most of services for free (Star Treatment perk features were used here, so if you complete this aspiration, you don't need separetely this perk), receive 2 additional fame points and sometimes get from various companies some products for free to review (first comes after few days, so please be patient).

Languages: English and Polish French translation added thanks to Kimiko Soma (MaiaGame)

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