Clafrica
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Back in 2021, when Volodymyr Gnatenko agreed to work on his debut album, none of us could have predicted it would be released, post-pandemic, against the backdrop of war. At the time, the 23-year-old producer from Lutsk was riding high on a string of well-received 12s for labels such as Where We Met and Animals On Psychedelics, besides local Ukraine labels such as LSS557 and Rhythm Buro. He was, between covid closures, playing live at Kyiv clubs such as Closer and Kureni, looking to tour in Europe, and spending every spare second making music.How things change. When missiles began to rain on Kyiv, Gnatenko, alongside a few friends from Closer, hid in his studio. For a while, the bombings did not stop. But for the producer, neither did the music-making. Choosing to stay in the city, he continues to make beats, managing only to mix down between bombing raids. He changed his first name to match that of his president, ditching the previous spelling of his name because it was the same as the aggressor, “the same as my worst enemy, I am ashamed and disgusted that I started my career with it”.The album speaks of softer, easier times. A combination of rich ambience, and laidback breaks alongside loose progressive and trance-fused dancefloor tracks, this debut brings together all the strands that Gnatenko plays with. The process, he says, was exhausting and long. Yet the results are lighter, fresher. Maybe because, he says, “it is dedicated to my future wife. All the tracks are my words of love for her". Deeply hypnotic and freely moving between ideas, it feels like it was made a lifetime ago, not a matter of months. Now, it resonates with a new defiance. It is a debut with an extra layer of meaning.

An 8 track album from the French artist ‘Victor Gaudin’ also known as ‘Cepren Synth’: 5 years of unreleased tracks from ‘L’oiseau Blue’, Brussels and ‘168 Cours De La Marne’, Bordeaux.

Rolling on with number fifteen we welcome back the mighty Amos Bellot working under a couple of alias'. Hands down one of our favourite producers to ever do it! All tracks were produced in the 90's, taken from DAT and remastered for the occasion'

With his unified Peopleskills concept, Perspects shares new directions and ideas. This is demonstrated by his heavy vocal presence (sometimes in a Bryan Ferry vs. Brian Eno sort of way) and the incorporation of live drums into his sequenced sound, hinting at a whole new sound and approach. This is apparant in his live performances, which now feature a full drum kit alongside live vocals, analog synthetic drums, and sequencing. Tracklist A1 The Soft Traffic Interrupt, A2 The Wake, A3 We're in Separate Cars, B1 Obsurfacer, B2 Photofinish, B3 Too Much Too Fast, C1 Fact & Finger, C2 Parts, C3 Factory Of Tissue (LP only),D1 Dried Funeral Siegfried, D2 Limbs Begin Dissolving, D3 Memer.

R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings is honoured to welcomeBudapest’s, Gnork to the label with a 4-tracker of spaced outhouse music

After the wonderful techno Album “The Compilation” on Moto Music 013 three years ago a new Album “Alchemist Dream & Future Tales” is coming out on same swiss label produced by the legend Bigeneric aka Marco Repetto. Those tracks are a bundle of beautiful and well preserved dark High-Tech Techno & Ambient tracks, produced between 1995 and 1999.