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Aquaserge's new track (a cover of Robert Wyatt's N.I.O. - New Information Order) played last night in Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC Radio 6 Music
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New & Notable: Quixotic art-pop worldbuilding influenced by everything from French cinema and microbiology to Taoist poetry and current events. amatorski.bandcamp.com/album…
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A 2nd batch of rare vinyls discovered in our archives now available on Bandcamp, batch 2: electronic music from the '90s by Tek9, Solar Quest, Snooze... remixes by Carl Craig, Isolée, Plaid, Glenn Underground, DJ Spinna etc. Details here: linktr.ee/crammeddiscssales
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As they draw from realms of electronic, metal, hard rock, and older musical traditions, Nihiloxica call listeners to awareness and action with vigor and skill. ➡️ tinyurl.com/Nihiloxica23 #PMPick Source of Denial is out now via @CrammedDiscs. @sweisspr
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‘Luxury Zombie’ by Aksak Maboul: recorded just for fun in ’83, this pseudo electronic afrobeat jam (a lost coda to “Afflux de luxe”) was finally released a few months ago on the ‘Rare Global Pop 1980s’ archival comp crammedarchives.bandcamp.com…
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Breathtaking new album by Afro-futuristic outflit Nihiloxica drops on Sept 29, and is up for preorders on Bandcamp: nihiloxica.bandcamp.com/albu… The razor sharp sound of the Source of Denial LP is fueled by frustrations with the visa bureaucracy (listen to this excerpt)
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Ekiti Sound's 'Drum Money' highlights seamless connections between London and Lagos, vintage and contemporary, acoustic folk and electric funk. ➡️ tinyurl.com/DrumMoney #PMPick out now via @CrammedDiscs. [9/10] - @adrianeontheair
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Aksak Maboul's 'Une aventure de VV (songspiel)' is among the best albums of the year so far, according to @theQuietus
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Zenobia talk to @PopMatters about their fascinating new EP and its songs of love & resistance
Interview: ZENOBIA 'Warriors' on Their Fearless Palestinian Electronic Music ➡️ tinyurl.com/ZenobiaInterview Palestinian duo Zenobia on their love of Arabic and Western music scales and the freedom electronic music gives them to fearlessly explore women’s folk music.
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.@DJmag premieres a track from Ekiti Sound's brilliant upcoming new album. The track is for "DJs looking for festival floor-fillers... a stomping, percussive cut that draws influence from a traditional Ekiti folk song… bouncy drums + huge bass growls". djmag.com/listen/premiere-ek…
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'Es Tiempo' by Chicago's Allá... one of the alltime best-kept secrets on the Crammed label! Check it out!
15 years ago our debut album Es Tiempo was released on @CrammedDiscs ❤️‍🔥
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A great 6-page article about Aksak Maboul & their new album 'Une aventure de VV', in fashion magazine L'Officiel.
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Pop Matters premieres new Ekiti Sound video. After devastating initial video 'Chairman', the London/Lagos artist unveils another angle of his multi-faceted new album. Shot in Paris, this one shows that his boundary-pushing world encompasses a lot more than funky neo-afrobeat!…
PREMIERE: "aLAcarte pt. 2" offers another sweet slice of Ekiti Sound's culturally-spiced pie. It's a sensuously shuddering, percussive jam that's as minimal as it is deep. ➡️ tinyurl.com/EkitiSound @EkitiSound's new LP 'Drum Money' is out on 23 June via @CrammedDiscs.
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An extensive, in-depth interview with Aksak Maboul's Véronique Vincent & Marc Hollander about the making of their new album 'Une aventure de VV (songspiel)'. (in the excellent It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine). The album is here: aksakmaboul.bandcamp.com/ psychedelicbabymag.com/2023/…
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Out on Made To Measure: a new extension of NOVA MATERIA's ambient project. Feat. Agnès Gayraud aka La Féline, Gaspar Claus, Myako & Cosmic Neman. A haunted album that further explores sonic architecture derived from recordings made in the Mexican jungle. lnk.to/NovaMateria_In_The_Fo…)
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Acid Arab's "Ya Mahla" is Song of the Day on leading US independent radio @kexp !!!!
Our Song of the Day: "Ya Mahla" by Acid Arab & Wael Alkak on Crammed Discs. Listen here: bit.ly/3nQuKbO ...or subscribe to Song of the Day wherever you podcast to get music discovery delivered to you every day.
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'Warriors Never Die': new EP by Palestinian electronic music duet Zenobia, dedicated to their namesake (warrior queen Septima Zenobia of Palmyra, 3C AD), with 4 rearranged iconic, traditional women's folk songs lnk.to/Zenobia_Warriors
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L’opéra contemporain d’Aksak Maboul lesoir.be/511616/article/202…
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Out as part of the Rare SSR Electronica 1994-01 (Crammed Archives 3) series: Gemini’s “Pieces of Euphoria” (1996), the much sought-after EP recorded in Brussels by one of Chicago house music’s most mysterious and revered characters lnk.to/Gemini_PiecesOfEuphor…
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Out today: “Rare SSR Electronica 1994-01” incl. 24 tracks by Juryman, Snooze, Nu Era, Gemini, Tek 9, Common Factor, DJ Morpheus, and remixes by Carl Craig, Matthew Herbert, Luke Vibert, DJ Spinna, Stacey Pullen, Glenn Underground. lnk.to/Crammed_Archives_3
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