Review: Earlier in the year, Multi Culti dropped the first collaborative album from MD Pallavi and Andi Otto, a decidedly cosmic and otherworldly, but undeniably alluring and accessible affair entitled 'Songs For Broken Ships'. This expansive remix package sees a wealth of artists give their spin on tracks from the set. The hits keep coming through out, from Simon De Kunovich's bleeping, intoxicating and heady deep house interpretation of 'Prayer To The Clouds', and Auntie Flo's South African Kwaito-influenced re-wire of 'Clockshop', to Bliz Nochi and Emi Jourjou's head-nodding downtempo rework of 'Velvet Flicker' and Poligra's sitar-sporting outsider house take on 'Puglisi'. Hannah Lee's deep, dark and tribal version of 'Prayer To The Cloud' is also very special.
Review: Italian trance and slow acid on this new and typically wacky Multi Culti release from modular brothers A-Tweed & Oltrefuturo. Hot off releases for Whypeopledance, Sinchi Collective, Duro and Nein, the crazy pair present a mini LP of maximum strength. Get on your tunnel vision for the slo-mo chugger "Android Riot", go further down the vortex on the psychedelic locomotion of "Ushuaia Bottellon" before being taken to a higher state on the euphoric indie-dance of "Jaipuri Kundan Ring". Elsewhere, we never mind a good hit of acid do we? The 303 centred throb job "King Hippo" has you covered.
Review: Still in the game outta Montreal Canada is TVP's Multi Culti label with a second collaborative release from Berlin duo Sascha Funke & Niklas Wandt! It follows up the project's Wismut EP from last year with three new and supersonic, primed cuts pumped up with new wave, cosmic and psychedelica-deutsche power! Take the "Blue Monday" atmospheres and Klaus Schultz-like instrumentation in "Kreidekreis" with its over the top crescendos and high voltage synths that balance out next to the stripped-back, future disco and spacey tribal effects of "Kometenschweif". With a heavier, grungy bassline given prominence in "Weg Vom Leder" allowing Niklas Wandt's sly vocals to take up center-stage, a similar recipe is followed in Whodammy's remix to "Kometenschweif". Adding some extra lo-fi effects and instrumental dub flavours to the record is Alexander Arpeggio and his post punk-y take of "Kreidekreis". New German New Wave, yeah!
Review: Look up keywords 'deep water' and 'dreams' and you'll have some idea of where this record is going...or at least comes from. A dark place, maybe...but not the ominous sort; a kind where colour is splashed around by Dreems ambient swirls, chimes and arpeggios of tracks "Coaster's Retreat", to the more laced-out, cosmiq and psych-synths of "Moonlight In The Depths". In Deep Waters presents a next release for Dreems on Thomas Von Party's Multi Culti label following last year's Diamond Bay LP, and you can xpect swathes of new age, exotica and synth, with more acoustic ballads to be found in "The Bends". A good place to dream that's for sure.
Review: Hamburger Andi Otto's Bow Wave LP from earlier this year gets the cult remix treatment here on Thomas Von Party's Berlin based imprint. Man of the moment Nicola Cruz gets some Ecuadorian folklorica vibes happening as always on "Bow Wave", "The Taste Of Bamboo" gets deep into the exotic, sitars tablas and all - courtesy of Sao Paulo's R Vincenzo's remix (Voodoohop Collective). But they save the best for last with "Six" (featuring the seductive vocal chants of one MD Pallavi) which receives two remixes: the first is a lo-slung psyched-out epic by Parisian Golden Bug, and then the Center Of The Universe remix - where the Norwegian delivers a truly meditative exercise in trance induction.
Review: Australian indie-house hero Dreems is back, with a track most likely named after his old stomping ground in Sydney - the affluent inner city suburb of Rose Bay and its amazing view of the iconic Sydney Harbour. After hooking up with Multi Culti boss Thomas Von Party a few years ago, he's since moved to the label's headquarters in Montreal and now of course the global epicenter of electronic music - Berlin. "Milk Beach" (original mix) is an eerie and hypnotic perspective of modern balerica, full of whirry synth textures, mesmerizing bell tones and slack beats. It then receives an energetic folktronica rendition by man of the moment Nicola Cruz. Speaking of remixes: Berlin legend and one half of Saschienne Sascha Funke delivers an impressive, acid inflected remix of "Coasters Retreat". Elsewhere there's the lo-slung tribal punk funk of "The Point Piper" (feat Luka - original mix) that was equally impressive.
Review: More indie world music vibes courtesy of Thomas Von Party's esteemed Multi Culti imprint. The folklorica of Ecuadorian producer Nicola Cruz's Cantos de Vision EP gets a bunch of wicked remixes on this EP. Starting out with Simple Symmetry's dark, bumpy and grinding rendition of "Tzantza", Earthly Delight's Yor Kultura from the Netherlands deliver a lo-slung deep funk makeover of the track too. "Bruxo" gets a couple of remixes as well, but it was all about the aforementioned Von Party's deep tribal voodoo acid groove: which will take you deep into the spiritual home of the the rainforest.
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