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Şelale by soFa, Houschyar & Okay Temiz   Second Circle return with a special one-off album of music by Belgian producer soFa, German musician Houschyar and the legendary Turkish drummer and percussionist Okay Temiz. SC019 – Şelale (LP) is the result of a string of sessions that began in Istanbul in 2018, when soFa spontaneously teamed up with friend Houschyar for a series of smoky jams in the young producer’s 5th floor apartment. They would meet again a few months later, with a plan to finish the EP, and whilst having lunch, the two decided to pay a spontaneous visit to Okay Temiz, with whom soFa had worked previously. Welcoming the pair in the percussion workshop (Atölye) where he spends most of his days, Temiz was excited by their demos and the three of them began to jam around the tracks, with Temiz utilizing a number of his own homebuilt instruments. The duo had now become a trio, it seems, and back in their home studio the jams would be edited and reworked; with Okay adding further overdubbing and contributions to the tracks. Probably best known as a member of The Don Cherry Trio, for his own band Oriental Wind and for numerous collaborations with some of the best Jazz musicians in the world, Okay Temiz is considered to be one of the most innovative and outstanding musical figures in Turkey and beyond. A professional musician since 1955, Temiz's career began in Jazz and traditional Turkish music, but he became increasingly fascinated with the possibilities of electronic and self-built instruments, which he would experiment with in different forms. During the late 70ties Temiz also developed a special love for Brazilian instruments such as the Berimbau and Cuica, both of which are omnipresent on this album. In this latest collaboration, Okay Temiz weaves his percussive magic through six diverse psychedelic synthesizer and drum computer jams, alongside two exciting young producers. Şelale is mixed by Dusseldorf studio wizard Gordon Pohl and is expected to hit streets early July.

On the A side Venezuelian / Bruxelles based artist Bear Bones, Lay Low (well known for his shamanic unstoppable live acts) brings us a faster than usual track. Turbo exotic beats, distorted bass and psychedelic waves. Lick that toad and enjoy the flight ! Entertainers vol.3 by Bear Bones, Lay Low / High Wolf

Eiger Drums Propaganda strikes back on Macadam Mambo with a second opus! After a well remarked start last year, half-Pilotwings, Louis Ebola’s project, returns with a more dancefloor tribal oriented album than the previous one which was a bit more experimental, incorporating again flutes, weird voices and dreamy elements on down beats tempos, revivaling the early New Age/Trance era to modernise it with genius… MMLP4004 - EIGER DRUMS PROPAGANDA II by Eiger Drums Propaganda

OFFEN 016 was long time in the making, and we could write a lot about it - from the first time Lena Willikens played it in Warsaw on 30.11.2019 to the quest for Tadi in Shanghai -, but we’ll live it at first words that fantastic sound designer, producer and DJ Tadi Yan wrote about „7 Diamond Lines“: „This is a well know Guru Rinpoche Prayer, and has been chanted at least 1800 years. It has seven lines. Almost all the Tibetan people know this and practice it. Guru Rinpoche was like the second buddha to them also known as Padmasambhava. This was recorded in Taipei 2013 during the Ushinisha Vijiaya Puja, chanted by a very famous lama Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.“ Seven Diamond Lines by Tadi feat. DJKR

Hard Fist comes back stronger than ever with a sixth release, this time from Pletnev with a remix from Sascha Funke. A1 - Pletnev - Guest From BangkokA2 - Pletnev - Peep Of DawnB1 - Pletnev - Red ShoesB2 - Pletnev - My Word Against Yours (Sascha Funke remix)

A practice that would spread throughout Europe during the Renaissance. Northeastern Italy, at the beginning of the 1980s, an entire local scene gathered around a handful of DJs who put their dancefloors in a trance to the sounds of ''rare, new, and singular'' music, under the strong influence of ethnic and world music. A1 Fred DJ & Boran DJ - Cosmic Patch (Lazy'gal Edit)A2 African Project - Ethno Beat (Afro Version)B1 Mamukata - TantawinaB2 Zendy - Zymotic (Plastic Version)C1 Claudio Diva - Funky NephosC2 DJ Fred, DJ Otti, Jay Pee - Indien SummerD1 DJ Stefan Egger - Cosmic EsmeraldaD2 Virtual Roots - Sonar (Virtual Version) (Ygal Ohayon Low Gravity Edit)