{"title":"Catalogue","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"martha-rose-close-to-close-vinyl","title":"Martha Rose - ‘Close to Close’ Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/227EpYl1fl9ZF5olsmNVIq?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrifting off in a dreamlike state, lost in a meadow maybe, the sun is shining, gently warming your skin. The smell of spring is perfuming the air, and there is lightness all around. A lightness that’s everything but shallow, a lightness full of cheekiness, a lightness that has come to know loss and alienation. This is the sonic landscape Martha Rose has created for us. It evokes a tender, diffuse nostalgia, an air of simplicity, yet feels mystical at the same time. Welcome to the world of Martha.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn English multi-instrumentalist, Martha Rose has been active in Berlin’s diverse underground music scene for years. With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to Close\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she makes her debut at the Neukölln-based label Mansions \u0026amp; Millions, the artistic home of many of her longtime collaborators. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to Close\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an organic and introspective meditation, creating an almost dreamlike state of being that feels simultaneously fragile, mournful but also light and full of love. „It mourns closeness gone cold“, Martha Rose explains „and the quiet loss of unspoken fragile intimacy.“ Unsurprisingly, the record’s first ideas were conceived during „those lonely months of lockdown“, she remembers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt took until May 2023 for them to fully come to fruition, working together with producer ET at his studio in Neukölln. Working with vintage drum machine samples, Yamaha keyboards Martha Rose had collected, and, of course, lots of organic live recordings, they created the world of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to Close\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Alongside nods to traditional songs and ballads from Ireland, England, Scotland and the US, inspiration was found in the music of Daniel Johnston, Kate Bush or the Cocteau Twins, in literature, childhood memories, fairy tales, and DJ-sets at quintessential Berlin hangouts. „ET asked me lots of important and difficult questions about the songs“, Martha remembers, „to make sure they were forming in the best and most honest way possible.“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHonesty is a common thread binding the dreamy soundscapes together, the lyrics are united by Martha’s bravery to share feelings of loneliness and being vulnerable. „It seems that the overarching theme of love will always be in my music, no matter what I do“, she says, „there are themes of romance, introspection, and loss in this project too.“ These personal experiences serve as a springboard to develop a song, and through the use of fictional or classic characters (such as the ancient Greek figure of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEurydice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in the eponymous song) and archetypes, mysticism, fantasy and symbolism then take up a life of their own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChin Up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for example, a tender ballad about being brave and keeping one’s chin up, even after experiencing rejection, invokes traditional folk traditions from the US-American mid-west. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNever Love Enough\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, wrapping the listener in sweet, blissful harmonies, turns the narratives of a love song on its head by wondering whether the lyrical subject can ever match their lover’s devotion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Love In Your Heart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a call to love without fear reflects the feeling of peace that is found when you accept your own contradictory self. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Same Feeling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, on the other hand, explores darker tonalities and themes. Martha says „There is a feeling of nighttime danger and glamour, and a relentlessness to the melodies in this song, which keep pushing through the emotional walls they are trying to understand.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a record full of highlights, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeart Still Beats 4 U\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e still manages to stand out: Martha Rose creates a song that is simultaneously subtle, yet undeniably disco. „It’s an upbeat lament about the impossibility of escaping your crush, soundtracking lonely nights secretly crying on a glittering 80s dance floor“, Martha reveals – and if there is any justice left in this planet, this track should be drawing crowds onto any dance floor imaginable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClose to Close\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a remarkably concise, softly confident and impressive debut by a seasoned artist with a clear artistic vision and the skills to make these dreams come true. There is bravery in romance, in vulnerability, in softness – and Martha Rose formed the soundscape for it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e– Aida Baghernejad, February 2024, Berlin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martha Rose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898708144456,"sku":"MAMI44LP","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/ClosetoClosefront.jpg?v=1730559148"},{"product_id":"world-brain-open-source-lp","title":"World Brain - ‘Open Source’ Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3zUPEKdFY8AdS9Efz2BMLs?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWORLD BRAIN last graced us with a solo release with 2019’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeer 2 Peer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. As its name suggests, that album explored the promise and perils of universal connectivity via quirked-up songwriting and instrumental psychedelia. His new release, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpen Source\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, deepens this internal and external journey. Bursting beyond the four walls of ‘bedroom pop’ and reflecting a move from Berlin to Paris—where much of the album was recorded—and on to Brussels, the album has a jazzy, cinematic scope (as on the Brubeck-inspired march “Fromage collatéral,”) enveloping the listener in a cosmic-pastoral audiosphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are still many tones that evoke the software sounds of decades past (the exemplar here is “cAPTCHA,” whose virtual marimba and vocalese suggest a breathless, Exotica-inspired introduction .mov for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einformation superhighway\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) but the palette has become richer and more organic, lead by the woodwinds which play a major role throughout, with flute provided by labelmate Martha Rose. (On the aforementioned “cAPTCHA” one also hears the world-class whistling talents of the incomparable Molly Lewis.) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet the single most noticeable new element may be the use of WORLD BRAIN's native French, sung by his sister Noémie on “Ville fleurie” and the gorgeous, fluttering “Minute papillion” (the title an idiomatic injunction to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eslow down!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) WORLD BRAIN initially wrote these lyrics in English, but felt something wasn’t quite right, only realizing what was off when he heard them sung in another language. That spirit of discovery – of finding a new spark in returning home – suffuses \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpen Source\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It invites us to play, beckons us to relax, reminds us to find serenity amidst the churn of the present: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eminute papillon, dans le tourbillon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Brain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898708406600,"sku":"MAMI45LP","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/FRONT_mid.jpg?v=1724686682"},{"product_id":"discovery-zone-remote-control-tape","title":"Discovery Zone - Remote Control Tape","description":"\u003cp\u003etransparent white tape. featuring holographic sticker in the front. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eincluding bonus track: Dance II cover by World Brain (not included in the vinyl version!)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Discovery Zone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48902918504776,"sku":"MAMI24MC","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Discovery_Zone_Remote_Control_Album_Art.jpg?v=1730756129"},{"product_id":"better-person-its-only-you-vinyl","title":"Better Person - ‘It's Only You’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5PJh0LBSeH0DrRpqTzSW8F?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;si=92590a0002244ddb\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"isPasted\"\u003eYou're not sure why you decided to come alone to this karaoke bar. A sudden desire for people-watching, you suppose. You don't sing anything, just nurse a drink near the back. For the first half-hour, nothing out of the ordinary happens. Then, another spectator, one you've noticed hovering by a side wall, takes the stage. A slightly tinny drum machine comes forth from the P.A. The song is instantly familiar, but you can't quite place it. It must be some mostly-forgotten hit from the '80s that you haven't heard in years. At first, the singer's delivery is as shy as you'd expect from a fellow wallflower. But slowly, you come to perceive a deep, quiet confidence in his voice. He obviously knows the song by heart. He occupies it as if it were home. Actually, you think his rendition might be truer than the original performer's, although you still can't recall who that was. Although it might just be your second drink taking effect, you've almost begun to suspect that there is no original, that the enigma on the stage in this unremarkable bar, is, somehow, performing an entirely new song for the very first time. As the tempo slows and he begins to gently croon the next track, you become sure. By some weird turn of Lynchian magic, this man on the stage has reshaped the room to his will, coaxing his own private music out of the karaoke machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of scenario one imagines when listening to Better Person's smoke machine pop. His (Adam Byczkowski) enigmatic stage presence is matched by his elusiveness as a recording artist output: while he's already toured with the wonderful Canadians TOPS and Timber Timbre, and as keyboard\/guitarist with Sean Nicholas Savage, at six tracks It's Only You is his longest release, encompassing the critically acclaimed singles “Sentiment” and “I Wake Up Tired.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the EP's sonic touchstones – torch songs, Sade, Arthur Russell, synthed-up European and Japanese pop from the 80s, French and Italian movie soundtracks – are all unimpeachably romantic, there's a more Romantic undercurrent of isolation that begins from the way It's Only You was made – all recorded on a computer at home, on Berlin's Pannierstrasse (the same street where Magic Island's Wasted Dawn was recorded last year.) Byczkowski brings to the fore an aspect of the recent embrace of New Romantic soundscapes and R\u0026amp;B emoting: crooning as a form of self-seduction, a kind of therapy, an impossible compromise between the irreconcilable poles of intimacy and isolated self-sufficiency. The title itself casually, elegantly captures the paradoxical phase shift which occurs when the movement toward closeness becomes a plunge into solitude. It's Only You is the sound of turning down the mood lighting so low you're no longer sure if anyone else is there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe transmutation of being-alone-with into being-alone ignites a fixation on memory, and most especially on its entanglement with place. On repeated listens, It's Only You slowly reveals itself as a work of (self-imposed) exile behind a facade of seduction. In the aftermath of intimacy, one is left with only sensual remnants - smell leads to memory (“I found a smell that takes me home,” Byczkowski sings in opener “Somebody Cares”) and memories, of home and of people, lead to the question of place and belonging. In “Somebody Cares,” “I found a smell that takes me home” leads into “I try to notice all the things around” - reminiscence of there demands attention to here – but he concludes “God only knows where I'm gonna live.” “I Wake Up Tired” features the plaintive request “Show me a place \/ where I feel home;” while the refrain in “Everything Cold” asks the question on the mind of every expatriate in Berlin: “Why is everything closed on Sunday night?” In the still astonishing “Sentiment,” the singer is left unsure of his identity, with only sentiment remaining, precisely because he will “never be from here.” The real revelation of It's Only You may however be the closing track “Your Smell” which, atop a tragicomically funky shuffle, wraps in a cocoon of beautiful confusion all of Byczkowski's themes: lost love, lost locales, and finding oneself again, fleetingly, provisionally, in their pursuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Better Person","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48903038665032,"sku":"MAMI07LP","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/BETTER_PERSON_-_IT_S_ONLY_YOU_-_ARTWORK_WEB.jpg?v=1730756022"},{"product_id":"better-person-something-to-lose","title":"Better Person - ‘Something to Lose’ Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo you have something to lose? Maybe the kind of love that makes you understand there is more to life than getting lost in the bluish fog of yet another smoked-out bar? Berlin’s very own Better Person, the silent prince of the city’s international late-night underground pop scene has found it. He’s found the kind of love that elevates existence and makes the whole world light up in lush colours, suddenly making sense. The kind of love that turns you into the version of yourself you were destined to be. The kind of love that makes you a better person. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetter Person is the moniker of Berlin-based Polish singer and balladeer Adam Byczkowski. After his 2016 EP It’s Only You captured the sound of late night intoxication and devastated croons to an empty dance floor, the singer toured relentlessly, traveling all over Europe, North America and Asia, moving and living in Montreal, Los Angeles and returning, time and time again, to Berlin. Somewhere in between these divergent cities he fell in love, and this love would become the centerpiece and inspiration for his long-awaited debut album.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe young Polish singer traveled to California after a chance meeting with MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser at a Berlin after hours club. An introduction by a mutual friend turned into a night-long conversation about shared influences. A fortuitous increase to Byczkowski’s overdraft by an online banking app (which ended in tragedy months later) culminated in a relocation to Los Angeles, to complete his debut album with help of the producer. Goldwasser’s obsession with synth programming and acumen for generation-defining pop hooks underlines the strength of Better Person’s deeply personal songwriting. The result is an expansion of Better Person’s inner world, without sacrificing any of its enigma. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomething to Lose is the culmination of Better Person’s desire to nurture intimacy through tender balladry. An intriguing combination of forgotten euro-pop tropes with an elegant sophisti-pop palette provides the backdrop upon which his supple and detailed vocal delivery thrives. While ‘Dotknij Mnie’, sung entirely in Polish, is a nod to the dark and gothic mood Better Person is known for, the title track ‘Something to Lose’ departs towards a decidedly sunnier atmosphere. Byczkowski sings gently over his signature combination of FM synths and drum machines, this time lightly decorated with acoustic guitar strums, congas and layered vocal harmonies to lighten the arrangement, transporting the sound towards yacht-rock territory, undoubtedly influenced by his Los Angeles environment, a city famous for imparting its golden hues onto the music made there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough Something to Lose is a celebration of love, the refreshing honesty and self-effacement that Better Person fans are familiar with is still at the heart of its lyrics. Byczkowski may be a dreamer but he has no delusions about the real world. The album is a proclamation of a newfound devotion, but also the fear of loss that comes with it. It is not simply about love, but the bitter-sweetness of life, the fear and darkness that underscores even the most euphoric moment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s journey ends with Ostatni Raz, a slow dance between nylon-string guitars and a soaring saxophone floating over the calming sounds of crashing waves and slick fretless bass. The soothing elements of the final track are a summary of the album itself: an overtly breezy sonic landscape as heartfelt, sincere and evocative as it is polished and refined. When the last notes drift away in reverb you can almost smell the ocean air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Better Person","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48903043088712,"sku":"MAMI25LP","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/SOMETGING_TO_LOSE_-_front_3000px.jpg?v=1730756059"},{"product_id":"meagre-martin-gut-punch-vinyl","title":"Meagre Martin - ‘Gut Punch’ Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/23f1Z2QCkT1II5fN6SpJ2j?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"isPasted\"\u003eReality really feels like a punch in the gut these days. It takes your breath away in an instant, and the pain continues to linger in the background for quite a while afterwards, fading into the background more and more until it’s just a memory of the pain that’s left. A memory that still makes you wince just thinking about the moment it hit you and made you exhale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn their debut album, \"Gut Punch,\" Meagre Martin create a sound inspired by shoegaze, 90’s indie, or 'faux country,' as the band calls it, and juxtaposes these beautifully light soundscapes with lyrics that belie the sweetness of the sound with their vulnerability and depth. Sonically evoking images of California deserts and Berlin basements, of long thoughtful conversations in the twilight, days turning into nights in the park and nights turning into day again at a studio, lyricist, singer, and guitarist Sarah Martin (she\/her) and her bandmates Federico Corazzini (drums, engineering, he\/him) and Max Hirtz-Wolf (bass, he\/him) have created eleven tracks – starting with the dreamy, ethereal \"Intro\" and closing with the utterly different, yet equally vaporous \"Outro\" – that beautifully flow into each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the lyrics, Martin explores her feelings towards her native country, the United States, as well as personal trauma, healing, the climate catastrophe, and mass extinction. The latter, however, with a distinctly vibey, life-affirming sound on \"The Big Death (TBD)\": \"I don’t wanna die, it’s all right,\" Martin sings, \"the trees are burning and we’re not learning.\" On \"Amerika,\" the band reflects on their country of origin from a vantage point of insiders and outsiders simultaneously: \"Praise the Lord in America, protect your own in America, work to the bone in America, then we soldier on in America\" – lyrics that feel laconic but also very urgent and timely with the rise of religious authoritarianism ahead of the presidential election next year. Martin’s direct, honest, and truly authentic songwriting is given shape by the production and space to expand in all directions, with her unique voice drawing listeners deeper and deeper into the world the trio has created together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We approached the album in a really old way of making music,\" Corazzini explains, \"it felt like soul-searching as a band, the three of us together.\" Having had access to the legendary Butterrama studios in Berlin through Corazzini’s job as a studio engineer, the band had the chance to take their time to develop a unique sound that is equally contemporary and yet shimmers with a tinge of golden nostalgia. Recording almost everything live together and making use of analogue equipment and techniques that the studio offers, the trio created songs that feel remarkably lived-in, in the best way possible. It comes as no surprise that the young band (they only became a trio in February 2022 and immediately went to the studio the following summer) counts artists and bands such as Big Thief, Snail Mail, Cate Le Bon, and, of course, Fleetwood Mac and the mystique, as their inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \"Gut Punch,\" Meagre Martin releases a remarkable debut that feels familiar like a good old friend and fresh at the same time. The lushness of the sound builds the ideal foundation for the stories Sarah Martin, Federico Corazzini, and Max Hirtz-Wolf want to tell. Bridging indie sentimentalities and contemporary topics, \"Gut Punch\" is a record that manages to be both of its time and timeless, and introduces Meagre Martin as one of the most thoughtful, humane, and exciting bands of the contemporary indie sphere. And I, for one, can’t wait for all there is to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Meagre Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48903692648776,"sku":"MAMI41LP","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/ARTWORK_big.jpg?v=1730559366"},{"product_id":"john-moods-the-essential-john-moods-vinyl","title":"John Moods - ‘The Essential John Moods’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6yluHZ4EXwXBrjecaBcgwP?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlone in the world, we find ourselves. 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His debut solo album “The Essential John Moods” was released in 2018, recorded on a hike across Spain and Portugal after some major life-changing spiritual events. His last record “So Sweet So Nice” – a playful and joyful take on the subject of mortality – was released as two EPs in 2021. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis work has shown impressive creative versatility, staying true to his unique brand of romantic and spiritual outsider pop, reminiscent of 80s yacht rock and leaning towards the melancholic and thoughtful. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis third record, “The Great Design” highlights some recognisable traits, while taking them further into the contemporary pop realm. The album evokes a certain 1980s mood (“the decade that I was born into and can't help but love for its colorful sounds and aesthetics”) but lands sweetly in the present . Together with the French producer ET, with whom he previously collaborated on Fenster’s 2015 album “Emocean”, and who regularly produces Fenster’s other founding member and multimedia artist “Discovery Zone”, John Moods created a warm soundscape for “The Great Design” invoking the past without getting lost in nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis album also has its eyes set firmly on our present and future. Nowhere is this more beautifully executed than in its first single “It Ain’t Your Time“, a meditation on the passage of time, simultaneously mourning and celebrating its cryptic ways. “Maybe changing is the same as dying \/ Maybe living is the same as flying”, John Moods sings, accompanied by home video clips from his youth growing up between Poland and Germany. “It’s a very personal one”, he explains, “yet at the same time it manages to capture the universal truth and beauty of time and its passing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s opener “Anyone” , channels more 80s and exotica sounds, a spherical entry to the dreamy world that John Moods creates so well. He ponders the question: “Where does hope come from when the world goes dark?” and explains: “It’s about not giving up, not letting cynicism prevail.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second song “Atlantic Station” is an immediate stunner, with an irresistible synth line, flutes, claps, and a lead vocal modulating from angelic purity into a Manilow-esque growl, “This one may be the weirdest disco tune of all time”, Moods explains. “I saw a man in the subway station 'Atlantic Station' in New York in 2012, playing a cover of the classic country song 'Cool Water' on a small Casio keyboard, and to me there was something so pure and moving about it, it feels as if it’s been etched into my brain ever since.” Ten years later, he found his recording of this touching moment and built a song around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollaboration and community is at the heart of “The Great Design”. On “Such A Thrill”, Moods explains: “This song literally takes off into space! It’s a wild poetic rant about design, relativity and the madness of time and space”, he laughs, “the lyrics were written in collaboration with Neil Goodwin, an Irish philosopher, life artist, mostly sane professional madman and amazing friend – he is one of the most interesting people I have ever known.” Other collaborators include JJ Weihl, who made the video and co-wrote the lyrics for “It Ain’t Your Time”, and Martha Rose who played the flute on almost all of the tracks. Magnus Bang-Olsen played keys on “One Morning” and wrote the string arrangements for “The Great Design”, played by Noga Sarai Bruckstein and Moritz Brümmer, in tribute to the almost weightless quality of classics such as Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel or John C. Frank. The title track is an ode to the feeling of transience that has inspired so many artists since the beginning of time, seamlessly flowing into the instrumental “Just Playing”, a jazzy electronic experiment based on geometry and patterns. “I’m interested in making music I’m not completely at home in”, Moods says. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially, “The Great Design” was nothing more than a loose collection of songs, written while not being able to tour and continuing the lifestyle of constant creation that John Moods had grown accustomed to in a career spanning over a decade. Over time, the fragments came together, and entered into conversation with each other. “At the time when I first put these ideas together, it seemed like pure madness”, John Moods remembers, “but now the eight songs have almost become inseparable from each other, molded into this album, which seems more deliberate than I ever thought it could be.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"John Moods","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48903742751048,"sku":"MAMI37MC","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Artwork_WEB.jpg?v=1730756432"},{"product_id":"john-moods-the-essential-john-moods-tape","title":"John Moods - ‘The Essential John Moods’ Tape","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6yluHZ4EXwXBrjecaBcgwP?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlone in the world, we find ourselves. Inside ourselves, we find something to share with the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Essential John Moods, a solo album in all senses of the word, is what Jonathan Jarzyna of Fenster found in himself during a summer spent hiking along the Iberian coast, and he now wants to share it with you. A mini-guitar on his back and a copy of GarageBand on his phone allowed Jarzyna to record songs each evening as he arrived in a new town after a long day traveling by foot. (He did, admittedly, add live drum tracks and some additional instrumentation back in Berlin.) The album preserves this peripatetic feeling, each song relating to the next as one city or village relates to its neighbor, its unique situation contrasting with the shared architectural vernacular. 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But the overall effect is quite contemporary, from the back-of-the-nightbus lounge funk of “Take It Home” (featuring an amazing turn from arch-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage) to the mournful cupboard jazz of “Almost Gone.” “Dark Wall”  sounds like a honkytonk ramble alongside a robot tentatively learning to play lap steel. “Leap of Love,” an early album highlight, passes over the listener in shimmering waves, a love song which remains a mystery even to its creator. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the meditation tape coda “Relax Your Foot,” Jarzyna selects the perfect sample to encapsulate The Essential John Moods’ hopeful receptivity: the late Professor Carl Sagan reminding us that “despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"John Moods","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48907514741064,"sku":"MAMI15MC","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/the_essential_johnmoods_mid.jpg?v=1730756387"},{"product_id":"world-brain-peer-2-peer-vinyl","title":"World Brain - ‘Peer 2 Peer’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0yj7MLtNm1dfYoiqU0hONP?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever far back you trace its triumph, we seem to still be living in Poptimism’s world. It is unclear, however, what kind of world that is. It has always been a self-referential optimism: Pop was promised to deliver the pleasures of Pop; nothing less or more. We were never given an impression of what a Pop utopianism might look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUtopia is no-place; utopianism is concerned with the invisible potentials that sleep in the interstices of our world. Fenster’s Lucas Ufo, who records as WORLD BRAIN, is preoccupied with the aethers that surrounds us – he lists among his inspirations for Peer 2 Peer, sitting at the windows and “watching WiFi enter the room.” Perhaps this is the core of the utopian imagination – staring intently at those parts of the world which we cannot see but which we know must be shaping the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the album’s title suggests, this Pop Utopianism is often concerned with the romantic potentials of digital technology, and its central image, the network - while the music often invokes the studios of the 1980s, the themes are more suggestive of the Web-positivity of the 90s and early 00s. Following his windowsill observation sessions, ‘Network’ is a three minute guitar solo impersonating those WiFi signals. “Hyptertext” call the links that weave our experience of the internet one of ‘the true modern things.’ “\u0026lt;3beat” imagines two computers falling in love, discussing the things that matter to them – ‘networks reflected in the sky.’ The digital paramours are concerned above all with the legibility and maintenance of connection, but are also poignantly aware of the accelerated impermanence of technology: the singer wants to share his heart – ‘until the next update.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe utopian spirit that pervades Peer 2 Peer is not limited to a nostalgia for the dream of an open internet or the production aesthetics of a past era. Opener “The Pangean Anthem,” by its name (after the no-place that was every-place of the first supercontinent) and infectious cheer, is a wordless declaration of intent for what follows. Lead single “Made U Cry,” which made a splash in early 2018, is addressed to Satan, the original utopian, possessed of the prettiest smile. “Everybody Dies,” featuring ubercrooner and frequent Mansions and Millions guest Sean Nicholas Savage, is a kind of thanato-utopianism, a blissful, mellow meditation on the grand egalitarianism of mortality. “It’s All True,” driven by a maddeningly infectious riff emphasized with a Windows 95 system ‘ding’, simply lists well-known and common phenomena, lost in wondrous awe at the simple fact of existence. In a similar mood, the appropriately bubbly “Bubble Tea” asks ‘isn’t it sweet to live on this sphere, isn’t it wonderful?’ Even the album’s most melancholy moment, “Besides,” takes a cosmic perspective, dwelling on the parallels between the proverbial grain of sand and the grains in a lonesome bowl of rice, meditating on the holographic quality of mood. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth sweet and silly, wistful and whimsical, Peer 2 Peer is always affirmative. 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The collective creative process, marked by exchange, co-curation and openness, also creates the space for J. Vague dive wholeheartedly into pop music, into its big gestures und glittery unrestrained-ness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSILVER is pure pop music, in every sense, yet it refrains from being overly perfectionist and pared down into mellow compliant nothingness. Instead, it’s all our favourite tunes staring back at us from a fun house mirror, so familiar, yet beautifully estranged, it is a record that tells us about yesterday and about tomorrow, it’s pop music full of nostalgia yet oh so contemporary. It’s music with a wink in its eye but it still takes itself seriously, embracing big feelings and feels almost charmingly insecure. And most importantly: it is the kind of pop music we kneed so very urgently: casual, independent, unique and full of desire. 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JJ named Discovery Zone after the chain of indoor, youth oriented entertainment facilities filled with mazes and climbing structures that shuttered shortly after the turn of the millennium — a space born of commercialism that she describes as a “glorified cage” which nonetheless offered her, and millions of other children, the freedom to explore. The music of Discovery Zone plays with a perception of inevitable corporate societal control, but finds its own power and liberation in sounds that obscure their institutional sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the omnipresence of advertising and corporate culture as much as the potential of cybernetics and neural networks, Discovery Zone plunges into an uncanny valley with Quantum Web, where the distinctions between the earnest and the ironic blur in tandem with the border between the human and the post-human. JJ wrote a number of Quantum Web’s songs for Cybernetica, a multimedia performance she was commissioned in 2021. Cataloging her daily activities as data points to be analyzed, she broke her life down into statistics and presented them onstage to a live audience, depersonalizing her experience while claiming it for herself in all its mundane yet intimate detail. Quantum Web casts JJ in a concordant role: a pop star mediated by machines, just as willing to sink anonymously into her productions as she is to shine as their legible central figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Quantum Web, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes. While JJ’s voice is focal and transfixing at the center of the composition, she contrasts moments of clarity with strategies of obfuscation through hi-definition synthesis and time-dilating ambience. Vocoded textures layer into dense choral networks. A.I. text-to-speech abruptly hits the mix like a loudspeaker announcement over a meditation session. Staccato samples of JJ’s disembodied voice pepper the arrangements, creating their own pointillist harmonic systems that play a role closer to synth patch than vocal take. Quantum Web draws power from this composite mosaic of inputs, as if to propose that all these forms still represent JJ’s core self no matter how far they might splinter from the sounds that came from her physical form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough delivered in the crisp fidelity of contemporary radio-ready pop, the production signifiers we encounter on Quantum Web seem more like they should reach us bearing the grain and warble of a VHS tape. Working with producer E.T., JJ dips into a pool of decades-spanning style, finding room for 80s sophisti-pop, modern hyper-digital bubblegum, and early electro. Flights of motorik momentum animate more bustling compositions while shades of downtempo and city pop dim the lights over more subdued moments. An otherwise electronic arrangement might suddenly host a crystalline guitar riff or a bumping electric bassline, calling back to JJ’s musical upbringing playing guitar and bass as a teen on through her decade spent in a more traditional “rock band” setting. Interspersed among the pieces of Quantum Web that code as some permutation of electronic pop songwriting, a series of minute-long interludes turns the dial toward lush textural sculpting and pure ambient drift — regularly scheduled programming  punctuated by commercial breaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Quantum Web is our web of personal connections, the world wide web, the web of lies we tell each other. It’s a trap, a figurative hologram that we see all around us, but one we participate in of our own free will. We acknowledge that to escape would be impossible. But we still find a simple joy, or at least the thrill of confronting prosaic ineffability, when we log back on, when we play a trivia game on a little screen attached to the backseat of a cab, when we walk through the mall and look up through the infinite ceiling or the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscovery Zone’s Quantum Web will be released in LP, Japanese import CD, and digital editions. 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In one room, you are drenched under synesthetic showers of electrons; over there, ghosts envelop you with caresses. You trace anxiously soothing patterns across the grounds. In every corridor, memory swirls, insistently lapping on the shores of awareness, then fading away from perception. Everything is jelly. The impalpable transmutes into the tragic and back again. At the end of the season, you find the exit, in the only place it ever could have been. You emerge into calm moonlight. And there you are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Pictorial Candi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48907705778504,"sku":"MAMI19MC","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Secret_Salts_Artwork.jpg?v=1730756607"},{"product_id":"gents-souvenir-vinyl","title":"GENTS - ‘souvenir’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2L5UikuUsvyPegC2pq3zMM?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product_description\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe standard edition is made in 250 copies, and is a juicy magenta 180g gatefold vinyl with the trademark japanese-inspired Yachtvej obi-band. It’s super cute!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"GENTS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48907708334408,"sku":"MAMI34LP","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/GENTS_-_souvenir_-_album_cover.jpg?v=1730756159"},{"product_id":"magic-island-so-wrong-vinyl","title":"Magic Island - ‘So Wrong’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3r8QsDHn1HCGP9dXh3eTWI?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin’s uncrowned Queen of Pop: Magic Island opens the doors to her world. Virtually – and physically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin’s Neukölln is so much more than a borough or a neighbourhood. It has become a symbol – for supposed social issues, for the new chapter in the history of the once-divided city that is both open to the world and hidden from it at the same time, cosmopolitan and yet oh so very Berlin. And right in the middle of it stands Emma Czerny, better known as Magic Island. Since her EP debut she has been reigning over the underground pop scene of the city, with songs that seem as intimate and vulnerable as they are artistically intricate, carrying both a love for pop music in them as well as experimental lo-fi and a great love for the r’n’b sound of the Nineties. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith her second album, SO WRONG, Magic Island is realizing her artistic vision more radical than ever, opening the door to her universe: she is creating a fully immersive world in which the listeners can dive – merging the virtual with the physical. QR-Codes attached to walls throughout her beloved neighbourhood in Berlin open virtual portals to enter the reality Magic Island, her friends and collaborators create. “SO WRONG is the first fragmented album. It’s rooted in Neukölln but all the parts come from people in the community” she explains. SO WRONG goes beyond the soundscape of Magic Island’s hypnotic compositions and expands into a 360 degree experience, capturing this unique way of life between Sonnenallee and Karl-Marx-Straße, between growing up and yet another trippy night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is precisely these contradictions that SO WRONG thrives on, the songs striking the balance between lightness and hopelessness, dealing with love and depression, anxiety and self-empowerment. Magic Island ponders about how meanings shift throughout time, and about the neverending search for purpose in our own lives. But at the same time, she draws this intimate portrayal of a street corner on Weichselstraße, between a fancy bar, a music studio and a bodega with a curiously broad selection of cereals, and sings about relationships to friends and drug dealers on the corner, all during the first wave of lockdowns in Europa, as it suddenly grew very quiet on the streets of bustling Neukölln where usually different lifestyle exist in parallel, without ever colliding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor SO WRONG, Czerny – who usually favours recording her lo-fi songs in her own bedroom – decided to work with a producer: “I started to get more and more involved with the German rap scene and I thought maybe I need someone who’s rally good at producing sick beats.” That someone turned out to be Phong Ho, known in German underground rap circles. And coincidentally, his studio turned out to be located very close to Czerny’s home. When the pandemic hit Berlin in the spring of 2020, they started to work on song sketches during nightly sessions in the studio. It is these sketches that slowly started to develop into SO WRONG, sketches that clearly take the shape of a type of pop music, but are rooted in soul and golden era r’n’b, in Westcoast hip hop and ultracontemporary hyper pop. Czerny: “Phong and I had a similar reference point in music, a lot of old school hiphop, and we just started to work every night.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is an album showcasing a diverse range of sounds and references – held together by Magic Island’s inimitable voice and storytelling: “My voice is more amplified than ever, and not ashamed of that at all. The vocals are at the heart of the power of the tracks”, Czerny says. “But there is also this ethereal element of deep and melodically rich soundscapes in every song, we’ve created old school beats, but in a Magic Island way, with a magical ethereal soundscape.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly pronounced in the title track, So Wrong. Czerny’s voice reverberates through a foggy space, desire, desperation and lethargy coalesce irresistibly into a “classic love song”, as Magic Island describes it herself. It is a meditation about the impossibility of letting a loved one go: “This is about loss and the darkness that follows, no way of seeing the light. It perfectly embodies one side of the two attitudes of the album, that of love and loss vs. that of empowerment and self-sufficiency.” It is not a coincidence that this was the first piece Phong Ho and Czerny worked on together and it clearly set the scene for all that was to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBury Me Alive opens in a similarly ethereal way, only to introduce ultracontemporary trap elements as an antipode to Czerny’s soul-filled voice and drag the song into a different, almost apocalyptical direction. Which fits quite well to Magic Island’s lyrics: “I wrote this about my angst with the current global climate, about poverty, police brutality and how political unrest reaches the point of revolution.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut it is not all grim and gloomy on the magical island: mirroring So Wrong, So Right evokes memories of sensual and self-confident Nineties r’n’b. Hook and chorus roll out of the speakers slowly like thick hony syrup. But instead of sweet-talking a lover, So Right turns into an ode to female self-empowerment: “This track shows the other side of the first single ‘So Wrong’ – instead of lamenting, suffering over a moment in time, accepting things exactly as they are in the present and being satisfied with yourself”, Czerny says about the track that almost seamlessly rolls into the confident hymn GiveNTake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith SO WRONG, Magic Island has created a total, an all-encompassing and all embracing piece of art, disrupting genre limitations as well as boundaries between different artistic disciplines. Is it music? Is it media art? Community art? Or all of it at the same time? Most of all, it is an declaration of love. To Neukölln, to female self-confidence, and to uncondictional faith in one’s own vision. “Step into our world”, Magic Island asks us in the intro to SO WRONG. 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In a time shaped by uncertainty and disintegrating securities, trusting in the stars doesn’t seem too far fetched. «Last year, every conversation I had ended with this sentence », Dena explains, «before I had the album, I already had the title. It’s about believing and trusting in universal connections, trusting that everything will fall into place, eventually.» \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd all has indeed fallen into place: Four years after her début Flash, If It’s Written marks a new chapter in Dena’s musical and personal development. The product of major transformations in her life and work, If It’s Written is the work of a grown-up woman who has taken matters into her own hands. The record is a celebration of individuality and independence, for the first time Dena has taken over producing the majority of the tracks herself. «For me, this is major progress», she says, «from writing the first song for this album to this point, it’s been such a journey.» It took two different versions and four mixes, but now that circle came to a closing and If It’s Written is ready to be released unto the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInviting friends to collaborate on her very own terms, Dena created her own universe: features include the laid back So Wrong, a duet with Canadian indie-crooner par excellence Sean Nicholas Savage, or the serene Things That Mean A Lot, recorded with Filipino cool cats Eyedress \u0026amp; Rhxanders, beautifully describing the emptiness just before a relationship falls apart. Other guests include Berlin-based Argentinian singer Pictorial Candi on the outro If It’s Written or longtime collaborator and friend Erlend Øye on the minimal and bone-dry Speculations. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe music scene of Berlin’s infamous Neukölln district was highly influential for Dena: «It was so inspiring to be surrounded by all this DIY-spirit». This has left its mark on If It’s Written, which she calls her «laptop-album», as she often sang directly into the computer microphone while producing the songs. No grand set-ups needed, just her, her ideas, and trust in her own plan. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFittingly, telecommunication, computers, smartphones, and all those gadgets were not only tools to produce the songs on If It’s Written, but also a major theme in Dena’s writing. «We’re all woven into one big text message», she muses, «the album is about us and communication.» Or its absence, as the cleverly reduced HMU or the funky Fuck It describe. What happens to feelings once all our interactions have been digitalised? 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In fact, one could say that the city itself made an important contribution: the Casio keyboard heard throughout was found in the street. Magic Island developed under the influence of a close circle of Berlin-based artists, including friends such as Touchy Mob and Montreal's Sean Nicholas Savage (Arbutus). But in keeping with Mansions and Millions project of highlighting the musical connections blossoming between Berlin and eastern Canada, Emma of Magic Island hails originally from Toronto, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWasted Dawn grew out out of the singles “Dream Holiday” and “Baby Blu,” the latter of which may be a perfect song, in its own quiet way. It epitomizes Magic Island's aesthetic: diffuse and subdued, it has a crystalline sensuality, luminous but hard to categorize, appearing potentially fragile or immensely strong. 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Lots has been going on in this corner of the marketplace as of late. Here’s the pudding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded in the release are heretofore pretty much more or less generally speaking unreleased tracks from heavy hitters Jaakko Eino Kalevi (aka JEKS aka the most thoroughly consistently “all g” vibe guy in the game), Jack Chosef (currently sporting a coif so noteworthy and breathtaking that I deem it worth mentioning in this utterly not relevant context. His track is pretty solid, too), Better Person (given that this guy could sell rattlesnake boots to a rattlesnake, it’s no surprise that his Herp Albert cover is convincing), Helen Fry (more of this ASAP, plz thnks), Montreal rave dude Doldrums, and, finally, newbies from newbies Bobbypin and People Talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe remainder of the comp comes chockablock with the kind of stuff that gets you feeling that certain good way that some of us like to call the M\u0026amp;M mmmm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagic Island checks in with a new take on an old song (viewed in a certain way, it could be said that this is the case for most of the comp's songs, albeit replete with a wink and a nod), Intoxicated Sunset 2016. It is every bit the kinetic firecracker one would hope for from this most crucial scene fixture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, Tendre Biche pull off the paradox of technically being a supergroup (the band includes members of Slow Steve, Helen Fry and Tetron) while at the same time not being a technical supergroup. Their contribution here - California - distills their essence down to their sweetly naive core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePromise Keeper drops in with one of his winners (of which there are many - this guy puts numbers on the board), familiar to those who have caught one of his numerous live shows over the course of 2k16.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, let’s talk about Sean Nicholas Savage. He holds a special spot in the hearts and minds of those who have or who have had the good fortune to experience his presence, so much so that he could sing Blow Me Away - also featured on his incredible 2016 release Magnificent Fist on Arbutus Records - to his reflection, and we would all nod along in agreement. Actually, I think that this really happened. One of them nights, one of them nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere’s to those, here’s to these, and here’s to all that are still to come. Given the roll that M\u0026amp;M is on, one has every reason to believe that this golden era in which we find ourselves has a lot of juice left in it yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"isPasted\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Magic Island - Intoxicated Sunset 2016 re-edit\u003cbr\u003e2. Promise Keeper - Same Time\u003cbr\u003e3. Bobbypin - DWS\u003cbr\u003e4. Doldrums - Runner Up\u003cbr\u003e5. Helen Fry - Plasticine\u003cbr\u003e6. 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For her, the absence of a genetic double is felt as a lack.When nature reveals itself as a master of eerie duplication, how doesone draw a line between organic and mechanical reproduction? Thus,Fry’s plea to her mother for a “Twin” becomes a technologicalproposal: “so this is the future….if we have the possibility to createfunctional 3D-printed human organs, why don’t we just print my twin?”If nature is in the business of cloning, why wouldn’t your mother have a 3D printer?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this world, where it is hard to trace the boundaries of the artificial, a love song becomes a matter of materials science. Feelings can be confused with industrial processes. An emotion might have not only texture but extension; a sentiment might be a membrane, becoming impossibly thin. The prospect of lost passion shades into the promise of a technological miracle. It’s hard to tell whether the request to “turn me on” in “Maybe Not” is a come-on or a friendly computer instruction, robotically repeated. It’s not made any easier by the dispassionate phrases spoken between the choruses: “a sensible desire, a vulnerable reflection.” Is a lover another kind of twin? If yours was 3D-printed, could you tell?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does all of this actually sound like? Well, beautiful. (The arpeggios of “Plasticine,” a standout on the second volume of the Mansions and Millions label mixtape, might make one teary-eyed.) Technological alienation is an easy theme to find in music today; Future Light Cone distinguishes itself as music for technological domestication, music of the cyborg hearth. Fry’s Classical background comes through in her organ and harpsichord-invoking synth pads, but the tones don’t aspire to an organic realism; nor are they self-evidently artificial. They simply are themselves, comfortable and elegant like a worn-in but finely-crafted set of furniture. On “PCNC 310,” a fantasy about an unstopping milling machine, with Fry (who is also an industrial designer) repeating a priestly intonation of the device’s name and MS-DOS entry code, one can imagine the heavy-duty machine tool positioned in a living room, next to an antique sofa and a loom. That domestic feel likely has a lot to do with how the EP came about. Fry and her collaborator Rémi Letournelle, (of the band Slow Steve) who played on the record as well as producing and mixing it, retreated to a rural east German home to work on Fry’s demos. There they incorporated the setting’s prosaic elements into the recordings, using baskets, cotton swabs, and a neighbor’s cat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe term ‘future light cone’ refers to the region of space and time that a beam of light will travel through in its lifetime. 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Recorded in Lichtenberg, Berlin, December 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Soft As Snow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48911669264712,"sku":"MAMI22MC","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/cover_small_05f73395-d1ab-4e55-bb67-b3c6ad0ab3a0.jpg?v=1730756640"},{"product_id":"normal-echo-accidental-forever-vinyl","title":"Normal Echo - ‘Accidental Forever’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3ExqNcQamtjx9DPhI4UEB6?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccidental Forever. The title itself captures the alienation that soaks through the music here. It could be the title of a creepy 1980's sci-fi television program directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski for the BBC, to which this album could easily function as a soundtrack. The album's sound is a unique take on Coldwave, New Romantic and '90s Pop music, built from raw, strange textures and straightforward lyrics sung in an ornately accented English casting shadows of desperation. Listening to it feels at many moments like finding yourself in a new city, lost and unable to ask anyone for directions; at other moments like being trapped in a software demo run on Windows '95, which has been running for the last two decades, growing abandoned and decrepit. Suffused with isolation, it speaks to public spaces at once frictionless and oppressive, urban centers simultaneously hermetically modern and decaying, and to the claustrophobia of daily routine. It is music for life as a maze. But while it can be quite gloomy, it is not pessimistic: the centerpiece of the album is the serene, simply beautiful instrumental “Entertain”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Poland, Normal Echo's Dawid Szczesny has released experimental music on labels around the world. Since 2010 he's made his home in Berlin, making him a natural addition to the Mansions \u0026amp; Millions label's growing roster of expats, transplants and others linked by the city's far-reaching cosmopolitan gravity. He recorded Accidental Forever almost entirely with just a Korg M1 synthesizer, one of the most popular synths of the ‘80\/90s, and now somewhat forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Normal Echo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48911686893896,"sku":"MAMI05LP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/cover.jpg?v=1730756576"},{"product_id":"jack-chosef-yeehai-vinyl","title":"Jack Chosef - ‘Yeehai’ Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/75DPDybaZH3nox9ICh2fNr?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChillwave never died. It just made some new friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Track Your Mind\" the first track on the Yeehai EP, from the laconic Jack Chosef, who's provided drums for Sean Nicholas Savage's live shows, opens with a manipulated vocal sample that could intro an experimental club track à la Night Slugs or a towering Kanyeeseque hip-hop construction. Instead, in drops the half-tempo bass kicks and portentous synths favored by meticulous 80s revivalists, the sorts that dream of a neon video-game Miami (Chosef says Yeehai is \"inspired by girls and cars\") or are aficionados of Italian giallo soundtracks and John Carpenter's self-penned scores. But \"Track Your Mind\" could also be the sound of, for example, Pye Corner Audio's alternate history technological fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe song is all those things. And yet: it's distinctively Chillwave; it has the same air of nostalgia and naivety, a carefree spirit, dreamy and kind-hearted. While many producers would be tempted to accentuate the icy cool of the drums by focusing on dark en vogue textures, Chosef makes his choices at a tangent: the insistent, melancholy 'oohoos' of, you guessed it \"Oohoo\", the immaculate chimes of \"Golden Princess\". the echoing keys of \"Cubing\", and the daintily twinkling synths of the title track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat's not to say that these guileless sonic choices mean Yeehai isn't original or sensuous. The heavy synth washes on the second half of \"Golden Princess\" are dreamy, but also deep, inviting, enveloping; the heaving switch mid-way through \"Baby\" nearly ripples through the listener's body. Chosef says the EP was recorded (with help from Touchy Mob) in the summer \"in my bed under black clouds and a sprite wodka in my hand.\" That describes the process as well as the result: pensive, slighty tipsy, evoking sunshowers as much as summer\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Jack Chosef","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48911689449800,"sku":"MAMI02LP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Cover_censored.jpg?v=1730756241"},{"product_id":"john-moods-so-sweet-so-nice-vinyl","title":"John Moods - ‘So Sweet So Nice’ Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/15mLrCaxxDCyMrMfdr8sRy?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter many years of playing in the band Fenster (so far producing four LP’s and the film Emocean) Jonathan Jarzyna adopted the moniker John Moods, releasing his debut full-length The Essential John Moods with Mansions and Millions in 2018. Now, having completed his first solo tours, he returns with So Sweet So Nice, which will be released as two EPs: So Sweet on April 16th and So Nice on August 6th. This diptych will ultimately culminate in one vinyl LP, to be released in physical format on August 6th.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf The Essential John Moods was the soundtrack to a summer backpacking trip, its follow-up has the feel of a triumphant homecoming. Where the previous album traded in dreamy displacement, So Sweet So Nice is serenely centered, springy grooves transforming musings on mortality into vibrant celebrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuch a self-assured, finely polished collection of songs, rich with tranquil moments, seems an unlikely product of two years marked by creative frustrations. But this is a tapestry woven of paradoxes and contradictions. It speaks in an untroubled voice of existential worry, conjures rejoicing from the funerary. The form of this homecoming is the discovery of a dwelling space in the unsettled, of feeling home in the unsettling. A contrast captured so succinctly in the titular line - “So sweet, so nice; everything is waiting to die. So sweet, so high; nothing ever felt so alive.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn began to conceive these songs alone in the Polish countryside, but soon encountered doldrums and dead-ends. So Sweet and So Nice could only find their way into the world with help from friends – including Fenster bandmate JJ Weihl (AKA Discovery Zone), who once again co-wrote the lyrics; TOPS guitarist David Carriere; and producer-instrumentalists Magnus Bang and Joni Reiter, among others. This collaborative spark imbues the record with much of its ebullience, yet there is an inescapable air of solitude throughout, as if it is sung to us by Emerson’s transparent eyeball.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe project’s division into two parts reflects the ideas that preoccupied Jarzyna while crafting these songs: the profusion and intensification of binaries in our world, the necessary interrelation of opposites, the persistence of primordial dualities – light and dark, good and evil, hope and loss, life and death. Comprehending these as dyads, and becoming comfortable in the obscure spaces between them. Each half contrasts the other, accentuating divergent aspects of a single whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo Sweet channels the spirit of classic AM pop and even Country \u0026amp; Western (in its more psychedelic manifestations) into something both contemporary and timeless, full of sprightly guitar work, burbling, trickling synths, and, on “Ordinary Magic,” a brief but scene-stealing sax solo: a deepening of the distinct sound-world developed on The Essential John Moods. At the jubilant end of the spectrum, there’s the twangy call to immediacy of first single “Talk To Me,” the cheerful paean to loneliness and confusion “Without You,” and the irrepressible title track. 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This is what Andreya Casablanca needed to do after releasing two critically acclaimed records with her band Gurr and touring the world. Refocus, try to see the world and your life from different perspectives. Maybe open different doors and look through different windows. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSee More Glass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith her solo debut, Andreya Casablanca created her own world in ten songs and it marks a departure from the soundscapes she created in the past. While not shedding her more rock-oriented roots, Casablanca embraces a shift towards a more genre fluid, pop-influenced sound that manages to be at once inclusive as well as being inventive and challenging – in the very best way. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTake \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrapped in Space\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, where Casablanca fuses her sweetest singing voice with 80’s inspired guitars and synths, powerful bass and drums, and lyrics about projecting one’s personal anxieties upon a romantic interest. Haven’t we all been there? Or there’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChildren\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with its references to Alex Cameron’s brand of deadpan performance. Or the dreamy, yet distorted guitars on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDreamin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, painting the picture of a surf rock song gone on a bender, sometime in the mid-90’s, and ending up on the greatest stadium stage. Fittingly, Casablanca describes a sense of falling for a new idea, be it a romantic interest, or a new path in life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorking on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSee More Glass \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eindeed felt like taking a new path in life, Casablanca explains: “this has been the first time I created music all on my own“ – before, she had always been a part of a band. “It was a time for self-discovery, reinvention, and being alone, being by myself.“ Inspired by artists such as Tirzah, Grimes and others who started out by simply using tools like Apple’s Garage Band or Logic to create their own productions, she also let her own perfectionism go. “I listened to ‘Art Angels’, and I don’t even like it that much – but its weirdness and playfulness gave me the confidence I needed to just give it a try and do my own thing”, she remembers. 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But the future into which we have arrived is built of mass-produced sensors and microprocessors, the endlessly proliferating plastics that link us together in a superhuman web of communication and surveillance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003eUbiquitous copies define our world as much as marvels of innovation do; the keyboard preset and drum machine default have just as much claim to being the sound of cybernetic pop as the algorithmic virtual instrument\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"\u003e. On \u003c\/span\u003eRemote Control, Weihl lovingly reshapes these humble sonic elements with the assistance of producer E\/T and Lucas Chantre, aka WORLD BRAIN, a founding member of beloved experimental pop band Fenster alongside Weihl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"im\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWith a palette of chimes, chirps and shimmers, Remote Control is a glowing meditation on our contradictory moment in history. Nostalgia is mixed into more synthetic sound worlds, each song dipping into past and future sonic landscapes. Weihl implements drum machines, vocoder, sound collage, theremin and electric guitar, creating a small laboratory both in the studio and on stage. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIn Weihl’s hands, the limitations of the default setting form a territory of unbounded experimentation, from the system-notification synth funk of “Dance II” to the trance incantations of “Blissful Morning Dream Interpretation Melody.” The experimental aspects of Weihl’s music are reflected in the spectrum of playful aesthetics, maintaining a strong focus on emotional and accessible pop melodies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAt the midpoint of Remote Control, Weihl provides an instrumental backing to a dialogue between a siri-like robot named Sophia and one of her creators. We share with Sophia a certain existential uncertainty as we move through time. Like Sophia, we are confronted with the question of whether our mediated encounters with the world leave us the same as we were before, remake us, or leave us somewhere in between – still ‘Sophia’, yet “Sophia Again.” Do our expressions of wonder truly emerge from us, or are they programmed responses?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"im\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLive visuals and music videos are a big part of Discovery Zone. Presenting a wild curation of green screen, found footage, and original material, the visual arc of Remote Control is one of digital bricolage – weaving narratives out of YouTube videos, personal beach vacation footage, television commercials, early computer animations, and 3D renderings. 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We write on it, and it remains.”\u003cbr\u003eAnamnesis is a force of recollection, a road into the world of memory. It literally means “to make a past event present now.” This album is a little portal, a mechanism by which we ended where we began – making music together.\u003cbr\u003eDreaming for Miles is a collection of songs that were written over the past ten years or so by JJ Weihl and John Moods, alone and together, and recorded between our basement practice space where we started our band Fenster many years ago, and at our home in Berlin. After spending over a decade living together and playing music together, our lives began to pull us in different directions. During the process of our separation, we decided to make a last record together. 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The Crying Tape, the Berlin-based musician releases her new album 2009. The nine-song work was primarily created in Istanbul and Berlin and will be released on April 24, 2026 via Mansions and Millions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the album, Nalan creates a fictitious 2009, fed by her own digicam archive from back then, from which the entire artwork also comes, and the memories that arise while writing. Sometimes it is transfiguring and nostalgic, as in her track Everything was Easy in 2009, then again dark and lamenting, as in Down The Drain or Ok. 2009 is both the monster that can be seen on the cover and the girl in the background, of whom it is not clear whether she is laughing or crying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe song 59:1 (fiftynine to one), for example, is about the live club of the same name in Munich, which had to close its doors in 2013 and where Nalan spent her youth going to concerts. Seems almost logical that, in addition to the members of her current live band, she also worked with musicians from the Munich indie and punk scene of that decade. Hisahi Yamamoto (Like Loonies, Nalan's first band), Attila Sarıtaş (Kafkas Orient Bazaar) and Martin Brugger (This Is The Arrival, now squama recordings) each contributed parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn terms of sound, however, Nalan moves in the opposite direction and continues to spin the futuristic alt-pop style of her debut. The album is simultaneously live-heavy and electronic- experimental. Pithy synth sounds and plucked guitars create an absorbing contrast and thus create space for Nalan's vocals to develop freely. Sometimes they can be heard clearly, sometimes speaking or impulsively in the background. The drums on the album are deliberately reduced, but have it all, and even the undead nu metal makes an appearance at one point. The sometimes autobiographical, sometimes fictional lyrics deal with desire as in Apple, the class struggles of growing up as in Down The Drain, crushes as in Everything was Easy in 2009 and the feeling of not really having anything to say as in I've Got Nothing to Say. The production by walter p99 arkestra, who also produced Nalan's debut, focuses on texture and atmosphere throughout. Nalan can be seen on tour in April and May 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01. Apple\u003cbr\u003e02. 59:1 (fiftynine to one)\u003cbr\u003e03. I Like You\u003cbr\u003e04. Ok\u003cbr\u003e05. Down the Drain\u003cbr\u003e06. Heavy Metal\u003cbr\u003e07. I've got Nothing to Say\u003cbr\u003e08. Stars\u003cbr\u003e09. Everything was Easy in 2009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nalan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52329283158344,"sku":"MAMI54LP","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Nalan_Mockups_V2_Vinyl_5.jpg?v=1769706269"},{"product_id":"nalan-2009-limited-red-vinyl","title":"Nalan - 2009 Limited Red Vinyl","description":"\u003ciframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1ExTfbgXwifXMNfXEUe0ss?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;si=bff6746c2152465e\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited to 100 copies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eFour years after her solo debut I'm Good. The Crying Tape, the Berlin-based musician releases her new album 2009. The nine-song work was primarily created in Istanbul and Berlin and will be released on April 24, 2026 via Mansions and Millions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the album, Nalan creates a fictitious 2009, fed by her own digicam archive from back then, from which the entire artwork also comes, and the memories that arise while writing. Sometimes it is transfiguring and nostalgic, as in her track Everything was Easy in 2009, then again dark and lamenting, as in Down The Drain or Ok. 2009 is both the monster that can be seen on the cover and the girl in the background, of whom it is not clear whether she is laughing or crying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe song 59:1 (fiftynine to one), for example, is about the live club of the same name in Munich, which had to close its doors in 2013 and where Nalan spent her youth going to concerts. Seems almost logical that, in addition to the members of her current live band, she also worked with musicians from the Munich indie and punk scene of that decade. Hisahi Yamamoto (Like Loonies, Nalan's first band), Attila Sarıtaş (Kafkas Orient Bazaar) and Martin Brugger (This Is The Arrival, now squama recordings) each contributed parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn terms of sound, however, Nalan moves in the opposite direction and continues to spin the futuristic alt-pop style of her debut. The album is simultaneously live-heavy and electronic- experimental. Pithy synth sounds and plucked guitars create an absorbing contrast and thus create space for Nalan's vocals to develop freely. Sometimes they can be heard clearly, sometimes speaking or impulsively in the background. The drums on the album are deliberately reduced, but have it all, and even the undead nu metal makes an appearance at one point. The sometimes autobiographical, sometimes fictional lyrics deal with desire as in Apple, the class struggles of growing up as in Down The Drain, crushes as in Everything was Easy in 2009 and the feeling of not really having anything to say as in I've Got Nothing to Say. The production by walter p99 arkestra, who also produced Nalan's debut, focuses on texture and atmosphere throughout. Nalan can be seen on tour in April and May 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01. Apple\u003cbr\u003e02. 59:1 (fiftynine to one)\u003cbr\u003e03. I Like You\u003cbr\u003e04. Ok\u003cbr\u003e05. Down the Drain\u003cbr\u003e06. Heavy Metal\u003cbr\u003e07. I've got Nothing to Say\u003cbr\u003e08. Stars\u003cbr\u003e09. Everything was Easy in 2009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nalan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52329283387720,"sku":"MAMI54LPR","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Nalan_Mockups_V2_Vinyl_3.jpg?v=1769706273"},{"product_id":"nalan-2009-limited-cd","title":"Nalan - 2009 Limited CD","description":"\u003ciframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1ExTfbgXwifXMNfXEUe0ss?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;si=bff6746c2152465e\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited to 50 copies. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eFour years after her solo debut I'm Good. The Crying Tape, the Berlin-based musician releases her new album 2009. The nine-song work was primarily created in Istanbul and Berlin and will be released on April 24, 2026 via Mansions and Millions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the album, Nalan creates a fictitious 2009, fed by her own digicam archive from back then, from which the entire artwork also comes, and the memories that arise while writing. Sometimes it is transfiguring and nostalgic, as in her track Everything was Easy in 2009, then again dark and lamenting, as in Down The Drain or Ok. 2009 is both the monster that can be seen on the cover and the girl in the background, of whom it is not clear whether she is laughing or crying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe song 59:1 (fiftynine to one), for example, is about the live club of the same name in Munich, which had to close its doors in 2013 and where Nalan spent her youth going to concerts. Seems almost logical that, in addition to the members of her current live band, she also worked with musicians from the Munich indie and punk scene of that decade. Hisahi Yamamoto (Like Loonies, Nalan's first band), Attila Sarıtaş (Kafkas Orient Bazaar) and Martin Brugger (This Is The Arrival, now squama recordings) each contributed parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn terms of sound, however, Nalan moves in the opposite direction and continues to spin the futuristic alt-pop style of her debut. The album is simultaneously live-heavy and electronic- experimental. Pithy synth sounds and plucked guitars create an absorbing contrast and thus create space for Nalan's vocals to develop freely. Sometimes they can be heard clearly, sometimes speaking or impulsively in the background. The drums on the album are deliberately reduced, but have it all, and even the undead nu metal makes an appearance at one point. The sometimes autobiographical, sometimes fictional lyrics deal with desire as in Apple, the class struggles of growing up as in Down The Drain, crushes as in Everything was Easy in 2009 and the feeling of not really having anything to say as in I've Got Nothing to Say. The production by walter p99 arkestra, who also produced Nalan's debut, focuses on texture and atmosphere throughout. Nalan can be seen on tour in April and May 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01. Apple\u003cbr\u003e02. 59:1 (fiftynine to one)\u003cbr\u003e03. I Like You\u003cbr\u003e04. Ok\u003cbr\u003e05. Down the Drain\u003cbr\u003e06. Heavy Metal\u003cbr\u003e07. I've got Nothing to Say\u003cbr\u003e08. Stars\u003cbr\u003e09. Everything was Easy in 2009\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nalan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52333520781640,"sku":"MAMI54CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/2170\/7080\/files\/Nalan_Mockups_CD.jpg?v=1769706276"},{"product_id":"nalan-im-good-the-crying-tape","title":"Nalan - I'm Good. The Crying Tape","description":"\u003ciframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3uCTJiV88X6OpRidEFoLra?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eNALAN, that means quite literally \"the screaming one\" and \"the wailing one\". Perhaps also the one who can give suffering a fleeting form through the vibration of her vocal cords. And it is also both the civil name and the new pseudonym under which Nalan Karacagil will release her (at least technically speaking) debut album \"I'm Good. The Crying Tape.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe record is conceived, it couldn't be otherwise, as a kind of modern siren song that should literally make you cry. But all this can be interpreted positively, especially on the musical side. The album also sounds like skating on Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, warm summer wind and breaking into the swimming pool as a distant memory of youth. A time machine to the teenage years, when the world seemed to consist only of pain and joy.\u003cbr\u003eAccordingly, the record is composed of melancholy-tinged and cheerful songs, electronic synth surfaces, Timbaland-esque and 90-jungle inspired drum machine beats on one side of the spectrum, guitars and drums on the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo why technically the debut album? Well, in recent years, Nalan appeared mostly as part of the group Gaddafi Gals. But besides that, she also released her first solo EP “ugly” in December\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2018, at that time still under her moniker slimgirl fat, under which she continues to DJ, while two EPs had already been released under the name Nalan381 before Gaddafi Gals. So far, so complicated. Anyway, for her upcoming first solo album she is now working for the first time with the Berlin label Mansions and Millions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I'm Good. The Crying Tape”: this is also the most personal phase in the work of the musician and writer so far. Right on the first day of the first lockdown, when it was feared that she would really only be able to go out on the street to shop, to spend months in quarantine, she began work, and indeed the first single “I'm Good” was born on that first evening. In the end, it turned into eleven songs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the producer side, the musician worked with walter p99 arkestra, who also served as executive producer and is also part of Gaddafi Gals, keyboardist Kiara Bo, and David Tobias of Dürerstuben.\u003cbr\u003e\"The album has a bit of a script, each song is like a single chapter for me, in which I highlight themes from different perspectives and moods,\" says Nalan himself.\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm Good,\" for example, is about the question \"How are you?\" to which one can almost only answer with a phrase. “Good. what else could it be?”. The single accordingly sounds very cheerful at first, but it quickly becomes clear that much of this is only happening on the surface. As \"good\" as one was promised, it does not end, that much can be revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Only Birds Can Tell\" this surface is also broken sound-technically, the piano chords sound melancholic, the 808 hums gloomily. In addition, the artist sings about the tragic loss of her grandmother, with whom she had grown up for a time and about strategies to remain positive and strong despite everything.\u003cbr\u003eThe story takes its course. \"Bed of Tears\" describes a feeling of powerlessness, the doubt about one's own existence, told like an abstract, fantastic film. Nothing seems real, everything like a dream from which you do not wake up, once again fueled by the apparent contradiction between poppy sounds and plaintive vocals.\u003cbr\u003eThe bonus track \"Son Kez\" (English \"one last time\") in turn is the only song in Turkish. It was inspired by covers songs she published on her Instagram channel, where for once she did not sing in English. The track, as Nalan, who grew up bilingually, describes it herself, could only be written and thought in Turkish. It ironically describes the despair of unrequited love, in which the main character unintentionally turns out to be a stalker in the end.\u003cbr\u003eThe slow-building \"Crush,\" the last song on the album, feels like catharsis for everything that came before it. 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Limited to 75 copies. Hand numbered. Includes tape\/CD only bonus track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e“The heart is a book. We write on it, and it remains.”\u003cbr\u003eAnamnesis is a force of recollection, a road into the world of memory. It literally means “to make a past event present now.” This album is a little portal, a mechanism by which we ended where we began – making music together.\u003cbr\u003eDreaming for Miles is a collection of songs that were written over the past ten years or so by JJ Weihl and John Moods, alone and together, and recorded between our basement practice space where we started our band Fenster many years ago, and at our home in Berlin. After spending over a decade living together and playing music together, our lives began to pull us in different directions. During the process of our separation, we decided to make a last record together. It felt impossible at times, but ultimately, extremely rewarding to work through the archive of our life in this way, and in doing so, let go of a lot, to be able to meet each other on the other side.\u003cbr\u003eWe played, produced and mixed every song without trying to be too precious about anything. It was mostly recorded on a Tascam Portastudio 488 between the winter of 2023 and 2024. Some of the songs were old demos we never finished, plucked from obscurity, and some were newer songs that came about during the recording process. 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