What are your names and roles within jus Kno’?
We are Alex Aller and Pablo Villanueva. Alex takes care of the music and Pablo is in charge of all the visual content.
We are living in Madrid right now.
In our case, the most important thing is that we have finally released our new album “Looped Circles”. This project was developed during the quarantine and it is something that you can tell all along the record because it is our deepest, personal and introspective music till date.
We have been working on the album since Christmas of 2019. During the quarantine of 2020, Madrid was heavily restricted and we spent many months isolated at home. We are flatmates so we passed through the same experience together. By the end of 2020 we realized that all the music that we were making during that time had a connection, the songs were talking to each other somehow. That is why we decided to put them all together in our first album.
The music was our way to escape from this painful situation we are all suffering. In a way, we would prefer that the inspirations of our first album would have come from travel, gathering with other artists or more joyful experiences. However, we think that this album is going to become very special for being our saviour in this historic time, which is a beautiful thing.
We have our own studio at home, where we write, produce and mix all our songs. When it comes to master, all of our records are taken care of by Carlos Koschitzky.
We work with Ableton and we try to stay analog as much as we can by using vintage mixers and also tape processing.
The challenge is always to decide when a song is ready. This is our first album, so there were a lot of discards and changes, also the mixing process became very frustrating since we were stuck at home and refreshing the ears was a bit difficult. The most rewarding moment was when we finally put it out and received all the messages from people loving it.
So for recording we work mainly in Ableton, processing the mix by the Teac 2A and the Teac A3440, especially when we want more texture in some parts. Regarding the instruments, we have an upright piano, a Rhodes piano, guitars and some synthesizers as the Prophet 8 or Juno 106. We only use samples when it comes to drums, for the rest we prefer to write music by using these instruments so we can reproduce almost everything on a live show.
We had already planned and signed to release an album with Faneca Music, but we did not know that this was going to be the scenario. We are happy with the result, although the best thing of an album is sometimes to tour with it and this is something that seems to be kind of impossible right now.
We are planning to keep delivering visual content, with visualizers or more music videos. Also, we would love to do a presentation of the album and put on a good show. We are currently working on it.
The new albums from Grandbrothers, Floating Points and Maria Arnal.
Climbing, movies and traveling.
Hopefully, the return of live events!
We love the food from Asturias, one of the reasons this region is famous for. Our favorite place here in Madrid could be “Matadero Madrid”. It is an abandoned slaughterhouse used now for cultural events.
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Release date: 2nd April
This is a true techno/house fusion, executed with finesse from Eli Brown.
The feeling of meeting a stranger and immediately seeing your possible significant other in them is so common yet so rare. I met a girl last year and fell head-over-heels for her in a very short period of time. There was just an instant sense of familiarity I felt with her, but it was too soon to tell anyone about it so I decided to make a song about it. The chill Indie-Pop vibe lays the foundation for a mellow yet uplifting song that displays the intense immediate infatuation one feels when meeting a stranger and instantly establishing a connection. The electronic elements beautifully convey the heat of the moment, while the melody justifies the impracticality of the situation and pairs perfectly with a beat that represents the strong, flowing anxiousness that accompanies such a moment.
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Flyght Club is Shauvik Sharan’s contemporary music project. Prioritizing extreme versatility, flyght club’s music ranges over all of the popular music types and explores a whole new genre and it’s intrinsic elements with every song being made to cater to different listener moods and emotions. Every song is written, produced, performed and mixed by Shauvik solely to make sure the song is conveyed to the listener exactly the way he intends it to. The songs are then brought to life with a full band during live performances.
Shauvik Sharan, who grew up in Pune, India, decided to move to Los Angeles 5 years ago to pursue a career in music and to achieve his dream of making it big in the global music industry. Growing up on classic rock artists such as Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd built Shauvik’s strong foundation in music and got him to pick up and master the guitar. Shauvik then began playing as a guitarist in bands locally and won a bunch of rock band competitions. Shauvik then decided to get into electronic music and start DJing as the scene started growing in his city. After a couple years of playing in rock bands and winning DJ competitions, Shauvik decided to move to Los Angeles to test his skills in the hub of the music industry. It was there that he mastered the art of production and engineering as well as singing and songwriting, something he hadn’t thought of experimenting before. This is what gave birth to his project ‘Flyght Club’. Even though at first the name appears as a band name, it actually is just Shauvik alone. The name is based on a concept where anybody who is trying to rise, achieve their goals and is giving everything they’ve got in order to get that is part of the flyght club. And anybody who supports the vision is also a part. Ranging and experimenting in multiple genres and forever increasing his music vocabulary, flyght club has become one of the most versatile music artists in history. Literally left completely unchained from the boundaries of musical genres.
Since then Flyght Club has garnered a good amount of attention on multiple platforms like youtube due to his music and is continuing to gain a following.
Instagram – www.instagram.com/
Youtube – https://www.youtube.
Official Website – www.flyghtclubmusic.
Facebook – https://www.
Twitter – https://twitter.com/
TikTok – https://vm.tiktok.com/
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/
Apple Music – https://music.apple.com/us/
Hailing from the Junction, and citing influences like Wilco, Kurt Vile, and Cage the Elephant – the band is a fully collaborative endeavour of Toronto music stalwarts Damian Coleman (vocals, bass), Edmund Cummings (vocals, keys), Craig Keeney (lead guitar), Phil Skot (drums) and Dave Suchon (vocals, guitar). Dripping guitar tones, billowing keyboard melodies, and defiant bass / drums all contribute to the textured sound of The Sarandons. Songs are bittersweet, rich with nostalgia and tell stories that are familiar but just out of reach.
Today marks the bittersweet end of Melbourne duo Slum Sociable. Their final release The Street Of Dire Needs EP is out now via Liberation Records.
The five-tracker features singles ‘Explain Myself’, ‘You’re In My Head (feat. KYE)’ and ‘Questions’ as well as title track ‘The Street Of Dire Needs’ and ‘Lookin’ Up’. These final two are greatly significant songs for Ed Quinn and Miller Upchurch, who penned ‘Lookin’ Up’ 10 years ago in their previous musical manifestation.
– Ed Quinn
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Half Waif, the musical project of Nandi Rose, has shared a lyric video for her latest digital single “Take Away The Ache.” The song continues a new chapter in Half Waif’s ever-evolving story and sound.
WATCH THE “TAKE AWAY THE ACHE” LYRIC VIDEO
“This is a song about the paradoxes of loving. How we ask the impossible of each other, how we promise what we can’t give. But I don’t mean this cynically – I actually find it quite remarkable” says Nandi Rose. “It’s kind of an incredible feat of imagination and will, the way we help each other transform our darkest moments into something bearable, like a game of make-believe. ‘It’s not an ache,’ you might say, ‘it’s an ember.’ And so together we stay warm by the fire of what we’ve created, lit by a sweet lie that makes it all okay for a while. To love is to believe in a kind of magic.”
“Take Away The Ache” follows the release of her “Orange Blossoms” b/w “Party’s Over” 7″, out now via ANTI-.
“Half Waif’s new album, The Caretaker, evokes the stifling feeling of wanting to force time forward and charge into a future that’s nebulous and perpetually out of reach. These songs inadvertently speak to a period of uncertainty and isolation, and, though they’re weighty, Half Waif’s sombre elegance reflects the steely-eyed strength of a person who might just get through it.” -The New Yorker
“Beautifully rendered and deeply layered synth-pop.” -Pitchfork
“The swooping blend of organic instrumentation and fluttering electronics that has marked Nandi Rose’s solo career as Half Waif looks to come into stark clarity with The Caretaker. A musician who has built her career on enigmatic presence and ambiguity steps into a lusher and more mature territory with her fourth album, guided as always by her clear and restless vocals, delivering poetic turns of phrase that can twist from grandly universal to painfully intimate within a single measure” -The AV Club
“A whirring, deeply emotive window into self-sufficiency and the highs and lows of personal growth.” -NPR “Stormy chord progressions and eerie pitch-shifts convey disquiet, while sweeping strings and Rose’s soaring vocals crash in waves of catharsis.” – Nylon
“Sparse and spectral.” -The FADER
“Characteristically gorgeous, emotive.” -Stereogum
“Often resembles a reversion to her sparser early work and away from the cavernous jolts of her more recent output.” -Paste
“Whereas her debut solo record, Lavender, took a more intimate approach to music, this new one goes for big emotions and even bigger music.” – Consequence of Sound
“Nandi Rose dials into the electronic elements of her musical repertoire.” – UPROXX
“Downright euphoric.” – MTV
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Title: Testarossa
Label: MDLBEAST Records
Germany-based Turkish producer Butch becomes the next artist to join the fledgling MDLBEAST Records with his new track “Testarossa,” bringing underground vibes to the Saudi label. Opening with tech-house-inspired minimal percussion, Butch artistically ups the ante by weaving in moody synths and increasingly progressive basslines. The result is a dark but euphonious and dance-worthy tune that also represents a cultural connection between Butch‘s own heritage and MDLBEAST‘s mission to expose the talent of the Middle East region, burgeoning a new era of discovery for that part of the world. The label’s first release was R3HAB, Fafaq & DNF‘s “Ringtone,” and Butch‘s “Testarossa” continues the strong start for Saudi Arabia‘s most exciting brand in music.
“It’s been a full year without clubs, locked in a studio for introspection, and I’m happy to present ‘Testarossa‘ as a result of that time. I think that as artists and fans, all we want is to drop some sonic bombs, future club classics, and make things better so we can all dance together again soon.” – Butch
Butch has one aim with his music – to take listeners on a sonic journey. Whether he’s dropping eastern-inspired psychedelia or pounding prime-time techno, fans can only be sure that they are at the mercy of one of the industry’s most creative selectors. If he’s not honing his sounds in the studio, he’s channeling his wit into the Butch TV series (always with a healthy dose of sarcasm). Butch‘s exploration into the trippier side of house and techno led him to collaborate with a fellow master of the psyche, Riccardo Villalobos. The duo has produced deep, experimental EPs under the combined alias ButRic. Now, officially as a part of MDLBEAST Records, Butch adds to his discography “Testarossa,” in addition to earlier releases on such labels as Watergate, Cocoon, Crosstown Rebels, Drumcode, Desolat, Hot Creations, Rekids, Saved, Rebirth, to name a few.
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Slowly Slowly vocalist Ben Stewart shares how Race Car Blues – Chapter 2 particularly captures the heart of the band:
“[It’s] always been the ultimate aim for the band to celebrate the music we love – anthemic heart on sleeve songwriting – but across a broad spectrum of genres. Having no creative ceiling for this project only pushed that ethos further….Chapter 2 pushes the envelope a little further in every direction – heavier, more pop sensibility and a deeper dive into intimate solo songs.”
Upon release, both Race Car Blues and Chapter 2 enjoyed coveted feature positions on triple j, bagged knockout global reviews and together have garnered over 11 Million streams to date.
With both parts of the Race Car Blues saga now out in the world, UNFD is pleased to feature both albums on a whopping 24-track double LP collection titled “Race Car Blues Extended Edition”. Available as an extremely limited collectors’ item, fans can snag remaining copies via 24Hundred now.
Slowly Slowly play their Race Car Blues Australian Tour in June/July. Full details and tickets below.
STREAM ‘RACE CAR BLUES – CHAPTER 2’ IN FULL NOW:
unfd.lnk.to/RCBExtended
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‘Le Tour’ is the night, the darkness and energy, a trip to an old life. It’s the most rebellious part of Depaart that takes shape thanks to a completely unpredictable arpeggiated bass, surrounded by fine percussion and sets the perfect climax of an EP that evokes the desire of partying.
The release, which you can now preorder on Beatport, also features two tracks by the American producer Mister Sweatband. On top of that, Depaart has two new releases confirmed in the coming months and will also present their new live show very soon, which they have also been working on throughout this last year during the pandemic. We knew life would return soon, we’re getting closer and closer.
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