PINGIPUNG

2021 repress "Anadol is a psychedelic synth folk project by Goezen Atila, a Turkish sound artist and photographer based in Berlin. Her third album Uzun Havalar is based on collective improvisations of middle eastern folk songs called "uzun hava". They turn out as rich, ...
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"Mameen 3 are soFa and Cheb Runner from Brussels. Both versatile players in the rather niche scene of oriental electronic music in the European capital, they only ran into each other at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda two years ago. They clicked and after a first jam ...
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"Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can't conceal their influences from Exotica records of the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music ...
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"Odd Okoddo is a Kenyan/German duo formed by Olith Ratego and Sven Kacirek. This vinyl single marks their first outing, announcing the album "Auma" which will be ripe and ready in autumn 2019. Olith Ratego performs his immaculate vocals in the musical style called ...
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""Atuy So Kata" is the closing track of Umeko Ando's "Ihunke" album. It is a poetic dedication to the surface of the ocean. Her voice is especially mesmerizing in this traditional Ainu song, and it perfectly captures all the brittle and enchanting qualities of her vocal ...
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"Hey-O-Hansen are a dub duo from Berlin. Helmut Erler and Michael Wolf are originally from Austria, their blend of folkloristic melodies of their home country with the bass-loaded echo chambers of Jamaican roots has been called Austrodub. In 2010, Pingipung compiled a ...
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"VIA is Andi Otto's fourth solo album, on which he presents his music under his actual name instead of the Springintgut moniker. Hundreds, mostly incognizable microsamples of vocal, instrumental and percussive snippets which Otto found on vintage Indian movie ...
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"Recently, at a gig at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, Herler (one half of Hey-O-Hansen) picked up the news that a forced sale is imminent on this gem of German club culture. At the end of his show he spontaneously rhymed a two-liner about the threat which this ...
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"On his new album SONGS FROM OKINAWA Sven Kacirek searches for traces of a unique, traditional music of the famous Pacific islands in the south of Japan. He has recorded various musicians, amateurs as well as local celebrities and subsequently added his trademark ...
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"With his new album "What's Fruit", Schlammpeitziger touches the dancefloor more than ever before in his 22-year long career. Yet his dancefloor is a playful one. The Cologne based composer's sounds electrify with their multi-layered melodic structures. He weaves ...
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"The Quasi Dub Development (QDD) has been founded as a collective four years ago by Luca Fadda and F.S. Blumm. After "Limousine To The Guillotine" (2011) their second album is now about to be released. The QDD love Dub, obviously, but they play it by hand with their ...
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"Originally released as a limited vinyl edition in 2010 which had quickly sold out, this much sought after longplayer by the Austrian duo Hey-ø-Hansen now sees the light of day as a CD. On "We so horny", Hey-O-Hansen strip down dub rhythms mostly from the fifties and ...
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