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2nd edition of 500 copies "Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was a folk singer from Japan. She is a representative of the Ainu culture on the Hokkaido Island in the north of Japan. Ihunke is her first album which she has recorded with the Ainu musician and dub producer Oki Kano in ...
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"Cosima Opartan is widely known as one half of Raze de Soare (Future Nuggets). As a solo artist, she files her music under the genre widow pop - melancholically reaching out to the past and the future in one gesture. She sings like someone addressing a beloved but ...
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"Umeko Ando's "Ihunke" hits right in the heart. This summer, we received enthusiastic responses to the "Ihunke" vinyl re-issue from all over the planet. So we invited a group of great international producers to remix the repetitive, mantric vibes of Umeko Ando's Ainu ...
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"Ion din Dorobanti is one of the many monikers of the ubiquitous producer Ion Dumitrescu from Bucharest. His 7" single on Pingipung shows the oriental influences on bass music in his hometown. This release carries the Manele, Romanias wedding music which dominates ...
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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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"Schlammpeitziger's album yields even more fruit. Six weeks after the release of his longplayer "What's Fruit" Pingipung releases this 12inch EP with remixes. The motley set of six electronic musicians and bands dice Schlammpeitziger's countless melodies into a ...
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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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"Sven Kacirek, the much praised multi- instrumentalist from Hamburg, releases his third album with Pingipung. "Scarlet Pitch Dreams" presents intimate solo works, following his debut "The Palmin Sessions" and the international success "The Kenya Sessions". Whilst "The ...
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"The response to Sven Kacireks Kenya album has been overwhelming. We therefore release a Remix 10inch with edits and reworks, plus one exclusive track by Sven himself. Lawrence leaves but the essence of the opriginal, calps hgis hands and lets it be - beautiful!! Sven ...
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