Hoss Records fall update
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Update: an ummastered mp3 of Ecstatic Sunshine’s “Turned On” from Yesterday’s Work has been added to this post.
The Baltimore/Atlanta/Washington D.C.-based accessibly weird and vinyl friendly label Hoss Records has unveiled its fall release schedule. First up is the third full-length from Baltimore duo Ecstatic Sunshine, titled Yesterday’s Work. According to Hoss boss Brad Hurst the album presents “an evolved version of Papich’s post-Frippertronics guitar work married to skittering Berlin-school electronics.”
In August the LP will be preceded by Ecstatic Sunshine’s “Turned On” 7-inch, which features a non-album track and a remix by Rjyan Kidwell (A.K.A. Cex).
In the meantime the first installment of of the label’s new techno 12-inch series has also arrived with the first installment coming from San Francisco’s Mi Ami. The idea behind the series is to take bands that aren’t traditionally associated with techno music and get them to make techno music.
The Mi Ami 12-inch features two side-long and somewhat conceptual electro-riffs on the deep, dark, mutant bass and slow grooves of Shackleton’s “Blood On My Hands.”
“Blood on My Hands” is used more as a reference point for the source material at the center of the record. “Towers Fall” merges the group’s signature use of polyrhythms and massive bass to create a sustained drum and synth odyssey. “Towers Fall (Cassette Mix)” presents the previous rhythmic work out as a much slower and dirtier dub-heavy dirge that pushes the song deeper and higher into the electronic ether, and any and all vocal yelps have been boiled down to a bare-bones minimum.
Also just-released is the LP edition of Food For Animals‘ critically acclaimed Belly (200 copies are on translucent gold vinyl).
Also in the works for 2009 will be a new EP and a digital full-length from Atlanta expat and Prefuse 73 cohort Ryan Rasheed’s Leb Laze. A new Food For Animals full-length will also see the light of day as well as new releases from All The Saints, Brass Castle, Ben Lawless and more.
Ecstatic Sunshine’s “Turned On” (unmastered) mp3
