Re-upping and expanding our 2020 sufi-flamenco grail on LP and tape format, adding 4 newly unearthed tracks to those previously thought to be Aziz Balouch's only recordings.



Aziz Balouch moved to the Iberian Peninsula from modern-day Pakistan in 1932 in search of work and music. After a childhood spent studying Islamic mysticism and devotional songs in the Sufi shrines of his native Sindh he soon fell in love with the 'deep song' of flamenco and was taken in as an apprentice to the great heterodox cantaor Pepe Marchena after a chance encounter. He dedicated the rest of his life to flamenco and developed an elaborate theory of the South Asian and Sufi origins of the art which he propagated through live performances and publications in London, Spain and Pakistan.



Decades before the arrival of the academic discipline of ethnomusicology or the invention of 'fusion' Aziz Balouch painstakingly immersed himself into a completely different musical tradition seeking connections and drawing inspiration to create a unique performance style which has tragically remained hidden and ignored. These 8 tracks are taken from Aziz Balouch's only surviving recordings, two 7" EPs released in Spain in 1962. On each track Balouch draws on his polyglottism to seamlessly merge Sufi poetry in Persian, Sindhi, Hindi and Arabic with various forms of Andalusian song in Spanish. Accompanied by a single guitar his voice pushes through into the profound depths of human experience to excavate the shared past of flamenco which had been submerged beneath the surface.



Many thanks to Stefan Williamson Fa.

A compilation gathering a cross-section of early gospel choirs and vocal harmony groups recorded between late 1920s and the mid-1950s - a period when spirituals & jubilee traditions merged with blues, jazz and early rhythm and blues, providing the musical routes for the coalescence of the civil rights movement born out of the black church. In the modern world these perennially vital recordings provide a fitting note of resistance for the near-dystopia we find ourselves living through.



Happy new year.

一群荷尔蒙分泌过往的年轻人，一段张狂而跋扈的残酷青春。
谁爱谁？谁不爱谁？重要么？
谁是谁？谁不是谁？谁在乎？
年轻的天空总呈现魔幻般的彩色，当日复一日的乏味生活让我们无法忍受，就注定了叛逆的因子要从此刻爆发，且一发不可收拾。那澎湃卷涌的蘑菇云会遮天蔽日，冲破万物，直上云霄。
一生只得一次的半熟时光，难道不能用来挥霍？
莫非必须要用一份漂亮成绩单来换取一盎司的大麻？
那不是我们，我们想到就说，有屁就放，肆意狂妄，横冲直撞。
沉迷高浓度酒精和电音派对，企图挖掘深入的成人世界。
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我们都生活在精致的皮囊中，用彼此依偎，亲肤取暖的方式来慰藉这迷乱而孤独的青春。

DAT112 - DJ Trace, We welcome Trace back to DJ, this time with three remixes of his all-time classic "Lost Entity" and an alternate mix of "Jazz Primitives". The "Lost Entity" remixes include the OG remix put out on Lucy Spin back in 1995, plus fresh remixes by Harmony and Dev/Null. "Jazz Primitives alt mix" is a different take of the tune from 1995, discovered on DAT alongside the original: a nice piece of lost jungle history for the heads.

The fourth album from Glasgow's kings of glowering, volatile quasi-instrumental rock is subtler than their previous work, compositionally beautiful but intense and trance-inducing at the same time. 9 tracks. Matador. 2003.