SMOKEY HAANGALA - "Aunka Ma Kwacha" LPSmokey Haangala Aunka Ma Kwacha LP (Seance Centre, 2019) "There is music that falls right into place, a perfectly articulated expression of a few distinct influences. Then, there is another kind of median music, something more mysterious, the result of time, place, technology, and alchemy. Zambian writer and musician Smokey Haangalas Aunka Ma Kwacha (The Money is Gone) released in 1976 is an example of this more mystical metallurgy, falling somewhere

Originally offered as a digital only release on 75 Dollar Bill's Bandcamp

Maggotron - Floppy's from the Main Frame (Omaggio

but one indisputable classic is Porter Ricks’ debut ‘Biokinetics’

here it is

Robert was going to become a police officer up untill he spun abroad in Italy and realized his true passion

subjugating drums march through acid pulses that form ominous electrified mists

Last year's double album I Was Real received serious critical acclaim -- The Wire calling it 2019's Album of the Year

What separated ‘Biokinetics’ from other albums at the time was its unwavering narrative – the exact sound has been interpreted countless times since

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Unlike most of his other performances this piece embraced the audience in a trance that was similar to that of an old-school rave club

as a way to make space for unexpected possibilities to blossom