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Expect to discover unique and innovative sounds from this influential label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e This biography has been edited for readability and does not include any references within \"[]\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"still-strange","title":"Still Strange","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eStill Strange\u003c\/i\u003e reaches back into the prized tape archive of Jeff Sharp aka Orior following the revelatory discovery of his overlooked early ‘80s gems on 2016’s \u003ci\u003eStrange Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e collection, as coaxed out by DDS dons Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Huddling another sublime, dusty set of analogue tapes freshly baked and remarkably well-restored by Andy Popplewell, \u003ci\u003eStill Strange\u003c\/i\u003e contains delirious flashbacks to the era 1979-1983 surrounding and even pre-dating \u003ci\u003eStrange Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, and then shifts focus to recordings that Orior made around the early ‘90s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50448591520075,"sku":"1080530","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/98f56360-d47c-4694-94fc-7c5f69366386_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727093558"},{"product_id":"diagonals","title":"Diagonals","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrescient jazz-techno mutator Jamie Hodge (Conjoint, Studio Pankow) ushers a long overdue solo debut album, of sorts, with Demdike Stare’s DDS label; an archival harvest spanning his earliest experiments circa his Plus 8 debut thru to ’00s anomalies - hybrid ambient techno jazz and incredibly inventive forerunners of dubbed electronica - bookended by two Demdike Stare edits. Essential listening if yr into anything on the axis from Move D to Detroit Escalator Company, Jan Jelinek or Tortoise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Hodge grew up in Chicago in a jazz-loving family, first forming a band when he was a teenager, using drum machines and keyboards to rattle thru covers of Joy Division and Ministry tracks. His sound progressed into dubbier spaces when he befriended Ted Gray, a local record store clerk, and into off-kilter jazz when he ran into Bundy K. Brown and David Grubbs, who let Hodge watch rehearsals of the first Gastr del Sol recordings. But the transformational moment came when a friend (pictured on the \"Diagonals\" cover no less) played Hodge the 1991-released \"From Our Minds To Yours Vol. 1\", the first compilation on Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva's Plus 8 label. From here, Hodge took his growing obsession with dance music to early Chicago raves, and began to explore European techno and UK hardcore. Eventually he met Hawtin in person after convincing his mom to cut through Canada on the way back from visiting East Coast colleges, and released his Plus 8 debut by the time he'd moved into a college dorm in 1993, using the Born Under A Rhyming Planet moniker for the first time. 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It’s an ideal addition to the ever expanding DDS cosmos, following Demdike’s recent \u003ci\u003eDrum Machine\u003c\/i\u003e expo with a slice of purist and screwed modular magick that transcends early electronics and modern styles in pursuit of musical sensations that defy stylistic brackets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToo Compliment\u003c\/i\u003e was assembled using a bespoke Hordijk modular system, a rare West Coast-style setup hand made by Dutch engineer Rob Hordijk. O'Rourke focuses on the frequency shifter here, using it to coax out fluxing tone thickets, haphazard frequencies and elongated drone corridors. It's transportive stuff, harking back to the early days of private press academic synth music but also sitting on edge alongside Autechre's recent long-form work, as well as O'Rourke's classic \"I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn O’Rourke’s hands, the mass of electronics takes on throbbing, organic dimensions, congealing grey matter and purplish veins of fluid in viscous transitions that glisten and spark with invention as they form new tissue. What comes out is as unearthly as the earliest electronic music, but also blessed with a psychedelc spirit in a way that’s long kept O’Rourke right out on his own, teetering between paradigms yet never settling into any single style. If you’ve always been keen on finding a way into that sprawling soundworld, 'Too Compliment’ is a perfect entry point into a highly rewarding creative macrocosm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50459927052619,"sku":"1126032","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5e2f8b93-d02a-49a3-b9c3-784a6342b15e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727228109"},{"product_id":"japan-blues-meets-the-dengie-hundred","title":"Japan Blues Meets The Dengie Hundred","description":"\u003cp\u003eNTS DJ, label boss and fabled collector Howard Williams lands on DDS with an etheric communique under his Japan Blues moniker, inspired by early C.20th Min'yō folk and avant-dub, richly spirited with field recordings and ghostly ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix years since his debut Japan Blues album ‘Sells His Record Collection’, Williams is back - and it’s been worth the wait. Based around enka and minyo recordings made with London based singer Akari Mochizuki and Tsugaru shamisen master Hibiki Ichikawa at London’s Earthworks studio back in 2018, Williams adds field recordings made while traveling through Japan,  inviting The Dengie Hundred to co-produce, bringing his own sound worlds into the mix.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two spent several months shuttling ideas back and forth, processing mixes and adding environmental recordings, like snatched penny whistle melodies or the familiar whirr of an extractor fan. Singer Tamami Pearl is the final piece of the puzzle, providing an almost imperceptibly breathy aura to proceedings. The obsessively researched archivist’s resolve is still very much present, but the processing style and overall sound here is more faded than the Japan Blues of yore, transmuting discernible sounds into magickal textures that boil and bubble until all that’s left is vapour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 'Sazanka, Hokkai Bon Uta', Japanese vocals are dubbed into bare syllables, juxtaposed with flute improvisations and muddy whirrs. Eventually, the instrumental elements turn to noise, like some shortwave radio transmission slowly falling out of range. Environmental sounds become uneven, clunking percussive currents offer a sort of dream logic, morphing into faint choirs. In the final third, Williams pulls away the veil almost entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album's most compelling section is the side-long 'Soran, AIzu Bandai-San, Shimabara Lullaby'. If you've heard Robert Turman's 1981 album \"Flux\" - a reel-to-reel recorded slo-mo kalimba and piano masterpiece - you'll have an idea of how this one rolls. Williams and The Dengie Hundred work into the source material like modelling clay, dubbing and distorting shamisen twangs and echoing vocals into half-speed, dissociated dream visions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's not Ambient by any means, but there are undoubtedly traces of Brian Eno's earliest, most crucial experiments. It's not Folk music either, but Williams' deep obsession with Japanese traditions allows him to integrate sounds holistically, provoking a conversation rather than simply cherry picking aesthetic decorations. He works like a dedicated DJ, giving The Dengie Hundred room to tweak the spaces in-between. Together, they create an atmosphere that's fiendishly hard to put into words, and even harder to forget. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're into tape-damaged industrial experiments (think Skaters, Spencer Clark, Aaron Dilloway et al), the surrealist global exploration of labels like Stroom, or simply after a new perspective on Japanese folkways, \"Japan Blues Meets The Dengie Hundred\" is unmissable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DDS","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50490354827595,"sku":"2009041","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/DDS056_Cover_f4d35679_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727659522"},{"product_id":"butterfly-effect-5","title":"Butterfly Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat killer Chain Reaction 12” was also a long time favourite of Demdike Stare, who had been trying to follow the trail and make contact with Atobe for many years before a lead from the Basic Channel office turned up an address in japan and - unbelievably - an album full of archival and new material. 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It follows on from last year’s “From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art” set and continues a run of highly enigmatic, acclaimed and completely unparalleled productions that follow their own timeless logic. There’s no sonic fiction involved - this material really does just turn up on a CD sent by air mail from Japan to Manchester, sparse info, no messing, pure gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat’s that cover art about? prob something to do with the balmy material within. So Good, So Right, the 10 minute opener, will force you to forget about all the shite around you for a while. There are also several tracks called Heat; they’re all killer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis music takes you elsewhere almost immediately; that fan on your desk is basically a summer breeze. 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