absolute time

We have come to our 20th release in a similar way as in our beginning like a label: establishing a panoramic view of things in minimalistic and glitchy electronics produced in an independent context. Histeresis is a drawn trajectory framing intimist and atmospheric set ups to urban beats, flirting in some moments with an alternative dance floor.
Our Release begins with the post digital whisperings from “Ella hablaba en RGB”: ..she only speaks RGB, in 3 channels, infront of a screen continuosly available.-You have 3 options –she used to tell me, morning is a nice colourfull vector.. Like a natural flow, Meiker paints this release with the colors of a warm evening with his track “Naranja (That Nostalgic Feeling)”. We arribe to last thoughts of the day sonic textures with “Sinking downwards in dire ruin (f.ss)” a Bifidus’ track that like his previous work, gives a sound to that state between being awake and being asleep. Insecto from Chile, situate us inside an arena where rhythmic collapses, textures and microscopic melodies clash between themselves.
Rivel, with “Back again” gave us one of his best tracks to date: an undersea dubby garden with paths that bifurcates at unison into his own very logic. "Dodecafuced" by Subnor is a very cinematographic IDM that constructs an imaginary short-film with perfect timing. Emmerichk with "Maquiventa" also forms a narrative with true contemplative thoughts in constant transitions to new forms. AAM with “Bad japanese movie” place us in the middle of a cluster of textures that works as a camouflage to rhythms floating under a dense residual scheme. zofa in cycles makes display of his ability to leave us in the middle of a field of unsolved tensions that unease the listener. "Photon" by Absolute time is a piece that searches getting away from the minimal as we know it and make us sigh a little bit for the nineties.
Histéresis nearly finishes with Manziping, our friends from Chile. “Después de usted señor” hides within its gentle title a store formed with beats, bass assaults and some problems with catching a radio signal, all of this over an atmosphere which, like some climatic variations, warns us from things to come. Kampión, the man that has changad the FACE of mexican hip hop forever, closes with “Dreamy Snapshot” an impressive collaboration between MC Domer and digitally corrupted hip hop champion.
Absolute Time is the first asian artist that joins the Filtro
catalogue, to exhibit a fragmented and danceable proposal, forged in
the lands of digital dub in Osaka, Japan.
Ocean Bed EP is a work that deep dives through glassy and precise
textures, beats and distorsions, ehoes and spirals that sculpt a rythmic
and atmospheric vibe. A sonic manifiesto that identifies the common places
between the contradicctions of the minimal sound: warm and icy, technic as
well as organic, narrative and danceable.
Art, ego and dub are the elements that according with Akihiro Kogishi,
used in the production of his EP debut. "Ocean Bed" is the track that set
us in a gelid and fantastic scenary, interfered by glitchs, loops and
echoes that opens space to the stylized beat of "Circle and Spiral", where
the variations of sound, shapes a crystal clear atmosphere that makes the
dubsesque beat more evident. Finally, "Iceland" is an audio canvas made of
infinite bass and glassy beats, powerfull enough to sketch an epic image
of an unknown place to our sight and yet familiar to our perception: the
groove.
FIltro's artists get involved in this production through four remixes that
express the sound style that we are looking for as a label. Using the
dance quailities of this album as excuse, Plug uses the classic dub
techniques from a digital perspective, developing another side of "Circle
and Spiral" without using the original source. Emmerick, rebuilds from
scratch the sound of Absolute Time, taking a great distance from the
original track that allowes him to stylize the track through the abuse of
sophisticated clicks&cuts. Subnor, decided to approach "Circles and
Spirals" from an oscure panorama of IDM, that allows him to explore the
dub groove, focusing in it's minimal frecuencies. Finally Karras, rescued
the classic elements of the roots and the dub, in order to amplify the
melodious reverb and sensuality of "Iceland", -achieving in this way- a
greater sensorial experience of the track
YkYkMix001
This collection presents some high quality netaudio tracks 2006 mixed with music of the Yuki Yaki netlabel.
Our respect goes to the musicians and the people operating the netlabels trying to keep the netaudio-scene rollin.
Thanks you for the inspiration.
Yuki Yaki, Winter 2006.
Playlist
01. Pellarin - Dependency 5 Cigarette [ykyk001]
02. Move D - Jo Interlude [apl035]
03. Move D - FM Heaven [apl035]
04. Absolute Time - Circle and Spiral [Filtro017]
05. Scaff - Concrete [ykyk004]
06. Rivel - Ruff Bizzness [Filtro019]
07. Adapt - 10pint wobble on [ykyk005]
08. Plaktonman - Sauzal [cy01]
09. T-Polar - Procession [thn089]
10. tekdev69 - Warsaw Soul (Ruxpin RMX) [lego005]
11. Emmerichk - Abner [ykyk006]
12. Daniel Carew - Lonithan Ward [ykyk unrlsd]
13. Choenyi - Mime Dub (Manziping Remix) [ykyk009]
14. Xoki - Redirection (Daniel Stefanik edit) [instabil_08]
15. Glander - he calls it heavyweight (edit) [ykyk010]