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JANKA
MIDI Life Crisis

MIDI Life Crisis

Artists

Labels

U Know Me Records

Catno

UKM091

Formats

1x Vinyl LP Limited Edition

Country

Release date

Mar 8, 2021

Genres

Styles

Abstract Experimental

JANKA - MIDI Life Crisis | U Know Me Records (UKM091)

uknowme: ...It started with the EP "Krzyżacy", which was released exactly two years ago. Two well-known producers - Daniel Drumz & Hatti Vatti - joined their forces to release an EP, which later on was appreciated by the worldwide listeners, journalists and festival audience. JANKA, which I am talking about, hit the stages of the best Polish festivals such as Opener, Spring Break, Tauron, Slovenian MENT and Moscow Music Week. But that happened in 2019.

On March 8th 2021 the duo's debut album, "MIDI Life Crisis" will be released. Daniel Szlajnda and Piotr Kaliński once again prove that there is much more than just musical chemistry between them. What we can hear there are fascinations from dubby minimalism and IDM to jungle and rave - it's hard to label this unique mature album which should be a pleasant surprise for people open to electronic music. "Modern vintage" might be a good description of what we experience there, music is pressed on modular and analog synths and unusual sampling is drowned in delays and reverbs. However it's not from the late '90s, nothing is typical or obvious, the sound and the style of JANKA are unique.

On the album, you hear two guest voices - Sujka (i.e. Iwona Król - known from the projects Kobieta z Wydm, Lauda, and Król) and Kacha Kowalczyk (i.e. the voice of Coals), the album was mastered by Kwazar. The unique graphic was designed and created by Zosia Paśnik on the analogue gear (as a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice). The album is released in analog form in two color versions, the 180-gram vinyl edition also includes three inserts with Zosia's graphics.

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1

Wejść i Wrócić Dub

4:20

2

Prawdziwnie Dub

4:04

3

Wszyscy Jesteśmy Bardzo Szczęśliwi Dub

4:32

4

Hajs Dub

4:11

5

Dom Spokojnej Młodości Dub

4:33

6

Polska B Dub

3:45

7

Szkice Węglem Dub

5:57

8

MIDI Life Crisis Dub

6:02

9

Ana Mendieta Dub

3:07

10

Pół Tonu Ciszej Dub

4:47

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