Jacques Charlier
Art In Another Way

Acid house at its finest - SJ Tequilla style!A fun, fresh and ~ freaky ~ record that will NOT leave your record bag... Originally hailing from Japan but currently living Berlin, SJT is known far and wide for his Teknobuskers project, a hardware DIY dance party hosted with friends and held regularly in 'Max-Koch-Passage’, Berlin. The energy from these dance parties can be felt and lived through his latest ep, ‘GG Allien’.SJT’s skilful use of mind melting background tape textures and moody pads provide the encapsulating canvas for otherworldly acid lines, driving hardware percussion and enlightening melodies. An ep primed to transcend the listener to a place of communal acidic dance appreciation.

boomkat: ...Properly overdue reissue of Hydroplane's long out of print 1997 debut album, a beguiling concoction of lo-fi pop, shoegaze, early electronic blips and billowing ambience. So good!Back in 1997, Aussie jangle pop outfit The Cat's Miaow formed Hydroplane after their drummer headed to London. They filled the gap by using samples and tape loops, and developed a startling new sound that gave a new resonance to Kerrie Bolton's cool, deadpan vocals and the band's hybrid experimentation. The self-titled album works because it refuses to stay in the same spot for too long, lurching from bit-crushed breaks and dry guitar plucks on opening track 'Wurlitzer Jukebox' to mucky noise and regurgitated piano guts on 'Piano Movement with Percussion', before settling into a dream pop groove on the beatless 'Song for the Meek'.The album's best moments though are when they ignore songs altogether, like on the sci-fi tinted analog synth jam 'I Hear a New World', or 'House Warming', a ghostly spoken word track accompanied by a wavering electronic drone. The band recorded this material in their Brunswick flat using a bare-bones setup including a Jupiter 4 synth, sampler and tape equipment, and the album was released at the time only in the US on CD. Now it's available again, it feels like high time to rediscover a band that nestle comfortably between Slowdive, Stereolab and Hood.

POLITY: ...Fresh off the heels of minting the YCO imprint with Aya, BFTT debuts on Polity Records with the Intrusive / Obtrusive EP, which sees BFTT continue to develop his precise, hyper-futuristic take on UK sound-system music. Using technology and humanity’s evolving (and not always benevolent) co-dependence with it as a conceptual jumping-off point, he infuses a noisier but still tightly controlled sound palette with the fixed-point rhythmic precision and mutative structures that made his previous work stand out.
BFTT joined Manchester’s Mutualism collective in 2017, an experimental label and events series, as well as running Leftovers in Leeds and most recently founding YCO alongside Aya in July of this year. The release follows acclaimed records for Whities and Gobstopper, as well as a pair of s t u n n i n g remixes of Loraine James’ +44 - Thinking - Of - You.