🐣 CLOZEE — HARMONY (AXEL THESLEFF REMIX)

As gentle and ostensibly ‘world music’ as this track appears to be, there is something darker within; it lulls you into a state of exotic pastoral bliss, with textures that swirl around like the spirit of a rainforest, percussive ticks and clicks amidst an organic drumbeat sailing through all the sights and sounds of typically beautiful Earth. But soon we are sucked into a swamp of mystery, clanging metallics in the thin air and mists crawling across the once green vista, the vision of cave mouths yawning craggy monstrous, the untameable force at the heart of everything.

These two universes inhabit the original ‘Harmony’ by globally minded French musicmaker CloZee - a sort of slow sashaying to some globular heartbeat mixed with a distorted synth drop - which is echoed in Axel Thesleff ’s treatment of the track, a minimal reworking that pits the languor of leafy slo-house against bare bubbling beats and stark synths, a contrast that retains a sense of exoticism but dilutes it out into something more generally beautiful, whilst creating tons of space in the existential thump of the drop, a wholly unnatural counterpart to the soft omnipresence of natural, forest-conjuring sounds.

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• 🔔 Finnish producer Axel Thesleff's remix of 'Harmony' is out on Gravitas Recordings and you may stream and download via these various links.

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🐣 JULIAN BORREGO — MBUTI / DEVOTION TO THE RAINFOREST

The first part of this track is a swirling mass of sound, exotic tropical flavours with warm crackly human chanting, jungle life, birds singing—but 'Mbuti / Devotion to the Rainforest' also gloops with a subtle rumble of bass, judders along to the hefty swing of the beat, sharp driving hi-hats keeping up energetic pace, augmenting the natural energy of this track. Soon we dive into a clean section where guitar chords acoustic and clean and raw-sounding jam in syncopated bossa nova style, jewels of percussion and clonking marimba click-clopping echoing the feel of a rainforest. Endlessly luscious, the cascading sounds reflect the plethora of life constantly chattering, a mix of samples and real instrumentation painting the trees and leaves and the evershifting nature of it all.

The musicmaker behind the track Julian Borrego tells us that the most prominent sample comes a song, also called 'Devotion to the Rainforest', recorded by members of the Mbuti people from the Congo region of Africa: "While crate digging I found an old album of their music that was recorded in the jungle (you can hear the birds and animals in the background)." The devotional chanting, the audible life of the jungle, implies an explicit connection to nature that cities and suburbs pine for, and which Julian Borrego celebrates with upbeat funk flavours. But he reason for this sampling, the locative placement of sounds, the lush jungle environment? "To continue to spread awareness about the disastrous environmental issues we face today," explains Julian, "and to send mother nature love and gratitude through music."

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• 🔔 This jungly track is taken from Julian Borrego's recent self-released Ouroboros EP, which you can listen to via his SoundCloud.

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