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Second release for Nantes based Abstrack crew. Three takes on obscure ethnic recordings with an unknown origin! Abstrack comeS up with A batch OF music that sounds like them : spanning all the way from trippy grooves to heady dancefloor material. An unbelievable anecdote from the 20th century led to these three tracks. Breaky and trippy vibes are played with on the opener : coming in and out of the groove, while the ambient air is sparkled with surprises. Malcolm TURNS up with a rolling acid and drums workout, coming up subtly and bringing hands upwards for sure. Label man Vidock goes afro, epic and vocal on the last piece. A track to open up the vibe without losing dancefloor intensity. Super emotional and beautiful. The (true?) story behind the record : The Traumstatter Phonogramm Archiv is host to one of the world’s largest ethnographic recording collections. It was created in September 1901, when a group of Indian musicians came to Traumstatt, where Blois Schauder, a psychologist at Berlin’s university and Xiu Pu Sonmi, a physicist from China recorded them on an Edison cylinder. 150 000 ethno-musical recordings have joined the collection since then. During the cold war, many cylinders and tapes were safely kept out of danger out of the country and sent to the four corners of the globe. After the wall came down, the repatriation operations started, and in April of 1990, the Miquelon-based ship “l’Herminie” sailed out, with a large number of recordings on board. Ten days later the ship sinks. The eight crew members were rescued by a Swedish cargo ship and a few floating trunks along with them. The few tapes that didn’t sink aren’t the main concern, and they end up in the posession of a swedish sailor. After reading this unbelievable story in a collection of anecdotes from the 90’s, an investigative work began, leading us to track down two of the tapes. We digitized them and sent them to several musicians and producers. The difficulty to give them an age or a geographic origin gives us the feeling that they come from an unknown land and time. Dreamtown Ethnic Tapes is intended as a wink to this beautiful story, that started a century ago, in the city of dreams…

A1. 404 (5) - Hieroglyph 4:32
A2. Malcolm - Soviet Acid Mix 6:35
B1. Vidock - Lost Tapes 7:42

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