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The face of "Rampane" that swept Thailand in the cassette era, the bad tune of Quanter Farsawan is the best compilation album in the world's first CD. Here is the naked appearance of Street Morlam, a dance scene specification that is far from tradition!
In Morlam (* 1), which was a performing art that inherited the traditional "mold", it was rare to make a new mold, but "Lamb Pane", which appeared in the early 1980s, was a great producer, Doi Inthanon. A new type of lam created by Inthanon to meet the needs of the times, its appearance was literally an unconventional event. It is said that this Lamb Pane was specialized in the dance hall scene from the beginning and promoted the appearance of Lamb Singh, who is currently at the forefront, and is an important lamb type that has become the ancestor of Thai bass music since the 90's. In this commentary, Soi48 reveals the secret story behind its birth.
Quanter is the representative of Ram Pane, who made his debut by Doi Inthanon, who was selected from among 1,000 singers. With a strong appearance, he is a powerful singer who rams the life scenery of Thai people (Isan people) at the bottom, incites dance, and burns thick and short. Enjoy heavy street mor lam with translations, including the Thai-style biker song masterpiece "Lam Phaen Motorsai Tham Saeb" that incorporates the engine sound of one of the representative songs, Motorsai (* 2). that!
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* 1: Mo is a master, and Lamb is a performing art that speaks with intonation in the tone. In other words, it is a "master of narrative" and is a name that refers to both the singer and the performing arts. Mor lam is not a "song". Isan (Northeastern Thailand) is the home.
* 2: A motorcycle in Thailand.
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+ Song selection / commentary / binding: Soi48 (with English translation)
+ Japanese / English translation
+ CD version: Normal jewel case, 24-page booklet
+ LP version: Liner included
Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album, The Collective, which will be released March 8th on Matador. Recorded in her native Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. The album advances their joint world building, with Raisin’s damaged, blown out dub and trap constructions playing the foil to Gordon’s intuitive word collages and hooky mantras, which conjure communication, commercial sublimation and sensory overload.
“On this record, I wanted to express the absolute craziness I feel around me right now,” says Gordon. “This is a moment when nobody really knows what truth is, when facts don’t necessarily sway people, when everyone has their own side, creating a general sense of paranoia. To soothe, to dream, escape with drugs, TV shows, shopping, the internet, everything is easy, smooth, convenient, branded. It made me want to disrupt, to follow something unknown, maybe even to fail.”
"When asked what were my early influences in music, I get reminded of my teenage years in Parisian suburbs, simultaneously discovering from public libraries two important French record labels: OCORA and GRM. Then the roots of my interest in traditional music and electro-acoustic experiments grew into doing it myself, recording ethnic minorities of the zomian plateau of south-east Asia and composing a soundscape around it. This is what is happening here."
— Laurent Jeanneau aka KINK GONG
Kink Gong works with what is unknown to him, as an artist who’s attracted by beauty and strangeness.
Like a stranger, he has been deeply curious about recording ethnic minority music isolated from dominating cultures within South-east Asia, thus working with musicians taking part in specific cultural communities to make almost 200 albums.
Like an artist, he has been leaning towards strange marriages, building on these raw materials. They are lived moments that combine space, people and music, as if they were blocks made out of the same material.