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Minim – El Pes Del Món (Not Not Fun Records)

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Label Description: Valencian synthesist Juanvi Fortea aka Mínim draws on his dual backgrounds in metamorphic Spanish electro-acoustic troupe Mecánica Clásica as well as active-duty high school history teacher for his latest suite of sunken, sacred geometries: El Pes Del Món (“The Weight of the World”). Inspired by the lore of ancient trade routes that bound the outskirts of antiquity – paths of spice, silk, merchants, and thieves – the album’s 10 tracks unspool like vignettes glimpsed from a passing caravan.

Shifting layers of modular rhythm, sequential circuits, field recordings, and poetic vapor loop and thicken and decay in crisscrossing maps of dust, rope, and eroded stone. Fortea’s minimalism is one of oblique narrative and negative space, fusing the granular and cinematic into an exotic clockwork, tracing swaying lines through hills and haze, in thrall to an age of discovery just beginning to dawn.

Written, recorded, and mixed by Juanvi Fortea.
Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Cover illustration by Carlos Romero.
Design by Britt Brown.

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Mondoriviera – La Laguna Dei Bei Sogni (Not Not Fun Records)

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Label Description: The latest by Rimini riddler Lorenzo Camera aka Mondoriviera refracts his burnt vapor mutant sound design into a melted palette of hypnagogic guitar, funhouse keys, wormhole FX, and narcotic crooning: La Laguna Dei Bei Sogni (“The Lagoon of Beautiful Dreams”). Inspired by an episode of a 70’s Italian cartoon about a fugitive ex-army officer delirious with yellow fever on a paradisal South American island surrounded by stolen money and perplexed indigenous villagers, the songs stir an appropriately manic and hallucinatory mood.

Layers of guitars and voice sway and surf in a smog of memory and melody, punched up with curveball rompler samples (metallic percussion, monster growls, UFO sirens), then processed through a cheap Zoom FX pedal to tie it all together. The result is a hazy alien odyssey of fever dream pop, flashback glam, and lo-fi teleportation, rippled by sunset breezes across the Adriatic.


Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Design by Britt Brown.