Archipel 100
August 29th, 2012 - douglas.fugazi
It’s not every day a label reaches 100 releases and to celebrate that milestone, we thought we would compile something special. Under various medias, gathering many artists who participated to Archipel’s history, we bring you music that you can buy in the format you wish. We want to have the chance to connect with our supporters and see how they want to be part of this.
The digital anniversary compilation is a huge bundle of tracks from the label artists throughout the years. Just to make things even more spicy, some artists have been challenged to follow themes, ideas and structures to be all in tune with the release.
Countdown to Archipel’s 100th release anniversary is open:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/a100
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[ARCH 080] Billy Dalessandro – Bootsy’s Bass EP
June 6th, 2011 - douglas.fugazi
Release Date: 06 Jun 2011
No stranger at all to electronic music, the ever deep and acidic Billy Dalessandro makes his EP debut on Archipel with a four track package entitled “Bootsy’s Bass“. The title itself is in whole indicative of what one shall find within these aural weavings. Continue reading »
[ARCH 079] Niederflur – Tapewurm EP
June 6th, 2011 - douglas.fugazi
Release Date: 23 May 2011
Niederflur need no re-introduction as their mightily constructed rhythm-scapes should by now be a loved and appreciated staple fully embedded in the minds of many. The duo make their return to Archipel, following up their 12″ release with a release entitled “Tapewurm EP” on Archipel’s well established digital series.
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[Arch076] Ingemar Stalholm
November 19th, 2010 - Pheek
Release Date: November 18, 2010
We’re very pleased to welcome Sweden’s Ingemar Stalholm to Archipel with his debut album “Mental Garden Still Life” which is a darkly warmed holographic portrait lit with aurora dangling at the edges of silken high atmosphere clouds. The album is a mainly 4/4 driven affair although there are pieces which drift into the abstract realm Continue reading »
5 Years Of Archipel Music
November 18th, 2010 - douglas.fugazi
There are more than enough words to follow, so I will not add too many. What needs to be noted is the overwhelmingly common thread that is sewn throughout these responses. The love, respect and affection shared towards Jean Patrice Remillard, perhaps better known as Pheek. This is a project that was started to simply celebrate 5 years of a record label, but in the end unfolded to tell a deeper story. On a more personal level, and at the center of it, a person who has inspired countless around him, both in and beyond the world of music. Archipel is a collective of genuine, diverse people, who share common ground musically and personally, though many have never met before. It is a lengthy story that took on a life of its own, laid out here in a relatively loose and raw presentation.
-Steven Dermody
As the story began…
Pheek: Initially, I had made a sample pack and I wanted to release a few EPs of artists. I wanted to do conceptual releases and started with a sample pack. Nothing much more. Then I wanted to do one vinyl.. then.. then:
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Archipel’s 5th Anniversary “Alike Minds” Various Artists CD Limited Edition Available Now!!
September 27th, 2010 - Pheek
Archipel has been a family and a community, in constant growth, for the past five revolutions around the sun and we’ve had so many excellent personal and shared experiences within this hive of great minds through this time. Continue reading »
Channeling: The Blog, The Story
September 15th, 2010 - douglas.fugazi
Canadian techno artist Jean-Patrice Remillard, known as Pheek, will release his 10th album on Archipel, his own imprint. After waiting 4 years to produce a new album, Pheek worked on nailing down a technique of automatic writing to his music.
Take a tour: http://channeling.pheek.com/
[incoming] Pheek – “Channeling”
August 8th, 2010 - Pheek
For immediate press release
Pheek will release his new album “Channeling” due for October
Canadian techno artist Jean-Patrice Remillard, known as Pheek, will release his 10th album on Archipel, his own imprint. After waiting 4 years to produce a new album, Pheek worked on nailing down a technique of automatic writing to his music. Once the concept in place, he used it to bring his intricate techno into a tale of surrealism, where non-sense take a fragile signification in the end. if the album were a painting, it would be a detailed landscape, rather than a focused portrait unassuming, until you take a step closer and realise the detail with which the brush strokes have been laid down.
With a precise focus of not censoring himself, Pheek dove into archives, using discarded sketches, mixing old ideas to new ones into a dense collage. While trying to detach himself from old patterns and not necessary having DJs on his mind, the album is made to slowly create little abstract worlds of rhythmic dreamy textures, where every excursion is a new one.
Since he first started to release music, Pheek has been known to have a sound you can recognize in the first moments through his unique signature. This album will surely bring things to new grounds while keeping the same flavour.
Final details to come in October. Medias are invited to contact the Archipel Offices at info@archipel.cc for album preview or interviews.
[Archpl021] Jin Choi
June 26th, 2010 - Pheek
Jin Choi returns to Archipel to release his second 12″ in Archipel’s vinyl series entitled “Dig Your Own Out”. Just as masterful as his first Archipel 12″, Jin’s second coming is surrounded by an aura of warmth and is highly jazz influenced providing the birthing ground for his fervently smokey textures.
[Arch072] Vincent Casanova
June 26th, 2010 - Pheek
Release Date: 10-5-2010
After his 2009 album on Archipel, we’re now proud for the return of Vincent Casanova and present to you his latest EP called “Bohemian Cybernetics”. Vincent’s EP is full of a particular bounce and hop which is totally irresistible. In “Enter The Shaolin” and “Locks Keys Levels” there is a very playful bounce which spring loads a wide