WC-010
Marlene Boyette and Skooby Laposky
ROOTED VOL.1
Edition of 50 cassettes
Double A-side
Full-color J-cards
Released August 2023
Marlene Boyette and Skooby Laposky
ROOTED VOL.1
Edition of 50 cassettes
Double A-side
Full-color J-cards
Released August 2023
The idea for ROOTED started with an event held in early 2023 at MIT's Open Space Programming in Cambridge, MA, USA. Sound artist Skooby Laposky sonified various tropical plants in the venue space as the yoga flow was lead by two of Boston's prominent yoga instructors, Malaika Bonafide and Marlene Boyette. This recording is a duet of the sonified biodata from that evening during savasana and Marlene's singing bowls recorded at her yoga studio several months later.
WC-009
Boonlorm Omniscient Wildin’
Edition of 400 on black vinyl
Full-color jackets
Artwork by Daniel Davidson
Released November 2019
Boonlorm Omniscient Wildin’
Edition of 400 on black vinyl
Full-color jackets
Artwork by Daniel Davidson
Released November 2019
Wilde Calm is proud to present Omniscient Wildin’, the follow-up
release to Boonlorm’s now-classic “piano not piano house” album, String
Figures. A decidedly “techno” approach was taken for the six-track EP,
with Boonlorm ratcheting up the master tempo to 130 BPM and utilizing a
rugged economy to emphasize the rhythmelodic dialogue between the drums
and prepared piano. This “percussion discussion” quotes the past syntax
of Chicago and Detroit, the 20th century avant-garde and the bold new
dialects being created for dance floors around the globe.
WC-008
Boonlorm’s Percussion Discussion
Edition of 50 copies on rare "milk jug" cassettes
Includes digital download code
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Boonlorm’s Percussion Discussion
Edition of 50 copies on rare "milk jug" cassettes
Includes digital download code
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
An hour-long mix focused solely on percussion tracks that inspired Boonlorm's upcoming EP, Omniscient Wildin'.
Banging Parisian techno, modern classical from New York, drum machine
voodoo, classic left-field Chicago house, and everything else in between
feature on the 22-track mix. Also featured is "Red Mud II", a
polyrhythmic "ethno techno" track from Omniscient Wildin'. Mixed live on turntables.
WC-007
Boonlorm "Boonlorm Edits"
Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Hand-stamped watermark and numbered with love
Boonlorm "Boonlorm Edits"
Edition of 400 copies on black vinyl
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Hand-stamped watermark and numbered with love
Wilde Calm Records is proud to present a new EP of modern percussion
edits from Brooklyn producer Boonlorm. This collection of reworks was
started around the same time Boonlorm began recording String Figures, his album of prepared piano house music. It shares a similar sound to String Figures’
rich combination of tonal, atonal and percussive timbres. By adding his
raw drum programming to tease out the latent “techno” qualities in
these modern percussion opuses, Boonlorm once again pays homage to
Chicago, Detroit, and the 20th century avant-garde.
WC-006
Elodie Lauten featuring Nirosta Steel "Miracle 2"
Edition of 400 copies on white vinyl
Design by Kimmy Laposky
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Hand-stamped watermark and numbered with love
Elodie Lauten featuring Nirosta Steel "Miracle 2"
Edition of 400 copies on white vinyl
Design by Kimmy Laposky
Artwork by Joshua Gurrie
Hand-stamped watermark and numbered with love
Wilde Calm Records is honored to present the final project with the late
Elodie Lauten, a new version of the spiritual club classic “In the
Light of the Miracle.” The original version was co-written by fellow
downtown luminary Arthur Russell in the early 1980s and appeared on his
posthumous 1994 album, Another Thought. Numerous club-friendly remixes
of "In the Light..." were released as promotional white labels in the
1990s and helped bring this amazing proto-house song to the dance floor.
This new version for Wilde Calm uses Chicago house music as the starting point and features Lauten on vocals and keys, Nirosta Steel (Steven Hall) on additional vocals, Peter Zummo on trombone, and production/arranging by Pocketknife.
L.A.'s Gifted & Blessed (Gifted and Blessed, Wild Oats, Eglo) references Lauten's more well-known compositions and takes the dance floor of "Miracle 2" out into the cosmos. Brooklyn's Bryce Hackford (PRAH, DFA) focuses on the instrumental extending it way out and roughing it up with heavy Bushwick Body Actualized vibes.
This new version for Wilde Calm uses Chicago house music as the starting point and features Lauten on vocals and keys, Nirosta Steel (Steven Hall) on additional vocals, Peter Zummo on trombone, and production/arranging by Pocketknife.
L.A.'s Gifted & Blessed (Gifted and Blessed, Wild Oats, Eglo) references Lauten's more well-known compositions and takes the dance floor of "Miracle 2" out into the cosmos. Brooklyn's Bryce Hackford (PRAH, DFA) focuses on the instrumental extending it way out and roughing it up with heavy Bushwick Body Actualized vibes.