JANKA MIDI Life Crisis [Vinyl]

U Know Me Records

£19.80

Format: Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: UKM091
Barcode: 5902860144946
Release Date: 12th March 2021
Genre: Electronica/Dance (Dance)

01: Wejsc i Wrocic Dub
02: Prawdziwnie Dub
03: Wszyscy Jestesmy Bardzo Szczesliwi Dub
04: Hajs Dub
05: Dom Spokojnej Mlodosci Dub
06: Polska B Dub
07: Szkice Weglem Dub
08: MIDI Life Crisis Dub
09: Ana Mendieta Dub
10: Pol Tonu Ciszej Dub

100 copies of black & white splatter and 200 copies of regular 180g vinyl - (both including three inserts with Zosia Pasnik's exsclusive art).

Daniel Szlajnda (aka Daniel Drumz) and Piotr Kalinski (aka Hatti Vatti) are one of the most famouse and experienced Polish producers and this album is another step forward for them.

It started with the EP "Krzyżacy", which was released exactly two years ago. Two well-known producers - Daniel Drumz & Hatti Vatti - joined their forces to release an EP, which later on was appreciated by the worldwide listeners, journalists and festival audience. JANKA, which I am talking about, hit the stages of the best Polish festivals such as Opener, Spring Break, Tauron, Slovenian MENT and Moscow Music Week. But that happened in 2019.

On March 8th 2021 the duo's debut album, "MIDI Life Crisis" will be released. Daniel Szlajnda and Piotr Kaliński once again prove that there is much more than just musical chemistry between them. What we can hear there are fascinations from dubby minimalism and IDM to jungle and rave - it's hard to label this unique mature album which should be a pleasant surprise for people open to electronic music. "Modern vintage" might be a good description of what we experience there, music is pressed on modular and analog synths and unusual sampling is drowned in delays and reverbs. However it's not from the late '90s, nothing is typical or obvious, the sound and the style of JANKA are unique.

On the album, you hear two guest voices - Sujka (i.e. Iwona Król - known from the projects Kobieta z Wydm, Lauda, and Król) and Kacha Kowalczyk (i.e. the voice of Coals), the album was mastered by Kwazar. The unique graphic was designed and created by Zosia Paśnik on the analogue gear (as a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice). The album is released in analog form in two color versions, the 180-gram vinyl edition also includes three inserts with Zosia's graphics.