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Sapiens launches their ‘Sapiens Beasts' series with a multifaceted first edition.

Dedicated to giving newcomers an honest platform to showcase their talents, this run of compilations is to be comprised of crystalline electronic music, spanning out across various forms. The inaugural offering sees Villanova and Time team up to reshape La CHICA’s Oasis with brushstrokes of subtle melancholy, TEHO fuse contemporary Deep House with UKG and YEUZ’ pair of idiosyncratic compositions, for the modern dance floor. Label founder, Agoria, ventures South of one hundred and ten beats per minute on his remix of Embers, cloaking Stefan Smith’s original in humility and innocence.


About the artists

TEHO
With influences ranging from rock to hip hop and classical music, TEHO has created his own sound universe, both enchanting and melancholic but also full of energy. He works precisely on details, combining acoustics and electronics to create an electric, supple and melodic music. Since the beginning, he has chosen to perform live on stage with his own way of doing things. Influenced and helped by artists such as N'to or Stephan Bodzin, TEHO joined them to play across Europe. His productions have since been spotted by many labels such as Herzblut, Parquet, Traum and many others... In 2016, TEHO launched its own project: Labo T, a label where he can express himself freely in his musical production. The best is yet to come!

YEUZ
Based in Paris, Paul & Johan compose a clear Techno. Their music permeates all of their work in interactive art installation and augmented reality. By focusing on the sound texture and resonant material, YEUZ exposes the violent simplicity of the sound, always in a progressive narration. Inspired by the minimalism movement as well as modern myths, YEUZ tries to play with a coded musical context to move towards reductionism.

VILLANOVA & TIME
Coming from a Jazz background and playing drums & percussion for the last 20 years, Michel SAURIN, aka TIME, is inspired by his musical roots, and the smoothing landscapes of the French Provence from where he was born. TIME spiritual approach of music leads to dynamic and uplifting colorful sets, adding a mix of emotional textures with deep and percussive grooves …

Two boys doing electronic music. Adrien and Marco aka Villanova hail from France and have really put their sound on the map in recent times. Masterful synth craftsmen who release lately well received tracks on My Favorite Robot and Cocoon recordings as well as remixes on Meant and No19 music. From Rex Club in Paris to Space in Ibiza they perform live or dj and always captivate the crowd with their technical skills and perfect selection of sexual house

STEFAN SMITH
Stefan makes synthetic music. No acoustic instruments are used in the making of this music. He studied music at Mills college where he trained with great artists/musicians including Fred Frith, James Fei, Pauline Oliver’s and Roscoe Mitchell. And Film sound where he was trained by Larry Sider and Peter Howell (of Radiophonics Workshop fame). He performs in various bands/ projects splitting his time between London, Oakland and Paris. His ongoing collaboration with the great Sound artist, Nicolas Becker, saw him recently have some work included in the Phillipe Parreno show at the Tate Modern. For the last four years he has been working as sound designer/composer on a currently very secret Film project which you will soon probably know quite a lot about.


A few words from the artists

… about their tracks

Oasis: “The original track brings us a very unique vibe, the work of the analog textures implement perfectly the unique voice of La CHICA ...as soon as I listen to it I was hooked to make a remix that would keep the same feeling .. but adding the energy and dynamic to make it floor friendly.”

Into the wild: « I produced this track the day after a gig at the Villa Rouge in Montpellier. That night, I was playing alongside Stephan Bodzin, the club was full and the atmosphere was overcrowded. Stephan's live was incredible… After his set, backstage, I learned that he had come earlier to the club to see me play. He gave me very good feedback that inspired and motivated me. So the next day when I woke up and went back to the studio, « Into The Wild" was born. It was meant to transpose what I felt that evening: the spirit of the audience, returning to its savage state.”

Find it: “Spending the day with BLEUX gave birth to find it. It’s a call for introspection, or a thought about living in fear. It creates a bond between a techno rhythm and a charismatic voice to explore a shady atmosphere, but not deprived of any hope.”

Spare: “Spare is a tribute to all the 2000’s techno hit that made us dance.
It’s like a car chase experience. In the end, it’s simple and at the crossroad of diverse electronic music styles.”

Embers: “Other than Music, Stefan’s only other Passion in life is reading Samuel Beckett.
Whilst reading his radio play Embers he got a call from Nicolas Becker asking him to contribute some work to a project. He set about composing this track with Becketts words reverberating around his head. This track somehow made it into the hands of Becketts friend/collaborator Agoria and here we are.”

… about SAPIENS

TIME &Villanova: In our eyes, Sapiens represents an approach of music that transcends musical boundaries, a mix of eclectic and musical fine tastes, adding some energy for the floor.

THEO: " I believe that it’s really cool not to fall into the systematic repetition of the same things, to explore new trails and to remain open-minded."

YEUZ: We saw sapiens as a varied record company that crosses over several different art forms. This aim is very important to us. We have a high respect for Agoria’s work, we’re very glad to be part of this adventure towards the multidisciplinary of sound.

STEFAN SMITH: I like Sapiens music. It’s cool.

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released November 10, 2017

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Label founded by Sébastien Devaud a.k.a Agoria in 2016.

A label without limits, a collective of creatives.

Sapiens takes an open-minded artistic approach: releasing records by everyone from musicians to visual artists, film directors to shamans, sound designers & guest conference speakers.

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