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A "one-track remix album" originally released by De'fchild Productions in 2011, featuring the original version of one of the last tracks I have made before ultimately giving up the idea of returning to music production, and a bunch of its reworks by various artists from across the globe.

DCP was a great label based in San-Francisco, run by Ruoho Ruotsi, operating on the intersection between dub and experimental techno. Most of its releases were on vinyl, though the latest ones have been digital only, including Just Kitten. Unfortunately, the label has subsequently folded, erasing its presence from the interwebs and only living in memories of those lucky ones still owning the records - and a DVD containing audio/visual mix of the first 10 releases, mixed by yours truly: youtu.be/78puJEaeFwM.

The official press release went as follows:

"It’s a well-known fact that clowns and donkeys are sacred animals on the planet Yaputhma. Not everybody knows, however, that these creatures are not the only ones considered sacred by native Yaputhmians. In fact, any animal can be treated as sacred - depending on the season, weather, mood, tone, BPM, venue, line-up and many other factors. The art of determining a correct sacred animal, choosing exact individuals and subsequent interactions with them is a skill that requires considerable training and efforts. Still, some animals are widely regarded as “more sacred” than the others, and although it’s a kind of simplification, to a certain extent this assumption has its reasons: every Yaputhmian has her own mystical bonds with certain breeds and classes.

In the end of XX century, after years spent on Earth studying musical conspiration theories, observing mind-contraction techniques and practicing ambient massage Gosh from Yaputhma returned to his native planet to master the new trend in Yaputhmian animalism: tonal felinearity. One of the many practical applications of this highly transcendental and complex teaching was the idea of picking young cats of carefully selected ages and positioning them on distances both related by ratios of small numbers (2/3, 3/4, 4/5 etc), then recording their conversations and singing to produce (after subsequent editing also based on similar fractions) samples used for granular synthesis. Adepts of this practice (known as Just Kitten, often abbreviated as JK) consider the resulting sound “more harmonic”, natural, and more powerful in regards to transporting a non-yaputhmian listener to the higher grounds of Yaputhma.

The study of course is not yet completed: it might take years and even decades... But in 2011, De’fchild Productions can already proudly present first fruits of explorations and experiments with JK: a collection of versions and reiterations, all based on a track produced by Gosh, using the aforementioned technique. It was already tested on select human beings, and so far results seem encouraging. Try it on yourself; and don’t worry - as no animals were harmed in the making of this product, there is no chance of getting lost on the Way to Yaputhma. So - see you there, safe and sound!"

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released August 16, 2011

● Havantepe ► soundcloud.com/havantepe
● Ruoho Ruotsi ► discogs.com/artist/326567-Ruoho-Ruotsi
● Triton ► discogs.com/artist/194056-Triton
● Martinez Gonzalez ► gonzalezmartinez.bandcamp.com
● Suspect ► soundcloud.com/suspect
● The Marx Trukker ► soundcloud.com/the-marx-trukker
● Celice Monnette ► mixcloud.com/celicemonnette/
● Selffish ► soundcloud.com/selffi

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Yaputhma Sound System Rīga, Latvia

An archive of recordings by Yaputhma Sound System (Riga, Latvia) and related projects - previous and subsequent bands by members of the collective, solo material, collaborations etc. Most of the recordings are done in the 1990s and either unreleased, or self-released in ultra limited editions. ... more

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