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GRAFT00

by BIG HANDS

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    45rpm 12” 2 track Ep
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In the last decade or so, Rome based crew "Since" has teamed up with Milan crew "Sobborghi" collaborating and supporting each other, until the birth of “GRAFT” a brand new DIY white label.

First Graft ever comes from London based and "Baroque Sun Burst" label very own Andrea Bonalumi aka Big Hands.

Cover/label design and artworks hand-made by the artist Pietro Agostoni, except for the labels of those copies stocked in Bristol, UK which got finalised by the lovely people at RWD-FWD, our Ww distribution, who got our endless gratitude for their help, their guidance and for these touching words about our project:

"GRAFT00 is here.

The first disc on new label GRAFT from our friends in Italia, is now out in the world with a bit of help from the RWDFWD distro, and pressed up on a hiqh-grade 12″ disc with depth-charging soundsystem heavyweights cut to each side, and served up in some serious each-one-unique, DIY stamp technique sleeves – the label earned its name already

After months of refining and navigating a pandemic (brexit and covid) in the vinyl world, we’re very pleased to see this one come to light, even though we advise dimly lit, well-tuned settings when this record plays.

This here, is the first disc from the GRAFT crew, who’ve been putting in the work doing the infamous ‘Since’ events in Rome and ‘Sobborghi’ based in Milan, and are now scheming on a run of vinyl records to continue the DIY ethos and put some more love into the labour, with music from the crew, often remixing each others works, (anonymously, in this case) and cultivating collaboration, and community.

On the A side, sprawled out across 6mins with plenty space for the grooves to reach dynamic depths and peak volume, we have a murderously deep soundsystem bomb from Andrea Bonalumi, aka London based ‘Big Hands’ (recently spotted on Blank Mind records, and the Baroque Sunburst label (which joins the dots with the GRAFT crew, who are closely connected).

The untitled track on the A side let’s steady bass-tremors undulate below tide & ebb of echo’d electronics and subtle percussive polyrhythm, a well-charged dive into soundsystem sonics with a nod to angular dub techno with deepest dubwise focus, and pressurised low frequency.
It’s one of those tracks that just rolls, and rolls, and rolls, until it’s done, and you realise you were zoned out completely for the duration, in some kind of sublow trance. We’ve been rewinding this one again and again, and we can’t wait to hear it on a big rig asap.

Expanding on the headspace of deep, bass-driven sonics, the B Side comes cut with a remix by Big Hands, but the original artist has been kept secret, for now – (feel free to take a guess).
This one let’s an unnerving time-bomb tick across lower-than-low sub, and deft filtered rhythm which circulates around the foundations of the +/- 100hz groove, the anchor of this ship which is sailing dark nights on windy oceans – destination unknown, all radars are off.

Edition of 200, half in Bristol and half in Rome / Milan.
Different colour DIY stamp editions, designed by Pietro Agostoni.
Each one comes with meticulous, oversized, hand-applied multi layer stamps on each side of sleeve, as well as on centre label."

!!! PLEASE NOTE !!!

In order to avoid custom taxes and brexit delays, if you are in the UK please head over to Rwd-Fwd web-“library”-site. Grab your copy and then dive into their precious stock of joy and knowledge

rwdfwd.com/products/big-hands-a-b-big-hands-remix/

credits

released October 22, 2021

A side: written and produced by Andrea Bonalumi
B side: remixed by Andrea Bonalumi
Master and Cut: Marco Pellegrino @Analogcut
Pressing: Intakt!
Artworks: Pietro Agostoni
Ww distribution: Rwd-Fwd

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