February 16th New Releases by Secretly Distribution

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FEBRUARY 16TH NEW RELEASES -------------------------------

• MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE | CD (DOC137cd) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143729 • MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (DOC137lp) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143712 • MARLON WILLIAMS - MAKE WAY FOR LOVE (WHITE VINYL) | LP (DOC137lp-C1) | Dead Oceans PHYS UPC:656605143736 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE | CD (GI303cd) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC: • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830315 • DABRYE - THREE/THREE (CLEAR VINYL) | 2xLP (GI303lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297830308 • JIM WHITE - WAFFLES, TRIANGLES & JESUS | CD (PIAPTK241cd) | People In A Position To Know/Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691782 • JIM WHITE - WAFFLES, TRIANGLES & JESUS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (PIAPTK241lp) | People In A Position To Know/ Joyful Noise Recordings PHYS UPC:714270691799 • ROBERT EARL THOMAS - ANOTHER AGE | CD (CT272cd) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014193 • ROBERT EARL THOMAS - ANOTHER AGE (BLACK VINYL) | LP (CT272lp) | Captured Tracks PHYS UPC:817949014186 • MARK RENNER - FEW TRACES | CD (ReRVNG11cd) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165894 • MARK RENNER - FEW TRACES | 2xLP (ReRVNG11lp) | RVNG INTL. PHYS UPC:716670165887 • TAL NATIONAL - TANTABARA | CD (FAT0149cd) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116514929 • TAL NATIONAL - TANTABARA (BLACK VINYL) | LP (FAT0149lp) | FatCat Records PHYS UPC:600116514912 • SONGS: OHIA - TRAVELS IN CONSTANTS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TRR246lp) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605324616 • SONGS: OHIA - TRAVELS IN CONSTANTS (BLACK VINYL) | LP (TRR246lp-C1) | Temporary Residence Ltd. PHYS UPC:656605324647 • DABRYE - ONE/THREE (2018 REMASTER) (BLACK VINYL) | LP (GI004lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297900414 • DABRYE - INSTRMNTL (BLUE VINYL) | LP (GI024lp-C1) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC: • DABRYE - TWO/THREE (BLACK VINYL) | 2xLP (GI050lp) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297905013 • DABRYE - BOX SET (BLUE VINYL) | 6xLP (GI318lp-C1-dlx) | Ghostly International PHYS UPC:804297831817

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MARLON WILLIAMS Make Way For Love About the album

“Singer-songwriter” The single most used hyphenate in music? Probably, and New Zealand’s Marlon Williams nailed the first part of that descriptor at an early age. He’s quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of his generation—a fact well known to fans of his first, self-titled solo album, and his captivating live shows. But it’s the second half of the term, songwriter, that has bedeviled the artist, and into which he has grown exponentially on his second album, Make Way For Love, out in February of 2018. In early December, Williams and his longtime girlfriend, musician Aldous (Hannah) Harding, broke up. While personally wrenching, the split seemed to open the floodgates for Williams as a writer. “…I wrote about fifteen songs in a month,” he recalls. Sure enough, while Make Way For Love draws on Williams’ own story, in remarkably universal terms it captures the vagaries of relationships that we’ve all been through: he bliss (opener “Come To Me”); ache (“Love Is a Terrible Thing”); nagging questions (“Can I Call You”); and bitterness (“The Fire Of Love”, whose lyrics Williams says he “agonized over” more than any). And there’s “Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore”, a duet with Harding, recorded after the two broke up, with Williams directing Harding’s recording via a late-night long distance phone call. “We finally got to talk it out,” he adds. “We still love each other very much.” If “breakup record” is a trope—and certainly it is—then Marlon Williams has done it proud. Like the best of the lot, Make Way For Love doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it.

Selling Points

~ Extensive US touring + festivals + SXSW planned around release. Performed at Newport Folk Festival ~N PR Tiny Desk Concert, general support from the outlet ~ L ooking to add TV performances, piggy backing on Conan appearance from previous campaign

Details

CATALOG NUMBER: DOC137 RELEASE DATE: February 16, 2018 FORMAT: CD/LP/Digital CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 40 GENRE: Alternative/Indie Rock KEY MARKETS: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Toronto, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Denver, Austin TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: Worldwide ex AUS & NZ, Exclusive To Hostess In Japan VINYL NOT RETURNABLE

CD UPC: 656605143729

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DIGITAL UPC: 656605143767

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Tracks SIDE A:

SIDE B:

1. Come To Me 2. What’s Chasing You 3. Beautiful Dress 4. Party Boy 5. Can I Call You 6. Love Is A Terrible Thing

7. I Know A Jeweler 8. I Didn’t Make A Plan 9. The Fire Of Love 10. Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore 11. Make Way For Love

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GI-303 Dabrye

Three/Three TRACKLIST

01. Tunnel Vision (feat. Guilty Simpson) 02. Emancipated (feat. Ghostface Killah) 03. Tape Flip Too 04. Lil Mufukuz (feat. Doom) 05. Fightscene (feat. La Peace) 06. Electrocutor 07. Stranded (feat. Fatt Father) 08. The Appetite (feat. Roc Marciano, Quelle Chris & Danny Brown) 09. Pretty (feat. Jon Wayne) 10. Sunset (feat. Shigeto) 11. Nova (feat. Nolan The Ninja)

12. Bubble Up (feat. Phat Kat aka Ronnie Euro) 13. Vert-Horiz 14. Dr. Shroomen (feat. G&D) 15. Sisfo Ridin’ (feat. Clear Soul Forces) 16. Culture Shuffle (feat. Kadence, Intricate Dialect & Silas Green) 17. Honey 18. First Law of Nature Rock Day (feat. Denmark Vessey) 19. Tahn Ice Rhythm

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When Ann Arbor's Tadd Mullinix began exploring hip-hop under the name Dabrye 20 years ago, he soon honed in on a startling vision of what the genre could be: ingenious, refined, daring. This vision came to life across two albums for Ghostly International — 2001's One/Three and its 2006 follow-up Two/Three — with each record further positioning the quiet Michigan producer as one of his generation's best, equally comfortable creating minimalist instrumental meditations or sharp rap salvos. In the late 2000s, following critical acclaim and accolades from both peers and inspirations (including the late Jay Dee with whom Mullinix collaborated before his untimely passing), Mullinix put the Dabrye moniker on ice and dedicated himself to other genres and ideas. All the while the influence of his work on a new generation of electronic musicians continued to make itself felt in subtle but meaningful ways. All this changes in 2017 as Dabrye makes his long-awaited return with Three/Three, a razor-sharp rap album that brings to completion a prophetic trilogy. Mullinix's incisive productions provide the backdrop for equally acute rhymes that run the gamut from intergenerational observations and being your best self to back alley deals and having fun in the ride. Guests include indie rap legend DOOM, whose previous collaboration with Dabrye remains a point of reference for many, Wu Tang storyteller Ghostface Killah, L.A word fanatic Jonwayne, and Long Island's rugged surrealist Roc Marciano. Most importantly Three/Three is, much like its predecessor, an unfettered celebration of Detroit-area talent with Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, Kadence, Quelle Chris, Danny Brown, Shigeto, Clear Soul Forces and more all lending their touch to Dabrye's return. The blend of American and British dance music, hip-hop sampling, and Jamaican sound clash energy that underpinned Two/Three remains a quiet, guiding principle. At the same time Mullinix rejoices in a refreshed perspective, having had time to incubate ideas and find clarity in the distance between albums and the evolution of scenes. The beats are looser and less angular, more embracing of repetition. Organic techniques inspired by soul and jazz round off some of the harsher sonics. The resulting broad palette of tracks reflects both this evolution and the range of the Dabrye persona: relaxed headnod ("Tunnel Vision"); nervous, slow-motion electro ("The Appetite"); glacial motifs ("Emancipated"); jazzy, cut-up funk ("Sunset"); minimal brutalism ("Electrocutor"); intricate layering ("Culture Shuffle").

Catalogue Number: GI-303 Format: CD, 2xLP Release Date: February 16th, 2017 UPC-CD: 804297830322 UPC-LP: 804297830315 UPC-LPC1: 804297830308 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 8, CD-35 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

POINTS OF INTEREST • Final installment of the /Three series, started in 2001 • Guests include Ghostface Killah, Jonwayne, Doom, Danny Brown, Shigeto, and more. • Media support from: The Wire, FACT Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, Pitchfork, XLR8R • Past collabs with Jay Dee (J Dilla), MF DOOM, Beans & more • Vinyl is housed in a matte jacket with black hot foil and includes 24-page zine designed by Michael Cina. • Clear vinyl is limited to 1250 units worldwide.

Three/Three marks the return of an innovator after close to a decade of silence. Despite what the title might imply, the album isn't the end of the story but rather the completion of a creative arc. Expect more Dabrye in the near future. The game is far from over. LP UPC

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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JIM WHITE Waffles, Triangles & Jesus RELEASE DATE : February 16, 2018 CATALOG # : PIAPTK-241 AVAILABLE FORMATS : 2 x LP / CD

LP x2 UPC: 7 14270691799

GENRE : Americana BOX LOT QUANTITY : 20 LP / 40 CD PACKAGING : jacket / wallet

CD UPC: 7 14270691782

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Drift Away Long Long Day Playing Guitars Far Beyond The Spoken World Silver Threads Prisoner’s Dilemma Reason To Cry Wash Away A World Earnest T. Bass At Last Finds the Woman of His Dreams

Here I Am Sweet Bird Of Mystery

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Jim White gets around. When he’s not releasing his own critically acclaimed solo albums he splits his time producing records for other songwriters, exhibiting his visual art in galleries and museums across the USA & Europe and publishing award winning fiction. His sixth solo studio album, the bizarrely titled Waffles, Triangles & Jesus, is a mind-bending joy ride of sonic influences featuring a bevy of his hometown Athens’ roots musicians, plus west coast indie darlings Dead Rock West, and rock and roll maverick Holly Golightly. Prior to Waffles, Triangles & Jesus, White released five eclectic, totally uncatagorisable albums plus another six even stranger side projects. Numerous songs from his back catalog have appeared both in film and television, with his Primus-esque “Word-Mule” being featured in Breaking Bad, and more recently his cautionary rocker “Crash Into The Sun” appearing Ray McKinnon’s highly praised Sundance Channel series Rectify. UK fans may recognize White as the narrator and defacto tour guide for the award winning BBC documentary, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, a road movie set in the rural South, which the LA Times described as “Decidedly strange, delightfully demented.” Prior to becoming a musician White led an aimless, diverse life, working countless menial labor jobs: dishwasher, landscaper, lifeguard, cook, surfboard laminator, road builder, culminating with thirteen long years driving a taxi cab in New York City. White is presently at work completing a memoir, Incidental Contact, based on a series of uncanny coincidences that befell him during his days driving that taxi in New York City. Two chapters of Incidental Contact, The Bottom and Superwhite, have been published in the literary music journal Radio Silence, with Superwhite being awarded a Pushcart Prize for short fiction. White was a pro surfer. He served as literary commentator for the National Endowment of the Arts. He was a European fashion model. Samuel Beckett once played a practical joke on him. There’s lots more non linear information that doesn’t really fit the usual bio format. But that’s Jim—he gets around.

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ROBERT EARL THOMAS ANOTHER AGE - LP/CD • Hometown: Chicago, IL • Debut Solo Album from Widowspeak’s Guitarist • Touring in 2018 There are a million songs dressed in white t-shirts and American denim, songs that drift through open spaces in some busted sedan, over lost highways that become tributaries to eventual static, crawling traffic and stifling density. There are a million more songs about being wild and green in the cities and outside them: a song about love for every person on this earth. Another Age, the debut album from Robert Earl Thomas, avoids inhabiting these clichés even as it embraces their personal influence: this is an album about small moments with big emotional footprints, told humbly and honestly.

CT- 272 01 . A n o t h e r Ag e 02. I Reme m b e r 03 . Cr yin ’ 04 . Th e We at h e r 05 . Wedn e s d a y M o r ning 06 . Win o na Fo rev e r 07. My Fa ul t 08 . Wha t Am I G o nna Do 09 . Wo rd of M o u t h

LP UPC: 817949014186 LP FORMAT: 12” LP + MP3s LP BOXLOT: 45 EXPORT: WORLD VINYL NON-RETURNABLE

Thomas is not new to making records. A founding member of Brooklyn-based indie outfit Widowspeak, he’s previously lent his talents as a lead guitarist to that band as well as the experimental pop group Vensaire. He began writing and home-recording songs two years ago, gradually and purposefully in moments of solitude between tours, between stints working in a Seattle woodshop and at a hotel in the Catskills, and during weeks couch-surfing back and forth across Brooklyn. For Another Age, Thomas combined these intricately layered demos with tracks from a two-week studio session in the winter of 2016 at Marcata Recording in New Paltz, NY with producer Kevin McMahon (Swans, Real Estate, Widowspeak). It’s a debut that plays the part without succumbing to it, more pastel romantic comedy than sepia historic drama. There are stylistic nods to Springsteen and Dire Straits, Arthur Russell’s more folk-leaning output, the various collaborations of Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne. But Thomas seems intent on conveying his specific take on these things over emulating them; you get the impression that he’s just as inspired by karaoke renditions of “I’m On Fire” or “Romeo and Juliet” as he is by the originals. And the stories he tells are full of intimate moments and observations: a walk home from a lover’s apartment, a long night drive back upstate, a quiet Wednesday morning existential crisis; musings as to the significance of a Winona Ryder portrait on the wall of a stranger’s bedroom; the sense of discovery that comes with being young in a city with a new person, and the sense of loss when that novelty is gone. Another Age is indoor music at its most expansive, rock and roll held at arm’s length.

CD UPC: 817949014193 CD FORMAT: JEWEL CASE CD BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: WORLD

RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16th, 2018 GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / FOLK / AMERICANA

Press: Lisa Gottheil lisag@grandstandhq.com Sales : Dave Martin dave@omnianmusicgroup.com

Mark Renner Few Traces Few Traces surveys the total chapter of Mark Renner’s scarcely released and unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking the timelessness of his artistic statement: a wordless translation of the individual’s musical experience, met with the poetic expression of being here. Mark Renner first encountered punk while a teenager in Upperco, a country town in rural Maryland. Growing up on his family farm, he became a young acolyte of the British exports hitting not-so-distant Baltimore record store shelves in 1979 / 1980 and was baited by an area musician-wanted ad declaring Ultravox a primary touchstone. This nascent band and a pair of other group experiments flamed out under the typical totem of despotism. In their ashes Renner began recording independently around 1983 with a portable four-track, electric guitar, and classic Casio CZ101 synthesizer. Aside from John Foxxera Ultravox, Renner’s process was inspired by the period’s electronic pioneers venturing into deeper, romantic pop pastures: Yellow Magic Orchestra, Bill Nelson, The Associates. With his tools and teachers in place, the blueprints for Renner’s sound were laid out – metronomic, skeletal rhythms built on sturdy yet singular drum machines supporting luminescent guitar and synth lines, Renner’s reverent voice guiding the fables and construction. Renner’s enthusiasm for Days in Europa, the third album by Scottish new wave band Skids, became most directly influential, and lead to a correspondence and long-distance tutorship with Skids’ member Stuart Adamson. Before Adamson would achieve worldwide success co-founding the group Big Country, a chance friendship with Renner imparted great confidence in the young musician from Maryland, who, after a visit in Edinburgh, would then travel to London to demo an early version of “Half A Heart” featured in its final form on Few Traces. The sum of Renner’s music is one-part literary, one-part painterly. The artist cites the individualism of Herman Hesse as a guiding force, and there are overt references to W. B. Yeats and John Greanleaf Whittier among other authors. Lyrical themes evoke the presence of the ancient past, much like early Felt songs or the spiritual visions of Van Morrison. (Tellingly, Renner cites Morrison’s 1980s albums made between Inarticulate Speech of the Heart and No Guru, No Method, No Teacher as musical influences.) Apart from his writing, Renner explored music as a complement to visual language: many of the dream-like instrumental passages presented across Few Traces were originally implemented as sound elements for exhibitions of his paintings. Renner pursued wordless music as a pure aesthetic in its own right, pristinely balanced segues and open-ended compositions that lead to pasture but not without shepherd. Compiled three decades after the music was originally put to tape, Few Traces collects Mark Renner’s early music but strives not to simplify or reframe it. (Mark is still active making music and painting) The instrumental explorations remain on par with the great ambient adventurers of the period (Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Roedelius), while the vocal and guitar-centric songs crystalize across similar terrains being transversed by Cocteau Twins and The Durutti Column. Few Traces highlights in intuitive sequence gems from Renner’s scarce discography and archive: the self-released debut All Walks of This Life (1986), the aptly titled follow-up Painter’s Joy (1988), plus early singles, compilation tracks, and exemplary songs that saw no original release. The collection allows an intimate look at an artist growing into their sound and surroundings, finding the in between echoes and spirituality of the individual. Mark Renner’s Few Traces will be released February 16, 2018 on double LP, CD, and digital formats. The collection includes extensive liner notes from Brandon Soderberg and unseen ephemera. A short documentary on Mark Renner by Maia Stern will be shared around Few Traces’ release date. Artist Highlights • Mark Renner is an American musician and visual artist originally from Baltimore, Maryland now based in Ft. Worth, Texas.  • Renner grew up in the rural outskirts of Baltimore, eventually finding his way to the city to join a couple short-lived post-punk bands and work the local record store circuit.  • Renner started producing his own music in 1983 with a 4-Track, Casio CZ101 synth, and a world of echoes from his past growing up in vaunted church settings.   • Renner’s music was inspired by the period’s great synth pioneers such a Yellow Magic Orchestra, Bill Nelson, and The Associates, as well as poets like Herman Hesse, Yeats, and John Greanleaf Whittier.  • Renner cites his most crucial influence as his long-distance mentorship with The Skids’ Stuart Adamson, later the co-founder of the successful ‘80s band Big Country. An artistic breakthrough came from visiting Adamson in Edinburgh, Scotland where the elder musician called in favors for Renner to demo his music in London.  • Few Traces highlights gems from Renner’s scarce discography and archive: the self-released debut All Walks of This Life (1986), the aptly titled follow-up Painter’s Joy (1988), plus early singles, compilation tracks, and exemplary songs that saw no original release. The collection will be released via RVNG Intl. on February 16, 2018.

Track Listing Riverside Saints and Sages Few Traces Half A Heart Princes Street The Mirror At Saint Andrews The Wild House The Dyer’s Hand A Fountain In The Cloister James Cowie (The Portrait Group) Autumn Calls You By Name Ageless Jars of Clay More Or Less The Eternal Purpose The Sun In His Head, A Storm In His Heart The Man & The Echo As Big As Trees Yeats, and the Golden Dawn It Might Have Been

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Cat# ReRVNG11 Artist Mark Renner Title Few Traces Genre Rock / Ambient / Spiritual Release date February 16, 2018 Formats DBL LP / CD / DIGITAL Vinyl Is Not Returnable Box Lot DBL LP: Inner 12 / Outer 24 CD: 80

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Songs: Ohia

TRAVELS IN CONSTANTS TRR246 LP-C1

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ARTIST: Songs: Ohia TITLE: Travels In Constants CATALOG: TRR246 RELEASE DATE: February 16, 2018 FORMAT: LP / Digital UPC LP: 656605324616 UPC LP-C1: 656605324647 BOX LOT: 50 TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS: NONE VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE TRACK LISTING 1. Travels In Constants (17:36) 2. Howler (13:06) SALES POINTS  Long out-of-print SONGS: OHIA EPs combined on remastered reissue  Available on Vinyl and Digital formats for the first time ever

Limited edition colored vinyl available while supplies last (TRR246LP-C1; edition of 500)

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BIO Sometime in 2001 – sandwiched between the release of Ghost Tropic and its follow-up, the cryptic classic, Didn't It Rain – Songs: Ohia recorded an EP for Temporary Residence's distance-themed subscription series, Travels In Constants. The untitled EP consisted of a single 18-minute song – performed live by Jason Molina in his living room, recorded directly to 4-track cassette as the sounds of a typical Chicago night bled through the air. Built solely from an acoustic guitar and Molina's familiar melancholy croon, it's a hauntingly intimate track. Molina once remarked that it was "probably too out there" for a proper Songs: Ohia album, which is perhaps why is felt right at home in this context.

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Scarcely available in its original CD-only edition of 1,000 copies, Travels In Constants has finally been remastered and reissued for vinyl and digital formats. Completing this reissue is "Howler," another unusually lengthy Songs: Ohia track that, like “Travels In Constants”, was recorded and released in 2001 in an edition of only 1,000. These tracks are amongst the most abstractly beautiful and alarmingly delicate music that Molina ever committed to tape. It's an honor to finally make it properly available for the world.

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GI-04 Dabrye

One/Three [2018 Remaster] TRACKLIST 01. The Lish 02. We’ve Got Commodity 03. With A Professional 04. I’m Missing You 05. How Many Times (With This)

06. Truffle No Shuffle 07. Hyped-Up Plus Tax 08. Smoking The Edge 09. So Scientific 10. Hot Mating Ritual

RELEASE BIO It was chance that brought about the release of One/Three, Dabrye’s debut album. Early demos were tucked on the B side of a cassette Tadd Mullinix passed to Sam Valenti in 2000 while working at the Dubplate Pressure record shop in Ann Arbor. Mullinix had spent the late ’90s producing jungle, techno, house, hip-hop and more using the All Sound Tracker software as a primary instrument. Each style pulled from a similar sound palette as Mullinix used limitations to define the contours of different musical personalities. Dabrye was his hip-hop wildstyle, a captivating collage of sparse instrumentals inspired by the laid back vibes of midwestern hip-hop and east coast boom bap, the futuristic funk of Umma-era Jay Dee, and the calculated subtlety of Detroit dance music. Released in 2001 as the first in an intended trilogy, One/Three announced Dabrye’s arrival with an unavoidable contribution to Detroit hip-hop. Ghostly International is reissuing the album in 2017 for the first time, including a long overdue vinyl edition.

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-04 Format: LP Release Date: February 16th, 2017 UPC-LP: 804297900421 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 10 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

On its release One/Three was the rare album that appealed to both fans of Slum Village’s smooth yet rugged hip-hop and enthusiasts of the distinct American IDM released by labels like Schematic. Over the following decade, the inadvertent demo submission turned into a body of work that placed Dabrye alongside innovators such as Prefuse 73 amid the cannon of a new generation of producers. Today, One/Three remains a concise and intriguing study in instrumental hip-hop that helps join the dots between J Dilla and Flying Lotus. One/Three is a record that says much with little. There are no obvious hip-hop tropes. Instead Mullinix captures the ingenious minimalism of ’90s hip-hop instrumentals to build tracks both supple and hard, joyous and melancholy, full of sharply angled rhythms and warm rubbery basslines: ‘The Lish’ throws a sickly sweet saxophone against digitally fragmented melodies; ‘How Many Times (with this)’ draws you in with an irresistible, clipped guitar groove; the rhythmic stutter of ’Smoking The Edge’ makes your head spin with pleasure. Playing with his inspirations, Mullinix injects omitted downbeats for imagined rhymes and repurposes the intricacy of ragga jungle for breakdowns. But what really defines One/Three is the rhythmic sensibility and metric modulation of Detroit’s school of hip-hop production, which Mullinix was a fervent student of. The beats feel like they’re constantly escaping a rigid tempo grid even though they are, in fact, pretty tight. “A lot of it is nuance,” Mullinix explains. “I’ve been known to say that I’m not impressed by spectacle. I think that nuance is what really captivates people.”

POINTS OF INTEREST • “If you like your beats with a dash of class, do not miss this. An essential purchase of the highest order.” -BBC • First time all tracks from the original 2001 release appear on vinyl. • Remastered by Daddy Kev • Standard weight black vinyl is inserted in to 3.5mm matte finish vinyl jacket. • Download card includes free download of the Payback EP

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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Instrmntl TRACKLIST 01. Intrdctn. 02. Won 03. No Child Of God 04. D-Town Tabernacle Choir 05. You Know The Formula Right?

06. Evelyn 07. This Is Where I Came In 08. Prospects (Marshall Law) 09. Take Me Home 10. Gimme Lowlands

RELEASE BIO The early 2000s were a time of upheaval for hip-hop. The underground and mainstream divide that had defined so much of the previous decade was showing the first signs of irrelevance. Timbaland and The Neptunes made radio rappers sound futuristic while independent artists struggled in a quagmire of backpacks and misguided claims to keep it real. Away from this, in a misunderstood middle ground between hip-hop and electronic music, a new generation of artists were busy imagining a new sound for hip-hop.

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-24 Format: LP Release Date: February 16th, 2018 UPC-LP: 804297902418 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP-10 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

One such artist was Scott “Prefuse 73” Herren, whose perpendicular MPC chops on his 2001 debut for Warp Records set curious minds racing with possibilities. That same year Tadd Mullinix released his debut as Dabrye on Ghostly International, a sonic wildstyle that appealed to both hip-hop heads and IDM nerds. Sometime that same year Herren and Mullinix met after sharing a bill in Detroit. CD-Rs were exchanged and a year later Eastern Development, Herren’s newly launched label, released Dabrye’s Instrmntl, a short album with a big impact. On its fifteenth anniversary Ghostly International is reissuing Instrmtl on vinyl and making it available digitally for the first time. Instrmntl is a continuation of the beat experiments Dabrye began with One/Three and a bridge to the diverse textures that would define Two/Three four years later. About half of its nine tracks (ten if you lived in Japan) were created at the same time as One/Three while the rest were newer or made specifically for the album. Once again Mullinix looked outside of hip-hop to techno, house, and drum & bass for stylistic and technical ideas while embracing the blissful minimalism of a good hip-hop instrumental and the rhythmic nuance of Detroit. Despite the similarities between Dabrye’s debut and this follow up, Mullinix didn’t simply replicate what had made One/Three so arresting. He pushed and pulled further between the two cornerstones of his approach to reveal more potentials. Instrmntl takes you deeper into electronic depths — the rugged synth stutter of ‘Won’, the tumbling, wobbling bass in ‘No Child Of God’, the electro get down of ‘Prospects (Marshall Law)’ — while also treading more organic grounds by letting samples breathe and moods unfurl at a gentler pace (‘Take Me Home’, ‘Evelyn’, and ‘You Know The Formula Right?’). And then there are the moments where this push and pull finds balance and the result becomes more, as it does on the mournful march of ‘D-Town Tabernacle Choir’ and the twinkling daydream of ‘This Is Where I Came In’.

POINTS OF INTEREST • Reissue of the out of print 2002 album; available for the first time on Ghostly. • Includes previously Japanese-only bonus track, “Gimme Lowlands” • Standard weight blue vinyl is housed in a matte jacket. •“Dabrye’s beats are like Jay Dee getting crunked up with Autechre.” — Prefuse 73

At just over 30 minutes, Instrmntl offers a snapshot of a time when potentials seemed infinite, when lines could be drawn between jazz, ragga jungle, techno, and hip-hop and the resulting shape divined an exciting future.

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Two/Three TRACKLIST

01. The Stand (feat. Wildchild) 02. Air (feat. Doom) 03. Machines (Pt. I) 04. Encoded Flow (feat. Kadence) 05. That's What's Up (feat. Vast Aire) 06. Tell Dem 07. Nite Eats Day (feat. Beans) 08. Jorgy (w/ Waajeed) 09. Special (feat. Guilty Simpson and Paradime) 10. Bloop 11. Viewer Discretion (feat. Invincible and Finale)

12. Piano 13. Pressure (w/ Waajeed | feat. Ta-Raach) 14. Reconsider (feat. Kadence) 15. Get It Together (feat. Invincible and Finale) 16. My Life (feat. AG) 17. In Water 18. Get Live (feat. Big Tone) 19. Machines (Pt. II) 20. Game Over (feat. Jay Dee and Phat Kat)

RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO

Tadd Mullinix first made a name for himself as Dabrye in the early 2000s with a pair of instrumental albums combining the rhythmic finesse of Detroit hip-hop with the ingenuity of electronic music. But instrumental beats were only a temporary goal, a way for Mullinix to catch the ears of MCs. On Two/Three, his second Dabrye album for Ghostly International, Mullinix brought together a formidable crew of local and national talent to make the statement he’d always intended. Released in 2006, Two/Three offered a fevered vision of rap’s future that remains just as intoxicating a decade on. Ahead of the long-awaited conclusion of Dabrye’s hip-hop trilogy in 2018, Ghostly is reissuing Two/Three. Dabrye’s move towards rap began in 2004 with the album’s first single, ‘Game Over’ featuring Jay Dee and Phat Kat. An early inspiration of Dabrye’s, Jay Dee invited Mullinix to his crib in 2002 for a listening session during which he picked the ‘Game Over’ beat to rap on. Crucially everyone involved was in accord that despite perceptions of their respective work this would be a hardcore rap song. Together with Kat, Jay delivered a one-two lyrical punch on ‘Game Over’ that no one saw coming. Detroit made the world go round and everyone’s head spun. ’Game Over’ set the tone for the album and, over the next few years, became a Detroit anthem — shortly after Jay’s passing in 2006 the audience at Movement Festival sung his verse. Moody, propulsive, and above all ambitious, Two/Three emerges from a sonic stew of Detroit and UK dance music, Jamaican sound clashes, and hip-hop sampledelia. The guests, a who’s who of the mid-’00s underground rap scene, engage in a raucous rhyming session that pays as much attention to the realities of the streets as it does world events. MF Doom, Wildchild, Vast Aire, Beans, and AG represent for the various coasts while local talents — Waajeed, Ta-Raach, Invincible, Finale, Kadence, Guilty Simpson, Big Tone, Phat Kat, and Jay Dee — bring Two/Three alive with an infectious energy. In between bursts of raw rap and hard beats, Dabrye showcases detailed instrumentals that evoke bleak industrial futures, underwater meditations, and smoky late night sessions. With Two/Three Dabrye placed himself at the forefront of hip-hop’s new wave, throwing a Molotov cocktail into the rap world as uncompromising as the head-twisting cover art from WK Interact. The independent press praised Mullinix’s audacity. Over the following years the impact of Two/Three was felt in slow increments as Dabrye’s music became central to the sonic makeup of a new generation of producers. As this beat scene grew and moved away from rap, it showed Mullinix the influence of his work and the value of his vision for Dabrye as his own brand of Detroit hip-hop.

Catalogue Number: GI-50 Format: 2xLP Release Date: February 16th, 2018 UPC-LP: 804297905013 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Box Lot: LP- 8 Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

POINTS OF INTEREST • Repress of the 2006 sequel to One/Three • Feat. J Dilla, Doom, Wajeed, Vast Aire, Guilty Simpson, Beans, and more. • 2xLP vinyl is housed in a matte jacket with silver ink.

LABEL CONTACT Ghostly International 61 Greenpoint Ave. #506 Brooklyn, NY 11222 dado@ghostly.com www.ghostly.com

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GI-318 Dabrye

Box Set CONTAINS • GI-04 One/Three [2018 Remaster] LP (Black Vinyl) • GI-50 Two/Three 2xLP (Black Vinyl) • GI-303 Three/Three 2xLP (Ltd Edition Clear Vinyl) • GI-24 Instrmntl (Blue Vinyl)

RELEASE BIO

RELEASE INFO Catalogue Number: GI-303 Format: CD, 2xLP Release Date: February 16th, 2017 UPC-BOX SET: 804297831817 Genre: Electronic, hip hop Territory Restrictions: None Vinyl Is not returnable

Tadd Mullinix created his Dabrye alias in the late ’90s as a hip-hop alter ego, a sonic wildstyle that weaved together the laid back vibes of midwestern hip-hop and east coast boom bap, the futuristic funk of Ummah-era Jay Dee, and the calculated subtlety of Detroit dance music. Upon discovering local Detroit hip-hop producers Mullinix realized many of the best had a rhythmic sensibility that set them apart from the rest of the country. Detroit wasn’t a hotspot on the nationwide rap map yet but it had its own swing, full of subtle differences and embodied by groups like Slum Village. As Dabrye, Mullinix captured some of this sensibility — the nuance of metric modulation — and paired it with electronic touches and rap swagger across three albums that brought a new set of Detroit aesthetics to the 2000s hip-hop conversation. Early fans of his refined style included the late James ‘J Dilla’ Yancey and fellow adventurer Prefuse 73 alongside whom Mullinix laid the foundations for a new wave of beat enthusiasts to emerge. In 2018, nearly 20 years after the first Dabrye beats burst out of Mullinix’s home computer, Ghostly International is compiling reissues of all three Dabrye albums - One/Three, Two/Three, and Instrmntl - with the third chapter in the Dabrye album trilogy, the long-awaited Three/Three album, in an exclusive limited edition box set. Time hasn’t dulled Mullinix’s sonic throw-ups, if anything the blur between digital and physical, hip-hop and electronic, subtlety and ruggedness that his music always implied is even more relevant today, especially in a world where students of his style are among the biggest names in the game. Like the city it looked to for inspiration, Dabrye’s sound was built to last.

POINTS OF INTEREST • Includes the limited edition clear vinyl version of the longawaited Three/Three vinyl, as well as represses of all three classic Dabrye albums. • Box is sturdy matte black with debossed lettering • Limited to 500 copies worldwide & numbered in silver foil on back. • Clear vinyl is limited to 1250 units worldwide.

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