Transmission One, by Transmission Towers

Transmission One

by Transmission Towers

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Paul Waller Immediately loved Roller Skater 23 when I heard Gilles play it. Sparse is stunning too! Nice work, guys and props to Luke Una.

littlechiefster Delightful track…can’t wait for the record to be on my hands and on the decks shortly after

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releases May 10, 2024

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1. Up / 2. Roller Skater 23 / 3. Planetary Alignment / 4. Go Slow Heart / 5. Cosmic Trigger / 6. Mega / 7. Everything / 8. Sparse / 9. One / 10. Affirmation of Love

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1. Up / 2. Roller Skater 23 / 3. Planetary Alignment / 4. Go Slow Heart / 5. Cosmic Trigger / 6. Mega / 7. Everything / 8. Sparse / 9. One / 10. Affirmation of Love

This product is a pre-ordered item, shipping 10th May 2024.

Includes digital pre-order of Transmission One. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around May 10, 2024

Purchasable with gift card

£22 GBP or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
1. Up / 2. Roller Skater 23 / 3. Planetary Alignment / 4. Go Slow Heart / 5. Cosmic Trigger / 6. Mega / 7. Everything / 8. Sparse / 9. One / 10. Affirmation of Love / 11. My Shadow / 12. The Universal Drift

This product is a pre-ordered item, shipping 10th May 2024.

Includes digital pre-order of Transmission One. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

shipping out on or around May 10, 2024

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1.	Up
2.	Roller Skater 23 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Who could she be this fantasy Into the beat she glides Who is that girl She looks so free On roller skates she glides Could I be Could I be Could I be Could I be It's all up to me What's left for you It's all up to me Got things to do It's all up to me What's left for you It's all up to me Got things to do Is she for real or make believe Into the beat she glides Who is that girl She looks so free On roller skates she glides It's all up to me What's left for you It's all up to me Got things to do It's all up to me What's left for you It's all up to me Got things to do On roller skates She glides On roller skates
3.	Planetary Alignment
4.	Go Slow Heart
5.	Cosmic Trigger
6.	Mega
7.	Everything
8.	Sparse 04:21	lyrics	buy track
Wanna tell you that I feel ya Wanna tell you that I want ya Wanna tell you that I need ya Wanna tell you that I feel ya Wanna tell you that I need ya Wanna tell you that I feel ya Wanna tell you that I feel ya Wanna tell you that I want ya Wanna tell you that I need ya Wanna tell you that I need ya Wanna tell you that I feel ya Wanna tell you that I want ya Could this be our love? Don't wait Too long Go now Belong Don't wait Too long Could this be our love? It's just how I feel It's just how I feel It's just how I feel Is this how you feel? It's just how I feel Is this how you feel? Love Love Love Love
9.	One
10.	Affirmation of Love
11.	My Shadow (CD/Digital Only)
12.	The Universal Drift (CD/Digital Only)

about

Aerials live, dials tuned, Transmission Towers broadcasting. On either side of the river Mersey, transcendental communications are traded back and forth. Two late-night revellers, one firing messages filled with music, the other returning them laced with lyrics. The result, a dopamine hit of oddball machine soul, melded with a highlife, Afrofuturist touch. Wonky and murky yet deeply emotional, Transmission One, is a debut album that also marks the first release on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label, encompassing expertly the off-kilter atmosphere the label sets to orbit.

A synthesised landscape with a Northern charm, Transmission Towers marry the musical worlds of two artists that last collaborated over a decade ago. 10 years have passed, lives have been led, but a gravitational pull has placed Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante back in each other’s spheres on opposite sides of the city of Liverpool. Energised with a newfound desire to strip it all back to the sounds that influenced their formative years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s - astral travelling, intoxicated on Motor City techno, Black Dog IDM and mystical Sun Ra.

Mark half Irish, half Greek Cypriot, Eleanor half Nigerian, half Ghanian, the music contained within is an alchemy of those roots and the pivotal acts that buried deep into their minds. A cosmic contrast, part machine-made, part distinctly human. Take the opener ‘UP’, an ESG-channelling, sci-fi punk beatdown or the polychromatic hyperspace anthem ‘Roller Skater 23’.

Transportive throughout, you ride the solar waves, pace and emotion ebbing and flowing. Tracks like ‘Go Slow Heart’ and ‘Cosmic Trigger’ step to a slower beat but hit with a punch. The former, a slo-mo blast of celestial tenderness, the latter an otherworldly, chugged-out lunar excursion, micro-dosing on whacked-out Wah Wah and Eleanor’s ethereal vocals. Beaming love letters to space and back, ‘Sparse’ marries the organic with the artificial, pianos and percussion circling around synth pads and broadcasting bleeps.

Elsewhere, vibrations move faster. ‘Mega’ strikes, fusing sonic tribalism with psychedelic swirls, as ‘Everything’ sweeps you up in its extra-terrestrial new wave grip. Synth stabs and basslines fizzing from every angle.

Demos of Transmission Towers music surfaced on Luke Una’s radar, making him stop in his tracks. Something magical was emerging, perfectly aligned with the E Soul guardian’s tastes. Guidance followed, quickly turning into conversations about Transmission One becoming the first release on Luke’s own label.

Escapist and futurist yet grounded and relatable. Transmission One is synthesis meets sentiment with a deep, spine-tingling soul at its core.

credits

releases May 10, 2024

Eleanor Anorbea Mante - Lyrics, Vocal and Percussion
Mark Kyriacos Kyriacou - Drum Machines, Synthesizers, Electronics and Vocal
Ian ‘Budgie’ Jones – Percussion and Additional Drums
Tom Sumnall - Bass Guitar
Stuart MacDonald – Guitar
Cait Walker – Cor Anglais on One and Go Slow Heart
Michelle Bee – Backing Vocals on One and Cosmic Trigger
Toby Baker - Piano on Affirmation of Love

Written and Recorded on Both Sides of the River Mersey
Composed, Arranged and Produced by Transmission Towers
Mixed by Transmission Towers except Roller Skater 23 and Everything Mixed by Crooked Man with Additional Engineering by David Lewin
Executive Producer Luke Una
Mastered by Joker
Artwork by Mark James
Photography by Pete Burrell

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Transmission Towers Liverpool, UK

Transcendental travellers, bouncing ideas from either side of the Mersey, Transmission Towers stand tall.

Forged from the underground, this two-piece, cosmic machine soul outfit made up of Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante manoeuvres dynamically between interplanetary bass-heavy beats, stripped-back, odd-ball soul and highlife afro-futurism. ... more

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