Pockets Of Light Double Album (HM024) [BALEARIC, ELECTRONIC, AMBIENT], by Leonidas & Hobbes

Pockets Of Light Double Album (HM024) [BALEARIC, ELECTRONIC, AMBIENT]

by Leonidas & Hobbes

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Phil Cooper Music to float in space with. Ambient goodness of the cosmic kind.

Cracking release. Favorite track: What Is In Space?.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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Originally conceived as a double 12” LP, the full length album will be released on cassette and download/stream.*

A 12” vinyl EP will be released w/full colour sleeve (reverse board print), 3mm spine plus sleeve notes on an insert. This features five tracks from the album:

A1, Magik
A2, Reboot
A3, Reality 2.0
B1, RSVP
B2, Keep Livin’

Purchase includes exclusive download code for the full album + five bonus tracks (Bandcamp exclusive).*

*NB External sites will not have this bonus material.

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Cassette + Digital Album
Purchase includes exclusive download code for full album + five bonus tracks (Bandcamp exclusive).

Duplicated* cassette in white with printed sticker & printed two-panel j-card in a clear case.

*Duplicated in ‘real-time’ onto high quality ferric oxide (Type I Normal Bias) tapes, using the latest TEAC/TASCAM cassette recorders.

All paper parts printed using sustainable materials.

Limited Edition: 50.

CASSETTE TRACK-LIST:

A1, Space Symphony
A2, The Perturbed Mind
A3, Reality 2.0
A4, Reboot (Tape Mix)
A5, Magik
A6, What Is In Space?
A7, Space Raga

B1, Lost In Space
B2, Aftermath
B3, RSVP (Tape Mix)
B4, Keep Livin’
B5, Water
B6, Pockets Of Light

BONUS TRACKS ON DOWNLOAD:

1, Magik (Ambient Mix)
2, What Is In Space (Instrumental)
3, Aftermath (Reprise)
4, RSVP
5, Reboot

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12” vinyl EP with full colour sleeve and 3mm spine plus sleeve notes on an insert.
+ Casssette
+ Full Digital Download: 18 tracks total.

Includes unlimited streaming of Pockets Of Light Double Album (HM024) [BALEARIC, ELECTRONIC, AMBIENT] via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Space Symphony 05:12
2.	The Perturbed Mind 06:03
3.	Reality 2.0 06:08
4.	Reboot 05:40
5.	Magik 06:12
6.	What Is In Space? 07:45
7.	Space Raga 05:20	info
8.	Lost In Space 03:39
9.	Aftermath 06:04
10.	RSVP 07:36
11.	Keep Livin' 10:08
12.	Water 05:37	info
13.	Pockets Of Light 05:38
14.	Aftermath (Reprise) 01:56
15.	Magik (Ambient Mix) 06:12
16.	What Is In Space? (Instrumental Mix) 07:45
17.	Reboot (Tape Mix) 05:40
18.	RSVP (Tape Mix) 10:42

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Read album sleeve notes: hobbesmusic.co.uk/2024/02/leonidas-hobbes-pockets-of-light-hm024lp-out-8-3-24/

Originally conceived as a double 12” LP, the full length album will be released on cassette and download/stream.*

INTRO:

Following recent releases from George Demure (Ear Candy Dandy album), Galun (Glagol album) and Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP and Riot album), Hobbes Music welcomes the return of Leonidas & Hobbes, with their debut album, Pockets Of Light.

“UFOs, metaphysics, climate change, technology/AI and the possibility of human extinction - all subjects that have preoccupied our minds and conversations for a long time,” they explain. “Becoming parents and then finding ourselves both dealing with respective break-ups during the pandemic brought all these topics to the forefront and compelled us to address them, albeit subtly and implicitly, in our music.”

As well as being their first long player, this will be their fifth release, following 2021’s widely acclaimed Aranath EP and 2017’s Rags Of Time EP (voted Record Of The Year by DJs on Bill Brewster’s DJ History podcast). Pockets Of Light is also very much the duo’s Lockdown Album (everyone’s got one) and reveals Leonidas & Hobbes in a reflective mood - two old school electronic music aficionados on an ambient techno/electro/house tip....

While they have previously delved into house, disco, techno/electronic, ambient and soundtrack styles, making a name for themselves on the international ‘Balearic’ scene, the recordings here are even more stylistically expansive. Uptempo dance tracks rub up against more introspective, downtempo numbers and fully beatless, ambient tracks plus one dub-wise affair. Drawing the whole package together, a narrative flow emerges more explicitly through a series of spoken word samples - a hallmark of many L&H recordings - conveying a series of messages…

ARTWORK:

The sleeve art features a photograph of the Buzluzdha Monument in Bulgaria by Evgeni Dinev.

"We were drawn to the faded beauty of the ruin, seemingly symbolic of an ideology also in ruins. In the context of this album, Buzluzdha becomes a metaphor for another ideology... or, rather, it serves as a warning for the ideology which seemingly won the Cold War. Plus it contains such lush pockets of light…"

REVIEWS:
'A debut album of epic cosmological proportions...Like one long set, a voyage of peaks, beats and more trance-y and contemplated ambient pieces, this album goes from literal takeoff to drifting untethered in the void and back to the inner mindscape. Pockets of Light channels Leonidas and Hobbes’ worries and prophecies into a reflective existential soundtrack.' MONOLITH COCKTAIL - read in full: bit.ly/3TJjNGf

DJ FEEDBACK:

'Excellent EP. Thanks a lot' LAURENT GARNIER (Worldwide / PBB Radio, Paris)
‘Nice!’ JD TWITCH (Optimo)
'F**king brilliant' SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space)
'It's so good, really, just loving all the tracks, the lovingly cared for production only adds to the overall effect. I can't even pick a favourite as you seem to have presented an album of all A1s! I wish you all the best with this release, I hope as many people as possible get to hear it! I just pre-ordered the vinyl so no need to send the files' DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic, DE)
'Very nice. Both tracks doing it for me' ROLANDO (UR) re 'What Is In Space' / 'Space Symphony' (Feb '22 single/promo)
'Really cool textures, as usual. You can feel how much love went into the production, it’s slick. My two favourite tracks are Reboot - sounds like a modern, percussive E2E4 and a production from Rone. Love the unusual structure of Keep Livin’: cosmic, slightly broken. Takes its time to settle in but when it does….!' CYRIL aka BELLE BETE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN)
‘Warm and lysergic soundscapes. Absolutely love. Thank you!’ S/A/M (Music For Dreams/DK, Cafe Del Mar, Pikes, Playasol Radio and many more, Ibiza)
'I’m playing this at BATB' CEDRIC WOO
'Quality, I think this is your best work' DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure; SP)
'There is a real maturity to the Leonidas & Hobbes sound coming through now. Deep electronic music at the intersection of soul, electro and deep house. Love it. Well done.' FX10K aka FELIX ORAM (Temenos Dance Collective)
'These tracks are 🔥🔥🔥. Definitely playing these over the coming weeks' JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Buena Vida, Glasgow)
‘I’m really loving all of these tracks. And they’re great. Much more electronica vibe - beautifully crafted and sonically captivating. ALAN BRYDEN (Gaming)
'Sounds cool, I'll get one for sure' JOSH BEAUCHAMP (Rude Movements / Audio Gold)
'Likin’ dis…A LOT! Experimental tracks and solid deep, techy sounds for the heads. Magik is a deep, deep dive into a warm and exotic soundscape of relaxing keys ‘n’ beats that meander along beautifully. Super laidback and perfect for warm up sets and bar business. Jus' a beautifully crafted track. Reboot is a lil' too minimalist for my vibe, although I do like the tabla type percussion. Reality is like the David Holmes test pressing I was sent this week. A bit slo mo' acid. On RSVP the energy stakes are upped somewhat with something that has Detroit techno DNA running through each and every bar. I’m hearing Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva - heavy Plus 8 influences here. It's jus' FULL of my favourite noises. That slo mo' acid sound. Superb track. So many amazing sounds goin' on. Keep Livin' is real nice. The swirling keys are delightful and the percussion never sits still. Very nice, it jus' exudes kool vibes.' YOGI HAUGHTON (MFSB)

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released March 15, 2024

Written, performed, arranged and produced by Leonidas & Hobbes
Photography: Evgeni Dinev; NASA.
Art Direction/Design: Leonidas & Hobbes
Vinyl Mastering: Henry Rudkins at Vinyl Presents
Cassette & Digital Mastering: Leonidas

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