COATSHEK – Sound Bath – LP – Black Vinyl [22 AUG]

Description

LP – Black Vinyl

Dark Entries returns to the steam room with Coatsheks ‘Sound Bath‘. For their SoundBaths series, now-defunct poppers brand Double Scorpio commissioned artists to make mixes for an imaginary queer bathhouse. When asked to contribute, San Francisco-based artist Coatshek aka Sheki Cicelsky took the opportunity to create original compositions. The resulting album, Sound Bath, serves as a masterclass in slow and sultry ambient techno.

Taking inspirationfrom Pink Floyd, Manuel Gttschings E2-E4, and his friends DJ mixes (particularly Nick Moss and Matthew Pauls for Por Detroit), Coatshek landed on 107
bpm as the optimal speed for sauna sex. With just a few synths, his Telecaster, and lots of delays, reverb, and weed, he sculpted stunning cuts like theeffortlessly grooving Softest and the psych-laced Triple Virgo. The cover for Sound Bath was designed by Coatsheks fianc Nate Sprecher, and featuresphotographs by Luke Kraman taken at The Ever Afters campout. The album also includes an insert featuring the Double Scorpio SoundBaths series artwork byBlake Wright. Equally hypnogogic and sexually supercharged, Sound Bath situates the bathhouse as a liminal dreamspace of unbounded erotic potentiality.

Tracklist:

1 Softest
2 Slipping
3 The Feelings
4 Triple Virgo
5 Labyrinth
6 Eternal Lovers