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Ruf Dug presents Expansion Pack 1: Spaces

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iglooed The wife said is this supposed to be chiiled! Me "Well I thought so!!" I'm going in for pack 2 as well. I think the most records I own from one label are from RufKUts. Cheers Ruffy who plays the sax? Favorite track: TV Sky.
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badgervsbaboon To quote a great man "what's this then?!?" and yes he'd be right. What's this then? only the perfect addition to my Saturday morning poolside ambient sets at pikes that's what. Going to be bothering the good folk from Essex for the rest of the summer with this wonderful bundle of strange. mixed with the theme and some dialog from Only Fools And Horses should see things going right off. Wonderfully weird music from Outer Space (it's a little known hamlet outside Chorley)
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Ruf Dug occupies a rare position in the worlds of mooooood music - his dual residencies at Pikes & NTS give him ample reach across the balearic and ambient realms, while his times spent soundtracking fashion weeks, mushroom seances, desert sunsets, underground erotic speakeasies and the sloppiest of afterhours mean he's had plenty of experience in catering to the non-dancefloor situation. Don't forget his hidden presence at the genesis of vaporwave, either - this isn't just a retro thing....

Put all that together and you have an operator capable of drawing on a lifetime spent providing VIBES to put together a ground-breaking compilation of ambient-not-ambient tracks for a Bandcamp-Exclusive release to help you escape...


Ruf Dug Sez:

"For all of the restrictions imposed upon us these days, music continues to provide us with a WAY OUT...

Ruf Kutz is dedicated to opening new portals regularly, and our Bandcamp-exclusive release schedule continues with the launch of a new compilation series: EXPANSION PACK.

Designed to Extend Your Reach, each Pack comes ready-loaded with a series of tracks to take you out of your head and into a New World.

Pack 1 is themed 'SPACES' and holds within its bits the keys to six very different areas indeed.

Ruf Dug & Jack Doepel's 'TV SKY' (yes its a neuromancer reference) was made some years ago now and has attained semi-mythical status in a few small cult circles thanks to its inclusion on the amazing 'Styles For Relaxation' cassette compilation. After many many requests from all kinds of folk to release the track on its own it finally appears here, complete with brand new mastering courtesy of STALKER. Plug this one in and escape to an eternal sunset across an all-too-close future...

Stalker then steps up with SURFACE CONTROL - one of my oldest pals in this game, Stalker was there at the very start for me and imparted deep wisdom from the beginning. One of the world's greatest mastering engineers, his love of the finest analogue technology goes deep into the production side also and here we have one of his works; a heavyweight deep cut designed for the finest speakers in the world...let it roll over you, its subtle layers and reverbs describing a deluxe environment all around.

From Cornwall come OCEAN MOON GROUP; 6th-dimensional outliers and long-time friends/co-conspirators of Ruf Kutz. Providing psychic nourishment using only tones, step through the digital gong-wash of SNOW FLOWERS and emerge with your Whole Self fully restored.

RAIKES PARADE is an elusive Mancunian producer-soundboy more often found behind a mixing board or with a sub on his shoulders. TAKE A NIBBLE transports us into his downtime, with a tune that's overflowing with ambience but is not quite Ambient; this is not music for cool estate agents to play in the background at their shitty dinner parties to try and hide the stench of their rotting soul... this will only amplify those sensations. There is no escape for you here.

SARAH BATES continues to weave mysteries around herself, each one more defined and other-worldly than the last. In another reality she is already unleashed, her performances changing peoples' lives regularly. In this one however you still have to wait a while for that; in the meantime she has many other sides to show you and WHIPS will draw you into an angular otherworld, a hall of mirrors like none other; you wouldn't want to leave even if you could find the way out.

Finally SANGAM uses his powers to make the heavens open and the inevitable northern rain pours down upon us all to cleanse, to wash away the tears. This is not the end though, as the track's title - 'EMBARK' - suggests. It's time to return to your reality once again, as the Expansion Pack closes, your time spent in our Spaces not forgotten, always here when you need them.

Please enjoy them!!!

Ur Pal,

Ruf Dug xxx"

credits

released August 21, 2020

Many thanks to all the Producers, for Stalker for the Mastering on the first 4 tracks and to everyone who supports Ruf Kutz.

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