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Cinematic Wax

by LTF

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    As they say: life imitates art... 'Cinematic Wax' was initially named 'Explosive Situations,' which was scrapped and renamed for a myriad of reasons after the world turned upside down. Because the sleeves and center labels were already printed, we decided to save 100 copies. 60 copies of which are exclusively available on Bandcamp.

    Call this a bootleg. Or the banned edition, if you will. 'The Record Like It Was Supposed To Be,' before the world turned upside down again.

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LTF’s excursion into the unknown continues. Following the retrofuturistic Soviet jazz-funk sample madness on ‘Monolith,’ the productions on this album yet again spiral deep into dug-up sounds. To quote an article by Flea Market Funk about LTF’s music: “Sampling former USSR wax and giving heads all around the world the chance to actually experience his version of that music—sample by sample—is what music is all about: sharing, learning, and preserving.”

For ‘Cinematic Wax,’ the producer from Omsk, Russia used rare records from countries including Russia, Georgia, Tatarstan, Poland, Greece, and Hungary as his source material. “To this day, the 70s were the pinnacle years of musicians’ skill and imagination,” says LTF. “The only thing I can do is dig deeper and deeper into the crates and bring these masterpieces back to life.”

Since LTF’s first official record (2015’s ‘Light The Fuse’ on Black Milk Music), listeners kept telling him that his productions evoke a ‘cinematic feel.’ “I never really understood what they meant with that,” he admits. “I was just making jazzy, funky, boom-bap sh*t! Time went by, and people kept telling me how ‘cinematic’ my beats are. So this record is kind of an answer to the idea that was planted in my mind.”

Song titles like “Tbilisi City Walk” and “Tea Ceremony with Bamboo Monster” indicate the vivid approach to naming his funk breaks and boom-bap-minded productions. “I always try to put the feelings my production process evokes into the name of the tracks. To me, that’s quite hard to put into words. But in the end, finding the right way to describe those moods is extremely satisfying.”

There’s also a meaning to one of the vocal samples in the album’s intro track: a Secret Intelligence Agent from a Bond movie says how he “lights the fuse in any explosive situation.” A hint to the meaning of his artist name LTF (Light The Fuse), and a reference to his way of working with samples: explosive sounds of horn stabs, brass, bass, and breaks. Carefully digging for hidden material like a spy himself, distilling only the most treasured parts.

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released October 14, 2022

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"LTF (short for Light The Fuse) is a Russian producer with end-to-end moxie who is a vinyl campaigner and wax enthusiast. He’s in the building if you’re looking for crisp breaks, brassy horns, and non-Jethro-Tull-style flutes."
—48 Hills

"The young Russian Madlib."
—Le Grigri Radio

"LTF digs deep into the crates (...) layering boom bap drums with horn stabs and a deep bassline, putting a brand new head spin on vintage funk, for Amsterdam’s Rucksack Records."
—Music Is My Sanctuary

"There's a sense of depth, fantasy, and intensity in LTF's production work. (...) Something different in these times."
—Enola
“LTF looks to his homeland (and other former Soviet countries) to resurrect heavy drum breaks, Czech jazz orchestras, and rare Soviet grooves from the past.”
—Talkhouse

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All compositions written, produced, arranged & mixed by Anton Ivanchenko (LTF): ltfmusic.bandcamp.com

Mastering by Eugen Shmidt, USSR Studio (Omsk, Russia)

Design by Alexander "Stan" Shimanov

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LTF Omsk, Russia

Hip hop’s influence has permeated territories far removed from its Bronx origins, spawning creative and surprising fusions that strengthen the art form’s global reach. Case in point: Anton Ivanchenko, residing in the southwestern Siberian city of Omsk, has been obsessed with funk, hip-hop, and b-boy culture since the ‘90s. ... more

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