G.D.D.B. (Green Door Disco Band)

by Golden Teacher

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1.	A1 02:13	buy track
2.	A2 03:14	buy track
3.	A3 04:42	buy track
4.	A4 03:30	buy track
5.	A5 04:20	buy track
6.	B1 01:48	buy track
7.	B2 03:02	buy track
8.	B3 03:38	buy track
9.	B4 03:05	buy track
10.	B5 08:45	buy track

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Golden Teacher was born in early 2012, when members Ollie, Laurie, Rich, Sam, Cassie, and Charlie gathered at Glasgow’s legendary Green Door Studios and packed seven cassettes with raw, rhythmic improvisations. These instrumental sessions, dubbed Green Door Disco Band (or G.D.D.B.), were a covert prologue to the band’s infectious and hallucinatory dance music. Originally issued via cassette on Golden Teacher’s own Akashic Records, this vinyl edition compiles G.D.D.B.’s most commanding moments for an explosive re-introduction to the band’s emergent boogie.

Golden Teacher’s method was simple: Pack the studio with instruments, position a tape recorder on the floor, and then just go for it. Whenever the vibe was right someone would hit record. The members swapped instruments at random, mutating across primal electro-disco and swirling, psychedelic house. Jerry-rigged rhythms breach the delectable fry of tape hiss. Melodies dissolve into throbbing ambience as percussion lurches in and out of focus. The band achieves a contagious blend of hazy atmospherics and crystalline frequencies that suffuses each groove with club-level delirium.

G.D.D.B. captures Golden Teacher’s kinetic genesis, transposing the dynamics of their freest and most elastic live performances onto plastic. As an exclusive bonus, the album is offered with or without a companion cassette, compiled by the band from two live performances in February, 2013. Side A is Golden Teacher in classic dance floor motion; Side B documents a baffling reinterpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven via abstract electronics. The tape is only available from House Rules.

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released March 22, 2018

Designed by Zully Adler
Mastered by Adam Gunther

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Golden Teacher Glasgow, UK

Mixing raw-edged house, leftfield disco, syncopated percussion, and odd-ball experimentalism with a serious party attitude, Golden Teacher have made their mark as one of the most exciting groups to emerge from the Scottish underground. The sprawling six-piece has released acclaimed records on Optimo Music, Sounds Of The Universe, and Rough Trade. ... more

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