Time Capsule

🔊 The Speaker in the Corner, Part 2 ✨

This episode follows the ideas carried through Lucky Cloud into Beauty and the Beat, brilliant corners and a wider network of listening spaces that reshaped how sound was experienced in London and beyond.

Not through nostalgia or faithful imitation, but through people building rooms around warmth, pressure, hospitality and attention. Klipschorns moved from temporary parties into restaurants, bars, record shops and homes. Sound systems became social architecture.

From East London to Sheffield, Birmingham, Paris, Lisbon, Nantes and beyond, this is a story about how listening culture spread hand to hand: through friendships, labour, record bags, food, dance floors and carefully tuned corners.

This carousel features excerpts from part two of a two-part bilingual essay, published on Substack.

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⚡️AUDIOPHILE REPRESS ALERT ⚡️

Originally released in 2021 and long out of print, Stories From Another Time 1982–1988 returns in an upgraded edition following years of demand and following years of requests for a repress.

Recorded between Angola, Portugal and France during the 1980s, Mário Rui Silva’s music exists in its own world somewhere between semba, folk, spiritual jazz, saudade and dreamlike electronic experimentation. Drum machines, delicate percussion, floating synthesizers and extraordinary guitar playing come together in a body of work that still feels difficult to place in time.

This new edition features a half-speed mastered 45RPM cut by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Studios, alongside an expanded 4-page insert with new writings, photographs and reflections following Mário Rui Silva’s passing in 2024.

Pre-orders start now via Bandcamp
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Artist: Mário Rui Silva
Title: Stories From Another Time 1982–1988 (Half-Speed Mastered 45RPM Edition)
Cat No: TIME013R
Format: Double LP + 4-page insert + gold sticker
UPC: 748322322393
Release date: Friday 12 June

🚨LAST REMAINING COPIES of the limited OBI edition are now on Bandcamp!

After selling out within a week of release a limited amount of stock has appeared at the warehouse - be quick this won’t last long!

Bandcamp link in bio 👉