Coatshek - Sound Bath - VINYL LP

Dark Entries returns to the steam room with Coatshek's 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 inspiration from Pink Floyd, Manuel Göttsching's E2-E4, and his friend's DJ mixes (particularly Nick Moss and Matthew Paul's for InchPor DetroitInch), Coatshek landed on 107 bpm as the optimal speed for sauna S*x. With just a few synths, his Telecaster, and Inchlots of delays, reverb, and weed,Inch he sculpted stunning cuts like the effortlessly grooving InchSoftestInch and the psych-laced InchTriple Virgo.Inch The cover for Sound Bath was designed by Coatshek's fiancé Nate Sprecher, and features photographs by Luke Kraman taken at The Ever Afters campout. The album also includes an insert featuring the Double Scorpio SoundBaths series artwork by Blake Wright. Equally hypnogogic and sexually supercharged, Sound Bath situates the bathhouse as a liminal dreamspace of unbounded erotic potentiality. Album Tracks 1. Softest 2. Slipping 3. The Feelings 4. Triple Virgo 5. Labyrinth 6. Eternal Lovers