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New York-based synthesist Jesse Reiner, the founding third of Jonas Reinhardt, just sent in this Isabel Salvado-directed video for The Primer Revealer, a 12" follow-up to this year's excellent Music For The Tactile Dome LP on Not Not Fun. This latest offering was recorded at none other than Abbey Road, in London, and has the particularity of requiring playback at 45 speed on Side A, and 33 on the flip. The extra real estate on Side A goes to a special hand-etched design that you'll won't be able to behold until you hold the vinyl in your two hands; here's to hoping that it's every bit as psychedelic as the visuals for b-side "Only Pharoahs," which draws mysterious and cinematic parallels between ancient egypt, space travel, and rolling expanses of water and vegetation. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

Jonas Reinhardt: "Only Pharoah"

The Prime Revealer LP 12" is out now on The Great Pop Supplement, and is available via Boomkat

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Prismatic overlays. Gritty VHS distortion. Vivid washes of adjusted color. Feverish streams of associative imagery. These are a few of our favorite things and just so happen to play the starring roles in Sean Patrick’s enticing visual accompaniment to Jonas Reinhardt’s “Smokey Jotus.” The San Francisco trio’s high energy synth psychedelia is particularly vigorous here, shoving the drums to the front of the mix and letting their melodies run uninhibited in a silky space of their own definition. Sunny day headphone candy abounds. --Luke Carrell, International Tapes

MP3: Jonas Reinhardt: "Smokey Jotus"

Jonas Reinhardt's Music For The Tactile Dome will be available soon from Not Not Fun. In the meantime, refresh your memory with this lovely post from last month and stream two other tracks on Soundcloud. Additional eye-friendly from Sean Patrick is also available on his Cargo Collective page

Within the first three seconds of this freshly-minted track from Jonas Reinhardt-- the brainchild of Jesse Reiner, that also includes Mi Ami's Damon Palermo and Citay's Diego Gonzalez-- you know exactly where its leading; or rather, all that the track is leaving behind. As has been the case with the past two Kranky releases and with contemporaries like Dylan Ettinger, Reinhardt's music is not for tight and narrow spaces. In "Eos, The Dawn," a cut from the forthcoming Not Not Fun LP, Music For The Tactile Dome, flickering beams of synthesizers pedal the opening passage along, enlivening to colourful swabs of keyboards à la Klaus Schulze over a pulsating bassline. But there is also a warmth and melodic sensitivity to this hypnotic track, as the confines of four walls effortlessly peel away, "Eos" leaves us floating among gracefully spinning celestial bodies. --Daniel Gottlieb, Altered Zones

MP3: Jonas Reinhardt: "Eos, The Dawn"

Jonas Reinhardt's Music For The Tactile Dome is out mid-May on Not Not Fun. Also on the horizon is a 12" and a double LP produced by Prins Thomas that will also be coming out on his label, Internasjonal. Two of those appropriately awesome, spaced-out disco tracks are available for streaming via their SoundCloud