Leaving Planet Earth
Don't expect a brand new dimension, but an expansion of the already established soundscape world of Yogi Rulez and his old school approach to electroacoustic music. Please spread the word to all those who love to find, discover and explore mostly soulful instrumental music standing on a fragile foundation of abstraction and genre fluidity. Let us leave Planet Earth together for a little while.
RELEASE DATE: 2024-06-21
LABEL: self-released
DISTRIBUTION: Supraphon
€2 Digital release
Leaving Planet Earth is the third official recording of the North Bohemian Yogi experimenting between pseudo-acoustic and electronic music. Here, Yogi Rulez continues to develop his intimate musical world. Enchanted by the magic of art, which provides much-needed food for the soul, he draws attention to the problems of today's world, which he sees precisely in the mental decline of contemporary civilization. All five tracks are the work of Stanislav Puffler, who also took care of the mix of the recording. Finalization of the sound was entrusted to the mastering studio Audio Animals in Great Britain. The beautiful cover art was created by illustrator and graphic artist Petr Hejda. The EP opens with the song Cold Trip, which is a winter trip to a new space-time. A track full of cool analog synthesizers is seconded by a vocoder-driven vocal. Everything progresses into an icy refreshing but still very soulful futuristic passage. House of the Waving Pines darkened breakbeat stuff follows. Translated as House of the Waving Pines, which is the traditional Japanese school of Shotokan Ryu and the style of karate, whose forefather is sensei Gichin Funakoshi. The title track Leaving Planet Earth combines house music with Jamaican dub and Bristol triphop. But still with a manuscript that does not destroy the concept of the sound-painting world of Yogi Rulez. Journey Rewards alludes to a reward-driven world contrasted with the emptiness of the soul. It is also a symbol highlighting British producer LTJ Bukem's album from 2000. The record closes with the beat Good Night, which depicts a way out of a mental crisis through meditation supported by positive musical vibrations.
CREDITS:
- Stanislav Puffler (MIDI, sampling, keyboards, beat programming)
- Petr Hejda (cover art)
- Audio Animals (mastering)
Time Goes By
30 years of bedroom music production has finally resulted in the first official studio LP. The 43-year-old father of two comes up with an intimate self-confident record balancing between soulful electronica and calm triphop beats with contemporary jazz influences.
RELEASE DATE: 2022-10-01
LABEL: self-released
DISTRIBUTION: Supraphon
€3 Digital release
Time Goes By does not reflect thirty years of playing the piano, but thirty years of playing around with the piano. The same goes for the drums. Creativity and gamification before craftsmanship. Art driven artist. Mood, atmosphere and emotion before melody and harmony.
I have come a long way from pure electronic music to more organic sound with influences of modern jazz and big calm chillout music. My instrumentals are always a result of music ideas, sound collages, experiments and improvisations. It took me a year to prepare the material for the record and it was more of an adventure than anything else.
Microbiome
Thirteen years after winning Starter talent scouting contest (Radio Wave), Yogi Rulez continues magic recording studio games balancing between downtempo and electronic jazz based on a fusion of double bass, rhodes piano and vibraphone mixed with fresh chillout grooves.
RELEASE DATE: 2020-10-28
LABEL: self-released
DISTRIBUTION: Supraphon
€1.2 Digital release
Everything bad is good for something. The lockdown caused by the COVID-19 epidemic created time and space to complete the sound work on the EP record, which I have been working on since 2019. Let me introduce you new musical genre called "lockdowntempo".
Brand Nu Concepts
An older one old school LP based on unreleased tracks writen during years 2006 - 2007 when Yogi Rulez won talent scouting contest Startér on ČRO4 Radio Wave. Followed up with not very successful attemp to create own live nujazz band with Radek Krampl, Yannah Fabian, Martin Kuzma and Matěj Havlíček.
RELEASE DATE: 2007-08-25
LABEL: self-released
DISTRIBUTION: only on Bandcamp
€2 Digital release
This album is based on very old tracks, which were digitally remastered and reworked to reach best possible quality and transformed into a fully autonomous LP for long and dark nights.
CREDITS:
- Stanislav Puffler (MIDI, sampling, keyboards, beat programming)
- Radek Krampl (vibes, marimba, compositions)
- Jana Fabiánová (vocals on A Clyméne, Judges in a Matchbox, Arctic Blue)
- Jan Pospíšil (rap on Soul Navigatin´)
- František Bublík from North Czech Philharmonic (oboe on Nocturno)
- Michal Pavlíček (guitar sample on Hot Lava)
Contemporary Art from the Black Market
Very first debut EP released by Language Lab net label in 2005. The intro reflected the disproportionate intervention of the Czech police at the CzechTek festival, which acted on the orders of Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek. Trafo was inspired by the golden era of big triphop names (Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky ...). Espirito Santo and Mecca are well-known singles that led Yogi Rulez to victory in the Startér (Český rozhlas, Rádio Wave) talent contest. 100 CDs with fine printed booklet artwork were released at own expense.
RELEASE DATE: 2005-12-06
LABEL: Language Lab
DISTRIBUTION: Bandcamp
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"Yogi Rulez guests for this cool and vibrant EP, chilled in the extreme with reggae, dnb and black america influenced vibes. Nuances of Dirty Harry era sounds and feelings intermixed with an up to date culture slant. An EP with many surprises and a well produced form - pure enjoyment."
"A great mix! A real pleasure of rythm, sound and texture's music."
CREDITS:
- Stanislav Puffler (composition, production, mix and master)
- Lukáš Ballý (guitars on tracks 3 and 4)
