Weekend Sale Porn Sword Tobacco Magnifik BotanikAniara vinyl record

2×12″ Deep House / TechSwedish sound poet Porn Sword Tobacco paints sparkling, intimate soundscapes over intuitive grooves
Porn Sword Tobacco makes music far more serious than his name would suggest. After first appearing as Stress Assassin and Swayze Dub at the beginning of the ’00s, the Swedish producer, real name Henrik Jonsson, debuted his current nom de guerre with a string of experimental albums for City Centre Offices, a now shuttered Manchester label co-founded by Shlom Sviri of Boomkat and Modern Love. Since 2009 or so, Jonsson’s been crafting lean and spacey club cuts on his own and with others, namely SUED label boss SVN or Joel Alter as Jonsson/Alter. Magnifik Botanik, his latest double-pack on Aniara, is the most thorough exploration yet of his elegant and understated techno.
Magnifik Botanik collects five tracks recorded between 2009 and 2014. We get a rare glimpse of Jonsson in party mode on “Kristallisering,” a soaring bit of piano house with a snappy electro beat. But this is the ex