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Originally released in 2012 on London haus label Unknown To The Unknown Cestrians Secret Language ep was only available on digital format. Here Vivod team up with UTTU and give it the right to a much needed vinyl release. Five cuts of Cestrian detective noir. A1 Napoli is standard trademark Cestrian thrash metal on syths, A2 Secret Language sounds like someone being stuffed and chopped up through a drain pipe. B1 Purge is a drexciyan rip off horror acid affair, B2 Krapton Fictor is a stripped back FM battle and Umberto gives Napoli the remix treatment to stunning effect in his uncompromised slasher style. Five direct tracks of pure fire. Comes with a screen printed sleeve, artwork courtesy of Pete Mangalore. Limited to 200 copies.

Dark Entries re-issue one of the greatest and most overlooked albums of the 1970s. "Time Actor" was the result of a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German synthesizer and ambient genius Klaus Schulze, recording under the pseudonym of his alter-ego Richard Wahnfried. "Richard" is the name of Klaus' son born in 1979, and the first name of the German composer Wagner. "Wahnfried" is the name of Richard Wagner's house, from the German "wähnen Frieden fand" (that his search and hopes will find peace). The album was a unique fusion of Brown's eccentric musical vision and Schulze's mastery of synthesis. The album was originally released in 1979 on the German Innovative Communication label. Time Actor stands out amongst Schulze's massive catalog as a masterwork of avant garde new age. Schulze helms the project on electronics, and guests include Michael Shrieve on percussion, Vincent Crane on keyboards, and vocalist Arthur Brown, who sings - or should we say, speaks - on top of it all. Schulze describes the Wahnfried project in the liner notes as the collective pseudonym of an idea: Time-Electronic, an experiment between avantgarde and muzak: Utility-music for sound-covered environment, in which a new generation grows up: Richard Wahnfried is this generation: Music between genius and nonsense: New ideas transported by an old medium to your ear.'

This newly re-mastered reissue expands the original 60 minutes of music across a double LP to help with playback and distortion experienced on original pressings. We've added a bonus track in the form of a Cosmic 12-minute extended remix by Italian producer and DJ Maurizio Delvecchio from 1983. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in a gatefold jacket with original album artwork featuring a surreal painting by German artist Peter Nagel plus lyrics and notes. I wish you plenty of TIME' - Klaus Schulze

It's safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic industrial figures Zoviet France on Signals From The North and the classic 'Hizou' on Claremont 56 back at the turn of the decade. Now, this Firecracker Recordings release highlights a fully realised body of work, only hinted at by the aforementioned projects. Starting life as a performance in Turkish Baths located in Newcastle upon Tyne's City Pool, one of the last remaining civil saunas in the country, Legget has created a textured, melodic and immersive eulogy to the woozy, slow motion, drug free endorphin rush of the bath house. Pieces from this performance, alongside field recordings collected on the islands of Paxos and Loutro, South Crete are reimagined as a luscious ambient music. Accompanied by cello and electronics with real attention paid to musicality, vast and gaseous cinematic compositions are submerged beneath waves and drenched in steam and condensation.

Hailing 'Experimental Dub Music from the Far East' as their concept, a Japanese label New Dub Hall established in 2017 welcomes their first release in a 7" vinyl by UNDEFINED, a dub unit consisting of drums and keyboards.This is the first release launched from a dub unit UNDEFINED formed by Sahara (keyboards and programming /ex THE HEAVYMANNERS) and Ohkuma (drums/SOUL DIMENSION). Feel the mirage of piano echoing throughout the reverberant sounds and noises created by analog instruments on side-A, coupled with a deepened minimal dub of mystic melody overlapped with repeating drum fill tight and cut down to its extreme on side-B.

""Brilliant new duo from South London" Gilles Peterson BBC Radio 6 Music. South London electronic duo VTR release their alluring debut EP Soul to Skin on Brixton's Dream Diary Records. The five track EP veers from the melodic to the abstract as sensual lyricism occupies a distinct space amidst spectral sound design, striking a balance between haunting depth and inviting warmth. Soul to Skin was co-produced by recent R&S Records signee Afriqua, whose SLAP EP and Chronic Cool 12" out on Dream Diary brought considerable attention to the label.
The final offering on the EP is a Soul to Skin REMIX by INXEC (Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical, Cocoon and Leftroom and Culprit) Clash music were quick to premiere Soul to Skin describing VTR's sound as an "entrancing mixture- reminincent of those early James Blake EPs, or even the hushed intensity of Portishead." "

The remarkable thing about BELP's new album is its two-dimensional function. It works both on a loud and a quiet volume. Some tracks would go down well as a club track, like opener 'Travelling Thru Galaxies'. This track brings back memories of the best work released on the Hyperdub label, with it's fine combination of synths and irresistible, dubby beats. Elsewhere, 'Off Ending' might start off as 'dancehall-but-not-quite dancehall' track but when half way the synths kick in they change the feeling of the track to a more cerebral level.

BELP is the artist name of Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer. Born in Munich, he partially grew up on the Seychelles islands off the coast of East Africa. Educated in classical piano, those two gravitational poles, European and African influences, form the basis for his musical development. Currently he has close ties to the (dub) Sausage Studio in Hackney, London. In his hometown Munich, the Bavarian capital, BELP took a central role in a series of discussions and events aiming to improve the image and possibilities of Munich, which to his regret is a predominantly posh and hedonistic city where optimistic and uplifting music take central role.

In different guises Schnitzenbaumer works as a much needed antidote. Since 2013 he runs the Schamoni label, focusing on supporting local artists like Leroy and Protein. Its sublabel Jahmoni is responsible for recent works by international artists like Aaron Spectre and DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess.

BELP's music is dark, serious and layered. His love for dub and dancehall shines through in his broken beats. At the same time the synth layered tracks give the album an atmospheric feeling.

This also is what makes this album essential: it's refusal to be pigeonholed. The last track on side A, 'By Beauteous Softness', is an a cappella rendition of a 17th century Henry Purcell piece, beautifully sung by Alexander Schneider. This track is preceded by 'Transmission', which is a brilliant abstract work, sounding like wind closing on you from all sides. And you can sip a cocktail whilst listening to the jazzy 'Time And Again' (BELP once worked as a jazz pianist).

It's clear to hear BELP took a long time recording this album. Every note, synth, drum beat, is carefully placed. But what the album might lack on spontaneity it more than compensates this with its sheer musical beauty. This also reflects on the abstract sleeve, like 'Elephants' designed by BELP himself.

Enjoy this album on big speakers, as background music or simply on headphones. There will always be new sounds and layers to be discovered!

Austin Based Experimental Collective Thousand Foot Whale Claw Is Back With The New Cosmic Full Length black Hole Party, Out June 29, 2018. Featuring Members Of S U R V I V E, Troller, Single Lash And Future Museums, This Is The Supergroup's Second Lp And Their Most Accomplished Work To Date. Inspired By Progressive 70's German Kraut-rock, Thousand Foot Whale Claw Maintains A Classic Style While Establishing An Original Voice. With Album Art By Renowned Contemporary Sci-fi/fantasy Illustrator Kilian Ang, black Hole Party's Aesthetic Is Cohesively Curated Throughout Its Dense, Multi-layered Track List, Ranging From Serene Sound Baths To Driving Dance Beats.

Tfwc Was Founded In San Marcos, Tx By A Core Group Of College Friends Who Bonded Over Loose Collaborative Jams Of Effects Driven Improvisations. Eventually These Unstructured Practices Evolved Into Refined Studio Sessions And Intense Live Performances, Leading To A Rich Discography And Enthusiastic Fanbase. Balancing Repetition With The Unexpected, Tfwc's Sustained Motifs Slowly Reveal The Band's Signature Free-form Experimentation. Known For Heavy Walls Of Guitar And Electronic Drones, Tfwc Spirals Into Circular Rhythms And Looping Riffs Stacked With Shredding Guitar Solos And Ambient Soundscapes. Explorations Spurring From A Central Theme Is The Basis For The Band's Compositional Approach, Always Seeking New Instruments, Sound Sources And Production Techniques For Each Piece. Recorded And Engineered At Stassney Studios In Austin, Tx With Producer/artist Dylan Cameron, black Hole Party Has Become The Band's Most Defining Body Of Work Thus Far.  

On black Hole Party, The Polished Structure And Acute Development Of All Six Tracks Is Distinct And Tangible, Making This Record More Composed Than Any Of Their Previous Releases.  Propulsive Songs Such As deridium Rail' And The Album's Title Track Are Driven By Four-on-the-floor Dance Beats And Arpeggiated Synthesizers, Contrasting Songs Like genesis Effect' That Predominantly Features The Natural Tones Of 12-string Acoustic Guitar And Harmonium. The Wide Variety Of Sonic Flavors Is Reflective Of Tfwc's Vast Musical Tastes, Refusing To Settle On One Approach And Allowing The Band's Idiosyncrasies To Shine Regardless Of Genre. To Classify Tfwc As An Instrumental Psych Band Is Only Partially Accurate, However There Are A Lack Of Proper Terms To Fully Encapsulate The Band's Broad Scope. Black Hole Party Is The Latest And Brightest Collection Of Songs From Thousand Foot Whale Claw, Meant To Be Enjoyed In A Multitude Of Environments For All Fans Of Expansive Listening. 

Raw Silk Blends Classical Sitar, Electric Cello, Indian Vocals And Experimental Electronics Into A Long-form Head Massage. Hailing From Baltimore, Maryland, Alexa Richardson (cello) And Ami Dang (sitar, Voice, Electronics)

Started Making Music Together As Part Of Living Room Jam Sessions And Eventually Realized That Their Sonic Interests Couldn't Be Better Matched: They Both Push The Envelope Of Their Classically-trained Upbringings

Through String Instruments (that Surprisingly Complement One Another) And East-meets-west Structured Improvisations. Cello And Sitar Discuss, Get Heated, Grab Wrists, And Twirl Wildly Over An Electronic Landscape Of Textures. Ami Dang's Exquisite Vocals Interweave

Throughout--pining, Cerebral And Commanding. Raw Silk Has Shared Bills With Future Islands, Flock Of Dimes (aka Jenn Wasner From Wye Oak), The Sun Ra Arkestra, Prince Rama, And Dan Deacon.

Only Ruins Is A Bristol-based Record Label Of Sorts, Pushing Various Deviations Of Electronic Music For Both Inside And Outside Of A Club Setting.

Onru001 Is A 4 Track 12' Produced By The Multi-faceted Syz. Having Previously Released On Labels Such As Brotherhood Sound-system And Having Already Gained Dj Support From The Likes Of Hodge, Lamont, Peverelist & Troy Gunner Among Others, This Is A Heavyweight And Versatile Ep That Tip-toes Between Bass, Breaks, Electro And Techno.

Mastered By Beau At Ten Eight Seven. Limited To 300 Copies On Vinyl + Available Digitally.

This recording is the dark side of Bill Laswell at the peak of his art in 1995. He goes into a black trance. The piece is not from a collaboration, it was designed alone, in his studio in Brooklyn. Bass Terror Tetragrammaton is also to be linked to an alchemical process. Nocturnal Crawl is a totally hypnotic piece, the first that Nik Bullen designed outside of Napalm Death and Scorn. The two pieces answer each other strangely, like two sides of the same hidden anxiety.

The concept of this series was the confrontation of electric guitars as the tutelary instrument, but here and this time only, it came out of bassists confronting each other.

Kevin Murning is a musician, producer and DJ from Cape Town, South Africa. He describes his music as fake jazz, probably because he dropped out of jazz school. At 23 years old, Kevin's music is youthful yet precise and his debut EP offers an intriguing cross-section into his varied musical experience to date. The release comes out via Cape Town based imprint, Quit Safari, home to some of SA's most exciting producers.

Kevin's debut comes in the form of a 5-track EP called Mode's Arp. Comprised of 3 originals and 2 remixes, the release serves as a dual functional one with tracks for home and club use. Taking 2 years to fully complete, Mode's Arp is a wonderfully considered body of work and speaks volumes about Kevin's talent and his ability to create music that is beautiful and banging. Both Kevin and Quit Safari label head, Zanasi Wifi, are on remix duty for the EP, taking the originals and recontextualising them into high octane percussive workouts.

DJ support already includes The Maghreban, Turbojazz, Severino, Laurent Garnier, Mystic Bill, Edmondson and more.

Graphical Recordings presents Distorted Tourist, a major new work by Mark Templeton. Distorted Tourist is the visual, auditory, and textual travelogue of journeys through five manufactured and reclaimed landscapes. The book contains five one-sided flexi disc records with compositions corresponding to five apocryphal places.

Stemming from routine drives across industrial-commercial areas near the artist's neighborhood, each photograph captures, mid-fall, the familiar and uncanny spaces of dislocated urban decay — monuments to the failures of modernity. Rather than attractions, the tourist here bears witness to the inevitability of moths and rust.

Each location is captured sonically in augmented field recordings, a soundtrack haunted by deceased materials and dying matter. Templeton's signature compositional characteristics — faraway melodies, recurrent phrases, ruined echoes — evoke a cyclical trajectory toward Distorted Tourist's center, the concentric spiral of a record, a voyage on misremembered roads into the middle.

Accompanying journal entries written by the author Ryan Diduck summon the hallucinatory diary of a Herzogian quest against reverse rotation. Photos and text appear to form and deform on the page. Together, the manuscript, sounds, and photographs represent an impossible portrayal, an audio-optical illusion, the roadmap to an eerie expedition that is at once unreal and urgent.

With audio mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko, Distorted Tourist is an outstanding volume that gathers up Templeton's adroit sound production, original eye, and curatorial cunning into a beautiful object to be puzzled over.

Seven Chapters Of Anachronistic, Lovecraftian Horror & Burning Cold Alien Limerence Brought Forth Through The Advanced Cauldron Skills Of N1l.

Vast, Devastated Terrain Is Covered Here, Burned Down In Psycho Action-movie Montages Of Tuned Percussion And Pacing, Predating Bass Music. Viperous Snatches Of Melody, Of Disembodied Voice And The Promise Of Calm Rise Through In Tracks Like fernweh I,ii,iii' While Dread-nought Dub Treads On For ijsv.0gel'.

N1l Dials Up The Ina-grm Gone Hammer Horror In The Remarkable Compositions Of The Closing 8 Minutes. A Maelstrom Of Pure, Refined Sound Recalling Dhomont And Bayle At Their Most Negative. Utterly Enthralling And Resolutely Unflinching.

Stay Alert While Sleepwalking.

Ectoplasm Girls' Nadine Byrne Lures Listeners Into Woozy Mental States On Dreaming Remembering, Her Soundtrack To A Short Film Of The Same Name, Providing A Solo Follow-up To A Different Gesture: Collected Soundtracks 2011-2012, And Her First Outing Since Ectoplasm Girls' New Feeling Come (2016), Which Were Both Issued By Joachim Nordwall's Ever-adventurous Ideal Recordings.
One Of Three Stockholm-based Byrne Sisters Along With Tanya, Her Partner In Ectoplasm Girls, And Ambra, Who Has Recently Provided Eg's Live Visuals, Nadine Byrne Operates At The Intersection Of Intuitive Sonic And Visual Arts. Where Ectoplasm Girls Tend To A Bewitched Sort Of Industrial Experimentation, Nadine's Personal Work Is Defined In Terms Of Its Relative, Mutable Electronic Sleight Of Hand, With Vocals Handled By The Mysterious Sarah Kim.
As The Title Connotes, Dreaming Remembering Is About Intimate Reflection And The Space Between Awareness And Uncertainty Of Recollection. In That Noumenal Gooch, Nadine Works An Incredible Freeform, Uncluttered Sound Best Resembling The Illusive Nature Of Dreams And Their Elusive Memory. In Her Mind And Out Of Her Machines, They Feel Out A Spectrum Ranging From Mirage-Like Vignettes Like Atlas Thru To Curdled Proto-techno Buzzes And Grubby Drone Intonations With
Wickedly Possessed Vocals.Extracted From The Visuals, They Patently Work Well As A Dissociated Body Of Work In Their Own
Right, With A Cumulative Effect That Mesmerises And Unsettles Throughout The Album, Bringing Us Out At The Other End In A Way That Feels Like We've Just Walked Out Of A Darkened Cinema Into Dusk, With The Strange Effect Of The Preceding Visuals And A Story You Can't Untangle Still Lingering Like A
Pleasurably Strange Mental Fug That's Hard To Shake Or Decipher.

* Following Their Debut Release With Danse Noire, Réelle Releases Their Second Album Entitled Ghamccccxc Vrr, Expanding Upon The Painterly Melodies And Ornamental Sound Design Of Kissing Myself. Rather Than Focusing Upon Deep Psychological Aspects Of Schizophrenia, Ghamccccxc Vrr Explores Key Moments Before And
During Réelle's First Schizophrenic Psychosis As Well As The Lateral State Of Mind Caused By This Condition.
schizophrenia Is Said To Limit A Person's Abilities Overall. My Discovery Was That It Opened A Gate To Limbic Realms Not Accessible Under Normal Circumstances - At Least Not To Me.'

* The Cuban-german Artist's Approach To Schizophrenia As Xenopraxis Leads Them To Explore Avant Garde Methods To Composition, Such As Focusing On A Key Technique Within Their Work Of Painting Melodies Via Image Synthesis, Rather Than Inputting Binary Values Or Manipulating Sound Through Skeuomorphic Methods Such As Knobs And Sliders. The Painted Melodies Also Featured In The Gorgeous floating' And all I Have Left' Evoke Alien Soliloquies Through Damaged Soundscapes.

* most Of These Sounds, As Well As The Album Title, Were Created During Psychosis Without Me Consciously Knowing What I'm Doing. Therefore I Also Can't Remember When Or Why I Wrote Down Ghamccccxc Vrr On A Piece Of Paper.'
Ghamccccxc Vrr Questions How One Navigates With Authorship Within And Beyond One's Control. Gargling Textures And Vocal Artefacts Oscillate Between The Erotic And The Eerie ( hybris,' fluid Metals'). Between Kissing Myself And Ghamccccxc Vrr, Réelle Dissolves The Real And Illusion, Reassembling Their Relationship
Between Body And Mind.

Twin Tribes is a dark synth duo based in Brownsville, Texas. Formed by Luis Navarro (vocals, guitar, synths, drum machines) and Joel Niño, Jr. (bass, synths, vocals) in 2017. They gather their influences from the dark side of the 80s. Darkwave, post-punk and cold wave are only some of the genres that the band summons using analogue synthesizers and drum machines, bass and guitar. Dark melodic sounds, lyrics of the undead, the occult and parallel universes are what conjure Twin Tribes.
SHADOWS is Twin Tribes' debut album. Dreamy synth waves and vocals, guitars drowned in vintage analogue chorus, astral-like instrumentals are some of the sounds you will find in its 9 tracks. Clearly inspired and influenced by the dark side of the 80s and very specially by the 1982 movie 'The Dark Crystal', but SHADOWS is an entity of its own. Vampires, witches and other dimensions are only specks of darkness you will meet while listening to its haunting sound. For our vinyl release we have made a specific master from the original mixes and created an all-new artwork and band logo.We are proud to present SHADOWS in a limited, hand numbered edition, housed in a matt finish b&w/silver pantone sleeve including a double sided insert and download code.

This first release on the new label is from Shamos - a collection of demos and ideas for the last few years.

The new release features 6 tracks and follows Julien's critically acclaimed debut album, Fallen. Released in 2016, the autobiographical LP was a bold new direction for Julien, and the first release under his birth name. Over the years, the Apron Records boss' bold, experimental electronics, jagged club cuts and outside-the-box collaborations have seen him carve out a lane all of his own making. His debut LP was divided into two musically contrasting sides, and told the tale of a fallen angel though jazz-fusion, chiming soundscapes and dark acid-tinged techno.

Since his album release, Julien has continued his creative streak by playing across the globe, from Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai to Montreal and Melbourne, and further developing his label, which released a string of underground 12's in 2017 from the likes of Max Graef, Hanna, Molinaro and more.

On 'Bloodline', Steven continues the soundtrack style mood of 'Fallen' - channeling ominous analog techno, drifting synth-house masterpieces, warm soul and hints of new age. Both the title and artwork is a nod to the influence of Julien's family on his rich musical world and distinct nonconformist style, explaining how: 'the influence my family has given me growing up and my ancestors from Africa to native Indians from the Caribbean, has all played a big part in the music I create.'

Recorded in Apron Studios based in East London, each track on 'Bloodline' also features a tr808 or a piece of a 808, as a dedication to the iconic Japanese engineer Ikutaro Kakehashi, who passed away April 2017. The much-loved Roland founder and TR-808 creator revolutionised electronic music in the 1980s and 90s.

Colin Potter Is A Sound Engineer And Musician Currently Based In London. He Has Worked Within The Fields Of Electronic And Experimental Music For Over 35 Years, Collaborating With The Likes Of Current 93, The Hafler Trio, Organum, Andrew Chalk, And Most Notably As A Key Part Of Nurse With Wound Alongside Steven Stapleton. He Started The Esteemed Icr (integrated Circuit Recordings) Label In 1981 Releasing A Clutch Of Wonderful Home Recordings Of His Own, Over Half A Dozen Small Run Cassette Only Releases.'the Where House' Was Recorded In 1981 At Ic Studio, A Converted Wash House In Sutton On The Forest In North Yorkshire. The Album Was Self-released On Cassette That Same Year Via Icr. This Expanded Double Lp Edition Features All 13 Tracks From The Original Tape On Vinyl For The First Time Plus 4 Bonus Tracks. 'the Where House' Is A Prime Example Of Early Uk Post-punk/industrial Electronic Music. combining Dub, Electro, And Krautrock Rhythms With Psychedelic, Kosmische Noise In Multiple Mutations Ranging From Almost Pop-wise Songcraft To Horizon-scanning Motorik Flights,' Says Boomkat. Most Of The Damage Was Done By Colin Using Guitars, Synths, Sequencers, Drum Machines, Percussion, And Modified Toy Keyboards With Fairly Primitive 4-track Recording Equipment. He Was Assisted On Some Of The Tracks By Stephan Jadd-parry (guitar, Percussions), Jon Caffery (guitar, Bass, E-bow, Percussion) And Nick Jackson (synth). All Songs Have Been Remastered For Vinyl By George Horn At Fantasy Studios In Berkeley. The Record Is Sleeved In A Replica Of The Original Cassette Artwork By Jonathan Coleclough. Every Copy Includes A Double Sided Postcard Insert With Notes From Colin.

Hieroglyphic Being / Jamal Moss visted the Moog Sound Lab in the end days of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodolgy. 21st Century Afro-Futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come....artists like Jamal Moss' (Eldon Tyrell)

BRUNO PRONSATO returns with his new album, A FACE WASTED ON THE THEATRE, written & produced in collaboration with the Israeli musician, YONATAN LEVI. PRONSATO and LEVI have been collaborating intermittently since 2014, with LEVI adding bass guitar to tracks on both PRONSATO's US Drag LP from last year and 2016's NDF EP, Cruel Is The Color, as well as contrabass on a track on PRONSATO's Archangel LP from 2014. Written in the afternoons and between two different studios in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg, the album spans eight tracks, with YONATAN LEVI playing on bass guitar on six of them. It also features guest appearances by downtown composer/producer PETER GORDON and Israeli saxophonist YONATAN YUDKOWITZ on Bring Me A Kill.'

BRUNO PRONSATO (aka Steven Ford) has been subverting expectations within techno and house's upper echelons since 2003. A former speed-metal drummer with a serious appreciation for 12-tone composers, he moved to Berlin to focus on music full-time in 2005, and captured the attention of the electronic music world with his redefining Why Can't We Be Like Us LP from 2008, receiving a 5/5 review from RESIDENT ADVISOR along the way. This was followed up with Lovers Do in 2011, dubbed a massive and striking statement' by PITCHFORK in their 8.1/10 review. After a six year-hiatus, he released the rejuvenated US Drag LP in June 2017, with RESIDENT ADVISOR commenting that the album was a fresh perspective on Bruno Pronsato that keeps intact the best aspects of his music, proving that Ford's singular project still has a lot left to give.' Pronsato is also a member of HALF HAWAII with PANORAMA BAR resident and ex-PANTYTEC member, SAMMY DEE-they release mainly on PERLON. His 2010 collaboration with SERGIO GIORGINI (of BENOIT & SERGIO) as NDF (on DFA) was hailed as one of the 'tracks of the decade so far' by PITCHFORK in 2015. PRONSATO was also a member of the electronic supergroup, NAROD NIKI alongside RICARDO VILLALOBOS, RICHIE HAWTIN, DANIEL BELL, AKUFEN, LUCIANO, DIMBIMAN etc, and he also co-produced ELLEN ALLIEN's 2013 LP, LiSm.

YONATAN LEVI aka L.A Teen is a 31-year-old musician born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Displaying musical tendencies since infancy, he studied at a school of arts between ages 6-16, growing within the music department. He began classical guitar training at the age of 7 and finished his studies as a music major. At age 13 he was awarded a scholarship for classical stand up bass studies from the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv. By age 16, he was honored a full scholarship to the prestigious Berkley College of Music. In 2006 he moved to New York City and immersed himself in the New York Jazz world, playing alongside numerous celebrated musicians including FRANK WESS, BEN DIXON, EDDIE HENDERSON, HARRY WHITAKER and "Killer" RAY APPLETON and DONALD HARRISON.

He has recorded a quartet album alongside WILLIE JONES III, AARON GOLDBERG and OFER GANOR and is featured in OFER GANOR's album "Miles Away", starring the legendary drummer JIMMY COBB. COBB chose Levi to accompany him in his Japan tour as a part of the world renowned JIMMY COBB QUARTET. Yonatan Levi is currently based in Berlin, Germany, but is constantly on the road between Europe, the US and Israel.

Khalab has summoned a futuristic afro-centric soundscape by
weaving a poly-phonic tapestry of future bass, jazz and field recordings. The LP's title track tells hard truths from the mind of spoken word artist Tenesha The Wordsmith. Along with her words the LP's title has been augmented with a date marking the arrival of an emancipated future. 'Black Noise 2084' casts aside the worn and surface level cliché of black music being soul music. Khalab guides us to the beginning of a journey, the journey of rhythms and he takes us within earshot of the voices and spirits that carried them. Soul gained over aeons of terror and forced transportation, soul driving survival against systematic ppression, wholesale against a people.Khalab looks to the noise, the messages, the spirits, and evokes the light of 'Black Noise 2084' out of darkness. From dystopian roots, the beat marabout Khalab has led his assembly of messengers to invoke this myth of cathartic liberation. 'Black Noise 2084' features the voices of musical voyagers seeking new pathways: Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd, Tamar "The Collocutor" Osborn, the master Gabin Dabire, Tenesha The Words-mith, Tommaso Cappellato, Prince Buju and Clap! Clap! Within the tapestry of Khalab's 'Black Noise 2084' the myth moves through its cycle of life, initiations and ceremonies with a cast of unnamed messengers. Khalab was invited to work with field recordings from the archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa of Bruxelles. The museum's recordings made for a post-colonial World, hold ethnographic and historical insights into the cultures of the region over the last 500 years. The Museum is far from the horrors that Belgian King, Leopold II unleashed during his colonial reign, however it is a dark legacy that is far from absolved.. 'Black Noise 2084' opens a portal where displaced rhythms, chants, screams and dreams collide with quaking bass, a vortex of shattering synths, jazz rains and emotion all amalgamate. Empires for millennia thrived across the African continent and Empires are being willed to rise. As Khalab draws the LP to a close he brings light with 'Dawn' ft Moses Boyd. A dawn firmly squared-up by its past, hard truths of a barbaric history embarking on the beginning of reconciliation. Drum beats usher in the arrival home for a new glory. 2084 a time when rhythms have shed the cargo of their haunted odyssey. The myth of 'Black Noise 2084' is a new dawn where the ghosts of Leopold and all his kind are finally excised. Atonement in hearing the truths carried across the ages, carried in noise, Black Noise.

"Emotional Rescue is honoured to reissue the benchmark in new age ambient music, Michael Stearns epic Planetary Unfolding album. Out of press on vinyl for over 30 years, here is Stearns masterful electronic symphony in 6 movements, recorded using his Serge modular synthesizer at the Continuum Studio in 1981.
The culmination of years of exploration in "space" music, Stearns journey, to the album's release, was one of learning and application. Involved in music since his teens, he graduated from guitar bands in the late 60s to an increasing interest in the principles of electronic music synthesis and the physics of musical instruments. He moved from Tucson, Arizona to Los Angeles in 1975 where he performed live during movement meditation classes at the Continuum Studio. He released his first cassette album in 1977 before going on to record 7 albums during this formative period. With Planetary Unfolding, the musical ideas that Michael performed on the Serge developed into this 52-minute masterpiece of music, six movements, three on each side of the LP. Based on the idea that the universe is made of sound held together through resonance, where atoms, cells, oceans, plants, animals and humans, all are part of a complex orchestration - the Earth as a being of sound. Having first approached Michael in 2013, his uncertain response that the album could be rereleased in a way that the music would be given justice via vinyl, the idea was never forgotten. Gaining discovery, appraisal and prominence when "As The Earth Kissed The Moon" appeared in edited form on the "I Am The Centre" box set from Light In The Attic, this excellent window into the world of Private issue new age music, superbly compiled by Douglas McGowan, further increased the interest in Michael's and others, such as Laraaji, music. With the likes of Matthewdavid's Leaving Records and Jonny Nash's Melody As Truth pushing the ambient curve beyond a post club, chill out fad, classic albums can rightly sit alongside this 'new age of the new age', so that ambient music again has a gravity and place of it's own. This specially re-mastered version by Bob Ohllson features the original artwork by Leilani Bost, liner notes by long-term friend and fellow musician, Gary David, as well as the photography of Ron Peterson, together bringing this wonderful album to life once again. e

Cannibal Mécanique is an electronic soundtrack by NY based audio-visual artist, Victoria Keddie. Originally composed as part of an immersive live experience incorporating analog video feedback and choreography, for ICM013, the audio component of Cannibal Mécanique has been revised and revisited for a limited edition lathe-cut 7" record.

Each of the 50 copies is individually hand cut at 33 1/3 rpm on transparent polycarbonate plastic using a Presto 6N lathe from the 1940s and is accompanied with a printed transparent insert, housed in a custom PVC sleeve.

Victoria Keddie is an artist working in sound, video, and transmission. Her focus involves analog signal generation and manipulation, the performing body, and relationships of space. For five years, she has been Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. In early 2016, Keddie launched UNIT 11, a mobile transmission based residency operated within and involving an ENG news van. Site specific field work involves concentrated energy fields, fluctuating electronic activity, geographical discontinuity, and time sensitivity.

She has performed and exhibited internationally at venues and festivals such as The Swiss Institute, The Kitchen, Museum of Moving Image, Queens Museum of Art, and Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Lightcone, (Paris), Studio XX (Montreal), LOOP Festival (Barcelona), Pallas Projects (Dublin), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Reykjavik), General Public (Berlin), Axis Art Centre (Crew), The Independent Film Festival (Naples), Liste Art Fair (Basel), Seeing Sound Festival (Bath), and Daimon (Gatineau). With her project, E.S.P. TV, she has been artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Turmalinturm Remixes is a scrupulous compilation of tracks inspired by the second Fogh Depot album released in October 2016 via Denovali Records. The idea was to compile pieces both from artists of the Denovali roster and of the booming Russian electronic scene.

The Tourmaline tower is crashed. A new town is being raised at its place, eclectic in architecture, but of a monolithic mood. Get ready for a dense atmospheric mix of magnetic darkness and genuine delicacy. This is an example of seductive and at the same time disturbing tunes at the confluence of drone, ambient, IDM and live electronica. The collection absorbes works of the most skillful producers of this noble genre demanding extreme precision.

Half of the London-based duo «Piano Interrupted» and also successful solo musician Franz Kirmann provides a shard of pure roman from Albion's shore, while the experienced Moscow artist Dima Ustinov delicately and gently dissects the modal harmony of the track «Meduse». The prolific Sardinian producer Saffronkeira adds a detached, ephemeral and otherworldly piece and master of techno hymns. Moa Pillar contributes a horror-drone remix of «Quicksilver Spoon». For those who want to dance there is Monokle - an eclectic musician from Saint Petersburg - decomposing «Meduse» into a bassy club track. The Siberian dark lord of modular synthesizers Hmot totally deconstructs «Oscar» and literally distills all the piercing dramatic effect from the track, while an emotional and powerful piece by John Lemke, gloomy, affective and catchy, closes the remix album.

Debut ep from natural/electronic.system. on Tikita

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The new record of TERRITOIRE presents the story of the slave Alix from his birth as a submissive being until the encounter with his first owners. Produced with techno veteran Oscar Mulero, it spits out 7 tracks made of flesh, heat and metal, that press and shake the limits between a sensorial electronica and industrial techno.

Project from the french producer and composer Olivier Arson, TERRITOIRE has published three different records with each other: Mandorle (2012), for which they played at Sónar Barcelona, Mandorle - Versions (2014), with remixes from artists like Aidan Baker and Father Murphy, and Confess (2016), an experiment from a sound installation based on the confession ritual.

In constant motion and without a stable form, TERRITOIRE opens news tensions between electronic processes, experimental instrumentation and narrative fragments. It sculpts an experimental techno that expands across oppressive and cathartic rhythms, folds into physical drones, and explodes with mutant screams. An existential drift towards a broken horizon that hides his beauty and discovers, at last, on this latent limit, a disturbing and unknown light.

"first Offering From This Duo Which Operates Between Two Poles: Industrial Tribalism And Synthetic Minimalism. For Fans Of Malaria, Liasons Dangerouses, Suicide, Muslimgauze ...
Just Listen And Enjoy The Travel Into A Jungle Of Cables, Wires And Grease"

I Cant Say Much About The Record, Im Very Bad Writting About Music ... Only That This Record Is Amazing!! ,) One Of My Favourite Bfe Releases

Audio-visual artists Soundwalk Collective were granted exclusive access to the personal archive of the groundbreaking filmmaker and present their ambitious New Album and Remix EP: What We Leave Behind released on 18th & 25th May 2018.

The NYC and Berlin based group were invited to aurally explore the archive of the seminal French director Jean-Luc Godard and release their interpretations in an innovative new album What We Leave Behind. Drawing on Godard's personal collection of shot film, reel- to-reels and historical ephemera, the recordings reveal the moments before and after the camera rolls, from stage directions and on-set asides to rehearsals, false stars and outtakes.

'There are boxes filled with sounds, words, chaos, and also silence. For Godard sound is a musical composition and when I began listening to the tapes and heard his voice between takes, it was like little bits of life...each sound has its own value. It has always been part of our working practice to venture into untapped sonic territories, discover the poetics behind them, and explore how we (as humans) relate to it, it is part of a larger discourse.' - Stephan Crasneancki, Soundwalk Collective

Revealing much insight to the director's process and personality, the 6-track album will be followed by a remix EP, featuring unique reworks from Ricardo Villalobos, Jan Jelinek and Petre Inspirescu.

What We Leave Behind, and the subsequent remix EP, arrive 50 years to the day that the the Cannes Film Festival, 1968, was closed after Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Lelouche, publicly announced their closing of the festival in solidarity with workers and students protesting across the country.

The LP features a conversation between Stephan Crasneanscki, of Soundwalk Collective, and Franc¸ois Musy, Jean-Luc Godard's sound engineer, printed on a translucent paper insert. The LP and Remix EP both contain imagery taken by Stephan Crasneanscki of the archives, which he has also filmed to create a series of mesmeric short music videos of original and remix tracks.

An international genre-bending group of artist-musicians with studios in New York City and Berlin, the three members of Soundwalk Collective (Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli, and Kamran Sadeghi) formed in Manhattan to produce concept albums, sound installations, and live performances, and have worked with a diverse range of collaborators, from Nan Goldin and Patti Smith to Berghain and Zaha Hadid.

Mechatronica launches their new White series, dedicated to limited edition white label records across synth, wave, EBM and italo with a VA release featuring Inhalt, Violet Poison, Sneaker and Daniel Holt.

Mechatronica White 1 opens with Sneaker's gloomy remix of German synth-pop band Opus Leopard, followed by the electrifying instrumental version of 'Alles' - a relentlessly progressing piece of body music from San Francisco trio, Inhalt. On the flip, Violet Poison summons a fat, trippy EBM-leaning groove, before Daniel Holt finishes off the record with anthemic synths and a ticket to the cosmos on 'Floating Mansions'.

In den letzten drei Jahren haben sich Lucas Croon, Nikolai Szymanski und Martin Sonnensberger einen Kosmos aus
treibenden Bässen, tanzbaren Rhythmen, schwebenden Flächen, analogen Synthesizern und reissenden Gitarren geschaffen. Nach Compilation Beiträgen für das Düsseldofer DIY-Label - Themes for Great Cities' und das amerikanische Label - Mathematics' von Jamal Moss feierten die Rheinländer 2011 mit der GOLD EP ihr Debüt und gaben schon einen Vorgeschmack auf Ihr aktuelles umjubeltes erstes Album DOUZE POUZE (Album der Woche/Monat u.a. in F.A.Z. und Musikexpress. Features und Reviews in allen großen Musikmagazinen und im Feuilleton).

Enjoy the new and unformated dub style from Concrete Elephant... Sound builder of the everyday life... Sampled and replayed through the filtaz.

When two icons of electronic music team up for a collaborative project, the result is destined to become something extraordinary. New album Beginn' is a deft fusion of the talents of Claudia Brücken - famously the lead vocalist of revered German avant-pop 80s group Propaganda - and Jerome Froese - who, as son of electronic music pioneer and Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, was himself a driving force and member of Tangerine Dream during one of their most successful and creative phases. 'Beginn' is a hybrid maelstrom of electronic sounds and sonic dreamscapes. It demonstrates the influence of both Froese's and Brücken's acclaimed output to date: Froese's solo work and the Tangerine Dream albums he partook in and Brücken's long and varied career as an icon of electronic pop in Propaganda, Act, OneTwo and as a distinguished solo artist. Suzanne Freytag, Brücken's co-vocalist in Propaganda, also collaborates on the song 'Sweet Sense (of) Liberation', the album's lead single. 'Beginn' - a work of electronic art that evokes a compelling and fascinating aesthetic at the same time as having mesmerisingly catchy pop moments. The special foldout digipak CD packaging and booklet has been designed by Philip Marshall (ZTT, 808 State, Frankie Goes To Hollywood) with the input of Claudia, Jerome and Paul Morley.

Limited vinyl release of 300 records, lovingly hand stamped and stencilled by the band - in black and white as standard but with super limited colour versions available.

REWIND is the latest release from enigmatic synth and drums duo Soccer96, comprised of Danalogue (Dan Leavers) and Betamax (Max Hallett), and follows their acclaimed 2016 album 'As Above So Below', which received plaudits from the likes of The Quietus, XLR8R, Thump, Clash, Boiler Room, NME, DJ Mag, Electronic Sound and many others. With a nod to the beat tape aesthetic, 'Rewind' is a collection of newly discovered reel to reel recordings, live mixed on a vintage 'Alice' mixing desk in the Soccer96 analogue lab.

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* New York based artist and musician Rose Kallal presents her debut album 'Perseus'. Taking its title from the Greek mythological constellation the collection of 6 extended recordings create a hypnotic and evolving flow of sound layered with rhythmic tones and primordial texture.

* Developed in her Brooklyn studio using a modular system and effects each track further takes its title from an individual star of mythological origin, with the material invoking an expansive and collapsing sense of space and time and channelling ancestral readings of the celestial. Perseus continues alongside Kallal's ongoing practice with 16mm film and sound employing hypnotic repeating patterns and motifs and creating a merger of both antiquated and modern technologies.

* Rare Private Press Electro And Ambient Synth * Solo Album From Former Cybotron Member Ian Macfarlane * Electronic Outsider Musicpost-nuclear Mind Music Lizard Strategies Void Spirit... These Bizarre Titles Are Just A Few Of The Self-coined Terms That Australian Electronic Musician Ian Macfarlane Has Conjured To Represent His Eccentric Sonic World. An Artist Whose Unique Style Of Electronic Experimentalism Has Balanced Dangerously Close To The Edge Of Popular Convention, Existing Outside The Mainstream And Extending Well Beyond The Fringe Of Any Sanctioned Independent Scene. A Futurist Outsider Whose Extraordinary Musical Vision Has Explored The Uncharted Realms Of Consciousness And Fantasy.following A Brief Stint With The Legendary Australian Krautrockers Cybotron, Macfarlane Produced Three Independent Solo Albums Throughout The Late 1970s And Early 1980s. His Debut Lp Void Spirit, An Experimental Album Issued Under The Pen Name 'violet Lightning', Was Followed By A Further Two Albums Published Under His Own Name, The Cosmic Influenced Back From Beyond And Finally The Privately Issued Electro-ambient Suite Planetarium.presented With Hours Of Unreleased Home Recordings, The Roundtable Has Begun A Dedicated Search Through The Fascinating Archives Of This Under Exposed Artist. Beginning With A Vinyl Release Of The Rare Cassette-only Album Planetarium, This Private Press Sees Macfarlane Armed With A Bank Of Roland Synthesizers, Drum Machines And Field Recordings, Spawning A Mutant Amalgam Of German Kosmische Musik, French Library Electro And Private Issue New Age.surrender To The Stars And Welcome To The First Instalment Of muzak To Moralize By'.

- Voronoi New Release Explores How Sounds Behave In Aseptic Experimental Environment To Discover A New Present Of Digital Fantasy.

- A Work Of Precise And Complex Sound Design That Looks Over The Techno-scientific Contemporary From A Positive Angle.

- Includes Extended Re-work Track By Jesse Osborne-lanthier Who Reassembles Vis-viva's Sonic Materials Into His Unique Style.

- Riyl: Mark Fell, Lee Gamble, Gabor Lazar, Mesh, Yves De Mey...

Vis-viva Is The Surprise Of Movement, The Wonder That Leads To Imagine New Possible Configurations Of The Present, Objects Created With Materials Not Yet Invented Move In Aseptic And Virtual Spaces Without Respecting The Normal Laws Of Physics. Used For The First Description Of Kinetic Energy In Elastic Collisions The Historical Term Vis-viva Titles Second Ooh-sounds Release From Voronoi, A Work Inspired By Post Humanism Literature, Experimental Observation And Speculative Evolutionism Where Sounds And Motion Seem To Face Over The Contemporary Techno-scientific Corpus From A Positive Angle.

Can Sounds Behave Like Particles Do How Sound Reacts And Transforms If Treated Like Organic Matter Voronoi Tries To Answer Back By Sculpting A Precise And Complex Sound Design In An Anti-climax Approach To Composition. Rhythms Are Free, Unpredictable, Tracks Always Seem To Respect Some Grammars Of Club-music But Abstracting From Its Normal Timbres And Denying Its Conclusions To Face A Digital Fantasy.

Vis-viva's Experiment Is Completed By An Extended 6 Minutes Re-work Track By Electronic Music Producer And Multidisciplinary Artist Jesse Osborne-lanthier (halcyon Veil, Raster-norton, Wtn) Who Reassembles Voronoi's Sonic Palette Into His Unique Style. The Result Is As If Everything Has Traveled Outside The Lab To Be Exposed To The Outside World.

T-1000's Suspended Atmospheres Set The Vis-viva Experiment With Pulverized Granular Sound Debris, Occasional Rhythmic Pulses And Reverberant Movements. Built Over Two Distinct Parts, In Which The Second Seems To Deny The First, Sphero 2.0 Forces A Dynamic Dialogue Between Raw And Ultra Processed Sonic Material. Elements Orbit Around A Fast And Joyous Drum Pattern That Builds Up In Marbles, A More Complex Experiment In Which Particles Slow Down And Accelerate In Chaotic, Though Controlled, Collisions To Generate Micro Melodic Bursts.

B-side Opens With Innovative Artist Jesse Osborne-lanthier Who Re-works Vis-viva's Raw Recordings In An Apparent Disassembled Hierarchy, Layering The Original Sonic Elements Over An Amazingly Sounding, Erratic Texture Made Out Of What Sounds Like Iper-processed Field Recordings. Gumbody Flash Closes With The Slower, Uncanny Precision Of An Out-of-battery Mechanism, Whose Degree Of Freedom Decreases As Its Elastic Repetitions Get Looser And Contradictory.

Extra Noir is a coldwave, minimal synth and post-punk soundtrack based in South Korea. This is the first of a series of compilations, featuring artists from the hosts' three most recent homes - Scotland, Korea and Texas. Available on digital and limited release vinyl. About the artists:
Aadm Our Hatley is a Texas-based multi-instrumentalist who has played in a long list of underground Austin acts, such as Red X Red M, Attack Formation, Those Peabodys and Bangaar. He currently plays guitar in Chamberlain Greene and drums in Boss Eye. Straddling the dank border between industrial and no wave, Glasgow duo Total Leatherette also brings pervy disco fetish to their sleazy brand of mutant music.
Kübler-Ross is one of the many aliases of Glasgow electronic producer / remixer Dave Clark. A versatile and prolific producer, Clark has worked with JD Twitch of Optimo as one half of the Optimo (Espacio) remix team, played guitar in Badalamentian blues band Big Ned, and has been recently recording synth-based solo tracks as Kübler-Ross.
Comprised of techno producer Seonggu de Kim and minimal ambient artist Eajik, Airy Textile is a synth duo originally based in Seoul, South Korea. Their contribution to Extra Noir Vol. 1 marks their first release on vinyl. Tengger are an electronic psychedelic duo from Seoul, South Korea, comprised of Itta (harmonium and vocals) and Marqido (modular synth).
Texan synth wizard Xander Harris is one of the most influential artists in the 'horror disco' genre, and has consistently delivered tense, garish and unflinching journeys into the darkest domains of dance music. This track, 'The Velvet Hand', is exclusive to Extra Noir Vol. 1. Pecht is the nom de plume of a Manchester-based solo artist who retreated to the wilds of northern Scotland after years in the London entertainment industry. His self-titled debut album was recorded during his exile on the north coast. 'unlock' is Pecht's first release on vinyl. Cucina Povera is the musical identity of Maria Rossi, a Glasgow musician and vocalist originally from Finland. She is a collaborator in Luxos with Daniel Magee of Lo Kindre, and a former DJ on Glasgow's Subcity Radio. Her debut LP, Hilja, was released in January 2018.

Soil launch his first tape reléase on Black and White tape edition that also includes a poster and 2 stickers inside.
limited edition of 25, engraved tape.First reference SOTA001 has signed by Group who Works 100% on analogue stuff and live recording.