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A Certain Ratio Stammen Aus Manchester. Sie Wurden Von Dem New Order Manager Rob Gretton 1979 Entdeckt Und Bei Dem Legendären Label Factory Unter Vertrag Genommen. In Dem Spielfilm 24 Hour Party People Bringt Es Factory-label-manager Tony Wilson Auf Diesen Nenner: having All The Energy Of Joy Division But Better Clothes'. Jedenfalls Sollten A Certain Ratio Sollten Später Weitere Acts Wie Quando Quango Und Swing Out Sister Hervorgehen. Dennoch Existiert Die Band Bis Zum Heutigen Tag. Ihr Post-punk Sound Ist Weniger Puristisch Angelegt Als Der Ihrer Zeitgenossen, Öffneten Sich A Certain Ratio Doch Auch Genres Wie Dub, Disco, Funk Und Soul.

- change The Station Von 1997 Wurde Ursprünglich Auf Rob´s Records Veröffentlicht, Dem Label Des New Order Managers Rob Gretton. Soul-pop Trifft Auf Die Ambient-electronica Dieser Dekade.

Codex Empire debuts on SNTS' label Sacred Court

AUX4411 sees a debutant on vinyl as well as an old schooler brought together on a release with 4 trax each with wicked acid infused IDM. This one is again a 150 limited pressing but on clear vinyl.

* Rubedo Edition - The fourth and final edition of the Magnum Opus series features two striking new remixes of previously released tracks by Schwefelgelb and Blind Delon respectively.

* On the solar side Schwefelgelb's Fokus gets the caustic treatment trom SARIN, replete with off-kilter, catastrophic sonics and annihilating beats.

* On the lunar side HIV+ contributes an intense, menacing vocal line to the epic synthcore grind of Blind Delon's Fuzz

Pinkman delivers another sturdy record for the connoisseurs of discomforting electronics. The second 5 Years Of Tears release unifies 6 artists, each with their own interpretation of the labels ill-famed sound, embodied in vibrating basslines, metallic beats, and corrosive acid. Gear yourself up for yet more nerve-racking music and get accustomed to the obscurity of this series of releases, because the madness is all but finished.

Transparent Red & Black Mixed Vinyl

After 3 years SNTS releases on his label SNTS Records a 4-track EP , getting back to his initial and characteristic sound. Textures, voices, percussions and an intense melancholy surround every track.

Berlin-based duo ONTHEGROUND which consists of Myztical and Diagenetic Origin, is about to release 'Role Of The Observer', their follow-up to last year s debut EP 'Touching Higher Ground'. This record is a snapshot of their creative development and hard work which took them at least a year to put together.

The A Side takes up where the last year's EP left off, establishing a template of industrial pummeling techno with a focus on irresistible, broken groove. A1 'The Power Of Prayer' is a powerful banger droning synths and dislocated samples build up the anticipation, before massive kicks drop and propel the tension onwards. A2 'Controlled By Faith' is similarly destructive on the dancefloor, a bundle of rasping, dirty rattles that drive on relentlessly in funky delirium.

The B Side delves into the darker, more elusive recesses of the duo's creativity. On B1 'Ancient Cycles', distorted rumbles morph over pattering, primordial percussive patterns. B2 'Role Of The Observer' ratchets out a heady mesh of fragmented, disorientating textures over frantic, propulsive beats.

Big 4-tracker including amazing remix by Codex Empire on limited coloured vinyl.

Matt tdk brings on this EP ( UMX 008 ) some full range Modular Analog raging Electro that will make your brain hang out . Take a peak listen and get it cause this one needs to be in your collection.

In Addition To His Debut Release On Vanila, Enigmatic Artist Expropriation Comes Out Once Again From His Hole In Athens To Bring With Him Two Slow , Long And Filthy Tunes. Inspired From The 80s And 90s Cult Mythology, Western Horror And Leto Deliver The Boogie And New Beat Vibes Into The New Era , Covered From Grungy Industrial Textures.

Even darker and more extreme than #1, with a.o. Legowelt, Kassen, Schmerzlabor, Nimoy, Technician, etc.

Fully loaded rompers, drawing from influences both far and unexpected corners of the globe that have been proven to be tools for the floor. The Russian duo made their debut last year on Private Persons with their 'Forever Punk' EP, leaving a heavy mark on lovers of tape-hissed electro, EBM madness, and acid-tinged worship. With their next release, Lomay EP, we see a continuation of that same energy, but with an even more broader approach; pushing the boundaries of what EBM, acid, and techno mean today.

TRAM Planet is excited to announce the release of the 'Lomay' EP, making it the first vinyl release of the label.

Coloured 12" with insert

Inner Surface Music is proud to present its next release from JK Flesh, Justin Broadrick needs no introduction fans of hardcore, metal and industrial music will know him from Napalm Death, Godflesh, Techno Animal, Jesu and Pale Sketcher to name a few.

'Wasplike' see´s Jk Flesh enter a new strain of his techno, the drums are both distorted and sculpted for the dance floor. Heavy and syncopated rhythms build tension while an elastic bass-line hovers and mutates around melodic washes. 'Mindprison' is a pummelling techno cut, sleazy grooves snake around the thudding kick drum and the greasy bass spreading across the dance floor like an uncontrollable oil spill. Dissonant chords and bell sequences modulate and enter us into a more tripped out dimension. 'New Build Estate' starts with pure tension the hats are fizzling and the low end is hammering, sharp mutilated synth sequences cavort to each others intention and lush pads enter us into the unapproachable splendour of empyrean . This is peak time rawness with real sophistication. 'Dark Horse' is the archetypal JK Flesh track. Slower in tempo than the others but as the name suggests this is a deeper cut but it still lacerates the speakers with the grungey bass-line weaving through the stomping overdriven kick and metallic percussion. The groove is undulating and as it flows it twists and turns before your eyes, while dark textures scrape around the walls in the distant echoes.

The second NEW YORK TRAX Imports record is by Endlec from Thessaloniki, Greece, a rising techno star affiliated with the Mord Records powerhouse. This thunderous concept EP consists of four recordings produced in April and September of 2016 at UTR Studios in Greece. All tracks were programmed and recorded live in one take with almost no changes to their arrangement. The outcome is unbeatable 90s sounding hard and raw techno, which you rarely hear in the present era of artificially polished sound.

Inner Surface Music is proud to present its next release from Canadian duo MDD.

Falling Inside opens the ep bringing together industrial and punk prototypes of the duo's influences in the shape of a techno stomper. Chunky kick drums and gnarly textures fizzle and pop to the march of the industrial rhythms before the low slung bassline and abstract vocal cuts take the track into a darker realm. Tension builds and welds together heavy broken kick patterns with crisp but rusty percussion demolishing everything in sight. The elements amalgamate together creating tension with walls of sub bass, while remaining spacious and nonchalant with glacial atmospheric pads, dropping and breaking like a thunderstorm overhead.

Truth + Method has a pulsating punk like groove, pumping kick drums play off lacerated snare and high hat hits. The groove is relentless, funky bass lines, distorted vocal stabs and obscure concrete style pads fabricate as if melting in the tape machine. Techno music with an organic industrial feel, warm analog sounds with a metallic and vicious sensibility.

Destruction Of Metaphysics is a true representation of the MDD sound. Dark playful electronica walking the line between industrial, experimental and techno. The distorted bass and percussion are fully over driven in the mix pushing the elements to the extremity, clanging piston like snares drop to give structure to the savage groove. Noise and textured elements build and reverberate to let you feel like you are trapped inside the machines of a huge power plant, reduced but elaborate in style and experimentation.

The second release this year from Tom Dicicco and AnD's Inner Surface Music maintains the Various Artists theme of the label's debut transmission which featured music from AnD, Sunil Sharpe, Ascion and Truss. Titled simply EP2, the new record welcomes ISM debuts from ferocious Japanese producer Yuji Kondo (aka Ducerey Ada Nexino), Spanish deep techno purveyor NX1, Repitch Recordings co-founder D.Carbone, and a new track from Tom Dicicco.

Techno Industrial Banging pearl !

"Resist the categories that define and divide"

Uncanny Valley EP sonically explores the uneasy, obscure but familiar relationships between human and machine in contemporary life. This is the debut release on RESIST, the record label launched by experimental club/art hybrid event from Belfast, Northern Ireland. This debut release is by RESIST event and label founder, Koichi. Remix comes from electronic music innovator and Eotrax label owner, Eomac in an anxiety driven, frenzied remix of the title track.

Jagged and angular sonics, and warm organic artefacts are the defining sound of this release, which imitates the theme behind the music. Machines are being engineered to have a place in intimate and personal areas of human life. What does it mean to be human in this increasingly digital world Are we anything more than complicated robots made of flesh Where does humanity stop and the uncanny begin

Koichi returns with a new sound, signalling a departure away from his previous aesthetic and into a new direction breaking free from the boundaries and categories of restrictive genre definitions. His music continues to contain a heavy techno aspect, and also draws on raw industrial and experimental influences.

Koichi is an electronic musician, music researcher, and event curator who explores resisting exclusionary identities and disrupting discourses of power and prejudice through music and live digital art.

The Demonic Waves familly is invited on Rouge De Colere for a first Vinyl production !

A superb sound quality here with brilliant tunes from very undeground future overground artists... the new Hardcore generation, daring the melt between industrial, doom , hard technoid and acid.

We are here with 4 very structured tunes, probably not easy to mix on vinyl but really deserving some headheackes to reach the perfection.

Big one ! A bit downtempo for a change on this quiet speedcore label :) I recogn !

6 track mini album with electronic body music on the new Detriti label. Sometimes reminding a bit of good old Front 242 with spontanious use of samples, masculine male vocals and fierce drum programming! First Edition of 200 copies.

10 track longplayer by Visitors on the new Detriti label. Very much mid/late 80's Dark wave, Belgium New Beat, EBM! Recommended. First edition of 200 copies.

Printed Sleeve / Sealed.

Epiteth Legendary Epicurian Hardcore Label From Laurent Hô Will Soon Bring A New Serie Of Crazy Hardcore Releases...

Sounds From A New Age, Weirdest Than Any Others....

Ps: The 45 Rpm Version Rocks ^^

Printed Sleeve / Sealed.

Epiteth Legendary Epicurian Hardcore Label From Laurent Hô Will Soon Bring A New Serie Of Crazy Hardcore Releases...

Sounds From A New Age, Weirdest Than Any Others....

Ps: The 45 Rpm Version Rocks ^^

Justin K Broadrick puts his club foot forward for Downwards on four trampling techno bombs gathered under the Exit Stance EP. With no prizes for guessing what the title is about, the Godflesh/Jesu/Final bloke further girds us against broken Britain's grim future following his Suicide Estate 2LP for Hospital Productions.
This is some of Broadrick's most direct, primitive, and ruggedly impactful gear, forged in the belly of the black country with charred traces of late '90s Brummie techno edged by sparingly used daubs of patented, pollutant synths and plasmic dubbing.
A-side; he offloads the rollicking hydraulics of Exit Stance, a rallying charge of tribal bass drums and cranky percussion from the Female/Regis skool, whilst the droning, beat-less squabble of Motivated By Jealousy takes an acute measure of blighty's radgy pulse.
B-side; his Bullied By Love comes off as a grimacing answer to Ancient Methods' industrial steppers, then Caveman goes on like a chips 'n curry sauce-fed analog to Muslimgauze-via-Vatican Shadow vibes.Aye, we're all fucked. But at least we can dance about it with JK Flesh..

* London based electronic music label Khemia Records announces its seventh split release vinyl Ep.

* The third edition of the Magnum Opus Series features Thee Art Ov Metals, a raw, menacing, post-punk inflected cut, drenched in reverb over an insistent ebm groove from Broken English Club alongside the pristine cardio bleeps and rave hypnosis of Claus Fuss' Static Ace.

* Together they form the Citrinitas Edition.

You're invited once again to the IAV vaults, where the measured density of "instant classics" is getting higher and higher as we dig. This time around, you're up for three techno steamrollers, infused with both club and rave DNA, from distant times ranging between 1989 and 2000. While those tracks will let you connect with your utmost dancefloor and rave self, one should keep in mind Laurent Prot is not your average club punter. Set aside his more recent club live PAs, Laurent has hardly even been to clubs or raves altogether. Funny enough, the dancefloor is not his favorite place to be, but he's been cultivating this special techno fantasy-land from his own studio in the Lyon suburbs. His own little private funky town

Following the blistering inaugural release from Talker comes the
second release on the Standards & Practices imprint from label
co-founder Jonathan 'Stave' Krohn, who returns with 5 tracks of dark,
visceral electronic music for the discerning listener. 'Black Hills'
and 'TASC US' kick off the proceedings in fine style - pummeling
drums underpinning harsh blasts of noise and bleak, greyscale
atmospherics, while 'In/Human' and 'B5' on the flip take a different
approach - 2 tracks not aimed at the dancefloor, but both retaining
that cold, claustrophobic feel that characterizes much of Stave's
work. The brooding and sinister 'Stave 17' closes the EP, moving into
exciting new territory with an intensely cinematic sound

Classy, Ebm Dominated & Centered Integration Of Techno & Far-out, Noisy Electronics (in Gatefold Sleeve W/ Download Code).

For over 4 years, David Coccagna aka Chaperone has been a constant part of Great Circles, as musician, art director, and muse. With Snapback Balaclava he once again fully embodies all of those roles, delivering three inspiring tracks, selecting his remixers with specific attention to their musical histories, and designing his cover art.

Across the A-side, Chaperone scrapes away at the grit - personal grit, the grit of anxiety, and Philly grit. These are meditations on loops, and loops on meditations. Each one appears on the surface to be a brief quote, but time dilation takes over, and minutes later we discover that Chaperone has welcomed us into and back out of his own healing moment.

Like Chaperone's P O N D release (GRCR-009), the B-side of Snapback Balaclava is a Great Circles extended family affair with a trio of diverse remixes that expose and exploit fragments of the chaos Chaperone so carefully contained.

Hitoshi Kojima (Thrive) reinterprets Pulse Feels Swells Beating with relentless syncopated rhythms and synth lines that hang like massive string drones. M//R lays down a signature percussion ensemble palette, zeroes in on otherwise peripheral elements of Grit Neglect, and then deftly navigates sea change with both. Matt Korvette and Sean McGuinness of Philly punk band Pissed Jeans open up the pit and finish the story, taking Femur Baseball Bat to its literal and brutal potential with monstrous vocals and kicks.

pulsewidthmod,creates tracks that are very epic and driving in nature; all of which are recorded as live techno jams using Elektron's Dark Trinity and an MS20 mini. Her influences from Techno to Industrial, EBM, and Belgium New Beat leaves the listener with some menacing drums and a juxtaposition of both pleasing and disorienting melodies.


Serpentine Servitude explores the idea that perhaps the serpent in the garden of eden was really being humanities servant. Who was this creator character to dictate which fruit was ok for us to eat Who was he or they to say that if we ate the fruit we would be tainted and forever separate from divine love All this did was create the idea in our consciousness that we were tainted. It is of my personal belief that the idea that we are sinful is the original sin. This God character who created beings in his own image and then dictated how they were to live their life kind of sounds like an over controlling father. Where is mother in all this The album started with the track 'Original Sin' which was originally titled 'acid'. Seems somewhat appropriate since the concept of original sin seems to be a violation on humanities consciousness

Futile Demise EP is an emotional and disconcerting journey through the mind of Finnish artist Juha Puupera¨. Drawing on influences from Norwegian black metal, UK sound system culture and Italian horror cinema of the 1970s, Gruth mixes dark and aggressive tones in his sonic palette. His production methods are often experimental and the style rarely fits into one box as it spans forward-thinking techno, black ambient and doom industrial.

With his EP, Gruth shapes Montevideo-based Tormenta Electrica label's first release. Of the four tracks featured, two are collaborations with the Finnish techno and ambient artist Ikola, known for his Etherwerks label, while the mysterious Helsinki-based violinist and sound designer KuJo contributes to the other two.

Pinkman delivers another sturdy record for the connoisseurs of discomforting electronics. The second 5 Years Of Tears release unifies 6 artists, each with their own interpretation of the labels ill-famed sound, embodied in vibrating basslines, metallic beats, and corrosive acid. Gear yourself up for yet more nerve-racking music and get accustomed to the obscurity of this series of releases, because the madness is all but finished.

Denise Rabe, one of the strongest members of our crew is back on the label with a stunning follow up, Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams, 3 Tracks that explore this dynamic in depth, completed by an impressive remix from the swedish misterious duo Shxcxchcxsh. Sonic hyperbole.

ABYSS Recordings debut vinyl release Envisioned Disorder features Rommek, Yuji Kondo, Snitch and Michal Jablonski.

Noisy hardcore broken textures, like waking up after a bad after. Death Grips style turns has been after that one !

Ltd 2x12" Vinyl, custom sleeve. Outstanding upfront Drum & Bass & developed Industrial Techno derived steppers.