Techno News

For it's 5th vinyl release, Genesa Records gathered some of the most exciting, fresh artists around the world.
A1 - Broken, intergalactic beats by the Serbian techno behemoth, Scalameriya.
A2 - Funk infused, analog weaponry by a groove master from Japan, Miclodiet.
B1 - Furious, raw techno by one of the fiercest heavyweights from England, JoeFarr.
B2 - A mindblowing cyberpunk stomper by the Italian sound surgeon, VSK.
Marbled, transparent green / black vinyl.

Healing Bowl forms a timely collusion between an artist and label who've been converging on a mutual mesh of gutted D&B dynamics with techno tempos and dark ambient feels for some time now. It forms Simon Shreeves' debut release under his birth name after more than a decade of releases as part of Kryptic Minds, and more recently his techno-leaning solo output as Mønic for Tresor.
A match made in techno purgatory then, Healing Bowl metes out five pensile, nervepinched pieces defined by finely sculpted bass, shivering percussion and cranky concrète processing. Never showy, but with a nuanced atmospheric elegance and appreciation of proper body mechanics for the 'floor or bedroom.
A/SA falls down the trapdoor first with plummeting subs and spanked spring reverbs setting a crypt-like tone and spatial setting which bleeds thru into the title cut's rolling swagger and strafing, daemonic silhouettes, before A Thousand and One locates and locks into a dank pocket of plasmic bass and spectral vocal recital.
Sharada follows with a ghostlier, eldritch pallor of melodic development giving rise to sepulchral harmonics amidst fizzing, prickly percussion and elliptic sub bass curves, yet the EP's strongest dancefloor cut is saved for last with the elusive, entropic sound design of S/KA seeming to invert techno and D&B dynamics with vampiric lust and romance.
Shreeve has evidently found an empathetic and steadfast partner in Downwards. Here's to a lasting relationship.

Cory arcane found her comfort zone in a constant state of crisis, and her liberation through love, sensuality, and high-speed internet access. as some might recall, she used to struggle with her own decay, navigating an intricate web of bureaucracy, endless social-media scrolling, 24-hour news channel feeds and marketed strategies of seduction. her intense and continuous obsession for surf, breakdancing and cat videos might have saved her from a silent decline, but it would be her first attempts at integrating a professional ballet company that provided the initial spark. her unorthodox dance movements were often considered shocking, transgressive, and barely legal; and even though some recognised her genuine talent, it was clear she would never make it into this structure. this is when she started her slow drift towards the outer limits of society, in search of the way to achieve the conditions for absolute freedom. her emancipation was surely marked by different forms of excess: the inappropriate use of fireworks, the consumption of large quantities of alcohol and controlled substances, as well as the occasional blasts of kitchen appliances. she bypassed the gender war and became an expert in advertising sabotage. soon cory would give academic courses on the true liberation of the mind, or, in her own words, the apotheosis of senses. lately, she could be seen squatting in the outskirts of different giant metropolises, embracing the mayhem, contemplating the crumbling of a system. the sound of the city, mixed with the music on her headphones, would weave complex rhythms and futuristic textures into a beautifully coloured, pixellated surface. looking out onto this fabulous chaos, she smiled.

150g transparent clear vinyl enclosed in silkscreened PVC cover. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. Contains two locked grooves. "Brandon Nickell hardly makes room for spaces between the threads, for lines trickling downwards towards gaps and fissures, for non-hierarchical entry and exit. The economy of hacking demands a certain selectivity. Years before relocating to San Francisco from neighboring Oakland, Brandon grew interest in computational models and in engineering simulations with algorithmic overlays. In 2003, he began his Isounderscore label releasing titles for Concern, Rale and Nicholas Szczepanik, to name several, in addition to his now defunct noise project Aemae. Titles on Isounderscore often emphasize mathematical rigor and structure, with foil-embossed covers of theoretical graphs. Starting in 2010, Brandon began releasing titles under his own name with tracks inflected by speeds and haecceities, containing hyper-concatenated, generative rhythms. He released his first full-length album on CD, And If You Set This Mind Of Mine Afire Then On My Bloodstream I Yet Will Carry You, in 2010, on his Isounderscore label, followed by The Art of Memory, a 12"" for the Tundra label, in 2013. Brandon has performed live with the likes of Clipping., Holly Herndon, Rene Hell, Daniel Menche and Pedestrian Deposit. Somewhere to the side, Brandon Nickell's productions root up as continuous functions of open source programming. His Ge-stell debut situates the scrambled bustle of angular, ambient-tipped beats against a pointillist attack of deft drum programming. Passages, both near and far, branch backwards and re-enter narrative borders where events do not link conclusively, but in momentary and inexplicable ways. The result is a meticulous mesh of acid-tinged, obtuse dance beats of industrial-grade arranged in a disjointed, hip-hop indebted framework. Irreconcilable parts of systems should not be viewed as permanently given or beyond question." Click here to listen

Diagonal kick off 2016 with a hotly anticipated album by Alessio Natalizia's Not Waving project. It follows his probationary 12' Get Serious and can be seen as a first quarter report on the fluctuations in London's computer acid and wave-pop sectors.
Under lax time constraints, the London-based Italian artist has authored Not Waving's most versatile LP to date — an unruly yet emotive bender taking in 'floor-mauling New Beta and endearingly beery post-industrial synth music.
Animals harnesses the wanderlust of Natalizia's spate of self-released albums and records for Ecstatic and Emotional Response but dials up the wildness, spitting out a careering sequence of tracks that feel as warped,
deep-raved and giddy as a night out in the city they were forged. These are tunes — no, songs — for postwork smash-ups, weekenders and sore commutes. And make no mistake, although Animals occasionally bites hard at the business end of the 'floor, this is Diagonal's most POP record yet, with Natalizia's songwriting sensibility conjuring moments of tenderness and beauty to offset the manic strobe lighting and droppin' sweat.
Album opener Believe is one such moment, a twisting synth workout that bounces along over rock-ist live toms. The tie is loosened on Head Body, as Not Waving unleashes a raging kosmic EBM showpiece that morphs across 6 sprawling minutes. Next up is 24 — the album 'hit' that's been delighting (or destroying) dancefloors across Europe for almost a year now, here the trews are off and all — and you can see Front 242 and Ancient Methods tattooed across the artist's butt.
The shunting Gutsy and whopping industrial stress-test Work Talk buckle down like mutant Powell cuts, whereas I Know I Know I Know and the thrashing EBM-pop of Face Attack run The Sound of Belgium through a distinctly Diagonal filter — all smart edits and unruly arrangements.

COUMLTD001 is the first vinyl edition from COUM Records label. To start this limited the edition of 300 copies. Dead Sound & Videohead are in charge of Bar Brawl EP. A side is composed with two powerful offbeat tracks with industrial reminiscenses. The B side is for remixes: the Canadian duo Orphx is the first one bringing 7 minutes of rude and savage techno. To close the release, the mythy spanish industrial group from the 80's Esplendor Geometrico, remakes "Torn" to a noisy rhythm hypnotic track.

The third chapter of Shadow Story is another collaboration between its joint label owners, Dronelock and Ontal who show once again that their symbiotic relationship is a meeting of like-minds and distinctive production techniques.

The EPs opener, 'Parallax' starts with a cinematic intro before launching into its pounding groove and dark electronics before the Shadows Remix version comes crackling into play.

The title of 'Drop Forge Steel' conjures up an industrial landscape and you won't be disappointed when this tough Techno track starts throbbing with all the intensity we've come to expect from the Dronelock / Ontal partnership.

Though 'The End of Eternity' continues the pace of its predecessor, it also displays a quietness in its gentle melody to juxtapose the steely resonance.

'Unwise Remix Series' has the involvement of artists which represent Synthek & Audiolouis main points of reference and inspiration, artists who acknowledged the potential of Unwise and accepted to get involved the remix project. The second installment of Unwise Remix Series features a strong combination of techno figures that delivered, as expected, amazing reinterpretations of the originals. Kwartz opens the release with a devastating rework of the techno train 'Counterbalance', a broken beat weapon designed to make speakers sweat. Fabrizio Lapiana remixes 'Over The Edge' loading the atmosphere of drones and swirling bleeps, placed on strong hypnotic drums layers. Antigone on the flip side gives a new vision of the track 'Something Else' leaving behind the detroitish style of the original cut to approach a fairy world, where bright and
melancholic sounds are partnering with a thin beats which dissipates every now and then. Varg close the record with a noisy rework of 'Overcast', bringing it down with heavily distorted drums, reverbered drones and terrific atmospheres.

A year and a half after Black Merlin (George Thompson) opened the Common Thread series with the much praised New World Fantasy / Ice House release George sent over some adventurous bits for a follow up and we were immediately sold. George is a true artist in his own right. All of the Black Merlin tracks evoke different sentiments. This time around the feeling it bring up is very conflicted. Both tracks have those dark aesthetics with elements of paranoia and both also share some apocalyptic elements.
It is for this reason that this is the perfect follow up for CT01.

Instead of just releasing music on vinyl we (with the blessings of Zoroaster) are looking to evoke spirits, cross boundaries and maintain quality. Major cliche's, but with an artist like Black Merlin on your books, Cliche's sometimes become truth.

COMMONTHREAD04 - Black Merlin - Burn It / Experiments In The Dark will be available on Limited heavyweight vinyl from Late May/June 2015.

Mastered By Gordon Pohl, Photography by Javier Gonzalez

Very limited stock release on atom tm + material object´s NO. label. by Garry Bradbury, ex member of the 80s band Severed Heads. No. return with a new addition to the abstract '300' series by one time member of the influential Australian electronic project Severed Heads: Garry Bradbury. Sydney based Bradbury is known for his boundary bending audio collage and analogue synthesis outbursts and has a career spanning three decades and is still blazing well into the 21st century. Here he presents his 5th solo album for No. Yakovlevian Torque might be the most diverse No. release to date combining audio sources such as traditional 'found sound' tv samples to analogue and digital synthesis. Always on the verge of being slightly humourous, silly or deadly serious, Bradbury balances moods and emotions, making this album not just a journey into his own mind. Yakovlevian Torque is a 13 track work out worthy of your attention deficit disorder.








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Ancient Methods and Cindytalk unite as In The Mouth Of The Wolf for this new Diagonal 12"
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton
Artwork by Guy FeatherstoneEdition of 500 copies, housed in individually screen-printed sleeves
Two of industrial music's most insatiable operators, Ancient Methods & Cindytalk, pay homage to the White Rose figurehead, Sophie Scholl - remembered for her role in the passive resistance to the Nazis during WWII - with a passionate and unflinching trio of noise/techno girders for Diagonal.
For those aware of Cindytalk's illustrious industrial heritage - she has collaborated with everyone from Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil to Revolting Cocks' Chris Connolly and DJ Scud; this is nothing short of a momentous meeting of epochs, styles and utual intent. And it's f**king deadly
wi' it, too.
Need of Angels barrels across the A-side, pinned to the 'floor by riveting percussion and charging the spirits with thee harshest noise coming on in waves of absolute terror and catharsis.
Flipside, Sleight of Hand disperses that lactic build-up by loosening up and allowing some prime, late '80s EBM swing into the mix, resolved against a blizzard of head-long, atonal ferocity. A Search for New Realities shifts their attention again, arching up with a pensive white noise wash pierced by pinging coin drops before unleashing a thunderous torrent of breakbeat techno hearkening back to AM's finest Ugandan Methods and Cindy's work for Praxis, but with a thoroughly modern aesthetic.
Unmissable.

ELEM sees the light in 2012, during an electronic music improvisation night at "L'Asilo" (Arts and Culture production center in Naples, Italy) . ELEM started as an audiovisual project based on electronic music improvisation and multimedia arts, created by Loredana Antonelli ( visuals ), Fabrizio Elvetico , Emanuele Errante and Marco Messina (electronics) . ELEM is today an interesting novelty in the European electronic music scene that always welcomes new experimental and inspiring projects to give new life to Art and Music productions.

New York Haunted have invited some of our own favorite artists to explore the boundaries of techno as a form of communication. Straight from Detroit, the legendary Terrence Dixon represents the minimalist funk like no other in his contribution 'Star Dust'. Straightforward dance floor action with a truly hypnotic vibe. Former Yellow Swan, Pete Swanson comes from a noise background and has been adding monolithic rhythms for some years now, His 'Dirty Work' blurs these lines and shifts between harsh noise and distorted machine rhythms. Cryptic techno philosopher Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being drops an exercise in Sun Ra worship called 'Speaking in Tongues' and label boss Drvg Cvltvre rounds of the EP with a combination of shortwave radio transmissions and walls of gutwrenching bass drums. Often imitated, never duplicated. These are the unique voices of a techno generation. This is: The Real Deal...

Incredible, hyperactive gabber/jungle/radio advert mix/collage from Belgium's DJ David Coquelin and Lil' Raver Cloarec - a.k.a. bosses of the PRR! PRR! label - for Low Jack's Editions Gravats label, arriving hot on the heels of their superb Action Mix of New Beat and early techno (check their soundcloud!).
Strafing a myriad styles from UB40 thru a handful of his own productions as An Ultimate DJ, plus cuts from N.M.O., and Eugene Ward, via stacks of cheeky radio jingles (both real and hyperstitous), stabs and samples of Resident Evil, plus loads of Jungle and Gabba - he's brilliantly stretching the definition of what constitutes a mixtape.
There's a momentum, but it's totally broken up and manic, and not without a sense of humour, dissecting everything into 30 second bursts of activity with an ADD approach to dis-arrangement.
Like the label's last cassette release from Antinote boss Zaltan, it's super collectible and hugely enjoyable...we reckon this one's a big party mixtape = highly recommended!!

second full length album was made for the art installation 'Where Threads Lead', curated by Frantic Art Gallery in Tokyo.

The idea is to give a sonic interpretation of strings as both art and as an all encompassing structure of life. Ntogn's approach to this has been to work with few evolving elements, flowing and curving like threads in a web. Resulting in a varied lot of sonic braids.

Early support by Cio D'Or, Svreca, Takaaki Itoh, Valentin Corujo (Exium), Mod21, Attemporal, Eomac, Iori, Jonas Kopp, Rasmus Hedlund, Retina.IT, Victor Martinez, Periskop, Sam Kdc, Antonio Vazquez, BLNDR, Luigi Tozzi

New label from R_L - owner of label Dorian Sensation, featuring remix from Xhin - Stroboscopic Artefacts, CLR, Token Records.

* Kapvt Mvndi Records releases a first Various Artist compilation. Svprasensible Destination is a Post Techno sound from Abstract to Acid and experimental tones. A very full music experience from artist productions reflecting the forthcoming and past vinyl.

* Compilation opens with an intense piece from Astronomy Domine, a New Wave Techno production to declare war on stars. Pioneering artists such as Emanuele Rizzuto and Stefano Rocchi well represent the efforts of the label in releasing analogue music as well as all the other great producers tracks released into this. Compilation closes with master piece from Schwartz, a movie sound track for an epic end or beginning... A new music as discord, and as a discordant accord,the source of time.

Lee Gamble's UIQ label introduces the hypnotic, rugged and cerebral solo debut by Cairo multiinstrumentalist, producer and sound artist, Ahmed El Ghazoly a.k.a. ZULI, with the Bionic Ahmed EP. Ghazoly is a co-founder of VENT, a usic-space-turned-club-night in Cairo with a sister night and record label based in London, and he has also been a prominent figure in Egypt's underground music scene for almost a decade now,ZULI has conceived a unique sound straddling slow techno and jungle with squawking, alien electronics and smeared microtonal melody in a familiar spirit to his label boss' psychoacoustic dancefloor projections. At the top of the EP he offers a knuckle-cracking Robotic Handshake in 4D synching neck-snap sub knocks with shimmering gamelan tones and gremlin voices like a lost Dabrye bomb, before seducing us with the creamed microtonal timbre of Compactpact and resetting the levels to Beneath-style bleep & bass pressure with 131001G. However, the biggest highlight appears on the B-side opener Robotic Jabs in 4D, where desiccated 2-step jungle patterns spark at the core of a lush, fluid synth swell like some nerve-pinched Nubian Mindz reverie, whereas the decelerated thump of Ahmed trades in STL-style dub-house triplets, and Dr. Beckett convulses like a Gantz riddim undergoing an ayahuasca ceremony.In all, a striking debut from a highly individual new voice on the scene - highly recommended if you're into Lee Gamble, Coil, Urban Tribe or Beneath.

Kerridge returns to Downwards in 2016 with the custom-built electronics of Fatal Light Attraction following last year's incursions on his own Contort label. The project premiered at Berlin's Atonal 2015 edition, featuring Kerridge working alongside Andrej Boleslavsky & Maria Júdová to create an intense, kinetic shadowplay synched as an illusive counterpart to the music and performance.As Kerridge's 3rd long player, it marks a more fluid, or effluent, refinement of his sound, blurring the boundaries between organic audio sources and custom-constructed synths to flooding the senses with waves of bristling, oxidising industrial tones and coruscating texturhythm seemingly intent on separating flesh from bone. It's evil stuff, all seven tracks of it, forming a closed feedback system of guttural, choking frequencies and cardiac arrhythymatics..

'A scorched-earth take on Wax Trax-style electro-industrial that nonetheless point out to influences as diverse as Depeche Mode's Construction Time Again and Whitehouse's Birdseed. ' FACT

The year 2015 saw hardcore inspired EBM outfit, Youth Code, step into line with what most would consider is their well-earned stake in the current world of industrial music. Spending most of that time touring selectively on their own in Europe and then sweeping through North America with the legendary Skinny Puppy, Youth Code pulled together their newest songs, hunkering down with producer Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly / Fear Factory), and intertwined the ideas that would become their second full length album, Commitment to Complications.
Born in 2012 out of a Los Angeles bedroom, Youth Code was the instinctive creation of musicians Sara Taylor and Ryan George. The band made their spontaneous live debut at LA-based record store Vacation Vinyl's employee showcase. Word of the incendiary live performance quickly spread and was followed by release of the well-circulated, coveted, Demonstrational Cassette, which saw the band hone their semi-improvised initial set into something altogether more muscular, resonant and lean.
Soon after, Youth Code was invited to release a limited edition single with the legendary Genesis P-Orridge's label, Angry Love Productions. The single quickly sold out and saw the band receive praise from industrial heavyweights including Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Shortly after the single's release, the band signed with label Dais Records to release their 2013 self-titled full length album, which solidified the band's widespread critical praise from outlets as far ranging as Pitchfork, Fact Magazine and MetalSucks. In 2014, Dais saw through the release of their much anticipated EP, A Place to Stand, which featured remixes by Silent Servant, Clipping, God Module and Sanford Parker.
Since then, Youth Code brought their brand of Industrial to audiences all over the US on supporting gigs with AFI, Nothing, The Body, Suicide Commando and the now infamous Eye vs. Spy Tour with industrial legends Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Haujobb.
Commitment to Complications reflects Youth Code's time spent with various electronic alumni and scales up the aggressive notch left behind in their previous releases. Youth Code's introduction of the album starts on a reflective note but quickly changes gears into hyper drive BPM pacing with rhythmic complexity driven in with the track Transitions that can only be referenced as maniacal. Songs like Doghead and Shift of Dismay show the band as a frontrunner of definitive industrial anthems and critical songwriting skill. Another harbinger of Youth Code's dire shift into more strident terrain would be evident in the inclusion of Ben Falgoust (Goatwhore) and Todd Jones (Nails) as guest performers. The band's cohesive collaboration with producer Rhys Fulber is in full display, driving the band's aural trajectory into consuming and contentious industrial electronics.

LAURAPALMER is the new obscure-techno' project by the italian artist Tiff Lion. She has already shaped a successful career with Tying Tiffany. Five top-seller albums, lot of singles & video clips and played hundred of shows and festivals in Italy, Europe and America.

Now, she is getting focused into LAURAPALMER and have finished her debut 12' with 3 tracks influenced by old-school techno from KK Records (Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Kode IV, Zen Paradox), early Plastikman and a touch of pure industrial

LING releases his debut EP on PAN & Visionist's CODES label.
'Attachment' is a data-centric collection built from field and browser recordings, loosely exploring the themes of habitual mental tendencies. 'The idea that taking an instinctual interpretation of information potentially warps and distorts reality. If data triggers internal responses, it risks following a predetermined path that can stray from reality.The heavily processed sample material re-explores recordings collected from over the last 4 years. Reconstructed within sound collages across the record, they strive to find an independent voice but at times back away in order to grapple something else. Merging explorative futurist sounds, Ling's glacial and at times glitchy constructions feature fleeting snippets of differing vocals or malfunctioning machines, whilst dipping into tentative, broken melodies. Loose references to UK culture and contemporary sounds are restructured, offering moments of something teasingly familiar before withdrawing into abstraction.The EP was made in summer 2015 in Liverpool, mixed by Chris Pawlusek, mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy, and features artwork by PWR Studio & Bill Kouligas with additional art by James Whipple

Cristian Varela back on his own imprint, Pornographic Recordings.

Rabit's unpredictable Halycon Veil imprint trigger a quartet of reticulated grime and noise mutations from London-based Anthoney J Hart a.k.a. Imaginary Forces,.And What locates Imaginary Forces at his most brutal, disciplined, continuing to draw on his British heritage with signals to the ghosts of '90s/'00s pirate radio on one hand, whilst signing to early electronic masters and literary references on the other - creating something new, visceral and more immediate than his previous releases in the process. Upfront, the swarming concrète jungle militancy of And What sets a scorched aesthetic steeling the body for Chat 'Bout's pavement-cracking hooves and atonal buzz, before cannily conflating the atmospheres of pirate radio and J.G. Ballard with the eviscerating intensity of High Rise.Down below, Make Ends Meet trades an instrumental grammar of glottal grime galvanised with glossolalic noise texture, and the Makes Ends Meet (London Something Version) whips those same elements into a strobing vortex of UK-style footwork rufige. This is Imaginary Forces' 5th 12' to date, following editions for his Sleep Codes label, Fang Bomb and Bedouin Records, plus a CD with Entr'acte between 2014-2015. It's scheduled for release around the same time as his mighty Basic Rhythm LP for Type Recordings.

Following on from that mighty Drum & Bass mixtape from Karl O'Connor, Sam and Hayley Kerridge's Berlin event series-turned-label return with a killer addendum to their first release - Kerridge's 'Always Offended Never Ashamed' album. These two new tracks are a clarion call to arms - both sides excerpted from a Kerridge live performance for the NTO, Berlin 2013. Convulsing chunks of distorted, heaving junglist venom on the A-side's brutal 'Sonic Instruments Of War #01', the flipside explores more abstract terrain thru vicious, atonal outbursts. Highly recommended if yr into the Downwards catalogue, HATE or recent material from Shapednoise.

Cabaret Voltaire legend, Richard H Kirk, and the indomitable Ancient Methods take the skin right off Powell's 'Club Music' (DIAG009) killers for the 1st remix-only release on Diagonal. Ancient Methods takes pole position with two strong versions of 'Club Music'. The 'Körpersäure91' remix fits the label's fetish for Front 242 with a mighty display of stentorian holler, steel-tipped drums and acid-guzzling revs, taken to frantic techno-punk extremes with the double-timed, full body douse of 'Pogo Im Säurebad'.Conversely, Richard H Kirk's dressing down of 'So We Went Electric' fractures and disembowels the original in two parts. The Main Mix salts Powell's slugger to a rasping, grinding shadow of its former self while retaining its stiff, coiled backbone; a desiccated Dub Mix leaves only traces of purified, metaphysical dread from the wild-eyed original in its wake.If you're reading this, it's likely both remixers need little introduction: Sheffield's Richard H Kirk was instrumental in forging the templates of industrial music and bleep techno between the late '70s and early '90s both with the seminal Cabaret Voltaire and as a solo artist; Ancient Methods galvanised modern industrial techno with a series of uncompromising, deadly effective 12's launched from Berlin since 2007, first as a duo, then solo, and also in collaboration with Karl O'Connor as Ugandan Methods

Sophomore album from Jonas Ronnberg aka Varg with icey electronics live recorded.

In support of their exclusive track, 'Oxide' featured on 'Berghain 07 - Part II' (o-ton87 - released 18.05.2015), Cassegrain & Tin Man present a full EP of material from the same sessions. Infrastructure founder Function will mix Berghain 07, the latest in the series of DJ mixes by the Berlin club's residents. As part of the release two 12''s will also be released featuring exclusive tracks including one from Cassegrain & Tin Man, and the in-depth A&R process for this landmark project led to the signing of this full EP from the trio.

Issued now for the first time on vinyl is the complete studio album Demiurge produced by Emptyset, the collaborative art/electronics project founded by James Ginzburg & Paul Purgas. The release demonstrates this moment in the development of the project's production processes, examining non-grid based structures and the integration of sculptural feedback into the analogue signal chain. The collective body of work exhibits the precursor to their current studio work with raster-noton and highlights the project's emergence and transition into a distinct sonic grammar, reflecting upon the reappropriation of analogue media and the innate physical properties of sound. TRACK LIST:

* Blackwater Label is back with a second various artist compilation.

This time we selected a Post Balearic sound. A full spectre audio selection from abstract to drone. Let's chill out.

* We compiled for Visions VOL. II music from Key Clef proposing an emotional opening track that lead into a post techno and dark tracks such as .Subion and Fire At Work productions. The centre of the release comes with duo Fini & Lamanna,a unique guitar and synth piece representing the exact feelings of the compilation as well as sentimental tracks from Spygeist, Giuseppe Marra and Phooka. Enrico Cosimi aka Tau Ceti releases an incredible classic drone modular manipulation and analogue music from Livio Improta and Phorm to close the circle.

* Final tracks in a post Balearic Ambient mood provided by artists Valerio Moscatelli and Loris Ligonzo.

* This is the seventh Surgeon album.

* "While exploring new production techniques using old and unlikely hardware, the results were so unusual that I really had the sense that these pieces of equipment didn't actually create these sounds, rather they were in fact some kind of elaborate reception device that allowed me to tune into transmissions from Distant Galaxies. The music I could hear was actually the received transmissions of Pop Hits from those Distant Galaxies that were being played on their radio stations.
I quickly recorded all that I could before losing the transmission.

* I consulted with Dr Andrew Read, the astrophysicist with whom I recorded Guitar Treatments in 1999. He has worked on the discovery of the most distant galaxies and astronomical objects in the Universe. Together we came up with a possible list of where these musical transmissions may have come from."

It's been almost 2 years since our inaugural vinyl release, but after a long gestation period, the 2nd Reaktivate vinyl EP is finally here, and we hope the wait was worth it. We certainly feel very proud of it and are aware of what it has to live up to, after having one of the tracks from RKTV001 going as far as landing a slot in Pangaea's FabricLive 73 Mix-CD.
The idea for this release was born even before the 1st one was out on the streets. It's the story of how a bunch of music fans tried to make their dream release come true. The common goal was to put together a release that summed up what the label stands for, irregardless of commercial or dancefloor acceptance. It was a question of faith, belief, and musical passion coming together. Everyone at RKT has long been a fan of Portuguese duo from Porto, Sturqen's brand of power electronics and defiant experimentation and felt in that in their work, there was a techno sensibility worth stimulating. Label mentor A Thousand Details (Gustavo Lima, one half of Quantic Spectroscopy) is a particular fan and felt Sturqen's music inspired him to stretch his own musical muscle towards less obvious and straightforward directions, so the invite for a collab felt natural and was promptly accepted. The result was a collection of pieces that put together Sturqen's free-form twisted and burned industrial explorations, with A Thousand Details's rhythmic inclinations and desire to break free from dancefloor convention. Three pieces were carefully selected with the intention of showcasing the range of the project, but other ideas were explored and presented to someone who, from the start, seemed like the most natural fit for a remix : canadian rhythmic noise masters Orphx. This is where the dream part of the projected starting becoming a reality : to our collective delight, Orphx are fans of Sturqen's work and immediately jumped at the chance, delivering an engrossing, hypnotic and majestic remix for 'Canis'. The final piece of the dream gained form when almost by chance, RKT fan and friend, and UK industrial techno enforcer Casual Violence, got word of the project and told us he wanted to have a go at 'Kantes'. What he came up with sealed the release in ways that, as far reaching as our dreams were, we couldn't have envisioned : a scorched-earth techno slow burner that glues all other pieces together.
The music presented in this release turns out as being a perfect reflection of the ideas that were at it's the genesis and the struggle to make them true. It's not far-fetched to say that even if we had never done anything before this record, or do anything else beyond it, the whole journey was made worthwhile by seeing this come true. We can only finish by saying what matters the most. Thank you to the artists for this beautiful nightmare, thank you to you for lending us your time and ears and being the most important part of it.

* Ad Rvina Imperii is the first chapter of a series of various artists compilations co-produced by Kapvt Mvndi (Blackwater )with Love Blast Records and Stirpe 999 Anti Label. .

* A side comes with Fire At Work and Somatic Responses productions.

* A1 Fire At Work - Spartacvs is a slow motion track with increasing melody. A hypnotic industrial piece made with modulators.

* A2 is Somatic Responses - Dark Ervption, an experimental track mixing Drone and Rough music .

* On side B comes single track Luciano Lamanna - Giammai Per Sempre, a rough techno track with very deep influences and experimental sounds all made via modulator machines.

A collection of ambient tools & left of center dancefloor gems culled from the prolific Always Human Tapes label intended for both home listening & club play by adventurous DJs. Usual HQ Dispco packaging. 9 tracks.

New London-based label, Utter, present some of the earliest recordings by Jack Latham a.k.a. Jam City in a remastered edition of his icy soundtrack to a sci-fi short film originally self-released by the director/producer, Daniel Swan on VHS and corresponding cassette in 2010. The OST would have emerged just prior to Jam City's 'Classical Curves' and we can pretty much hear the hyaline dimensions that would be explored in 'Classical Curves' come into being across its five tracks (including a bonus 'lost' track not found on the original), as Latham constructs dreamy, floating worlds embedded in vast reverb structures and blooming bass radiation. It's easy to hear the tensions and economy of production palette that would come to define his later work, where he would consolidate a canny, mid-fi emulation of hi-end, cinematic sound design with eviscerated club dynamics. Yet there's something deeply elusive, gossamer fine about these recordings that hold up on their own terms.

SPR embraces Hamburg's harbour city sorrow in a dank and blood-drained 33 minute debut for vis, a very watch-worthy new label administered by Golden Püdel's Nina Trifft (veteran of mixes
for the likes of Blackest Ever Black's Krokodilo Tapes and Berceuse Heroique) and Tobias Duffner.EP1 unveils thee krankiest sequence of post-industrial ambience and rotten rhythms in four glowering parts secreting bilgy drones and keening electro-acoustic strings in effluent flow as grim as Reeperbahn run-off. You may well have heard these pieces lodged in one of many, lauded mixes by the label's co-creator, Nina, diffused amidst myriad industrial obscurities and clankenheit atmospheres. And it's easy to hear why she and Good News would pick this up for their first release. Mass docks first like something from Mika Vainio's Kilo, connoting an imposing sense of scale thru
super-wide reverbs, distant sonar signals and bone-powdering rhythmic noise before the sludgy concrète dub of Concubine comes ashore to perform its cranky functions.
Flipside, they neatly divert that vibe with Minerva, coursing bittersweet pads and sloshing undercurrent buoyed by churning subs, whilst Quadrant seems to dissolve the remains in a bath of
hydrochloric DSP, leaving only cadaverous remains.Lovers of Blackest Ever Black, Zhark, or Weevil Neighbourhood aesthetics will be in their element here.

Originally released on Hospital Productions as a limited cassette edition of 42 copies, Avian is now proud to announce a vinyl reissue of Dual Action's Auto Body. Behind Dual Action stands Mathew Folden from K.P., who presented his first solo cassette release for Dominick Fernow's label in 2012.

Dual Action combines the eerie atmospheric sound collage of crowded chinatown streets with the deafening silence of a new apartment and the hard industrial beats of subways and freeways. A dynamic, physical autonomism. Body complete.

THE SPRAWL is a scindicate of mutant soundcarriers individually known as Logos, Mumdance and Shapednoise. Following their improvised live conception at Berlin's CTM15 festival, EP1 documents THE SPRAWL's debut studio transmissions in the first of a series to be archived by The Death of Rave. As their moniker suggests, The Sprawl is heavily influenced by William Gibson's eponymous and prescient trilogy of sci-fi novels; most crucially the cybernetic predictions of Neuromancer and the ways in which its notions of uploaded consciousness and the effects of technology have played out in our collective reverie. Hacking up memories of late '90s tech-step and the millenial dread of early grime thru a matrix of modular synths, haptic constructs and computer software, the trio))) jack-in a quartet of corrupted memory updates emulating the physical and mental impact of SimStim overload and fractious hyperreality.Head first, 'Drowning in Binary' plunges into a maze of recursive techno-chambers vacillating white hot dis-torsion with arcing, weightless pads, before glyding across a tumultuous topography of chrome burning flares and violent, body-quaking detonations in the morphing scape of 'From Wetware To Software'.With 'Haptic Feedback' they grasp the quicksilver rush of classic Prototype and Reinforced Records in a strobing sequence of picnoleptic, kinaesthetic flashbacks and transitory segues smeared with vision-blurring noise, stranding us in the below-kelvin, post-human headspace of 'Personality Upload' unaware of up from down.By design or chance, the results distill a scrambled uchronia of references, incomparably conflating the obscure French speedcore subgenus of La Peste with a ruffneck take on cinematic sound design whilst also skewering the UK's 'ardcore continuum by way of new wave Italian noise physix. Like Gibson's original series, The Sprawl will reveal its dimensions in due course for the DJ conspiracists, bunker dwellers and tech-noise terrorists. Mumdance also releases solo on XL, most notably with grime prodigy Novelist, and also runs the Different Circles club-night and label in London with production partner Logos, who released the 'Cold Mission' LP to widespread acclaim in 2013. Shapednoise is a Berlin-based native of Palermo, Italy, and co-founder of Cosmo Rhythmatic and Repitch Recordings.