this is lbnhrxs fourth release, and his second on thin consolation, following his debut ep tales from the moustache released in 2012. progressively shifting towards a purely hardware approach to composing and performing, and still as recluse and vowelaphobic, lbnhrxs sound has matured and acquired that pungent cheesy odour that we all crave so much. ntrprttn is the fruit of his reflection on the topic of interpretation, and is graced with complementary remixes by cupp cave and lawrence le doux

my bare-skin balearic brethren left stranded in a supermarket with personnel from the arrowhead project and zealots reciting passages from the second epistle of peter and the revelation of st john, i beg you .. do not despair.

about the record: no longer belgiums best-kept secret,francis is a high prolific beat-maker, baking his beat by the dozen,under an assortment of alliases:kingfisherg (on carte postale, leaving records and wigflip), sineshine (on plynt), as a member of bretzel zoo (on eat concrete), or here (or on surf kill or vlek) as cupp cave. his >garbage pail beats<,released on thin consolation in 2008, were a >rump-shaking, head-nodding, feet-shuffling slap in the face, one for the crate-diggers and glitch-lovers<.but that chip has sailed, and this is the long-awaited follow-up ep.once again:>think nice crunchy gravel<.

as weve been stalking the funckens for ten years now, after stumbling upon their parts series on dub when we were still students, trekking religiously to the sirius on weekends, eventually spending nights in bus shelters to assist to half a live in a school that only served wine, and trying to organise a bash with them in a squat that burned down a week before the bash, before finally inviting them to an exhibition closing party that incidentally marked the beginning of thin consolation, they seemed an obvious choice for a release for the tenth anniversary of unrezt and the fifth of thin consolation. having already graced thin consolation with an album in 2006 as dif:use (with long-time partner cor bolten), this time we requested from them a 12inch.

odaka (also known as rawakari) delivers some nice abstract techno in the best idm tradition. he dabbles here with a flurry of machines, to obtain that distinctive analogue sound to go back to the basics. even the graphic design is the result of a more back to basics technique, without the assistance of a computer once again, but rather via sketching and plain and simple drawing. a very sincere and sympathetic release on this belgium label (brussels to be precise, wallonia, roughly same areas as confined). record is mastered by pascal demez (herrmutt lobby, kadah/vresky) check!