after a few month’s holiday, dublin’s pear are back with sunday pledge, the debut release by their co-founder fio fa.
a side hosts the title track: a slinky, hypnotic mpc house jam fit with that bumpin’ bassline, rising organs and enough nrg to conclude the week on a high.
i’d like to see ya do it on the flip is a nod to uk soundsystem culture, built perfectly for smog filled dancefloors with it’s garage swing and heaving bass line.
modern obscure music welcomes the sun god for the anticipatory organization. this is a fantastically powerful three track ep to move the body and the mind. it is the work of a distinctive producer who focuses on powerful rhythms and ear catching melodies.
for the sun god, music has a healing power and the club has the ability to bring people together. he is respectful to the history of electronic music and where it comes from, but still pushes forward with his spiritually rooted yet technologically aware sound.
the sun god is jamal moss aka the hieroglyphic being. therefore, this is actually his return to the label. he remixed pedro vian s dancing hindus as the hieroglyphic being, which was released on mom001.
there’s a good reason new age music has been soaring back to the forefront of the media’s cultural agenda and the population’s consciousness: this planet is a stressful ball of confusion at the best of times, and seeking refuge from reality’s shitstorm has become mandatory for us to regain a semblance of sanity. new age music is an effective coping mechanism in this regard. st. louis-based heavy breathing is one of america’s foremost proponents for the cause, proven here through his meditative “escalators in space” mixtape.
A BREIF LANDING ON THE EARTHS SURFACE (TAPE / CASSETTE)
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stepping in from the cold, martin sander dons his hypnobirds alias for the first time since wreaking desolation alongside fellow swedish experimentalist, varg. more recently, he and michel isorinne paid tribute to the stockholm-based studio, bandhagen airport, upping the emotional content for a deeply personal record. now flying solo, another poignantly-charged release arrives hot on its heels as sander makes up for lost time following close to three years spent dormant.
mixtapes these days come a fraction of a penny a dozen and amid the inundation, a tiny ratio of these mixes truly deserves your precious time. the elusive british dj nommo hunzuu has pieced together one such essential collage for your ears with drinnen traum (translation: indoors dream). over an hour of painstaking aural weaving, nommo hunzuu lures you into his own distinctive aural universe that favors odd juxtapositions and immersive atmospheres laced with complementary film dialogue and gnomic declarations from culture icons like william s. burroughs and timothy leary.
almost otherworldly in its vastness and serene beauty, many musicians have drawn from the well of inspiration that is arizona’s sonoran desert, but few are quite as accomplished or prolific as steve roach. an ambient pathfinder and electronic innovator, his back catalogue as vast as those breathtaking vistas – sonic renderings of arid landscapes littered with saguaro cacti are found in good company alongside didgeridoo-focused experiments and ethereal drifts that navigate the event horizon, between the brilliance of space and a black abyss.
reminiscent of philip glass’ minimalism and the kosmische stylings of tangerine dream, ‘skeleton keys’ seemed to fall somewhere between the two. conjuring expansive meditations amongst the impossible tangle of wires that dangle from his apparatus, roach opens portals from the grand canyon state into a cluster of newborn stars with intricate, intelligent sequencing and modular synthesis.
recorded between 2005 and 2015 from roach’s famed timeroom and timehouse studios, the album was fully realized through advancements in technology, specifically, synthesizers.com’s large format analog modular sequencer. organic, fluid and intuitively kneaded into his spooling soundscapes, it’s now to be committed to cassette for the first time, bridging the synaptic gap with a new ‘expanded’ version that elongates the original 74-minute duration.
recommended for best listening results: - comfortable chair - headphones, medium volume - relaxing beverage - 90 minutes time off (including aftermath) - closed eyes. areveeal on silhouette tapes.
priest delivers a brooding 8 track cassette for pater noster ltd. which sees the label make the switch from vinyl to cassette for their latest releases. super limited numbers on this one so don’t sleep.
six ritualistic machine tracks for communing with the other side, as dragstor makes a welcome return to tutamen. comes in very limited numbers, so don’t sleep.
radioactive miami bass experiments - slime-coated dubby techno - nervous electro - and beautifully melodic, selectively not-ambient electronica. the second record on nascent san francisco label left hand path comes from bay area artist c.l.a.w.s. who offers up four cuts that chart a pathway through techno s outer reaches, a perfect platter for the intrepid at-home listener and essential fodder for the adventurous dj.
comes complete with full colour artwork sleeve and handmade paper insert designed by the artist.
the emerging label wage slave seeks to foster the growth and development of an international underground techno conspiracy. seeing dance music as a mechanism for creating social change the label is proud to announce the release of zeks in revolt. this release is the first instalment in a series of limited edition propaganda pieces designed as a tools for djs who desire to facilitate the liberation process of the earth and human kind.
zeks in revolt is the work of a long time, yet little known, agitator in the us underground scene emmett perlman. the track is designed with the late night hours in mind, when people are the most open to change.
the young nordic label is back at it with a sturdy 12” vinyl release, produced by the helsinki underground electronic music champion poly sone. the three tracker kicks off with an intro track titled “come find me” which combines stripped down rhythm patterns with a subtle choir pad. on top of the foundation, an entrancing spoken word verse works as the main ingredient throughout the track. as the needle pushes onwards to the title track “echolocate”, the listener is confronted with a robust wall of lowend, soon accompanied by rolling percussions and clever use of reverb and delay. the simple composition highlights its sterling production and makes for a highly useful dancefloor tool. the last track “helix” bundles up the record nicely as the most melodic one of the bunch. the agile synth stabs and dystopic pads operate on a surprisingly groovy soil of bass and drums which add up to a dreamy whole.
the first vinyl version of the upcoming cd album with some magical works of unit moebius. this first 12inch contains some of their hottest tracks including the legendary >world goes around<, an evil cover of a classic chicagohouse track by cool mccool. the flip side contains the more deeper side from their first releases. for those who were there in those years 91/92/93, at the famous parties in the hague and rotterdam, this is a walk down memory lane, for those to young or living in other parts of the world... imagine these tracks in a dark, very dark sweaty basement with only strobe light and smoke machines, camouflage nets, and jacking acid and techno sounds for more then 10 ours. djs such as i-f, serge, schmerzlabor, peter ptau ptau and live acts such as unit moebius played the hottest and freshest music all night long until you lost your sense of time and place and ended in a total mind trip. the pure essence of house and techno! the golden years :-)
limited 2017 repress !! first release from upcoming parisian label unlearn: chris mitchell (vanguard sound! - plan b recordings) was given total freedom for this ep. he delivers 3 massive tunes between house and techno while xdb takes care of remix duty. the ep was mastered at mb mastering. vinyl only.
2016 repress , a dark and monumental piece of music, using simple but effective sound patterns, repeating them by adding nice delays and other smart fx, step by step slowly building it up in tremendously hypnotic fashion. striking indeed! on the flip side it s dusseldorf s loco dice, resident dj at ibiza s hippest dc10, a true global player, known and loved for his releases on timo maas label four twenty, josh wink s ovum, sven väth s cocoon and richie hawtin s minus. what a list...! but back to the music. his remix of -1000 miles- is less dark, more funky, smartly playing around with some short soundtips, gliding softly towards a quiet break, before evolving to full power, step !by step. the groove is the key! our tip: this 12inch will definitely be a guiding light for this year s summer, especially on the magic island of ibiza
heavy weight vinyl. 150 copies only worldwide. hand signed and numbered certificate. not featured on the vinyl, cd or download collected edition of trevor jacksons acclaimed multi-format format project, this ultra limited 10- was originally only available as part of an audio visual installation shown at vinyl factorys brewer street car park space in london early in 2015, a strange abstract industrial techno beast, head music for the dance floor one of jacksons finest works for some time
prolific producer drvg cvltvre returns to his own new york haunted for a double dose of deadly acid. two doomy and heavy tracks for peak hour in a club so cool you can t get in.
SPECTROGRAPHIES MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE BY SMITH (LP)
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during one long winter s night in a neon-lit paris, a restless young man wanders around to let himself be found by something that most people otherwise try to avoid: ghosts. and the night is full of unexpected encounters in this ultra-chic film, which is neither documentary nor fiction, but rather an adaptation of the idea that jacques derrida defines in a guest star appearance on the cinema screen: that film plus psychoanalysis is equal to the science of ghosts - ie. a form of spectrography , which the french artist smith in her self-ironic, self-conscious, science-fiction essay of a film, conjures up with thermal infrared and in the dialogue s mosaic of quotes of rambling french philosophy, from breton and barthes to merleau-ponty and derrida himself. hyper-modern and rich in (retro) references.
bxl003 is the third release of the artist-run brussels based label bxl. this third release by simon halsberghe features a collaboration with sagat (real name wiet lengeler), who previously released on the brussels’ label vlek and had his music included in the fabric mixes of both ben klock and joris voorn. the track is called the set-up and is a relentless sawtooth rave tune that finds it’s balance between the heydays of belgian techno and more contemporary ‘hi-fi’ attitudes towards functional yet idiosyncratic dance tracks. on the b-side space tom sounds is a deeper and more hypnotic trip with lush broad pads that provide a space for the mind as well as sonic pressure on the body. the last track, snared, takes things into breakbeat territory. with razor sharp snares and a pulsating baseline this track lives somewhere in the venn diagram overlap between rave, front 242 and an air raid siren going off.
for the record this modern trend of wiping is collective madness. i never apply any man-made materials to my anus. a permanent layer of fecal matter is perfectly natural and healthy!
brooklyn based producer and dj ryan crosson makes his debut on frntr this october with his ‘we can only ever be how we are’ lp. moving away from the dance floor, the album has been in the making for the last ten years and sees ryan evolving as an artist as he continues to explore and push boundaries through his experimental musical output.
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