ltd to 300, three warm analogue techno cuts and a rolling ambient outro. the works are unreleased from 1999 – 2000 by underground producers activ-analog. all tracks were recorded live in one take - hardware used includes mpc 3000, roland sh-101, roland sh-09, roland juno-106, korg poly-800 and a crumar performer analog string synthesizer.
dana ruh’s brouqade has long been renowned for its many eclectic and unpredictable sounds. in that essence, the label’s latest signing is a fitting fit. kamran sadeghi is an nyc based electronic music producer who is well versed in unconventional soundscapes. as likely to release an electronic music ep as he is turn his hand to film scores or more ambient textures, sadeghi has collaborated with everyone from patti smith to berlin club, berghain. a live artist of considerable depth and panache, his signing to brouqade marks another high point in the label’s story.
under his guises blessed initiative and ketev, as well as his own name, composer and sound artist yair elazar glotman has explored extended techniques and processes to forge new sonic textures and musical forms. compound picks up where the previous solo work under glotman’s own name - 2015’s Études - left off. the acoustic sound palette has now expanded from solo contrabass into a trio including pianist rieko okuda and percussionist marcello silvio busato.
nice price deal !!! the eighth release on their self-titled label sees compound one step out of the darkened lab to take time out from their usual techy experiments and head straight for the raveË a hugely diverse release that has been played across the board by djs such as mista jam, mj cole and brendon moeller. as featured by zero t on his recent fabric live 52 mix pum pum beat gets its peculiar name from the rhythm of the kicks and snares rather than what people seem to think! the highly swung beats and quirky percussion form a backbone for a bassline that is hard to resist. emotional detroit style stabs complete the picture and the breakdown will have your hands in the air! carrying on with the emo vibes of this release, back off sees the duo go right back to their roots with an early uk 2-step garage inspired number. trademark qualifide vocal cut ups and fracture breakbeats come together to form the groove. once again, the breakdown is pure hands in the air.
limited to 250 hand-numbered copies on transparent red coloured vinyl!
killekill welcomes a new duo on board. skew and satirist are not newcomers. nor are they a well-guarded techno secret. but for this initial outing they want the music to come first. both artists have a background in sonic and technological innovation and have started this project for their left-of-centre techno manoeuvres. berlin s killekill is the natural launching-pad. the ep visits idm-dipped dark techno, a track built around a malfunctioning feedback matrix and a wide-angle, subtly melodic adventure
killekill welcomes a new duo on board. skew and satirist are not newcomers. nor are they a well-guarded techno secret. but for this initial outing they want the music to come first. both artists have a background in sonic and technological innovation and have started this project for their left-of-centre techno manoeuvres. berlin s killekill is the natural launching-pad. the ep visits idm-dipped dark techno, a track built around a malfunctioning feedback matrix and a wide-angle, subtly melodic adventure
compound trax vol. 1 md is the first from our trax releases and its a split ep between ernie (minuendo recordings, deep explorer) and jorge caiado (balance, groovement).
compound eye is drew mcdowall (formerly of coil) and tres warren (psychic ills and messages). *journey from anywhere* is their second long-player release following *origin of silence*, an art edition lp on the spring press label. this double lp features 4 sides of improvised electronics that lead the listener into the dark recesses of the duos subterranean explorations. each of these works move at a slow and considered pace, gradually unfolding into a transportive blur of dark psychedelic minimalism. like elements of coil long form works this is a music which has the potential to melt time, open space and create a flowing web of liquid memory. a sublime record for those who like music that encourages travel.
new yorks premier experimental drum & bass imprint, offshore recordings, teams with londons left of centre 170 bpm music tastemaker, organic, to present the osrorg series. the two combine mutual musical vision with a joint exploration of the subversive sounds. the creative essence of both new york and london are captured in this transatlantic collaboration - showcasing true urban breakbeat culture.
glenn wilson turns up the screw on his compound platform with a three track dark pumping monster, eye ear drums is a dark hypnotic atmospheric work out with haunting voxs layered over thick drums and rolling throbbing baselines. note decryption rolls over more dark throbbing pulsing baselines in a more tough minimal style. the vault lays down some dirty atmospheric minimal rhythms before erupting into a metallic stabing workout...enjoy
compound one started as a concept while they were at the pioneering dubstep club night fwd. fracture had been checking out the emerging dubstep sound and qualifide was then hosting a weekly show on rinse fm and had begun to mix dubstep in with his usual garage style. the timing was right, the studio session was booked? >get loose< was unleashed!
once more compound delivers another storming output with some of the creme da la creme of the techno scene to date. division ep has all the elements of funk to hard deep pounding grooves from the likes of glenn wilson, wetworks, dean rodell, monocore, zoid and mucky beats, making this various a must have for any techhead to have in their box. a1: monocore open this ep with lingering whisper a well crafted floor banger that builds over its existence to a total crowd pleaser giving the ep a kick start in the right direction. a2: dean rodell and wetworks prove with their first collaboration that techno can move and groove with a colourful arrangement of sounds without losing the drive that we have come to expect from these 2 producers. b1: glenn wilson leads the b side with risen, again a xxxxl pounder with cheese in true wilson style: a stabby deep number with rhythms and grooves that u expect from the tech master himself! b2: last but not least 1 of the uk biggest up and coming techno artists zoid and mucky beats give their debut on compound with japanese clank a thunder thumper of a track that highlights the strength of sound the island has to offer today. a class floor mangler to finish off an ep that has something for every hard tech division
glenn wilson joined forces with hardsignal recordings (dj pauze & patrick dsp) to relaunch his legendary label compound in 2008. marking the return to true hard techno, glenn wilson himself is responsible for the productions on this massive release. he proves still to be an upfront producer - a lot more great releases can be expected of compound the coming years!
compound really turns it up with yet another debut for the label by dustin zahn, who is probably better know as one part on the duo the attack people. fresh from his previous works on his label abiotic this is yet another full on assault from across the pond
after excursions on native diffusion, wavescape, evil deception & cloned this young studio whizz kid bashes out a three track ep of dark looping techno & grinding rhythms for the floor.
>sustain< is a landmark album in the ambient dub genre. to date, no other dub album has been able to capture the sounds and emotions of a faraway place quite like this one. an album that will leave you in complete awe. we are very excited that >sustain< will be released on vinyl in limited copies as well as on cd and digital.
die zweite veröffentlichung in der mmj live-serie von my morning jacket. aufgenommen live im auditorium theatre in chicago am 11. november 2021 und mit einer setlist von karriere-highlights aus den letzten jahren: love love love , complex und never in the real world vom aktuellen selbstbetitelten album, sowie die klassiker dondante , mahgeetah und phone went west . drei lps, gepresst auf orangefarbenem vinyl in limitierter auflage und verpackt in einem dreifachen gatefold-jacke
hot on the heels of their debut collaborative ep, ‘exosphere’ - which picked up plays from violet, tone dropout’s dawl, jacques renault and timothy clerkin among many others - corporeal face and bufobufo are back with new trax that distil their love of electro, hardcore and acid into a lethal compound. lead cut ‘bleep inside’ mixes old school b-boy breaks with a steely sheffield bassline, ‘genome’ is a swung out excursion into sub-heavy acid house, sydney beat machine jensen interceptor turns ‘bleep inside’ into a percolating electro killer, and ‘molecular cloud’ is the explosive 140bpm meeting pointwhere warehouse rave and electro collide.
* to celebrate the second anniversary of khemia records we are pleased to welcome back in aeternam vale, the legendary french artist who inaugurated the imprint on a split ep with bronze teeth in march 2016. * this is the first single-artist ep produced by the label, initiating a new series that will run parallel to the v/a editions. * the tracks ‘dave’ and ‘circles’ form an elliptical conundrum composed of various references including kubrick’s alchemical allegory 2001 a space odyssey, (sampled in french) with it’s existential narrative of a schizophrenic artificial intelligence lurking in the shadows. the deus ex machina wondering if mankind is still useful to machines, or perhaps even dangerous to them? the infamous seveso chemical disaster at the pharmaceutical laboratory icmesa caused by human error, the glowing blood-red sphere of hal 9000, the all-seeing eye of the sentient super-computer and the circular composition of the toxic compound 2.3,7.8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (tcdd), released into the atmosphere at seveso. with this cryptic feedback loop, laurent prot is suggesting that the new technologies we are developing now, for use in our near future could result in catastrophe when human control is lost to the self-learning of ai. the homicidal consequences of a machine take-over find visual form in the bleak, dystopian aesthetic of evelyn bencicova’s cover artwork.
tadd mullinix, who s best known for the hip-hop he makes as dabrye and the acid-tinged house and techno under jtc, has added yet another alias to his repertoire, and it might be his most inventive project to date. x-altera and its debut album, the eponymous x-altera, were born from a fit of rediscovery. all at once, the ann arbor-based producer reconnected with the jungle he produced in the late 90s as half of soundmurderer & sk-1, revisited the forgotten b-sides of his drum & bass record collection, and fell back in love with the deep, melodic techno of detroit and london.
the double vinyl release includes a download code.
deutsche grammophon veröffentlicht max richters soundtrack zu scott coopers neuem beeindruckendem western “hostiles”. der mehrfach für seine filmmusik ausgezeichnete komponist liefert damit erstmals einen soundtrack im western-genre. erscheint als 180 gramm doppel-vinyl im klappcover, downloadcode inklusive.
instant chapter is an associative label established by 4 former hellyum s collective members. it has been created in order to put forward raw, instant and free productions. this project aims at bringing isolated electronic music producers out of the shadow so that their work can come to an end and be released. instant chapter thrives on its members diversified horizons. therefore, the label doesn t have any limitation in terms of genres or formats, and every chapter that will compound its history will aspire in exploring one of the many faces indie music can represent.
the son of a radio dj who introduced him to the world of record collecting, harris grew up with music, progressing from violin, to high school drum line, to the jazz studies program at virginia commonwealth university. he also continued working with other instruments and developed an interest in sampling. his development as a producer at first, without a computer or sampler came first learning to replay samples on the drums, piano, bass or guitar. dj harrison finds himself inspired by local musicians in the richmond scene thats as diverse and nonexclusive as they come. among rappers, producers, punks and bluegrass bands, he falls within reach of an expansive pool of musicians to collaborate with. he lives and works in jellowstone, a house turned recording compound occupied by his band mates in butcher brown, a garage punk jazz funk group.
dj harrison is richmond va-based producer and multi-instrumentalist devonne harris. the son of a radio dj who introduced him to the world of record collecting, harris grew up with music, progressing from violin, to high school drum-line, to the jazz studies program at virginia commonwealth university. he also continued working with other instruments and developed an interest in sampling. his development as a producer at first, without a computer or sampler came first learning to replay samples on the drums, piano, bass or guitar. dj harrison finds himself inspired by local musicians in the richmond scene thats as diverse and nonexclusive as they come. among rappers, producers, punks and bluegrass bands, he falls within reach of an expansive pool of musicians to collaborate with. he lives and works in jellowstone, a house turned recording compound occupied by his band mates in butcher brown, a garage punk jazz funk group. hazymoods, dj harrison’s stones throw debut, was recorded there completely on tape, where the living room functions as a communal recording studio
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