Techno's Outer Limits - April 2017

Track from NE36 Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt. 1: Heroine EP

Order: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Varg - Heroine I (CK)

A1. Submarine K-221
A2. Off The Grid
B1. It Lives Below
B2. To Breath Under Water


http://www.dnp-music.com/?p=25483

Acronym - Off The Grid

PRG/M - Assioma Geometrico
1 - Apotema
2 - Asymptota
3 - Catheto
4 - Hypotenusa
5 - Hypotenusa (Hydrangea Light Vision)
6 - Asymptota (Ruhig Woggle Interpretation)
7 - Apotema (Kalos Shadowy Forms Edition)

Assioma Geometrico

PRG/M - Assioma Geometrico

Next stop in our Journey on Transparent is ASC, is quite impossible to describe his immense skills, to really know more you have to search for it. After 16 Years of music this artist comes to our label to guide us on another level of Sonic Spectrum. “Internal Software” is one of the most charming sound design on a 4/4 scale we have ever experienced ever on the label. Take your time and immerse yourself into his world. All on Transparent Green 12”.

B2. ASC - Centric

Track from NE33 Ulwhednar - Modern Silver LP

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/modern-silver

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Ulwhednar - LKAB

Von Grall - Next Form

Release date (vinyl, cd & digital format): 24th of February 2017

A1 Suffocate
A2 Down
A3 Stabbing
B1 Porcelain
B2 Strobing
B3 Coming Apart
C1 Black Massing
C2 Interior
D1 Her
D2 Morning Star
D3 Positive Mutilation
D4 Porcelain (Ideal)

Token is pleased to announce Metabolism, the sophomore album from Sigha. The LP marks James Shaw’s third release on the Token label following his singles Christ Figures and Our Father. Metabolism represents an arrival: the artist offers his definitive statement on a production aesthetic that has been in development over the last few years.

Shaw’s work as Sigha has always placed the listener at a centrifugal point that invites a clandestine hypnosis rather than an abject hysteria. Cavernous low ends fixed firmly and effectively in a mono space tether the music to the body, while exquisitely executed white noise patterns and crystalline pads warp and hiss around the stereo environment. This keen ear for distinction within the frequency spectrum acts as the central theme on the LP.

Metabolism encompasses a power dynamism that departs from the explicitly greyscale finish found on his more conceptual work as Sigha and as A Vision Of Love for Guy Brewer’s Avian label. Though elements of Metabolism maintain a driven, corrosive quality, each searing sequence or mordant drum machine hit occupies its own space. On high-energy dance floor moments and abstract tracks alike, Shaw’s approach to distortion is one that sets out with an objective to separate components rather than to bind them. This creates a matrix of aural stimuli that remain heady and inherently propulsive, but are realised in a fashion more akin to high fidelity sound design than processes traditionally associated with the techno genre.

The record possesses a powerful musicality beyond this acute attention to form and structure. In the past, Shaw’s productions have often married high-energy drum work with subtly shifting minor keys spread around the sonic periphery. On Metabolism, emotive leads sit squarely and comfortably in the foreground, and build towards rapturous crescendos that are crisp and omnipresent throughout the mix. These careful layers generate the extraordinary tension that has since become a hallmark of the British artist’s work.

Metabolism is a techno album, but its frame of reference is generous, drawing on the finest facets of the artist’s own varied discography and the wider electronic music landscape. Cohesive and modern, Shaw’s latest work eschews a handful of riffs on a single idea in favour of a multi-faceted, fully realised expression of what the genre can be - it is a vital addition to the Token label’s already enviable catalogue of releases.

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TOKEN70LP – Sigha – Metabolism

Midgar is happy to welcome the Byelorussian artist Cliche Morph with the moody 4-tracker Escape From Himself EP.

Mastering by Matt Colton at Alchemy Studio London
Vinyl Release Date : Feb 2017
Artist Page : @clichemorph

Cliche Morph - A1. Escape From Himself

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

The tension between the natural and artificial, the body and mind, are central themes in electronic music in general, and Techno in particular.
The means of creation, focused around technology and interactions with machines, contrast with the emotional response to sound, the mystical ritual of collective dancing, and the ethos of liberation and tolerance embedded in the culture it has produced.

We’re navigating a world of engineered pleasures, big data monitoring of movements and consumption habits, and representations of reality that falsely claim objectivity, further blurred by reduced attention spans and several opaque layers of cultural interpretation and political manipulation.

Manichean simplifications are used to create hate and fear in order to achieve domination and impose limits on freedom. Meanwhile, the irrational belief in endless growth – increasingly disconnected from nature – has led to massive environmental destruction and an unprecedented wave of species extinction.

Our original primal perception – vastly more abstract, emotional and sensual – makes us feel the world as an ambiguous realm we are part of, but not in control of. We exist in a complex network of interacting forces and enigmatic patterns; a matrix of overlapping desires. Reconnecting with this sensory perception and through it spreading love becomes an essential act of resistance.

Hyper Opal Mantis is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and the first long player of Kangding Ray for Stroboscopic Artefacts.
HYPER is the primal, sensual lust; OPAL is the emotional catharsis, a blissful desire for love; MANTIS, like the insect it refers to, is the destructive, fatal attraction.

All tracks (w)&(p) by David Letellier.
Graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA].
℗ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2017.
Cat. No SALP005/SACD008 – all rights reserved.
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com
info@stroboscopicartefacts.com

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

Kangding Ray 'HYPER OPAL MANTIS' [SALP005/SACD008]

Wata Igarashi's Ciphers Ep (MDG006) out in March 2016 is getting reworked. The artist involved were carefully chosen together with Wata Igarashi after some friendly exchanges during his last visit in Europe. We want to deeply thank Nuel, Yves De Mey, Orphx, Shawn O'Sullivan, r²π and Ruff Cherry for taking part to this project and giving their amazing contribute! As happened for the original Ciphers Ep, which included 2 free download only digital tracks, we decided also this time to give away two tracks: 'Cocytus' remixed by r2π, newborn collaboration of Ruhig, Retina.it and PRG/M and 'Displacement' remixed by the Ruff Cherry. We are also happy to announce that the vinyl finally comes with full artwork cover plus innersleeve (for those who know and complained that we saved on that so far). cheers!

MDG006X
Wata Igarashi - Ciphers Ep Remixed
A1. Ciphers (Nuel Remix) - A2. Hailstones (Yves De Mey Remix)
B1. Lucifero (Orphx Remix) - B2. Mantle (Shawn O'Sullivan Remix)
D1.  Cocytus (r²π Remix) - D2. Displacement (Ruff Cherry Remix) 
Release Date: February/March 2017
Mastered by Matt Colton

MDG006X - Wata Igarashi : Ciphers EP Remixed [snippets]

https://www.discogs.com/ja/Various-Untitled/release/8678366

Takaaki Itoh - Pot2 - PVC009

Digital:
crossingavenue.bandcamp.com/album/malandra

Vinyl: 
clone.nl/item44884.html

Next up on Spazio Disponibile is a pair of artists who played the party of the same name at Goa, Rome last year. Their name is Crossing Avenue and their MO is to make experimental techno in a hi fidelity style that is as cerebral as it is physical. Here they do so across four fantastic tracks. 

Crucial is first and is a big, warm open space filled with tiny little flecks of sound, delicate synth flashes and rolling rubber drums that truly hypnotise. Malandra is another bit of burrowing mind music that is hugely atmospheric yet notably sparse and economic in design. The drums roll below as watery droplets, ghostly pads and haunting organic hooks all roam and snake about in the mix. Rimbalzo is darker and more direct, with a supple techno groove forcing you to move as flashes of synth, alien life forms and subterranean ambiance all color in the airwaves. Last of all, No Coasts traps you in another underground cave with only desolate drones and bulbous bass lines for company. It is eerie, but beautifully so, and rounds out another fascinatingly cinematic release.

A1.	Crossing Avenue - Crucial
A2.	Crossing Avenue - Malandra
B1.	Crossing Avenue - Rimbalzo
B2.   Crossing Avenue - No Coasts

Spazio007 - Crossing Avenue - Malandra

Flyance 008
Dysphoria I Euphoria Ep (Chapter Two)
Produced by Kas:st 
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Vinyl 2 x 12" & Digital format :
8 tracks vinyl + 3 tracks digital

Tracklist :

Kas:st - Origin (Digital Only)
A1. Kas:st - 55:55 
A2. Kas:st - 66:66
B1. Kas:st - 77:77
B2. Kas:st - 88:88
Kas:st - Emotional Progress (Digital Only)
A1. Kas:st - 55:55 (AWB remix)
A2. Kas:st - 66:66 (Setaoc Mass remix)
B1. Kas:st - 77:77 (Luke Hess remix)
B2. Kas:st - 88:88 (Anetha remix)
Kas:st - At The End Comes tThe Chaos(Digital Only)

FLY008 _ Kas:st - Dysphoria I Euphoria [Chapter Two] (incl. AWB, Setaoc Mass, Luke Hess, Anetha rmx)

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 17th of March 2017

After the success of the broad and powerful second LP Alone In Time?, Ø [Phase] continues his ongoing connection to Token with the Submerged Metropolitan EP.

The title track enters with Burchett’s own brand of unease; the lead is tense and discordant, moving over a bumpy, rolling kick. Brushing off-beat hats rush overhead and play delicately with this unease above the thunder. A vague spoken word sample adds texture and contributes to the cerebral edge.

Ethereal swells and intense rhythmic play introduce Fallen Columns, which delves into atonality with keys that add a controlled recklessness to the composition.

This Absent Mind takes on a hypnotic, dubby form with a confidence that belies its complexity. A sublime breakdown introduces the heavier second half of the track, which enters impressively and batters on to the end.

TRACKLIST
A. Submerged Metropolitan 
B1. Fallen Columns 
B2. This Absent Mind

www.tokenrecords.com 
www.facebook.com/tokenrecords

TOKEN71 - Ø [Phase] - Submerged Metropolitan

Synthek - Transitions Of Life https://soundcloud.com/synthek 

In this space between chaos and conformity disorderly moments welcome new phases into existence, leading to the awakening of an elevated version of the self. Between highs and lows, Transitions of Life remain; the concept behind Syn- thek’s first solo full length sound narrative on his Natch Records imprint. Unfold- ing across a vexing two-year transformation phase, Synthek’s crossings along rough roads are the tribulations to reveal this intimate personal journey of reve- lation through emotional downshift, spiritual upheaval and cerebral quandary. In this dominion, Synthek shapes the eleven track escapade along a sophisticated array of synths and warm analog drums, while contrasting the build and decline of atmosphere through deep bass soundscapes.
Pivotal turning points execute the programming of the album’s three part sound design; beginning from darkness and repression, evolving to a more colourful aerial majesty of lucid dream state, morphing into the developed nature of life lessons learned; Transitions of Life making its incarnation into the discovery of the self and re-entry into reality.
*Transitions of Life is a 2x12” release made available through Natch Elements, intro- spective extension to the Natch Records imprint. Visual embodiment of the project artfully presented with photographic time capsule by Salar Kheradpejouh of Berlin, Germany with graphic work curated by Jacopo Severitano, co-founder of Natch Records.

Cat. n°: NTCLP02
Format: 2X12” + DIGITAL
Release Date: 20.03.17
Mastering: Matt Colton @ Alchemy Mastering 
Distribution: Ready Made Distribution_Berlin
Cover Picture: Salar Kheradpejouh
Design: Jacopo Severitano
Press Release: Tanya Puppi (Dimension4 - Holistocrat)

PRE-ORDER HERE

[NTCLP02] Synthek - Transitions Of Life LP [Snippet]

Sciahri - Devotion part 1:

A1 Anxiety
B1 Illusion
B2 Falter

Formats: 12” Vinyl / Digital
Vinyl Release date: 10/03/2017
Digital Release date: 31/03/2017
Catalogue number: SUBT101

Sublunar is the new label founded by Sciahri and Dagdrom. The label sound focuses on deep and hypnotic textural techno and will represent the owners' specific taste for both club effective techno as well as more experimental excursions. 
Their first output is a three 12" Ep's trilogy called 'Devotion' by one of the two owners Sciahri, the Florence based Dj and producer who has just released his second EP on Ilian Tape. Each release is each release is limited and numbered. As Sciahri somehow tries to create worlds and environments, the first chapter of this trilogy 'Devotion - part 1' represents the start of the journey, entering a dimension that is abstract yet solid and physical, full of vividly distinguishable details. The air is dense but there's room to breathe and to let one's body and mind engage with the narrative that develops over the course of the three tracks.

Buy online:
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2lmv5Br
Hardwax: http://bit.ly/2m2OyTg
decks.de: http://bit.ly/2m73DTK
deejay.de: http://bit.ly/2msLIKL
Triple Vision: http://bit.ly/2m9XE1f
Technique.jp: http://bit.ly/2mIPtdG

Devotion

Sciahri - Devotion part 1

Mind Express is back on the scene with three cuts of trademark mental grooves ready to test the purists in the booths and dancefloors from around the world.

Cat No:003
Release Date: 01/05/17
Distributed by Juno

Pre Order: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/refracted-mind-express-003/637048-01/

Refracted - Mind Express 003 Snippets

ARKVS - Navigator EP
cat. no. PRRUKD074
Label: Planet Rhythm
Release Date: 20-02-2017

out now: http://btprt.dj/2nd6U4T

Hailing from the same place as the label, Rotterdam based duo "ARKVS" return to the label for their first full 3-track EP. ''Navigator EP'' is a well balanced release that showcases several moods that range from deep and moody to uplifting and moving. Navigator EP will appear in the digital format through all specialized retailers.


ARKVS:
@arkvsrotterdam
https://www.facebook.com/arkvsrotterdam

Planet Rhythm:
www.planetrhythm.nl
@planetrhythmrec
www.facebook.com/planetrhythmrec
pro.beatport.com/label/planet-rhythm/3022
www.discogs.com/label/347-Planet-Rhythm-Records

Buy on Beatport

ARKVS - Navigator EP [PRRUKD074]

Marco Shuttle - Olga

Exclusive stream from @taapionrecords to Trax Magazine.

More on: on.traxmag.com/MNcb-mNyf

Various Artists (Bambounou /Shlømo & AWB / PVNV / Kas:st)
Label: Taapion
Cat No. TPN006
Release Date: 10/03/17

Techno's Outer Limits - April 2017

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