Never Recovered

TB 2014

If STRGTHS offered a taste of the Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH’s sense of humour and willingness to actively resist order, Linear S Decoded see them in full control. 

The complex, onomatopoeic track titles are gone and replaced with more recognisable words and expressions, as though the pair - having strayed dangerously close to parody have decided to reign it in, declaring we make the rules round here. 

And they do. 

Whilst many of the textures on the album can be cross checked against celebrated European Techno of yore, it’s the unapologetic nature of SHXCXCHCXSH’s composition that marks it out against the rest. And it’s a development - where STRNGTHS might have opted for simply another cavernous kick drum, there are hooks here (see This Hmming Raverie), and bonafide musical pieces (see Monolithic Conclusion). Where others might feel ashamed that such uplifting and tonally pleasing sounds are coming out of their machines - SHXCXCHCXSH revel in this fact, warping and bending these sounds unashamedly to craft a truly singular Techno album. 

“Linear S Decoded never feels like punishment. They've replaced UK techno's sadistic carnival with a mossy softness, a reminder that while factories and cities decay and corrupt, so do cabins and farmhouses.” Andrew Gaerig, Pitchfork, 2014

Released September 9, 2014 

Written & Produced by SHXCXCHCXSH 
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy, London
Copyright Avian 2014

This Hmming Raverie

DreamsOnTheFlight

LIES-080
Silent Servant-Self Hypnosis
from the upcoming "Hypnosis in the Modern Age Vol.II" ep
to be released May 10th 2016

Buy Direct

SILENT SERVANT-Self-Hypnosis (LIES-080)

From Media In The Service Of Terror due June 10 via Hospital Productions

Vatican Shadow - 'More Of The Same'

After countless eps on Shipwrec, Return To Disorder or his own imprints "New Flesh" and "Rave Or Die" , the electro producer from Lyon is back for his first album since "Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation" released in 2006 ten years ago on Satamile Records from NYC ! This long awaited LP is the first outing of Killekill's new sublabel BOIDAE and it hardly disappoints. Eights tracks with distinctive feelings, raw electro, industrial, rave and machine-funk all way round. Here is the dark and nervous epic titletrack "Days Of Dissent", enjoy !

PREMIERE : Umwelt - Days Of Dissent

The First Siren previews

A2 Born Of Ashes (preview)

A1 Flight 655 - Shifting Allegiance [A+W XVI]

Released by Aufnahme + Wiedergabe, Berlin
Mastered by Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin

June 2017

Shifting Allegiance

FLIGHT 655 [A+W XVI]

Samuel Kerridge - Possession/Control 
Taken from 'The Silence Between Us' maxi single, released 5th October 2017 on Downwards records.

Rolling Stone Premiere: Samuel Kerridge - Possession/Control

To celebrate the release of the record, she lost kontrol is premiering the last track of the ep: Jonathan.

Buy: https://shelostkontrolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-arms

In Your Arms

Jonathan

Premiere: Kris Baha - Jonathan

‘Scanning Backwards’, @PhaseFatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture.

Taken from:  Phase Fatale | Scanning Backwards
out January 24, 2020 on Ostgut Ton [OSTGUTCD48/LP34]

Buy ‘Scanning Backwards’ as 2x12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://www.berghain.berlin/shop/releases/phase-fatale-scanning-backwards/

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/album/scanning-backwards
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/scanning-backwards
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vszky1GAUnME7GqMJJVkB?si=eV6nkqn6RiW8aWAtQjwXyQ
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cfVE-Kz8dYc

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics.

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.”

Ultimately, ‘Scanning Backwards’ surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Artwork: northor | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

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Phase Fatale | Mass Deception

Some Techno. Soundcloud of Ancient Methods and the Persephonic Sirens label.

worldwide booking: clara@acheron-booking.com