PECRUSSION PART2 

TALISMANN - XEX

OLYMPIAN 41
by DEVELOPER
coming - August 18.2023

OLYMPIAN 41 // DEVELOPER

With Dwellers, language and symbolism run deep as CAIV, a new collaboration from Israel Vines and Camille Altay, challenges listeners to embrace the ambiguity of existence, and accept incongruity as a vital part of the whole.

CAIV was borne of the partnership initiated on Israel Vines' 2021 track, Keeping, and Dwellers delves into the realms of sound, semiotics, and half-obscured meanings, starting with the word-association from the pair's chosen moniker that led to the EP's title.

As Vines explains, "CAIV is obviously our initials combined, and we both liked the "cave" references that it brought to mind - digging, exploring, existing pre-modernity and continuing underground through the ages."

Across the four tracks CAIV use both language and rhythm to create a dense strata of significance and buried meaning - titles like G&ouml;belki Tepe and &Ouml;tzi 2.0 reference prehistoric relics whose full history is unlikely to ever be unearthed, while Cymbalism and Shamanfreude exhibit a joy in word play that hints at the very old and modern at the same time.

Altay explains this further, "This convergence of pre-civilized ironies, opposites, conundrums, conjectures, this is what I love about these great human discoveries. There is no definitive answer - someone hazards a guess that is grasping for meaning. We can only feel our way towards the truth of it, based on the signs and symbols we know and have associations with."

Fittingly, the music itself is deep and reverberant - combining primaeval rhythms with modern sound production and unexpected instrumentation. The opening track, Cymbalism, is built around samples of Altay interacting with Polish artist Alicia Kwade's TunnelTeller - a sculpture they describe as "resonant metal tubes and concrete, resembling an instrument waiting to be played"; again this neophile urge to do things differently leads them paradoxically to techniques that might have been second nature to humans thousands of years ago.

Altay can't fully put a name to this drive: "I feel like in the music we write, Israel and I are grasping toward a language that we both share and grew up speaking, but can't actually write down. It's referential, and specific, but hard to describe&hellip;we live on opposite sides of the country, so the music we send back and forth feels a lot like we're signalling to each other by lighting fires on a mountain. It's a way to communicate deeply over a great expanse with a nonlinear gesture." It is this instinct to transmit experience in novel ways which drives the CAIV project.

BANDCAMP

CAIV - Ötzi 2.0

Record Label – Newrhythmic Recs
Catalog Number – NRDR169
Track Title - Cannot Recover
Release Title - Blau Mari
Artist - YearsAstray
Style - Techno
Release Date - 03/05/2024
Format(s) - Digital

ARTIST & LABEL LINKS:

YEARSASTRAY:
SoundCloud: @years-astray
https://www.instagram.com/yearsastray

NEWRHYTHMIC RECORDS:
SoundCloud: @newrhythmicrecords
https://www.instagram.com/newrhythmic_recs
https://newrhythmic-records.bandcamp.com/

T-PREMIERE: YearsAstray - Cannot Recover [NRDR169]

Full stream of Border One's "Contour," taken from VA.02 on Cogo, out June 7.

More: www.orbmag.com/music

@cogo
@borderone

VA.02

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Premiere: Border One - Contour

TREATMENT vol.01

One Left

“New Life (Nardi Gabriele Remix)” nasce dal desiderio di dare nuova energia a un groove già potente.
Un viaggio tra suoni percussivi, bassi vivi e atmosfere fredde che si sciolgono in calore puro.
This is my sound. ❄️🔥

New Life (Gabriele nardi remix)

HUXCH - Deliverance

SEARCHING is a meticulously crafted, ten-minute instrumental odyssey within the darker side of electronic music. It uses high-octane rhythm to propel a heavy, introspective, and melancholic emotional state, perfectly suited for deep listening or the moodier hours of a club set.

SEARCHING

Northern Electronics 53
Anthony Linell – Alienation from Self EP

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Visual by A.L.

http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

Anthony Linell – Dissolvement

Reeko and Psyk team up for Mental Disorder #24.

Reeko & Psyk - Natural Causes [MD24]

The future:


 30/08 Berlin Atonal w/ Neel & DJ Red (DE) 
31/08 Berlin Atonal LIVE (DE)
06/09 Sejong Theater, Seoul (KR)
06/09 Vurt, Seoul (KR)
12/09 Trädgården closing, Stockholm (SE)
13/09 Magick Bar, Rome (IT)
18/09 Solace, Melbourne (AU)
 19/09 Eucladia x Solace Sydney (AU)
 20/09 At.las, Melbourne (AU)
21/09 Subvert, Adelaide (AU)
11/10 Inkonst, Malmö (AU)
01/11 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)

Bookings:
booking@northernelectronics.se

The cohesive array of depth charged devices that Anthony Linell has produced is formidable. From his opening statements as Abdulla Rashim on his early label of the same name, right through to his recent work that puts his aliases aside, there is a robust and rigorous intent that compounds the elemental strategies of techno's models to apprehend his singular vision.

Presiding over Stockholm's Northern Electronics label with Varg (Jonas Rönnberg), Linell dispenses with mechanisms of attention on all fronts. Marked by an indefatigable self-reliance, the label presents exactly what it means to display, and no more. Carving an idiosyncratic platform for his music is as great of a warning as there could be that Linell's leveraging little toward the benefit of the audience. By his measure, the familiarity and comfort of contemporary techno is stripped back to its rushing heart, the senses left tailgating the strobe in a fit of intuition over decision. The greater this is exposed the colder it gets, and its in these extremes that Linell's caustic rhythmic precision hits. Live, it comes off as a galvanizing strike from the outside; analysing the room as a DJ, it's a case of being pursued through the dark.

Just as the brevity of Linell's output in the eyes of techno is exalted as it is brought into focus, the background to this blurs as you start to decipher his other projects. Lundin Oil skirts the fringes of noise and experimental music, and in collaboration with Varg as Ulwhednar, this is perhaps even more pronounced.

Purposively ricocheting between the techno world and experimental electronic music, Linell forges a distinct passage that gathers the aesthetically uncompromising motifs and missions from across this spectrum. It's this combination and resolve that's brought Linell to the world's attention, however little that attention has been solicited.