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HATE - New Techno Tracks - 4

Flying Island

Celtic Forest and the Prophecy Retold

Hymn to Moisture

Columns

Arrangements in Monochrome, Pt. 2

6ft of Silence

The Finish

Around the World (Loopcore Edit) - Hard Techno

Synthetic-Fire

This latest installment in the Stroboscopic saga once again calls upon the talents of two label veterans; both having released EPs on the label while also contributing to its five-year retrospective series. This new split release shared between Kangding Ray and Rrose is a fitting partnership: after all, both individuals are known for advancing the progress of rhythmic electronic music while drawing from creative influences and movements that weren’t typically associated with the ‘techno’ lineage until these producers made such links possible.
Kangding Ray’s side, “Ardent,” is a gripping and propulsive piece formed in the same spirit as the songs from his latest full-length, Cory Arcane. Dramatic and cinematic from beginning to end, it makes the listener and/or dancer feel like a highly alert martial artist slicing and kicking through a host of liquid-metallic adversaries, with disciplined synth bass and rich melodic swells as defensive weapons. Slick and accessible without ever being conventional, “Ardent” convincingly collages stuttering and minced sequences together with steady percolation and smooth, brassy undertones - three different sonic ‘states of matter’ that unify to make Kangding Ray’s musical
imagination into an almost tactile thing.
The entity known as Rrose, meanwhile, presents a track here that reaffirms that artist’s expert skill at crafting perfectly symmetrical and mesmerizing musical palindromes (a skill that can be seen on other standout Stroboscopic Artefacts tracks like “The Stare,” and also on Rrose’s interpretation of James Tenney’s classic palindrome “Koan [Having Never Written A Note For Percussion]).” The track in question, “Swallows,” is appropriately named, impressing upon listeners like the sonic equivalent of a massive searchlight which, once it lands upon its target, swallows or vacuums up the listener’s conscious attention. This elegantly arching set of multiplying and disintegrating waveforms rewards those with the courage to return its insistent gaze and to “play at maximum” volume to reveal the wealth of detail concealed within its deceptive minimalism.
With its scientific exactness and sheer originality, this split is an essential listen not just for fans of either artist, but also for any seeker after new perceptual revelations.

Kangding Ray / Rrose 'Ardent / Swallows' [SA027]

Penumbra

Sunday Blues (Rrose Remix)

Steven Porter (aka Katsunori Sawa & Yuji Kondo)- Reservoir EP
KYN009

Mastered by Neel @ EnissLab Studios, Rome
Release date: 04/05/18, 12" vinyl + digital
Artwork by Christopher Honeywell
Distributed by N.E.W.S.

Japanese sound sculptors Steven Porter (aka Katsunori Sawa and Yuji Kondo) sign two striking productions to Kynant, with a pair of remixes completing the ‘Reservoir’ EP. ‘A Need For Distance’ on the A-side is abrasive and hard-hitting but not without moments of melody. Fellow Japanese purveyor of tripped-out techno Iori mines a lean, highly-effective groove on the remix. ‘Romance Tip’ takes a slower, endlessly-detailed approach with sharp percussion and mind-bending atmospherics; Max Durante, who recently released his debut LP on Kynant, contributes a broken-beat workout to finish the record.

B1 Steven Porter - Romance Tip

Read more here: https://mnmt.no/blog/joachim-spieth-techno-remix-evigt-morker/

Irradiance reworked

MNMT Premiere: Joachim Spieth – Annihilatio(Evigt Mörker rework)

Taken from Steven Porter's upcoming Reservoir EP on Kynant Records, out April 18.

More: https://www.orbmag.com/music/premiere/

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Premiere: Steven Porter - A Need For Distance (Iori Remix)

Héctor Oak’s take-no-prisoners-approach of Techno

25 YRS Distillery 

Reeping their Past, Seeding our future

Héctor Oaks - Reaping Their Past, Seeding Our Future (PREVIEW)

Release date: 7th of September 2018 (vinyl & digital format)

A1. Afnio
A2. Renio
B1. Osmio
B2. Vanadio

After the powerful excursion of last year's Calcata, Neel returns to Token with Transition. Neel is known for engineering precision as the outlet for his creativity, both on his own and through his various collaborations.

Transition continues in this vein. Conceptually based around four elements in the group known as the transition metals and recorded live in one take, each track is a mind-bending trip through the periodic table that retains the human touch of a live performance. Afnio comes in gently, gradually twisting through moods into something for the late hours. Renio's deep spiraling somehow cascades upwards beyond the smooth transitions of the bass. Osmio showcases granulated percussion and tasteful discord, while Vanadio hypnotises with an infinite-seeming yet perfectly positioned high-end wail.

Neel - Renio (TOKEN86)

Entroterra EP

Paradosso (Original mix)

Alienation from Self

As They Withdraw

A Shell of Speed

Scania Floods

The future:

08/11 Ormside, London (UK)
21/11 NE x Headframes, Kiruna (SE)
12/12 Tresor, Berlin (DE)
19/12 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)
20/12 Astron, Athens (GR)
31/01 Industrial Copera, Granada (ES)
13/02 TBA Tblisi (GE)
06/03 Under Bron, Stockholm (SE)


Requests/Booking:

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.

As They Withdraw

Anthony Linell

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