Techno: Dark / Leftfield / Industrial - part 4

During summer lockdown 2021, it was forbidden to have dancing at parties. And so when exemplary north-east London record shop Hidden Sounds asked me to DJ at a sitting-down event, it seemed like the perfect workaround, and a wonderful excuse to explore some deep corners of my record collection. 
Think blankets, incense, rugs, chess, cushions, fungi, tea and 50 people laying around in a cosy space for a psychedelic, horizontal, evening listening session - pure bliss!
Here is the whole thing.
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Shroom Sessions at Hidden Sounds August 6 2021

Sheltering Skies

Sky Crash Over Me

Just to Feel Anything

Illusion Self

Episode 42: outlier

Track from NE96 Ulwhednar - Area 08

Out on 2xLP and digital December 8th.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

“The collaborative project of Northern Electronics' founders, Anthony Linell and Jonas Rönnberg, has never ceased to confront with their coupling of industrious delirium and pensive austerity. By now we know that only adrenaline can make sense of the toxic ensemble of purposes at the heart of Ulwhednar. Meditating on higher flights of thrill and disorder than their previous record, and with an acknowledgement of their Stockholm roots, 'Area 08' induces fever and anticipation with every gesture.
The opening tracks make a raucous yet resolute introduction to proceedings, eventually issuing one of the album's most exquisite moments of reprieve with 'Akalla/Broken Swords'. However, it is the second half of 'Area 08' that formally admits their latest work has crossed a threshold yet unexplored by the pair. A suite of villainously propulsive tracks spit embers of caustic balms as they careen out of reach with the engorged march of 'Commuter Madness'."

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Area 08

Ulwhednar - Terra Nova/C20 Drive

Premiere of the track "The Night Has Passed Already" by Vanity Productions, taken from his upcoming album on Northern Electronics.

"...Recorded during the weeks after Christian's sister’s passing, it resonates internally as the maelstrom of melancholy, transforming grief into distorted tunes. Minimalistic and bleak at the core, yet possessing vague and undeniable romanticism, morbid intensity and density, a tangible memo filled with love unexpressed, a ride through a tunnel drowning in light."
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Artist: Vanity Productions
Track: : "The Night Has Passed Already"
Album: "The Night Has Passed Already"
Label: @northernelectronics
Format: CD + DL
Release date: January 26, 2024
Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/

Music by Christian Stadsgaard
Mixed By Malthe Fischer and Christian Stadsgaard
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab Rome
Artwork's photo by Christian Stadsgaard

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Premiere: Vanity Productions - The Night Has Passed Already [NE99]

This was the last two hours of my opening set for @kicks-hugs-berlin at Renate back in December, unfortunately the recorder didn't catch the beginning of the set so we just jump straight in to the groove.

Anthony Linell @ Kicks & Hugs x Renate Dec 2nd '23

Anthony Linell & Mattheis live at Draaimolen Festival 2024

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Fragments from the opening hours of our annual NE night which took place at our much beloved Tresor in May.

Many thanks to all the Tresor personell and appreciation to everyone in attendance for making this happen.

Trailcam's debut album 'Drumlin Loop' is out on CD June 27th

northernelectronics.bandcamp.com


Trailcam aka E-Saggila at Tresor, Berlin May 30th 2025

Written produced and mixed by Alessandro Barchitta.
Artwork by Michel Iseneld.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

Love and light

Heruka

Feral - Heruka

Adding to previous 12“es on Ostgut Ton and his own RK label fellow Neuköllner and Berghain resident Kobosil offers four new uncompromising Techno club tools.

While all cuts on the 105 release share filthy, stone-cold, elemental rhythms – pounding, energetic and hypnotic 4/4 kick drum slaps – the devil is, like with all Kobosil productions, in the aesthetic details. “40000 L” uses gargling synth patterns and howling horns to dramatic effect; “Bei Nacht H (178)” contrasts the kick with a harsh, tinny drumbeat and menacing melody pad, creating a nightmarish vibe.
“Backmask N” on B1 offers heavily alienated vocal samples alongside rave-reminiscing synth stabs and staggered hi-hat percussion. “Derange” closes this four-tracker with grainy drone echoes and throbbing, sizzling synth pulses.

Adding to Kobosil’s full-floor-focussed sonic repertoire 105 shows him from his darkest and most vigorous side yet – this 12“ is a brute, in the most positive sense.

Buy 12"

Kobosil | 40000 L

Having contributed to the final 47 Various Artist EP earlier this year with Ancient Methods, OAKE and Tommy himself, VSK now delivers the third solo EP from 47. 
 
47011 offers up 4 tracks ranging from dusky, ruptured metallic sounds to flat out effective techno, keeping with VSK’s signature combination of sharp sound design with fiercely out there rhythms.

47011

A2 // VSK // UNDER PROCESSING [47011]

Weight Of The Land

Emerald Fluorescents

Watchtowers/Frontex

The future:

25/07 TBA, USA
26/07 The Great Beyond, MN (US)
01/08 Technoferia, Medellín (CO)
02/08 Tunnel, Pereira, (CO)
09/08 Eden, Stockholm
 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 TBA, Sydney (AU)
 20/09 TBA, Melbourne (AU)
21/09 TBA, 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.

Watchtowers/Frontex

Anthony Linell

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