Alex Albrecht returns with Aurora - a pristine followup to his Blue Caves transmission via Scissor and Thread in 2018.

The Melbourne based composer and sound designer Albrecht has leans into his predilection for woozy, affecting melodies intertwined with skittering drums and snaking grooves, and Aurora brings that to the fore with six tracks of shimmering beauty.

The title track Aurora is shared here as a remix by @roza-terenzi, who entirely reworks the track with her signature club ready grooves.

Remixer: @roza-terenzi
Buy: https://melquiades-alexalbrecht.bandcamp.com/album/aurora

Aurora

PREMIERE: Alex Albrecht - Aurora (Roza Terenzi Remix) [Scissor and Thread]

Artist: @soelaela
Buy/Stream: www.linktr.ee/scissorandthread

Soela is the DJ and production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based experienced pianist and vocalist who has made a hugely impactful transition into electronic music.

Having released material on such labels as Kompakt, Dial, Shall Not Fade, Lost Palms, E-Beamz, Red Ember Records, Sushitech, and others, Soela joins the ranks of Scissor & Thread for this exquisite album - Dark Portrait. 

The album opens in a typically understated manner with Unsuitable - a melancholic trip-hop adjacent track that sets the tone for the next 8 pieces. As Soela explains, “I was dealing with some very complex feelings, so I came up with this album, which helped me not to despair, to work on myself, to grow internally, and to start listening to myself. It helped me to keep sane when my country invaded Ukraine with a full scale war. It absolutely broke my heart, and music was one of my main salvations.” 

This complex mix of emotions plays out across the album with tracks that utilize her beautiful musicality (Through the Windows feat. Francis Harris and Philipp Priebe, Drowning feat. Module One) and ear for details with skittering beats, ambient soundscapes (Spirits, Lost In The Fog) and lose-yourself dancefloor moments such as the collaboration with Lawrence on February Is Not Going To Be Forever. The title track Dark Portrait combines dubby elements with affecting pads and melodic touches, while the lead single Even If I Ask You Stay delves into multiple feelings around escaping toxic situations, and battling depression. It features a powerful vocal from Soela supported by a deeply affecting arrangement. The closing track The Darkest Hour Before Sunrise brings a sense of hope and light, balancing subdued keys and strings with ethereal tones and atmospheres

Dark Portrait

Soela - Lost In The Fog

KURS x Cruise" — серия выездных эфиров на борту лайнера Cruise" by Kuznyahouse, прошедших 28 июля 2024 в Москве. 
Cruise" by Kuznyahouse: https://cruise2.ru/

KURS — некоммерческое онлайн-радио с еженедельным вещанием и комьюнити, базирующееся в Москве, внутри Kultura Record Store. 

Архив эфиров: https://on.soundcloud.com/NS1UFvCms5yVxHuf8
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Сотрудничество: hello.kurs@gmail.com

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KURS x Cruise": Pop Club w/ Denis Kostitsyn

I just released an EP that was sleeping in my computer for too long. 

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Pheek Spae (Original Mix)

RUNNER

Thermodynamics

London Flavour

The keeping of pets marks humans’ attempt at taking possession of a part of reality that is not at his disposal. Dressing a piece of the real that lives according to entirely non-human rules and which only in the saddest case does not resist the discipline of the human symbolic order vehemently and in a sustained matter, is a violent act of protection. Because in the non-place of the real, all that which we are helpless in the face of looms: the non-logical and the nameless, the violence and the noise, yet also the unrestrained and unfiltered desire.
The innocuous figure of the pet marks a gateway to an investigation of these eerie milieus, while electronic dance music lends itself to this investigation in an outstanding way. This constellation marks the subject of Column’s ‘Pets II.’ 

Column is the name of Cologne based renaissance man Jan Philipp Janzen, who, as chief emissary of Cologne’s pop internationalism, has been playing the field in various functions for Von Spar, Cologne Tapes, Urlaub in Polen, Owen Pallett, Scout Niblett or The Field, and who has also, in one way or another, been involved in most relevant records coming out of Cologne for the past number of years. After his
excellent solo debut ‘Pets I’ (Areal, 2016), Janzen presents another extraordinary record in ‘Pets II,’ perfectly complemented by another ghostly oil work of Burkhard Moennich on the cover.
Sonically, ‘Pets II’ marks a clear development for Column. In its exploration of the thresholds of the real, it sets two points of focus, corresponding with the split in sides A and B. Side A, on which Janzen teams up with long-time friend myr. (PNN), explores the uncanny as a fissure of the symbolic order, and the subsequent breaking in of the real. It opens with two peaktime rockets that have their wooden, nether-regional groove narrated by grim, down-pitched vocals. The ethereal remix by Leibniz (hundert) seems to be observing the situation from a hiding place, and is the side’s clandestine and no less dark closer. Side B, for which Janzen invited studiomate Marvin Horsch (Dorfjungs/Beats in Space) along, delivers two swaying synthesizer workouts, the second of which, “Molly and Swerve,” is directed firmly at the dancefloor again. What is at stake here is the transition between a free, undirected jouissance of the real and a more ordered becoming-lust. Here, as in
Map.ache’s (Kann/Giegling/Altin Village) remix which closes out ‘Pets II,’ it becomes clear what connections dance music can foster between a free, impersonal desire and the sphere of interpersonal wanting, but also the losses that are negotiated in it.

Above all, however, it becomes evident what a courageous daring project ‘Pets II’ is in all of its conceptual and aesthetic determination; with Von Spar’s standout ‘Garzweiler’ 12” (Altin Village & Mine, 2017), it documents a New Cologne Realism.

Pets II

Hostels (Map.ache Remix)

Column - Hostels (Map.ache Remix)- IRR017

Selected and mixed by @andrey-pushkarev

Artwork by www.christine-auger.com

Tracklist:

1) Anna Akhmatova - From the cycle "Secrets of Craft": Creativity (Мелодия)

2)Factice Factory - Wie Raben (Ambient Version) (minimood)

3)Arctic Hospital - Rotating Water (Narita Records)

4)Warmth - Concave (Past Inside the Present)

5)Cheise - Planet Four (AHAAD)

6)Sonmi451 - Bay Hatch (Astral Industries)

7)Warmth - Reflector (Past Inside the Present)

8)Pablo Bolivar - Mechanical Age (Regular)

9)Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald - Afterlude (Tresor)

LOA Triptych Podcast: Ambient

We are delighted to welcome Swedish techno and deep house extraordinaire Dorisburg to the Phonica label family! 

Alexander Burg has had a rock-solid string of top-class releases on labels like Hivern Discs, Aniara and Northern Electronics in recent years, and his brand new EP ‘House Organ For The Lonely’ is certainly no exception to the rule. 

Comprised of three slow-building and ominous techno masterpieces - each set upon a bed of delicate synth-lines, off-kilter percussion work and whirring electronics. Perfect for those after-hours moments. 
Vinyl out now! You can also grab it digitally from all of your favourite sources (Spotify, Bandcamp, Beatport, Juno Download etc). Links below. Enjoy! 🙌 

Vinyl: bit.ly/phon028-vinyl
Spotify: bit.ly/phonica028-spotify
Bandcamp: bit.ly/phonica-bandcamp

House Organ For The Lonely

Dorisburg - Rhythm Paint [PHONICA028]

04.12.2020

Finetune - Phrygia

On October 1, 2000 Konfekt, Basteroid and Metope founded the electronic music label Areal. Their productions up to this point were the main reason for this decision: no matter wether it was a solo production or a collaboraton, one could always reduce their work to a common denominator. So they decided to give their music a ground to develop: the Areal. In 2008 we established our sublabel IRR (International Records Recordings)

Demo Submissions:

We receive probably 100 demos a week, thats about 25 hours to listen to music.
And guess what! 99% of the music received has nothing to do with what we release on Areal or IRR, so in most cases it's a waste of time to you and to us. If you know the labels and you have the feeling, that it is great to release here and it suits with the areal or irr-sound, then send us your soundcloudlink via email to info @ areal-records.com

We apologize for being so strict, but our time has to be managed well. We just dont have the time to listen to more than 15 demos a week.

Hope you can understand

Have a nice day.

Areal Records-Team 