Digital Bonus: Scape One (Gordon Pohl II Remix)

Digital Bonus: Scape One (Gordon Pohl III Remix)

For his first release with Artificial Dance, Black Merlin aka George Thompson takes a departure from the hard-wearing techno and intricate field recording work that he has come to be known for. Scape One is a fifteen-minute psychedelic diversion recorded in one continuous live session. While the track’s sonic characteristics may echo dance music from the turn of the millennium, its pulsating rhythm is more suggestive of the slowly evolving landscapes seen outside of a train window as opposed to raves from the late ‘90s. 

Appearing on the B-side is Gordon Pohl’s remix of Scape One. Like its source material, this track is long and subtle in the way it develops over time, but Pohl dissects the most salient elements of the original to construct a new rhythmic urgency. The high frequency accent that guides the remix does so at a speed that recalls the rotations of Brion Gysin’s stroboscopic Dream Machine, which taps into your brain’s alpha waves, aiding drug-free hallucinations. 

Pohl and Thompson are frequent collaborators and release music together as Karamika. While Scape One is not a collaboration in the strict sense, there is plenty of crossover in the working methodology of the two musicians, especially when it comes to constructing uncomplicated arrangements. 

The repetitive nature of their respective tracks locks the listener into a contradictory sensation of travelling whilst staying seemingly motionless. This sensation is not altogether uncommon, but in this instance it’s not quotidian either. The result is a record that unravels slowly, leaving space for the listener to home in on all the available information and, in the process, discover elements that can be just as unnerving as they are satisfying. 

Records purchased from the Artificial Dance Bandcamp page come with a further two remixes by Pohl as digital-only bonus tracks.

https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/black-merlin-scape-one-incl-gordon-pohl-remixes

Black Merlin - Scape One (Incl. Gordon Pohl remixes) (AD014)

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL \\ Betek - Genetically Modified Mothafuckas [FERMA] (2021)

Artist » Betek - https://soundcloud.com/bernardobetek

Ep Name » Two Sides of Beauty

Label » FERMA - https://soundcloud.com/ferma_athens

Athens, Greece

Format: Digital Album 

Release date:  June 24, 2021 

BUY HERE: https://ferma.bandcamp.com/album/betek-two-sides-of-beauty-ep

Mastered by Georgios Anyfantis
Artwork by Dimitris Evagelou

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Two Sides of Beauty

PREMIERE CDL \\ Betek - Genetically Modified Mothafuckas [FERMA] (2021)

FERMA

This place was a maze; corridors veered off in every direction, doorways led to new rooms, stairways to unknown locations. Getting out of here would be an impossible task, everything had a mind of its own — things that were once there disappeared only moments later, escape routes morphed and shifted into new forms. This place played tricks on you, you had everywhere to run and everywhere to hide, but freedom was not yours — it was slipping away quicker than ever.

Cosmic Pint Glass have been working hard to put Norwich on the electronic music map with their parties and label. Since launching back in 2015 they've shared music from Ruf Dug, Marc Du Mosch, Toby Tobias and many more, and now they're welcoming back the group who helped launch the imprint nearly four years ago: Jack Pattern. Their follow up EP, 'Kosmische Kueche', is made up of three original cuts that range from industrial slow burners to mutant trip hop, backed up by remixes from Wax Stag and Dane Close.

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PREMIERE: Jack Pattern - Paolo Santoz (Dane Close Remix) [Cosmic Pint Glass]

Squirrels On Film is delighted to share a haunted song cycle of kosmiche dark-wave/cold-rave sonic incantation from Alyssa Auvinen Barrera aka LDY OSC. “Electric-Earthy-Esoteric” follows phenomenal EPs on The Bunker New York & Sweden's Kontra-Musik by the Mexican born, Texas raised musician & DJ who currently resides in Vienna. LDY OSC uses synthesis, rhythm & voice to conjure layered compositions that draw from post-punk, techno, dub & underground synth-wave.

Bad Connection pairs 80s Horror synths with a dynamic vocal performance, sultry Pink Room Twin Peaks cabaret one minute, guttural post punk shrieks the next. The rhythm section of vintage drum computers is drenched in soupy reverb.

Generate is full-on cosmic forest rave, rays of bright lysergic sunshine & boundless blue sky within an EP that largely inhabits misty moonlit nightscapes. Her distinctive percussive vocalizations bounce and echo around the laser-focused motorik propulsion & vaporous clouds of synthesizers.

Give Me is vampiric late night techno, an anthem of frustration & release, the sound of a grim overcrowded warehouse in Sheffield transcendent with ecstasy, her vocals providing urgent humanity within the cold machine structures.

Red Cosmic Moon is an epic atmospheric dub soundscape, a miasma of witchcraft, phantasmal woods bathed in celestial radiance, otherworldly spirits making contact with an earthly realm.

These incredible tracks were mastered by San Francisco Industrial Techno OG Mark Pistel & the vinyl features an original double-sided full-color image by Squirrels On Film Artist In Residence Bert Bergen. There are exclusive instrumental versions of Give Me & Red Cosmic Moon available digitally. We feel this is a special entry in the Squirrels catalog & we're privileged to share it with the world.

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Why People War - Fundraiser for Ukraine vol. 1

WhyPeopleWar: INIT - Drifter

Buy at: luridmusic.bandcamp.com

Alex from Lurid Music:

'Aggelos first approached Lurid Music with the idea for this project a few months ago. We agreed on one condition, that all proceeds be donated to refugee causes, like we did with his Black Sea EP which supported the Syrian refugee crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we decided our focus had to be helping the Ukrainian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in search of safe havens abroad.

We discussed this with most contributors to the project and the consensus was that donations should strictly go to humanitarian groups and not any armament funds. There were also some thoughts about helping conflict-affected peoples in other parts of the world but we decided it was too much to tackle for a relatively small project like this one.

Therefore, donations stemming from the sales of this release will be distributed to the following humanitarian groups currently active in Ukraine or neighboring countries welcoming refugees:

- International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-…n-ukraine/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights - Ukraine Urgent Response Fund: urgentactionfund.org
- Polish Humanitarian Action: www.pah.org.pl/en/donate/
- World Central Kitchen: wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
credits
released April 1, 2022

Original tracks written and produced by Aggelos Baltas.

Remix duties handled by the following, thank you for bringing your "A game" to this project: A Hand, Adhémar, Aditya Permana, Anna vs June, Ayaz, Black Seed, Bunzinelli, BXP, Cantillate, Christian Coiffure, DimDJ, Facets, Frank Butters, GK Machine, Infuso Giallo, Itzel, Jacques Satre, Krokakai, Komodo, Koyil, Misha Sultan, Mr. TC, NVST, Pannotia, Petros Spatharos, Philipp Otterbach, Poperttelli, Sepehr, Skynet 75, A Strange Wedding, Sun Genam, Tadan, Tagliabue, Tassilo Vanhöfen, T.D.O.S., Théo Muller, Vidock, YNV, Zillas On Acid.

We were fortunate to receive pro bono contributions from four highly-esteemed mastering engineers: Taylor Dupree (www.12kmastering.com), Brian Kage (kagemastering.squarespace.com), Dietrich Schoenemann (completemastering.com) and Tim Vitek (timvitekmastering.com). We are thankful for their meticulous work, especially to Dietrich for enlisting his fellow engineers to help with the massive remix load, 44 tracks are definitely too much for one person to listen to in such a short span.

The artwork was provided by Bill Brown, a Maryland native who lives and works in Ukraine. When the war started, he made his way safely to Germany via Poland. This illustration is an homage to Maria Prymachenko’s “May That Nuclear War be Cursed!”, which also inspired the title of this release. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/takomabill/.

T-shirt screen printing was kindly provided by Nolan, a grindcore bassist from Washington DC. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/malokul202/'

Vol.3

Vortex (Tassilo Vanhöfen Trailing Remix)

Taken from the incredible album 'The Rorschach Garden - Second Tape' from 1991 on Fich Art Munich, this song got transformed into a deconstructed piece without vocals that focuses only on the horrifying synth lines. Additionally a minimalistic drum pattern was added to enhance the groove for little dancefloors in the basements of the heated cities.

This edit was made in 2020 and recently found again in the depth of the harddrive.

BUY Here: https://houschyar.bandcamp.com/track/the-rorschach-garden-is-hope-an-energy-houschyar-drum-edit

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The Rorschach Garden - Is Hope An Energy (Houschyar Drum Edit)

Toxic Avenger - Getting Started (Holtz Remix)

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Exclusive Presale:

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each copy costs 9,- Euro

Official Release Date:
10.18.2016

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Artist: Kӣr https://soundcloud.com/k6r
Track: Akrasia
EP: Balčak
Label: Disk
Release: 01 01 2020
Cat No: DISK21
Format: Vinyl/Digital
Preorder: TBA

DT PREMIERE: Kӣr - Akrasia [DISK21]

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