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Somne New Energy EP
22.03.2024

Somne returns to AURA DINAMICA.

The label head follows up his 2020 LP Ostinati Ritmici with a new EP of floor-focused material that combines lush synth work with breaks and razor sharp sound design in the artist’s characteristic style.

Where Ostinati Ritmici drew on hypnotic techno and more abstract compositional techniques for inspiration, New Energy sees a shift in the artist’s approach, marrying careful songwriting with effective production to build tracks that exist as both DJ set highlights and standalone recordings. Uplifting title track New Energy builds neatly over its run-time, a well-defined break underpinning bass and pad components that shift and bend in tandem with a stylish, gated vocal. Blue Spirit takes its lead from classic UKG, updating familiar components for modern sound systems and adding unique layers of grit and noise. Skipping drums flex alongside stylish bass motifs to drive the composition forward with euphoric breakdowns charging the mood before the drops. Emotive roller Midnight City closes out the EP, the only 4x4 recording on the record, delivered in classic Somne style with dense, percussive drums working alongside a pitch-bent bassline and neat harmonic components – as musical as it is effective as a DJ tool.

New Energy

Midnight City

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New Energy EP
22.03.2024
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Somne returns to AURA DINAMICA.

The label head follows up his 2020 LP Ostinati Ritmici with a new EP of floor-focused material that combines lush synth work with breaks and razor sharp sound design in the artist’s characteristic style.

Where Ostinati Ritmici drew on hypnotic techno and more abstract compositional techniques for inspiration, New Energy sees a shift in the artist’s approach, marrying careful songwriting with effective production to build tracks that exist as both DJ set highlights and standalone recordings. Uplifting title track New Energy builds neatly over its run-time, a well-defined break underpinning bass and pad components that shift and bend in tandem with a stylish, gated vocal. Blue Spirit takes its lead from classic UKG, updating familiar components for modern sound systems and adding unique layers of grit and noise. Skipping drums flex alongside stylish bass motifs to drive the composition forward with euphoric breakdowns charging the mood before the drops. Emotive roller Midnight City closes out the EP, the only 4x4 recording on the record, delivered in classic Somne style with dense, percussive drums working alongside a pitch-bent bassline and neat harmonic components – as musical as it is effective as a DJ tool.

Blue Spirit

ambient / IDM mix

http://www.nts.live/shows/south-london-ordnance/episodes/signal-boost-w-south-london-ordnance-somne-1st-may-2017

NTS Radio - Signal Boost w/ Somne

The fresh Berlin-based @AuraDinamica releases its second EP, this time from the label boss Portrait (@PortraitAka). The three-tracker, as well as the labels general sound, can be described as modern techno with an atmospheric bent. 

Monument premieres the title track of the release, remixed by @Rhyw, half of the @Cassegrain duo. The Vitra EP is out in September.

MNMT Premiere: Portrait – Vitra (Rhyw Remix)

For the 18th Edition of our Podcast series, our man Portrait delivers the goods, recorded live here in the MTN headquarter. It is the perfect Soundtrack to spread your wings and fly out into the night.
Get lost in an hour-long trip through haunting Ambient, Electro and Techno tunes! 

Aura002 available here:
https://www.mutingthenoise.com/music/vitra

Muting The Noise 018 - Portrait

All music written by Oscar Morgan as Portrait
Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven
Art Direction and Design by Oscar Morgan

OCS015 Portrait - Energy Band

https://enisslab.bandcamp.com

In light of the current Covid-19 Pandemic Studio Enisslab headed up by Italian DJ / Producer and Live Act Neel has announced the release of a very special 56 track charity compilation project, fundraising for The Red Cross, who are working extremely hard alongside health services internationally that are feeling the effects of the corona-virus outbreak the most right now.

This special release features over 6 hours of previously unreleased and unheard material, where an all star cast of artists were encouraged to share music that reflects this time we are living in.

Neel, who is one half of live duo Voices From The Lake, and LF58 speaks out on behalf of the initiative, organised in collaboration with improvised live project Circle Of Live, and visual art collective Sbagliato. He explains:

“In this situation we all need to look after each other and this project is a start. I wanted to reach as many people as possible to spread this message, so I started to share the idea personally with lots of artists and the response was amazing. I wanted them to take their time with whichever tools they had available at home to produce some music that reflects this time we are living in, a contribution for this special project and to portray a special message.”

The project’s cover art image brought to you by visual art collective Sbagliato shows pictures of windows of houses and studios taken by the artists themselves: 56 musicians, 56 windows, 56 tracks shape a new place of sharing.

Quarantine City

@somne_smn
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A journey where techno enters a land of shadows and rarefactions, escaping images, dark suggestions. Where gravity becomes a relative concept, uncertain, and where cinematic refractions count as much as the dancefloor rules, in a continuous encounter/clash. 

It was time to get involved. Get involved deeper. After plenty of non-trivial satisfactions (and an album, “Boats”, on Life and Death), at the end of 2013 comes the time for Federico to higher the stake: he leaves the Clockwork project, willing to travel solo.

The richness of past experiences, the years in New York at heart (and in the musical and retinal education); a musical background that goes from the sharp and geometrical hip-hop of Gang Starr to the spirituality of Basic Channel's techno dub (passing through the visionaries of Radiohead and to the complex lightness of Matthew Herbert). Well: all these generated a new sinuous, fascinating and profound sonic venture.

First, it was “Millenium”, year 2014: tracks recreating a sense of space, mapping an itinerary, breathing deeply. Then it was time for “Vertere”, 2015, a joint venture with revered Mind Against, able to bring listeners on a journey outward while mirroring a simultaneous labyrinthine journey inward. 2016 brought “Triangle”, included in Afterlife label very first release “A Realm Through Consciousness”, a sonic affair traveling through mesmerizing synth and effective reverbs – a true Odyssey within itself.

A path was set, actually. And it was further enriched by an amazing collaboration with the legendary Deutsche Grammophon label, as Somne was the executive producer chosen by Tale Of Us for their “Endless” release on such a giant (and had remixing duties as well, on the track “Venatori”). It was time to take a step further, though. And its name was Aura Dinamica.

Music label co-funded with Oscar Morgan, aka Portrait (and distributed by Âme & Dixon’s Muting The Noise”). Some incredibly brilliant releases coming into play, “Speed, Noise, Machinery & The City”, “Ink Eye”, “Risveglio Di Una Città”, the latter being overtly inspired by early 20th century Futurismo movement while still getting straight at the heart of the dancefloor. A “Various Artists” release, amazingly depicting the sound of the label (Somne’s own contribution was the track “Dust”). Plus, some very special ventures, as Somne is definitely an open-minded musical warrior, as he crossed ways with Italian pop wunderkind Venerus, remixing the “Forse Ancora Dorme” track, turning into poisonous and angular machinery.

Blue Spirit

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