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Club music culture necessarily shifted gears in many ways during and after the course of the pandemic. Older participants found their way into other interests and younger participants took new reigns to orient spaces they felt good inside of. The agenda for the music, and the cultural industry surrounding it at large, took a more frivolous and “fun” turn. Clubs needed to recoup lost money, people needed more refreshing catharsis for their nightlife escape, and in some pockets scattered around the globe a newer and younger cadre of producers/promoters/DJ’s pulled optical cues from a scattering of “darker” influences to give an alternate aesthetic to the aforementioned “vibes” culture. In the midst of this, a large polarization of conceptual energy shifted within the compositional and utilitarian machinations of the club music culture leaving behind the brooding and cerebral placeholders for a different kind of enjoyable hedonism. Terrestrial Paradise’ “Artificial Hell” harkens to another prescient time before that shift occurred. “Artificial Hell’ might just be an illustration of what all of this fun escapism encapsulates.

Terrestrial Paradise is the latest moniker from Montreal come Los Angeles based producer Jaclyn Kendal. Having developed and cemented her sonic positionality with releases on North American labels like Ascetic House and Summer isle over the years, as well as a series of monolithic live sets, Bank is pleased to announce Kendal’s Terrestrial Paradise first full length album “Artificial Hell”. Over the course of nine recordings, “Artificial Hell” gives a master class in pressurized industrial techno of the slower variety. Fitting with the legacy of Bank’s output since it’s inception, Terrestrial Paradise’s aesthetic sensibilities sit within the canon of a certain tinge of club music imbued with a sense of natural grit, sans pretense.

“Artificial Hell” nods to artists like Scorn, Regis, and 400 PPM while maintaining it’s own territory in the landscape of cerebral and brooding rhythmic techno. Ominous, mechanistic drones sit above succinctly exacted percussion composition and sound design. Throughout “Artificial Hell”, Kendal shows her proficiency with the push and pull of building and releasing tension. On tracks like “Salvation” and “Relativity” she melds her synth wash wallscapes with driving percussion, serving as both a hint and counterpoint to the the entirety of the latter part of the album taking on spartan ambient compositions as a way to keep the listener in a subdued stasis. This album is a statement piece from a long time participant in the North American underground music sectors. It reminds the listener through perilous, considered rhythms and darker drone impositions to cement themselves back into a place where not everything is always a good time.

Terrestrial Paradise - Western Ave (BNK-042)

After 'Auras Around Humans' in 2021 and 'Waterfall Cave' in 2022, Grande Rousse disques is really proud and happy to unveil 'Ephemeral and Unseen', Sopoorific's third tape.

"Ephemeral and Unseen' is a celestial journey in seven magical chapters, seven new age incantations taking us into the dizzying immensity of an enigmatic cosmos. With each new step into its infinite depths, the echo of this astral ritual resonates louder and louder, spreading its invisible forces until it engulfs the mind and the heart. Perception is blurred, and it is on the threshold of liminality that consciousness wanders amid brilliant stars, mystical planets, comet dust and spectres that are the messengers of omens.

https://soundcloud.com/sopoorific
https://soundcloud.com/grande-rousse-disques

Premiere: Sopoorific - Farewell Forever [Grande rousse disques]

Isabella Koen –  Cracked, Serving Assorted sweets make heaven
A1. Exit Appeal
A2. Gooof
B1. Liquibliss
B2. Joy Drive

Out on 12th of Feb 2024
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Mastered & cut by @timxavier @ Manmade Mastering
Design by Aleksandra Grünholz / @wewillfail
Photo by @3sam3clarke3
Distributed through @oneyewitness

Isabella Koen –  Cracked, serving assorted sweets make heaven (Brutaż-15) [EP Preview]

Nacre

Buy/Listen in full here:

https://quadebanduk.bandcamp.com/album/nacre

Recorded by Jack Ogbourne at Louisiana, Bristol
Mixed by Larry McCarthy
Mastered and cut by Noel Summerville
Sculpture by Alice Jennings
Artwork by Ciaran Birch

Pulso

Nacre - Quade

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Succeeding the ‘Forgiveness Of Blood Remixes’ release from Tensal in July 2023, Italian imprint @KR3_records returns with a 9-track remix compilation – courtesy of British techno mutant Justin K Broadrick, better known as @JK-Flesh @samuelkerridge

JK Flesh Remixes

Veneer Of Tolerance

JK Flesh - Veneer Of Tolerance (Samuel Kerridge Remix) [KR3]

Amsterdam-based label traverse announces the third instalment of their compilation series ''traversée' and sees nine "super talented artists who shape the vision of the label on a daily basis through the diversity of their musical background and origins." 

Swiss duo royalbrut delivers an excellent slow-burner with 'Wäutformatplakat' that is yours to cop now through traverse's Bandcamp page. The full project drops on March 13th.

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Wäutformatplakat

Premiere: royalbrut - Wäutformatplakat | traverse

Ahead of tomorrow's BT night at Bike Jesus with Ivna Ji, Exhausted Modern, Barking and mʊdʌki, we present Poisoned Notes, featuring four exclusive tracks from tomorrow's line-up.

Offering a taste of the sounds to come, flexing downtempo, pulsating jams, breaks and electro.

[NOCAT] VA - POISONED NOTES
Free digital compilation.

Tickets available from RA.
https://ra.co/events/1875583

@exhausted-modern

Free

Exhausted Modern - Guest Of Reality

Embark on an ethereal journey with Second End Records’ inaugural release, as the new entity unveils today “The Next Kingdom” LP, from label-founder Jonnnah.

As a manifest of SER ethos, the Lyon-based Producer’s second personal album is also a pure merging of his own touch: mesmerizing soundscapes, pulsating rhythms, and enchanting synth melodies. From Jonnnah’s intricate layers of instrumentation and melancholic vocals, arise the fragile yet powerful aesthetic encapsulated in the contemporary electronic scene. Boundaries between genres and emotions dissolve through the prism of digital hybridizations, and each track of this twelve-act offering alternately conceal or lay bare what’s deeply rooted in Jonnnah’s soul.

“The Next Kingdom” LP, To be released on May 19 in digital and a very-limited vinyls edition:
https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

@jonnnah

The Next Kingdom LP (SER001)

Order

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Jonnnah - Soma's End [Second End Records]

PRE-ORDER
limited to 100 copies comes with DOWNLOAD CARD
a heady journey of two 50 minute sides from local New York duo The Long Count Cycle

The Long Count Cycle Mixtape Side A (BNK-024)

Subway Series Vol.2

Hontos - Subway Series VOL.2 (BNK-021)

Subway Series Vol 2

Hontos - A1 (BNK-021)

written produced recored mixed by Entro Senestre
Unmastered club edit
BNK-036-S

Thirty Six

Entro - Thirty Six (BNK-036-S)

Classic Enrique tracks for the Enrique heads and beyond
We present you with our official follow-up to his debut on BANK in 2016 - that was BNK-001, I might add.
Miguel Alvarino has been a source of inspiration to the label and many others since the jump.  His style is completely his own.  His over the top textures and minimal sequencing leaves you itching for more...of what, I can't call it.  These hard hitting beats produced with restraint are a reflection his personality.  If you've had the chance to meet him you'll understand what makes his music so unique.  Like I said, This is a classic Enrique record for the Enrique heads and future fans. 
EP, Cassette, Digital all available for pre-order.
shipping out the week of June 3

Self Loathing

Enrique - Self Loathing (BNK-025)

written produced recored mixed by Entro Senestre
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann
Digital single from forthcoming EP on BANK

Entro - Dipped In Black (BNK-022)

psyop apoptosis (uncut tape version)

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The Long Count Cycle Mixtape Side A (BNK-024)

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