My Best

Yo !
Here is a new playlist. Mostly dark ambient/atmospheric with some harsh hugs in it.

A moist summer night. Lay down in the grass and listen to the invisible life crawling.
Bats flying around your head. Dive in the deep blue sky and see the clouds shape shifting.
There, are all your fears and dreams. You can't move, you can cry. Let it go. Just RELAX.


RELAX

Dream

SKIM

Here it is; my new EP. It features seven tracks of varying moods and genres, so hopefully there is something for everyone. This EP is called 'Renovatio', which is Latin for renewal/ restoration/ total rebirth. The name celebrates the fresh start that my hard drive disaster gave me, and this EP feels like the next stage in my musical journey (wow that sounds cheesy...).

The EP is available now here - http://syntheticepiphany.bandcamp.com/album/renovatio

As ever, I hugely appreciate your support!

Synthetic Epiphany - Regenerate - Renovatio EP - Out Now

BARRIKAD “THROUGH THE VOICE ONE BECOMES ANIMAL” C20 NBM35TAPE

This release is a heavily structured mass of sounds, consisting of pulsating analogue oscillators, field recordings, concrete drones, grinding steel pipes, voice samples from documentary archives, distant screams, oil drums and the vibrations captured by contact microphones. On this record BARRIKAD blends diverse elements of sound, evoking a cold fusion of old school industrial music to celebrate the first 10 years.


Through The Voice One Becomes Animal presents itself on two different formats: a handmade and cut in real-time clear 10” in 10 examples released by Exlibris Nordén, but also as a special package tape on Nil by Mouth. Not giving away too much, the booklet that comes with both releases is impressive and thick! Just plain dedication to heavy electronics.

    // T.A.

Tracklist
A: Freedom is Only Possible in the Struggle for Liberation
B: Utanför Det Samhälle Jag Tvingas Vara En Del Av


Tape: 6 euro plus postage
Vinyl 35 euros + postage


Contact: barrikad@hotmail.com
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MuhMur

Have just spent a pleasant while listening to the latest release from Swedish noise makers Barrikad.
I first came across Barrikad about ten years ago through the excellent compilation "Krimkall" a double cassette release from Krimljud and then a year or so later they were part of the Segerhuva crowd and appeared on the "Sweetness Will Overcome" compilation CD. The Barrikad sound back then was a tsunami of noise, full on distortion with non-empathetic warbling. Very little to separate Barrikad from the masses of Scando-noise projects that existed at the start of this century apart from some nice and neat tape splicing and sample edits …
Ten years after and Barrikad - the sound of Barrikad - is more focused and refined. Personal and directed.
"Through The Voice One Becomes Animal" is a C15 cassette released by Nil By Mouth Recordings. ("Is It Not First Through The Voice One Becomes Animal?" is a question asked by Gilles Deleuze in "Thousand Plateaus:Capitalism And Schizophrenia"). Two single pieces on each side … beginning with "Freedom Is Only Possible In The Struggle For Liberation", which I believe to be a statement by Ulrike Meinhoff. The piece features spoken soundbites and sloganeering by members of the RAF as well as news reportage. The sound is crunching analog synthesizer with a ticking clock offset against a mechanical pulsebeat. Very Deutsche PE and old school industrial. A well constructed piece with hammer against metal a sound I last heard on a news report from the frontline of demonstration in Kiev, the Ukrainian street beat - the sound of the barricade.
Side two is very similar in sound and construct. "Utanför Det Samhälle Jag Tvingas Vara En Del Av" (or "I am forced to exist outside this community" … apologies if I am way out, my Swedish is a little rostig these days) has the same mechanical ticking, the factory rhythm but this piece builds to the sound of anarchic beatings, all with a narrative in an unrecognisable foreign tongue.
The cassette is packaged in a 7" pouch with 24 page booklet printed in both Swedish and English, there is some sort of Barrikad history / manifesto alongside writings by Barrikad. Sleeve notes that would make Adi Newton jealous! I would go as far to say that this release is perfect.
"Through The Voice One Becomes Animal" has been released before but in ultra ultra limited editions on 10" lathe cut disc and on cassette by Exlibris Nordén.
I am now discovering Barrikad and their "We Make Nihilists Smile" CD that Phage Tapes released in 2011.

Nil By Mouth Recordings are a new label to me, the name cropped up on Chondritic forum board and also SI board but I was slightly put off by the releasing stuff by folk with names such as The Vomit Arsonist & Chloroform Rapist .. I am slightly snobbish when it comes to names but with so much "stuff" being released I have to pick carefully .. now after listening to Barrikad I discover they have released great names like Altar Of Flies, N. and Fear Konstruktor in the past and have just put out cassettes by Arkhe and Uncodified. I have sent off E Mails to Nil By Mouth Recordings but have yet to get a response. If anyone from NBM is reading this please get in contact.
This cassette is essential : www.exoteric-zine.com/nilbymouth or get in contact and buy from Barrikad via Discogs. 




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German Review:
http://africanpaper.com/2013/11/02/barrikad-through-the-voice-one-becomes-animal-tape-und-lathe-cut-ep/
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Crucial Blast:

BARRIKAD Through The Voice One Becomes Animal CASSETTE (Nil By Mouth) 
More killer industrial filth from Nil By Mouth; the sort of primitive din that Barrikad belts out on this tape is the sort of classic, old-school industrial that I really haven’t been hearing much of lately, but which always sounds great blasting out of the C-Blast sound system at top volume. Sweden’s Barrikad has produced some excellent examples of this sort of pulsating, entropic din since its formation, though, and the band’s latest release Through The Voice One Becomes Animal is a primo example of exactly this sort of grungy noise. <br/> This extremely limited cassette release features two long tracks, each consuming an entire side; both are lengthy blurts of corroded electronics and squealing oscillators sending out dim black deathwave pulses from the void, eerie film samples and field recordings layered over clanking junk-noise abuse, and delirious sampled voices that relay visions of evil and inhumanity from the turbulent early years of the twentieth century and beyond. The first side, “Freedom Is Only Possible In The Struggle For Liberation”, starts off with hypnotic electronic tones pulsating beneath the phlegmatic roar of crumbling, collapsing machinery, but then slowly begins to evolve into something much creepier as deep throbbing bass and percussive loops emerge amid layered voices and rattling metal noises, transforming into something that resembles a series of radio transmission being beamed directly out of the cancerous blackened organ at the heart of Western society’s fractured collective psyche. The other side is no trip to the beach, either. “Utanför Det Samhälle Jag Tvingas Vara En Del Av” opens up with a minimal synthesizer pulse and more of those abrasive clanking metal noises, and actually sort of resembles a brain-damaged version of a John Carpenter score stumbling randomly around field recordings of slavering mutants rummaging through the city dump. This one is even creepier, though part of that might be due to the Swedish speakers that begin to emerge from behind the curtain of random clank, the male voice limned with an edge of menace. Then it all suddenly shifts into a crushing din of heavy mechanical rhythms and screaming voices, a massive pneumatic groove suddenly taking over, the steady slow motion clank of war machinery stomping across the bodies of the dead, while sinister droning electronics sweep overhead like swarms of sky borne death machines. Intense. <br/> Like everything else I’ve picked up from Barrikad, both tracks deliver some satisfying blasts of creaking, crumbling death-trance. Comes with a large twenty four page booklet that features a plethora of notable quotes, various demonic and monstrous woodcut images, liner notes written in both Swedish and English that detail Barrikad’s roots in hardcore punk and anarcho culture, and extensive excerpts from the fiery 2007 French anarchist manifesto L’insurrection Qui Vient (The Coming Insurrection), all packaged in a sealed black bubble mailer with printed labels affixed to the outside of the envelope.

Freedom is Only Possible in the Struggle for Liberation

"One appearing from the dead; a ghost..."

sevura

Arnalds has shared this on his tweeter!

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dedicated to Olafur Arnalds and one of his best works

کيهان کلهر و سيد جواد ذبيحي و عليرضا قرباني و همایون شجريان و الافر آرنالدز و سينه زنها و من دور هم جمع شده بوديم، که اين اومد بيرون

music used in this cocktail:
Olafur Arnalds - Near Light
Kayhan Kalhor improvasation on Nava
Seyed javad zabihi - monajat
Alireza Ghorbani - bigharar
Homayoun Shajarian early days live in Tv with father
Muslims mournings chest beating
my guitars

Eastern Arnalds (Near Iran)

The Skin EP.
Available via Bandcamp: https://timtama.bandcamp.com/album/the-skin

Release date: June 3rd 2017.
Released independently.

Artwork stock image by: http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/

The Skin III : Sometimes I Reminisce

an old remix ;)->>> original song here.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g71NHAbYSos
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This mantra is to ask lord Shiva (God of destruction but also of transformation) for health. You pray for health to him, to avoid illness or death; but it can also be asked on a spiritual way, looking for evolution of your spirit, to a higher state.

Lyrics:

Aum Trayambakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urva Rukamiva Bandhanaan
Mrityor Mokshiye Maamritat

Translation:

"Oh three eyed Lord Shiva, I meditate upon you. 
Bless me with health & immortality. 
As easily as the cucumber is plucked from the stem, 
sever me from the clutches of fear & death."

Addis

Track from NE43 The Empire Line – Rave LP

Photography by George Nebieridze

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com

"The Empire Line present six cyclonic episodes for confined spaces on their debut album, 'Rave.'

Comprised of Posh Isolation's Christian Stadgaard (Damien Dubrovnik, Vanity Productions), Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), and with Isak Hansen (Iron Sight) on tantrums, the trio's marauding live shows have been translated into a slippery set of pummelling techno works, watermarked with florid noise.

'Rave' is a celebration of contemporary rave culture, focused on the everlasting and transcendent as the night slips out past the day. With living-for-the-weekend hedonism irretrievably converted into a manicured, violent cliché, building new worlds and forging new modes of intimacy takes an exceptional sincerity. Naming some of the crews closest to The Empire Line in the album's titles, their spaces are examples of just how rave culture persists as a transgressive stronghold in people's lives.

Ranging from k-hole anthems to jacking, close-range sessions, 'Rave' still bears the traces of the group's experimental background, ensuring the tension is kept up through the catharsis."

The Empire Line – Fast Forward (Intet glemt, intet tilgivet)

The Swedish experimental techno artist SSTROM releases his first solo LP Otider with Rösten label. The album is a result of a long process taking place between the years 2007 and 2017.

SSTROM is also known as the other half SHXCXCHCXSH. The duo's sound is characterised as techno featuring for example industrial, noise and glitch elements combined with broken beats. Otider, instead, is a more light - yet experimental - example of SSTROM's solo soundscapes. 

Monument is exclusively previewing track Vinden from the LP. The organic, industrial and lo-fi track is a great sample of the coming release, that has been described as a combination of rediscovered experiences of the artist's life.

Otider will be released with Rösten the 28th of May 2018.

@Sstromsound
@Rostenrostenrosten

Otider

MNMT Premiere: SSTROM – Vinden

”Avenza” - ”Aquatermae” originally released on Konstrukt, KON005. 2017.

AA. Aquatermae (Max Durante Remix)

Produced in May 2012.
The accompanying picture shows an illustration from Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki by Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien.

Hitodama

Here is my 16 track album containing the moody dubstep I have been putting out recently, and selection of unreleased tunes from various times, including Visiting Hours, and This Metal Skin. This album encompasses what I have been doing musically for over two years, and any contribution from you guys would be really appreciated as I am pretty hard up at the moment :)

DL here: http://syntheticepiphany.bandcamp.com/album/the-archives

Synthetic Epiphany - Tanglewood

Synthetic Epiphany - Dread (Free Download)

127 Hours Soundtrack "Liberation Begins"

A short obscure melody inspired by some dark ladies....


The music she played for the wolves

"Now this is just delightful. Like a less Wintery Mount Kimbie, Synthetic Epiphany delivers an EP of gloriously chilled cuts filled with wonderfully chopped vocals and some utterly edible percussion."

Pre-order now here - http://syntheticepiphany.bandcamp.com/album/rebirth

Synthetic Epiphany - Infinite - Rebirth EP - Out 21/06/13

Synthetic Epiphany - Timelapse - Free Download

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