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Every single evening of his life Benjamin Lenz set down next to the fire to count stars. He was alone on this quest so all the stars were his to count. 
The job was extremely exhausting and isolating because there was no one else who could do this job but him. One evening after an hour of counting stars Benjamin Lenz set down in front of his computer and opened program called “Ableton Live 9 Suite” very first time.  Repelled by the time consuming job of counting stars he was searching for relaxing activities. “Ableton Live 9 Suite” was the relaxing activity he never knew existed. Connection was instant, no questions were asked and program took him in. He started making music.

The fire he was sitting next to gave him the rhythm of typing note after note. while the stars passed by. he took a deep breath, he looked up, his eyes gazed in the light of the moon and the beat dropped slowly in. One journey, one story all packed in the tracks that were blessed by stars and light. 

As a result of it all album “STICKWITH” was born…

notice / remember - Benjamin Lenz has never used “Ableton Live 9 Suit” before that day. Tracks included in this mixtape are outcome of his very first exploration and experience with the program.

Untitled

links:
sc: @vwvren
bc: https://vwvren.bandcamp.com/
website: https://www.vwvren.com/
credits:

vocals, guitars & hurdy-gurdy : wren cellier
vibes & keyboard : antoine cellier
mixing & mastering : wren cellier, antoine cellier
photos : ana jikia
recording, composition, lyrics, production & design : wren cellier
co-production : blue yogurt - tbilisi, georgia

THANK YOU

roza angeli, anaïs balmon, gàbor barta, paulo bragança, alexandre & nicole cellier, antoine cellier, sandro dolbandze, baptiste gaillard, aurore grosclaude, ana jikia, elena, nicole, nikolas, thanassis katrantzis, marie madeleine klopfenstein, derko & sandy kopitopoulos, luca maranzano, eva quartet, levan shanidze, sounding soil, jessica voelke

wren - intro

wren - blanche biche

wren - fleurir mourir

wren - megacyclone

wren - petite île

wren - anathea

wren - taille douce

wren - pastel acide

wren - outro

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Amnesia Scanner — Tearless
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 108
Release Date: 19 June 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tearless

Berlin-based duo Amnesia Scanner have announced the impending release of their sophomore LP, Tearless, a sonic reflection of how it feels to experience Earth at a time when collapse is emerging as the prevailing narrative. As Amnesia Scanner founders, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala watch their icy home country of Finland thaw- the staggering scale of political recalibration and the worldwide climate crisis blows open old norms. “There’s a looming sense of radical change,” they noted pre-COVID, connecting the period of making the album to a fin de siecle horror and curiosity regarding what new world is being ushered in. Tearless has been referred to as “a breakup album with the planet”, to which Amnesia Scanner responds, on the LP’s closing track: “You will be fine, if we can help you lose your mind.” Amnesia Scanner are previewing the album in the form of a video for their accidental quarantine anthem “AS Going,” a clip featuring a cascade of images of spiraling humans.

Tearless marks a turning point in the duo’s trajectory, one begun in 2014 with the AS Live [][][][][] mixtape, followed by audio play Angels Rig Hook, two EP’s for Young Turks, and their 2018 debut album, Another Life (PAN). For Amnesia Scanner in 2020, the walls of the nightclubs, galleries, and institutions fall away and are replaced by full-scale theatrical productions complete with jumbotron stages, animatronics, and a surrealist costumed cast (literally so in the XL version of the album’s live show, Anesthesia Scammer). Likewise, the musical scope of the album is expansive, with guest vocalists — the Peruvian artist Lalita and the Brazillian DJ/producer LYZZA — descending into a vast uncanny valley of sound. With the crossfader on Tearless sitting closer to pop than abstraction, so too does the audience for this record widen in scope. Opener “AS Enter” sets a sombre tone until the fucking riffs of the second track (the titular, Lalita-helmed “AS Tearless”) make clear there’s plenty of roaring to come. A feature from metalcore band Code Orange on “AS Flat” follows, along with “AS Trouble” (feat. Oracle, the third, machinic ghost-member of Amnesia Scanner) and together they hit as black-metal-gaze dirges. Closing Tearless is the sadboy grunge of “AS U Will Be Fine” with a clear statement of intent: doom, despair, insanity, absurdity, it’s all natural, all cathartic, and all OK.

For the art direction of this release, Amnesia Scanner collaborators PWR scavenged the pop cultural unconscious, as if ventilating memory dissociated by trauma. The gatefold vinyl reveals a four-panel comic, full of iconic pre-millennial motifs, which arrive cut up and reassembled collage-style: fitting visuals for an album that channels Deftones as much as reggaeton, menace as much as the drop-outness of grunge. Refuse like the ‘90s and party like the ‘20s—if that seems senseless, you are doing it right.

The album is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, featuring visual direction from PWR Studio.

@amnesia-scanner
https://p-a-n.org/

Tearless 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Tearless (feat. Lalita) (PAN 108)

hello, my name is ana and i made this for you.  

I don’t believe that you truly need to know what I meant or wanted to say in order to go on a journey with this work. Only thing you truly need is yourself and this work and the rest like my words, my explanations, my excuses will be just a distraction from ur way.

but to do a bit of  justice——
i can say that this work came out of a very fucked up brake up experience. experience that pours a lot of poison on everything inside you, on everything you think you know. makes you go through hell. but after hell comes all the beauty. and it seems that hell and beauty together make everything. 

so like I promised
I can make you everything
freeze the universe
and split the sun.

SZSS (Shujin Zaitaku Sutoresu Shoukougun)

blueyogurt.community@gmail.com
Blue Yogurt is a collective project from Georgian artists. Having music as our main source of inspiration we do work around different media and directions. Surrounded by very successful and promising club culture we felt the need to create some sort of space where it is not about thinking and feeling so seriously and grandiosely about ways of production and performance but more about our genuine feeling of relevance and emotions. We would like to generate inspiring and open situations for everyone to try out something and not be afraid. We don’t limit ourselves with genres and definitions. Everything that is genuine or a really good scam we love it.

SZSS (Shujin Zaitaku Sutoresu Shoukougun)

BLUE YOGURT

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