Name: Binary Heartbeat by B-Unit
Duration: 3 min 32 s
Description: Experimental Electronica IDM Techno Abstract Electro Synthesizers Synthesis

New music for 2022 from O’Deus featuring Katie McConnell on lead vocals.
Richard Searby-Bates on Lead Guitar
Christer-Henning Danielsson on Bass
Chris Tofts on Drums
Marley Jones on Rhythm Guitar

Coward In The Dark (feat. Katie McConnell)

Autechre - Kalpol Introl (Live) 1994

Experimental Electronica IDM Techno Abstract Electro Synthesizers Synthesis

Binary Heartbeat

STÄRKER, the France / Canada based duo of Frederic Arbour and Martin Dumais returns with "Spectral", their most fully realized work to date. Known for shaping a world of pulsating analog frequencies, brooding atmospherics and industrial tinged techno, the duo expands their sonic reach with a record that moves with sharpened precision, wider depth and a more deliberate sense of immersion.

Described as crafting fierce, dense, widely reverberating techno, STÄRKER established their signature tone with their acclaimed previous releases on Hospital Productions & Zhark, celebrated for their raw rhythmic focus and enveloping ambient strata. On "Spectral", the pair deepen this tension between propulsion and abstraction, refining their interplay of rhythm and drone into a more cinematic and enveloping architecture.

The album builds from tightly coiled analog pulses into vast, corrosive sound fields, creating an experience that navigates between ritualistic momentum and spectral stillness. Each piece carries a sense of physical weight, yet remains permeated by an atmospheric haze that gives the music its uniquely hypnotic character. The interplay of rhythmic sensibilities and experimental ambient continuum remains central, but evolves here into something more unified, more assertive and more evocatively textured.

Spectral stands as a culmination of STÄRKER’s ongoing exploration of industrial pressure, low frequency tension and immersive ambience, presenting a body of work that is both immediate and deeply layered. It marks a decisive step forward for the duo, reinforcing their presence within the techno, experimental and dark ambient spheres.

CD Edition of 200 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 6 Tracks. Running Time 44:30

Spectral

STÄRKER "Spectral" CD / DL (AES011)

A Collaboration Between Franck Vigroux & Loïc Varanguien de Villepin

Aesthetical presents NACHT, a new collaborative project uniting Franck Vigroux, the renowned French composer, producer and sound artist, with Loïc Varanguien de Villepin, poet and vocalist known for his intense spoken-word performances and existential lyricism.

Emerging as a logical progression of Vigroux’s sonic language, NACHT expands upon the stark electronic minimalism and visceral textural depth familiar from his earlier releases on Aesthetical. Yet where Vigroux’s previous works often inhabited the realm of pure sound and abstraction, NACHT introduces a distinctly human and tragic dimension through Varanguien’s vocal laments, fractured monologues, whispers and declamations that move between invocation and despair.

This union gives rise to a sound that is both ritualistic and cinematic, merging the weight of Vigroux’s electronic architecture with the vulnerable gravity of the human voice. The result is an immersive sonic world where industrial drones, distorted harmonics and decaying pulses serve as vessels for poetic catharsis, a nocturnal descent into memory, loss, and transformation.

“NACHT is the sound of language dissolving into resonance, the echo of meaning after words have disappeared,” says Vigroux.

Recorded between 2023 and 2025 in France, the album unfolds as a sequence of sonic tableaux, at once intimate and monumental. Each piece navigates the tension between structure and collapse, between technological precision and emotional volatility. The voice of Varanguien, at times nearly submerged beneath waves of distortion, emerges as a ghostly presence, the last trace of consciousness within Vigroux’s vast, crumbling soundscapes.

Rooted in contemporary electroacoustic practice yet driven by a deeply physical sense of rhythm and tension, NACHT stands as both a continuation and a rupture within Vigroux’s oeuvre, a point where music, poetry, and noise converge into something starkly new.

CD Edition of 200 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 2 Tracks. Running Time 41:09

Nacht

NACHT “Nacht” CD / DL (AES012)

Originally recorded by Rash (from Tunk) in 2001.

These set of tracks were 'remastered' by Daniel Edwards in late 2010.

01) 01

02) Tiny Nothing

06) Traces

13) 13

16) Cicatrice

The final track from our EP ‘Seven Cycles Down’

INTO THE ZION (feat. Amy Abbott)

Love experimenting with production, genres, styles... Always Enjoy what you do! Music is life. 

Binary Heartbeat

B-Unit

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