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One track from the second release in the new SYM CD-series!
ILLUSION OF SAFETY - New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction

buy: https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=20793

info: Chicago's post- / ambient industrial legend is back with a work that combines electronic sounds and field recordings: microscopic audio events, loops, heavily processed material of all kinds form seven multi-layered collages that seem to be full of electro-magnetic static, morphing and transforming like a hallucinogenic object in every second and in all possible directions...in all it's subtleness this is far away from the shock treatment noises of the early IOS times. 
'New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction' is the first release of new IOS compositions since 'Surrender' in 2015. Featuring extensive synthesizer source material as well as other now familiar electro-acoustic techniques, it is conceived as a follow up to the 1995 3” CD release of 'Rules Of The Game', alluding to the social, political, and psychological games humans engage in for validation, survival, or dominance. New Rules, same game, less instruction, harsher penalty. Illusion Of Safety now more than ever.

Mastering: THOMAS DIMUZIO / Artwork: DAN BURKE

Editions of 250 copies / 6 panel digipak with special b/w reverse board printing for the IOS

ILLUSION OF SAFETY - Malicious Intent

extract from the A-Side of the JOE COLLEY 10inch "Acting As If" released in the Substantia Innominata series in December 2022. 
order it here:   https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=21114

press release: 
MECHANICAL RITUALS: 23 years after his EP for Drone Records (DR-28, as CRAWL UNIT) we are proud to release another / new work of conceptual / minimal / object drone artist JOE COLLEY from California.   
We think JOE COLLEY (*1972) is a master of using mechanical object sounds and electronic static, but also strange low fi found found sources and field recordings, creating alienating, surrealistic effects, similar to the likes of SMALL CRUEL PARTY, JIM HAYNES, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE or even the more experimental side of ZOVIET FRANCE...  
His newer compositions seem always to be filled with electro-magnetic hummings, strange hissing and the pourings of metallic objects as a basis, but you never find the use real instruments, synths, or masses of effect procession. Thus a very own scent of mystery appears, as all of these radiations are not really from this planet, without any "cosmic" connotations..
For the creator, these sounds are connected with unreal emotions of "Being Lost", a mistrust in what may be called reality, and a general feeling of alienation... - you can only wonder how this can result in such beautiful droning expanses.. 
Presented here are over 30 minutes of very best new COLLEY material (entitled   "Limit / Limit"  und "Always I / Always II") => through these drones of strangeness the mind is thrown inside an unrecognizable and confusing realm of broken electricity and something like audible-made atmospheric pressure.. 
Lim. 300 copies with artwork by dutch designer and micro label hero MEEUW, using a special silver print (on reverse board), BLACK vinyl. glossy black inner sleeves.

REVIEW:  "When Joe Colley speaks about his work and even about his life, he shrugs in an awkward attempt to stave off an existential frustration that not only his work addresses but also seems to consume his identity. There are numerous metaphors through his titles that allude to endless failures and a nihilism full of contempt, but Colley also implores a desperate urgency to express these poetics no matter how painful they may be. For three decades now, Colley has been a central and persistent figure in the California noise community. First recording under the moniker Crawl Unit and running the short-lived Povertech label, Colley presented a preternaturally strong acumen of electro-acoustic techniques and abstraction through a vast language of blistered textures, atonal noise, and gnarled drone. By 2000, he dropped the Crawl Unit moniker in favor of his own name with an ongoing discography of damaged yet exploratory electronics. 

Colley returns to Drone Records for this 10" on the Substantia Innominata series, many years after his Crawl Unit "Tuscon Mon Amour" 7." In describing "Acting As If," Colley offers a vague series of descriptors: unheimlich, terror of the familiar, and no faith in what is "real." Within the sustained movements of scrabbling textures, motorized abrasions, and uncomfortable harmonics, such conditions are made manifest and Colley amplifies them into something eeriely sublime. 
All of that held within a self-contained logic that works within and against his deep knowledge of drone-on minimalism, musique concrete dynamics, and the explosiveness of noise culture. His swarming masses, throttled rumbling, and smoldering tension are all encircling and folding in on themselves. Rhizomes of sound that speak poison. Drink up, if it doesn't kill you, it will only make you stronger. "- Jim Haynes / Northern California, 2023

JOE COLLEY - Limit (edit)

Mixing and Mastering: Jeremy Wilkins https://nomovementrecords.com/studio

Afternoon Butterfly

Pulled from the archives
Part three of a noise improvisation, recorded at The Tree House, Belgium, March 2011
Please visit nostalgie de la boue on bandcamp for the full album

Verwesung

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Verwesung Part Three

Axephalt

SenSen -  Room 1680

Parallel Worlds Fragmented DiN83

Release date 16th February 2024
Limited to 200 copies Digipak CD

Greek synthesist Bakis Sirros who records under the name of Parallel Worlds has become a familiar name to followers of the DiN label. His debut release was “Obsessive Surrealism” (DiN26) back in 2007 and since then he has released two further solo albums, “Shade” (DiN32) and “Plector” (DiN76), as well as several collaborative albums with different artists including DiN label boss Ian Boddy & Node guru Dave Bessell.

This fourth sonic journey from Sirros on the DiN imprint sees him focusing in on his modular synthesiser systems, especially the Eurorack format with some able support from Buchla. These massive constructed patches live and breath like a crepuscular organism waking from its slumber. Indeed “Fragmented” is bookended by two wonderfully deep, textural tracks appropriately titled “Dawning” and “Sunset”. With the exception of the organ-like drone soundscape of “Time Flow” the remaining seven tracks encapsulate everything we have come to expect from this unique artist, namely dark, menacing bass lines overlaid with glitchy percussive patterns and beguiling, floating melody lines. It has certainly be noted before, but is worth reiterating, that there is a certain John Carpenter like soundtrack quality to the music of Sirros. Seemingly simplistic they shroud a wealth of detail and beauty that is revealed over repeated listening.

Lovers of Electronica, Dark Techno, Downtempo & IDM will find much to admire in “Fragmented” and this new album once again showcases the unique talent of this highly individual musician.

01 Dawning   04:43
02 Moments   05:38
03 Fragmented   05:55
04 For A While   07:48
05 Timeflow   06:10
06 Twilight   05:08
07 Source   04:58
08 Failure   05:37
09 Vactrol Engine   07:19
10 Sunset   06:10

Total Time :  59:46

Fragmented

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Fragmented by Parallel Worlds (DiN83) Demo Mix

Getting familiar with the wonderful Cwejman SM-1.  All sounds are solely from the SM-1. 

The two VCOs are tuned in a fifth, first one is a SAW, 2nd a PWM Saw. The PWM is done by LFO2. LFO1 modulates the cutoff of the filter as well is the spacing of the filter.

I'm playing through several filter settings, first clean and at the end SAT1. 

I've played keyboard through a Yarns in ARP mode to provide the pitches.
Recorded in one take in Pro Tools, added bit of delay (Echoboy) and reverb (Adaptiverb)

SM-1 arp

TRACKLIST 

1. Mt. Wolf - Exit (with Burgs)
2. Secede - Memory Table Pt. 2
3. C O N T R A - It Dreams
4. Kelly lee Owens - Arthur 
5. Daniel Avery - Free Floating
6. KAZU - Salty 
7. Telefon Tel Aviv - Feel the Fall
8. Max cooper & Six Sigma - Parting Ways 
9. Barker & Baumecker - Spur (Clark Remix) 
10. Andy Cato - Whose Groove
11. Gaspar Claus & Claus Clausen - The Machine (Rone Remix)

Floating Dreams

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