C-Rex Siren 08-08-2021

It’s already been three weeks since our last appearance and we’ve been quite sidetracked lately. We hope to return to our old form soon. Nonetheless, did we prepare something rather interesting for you. Simultaneously to the day of LOVE we asked our friend Yannik AKA @f_annik from the beautiful canton Uri if he wants to make us the honor and be our Valentine. He said yes and delivered a beautiful one hour set to our doorstep. Filled with a lot of minimalistic and deep but very much melancholic selection of tunes. All very precisely arranged and well thought through. Head over to our Soundcloud for the full experience.
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ANYCAST 022 - fannik

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Dario Zenker – Mörsin

Remix of Kevin Scherschel on Jennifer Cardinis Correspondant records

8/8/11



Sick- Kevin Scherschel - Cormac Remix

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Robert Hood - Paradigm Shift - Vol 3 - Dekmantel (DKMNTL055) 

a1.	Robert Hood - Red Machine
b1.	Robert Hood - Transform

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5874/paradigm-shift-vol-3

Following on from the 2017 LP Paradygm Shift by Robert Hood released on Dekmantel Records, the Detroit legend returns to the imprint to deliver the final installment in a trilogy of EP releases that initially began back in February 2016. Now based in Alabama, the Detroit-techno producer is returning to his roots. Embracing the trademark, minimal, funk techno sounds that defined his earlier career, Paradygm Shift Vol. 3 is classic Hood, operating in new, and uncharted ways.

The EP is an extension on the concept as outlayed by Hood during the project’s conceptual stage: ‘‘The idea behind Paradygm Shift is similar to a shift in our focus. We can become so complacent; we are so comfortable with our surroundings, I think this is the time for electronic music to find a new mindset.’’ Kicking off off with ‘Red Machine’, where again parallels can be drawn between the days of Minimal Nation, and Internal Empire – the sound is sparse and brutalistic, representing a challenged future. A progressive melody syncopates along the tracks percussive, backbone, arching its way into the track’s eventual demise. On the B-side, ‘Transform’ provides a composition of stripped, down electro, while taking in the 606 style, and adding additional, textural depth. It’s a track full of subtle melody, and high-ranging claps, that make ‘Transform’ the perfect transitional tool, and standalone floor-filler at the same time.

‘Red Machine’ and ‘Transform’ reflect Hood’s modern take on challenging techno. Meditative in their sequenced repetition, the tracks draw you in with their audacious, and memorizing sequences. It’s contemporary techno, albeit techno that reflects Hood’s style and nature. Pulsating, electrifying, with dark undertones, and very much of that Detroit flavour.

DKMNTL055 // Robert Hood - Paradygm Shift Volume 3

www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Following on from Adriani’s first incursion on Stroboscopic Artefacts in 2017, ‘Enter The Fire’, and a recent contribution to the label’s thematic VA, ‘Flowers From The Ashes: Contemporary Italian Electronic Music’, Mannequin boss Alessandro Adriani returns to the label for his highly anticipated full-length debut for SA, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Introducing the album is ‘Embryo’ is an immersive four-track micro-odyssey spanning across jagged ambient scopes, unmapped acidic grounds and further leftfield-friendly sonic territories, opening up the path for his forthcoming sophomore LP and first ever for Stroboscopic Artefacts, ‘Morphic Dreams’.

Throughout eleven cuts painstakingly executed but lacking not an iota of the fresh, spontaneous oomph that made his sound stand out of the crowd of techno producers to have emerged over the past decade, Adriani lays the foundations to a suspended sound imaginarium, governed by its own rules and principles of gravity.
 
Revolving around the notions of sublimation and quest for inner balance, 'Morphic Dreams' is comprised of four distinct sequences, conceived and designed as reflections of four mental states, each of them linked to the four alchemical elements - i.e. Water, Earth, Air and Fire - here represented by the A, B, C and D-sides. Fluid and enveloping, the A-side bathes the listener in some zero-G uterine vortex, pitching and rolling from the slo-burning exotic sensuality and tribal spell of 'The Tropical Year' to the trunk-bending, arpeggiated fast-track pulse of 'Storm Trees', through Raindance's feverish electro swing.
 
Entering a further abrasive, minerally rich phase, the B-side unleashes Adriani's dark side with optimum conviction. Deeply anchored in earthly materiality, this new evolution stage starts off to the frantic Italo bass of 'Dissolving Images', rushing headlong into a kaleidoscopic maelstrom of fractured reflections and nasty Giallo-like ambience. The delirious body stretch sequence then rather abruptly swerves onto a calmer flux with 'Dust/Mist', a much enticingly hip-swaying collaboration with Simon Crab, ex-member of the seminal '80s UK industrial-experimental band Bourbonese Qualk, before 'Casting The Runes' engulfs us into a tormented world of swollen eeriness and disquieting esoterism.
 
Back to a widescreen showcase of droney distortions, nasty acid swashes and other quirky drum programming, 'Hors De Combat' opens a new chapter, shortly followed by the playful bass intricacies and modular jeu-de-piste of 'Invisible Seekers', featuring Avian affiliate and longtime friend Shawn O'Sullivan. A further mind-expanding piece, C-side closer 'Crow' deploys its blackened wings wide and high as a chaos of martial percussions and liquefying synths slivers crash past the red-hot skyline. A fluttering melodic interlude, 'Things About To Disappear' blazes a clean trail for 'Make Words Split And Crack' to flourish, slowly but surely blooming into a nonstop grandiose twelve minute-shy finale geared up with the stirring cacophonic force of a Ligetian symphony and something of an epic-scale Kubrickian soundtrack.

all tracks (w)&(p) by Alessandro Adriani
between Berlin and Rome, 2016-2018
thanks to Shawn O’Sullivan and Simon Crab for their contribution
dedicated to my father Roberto:
“too near to god – to pray. too near to heaven – to fear.”
mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
(p)&(c) Stroboscopic Artefacts 2019
Cat. No SALP008 / SACD011 – all rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Morphic Dreams

A1 - Alessandro Adriani - The Tropical Year [SALP008/SACD011]

FORMAT: 12" & Digital

A) Markus Suckut - Glare
B1) Markus Suckut - Close Your Eyes
B2) Markus Suckut - Rising Sun

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY MARKUS SUCKUT.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

SCKT08

With nearly 95 percent of the current DJ population adopting enigmatic personas, it is now our duty to only present music by artists who have the time to present a deeply coded dance music mystery. Enter R.O.S.H., who first came to our attention via French legend Laurent Garnier (a clue?!?). All the info we were provided - a VHS copy of something called “The Crystal Maze” and references to televised ritual humiliation -  was merely the first layer to be peeled back before the ultimate reveal, the kind of “Oh, cool” moment that keeps us all going in these uncertain times.

As any self-respecting Techno Sleuth worth their BPM magnifying glass knows, “You gotta follow the music.” We sat down with a team of empaths to break down the release into a series of generic descriptors we hoped would tell us something about R.O.S.H.’s identity. Here’s what they came up with:

“Techno”
“90s vibes”
“Just the right kind of crazy"
“Emotional”
“Gee, this is really good”

After cross-referencing the data, we found no reason to reject the hypotheses that R.O.S.H. is “probably British” and also “an alien.” All of which is to say that things just got a lot more interesting at Twin Turbo. We’ll keep you posted.

Twin Turbo 057

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R.O.S.H. - Perhaps I Would

AGR003
Fabian Cioffi - Art On Acid EP
Release date 11/09/2020

The name Fabian Cioffi represents not only a being, but the magic made by melody and the memory created by Drum, a spell of rest, quiet breath and cool heart that sinks through fading colors deep into the early hours of the morning. The subaqueous subtronic serenity of the rhythm and bass. Inside these howling echoes I find myself Fabian Cioffi in a world of absolute sonic truth, divine atmosphere and 4x4 thuds that bring us all closer to the potentiality hidden within the understanding of substronic stillness.

001 Art On Acid
002 Zero
003 Paper Therapy
004 Nono

All tracks written & produced by Fabian Cioffi
All tracks mixed by Fabian Cioffi

Released by:
ACID Garden Records
Release date:
11 September 2020

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