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The Blue Hour (Valentino Mora Cosmic Trans Rephase)

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Marco Shuttle's third album, Cobalt Desert Oasis, features a varied collection of music recorded across a two year period. Often traveling to remote destinations, Marco would come back to Berlin with field recordings, images, and other inspirations to process in his studio and turn into sound.

The theme of the journey turns into a something more abstract than a travel diary, where environmental sounds blend in with modular synthesis, drum machines, effects and analog oscillators resulting in a cinematic listening experience where psychedelia, ritualism, and mysticism weave together in a sort of alien soundscape - that as the title of the album suggests, is reminiscent of a parallel utopian world.

The album is rich in complex rhythmics, and more than in any of his previous work, has strong acoustic elements. Amongst other percussion instruments, Marco used the Tombak, a traditional Persian hand drum capable of reaching a very wide range of frequencies - from deep round subby toms, to high pitched sharp rimshots, throughout the record.

Marco Shuttle is certainly not new to these sort of elements, but in Cobalt Desert Oasis he brings the environmental element of his sound into the forefront in a way that takes the listener into a hazy expanse where it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the machine elements from the natural - and where the music almost becomes a visual experience, which relates to Marco's own photography used throughout the cover and insert images.

Written and Produced by Marco Sartorelli
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab
Design by Josh Abramovici
Photography by Marco Sartorelli 

'Acrobat' is taken from Marco Shuttle's 'Cobalt Desert Oasis' LP
PREORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/Digital: https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis
Out October 15th, 2021

Marco Shuttle
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https://marcoshuttle.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-desert-oasis

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Marco Shuttle - Acrobat [INC-012]

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05 Neo Rouge

03 Twilight Seven

'John Tejada’s new album continues where 2021's Year Of The Living Dead left off. YOTLD was created during the most troublesome time of our pandemic lockdown, illustrating the anxieties and uncertainties and isolation felt by so many. Sleepwalker, started at the end of 2021 and finished at the onset of 2022, was created in what felt like a current dream-like holding pattern, where it seemed that for every step taken by the world to get out of the pandemic, it took two steps back. 

The production process on this album became more of a digital collage, using analog and digital synthesis with lots of audio processing and rhythms, a brew of many sonic elements that were woven into harmony with each other. The styles and bpm vary from song to song, and there is a variety of energies and rhythms as heard in any of Tejada's most recent albums. The mood of the album delves into deeper landscapes. Low frequency sounds hold many of the tracks together as a sub frequency drone carries a sense of tension throughout most of the tracks.

The opening track “Shattered” creates an immediate sense of tension starting things off with the most driving moment on the album. “Excursion” dives into some 90s Tejada chords with a new twist. “Over the Wires,” “Skull Music,” and “Isolate” explore some half-time low end heavy and dub influenced feels, while “Unafraid” gives a nod to some of Tejada’s past emotive melodic work. “When We Dead Awaken” is a direct nod to last year's album and gives an uneasy feel as though its bass thumps are falling down a hill.

A big part of the album is the video for the first song “Shattered,” created by Julia Vivien Volz. This became a key part to creating that song in particular and influenced the work to come on the rest of the album. The idea was to collaborate fully by just advancing the work a few seconds or a full minute at a time, passing it back and forth to guide their joint creative workflow. Instead of Volz just creating images to a finished piece of music or vice versa, it was a process where both she and Tejada influenced the direction to create an audio visual collaboration. 

“Without really discussing direction in the beginning, apart from getting the words 'frozen' and 'ice' from Volz to work with, we were already very much thinking about the same themes,” says Tejada. In Volz’s own words, “This video project was created during the dark winter months with the pandemic still being very present in everyone’s life. It displays the mood of the exploration of the unknown: desire and shattered hopes.”

For the creation of the video, a digital synthesizer was used that not only creates a sense of distortion of the imagery but also acts as a representation for the nostalgia of past decades.
The video is intended to evoke a kind of dream state. We see a man and a woman who never seem to meet, but one gets the feeling that they can sense each other’s presence. The constantly moving road symbolizes the continuous chase for longing to
get to a destination which both of them have no idea where it will lead to. Every other time we see a thistle flower. While the Thistle is beautiful to look at, she also acts as a symbol of desolation, pain and annoyance. The high appearance of these flowers foreshadows that things might become uncomfortable. Underlining the discomfort of the dreamer, the shattering glass indicates the force of a final collapse that doesn't promise a happy ending. The Thistle also sets the purple color tone that is used throughout the whole video.

Tejada is currently a professor at CalArts in Music Technology. He is also half of the duo Wajatta with actor and musician Reggie Watts on Brainfeeder. With this release, Tejada’s label Palette Recordings enters its 26th year. This is Tejada’s first solo album on Palette since the pseudo live album Live Rytm Trax in 2018 and 2008’s Where.'

Follow: @johntejadaofficial // @paletterecordings

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Premiere: John Tejada - When We Dead Awaken [Palette Recordings]

Borderland

Afterlude

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Reflexx - #First (Original Hardcore Mix)

Illumination

Fast Fizzy

Annkrist Enchantée

La route des étoiles

Circus of Mind "Omni Temporal Matrix" Mastered by Bass Lab From the new EP Gnosemic Nuclei

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Omni-Temporal Matrix

The Myth. The Legend. STL aka Stephan Laubner joins the LMD family. "On Another Frequency" showcases the STL signature sound to the fullest! This EP is an essential weapon for all types of dance floors! MASSIVE. 

VINYL ONLY

STL - Loop A

Post-rock performance piece. This is by far my favorite composition.

Myself: Guitar (Lead)
Mario Vanegas: Drums (Ableton Push)
Amon Wong: Guitar
Jeff Hue: Keyboard
Farid: Ambience (Keyboard)

Watch the Skies Explode [Live]

PREMIERE > http://inverted-audio.com/premiere-aleksi-perala-uk74r1512110

Premiering on the Inverted Audio channels, we are happy to bring you the lead track from @aleksiperala 'The Colundi Sequence Vol. 1' as a taster. We trust you'll find it as instantly intoxicating as we did.

Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1512110 [Clone Records]

The Killer

Phototype

The Final Experiment

Razor Control

4 Tracker

Loop 02

Tracklisting:

01. 154 – Apricot
02. DVS1 – Pressure previously
03. Junior Boys – Work(Marcel Dettmann Remix)
05. STL – Loop 04
06. Levon Vincent – The Long Life
07. Jonas Kopp – Michigan Lake
08. ACT – RoHd
09. Mikhail Breen – Veracity
10. DVS1 – Confused
11. Rolando – De Cago
12. Kevin Gorman – 7am Stepper
13. Ben Klock – Compression Session 1
14. Roman Lindau – Keppra
15. Tyree – Nuthin Wrong
16. The Echologist – Dirt (Ben Klock Edit)
17. James Ruskin – Graphic
18. Ben Klock feat. Elif Biçer – Elfin Flight
19. Rolando – Junie

STL | Loop 04

@EtappKyle returns to Ostgut Ton with ‘Nolove’, a project encompassing a four-track EP, short film and forthcoming web exhibition focusing on Western Ukraine. Specifically, the music and artwork home in on the cities of Kamianets-Podilskyi and Chernivtsi in Bukovina, where Etapp Kyle grew up and developed his interest in electronic music.

Although now part of Ukraine, Bukovina had previously been part of Moldova, the Habsburg Empire, the Russian Empire, Romania and the Soviet Union. Its turbulent history and position on the border of Romania and Moldova have resulted in an extremely varied tapestry of cultural influence, as featured in the video for title track “Nolove”. There, youth, fashion, music culture sit side-by-side next to religion, violence and war – and larger political struggles.

The EP gives shape to the musical developments Etapp Kyle has made in both the studio and DJ booth since the release of 2017's ‘Alpha’, his latest 12" for Ostgut Ton. In contrast, Nolove's four tracks are minimalistic, detailed electronic ventures inspired by personal reflections on Chernivtsi and Ukrainian cultural identity. Forward-facing in rhythm and melody, the EP offers meticulously-produced leftfield dancefloor impressions of the region’s past, present and future.

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