For our next N2MU podcast, we have one of those artists that we’re truly proud to welcome on board, from the southwestern coast of Norway, Livar Saerheim, aka VLR (@vlr). A genuine veteran who has been a vinyl lover and DJ for over 25 years, well known not only for his striking productions on labels such as CPU, Gated, or Mystic & Quantum among others, but also for his outstanding sets blending any sort of electro, techno, and IDM sounds. The proof is in the pudding. Enjoy it!
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Tracklist:
Gravity Waves - Talk Memory [Curtis Electronix]
Galaxy87 - Landing on Mars [Solar One Music]
Data Theft - Data Loss [Rat Life]
Wavejumpers - Cetacean Nation [UR]
The Advent - Vast [Cultivated Electronics]
7 Hurtz - Stokers Motor Extended [Output]
SEM - Area 5 [Electron Industries]
Radioactive Man - Bassick Element [Rotters Golf Club]
Tiga - Easy (Der Zyklus Quantum Matrix) [Turbo]
Silicon Scally - Yield [Central Processing Unit]
Bodyjack. Twice Bitten [Bodyjack]
Alden Tyrell - SHIFT UP [Djak Up Bitch (DUB)]
Polygon Window - Polygon Window [Warp]
Matti Turunen - Fargon [Abstract Forms]
Obergman - Osculating Circle [Stilleben]
The Third Man - Travel [Ai]
Mind over MIDI - Hoven 368 [Beatservice]

N2MU PDCST071 - VLR

A mixtape of music from friends and aquaintances! 
Artwork by Koppen!

1. Musique le pop - Mateo
2. Cheb Runner - Raibotic Love
3. Koppen - Formfett
4. Moving Still - Kunafa King
5. Gunerius & Verdensveven - Blå disko a lá t​ü​rk (Center of the Universe Børek på Gunerius mix)
6. Simone - merci (dan drehn remix)
7. Boblebad - Easy feat. WHALESHARKATTACKS
8. Alexander Arpeggio & Nixxon - Künefe
9. Mt. Mélodie - Volca Fame
10. S.L.Y.C - Safety, grace (Sommerfeldt remix)
11. Center of the Universe feat Bjørn-Petter Tøsse - Karlov Stretch
12. Legs 11 - Flawless Logistics
13. Besøk - Into Rest

På gangen med C.O.U.

Svake Øyeblikk

Tracklist:
Liasons D - He Chilled Out (Move Club Mix)
Fire On High - Floating In A Dream of EX-TC (652 Beats)
Ramirez - La Musica Tremenda (La Tormenta Mix)
The Source Experience - The Source Experience
Jonny L - Ooh I Like It (Whiplash Mix)
Drax - Parnophelia
M-Age - Visitor (Air Liquide Mix)
Humate - 3.1
Mind over MIDI - Mindworks
CJ Bolland - Mantra
Sven Väth - L'esperanza (Hope Will Move Mountains Mix)
Ongaku - Mihon #3
Dance 2 Trance - Freaks
Bassman / De La Ray - The Real Trance
Biosphere - Baby Interphase
Come Into My Life (Breathless Mix)
Trilithon - Prayer (Mix 2)
D-Shake - Techno Trance (Paradise Is Now)
Joey Beltram - Psycho Bass
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Pure Trance Original)

Pure Trance Originals

David Braun, Divad Brown, David Brown, Divad Braun, [db], Bergen (NO)
Composed and recorded by Anders Gogstad, Robert Heggdal & Gisle Frøysland.

[db] Cycloid

● "Exactly one year after my 2022 release entitled 'Agitation Propaganda', I return with a collection of new tracks that were produced between the middle of 2022 and early 2023. This 20-track album, as the title suggests, is a tribute to the love affair that I have with making music. In 2023 I celebrate my 40th birthday so I thought it was good timing to release a concept album that pays homage to the one true love that I've ever known- Synthesis ♥️

This album, as with the last, relies heavily on the sounds of classic synthesizers/drum machines like Mono/Poly, MS-20, SH-101, Jupiter-8, Juno-106, SH-2, JX-8P, System 100, Juno 60, JX-3P, TB-303, Polysix, TR-606, OB-8, TR-808, ARP Odyssey, as well as some contemporary additions to my studio like Hydrasynth, System 8, MC-707, MicroFreak, Prophet Rev2, Novation Peak, Minilogue, SE-02, and Microkorg.

The artwork for the album was done by the brilliant artist Kelly Gilleran, who also just so happens to be my long-term girlfriend. She is a pattern designer, painter, and illustrator. Her work can be found here: www.kellygilleran.redbubble.com/

A majority of the songs on this album were recorded in only one take in my home studio and recorded to high-quality video as well. The same recordings heard on this album can be seen performed live on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@JohanSebastianBot/videos

DVS NME is the man behind the weekly radio show/daily blog called 'Dark Science Electro' and has been a dedicated contributor to the Electro community for the last 13 years. I share my love of Electro music by posting Electro-affiliated news, art, mixes, albums, memes, concerts, tracks, gear, and more. This album is available for $16 USD on Bandcamp."

Album tracklist:
Unrequited
Surveillance Capitalism
Collective Consumption
The Luddites
Expropriation
Los Vangelis
Wage/Price Freeze
Rapture Ideologies
Skeleton Crews
Moral Self-Licensing
Damage Control
It’s The End
Empty Suit
Herr Elektromotoren
Debt Trap
Attention Economics
Motivated Reasoning
Market Manipulation
Bread & Circuses
Permissable Opinion

● Artist: DVS NME @dvsnme
● Title: Attention Economics
● 2023/05/10

🛒 https://dvsnme.bandcamp.com/album/a-love-letter-to-synthesis

📺 https://www.youtube.com/@jadelabel/videos

A Love Letter To Synthesis

📺

𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 : DVS NME - Attention Economics

Echoes Of Ampersand

Step into Admir Krorjenic-Hansen's galactic universe and joins us for this weeks cosmic travel! The captain of sounds  takes us back in time and into the future. Golden new school disco from the early 80's, tape drenched synth-pop, and computer disco for the coolest kids. Top selections from start to end that makes you want to float away into space.

Tracklist:
01. Bill Nelson - Legions Of The Endless Night (Cocteau Records)
02. Elitechnique - Private Beach (Clone Loft Supreme series)
03. Cassiard DJ - Bright Dance (Bahnsteig 23)
04. Blue Vision - Visions (Ron Hardy instrumental edit) (EMI Electrola)
05. (Danny) Alias - Civil Defense (Les Disques De La Mort)
06. Albion - Invasione (Ambassador’s Reception)
07. Golden Teacher - Love Rocket (Optimo Music)
08. Elitechnique - Double Destiny (Clone Loft Supreme)
09. Marcello Giombini - Disco 8 (Mondo Groove)
10. Oppenheimer Analysis - Men In White Coats (Minimal Wave)
11. Postgraduate Seminars: Diabetes-Concepts and Problems (Excerpta Medica Foundation)

* Bonus track:  Tangerine Dream - Trap Feeling (Virgin)

Follow @admirkorjenic
https://www.instagram.com/admir_korjenic/

Mhost Likely Mix 055 // Admir Korjenic-Hansen

https://erikkmckenzie.bandcamp.com/album/moon

“Moon” is compiled of tracks originally composed for the performance “Maan” (“Moon”), choreographed by Javier Murugarren and produced by Rose Stories (NL) in 2024.

Toads on “Intro” recorded on Hawaii by Javier Murugarren.
“Liftoff” and “Oxygen” contain voice recordings by Sandra Roberts and Amira El Rawi.
“Oxygen” breathing recording by Javier Murugarren.
Triangle loop on “Light Percussion” by Javier Murugarren.
“Yaels Theme” was inspired by “Ik ben de Maan” by Yael Peles and contains samples of her voice.

Thanks to Javier Murugarren and Rose Stories for giving me this oppourtunity to explore sound and space.
And a huge thanks to BHLB for precious mixing advice.

Cover artwork by Erikk McKenzie.
All rights Erikk McKenzie 2024.

VINYL EDITION:

I a considering ordering a batch of vinyl pressing of this album,
but I need some help for this investment:

The first 20 downloaders who donate an extra 5€ (total 14€ per download)
will get a 50% discount offer on the 12” Moon vinyl LP once it is produced.

When the album has reached 20x downloads incl 5€ donations
I will start the process of ordering vinyl pressing.

Price for vinyl will be:
Regular price: 18 € (plus postage)
Discount price: 9 € (plus postage)

As I cannot guarantee that the vinyl edition will be produced or or how long time it will take,
there is an element of trust in this, that´s why I keep your risk low at 5€.

If I do not reach 20 downloads I will reconsider my options.
I will in any case not be able to return the 5 € donations in other ways than discount on this vinyl edition.

Bottom line:
If you dig this album, it should be worth investing an extra 5 € to make a vinyl dream come true.
I am positive it will happen!

https://erikkmckenzie.bandcamp.com/album/moon

Moon

Moon (album preview)

OUT ON CASSETTE AND DOGITAL DOWNLOAD!

This is that feeling of when something shows up you had forgot about. It’s a mystery to you, a part of lost time, a blackout. It had just left you; the how, the why, the when?! It all escapes you. It is a semi-familiar blur, mixed with the thought; was I supposed to do this? A tiny alien part of yourself had submerged itself, incongruent with your idea of self.

My first ever CD was God Fodder by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, given to me for the Xmas of 1991. I could only listen to it in the living room when my parents where out of the house, and I didn't get a CD walkman until 1997. Before this I had to make mixtapes to listen on my MC walkman. But elements of that first CD snuck in somewhere, in here, into this album.

Recorded in February 2018, on Valentine's day. An improvised recording session using a Zoom H5 in a somewhat dirty apartment in Briskeby Oslo. I didn't have a valentine that year, as you can probably hear. Recorded in scant clothing with a mild headache, using either an 8 string stereo or dual output feedbacker/guitar or a Rhandy Rhodes DIY-kit guitar that I carved skulls and bear faces into. Or both. A Boss DR-3 for drums. Beats mostly punched in with a Wish.com bought stereo looper. For effects, an Akai deluxe distortion, Electro Harmonix Big Muff deluxe bass, a bit-crusher box assembled by a speed-freak later rehoused, a no-name fuzz also from Mr. speed-freak, 3 wally hotone loopers, 2 x Zoom ms50G, a boss GE7 equalizer. All run through a Behringer Xenxy 802 into the H5.

Unsure if anything. I speculate if this is all from a later session or if I just recorded everything that Valentine's day from 11.20 to 04.55 (according to the meta data). That day is hazy, at best. Later that day I posed for pictures in the “Hello Friend” bear costume and drew a sketch where I noted down title ideas for the album and recordings. I was considering naming it; It’s neither here nor bear, what good is a heart trapped in a chest. But it was to nice to be a noise record, so it sat and waited for better times or the aftermath of worse. You know, post 2020-2022. Meanwhile the sounds lived on as files on the phone - something to listened to while walking with headphones, through crowds. in public, on a tram, train or buss. Music to make you feel off kilter.

As for the cover art, around the same time I grew addicted to breaking up markers and mixing them with flowing alcohol and rubbing it on photo paper, attempting to compose images the same way I improvise music. Sometimes listening to music while doing so, to see if one could compose or make these ink paintings into music annotations. I called the series "Random compositions”. I made them to relax and it felt so freeing in a time of stress, so much It was hard to stop. Escaping figuration sound, it became a very messy meditation with fingers post session looking like I was both discoloured and disfigured. Both the music and the images were expressions awaiting a release until Case Records came knocking.

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Christian Blandhoel is a untaught improvisational musician, disabled and an Oslo art school educated visual artist. Inaction-figure maker, plush bear manipulator, involuntary textile artist, painter, performance, noise-instrument maker, feedbacker creator, realtime composer and noise-musician.
Born in 1976 grew up in the suburban forests of 1405 LANGHUS, with roots in the Follo Rock scene where he was briefly in the indie rock band Thee Unmist from 1998 to 2000, and the unfulfilled ìlavesiî band; Star Star Guitar, making and performing Noise-music under the IJIN, Hello Friend, Blandhoel and Kjøttpøkk banners since 2010.

www.blandhoel.com  


Released May 8, 2024

Composed and performed by
Christian Blandhoel

Mastered by
Ernst Van Der Loo

Cover by
Christian Blandhoel


CASE RECORDS 2024 / CASE35

The World Works Better if You Break it

Passing Out in Hallways

Christian Blandhoel | This World Works Better if You Break it | Passing Out In Hallways

For all the reasons that you should already know, and if not, then for the ones that will become apparent shortly, these words are extremely difficult for me to write. So, let’s get the challenging part out of the way now. Marcus Fjellström was a remarkable Swedish composer who has been an influence and a dear friend. I’ve met him on several occasions and was immediately embraced by his radiating bright energy, which seemed to be at odds with the dim music he composed. His audiovisual works left a permanent impression on my heart and mind, the most notable of which was his private performance for the Miasmah family in Berlin, on which he released Schattenspiele (2010) and Skelektikon (2017). He even made a gorgeous mix for me, which I listen to only when I miss him the most. So when, in September of 2017, Erik Skodvin brought me the terrible news of his untimely death (at an incredibly young age of only 37!), I was absolutely devastated. It’s been nearly impossible to listen to his music ever since. That, and of course, watching the AMC series called The Terror, for which Marcus composed the soundtrack at the end of his life. That is until today. On September 20th, Miasmah will release a posthumous double album of this final work, befittingly titled The Last Sunset Of The Year, collecting music originally composed for the above-mentioned show, with many pieces being available for the very first time. I’m absolutely honoured to be selected to premiere a track, with the official announcement coming out tomorrow.

The Last Sunset Of The Year

Last Morning Watch VII.

TRACK PREMIERE : Marcus Fjellström - Last Morning Watch VII.

Norwegian label based in Oslo. An eclectic gathering of experimental music, leaning ever so slightly towards the avant-garde.

Head on over to Bandcamp for the full catalogue and all them tracks.