Annie Hall - Cipher - Original Mix

Circle 3 is the 9th vinyl release on Blank Code Records and is the 3rd release in the Circle series produced by Detroit native Mutate (Len Bartush), with remixes by Luis Flores, Mike Parker, and Project 313.

Circle 3 exemplifies the spirit of Detroit Techno. A deep, rich kick with a nice snappiness keeps the beat driving as heavily filtered synths reverberate through time, reminiscent of Detroit's classic M-Series records. Tight, delicate percussion plays with some aggressive claps creating the dynamic of a true modern classic.

Luis Flores delivers a solid remix that completely deconstructs the original track while keeping it's most bold elements. The kick is booming, the bass is tight, and there's a mean hook that loops it's way around the percussion, really drawing you inside the track's world.

Mike Parker dispatches an up-front rework, shrinking the original elements of the track into a veracious hook, supported by clock-like kicks and hats.

Project 313 deliver a stand-out remix that really highlights the atmosphere of the original track. The echo of the crunchy stabs dissolve into an endless feedback loop, as clicky hats and a solid downbeat pull everything together.

Exclusive to the digital version is another Mutate original, Recursive. This down-tempo track dives deep into dub, with sparse chord stabs that let their echoes form the dominant rhythm. A wicked groove is formed by the broken kick and finely chopped percussion that glitches on beat.


Mutate - Circle 3 - Luis Flores Remix

LABEL:
Blank Code

ARTIST:
Mike Gervais

TITLE:
BCRLTD005 - Churn EP

RELEASE DATE:
April 1st, 2015

FORMAT:
Limited 12", digital

DISTRIBUTION:
Beatport / Blank Code Records

WEB:
http://www.blankcode.com
contact@blankcode.com

TRACKS:
D1. Churn (Original Mix)
D2. Churn (DJ Hyperactive Remix)
D3. Difficult Cut (Original Mix)
D4. Difficult Cut (Deraout Remix)


Mike Gervais - Churn - Original Mix

LABEL:
Blank Code

ARTIST:
Various Artists

TITLE:
BCRLTD006 - M1 Compilation

RELEASE DATE:
May 11th, 2015

FORMAT:
Limited 12", digital

DISTRIBUTION:
Beatport / Blank Code Records

WEB:
http://www.blankcode.com
contact@blankcode.com

TRACKS:
D1.  Demerger at Random - Annie Hall (Original Mix)
D2.  Reform - Joel Morgan (Original Mix)
D3.  Motion - Anthony Jimenez (Original Mix)
D4.  Pre 98 - Corbin Davis (Original Mix)


Annie Hall - Demerger at Random - Original Mix

LABEL:
Blank Code

ARTIST:
Brian Sanhaji

TITLE:
BCR010 - Panic EP

RELEASE DATE:
May 2015

FORMAT:
12", digital

DISTRIBUTION:
Complete USA / Beatport

WEB:
http://www.blankcode.com
contact@blankcode.com

TRACKS:
A1. Panic (Original Mix)
B1. Pending Errors (Original Mix)
B2. Initial Boot (Original Mix)


Brian Sanhaji - Panic - Original Mix

EDLX043 - B1 - AnD - Power Spectrum (Sleeparchive Remix)

EDLX043 - B2 - AnD - Power Spectrum (O/H Remix)

EDLX044 - A - AnD - Non Sky Signal Noise (Justin K Broadrick as JK Flesh Reshape)

LABEL:
Blank Code

ARTIST:
Joe Sousa

TITLE:
BCRLTD007 - Porphyria EP

RELEASE DATE:
August 31, 2015

FORMAT:
Limited 12", digital

DISTRIBUTION:
Beatport / Blank Code Records

WEB:
http://www.blankcode.com
contact@blankcode.com

TRACKS:
D1. Porphyria (Original Mix)
D2. Antisense (Original Mix)
D3. Schala (Original Mix)
D4. Hoods (Original Mix)


Joe Sousa - Porphyria - Original Mix

7 - Giorgio Gigli - Shades of Depth [snippet]

5 - Giorgio Gigli - The Silence Was Infinite [snippet]

Don’t be fooled by the name, Clouds are about as rough and spiky as it gets. Words like “rowdy”, “boisterous” and “ragged” have been used to describe Calum Macleod and Liam Robertson’s voluminous output together on the likes of Soma and Fifth Wall, with the unlikely Turbo shouldering most of the brunt. And since the release of their album, Ghost Systems Rave, Clouds have only gotten more gnarled and savage, as their Tannhauser Acid Works series and latest cassette release for Opal Tapes will attest. But ‘Roadslip Timemender’ could be their most formidable yet.

From a clean slate Clouds present four scuzzy techno cuts full of rattling irreverence that settle in nicely between AnD’s gun-slinging and Sawlin & Subjected’s heady, virulent soundscapes. On the A-side “Maverick Scrabble” dives straight in without pausing for breath whilst “Castres Olympique” slides around on un-oiled hinges as it layers itself up over time. Dramatic chords, rattles, bells, static noise and industrial pangs are all woven in, making this a densely packed and textural number. Then on the flip “Coast Range Arc (Tuff Stuff Hardcore)” is like a blast from some cavernous subterranean workshop fathoms below the surface, leaving “Polgate Slamen” to close things on a tough, tight and itchy tip. “Fixed Kaos Network Fee” is your digital freebee that’s big, bold and wildly unpredictable—use it well.

Digital Bonus - Clouds - Fixed Kaos Network Fee

As a motion graphics designer by day and musician by night, Dara Smith has always been fascinated by audio and visual expression. They are one and the same, he says, and as Arad he’s putting that theory into action. Particles and Waves is his second record under the moniker after Haon and unveils more a focused concept with all of his loose modus operandi in tact.

Like his work with Ian McDonnell as Lakker, Smith’s solo practice is one in perpetual flux; forever changing and redefining itself whilst drawing from a deep well of musicology. It’s directly indebted to his DJ sets, too, which cover techno in its purest form right to the very fringes of the dancefloor with brokenbeat, Gqom and Fwd influence included. It’s music written intuitively, with laissez-faire sentiment that doesn’t extended beyond the granular of the now. As a result, it cannot be defined in terms of style or structure but rather in its detailed and supremely diligent approach to sound design.

With Arad, Smith is bringing his two worlds ever closer together. It is a project born from the audio-visual intersection with exclusive artwork produced here by Smith himself in symbiosis with the music. Particles and Waves then is the first real step towards a singular Arad language that works across all of the senses.

Particles and Waves is an Electric Deluxe special LMTD edition double vinyl release, which will only be available for physical purchase through the Electric Deluxe store.

Arad - Planet Hunter

DJ Hypereractive - Clave - Original Mix

Justin K. Broadrick’s output is an intimidating one. Not because it is so incredibly raucous and dirty-sounding, for the most part. It’s just that there is so much of it. His earliest venture began, aged 15, with the recording of his first—and last—record with Napalm Death. From there he formed pioneering industrial metal group Godflesh, who released a slew of seminal albums on Earache throughout the ’90s. In the meantime he’d met Kevin Martin, AKA The Bug, and began experimenting with everything from dub and techno to hip-hop, breakbeat and rowdy ambience as Techno Animal. Together they produced four albums under the moniker, plus a collaboration with Porter Ricks, ultimately bowing out on the monolithic ‘The Brotherhood Of The Bomb’ for Matador in 2001.

In 1999 Broadrick founded Avalanche Recordings, which would serve as an outlet for some of his more expansive millennial work, namely as Final, Jesu and JK Flesh. Jesu was born from the ashes of Godflesh, a deeply genuine and emotional project that channeled all the raw anguish of his former band into more contemplative post-industrial and shoe-gazing song-structures. Final, a minimal ambient-guitar project—which actually pre-dates Godflesh—was recently picked up by Downwards, who put out the seven-track double vinyl ‘Black Dollars’ at the start of 2016. They backed ‘Nothing Is Free’ next, complete with Surgeon remix, credited this time to Broadrick’s JK Flesh guise. There’s also the somber and ethereal Pale Sketcher alias, which grew out of a remix album of Jesu material on Ghostly International.

JK Flesh debuted proper in 2012 with the album ‘Posthuman’ on 3BY3, but it’s lineage can be traced right back to Kevin “K-Mart” Martin and the pair’s psychedelic industrial techno project, The Sidewinder, which was picked up by Mille Plateaux in 1996. The studio pet-name would later become his surly alter-ego, as Broadrick explained to Resident Advisor in a 2012 interview: “Any remix I would do which had beats that were hard and involved any form of noise or sense of foreboding or threat, I would use the JK Flesh moniker. JK Flesh is the angry, hateful, disenchanted side of what I do with electronic beat-driven, bass-driven music. It’s got a lot more to boot.” And it does. There’s been the stinging ‘Worship Is The Cleansing Of The Imagination’ since, a split with Dominick Fernow as Prurient, and this year’s ‘Suicide Estate’ EP on Fernow’s own Hospital Productions. Now Electric Deluxe has the honour of bringing the next unrelenting JK Flesh album kicking and screaming into the world. Batten down the hatches and prepare for a perilous ride.

JK Flesh - Low Alloy

LABEL:
Blank Code

ARTIST:
Drumcell & Luis Flores

TITLE:
BCR011 - Flux EP

RELEASE DATE:
May, 2016

FORMAT:
12", digital

DISTRIBUTION:
Complete USA / Beatport

WEB:
http://www.blankcode.com
contact@blankcode.com

TRACKS:
A1. Flux(Original Mix)
B1. Re:Flux (Original Mix)

Drumcell & Luis Flores - Flux - Original Mix

Goa Club favourite Simona Calvani AKA DJ Red returns to Electric Deluxe with Underwater, the follow-up to her sensual and sumptuous debut Duality from 2014.  After Arad’s deftly innovative Particles and Waves LP and Justin Broadrick’s exceptionally antagonistic catalogue entry as JK Flesh, Underwater makes for a sleek and functional edition to the newly formed EDLX LMTD run of releases.

Original tracks “Underwater” and “Sweet Silence” are complimented by a set of more experimental remixes from Ukrainian dissenter Stanislav Tolkachev and Speedy J and Lucy as Zeitgeber. Both production outfits have been known to subvert the norm and their two rewrites here are no exception. For his version of “Sweet Silence” Stanislav Tolkachev lulls with drones for the first half before dramatically switching tact, whilst Zeitgeber hit a strung-out and jazzy groove on their slightly haunted rendition of “Underwater”.

Physical copies will only be purchasable via the Electric Deluxe store.

Underwater

Sweet Silence

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DJ Red - Sweet Silence

Kyle Geiger -  Slingshot Orbit - Original Mix

Alex Falk is a techno producer and DJ from the southeastern region of the US, closely associated with the Proper Trax label, upon which he made his solo debut in 2013 with the TERSE 12-inch. Since then, Falk has has gained increasing notoriety through consistently enticing releases including the dreamy ‘Mitsuda’, released on Anthony Naples’ Proibito imprint and his CGI004 EP on Atlanta-based CGI Records. His style is quirky, loop-driven techno that has been described by the music press as “impeccably booming,” “off-kilter,” “all-business,” and “svelte.”

Blank Code Podcast

Blank Code Podcast 206 - Alex Falk

This week on the Blank Code Podcast, we welcome for the first time, Lindsey Herbert. The past year Lindsey has been on fire as resident for both Robot Ears in San Francisco and also Invert Music Group in Los Angeles. Always setting the tone properly for major artists like Chris Liebing, Reeko and Function, Lindsey has gained recognition outside of her home cities. She traveled to Detroit to play for Blank Code in the Movement Opening party and most recently her first booking in Germany playing alongside Hours. This week she has provided a look into her deeper side.

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