WL//WH - AUGUST 2021 // Electronic - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

August

Corinthian 21

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The second record in the "Interstellar Excursions" V/A series.

Four cosmic explorations crafted by DJ IBON, Mikkel Rev, Oprofessionell & Kineta. Sensitive, blissful and ambient states wrapped in high energy beats and basslines.

Kineta - Belle Air

"Torpedo is an explosion of optimism, positive energy and good vibes. It came very quickly and in a moment of great inspiration. I think this sense of immediacy and movement reflects on the song from start to finish. Although it was originally released as part of an EP, this was months ago... when I was making it I felt it should be part of my next Album. In this new version I've told the story differently, in a more fluid and compact way." -AFFKT

AFFKT - THE BIG PICTURE

“The  title  'The  Big  Picture'  is  about  seeing  things  from  a  positive perspective,  the  album  wants  to  be  an  optimistic  pill  although  a  big reflection of what I have been, what I lived and what I have become at this very moment. I feel in an age where I feel fine looking at the past as much as looking forward to the future.” -AFFKT
Inspiration strikes in a myriad of waves. AFFKT’s new album brings
together all the best feelings and elements of the Spanish producer's
creativity  into  one  cohesive  release.  New  concepts  and  styles  that deliver the energy needed to be released after a forced pause. 
Sonically  speaking  ‘The  Big  Picture’  is  probably  his  most expansive and  multifaceted  electronic-driven  album  to  date.  AFFKT’s  carefully constructed  retro-futuristic  electronica  definitely  suggests  the quaint and  unique  forms  of  body  music  bringing  ties  with  rock,  pop  and certainly more organic sounds. The musician is creating a new path, a new future by travelling to the past. This new LP is redefining its own new  genre  somewhere between  techno,  indie  dance,  industrial  and new wave inspirations. 
That said the songs of the new album hide unforgettable moments in
the artist’s life. Unlike when composing an EP, AFFKT likes to build his
albums  in  a  cinematic  way.  By  taking  a  sonic  approach  to  telling stories.  The  artist  is  looking  for  a  deeper,  more descriptive  way  of working and describe feelings, moods, by using a different language.
‘The Big Picture’ can be enjoyed while dancing, as well as serving as
emotional therapy.
The album will be released exactly 4 years after the previous ground-
breaking LP ‘Son of a Thousand Sounds’ on Sincopat.

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KEY POINTS:
- The third studio album of Spanish producer AFFKT
- Released on splatter vinyl.
- Retro-futuristic electronica brought together with
   rock, pop and other more organic sounds.
- 'The Big Picture' delivers a positive energy after a
    long, forced still stand.

MOBILEELP034

A1 AS FAR AS WE CAN GO
A2 ABRE LOS OJOS (FT. E11E)
A3 CALIPSO

B1 ZAMBOMBA (FT. SUTJA GUTIERREZ)
B2 THE DREAM IS REAL
B3 END OF THE ROAD
B4 BLOOM

C1 JANDIA
C2 NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY WORLD
C3 LET IT BURN (FT. SUTJA GUTIERREZ)

D1 TORPEDO
D2 UELI
D3 ADIOS AYER (FEAT. PIEK)

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RODRIGUEZ JR., RE.YOU, AUDIOJACK,
ADANA TWINS

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PREMIERE > AFFKT - Torpedo (Album Mix)[MOBILEE]

The Brvtalist is proud to present a new video from Torn Relics. "Disguise" comes off the duo's forthcoming album, Burning Injustice, out soon on Instruments of Discipline. The project is composed of Romek Boyer
(AKA Rommek) & Aimée Mullen and their body of work is a mixture of cyber-punk electronics with tribalistic violin, rhythms and tones. Burning Injustice was written between 2017 - 2021, in which the music produced reflects the
decay of the political and social landscape in the UK, from the Brexit divide to covid isolation. This music serves as antidote in these turbulent times.

Today we're thrilled this host this haunting clip for the slow burning, crushing track "Disguise". Out on cassette and digital, get yours at: https://instrumentsofdiscipline.bandcamp.com/album/burning-injustic

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PREMIERE: Torn Relics - Disguise (Instruments of Discipline)

Glasgow based Infinite Wisdom collect works from 5 Artists on the forthcoming cassette and digital release ‘A Thousand Promo Shotz Could Never Compare!’. Working in solace, free from mutual influence but drawing upon the same psychic energies coursing through the magick ley lines of Northern Britain. Ten Years Lost, Sarah Bates, World Crime League, Michael Mann & Fat Rab produce a total of 14 tracks of smudged electronic melancholy; a selection of Ambient, House & Boogie cuts reminiscent of Washington's PPU or Vancouver's  now expired 1080p imprint but produced under the thick grey skies of Scotland, Preston & Manchester, power by yet thicker blooms of weedsmoke and lukewarm cups of tea. 

Buy on juno : https://www.juno.co.uk/products/a-thousand-promo-shotz-could-never/840168-01/

Label head Chris Smith aka Ten Years Lost who's past productions came to prominence on Dublin's Apartment Records and his own bootleg label Mom's Spaghetti, provides the common thread pulling together like-minded artists from Glasgow, Manchester & Preston. Contributing 2 of his own productions in 'Cat People' and 'Fuckyougonnado' as well as 'Cool Runnings' via his Denny Pally collab. 

Manchester based Sarah Bates brings some analogue pagan witchcraft vibes with 2 tracks; 'Wicca' and 'Sleeping Vibes' both up-ing the tempo but retaining the deep tones that colour the compilation throughout. Sarah is an intriguing talent working freely across both music & film as she pleases, releasing on Banoffee Pie & Ruf Dug’s ‘Ruf Kutz’ label whilst producing & scoring her own full length movie 

World Crime League the scarily prolific, Preston based producer, having previously featured on Berlins' Temporize label, contributes 'Morning People', 'Dawn Boogie' & 'We Won', experimenting with VHS Boogie, Yacht Rock and Slow Jam textures, drawing upon his seemingly limitless well of playful melodies and expert programming skills. 

In every skinny, ashen faced bedroom producer there's a Fat Rab ready to jump out. One half of Denny Pally (alongside Ten Years Lost). With 'Dicy', 'Bobby G' and 'Does it Look like Rain', Fat Rab combines a sense of humour with some of the compilation's more head's down grooves that work as well in headspace as a club's floorspace (whenever the fuck that becomes a thing again). 

Lastly are some recently unearthed tracks from Michael Mann. Could it be the famed creator of Miami Vice belatedly going all John Carpenter on us and scoring his own films? Or could it be a discarded side project from Highlands based Dam Ru - label mate of WCL on Temporize? Who knows for sure, we do know Dam Ru's debut album is coming soon on Temporize but Michael Mann's fate is, as yet, undetermined.

PREMIERE : Fat Rab - Bobby G

Artist: VA 
Release: Muy Duro 6 
Label: Duro 
Release Date:  04/08/2021
 
‘Muy Duro’ flagship V/A series returns this year with his volumen 6, music from new and old souls around the world. Le Dame Noir’s Arthur Johnson give you the entrance ticket with "31SPCIAL", a locomotive ride loaded with a bouncy bass, steady percussions and sharp cymbals that drive you to the peak. It is followed by Cornelius Doctor’s "Zsa Zsa Can't Don't Cry", a metallic and playful percussion with a mix of unhinged and liberating synthesizers.

Changing the semblance are ID_UA & Berny with "Tutta La Notte", a broken beat cut. Its hypnotizing synths will make you descend into the deepest and sweltering of the night, the point where you never want to see the sunlight again. Colossio's "Regios", is the perfect soundtrack to transport you to the multidimensional plane where you don't know if there will be a return accompanied by wild and nutty gnomes or your entrance to the psychiatric. Guitar and synthesizer riffs that when entering the center of your head hypnotize you, distorting your neurons and reality.

To close the compilation is Alvaro Cabana’s "Adventures Under The Dome", ironically inspired by all the theories that circulate today about the "dome" that covers the flat earth. A mix of sounds that could be defined as Robot Disco and Trippy Bleepy Fun, alluding to the fact that no matter if the earth is round, square or an infinite multidimensional plane, we could choose to go through this life with the intention of not stopping to have adventures and positive experiences.
Tracklist: 
 
1.  Arthur Johnson - 31SPCIAL (Original Mix) 
2.  Cornelius Doctor - Zsa Zsa Can't Don't Cry (Original Mix)  
3.  ID_UA & Berny - Tutta La Notte (Original Mix) 
4.  Colossio - Regios (Original Mix) 
5.  Alvaro Cabana - Adventures Under The Dome (Original Mix)

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PREMIERE > Alvaro Cabana - Adventures Under The Dome [DURO]

3rd Track from my upcoming album "Everything Hits At Once"
Cassette Tape Pre-Order: https://stdigue.bandcamp.com/album/everything-hits-at-once

Belong Here

Book Of The Damned

LYRICS:

Dark into my bones
Cold hands like stone.

Find the exit now
Ice burns my eyes.

My skin screams fear
My skin wants love
My skin now dies
My skin now

My skin..

S K I N

Mourning the loss of his Pearl, falls asleep in a castle. In his dream he is transported
to a miraculous landscape. He sees a beautiful maiden, clothed in white and covered with pearl.

Ruble Gang - Maiden Dream

Sensitivity/Drifting EP out now 
https://secretattraction.bandcamp.com

LYRICS*
precious time is all we need together 
I know we’ve been through something I can’t explain 
I know 
all I see is you

ANCIENT LIGHT performing ' S O M E W H E R E ' © MMXVIII, C.E.

Performed by ANCIENT LIGHT (Klaudia K./ Philip Pace, 2018).

Originally written by The Ascetic Force (Ev/Susanne/H.Haverkamp, 1986).

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Carlo Ponte: synthesizers and sampling
Enrico Morezzi: synthesizers and guitar

EXAUDI Demo

When Push Comes To Shove is the seventh studio album by Soft Riot, the stylised musical alter-ego of Glasgow-based Canadian artist JJD. The album will be released by Glasgow's Possession Records on 11 November 2019 in LP, CD and digital formats.

Resonating with references from all corners of the synthpop’s origins (DAF, Fad Gadget and John Foxx to name a few), Soft Riot’s latest release nonetheless manages to retain its own individual voice, melding and reinterpreting its antecedents with a personal twist and an impressive demonstration of synth-craft and programming. Following on from 2018’s The Outsider in the Mirrors, these ten tracks represent a change in themes and an evolution in production and sound.

The forthcoming single and album opener "Taking The Edge Off" sets out the Soft Riot manifesto, a propulsive future-synth tale of forging ever-forwards in an increasingly noisy world. "It's No Laughing Matter" is a hedonistic yet propulsive dance-floor slammer — shades of minimal synth and metallic Belgian new beat condense in side one closer "Fate’s Got A Bone To Pick With You" and the dizzying italo-matic muscle workout "Don’t Get Yourself Bent Out Of Shape" is the ultimate self-help smack down.

Although there’s no overarching concept to the album, Soft Riot has used this release as platform to experiment with his own concept of “déja vu”, using minute details of musical phrases and lyrics that have been used before in previously released Soft Riot material, and even between songs on this album. Some of these mirrored details are very subtle and would only be picked up by someone who has listened to all of the material up until now. It could also be the underlying black humour of Soft Riot’s work, mischievously playing off the old saying “it’s all been done before”.

The tracks were all composed in an extended hiatus from live performance between November 2018 and January 2019; a deliberate move on the part of JJD in order to foster a more focused creative atmosphere and allow for the writing process to have a more intuitive flow. This also allowed for a deeper exploration of sound design of his equipment, with this release utilising a range of different synths, something that reflects in the depth and richness of the new album's sounds.

This revision in JJD’s approach also impacts on the thematics of his writing. As JJD says himself "I feel real life over this decade has gotten a bit stranger than fiction” — speculative preoccupations of isolation and paranoia have taken on a more personal dimension in his lyrics. There’s tales of alien visitors who fall to the trappings and joys of humanity while on a mission (“By The Skin Of Your Teeth”) to topics less cosmic and more close to home, such as the uplifting emotions one feels within a gathering of friends with the third track, “The Lost Weekend”.

The outcome has been a sideways step into more new wave pop aesthetics, and a looser sound (underpinned by the warmth of the production). This overall makes the album groove into a more dance-floor orientated full sound, thawing some of the cold-wave angularity The Outsider In The Mirrors.

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Fate's Got A Bone To Pick With You

Is it over yet? 
Should I hold my breath? 
You're holding my hand, 
with your fangs in my neck. 

Is there anything left? 
Can you let me know when 
to let out my breath? 
All the way, till the end. 

Love is being immune to our venom. 
The nearness of you is like heaven 
Melting your skin into mine 
tearing apart into time. 

Is there closure yet 
from the disconnect? 
Are we closer then? 
Will we ever know when? 

If there's nothing left 
but the weight in my chest, 
you can keep what we kept 
and all that it meant.

Fangs

Apples

Maicol Mayers - Cowboy Boots

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