Bats In Pool (Vol.II, Tape) on Dystant Recordings is founded by a concept more distant from that of the dancefloor, representing the other side of the artists, the more experimental one, characterized by Ambient, IDM and the various facets of electronic music, through which the label can manifest the differences and what less is shown by the artist. An unexpected side.

"The paradox, the best way to reveal to men a hidden truth."

Evitceles
@evitceles
https://www.instagram.com/evitceles/

Dystant Recordings
@dystantrecordings
https://www.instagram.com/dystant_recordings/

Bats In Pool Vol. II

Premiere: Evitceles - Son Of The Moon | Dystant Recordings

SENE - Swoon (2021)
out on new @unknownprecept compilation 'Accidental Business'
unknownprecept.bandcamp.com/album/accidental-business

We're proud to present Accidental Business, a long-term project strewn with pitfalls and disillusions nodding to the incongruous events that led to the birth of Unknown Precept. Looking back at what made our trademark for the past 8 years, this new compilation marks a turning point in our discography. Scanning out the dustiest corners of the label's bizarre roster to offer a complete look at Unknown Precept's soul and vision; it brings together 18 tracks of unreleased material and collaborations recorded by our closest friends. From slow-paced post-punk hitting hard as bricks to short-circuited noise that makes the power supply trip, not to mention our love for the grotesque and self-mockery via humorous wonky synthpunk and bad tempered body music cracking jokes at a ghost audience. This is what you get when a group of people that have no clue what they're doing get together. Into the unknown we sink, but where to find us next?

Swoon

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Taken from Zoë Mc Pherson (@zoemcpherson) new EP, Abyss Elixir, out March 15, 2022, via Pendulum Recordings (@pendulumrec)

Read: https://bit.ly/3H2PVe9
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3IaLzDa

For the label's second release, Pendulum Recordings presents Abyss Elixir, a 5 track EP from Berlin based French sound artist and producer Zoë Mc Pherson.

Abyss Elixir is an EP made to self-heal and with a transformative perspective. Using warm low frequencies, Mc Pherson creates a visceral atmosphere that is personal and contemplative, yet the listener is present. At times it feels so intimate that the listener wonders if they should even be there. Are they allowed to be there? Unlike a lot of Zoë Mc Pherson’s releases, there are no collaborations here.

In the artist’s own words:

“The overall tracks are meant for heavy sound systems that are able to hit your heart, but also to be played loud in your headphones while taking time for yourself. The whole EP is an elixir, made to mend, if you are able to allow that space and process what is happening. Whatever the mood, it is full acceptance, strengthening and developing your position, observing what is around you, its history and what changes, as well as what needs to change further.”

Mc Pherson opens the EP with “I Expect Nothing (Straight), a 12 minute moody composition with powerful vocals that are at times sultry and at other times maniacal. Singing “I Expect Nothing,” Mc Pherson’s vocals can quickly turn from soulful and enchanting to hysterically laughing from one moment to the next. The track has a natural groove as the journey builds and layers upon itself. While the entirety of Abyss Elixir is a narrative, “I Expect Nothing” is a composition within itself.

Over the 5 track EP Mc Pherson leads the listener on an introspective journey using dub rhythms, noise and experimental textures, and creeping sub bass. Playful beats juxtapose between moments of darkness and intensity. The EP concludes with the track “Bound To Spill,” a powerful closer that feels like a final purge. By the end, the listener is left to process their own journey and start anew.

Cover photography by Suzy Polin

Mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Audio Mastering

Released by Pendulum Recordings

Premiere: Zoë Mc Pherson - Sub Town [Pendulum Recordings]

Under the @decemberxxx alias, Tomas More has found the perfect balance between his slow and gloomy techno cuts. Electro punk, new beats, wave and techno influences - his signature sound is filled with references, from minimal drums to 80s industrial music.

Catch December every 4th Monday of the month, from 22h to 00h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

December invite Puce Mary - 28 Février 2022

Playing music at the ocean, an infinite mirror curls upward towards you. Picturesque and perverse, cracked enamel castings sit in lazy but unsettled sands. Something is just right, having once stirred beneath the surface it now hovers misting at eye level. You can put your hand through it; pushing humidity around like a furry catkins flake in a tepid wind.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida. The debut recording of "bad LSD trips" for the ENXPL series is documentation of improvising and honing a sonic vocabulary that is rooted in the tradition of early industrial, dark ambient and tape music. The backdrop of the recorded effort is a geographical conundrum of a city worn threadbare by candied advertising, tourism, and aesthetics. BAD LSD TRIPS inverts the spectacle of their locale with psychedelic meditations searching for, and occasionally digging inside of, a place of ease.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida.


Limited 125 copies
Copper foil print on recycled paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
credits
releases March 29, 2022

Recorded by Domingo Castillo and doris dana
LAZY HIDEAWAY contains elements of Zabelle Panosian - Groung
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Source material for design from 'Smiley Face Om'
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

BAD LSD TRIPS

HARD COPY PURCHA$E

ENXPL12 - BAD LSD TRIPS - A1. CONSCIOUSNESS BURNOUT

King Midas Sound - The Lonely (CR09)

Personal Wastelands is an album rooted in contradiction. Although FOQL and Fischerle are both based in Poland, these two artists—who are working together here for the first time—come from distinctly different backgrounds. FOQL, a former member of the groundbreaking Oramics collective who’s currently a part of SHAPE’s 2020 artist roster, usually operates in the margins between IDM and industrial, while Fischerle, a sonic nomad who heads up the Pawlacz Perski label, is someone whose detailed creations routinely bust through established notions of genre.

Forged over the course of a few sessions in FOQL’s Warsaw studio, the album began with improvisation, as the two artists—armed only with two identical drum machines—gradually discovered some remarkably potent common ground, a nebulous "wasteland" of bleak atmospheres, hypnotic dub and corroded rhythms. There’s a bleakness to the music, yet the album's percolating percussion and robust basslines—which nod toward the more experimental end of the UK hardcore continuum—are downright lively, even when they've been slathered in sludgy reverb. Like many releases on Paralaxe Editions, Personal Wasteland defies easy categorization, but despite its many contradictions, it's a compelling document of what can happen when two exploratory talents join forces and simply let their creativity run free.

Music by FOQL & Fischerle.
Artwork by Oficina de disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.
Mastering by Kris at Linear.ms.
Words by Shawn Reynaldo.

Pre-order here: 
https://paralaxe-editions.bandcamp.com/album/personal-wasteland

Personal Wasteland

Swimming Pool 2.0

Taken from 'OLD TRX [87 - 93]', a collection of unreleased archival tracks recorded on Amiga computers and early Cubase software in late '80s / early '90s by synf systems boffin Dave NYZ.

Available on purple 2LP, mastered and cut by Anna @ D&M, Berlin, housed in screen-printed jacket. Edition of 300 with free digital at Boomkat.com http://bit.ly/2U6TQBH

NYZ - Damage [RAVENYZII]

Cosmo Rhythmatic is a Berlin-based label curated by Shapednoise with the collaboration of Ascion and D. Carbone.
The imprint presents the abstract, noisy and organic side of REPITCH Recordings.

King Midas Sound - The Lonely (CR09)

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