From Below (unmastered)

Release date (vinyl & digital format): 24th of June 2016

Inigo Kennedy has been with Token since the beginning. With a strong existing catalog stretching back to the 90s, Kennedy produced the first Token release from a place of confidence, with an EP of bold and dark, yet playful and seriously storming techno tracks. Since then he has been consistent in delivering a succession of releases that are always surprising, but instantly recognisable as fitting with his own polished sonic identity. This impressive body of work includes the full-length LP Vaudeville, in which he explored the many facets of his abilities as a producer, from atmospheric heights of ambience to murky and claustrophobic pacing grooves.

Now for Token 62, his double A-side NGC EP continues with a theme originating from the final track on Vaudeville, delving into the aesthetics of the interstellar clouds of Cygnus and Draco. The EP as a whole is swelling, melodic and subtle, with the AA-side NGC6543 named after the ‘Cat’s Eye’ nebula, taking its time with warm crescendos and crisp splashes of percussion to activate a meridian body response. NGC6826 (Blinking Eye) pulsates with a broken beat, the rhythm just pausing for a classic melancholic refrain before returning to force for its finale.

TRACKLIST
A - NGC6826 (Blinking Eye)
AA - NGC6543 (Cat's Eye)

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TOKEN62 - Inigo Kennedy - NGC EP

"An empathy box," he said, stammering in his excitement, "is the most personal possession you have. It's an extension of your body; it's the way you touch other humans, it's the way you stop being alone."

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Figure SPC inevitably arrives at the alphabet’s last letter and therefore the end of what has been a most prosperous runtime and success story. Already accountable for its first release ‘A’ seven years ago, Jeroen Search has proven essential to the sublabel’s course with his many cornerstone contributions. This final, special extended release grants him the ample scope to tell the closing chapter in all proper detail.

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A3 Jeroen Search - Upekkha

CONCEPTS OF TIME
COT007 - Introversion - Aftermath EP
Incl. versions by Kevin De Vries, Chris Hirose, HOURS

Berlin based Introversion debuts on CONCEPTS OF TIME with three atmospheric exercises in polyrhythm, syncopation and melody. „Create“ fuses stomping drums with lush pads, which are reworked by Labelhead HOURS into a driving summer tool. Kevin De Vries transforms the twisted drumming of „Development“ into a energetic stomper, while Chris Hirose emphasizes the pensive aspects of „Aftermath“’s melodies in his Edit.

Tracklisting:

1. Introversion - Create (Original Mix)
2. Introversion - Create (HOURS Remix)
3. Introversion - Development (Original Mix)
4. Introversion - Development (Kevin De Vries Mix)
5. Introversion - Aftermath (Original Mix)
6. Introversion - Aftermath (Chris Hirose Edit)

release:
01.08.16

Artwork Foto Credit: Florentine Pilvi

COT007 - Introversion - Create (HOURS Remix) - SNIPPET

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More Info & Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2016/06/podcast-444-tommy-four-seven/

The lauded DJ-producer delivers a club snapshot full of killer modern techno cuts.

@tommyfourseven



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XLR8R Podcast 444: Tommy Four Seven

Fresh off of his re-activation of the seminal “Planetary Funk” series, Luke Slater delivers another new 12” with all of the purposeful intensity and sonic clarity to be expected from his celebrated Planetary Assault Systems alias. Pairing both an original mix and a spirited re-working by Josh Wink, “Kat” is a winning synthesis of all the elements that make P.A.S. such a continually relevant player in the game of moving bodies and opening minds: it once again pushes beat-driven sound to disciplined extremes, but not without clearly detectable traces of humor and playfulness.

As vocal repetition of the track’s simplistic and suggestive title is run through a maze of filters, pitch-shifts and delays, an equally busy set of tubular bass figures mirrors this approach and meshes with the insistent rhythm. Carefully inserted hard stops, crafty fading of sound from background to foreground, and unexpected breakdowns give the track a kind of restless feel that ensures its success as a peak hour selection, or as a reliable companion on inner-city underground transit journeys.

While the original mix on the b-side begins in a more subdued fashion, it isn’t lacking at all in concentrated energy. As is the case with so many other P.A.S. classics, this mix relies on geometrical sound sequences that slowly approach from a distance before they completely overtake the listener. Elements like static crackling are wielded here like active parts of the conversation rather than as atmospheric wallpaper, and the beat itself hits with a mixture of force and subtlety, with anxious drum hits doubling up on one another and regularly giving rise to new patterns.

“Kat” is the kind of record that gives Planetary Assault Systems fans both what they want, and what they didn’t expect: it steers away from easy techno conventions but never abandons that genre’s physicality and infectiousness.

Words by Thomas Bey William Bailey

From Below (unmastered)

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