second track from the album " 13 " by N & Bu.d.d.A., CD released March 2025 on Drone Records  (SYM:08). 

https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=22443

General info on this series: Drone Records has started a CD series named "SYM" (end of 2021) which could be understood as a place holder for different notions and inner processes
 (such as Symmetrization, Symbiosis, Symbolization, forming an epistemological circle of inter-relations)
- associated with the act of perceiving and understanding sound on a  substantial level... 

press release: After the stunning LP on Auf Abwegen a new work by the German/Swiss drone dreamteam, thematically based on the adventureous APOLLO 13 mission (April 1970), when the three astronauts circled around the moon several days...=> an absorbing, cinematic space drone-drama in five chapters, different moods and changes, going deeper and deeper... (feat. samples from DEAD VOICES ON AIR).
Bu.d.d.A. (short for "Bund des dritten Auges" = League of the Third Eye) is the duo of EMERGE and B*TONG, whose sound has been described as "TROUM meets EARTH together with ENO".  
"N" is the project of Dortmund based guitarist HELLMUT NEIDHARDT, member of Drone Rec. artist MULTER and know for many immersive drone LPs...

N & BU.d.d.A. - Falling Apart

Another mix of submechanical tracks featuring some new, some old and some very old:

00:00    -MACHINE HEAD -from the 'CLASS A CIRCUITRY' album/THIRDTYPETAPES.
05:02    -Dr. ESLUPE -from the 'AN AUTOMATED PROCESS' album/SUBMECHANICAL release.
08:20    -ARMOURY -from the 'ARMOURY' e.p./JEZGRO records.
13:15    -FACTORY -from the 'ROBOT KILLING MACHINE' album/ROOMHALL records.
18:40    -FACTORY DUB -from the 'ACOUSTIC HAILING DEVICE' album/PREHENSIBLE(?)records.
22:14    -CAUSTIC -from the 'AN AUTOMATED PROCESS' album/SUBMECHANICAL release.
26:47    -SYSTEM OF ERRORS -bandcamp/SUBMECHANICAL release.
32:05    -PRESSURE -from the 'ARMOURY' e.p./JEZGRO records.
37:34    -RAILGUN REWORK -from the 'ANECHOIC' e.p./CORRUPT TERRITORIES records.
41:10    -T.H.C.- unreleased track.
43:49    -POPULATION CONTROL -from the 'ABRASION' album/JEZGRO records.
45:45    -POPULATION CONTROL DUB -bandcamp/SUBMECHANICAL release.
51:47    -STATIC LANDSCAPE -from the 'ROBOT KILLING MACHINE' album/ROOMHALL records.
56:36    -HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT -from the 'ABRASION' album/JEZGRO records.
1:01:48 -Dr SEATON'S ANECHOIC CHAMBER -from the 'ANECHOIC' e.p./CORRUPT TERRITORIES records.
1:07:02 -VAPOUR -from the 'AN AUTOMATED PROCESS' album/SUBMECHANICAL release.
1:10:05 -CRISIS -bandcamp/SUBMECHANICAL free gift release.

SUBMECHANICAL ASSEMBLY No. 9

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by over 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecrafts Mythos

Juk-Shabb is a Great Old One which communicates by changing color and using telepathy. The being is a powerful psionic and has extensive knowledge of magic. The cult of Juk-Shabb was well known for its brutality and sacrifices to appease their deity. The priests of this cult were feared throughout Egypt for their knowledge of dark magic and rituals involving human sacrifice.

"A great collective of shadows fell over the sky like the lid of tomb, crushing the light of the world into a feral darkness. A torrent of vague manifestations of transparency mixed with moving colours formed an impression of disintegrating brilliance across the cloud base, embroidering the darkness with a shimmering inconstancy which never aspired to a true substance. Nor was any of this seen coherently with the naked eye—but with the mind's eye, only. It was perceived as a mode of feeling across the firmament, without revealing a physical structure. But it invaded the anima of the multitudes who witnessed its tumults—affecting every single person on Earth.
Within days, the populations of the continents and island groups had become infected with a devastating melancholy. Within weeks, a febrile madness took hold. The world had entered a phase of destruction that fell upon the eons of history like a contagion." - Excerpt from Juk-Shabb Booklet

So is this a compilation?
No, this is a collaboration and huge undertaking. Over 20 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to a deep collaborative exploration of the Mythos and Rhan-Tegoth

2 CD album comes in a Deluxe 16 page Hard cover DigiBook. Artwork is served on Matte Laminated pages that makes the colors deep and preserved. Journal written by Alistair Rennie, art by Simon Heath. Digital booklet included with download.

Bandcamp

Cryo Chamber Lovecraft Collaboration - Juk-Shabb CD 2

Track specially made for Beryllium Project's installment "VA -  Contagion" 

CREPUSCULAR - A Crown Of Bones [excerpt]

This tuning etude consists of 3 layers of 13-note sine-wave clouds: 1) 74.5 midi fundamental, 212.50-cent intervals; 2) 60 midi, 200-cent; 3) 47, 1.875.

tuning etude ~12ed200 6-26-25

This tuning etude consists of 6 sine-wave clouds that move through the tunings: 

46 midi fundamental, 12ed1200 (100 cents per step)
50 midi, 8ed1200 (150 cents)
48, 8ed1000 (125)
52, 8ed1400 (175)
54, 4ed900 (225)
54, 4ed1300 (325)

harMonik eTude 6-26-25

rudolfeber.bandcamp.com/album/nekromantische-musik-und-riten

NEKROMANTISCHE MUSIK und RITEN (excerpts)

Neugeborene Nachtmusik delivers another  trippy set, with lots of colours and textures, different styles and with a storytelling caracter.
To find released music and support NN, please visit:
https://neugeborenenachtmusik.bandcamp.com/
Thank you !

Glory Podcast # 111 - Neugeborene Nachtmusik (the morning after mix)

Some of my favourite tunes from the zenith of the creative (c)old rush of the '90s. It was all going down in '94! Jungle was on the rise; the Criminal Justice Bill was looming; The Spirals had just emigrated to France; but the bunkers and warehouses were still dripping with sweat, blistering hard analogue mayhem and pounding kick drums. Put on your urban camo, neck that wrap of speed and dance into the strobes!

01. Difficult Child: Big Bang (Magnetic North 06)
02. VCF: Start of the Art (Magnetic North 08)
03.  No Face: Love or Kill (Praxis 06)
04. Fly by Wire: Last Voyage (Magnetic North 09)
05. Centuria City: The Dungeon (Hot Trax 2931)
06. Program 1: MF SKulls (PCP)
07. Death: Electronic Realisations Chapter 1  (Trope 10)
08. Cyberchrist: Salvation (DJ.ungle Fever 10)
09. No Face: Master of the Lost Souls (Praxis 6)
10. Woody McBride: Talking to the Sun (Magnetic North 11)
11. Koenig Cylinders: Liberation (IST 06)
12. Nick East: Increased Outline (Drop Bass Network 11)
13. The Crusher: Red Lights (Kickin 50)
14. Sulfurex: Point Break (Extortion 01)
15. Disasta Blasta: 2 Hard (SS 15)
16. Distortion Bastardz: A2 (SS 06)
17. Liquid Bump: Flood (Hot Trax 2924)
18. Nick East: Access (Drop Bass Network  11)
19. Diesel M: M-Ziq Mix (Choci's Chewns Blue 01)
20. DJ Jackal: Drumtrax Pt.1 (Praxis 9)
21. Biochip C: Untitled (DJ.ungle Fever 05)
22. Ilsa Gold: Elizabeth Short's 78 Hours Rave (Main Frame 11)
23. Zekt: Dreamstate (Drop Bass Network  20)
24. Liquid Bump: Kickquake (Hot Trax 2924)
25. Zekt: External (Adam & Eve 14)
26. Gringo: Slayer (Mono Tone 24)
27. M.C.P: Untitled (Fischkopf 4)
28. DJ Bleed: Sexy Intelligence Council (DHR 02)
29. Mescalinum United: Symphonies of Steel Part 1 (PCP)
30. Woody McBride: Hellion (Drop Bass Network 02)
31. Mooses on Acid: MC 202 BPM (Drop Bass Network 15)

Hardnoize Analogue Techno from 1994 | Podcast 01

Tracklist:
01: Neuroviolence: Shattered (Zero Tolerance)
02: Dr Macabre: Voodoo Nightmare (Power Plant)
03: Renegade Legion: Dark Forces (Dance Ecstasy)
04: D'Arcangelo: Somewhere in Time (Rephlex)
05: Final Dream: Eternal Darkness (Audio Illusion)
06: The Mover: Over Land & Sea (PCP)
07: Decoder: Fog (Hard Leaders)
08: Headcleaner: 139A (Head Cleaner)
09: Somatic Responses: Axon (IST)
10: Trace & Nico: Amtrak (Nu Black)
11: Somatic Responses/Caustic Visions: Malignant Earth B2 (Network 23)
12: Nasty Habits: Shadow Boxing (31 Recs)
13: Trace & Nico: Squadron (Nu Black)
14: French Connection: Bio Hazard (Super Special)
15: ADC: MTA-100 (X-Forces)
16: Somatic Responses: Space Grinder (Praxis)
17: Somatic Responses: Insecure (Praxis)
18: Marshall Masters: Stereo Murder (The Rave Creator's Final Warning!) (Cold Rush)
19: Neuroviolence: Surfing on a Sea of Blood (Zero Tolerance)
20: Negative Burn: Gates of Hell (Dance Ecstasy)
21: Christoph de Babalon: Nameless 2 (DHR)
22: XMF: Grave (XMF)
23: No Name: Black Dreams (Fischkopf)
24: XMF: Antimusic (XMF)
25: Mobile Squat Base etc: Waiting, Love on the Way (Explore Toi)
26: Mindfuck: The Mindfuck (Hacker-Terminator) (Explore Toi)
27: TR & Klaus Kombat: Garde a Vue (Sans Pitie)

The End Times 1996

The End Times - Vintage Techno from 1996 | Podcast 03

"Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration…
All things change in a dynamic environment"
(Ghost in the Shell)

Bloody hell, I tinkered endlessly with this mix - mainly because it was getting harder and harder to be subjective (as I got more involved in my own productions and label that year) but there're quite a few interesting notes to be made.

Influential labels like PCP were starting to fade. Dance Ecstasy, who in their heyday back in '95 put out a staggering 20 or so releases that year, slowed down to only 6 in '97 (and then one final 12" in '98). Lost/Cold Rush put out their last release (included here) and Kotzaak only two. Sounds Never Seen also put out their last 12" (not sure if that 7" two years later really counts? hmmm) and even the momentum of Nu Black/No U-Turn/Techstep faltered as Ed Rush defected, hooked up with Optical, switched up his sound to 'Neurofunk' and went down the wormhole before the year was out (their first 12" coming out on Planet V). But Panacea was waiting in the wings and 'Shrillstep' was already mashing it down on the Hekate sound system; that and broken beat industrial/techno was the name of the game that year (with impressive runs of releases on the likes of Laurent Ho's Uncivilized World label etc). 

CF in his Praxis Newsletter 12 (Aug 1997) talked about a "new era of nuclear fission of previously seperate or even opposed 'genres'…the impure…combining elements [to make] something heterogenous and new, an attack on the petrified and poor values of the past." 

It certainly felt like that at the time!

I'll stick my hand up and admit my most glaring omission: French speedcore (but no need to mention DHR heh). I didn't collect so much of it at the time - it wasn't really my cup-of-tea anyway, but there was big momentum and development there in '97 - Dead End etc, new labels like Widerstand and old hands like Fischkopf holding it down, with Hangars Liquides just about to burst onto the scene the following year.

Not sure it'll be feasible to do a '98 mix? The diaspora is possibly too great by then and tastes too diffuse? Any suggestions/lists let me know and maybe we can blather about it like true trainspotters. Enjoy!


Tracklist:
pHon: Fireworks (Ript Skin)
Slab: Anoint Me With The Black Sperm Of Beleth (Loop)
Demoiselle Douce Innocence: Untitled (Anticore)
The Overlord: Master of the Universe (Future World)
Vomit: Srik'nen (Re-load)
D'Arcangelo: Kelotrene (Zero Tolerance)
Laurent Ho: Maidman (Uncivilized World)
Vomit: Narcol (Re-load)
Somatic Responses: Passage (UFO)
Lory D: Fludoiski (Sounds Never Seen)
pHon: Thrash The Rat (Ript Skin)
Somatic Responses: SIckwave (UFO)
Laura Grabb: Fixture Jig (Audio Illusion)
Tilt: Hell-E-Copter (Lost)
Dillinja: Violent Killa (Valve)
Base Force One: Welcome To Violence (Praxis)
Codename John: The Warning (Metalheadz)
DJ Scud: MTV Generation (Ambush)
Panacea: Tron (Position Chrome)
Ed Rush & Nico: Technology (No U-Turn)
Panacea: Stormbringer (Postiton Chrome)
Trace & Nico: Cells (No U-Turn)
Christoph Fringeli & DJ Pure: Dark Star (Subversion)
Dylan: Witchcraft (Droppin' Science)
Society of Unknowns: Live @ The Invisible College (Praxis)
Society of Unknowns: Transversal (Praxis)
DJ Scud: Mash The Place Up (Ambush)
Christoph Fringeli & DJ Pure: A.C. (Subversion)
Mescalinum United: Symphonies of Steel Part 3 (PCP)

Tunes omitted: 
(couldn't fit them convincingly in the mix/or don't have them anymore)

FIfth Era: Zombie Raver (Bald Not Bald You Know Bald Mix)
Amputate 01 & 02
A.D.C: The Contact EP (Uncivilized World 03)
Give Up (Ambush 03)

All Things Change - Sounds of 1997 | Podcast 04

𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑: 𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝-𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙰𝚖𝚋𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌.
𝙃𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘼𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙖, 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 2006. 
𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 & 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙨, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙜𝙞𝙜𝙨. 
𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 & 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 
𝘿𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝘿𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩

CREPUSCULAR - A Crown Of Bones [excerpt]

𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑

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