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Broken Chains

Cultivated Sound presents a new sound session CSS082, we invite Matthieu Benjamin, who delivers dark, psychedelic, and atmospheric techno.

Read our Feature here:  https://cultivatedsound.com/082-MATTHIEU-BENJAMIN

Cultivated Sound Session - CSS082: MATTHIEU BENJAMIN

CSS082 Mix + Feature

Live-Set at KC ŽIVA [Belgrade, 25/11/23]

Deeply entrenched in the ambitious production work of Italian producer Mystics is an aching sense of the forlorn. On his debut for Bank, “Absent Heart Raze”, a floating cough syrup laced voice haunts broken beats and pummeling breaks over the course of six emotionally engaged listens. Often with maximalist makers, the perspective of the producer can get lost in the olympic techniques of the day. Here Mystics pushes past those egoistic constraints to balance an emotive underpinning amidst a rich palette of blown drums, glitched gestures, and crisp jungle breaks. “Absent Heart Raze” is a concise output, but does not lack in density and depth. Mystics contemporary vocabulary does not burden the listener, each track leaving the listener hungry for both another listen and an eagerness to consume the next chapter in this EP. “Absent Heart Raze” sits as comfortably in a dim smoke-filled bedroom as it does on a sound system, allowing one to get lost in the absent hearted realm of Mystics mind.

Mystics - I'm Gone (BNK-041)

Club music culture necessarily shifted gears in many ways during and after the course of the pandemic. Older participants found their way into other interests and younger participants took new reigns to orient spaces they felt good inside of. The agenda for the music, and the cultural industry surrounding it at large, took a more frivolous and “fun” turn. Clubs needed to recoup lost money, people needed more refreshing catharsis for their nightlife escape, and in some pockets scattered around the globe a newer and younger cadre of producers/promoters/DJ’s pulled optical cues from a scattering of “darker” influences to give an alternate aesthetic to the aforementioned “vibes” culture. In the midst of this, a large polarization of conceptual energy shifted within the compositional and utilitarian machinations of the club music culture leaving behind the brooding and cerebral placeholders for a different kind of enjoyable hedonism. Terrestrial Paradise’ “Artificial Hell” harkens to another prescient time before that shift occurred. “Artificial Hell’ might just be an illustration of what all of this fun escapism encapsulates.

Terrestrial Paradise is the latest moniker from Montreal come Los Angeles based producer Jaclyn Kendal. Having developed and cemented her sonic positionality with releases on North American labels like Ascetic House and Summer isle over the years, as well as a series of monolithic live sets, Bank is pleased to announce Kendal’s Terrestrial Paradise first full length album “Artificial Hell”. Over the course of nine recordings, “Artificial Hell” gives a master class in pressurized industrial techno of the slower variety. Fitting with the legacy of Bank’s output since it’s inception, Terrestrial Paradise’s aesthetic sensibilities sit within the canon of a certain tinge of club music imbued with a sense of natural grit, sans pretense.

“Artificial Hell” nods to artists like Scorn, Regis, and 400 PPM while maintaining it’s own territory in the landscape of cerebral and brooding rhythmic techno. Ominous, mechanistic drones sit above succinctly exacted percussion composition and sound design. Throughout “Artificial Hell”, Kendal shows her proficiency with the push and pull of building and releasing tension. On tracks like “Salvation” and “Relativity” she melds her synth wash wallscapes with driving percussion, serving as both a hint and counterpoint to the the entirety of the latter part of the album taking on spartan ambient compositions as a way to keep the listener in a subdued stasis. This album is a statement piece from a long time participant in the North American underground music sectors. It reminds the listener through perilous, considered rhythms and darker drone impositions to cement themselves back into a place where not everything is always a good time.

Terrestrial Paradise - Western Ave (BNK-042)

Premiere of the track "The Night Has Passed Already" by Vanity Productions, taken from his upcoming album on Northern Electronics.

"...Recorded during the weeks after Christian's sister’s passing, it resonates internally as the maelstrom of melancholy, transforming grief into distorted tunes. Minimalistic and bleak at the core, yet possessing vague and undeniable romanticism, morbid intensity and density, a tangible memo filled with love unexpressed, a ride through a tunnel drowning in light."
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Artist: Vanity Productions
Track: : "The Night Has Passed Already"
Album: "The Night Has Passed Already"
Label: @northernelectronics
Format: CD + DL
Release date: January 26, 2024
Pre-order: https://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com/

Music by Christian Stadsgaard
Mixed By Malthe Fischer and Christian Stadsgaard
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab Rome
Artwork's photo by Christian Stadsgaard

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Premiere: Vanity Productions - The Night Has Passed Already [NE99]

11xxx27 & Mystics delivery the first release on their new platform
Repulse Xplosif.

Paradise Collapse is a state of limbo of profound uncertainty in which beliefs and assumptions break down.

The paradisiacal bubble we once inhabited bursts, leaving us exposed to the little fundamental things we had previously ignored or taken for granted. As the certainties we were once attached to crumble around us, we can rebuild our lives on a foundation rooted in authenticity and self-awareness.
Mirroring the constant changes we face, the music evolves, taking us on an emotional journey as we navigate an ever-changing landscape.

It is important to recognise that changes is an ongoing process, not an endpoint.

Credits: Written and Produced by Davide Di Bernardo (Mystics) and Erminio Granata (11xxx27)

Artwork by Atra Bilis

@mysticsmystics
@11xxx27
@repulsexplosif

Paradise Collapse

11xxx27 & Mystics - Paradise Collapse [RX001]

JASSS debuts on Mannequin Records for the "Death Of The Machines" series with a killer 3 track mix of ebm/industrial & wave on this heavy 12''. Perfect for the most abrasive dancefloors. Mastered by Rude 66. 

Tracklist

A Minotauro 
B1 Gates To Nowhere
B2 Mother


Mother

MNQ 084 JASSS - Mother 12''

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Cultivated Sound Compilation 001 "Special Interest Group"
Format: Cassette /  Digital
Release Date: 21 October 2019
Purchase: http://bit.ly/2N4wveS

Special Interest Group is the first compilation to be released on Cultivated Sound, featuring tracks from both experimental artists, ambient, and dance music artists locally in New York and internationally.

This compilation expands the dynamic range of electronic music by incorporating a variety of sounds from ambient, electronic to electro-acoustics to noise, house and techno.

“Special Interest Group” represents a post-utopian vision on forming a community of artists that narrates the experience of traveling to an imaginary reality, sharing a collective interest in expanding the listener's perception of sound by experimenting and advancing sound from machines and acoustic instruments. By inputting information, creating an environment to learn, collaborate, reflect and address ideas to each other. This compilation showcases Cultivated Sound’s aesthetic and pursues in sound, also is a tribute to the place that can be inhabited but is nevertheless a mirage.

The three tape album is mastered by Ryan Wurst, featuring artwork and photography by Tayla Roberge. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with PASP, releasing both physically and digitally.

www.cultivatedsound.com

Cultivated Sound Compilation 001 "Special Interest Group"

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PUBLIC SYSTEM RECORDINGS : MYN invite Entro Senestre & Gavilán Rayna Russom - 28 Août 2020

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