I keep coming back to this... even in my dreams

Techno's Outer Limits :: July 2015

The newest installment on Artefakts's "De Stijl" imprint is a collaboration between them and Claudio PRC. Monument premieres track "Gaia" from the release, that will be out on March 25th.

Graphic Design: Lizzy Onck
Photography: Nick Lapien

Buylink: https://artefakt.bandcamp.com/album/collaborations-i

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@claudioprc

MNMT Premiere: Artefakt & Claudio PRC – Gaia

I wanted to share a full stream of my track Forgotten on my account. This track is part of my EP titled 'Bauhaus' and is about to be released on my new label @decay-of-reason in just a few days.
 
The idea behind this label is to establish a platform that helps me release music quickly and to my liking, and at the same time it is a label specialized in dark and abstract techno.

Thank you all for your feedback and for supporting this new project.

Buy: https://decayofreason.bandcamp.com/album/bauhaus

EP Preview: https://soundcloud.com/decay-of-reason/alderaan-bauhaus-ep-dor001

Alderaan - Forgotten [Decay Of Reason]

Twenty-three years on from its original release, the debut album of American artist Mike Parker stands proud as a blueprint for deep, hypnotic techno in the new millennium. Originally published as a CD-only edition on Parker’s own Geophone label, Field Records are now giving Dispatches the first full vinyl release it so richly deserves - spread across six sides and reproducing Parker’s distinctive artwork at scale. A stealthy classic spoken about in hushed tones by techno connoisseurs - this new edition should gain the wider recognition it rightly deserves. 

Charting the course of Parker’s career reads like the evolution of deep techno itself - moving from early collaborations with Donato Dozzy to appearances on seminal labels such as Prologue, Semantica and Spazio Disponibile. The essence of his approach was forged early on, honing techno’s propulsion into a raw essence without losing any of the weight. It’s an exercise in minimalism, but the sound is still monolithic and engulfing, crystal clear in its intention and devoted to the power of subtle pressure. When the decay on a reverb opens up a fraction, Parker’s music leaves enough space for you to notice. Incremental shifts become monumental in his hands and his commitment to subliminal layering reveals hidden depths the further you submit to his hypnotic sound. 

This definitive edition of Dispatches looks at the vinyl singles which accompanied the album’s original release and creates a more complete picture of the area that Parker was exploring at the time. It’s the first time that the alternate take of icy depth charge ‘Copper Variations: CV1’ appears on wax, as goes for the pneumatic tension of ‘Reduction’ and evocative miniature sound sculpture ‘Blue Equals Black’. Expanding the album beyond its original CD form, epic rarity ‘Dissolution 99’ presides over the final side, while the standout Voiceprint release is now represented in full with the inclusion of heavyweight stepped techno workout ‘Voiceprint: Voice Two’. 

Able to sustain his own creative vision without cowing to the trends or expectations of any scene or clique, Parker’s music has progressed on its own terms. What this reissue demonstrates is how fully formed his vision was - even at a relatively early stage. In an era where the deep techno scene is thriving, Dispatches feels all the more relevant, undiluted by time and still unmatched in its immersive perfection.

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Mike Parker - Reduction

For the first album in the Monument Records discography, D-Leria (aka Giuseppe Di Leria) takes us through different dimensions by weaving a rich patchwork of sound.

Stepping right into the current, the LP opens with spiraling and distorted reverberations, smoothing the way for the LP’s nine tracks, which merge into a steady flow of powerfully progressing waves of warping and chirping sounds and percussive interludes.

As a whole, “Multiverso” is bursting with strength and leaves the listener with a sonically well-balanced and electrifying listening experience that is carried by a constant tension sustained by interlaced contrasts.
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releases April 26, 2024

Music, Artwork and Soul by Giuseppe Scaccia
Mastered by Neel at Enisslab Studios, Rome
(P) 2019/2024 (C) 2024
Distributed by Triple Vision
all rights reserved

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D-Leria - Avantgarde

Neel - Movimento EP - Spazio Disponibile - SPAZIONERO001

buy vinyl: https://www.spaziodisponibile.net/release/8995/neel/movimento-ep
buy digital: https://neel.bandcamp.com/album/movimento-ep

a1. Azione
a2. Visione
b1. Riflesso
b2. Moto

A new chapter in the Spazio Disponibile story. Since 2016, Donato Dozzy and Neel released a wide range of their favorite electronics on their collaborative imprint. From here they inaugurate a new side branch named Spazio Nero, focussing on heady dancefloor techno only.

First edition comes from Neel himself, his Movimente EP sets the tone for what to expect. Four cuts of flawless techno pressure for the late nights.

SPAZIONERO001 - Neel - Movimento EP

V/A - Nord1 - Sagas

A.1  Skymn - Memory
A.2 Nobody Home - Speglar
B.1  Fjäder - En Liten Saga
B.2 Korridor - Somnolence

Visionary art; Birdie
Graphic design; Johanna Krikonenko Hepp

B2. Korridor - Somnolence

»sleepstep« is the first collaboration between raster-noton and dasha rush. the record‘s subtitle »sonar poems for my sleepless friends« describes its underlying concept – »sleepstep« is a trip through electronically alienated microcompositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere.

the stations of this journey are striving for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states – death, life, birth, grief, desire. the titles often appear to be raw sketches, fugitive, surreal short stories that rather want to break open than execute.

the musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. though electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. and though clichés are not dreaded, »sleepstep«, as a result, stays away from being cliché. the sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. a musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

dasha rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. here on »sleepstep«, she celebrates her alter ego. the cd version comes with a 32-pages booklet that also shows her photographic interest and includes the aforementioned poems written by her. furthermore there is 2 x 12" vinyl version.


07.Abandoned Beauties And Beasts

Written produced and mixed by Jakob Stenhart.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1. @skymn -  Doctrine
A2. @skymn -  Bonfire
B1. @skymn -  Okuyi
B2. @skymn -  Okuyi (Interpreted by @korridor)

Released full moon of April, 2015.

Love and light

Skymn - Doctrine

SNTS - Edit Select 019 Incl. Blue Hour remix

Aksamit - Moorlands

Artist: Concept Of Thrill
Format: Digital
Release date: 24 July, 2015

Concept Of Thrill - Vrede EP [SMR043]

D.M.T Yajna - Hymn of The Damned

B1. XXXIII (Mike Parker Remix)

Recorded and first released in 1999, "Drain Hum" is a perfect example of Mike Parker's signature sound.  

Some history of the track is published here:
https://mnmt.no/blog/flashback-mike-parker-drain-hum-1999/

"Drain Hum" by Mike Parker

Polar Inertia - Black Sun

www.dasharush.org
www.fullpanda.com
bookings: daniela@triangleagency.com
www.traingleagency.com

07.Abandoned Beauties And Beasts

Dasha Rush

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