Experimental / Avant-garde

Until now a best-kept secret of the beatmaker scene, French producer Micha Vanony prepares to steal the spotlight with the release of his second album "Advenir". Blending together enigmatic atmospheres with typically mental sound architectures of beatmaking, this new album showcases the versatile influences and rich musical background of one of the most promising producers around. 

“Advenir” redefines the electronic/beat genre, pushing its boundaries further out. With a radical approach, Micha Vanony manages to carefully merge hybrid sounds with bewitched beats, odd-tronica, mental hip-hop, deconstructed heavy bass lines, spasmodic keyboards and spatial soundscapes for a brilliant result. 

Micha Vanony is a beatmaker from Monte Carlo, France. Known as a unusual producer, over the years he has been involved in a wide range of music genres, for example in contemporary music where he worked with icons of the experimental music scene such as Pierre Henry or François Bayle. He rapidly left that hermetic circle to work on his own productions and sound installations. In 2010, he released his first record "Devenir", an exciting album displaying influences of hip-hop, funk, and futuristic and experimental visions of free jazz. Micha Vanony is also a sound teacher at the School of Fine Arts. 

“Advenir” is Micha’s rich and intelligent contribution to the new beat scene, and will please curious fans of electronic music. 

For fans of: Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Mr Dibiase,…

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Fronted by vocalist Samy Birnbach (aka DJ Morpheus, freestyle DJ extraordinaire and compiler of the Freezone series), Minimal Compact were one of the most inspirational bands of the '80s. They blended funky rock rhythms and incisive guitars with flavours from their native Middle East. The band were active from 1981 to 1988, and released 6 studio albums and a live album. They garnered a large and fanatic following all across Europe and the USA, where some of their tracks (including Statik Dancin') remain underground club favourites to this day.

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Minimal Compact - Statik Dancin' (remastered 2016)

Automating Volume Two

Human, Human, Human

Second Pirate Session

Subterranean Zappa Blues / My Saxy Baby

Large Ladies With Cake in the Oven

Aquarium

Sheila Na Gig

Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2

Insect and Individual Silenced

Absent Old Queen Underfoot

Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains

Mourning Smile

More Automating

Scissors, Radio, Bongo and Bell

A Sucked Orange

Great-God-Father-Nieces

Rat Tapes One

Untitled 12

Untitled 10

The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums

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PAN DAIJING - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN 79)
Format: LP / Digital Label: PAN Cat.No: PAN 79 Release Date: 28 July 2017

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Pan Daijing announces her debut album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’, on PAN this July.

Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record. Arriving as her first full-length album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice.

Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ - where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Ralf Marsault, and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

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Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.

Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland

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The Drought

Puce Mary - To Possess Is To Be In Control (PAN 87)

Einstürzende Neubauten - Total Eclipse Of The Sun

Einstürzende Neubauten - Stella Maris

Einstürzende Neubauten - Let's Do It A Dada

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Der Zyklus - Iris Retinal Scanning

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Experimental / Avant-garde

David Nigris