For those who know Antigone and DEMENT3D’s co-founder Francois X, it is impossible to draw the line between their collaboration and friendship. Three years ago, when the duo began exchanging tips on records, production techniques and gears, they had nothing particular in mind. This strategy, or lack thereof, revealed to be much more beneficial to both. One night of 2013, Francois X invites Antigone to DSCRD’s studio — a creative bunker in Paris suburb that was DEMENT3D’s inner circle headquarters at the time. This friendly, spontaneous session quickly turned into a creative workshop and by the end of the evening, “The Hated SZ” was already there.

As you may imagine, projects spanning over such a long time can be risky. You get lost, but that’s what the boys wanted. While slowly affirming their personal sound signature, they were crafting new textures, where their mutual sense of fine dance music and detailed production would hit a new freedom threshold. Francois X admitted to be under the spell of Aposuspita, an art performance and mystical character created by French artist Laura O’Rorke for which he created the soundtrack. The result is a double-EP, the soundtrack of a powerful rite de passage between reality and fiction. A carefully crafted dance music record that tells a story and alters your mind. Just like Aposuspita sucks the pain away from her tribe, Antigone & Francois X’s “We Move As One” offers a modern day catharsis to the listener.

After three years of work, what began as an innocent one night stand turned into one of Paris most exciting release for year 2016. One of the first collaboration between two rising figures of the scene depicted in Resident Advisor’s 2012 “Paris Real Scenes”. A record that embodies the spirit of community that has been fostering the Parisian crowd for over 3 years and that is now reaching a new level, both socially and artistically. The Parisian scene has grown from a sparkle to an organized community of like-minded people, so has the relationship between those two bad boys, and we are proud to crystallize this wild energy on wax.


Antigone & Francois X - We Move As One | DEMENT3D 012

DEMENT3D Records presents: Ligovskoï - Mana EP and Remixes - DM3D016

Mana is the second EP by Ligovskoï, the most poetic and abstract band here at DEMENT3D.

The duo, between Bruxelles and Paris, has come up with five new pieces, bringing their craft to a whole new level. Their condensed and moving soundscapes are now heightened by narrative compositions and constructions. Their music is still mysterious and unsettling by essence ; and there is now something of a paradox between a kind of wary decency that definenes their attitude - where melodies and rhythm patterns are concealed in a vast arrangement of deep frequencies - and on the other hand, how they have now managed to now perform as musicians and express some impredictable energy and interpretation in their works. A very elegant way of installing an incarnated and personal dimension in their music, that complements the classic intimacy and deepness of their ambient / drone etiquette.

The record here, much like Ligovskoï’s previous project “Dilip” is associated with remixes - which makes it a double EP. The originals by the duo are found on sides A and B of a white, opaque vinyl, and the remixes on sides C and D of a classic black 12”. 
Abdulla Rashim honours us with a third remix for the label and  we are also proud to welcome Peder Mannerfelt in our remixers roster

Ligovskoï - Mana Ep and Remixes

DSCRD ‎– Panopticon EP - DM3D007

DEMENT3D is proud to
welcome Valentino Mora on board, and share with you a part of his spiritual journey.

Some words from Valentino Mora
Slow Hyper-controlled Motion is a homage to early New York spiritual house. I have been obsessed with records
from late 80’s / early 90’s that have this vibe of forest, for example Instant House, Jungle Wonz, or Risqué III.
There’s also a strong inspiration from Butoh that runs throughout everything I have done with IDO and with this
record. I get inspired by dancers and certain dance moves, and particularly with Slow Hyper-controlled Motion
I was concerned with this Butoh concept of accepting the fact that you are slow and being able to use the space
within this slow-motion to do a lot. The grooves are all directly inspired by Butoh moves.
In creating this record I took field recordings in the forests in Japan. The concept of Slow Hyper-controlled Motion
was to recreate this 90’s spiritual house vibe but in a more experimental way. At this time they used a lot of
bird samples and more tribal sounding drum machines like 626 and 727. I also included these elements on this
record and also got inspired by the sound of rain, leaves and wind and used these as a constant texture for all
tracks, and to create a lot of wetness using space reverbs or echos and watery sub bass to portray the feeling of
the forest in a less literal way. Also, I tried to go deeper into the concept by going through a spiritual and
meditative process to explore the mysterious aspects of the inspiration.

Valentino Mora - Slow Hyper Controlled Motion

Coldgeist’s music on Unknown Bodies is an intimate reinterpretation of coldwave, techno and dark ambient codes, uttered with strength, guts, and an underlying romantic soul. Inspired by nocturnal runs of “bōsōzoku” bikers clans, who stem from this japanese subculture of the late seventies ; Coldgeist has created a series of soundscapes and songs that evoke speeding through foggy nights and fluorescent lights. 

Haunting repetitions and stiffness of the rhythms as a metaphor of mechanical gestures, of bodies turned into units of consumption, stranded from the life and passion they crave. The frustration of a youth that only finds relief in extreme experiences, danger, and the sexual tension of speed and crashes. With analog and digital instruments, field recordings but also his own voice and songs, Coldgeist has bred a truly unique record.

Coldgeist - Unknown Bodies

"Machines will fail us" : those are the unsettling first
words of this much expected new episode of the Polar
Inertia odyssey. Starting with this ode to machinery, the
tale plunges suddenly in a stark apocalyptic scenario.
Along the 3:14' of the track "Kinematic Optics", this
mysterious “polar inertia” eventually begins to
materialize and reveal more its true essence.
Same might be said about this double EP, consisting of
almost 80 minutes of music. First record is a black vinyl
with the actual four pieces of the "episode". Second one
is a white vinyl with the entire recording of their live
"Can We See Well Enough To Move On", that had been
given just once, in May 2014, for the closing of their
expo in Brussels, at the project space/ gallery Abilene.
Again this illustrates Polar Inertia’s will to be seen as an unidentified entity, where many participants contribute to
the evolution of the Project : the expo in Brussels last year was indeed a collective effort, and the live you’re listening
to was given from a considerable distance, with streaming, to an audience that didn’t see the performers from where
they stood.
The four tracks of the first record convey the same feeling ; of music that seems to be composed as a soundtrack
for oblivion, and disappearance of individuals. Polar Inertia’s techno is made with a very specific intent : taking the
time to accurately tell a story, bring specific emotions, narrative noises and illustrations, integrating all elements in a
contention between darkness and light, between a tale of Earth destroyed by nuclear weapons, and the blinding
white-out of the Polar Children’s wizardry.
We’ve been asked a lot of questions lately about
Polar Inertia ; their mysterious posture has stirred
up an unusual curiosity… but if you really want to
know more about PI, well, listen closely to these
two records, for a lot of the answers lie in the
music.

RELEASE DATE …………………………………… 8th OF JUNE 2015
DISTRIBUTION ………………………………………… CLONE.NL

LABEL COPY 
Artist : Polar Inertia
Title : Kinematic Optics EP
Written by : Polar Inertia
Label : DEMENT3D Records
CAT N° : DM3D011
© ℗ 2015 DEMENT3D Records / HBT-DEMENT3D SASU
- All rights reserved

TRACKLISTING
A1 : Floating Away Fire
A2 : Hell Frozen Over
B1 : Vertical Ice
B2 : Kinematic Optics
C1 : Can We See Well Enough To Move On ? (Part One)
D1 : Can We See Well Enough To Move On ? (Part Two)

LINKS
POLAR INERTIA
http://www.3141592653589793238462.com
booking : 
alex@amplitude-booking.com facebook

DEMENT3D
http://www.dement3d.fr
contact@dement3d.fr facebook


dement3d.fr

Hell Frozen Over [snippet]

For those who know Antigone and DEMENT3D’s co-founder Francois X, it is impossible to draw the line between their collaboration and friendship. Three years ago, when the duo began exchanging tips on records, production techniques and gears, they had nothing particular in mind. This strategy, or lack thereof, revealed to be much more beneficial to both. One night of 2013, Francois X invites Antigone to DSCRD’s studio — a creative bunker in Paris suburb that was DEMENT3D’s inner circle headquarters at the time. This friendly, spontaneous session quickly turned into a creative workshop and by the end of the evening, “The Hated SZ” was already there.

As you may imagine, projects spanning over such a long time can be risky. You get lost, but that’s what the boys wanted. While slowly affirming their personal sound signature, they were crafting new textures, where their mutual sense of fine dance music and detailed production would hit a new freedom threshold. Francois X admitted to be under the spell of Aposuspita, an art performance and mystical character created by French artist Laura O’Rorke for which he created the soundtrack. The result is a double-EP, the soundtrack of a powerful rite de passage between reality and fiction. A carefully crafted dance music record that tells a story and alters your mind. Just like Aposuspita sucks the pain away from her tribe, Antigone & Francois X’s “EP TITLE” offers a modern day catharsis to the listener.

After three years of work, what began as an innocent one night stand turned into one of Paris most exciting release for year 2016. One of the first collaboration between two rising figures of the scene depicted in Resident Advisor’s 2012 “Paris Real Scenes”. A record that embodies the spirit of community that has been fostering the Parisian crowd for over 3 years and that is now reaching a new level, both socially and artistically. The Parisian scene has grown from a sparkle to an organized community of like-minded people, so has the relationship between those two bad boys, and we are proud to crystallize this wild energy on wax.


08 We Move As One

07 Journey Home

06 The Sorcerer

05 Living Doll

04 The Hated SZ

03 Ready To Escape

02 Love Trade

01 Pagan Woman

François X - Vivid Dreams

François X - Unicorn Paranoïa

Mana EP and Remixes [DM3D016]

A3 - Ligovskoï - Elgon [DM3D016]

A2 - Ligovskoï - Mana [DM3D016]

A1 - Ligovskoï - Aures [DM3D016]

D1 - Ligovskoï - Lethe (Polar Inertia Remix) [DM3D016]

B2 - Ligovskoï - Lethe [DM3D016]

B1 - Ligovskoï - Cross [DM3D016]

Dscrd - The Dawn  Polar Inertia Remix

A2 - Polar Inertia - The Last Vehicle (François X Remix) [DM3D005]

Panopticon EP

Austeria

L'Etale

Second Zone

Watch and Punish

Veve EP

Damballah (Francois X Wedo Mix)

At night, things get a lot more unpredictable. A stranger can become a friend, you suddenly become intimate with a woman or a man who’s name you will never find out, while darkness also allows you to conceal your true identity  even become someone else.

Inspiration for this album emanates from the fascination towards the intensity of what nightlife has to offer; euphoria and melancholy, spotlights or incognito, sexual contact or lonely voyeurism...
Francois X entertains the listener with playful ambiguïty and unsettling, yet sensual atmospheres. Sometimes dirty, sometimes just quite naively elegant, this double-edged demeanor on this album fittingly concludes the Blade-Runner’s replicants-inspired triptych with his his two previous EPs on DEMENT3D.

X had envisioned Rachael as the last reference to the movie. The enigmatic, smart but unpredictibale woman. Exactly the kind of muse an artist seeks. On the intimacy of his studio, he slowly reached a state of flux, where creation and narration blends in nat-
urally. Just like when the dancers let go, X’s mind was pouring ideas. Quite a surprising variety of genres and references featured on this album, bridging a lot of influences and different compositions together yet held together by a cinematic, sexual tension and blurry atmosphere.

Much like his DJsets, you have to imagine Francois X running an esoteric ceremony of sexual wizardry and card-shuffling where bodies slowly moisten and yield to abandonment.

Irregular Passion

Just A Dream

04. Just A Dream

Blurry Youth

02. Blurry Youth

Love Of A Lifetime

01. Love Of A Lifetime

Slow Hyper Controlled Motion

B2. Elevate

B1.  Wavellite

A2. Raising

A1. Resist Fixity

Coldgeist’s music on Unknown Bodies is an intimate reinterpretation of coldwave, techno and dark ambient codes, uttered with strength, guts, and an underlying romantic soul. 
Inspired by nocturnal runs of “bōsōzoku” bikers clans, who stem from this japanese subculture of the late seventies ; Coldgeist has created a series of soundscapes and songs that evoke speeding through foggy nights and fluorescent lights. Haunting repetitions and stiffness of the rhythms as a metaphor of mechanical gestures, of bodies turned into units of consumption, stranded from the life and passion they crave. The frustration of a youth that only finds relief in extreme experiences, danger, and the sexual tension of speed and crashes. 
With analog and digital instruments, field recordings but also his own voice and songs, Coldgeist has bred a truly unique record. 

Release date planned on the 19th of March 2018 / Distribution by Clone.nl
Mastering by Alchemy 
Artwork by Kobe Bellanger

Unknown Bodies

Coldgeist - Martyr Of Beauty

Coldgeist’s music on Unknown Bodies is an intimate reinterpretation of coldwave, techno and dark ambient codes, uttered with strength, guts, and an underlying romantic soul. 
Inspired by nocturnal runs of “bōsōzoku” bikers clans, who stem from this japanese subculture of the late seventies ; Coldgeist has created a series of soundscapes and songs that evoke speeding through foggy nights and fluorescent lights. Haunting repetitions and stiffness of the rhythms as a metaphor of mechanical gestures, of bodies turned into units of consumption, stranded from the life and passion they crave. The frustration of a youth that only finds relief in extreme experiences, danger, and the sexual tension of speed and crashes. 
With analog and digital instruments, field recordings but also his own voice and songs, Coldgeist has bred a truly unique record.

Release date planned on the 19th of March 2018 / Distribution by Clone.nl
Mastering by Alchemy 
Artwork by Kobe Bellanger

Coldgeist - Provoke

Coldgeist - Secluded

Coldgeist - Ambivalent

Funkytown

Funkytown [1989]

François X will open 2019 with the launch of a new label entitled ‘DEMENT3D XXX’, with the first EP coming courtesy of the Parisian himself.

Operating as a sister label to his longstanding DEMENT3D imprint, founded back in 2011, the new project will serve as a cultural platform for offering artists the freedom to explore genres across the electronic sphere. This approach stems from François’ own personal approach to music production and DJing, which maintains an emphasis on hearty, emotive and sensual cuts at its core. 

The inaugural EP comes from François X, due March 7th, with the four tracks featured on ‘Murky Dreams' bridging the gap between his previous and upcoming work as well as his future vision for the imprint, incorporating broken arrangements, captivating soundscapes, and immersive textures to reveal a warmer, more house-focused side to X’s sound across slower, entrancing tempos. 

Whilst Zoumenou’s productions remain centred around his personal vision of the night, highlighted by the track titles across the package, the cuts explore and delve deep into the idea of open expression within landscapes heightened through the sense of both obscurity and mystery, returning back to ideas explored within his ‘Irregular Passion, LP, released in 2018.

Further projects on the label will be announced promptly.

Murky Dreams EP

Slower Than Ever

François X - Slower Than Ever

Murky Dreams

François X - Murky Dreams

“Mémoire du Présent’ is the first record I am releasing under my real name, Hendrik van Boetzelaer, and presents an introspection of my various musical influences, as well as a look at my Egyptian and Dutch origins and my passion for Russia. Moreover, it is a way for me to take stock of how I juggle family responsibilities with the work of an artist and how I have learnt to achieve the best of the present moment.” - Hendrik van Boetzelaer aka Opuswerk. 

Following several collaborations as Opuswerk on François X’s label Dement3d, both under their joint HISS:1292 project and on his debut album ‘Irregular Passion’, this is the first project that Hendrik is putting out under his real name, coinciding with the imprint’s objective to present a form of ‘Musique de Banc d’essai’, where emotions and feelings are at the heart of the music chosen with no pre-defined boundaries to limit artist experimentation. 

Sailing between techno, house and minimal pulsatile music, the EP presents four tracks that will be released in the form of a limited edition 12’ vinyl of 300 copies.

DEMENT3D Records

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks