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HeVeN - Letter From My Demon Lover [SIDEWALKS AND SKELETONS REMIX]

A track that captures the good the bad the sad and the mad.

Derry (Auk sure)

From the upcoming full-length 'Sub Rosa'.
Single to be released in July on Mannequin Records on a limited run of aqua colored- vinyl.

Sour

The bank had been problematic. The hold up hadn't worked. Currency was such a problem to those who had little and a burden to those whose pockets were lined with gold. Their guns had caught the attention of the staff but had ceased to scare the office chief. He had refused to transfer the funds to the account in question and now they were simply stood like a pair of spares in the large empty hall. Marble lined the walls and the floor upon which they stood, this place made them sick. How could an institution with so much struggle to give anything back to those who sat outside the grand palace with nothing. It was time to transfer the currency. 

Gross Net are about to release thei debut album through Touch Sensitive Records on the 25th of November. Drawing upon elements from punk, techno and disco their output is inspired.

Quantitative Easing

PREMIERE: Gross Net - Currency Transfer [Touch Sensitive]

GROUP ZERO - STRUCTURES AND LIGHT 
LP / MC / DL
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08

Friday 24th February 2017

Vinyl: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-vinyl
Cassette: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-cassette
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'Structures And Light’ is the first record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names)

“Here’s a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It’s made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication.”

Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of ‘Structures And Light’ is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio.
With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music”.
Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent.
In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored.

“Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms (‘The Fantasist’). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in ‘Pursuit’; a gentle kind of cold wave optimism.”

The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of ‘Pyramid of Light’ by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. “It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.”

“Night heals: there’s ‘pummelling repetition’ here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to ‘Pyramid of Light’s stark new-age burst.”

Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: “These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.”
Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light’ reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle.

This is music to go away from and travel to.

“It’s a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.” 

Quotes: JC, Low Profile - Belfast 2017
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Tracklisting:
1. The Glaze Over
2. The Fantasist
3. The Pummelling Repetition Inside
4. Pursuit
5. I Dream Unwired
6. Saturnine Adorations
7. Pyramid Of Light
8. Love And The Present
9. Vernissage
10: Zero Symphony (Digital Bonus Track)

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08 | LP / MC / DL
Released: Friday 24th February 2017
Mastering: Stephen Quinn – Analog Heart
Cut: Christoph Grote-Beverborg – Dubplates & Mastering
Cut: Artwork: Rinky
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com

Structures And Light

Group Zero - The Pummelling Repetition Inside

HAUNT

Walk

https://diehexen.bandcamp.com/

 “Glowering electronica that takes a purposeful steer to the dark side. Essence of Berliner Bowie and sombre Siouxsie. The sound and the vision are powerfully conjoined." (BBC - Across The Line - Track of the Day)

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGutvbvgTBs

SIAMESE is a ceremonial magic audio-visual created in response to a visually powerful mutual lucid and reoccurring dream still happening amongst two very close friends. A mutual vision where two female friends would lure each other or be led by an unexplained force into a burning forest which would then engulf them into flames.

A dark premonition. The communication of two minds via a shared reoccurring dream. A visual representation of female solidarity and empowerment. The power of occultist ceremonial magic.

SIAMESE

Official Website: www.dwntwnmusic.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dwntwnmusic
Soundcloud: @dwntwnmusic
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DWNTWN - Dark Transition

Darkness Falls return with this extensive and comprehensive remix edition of ‘Alive In Us’ on hfn music – featuring an exclusive new track as well as previously unreleased gold dust from the Danish duo. 

Back in 2011 Darkness Falls first emerged from the ever-fertile Copenhagen music scene and enchanted our hearts. Vocalist and keyboard player Josephine Philip and guitarist and bass player Ina Lindgreen managed somehow to concoct a heady brew of spacey pop, road-trip melancholia, and woozy, sexy atmospherics that hinted at magical things. Their debut long player confirmed out suspicions - ‘Alive In Us’ is a blissful trip into a uniquely modern kaleidoscope of emotions and styles – moody and spellbinding, mysterious and somehow heart-warming. 

Fast-forward to 2013 and the duo are gracing us with a Remix Edition package that fully reignites our love affair. Kicking off with the sublime new and exclusive ‘A Dream Within a Dream’, Darkness Falls sound as deliriously beautiful as ever – haunted and desolate yet passionate and driven.
 
Elsewhere the remix edition brings us instrumental versions of some of the stand out tracks from ‘Alive in Us’, including ‘Strangers Coming’, ‘Before the Light Takes Us’, and ‘100 Meter Mind Dash’. 

We are also treated to stunning reworks of ‘Timeline’ by some of the hottest names in electronica  - Com Truise, Pional and Sun Glitters all take the original into fresh new directions. Alongside a Kasper Bjørke  rework of ‘Hey!’, exceptional versions of previous single ‘The Void’ are also presented by Trentemøller, Terje Bakke and Clueless – epic, windswept and cinematic moods that perfect compliment the ethereal atmosphere of Darkness Falls. 

Timeline

Darkness Falls - Timeline (Sun Glitters Remix)

DIE HEXEN is a Film Composer, Sound Designer, Musician, Producer, Performance, Visual Artist & Filmmaker. 

FOR ALL COMPOSER COMMISSIONS/BOOKINGS etc. diehexenmusic@gmail.com

"Indescribable and incredibly atmospheric. The cold hand on the back of the neck" — Mark Kermode, leading British film critic

“[Die Hexen’s work combines] the avant-garde energy of mid 70’s Euro-horror, the ghosts of Penderecki, and the adventurous spirit of Mica Levi. The rising star recently scored Academy Award-longlisted Saul & I and Kate Dolan’s Irish folk horror You Are Not My Mother” — Mark Kermode

“[Die Hexen’s] atmospheric, unearthly compositions have won widespread praise, including from film critic Mark Kermode, who [in Empire Magazine] declared her ‘a composer whose name you should know’” — The Irish Times

“Glowering electronica that takes a purposeful steer to the dark side. Essence of Berliner Bowie and sombre Siouxsie. The sound and the vision are powerfully conjoined" — BBC Across The Line

"Liszt sits alongside Lynch, the triumph of the synthetic over the organic, and vice versa...... a pop-cultural melting pot where Bergman, Bowie and Grace Jones meet Scott, Besson and Hazel O'Connor. .. DIE HEXEN channels esoteric, intangible nature of sound and vision" — The Thin Air

"DIE HEXEN transports us to other worlds, other emotions, and other places that we might not have ever considered visiting. The memory of this incomparable performance will stay with me for many a moon" — Louder The War

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IFTA award-winner DIE HEXEN runs the industry gamut — from indie films to epic features. Their work has drawn widespread acclaim from film critics such as Mark Kermode, with comparisons to Vangelis (Blade Runner), Mica Levi (Under the Skin), Krzysztof Penderecki (The Exorcist), and John Carpenter (The Thing), among others.

DIE HEXEN's scores use a diverse and eclectic sound palette that caters to the unique gestalt of each film, its characters, setting, and tone. They are known for integrating sound design elements into their work, adding textural layering in order to impressionistically emulate the world of each film.

Recent credits include Irish horror films Double Blind (2023), which is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, and You Are Not My Mother (2022), which found an international audience and a thumbs-up from RogerEbert.com when it landed on Netflix last year. It has since been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and currently sits at 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

DIE HEXEN is also known as a performance artist, as well as directing and scoring their own films, Am I Dead and the multi-award-winning EL HOR. They are currently scoring Fréwaka, the first-ever Irish language horror film.

SIAMESE

DIE HEXEN

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