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Die Orakel welcomes Frankfurt based @n9oc to its lookup-tables, hotwiring its community based operating system anew with 'Memory Allocator'. Her sonic information design echoes both fast-paced and beatless, early and spaced out melodic british IDM, complementing any 90s informed chord-code library. Compiling six sense altering code snippets onto vinyl, n9oc’s 'Memory Allocator' is future proof with any higher AI or real life form to come. 

A1: Entity
A2: Q
A3: Explorer 2.0
B1: Inverted Refractions
B2: U
B3: Memory Allocator

Written and produced: N. T. Uyen Nguyen
Mastering: Lopazz at Mixmastering
Lacquer cut: Daniel Krieger at SST
Artwork: Orakel Studio
Words: Patrick Raddatz

Label: Die Orakel
Catalog: ORKL-W-06
Format: 12" vinyl, digital
Distribution: @oneyewitness
Release: Friday 10 February 2023

Memory Allocator

n9oc – Memory Allocator

Careering through the red sandy desert it was hard to see through the fog. There was but a faint line in which the sky met the open plains before them as they bounced and shuffled atop the dusty outback in their little buggy.

From time to time they'd catch a brief glimpse through the smog to see the sunlight up above but sooner than it had come it would vanish in a flash plunging them once again into the smokey abyss of the great unknown.

The journey had always been a perilous one, even in the best of conditions and circumstances it was a challenge for the most ardent of adventurers.

This was what separated them from the rest, an explore 2.0 if you will. The keenest of the keen and the only team that might be able to transcend the reckless wasteland which was this red desert of chaos.

Frankfurt producer n9oc releases a new EP on Die Orakel, a futuristic release which draws influence from UK bass, deconstructed club sounds and Techno. It's as pensive as it is euphoric in moments.

PREMIERE: n9oc - Explorer 2.0 [Die Orakel]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-n9oc-inverted-refractions

Opening up with celestial synths, 'Inverted Refractions' bleeps, judders and manipulates to create an abstract canvas of warbling bass and staccato hi-hats and rim shots. It's a playful dance from the mind of @n9oc. Released 10 February via @die-orakel.

n9oc - Inverted Refractions [Die Orakel]

vinyl version of this fabulous release from 2020.
black vinyl with white labels in black paper bag with black and white print of the artwork on 300g paper in a pvc sleeve, limited to 100 copies.

80 copies available from friday, 3rd february and on all coming bandcamp fridays.

digital version here:
https://emotionalwaves.bandcamp.com/album/emotional-waves-v-a-vol-1

original release text:

This compilation reminds us that one of the most important things in the universe is to keep it real, true, honest and passionated in what we like and love, in this case deep emotions through sonic experiences, emotional intelligence mixed with a bunch of nerdy tactics.

MASTERS BY TOMO20
DIGITAL ART BY KMI KONI (BIOKIMIKA SOLAR PUNK 2000)
DRAWINGS N SCANS BY NITA CHAN

RESPECT & L.O.V.E. to all artists involved, Dom micomu

bandcamp

emotional waves vol.01 - 12'' snippets

collection two

we're back with a second wind ~ gently weaving between genres, across continents and over oceans. take a breath and immerse yourself in the journey.

featuring Tunnel Dancers (@secondcousins & Hugh B @outertimeinnerspace), @vicecitybeats, @opheliaxz, @ronan-music, @commandd & @gistrung, @space-biology, @maara, Radart (@papercutslimited), @duunscape, and @saphileaum

Mastered by P. Twigg (@ptwiggs)
Artwork by F. Andrinopoulos
With thanks to Arts Project Australia
Design by M. Davison

www.artsproject.org.au

Released digitally 5th July 2023
companion.bandcamp.com/album/collection-two

Companion operates on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri-Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to their continuing cultures and connection to Country, community and music; and to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

CMPN005 - V/A - Collection Two [Snippets]

@sanguinesanguine
@moonshoerecords

BC: https://roberthughes.bandcamp.com/album/twice-lived

"Twice Lived is a series of reactions. I’d like to say this album has meaning behind it, a purpose that once thought has now been achieved in this final form, but the truth is I had no intention with any of it. I would start with a sound I liked and use that as a base to create more as a response to the initial. This cycle could go on and on until the original sounds vanished into thin air. Why do I like some sounds and hate others? Why does this switch from day to day? Every element of every song has been some sort of subconscious answer to the former, to my external life, either by mimicking inspirations and emotions, or directly opposing them. Like a series of diary entries on the same page, written over the top of each other, this is a tangle of reactions morphed together over the course of 2 years."

Twice Lived

pi pi pi premiere: Sanguine - Jane's Rehabilitation (Moonshoe Records)

Track one from the 6 track LP by Roza Terenzi & Furious Frank available worldwide on vinyl and digital November 10th. https://soundcloud.com/roza-terenzi

Bandcamp: paper-cuts.bandcamp.com/album/roza-terenzi-furious-frank-lp-pcltd09
Distribution: www.one-eye-witness.com/catalogue?labels=1379117

Next up on Paper-Cuts is the individual works of Roza Terenzi & Furious Frank (@roza-terenzi & @furiousfrank) in a new series for the label featuring 2 artists in unison over a full length, double feature LP. Split across six-tracks the two Australian born artists deliver a like-minded swarm of mid-tempo breaks, lush ambience, unrelenting drum & bass and techno.

A1. Roza Terenzi - Vape City (6:10)
A2. Roza Terenzi - Kalimera (6:10)
A3. Roza Terenzi - Total Recall feat Noff (5:47)

B1. Furious Frank - Splash (5:51)
B2. Furious Frank - Moss Rock (6:26)
B3. Furious Frank - Dripp (4:20)

Produced by Katie Campbell & Thomas Martin
Vocals in ‘Total Recall’ by Noff
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino
Artwork by Dylan Batelic
Distributed by One Eye Witness

Pre-order now and download tracks “Vape City” and “Splash” on Bandcamp or preview the LP in full via Soundcloud.

www.papercutslimited.com

Roza Terenzi & Furious Frank

A1. Roza Terenzi - Vape City [PCLTD09]

a01.hold-1 a02.- a03.aliasing
b01.hold-3 b02.windmill
recorded @ staalman studio
contactheavensmile@gmail.com

Out end of January
https://clonedistribution.com/release/74590

2302 - Untitled (2302)

Kindred labels Animalia and NAFF (@naffrecordings) co-release a collaborative project by Priori (@priori-ties) and Cousin (@secondcousins)

Seamlessly bridging the artists’ individually honed styles, Numina displays four carefully crafted, beautifully understated, ultra deep tracks that oscillate between club workouts and bass meditations. Hi-def and tripped to the core, this is dub for complex organisms.

A1. 1 
A2. 1 (Warm Dub)
B1. 2
B2. 2 (Icy Dub)

Artist: Cousin (Sydney/ Eora, Australia) & Priori (Montreal, Canada)
Title: Numina
Format: 12”
Distributed by: One Eye Witness (Amsterdam, NL)
Artwork & Design by Ezra Miller (NYC/USA)
Mastered by Nik Kozub (Edmonton, Canada)
Release date: 12th Deccember 2023

Vinyl available via NAFF's Bandcamp + One Eye Witness & more.

https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1701172969/Cousin-and-Priori-Numina

Cousin & Priori - Numina (ANINAFF01)

a.s.o.

Falling Under (Cousin's Dive Dub)

Now in its tenth year, Frankfurt-based record label Die Orakel has earned itself a strong catalogue of classy releases in a distinct sonic and visual attitude, its latest being a compilation called Braindance. 

A fair assumption about Braindance as a genre could be, that it's rather in the zone of kaleidoscopic and whimsical quirktronica, less about IDM's futurist tropes. From Die Orakel's point of view, its very own Braindance compilation marks the label's tenth anniversary by releasing an intense listener's atlas, to its own and their creative collaborators' musical slant of mind.

While much could be said about spectral traces of a leftfield past, nostalgia isn't heard anywhere. The more you listen to this selection, the deeper the tracks plug into your brain—stretching from ethereal harmonic licks rippling with fragile glitches, bleepy to bass-heavy electroid steppers of any BPM range, to abstract-scientific neo-modular artistry. 

Die Orakel's Braindance transmission can be had as a 15-track digi-release, as well as a 4-track vinyl EP. Pick either for your library of the future.

01 upsammy – Wumb (Ambient Version)
02 n9oc – Hyphae
03 Pépe – Cloudbusters
04 Gacha Bakradze – Inhumanity
05 Rali Pibs – Hooked & Strungout 
06 Teatre – Daze 
07 O-Wells – Deep Concentration
08 oma totem feat. juns – Sobre Caderas 
09 Dana Kuehr – Biota
10 Benjamin Milz – Cmos
11 Poly Chain – Turbulent
12 Katatonic Silentio – Grain Of Consumption
13 Koloah – The Highway
14 Reptant – Protectors Of The Moss
15 Edward – Blurry Trees And Peanuts

Compiled by Oliver Hafenbauer
Mastering by Lopazz at Mixmastering
Lacquer cut by Daniel Krieger at SST
Cover photo by Neven Allgeier
Artwork by Orakel Studio
Words by Patrick Raddatz 
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Funded by the City of Frankfurt Department for Culture

Braindance

Out Now: https://neurocrank.bandcamp.com/album/dome-of-the-robot

An in-house ep to put the Neurocrank label in motion, courtesy of Harrison Sewards, al dente (@al-den-te). 

Signature drones and haunting vocals meet playful melodies in a more slinked out, but recognisably Harrison style of house. Adorned with characteristically unpredictable yet precise percussion, the ep finds its way into a space as ominous as it is infectious. 

To top it off is a remix from the one and only Ulo S (@reptant_the_lizard), marking the first release under the more tech-house leaning Reptant alias. This deep dub of Hey Crontis brings a euphoric end to the ep, hands up, shoulders still bopping to a bassline undeniably done by the lizard.
credits

Artist: al dente (Melbourne/Naarm, Australia) 
Title: Dome Of The Robot 
Artwork & Design by Liam Richards (Melbourne/Naarm, Australia) 
Mastered by Klon Dump (Berlin, Germany) 
Mixed by Harrison Sewards (Melbourne/Naarm, Australia)

Released February 2, 2024

al dente - Dome Of The Robot (NCRANK01)

Buy/Stream

Kreggo - Swaying - Nous'klaer 036 (previews)

https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/lost-paradise-blissed-out-breakbeat-hardcore-1991-94

A1 Sleepwalker - Age of Aquarius (L.D remix)
A2 Hedgehog Affair - Parameters
B1 DJ Mayhem - Inesse
B2 Luxury - Twirl
C1 The Invisible Man - The Flute Tune
C2 Escape - Escape (The Optical Mix)
D1 Skanna - This Way 
D2 Xray Xperiments - Techcore

Compiled by Sam Purcell and Tammo Hesselink
Design: Sam Purcell
Mastering: Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven
Press release: Fergus Clark

Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94

Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991-94 (clips) (BLNK022)

trickpony - Pillow Talk
STEP11

Vinyl Preorder: https://t.ly/_JdmN
Digi Preorder: https://t.ly/_ZybS

Step Ball Chain’s unconventional prototype band trickpony is the 11th release on the ever evolving imprint. An assortment of sensual cyber jams collaged together by the trio over timezones, birthed in Perth, Australia by Mike Midnight and Roza Terenzi; old friends joined by Helsinki’s visionary songstress Maria Korkeila. A trinity of alchemy blossomed into an audio rendition of exquisite corpse, layers of each entity glistening through amongst a united cosmos; trip hop atmospherics and downtempo drippings. 

The five track EP reveals a metamorphosis of nostalgia, a foot in the ever present and daydreams of future. A subconscious deep dive into lustful pop, guided by spine tingling vocal fantasies; textural hallucination, harmonic odes to the golden era underground and a flirtation with drum and bass, tribal percussive freakouts and dream tinged lyrics of desire. 

Pillow talk is a timeless exhibit of esoteric treasures, a portal to a private world of modern enchantment that reveals itself in new ways each listen, music for lovers created by a supergroup of innovators to be digested, shared and cherished.



Written & Produced by Michael Gunson, Katie Campbell and Maria Korkeila
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino 
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso

trickpony - Pillow Talk (STEP11)

Die Orakel is a Frankfurt based music platform run by Oliver Hafenbauer.

Die Orakel (Engl. the oracles) might not know it all but has the capacity to observe and sense it: Oliver Hafenbauer's imprint operates as an experimental field for electronic music on the playfully indecisive end where it exceeds genre-specificity to focus on tunes that function beyond. This is not to say that there are no four-to-the-floor productions. The Frankfurt-based label features contributions by artists like Reptant, Poly Chain, Edward, Roman Flügel, upsammy or O-Wells, all known as dance floor doyens. The releases yet encompass what can slip the attention on a traditional dance label. Uplifting and downtempo appear here as two categories that do not exclude each other. The visual representation of the venture is undertaken by Stefan Haag and label boss Oliver Hafenbauer himself, who have a clear approach to communicating Die Orakel’s standards.

Braindance

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