If you like your techno bruised and bleeding, you’d have taken note of Manchester’s AnD. Over the last few years they’ve been making their presence known with a series of unbridled releases for labels like Horizontal Ground, Black Sun Records, Repitch Recordings and their own self-titled stable. “Harder” has indeed been the duo’s mantra, bellowed stony-faced from the rasping recedes of industrial’s brittle outer rim. But it hasn’t always been this way. Before the broken bones and caustic, pitch-black tear-outs there’s been deep and dubby reprieves, techy dubstep and even washed-out drum and bass on the likes of Idle Hands, Project Squared and Hidden Hawaii all with equaled astuteness.

It’s clear there’s little out of AnD’s reach, and they’re certainly not bowing down to anyone. ‘Kundalini’ then, AnD’s debut EP for Electric Deluxe, is not something to be taken lightly. The EP opens with a trio of patented AnD-style monsters, cataclysmic techno siblings all venomous and rusted through. It’s a dark and unforgiving trail with these guys as drill sergeant, until “ICDBYC” that is. Not quite the calm before the storm, here we have AnD pull back from the bloody onslaught to turn a cleaner, more calculated sort of weapon. Cool and tactical shadow skulking, trimmed with IDM. This one is just as deadly!

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AnD - Dysekt

WB015: Manuel Gonzales - Filth EP

A1. Mono Port
A2. Frosted Lakes
B1. Chip Implemented

Release date: August 25, 2014 
Vinyl only

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Next up on the Wicked Bass label is newly emergent Detroit talent Manuel Gonzales, aka MGUN. This is a three track EP from the man who has previously appeared on labels such as The Trilogy Tapes and Wild Oats that is aptly titled and that showcases his raw style perfectly. 


Opener 'Mono Port' is a sludgy, dirty track with scuzzy ambiance, grainy white noise and plenty of grit obscuring buried deep kick drums and raw synth patterns. Second track 'Frosted Lakes' is a just as knackered sounding bit of whacked out techno. Broken kick drums trudge below spiralling synths, static interference and the general imperfect buzz and hum of analogue gear and it builds into a loopy banger that will blow minds as well as speakers.

Last is 'Chip Implemented', another dystopian bit of depraved sounding techno with groaning synths, hurried drums and plenty of stormy winds blowing across its face. This is hugely textured, darkly cerebral music that manages to be minimal in design yet maximal in impact from start to finish. 

artwork: Hellohargi

Manuel Gonzales - Filth EP (12")

Full stream of CD1 of the 'Slowly Exploding' compilations.

CD1 is 11 new tracks. CD2 is a 66 minute DJ mix by Perc. Released on 10th November on Perc Trax.

Truss - Brockweir

An early preview of a remix JoeFarr did for my forthcoming album "Swollen Sounds", out next year.

Martyn Hare - Forever Empty (JoeFarr Remix)_PREVIEW

Earwiggle - 8 Wigglin' Ways To Die Compilation

Tracklist :

A1 AnD - Higgs Boson 
A2 Martyn Hare - 2BE&aBN 
B1 Johan Platt & Boner M - Antsinplot 05 
B2 Papers - Calum 
C1 DeFeKT - 6 x 6 
C2 Bintus - Indigo Waste 
D1 Neil Landstrumm - The Rise Of Slime 
D2 Ordinate - OR 06 

Earwiggle will release Eight Wigglin' Ways To Die on March 9th, 2015.

AnD - Higgs Boson - Earwiggle - EAR010

Dielec - Harrier Attack

When love is broken by the vast Atlantic ocean, I'll sing this song for thee

From the album ' Of Love & Death ' by Rónán Kearney
Vocals, Ukulele, Guitar - Rónán Kearney
Violins- Colin Norrby
Bass- Dan Acheson ( and pyramidal recording techniques )
Drums- Conor McAuley


Lyrics

Always                           Rónán Kearney

If ever you may doubt, 
the things we've talked about, 
just think of what we shared, 
each day was perfect.

How i want you to know, 
most people go too and fro, 
remember what we have, 
each day and always.

Parting paths after our last morning, 
could we make it so we would be grateful again.

You, me are always..... 
Black and blue with good heartache.

We didn't have to look hard, 
a beacon, a shining star. 
Relative to who you are, 
I will remember forever.

Parting paths. . . .

You, me are always. . . .

It's true you can't stick around, 
for sure you must leave when you're leaving, 
could we make it so we would be grateful again.

You, me are always

The power of creating with friends

13/05/2011 - had a good mixing session with dan today, file has been replaced with premaster version.

Always - Rónán Kearney

From the upcoming album "Of Love & Death" by Ronan Kearney."Prelude: A Broken Promise, followed by "Promises".
When a promise is broken by death, I'll sing this song for them.

Guitar, Vocals, Singing Bowl/Percussion - Ronan Kearney 
Violins, Grand Piano - Colin Norrby 
Bass (and pyramidal recording techniques) - Dan Acheson 

The power of creating with friends.▲△▲△▲ ..........Pyramidal.
