The Upload 12-3-2019

Tom Gillieron – The Fire (Vinyl Record Avaialable)

Bass Heavy 2 is here ! 

Thank you all the sexy people who listen.

Passing Place

Just some late night pushing faders and pulling buttons.

ㄷㅋㅌㅂㄹㅁㄴ - Defractured

2xLP pressed on black vinyl at Archer Records, Detroit -

https://ithq.bandcamp.com/album/stalker-it-42

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Ectomorph occupy a unique and strange place within Detroit Techno history. Founded in 1994 as an inspired reaction to DBX, Basic Channel, Rob Hood, Sähkö, and Drexciya, they released their first 12" singles in 1995 as an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroit itself, rather than exclusively for export.

The mystique of their early singles led to mythic status and a strong underground cult following, which they have continued to develop through releases on their own Interdimensional Transmissions label. Their live shows are legendary for their ability to fluidly incorporate improvisational techniques into synthesized music (and for the sheer amount of hardware that they bring to the stage). The Ectomorph show is all analog, no computers or samplers or even drum machines: all sounds come from the modulars and the mountains of Moogs.

Ectomorph (now officially comprised of BMG & Erika) reconvened in 2016 to write new music, which led to a series of live shows where the new material was tested via performance and allowed to evolve in form. To capture the energy of these performances, the new material was recorded in the studio totally live, multitracked for further engineering, but with no editing whatsoever. This music, to borrow a phrase from Derrick May, is what it is. The entire album was recorded live in one or two takes in the Interdimensional Laboratories in Detroit. This is the sound of the idea that is Ectomorph, presented in its natural and organic format, live and improvisational.

Interdimensional Transmissions (or IT) is a Detroit-based label founded by BMG (Brendan M Gillen) in 1995, with its first release the debut record by Ectomorph. The label has come to represent the left-hand path within Detroit Techno, Electro, post-disco, etc. IT often takes a wide musical lens and incorporates history as a way to find something both pure and new. IT is collaborative in nature, and functions as a dialogue between label partners BMG, Erika, & Amber. IT parties have also gained a cult status internationally, with their recurring No Way Back events becoming the focal point of a sort of post-rave cultural phenomenon and the annual after party highlight of Detroit's Memorial Day weekend.

Written and Performed by Ectomorph
Produced by BMG

Recorded live in the Interdimensional Laboratories, Detroit.

Mastered By Neel At Enisslab Studio In Rome
Cover photo by Baboophotography
Sleeve Designed By Brendan M Gillen
Vinyl Mastered By Carl At Trutone
Pressed At Archer Records In Detroit
Distributed by Fit

IT 42 © 2018 Interdimensional Transmissions. 
Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

Stalker

Ectomorph - The Alarm

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"Cake 1" is one of @levonvincent more abstract works. This mid-tempo slow-burner has a woozy, psychedelic feel that recalls RAMZi or Jon Hassell, as elements appear and recede unexpectedly over the course of its eight-minute runtime.

Levon Vincent - Cake 1 [Novel Sound]

Waveguide might seem like a new artist addition to a.r.t.less’ roster, but it’s Mojuba’s japanese mainstay Stereociti presenting his new alter ego focussing on Techno side of things. In contrast to Stereociti Waveguide is approaching different methods in sound design and actual composition ranging back to the raw energy of the very beginning of Ken Sumitani’s musical journey.
Quod EP starts off with the title track and immerges you instantly into a sonic sea of swirling repetitive chords, riding on the wave of a steady ever forwarding bass tone carried by the steady kick and graced with echoing synth stabs and syncopated hats along the way.
The second track Tightrope is raising the tempo propels you right into to space on a funky broken beat lurching through space debris and stardust while catch glimpses of beautiful supernovas while trying to elude those gravitational forces caused by black holes.
Lemma the EP’s third title is carrying on the tempo and the broken funk if its predecessor but delivers a friendlier outlook with whirling and swelling melodies, like it wants to prepare you for the final adventure of this tonal journey.
Cubic Root closes out the first Waveguide mission on Mojuba sub label a.r.t.less with an orchestra of tripping acid basslines accompanied by dripping like synth leads exploring the polymetric realm of Techno in an always evolving echo chamber. As usual we love to encourage you to discover the tunes for your self and let the music do the talking, enjoy!

Quod EP

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Eye of the Minotaur - collage 001 is a collection of artists working in varying musical practices that are channeling the solitude of mutantess, strolling through the familiar yet unfamiliar halls of the uncanny, refusing ordinary structures of the mundane, grasping the cold humor of cynicism, basking in the dichotomy of cosmos and chaos, and invoking the energies of Eris and Eros. 

Setting the ground is Ciarra Black, a Berlin based New Yorker who makes no apologies for her bare knuckled soundscapes. DuPont Street is a ritualistic unification of discordant entities that summons visions of Pazuzu (lord of the demons) and Inanna (goddess of love) fornicating beneath The Tree of Life. Razor edged synthesizers slice through the atmosphere with the precision of an avenging angel’s flaming sword, while a psychedelic drum code activates ritual movement of the body. 

As the needle passes beyond the next threshold it is met by a towering totem, bristling within the illuminated light of the sonic astral plane. Erected from the foundational matter that birthed the Detroit electro punk sound, Eyes Up continues to add to the narrative that is drenched in deranged electronics intuitively mangled in a post punk tradition. Dystopian percussive rhythms generate an unorthodox domain where muffled utterances present an aural Rorschach exam. Could this be the riddle of the Sphinx, or an ancient spectral being that possesses secret knowledge. Only its creator, Stallone the Reducer, holds the key. 

Fixed at the axis of the journey, Perfect Headache Forever, a mystic operating within the DIY spaces of Chicago, levitates on a transcendental mass that is equally melancholic and optimistic. Her voice hosts a strength equal to a pantheon of titans. Armed with a magical electronic musical box, she weaves narratives that are prophetic in their delivery. Itself Ecstatic is a voyage through a misty atmospheric soundscape that begins at one point, but ends in a distant other, in accordance with a system of divination. 

Gazing into the murky waters of the oracle’s cauldron, Circling Vultures, (a collaborative effort by Justin Aulis Long and Kenneth Zawacki) channel and evoke the spirits of Antonin Artaud and Geroges Bataille. The poet’s voice, engaged in an act of mutilation and self cannibalization, howls while projecting visions of sacred conspiracies, sensations of vertigo while peaking over the edge of the abyss, and the looming weight acquired from the solitude of mutantness (the minotaur alone, sitting silently at the center of the labyrinth). Accompanying the mystical bard’s verbal declaration is a triggered mechanized synth that roars with the vitality of Cold War era Wave music, which is then juxtaposed against applications of  loose and improved keyboard playing. The artist’s hand is revealed against the calculated actions of the machines. 


Bringing the document to its finale, Libby Del Barrio, a multi disciplinary artist based in San Antonio, performs a closing ritual in a manner that only she knows how. Setting fire to the Elysium Fields while personified as Moze Pray, Del Barrio rejects plastic narratives that aim to pacify. No Tears, is an unapologetic account of life’s feedback loop around the Wheel of Fortune. Sacrificial actions through ceremonial performance reveals a gateway founded on truth and torment. Moze Pray’s ability to combine musical production, poetic vocalization and ritualistic body performance is charged by chaos and amalgamates into a product of pure expression that defies the rose colored filters that aim to conceal the harsh realities.

Eye Of The Minotaur - Collage 001

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All forthcoming material.
Also ft. YouTube legend 'Our' Wes 
+ Puddle Country field recordings by @best_available_technology

12th Isle 2019-2020.

Prophetic Taxonomy of Island Moss

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Cristiano Nonnato - Alien's Carpet

DJ Overnite, the toughest alias of label honcho Physical Therapy -- comes swinging for the speakers with Allergy Season’s first release of 2020 - “Boom Boom". On four pounding grooves, DJ Overnite steps out on his own as a purveyor of no-punches-pulled techno, sure to brighten the eyes of even the most exhausted raver.

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DJ Overnite - Thick Tool

Ministry of Pound w/ DONNA (9/10/20)

Artist: Transparent Sound
Track: Touch The Sun
Format: Cassette tape, Digital
Label: Accidental Meetings
Release date: 06/11/20
Purchase: https://accidentalmeetings.bandcamp.com/

Having been forced to pause the events in the spring, Accidental Meeting's restlessness has manifested itself in the form of their debut label release: a 21-track genre spanning compilation.
The crew chose to work closely with friends and family, artists that have an affiliation with AM, each expressing themselves in their freest forms from broken-techno, glitchy breakbeats and mutant dancehall, to IDM & electro.
AMF&F001 is out on November 6th across all digital platforms as well as a ltd edition bandcamp exclusive cassette & print from the label’s graphic designer Ciaran Birch.
This one is charity, split between Brihgton Homeless & BLMUK.

https://soundcloud.com/transparent-sound
https://soundcloud.com/a_m_radio

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