And then came the Visitations.

The fifth opus of the Worst Records library could appear as an audiobook for transcendental meditations. If the idea of trance-induced state is no surprise in the music we deliver to the world, this new album by Ricco goes beyond. The pair formed by Gil.Barte, head of Kump Records, and HLM38, in charge of house Notte Brigante, dare to offer a sinuous collection of mantras melted in light, silver dust and darkness. Each track navigates through ritualistic slow beats, drum'n'bass-ish half tempo incantations and other mystic hybrid forms not so far from Kode 9esque or Shakletonists reminiscences, just to name a few. The titles evoke a spiritual diagonal, from biblical to islamic worlds and arcanes, passing through persian tradition and obscure references hard to decipher. Several interludes, leading to the final Prelude, stand as resting rooms to drown the listener into purifying dark-ambient, where glitches of enlightenment and distants sounds from nature slowly disappear in divine drones. You now hold in your hands a keyholder to somewhere else, a sonic ally through everyday chaos, and spells to protect the soul.

Let yourself loose in enchantment.

A1 - Torq
A2 - Interlude4
B1 - Al Akhir
B2 - Interlude3
C1 - Seraphin
C2 - Interlude2
C3 - Dictatone
D1 - Interlude5
D2 - Leyla
D3 - Prelude

Release date : 12/04/2020

Artwork & design by Aurélien Arnaud
 Mastered by Paul "Pilah" Kozmik at Paul's Boutique studio
 Distributed by @chezemile

Visitations

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Exhausted Modern's debut full-length titled The Year of the Rat is a proof of the thought-provocation that author's name generates. Released on his own Endless Illusion imprint, the album doesn't have all the answers, it simply offers Exhausted Modern's perception of the modern times and also the energy to do something with them. The title, borrowed from the Chinese zodiac calendar, doesn't slip to mere esoteric prognosis, it fittingly and provocatively comments on broken mechanics of society, capitalistic hierarchisation and emotional frustration of its victims. Despite the dystopian character of Exhausted Modern's sound, which ranges from fast melancholia through suspicious calmness to slowly bubbling rage, it doesn't feel like the end of the world. It's critical artistic statement of a person who despite seeing all the darkness, also sees the way out of it.

@exhausted-modern

Release: 3.8.2020 12" / Digital (Bandcamp)
Streaming platforms: 1.9.2020

Produced by Ladislav Zensor in Prague, 2019-20.
Vocals A2 "Something stronger" by NVST @ghettonast

Mastered by Marco Spaventi
Distributed by @clone-distribution
Graphic design by Jan Horčík (Heavyweight)
Word by Jonáš Verešpej @still-sparkling

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Hyäne Mini LP – @MarleneStark

Release 27th Nov. 2020

Supported by @Sameheads & Musicboard Berlin
Distribution by Wordansound

This mini LP is an explicit message from Lustpoderosa's sonic continuum. These 7 tracks show the deep connection of Marlene Starks' work as a writer and an artist to her role as mother and DJ in times when there is an urgent need to dismantle the patriarchy in our society and rave culture.
Marlene Stark is telling us much more than a great musical story with the symbolic title “Hyäne”. Marlene wants to direct our attention to a reviled creature while she reflects on its literary and symbolic meanings. Although hyenas live in a matriarchal society, its transmutation can be perceived as the ongoing struggle of the non-male body in an androcentric world view.
Marlene Starks reinterprets the figure of the hyena in a very poetic, self-ironical and honest way, as shown in the tracks ‘Hungry As a Hunter’, 'Hyäne’ and ‘Language Of Old Woman’. It's a neo-ceremonial call to rethink established structures without missing out the turbulent landscape of today's politics.
From early trip-hop to post-rave elements, Stark combines her sonic adventures with an impressively nonchalant and colloquial vocabulary. Her voice, as well as the voice of guest singer Stefanie Mader, achieves a remarkable vocal structure that goes beyond the mainstream.
This is the contemporary body music for the next generation.

Marlene Stark is a DJ, producer, author, artist and mother. She is a regular at the @Sameheads Club Berlin where she hosts her party called 'Superposition'.
In 2019, Marlene published her debut novel "M" with co-author Anna Gien at Matthes and Seitz. The book talks about the systematic oppression of women in capitalism and in the art scene while talking about Berlin, its music scene, djing, drugs, sexuality and Male Gaze.
Marlene's debut album 'Hyäne' is a continuation of her work. It’s a thoughtfully influenced and neo-ceremonial music that aspires to evoke body trance and the awakening of hysteria. Marlene Stark floods the dancefloor with rhythmic body music that is dark, courageous and vocal in a political and in a poetic way. The tracks are influenced by early Breakbeat, Downtempo, Trance and Acid, with hints of Trip Hop, Tribal, Psychedelic and Krautrock.

Lustpoderosa
Lustpoderosa is a micro-label based in Berlin, and takes inspiration from the critical campaigning manifesto and seeks for awareness in our Rave Culture in this times of need. Read Lustpoderosas Manifesto and spread the word.

Foto: Rache Israela
Cover: Monika Janulevičiūtė
Video: Moritz Freudenberg
Styling: Raki Fernandez
Make Up: Hartgens
Art Direction: Marlene Stark
Producer and Initiator: Neu Verboten
Mixing, mastering & reel to reel transfer at TailOut Studios

Special Thanks to: Nathan Dukes and the Sameheads Crew, Maciej Thiem, Clara Stark, Thomas Smorek, Silvia Federici and Music Board Berlin

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Artist: Quad
Track: Spires n Towers
EP: Casting Shadows with Intergalactic Gary
Label: Casting Shadows
Release date: 14/9/20
Format: Vinyl and digital
Pre-order: https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/casting-shadows-with-intergalactic-gary

DT PREMIERE: Quad - Spires N Towers [Casting Shadows] (2020)

>>> Preorder now via bandcamp: https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe005-free-range-camry-horses

[ OE 005 ] : Free Range - Camry Horses (Snippets)

Compilation of slow industrial punk EBM edits by Russian duo Olta Karawane. This is their second appearance on Maturre after their previous release on I'm a Cliché last year.

https://soundcloud.com/oltakarawane
https://soundcloud.com/maturre

PRÉMIÈRE: Ólta Karawane - Urin Wärmt Karl Marx [Maturre]

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TANS – The Unfaithful Husband EP


The next vinyl record from Squirrels On Film is a special edition white label by TANS. The Unfaithful Husband EP contains four filthy acid laced electric body movers from Southern Italy's Michelle Tansella. Michelle currently lives in Berlin where he makes industrial techno with his cousin Mike Tansella Jr as SONS OF TRADERS, & has released experimental cassettes on the UK's Seagrave label, but his roots go back to the Italian Hip Hop scene of the 80s & early 90s with a group called Zona 45.

Il Marito Infedele begins the EP & its tape saturated industrial throb evokes the best of that distinctive sound of underground European dance music whose thread runs through Italo Disco, Cold Wave & Acid House. A sinister groove for a giallo séance, the electric tom tom drums pound away against a murky bed of rhythmic fuzz, eventually surrendering to the four on the floor energy flash. The edges stay rough throughout, resulting in a delightfully dirty, unpolished funk.

Vera Vera combines the arpeggiated synthitic bass of classic Italo with late 80s Windy City Wax Trax & Acid. A snap of white noise snare squish keeps time until the WBMX beat hits. A proper atonal synth freakout squeals its way out of some primitive extra terrestrial party machine then the beat takes over again, emphasizing the low frequencies of the groove.

Growing Concern is where the tab kicks in all the way. Distorted 303, blown-out 707 complete with unapologetic cow bell take the body on a journey through a strobe light smoke machine sweat-drenched laser rave fantasy. It's a feeling of walls being brought down, and there doesn't seem to be any way back.

Missing Foundation is another lysergic banger, a drum machine drawing Fibonacci sequences in your brain as you transcend the grimy warehouse where you left your body. The timeless glow of consensual dancefloor utopia burns bright even when you close your eyes, the monochrome of this white label having exploded into technicolor pixels & smiling yellow faces repeating infinitely to the vanishing point of the imagination.

TANS- The Unfaithful Husband EP clips

Second opus of Olta Karawane's ugliest child "Punkish et Metallic", this time on vinyl format. 

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Ólta Karawane - PUNKISH ET METALLIC II [MRR017] // Extracts 12"

The (in)famous ice skater Wosto, after his solo EP, returns on Raw Culture, this time, bringing reinforcements with him: NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE (Inox Kapell and Dieter Mauson) . SAUERSTOFFF (oxygen / one F for every freak as they say) is the name of their band.
We choose the track "Kinskis", simultaneously embracing the emerging post-punk/ industrial strain with a stripped down gothdub approach and showcases a unique take on electronic-infused post-rock. The arrangements are imbued spaciousness,  trebly, splintering smudged highs, minimalist twanging surf guitar  and unusually dreamy vocal achieve it with poise and flair preserving the project’s aura.

Artist: Sauerstofff
Title: Für Alle EP
Label: @raw-culture-recordings
Format: 150 Limited Handstamped 7’’
Release date: 2nd November 2020
Pre-order: https://rawculture.bandcamp.com/album/fu-r-alle-ep

Tracklist:
A1 Sauerstofff - Der Trompeter
A2 Sauerstofff - Sie kommen
B1 Sauerstofff - Kinskis

Premiere #117 Sauerstofff - Kinskis [RWCLTR015]

Insistent, oddball machine funk from Sameheads resident Marlene Stark.

'Hyäne' is out November 27th on Lustpoderosa.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3l96zxC

@marlenestark
@lustpoderosa

Premiere: Marlene Stark - Was Ist Feucht? [Lustpoderosa]

Psyclones: Tape Music 1980 – 1984
 
Since the early 1980s the Eureka, California based duo Psyclones freak out in music. As one of the most long-standing DIY duos, Brian Ladd and Julie Frith created a body of work, that flirts with Ambient, experimental industrial sounds, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synth-Pop, and all that electric jazz. Besides a few hard-to-find vinyl releases, they published their music regularly via cassette tapes on labels like their own imprint Ladd-Frith or other famed 1980's underground tape labels like Cause And Effect from Indianapolis, legendary San Francisco based Subterranean Records, Sound of Pig from New York, Insane Music from Belgium or the Spanish label Auxilio De Cientos to name but a few.
 
Now, Notte Brigante is dropping “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” – a detailed compiled sampler on Psyclones early output, that was scattered over diverse tape releases. A nine tracks long trip into the work of a highly underrated band, that never lost their drive to explore new avenues in sound. “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” displays their artistic impulse with a strong, minimal leaning post-punk feeling, spreading the early magic of a once new genre, that liberated rock music briefly from its bombastic male driven professionalism. Psyclones liberated large, while adding the repetitive patterns of drum machines, witchy female singing, cool male chanting, Tuxedomoon-ish weirdness, darkish synth sounds and dubby big city Angst to their cocktail of music. All balancing between icy wave coolness and nonchalant neon funk. Insane Music for sane people, smokers, rain lovers, midnight movers and all those cats, that can’t cope with the pre-written consumer life reality. If you chose to eat “Tape Music 1980 – 1984”, make sure to wear shoulder pads, bring an ashtray and turn your inner fog machine on.

Music recorded on cassette by Julie Frith and Brian Ladd between 1980 and 1984. LP mastered today from the original recordings.

Out around March 2nd, 2021, edition of 300 copies. Buy Vinyl & Digital: https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/psyclones-tape-music-1980-1984

A1. Departing Was For Sure
A2. Neon People
A3. Reagan For Shah
A4. Keep It Together
A5. Between Space
B1. I Don't Know
B2. News Of The World
B3. In And Out
B4. With The Other

Distribution: www.crevetterecords.be
Mastering: Brian Ladd
Artwork : Jad Hussein - www.look-specific.com
Text: Michael Leuffen

DT PREMIERE: Quad - Spires N Towers [Casting Shadows] (2020)

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