Retrospect | Podcast 006 | Distel
27.03.2021

Welcome on board an experimental duo Distel! (@distel-nl)

BIO:
Here be the avatars of astral body musick: Distel is a purifying synth wave duo that consists of Dutch synthesist/vocalist Æter (Trepaneringsritualen, Norn, O Saala Sakraal) and Czech visual artist Terra (a.o. Siavash Amini, Ankali). Formerly known for their distinct flavour of angst pop, Distel raised quite some eyebrows with the release of long-awaited second album "Wapens" which meant an intense sonic metamorphosis for the band. The resulting coercive monolithic synth stomping, or dark.NRG as they have coined it themselves, borrows to some extent from the darker variety of 90s rave and early experimental new wave - however the resulting sound manages to sport something quite unexpected, cathartic and unique. Distel live shows feature a vast visual narrative that combines the brittle materiality of soil, embers and textural decay with projections of abstract and monumental vistas.

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RETROSPECT 006: Distel

Because of the high demand for this track, Kim from Blitzkrieg Baby and I decided to make this monoloc edit freely available to you. We hope you enjoy it. 
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There will be more monoloc edits for different artists in the future.

Blitzkrieg Baby - Your Happy Place _ Monoloc Edit  (free download)

Produced – Pascal Pinkert
Vocals – Pascal Pinkert
Written By – Miriam Bruijning
Mastered By – Ruud Lekx

Released By - Knekelhuis

Wat Voel Je Nou

Geen Genade

B1 - De Ambassade - Geen Genade

All sounds recorded directly from the Prophet Rev2  16-voice analog poly synth. No additional processing/EQ/effects.

Livid Saws

taken from the 2018 album "Wapens"

CD/digital: https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/wapens
LP/digital: https://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bandcamp.com/album/wapens

Ultra

Silver Age People - Body And Soul. Taken from the upcoming 12" EP "Flags And Crosses" on Gooiland Elektro (ET060 / Gooiland 35). More information here: www.enfant-terrible.nl

Flags And Crosses

Body And Soul

Stolen Time

From the upcoming Album "Igitur Carbon Copies"
Release Date 16 November 2018
Hallowground.com
HG1807
Vinyl / digital

"A man wakes up in the middle of the night. Is there something there? Or has something disappeared? Outside are clouded constellations of stars, inside the radio plays idle sounds from beyond and the phone is dead. It seems as if something had been accompanying him already all the time, hiding in the corner of his eye, stealing his identity by being a double. 
Trying to escape this mirror phantom he leaves the room. Outside on the stairs he happens upon more reflections, shadows and doubles. In vain he tries to conjure and collect these multiples by compulsively counting the steps and doors on the way down. Downstairs he lies down on the floor, which seems to keep on falling. The dice is shaken, but not thrown - there's no need to. The number is calculated, but not called - there's no one."

After the solo album 'PATHS OF THE ERRANT GAZE' in 2016 Reinier van Houdt returns to Hallow Ground with IGITUR CARBON COPIES - an album based on the unfinished gothic tale IGITUR - a collection of texts that eventually was abandoned by its author Stéphane Mallarmé in 1869.  
Connecting with Mallarmé's obsessions about chance and destiny, IGITUR CARBON COPIES is the fragmentation of all the roots that ran under its predecessor PATHS OF THE ERRANT GAZE and brings these to a provisional close: guided by David Tibet's voice reading the reworked text we descend through spheres of deserted anthems, disembodied voices, morse signals, crank calls, corroded tapes, radio statics, stones, while doing counting games. Here the acoustical spaces are manifold, blended or shifted in a heartbeat, where far and near, up and down are relative, where Riemann's god is pointless and angels are enjoying their space. Here perception is a vice that constantly hallucinates realities.
 
Reinier van Houdt started experimenting with taperecorders, radio's and objects at a young age. Later he studied piano at the Liszt-Academy in Budapest & the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He developed a fascination for all matters that defy notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. He has built himself an unusual repertoire that consistently resulted from personal quests; from composing with non-musical sources, from collaborations with composers & musicians, from research in archives or from unorthodox studies of classical music. He collaborated with artists like Francisco López, Maria de Alvear, Robert Ashley, Luc Ferrari, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Curran, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Walter Marchetti, Charlemagne Palestine and joined the legendary outsider-collective Current 93 in 2012.

Tracklist
A1) Annunciation (0:40)
A2) An Empty Set (6:08)
A3) Midnight Rorschach (4:24)
A4) Leaving The Room (1:56)   
A5) Descent (7:26) 
B1) Riemann Angels (3:55)
B2) Murmurations (4:50)
B3) The Numbers (2:16)
B4) Tomb Ectoplasm (4:02)
B5) Spiral (1:32)

Credits: 
Music: Reinier van Houdt 
Text: Stéphane Mallarmé/Reinier van Houdt 
Voice: David Tibet
Cover art: Ruth Stofer

Igitur Carbon Copies

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REINIER VAN HOUDT (feat. David Tibet)- Leaving The Room / Descent

Arktau Eos "The Liminal Pilgrim" from "Erēmos".

Release date: October 2018
Copyright: Aural Hypnox

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Arktau Eos - The Liminal Pilgrim

A love song we recorded a couple of years ago. Still very relevant.

Mountains Of Love

This is what happened when Enfant Terrible label boss M. and Roberto Auser went to work on some music together. This sordid but wonderful post-industrial ambient track plunges us deep into a foggy and uncanny scene, punctuated by never-ending percussions from another world and mysterious background notes and sounds that won’t help you sleep.

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PREMIERE | Silver Age People - Shadow And Mask [Enfant Terrible] 2019

dark.NRG duo - monolithic rave | synth | angst pop

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