"Reduction" first appeared on the 2001 album "Dispatches".  Now for the first time on vinyl, this moody track is remastered for a special 20th anniversary release on Geophone.  [Official release date (vinyl & digital) in September, 2021.]  Remastered at Enisslab. | Geophone catalog number GPH23.

Reduction | 20th Anniversary Remaster [Excerpt]

In 2022 I have finally been able to start travelling and playing outside Japan again. It has been incredibly positive being able to see friends old and new, and share my music with audiences around the world. Now I am happy to be able present my new WIP release, which includes two tracks I have been playing on my recent tours. I hope you enjoy these, and I am looking forward to more experiences together on the floor. Take care, Wata

All tracks written and produced by Wata Igarashi. 
Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Ayako Haruta.

01 Roar

After having several mixes, premieres, live recordings, single tracks from Polygonia featured on our channels and our festival, we are pleased to finally welcome this master of sound design with her own release on our label.

Polygonia delivers for Monument four solid cuts that are deep and complex, with a sparse and carefully crafted sound design, tailored to deliver that unexpected feeling on the dancefloor.

Digital release May 26th
Vinyl release June 23rd

Polygonia - Star Reflections

Doltz - Inception EP - Bitta - Bitta013

pre-order: bitta.bandcamp.com/album/inception-ep
distribution via: clonedistribution.com/

a1. Subsumption
a2. Pressure Point
b1. Ambai
b2. Delphinium

Nobu welcomes Japanese sound artist Doltz to his Bitta imprint. Doltz started his musical career in 1998 as a drummer in a hardcore punk band, and had a fateful encounter with DJ Nobu, who shares the same musical roots, when they were billed alongside each other at a party called 'Broad' in Fukuoka-city in the winter of 2022. Impressed by Doltz's live performance, DJ Nobu immediately booked him for his residency party 'reprise' at Womb Tokyo. Set the stage for Doltz’s sensational debut in Tokyo.

The two hit it off and began exchanging tracks, with DJ Nobu actively playing out Doltz's tracks while touring across the world and receiving a good response. This first EP on Bitta consists of four of such tracks that were tested and proven.

Doltz has already released several deeper techno and ambient works under the alias, but his encounter with DJ Nobu has allowed him to show his new potential on trippy and powerful tracks that are more dancefloor-oriented, and he has made rapid progress as an electronic music producer over the past year. More to come.

02 Doltz - Pressure Point - Snippet

03 Doltz - Ambai - Snippet

04 Doltz - Delphinium - Snippet

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

BANDCAMP

Surgeon - Fall

Erik Luebs - Nontemporal Void - Bitta - Bitta015

a1. Granite Monolith
a2. Irradiated Body
b1. Coming Up For Air
b2. Facing The Horizon

pre-order: https://erikluebs.bandcamp.com/album/nontemporal-void
distribution via: clonedistribution.com/

A special Japan connection for the next release on DJ Nobu’s Bitta label. Osaka-based Erik Luebs joins the roster with an EP of iconic, trance-influenced techno melancholia. Having released most of his work through his own DIY channels, Luebs' sounds have reached many dancefloors worldwide. He now teams up with Bitta for something special. On Nontemporal Void, Luebs delivers four tracks that perfectly showcase his diverse sound palette. Each track hits a different box of energy—all while injecting a healthy dose of hypnotism. With a keen eye for detail, the EP moves from slowly built-up tension to eyes-closed techno grooves and synth-heavy euphoria, showcasing the many sides of a magnificent sound designer and creative artist.

03 Erik Luebs - Coming Up For Air

Remixes from Shoal, Polygonia, Anthony Linell and D-Leria himself.

D-Leria - Alta Tensione Remixes [non066]

Tempest

deep dive

DJ and producer.
Founder of Future Terror and Bitta.
EU/World: daniela@triangleagency.com
NA/SA: marlena@liaisonartists.com

04 Doltz - Delphinium - Snippet

DJ NOBU