In early 2023, Tresor Records will reissue the sole output from Shifted Phases entitled The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope. Initially released in 2002, soon after James Stinson passed away, this LP plays a mysterious and compelling role in the Drexciya journey. While other records of Drexciya and related projects have received numerous reprints and editions, The Cosmic Memoirs... has remained out of print since its release. This rarity leaves it more open to interpretation with its place in the Drexciyan storm series, as it became increasingly hard to find and underexplored. 

Track titles Solar Wind, White Dwarf, and Lonely Journey of the Comet Bopp reveal a focus on cosmic realms, suggesting a link with the Drexciya LP Grava 4 that moves from the underwater to the galactic. As it launches with mechanical blows on a precise orbit, each repetition entrenches the gravitational pull in the galaxy of Shifted Phases. In many places, it sounds like the readout of frequencies harvested from outer space, pockmarked with packet loss from the millions of kilometres distance travelled. 

The music is hard to contain, intuitively restless in motion through its unfolding universe and achingly resonant. It shapeshifts across affectedly melodic sequences such as in Lonely Journey..., to the sparse, hard-hitting timbres found in Alien Vessel Distress Call and the mangled reverse vocals in The Freak Show, somewhat reminiscent of another Drexciya side-project, Glass Domain. The mythology of Drexciya is evident in how keenly James Stinson and Gerald Donald created their imaginary worlds. In Crossing Of The Sun-Ra Nebula, there is an undisputable reference to another Afro-futurist who delved deep into a galaxy of their own making.

This reissue does not merely close the loop on Tresor's reissue series of the Drexciya catalogue but brings Shifted Phases to fresh ears more than other records. Accompanied by newly commissioned artwork from Matthew Angelo Harrison, the 3xLP vinyl reissue also features the tracks Crossing Of The Sun-Ra Nebula and Alien Vessel Distress Call, which were previously only on the original CD release.

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Adelina is a music artist and producer representing new Ukrainian wave. She's a picky selector with an alluring charisma. 

A juggernaut of Kyiv-based parties Oracool, Adelina has an infinite certainty in the power of music, which makes it a universal key to people's hearts. Recently, she has been completely immersed into sound creation work, exploring the most cryptic aspects in the connections of sounds to their very depth. Her introspective electronics strikes everything around with dreamy dub basslines, trance ornament, passionless ease and winding broken structure. 

Adelina has the unusual talent of projecting the strongest magnetic field around her, turning the dance floor into a place where ecstatic dance and the highest bliss reign.

artist: @adelina9
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"I've always loved mistakes; it's the hidden beauty in all art" - Andrew Weatherall

Transparent Sound are the original dons of UK electro, not exactly household names yet an act with so many under-repped classics that once you dive into their catalogue you might end up emptying your bank account on Discogs. 

To save you going down this calamitous path as well as to finally, raise TS to the level of notoriety they deserve, Tresor Records is very proud to announce the release of Accidents 1994-2023.

Formed by Orson Bramley and Martin Brown in Bognor Regis in 1994, Transparent Sound have managed to create 30 years' worth of some of the best electro from the British Isles, despite claiming to not know what they were doing nor how their instruments work. 

It's likely that it's this lack of knowledge that led to the quality and longevity of their output - the pair experiment and tinker with the machines until something pleasing appears then follow that sound down whatever path seems fruitful: "the confidence of ignorance" as a slightly more-famous Orson, Orson Welles, once put it. 

This tactic has paid off well and found them stumbling into many notable adventures, from remixing The Cure to performing during an intermission between two halves of a lecture - none of which they understood as it was in Spanish.

The compilation collects a lucky-for-you 13 of their most glorious electrical accidents on a three-disc set including the dancefloor hits Punk Mother Fucker (a mainstay of Villalobos sets at the time of release), and No Call From New York (as heard on Helena Hauff's perfect 2017 Essential Mix).

The package also comes with 'Windows To Your Sole' from the unreleased white label Transparent Sound 007, other unreleased tracks, and special 2023 edits as well as six digital bonus tracks.

PREMIERE: Transparent Sound - Windows To Your Sole (V.23)

Vers Libre @ Channel Ploink #4 12.05.2023

Independent record label founded by Myn in Melbourne Australia and currently based in Paris, @public-system-recordings works at promoting an alternative and anti-conformist kind of music, always pushing the limits between wild rhythms, haunted melodies and corrosive soundscapes, somewhere between rage and elegy.

Listen to Public System Recordings every 2nd Saturday of the month, from 22h to 00h [CET] on rinse.fr

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Public System Recordings : MYN invite UNKLEVON & CLYDE - 08 Juillet 2023

Our podcast series welcomes yet another talented artist from Kosovo, presenting their hypnotic and percussive techno music. He journeys through enigmatic ambiences with powerful deep kicks, creating a unique musical experience.
We present you: SOPA
Releases: https://lxviii.bandcamp.com/album/construction-zone-2

Nëntokë Podcast 012| SOPA

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Hardwired

New episode of Subspace podcast #17 by T_st (@t_story_matters)

Have a good listen.

LINKS:
@poligrafyvn
@t_story_matters

photo was taken by David Galstyan in Stepanakert(Nagorniy Karabakh) on 10th of October 2020.

Vers Libre @ Channel Ploink #4 12.05.2023

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