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Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSXLP006
Artist name: Rivet
LP name: L+P-2
Date of physical release: 06 Oct 2023

A1. Tilt To Turn 1
A2. Tilt To Turn 3
B1. Ten Blind Doors
B2. Sarcoma
B3. Rōsh
C1. Le Kland
C2. Tilt To Turn 4
D1. Lilo's Lullaby
D2. Hukat (feat. L.T. Fisk)
Bandcamp only: Tilt To Turn (Live for Intonal Festival) 

L+P-2 is Rivet's second album following his acclaimed debut, On Feather and Wire, released on Editions Mego in 2020. The wheels were already in motion for a subsequent album on the same label, but tragedy struck. Peter "Pita" Rehberg, the legendary owner of Editions Mego, suddenly passed away at only 53 years old, leaving the experimental electronic music community in a state of pitch-black grief. Rivet was among the many deeply affected by this loss. The inspiration and support from Rehberg had propelled Rivet to create at a level he himself was uncertain he had mastered. For Rivet, Rehberg's death felt like the death of music.

However, that brooding sentiment was abruptly shattered when Rivet's beloved dog and companion, Lilo, was diagnosed with incurable cancer just a couple of months later. They were inseparable, and now they would be separated nonetheless. The only way Rivet could cope with this double blow was to compose—for Lilo, for Pita, for his own sanity. L+P-2 is the result.

While the album naturally emerges from a place of despair, it's remarkably comforting. Partly, this stems from Rivet's singular ability to make machines not only sound human but also act human—sincere and warm, yet flawed. In more than one track on L+P-2, you'll encounter a distinctive melody and a gnarly bassline dancing hand in hand with Rivet's eccentric and captivating drum patterns. Then, seemingly on a whim, the melody takes off on its own, leaving the faithful bassline behind—much like a dear friend that suddenly vanishes from your life without warning. Yet life goes on, and so does the music. But never unchanged. Never.

L+P-2 is an album of lamentation, yet also of resolve—a dedication to those who go through life losing more than their share because they always carry too much.

har jag hukat 
så länge 
att allt blivit skevt 
att allt blivit skört
//
have I hunched down 
for so long 
that everything has become askew 
that everything has become brittle


Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää
Post-production and mixing by Oscar Mulero at Dead Souls Studio Gijón
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Vocals, lyrics and piano on track 9 by Johan & Leonard Andersson
Photo by Sandra Hallbäck Svensson
Artwork by Takashi Makabe
Tracks 1,2,7 commissioned by Intonal Festival 2021 for the 'Tilt To Turn' dance piece with Frédéric Gies (available on Youtube)
Track 10 recorded live at Kornheddinge Kvarn in april 2021 and mastered by Måns Öjbrandt Wikenmo
Running order by Björn Jumme and Andreas Andersson

L+P-2

Bandcamp

MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

“When somebody reaches out to you to sign with your agency, what do you click on first? The private link for the music or the social media?”

→  Online platforms had an irreversible impact on the electronic dance music scene, including the work of artist agents and booking agencies. While nowadays online presentation plays an important role in artists’ careers, there is still much more behind the veil of an Instagram profile that the agents have to care about. To elaborate on their approach to tackling social media’s traps and benefits, as well as to discuss various ins and outs of their business, we’ve invited four booking agents operating in different regions across Europe – often not sharing similar lever of access to the international waters nor structural development within their local scenes.

Gravity Warsaw #2 Talks
Behind the Scene: Artist Agencies
13.5.2023, Jasna 1, Warsaw

w/
Charles Green(Omni Artists)
Matwe Kaščák(SPFM)
Paulina Żaczek (Granko Agency)
Tim Dreske (Outlined AM)
Moderated by Eltron

https://www.gravitynetwork.eu/events/warsaw-2

Behind the Scene: Artist Agencies [Gravity Warsaw #2 Talks]

Release : 6th November 2023
Mastering : Valerio Ebert
Design : Isobaar

Tracklist :

1. Isabel Del Bosco - Brume
2. Shjva - Calypso
3. Théo Muller - Pointe du Raz
4. A-Tweed - Reuptake
5. Transe Ar Gwez - Revolution Blaster
6. Oltrefuturo - Mare Vitalis
7. Los Pashminas - Cheap Chips
8. Kendu Bari - Uto
9. Tabensi - Ria
10. Orphic - Flute Jam
11. XCI - Prometheus

https://soundcloud.com/isabel-del-bosco, https://soundcloud.com/shjva, https://soundcloud.com/theomuller, https://soundcloud.com/antakaatweed, https://soundcloud.com/transe_ar_gwez, https://soundcloud.com/oltrefuturo, https://soundcloud.com/lospashminas, https://soundcloud.com/kendubari, https://soundcloud.com/soundsfromtabensi, https://soundcloud.com/orphic-musik, https://soundcloud.com/x-c-i

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Catch Hewan Aman every 1st Thursday of the month from 19h to 20h [CET] on rinse.fr

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Wesly Wise [07.10.2023]

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.

More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Simsaara @ Kiosk Radio 07.12.2023

NYE venue @ Espacio Perpendicular 2023
The recording took place between 04:00pm and 07:00pm.
@frpinkl

NYE - Frpinkl

Brendon Moller [New York]

Very excited to share this hour live pa from a techno veteran who recently visited Chicago for a Prologue Showcase thanks to another incredible Oktave booking. This night also featured Mike Parker, and Oktave resident/founder, Jeff Derringer. 

Huge thanks to Brendon for his generosity, and letting us record his set. Huge thanks to Jeff for continually booking great events here, and also allowing us to set up the recorder that night. 

Brendon has a new release out under his Echologist alias on Planete Rouge. Please seek it out, and support.

ENJOY!

BIO - 

When it comes to post-Basic Channel dub techno, Brendon Moeller is one of the go-to guys. Since leaving his native South Africa for New York City in 1993, the dub technician has been proudly laying down his musical legacy on labels like Astralwerks, Mule Musiq and Six Degrees Records; working with revered vocalists like Paul St. Hilaire, Mikey Dread and Mutabaruka and fomenting relationships with scene institutions like fabric, Berghain and Francois K.

''My parents detected my interest in music at an early age so sent me for piano lessons. However, this kinda alienated me from my desires as the teacher ended up trying to impose all this classical stuff on me when all I was interested in playing was Hall & Oates and Queen. After 2 years of piano I quit and spent all my time playing tennis before I began playing drums in a band when I was 19, at which point the fire was ignited once again.''

''The band was fun for a few years but was never as serious for the other members as it was for me. About the same time I was hearing early acid house and ambient stuff, so in late 1993 decided to sell my car and buy a ticket to NYC. I worked as a waiter six days a week and, in mid 1994, purchased my first drum machine, sequencer and synth...''

Since then, the dub landscape has been for ever changing at his hands: sometimes under his own name, sometimes as Beat Pharmacy (almost exclusively on Francois K's Wave Music) and sometimes as Echologist, he is behind seven full length albums to-date, each of which has breached the musical boundaries of what went before. Taking cues from jazz, techno, dub, afrobeat and psychedelia, Moeller's aims are simple.

''My goal is, first and foremost, to create timeless, quality music that resonates with people from all walks of life. I want to evolve musically. I want to be able to continue making music and support my family with it... and if all goes well, would love to make enough money to purchase all my time favourite analogue synthesizers.''

Listen to his music - or that which his label, Steadfast, has so studiously released since 2009 - and you'll understand that Moeller's music has a knack for making you think whilst you inescapably give yourself over to its infectious grooves, and his most recent Ecologist album only confirms that: Subterranean is a deeply experimental record that explores a throbbing, swollen underworld of subconscious sounds which, in its conceptual referencing of everything from shoe-gaze to ambient to rock, marks Moeller out as an essential pillar of not only the dub techno community, but of the electronic music world as a whole.

https://soundcloud.com/brendonmoeller
https://www.facebook.com/brendonmoeller.beatpharmacy.echologist
http://brendonmoeller.com/

http://donttrusthumans.com

Only For Robots Podast

Only For Robots 069 live @ Smart Bar [13.12.14]

Only For Robots 069 - Brendon Moeller live @ Smart Bar [13.12.14]

We continue our 'nothing but chicago' Only For Robots batch of mixes with local hero, Karl Meier. Deep, basement sounds in this mix. Dig in.

1. DEMDIKE STARE / SHANGAAN ELECTRO "Version" (Honest Jon's, 2012)
2. MONOLAKE "Avalanche" (M/L, 2009)
3. SCUBA "Poppies - Substance Dub Version" (Hotflush, 2008)
4. MILLIE "Path To Hell - Redemption Mix" (Daphne, 2009)
5. BEN KLOCK "Gold Rush" (Ostgut Ton, 2009)
6. SCUBA "Bleach" (2009, Abucs)
7. APPLEBLIM + PEVERELIST "Circling" (Skull Disco, 2008)
8. THE BUG "Skeng - Autechre Remix" (Ninja Tune, 2010)
9. NOMINE "Blind Man" (Tempa, 2015)
10. ANDY STOTT "Dark Details" (Modern Love, 2011)
11. SURGEON "Transparent Radiation" (Dynamic Tension, 2011)
12. SCORN "The Palomar" (Ad Noiseam/Jarring Effects, 2007)
13. CHRIS LIEBING "Dandu Groove - Oliver Ho Remix" (Fine Audio Recordings, 1998)
14. ARCHAE + GROVSKOPA "Dwell/Dive" (unreleased)
15. SPEEDJACK "Construction" (R&S, 1996)
16. RAC "Quexos - The Advent Re-edit" (Warp, 1994 / Metalbox, 1997)
17. JAMES RUSKIN "Lahaine - O/V/R Remix" (Tresor, 2008)
18. STENNY "Ruins" (Ilian Tape, 2015)
19. DEMDIKE STARE "Primitive Equations" (Modern Love, 2013)
20. DOWNLINERS SEKT "This American Life - Chevel Remix" (Infine, 2014)
21. AFX "mortal1" (Soundcloud)
22. WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY "Drop - Knowing Looks Remix" (WNCL, 2014)
23. SPECIAL REQUEST "Broken Dreams" (Houndstooth, 2013)

http://fearofmusic.org/archive
https://soundcloud.com/karlpmeier

Only For Robots 077 - Karl Meier

It is with great pleasure to close out our "Nothing But Chicago" run of Only For Robots mixes with friend, and local techno hero, Jeff Derringer. Jeff is the founder of Oktave, who relocated to Chicago via NYC a few years ago, and is responsible for a healthy list of top caliber techno events here in the city. Recently, Jeff has landed a spot as a Smart Bar resident. He continues to push the boundaries with his bookings, bringing in incredible international talent, along with an avid work ethic when it comes to productions. Jeff has released on notable labels, which include; Perc Trax, Soma, Electric Deluxe, Prosthetic Pressings, and M_Rec. We are very grateful for his generous contribution to our series. Enjoy this deep, dubby journey. It's that good.

BIO - 

Jeff Derringer is a producer and performer based in Chicago, and a resident at the city's most notorious nightclub, Smartbar. Over the course of the last five years, Jeff has established himself as an emerging figure in the techno underground. With releases on Speedy J’s Electric Deluxe label, as well as Perc Trax, M_Rec LTD and the infamous Soma in Glasgow, Jeff’s reputation as a producer and DJ continues to rise internationally. Live, Jeff weaves a combination of Ableton and Maschine to concoct a hybrid set known for its abstract intensity and pounding rhythms. Audiences across America and into Europe (at Berlin’s Berghain and Amsterdam’s Ruigoord) have all raved about his sound.

As the creator and curator of the Oktave event series, Jeff brings techno’s most innovative artists to Smartbar, Chicago’s premiere dance club. Started in 2009 in New York, Oktave has become one of the world’s most recognizable techno events, known for its relentless pursuit of the finest sounds in the genre. Since moving the event to Smartbar in 2010, Oktave has hosted the Chicago debuts of Donato Dozzy, Silent Servant, Cio D’or, Peter Van Hoesen, Black Asteroid, Tommy Four Seven and dozens more.

TRACKLIST - 

DJ Skirt - In the Meadow Under the Stars
Jeff Derringer - Ghost Notes
Antonio Ruscito - Seconda Imaginne (Edit Select Remix)
Claudio PRC - Atik
Deepbass - Dune
Etapp Kyle - Aurora
Iori - Light Echo
Norman Nodge - Signal Response
Peter Van Hoesen - Protagonist
Qindek - Modu
Mike Parker - Spitting Electricity
Dino Sabatini & Edit Select - Multiplo (Edit Select Version)
Phase - Distracted
Peter Van Hoesen - Terminal

http://oktaveproducts.tumblr.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jeffderringer

http://donttrusthumans.com


Only For Robots 078 - Jeff Derringer

community service 2010-2023

Thanks to everyone for listening.

Only For Robots 078 - Jeff Derringer

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