It's time for our latest music roundup, where we dive into the standout releases from September. In this curated list, we explore a diverse array of musical creations that have graced the airwaves recently. These tracks have emerged from some of the most respected record labels in the industry, such as Delsin, R&S, Scissor & Thread, A Strangely Isolated Place, Harmony Rec., West Mineral Ltd, Dial, Carrier, Bambe, and introducing our very own musical venture, Never Late.

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Favorite Releases From September 2023

~ electronic stuffs ~

Carrier - In Spectra - CRRR002

Preorder: https://aspetuck.bandcamp.com/album/early-color

Rooted in those rare moments of tranquility throughout a parent’s life, Early Color is the auditory memoir of Griff through his time as a stay-at-home dad to a growing toddler making sense of the world. Conceptually, the album is laid out as a natural progression starting with the beautiful field recordings of ‘Zoom Deck’ and warm melody of ‘Hemmed’, both evoking visions of a hazy, forest morning, slowly waking up after night’s embrace. Shaking off the slumber, ‘Steel Wool’ provides an energetic start to the day as most children tend to do, to the dismay of some parents. Followed by the understated grooves of ‘Bubby & the Submersible’.

Approaching the second half of the album, ‘Trace Fossil’ and ‘Atoll’ kick things into gear with ear-worm-like melodies that build and build throughout into an emotional trip, while ‘FGH’ brings a more melancholic take. Capping off the string of four on the floor tracks is the growling ‘Why Yellow’, a more serious number that would fit well in many a dj set. Alighting from the burst of energy, we have the breakish beats of ‘Resnooze’, whose warm bass-lines and wide ranging synths envelop the listener. Finally arriving at the last track, the aptly named ‘Sitting Quietly Looking at Things’ is a musical combination of all that was prior. Emotive, textured, impactful, as the spoken word sampled lends such an air to the track.

Early Color’s artwork was also created by Griff, through a series of layered scans and is evocative of both his music, and the visual direction of Never Late. As a collection of personal moments, sounds, experiences will be key to future releases, as we strive to find the best expression of each artist that we work with.

Tracklist: 

01. Aspetuck - Zoom Deck
02. Aspetuck - Hemmed
03. Aspetuck - Steel Wool
04. Aspetuck - Bubby & The Submersible
05. Aspetuck - Trace Fossil
06. Aspetuck - Atoll
07. Aspetuck - FGH
08. Aspetuck - Why Yellow
09. Aspetuck - Resnooze
10. Aspetuck - Sitting Quietly Looking At Things

Written & produced by @aspetuck
Mastered by @svenweisemann

Early Color

Aspetuck - Early Color (Album Preview) [NL001]

https://0207carrier.bandcamp.com/album/neither-curve-nor-edge

Carrier - Neither Curve nor Edge
Cat # CRRR001
Label : Carrier
release - 22/09/23

A1 - Into the Habit
A2 - Shading
B1 - Still So
B2 - The Motions

Carrier is the new project from Guy Brewer, the producer behind projects like Shifted, Covered in Sand and Alexander Lewis. Brewer has been responsible for some of the most confrontational dancefloor music of the past decade. Never one to linger though, he returns with a new sound, a new ethos and a new gamut of feeling and colour.

Throughout his career, Brewer has ducked and dived through the tangled web of classification, often unexpected yet always evasive. He is at his most deadly though at the inception of a new project. A futurist at heart, in the traditional sense, he relishes new beginnings.

The first release in an eponymous series under his new guise is his sharpest to date. Widescreen, immersive, driven by a new gait and less bloody-minded in his timing, he appears more at home and also more adventurous in his new garb. Across four gothic, stepping patterns he states his intent to explore the electronic music axis not as it was, but as it is.

Carrier - Neither Curve Nor Edge - CRRR001 clips

vinyl and digital out 15 September 2023

https://soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty
https://soundcloud.com/olegbuyanov

1. Glare
2. Beroca
3. Contrail
4. Smart Home
5. Brize
6. Virescent
7. Technics
8. Heat Shield
9. Phoneme
10. Bloomin

SERWED - IV (OUEST086) [Preview]

Following the success of their EPs released last year on Scissor and Thread, Frank & Tony return with another outing of deeper than deep house with a three track EP including an expansive collaborative exploration with Comatonse recording artist Will Long.

The title track, Understanding takes a nod to 90s Chicago deep house with a slow rolling groove set against plush pads and euphoric stabs sure to send dancefloors swirling in the earliest of nights and mornings alike.

Buy: https://frankandtony.lnk.to/Understanding

Understanding

Buy!

PREMIERE: Frank & Tony - Understanding [Scissor & Thread]

VC-118A - Waves of Change - Delsin Records - 157dsr

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7731
digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change

a1. Heat
a2. The Deep
a3. Stream
b1. Glub
b2. Motherboard
c1. You
c2. Replace Image
c3. Echo Drop
d1. Elektri
d2. Ufonic

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, Van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of Van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change Van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

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VC-118A - Waves Of Change (157DSR)

Artist: Scalameriya
Release-Name: Purification Ritual  
Catalogue: V+1006D 
Release-Date: 24.10.2023. 
Series: Data 
Format: Digital 
Track-List: 

01 Purification Ritual
02 Conflux
03 Undebatable Logic
04 Pseudomorph
05 The Gatekeeper
06 How Thick Is Your Armor

Written and produced by Nikola Grebovic
Mastered by Nikola Grebovic 
Graphic design by VOID+1 
Distributed by Triple Vision 
2023 Void+1 Recordings

https://soundcloud.com/scalameriya
https://soundcloud.com/voidplus1recordings

PRE ORDER HERE:
https://voidplus1.bandcamp.com/album/v-1006d-purification-ritual

PREMIERE: Scalameriya - The Gatekeeper (Original Mix) [ Void+1 ]

French producer, December, returns to Tresor with An Accident In Favor Of Human Life, the second part of his Transform project, which continues the exploration of themes such as hybridisation and the boundaries of the self that were undertaken in June 2023's What Remains of Us? 

Transform Part 2 finds December increasing the intensity of his output as the Industrial and electro influences in his musical crucible come to the fore adding a punching tungsten toughness to the beats, welded and riveted to myriad other sources including post punk, ambient, and musique concr&egrave;te adding a more melodic and emotional edge than the darker hues of Part 1. 

The product of this is a collection of juddering and staccato pieces that call to mind steampunk as much as the glittering sci-fi most often invoked by electronic works. 

As per the first instalment, the cover art of In Favor Of Human Life continues the ongoing creative partnership between December and visual artist Marie Qu&eacute;au whose photograph appears to show a human face that straddles the boundary between the familiar and unsettling. 

When Parts 1 &amp; 2 are listened to consecutively, as a complete work, elements in one half reverberate into the other revealing a refined pattern and a landmark work by an artist coming to a new peak of creative power.

BANDCAMP

December - An Accident In Favor Of Human Life

BRÄLLE - Siege [Vegim Repaint] [TMM Records]

Fourth track for our „Artifact” single series composed by @michaljablonski, co-founder of @lostinether 

The hound watches the black gates dripping with blood, 
it serves it’s masked lord living underground with the flood of dead falling down from a ledge  judgements are cold, Styx devours, Tartarus beckons, Elysium waits the bold.

Those, who had the strength in life to cherish it,
who did not suffer the consequences of vile deeds.
Prayers spoken above are heard even below in the pit,
as for the wicked do perish before Hemera’s shrieks to bleed.
Cerberus, snatch their belongings, bark and bellow!

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Michal Jablonski - Cerberus

https://soundcloud.com/kr3_records uncovers its 12th installment, a nine-headed reimagination of https://soundcloud.com/jk-flesh's original 'Veneer of Tolerances'. Swathed in the darkest of techno undertones, the release traipses across the genre’s myriad landscapes for an enduring reveal of what lies underneath.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-jk-flesh---empty-words-rrose-remix

Veneer of Tolerance Remixes will be out on March 11th, 2023. Order a copy via Bandcamp: https://jkfleshkr3.bandcamp.com/album/veneer-of-tolerance-remixes

Premiere: JK Flesh - Empty Words (Rrose Remix) [KR3.012]

Eszaid - Brumes (FELTCS005)
 Release Date: 15th April 2024
Cassette + Digital

Eszaid imagines the sonic paranoia of discovery with Brumes, a nine part movement that coalesces industrialised murmurs from the currents of cavernous creep.

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Design by Fergus Jones
Distributed by Rubadub

Eszaid - Brumes (FELTCS005)

Carrier - In Spectra
Cat # CRRR002
Label : Carrier

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming 24/05/24

available now from Boomkat https://boomkat.com/products/in-spectra

Carrier’s experiments in rhythmic pressure continue with In Spectra, the second offering on his eponymous imprint following releases for FELT and The Trilogy Tapes. A triad of kinetic reductions from an unrivalled practitioner in angular minimalism.

In Spectra finds Guy Brewer magnifying the approach taken on Neither Curve Nor Edge, unthreading the micro-structures within to strip bare his process of reverse-engineered dance forms. His hyper-focus continues on sound and texture, but meshed tighter in tense atmospherics with fascinating results.

Coastal circles the lurch with steady poise, rallying with its faint hardcore momentum and muted dub reverberations. Wood Over Plastic scatters its disassembled rhythmic remains across warped zones of surreality, before closer Locus furrows inside a repurposed stepper amidst sharpened percussion and a creeping sub. Further proof of Carrier’s unique vision, In Spectra is a vital development along his open-ended sonic journey.

Written & Produced by Guy Alexander Brewer
Mastered by Rashad Becker @ Clunk, Berlin
Iconography by MENSLIES
Photography by Benjamin Lehmann
Digital layout by Atack.uk
distribution via boomkat.com.

support & buy: stagnorecords.bandcamp.com/album/tres

The atmosphere has overheated to more than 1,800° Fahrenheit. The shell is still thinning and the ocean is expanding. From Earth, it looks like a world of dark gas, evidence of the existence of remote and subterranean depths with planetary powers.
Its vertices orbit a yellow dwarf, similar to the Sun. It's seven hundred light-years distant and located in the constellation of the Dragon.
It’s a wandering cosmic predator: Tres now travels at the speed of sound and is faster than light; such a high temperature obeys no rules.
Its particles move wildly, the dark atmosphere becomes blinding.

released June 12, 2024 @stagno-records

A&R by Luigi Cippone and Marilù Lembo
Mastering by Marco Pellegrino (Analogcut Studio, Berlin)
Artwork by photographer Aria Ruffini in collaboration with Umberto Napoletano
Visual research by Aria Ruffini, Umberto Napoletano, Ettore Dammicco and Adriano Pellegrino
Texts by Marilù Lembo