@ste_roberts
We now bring to you a moody dark techno roller from Ste Roberts own imprint label. With the track "Queen Bee" we have a deep minor chord affair with excellent IDM flourishes and intricate sound design. It's slow moving, hypnotic, and enveloping, bringing you into a world of uncertainty, confusion, and paranoia. Get lost in it.
Out May 14th on a very limited press of 150 pieces of wax and digital.

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*PREMIERE* Ste Roberts - Queen Bee

Rumination, reflection, return. Such is the vernacular of winter, a moment to exhale, to glance behind as well as ahead. To commemorate this precious time we have a very special guest this month. Slam are so integral to electronic music culture that they hardly need an introduction. With over 100 releases under their belt, they have enthused the eager ears of their audience for over three decades and are still going strong today. Their label, Soma Records, has established itself as a consistent output of world-class music, while their weekly podcast series, Slam Radio, is arguably one of the most respected around. 

Normally found roaming the rougher-tinged arenas of music with harsh, jacking rhythms, here they have smoothed out their sound and gone down an alternative path. Serving as the first half of a two-part mix, Slam have once again showcased the breadth of their musical knowledge. Soaring through valleys of angelic synths and sighing strings, they arrive at a place at once familiar and yet completely foreign, concealed through passages of morphing, static noise. A truly engaging listen, and one perfectly fitting for this current moment of restless tranquility.

Thank a lot https://soundcloud.com/slam_djs

Website Slam: https://www.slam-djs.com/
Website Soma Records: https://www.somarecords.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slam_djs/
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1015-Slam

Unrush Bandcamp: https://unrush.bandcamp.com/
Unrush Hardwax: https://hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Unrush Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de

Cover artwork by Irkali Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Unrush 061

061 - Unrushed by Slam (Part 1)

Arkada Records is happy to present the 045 episode of our podcast series this month mixed and selected by a very special person to us and a true pioneer in the electronic music scene in UK.
Dj, producer, musician and a visual artist, the label owner of the well respected DRONE label - Richard Fearless 
We are extremely excited to welcome and present to our followers one of the Richard’s great talents with this absolutely stunning mix he created for us.His skills, professionalism and steadiness is what has impressed us so much.
A true artist who has dedicated most of his live to create, divert  and engage through sound In the most astonishing way that only a real musician can deliver.
In this mix you will have the pleasure to enjoy a various of styles going from Electro to Techno/Acid and beyond.Something that is definitely not to be missed!
Many thanks and love to Richard for joining our family and creating this mix for us. 

Bio:
Richard Fearless, DJ/producer/musician/visual artist’s sets are marked not one genre, but a signature sound; a commonality and cohesive narrative that runs throughout.
Fearless began as resident DJ at the Job Club in London’s Soho during the 1990s, where he’d play alongside Claude Young, Derrick May, Dave Angel and Andrew Weatherall. After a few years he was picked as a resident for the legendary Heavenly Social. He has remixed Yoko Ono, Conny Plank, the Horrors, Daniel Avery, Ike Yard, Big Youth and Tikiman. 
While Fearless’ DJ sets and his Death in Vegas output have typically fallen into different genres, over the last few years he has begun to knit the two more closely together. Since 2014, Fearless has ran his own label Drone and released tracks and remixes by the likes of Chris & Cosey, DJ Richard, Legowelt,  Silent Servant, D’Marc Cantu, Gabe Gurnsey (Factory Floor) and Rudolf Klorzieger (Dopplereffekt)
Bonding over a love of Throbbing Gristle in 2016 Fearless collaborated with Sasha Grey to release a raw, visceral techno album, Transmission to much critical acclaim and has continued to push his work in a more abstract insular direction culminating in last years 'Future Rave Memory.
label

http://droneout.co.uk/releases/
bandcamp
https://richardfearless.bandcamp.com/album/future-rave-memory

Tracklist:

 1.Lusine - Drip(Apparat remix)/Ghostly 
 2.Dip Shim - Vattendrag /Malmø Traxx
 3.313 Bass Mechanics - Pass Out /Breakin’ Records
 4.Dold - Rottweiller /Arsenik
 5.Ryan James Ford - 3NVY /Clone Dub Series
 6.Vernacular Orchestra ‘Bay Seven’ /Vernacular Records
 7.Janice - AA /Janice
 8.A Credible Eye-Witness - Episode 3 /ACEW
 9.Literon Machines - Machine 111 /Fortek 
 10.Stefano Rocchi - B.Nero /Blackwater Label 
 11.Roy Davis Jr. - Broken Machines /Clone Jack For Daze 
 12.DJ Spun & Dhyan Møller - Grace /Still Music Chicago
 13.Gosub - The Future is Enslaved /Isophlux Records
 14.Aquatronics - Deep Horizons /Magnonic Signals

Richard Fearless /Arkada podcast 045

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXXIX by Erika (@erikadotnet). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
Red Stars CPR - The Killing Of A Sacred Place
Merrin Karras - Monument
François X - Particules Elementaires
Richard Fearless - Tamas
Cosimo Damiano - La Guaritrice
Forest Drive West - Particles in Motion
Varuna - Avicennia
Torn Relics - Rebirth
Ligovskoï - Dilip
Valentino Mora - Second Skin
Kato de Vidts - First Signs
David Shettler - Orthosomnia
Nørbak - Watershed
Unjin - Ties
Efficient Refineries - Dhyana
Space Afrika - u+00b1
Jo Johnson - there is no there there
Jonas Kopp - Deep Freeze
Max Loderbauer - Sub
Grand River - All Playing in Jannah
Slacker - deep in the forest, a sacred pool
Afrorack - Rev

Mysteries of the Deep CXXXIX - Erika

Welcome to the world of Drone, a London-based label founded by producer, artist and Death In Vegas guiding light Richard Fearless. An outlet for dancefloor distortion and other musical explorations. Created in the Metal Box, Drone will release oscillations in many forms. 

For this, the debut outing Richard Fearless lays the mandate in the form of Higher Electronic States - proto-techno, peaktime acid. Analogue electronics, hammer-horror strings underpinned with drums to blow apart any floor. This is music made for very dark, smoke filled rooms with absurd lazers.

Crème Organization & M>O>S Recordings mainstay D’Marc Cantu picks up remixes duties on the flip toning things down in tempo but certainly not tension. This is deep, brooding, suspense filled slow-motion techno creating a wholly satisfying first taste of the meal that is Drone.

Higher Electronic States (D'Marc Cantu Remix)

Richard Fearless - Higher Electronic States  (D'Marc Cantu Remix)

A six hour b2b set from musical comrades Daniel Avery and @richard-fearless recorded live at the June edition of their new party Goo, an irregular Sunday daytime gathering taking place at The Pickle Factory in London. Small room, big sound, trippy as fxck 

The next Goo takes place on Sunday 20th August, 4 - 10pm. Tickets are on sale now: https://dice.fm/event/xar7k-daniel-avery-richard-fearless-present-goo-20th-aug-the-pickle-factory-london-tickets

Daniel Avery + Richard Fearless 6 hour b2b at Goo, June 2023

A recording from Goo, Daniel Avery and Richard Fearless' daytime party at the Pickle Factory.
Goo sees these two comrades playing back-to-back form start till close, sinking deeper into the trippier side of their sonic hoardings.
The next Goo takes place on Sunday 10th December August, 4 - 10pm. Tickets are on sale now:
https://link.dice.fm/Q48629a609ec

DANIEL AVERY & RICHARD FEARLESS AT GOO (3)

The next Goo takes place at its home of The Pickle Factory, London on Bank Holiday Sunday 25th August. 4 - 10pm. Final tickets here: https://ra.co/events/1973759

Goo is Daniel Avery + Richard Fearless for six hours on a Sunday afternoon.
Trippy records, small room, big sound, endless love.

https://soundcloud.com/richard-fearless
Photo by Keffer

Daniel Avery b2b Richard Fearless - 6 hour set from Goo (April 2024)

Buy here https://blackmerlin-music.bandcamp.com/album/qes-math

Bandcamp

OWA VEK (Bandcamp release)

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Welcome to the world of Drone, a London-based label founded by Richard Fearless.