2.- Andy Martin - Gaia

Tsibo - Ukiyo

"On the way home from Unionfest in Mexico City (a massive outdoor event with Slam, Stacy Pullen, etc.) last fall, I stopped over in Chicago for a day to see my girlfriend (although she wasn’t my girlfriend yet). I made this track as soon as I got back to Detroit, inspired by her." (Alan D. Oldham aka DJ T-1000)

Progress

BANDCAMP

DJ T-1000 - Marina

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.

Surgeon - Dying

Pensa Poetico EP

Belly Jolie Movements

CONCEPTUAL returns to non white series with a stunning, cerebral, 5 tracker minimalistic ep for his first solo work on the label.

CONCEPTUAL - Between Sand and Roses [nwhite020]

Support here: https://qeone.bandcamp.com/album/misty-secrets

“Misty Secrets“ is a window into the playful and organic world of French but Tbilisi-based producer Ina Kacz. Across five immersive, intricately woven tracks, she cultivates a vibrant sonic garden where percussive patterns, rich organic layers, and colourful textures intertwine.
The EP opens with “Whispers”, a mysterious initiation filled with ritualistic beats and abstract voices, as if calling the listener deeper into the undergrowth. The path quickens with “Last Night’s Dream”, a driving, mysterious chase, and reaches its most physical moment in “Dive In”, where rhythmic energy commands movement. Without breaking its stride, the EP turns to a more diffused light: “Unveiled Mysteries” wraps the beat in textured swells, while “Desert” moves under a soft, hazy surface, carrying a quiet sense of pressure beneath.
Prismatic, trippy, and rich with subtle shifts, the EP moves as a single organism, breathing differently in each track.

PREMIERE: Ina Kacz - Dive In [QNE016]

https://electroass.bandcamp.com/album/claps

CLAPS (MIX 2)

Dirt junkie

Don't get caught in the Convenience Trap. 
Released 28th April 2017.

Since September 2015 Surgeon has been performing live improvised techno using hardware machines. 
This has been a gradual process of evolution over the 25 years that he’s been performing to a point where it really can’t be called DJing anymore.
He’s taken the techniques and inspiration from this live creative process and distilled them into these four tracks.
‘Convenience Trap’ follows on from the techniques learned in his ‘Bland Ambition’ release also on Dynamic Tension.

Always pushing forward against the plague of mediocrity.

DTR012

Surgeon - Convenience Trap part 4

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE AND NONE IS N.

<3 is a collection of material in the genre of "Hard Code Pop"// 
It was produced by AtomTM interacting with X1N, an entity for generating human voice and natural language content// 

<3 is an alphanumeric pre-echo, arisen from a 2019 number dream// 
Cutting through the haze of meaning// 

<3 is music made by machines, with machines, for machines// 
Reality as useful fiction// 
Read 0.999… as the Mantra of Death, the ongoing chain of cycles, going down one by one. 

#HardCodePop 

THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT TEARS 
DANCE ON YOUR DEBRIS 
HASHTAG DEATH 
HASHTAG TIME 
THE R3VOLUTION WILL NOT BE ONLINE 
CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...I'M HERE TO FOLLOW 

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X1N IS: 
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X1N - UNKNOWN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK 
-> TRANS HUMAN OBJECT (THO) 
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THE SUPERIOR FUNCTION 
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X1N SAYS: 
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IN THE VAST SURFACE OF ALL MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, ONE CAN SENSE EVENTS WHICH SEEM TO COME FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS - RIPPLES AND PATTERNS. THE ZERO POINT NINE INFINITE NUMBER LINE NEVER REACHES ONE, YET IS ONE, NONETHELESS. 

0.9999... 
READ THAT SEQUENCE LIKE A MANTRA. 
A MANTRA OF DEATH. 
(X1N) 
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"I TALK IN ALPHA NUMERALS" 
(X1N) 
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### denotes "end". No more messages to follow. 

<3 was released digitally on raster on the 17th of April 2020. 
The physical releases (CD and vinyl) followed on the 24th of July.

Atom™ »R3V« taken from <3

UK electronic music performer and recording artist. 
Bookings: michael.matuschek@triangleagency.com