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Ecstatic Recordings welcomes The Field's Axel Willner to the fold with his debut record as HANDS - four tracks of plaintive devastation spread over forty one minutes, disintergrating synth melodies drifting over skittering percussion and whispered intonations.

Axel Willner : "The Soul Is Quick is a protest record for when you've had enough of how the world works. When you find yourself taking inspiration from human decay rather then brighter things."

Roland JX-3P, Roland SH-101, Tenori-On, Elektron Machinedrum – Axel Willner

Written, produced and recorded by Axel Willner between March and April 2012 at Garmonbozia Studios, Berlin.

Artwork by Sonia Alvarez, Axel Willner and Alessio Natalizia.

Limited edition of 550 red vinyl LP.

HANDS (Axel Willner) - Beelitz Heilstatten PT6

Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering

PYE CORNER AUDIO/NOT WAVING Intercepts split LP

Release date: 28.07.14


'Perfect Secrecy Forever' taken from 'Intercepts', a split album between Pye Corner Audio and Not Waving. 

Taking inspiration from the world of espionage, most specifically spy rings, both artists provide four tracks each, creating a thrilling musical call and response between these kindred producers.

Some of the world’s greatest espionage stories involve Spy Rings. From the Rosenbergs to the Cambridge Five and the Duquesne case, these are stories that haunt the annals of the covert world and remain shrouded in mystery and fascination to this day.

Clandestine spirits permeate these eight tracks of dreamlike industrial techno, impressionist synth burbles, fragmented post-modern ambient and cosmic sci-fi adventure.

First edition 500 battle-ship grey vinyl. 

PCA tracks composed by Martin Jenkins. 
Recorded and produced  by The Head Technician at Black Mill with assistance from Martin Jenkins.

NW tracks written, produced and recorded by Alessio Natalizia in London 2013-2014. 

PYE CORNER AUDIO (20:50)
1 Perfect Secrecy Forever 05:30
2 Twisted Wire Pair 05:33
3 Shared Secret Key 04:19
4 One Time Pad 05:28

NOT WAVING (20:02)
1 Protect The Revolution 08:26 
2 Two-Way Mirror 02:58
3 Enemies Of The People 04:28 
4 Like Shooting A Fish In A Barrel 04:10 

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Pye Corner Audio - Perfect Secrecy Forever

PYE CORNER AUDIO/NOT WAVING Intercepts split LP

Release date: 28.07.14

'Protect The Revolution' taken from 'Intercepts', a split album between Pye Corner Audio and Not Waving. 

Taking inspiration from the world of espionage, most specifically spy rings, both artists provide four tracks each, creating a thrilling musical call and response between these kindred producers.

Some of the world’s greatest espionage stories involve Spy Rings. From the Rosenbergs to the Cambridge Five and the Duquesne case, these are stories that haunt the annals of the covert world and remain shrouded in mystery and fascination to this day.

Clandestine spirits permeate these eight tracks of dreamlike industrial techno, impressionist synth burbles, fragmented post-modern ambient and cosmic sci-fi adventure.

PCA tracks composed by Martin Jenkins. 
Recorded and produced  by The Head Technician at Black Mill with assistance from Martin Jenkins.

NW tracks written, produced and recorded by Alessio Natalizia in London 2013-2014. 

PYE CORNER AUDIO (20:50)
1 Perfect Secrecy Forever 05:30
2 Twisted Wire Pair 05:33
3 Shared Secret Key 04:19
4 One Time Pad 05:28

NOT WAVING (20:02)
1 Protect The Revolution 08:26 
2 Two-Way Mirror 02:58
3 Enemies Of The People 04:28 
4 Like Shooting A Fish In A Barrel 04:10 

Not Waving - Protect The Revolution

Limited edition 200 copies 12" w/ Screenprinted logo on new Ecstatic sister label Entropy Trax. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

Artist: Gavin Russom
Title: The Purge / Enthroned
Label: Entropy Trax
Release Date: 23rd June
Format: 12"
Cat.#: ET001

ENTROPY TRAX, is the new sister label to Kompakt's WALLS helmed ECSTATIC imprint. Expect limited edition hand artworked white-label 12"s from a variety of artists, focussed on experimental dance floor sounds.

The debut release comes from DFA's Gavin Russom (The Crystal Ark/Black Meteoric Star) with a titanic double-header that announces the first of a series of releases for the label. Recording under his own name for the first time since 2011's 'Night Sky', this material finds Russom creating visceral and hypnotic dance floor tracks.

Gavin Russom on 'The Purge':
"I think of this as a meditation on the transformative power of illness. Cathartic purging and even the use of drugs to replicate states of extreme illness is a part of many healing traditions interestingly enough. In fact, after titling the track, I read in Jonathon Miller Weisberger's fantastic new book 'Rainforest Medicine' that in the urban version of the Yage ceremony the plant concoction they use is called 'La Purga' - literally 'The Purge' in Spanish."

Gavin Russom on 'Enthroned':
"David Brown's book 'Santeria Enthroned' was sitting on my kitchen table as I worked on this track and the titled seemed to fit it well after finishing it. I wanted to evoke a complex image of empowered femininity in the track, much like the images of orishas like Ochun, Yemaya and Oya that Brown describes in his writing. I was creating a kind of praise poem in sounds that describe a distinctly female type of energy. 'Drops' are eschewed in favor of rushes and shifts. There's an aspect of connectedness, especially with the powers of nature such as the river, the ocean and the wind that I wanted to capture…"

Tracklisting:
A. The Purge 9.44
B. Enthroned 13.01

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Gavin Russom - The Purge

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Gavin Russom 
'Telemetry / The Beneficent, The Merciful' 
Entropy Trax 
1st December 2014 
Format: 12" 
Cat. #: ETX002

• Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering
• Limited to 300 copies
• Screen-printed paper sleeve

Gavin Russom returns to Ecstatic sister label Entropy Trax for the fledgling label's second release. Building on the brooding atmosphere of 'The Purge / Enthroned' with a pair of throbbing, synth-powered & acid-infused cuts, the 'Telemetry/The Benificent, The Merciful' 12" draws together sonic touchstones found in Russom's many projects - Black Metoric Star, The Crystal Ark, and his work with Delia Gonzalez - melding them into two singular productions that pump and drive like the sequenced machines that power them.

Gavin Russom on 'Telemetry': "This came out of some deep digging into the abilities of one of my self-designed analog processors. I was demonstrating to someone how a second layer of filtering can turn a simple 16 step sequence into an evolving line which seems to never quite repeat the same way, sequences that don't strictly repeat but rather seem to have a life of their own that expands as their more rudimentary parts lock into repetitive motion... I built a track around it by building up layers around the central sequence that grow in impact as the track unfolds."

"The title 'Telemetry' sums up a nice connection between the machine and the body, as often it is used to track or monitor living creatures from distance. It also functions like a metaphor for what happens in a club as a DJ or musician uses the technological medium to bridge the distance between his own inner rhythms and those of the others, at a distance on the dance floor. Or at least that's how it works for me."

Gavin Russom on 'The Beneficent, The Merciful': "Although I think of all music as prayer this may be one of the most overtly prayerful tracks I've ever made. The title comes from the asmāʾ allāh al-ḥusnā or 99 names of Allah and is a phrase that opens many Islamic prayers. My mother, although not Arabic nor Muslim, was raised in the Middle East, and I grew up in an atmosphere of much celebration of Arabic and Islamic culture through food, music, art and spirituality."

"This prompted me to study Islam and its traditions deeply for some time and I found them to be incredibly beautiful, deep and poetic. There is nothing overtly Islamic or Arabic about the music, except perhaps some unconscious inspiration from Islamic devotional music that I love. I chose the title to recognize the depth of spiritual devotion and love present in these traditions and how it has inspired me. Total devotion to the divine is what I seek in my own life, and what I seek to express through my music."

Tracklist: 
A. Telemetry 
B. The Beneficent, The Merciful

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Gavin Russom - Telemetry

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aiel is an experimental electronic producer and musician based in Berlin, Germany and born in Crete, Greece. With influences branching though polyrhythmic and left-field contemporary music evolving into immersive storytelling, creating unique sonic realms. Initial member of Transtronica collective (Kampnagel, Hamburg) and founder of Snow Pool, ambient event series based in Berlin, her interest lies on creating unconventional social narratives and settings, while recent residency on stegi.radio explored  diverse themes and music practices. 

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Following a series of off-kilter rythmical explorations for Black Acre and Obsession Recordings, Primitive World’s Sam Willis releases on Ecstatic Recordings for the first time with the limited edition 'Ascension' cassette EP.

’Ascension’ is a four track expedition into the fertile jungle of Primitive World's protean techno, packed with grainy 12-bit pads, jerking oscilations and skittering low-res percussion. Inspired by the symbolism found in various cultures (ritualistically represeted by stairs, trees, ropes etc.) as “self elevation of the human soul and union with God” that represent the axis between the profane and sacred worlds.

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Primitive World - Ascention I

31 minutes of original music on mustard cassette.   2 copies of cassette per case; one for you, one for a friend.

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From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
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Sonja Tofik - I din famn, äntligen fri

hello sir would you like some coffee?
what are you doing, just standing around handing out coffee at 6am?
well when i was in the service, my dad sent me this book by the guy who started this company 
and every word... i wanted to BE that guy
and the guy who wrote it started this company 
you know... i used to have a corolla

HANDS (Axel Willner) - Beelitz Heilstatten PT6

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