Nina Garcia : guitare électrique
Arnaud Rivière : électrophone réparé et table de mixage préparée

Mastering : James Plotkin
Visuel et Design : Hélène Marian 
Enregistrement et mixage : Étienne Foyer 
Éditions Gravats, 2025

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Autoreverse brings together Arnaud Rivière (prepared turntable - we should say damaged or destroyed), a kingpin of the French noise underground as a programmer at Instants Chavirés and Sonic Protest, team player with Otomo Yoshihide, Erik M, and a hundred others, ; and Nina Garcia (guitar & feedback), recently recruited by Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ label after giving the whole of the Paris region a taste for noise guitar solos with her Mariachi project ("Guitar, pedal. That's all’, as his Discogs puts it. What he doesn't say is that it's EVERYTHING - a world, a cosmos in itself) – culminating in a self-titled album and instant classic (Mariachi, No Lagos, 2018), and various collaborations (Maria Bertel, Mamiedaragon). 

Their music, already been featured in two live cassettes, stems from assiduous concert practice. Autotunes is something like the duo's core in fission. They throw themselves into improvisation with little patience for detours : the position is clean-cut hardcore – less over-the-top clatter and more about finding the cutting edge, with an insistence on fine-tuning the limits of the instruments, attacking the raw and the gritty with maximum precision: the result is an irradiating flow of rare metals and certified toxins.

In one of the record's many climaxes, bleeps extruded from who knows where battle with the strumming of white-hot guitar strings. But there's a whole host of distinct techniques and sonorities at work here: seamless attacks, amplified scrap metal, just-caught feedbacks, provoked chances, melodies that invite themselves in but don't stay for dinner, rhythmic sketches and glimpsed zones of beauty, built-up and cracked materials, expected and unexpected counterpoints. The intensities vary from start to finish: howling, eruptive bursts of harsh noise microswitchs, shapeless feedback whining and growling, but also more meditative harmonics and resonances.

This is reinforced by the didactic and generous structure of the record, which first methodically exposes the takes played in the studio through ‘horizontal’ sequencing (A1), before repeating the same material ‘vertically’ in a meticulous work of hollowing out and elisions. Autotunes manifests a distinctive ability to maintain an astonishing dynamic in the depths of the post-industrial cavern left by Throbbing Gristle (‘Slug Bait’ period), Maurizio Bianchi and all. 

With Autoreverse, it's no longer time to marvel at our various abilities and tactics, but to tighten the mesh. In the way it coolly reviews the possibilities, in its peaceful radicalism, in its attitude of less noise, more impact, this record helps us to conceive what a comrade called once ‘an ethic of our violence’.

Autoreverse - A1. HI-SPEED DUB indicator

Editions Mego reissue the 2001 release Asuma by Finnish artist Ilpo Väisänen. Originally released on CD this is the first ever vinyl issue, remastered by Rashad Becker. 2001 is a landmark year for the artist following a wave of success from the notable outfit Väisänen formed alongside Mika Vanio, Pan Sonic (as they were now known then). Following a string of highly acclaimed and influential releases such as “Vakio”, “Kulma”, “A’ and “Aaltopiiri” Pan Sonic had toured the globe extensively leaving a trail of blown expectations and rumours of all manner of objects in venues cracking or falling apart due to the immense sound the duo concocted with their unique instruments.

Taking a break from the ecstatic cacophony of Pan Sonic, Väisänen retreated to work on a solo release which conjured the spirits of the former outfit whilst simultaneously carving out a more personal take on these new electronic forms.

Asuma is a precise study of drones, rhythms, clicks, ambience and gentle confusion. Whilst inhabiting a zone of abstraction the results also move in a natural field as Väisänen’s native Finland permeates these recordings as much as the idea of experimentation itself.

Autioitu 1 opens the album as delicate pinball rhythms bounce across the spectrum as a hairy drone hovers underneath. The mood is both intriguing and unsettling. Tukahduttaja is a delightfully disorientating sound sculpture that is hard to pinpoint what it actually is. Klikki is comparable to a microscopic version of Pink Floyd’s “Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict”. Asumaton is a foreboding miniature acting like a segway to Vallitseva which embraces the icy clicks that punctuates much of the Pan Sonic output. Arvioimaton Ongelma is an audio riddle whilst Jaettu jitters around a dancefloor crawl. Autioitu closes proceedings as a gentle ambient thumper. Asuma is awash with contradiction and mystery. This is time wrapped in twisted turns and rewards a neat payoff for those interested in the absolute fringes of electronic ‘dance’ music.

Ilpo Väisänen 'Autioitu 1 [2025 Remaster]' (EMEGO037)

To be released sometime in June 2025
This is the merging hydra of these two dubby-eletronicky-cheeky experimentators.
Jonquera (half of Pilotwings, thrisd of Jeza-Bel and many more) jazzy-poppy-variété rythms crunches Officium dreamy-hazy-bass dubs in a gaze. 
These 6 tunes have been recorded live during a jam session, mixed by the duo for a tape project.
But the Tioma Tchoulanov's mastering conviced us to press a small batch of 300 copies.
Paolo Viscogliosi painted some artowrks elements and they enjoyed the layout with Maya Bellemin. 

Luv it, Luv them, Luv you.

Jonquera & Officium - 05 - Do These Cows Feel? [TMR053]

@morejerom

Alessandro Cortini - Scappa
Dr.Casper Darling / Control - Darling / Control
Tim Hecker - Boreal Kiss pt.1
Subsided - Kendo
Roberto Musci - Improbably Musica
Vanity Productions - Luxembourg Garden
Jesse Faden - Control
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight (Orchestral)
Alex Casey - Alan Wake 2
Dewey Martino - Pipopapipo
Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real
Anna Peaker - It Would Be In A Dream
Mona and Max - Max Payne 2
Susumu Yokota - Azukiiro No Kaori
Special Guest Dj - waiting fot the stars to change
haruka nakamura, urara - Light Song
Night Springs - Alan Wake
Gal Go, Tom Grey - COAST
a b - sugar br (ft. bighead)
Dr. Casper - Darling / Control
7038634357 - Sugar Armor

NOODS RADIO #18 Life as Collage / yusk invites jerom [27 Apr 2025]

ANTI FOREIGN SLAVERY/AM I NOT BRITISH BROTHER 
Brand new mix of originals from time consumer.  Built out of voice memo recordings from march-april-may/25, sounds of life in georgia, canada, vietnam.  Lyrics of lord byron, oscar wilde in here. Special thanks to @nadjasky for all the recordings, couldn’t have made this without you<3 

1 The war is over
2 Pain project
3 Ready ready ready
4 Time of bible study
5 Этот кофеёк
6 Я кайфую
7 New Tolmie recordings
8 Illycaffe and Relay
9 Megalithic architecture
10 Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze
11 This mighty empire
12 Galloping up
13 Do you need help 
14 Alley 47B
15 Ах, если бы сбылась моя мечта 1+2
16 Whatever happened to wibing
17 Vietnam call
18 Tre Islet
19 Thank you
20 Nguyễn chicks
21 Dan tranh
22 Breathing
23 Dan tranh 2
24 Coffee making

Catchup/Inmix

Carne Tremula - From the long-winter Torino, two maestri of the Dark-Ambient lymbs teamed up for the very first time. 
Matteo Viani (Black Seed) and Andrea Marini (Saba Saba) gather their gears and influences to craft a narrative and figurative landscape through sounds and signals. 
These 8 tracks, as sounds experimentations, have been spontaneously recorded live, then enhanced byTioma Tchoulanov (Nze Nze) mastering, create a navigation in some shallow waters, a Path of Paladin from the darkness to the light of brighter days. 

This comes as a tape, dubbed on recycled batches, wrapped in a very exclusive collage by Andrea Marini. 

Lim edition of 70.

Esterno Reale

Fast hand gdrone jam cut. One take rec in a hotel room, just before the Les Siestes performance.

Inspired by last month's crazy tour days.

deep

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ÉDITIONS GRAVATS

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