Name: Heather Leigh 'Prelude to Goddess' (EMEGO 257) by Editions Mego in Time - SEPTEMBER 2018 // Dark Electronics - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient
Duration: 4 min 2 s
Description: Taken from the album 'Throne' released as LP, CD and download

''Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time. That nanosecond when the image organizes itself on the ground glass." 
Ezra Stoller (16 May 1915 – 29 October 2004)

Time - SEPTEMBER 2018 // Dark Electronics - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

NPVR is the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Void. Editions Mego is proud to present their second and final release. No this is not some kind of Beatles synthetic AI that raises the dead reconstructed recordings but rather a new album made by the humans and their machines. 

The initial meeting of Rehberg and Void was in London in 2016 and despite or due to their mutual awkwardness found solace and compatibility in the fact that they both had a similar electronic modular set up, along with matching cases to transport all. The idea to collaborate was an obvious and organic process as a means to connect their individual gear together and observe the outcome. The fruits of these initial experiments, recorded in London, resulted in the playful experimentation of their acclaimed 2017 release 33 33 (eMego 251).

Now in 2024 Editions Mego presents the logically titled follow up, 33 34. These sessions were recorded six months after the initial recordings at Peter’s home in Vienna. This was planned out as a mirror city release to the original London recordings. With Peter having access to his full studio set up this time around we encounter a rich audio landscape which organically folds together a variety of musical genres blurring any distinction between these forms so the resulting music hovers as a new cloud of sound. Any musical form, be it industrial, electro-acoustic, ambient, drone and techno all coexist and melt into the other as the ensuing result unveils a hypnotic swarm of divergent sounds (music). When active there were no lines or contexts with NPVR, either between sound or genre within these recordings or live where NPVR were at home playing at a techno club one night and an avant garde venue the next.

The initial session of these recordings was edited by Rehberg and sent to Void to further develop.
Over time the final versions were agreed on and then shelved as other outside projects took over. The awkwardness had been surmounted and the two had become close friends. NPVR performed at a range of venues such as Tresor, Sutton House, Corsica, Blitz, Paris GRM #Focus2, LEV Festival and Rigas Skanumezs Festival. Following Rehberg’s untimely passing Void had difficulty listening back to the sessions but eventually thought it fit to complete and release this album, of which even the artwork (like 33 33, an image from Zurich photographer, Georg Gatsas) had been decided upon prior to Rehberg parting ways. 

There is an unmistakable joy to these recordings. One encounters an enthralling exploration of their chosen machines which conveys the excitement of what can be randomly conjured when people speak through such devices. There is no grand statement or argument here, just the sheer thrill of creation and the recorded results of random encounters. The art of collaboration was always a mainstay of Rehberg’s practice from the advent of the MEGO adventure. Rehberg & Bauer was an initial collaboration with former business partner Ramon Bauer. Even at this stage one can hear a relaxed sense of delight in the sheer discovery of sound.

A mix made for the Wire magazine following the release of 33 33 hints at the freedom that comes with endless urge for exploration and discovery. Abstract tracks from Z'EV. Jérôme Noetinger and Jung An Tagen are included alongside British stalwarts The Fall and New Order. There were no lines between pop / academic / underground or mainstream in Rehberg’s world. All of it sat at the same table. It is just matter in the atmosphere, like the diverse exploration found in these recordings that comprise 33 34.

33 34

Raw to the Core

NPVR 'Raw to the Core' (EMEGO312)

Syrinx Music steps up with its first 2024 release, in the form of a new EP from Paris-area producer lucieter. In the course of its four tracks, emerge submerges the listener in sonic landscapes reflective of Lucie Ternisien’s aesthetics. Taking cues from her works in visual arts, lucieter’s music feels both oneiric and poetic, with atmospheres switching from the menacing tones of “les Ciels” to the soothing vibes of “Libellule”.

Soundwise, emerge hints towards ambient, experimental & leftfield music, as well as dub techno and IDM in their more cinematic and evocative aspects. lucieter seamlessly melts her own voice with field recordings, organic sounds & synthetic waves, to create tracks that display a distinct sense of the narration. Each of these four tunes feels like a canvas for lucieter’s poetry to hover above, yet the vocals occupy the same space as all the other sound components: Lucie Ternisien’s whispers, fragmented, pitched, or echoed words act as expressive pieces of sounds, designed to carry each track’s pictures and emotions.

emerge seems to mirror its artwork: it feels both blurred and deeply emotional, with very different elements blending in cohesive, nostalgic vignettes. Its release goes along with a video representation of “Libellule”, as well as a companion poem.

https://syrinxmusicfr.bandcamp.com/album/lucieter-emerge

https://soundcloud.com/syrinx_music
https://soundcloud.com/lucie-ter

PREMIERE: Lucieter - Libellule [Syrinx Music]

Felipe Vaz is a sound artist, researcher and new media producer.
In this publication for Evel Felipe delves into his musical and creative language pushing the limits of the experimental electronic scene.
We think that this release will be one of those that will define the new sound that is coming in 2024.

Felipe Vaz - Marie Curie Allee

Moving Deeply Through the Forest
You Out of Time II
You Out of Time V
Facing A Pavement
Invisible Pavement
Dust
No

An unreleased assortment of minimal ambient tracks I have been making the last few weeks.
Thanks to Set.

https://soundcloud.com/kagamismile

KAGAMI smile presents: Unreleased Ambient Mix for Zenevloed.

Selection of ambient, breaks & soundscapes by Ravy de la Crèche from French collective Carpaccio Cathedrale.

Ravy de la crèche [24.04.2024]

»grain« is the third Innode release following on from »Gridshifter« in 2013 and »syn« in 2021.

A new methodology to make the album is applied yet again from the trio of Bernhard Breuer, Steven Hess and Stefan Németh. The approach is more an anti approach where the trio let the process of creation itself steer the development of the recording, without any prior conceptual agenda.

Irregular rhythmic patterns often served as the initial springboard for each piece with Breuer creating a loop either by playing drums or with the aid of a modelling percussion synthesizer. The results often bypass existing formulaic grids. The outfit embraced these anti-precision steps building shapes around the tarnished templates.

The process of building upon the core structures laid forth alters throughout. In the case of »Splitter« you can hear an example of Bernhard´s core loops dominating a skeletal audio sphere. The title of the track »Impactopium« reflects the process of its construction being a conglomeration of individual titles meshed into a whole. The audio is a non-linear compendium of several fragments of individual elements. A conscious method of exploring a more decentralised architecture saw three disparate elements layered randomly on top of each other with some synths added as a sonic seasoning at the later stages.

Elsewhere sonic elements are restructured in unusual ways. One member's contribution is completely stripped away, quiet sounds captured with contact mics are highly amplified, the last track introduces twisted themes of the first track.

The title »grain« refers to the roughness resulting from these explorations. It also takes note of the term grain as used in analogue photography or in the case of audio as a distorted signal, or »noise.« All of these elements, normally eschewed, are here embraced as a thematic thread to instigate the exploratory proceedings.

This is a playbox of inventiveness, a hall of mirrors and an endless search for unusual tactics and fresh results.

Tackling the initial loop tracks from a wide variety of strategic approaches Innode has concocted a strangely cohesive work. From sparse source material to heavy overdubs of overdubs »grain« is a uplifting collection of works from this relentlessly curious and exploratory Austrian outfit. Humans make the work but the random embracing of unexpected processes means the gentleman of the outfit is not fully ruling what becomes of these works.

grain

Splitter

Innode 'Splitter' (EMEGO311)

from the "Natura: 2009-2012" CS (NNF422)
Not Not Fun / 2024

STREET DATE: JUNE 14

PRE-ORDER:
https://2muchachos.bandcamp.com/album/natura-2009-2012

2muchachos "Lost In The Mist"

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Mastering par Guillaume Lespinasse
Photo par Manon Couffon
Graphisme par Paul Souviron

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16 Brandy - Angel In Disguise (Boris Barksdale Edit) [CC013]

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "TR-707 At 160bpm And Other Occurrences", a brand new full-length cassette from the legendary QNDFK! With his disparate yet wholly cohesive blend of outsider electro, sun-warped ambient, rudimentary drum programming and thrift shop proto-funk (all recorded HOT to tape), QNDFK continues to prove himself one of the most interesting and talented beatsmiths in the American underground... this time, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@qndfkmusic

[JGT117] "TR-707 At 160bpm And Other Occurrences"

"Doors Are Closing (Blue)" - QNDFK

suli ( https://www.latency.fr/ ) & azar ( https://blundar.co/ ) 
recorded in copenhagen 10 am at søndagsvenner 2015

suli + azar at søndagsvenner 2015

premiere of "Imminent Fear" by @unhumangr
taken from compilation “Variable”, released soon on @pielectronics

Compilation Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2018/08/27/various-variable-pi-electronics/

Unhuman - Imminent Fear [PEVA01CD | Premiere]

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LXRC35 - 808Hz - Crash Release

Taken from the album 'Throne' released as LP, CD and download

Throne

Heather Leigh 'Prelude to Goddess' (EMEGO 257)

Golden Bug || HNR027 || Viaje A Tenderloin / Hitodoma

Get the physical record at hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com

Release date: 2018-09-27

Viaje A Tenderloin / Hotodoma

Viaje A TenderLoin / Hitodoma

Golden Bug - Viaje A Tenderloin

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