https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna

𝘓𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢 is the second outing on lunar convoy's efja label. Carte blanche has been given to the artists, allowing them to convey their own vision of experimental music. Throughout its 45min, 𝘓𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢 features a wide range of feelings and emotions, from the intricate Taklamakan Trek to the tear-jerking Inner Hill. A collection of dark & light ambient excursions, inherently personal and playful, meant to question the past, present and future.

Tracklist:
A1. Glia – Taklamakan Trek
A2. Chewlie – Redae 
A3. holotropic – dageraad
A4. Sonhan – There's no explanations
B1. Polygonia – Vemuos
B2. lunar convoy – strange attractor
B3. Yilan – Paracosm
B4. Zhe Pechorin – Inner Hill

Credits:
Mastering – Altinbas
Artwork – Julia Häller
Design & Riso – R.Dryer Studio
Tapes – Headless Duplicated

Release date: 08.06.2022
Format: cassette & digital

efja02 'Lacrima' (tape & digital ࿓ out June 8, 2022)

An elusive producer comes back with a new mantle: Ruff Cherry, last seen on the label in 2017, returns with an EP of shredded halftime drum & bass with jungle accents that etches out a dominating stance in the producer’s first foray outside the thresholds of techno. Hugely distant from a meager first stab at the genre, the Cork-based producer’s ‘Phantom Fortress’ EP proficiently demarcates a sparse battleground for conflicting and rhythmically harmonic drum flairs, enveloping bass, and taut sound design that is as compelling as it is exhilarating.

Words by Freddie Hudson

Ruff Cherry - Phantom Fortress EP
https://soundcloud.com/ruffcherry

A1. Pass Real
A2. Livingdoom
B1. Tricky Dice
B2. Ruff Experience
D1. Livingdoom (Ruff Edit)

Release Date
Digital : 15th June 2022
Vinyl : 30 November 2022

Mastering by Neel at Enisslab Rome
Artwork by Jacopo Severitano

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Ruff Cherry - A1. Pass Real

The French electronic scene is bursting with new talent and dissolving boundaries, acting as a giant melting pot of influences from all different genres. In this spirit, Virtual Forest Records is hosting a new 12-track compilation to showcase the mesmerizing dark side of this creative movement 🍃

🌀 VFO005 | Various Artists - No Digging After Midnight 🌀

1. Natural Limit & Paul Reve - Organic Dreams
2. Klofink & RPS13 - 896
3. Solma - Ritualism (Dissociative Mix)
4. SRAMAANA - Quartz Resonance
5. A Strange Wedding - Inferno Seri (New Player In Town)
6. Qant - Salt Factory Anthem
7. Smogo - The Nine Forms Of Invisible
8. Fluid Matter - Boat Party Criminal
9. Urlcst - P.C.L. (Périclitation Catégorie Libre)
10. RM Estali - Laco
11. Indigo Persona - Zenith
12. Transfinite Humanism - Uniforma

Artwork by Symbiose
Mastered by Cédric iFa Oléon at IFL3 Studios
Copyright © 2022 Virtual Forest Records

VFO.05 V/A - No Digging After Midnight [Previews]

Patterns of Perception and Minimal Collective join forces to launch an annual VA project, Future Patterns, that invites both artists and listeners to explore the future of electronic music, and the forces that could shape it.

Available digitally and as a limited edition CD with accompanying 3D animated artwork, the first Future Patterns VA features music from C-Refund (@consumer-refund), DBR (@breezydbr), HOMI (@kiuas), Jasmín (@jasminhoek), Jay Duncan (@drumsofjay), Konduku (@kondukukonduku), Mary Lake (@marylakeworld), Nali (@n_a_li), Nicole (@nicole-popkhadze), Solid Traveller (@solidtraveller), Spekki Webu (@spekkiwebu) & Altjira (@altjiramara), Sunju Hargun (@sunjuhargun) and VC-118A (@mohlao), with 3D visualisation and artwork by Rotterdam-based, Italian-born artist Deborah Mora.

All profits from the release will be donated to German children’s charity Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk.

Pre-order Future Patterns 01 here: https://patternsofperception.bandcamp.com/album/future-patterns-01

Tracklist:
1. Jasmín - Salacia
2. HOMI - Denn
3. Konduku - Rosenmeer 
4. Jay Duncan - Klyro 
5. DBR - T1
6. Spekki Webu & Altjira - Aalto's Labyrinth 
7. Sunju Hargun - Mai Chau 
8. C-Refund - Obsidian Gaze
9. Mary Lake - Agate Blue 
10. Nicole - Soul 
11. Solid Traveller - Acceptdance 
12. VC-118A - Extraxt 
13. Nali - Gold Pyramid Rising

Links:
www.dkhw.de
www.instagram.com/deutscheskinderhilfswerk_e.v

@minimal_collective
www.instagram.com/minimal_collective
www.minimalcollective.digital

www.instagram.com/orah.hhh/

Pre-order: https://patternsofperception.bandcamp.com/album/future-patterns-01

Future Patterns 01

Pre-order here

PTNX01 - Future Patterns 01 (Previews)

Dutch artists https://soundcloud.com/sungenam?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing and https://soundcloud.com/altjiramara?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing move through unconventional rhythms on their newest six-track EP LA1000 for https://soundcloud.com/diffusereality?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.

Find our full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-sun-genam-altjira-la1000

LA1000 will be out on December 13th 2022. Order a copy via Bandcamp: https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/sun-genam-altjira-la1000

Premiere: Sun Genam & Altjira - LA1000 [DRSS492]

https://soundcloud.com/aasudd?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing lands on https://soundcloud.com/midgar_records?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing with the 4-tracked EP ‘Pushedd’, displaying an adventurous pack of mid-tempo rollers and exploring the grey area of drum-‘n-bass-goes-techno exercises.

Find our full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-aa-sudd-menodice.

Pushedd [MDG020] will be out mid-January, 2023. Order a copy via https://midgar-records.bandcamp.com/.

Premiere: Aa Sudd - Menodice [MDG020]

Atom™'s new EP »Nacht« includes four tracks, two of which are previously unreleased titles from the »Neuer Mensch« album: »Nacht« and »Geometrische Einheit.« The other two tracks, »Sprechender Raum« and »Selbst,« also appear on the »Neuer Mensch« album but are presented here in alternate versions.
This selection of tracks was created with the growing meta-techno dancefloor in mind and will be available on 12 inch vinyl or digitally through the raster platform.

Nacht

Atom™ »Nacht« taken from »Nacht«

The cobbled square was deafly silent; so silent you could hear a pin drop. Shop fronts were boarded up, cafes empty and bleak, advertising ripped and tattered. At first people had left in their droves, making sharp exits as soon as the rumours began to spread, but there were still some stragglers, a few hangers on who couldn't bear to leave their lives behind. But they lived in fear every single day, it was no real life anymore, their existence reduced to nothing. Deep down they knew one day they'd be forced out, but until then they'd stand strong, this was home.

Paleman's catalogue stretches back to 2012 when he was charting releases for the likes of Loefah's Swamp 81, Fulcrum and alongside Boddika. He's been steadily putting out music on his own PLMN imprint since then, but it's only now, a whole decade later, that he's releasing his debut album Veiled. Finding its place on Sublunar Recordings, the seven-tracks evidence his background as a jazz drummer and his compositional work; rhythm, percussion and mood are central pillars from start to finish. Playing with percussion, droning soundscapes, texture and stripped-back rhythms, he creates an album that, in its entirety, is introspective but it still feels at home on the dance floor.

Veiled

PREMIERE: Paleman - Mandible [Sublunar Recordings]

Using the latest causality modulation technology Ultradyne, Peder Mannerfelt, Second Storey, and Alex Cortex have interfered in the creation of 4 TRUST classics from the far future. 

XY.2 continues the TRUST XY recombination series with a second volume of sonic fictions. industrial electro legends Ultradyne (@pi-gao-movement) join techno avantgardists Peder Mannerfelt (@the-subliminal-kid), Second Storey (@second_storey), and Alex Cortex (@alex-cortex) in remixing tracks by Microthol (@microthol), Clatterbox (@clatterbox), and /DL/MS/ (@dl-ms).

out march, 2023
distributed by @clone-distribution 
artwork by dextro.org

a1 :: MICROTHOL x ULTRADYNE - hostile invasion - land of injustice mix
a2 :: CLATTERBOX x PEDER MANNERFELT - semi-automatic
b1 :: MICROTHOL x SECOND STOREY - dissonanz
b2 :: /DL/MS/ x ALEX CORTEX - last smoke

Vinyl / Download

[TRUST XY.2] ULTRADYNE :: PEDER MANNERFELT :: SECOND STOREY :: ALEX CORTEX [out march 2023]

Soreab - Sensitivity 6.0 

March 24, 2023 -  12" Vinyl, Digital & Streaming

Soreab debuts on Avian.
Dario Picchi, whose repertoire includes forays into Dancehall, Bass Music and genres less easily classified, alongside a spate of intriguing collaborations, keeps things sparse on Sensitivity 6.0. The six track EP offers up idiosyncratic takes on IDM, Techno and Ambient music with a focus on intricate sound design, showcasing the Baroque Sunburst label head’s admirable versatility as a producer.
Brazen opener Squirrel Stampede might surprise listeners expecting a more delicate approach from the EP title. Neatly layered and economic in its execution, it’s a forceful slice of modern Techno. Meditative follow up Trub marries a thick, undulating percussion line with a saccharine melody. Loose synths emerge sporadically from the sonic periphery, breaking up the rolling drum pattern to create a cinematic atmosphere. Closing out the A side is Giale Draws, an intriguing beatless piece with nods to both vintage Musique concrète and more contemporary compositions from the electronic music leftfield.
On the B side, Soreab ups the tempo and goes fathoms deep with the cavernous Dust Eater. Landing somewhere between Autonomic Drum & Bass and Dub Techno, it sets the tone for the dense, atmospheric march of Insomnias that follows. Letting well-worked drums lead the recording, Picchi introduces Rhodes and a low-sunk synth flourish to create a crisp, hazy atmosphere. Rite closes the EP, a glistening Ambient recording with subtle percussive motifs and delayed vocals that sit atop hypnotic pads – a wide-open, ethereal closing statement. 
credits

Soreab - Dust Eater

B2. Low Gravity - Eclittica

imprint run by @ssouleimann

monthly show at kiosk radio

efja03 'Halo' (cassette & digital) out 14.12.22
efja02 'Lacrima' (cassette & digital) out 08.06.22
efja01 'Source' (cassette & digital) out 26.05.21

efja02 'Lacrima' (tape & digital ࿓ out June 8, 2022)

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